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Saturday, May 18, 2013 After his release from prison, a small-time safecracker is framed by an obsessed DEA detective who has a vendetta against him. ~ Baseline StudioSystems Go to Cast & Credits » © 2010 Baseline, All rights reserved. © 2010 All Media Guide, LLC Portions of content provided by All Movie Guide ®, a trademark of All Media Guide, LLC
A talented and prolific inventor dies penniless and unknown, even though his creations are about as commonplace as staplers. A jewel thief son blames his life of crime on the wrongs that befell the father. Add some mob connections that taint both men's lives and a final reunion between father and son, and you've got the makings of a blockbuster story. \|PG (for thematic elements, brief language and some smoking images)\| \|1 hour 31 minutes\| \|In Production / Awaiting Release\|
Market Statistics: Buying and Selling Homes in Gladden Farms, Marana Nothing like starting out the new year examining the statistics and getting to know our local communities and homes for sale Tucson and Marana. My last market report for Gladden Farms was posted in September, so today we'll take a look at what's been happening the past three months, October through December. Currently there are 69 homes on MLS, (Tucson Area Realtors multiple listing service) listed as ACTIVE, ACTIVE CONTINGENT, (under contract) ACTIVE CAPA, (wanting a BETTER contract) PENDING, (all contingencies are met and it's smooth sailing to closing day) and SOLD. This is down from Septembers number of 124 total on MLS. - 19 of the 69 are ACTIVE homes for sale Tucson (Marana) (average price per sq. foot $80.87) - 4 are ACTIVE CAPA (Avg. price sqft $69.63) - 15 are ACTIVE CONTINGENT (Avg. price sqft $69.09) - 6 are PENDING (sqft. $77.48) and, - 25 are SOLD! (avg. sqft $72.65) This is really good news because it shows that the market is moving in Gladden Farms and inventory is thinning out. (Good for sellers, buyers better move quickly!) Also of note, the average sqft price of homes sold of $72.65 is up from last quarter's average of $69.70. It boils down to a difference of almost $6000 more for the same 2000 sq. foot home in gross return. Of the 19 homes ACTIVE, 10 are new construction. Richmond American, Lennar, and Pulte are busy building new homes in Gladden Farms, Marana, AZ. Average days on the market are 41 for ACTIVE, 62 from CLOSED. Gladden Farms, Marana, AZ is an immaculate, well-maintained community with pride-of-ownership reflected in the landscaping, parks, walkways and common areas. The homes have tile roofs, frame stucco construction, and professionally landscaped front yards. Homes are aged from 2005 to the present, as new construction homes are available throughout Gladden Farms. Enjoy the Ora Mae Harn park nearby, with community pool, or the Gladden Farms Community Park with Baseball and soccer fields. The Marana Town and Municipal Buildings, Rodeo Grounds, Heritage River Park and Farmer's Market, Pima County Library, and newly completed Marana Health Care Center are all within 2 miles. Call a Marana neighbor if you'd like more information on selling your home in Gladden Farms, or homes for sale Marana and Tucson. Need a free CMA? Want tips to effectively prepare your home for selling? Interested in seeing a home search for homes for sale in Gladden Farms, Marana. It's all here - and I'm here to help. Contact me today! If I can assist you in your home buying or selling in Marana, Tucson, Oro Valley, or Vail, please don't hesitate to call me! Email at email@example.com Cara Marcelle Mancuso, Long Realty, (520)909-2988 Regarding the material posted in my blog postings, these are my personal opinions and not those of Long Realty Company All listing information is deemed reliable but not guaranteed and should be independently verified through personal inspection by appropriate professionals. Listings displayed on this website may be subject to prior sale or removal from sale; availability of any listing should always be independently verified. Listing information is provided for consumer personal, non-commercial use, solely to identify potential properties for potential purchase; all other use is strictly prohibited and may violate relevant federal and state law.
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Today’s GP is a kind I don’t see often. He’s enthusiastic, spells things out; it feels like it’s part consultation, part seminar. I leave with a prescription and an intricate drawing of the outer ear, middle ear, inner ear and nose, a spidery doodle of tubes and lines which makes perfect sense to me. The plug of wax I need to get rid of is a neat blob of biro ink. On the reverse is a little plan of action, all in block capitals – determined to challenge cliché to the very last, the handwriting is perfectly legible. I sit there and watch him type out his notes on the screen (“We have a new system, this is our second day” he tells me at the start. I like it; it makes it harder to see at first glance just how often I go to the doctor.) He reads out the notes as he taps away at his keyboard. I feel like I’ve seen a lot of doctors over the past year and a half. I’ve sat on the standard issue Robin Day school assembly chair outside the consulting room many, many times, smiling awkwardly at my fellow patients, waiting for the door to open and to be invited inside. I always feel stupid, at that point: on the walk over to the surgery, I know what to say. When I get there, I can still remember how to phrase it. But somewhere in that interminable wait between getting there and being seen, the words evaporate, and often the symptoms do too. I look at the other people there: old ladies; exhausted parents with squawking children; dour convalescents; and I wonder whether I’m a fraud being there at all. My appointments always take about ten minutes and start with me apologising for coming in. “It’s just a little thing,” I’ll say, “but it’s been worrying me.” Of course, I never tell the doctor how much: that inner voice is only shared with the unlucky ones, like my wife or certain selected friends. I always leave saying “Thank you for clearing that up”, I tell the doctor to have a good day and I walk home through the sidestreets, past the Polish church, and the inner voice tells me all the things I should have said. The doctor is wrong: it’s serious really, and the reason the doctor couldn’t tell me that is because of everything I didn’t mention. Every doctor I’ve ever seen has been wrong, but I’m not dead yet. There are lots of different kinds of GPs, in my experience. Many are the most common type – anything you go and see them about, you’ve seen them about too soon. They tell you to come back in a couple of weeks, and in the meantime there’s always paracetamol, aspirin, or their favourite, “plenty of rest”. They think that’s the cheapest and most readily available medicine of all, but in my experience it’s the most difficult to come by. I used to see a mad Greek doctor who was the opposite – he would refer you to the hospital for anything, or tell you to hightail it to Accident & Emergency. I had to stop seeing him; he was the only person I’ve ever met more worried about my health than I am. The others actually do things, but it’s mechanical. Open your mouth, stick your tongue out, lie on the couch, touch your nose, keep looking at my finger while it moves, let me shine this in your ear, cough, I’m going to feel your stomach, go and wee in this cup, walk in a straight line. Has it been happening long. Is it worse at night. Have you been under a lot of stress. The worst ones are a call centre in human form, a bunch of tests and tables you are walked through. All the time I'm jumping through those hoops and answering those questions I have that friction, because I’m thinking: I’m not really ill but I think I am. You claim to know I’m not, but you won’t convince me. My attempts to train myself to trust doctors, to be comforted by them and to believe that they know best have not been a success. Despite that, I still quite like them. You get the locums, young, eager, showing concern. A recent one, an upbeat, rosy-cheeked Geordie lady, listened with patience and tried to help and I made a mental note not to ruin a good thing by going in and seeing her again. I was rewarding her, I suppose. A few weeks later I saw her, on a Saturday, walking past Fat Face and I thought that you should never spot doctors off duty. Their role is to be there behind a desk dispensing wisdom, not to be slouching round town in a fleece being human and badly dressed. Why I expect doctors to dress well I have no idea, but for some strange reason I do. I prefer woman doctors, given the choice. My whole life seems to have been spent asking women if there is something wrong with me; the doctors always say no, the others always say yes. Every now and again, there’s a referral. The specialists are very nice, and friendly, and helpful. They either explain that there’s nothing wrong, or tell me that it’s a grey area where nobody really knows very much. Sometimes things clear up, sometimes they don’t. They can be managed: acupuncture for the RSI, pills for the acid, nasal sprays, bits and pieces. “There’s a lot we don’t understand”, the specialists always say. But you’re the specialists, I never say in response, but I think it as I smile back and thank them for their expensive time. We drive away in the car, my wife looks at me and says “Are you happy now?” and for a few weeks I am, until the voice starts telling me again that the specialist has got it wrong. I have nobody to blame but myself: if I’d explained it perfectly, they would know that I’m dying. I can’t tell you how little fun it is, being like this. Walking through life with my psychological brittle bones, every headache, every twinge, every minor change the harbinger of something fatal. When I was young I was terrified of that fable, “The Ant And The Grasshopper”, because I hated hard work. I identified with the grasshopper – leaving things until the last minute, never doing enough homework, not getting off my arse – and I knew that one day the winter would come and I would not be prepared. I’d fail exams, not get a job, lose my job, having nothing in reserve to get me through. But now I come to the end of my thirties it’s “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” who haunts me. I think that one day I’ll be really ill and it will be my wife and my friends who have nothing in reserve, because I’ve burned all their care and concern on things that never happened. My regular doctor, when I can see him, is a smiling, bespectacled, eternally patient man. I’ve seen him about so many things that I’m beginning to wonder what’s left to surprise him with. I stopped seeing him because I got so embarrassed and ashamed, because I knew I was asking about the same things again and again. He has a little twinkle in his eye, as if I’m an entertaining diversion, but I can’t see how he can enjoy this, not really. He’s a neat, precise little man and he delights in telling me there’s nothing wrong with me (“You’re not going to get a cancer referral out of me today” he told me once – he could probably save a lot of time by just saying that at the start of every appointment). At the end of our appointments, he types “PLAN” on the screen and then taps out a list of things we’ll do. I appreciate him doing it while I’m there in the room – but I do wonder if there’s a second screen, a screen I can’t see where he types what he really thinks. I don’t know much about him. He ran the marathon last year. He doesn’t drink or smoke. His first name is Lionel. And yet I’ve probably seen more of him in the last eighteen months than I have many of my friends. The last time I saw him was the most difficult of all. I went with a list, and I ran through it in my head all the way to the surgery. I said it to myself again and again as I sat on the school assembly chair, like it was a dream I desperately didn’t want to forget. I saved the hardest bit until the very last, when we’d established that everything else on my list wasn’t serious. “So what’s the third thing?” he said. “I think I might, well, I think I might suffer from health anxiety.” Health anxiety, the acceptable term for it. It used to be called hypochondria, and probably still is by many people. I used to think that a hypochondriac was just someone unlucky enough to get ill more often than most people; it’s only the past few years that has convinced me that that isn’t the case. I know that it’s called health anxiety, because I Googled it. I also know that, because I think I have it, I’m not allowed to Google other symptoms. In my head I’ve caught at least half of the diseases out there, thanks to a combination of internet search engines and an imagination that has never done me any good – meningitis, Meniere’s disease, ulcers and heart attacks and every kind of tumour known to man. “What makes you say that?” The hard bit: the speech I’d rehearsed that sounded stupid in my mind and was going to sound even stupider out loud. “I think – no, I know – that I come here a lot. I worry a lot about my health. Whenever I do, I always feel like it’s going to be something serious, even though I know rationally that it can’t be. And even when I’m told that it isn’t I don’t feel reassured. I get incredibly anxious that I’m going to die.” If anything, it sounded even stupider out loud, but I knew – however much I wanted to – that I couldn’t pluck all those words out of the air and cram them back in my mouth. I knew, too, that if I hadn’t said them I would have had an angry and disappointed wife to report back to, something infinitely worse than a lot of illnesses. But there, it was out: the reason I’d gone to the doctor so many times, the riddle it had taken me so long to unravel. Had he known that all along? My doctor paused for a second, and then brought up that screen again. He scrolled back over about the last dozen appointments I’d made and my whole medical history flashed before my eyes. Looking at the text, I relived all the agony, all the shame, all the embarrassment and all the all clears that I never quite believed. Many of the appointments had that word in the note, PLAN; so many plans, going back for years. All that time wasted making those plans, when I could have been making other plans. When I should have been. All that energy that could have been spent on housework, or cooking, or watching movies or reading books, on being a better husband or a better friend. My doctor looked over his glasses at me and I saw kindness I hadn’t expected. And there it was, that twinkle again. “I think we have enough here to make a diagnosis of health anxiety, don’t you?” As he typed the word PLAN onto the screen, I thought about how curious life can be. I’d worried for so long, about so much, for so little in return, and having gone through all that, it turns out there is something wrong with me after all. I thought so, my wife thought so, lots of my friends thought so and the doctor thought so too. Now I just need to find out how to fix it. For the first time in a long time, I think that maybe I will. Train Aria - A Story - Dressed, head to foot, in grey jersey cotton, she sticks out like a sore thumb on the early commuter train. Jogging pants are not De Rigeur for most of... 2 weeks ago
I’m sitting in a cafe in Manchester, UK. It’s familiar, this cafe. The music, the people, the coffee. I think this is the key to traveling… everything at one point becomes familiar, even if only because we’re sitting on the same globe under the same sky. My family rings me daily, the video turning morning in to silly faces and kisses from across the pond. I marvel at the technology compared to my first trip to the UK in 2001 when I punched in a 400 digit number to reach a calling card and the country code and finally the home phone in hopes to reach my husband. Now I wake the children up on video phone, ala Jeston’s like, rousing sleeping heads just before my dinner time. I’ve been asked “how do you do it? How can you travel and leave your children?” It is only because of this technology and the patience of Mr. Flinger that I have this opportunity. As often as I miss and yearn for them, I also try to encourage them to ask the questions “what is it like there?” It’s a small and simple task to encourage the children’s curiosity. I show them the weather, the money, the photos. I introduce them to my friends and their young daughter, who greets them with a very adorably Northern English, “hallo!” My young son blushes at the little girl in glasses smiling at him over the screen. “They have children in England, Mommy?” “Yes, Buddy, they do. See?” This curiosity grows like a seedling. As we listen to Ingrid Michaelson’s “You and I,” I hear a small voice in the back seat of the car, “Let’s go to France and Germany, Mommy!” In an effort to continue this curiosity, we recently tried out the Little Passports. The children received a small suitcase, a map, a “passport”, an intro letter, and a craft from Japan. “You’ve been to Japan, Mommy!” They marveled at the map. We read about children in Japan. We worked on the Origami. They approved. Every month a new package will arrive with a letter from “children” traveling the globe. They get a note, an activity, and a passcode to find more online. It’s giving them the gift of wanderlust without leaving the country. It helps us talk about new places and things we might like to do one day. It’s such a simple thing: Getting Something In The Mail. But it’s so fascinating to see this old technology: MAIL! light up the children’s faces. We plan to have a real pen pal with the little girl in Manchester. In a way I have a real pen pal with her mother and father, my friends from a community of ExpressionEngine Geeks. The world now is so much smaller with twitter, facebook, and The Internet. But to see something tangible, to hold a gift from another country, to see a map with your eyes and hold the pin to mark the spot travelled: Tactile Learning is still very much alive. I know for myself, as much as the video and technology helps, there is nothing like going home to hold, physically, the people I adore. As often as I crave the new places and old friends from everywhere, the coming home is what keeps me going. And now, excuse me, but it’s time for me to wake up my children again. Possibly using questionable song choice. I was counting the railroad tiles out the window when my facilitator read, “Is often prone to daydreaming…” Yes, I thought, my daughter does that! I take a note to remember that frequent daydreaming is a sign of ADHD. I fidget and look at the clock. How LONG is this meeting? It’s been 45 minutes already. My foot bounces at the end of my leg, a habit that irritates nearly every office mate I’ve ever had. I swirl my foot in circles and take more notes. “Fidgeting, constant moving, even in adults…” Impulsivity, forgetfulness, distractibility. If I hadn’t been diagnosed a year and a half ago, this might come as a shock. Today, though, I sit, fidgeting, for nearly TWO HOURS (mygod two hours!) in my first Adult ADHD Women’s Support Group with many others who are only learning this isn’t “normal.” In my world, I am normal. In my world, I’ve always been this way. I’ve always had to work out daily or I can’t sit still. I don’t like going to the movies because they’re too long. I thrive as being a “big idea person” and the one who “drives projects”, the one who “loves change”, the person who will show up in Amsterdam having not thought about what I was supposed to do once the plane landed. In my world there was NOW and NOT NOW. I write notes to remind myself of important events and forget where I put the note. I make plans and forget I already made plans. People who love me cherish this about me and those who don’t? They don’t stick around for long. Nearly two years ago my world crashed down on me for those “cherished” attributes. After 35 years of coping mechanisms, the tiny rock-chip of balance broke in to a full crack, splitting my life in two. Projects, Marriage, Children, Friends, Family… everything fell to the ground from their balance on the high wire, the very high wire I carefully walked my entire life. It’s nearly a cliche now to hear people say how “ADD” they are. I remember hearing someone say that in front of my good friend Lotus, to which she replied, “You know, there are people that struggle to have a good life because of that.” At the time I didn’t know I was one of them. Today, I appreciate that response more than I can express. After the urging of several key people in my life, after my daughter’s teacher suggested getting her tested, after my world exploded, I decided to finally take an assessment for adult ADHD. ** I, along with 4% of the U.S. adult population, or 8 million adults, have Adult Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder. I was lucky enough as a child to learn coping mechanisms which helped me succeed in school. I have a graduate degree in technology. I’ve enjoyed, for the large part, a “successful career” and life. I don’t look like the disaster that ADHD can create in a person (unless you know me very well). But here’s the secret: many “successful” people have, and struggle, with ADHD. After my original diagnoses, I’ve followed up with a year of books, groups, therapy, podcasts, medications. From Ari Tuckman’s Podcast: “What Causes ADHD And What Doesn’t” (recommended listening) he states the following: - Research found ADHD is primarily passed via genetics. - If someone has ADHD, there’s a very good chance that at lease one other person in the family has it as well. - 6 or more genes are involved and impact ADHD in its own way - Some environmental influence can exacerbate the genetic component to ADHD but does not CAUSE ADHD. DOES NOT CAUSE ADHD - Diet and food additives. Note - Diet can exacerbate an existing ADHD imbalance or can create similar symptoms (and thus mis-diagnosed cases) but does NOT cause ADHD as a chemical imbalance in the brain. (Before doing a research for false information, please try these peer-reviewed articles.) please listen to the podcast for the reasons behind this correlation. “ADHD causes the eating of junkfood, not that junkfood causes ADHD” - Poor parenting. Usually at least one parent will also have ADHD so research shows that parents perform better when kids are under control, not reversed. - Modern Society (Twitter, Facebook, etc). Even with the overload in available distractions, it does not cause ADHD. Yes, twitter can distract even the most focused mind, but it does not cause ADHD. If this were true, societies with less technology or slower pace of life would have fewer cases but they don’t. At most we can say ADHD symptoms are more debilitating and obvious in our face-pased and distracting world, like saying a white shirt is more obvious against a black background than it is a white one but we would never say the white background caused the white shirt. The reason I share this with you now is twofold. 1. I survived, almost thrived, for 35 years with a brain chemistry deficit that could easily have derailed my life much earlier than it did but I had the structure and coping skills to handle this (until those failed from environmental factors). And 2. I am thriving again now that I have that knowledge. ADHD can be a gift or it can cause pain and frustration. I enjoy the company of others just like me and I appreciate the company of the countless friends of mine who aren’t. My closest friends can sit still, stay in routine, plan a trip and they gracefully (at least to my face) understand when I need reminding or a push to follow up. I am in a roll at work now where my “gifts” are appreciated and used to push products forward, lead, and see things from a higher-view and help those stuck in the mire of detail to keep an eye on the final outcome. People closest to me understand that my need to travel it is not a desire but a NEED. My children benefit from a mother who understands them and can offer solutions to their disorganization. We, as a house, have structured our lives for success and keep dates, events, and deadlines on a white board for everyone to see. Managing ADHD can be complex and take a lot of work but in the end, if it is preventing life from being as amazing as it can be, it’s worth it. For me, I am learning to balance both: Allowing the impulsivity and spontaneous me to work within an 8 hour day of projects and deadlines and bills. Now I finish projects on time, pay bills on time, remember and arrive early to meetings. Learning the hard truth about why I am the way I am has helped improve, not diminish, my life. ADHD is not an excuse to be distracted, it’s a reason to get help. - The fifth edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) is being released in May, 2013 which will contain and updated diagnosis criteria for ADHD in both adults and children based on recent research. - ADDitude Mag which offers a handout for debunking 7 myths of ADHD. Books I’ve read (and recommend) * Notes about assessments: If you are considering taking an assessment for ADHD, you will need to have a clinician who specializes in Adult ADHD help. There are several “inconclusive” tests that can lead to a false positive (Such as the Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale (ASRS-V1.1 from WHO Composite INternational Diagnostic Interview which is only 6 questions long). The longer the test, the more inclusive and more accurate. All good clinicians will want to talk to a spouse or family member to confirm the replies as most ADHD people can be unrealistic with their personal perceptions. Two good assessments (I’ve taken both): Brown Attention-Deficit Disorder Scales for Adolescents and Adults: Definition. I first started blogging way way back in 2003, when I was pregnant and finishing my graduate degree, when I was a new mom and completely postpartum, when people used to say, “How on earth do you do it all AND keep up a blog?” People don’t say that to me anymore. It’s become obvious: I don’t. I’ve been staring at my blog lately wondering if it’s going to speak to me. I sort of kick it around, poke at it, see if it’s still breathing. I’m a curious bystander in my own life these days. It’s not that I don’t write anymore, because I do. A lot. I have pages and pages of blog posts and love notes and ideas written in my notebook on my laptop. These ideas are now mostly shared with a very tiny select group of people: Namely those who live in my head. Every so often I venture to hand one or two to a loved one but most often the half written prose sit idly waiting for me to return from That Thing I Do Eight To Nine Hours A Day In The Office. I think it’s called work. The ironic thing? I like that Work. I could write pages and articles about that thing that I do. I could delve in to discussions about app development, front end standards, managing motherhood and sanity and travel and mid-life crises and bosses. But I can’t. Those parts of my day that I’m legally able to share get pulled in the rip-tide of life and those accomplishments and stories that I crave to write are sealed under “NON DISCLOSURE AGREEMENTS” and privacy laws and google’s ever-watching (and caching) eyes. In other news: I’ll keep sitting next to this blog in the ICU while it waits in its comma. One day she’ll wake up again. I promise to be here when she does. Will you? In tradition with all Mommy Bloggers (Capital “M” and “B”) I’d like to present to you a montage of TEH CUTEZ. I know I know, I hear it. Sorry. One of my favorite traditions is the annual Girls & Kids Christmas (Same of moms and kids camping gang). We gather the children to play until they sweat, feed them, trade presents (picked by lottery, one kid buys for one other kid) and make an ornament. I’m a fan of tradition. It’s predictable and comfortable. It’s so predictable, in fact, that as the years have progressed we have added children but still, every year, predictably, someone will sprint out of the “HOLD STILL FOR THE BLOODY PHOTO” part of the evening. In fact, kids are SO predictable, we even have this photo taken at another friend’s house for the New Annual Gingerbread Mansion Making. (Dude, SERIOUSLY) And, because my sister lives close enough now for us to do Christmas Eve together, we did. More toddler escaping pictures. (Know when to hold ‘em, know when to walk away, know when to run….) From 1985 to 2013, Happy New Year and Merry Christmas. 2008 song by LB herself The past 18 months have been particularly hard for me. I have not been writing here much as I can’t exactly say what it is that unfolds in reality. I’ve stayed quiet, I’ve stayed away, I’ve stayed pre-occupied. Some people came to rescue me at various times in the past year and a half. Others have quietly waited for me to get myself back together. And still others have turned away and left my life without a second glance. Victoria is one of those people who, while being utterly frustrated by my lack of being available, never gave up on me as a friend. In fact, when I needed someone so desperately, as I was so remotely unavailable even to myself, she pushed her way in and stood ground while I gathered up my last bits of sanity. This isn’t an exaggeration. She’s stood by watching me dog paddle the English Channel, knowing I was making progress even if scarcely noticeable. We were emailing each other about some plans this weekend. We’ve been trying to get together for a while now, as is always my case it seems. We had definitive plans for Saturday with another good friend of ours. All of our children know each other from years at the same Montessori. These are people I’ve shared multiple holidays with and school plays and gathering, so the idea of getting together was exciting and welcomed. The children couldn’t wait. Hell, I couldn’t wait. Until I got the message from Victoria about the shootings. Life suddenly was more precious and more tenable. I sat wringing my hands for hours, waiting, as the family did. I got her text, before anything public was said, and fell apart in the office. I didn’t need any pictures to remind me what Noah looked like. I’ve met him. My son spent an afternoon with him playing together with their cousins. I drank wine with his mom, V’s sister in law, thinking to myself how much I could totally hang out with her because she is great people. I can only imagine her face today. Actually, I try not to imagine her face today. It’s that image, the image of another mom who lost her six year old son, that has kicked the ass out of my selfish quests. I can no longer fathom the world without these children in it. I can not imagine my world without reminding my own son to brush his teeth, to listen the first time I tell him something and to please please please stop playing the DS and put on his shoes. I can not imagine life without those easy struggles. I’ve been able to help out some, not enough, the family that is hurt and wounded beyond anything I think anyone should endure. The truth of the story is that they’ve helped me even more than they know. Spending hours with her children, making stupid stories up to keep her mind off the real world, doing dishes because they need to be done; these are the easy parts of a larger whole. This whole is teaching the entire world, unfortunately at my very good friend’s own heart ache, how precious life is. Grief is horrendous. Life is precious. Friendship through darkness is salvation. To my own friend who held my hand back to safety, please send every ounce of love to her family as you can. And please, for all of us, go home and hug your children. Even if they refuse to put on their shoes. I was in meetings all morning at work. I was fired up about some frustrating blockers about my seemingly important work of moving bits and bytes around on various screens. Then I saw an email from one of my closest friends that her niece and nephew’s school had a major shooting today. They have her nieces but her nephew is still missing. Now, look, I know that it’s all the way in Connecticut and I live all the way here in Seattle. But V’s son and my son are great buds. They go to schools a few miles apart. My son has played with her nephew, the one missing right now. So no, I do not think “there’s nothing to worry about, it’s not here, Leslie. It’s ok,” which is what people keep trying to tell me when they see my watery eyes looking lost at the office. I believe there is a thousand reasons to run home and grab my children, and her children, and huddle together. It’s not ok. Not until they find her Nephew and he is safe and EVEN THEN it is not ok. Nothing about this is ok. So please, please, please keep V and her family in your thoughts and prayers. I know there’s a ton of support out there already waiting and watching with her but please add yours. From one mom to every mom out there and to a particular one with whom I’ve shared wine and laughter with, who now waits to hear where her son is, mygod I feel for you. And that’s not even enough. “Everything changes in third grade, Bud.” My wise eight year old is schooling her five year old brother. “You don’t get a Big Buddy anymore at school. YOU ARE the Big Buddy.” These words hit something in my memory. I flash to a month after my Grandmother’s death (something I’ve talked about before) and I remember my mom saying to me, “It’s so weird to not have a mom. Now I am the mom.” Today is my grandmother’s birthday. She passed away this month, too, but I try not to think of that date. Instead, when I think of my grandmother, I do so on this day, her LIFE day. It wasn’t until my early twenties, after my Grandfather passed that I came to know her better and it wasn’t until after her death I realized how alike we are. My Grandmother was a traveler, a writer, a hard worker. She enjoyed the company of girlfriends and her family. She struggled with depression and a need to please everyone. She wore class and kindness the way some women wear pearls. That last bit, I’m still working toward. My Grandmother is the kind of person who is always alive. She lives in my goals and life’s lessons. She lives in my wishes. She lives in my daughter and my son when I look at them and picture her next to them at Christmas or birthdays. It’s been a decade since her death. A decade. Someone might wonder, then, why this day would mean anything more than The Day We Were Brought In To The War (for the American citizens) or Just Another Bloody Working Day (for the rest). But the truth is, in ten years so much has append. My Grandmother was the kind of lady who would IM me during the work day and even still I miss this. My Grandmother was the lady who would stay out until 11pm talking at Starbucks with my Mom and I. My Grandmother was the person to bestow some of the best advice of marriage and life and living. Even in her death, my Grandmother has shaped so much of who I am, where I went, what I became. They say you have to skip a generation to truly understand who you are. I dunno, maybe they don’t say that but I just did. Moms and Daughters might clash but the Grandmother / Grandaughter relationship is beyond judgement or strife or told-you-so’s. Especially with my Grandma who guided her grandchildren quietly behind their mothers, quietly behind their fathers, and quietly leaving the biggest impact of all. I miss and love you G’ma. I still have you on my Yahoo IM. You know.. just in case there’s Internet in Heaven. (Do they have that yet? Because seriously, even the rural areas do here.) As a little girl sitting in a pew at St Mary’s Catholic Church, I was pretty sure the Priest was talking directly to me about 90% of the time. (The other 10% I figured he was talking about those girls at school who really needed to go to confession for breaking commandment number 5: Honor your father and mother because surely that could never be me.) Even if it was a sermon about giving money back to the church or not overdoing the strong drink, or treating work as a sanctuary, I still took these to heart at 8 years of age. God was telling me something. He had to be. Didn’t I just have too much Tang yesterday? The thing is this didn’t just happen at church. Even though I don’t attend church any more (for a variety of reasons) I still find the Universe taking massive attempts to tell me something. Or maybe I’m just really really very self absorbed. Every song, every movie, every quote from the books I read seem to reach in to my subconscious and pull out the feelings I’ve spent a few months (years?) doing my best to shove down. It’s like buying a new car and suddenly everyone on the road is driving your car. Or naming your child and suddenly everyone has an Owen. You know how in your own mind you’ve started a trend when in reality, you’re just opening up to seeing something that’s been there all along because it means more to you know? It’s like that. Only more. So I really shouldn’t be shocked at all when Sensei George tells the children’s story after karate and he is, I am not kidding, speaking directly to me. I mean, sure, he tells a story of moral value after every karate class he teaches. Sure he tells about 80 different stories he chooses based on what the children seem to need to hear. But y’all, Sensei George turned to my heart and spoke priest-like to the 8 year old inside of me last night. “When you stand, stand. When you sit, sit. Whatever you do, do not wobble.” This might not mean as much to you, or maybe it does, but these fourteen words hit a place in my troubled heart. How does he know I needed to hear that? I swear I actually looked back on Facebook posts and blog posts to see if maybe I gave away something. Maybe I need to accept the fact that sometimes the marvel of the human brain is how it grabs on to what it needs to hear, process, and apply to situations. Maybe I need to listen more and shove feelings away less. Maybe I need to own up to the fact that even in mid-life I’m still learning how to hear when the Universe knocks …. or calls collect… and when to answer. I wrote this super cheesy post back in 2003 about how I thought I had the “Dog Spirit.” You know the one where a pregnant 28 year old fanes poetic about her free spirit that is about to be leashed to years of diapers and saying, “Do Not Take Off Your Clothes In Public.” (I assume this includes the teenage and college years.) It’s not a new theme in my life: Traveling. It’s not something that just sort of showed up one day in my head where I said, “HEY! Let’s go somewhere!” No, the more I analyze (and by god I analyze) my desire, nay, need to get off the continent as frequently as possible, I realize it started early in my childhood, right down to how poorly I do travel and how often I crave it. I remember my first solo plane ride. I was seven? Eight? (Mom, help me out here.) I went to Dallas (from Houston Hobby) to visit some family friends. I was going to see a girl of my dad’s best friend, someone that I got along well with. I remember being freaked out, NOT that I was traveling on a plane alone or hundreds of miles from my family, but that I might be seated NEXT TO A MAN. No, seriously, I bugged my host family with this information. “PLEASE do not make me sit next to A MAN on the way back. PLEASE.” I dunno, y’all. Analyze at your will. I’ll be bringing this up in therapy. Anyway, my mom sent me some mail that arrived during my stay. I remember starting to miss her and I remember getting the letter. Judy handed me something and said, “This is from your mom. Arrived in the mail today.” I have no idea what the note said, something of insignificance, but at the end my Mom signed it, “Love ya, Mom.” I remember that sign off. THAT is the thing I remember from that letter. The casual “Love Ya” after a note that smelled like home. I remember crying at that note and I remember Judy (and her daughter Heather, my friend) wondering why I kept reading it if I was just going to cry. But clearly they didn’t really know me yet. This is what I think of now when I travel. There are two truths to my travels: 1. I am the mother now and send the “love ya’s” to my children to their email boxes which utterly blows my seven year old mind and 2. I’ve been traveling for a very very very long time. Thus, and so, in conclusion, and such, I can picture myself at seven, or twenty-seven, going somewhere, anywhere, with my head out the window and my spirit soaring. My dog spirit, as I wrote, is still very much alive; Two puppies later. Hello! Salutations! How are you, anyhow? It’s been a while and I’ve missed you all. I’m in England this week. It’s funny, in a “I guess you had to be there” sort of way, but I spoke up to the Taxi Driver this morning in a British accent without realizing it. In fact, I accidentally spelled REALISING it just now until spell check let me know I’m a bloody american. Acclimation is my middle name. (Look, I’m already using words with more than two syllables! And correctly pronouncing my adverbs! And spelling favourite with a flamboyant ‘u’! And over-using exclamations! Right, I said Acclimation, not Exclamation.) I’m sitting in an office with people whos’ faces I recognize from business meetings. I’m getting IMs from my colleagues in Germany. I’m down right full of myself with near-accomplished-pride until I cry at breakfast because MYGODIAMSOBLOODYTIRED. In truth, I do not travel well, although I love it more than a fabulous cup’o'tea or a chocolate eclair. Or even french wine. There are at least 501 places I want to visit before I am too old to sleep on cruddy hotel pillows or navigate the tube or sit on long flights without getting an embolism. Five-hundred-and-one, y’all. I’m not even kidding: I’ve counted. The truth is, while I write love notes about countries or experiences or amazing-technologically-advanced-doors, there is not at least one time I do not break down in tears over something as ridiculous as rubbery eggs, because my heavens a girl can only travel so much in three days on no sleep without some sort of nervous breakdown….. Over eggs. At least the palace was especially lovely yesterday. As was that English beer. And the bridge. And that lovely meal.. and the people .. and ……. See? I’m doing it already. (I’ll post some photos later as I am on a tight deadline and I’ve already taken an entire FOUR AND A HALF MINUTES to write this post and I’m fairly sure it will take another thirty seconds or so to hit publish.) (Once I stop typing.) (I heard the quote, “Live in the pause” on a podcast just now and decided I should take five and a half minutes to write down something about my day. And I picked the rubbery eggs story? I swear I’ll do better tomorrow.) (But seriously, y’all. Rubber bloody scrambled eggs. Seriously! I should write a letter.) 24 guests here now.
Anyway. I made a last-minute trip to a conference a couple of weeks ago, and nerves drove me to some night-before skirt-making: Simple a-line skirt, using soft stretch corduroy, then a cluster of wool felt flowers handsewn on. I love felt, I love colour, I love handsewing; this skirt was true simple pleasure. Back in December I tried my hand at this twirly skirt pattern for CP, and while I still am Dudley at following a pattern, all was well enough to wear in the end, and much twirling was done in preparation for her first Broadway outing. Thank you so much to all of you who have supported 8th Grade Superzero, it is very much appreciated. I did my first talk with middle- and high-schoolers, they asked great questions and shared a love for books and writing that was a real boost after some discouraging days in the publishing world. Thank goodness for authors, bloggers, and advocates who know what's up; check out a must-read by Neesha Meminger on authenticity of representations of people of colour in literature, Paradigm Shifts and more over at the always amazing ColorOnline. And if you care about children's books, education, honesty and justice in publishing, and being an "agent of positive change", be sure to join Readers Against Whitewashing, and spend lots of time at Mitali's Fire Escape, Multiculturalism Rocks, Reading in Color, and Paper Tigers, just to name a few. Oh, and Colleen Mondor breaks it down so well. (Seriously. Those are just a few of the amazing blogs and book-related sites out there. For more links, click here.) I'm continuing to update my links to sites and organizations that are offering support to Haiti; it's also in the sidebar, to the right. We've got a long way to go.
Use this member function to write data from a buffer to the file associated with the CArchive object. void WriteString( LPCTSTR lpsz ); - Specifies a pointer to a buffer containing a null-terminated text string. The terminating null character ('\0') is not written to the file; nor is a newline automatically written. WriteString throws an exception in response to several conditions, including the disk-full condition. Write is also available, but rather than terminating on a null character, it writes the requested number of bytes to the file. CFile myFile("myfile", CFile::modeCreate \| CFile::modeReadWrite); CString str1="String1", str2="String2", str; // Create a storing archive. CArchive arStore(&myFile, CArchive::store); // Write str1 and str2 to the archive arStore.WriteString( str1 ); arStore.WriteString( "\n" ); arStore.WriteString( str2 ); arStore.WriteString( "\n" ); // Close the storing archive arStore.Close(); // Create a loading archive. myFile.SeekToBegin(); CArchive arLoad(&myFile, CArchive::load); // Verify the two strings are in the archive. arLoad.ReadString( str ); ASSERT( str == str1 ); arLoad.ReadString( str ); ASSERT( str == str2 );
The real significance of the case exceeds the NSA wiretapping story and the use of state secrets. Walker’s opinion is a stirring defense of the role of the courts, even in times of war. Quoting the Supreme Court’s decision in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, he reminds us, “Whatever power the United States Constitution envisions for the Executive in its exchanges with other nations or with enemy organizations in times of conflict, it most assuredly envisions a role for all three branches when individual liberties are at stake.” The president and Congress seem to have forgotten that lately; Judge Walker has reminded them. July 21, 2006 Tim Wu on The Long Tail [5:10 pm] Like most good ideas, the Long Tail attaches to your mind and gets stuck there. Everything you take inâ€”cult blogs, alternative music, festival filmsâ€”starts looking like the Long Tail in action. But that’s also the problem. The Long Tail theory is so catchy it can overgrow its useful boundaries. Unfortunately, Anderson’s book exacerbates this problem. When you put it down, there’s one question you won’t be able to answer: When, exactly, doesn’t the Long Tail matter? [...] This insight goes only so far, but like many business books, The Long Tail commits the sin of overreaching. The tagline on the book’s cover reads, “Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More,” which is certainly wrong or at least exaggerated. Inside we learn about “the Long Tail of Everything.” Anderson’s book, unlike his original Wired article, threatens to turn a great theory of inventory economics into a bad theory of life and the universe. Still no idea what MIT has in mind for the space, but it’s been the distraction that a bunch of engineering faculty and students can’t resist — watching the use of big machines to execute on the interesting engineering task of destroying a building without harming the surrounding ones. Each machine has a name, as do the operators. (Surprisingly, despite the number of Futurama fans here, the “Crushinator” name has gone unused) Sadly, the hose guys demonstrate that we’re MITers — they’re merely Hose Guy #1 and Hose Guy #2. They broke one of the crushing claws the second day (they really do look like lobster crusher claws), and today there’s a “veterinarian” out there fixing it. And to see what machines like these can do to reinforced concrete and brick walls can change your world view forever! The graphic will take you to an animated GIF — a demonstration of what having a digital camera can do to you once you realize you’re not constrained by film costs. More on Virtual Marketing in 2nd Life [7:48 am] In an office located nearly 2,000 feet above his island estate, Bill Lichtenstein is overseeing construction of the new headquarters for the public radio show “The Infinite Mind.” None of this actually exists in the real world, but rather in a 3-D virtual world known as Second Life. Here, “The Infinite Mind” is planning to broadcast its weekly one-hour radio program on health and science and create an immersive experience. “This represents an unprecedented leap forward for broadcasting into virtual reality and 3-D online communities,” said Lichtenstein, president of Lichtenstein Creative Media in Cambridge, which produces “The Infinite Mind.” “There’s a huge potential to bring people together in a dynamic, cost-effective environment.” When “The Infinite Mind” opens it virtual doors next month, it will become the first regularly scheduled national media broadcast within the increasingly popular 3-D web space. [...] See also I’m Falling Behind The Curve
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Army makes too many miscues against No. 24 Rutgers PISCATAWAY, N.J. (AP) Army had its biggest win since 1972 within its grasp and handed it away. Despite limiting No. 24 Rutgers to 252 total yards, the Black Knights made three crucial mistakes in the final nine minutes and dropped a 28-7 decision Saturday. It was a tie game in the fourth quarter before Army (2-8) made two miscues on punts and lost a fumble that helped put the Scarlet Knights in control. ''Obviously, the kicking game was a disaster,'' Army coach Rich Ellerson said. ''The fourth quarter turned into a bit of a clown act. It's the finishing edge that has to be in place. We did the hard things that put us in good position, but we weren't able to do the routine. The easier things, we were unable to do.'' Duron Harmon's 73-yard fumble return for a touchdown with 40 seconds left for the Scarlet Knights (8-1) capped their ninth straight triumph over Army (2-8). ''This is the best our defense played all year,'' Army strong safety Josh Jackson said. ''People want to say we played our best game against Air Force (41-21 last week), but this is the best we played all year. From the start to the finish, we did our thing. There were so many chances we had that we didn't capitalize on.'' Jackson was referring to the offense, which ran 85 plays and gained 337 yards. Three fumbles, two blocked field goals and a bad snap, all helped Rutgers nullify the stellar defense displayed by Army. Quarterback Trent Steelman's 1-yard keeper in the first quarter staked Army to a 7-0 lead, but the miscues offensively never let the Black Knights build on its lead. Steelman, who rushed for 102 yards on 26 carries, to put him at 1,013 running yards for the season, fumbled to snuff out one drive. His pass 13-yard pass hit Chevaughn Lawrence in the hands, but he couldn't hold onto the ball in the waning seconds of the first half. Steelman is the 16th Army player to run for 1,000 yards in a season and is poised to break the Black Knights' record for a quarterback of 1,078 yards set by Tory Crawford in 1986. ''Honestly, I thought (Lawrence) came down with it,'' Steelman said after Army missed a chance to knock off a ranked team for the first time since 1972. ''I guess when he hit the ground it came out. Bottom line is that we didn't cash in on our opportunities.'' On the next play after the incompletion to Lawrence, Dan Grochowski's low kick for a 30-yard field goal was blocked by Lorenzo Waters of Rutgers with 24 seconds left before the break. Army never could get going in the second half as the Scarlet Knights learned how to defend the triple option. Rutgers coach Kyle Flood said he expected Army to give Rutgers all it could handle, downplaying the idea that Rutgers escaped with a win. ''I think if you say that, you're not giving them the credit they deserve,'' Flood said. ''If you put the film on and watch them game in and game out, Coach Ellerson has a really good football team. And as he has said, their record doesn't reflect that. They're difficult to play against, and we worked really hard for that win today Brandon Coleman caught his second touchdown of the game on a 31-yard pass from Gary Nova with 8:49 to play for the game-winning score as the Scarlet Knights bounced back from their first loss and a two-week layoff that featured Hurricane Sandy and a Nor'easter that dumped a foot of snow in New Jersey. Rutgers also got a 2-yard touchdown run from Savon Huggins with 6:28 left. Coleman caught a 16-yard touchdown pass in the first half on a halfback option by Jawan Jamison, while weakside linebacker Khaseem Greene had 22 tackles and a forced fumble, his sixth of the season. Rutgers kept the Black Knights off the board after Steelman's TD with its No. 4 ranked run defense limiting the nation's No. 1 ground game (375.44 yards) to 282 yards, including 86 in the second half. The game was tied 7-7 with less than 11 minutes to play when Army self-destructed. Punter Chris Boldt made the first mistake, shanking his kick 9 yards to the Army 45.. Nova capped the four-play drive finding Coleman in the right corner of the end zone. Marcus Cooper blocked a 43-yard field goal attempt by Grochowski.
THE YEAR 4 MEGAPAUSE TLDR; Act 6 Act 6 is next. This is Homestuck's final push. But before I start on it, I'll be taking a very significant hiatus to work on the game 4/13/13 marked the 4th year of Homestuck, and a little more than the 5th year of MSPA's regular updates overall. Thanks to all those who've hung in there the whole time, as well as the very large number of you who piled on to this silly wagon at some point along the way. The idea last year was to finish Homestuck and then begin working on the game. But as I've started to get into the early game dev process a bit, it's become obvious I have to start working on it much sooner. As in, right now. It takes many months of drawing and programming to make a game. But nobody can start on any of that until I've done a lot of writing and planning. So what it comes down to is, either I delay finishing Homestuck by a few months, or delay the release of the game by what would probably be a lot longer than that. Considering people threw 2.5 million bucks at me to make a game, I think that choice is obvious. If I could do both at the same time, I would. But that's not realistic. Working on HS is an all consuming thing. Designing a whole game I believe will be too. It may sound obvious, but it can't be emphasized enough - entertainment takes a lot of time to create. More time than most people think. MSPA somewhat obscures that reality because I work on it as maniacally and efficiently as I can to keep the rate of output as high as possible. But the ease of production is an illusion. It is in fact a nonstop grind to generate this much material at a consistent rate. So I have to put all that on hold if I want to get anything else done. I have noticed that some people believed HS would end on 4/13/13, though I never said that it would. Even if the story appeared to be on the precipice of resolution (which it wasn't), these rumors could be debunked for one simple reason. Animation takes A LOT of time. You've got to expect a story like this would end with some sort of big animation, right? I can't make those without suspending all updates completely for a good while. Trust me, the end to this won't sneak up on anyone. It will be really obvious when it's on the way. To alleviate some of the suspense and wild speculation, I will give you a very loose estimate of my schedule, from now until the end of HS. Please observe these facts, as organized by this really awesome "html table" I have designed for this purpose. \|The thing I am going to be doing \|\|How long that thing is going to take me \|Work on the game, and probably some other stuff, like make more HS books. Oh, also go to a few conventions. No updates. \|Work on a whole bunch of regular updates for A6A6, leading up to the end of HS. \|Work on the final animation, plus zero or more other animations, just before or somewhat near the end of HS. So that's it for now. See you in a while. Unless you decide to reread Homestuck or something. In which case I guess I'll keep seeing you here. Well not me, but my website will see you. My website is always watching. Posted on 27 Mar 2013 by Andrew In the Topatoco store there is a new shirt, featuring this highly attractive design by Lexxy! The shirt is available in white and black. Lexxy as you may know has drawn a bunch of things that have appeared in Homestuck animations. She is also planning a great looking comic called Cloud Factory . Also, she is basically the star of a reality TV show called Strip Search . This is an up and coming artist for whom I see BIG THINGS. Yes, I know I am really going out on a limb with this prediction, but I am well known for making such bold and controversial claims. Posted on 15 Mar 2013 by Andrew It is called Cherubim. Worth noting: this album contains the song used in Caliborn: Enter. It's the last track, called Eternity Served Cold, by Malcolm Brown. Posted on 22 Jan 2013 by Andrew Posted on 21 Jan 2013 by Andrew More new things! 2013 calendars, and some cherub hoodies: Posted on 28 Nov 2012 by Andrew Check it out! Some hot new things in the What Pumpkin Store. WE GOT: Some cool Sburb polos! Alpha kid pins! Alpha kid logos on white shirts! (Perhaps better suited for your cosplay dreams??)
If you'd like to jump right into reading something, I think Problem Sleuth is a good place to start, personally. But it's a pretty long read, so be sure to have the save game feature handy! But before you jump into an adventure, a little background on the site would probably help. There are two key points to understand! They are: 1) MSPA stories exist in the format of "mock games", specifically text-based adventure games. You advance through the pages of the story by clicking links which sound like commands you would type in a text prompt to get a character to do something. Generally, the character will respond to that command on the following page. 2) MSPA stories are largely "reader-driven", in the sense that most of the text commands were supplied by readers through a suggestion box. I would select a command from the list, and then illustrate the result of the command. When I say "largely reader driven", I mean this approach has undergone a lot of evolution from adventure to adventure, and continues to even now. I'll try to give a sense of what the process was for each adventure. Jailbreak: This was the first adventure, one I started well before the MSPA site existed. I created it on a forum, where people would post suggestions in replies to the thread. My policy was to always take the first suggestion no matter what, which naturally lead to a very haphazard feel to the story's progression. I also experimented with "branching" the story at one point, splitting it into two paths. But then I quickly brought those two paths back together. I left Jailbreak unfinished. And it's probably fine that way, as a sort of rambling, silly initial experiment with the storytelling format. I doubt I'll go back to finish it. Bardquest: This was the first adventure I started after launching MSPA.com, back when I had the "choose your own adventure" format in mind for the site as the primary storying device, in addition to the reader-driven feature with a new on-site suggestion box. But the multiple paths turned out to be quite difficult for me to keep up with, and overall, probably pretty hard for readers to digest as well, especially with a longer story. Mercifully, this one never made it that far. I chalk it up as an interesting failed experiment, and one that I surely won't go back to finish. After halting BQ, I left the site to gather dust for about six months, then started it up again with Problem Sleuth. Problem Sleuth:By far the longest adventure (Homestuck is now much longer), and only complete one to date. When I started, I revised the approach, completely scrapping the multiple paths concept except in a few minor instances. I also started being more selective with the suggestions, not necessarily always picking the first one in the box. This made for a more controlled style of action, allowing elements of planning and puzzle solving, while still creating a pretty whimsical feel to the adventure. But I feel MSPA evolved in many more ways than that over the daunting span of Problem Sleuth (exactly one year, in fact). The nature of the parody drifted away from text-adventures exclusively to playing off many other sorts of gaming genres, like RPGs, fighting games, etc. The visual style progressed as well, as I started incorporating more and more animated frames and over the top battle sequences. And the reader-driven element shifted very gradually as well, especially as the story took on more readers. When a story begins to get thousands of suggestions, paradoxically, it becomes much harder to call it truly "reader-driven". This is simply because there is so much available, the author can cherry-pick from what's there to suit whatever he might have in mind, whether he's deliberately planning ahead or not. But as it happened, I was planning ahead much more as the story neared its end, and I would tend to A) pick commands that suited what I had in mind, or B) just call a spade a spade and outright MAKE UP a command for an idea I had, which I did most often for many of the later attacks (like the Sleuth Diplomacy variations, Comb Raves, etc). Toward the end, the suggestion box was mostly used as a go-to for the frivolous, funny tangential stuff, and rarely anything story-changing. I've come to view this as the only realistic practice for a site with this format, with this many readers. This practice carried over to the next adventure, right from the start. The adventure I'm currently working on, with a pretty radically different approach from the way the previous adventures started, mostly in the sense that many elements are already preplanned. I don't know if I intended to make a big point of this as huge a paradigm shift for the site. It was more that I started getting ideas for the next adventure well before Problem Sleuth ended, and those ideas just kept cropping up. Much like with crafting the conclusion for Problem Sleuth, the planning just couldn't be helped! So the use of user commands has been handled in a similar way, insofar as they contribute to a direction I want the story to go in, or to simply produce a humorous tangential effect (which can sometimes lead to story developments I don't anticipate anyway!) But the point is, the reader-driven aspect of MSPA is still in a state evolution, and truthfully is probably drifting away from being a very important factor in the way the story is structured. It is manifesting in other interesting ways though. With HS I introduced the incorporation of music into the story, and the production of this music has been a collaborative effort among readers. Other ideas and resources like funny images, game mechanic concepts, etc, have made it into the story outside of the institutionalized structure of the suggestion box. I also picked the characters' names from reader input. There are lots of ways I will inject reader input into stories, and finding out how will be the fun part. But it will almost certainly never resemble the madcap charades of Jailbreak or early Problem Sleuth. The bottom line is, the MSPA format always seems to be in a state of flux, and I will surely continue to bend my own rules in various ways. Honestly at this stage, I am less excited about the reader-driven aspect than I am about the format that has emerged and somewhat crystallized, which is: telling a story through the vehicle of a mock-game, complete with somewhat convincing and detailed mechanics, but without losing sight of it as a parody. That format has been augmented with the use of Flash animations and interactive pages, which is something I'm sure I'll keep exploring. Anyway, if you really are a new reader, I guess that was a lot to digest! But even if you're not a new reader, I'm sure you gleaned some insight from that. TLDR; Act 6 Act 6 is next. This is Homestuck's final push. But before I start on it, I'll be taking a very significant hiatus to work on the game. 4/13/13 marked the 4th year of Homestuck, and a little more than the 5th year of MSPA's regular updates overall. Thanks to all those who've hung in there the whole time, as well as the very large number of you who piled on to this silly wagon at some point along the way. The idea last year was to finish Homestuck and then begin working on the game. But as I've started to get into the early game dev process a bit, it's become obvious I have to start working on it much sooner. As in, right now. It takes many months of drawing and programming to make a game. But nobody can start on any of that until I've done a lot of writing and planning. So what it comes down to is, either I delay finishing Homestuck by a few months, or delay the release of the game by what would probably be a lot longer than that. Considering people threw 2.5 million bucks at me to make a game, I think that choice is obvious. If I could do both at the same time, I would. But that's not realistic. Working on HS is an all consuming thing. Designing a whole game I believe will be too. It may sound obvious, but it can't be emphasized enough - entertainment takes a lot of time to create. More time than most people think. MSPA somewhat obscures that reality because I work on it as maniacally and efficiently as I can to keep the rate of output as high as possible. But the ease of production is an illusion. It is in fact a nonstop grind to generate this much material at a consistent rate. So I have to put all that on hold if I want to get anything else done. I have noticed that some people believed HS would end on 4/13/13, though I never said that it would. Even if the story appeared to be on the precipice of resolution (which it wasn't), these rumors could be debunked for one simple reason. Animation takes A LOT of time. You've got to expect a story like this would end with some sort of big animation, right? I can't make those without suspending all updates completely for a good while. Trust me, the end to this won't sneak up on anyone. It will be really obvious when it's on the way. To alleviate some of the suspense and wild speculation, I will give you a very loose estimate of my schedule, from now until the end of HS. Please observe these facts, as organized by this really awesome "html table" I have designed for this purpose. The thing I am going to be doing How long that thing is going to take me Work on the game, and probably some other stuff, like make more HS books. Oh, also go to a few conventions. No updates. Work on a whole bunch of regular updates for A6A6, leading up to the end of HS. Work on the final animation, plus zero or more other animations, just before or somewhat near the end of HS. So that's it for now. See you in a while. Unless you decide to reread Homestuck or something. In which case I guess I'll keep seeing you here. Well not me, but my website will see you. My website is always watching. In the Topatoco store there is a new shirt, featuring this highly attractive design by Lexxy! The shirt is available in white and black. Lexxy as you may know has drawn a bunch of things that have appeared in Homestuck animations. She is also planning a great looking comic called Cloud Factory. Also, she is basically the star of a reality TV show called Strip Search. This is an up and coming artist for whom I see BIG THINGS. Yes, I know I am really going out on a limb with this prediction, but I am well known for making such bold and controversial claims.
TitleAn IBC and certificate based hybrid approach to WIMAX security NameRodoper, Mete (author), Trappe, Wade (chair), Mandayam, Narayan (internal member), Raychaudhuri, Dipankar (internal member), Rutgers University, Graduate School - New Brunswick, SubjectElectrical and Computer Engineering, IEEE 802.16 (Standard), IEEE 802.16 (Standard)--Computer networks--Security measures DescriptionWiMAX is a promising technology that provides high data throughput with low delays for various user types and modes of operation. These advantages make WiMAX applicable both for infrastructure purposes and end-client usage. Since WiMAX is presented as a network framework and a last-mile technology, it is believed to be capable of handling a wide range of usage scenarios. For example, while the end users have an opportunity to use WiMAX as the primary connection medium for acquiring services such as on-demand video streaming, VoIP connections and mobile bank transactions, the service providers may use it for data relaying purposes among access points. To meet the technical requirements of these various scenarios, majority of the WiMAX research has been conducted on physical and MAC layers; however little has been invested in a comprehensive and efficient security solution, which has resulted in a wide range of security weaknesses and reactive solutions. Many security problems remain to be addressed in different modes and for different user types even in the final security standard of WiMAX, PKMv2. In this thesis, we present a hybrid security solution combining Identity-Based Cryptography (IBC) and certificate based approaches to overcome the existing security problems of WiMAX without degrading service quality. IBC has potential benefits that can provide enhancements to the overall security and efficiency of the security standard. One such enhancement is combining user identity with the public key and therefore eliminating the public key distribution load from the network. However, IBC has a few caveats, such as the necessity of a secure medium to distribute private keys. To compensate for these disadvantages, in this study, IBC is combined with certificate-based security. As a result, the benefits of IBC are maintained while the disadvantages are eliminated. Using the hybrid approach, this study also aims to clarify the key revocation procedures and key lifetimes of WiMAX. To achieve this goal, key renewal intervals are examined and corresponding lifetimes are assigned to the credentials missing in both PKMv2 and PKMv1. Additionally, the key distribution procedures are investigated and a pattern is provided with the message exchange details. To be able to correctly assess the efficiency of this approach, a new mobility model is defined in the evaluation chapter of this thesis. Based on this model, the analysis has shown that our hybrid solution that combines IBC and the certified based security scheme results in a significant bandwidth improvement over the standard’s approach, PKMv2. This work is the first study that unites the advantages of both IBC and the certified-based security scheme for improved security while maintaining low overhead for WiMAX. NoteIncludes bibliographical references CollectionGraduate School - New Brunswick Electronic Theses and Dissertations Organization NameRutgers, The State University of New Jersey RightsThe author owns the copyright to this work.
The approval by SSDC's Area North Planning Committee, of the Edgar application for their Etsome Terrace site gave me quite a bit to think about, particularly the contributions made by the committee members. But before I go into that, it is useful to consider what was actually recommended for approval by SSDC's Planning Officers. The application was a renewal of the original application made in 2008 and, at that time, supported by Somerton Town Council, who were selling the land in question to Edgar Homes. Three years has elapsed since that application and, as the applicant has not started the work, they were required to apply for a renewal of the consent. In the intervening three years, SSDC policy has changed and the Planning Officers were therefore treating the application as a new application rather than a renewal. As such, the Planning Officers were seeking a S106 'planning gain' contribution of around £77,000 from the developer. This requirement had been discussed with the developer prior to the Planning Committee and the developer had refused to negotiate on any basis which resulted in the application being recommended for refusal. At the Area North committee, the developer, in the person of Mark Edgar, made a short presentation which (and I summarise) said that the imposition of a £77,000 S106 obligation would make the development uneconomic. (Officers stated that, when invited to, the applicant had declined to open their books and prove that view). Mr A H Canvin followed Mr Edgar in addressing the committee in support of the application. Mr Canvin, it will be remembered, was instrumental in organising the sale of the Etsome land. The point of Mr Canvin's contribution was hard to discern but he did state that, in introducing a 'school drop-off point' within the development, Somerton Town Council had given up two additional building plots. This is an interesting point given that the land sold off to Edgar homes constituted more than the 50% that Somerton Town Council were bound to by their agreement with Somerset County Council. If Mr Canvin's statement were true it would mean that Somerton Town Council considered selling 68% of the land - a rather larger breach of the agreement with County than exists at present. Debating the application was then turned over to the committee members and our Ward Councillor, Pauline Clarke, led the way with a very curious and long winded (her words) summary of the Somerton situation. In essence, Cllr Clarke listed the excellent facilities enjoyed by Somerton (play, sports, amenity etc etc) and said, in effect, that as Somerton had such excellent facilities, this developer should not have to contribute. Cllr Clarke made no mention of the fact that the ratepayers and voters had paid for these facilities from which this developer and their development would benefit but not contribute towards. Once again an example of Cllr Clarke as the 'developer's friend'. Cllr Sylvia Steele's contribution was, in comparison to Cllr Clarke's, short and to the point. Cllr Steele's view was that the developer should contribute as the Officer's recommendation proposed. Cllr David Norris, the other Somerton Ward Member, made a rather vague comment about believing that the developer should contribute but maybe not to the suggested level. Cllr Mounter then explained that he couldn't understand that the application had been passed before and this was just a renewal so he didn't understand why they were discussing it. In response, an Officer (possibly Mr David Norris said, "Yes, this is a renewal however we have to decide whether current policies and the answer to that is no, we say that a development of this nature should contribute towards infrastructure costs in line with current policy. Unfortunately the developer has declined to make those obligations and has not been willing to enter into 'open book' viability discussions and that is why we are in the unfortunate position of recommending refusal." Cllr Mounter seemed either unable to understand the officer's explanation or unwilling to accept it as he repeated his inability to understand why the application was being discussed. Cllr Roundell-Greene then asked quite a searching question about the inclusion of the school drop-off point within the development and pointed out that, had this been replaced with two more housing plots (see Mr Canvin's earlier statement) then the development would have met the criteria for an 'affordable element'. Cllr Yeomans then wound up the 'debate' by observing that the developer's mistake had been not to at least put the foundations in the ground three years ago, thereby securing the consent on the terms then agreed. Cllr Mounter then proposed that the application be approved on the terms set out in 2008, a proposal which was immediately seconded (possibly by Cllr Pledger). The Chair (Cllr Palmer) noted the proposal and its seconding and moved to a vote which, I believe, was carried by 10 votes for and 1 against. Cllr Steele is to be congratulated for displaying some sign of intelligence. I should point out that I have contacted Cllrs Clarke, Mounter, Roundell-Green and Norris for their comments as well as Mr Mark Edgar. Cllr Clarke and Mr Edgar have failed to respond. Till next time, I'm still Niall Connolly
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Hope you all had a great winter. We have nailed down our Advanced Courses for 2013 Summer. We will start with two back to back weekends of SIV. The first one is May 31- June 2 and the second weekend is June 7-9. Hopefully those of you that have not attended an SIV can attend one of these weekends. There will also be other options we can discuss if one of these weekends does not work for you. Next we will have the Thermal/XC Flying Clinic. The SIV is a prerequisite for the Thermal Course. The dates for the Groundschool will be done in the evenings on July 9 and 10 in the Cochrane Shop and the Flight Dates are evening of Friday July 12 and days of the 13th and 14th. So to recap: SIV May 31 to June 2 in the Salt Lake City area SIV June 7 to June 9 in the Salt Lake City area Golden High Flights June 29-30 2nd Golden High Flights July 6-7 Thermal/XC Groundschool July 9-10 evenings in Cochrane Thermal/XC Flying Portion July 12-14 in Golden, BC Please contact us if you have any interest any of these listed courses. Wednesday, April 24, 2013 Monday, March 11, 2013 Date: Friday, March 22, 2013 Place: Muller Windsports Shop at the Cochrane Flying Site We have some new hang glider and paraglider movies and have planned a movie night during our annual Instructors Course. A highlight for hang glider pilots is the newly released "Live the Dream", the story of a young girl starting hang gliding first by aero towing and then learning to foot launch. A different way to learn to hang gliding and very entertaining. We also have the history of hang gliding in Western Canada, a Heritage Project by John Janssen's daughter Nikky. She did a great job and it's fun to watch. Keith has assembled new paragliding movies that we will also show. There will be something for everyone. We are hoping for a good social evening and the chance to meet some of the new pilots who have moved into the Calgary area. We are hoping for no snow that weekend! Wednesday, February 27, 2013 RESERVE CLINIC 2013 DATE: Saturday, March 9, 2013 Repack Fee: $45.00 Deployment, inspection and repack. The lecture is free. Ecole Ste-Marguerite Bourgeoys, 4700 Richard Rd SW (note: the school is next door to Bishop Carol High School) Format: Deployments will start at 9:00AM for pilots who have attended previous clinics. Lecture will start at 10am. It is recommended that pilots who have not attended a clinic should attend the lecture. After the lecture, deployments will continue. Repacks will start during the lecture. If work needs to be done on your equipment it will be done at the shop during the week. If you are a new pilot and don't yet have a reserve we will try to make sure you get a practice deployment. There is no charge if you have no equipment. If you are an out- of- town pilot, please mark this on your form so that your repack is done immediately. 1:30pm- Pizza – included in repack fee or $10 if you didn't pay for repack. Box 2018, Cochrane, AB, T4C 1B8, ph: (403) 932-6760 Monday, November 26, 2012 Rob Clarkson is representing Canada at the upcoming World Hang Gliding Championships in Australia in January 2013. This is to date the most expensive competition ever. Entry fee is high and so are the aero tow fees. There will be a fund raiser to help Rob with expenses - come along and support Rob! buy some 50/50 tickets Date Tuesday, December 4, 2012 Location Shanks at Crowfoot Centre NW Please pass the word and bring all your friends Monday, November 5, 2012 Sunday, October 7, 2012 For Calgary and area paraglider pilots - please pass this message on to any interested pilots We will be having our annual exam writing day for HPAC ratings. Date Saturday, November 3 Cost per exam - $10.00 (cks to be made out to HPAC) You will need: Current HPAC membership valid first aid (depending on exam you are writing) calculator (depending on exam you are writing) Exams will be corrected and successful participants exams will be mailed together with exam fee to HPAC. Please let us know by email if you are going to participate and the rating exam that you will write. This is so we have enough exams and answer sheets ready Friday, September 7, 2012 Twas a Great evening for all last night. Rick and I managed to Thermal out at 3:30 to close to the limit of 2000 feet and after that it got very soarable for a couple hours. The students arrived and managed to groundhandle then most got 5 flights each. After the students took a break so the Instructors could go soaring again in the SSE winds. So basically a perfect evening to keep everyone happy and learning. Hopefully the weekend allows for some soaring and more teaching. Keith
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Reblogged from bohemea Moulin Rouge - The Show Must Go On I made the mistake of telling the ex-thing and a friend about my rampant recent memory loss. One of them just stopped talking to me at all. The other seems concerned and trying to play it down. I just feel like a burden all over again. I just want to go to bed and quit for a while.
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While it's more likely that the protesters at the Occupy sites throughout the world are listening to the strains of Radiohead, Coldplay, Kanye West and Tennessee Ernie Ford, there is a great tradition in America and, heck, the world when it comes to musicians speaking out. Obviously, these aren't the only protest singers, but they are among the most essential, the ones your record collection needs because they didn't just stand up to the man, they made it into the collective consciousness and you will be seen as far more worldly for knowing their names. Most political music is about as entertaining as a speech. As much as I may detest certain Supreme Court rulings or certain politicians, I hate them even more when they make musicians I like lousy! 25) Woody Guthrie: His guitar said it all: This Machine Kills Fascists. He traveled the country letting people know they weren't alone, that they had a voice and that as long as you held onto your spirit and your values, you had more than the opposition. Added bonus, his voice makes Bob Dylan's sound like Sinatra. Dust Bowl Ballads on vinyl came with an album cover made of very thick cardboard. 24) Odetta: Often lost in the shuffle, human rights activist Odetta had the unfortunate circumstance of being a folksinger before it was the trendy thing to be and then not a rocker once that became the trend. So, she is considered an influence on names we all know better and has been the recipient of many awards hailing her works. When you're known by one name — Bruce, Madonna, Prince, Joyce — you're part of a special 1%! 23) Pete Seeger: Bruce Springsteen helped bring new attention to old Pete Seeger. He was a member of the Weavers, who had the honor of being blacklisted during the McCarthy Era. Despite being 92 years old, Seeger has continued to play a prominent part in standing up for human rights, environmental causes and songs about turning and overcoming! I saw him in concert once and he was fun to watch. 22) Joan Baez: While Baez is known for her rather sober readings of folk songs, she is actually very funny. Her engaging appearance in the Bob Dylan documentary No Direction Home made you wish the documentary had been about her and that she'd been the one to send ol' nasty pants packing back in 1965. 21) Bob Dylan: Bob eventually deserted protest for the higher arts of timeless weirdness, but he wrote so much in those early years that it didn't really matter. He'd written enough solid protest tunes to keep people playing them for decades. "Masters of War"? That's a hot one! 20) Phil Ochs: Stuck often playing in the shadow of Bob Dylan, Ochs was every bit as entertaining and insightful in his own write. But where Dylan was a self-preservationist, Ochs was a bleeding heart. He unraveled. But not before he recorded great anthems and eventually his own imagistic reveries. Pardon me for preferring "Rehearsals for Retirement," "Pleasures of the Harbor" and "Gas Station Women" to the important stuff. 19) John Lennon: Yeah, yeah, Lennon was the millionaire who said "Imagine no possessions," and he couldn't decide if he was "in" or "out" when it came to destructive revolutions, but that's what made him so engaging. He was human. Music alone doesn't change the world. It eases the path to enlightenment. It changes people's hearts and works subtly on the mind. That's why politicians consider it so dangerous. It's intangible. You catch more flies with loud guitars than you do with propaganda. 18) The Clash: For all the junk written about these guys, they really did write songs that made you want to fight the power or at least smash up your room. While "The Call Up" was specific, "London Calling," "Clampdown" and others gave people the impression that the individual had more power than they initially believed. It was nice of them to charge less for their records. 16) Green Day: It's pretty amazing to think that at a time when most bands wouldn't touch politics, Green Day, only one of the biggest bands in the world, went out of their way to prove they were reading the newspaper! Almost makes me want to check out what all the fuss is about. 14) Bruce Springsteen: Since around Darkness On the Edge of Town, there's been a sense that Bruce never felt comfortable with the trappings of success. It didn't stop him from grabbing the brass ring, but it made him suspicious of it. For every "Born In the U.S.A." fist-pump, there was a donation to a local food bank. And if his listeners didn't catch on to the story in the verses, he eventually slowed the tune down until no one could miss the message. But, truth told, we missed the band. 13) Patti Smith: Some people lead by example. Sure, "People Got the Power" is a nice thought. But her best music was always the weird stuff. Anyone who begins their debut album with "Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine" is surely looking for trouble. But "Radio Ethopia"? That bit of noise is true protest. 12) Michael Franti: Each of Franti's projects, from the Beatnigs to The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy to Spearhead, have been socially conscious. He does not like to wear shoes. Are shoes a sign of imperialism? Around here at Yahoo!, we hate pants! 11) Steve Earle: He's stood up against the death penalty. He's held a critical eye towards the post 9-11 world. And he increasingly sings like he's got a bad cramp. Which actually makes him more interesting. 10) Tom Morello: A member of Rage Against The Machine and now an acoustic performer known as The Nightwatchman, Morello has performed at Occupy Wall Street protests and Occupy LA, and at concerts in support of collective bargaining rights in Madison, Wisconsin. His guitar says "Whatever It Takes." 9) Billy Bragg: If you had a voice like Billy's, you might be inclined to sing about world affairs, too. He doesn't exactly have the kind of voice you'd want singing in your ear. He sounds like he'd probably gob into it. 8) PJ Harvey: Her problems are more with England it seems. Which is fair enough. It's her part of the world. Is she really a protest singer? She sings loud enough. 7) Ani DiFranco: It's called living by example. She's her own boss. She makes her own rules. She does what she wants. By doing so, she makes all the performers who signed on the dotted line look like company men. Except for the guy in Fugazi. 6) Bikini Kill: Last I checked there were only three women on the Supreme Court. I'm not real good at math, but I'm pretty sure women make up more than 3/9ths of the population. I think they have a right to be annoyed. Imagine the cow men would be having if the numbers were reversed. Argue this point below and prove my point! 5) Bob Marley: With such toe-tappers as "Slave Drive," "Concrete Jungle," "Revolution," "War" and "Get Up Stand Up" (the unofficial anthem of Amnesty International), Marley wrote songs that will likely be sung long after the rest of us are worm food. So much for thinking positive. 4) Fela: The life of Fela Kuti is so controversial and crazy that it has been transformed into a three-time Tony Award-winning musical. The Nigerian musical leader was a pioneer of Afrobeat and a human rights activist, though his personal life had its ups and downs. Trust the art, not the artist. 3) Public Enemy: With a voice that sounded like he was speaking to us from the mountain, Chuck D could make anything seem serious. After speaking out about the issues that concerned him, he even managed to write a song, "Welcome to the Terrordome," that dealt with all his group's own problems, putting the "meta" back into the music! 2) John Trudell: Native American-Mexican poet-musician political activist, John Trudell has served as the chairman of the American Indian Movement. It was Jackson Browne, a songwriter who went from love to geo-political topics himself, who encouraged Trudell to pursue the musical world. Bob Dylan has championed him. He toured with Peter Gabriel for the WOMAD tour. If you like people who talk a lot in their music, you'll love him. 1) Victor Jara: Far too complex to get into here, Victor Jara's life was one that inspired musicians from U2 and the Clash to Jackson Browne and Marty Willson-Piper of the Church to all sing songs in tribute to him, a man whose awful, violent death became a rallying cry for anyone with a conscience.
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9/5 Silva eager for Tuesday's start Cubs pitcher Carlos Silva is looking forward to Tuesday’s start, his first since Aug. 1. “I feel very good, I feel great,” Silva said Sunday. “My arm, my velocity, I feel really good.” He’s had no trouble with his heart since his last start, when he was pulled after four batters because of an abnormal heart rate. He underwent a cardiac ablation on Aug. 9 and has felt strong. “[The doctor] said I should feel a lot better than before and I should feel like a new guy,” Silva said. “That’s what I want to do is finish strong. What happened before is already gone, the bad things, the good things. Right now, the only thing I’m looking for is to finish strong and have a positive mind for next year. It’s like when you get hurt, you want to pitch one more game before the season ends because you want to be positive and feel healthy.” – Carrie Muskat
Things I'm allowed to do in the FRR Posted 19 February 2012 - 05:49 PM -Perform an original dance solo in a mech to "Light My Fire". -Paint a dragon to look like a real dragon and rig it to have dual flamers come out of it's 'mouth'. ---Send above unit to fight against the dracs. Posted 20 February 2012 - 11:43 PM - Weld shields to the flanks of my dropships. - Freak out when I can't see either a planet I know is habitable OR a Jumpship. - line the outer surface of my coolant vest with fur, skulls, and such. - Rename my conquered worlds with such names as Eyjafjoküll. - Boss everyone named Carl around. - Take a break mid-battle to **. Posted 21 February 2012 - 02:44 AM -Have friends whose names are all based on Something the Something (Herger the Joyous, Hagar the Horrible etc) -Find a fat, huge bosmed blonde woman in a winged helmet and carry her off on the shoulder of my HCT-5S -Quaff mead out of the skulls of my dead enimies -Grow sutch an expansive beard, that it looks as though I've attempted to eat a bear and left it's backside hanging out. Posted 24 February 2012 - 07:53 AM - 'recycle' said coolant when it passes through my system... should I live. - Use the Flamer on my Flashman to cook the spitroast when on a long outguard post. - Call all Kurita soldiers DovahKiin. - Call the best tech in my hangar Technoviking. - Fry steaks on my Flashman after battle when the Flamer thing isn't allowed anymore. Posted 24 February 2012 - 08:00 AM Hmm I wonder where THAT idea came from Posted 24 February 2012 - 08:10 AM Also! Allowed to swear in whatever language I want as loudly and often as I can\\want when taking any hits. Over the open channel. Edited by Merovigian, 24 February 2012 - 08:12 AM. Posted 24 February 2012 - 08:11 AM Edited by Dihm, 24 February 2012 - 07:18 PM. Posted 24 February 2012 - 03:07 PM Pic or it didn't happen. (Gotta spread the love) There's the manacle, and then there's the monocle... Now back on topic: - Be a grammatical/spelling *** while harboring a passive-aggressive hatred of the English language. Posted 24 February 2012 - 03:42 PM Commando wenches ftw. Posted 24 February 2012 - 05:16 PM Posted 24 February 2012 - 07:27 PM I don't know what you're talking about. Edited by Dihm, 24 February 2012 - 07:27 PM. Posted 24 February 2012 - 08:43 PM ...actually, I'm pretty sure we still frown on that. Edited by Damon Howe, 24 February 2012 - 08:43 PM. Posted 25 February 2012 - 11:52 AM Posted 28 February 2012 - 02:26 PM =Devote Criticals to Mead Storage =Have Live Bears in my Cockpit =Cook Goat On My Heatsinks =Have Fur Studded Chain Mail as a Mech Armor Type. Posted 29 February 2012 - 12:17 PM Posted 29 February 2012 - 04:23 PM Posted 29 February 2012 - 11:30 PM Put horns on my cockpit. Listen to even MORE viking metal. Defeat clanners (for as long as possible) and Dracs. 1 user(s) are reading this topic 0 members, 1 guests, 0 anonymous users
All fields are required. Remember me on this computer Please enter your email address and we will send your password Your password has been sent and should arrive in your mailbox very soon. Sign up for My Cooking Channel to share photos, show off your style, and connect to an enthusiastic and helpful community. It's free and easy. Joined Date: Mar 20, 2009 Birthday: May 26 "I've made these many times and I can't understand why people think they can improve on a great recipe. Why would someone use cardamon in these. They are super delicious just the way they are. Oh, and use the lemon, it is so yummy. There is no need to go to a bakery and pay a small fortune for cheese danish when it is so easy to make. Just follow" "for mommannetti, you don't have to scrape the filling from oreos to use them. just grind them in a food processor and they will be fine for the chocolate base. scraping the filling is way too much work. these were delicious. I too should have doubled the recipe. next time I will. " "Use 3 tablespoons of flour instead of 2 to minimize liquid and I used cinnamon and a bit of nutmeg in the apples. I like cinnamon with apple pie. Roll pie dough around rolling pin to transfer to baking sheet and use parchment paper on the baking sheet for easy clean-up. I cut the recipe in half to make one as two is too many for just the two of u" "Yes, the cookies are very good, however butter is expensive. I don't think making 24 cookies with 3 sticks of butter is worth it. I love Ira's recipes and watch her daily. I have been baking and cooking for years but really, 3 sticks of butter = 24 cookies. I don't think so!"" "It sounds delicious and I watched the episode on TV, however 2 sticks of butter for the whoopie cakes and 3 sticks for the filling plus 2 8 oz. pkgs of cream cheese. That's a lot of butter and this is very expensive to make. No matter how good they are, I think I'll pass. If they all don't get eaten before they go stale that's a lot of wasted mone"
kenkoy commented on the blog post Hank Paulson’s Secret: Of Course the System Is Rigged Nature requires that for every action, there’s an equal and opposite reaction. This shouldn’t mean physical violence, since that’s not what they’re committing against us. It would have to be some sort of absolute force, though. And people had better figure out what to do soon, lest that mandatory reaction DOES become violent.
Taipei (The China Post/ANN) - China feels like it has been tricked by the Taiwanese government, a top national security official claimed yesterday. The Chinese government has yet to make any response to the inauguration speech of Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou because it had expected Ma to follow Kuomintang (KMT) honourary chairman Wu Bo-hsiung's "one China" stance. That Ma did not do so has probably broken the trust built up in the cross-strait relations over the past few years, and it will take some time before China and Taiwan could resume past interactions, the anonymous official said. The Taiwanese government's current worry is that the misunderstanding might interfere with the negotiation processes of the economic cooperation framework agreement (ECFA). If Taiwan wants to see progress in signing free trade agreements with other countries in the future, it is necessary that cross-strait relations be as stable and trusting as they have been in the past, the national security source pointed out. According to the official, the misunderstanding that Wu was relating a stance favouring China on behalf of Ma led the Chinese government to expect the president to follow suit in his inauguration speech. Ma not only did not mention the Chinese stance on the "one China" concept, he re-emphasised the ruling Kuomintang's belief that the ROC is in fact the only China. Higher officials in the Taiwanese government are currently studying methods of solving the conflict in cross-strait relations without contradicting Ma's inauguration speech, the national security official said.
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Welcome to the new Holiday Inn Express & Suites hotel in Dalton, GA conveniently located off Interstate 75, near Dalton State College , and just minutes from local attractions and businesses. During your stay at our NEW Dalton, GA hotel, spend time relaxing in our indoor heated pool or at our expansive outdoor patio. Enjoy a FREE Full Hot Breakfast and our state-of-the-art Fitness Center. Leisure travelers can enjoy visiting Dalton's Civil War sites. There are also various Cherokee Indian sites near our Dalton, GA hotel. Also nearby, the Blount House and Creative Arts Guild offer educational experiences and we are just a short drive from Rock City and Ruby Falls . Many local parks provide a natural retreat for visitors to the Dalton area, and for those who want to shop, the Tanger Outlets are just minutes from our Dalton accommodations. With convenient access to businesses such as Dalton Carpets, Shaw Industries, Dupont, Mohawk Industries, Honeywell and Hamilton Medical Center , our Dalton hotel is perfect for business travelers who plan to attend meetings in Dalton. Our 24-hour business center will assist you while you do business on the road, and our convenient access to Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport (CHA) and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL) make the Holiday Inn Express & Suites a welcome retreat for the busy business traveler.
Jerry Nelson, the Man Behind the ‘Sesame Street’ Count, Has Passed It’s a sad day for lovers of ‘Sesame Street’ everywhere — Jerry Nelson, the puppeteer who gave Count von Count his voice passed away Thursday of unspecified causes at the age of 78. In addition to the Count, Nelson also voiced Sherlock Hemlock, the Amazing Mumford and other characters for the show, as well as numerous other well-loved Muppets from a variety of other shows. Nelson was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, but grew up in Washington D.C. He began puppeteering under Bil Baird (who also trained Jim Henson), and his first work with The Muppets was on ‘The Jimmy Dean Show,’ where he found himself providing the voice for Rowlf in Frank Oz’s absence. When that show was over he took a break from working with Henson for a while, but came back to work on ‘Sesame Street.’ On the show, he was the first person to provide the voice for Snuffleupagus. He also provided the voice for Emmett in ‘Emmett Otter’s Jug Band Christmas.’ For ‘Fraggle Rock,’ he performed voices for Gobo Fraggle, Pa Gorg and the unforgettable Marjory the Trash Heap. This is merely a smattering of the characters Nelson brought to life over the years, and the work that he has done won’t soon be forgotten. In honor of Nelson, here is a video of the Count counting his feelings. Thanks again, for bringing smiles and laughter to children for over 40 years.
Webcast: Evidence-based Review of Interventions for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders Speaker: Jane Case-Smith, EdD, OTR/L, FAOTA Earn 1 contact hour (1 NBCOT PDU) This webcast presentation summarizes the up-to-date research evidence for interventions used by occupational therapy practitioners with children with ASD. The current research evidence for sensory integrative, sensory-based, social skills, behavioral, relationship-based, and comprehensive interventions is explained, including what we know about effectiveness with different levels of severity and age groups. Themes that emerge across intervention trials are identified and described. These themes define elements that are central to effective intervention, including: intensity of services, family roles and support, strategies for increasing child engagement, and models of practice. At the conclusion of the session, learners will be able to: - Identify the evidence for sensory, social, relationship based, educational and behavioral interventions that are applied by occupational therapists to children with autism spectrum disorder. - Identify themes of the interventions most effective with this population. - Identify key principles reflected in the research on autism interventions. Click here for speaker bios and more detailed information on this course. Target Audience: Occupational Therapists and Occupational Therapy Assistants Learning Level: Intermediate Occupational Therapy Classification Code for Continuing Education Category 2: Occupational Therapy Process, Evaluation and Intervention Category 3: Professional Issues, Contemporary Issues and Trends An e-mail address is required for ordering a Webcast. Once your order has been placed, you will receive an e-mail confirmation within 2 business days granting you access to the exam. Expedited ordering is available by calling 877-404-AOTA. An additional $15 processing fee will be charged. Click here for Customer Service Q&A to find information on shipping, technical requirements, examination, return policy, and more.
"LTD" Women's S Tee, by Dum Down Limited - (See this artist's info) $25.00 (US Dollars) Free shipping within United States. $5 to ship to other countries. Dum Down Limited - Mixed Media Artist "Dum Down Limited Artwork and Apparel is a grassroots company that originated in Philadelphia with a genuine interest in creating and displaying various forms of art. Artist Brian Bernazard first established Dum Down in 2003 as a vehicle to exhibit his work to the general public in a professional manner. In the fall of 2005 Bernazard and fellow artist Jennifer Hendriksen shifted the focus of the company towards fashion design with the release of the Dum Down clothing line. However, successful fashion design does not meet the full potential of what Dum Down aims to achieve. Art forms created by Dum Down artists include clothing, paintings, illustration, skateboard design, installation, music, and film. The primary objective of the company is to provide unknown talent a much needed platform to exhibit their work to the public, and to grow as artists through a creative collective. The inclusion of artists from various walks of life ensures that Dum Down will reach a vast audience of all different styles and cultures by utilizing as many expressions of art as possible." 31 items on sale. Hide \| Show Visit his Plot (pop-up window)
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ONA, W.Va — The Point Pleasant and Gallia Academy cross country teams traveled to Cabell Midland High School Saturday for the sixth annual GEICO Classic Cross Country Invitational. Cabell Midland took top spot in the boys Class AAA division with a team score of 41, followed by Ripley with a score of 89 and Parkersburg with a score of 91. Point Pleasant did not qualify for a team score. Out of the 94 runners to compete in the boys AAA division Jacob Burcham of Cabell Midland took top honors with a time of 16:11.2, followed by teammate Avery Campbell (16:45.4). Zach Canterbury held Point Pleasant’s fastest time with a 21:15.2, good enough for 70th on the day, followed by Joesph Littlepage (21:40.5) at 76th place and Caleb Riffle (22:10.7) at 81st place. Hurricane took first place in the AAA girls division with a score of 51, just two ahead of runner-up Parkersburg. Winfield finished third with 75 points. Point Pleasant did not qualify as a team. Hurricane’s Tori Dent took first place with a time of 20:08.0, followed by Parkersburg’s Kaylee Williams (20:15.1). Andrea Porter led the Lady Knights with a 14th place time of 22:45.7, followed by 66th place Makenzie Thomas (40:26.5) and 67th place Avery Daughtery (41:55.9). In the girls AA-A division Fairland took the top prize with a score of 108, followed by Scott with 155, and Ravenswood 171. Gallia Academy finished 12th with a team score of 289. There were 163 runners in the race, led by St. Marys’ Maggie Drazba with a time of 18:30.2, followed by Katie Jan of Frankfort with a time of 20:12.3. The Blue Angels were led by Madison Holley (22:51.26) with a 22nd place finish, followed by Hannah Watts (23:07.5) at 26th place. Liz Holley (24:42.4) finished 52, Jenna Bays (27:51.4) finished 104th, and Morgan Foster (29:43.8) finished 127th rounding out the GAHS scoring. Akeshia Saunders (32:11.7) finished 150th and Aliza Warner (32:21.8) finished 154th for the Blue Angels, but their times did not count toward the team total. Complete results of the event can be found online at runwv.com
James R. Priddy, 75, of Middleport, Ohio, passed away on Tuesday, February 19, 2013, at his residence. He was born on July 27, 1937, in Cheshire, Ohio, the son of the late Guy and Margaret Fife Priddy. He retired from Jaymar Coal in Cheshire, Ohio, and he attended the Hysell Run Community Church. He is survived by his wife, Ruth Ward Priddy; sons, Dwayne, William “Bill”, and James Robert, Jr.; daughters, Penny Smith, Darlene Bartrum, and Faye Illgen; 18 grandchildren; 28 great-grandchildren; brothers, Dale Jack and Tim; sisters, Jeanie, Margie and Brenda; his loyal companion “Sassy”; and several nieces and nephews. He is preceded in death by his parents; his daughter, Tracy; his sisters, Charlotte and Wanda; and granddaughter, Amy. Services will be held at 1 p.m. on Saturday, February 23, 2013, at the Anderson McDaniel Funeral Home in Middleport with the Rev Larry Lemley officiating. Burial will follow in the Gravel Hill Cemetery. Visitation will be held for family and friends two hours prior to the funeral service. An online registry is available at www.andersonmcdaniel.com.
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First of all, apologies for the long silence. I have been busy in and out of work recently and haven't had much time for blogging. We've spent the last few weeks working on some nasty bugs as well as new functionality. We've also made some major changes required for implementing some of the more highly requested features. As some of you have already mentioned, we had two big bugs: Not great lighting for some rooms and room saving errors. The team who are working on rendering have made some improvements to lighting recently and will keep working on further improvements, so I expect many of the worst issues should be fixed really soon. Some advice: If your room renders too dark, put windows in the room, even if they are behind the camera. The bug reported with room saving is related to room complexity: number of walls, finishes and components (furniture and other items). The internal representation of the room is limited in size due to some technical reasons. It looks like with new planner users tends to create more complicated rooms with more furniture, often putting many hundreds of products into the room. We've already made some changes to reduce the size of room data together with increasing the room size limit. The problem is not completely solved yet but we are working hard on this. If your still cannot save your room, please try to delete some unused furniture. Some recent new features: You are now able to work with multiple products simultaneously. Just press shift key on your keyboard while selecting products/windows/doors/walls/corners. You will be able to drag-n-drop all selected items at once, as well as duplicate/delete them with your keyboard. Snapping is now disabled by default. To enable it push alt key on your keyboard while dragging. The large render is now larger :) (800x600 instead of 640x480). Application behaviour improvements for low resolution displays. We have made a number of smaller bugfixes. Thanks for your patience and great rooms. Rate this post This post hasn't been rated yet - be the first.You've already rated this post.
165 Advocates Wrote Their Legislators to Stop Funding Cuts to NIH, FDA and more! Did you? On January 2, 2013 non-defense discretionary programs will face devastating, across-the-board cuts of 8.2 percent through an arcane budget tool known as "sequestration" unless Congress works together to prevent these cuts through a bipartisan, balanced approach to deficit reduction. Sequestration would result in a cut to funding for the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and other agencies. These agencies fund research into multiple myeloma, screen to prevent cancer, and help bring lifesaving cancer treatments to patients quickly. These cuts would have a potentially devastating effect on cancer programs, including those that support myeloma research and treatment. Please help us by asking Congress to take a balanced approach to deficit reduction and protect funding for medical and scientific research, public health and more. Email your Legislators Now! Tom and Jerry Make it Happen! A big thank you to this month’s Advocate of the Month, Tom Glass, for his enthusiasm and energy from the beginning to the end of helping his legislator in Virginia recognize the importance of cancer drug parity legislation! “I saw this as an opportunity to do something of value that I could feel good about,” said Tom, who worked alongside Jerry Walton, leader of the Southeastern Virginia Multiple Myeloma Support Group, to meet with Rep. Rigell. Hence the nickname of this dynamic duo! Read More First Batch of Postcards Delivered This Week to Congress With over 2300 postcards collected from across the country it is time to start delivering them to Representatives asking them to co-sponsor HR2746! Currently we are at 54 co-sponsors with a goal of six more before the session ends in December. IMF Advocacy Team Forms New Coalition Driven by the strategic plan of the national PEAC, the State Patients Equal Access Coalition seeks to influence the development of insurance health exchanges in each state that will ensure an equal payment system and cost-sharing requirements for patients receiving intravenous, injectable, and/or orally-administered oncolytic therapies. Learn More Here Advocacy Tip of the Month Learn more about the candidates running in your community using the Action Center Election Guide. Simply type in your address and you can see all about the candidates running in your area to make sure you make an informed decision this November. Click Here to visit the Election Section Missed the Advocacy Webinar? Have no Fear; we've got it here. A lot of fun was had as we walked through the 10 Steps to Building a Relationship with your Legislator this Election Season. Watch it today! Do you live in Atlanta or the surrounding areas? This December we will be hosting our 3rd Annual Advocacy Luncheon at ASH. We are excited to be on the ground with advocates from Georgia to build the base for a strong Georgian Action team. This year we will go over the basics of advocacy and discuss the current political landscape for cancer patients post the 2012 elections. Register Today Take Action Today by checking out our Action Center to see what is happening in your state.
On a warm sunny afternoon, cozily curled up in a sofa my eyes fell on few bananas sitting on my kitchen table threatening me to go bad if I don't use it immediately. Having already had enough of those the previous day I thought,"Oh no! No more bananas" and gave a pitiful look at the ripe yellow fruit. It challenged me enough that I decided to prepare something with it so that I could save it from ending up in the trash bin. I had bought a packet of fresh blueberries during my grocery trip few days ago which were screaming to be used. Having already made up my mind to make something & searching through my pantry I saw a packet of whole wheat flour staring back at me! It lit a flash bulb in my mind and I thought,"Why don't I make muffins out of these? It would be perfect for breakfast too!" Fresh from the oven! Having decided to make muffins I arranged all the ingredients on my kitchen table and opened one of the cabinets for muffin tray. The muffin tray was not there! Oh where could I have misplaced it? Kept searching in all the places I could remember but the tray seemed to have completely vanished! Not wanting to let myself down and already having day dreamt of those spongy blueberry banana muffins I decided to turn it into bars by baking in a cake tray! Meanwhile the mystery of the missing tray still continues..... Well so here are two recipes in one! You may turn them into muffins or bars following the same recipe. Tastes great either way! And if you would like to know my verdict, these were the most softest bars I ever made! The flavour of honey combined with bananas and blueberries turned it into super moist, light bars. Just have a bite and you would love the explosion of packed blueberries in honey syrup.So have I tempted you enough? Hope so..hehe! Lets all enjoy blueberry banana bars! Whole wheat flour - 1.5 cups Fresh blueberries - 1 1/4 cup Ripe bananas - 3 Chopped almonds and cashews - 1 cup Egg - 1 Granulated sugar - 2/3 cup Honey - 1/4 cup Powdered cinnamon - 1/2 tsp Powdered nutmeg - 1/2 tsp Melted butter - 1/3 cup Baking powder - 3/4 tsp Baking soda - 3/4 tsp - Preheat oven to 375 deg F(190 deg C). - Grease a 8" square non stick baking tray. - Mix flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg and sift at least thrice. Keep aside. - Blend bananas well. - Mix sugar, honey, melted butter, blended bananas and egg and beat with a mixer until well blended. Do not over beat. - Slowly add the sifted ingredients kept aside earlier and mix well. - Mix chopped nuts and blueberries well and add it to the batter. Mix well with a spatula. - Pour the batter into the prepared baking tray and bake for about 40-45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the centre comes out clean. - Unmould after cooling. - Cut into rectangular bars. - Enjoy the taste of blueberry-banana-nuts in every bite! This goes to: Original Recipes event hosted by Lore. Along with this I'm also sending Fruit Salad with Custard to SHF-Fruit & Nut event. I'm also sending the following breakfast items to EFM-June Breakfast Series event:
G.P.O (General Post Office) in Bangalore is a very well known landmark in Bangalore. It is the central post office which caters to the postal need so people of Bangalore through its branches through out the city. The design of GPO building is a mixture of traditional and modern architecture. The podium and the sides of the building are of fine chiseled stone masonry with huge pillars and corridors in the front. The central hall has an imposing height of 28 feet. The building has three domes, cast in R.C.C. and veneered with stones. Two of them are small and one on the above the front side of the building is very huge. In Oct 1988, Govt of India released 4 stamps on monumental postal buildings. One of them was on Bangalore G.P.O.
Trying to give something back to the Community... Summary The following bulletins have undergone a minor revision increment. Please see the appropriate bulletin for more details. * MS07-026 Bulletin Information: * MS07-026 - http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms07-026.mspx - Reason for Revision: V1.1 (May 26, 2009): Added an entry in the section, Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Related to This Security Update, to announce a detection change. The detection no longer offers the MS06-019 and MS06-029 updates, but instead will only offer MS07-026. There were no changes to the binaries. Customers who have already successfully installed the MS07-026 update do not need to reinstall. - Originally posted: May 8, 2007 - Updated: May 26, 2009 - Bulletin Severity Rating: Critical - Version: 1.1 Read the complete post at http://wmug.co.uk/blogs/cliffs_blog/archive/2009/05/27/ms-security-bulletin-minor-revisions-issued-may-26-2009.aspx
Do you remember that first spark of hope you felt when you watched The Secret? I clearly remember the desire that filled my heart, knowing that – Yes, I can make my dreams come true – FINALLY! But how many of you soon saw that hope dwindle into frustration? How many of you (and be honest now) started muttering things like: - “It seems to work for other people, but I just can’t get it right.” - “I’m frustrated that sometimes I can get it to work, but sometimes I can’t. What’s the trick?” - “Why am I having so much trouble?” - “I think the universe is against me.” - “I’m trying very, VERY hard but still nothing is happening!” Don’t worry, you’re not alone. About 97% of people also couldn’t make the Law of Attraction work for them the first time round. Think about it, just like anything else, you have to practice many times before you see success. A child doesn’t learn to walk without falling over a couple of times, right? But in practice, everything is easier said and done. When you’re frustrated, it’s hard to stay positive. And it’s especially harder to stay positive when the evidence all around you is screams negativity like the unstable economy or senseless acts of violence such as those recently seen in Mumbai. And do you know what happens when you fail to stay positive? That’s right – you start attracting negative things in to your life. So how can you make the Law of Attraction work for you – without getting frustrated? How do those who successfully implement the Law of Attraction do it with such confidence and finesse? Well, here’s three quick tips so you will never feel frustrated or tired of begging from the universe, because you know how to start manifesting like a pro. 1. Allow Yourself To Receive Just like a lost child who approaches a police officer and asks, “Excuse me Sir, can you tell me how to go to the post office? Can you? Can you? Can you? Can you? Can you?” Well, if the child goes on and on asking, the police officer can’t even give an answer, right? Well, it’s the same thing with your mind. If the only thing your mind is doing is transmit, transmit, transmit, the universe — which is trying to respond — can’t give you a single thing because you’re not allowing yourself to receive! So, have the confidence in yourself and stop exhausting yourself by running around person to person begging for riches, and then wondering why nobody is dropping a penny in your cup (Hint: It’s because you’re running away too fast for them before they can even reach for their wallets). Just think of your desires and leave it out there, go away, and trust that your cup will be filled with gold coins (or whatever it is you asked for) when the time is right. 2. Be Patient With Yourself Receiving takes time. Sadly, many people give up just a couple of steps before the finish line because they’ve decided that if it’s not working by now, it’s never going to work at all. Worse still are those who throw in more and more energy because they think that with more resources, the results will come faster. This is like expecting 9 mothers to conceive and deliver a baby in 1 month. You also can’t bake cookies in half the time by doubling the temperature. You’ll incinerate those cookies to ashes! In simple terms: Everything in this world has a natural development time, and this fact will not change no matter what resources you throw at it. So relax and be patient. Remember that you too, as part of the universe, are also governed by the laws of the universe, and you cannot change the natural development time. If you remember this, you will less likely work yourself up into frustration, or worse, push yourself into a downward spiral of negativity. 3. Support and Educate Yourself Like the child who is learning how to walk, you need support. You also need to guidance on how to do it, and also the role models to look up to. Many people give up because they think that “The Secret” is the “be all and end all” solution. Well, it’s NOT. “The Secret” is just a small portion. It was never intended, and has never been, the whole answer. Coming to the conclusion that the Law of Attraction doesn’t work when all you ever did to educate yourself was watch “The Secret” 19 times (without looking at changing the habits of other areas of your life) is like coming to the conclusion that exercising is not an effective way to lose weight because all you did is run on the treadmill for 2 hours a day (but you’re still stuffing yourself with fried foods and cheesecakes). So seek and be hungry for new knowledge. Also, make an effort to be amongst people or communities where you can support each other, learn from each other and also share new knowledge that you have found. While the Law of Attraction is not an overnight delivery service, it will indeed deliver, if you do your part too! No related posts.
As I was reading the best sentence in the Al Quran, I also pondered in what context this sentence was revealed to Prophet Muhammad by Allah swt. I went to read further up to verse 26 and 27 which are as follows: Allah disdains not to use the similitude of things, lowest as well as highest. Those who believe know that it is truth from their Lord; but those who reject Faith say: "What means Allah by this similitude?" By it He causes many to stray, and many He leads into the right path; but He causes not to stray, except those who forsake (the path),- Allah swt will not shy away from bringing any example- be it a learning from a mosquito or anything above it. Only the perverted transgressors (sinners) will question “What does God intend with this example?” Allah will lead them astray. It is because they forsake the path of truth. Those who break Allah’s Covenant after it is ratified, and who sunder what Allah Has ordered to be joined, and do mischief on earth: These cause loss (only) to themselves. Here Allah swt is referring to those who had believed but still doing sins. The root meaning of الْفَاسِقِينَ Al faasiqeen is fasaq which means debauch/looseness/lustfulness/obscene. A person who is married and has a looseness of joining with other women considered as faasiqeen. In other words, those who had pledge to be believers and enters into sin thereafter are also considered as faasiqeen in the ‘eyes’ of Allah swt. How can ye reject the faith in Allah.- seeing that ye were without life, and He gave you life; then will He cause you to die, and will again bring you to life; and again to Him will ye return. How can you reject God when you were dead and He brought you to life? Then He makes you die, then He brings you to life, then to Him you return. And Allah swt cite an event way back before creation of Adam (alaihis salaam). That is verse 2:30 – The best sentence of the al Quran. Allah swt defended you and me from the Angels and if He had listened to the Angels, He could have put our creation on hold. And we would not have experienced life and live in non-existence. By this citation Allah swt wants our gratitude towards Him. So give thanks to Allah swt and follow His guidance (Al Quran). Truly man is, to his Lord, ungrateful 100: 6
Friday, April 15, 2011 Weekend for Little Ballerina It rained this morning. A bit chilly but i love the morning cool breeze. Saturday morning... started with a good cup of coffee. My plan for today:- Tidy up my house. I get pretty messy when i work, my whole dining table are full of paper and books, my Sony Alpha DSL camera, moleskin notebook, and various coloured pens. My cherry red Sony laptop stand in the middle of all these chaos....=) Rearrange my collections of ballet DVDs & music CDs... (remind myself to pack them in my teaching bag, to share the DVds with my students, i'm sure they'd like to watch) Whatelse should i do today? Hm... i deserve a 'do nothing day', just unwind and relax after such a hectic and busy week.=) Often time, i fall into that category of women, feeling guilty of having 'me' time. I want to change that mindset and love my body, mind and soul. We all need to rest, and time to rejuvanate.=) ok! I'm just going to relax now, & listen to some music...
What does the love of superheroes and zombies get you? A cool new 2013 convention banner! Look for me under this new banner! It has two of my favourite things. Superheroes… and Zombies! I was determined to have both. I hope to have this as a print as well. Here are the rest of my 2013 convention schedule (Mind you, this may still change!!) BOSTON COMIC CON: Boston, MA, April 20-21 C2E2: Chicago, IL, April 26-28 FREE COMIC BOOK DAY: Stadium Comics, Brampton, ON, May 4 TCAF: Toronto, ON, May 11-12 MOTOR CITY COMIC CON: Detroit, MI, May 17-19, 2013 ACE ALBUQUERQUE COMIC EXPO: Albuquerque, NM, June 21-23, 2013 SDCC: San Diego, CA, July 18-21 FAN EXPO: Toronto, ON, August 23-26 BALTIMORE COMIC CON: Baltimore, Maryland, September 7-8 NEW YORK COMIC CON: New York, NY, October 10-13 To get on the pre-list for Convention Commissions please email Bob my art rep with the name of the show you are attending with the word commission behind it. Email: bob (at) comicarthouse (dot) com. For regular commission prices and examples head on over to Comic Art House! My Book MyMisiu Gazette Vol. 1 is available digitally if you have not checked it out already! Hope to see you all there!!! So excited Make sure to get your Boston Comic Con exclusive cover by me!! C2E2 Programming I am a part of: Fri. Apr. 26 12:45 pm – 1:45 pm Family Room W375a Bam! Pow! Drawing Superheroes 101 Sun. Apr. 28 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm Family Room W375a Story Time Adventures
The only change I made was deciding to use my mini-loaf baking pan instead of a 9" x 5" loaf pan. Double Chocolate Chip Banana Bread from King Arthur Flour Catalogue, July 2012 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, softened to room temperature 1/2 cup granulated sugar 1 large egg 1 tsp. Vanilla extract or Vanilla Paste (which is what I used) 1 cup mashed banana (about 2 medium) 1/2 cup sour cream 1 cup King Arthur All-Purpose flour 2 T cocoa 1 tsp. baking soda 1/4 tsp. Kosher salt 1 cup mini Semi-sweet chocolate chips 1 cup chopped pecans or walnuts (optional--I added it to the batter, but wasn't called for) Preheat oven to 350F-degrees. Lightly grease one 9" x 5" loaf pan or a mini loaf pan. In a stand mixer, using the paddle attachment, cream the butter and sugar until light. Beat in the egg, scraping down the sides of the bowl. Add the vanilla, mashed bananas and sour cream and beat just to combine. In a separate bowl, mix the dry ingredients, then, stir into the batter. Finally, stir in the mini chips and nuts (if using). \|Notice~the batter is a light tan, but the color enriches as it bakes\| Bake in preheated oven for 30 to 35 minutes. A regular loaf pan will take between 45 to 60 minutes. Use a cake tester or wooden skewer inserted in the center--when done it comes out clean. I realize it may be too hot in some areas to bake, but if you have a cat like my Bailey, he gets me up between 4:00 to 4:30 a.m. and baking isn't a problem...then finds a sunny spot to go back to sleep:-D Enjoy!
Portugal postpones sale of public broadcasterJanuary 25, 2013 @ 3:04 am LISBON, Portugal (AP) - Portugal's government is postponing its planned privatization of the public broadcaster after complaints from private channels that the advertising market isn't big enough for another competitor. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Miguel Relvas said late Thursday the planned sale of all or part of Radiotelevisao Portuguesa will take place at "a more suitable time" as Portugal endures what is forecast to be a third straight year of recession in 2013. Portugal's two private channels, TVI and S.I.C., opposed the privatization because the economic slowdown has cut advertising revenue. Debt-heavy Portugal needed a (EURO)78 billion ($104 billion) bailout in May 2011, and the government has vowed to cut state spending. RTP received (EURO)240 million of public funds in 2011. Relvas said the broadcaster will be subject to a "painful" restructuring program. (Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.) Bruce Irvin's suspension is a reality check for Seahawks The latest IRS scandal has critics calling for its elimination Ado About Something SIFF opens with 'Avengers' director's take on Shakespeare & an interview with the stars Bonneville Media encourages site users to express their opinions by posting comments. Our goal is to maintain a civil dialogue in which readers feel comfortable. At times, the comments can descend to personal attacks. Please do not engage in such behavior. We encourage your thoughtful comments which: have a positive and constructive tone, are on topic, are respectful toward others and their opinions. Bonneville reserves the right to remove comments which do not conform to these criteria.
Date: Fri February 15, 2013 Show: Brock and Danny ESPN's Herm Edwards joins "Brock and Salk" and discusses where he thinks the Seahawks' Russell Wilson ranks among NFL quarterbacks. Edwards also shares his thoughts on veteran defensive back Charles Woodson, who was released Friday by the Packers. Subscribe directly to the podcast: More Brock and Danny podcasts
Do you want to make this quilt? This is the fourth block in a series of 12 that make the Semi-improv 9-patch quilt. - 1 charm pack (a charm pack is typically a 42 x 5 in squares) - cream cotton fabric for the background - cotton solids scraps in matching colours All blocks are a variation of churn dash or monkey wrench, a 9-patch block. The finished block size is 12 1/2 inches. The finished size will be obtained after 2 improv patchwork iterations. Red = pattern charm square Black = contrasting fabric White = background fabric - one charm square to 4 1/2 in for the centre of contrasting fabric - four 4 1/2 in x 2 1/2 in of the pattern fabric - four 4 1/2 in x 2 1/2 in of the contrasting fabric - two 4 7/8 inches for the corners in the background fabric - trim two charm squares to 4 7/8 in squares for the corners in the pattern fabric Important: Keep the tiny bits when trimming the charm squares to 4 1/2 inches. They’ll be used later. Making the corner triangles Place both pattern 4 7/8 square and background square with right sides together. Mark a diagonal as per picture. Stitch 1/4 in from the line on both sides of the diagonal. Cut through the diagonal. Open and press. Stitch together on rows and then the rows together. The fourth block is done.
What: Sex and the Mind-Body-Spirit Connection When: Saturday, November 15, 2008 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM Where: All Souls Unitarian Church, 5805 E. 56th St., Indianapolis, IN 46226 How does brain function impact our sexual behavior? How do men and women experience pleasure differently? How does our spirituality influence our sexuality? How do the media, school, and contemporary culture impact our experience of sexuality? Investigate these questions and re-imagine your own sexuality within this holistic and interactive approach that features a panel discussion, multimedia presentations, personal journaling, as well as small- and large-group dialogue. Panelists include Steve Clapp, president of the Christian Community and author of Faith Matters: Teenagers, Religion, and Sexuality; Leslie Montgomery, director of programs for Planned Parenthood of Indiana and an experienced sex educator for youth and families; Dr. Michael Reece, director of the Center for Sexual Health Promotion and professor of sexual health at Indiana University; and Stephanie Sanders, associate director/scientist at the Kinsey Institute and professor of gender studies at Indiana University. Kathleen Baldwin, certified sexuality educator with the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists, and owner of Tell Kathleen Anything, LLC, will moderate. This program is intended for adult audiences. Free. Presented by Planned Parenthood of Indiana; Christian Community; Indiana University Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction; and Indiana University Center for Sexual Health Promotion. Questions? Call 317-637-4343 or e-mail email@example.com. Dr. Debby Herbenick is a sex researcher at Indiana University, sexual health educator at The Kinsey Institute, columnist, and author of five books about sex and love. Learn more about her work at www.sexualhealth.indiana.edu. As is the experience for most sex educators, people are frequently asking me “how did you get into this line of work?” I think that’s understandable since most high school career days don’t include my chosen profession. While many people [...]
Yes, you read that correctly. I just caught these pictures on Twicpic via @ericming5 that they are bolting the windows shut in the capital building in Madison Wisconsin. The bolt tops have been taken of make it impossible to open the windows. How is this not a fire hazard and how is this okay to treat your citizens this way? Now, this is what I’ve gathered — they started kicking people out of the capital this afternoon saying that they had to clean (who knows if this is true or not. I’ve got people saying it was gross. I’ve got others telling me that the people were cleaning it themselves. One of the sources for that statement is the Chicago Tribune over the weekend). However, NOW they are not letting anyone back in. The ACLU is now involved. They are now seeking an injunction to permit public to freely enter Capitol. Also, Senate Org Comm is circulating ballot requiring Majority Leader’s signature on all paychecks of Sen. Dem employees. What the essentially means is that they will NOT get paid until the Democrats return. Even though I no longer live in Wisconsin, this makes me ill. Please tell me that this is NOT how you treat Americans. (If I hear any more about this tonight, I’ll update this post.) PS Mainstream media – How are you NOT covering this???!!!???
Look, I know you think we should call it, but I don’t wanna give up on this, even if we don’t know what this is. I wanna un-call it. Please, can we un-call it? And before you say no, don’t say no. AHHHH! This episode. love nick+jess. I was like he better go back to her! dear god. the romance. these two. haha. <3
Before it gave +140 AP after 7 kills, no matter deaths, and 70 of those AP, you got asap. Now it starts at 20 and slowly builds to 160, the mana steal and something else, not sure, plus you lose stacks on death. I feel it has been kind of a nerf. Older one was much easier to charge. Now it's good if you stomp well and early, but given you're in an even game, it's not nearly as easy. Especially if you consider that being a nuker, you'll be probably squishy as hell and focused at first. Been trying Ryze lately (haven't checked Annie yet, but that's not the point) and now I'm really not sure how to get a decent AP increase. Kassadin, Annie, Veigar, the few times I played Ryze, I'd usually get a Mejai. I guess I'll have to try the new one and see how it goes.
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Historical Aerial Photographs Prior to the trial, Jan Schlichtmann, the plaintiffs attorney, hired a consulting firm to acquire and analyze historic aerial photographs of the Riley 15-acre property to estimate the times when the various drums, barrels, and debris piles first appeared. The consultants took this analysis and compared it to the 1985 field mapping of the debris piles, drums, and tanks on the 15-acre property by John Drobinski, a geologist hired by Schlichtmann. Drobinski's field map can be downloaded from the trial documents collection and excerpts of his deposition can be downloaded from the trial testimony collection. What Are Aerial Photographs and How Are They Used? Aerial photographs like the ones shown below routinely are taken by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and U.S. Geological Survey to make topographic maps, record temporal changes in crop patterns, map geology and mineral resources, and evaluate floodplains. A specialized aircraft with sophisticated cameras is used to take photographs using black & white or color infrared film. The aircraft flies along flight lines that overlap slightly while the camera takes photographs at time intervals that allow the images to overlap. Because of the overlap is from two different positions in the sky, the overlapping portions of adjacent images can be viewed in 3-D. A stereoscope is needed to see the images in 3-D, which produces a static visual image that is similar to looking at a 3-D movie using red and blue glasses. Thus, tree tops and buildings appear to be higher than surrounding ground, whereas stream channels and wetlands appear to be lower. Aerial Photographs of the Woburn Wells G and H Area The collection below is a subset of those compiled by Maura Metheny for her dissertation research at Ohio State University. Four sets of photographs (May 1954, May 1969, April 1981, and March 1986) are suitable for 3-D viewing. To do this, print the images on high-quality paper or photographic paper and view them under a stereoscope. An inexpensive plastic 'pocket' stereoscope works well. The sequence of images below document changes in land use, construction of municipal wells G and H and other structures, changes in the wetland, and the appearance of drums and underground storage tanks along the access road between Salem Street and Olympia Avenue on the west side of the river. Detailed information about the dates, resolution, scales, and ordering numbers of the sets of aerial photographs shown below is available in this Excel file (Excel 19kB Jan22 07). - May 13, 1954 Photographs: 2414, 2415, 2416, 2417 northern image Full Resolution ( 28.5MB Mar14 07)north-central image Full Resolution ( 29.3MB Mar14 07)south-central image Full Resolution ( 28.3MB Mar14 07)southern image Full Resolution ( 28.5MB Mar14 07) - April 29, 1963 Photographs: 278, 279 western image Full Resolution ( 288kB Mar15 07)eastern image Full Resolution ( 208kB Mar15 07) - April 6, 1965 photograph: 233 Full Resolution ( 269kB Mar15 07) - May 1, 1969 photographs: 1684, 1685, 1686, 1687 south image Full Resolution ( 288kB Mar15 07)south-central image Full Resolution ( 284kB Mar15 07)north-central image Full Resolution ( 281kB Mar15 07)north image Full Resolution ( 273kB Mar15 07) - July 3, 1971 photograph: 126 Full Resolution ( 377kB Mar15 07) - April 23, 1978 photographs: 104 north and south north images Full Resolution ( 73kB Mar15 07)south image Full Resolution ( 77kB Mar15 07) - April 13, 1981 photographs: 19-5, 19-6, 19-7 south image Full Resolution ( 205kB Mar15 07)middle image Full Resolution ( 196kB Mar15 07)north image Full Resolution ( 196kB Mar15 07)
Aylam from Occupied Palestine was over for a visit in Manchester. She came over to our place and cooked us three amazing middle east dishes. The first dish was an Aubergine dip called Baba Ghanoush. She learnt this recipe from a friend’s mother who is Jewish and Mizrachy (a Jew who migrated to Israel from an Arab country). Baba ghanoush, baba ganush, baba ghannouj or baba ghannoug (Arabicبابا غنوج bābā ġanūj) is a Lebanese dish of aubergine mashed and mixed with olive oil and seasonings. Often, it is eaten as a dip with khubz or pita bread, and is sometimes added to other dishes. It is usually of an earthy light-brown colour. It is popular in the Levant and Egypt. Ingredients: 2 medium-large black Aubergines, Juice from 1 fresh Lemon, 3 cloves of garlic, Unmixed Tahini sauce, 1 bunch of parsley (finely chopped) , ground cumin, ground black pepper, salt
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I had been taking Nuvigil for over a year when I found that it seemed to not be working quite as well as I'd like. My doctor switched me to taking Ritalin after discussing with him my thoughts and a recent conversation with a Pychiatrist about my ADD. The Ritalin is a "when needed" type of med and I take it 3 times a day (the max.) It does lift me a little higher than the Nuvigil, but then I drop back down after a little bit. Also, with the Ritalin, I can not eat for 30 minutes after I take it (it's best taken on an empty stomach), but I noticed if I don't eat after the 30 min it doesn't seem to work as well either. My doctor suggested when we started this that we may also consider combinging the Nuvigil and the Ritalin, with the Ritalin as a "as needed" pick-me-up. Has any one tried this? Also, I take Allegra for Allergies, a multi vitamin, an iron supplement, acidophilus for digestion issues, and St. John's Wort for mood swing issues. It's at a point I take the Ritalin when I first get up, wait 30 min, eat and then take the other 4-5 pills. I can't take the last part with out food or I just about bring them all up. Suggestions?
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\|Forums: Index → Narutopedia Discussion → Itachi\|\|Post\| do you guys think we should still count itachi as deciesed? i mean hes sorta technically alive and he can actually control himself. what do you guys think?—This unsigned comment was made by Tris0928 (talk • contribs) . - "Sorta" doesn't count — dead is dead. He died during the battle with Sasuke and his body was either slung into the ground or else eaten by Zetsu.--Cerez365™ 16:35, March 12, 2012 (UTC) Yes Itachi will be gone once the jutsu is over but until then he is alive. And a deceased person cant come back to life, mentally as well as physically, but Itachi does. Physically because of the jutsu but he's mentally conscious as well. So I guess you could consider Itachi as alive instead of deceased, at least for the time being.--Beautyandbrains (talk) 12:28, March 13, 2012 (UTC) - But he can be forced to end the technique. Also, please remember to sign your posts. Just use four tilde (~~~~) at the end of your messages or click the 10th icon at the top of the page ↑ But that still doesn't mean Itachi's not dead.--Cerez365™ 09:34, March 14, 2012 (UTC) - You mean do I consider him to be dead? Yeah I do. He died after fighting his brother. His body is somewhere decaying (or being digested by Zetsu xD) What was brought back was just a soul bound to the earth by a technique. Itachi's currently "undead" in a sense, deceased but not alive.--Cerez365™ 11:02, March 14, 2012 (UTC)
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Our freezer is always stocked with one of or two loaves of my sourdough, ready to be transformed into slices of toast, a tupperware of breadcrumbs, or a pan of garlicky croutons. Recently, I read about a curious walnut-bread sauce, thick and creamy and off-white in color, spooned over pasta and served with a glass of cold Ligurian wine. I pulled out some bread from my freezer and got to work. It all starts with a loaf of stale or defrosted country bread, torn into manageable chunks and soaked in a pot of warm milk. A pan of walnuts is lightly roasted and then crushed in a mortar and pestle. A few cloves of garlic are peeled and lightly flattened. Then, the entire aromatic mess is blitzed with an immersion blender until pureed, but still chunky. With a wooden spoon, I whipped in a few cups of grated Parmesan and half a cup of good Italian olive oil. What appeared next was one of the most voluminous, gorgeous sauces I’ve ever made. It’s rustic and pasty — who likes that wan, pale shade of beige, anyway? — but the taste is totally remarkable. There’s that faintest shade of garlic, the salty punch of cheese, those sweet, earthy walnuts, and the tang and heft of the milk-soaked bread. I used Rachel’s recipe as a guideline and inspiration more than anything else, but if you’d like to follow it exactly, you can find it here. When we were ready to eat, I thinned out the sauce with a big splash of starchy pasta water, which loosens and relaxes the sauce, perfectly coating your pasta. Okay, a few notes about the linguine, which was so easy to make. Marcella Hazan’s basic pasta recipe has always been my favorite, and I love her preference for intuitive dough-making: the feel and look of the pasta is way more important than precisely scaling out ingredients. Hazan estimates about one cup of flour for every two eggs, and I find those proportions to be exactly right. Our dough was springy, soft, and smooth. The rest of the dinner was light and fresh, starting wedges of Tuscan melon and smoked Charlevoix ham. Next, an easy and colorful chopped Italian salad, using mostly bitter-tasting vegetables like radicchio and dandelion greens, all brightened by red bell pepper, golden raisins, shaved fennel, and chopped almonds. It might be my new favorite winter salad. The rest was seriously simple: a wedge of my favorite 18-month aged Comte, straight from Jura, eaten with slivers of ripe Comice pears and sourdough toasts, followed by Italian blood oranges and dark chocolate-covered candied ginger, a lovely Valentine’s gift from my mom. The night was a perfect homage to the region of Liguria, and the certainly perked up our cold winter nights!
Women don’t make 77 cents to a man’s dollar. They make more like 93 cents, as long as they don’t major in art history To think that Apple won’t use its experience to disrupt other markets is short sighted. It might take time, but Apple is more than capable of continuing to innovate and drive markets in new directions. This is the year you figure out your number. Right? It’s not all that difficult, really. Yet by some estimates fewer than half of Americans have ever tried to divine how much money they will need in the bank in order to retire comfortably. The banking sector still faces big challenges, but greater transparency will boost investor confidence and also encourage banks to manage risk better internally. News Corp.’s blockbuster deal to buy 49% of the Yankees Entertainment and Sports (YES) Network is the latest confirmation that televised sports has become one of the hottest areas in the media world. Social media and big data are being used in an innovative new payday loan banking model that’s more Silicon Valley than Wall Street. As Hurricane Sandy continues to batter the Eastern seaboard of the U.S., one thing is for certain: insurance companies will be ponying up for billions of dollars in property damage caused by high winds. Five months after going public in one of the most controversial IPOs in U.S. history, social networking titan Facebook finally delivered some good news on Tuesday, reporting earnings results that impressed Wall Street. A recent consumer survey found that 41% of respondents had less than $500 in savings available on short notice. While historians will be debating the effect of the counterinsurgency campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan for decades to come, the young officers and noncommissioned officers charged with carrying out those missions are returning … Rent-seeking is a phrase increasingly in vogue by folks without real jobs. Wikipedia defines it as “an attempt to obtain economic rent by manipulating the social or political environment in which economic activities occur, rather than by creating new wealth.” Synonym: the U.S. defense industry and its allies, c. 2012. This ad appeared on page 15 of Sunday’s New York Times. In stark terms, using a recent comment by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, it warns of impending cataclysm. It urges New York City readers to prepare for doom…by buying a cabin in the Catskills, “located less than two hours from New York City.” The website linked to the ad … Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal story of how Chinese state bank (China Development Bank) is pumping $1.7 billion into two long-stalled redevelopment projects in the San Francisco Bay area – namely, Hunter’s Point (a Navy base until …
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As part of our Amazing Experiences Sweepstakes, National Aquarium in Washington, DC is giving one lucky winner the opportunity to name and have a behind-the-scenes “meet and greet” with our newest baby loggerhead turtle, arriving this month! In order to help save these magnificent sea turtles from extinction, National Aquarium participates in the Loggerhead Head Start Program, run by the North Carolina Aquarium in Pine Knoll, that gives these baby sea turtles a better chance at survival in the wild. Sea turtle hatchlings found stranded far from the ocean, spend time in aquariums where they can safely grow. After being given a clean bill of health and an extra boost of nutrition, they are tagged and released back to the ocean! Sea turtles have a challenging life. Most weighing just 20 grams at birth, they face many natural predators both on the sandy beaches where they hatch and in the oceans where they dwell. Because of their low survival rate, they have been classified as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. After a two years of growth, National Aquarium staff returns them to North Carolina for release. Eventually, these turtles could weigh up to 200 pounds! So – Want a chance to meet our newest turtle? There are five great ways to be entered to win! - Purchase any full price ticket online for a December visit - Make a donation of $25 or more - Purchase or renew your membership online - Buy a gift ticket online - Adopt an Animal Click here to find out all the details about our Amazing Experiences Sweepstakes! Stay tuned for more features on our once-in-a-lifetime sweepstakes prizes! Winners will be announced on our Facebook page starting December 17!
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Rectal Swabs a Promising Supplement to E. Coli Test Submitting tissue samples via surface mail may present challenges to swine practitioners due to public health and perception concerns and regulatory restrictions. This study evaluated alternative sampling techniques for Escherichia coli (E. coli) in cases of weaned pig diarrhea. Fifteen pigs from four sites were sampled. Two rectal swabs, two intestinal swabs and a tissue sample were collected from each pig. Rectal swabs and tissue from each pig were cultured for E. coli, and tissues were evaluated for lesions at the Iowa State University Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory. E. coli was isolated from all cases using both rectal swabs and intestinal tissue. Rectal swabs yielded E. coli with both toxin and pili genes in pigs with clinical signs. However, genotyping results from the rectal swabs and the intestinal tissue did not agree at the pig level in 64% of the cases, suggesting that multiple samples are required to characterize the E. coli population at the farm. Rectal swabs and tissue samples provide advantages and disadvantages to the practitioner. Tissue samples offer the ability to necropsy the pig and view lesions and other pathogens. E. coli is a pervasive organism in that presence doesn’t always equal disease, so tissue analysis provides an opportunity to verify diagnosis. Rectal swabs allow healthy pigs to be sampled or acute cases to be pursued where practitioners may be reluctant to euthanize pigs. Rectal swab use helps avoid the need to euthanize the pig thus salvaging its value. Rectal swabs also allow larger sample size and justify running more antibiotic sensitivity tests due to costs saved from not euthanizing pigs or shipping tissue samples. Rectal swabbing may also provide an opportunity to submit more samples to better characterize the E. coli population without euthanizing additional pigs. This clinical tool may be used as a supplemental diagnostic method to tissue submission and give a cost-effective means of increasing the sample size in difficult E. coli cases. It will not replace tissue samples from acutely affected pigs as primary diagnostic samples, however. Researchers: Locke Karriker, DVM and Anna Johnson, Iowa State University. For more information, contact Karriker by phone (515) 294-2283, fax (515) 294-1072 or e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.org. Airborne Spread of Flu Virus is Feasible University of Minnesota research suggests that swine influenza virus can be detected in aerosols generated from infected pigs and that airborne spread is possible. Swine influenza virus is an important respiratory pathogen that causes low mortality but high morbidity that impacts pig performance. The virus is known to spread through nose-to-nose contact and droplets, but little is known about the dynamics of airborne transmission within and between herds. In a study at the University of Minnesota research farm, air samples were collected from 7-week-old pigs experimentally infected and housed in isolation rooms. In addition to the air samples, all pigs were individually sampled daily to correlate individual pig shedding with the likelihood of virus detection in the air. Results indicated that a minimum number of infected pigs need to be actively shedding the virus in order to produce sufficient aerosols to be detectable in the air. The virus was first detected in the air when at least four of 11 pigs were simultaneously shedding virus. Detection of the virus in air samples under experimental conditions was possible for six days (Figure 1), which coincided with the course of the active infection. Since the pigs in the study were fully susceptible to influenza infections, pigs with different degrees of maternal immunity against influenza were measured for airborne detection of the virus. Virus was detected in pigs with partial immunity as well as those without immunity, but no influenza virus was detected in pigs that had protective levels of maternal antibodies. Results indicated that influenza virus may be found in aerosols generated from infected pigs, but that immunity plays a role in the generation of infectious aerosols and therefore in the risk of airborne transmission. More research is needed to understand the role of aerosol transmission under field conditions, according to researcher Cesar Corzo, DVM. Researchers: Cesar Corzo, DVM, Marie Gramer, DVM, Bob Morrison, DVM, and Montse Torremorell, DVM, University of Minnesota; and Scott Dee, DVM, Pipestone (MN) Veterinary Clinic. For more information, contact Torremorell by phone (612) 625-1233, fax (612) 625-1210 or e-mail: email@example.com. PRRS Vaccine Reduces Shedding in Field Study One of the crucial challenges in the PRRS regional elimination projects is reinfection of pig units due to area spread of the porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) virus. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of PRRS modified-live-virus (MLV) vaccine on viral shedding and on dynamics of PRRS infection in pig groups raised under field conditions. The study consisted of two groups of 1,000 pigs each. Ten percent of the pigs in each room were inoculated with a field strain of the PRRS virus. Rooms featured separate ventilation and strict adoption of scientifically valid biosecurity protocols to avoid movement of pathogens between rooms. At eight and 36 days post-inoculation (DPI), all pigs in the challenge-vaccine group were inoculated with a PRRS MLV vaccine. Pigs in the challenge-control group were inoculated with a placebo. Following the challenge, blood and oral fluid samples were collected from each room at 0, 8, 36, 70, 96 and 118 DPI for detection of PRRS virus using polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Screening for PRRS virus antibodies was also performed on blood serum samples using an ELISA (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay) test. Tonsil scraping samples were collected from both groups at 70, 96 and 118 DPI. Air samples were collected six times per week from 0 to 118 DPI and tested for PRRS virus using a PCR assay. Test results suggested that there was no difference in the PRRS infection dynamics as measured by viremia (infection in the bloodstream) and seroconversion between the vaccinated and the control group pigs. There was no difference in the frequency of tonsil scraping samples testing positive for PRRS by PCR for the two rooms of pigs. However, the challenge-vaccine group had a significant reduction in the amount of PRRS virus shed in the air and the number of days in which PRRS virus could be detected in air samples. PRRS virus was detected in the challenge-control group for up to 70 days post infection, compared to 45 days in the challenge-vaccine group. The proportion of oral fluid PCR-positive samples detected at 36 DPI was lower in the challenge-vaccine group. PRRS MLV vaccines might provide assistance in regional elimination of PRRS virus by decreasing the amount of virus shed from infected pig populations. Researchers: Scott Dee, DVM, and Joel Nerem, DVM, Pipestone (MN) Veterinary Clinic; Jean Paul Cano, DVM, and Tom Wetzell, DVM, Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, Inc.; Daniel Linhares, DVM, and Montse Torremorell, DVM, Leman Chair, University of Minnesota. For more information, contact Torremorell by phone (612) 625-1233 or e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.org. Young Pigs can be Source of Influenza Virus Even though swine influenza virus is a common cause of respiratory disease in pigs, information has been lacking on transmission and epidemiology within pig populations. Anecdotal evidence would suggest that influenza viruses tend to circulate in swine breeding herds for an extended period of time. New research at the University of Minnesota identified neonatal pigs as a potential reservoir for influenza virus in swine breeding herds. Following intensive sampling in selected commercial herds, neonatal pigs were found to be infected with influenza virus, while the adult animals (sows and gilts) sampled within these populations were not infected. The prevalence of infection in neonatal pigs was typically low (less than 10%) but tended to be higher as pigs approached weaning age. Additionally, pigs weaned from an infected breeding herd served as a source of virus for their respective nursery/wean-to-finish herd. This means neonatal and weaned pigs can serve as a source of influenza virus within herds and across herds. This preliminary finding can help guide future research concerning influenza virus epidemiology and control. Researchers: Matt Allerson, DVM; Montse Torremorell, DVM; and Marie Gramer, DVM, University of Minnesota. For more information, contact Torremorell by phone (612) 625-1233, fax (612) 625-1210 or e-mail: email@example.com.
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Reports: Celtics and Nets talk Paul Pierce for Kris Humphries trade? By Ben Golliver All three of Boston’s premier players have now found themselves in rumors in advance of Thursday’s trade deadline. Will any of them actually move? Yahoo! Sports reports that Celtics forward Paul Pierce has been the subject of trade talks with the Nets. The Boston Celtics and Brooklyn Nets have discussed a trade for Celtics star Paul Pierce, league sources told Yahoo! Sports. The Nets’ offer centered on forward Kris Humphries, guard MarShon Brooks and a first-round draft pick, but the Celtics want a more substantial package to consider moving Pierce, league sources said. … Boston has shown interest in guard Mirza Teletovic and securing another possible first-round pick, but the Nets have shown no inclination to pay that steep of a price for Pierce. The New York Post reports that there’s “not much” to the talks between Boston and Brooklyn. Pierce joins guard Rajon Rondo and forward Kevin Garnett to find himself in rumors this week. Celtics president Danny Ainge reportedly told Rondo’s agent that his client would not be traded while Garnett said this weekend that he would not waive his no-trade clause, thus ensuring he remains in Boston. A trade scenario between the Celtics and Nets would seem to be problematic for a number of reasons. The two teams are division rivals and are jockeying for playoff position; the Nets are currently in the East’s No. 4 spot while the Celtics are No. 7. Moving Pierce without receiving a player of a similar caliber amounts to punting on this season, and Boston doesn’t have much motivation to do that if Garnett remains in the fold. The temptation will be to take their chances with a veteran core and hope for favorable match-ups to make a postseason run. If a star-type player doesn’t return for Pierce, the Celtics would at the very least need to acquire some worthwhile assets. Humphries, significantly overpaid given his contributions this year, and Brooks, who isn’t a home run prospect, isn’t exactly the type of return you would expect for a player of Pierce’s caliber and experience. The Humphries/Brooks package has also circulated as a possible combination in a deal for Hawks forward Josh Smith and Humphries has appeared in a trade rumor involving Bobcats guard Ben Gordon, although the New York Times reported Wednesday night that Brooklyn was no longer interested in that deal with Charlotte. The key point: It’s possible that Pierce’s late mention in the hours before the deadline is a by-product of other Brooklyn dealings. It’s worth noting that the veteran forward took the court for the Celtics on Wednesday night against the Lakers. Pierce, 35, is averaging 18.3 points, 6.4 rebounds, 4.4 assists and 1.3 steals per game. He’s on the books for $16.8 million this season and $15.3 million next season. Humphries, 28, is averaging six points and 6.2 rebounds in a reduced role this season. He’s on the books for $12 million this season and $12 million next season. Brooks, 24, is averaging five points in 11 minutes. He’s in the second year of a rookie contract that can run through 2014-15. Teletovic, 27, is in his first NBA season after spending the early stages of his professional career abroad. He’s averaging 3.1 points and 1.4 rebounds in 7.8 minutes. He’s currently in the first year of a three-year deal that will pay him $9.7 million. He’s most famous for shooting three consecutive airballs in just forty seconds.
Two teachers at Norview High School in Norfolk, VA were recently put on administrative leave by the school after a parent complained about a video that she saw in Government class. The video informed its audience on how to assert their constitutional rights during various encounters with police, such as during a car or house search. It was accompanied by a one page handout about a person’s rights when stopped and arrested by the police. When the girl came home after school that day, she told her mother “You won’t believe what we are learning in Government. They are teaching us how to hide our drugs.” The woman promptly called the school to complain about what was taught to her daughter, and the teachers were subsequently suspended. There are two things that are rather irksome about these series of events. First, why are parents are so ready to jump to conclusions and act on those assumptions? It’s a little hard to believe that teachers would be lecturing their students on the best way to hide drugs from the police. If the girl’s mother had just inquired as to what was actually taught that day, it would have been clear that this was Government class as usual, just an exercise in educating youth on the Constitution. Second, and more importantly, why are schools eager to appease parents at the drop of a hat? These are institutions filled with education professionals: teachers know what their students should learn and what the appropriate materials for teaching them are. A school’s administration should trust that the teacher is making reasonable choices as to how a child is taught and with what. In response to a parent’s complaint, they should first research the allegations. The administration at Norview High School, for instance, could have a gotten a copy of the leaflet given to students. They also could have watched the video to see if anything inappropriate was shown. Instead, the school acquiesced to the demands of one uninformed parent. Sometimes, Mother doesn’t know what’s best. That’s why we have schools and teachers. Unfortunately, this is not a new problem. Schools all over the country have bowed down to raging parents over something they don’t think is appropriate for their child. It’s a distressing thought that a parent’s misunderstanding about a certain book or a particular lesson in school can translate into a child’s incomplete education. Learning about an individual’s constitutional rights enhances one’s education and can even make for a better citizen. School administrators need to have more confidence in themselves and their teachers. They need to stick to what they believe is important for a child’s education.
Schools and Students Private schools in 1999–2000 were located primarily in central cities (42 percent) and the urban fringe or large towns (40 percent) (table 2). About 18 percent of private schools were found in rural areas. In contrast, 24 percent of all public schools were in central city locations, 45 percent in the urban fringe or large towns, and 31 percent in rural areas. Most schools—61 percent of private and 71 percent of public—were elementary, but 10 percent of private schools and 25 percent of public schools were secondary. Finally, a much higher proportion of private schools (30 percent) were combined schools (usually grades K–12 or 1–12), compared with only 4 percent of public schools. Figures and Tables Table 2: Percentage distribution of schools according to community type and level, by sector and private school type: 1999-2000 Table S2: Standard errors for the percentage distribution of schools according to community type and level, by sector and private school type: 1999-2000
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Defy-ID is an adhoc network of groups and individuals prepared for active resistance to increasing surveillance and the introduction of identity or ‘entitlement’ cards in the UK. Everything you never wanted to know about the UK ID card. Privacy International is a human rights group, a watchdog on surveillance and privacy invasions by governments and corporations. Legal resource centre for UK political activists with an animal rights slant. Legal resource centre for UK political activists with an Anti-nuclear slant. Basic Law for Road Protestors, second edition by Peter Gray. Environmental Law Foundation: A national charity that secures environmental justice for communities and individuals through a network of legal and technical experts. Prisons, Prisoners Support & Miscarriages of Justice Anarchist Black Cross Support group for anarchists, black liberation activists, anti-fascists and others we feel an affinity with who have ended up in prison. Earth Liberation Prisoners Supports people who have been arrested and imprisoned for acts of direct action in defence of animals and the earth. Vegan Prisoners Support Group assists vegan animal rights prisoners either held in police custody or within the prison system. Innocent are committed to fighting miscarriages of justice in general and campaigning on behalf of specific cases. Miscarriages of Justice UK Founded by Paddy Hill, one of the Birmingham 6, they fight for people who are wrongly imprisoned. The Campaign Against Prison Slavery exists to challenge and bring about an end to forced prison labour, and to expose the companies that exploit it. The national federation of services supporting families of prisoners Official Prison Service Website Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC). The official body responsible for investigating suspected miscarriages of criminal justice in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Official Home Office police website – links to individual forces and general information. Deaths in Custody or by Police INQUEST: Advice, campaigning and information for bereaved people facing Coroner’s Inquests, especially those involving deaths in custody (Police, prison, detained patients). Roger Sylvester Justice Campaign Campaigns to establish how Roger, a fit and healthy 30 year old man came to a horrific and premature death after being detained by the police. A film about the struggle for justice by the families of people that have died in police custody. Refugees and Asylum Seekers National Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns: Bringing Together Families and Individuals Fighting Deportation Release: Drugs and the law and human rights. Advice on the drug laws. The Advisory Service for Squatters. Friends, Families & Travellers: Advice for all travellers. Shelter Housing Advice. Index on Censorship: website events on free expression and censorship around the world. Internet rights and wrongs. A general description of how the UK legal system works from an academic institution. Another guide to how the UK legal system works from Law Librarian in an academic institution. Yet another introduction to the English legal system from a barrister, also available in Spanish An official advice site with mainstream but useful advice. UK Acts of Parliament 1988 onwards. UK Secondary legislation (Statutory Instruments) from 1987 onwards Official website of the courts – useful general information. Official website of the criminal courts – useful general information. The Government’s portal with links to all Government sites. The Legal Services Commission – the replacement for the Legal Aid Board, for funding cases. Law Society: firms of solicitors. List of Solicitors in England and Wales. Bar Council: Barristers. List of Barristers in England and Wales. Law Centres Federation – free legal advice. The National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux – free advice. A useful portal to many legal websites. Ombudsmen services available to individuals who believes that they have received an injustice from a public body. Scottish Law Society – includes a guide to Scots law. A charity providing fee advice on Scottish law.
Christian leaders who are themselves divided over homosexuality have joined forces to oppose a proposed Ugandan law that calls for the death penalty for some homosexual behavior. "Our Christian faith recognizes violence, harassment and unjust treatment of any human being as a betrayal of Jesus' commandment to love our neighbors as ourselves," reads the statement released Monday (Dec. 7) and signed by dozens of leaders. "As followers of the teachings of Christ, we must express profound dismay at a bill currently before the Parliament in Uganda." The bill calls for those convicted of involvement in homosexual acts to be sentenced to life in prison and those convicted of "aggravated homosexuality" to receive the death penalty. Signatories include Jim Wallis, president of Sojourners; the Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference; Bryan N. Massingale, president of the Catholic Theological Society of America; evangelical activist Brian McLaren; Jim Winkler, general secretary of the United Methodist General Board of Church and Society; and Thomas P. Melady, former U.S. ambassador to Uganda and the Vatican. The joint statement, organized by Faith in Public Life and Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, follows a declaration by Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori that "potential impingement on basic human rights" are threatened by the proposed Ugandan legislation. "...(A)ttempts to export the culture wars of North America to another context represent the very worst of colonial behavior," she said in her Dec. 4 statement. "We deeply lament this reality, and repent of any way in which we have participated in this sin."
The archbishop of Port-au-Prince, Monsignor Joseph Serge Miot, died in the Haiti earthquake along with unknown thousands of victims, Catholic News Services has reported. Miot was 63. "The lifeless body of Archbishop Joseph Miot of Port-au-Prince was found this morning under the rubble of the archbishops' residence," L'Osservatore Romano said in a Page 1 story Jan. 13, according to CNS. Meanwhile, the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince remained in a state of disorder and confusion at mid-afternoon Jan. 13 and little information was available on the number of casualties resulting from a devastating earthquake, a spokesman for Catholic Relief Services said. "It is chaos there. Nobody knows how many people are killed or injured at this point," John Rivera, CRS director of communications, told Catholic News Service. Meanwhile, seriously injured Americans were being evacuated throughout the day Jan. 13. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said a military team was on the ground assessing the situation in preparation for the U.S. response to the devastating natural disaster. Detailed reports of casualties nearly a day after the magnitude 7 quake shook the area around the capital were limited because telephone, cell phone and Internet services were sporadic. In addition, rescue and recovery efforts were limited because of a lack of emergency equipment and heavy machinery. People were reported to be digging through rubble by hand in heroic efforts to rescue people and recover bodies. The few casualty reports that were received came during brief exchanges between Americans working in Haiti on a variety of projects and their sponsors in the U.S. Emily Smack, executive director of Haitian Ministries for the Diocese of Norwich, Conn., said three staff people were injured, two severely, when the program's mission house in Port-au-Prince was leveled during the quake. Americans Jillian Thorp, acting director of the program, and consultant Chuck Dietsch were trapped under debris for nearly 10 hours until co-workers were able to free them, Smack reported. Thorp was badly bruised and cut while Dietsch suffered a broken leg and broken ribs. The third staff member, a cook who has been with the program for 22 years, was on the first floor of the house when it collapsed. She lost one leg and was in danger of losing her other leg, Smack said. "I talked with our assistant director who helped dig them out and he said no matter which way you look it's just crumpled houses," she said. The program supports two orphanages, housing a total of 108 children. Smack said staff members were unaware of how the orphanages fared but were hoping to make their way across town to check on them at some point Jan. 13. Catholic News Service reported Bishop Auza said he had toured the capital on the morning after the earthquake and found the country's ministry buildings, schools and supermarkets destroyed. He said the headquarters of the U.N. stabilization force in Port-au-Prince had completely collapsed, reportedly trapping hundreds in the debris. "I found priests and nuns on the street, who no longer have homes. The rector of the seminary survived, and so did the dean, but the seminarians are under the rubble. Everywhere there are cries coming from under the rubble," he said. He said a study institute for men and women religious had collapsed, with many students inside as they attended a conference. The nunciature withstood the quake, and there were no injuries there, he said. "We cannot enter or stay inside for very long because the earth continues to tremble. So we're camped out in the garden," he said. Caritas Internationalis, the Vatican-based umbrella organization for Catholic charities, said it was mobilizing to provide immediate assistance to Haiti. On Jan. 13 it had already assembled an emergency relief team to fly to Haiti to assist Caritas members already working in the country. It said there had not yet been contact with the Haitian Caritas office. Caritas Internationalis humanitarian director Alistair Dutton was leading the emergency relief team, Caritas said in a statement. "There is a strong Caritas presence in Haiti. We already know that Caritas staff will be providing support to survivors of the earthquake, such as food, shelter and comfort through churches and parish networks," Dutton said. "A priority for Caritas will be to assess the damage and our local capacity to provide aid to survivors of the quake. Caritas runs more than 200 hospitals and medical centers in Haiti. It is experienced and prepared to respond to humanitarian disasters there as a result of the frequent hurricanes," he said. "Communication with our staff on the ground is difficult, but we are piecing together a picture of desperate need. Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Conflict, recent natural disasters, and poverty have left Haitians with weak infrastructure. Working in that environment will be difficult," he said. In its statement, Caritas said the cathedral in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince was badly damaged. Caritas also said the U.S.-based Catholic Relief Services had been in communication with its staff in Haiti. The local CRS office was still standing and CRS staff present at the time of the quake were safe, it said. CRS staff described the quake as "a major hit ... a direct hit." Meanwhile, Pope Benedict XVI urged generous international aid for the victims of Haiti's earthquake and has pledged concrete help from the Catholic Church. Benedict also asked prayers for the victims and assured all those who were suffering that he was spiritually close to them. He "implored God for consolation and relief in their suffering." Benedict said he wanted to make an appeal to the generosity of all "so that our concrete solidarity and the effective support of the international community will not be lacking for these brothers and sisters who are living a moment of need and pain." He made the appeal during his weekly general audience Wednesday. International efforts to help Haiti in the wake of yesterday's 7.0 magnitude earthquake are under way, with governments across the world and aid agencies mobilising search and rescue teams and aid supplies. Although the full scale of the disaster has yet to emerge, it is clear that it will pose a huge challenge. Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere and is still struggling to recover from devastating hurricanes in 2008. Catholic Relief Services, active in Haiti, is among the aid groups collecting donations to assist earthquake victims. From the News Wires
Nov 20, 2012, 7:23 PM EDT When I was younger, my mother tried to get me involved in fencing, but I guess it never stuck. But it’s an underrated sport that’s more complicated than two people poking each other with swords. The Notre Dame fencers understand that. Last night, the Student-Athlete Advisory Council (SAAC) held an open-forum to educate all student-athletes about the sport of fencing and also to let a few student athletes duel. Senior fencer Marta Stepien, who helped organize the event said of its conception, “We kind of wanted to do something exciting for the last SAAC forum before Thanksgiving. We knew a lot of students would be going home, so we wanted to do something creative, and we just started mulling over the idea of showing everyone our fencing facility because this is probably the best fencing facility in the entire nation right now. So we wanted to do something cool with that, and we figured what better way than to do a little demonstration and then what better way to get students involved and to actually understand the sport than to actually try it? So we did a little raffle and then came up with this idea!” After Notre Dame fencers explained the sport and did a demonstration, the non-fencing athlete bouts began. Each athlete was coached by a fencer. The bouts were between Cari Roccaro (women’s soccer) and Jaclyn Winkel (women’s track and field), Mike Golic Jr. (football) and Frank Dyer (men’s swimming and diving), Blas Moros (men’s tennis) and Jeni Houser (volleyball), and Grant Van De Casteele (men’s soccer) and Quinn Gleason (women’s tennis). The victors (the first athlete to 5 hits) were Winkel, Golic Jr., Moros, and Van De Casteele. The event seemed to be a huge success in that it was fun, exciting, and helped the student-athletes relax and take their minds off their busy schedules if even for a little while. It also made me realize that I should have listened to my mother all those years ago, because maybe then I could have been a Notre Dame fencer. - Softball. Virginia Tech Outlasts Irish 4-3 In Game One Of Lexington Regional - W. Volleyball. Volleyball Set For 11-Day European Trip - Baseball. Irish Drop Series Opener At Cincinnati, 9-5 - Track. 24 Irish Track And Field Standouts Selected To NCAA East Preliminary Round - M. Tennis. Andrews, Armstrong Named To Capital One Academic At-Large All-District V First Team - W. Golf. Andrews, Armstrong Named To Capital One Academic At-Large All-District V First Team - Softball. Koerner, Winter Selected To NFCA All-Region First Team - M. Lacrosse. #2 Irish And #7 Duke Set For Quarterfinal Showdown In Indy - W. Basketball. Notre Dame To Visit Penn State In 2013 Big Ten/ACC Women's Basketball Challenge - Baseball. Irish Baseball Close Regular Season At Cincinnati Fighting Irish on YouTube Celebrating Ara Parseghian's 90th Birthday Length: 6:59 \| May 17, 2013 Michael Moore, BIG EAST Scholarship - Notre Dame Men's Tennis Length: 1:30 \| May 17, 2013 Preparing for the Big East Championship - Rowing Length: 2:24 \| May 17, 2013 Coach Kelly Sirius/XM Town Hall - Assistant Coaches Length: 1:24 \| May 17, 2013 - RT @NDBaseball: #NotreDame evens series with 9-1 victory over @GoBEARCATS #domeball 3 hours ago - RT @NDlacrosse: New In The Crease blog bit.ly/12ibRso Day 1 of our trip to the @NCAA quarterfinals #InvadeIndy #GoIrish 4 hours ago - RT @NDsoftball: While the opponent is yet to be determined, Irish will play tomorrow at 3:30 pm in an elimination game. 6 hours ago - RT @NDFootball: Legendary ND football coach Ara Parseghian is turning 90 years old. Highlights from his birthday party http://t.co/Dzw8EDIM… 6 hours ago - RT @NDsoftball: Final. Va. Tech 4, Notre Dame 3 #ndsb 6 hours ago
Brigham Young University Member Since 1985 It all began in the fall of 1960 with Ben Dehoyos and a team of four couples. Today, almost 30 years later, Lee & Linda Wakefield direct six teams and 80 couples. Despite many challenges and obstacles that have arisen over the years, the thrilling art of ballroom dancing is alive and thriving as never before at Brigham Young University. From it's meager beginnings, social dance, as a partial class offering with folk and square dance, has at last emerged as a matriculated major course of study. The team has toured world wide, and all who have participated have reaped the blessings of the unique ambassadorship only ballroom dancing can offer. Where did this all begin? In September 1953, Alma Heaton joined BYU faculty, and taught the first social dance class. The fall of 1967, Roy & June Mavor were appointed to be directors of Ballroom Dance Teams. Roy introduced the Medalist System and firmly established International Style into the curriculum. In May of 1971, Roy Mavor took the first BYU team to compete in the British Ballroom Dancing Championships, held in Blackpool, England. This team became the first American team ever to win the British formation championship. In 1973, after Roy and June Mavor left BYU to establish their own business, Emerson & LeGene Lyman were appointed directors of the Ballroom Dance Teams. Emerson expanded the programs to include International Style, Latin dances, International Balls and enlarged the Medalist Program. January 1977, a new social dance team, specializing in American Style, was formed on campus and coached by Lee Wakefield. In 1980, Lee became the artistic director of the Ballroom Dance Company. For 18 years, Lee and Linda have directed the Ballroom Dance Program at Brigham Young University. Under their jurisdiction the program has grown quickly and has become the largest Ballroom Dance Program in a university in the world. In 1994, Curt & Sharon Holman joined the faculty at the University and now work with Lee and Linda in building and improving the program. For the last 17 years, the Brigham Young University Ballroom and Latin formation teams have won the US title and numerous times have won the British formation title. The formation team members are also part of a Ballroom Performing Company that tours nationally and internationally, presenting a 90-minute production of ballroom dancing. The company is sought after around the world and is known for the high quality and professional production. In 1993, BYU was selected to host the World Amateur Standard Championships, and is currently, along with American Ballroom Company, the host of the United States Professional Standard Ballroom Championships.
Resources for living well This obesity primer consists of 10 booklets that address adult obesity in the primary care setting. It offers practical recommendations on evaluating patients for health risks related to weight, understanding medication and surgical options, improving communication and counseling, and making office environments more accommodating to obese patients. American Medical Association (AMA) This guide provides a set of generic principles that can be used as the basis for planning, delivering, and evaluating public health activities aimed at changing health-related behaviors. National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) These validated patient survey tools work to assess patient and health care professional attitudes, wishes, and needs in diabetes management, a vital and valuable part of patient-centred quality of care improvement. DAWN (Diabetes Attitutes, Wishes, and Needs) Study This guide for health care professionals provides comprehensive diabetes information on prevention and control and cardiovascular disease. California Medical Association Foundation This website provides access to program models, tools, and resources to enable health care professionals to provide self-management support for adults with diabetes in real world clinical and community settings. En español Robert Wood Johnson Foundation These handouts provide facilitators with tools to implement the DPP intervention using strategies to achieve nutrition, physical activity and weight loss goals. En español Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) This kit contains resources for health care teams that want to begin offering group visits for their patients. Group visits offer staff a new and more satisfying way to interact with patients that makes efficient use of resources, improves access, and uses group process to help motivate behavior change and improve outcomes. Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) This guide details the steps to using change interventions with diabetes patients to move them toward disease self-management. En español California Diabetes Program This brochure for health care professionals details the steps to using change interventions with diabetes patients to move them toward disease self-management. En español California Diabetes Program Living a Balanced Life with Diabetes: A Toolkit Addressing Psychosocial Issues for American Indian and Alaska Native Peoples can help health care professionals address psychosocial issues with American Indian and Alaska Native Peoples. The toolkit contains a variety of culturally appropriate materials. National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP) - Help Me Select one: I Am A - Health care professional Remove - Age Select one: Type of Resource - Printable documents Remove - Language Select one:
- Support NDN Daily Border Bulletin – Arpaio cited for historic levels of civil rights violations, DHS cuts federal aid, Perry defends Sheriff Your Daily Border Bulletin is up. A brief compendium of some of Sheriff Joe’s civil rights violations – Sheriff Joe has a long history of controversy, this post highlights some of the worst cited in The Department of Justice Report. Perry defends Arpaio Texas Governor and Republican Presidential candidate Rick Perry defended the Sheriff. The New Policy Institute’s 21st Century Border Initiative released a major new report researched by The North American Center For Transborder Studies (NACTS) at Arizona State University, “Realizing the Value of our Cross Border Trade with Mexico.” For more on NDN/NPI’s work in this area, visit our new website, www.21border.com, and its YouTube site, which features dozens of videos of leaders from the border region talking about the very real challenges and opportunities they face.
Successes during 2011 December 09, 2011 • Leave a Comment In December I received two " Honorary Mentions" in the "Images of 2011" competition at Nikonians, an online, USA based Nikon users group. One in the Black and White category and one in the Nature category. Here's a link to the Nikonian magazine with the prizewinning photos from 2011, pages 8 & 11 refer to my photos, "Wild West Coast" and "Rocks at Low Head" I've actually done quite well at Nikonians, back in November 2010 I had my photo "Red Apples" chosen as a chapter opening photo in the RockyNook publication "Mastering the Nikon D300/D300s" by Darrell Young, a 400 page users handbook about that camera. I was sent a copy of the book as a thankyou. In July 2011 I received an "Honourable Mention" for my photo titled "Wild West Coast" entered in an online art contest based in the USA. Here's a link to the subsequently published art magazine including my photo.: No comments posted.
November 26, 2012 Monday Afternoon Quarterback: Illinois It may be late, but it's as good as ever! Former Northwestern quarterback C.J. Bacher analyzes the Wildcats' 50-14 demolition of Illinois on Saturday in this special Monday Afternoon Quarterback feature. ...More... To continue reading this article you must be a member. Sign Up Now for a FREE Trial
About six months ago I decided that when I finally owned my own house I would get some chickens and a goat. This may be shocking to some of you considering my general fear of animals, especially animals that flap, hop or have horizonally slit pupils like the devil. All of this aside, I thought goats and chickens could be a good addition to our household. We could have free eggs whenever we wanted and I like egg. We could also have free milk for making kefir and yogurt and butter and cheese and whatever else I can make with milk. I even picked out the ideal goat breed. Nigerian dwarf goats would be my goats of choice. They’re suppose to get make enough milk to feed a family and they’re small. I would have two. They would need to keep each other company. My passion for raising goats has waned recently. Not because I realized I’d have to milk them every day–imagine me milking a goat–or because I’d have to clean up after them, or because they’re smelly and they make that goat noise all the time, but because I tasted some goat yogurt. I bought some goat yorgurt. I like to try new things. We can eat some yogurt on out exciting Candida diet to try to get some probiotic into our systems. We can also have a moderate amount of grains so the other day I had oatmeal for breakfast. I mixed it with some goat yogurt and blueberries. Ladies and gentlemen, don’t try this at home. It was disgusting. Goats don’t make the same nice tastey yogurt like that cows do. Instead, goat milk makes something similar to goat cheese. Goat cheese is good, but it’s not good in your oatmeal. Anyway, I’ve had it in for goats ever since they ruined my oatmeal. I’ve decided there will be no goats for me because I just can’t put up with that kind of unpredictability in my dairy products. I’m still considering chickens. I’ve recently found out that you can tell what color eggs a hen will produce by looking at her earlobes. I didn’t even know chickens had earlobes. Maybe they have lips too. Photo by Just Chaos.
The Iron Maiden: Live After Death Eddie Action Figure from NECA is now available. This could be our coolest figure of the one and only Iron Maiden mascot yet. Not only does one of the greatest live metal albums ever go 3-D, but Eddie also comes with a pair of attachable legs, making him a full-on action figure! So you collectors will know what to look for at your local retailer, here are some images of the one and only Live After Death Eddie in packaging. Keep coming back to NECAonline for more updates on Iron Maiden collectibles and more!
He looks disgusting all that coke is catching … Comment posted Chris Brown Gets Tattoo Of Battered Woman On His Neck? by Rita. he looks disgusting all that coke is catching up to him Recent comments by Rita - Mary J. Blige and Angela Bassett Star In ‘Betty & Coretta’ I wonder if this piece of civil rights history paid as well as the crispy chicken commercial she did last year… - Bitchie or Not? Nicki Minaj Attends Fox TCA Party In All Black Everything Why does she always look like she hates her job? smile chick! - Jay-z Shares A Photo Of Baby Blue Ivy Just call that baby blurr instead of blue cuz we aint ever gonna see it - Beyonce Shows Off Her Ratchet Earrings Just stop it you are 31 not 21 you are a glamorous celebrity not a ratchett black ho…stay glamorous like you always been and cut the bull —- - Bitchie Or Not? Beyonce Suits Up In Rag & Bone No trying too hard stop it Bey…you were original on 4 and now you are just tryna keep up with your sister…you are 31 not 25…i think the best transformation she had was when she did Bday that was a cute original southern look for her powered by SEO Super Comments
7.2. Fractional Polarization and Projected Field Morphology Multi-frequency radio continuum polarimetric imaging determines both the fraction of the total intensity which is linear polarized at a given frequency, and after a proper correction has been made for Faraday rotation as discussed below, the projected magnetic field structure in the radio source. The theoretical maximum fractional polarization, FP, for optically thin synchrotron emission from a population of relativistic electrons with a power-law energy distribution and an isotropic pitch angle distribution in a uniform magnetic field is: FP = (1 - ) / (5/3 - ), or 72% for = -0.7 (Pacholcyzk 1970). Fractional polarizations are high in Cygnus A, with typical values between 10% and 40%, and reaching as high as 70% in the jet and hotspots at high resolution (Carilli et al. 1989a). The projected magnetic field distribution across the radio lobes is shown in figure 9. The projected fields generally follow parallel to the edges of the source, to the bright ridges in the hotspots, to the filamentary structure in the lobes, and along the jet. Figure 9. The contours are of total intensity from Cygnus A at 8 GHz, 0.35" resolution. The vectors show the projected magnetic field distribution across the source derived from the polarized emission after correction for Faraday rotation, reproduced from Perley and Carilli (1996). Laing (1980) presents an analytic model for magnetic fields in radio galaxies which explains very nicely the observed fractional polarization and projected field structure in Cygnus A. His model involves simple kinematic dynamo processes in the radio source, i.e. shear and/or compression by turbulent fluid motions of a magnetic field which is `frozen-in' to the fluid due to the very high conductivity of a collision-less plasma. Compression and shear can result in the creation of `Laing cells' from a fully tangled initial field distribution. Such cells correspond to regions of highly anisotropically tangled field where one dimension of the turbulence is `re-organized' by compression or shear. In certain projections this can result in observed fractional polarizations approaching the theoretical maximum. The simple analytic model of Laing has been verified by 3D hydrodynamic simulations of radio jets with passive magnetic fields, including the field morphology in the jets, hotspots, and filamentary structure in the lobes (Clarke 1992, Mathews and Scheuer 1991, Cox et al. 1991). Perley and Carilli (1996) present polarization images of Cygnus A at 8 GHz, 0.4" resolution. They find very high fractional polarizations in the radio lobes, approaching 70% in some areas, and projected fields which follow parallel to the axis of the radio lobes. The implication is a very well ordered field in the lobes with the dominant field component projecting along the long axis of the lobe, as expected for example if the field is stretched by shear flow down the lobes. This suggests that the fluid dynamics in the lobes is not magnetically dominated (Blandford 1996).
North East Girls Become Easy Target and Panic spread across Delhi and NCR New Delhi, January 2, 2012 (midnight) The Delhi Police failed to nab the rapist of the 20-years-old girl from Manipur after claiming the identified of the culprit. The delay tactic will allow the culprit to come up with a well cooked idea to escape from being arrested. The North East girls living in Delhi and NCR are panic after failure to provide safety. The Delhi Police found a bank ATM card belonging to the rapist from the spot and claimed that they have identified him and gave assurance to North East Support Centre & Helpline team to arrest the culprit within two hour after lodging the complaint. It has been more than 48 hours and the Delhi police is not able to nab the culprit. Having seen the inability of the Delhi police to nab the culprit, the North East Support Centre & Helpline is worried. The Helpline has been taking update on Delhi police action on the case through reliable sources. A delegation will submit a memorandum to the National Commission for Women to take up the case. The delegation will demand the followings: 1. The FIR No 11/2012 registered at the Dwarka Sector 23 Police station against the rape case must include the SC/ST Prevention of Atrocity Act 1995. The victim belongs to a tribal community. 2. Delhi Police to take action on the Spa Company where the victim was working for failure to follow the Delhi Police’s 9 Points Safety Guidelines for Night Working women to BPO companies. 3. The victim should be given justice as per SC/ST POA 1995. North East Support Centre & Helpline once again appeal to Delhi police to be alert as promise after the issue was raised at national level on safety concern about working women. BPO companies must be ensured to follow strictly the Delhi Police 9 Points Guide Lines. Defaulter must be prosecuted according to the law. The girl was raped by a man who offered a lift from Gurgaon to Mahipalpur and took to isolated place at Dwarka sector 20 and committed the crime. The culprit attempted to murder her after raping repeatedly. Victim hailed from Churachandpur district in Manipur. She came to Delhi in 2010 and working in a spa centre at Gurgaon for last few months.
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The arguably popular creepy scary weird version of Nendoroid Hatsune Miku, also known as Nendoroid Miku Dayo, is getting a preview by Mikatan. Yep, it means that she will be available for pre-order shortly. Wew … ヽ(ﾟдﾟ)ノ What or who is Miku Dayo, do you ask? Well, here is a quick summary by Mikatan: (1) Sega made the ‘Project mirai’ game, featuring Nendoroid Vocaloids! (2) A life-size Nendoroid Miku costume was made to promote the game! (3) Everyone felt the costume didn’t quite feel like the real Miku! (4) The costume Miku became her own character, Miku Dayo! (5) Miku Dayo is made into a Nendoroid, completing the cycle! That’s right, Miku Dayo is actually a life-size costume based on Nendoroid Hatsune Miku, but the misdesigned face and chubby proportion makes it so weird that it doesn’t quite feel like Miku at all. And now GSC reproduced it in real Nendoroid form, for the better … or worse. ヽ(ﾟдﾟ)ノ Apparently, the chubby Miku will come with ball joints in her shoulders for a wider variety of arm poses compared to normal Nendoroid. She will also bring along some optional parts, which is unfortunately not revealed yet by Mikatan. In any case, I think this Nendoroid is one of the worst Nendoroid I have ever seen, but that’s just my personal opinion. What about you, Nendonesian? Are there any of you Miku fans thinking of getting this Nendoroid? XD via Mikatan’s blog
Thank you all again for your help , may God truly bless each and every one of you. I with the help of Greg did get a fire started last night thank goodness for phones as Greg gave me play by play on what to do. Glen called to check on me right when he got off the road and also walked me through some more steps along with found out that I have family from Reading so I am kinda like a hometown boy !! hehehe. So what has happened since last night I know you are all wondering. First I had to little of fire maybe 4 inches dead coal , 1 inch of fire and a whole lot of ash and unburnt coal. Then I had 4 inches of dead coal and a grate full of fire falling into ash pan ( thank you Glen for your advice at this time ) I started seeing blue flame dancing by the firetrap and became alarmed but Glen assured me it was just gas burning off the coal because the dead coal never was burning just blue flame on top of it . I adjusted again and I now have 4 or so inches of unburnt coal ,4 or so inches of fire and 3-4 inches of ash. my house has gone from around 52 deg to 62 deg in about 12 hours I am keeping hopper 2/3rd full and watching it. It does tend to dig from the center so i keep pushing coal that way but here is the clincher !! I am at work !! I have left it alone at home so I am starting to have more faith in it. It did fine over the night and I hope to get home to a house at 68 deg which is where I have my thermostat set at. Thanks for the new coal locations what a blessing this is because Lebanon is just really right down the road from me. Also I will pull hopper this weekend and reset it just because I want everything right. I pray that I have finally crossed the hill on all these issues and I have God above to thank for leading me to all you fantastic people. I again from the bottom of my heart thank each and everyone of you for all you have down ., I will keep you posted and again God Bless each and every one of you !! Love in Christ Jesus Jay Williams ( aka a whole lot warmer )
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From the first sentence of dialogue I was captivated. It's funny, sad, and enchanting. The most importantly delectable aspect of this film? The soundtrack! Each song fit perfectly into its scene becoming its own narration. Director Marc Webb's feature film debut was nothing short of near perfection. Okay, okay, I may be raving on a little strong; simply, I loved it. Monday, July 20, 2009 (500) Days Of Summer Alas 500 Days of Summer! I have been anxiously awaiting release of this film and I must say it exceeded and went beyond any of my expectations. It is not a love story but a film promising to be about love. Greeting card writer Tom (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) falls for new assistant Summer (Zoey Deschanel) in an unconventional story telling of a post modern love story. The script follows the course of their relationship in non-chronological order reflecting on specific days and dissecting their most happy moments to the evidences of where everything went wrong.
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