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Question A team of researchers studying water quality and “containment feed” models would like to obtain the list of drinking water plants used in the Survey of Drinking Water Plants (survey #5149). Would you be able to indicate whether this is possible – or is there someone else that we should contact? Answer We consulted [...]
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Question Does anyone know, offhand, if stats are collected on internet usage by children under 15? I can find all sorts of surveys, but the lowest age I can find is 15. Answer The National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY) collected data on computer and internet use by children under 15. You can [...]
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Question Will there be a PUMF for the 2005 Survey of Innovation, as there were for 1999 and 2003? In addition, will there be a PUMF for the 2007 Biotechnology Use and Development Survey? I noticed that all related CANSIM tables for these surveys have been terminated (with statistics up to 2005). Are there plans [...]
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Just to let you know all went well. Partitioned drive first as I had a mixture of Windows 7 and Linux Mint. Cloned Win7 with Macrium Reflect - no problems. Decided to reinstall Mint (as it's so easy and would sort out the Grub loader properly) - again no problems.We are back in business with no ill effects - except on the bank balance.Thanks for all the help,Ray.
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There have been reports emerge that Chelsea are on the verge of making their second signing of this transfer window as we look set to bring gifted Metalist Kharkiv attacking midfielder Taison to Stamford Bridge in the coming days.
According to reports on the Sky Sports website we have agreed a deal with the Brazilian and also sorted out a fee with his current employers, who are very reluctant to lose his services during this month’s window.
Taison revealed earlier this month that he had spoken to Chelsea about a possible move to the club after making a visit to West London and speculation has been intensifying over his imminent arrival.
He has also stated his desire to link up with former Internacional team-mate Oscar, who has made a massive impact since his arrival to London in the summer.
It will be another great signing for Chelsea when this deal is ‘officially’ confirmed and although they do not need another attacking midfielder, the fee we are reportedly paying for him is not a bargain like Demba Ba, but is a another good piece of business for the blues.
And considering we are only eight days into the window, we could see a few more faces arrive over the next few weeks. | <urn:uuid:502e3d0a-b410-4e75-abd8-bab2e5877b0a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://chelsea-news.org/chelsea-set-for-signing-number-two-as-deal-agreed/ | 2013-06-19T14:19:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985609 | 246 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Newsroom > DHHS News Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 20, 2012
Subsidies End for Two Omaha Child Care Centers
Omaha – An agreement with two Omaha child care centers to provide child care payments was terminated today (7/20) by the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services after a state examination of billing records, according to Thomas Pristow, director of Children and Family Services.
Wise Kids, Inc., 5829 Northampton Blvd., and Kids Ark Learning Center, 4411 N. 61st St., were presented by DHHS officials a notice of the termination of the agreement effective at the end of business today, he said.
DHHS authorizes subsidy payments for the care of children of low-income parents who are employed, seeking employment, obtaining medical services, enrolled in vocational or educational training, or incapacitated.
On notification of the termination of the agreement, DHHS employees began calling parents of the children staying at the centers and informing them that Wise Kids and Kids Ark are no longer approved providers through the program, Pristow said.
“This termination of the agreement concerns questions about inaccuracies found in billing practices and is not related to the safety of the children under care at these child care centers,” he said.
Besides phone calls, parents will receive information directing them to a website listing all licensed child care providers in the state by zip code, Pristow said. In addition, parents unable to locate a licensed child care provider that accepts child care subsidies may use a relative or friend as a provider in the interim.
Parents will need to call the ACCESSNebraska toll-free number (1-800-383-4278) for authorization. Or, they may seek authorization of their new child care provider at the ACCESSNebraska website (www.accessnebraska.ne.gov | <urn:uuid:1338bdb8-f796-41b5-8b7f-fe30ea36aee5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://dhhs.ne.gov/Pages/Newsroom_Newsreleases_2012_July_Childcare2.aspx | 2013-06-19T06:08:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938856 | 383 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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The Coombabah Lakelands Reserve, on the Gold Coast, is a great place to see flocks of Black-winged Stilts (Himantopus himantopus). They are seasonally nomadic and spring is their time for the Gold Coast. When disturbed they will take to the air as one, ducking and weaving as they circle around, legs trailing behind. The changing light on them as they weave in the air, is beautiful to see.
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With his team trailing by three points, Edmonson County’s Cole Bedwell put up a shot with 2.1 seconds left to play that he hoped would tie the score 42-42 in the opener of the 12th District Tournament against the Grayson County Cougars.
Bedwell’s shot hit nothing but net, sending the Wildcat fans into a frenzy.
There was just one, small problem, however. As Bedwell stepped into the shot, his left foot clearly stepped over the three-point line, making his potential tying shot just a two-pointer, and leaving them a point short of the tie.
When Braxton Williams was fouled on the ensuing inbounds play, he was able to hit 1-of-2 at the line with one second left to give the Cougars a 43-41.
The win assured the Cougars of a spot in next week’s 3rd Region Tournament, in Owensboro, and put them into Friday’s district championship game against the number-one seeded Butler County Bears, who cruised to victory over the host Trinity Raiders 75-49 in Tuesday’s second game.
This game marked the fourth time this season that the Cougars and the Wildcats had met, and each time the Cougars were able to scratch out wins. After the first period, though, in this one, it appeared the Cougars might run away and hide.
In a very deliberate game, the Cougars scored the first four points and led 4-0 with just 2:40 left in the opening quarter. The Wildcats did not get on the board until the 1:37 mark, when Dakota Woodcock hit 1-of-2 at the line to make it 4-1.
The Cougars then closed out the period by scoring five straight, capped off by Bret Johnston’s buzzer-beating three-pointer which made it 9-1 as the first quarter came to a close.
But the Wildcats got back in it in the second quarter as the Cougars hit a cold shooting stretch. Woodcock converted a three-point play less than a half-minute into the second period to make it 9-4.
Rance Whobrey answered with a six-footer that made it 11-4 with 7:11 left in the period, but the Wildcats responded with an 8-0 run to take their first lead of the night, 12-11 with 4:20 left in the first half.
The Cougars had four straight empty trips, missing five shots, before Braxton Williams scored on a lay-in with 3:59 remaining to put the Cougars back up a point, 13-12.
Bedwell hit two free throws with 3:11 remaining, then converted another three-point play with 2:44 left to give the Wildcats their largest lead of the night, four points at 17-13. Logan Ramsey splashed a three-pointer with 2:16 left to pull the Cougars to within a point at 17-16. Both teams had three chances in the closing moments of the first half to add to their scores, but neither could get the ball in the hoop.
Grayson County finished the night shooting 41 percent from the field on 14-of-34 attempts, but in the second period were just 3-of-12 from the field, which allowed the Wildcats back into the game.
Tanner Tyra’s lay-up at the 3:19 mark ofm the third quarter tied the score 20-20, but Edmonson’s Hunter Buttram hit a three at 3:08 to put the Wildcats back on top. A lay-up by Talon Gary and a put-back basket by Lane Rackley gave the Cougars a one-point lead, 24-23 with 1:52 left.
Austin Sowders then hit 1-of-2 at the line to tie things 24-24 with 1:40 left. That would be the final tie of the night. Tyra scored on a short running jumper at the 1:30 mark to put Grayson County in front 26-24, and they would never trail again.
The Cougars closed out the period hitting 6-of-7 at the line, completing an 8-0 run to give them an eight-point lead, 32-24 heading into the final period of play.
The Cougars had the ball first in the fourth quarter, seeking to take at least a 10-point lead, but they turned the ball over. And when the Wildcats scored to cut their deficit to six points, it marked a four-point turn-around
Talon Gary scored to push the lead back to eight, but the Wildcats answered with four straight to cut the lead to just four points, 34-30 at the 4:58 mark.
Gary buried a three with 4:44 remaining to increase the Cougar lead to seven points, but the Wildcats scored the next four to pull to within three, 37-34 with 1:15 left in the game.
At this point, the game turned into a battle at the foul line. Over the next minute, the Wildcats hit 7-of-8 at the line, while the Cougars were 5-of-6. That made it 42-39 in favor of the Cougars with 15.6 seconds left to play and set the stage for the final act.
Tyra was fouled with 13.8 seconds left and went to the line in the double bonus. But he missed both shots and the Wildcats rebounded and called a timeout with 8.6 seconds left.
Back on the floor, the Wildcats brought the ball up the court and got it to Bedwell in the right corner as the clock was winding down. Bedwell had plenty of time to line up his shot, step forward and drive it home, but he stepped just a bit too far. Instead of the tying basket, it just brought the Wildcats to within one with 2.1 seconds left.
Williams then added a free throw to make the final margin of victory two points.
Bedwell led the Wildcats with 11 points. Gary was the only Cougar in double figures, leading the team with 10 points and also leading with four rebounds.
Whobrey finished his night with nine points, while Williams had seven. Johnston had five points and added three rebounds before fouling out with 1:26 left in the game.
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Thursday morning was very overcast and the temperature was about 70 degrees, and while the rain held off for a bit, it did eventually come. Several Derby horses came out on the track until 9am when the rain started to pick up. A few also schooled in the paddock during the races in the afternoon. The rain lasted from about 9am to noon, then started to slack off and the rest of the afternoon was mostly dry with some sun. Unfortunately more rain is on the way for overnight and tomorrow.
I Want Revenge came out before the break and trotted in the mile chute for a while, then made an easy lap around the track.
Wednesday Kentucky Derby Photos - 9 Derby horses and one Oaks filly from the works and paddock schooling on April 29
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Feb 6, 2013 at 6:30 am
ST. PAUL, Minn. (KNSI) More Minnesotans could vote by mail if a bill in the Legislature has a successful outcome.
Representative Roger Erickson of Baudette is sponsoring House File 224--which would give all cities with fewer than 1,000 voters outside the Twin Cities metropolitian area the opportunity to conduct local and state elections by mail.
A League of Minnesota Cities lobbyist says under the bill, 60 percent of Minnesota cities would qualify for vote-by-mail elections.
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Whirlpool, Honeywell introduce energy-efficient insulation in refrigerators
Whirlpool and Honeywell have announced that all Whirlpool U.S.-made refrigerators will begin incorporating Honeywell's Solstice Liquid Blowing Agent. This includes future product lineups from Whirlpool Brand, Maytag, Amana, Jenn-Air and KitchenAid brands.
Solstice Liquid Blowing Agent (LBA) has the lowest Global Warming Potential (GWP) available among non-ozone depleting substitutes, outperforms commonly used hydrocarbons such as C-Pentane, and provides better low-temperature insulation performance and higher energy savings, according to the announcement.
Honeywell Solstice LBA offers an 8% to 10% improvement in efficiency over refrigerator platforms tested with hydrocarbon blown foam insulation, and a 2% improvement over 245fa, which is the most widely used foam blowing agent in the United States.
"Whirlpool Corp. is an environmental leader, developing high-quality products that offer both efficiency and low environmental impact," said Ludovic Beaufils, general manager refrigeration and sustainability lead for Whirlpool North America. "Through this collaboration with Honeywell, we are once again leading the way with the most advanced materials that offer the greatest benefits to consumers."
Honeywell Solstice Liquid Blowing Agent has a 100-year global warming potential between 4.7 and 7, a 99% improvement over 245fa. In addition, it offers cost benefits and is non-flammable.
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On Google we were looking up Andrew Martin and two men basically dominated our search results. It didn’t take us long before we understood one of them was not the interior guru we were looking for. He seemed more like a guy that does redecoration of faces. See for yourself. Anyway, the book. Google tought us that Andrew Martin is a furnishing brand that presents a prize to an outstanding interior designer every year. The jury is one of big shots and the award is considered ‘The Oscars for the interior design world’ and following that line of grandeur, the book is massive for only €50.00. To us it al seems like a very smart commercial project for the Andrew Martin brand, but nevertheless the 15th volume is a sizeable overview of the interior designers that matter today, including our friends from Eric Kuster.
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Hilbert's Building Blocks
Investigating space curves to construct 3-D forms
I have been interested in the area of computer generated forms, mostly
from the architectural viewpoint, for a long time. Most recently I have
been investigating fractals as a way of generating 3-D forms. Not having
a lot of luck in getting results that could suggest reasonable 3-D forms,
I moved back to some earlier work I did in 2-D with Hilbert curves, spirolaterals,
space filling curves, and recursive designs.
The image above on the left is the space filling curve designed by the
German mathematician David Hilbert. The adjacent image shows the three
line segment "generator" for the Hilbert curve. The generator is connected
to another generator by a connecting line segment. By definition, this
type of curve will always remain in a two dimensional plane.
If you break the generator into forward moves and turns, and then modify
the angle of the turn, the lines segments will cross each other. This crossing
enables the curve to trigger a move to another "level". This enables the
determination of the curve height.
Variations can be developed by using a turning angle other than 90 degrees.
Two such variations are shown below.
The second part of the this investigation is the interpretation of the
curve once it is generated. Each of the line segments and their vertices
can be interpreted in three dimensional, architectural terms:
Select one the above variations to view these interpretations individually
and in combination.
walls, each line segment is constructed as a vertical plane
floors, for each set of line segments, the minimum and maximum extends
are found and constructed into a horizontal plane
floor blocks, the horizontal floor plane is constructed into a volume
extended walls, walls are constructed from the bottom and the top,
starting at their beginning level, extending either to the bottom or top
columns, volumes are constructed at the vertices of the line segments
and the floor blocks
beams, volumes are constructed along each line segment at the wall
The more I worked with these variations and their interpretations, the
more sculptural the forms became, further studies will continue in both
the sculptural and architectural form possibilities.
The next set of forms will use spirolaterals and more generalized recursive
curves for the initial form generation.
The forms currently only exist in this digital studio. My next goal
is to generate STL files of the forms to send to a rapid prototyping system.
Another possible direction would be to rewrite the generation software
in AutoLisp for use within AutoCAD R13. This would also allow for the automation
of the rendering of each variation.
The entire idea of generating forms from specifications, have software
develop alternative interpretative forms, then going to physical models
is very intriguing; these concepts will continue to be the general direction
of this investigation.
A program written in MicroSoft QuickBASIC is used to generate all of the
three dimensional components required for a particular variation in a 3D
DXF format. The DXF file is then imported into AutoDesk 3D Studio for rendering.
No manual modeling is required.
These Web pages were constructed for use with Netscape 1.1.
The initial programs which I wrote for the two dimensional versions and
interpretations were upgraded to handle three dimensions by Amy Ferguson,
a Teaching Assistant in the College of Architecture. She also did some
exhaustive studies of the variations possible and some of the studies leading
to the renderings produced here.
For further information or comment contact: Robert
Last update: Friday, December 29, 1995
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Ohhhhh... Its Finally here. And to bad for the people who's waiting for Episode 14.
Why? Go read the Blue Coloured Text and you'll find out... :D
UPDATE: Episode 14 of Sora no Otoshimono Will be out in September 2010.
The wraparound jacket band on reprinted copies of Suu Minazuki's Sora no Otoshimono manga has reportedly announced that production on a second television anime season has been green-lit. According to the jacket band, there are 1.5 million copies of the manga's seven volumes.
The seventh and final DVD volume of the first television season was originally slated to contain "Project Pink," a DVD-exclusive episode "too dangerous" for television. The anime's website then announced this month that this episode was removed from the seventh DVD volume, and stated that the episode's "release format" will be announced in the future.
New Character for Second Season :
Introduced as the "Delta Angeloid: Close Combat Type".
She is something of an airhead and has limited intelligence, due to having low processing power to be able to have high combat abilities and emotions. She weighs 48 kilograms, stands at 159cm, and her wing type is stated to be "Not Variable" and "Super Acceleration".
Astraea has been described as having greater battle capabilities than Ikaros, and possesses two equipments: the super-oscillating photon blade 'Chrysaor', and a shield said to surpass the defensive power of Ikaros' 'Aegis', 'Aegis L'. However, unlike 'Aegis', 'Aegis L' is unable to cover every angle possible, only being able to block certain directions at a time, and it covers about half the area of 'Aegis' in terms of angles. Astraea's weak point is that she was made entirely for close-combat, and thus is extremely disadvantaged against opponents with long-range weapons or attacks, as she has no ranged attacks whatsoever. | <urn:uuid:b085a280-bea7-4a68-8222-ed520ed18667> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://otaku-streamers.com/community/showthread.php?3490-Sora-no-Otoshimono-2nd-Season-Green-lit&p=59930&viewfull=1 | 2013-06-19T06:08:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96719 | 418 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
If you agree with, or would possibly write, "You ignored the nice guy. You used him for emotional intimacy without reciprocating, in kind, with physical intimacy."
You are not a nice guy. You never were a nice guy. You will never be a nice guy.
You, are the text book definition of a user and that mean, thankless, heartless bitch (of either sex) is on to you like white on rice, so unsubtle is your approach. And, as an aside, an in kind reciprocation would be returned emotional intimacy. What you're asking for is not a like exchange.
The world owes you neither a living nor a lay.
Okay, I've dated this guy. Multiple this guys, actually, before I wised up. This is the guy who pretends to be your friend until he gains your trust and your sympathy, then he manipulates you into dating him. Then he tries to manipulate you into bed.
And if you are honestly, sincerely not interested -- he counts on your guilt and softheartedness to prevent you from turning him down. He turns you into the evil bullying bitch in his sob story if you do turn him down right away. If you go out with him once or twice to give him a fair chance, then let him down easy, then he turns you into the evil bullying bitch who led him on for so long in his sob story.
"Nice Guy" is a dirty word in the feminist community because that's how this guy describes himself, as a "Nice guy who can't cut a break." In reality he's a world class bitter manipulator.
"Nice guy" is just when a bitter manipulator puts on a mask to pretend to be a decent fellow.
I'd much rather a decent fellow, a guy who is actually honestly your friend. Yes, those guys exist. They don't whine about that not being rewarded with sex for being friendly. They are friendly when they actually want to be friends. When they want sex, they don't play up their pathetic sob story, trash all other women, and use guilt to get it from a girl who just wants to talk.
God help you if you're shy or anxious yourself. Because then he's out to assassinate your self-esteem just so he can get a lay. See, being firm and clear and making an enemy of the "Nice Guy" is probably the only way to get rid of him. He knows this, so he plays on any part of your behavior to make you think he's really a decent fellow and you don't want to hurt his feelings. And you want him to be a decent fellow. You need to believe he's a decent fellow, because otherwise your mind is worthless. Otherwise, the only reason anyone would want to talk to you is to get closer to your body. You want so badly to believe he was genuinely interested in you as a person that you go and make excuse after excuse for this guy and let him manipulate you into that relationship. You do this until the circumstances are dire, and you may be stuck with him forever.
Then you finally drop him, and feel like you're a bitch for doing so. And he goes ahead and reinforces that.
I'm sure by now that some "Nice Guys" don't think they're being malicious (just as the shy anxious girl thinks she's being nice by not nipping this thing in the bud). One of Kadymae's commenters talks about how he used to be one and is now learning to be a decent fellow.
Here's the thing, though. It's not really being "nice." It's not really being decent. It's not really being personable in any way. It's being jealous of other men and assuming that all women reason exactly alike (thinking "Hey, that asshole has a girlfriend. I don't. Maybe all women only like assholes" and letting confirmatory bias work its magic). The best I can judge from the writings and whining of professed "Nice Guys" is that this is wanting to be an asshole but having such low self-esteem you feel you can't get away with acting like an asshole. It's this horrible combination of cynicism, cowardice, and pessimism that acts like flashing sign to ward off any chance of procreation.
Honestly, you having trouble getting laid and want to? Stop forwarding the misogynistic emails. Stop trashing your ex-girlfriends. Stop trashing your would-be girlfriends. Stop being fucking sneaky about your crushes.
Read a self-help book. If you can't implement the advice there, see a psychologist. Work out your personal issues before blaming women for your problems.
Then go to the local singles scene.
I know that this is harsh advice and that some of you may doubt my credentials in this area. So for the end of this post I have prepared some brief answers to predictable responses. (These answers will likely not prevent anyone from insisting that I do indeed blame men for everything, but fuck them if they can't read the rest of this blog or even the rest of this post.)
"I'm too shy and nervous around women!!" It is not the job of a girl to help you with that. That is what the shrink is for.
"Only losers go to those mixers and use online dating services!" So you're saying that scheming to get close to a woman by pretending to be her friend makes you NOT a loser somehow? At least with a dating service you're an honest loser, and you have a shot at being a winner.
"It's not worth the trouble." Then don't do it. But don't blame the rest of us for not having a social life.
"My ex-girlfriend really is a bitch." Bitch is a pretty misogynistic insult to be throwing around when you actually mean it. (Yes, I've used that insult about five times by this point, but I'm illustrating attitudes not expressing my actual opinion.) That aside, some ex-girlfriends are genuinely unpleasant people. Have you noticed a pattern of unpleasant ex-girlfriends? Do you feel that these girlfriends were all unpleasant because of your pleasant nature? Do you expect women to be inexplicably unpleasant in reaction to your pleasant nature, and blame the women for it? Do you feel that your ex-girlfriend was an unpleasant girlfriend specifically because she withheld sexual intimacy? If your answered "no" to these questions, then your girlfriend was probably just an unpleasant person. If you answered yes to all (or just the last one) of these questions, you are the unpleasant person. (If your answers are mixed, I suggest soul-searching and not taking my posts so personally.)
"Ragnell, you bitter repressed feminazi bitch -- you're a fucking comic book blogger. What the hell do you know about socialization?" I know who is to blame when I spend a Saturday Night blogging. When I spend a Saturday Night blogging, it's because I didn't put the effort into stepping outside my door. Even if I have a date and it's canceled or a I have a crush and it wasn't reciprocated there are plenty of places to go and plenty of people to see where I live.
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Just because 1 beautiful girl has decided to not work there does not give me a reason to go to another club. There are more beautiful girls there and that place has class and is clean and fun and friendly and I never have to worry about being robbed or in a fight or arguments or my car getting broke into. You can go somewhere else but I'm happy there.
Havent seen or heard from Monique in awhile. Ashley is here and still beautiful right along with the other ladies that were mentioned. Yes it has been slow just like a lot of the places. There is new bartenders and dancers hired and we are always looking for more ladies.
There was a girl by the name of Ashley that danced here a couple of years ago. Short, dark hair, tats, very sultry and seductive with very nice boobs. Just wondering if she still dances here in the afternoons?
What happened to BU? Came by after work hoping to have a little fun and found out that half of the talent has quit. Only 3 girls working on a Thursday night??? I guess it's time to move on to another place
Bottoms Up is looking for full time female entertainers and part time barmaids with out-going personalities for an established Gentlemans Club.. NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY!! contact Noel or Mandy @ 330-535-2199 11am-8pm.
5 dollar door & 2 drink minimum , 3 song VIP ticket 10 dollar plus tip, girls are nude. stop by and find out what she looks like and if any are what your looking for . courtney is short dark hair nice body dont think she has and tats she works nights
Bottoms Up is the BEST strip club in Northeast Ohio. The girls are friendly, sensual, and easy to talk with. The atmosphere is casual and laid back, therefore, you can relax. The bar serves decent food for lunch and dinner, and I love the place! When I just don't have the time to get there, I go to the website www.freesexycom.com. There is an adult dating site that is free, and you can hook up with local chicks that just want to have fun. I've already hooked up with a couple of them. Anyway, hands down, Bottoms Up rocks!
VIP deal still going. Sad to say, but Lucy has quit dancing. Lucy and Raven were my only reason for going there. Will still make the drive just to see Raven, but will greatly miss Lucy. Good luck with school, Lucy!
Natika dances mon, wed, &fri from 11-2 and lora is here mon, thurs fri and some sat from 11-2 .. You can always call to see if your favorite girl is here that day, & ask the barmaid about the yummy lunch. It's included with your admission. Alot of the newer girls are at night time.. Still running the special on vip just how it was for christmas. Come try some lunch, great deals on tickets. Also the barmaids about thirsty dogs brewery :) lovely lucy is also dancing mon, fri & sat 1-6! As for bartenders mandy tues & fri 11-4 and wed 4-8 , taylor monday & thursday 8-12, jamell thursday & sat 11-4 and tues 4-8, bianca wed & fri 8-12, noel mon & thurs 4-8 and wed 11-4, raelyn tues & sat 8-12, daisy fri & sat 4-8 !
New guy here. I came by on Sat with my soon to be married buddy nite for first time. Enjoyed the friendly atmosphere and low pressure dances. I have to say one thing. Do all the girls smoke cigs? I mean geez i dont got a prob with smoking but dont the girls know that smoking also gives u stink breath? i wanted to get more dances from one cutie but my nose kept telling me to stop. Every time she turned around to face me I had to duck! Freaking drop a breath mint or chew gum after you take a smoke break already!
All of december, vip tickets are $10.00 to the bar, the tip still remains the same as always! Merry christmas everyone, hope to see some friendly faces! Don't forget about our great lunches, included with your admission! Check out our menu on our facebook page or come in and ask our friendly barmaids! Have fun talking to our barmaids, and get some dances! Lots of your favorite girls have came back, especially around the holidays. Can always post to ask to see when they are working or call. The lovely lucy will be dancing fidays & saturdays and dec 14- jan 13 mon, tues, wed, fri, sat during school break! :-)
Dang Nick, who pissed in your cornflakes? You're starting to sound like Tony Clifton. You used to be the positive one here. Jamell is new and she's learning. Besides, she's never going to want to dance if you can't treat her with respect. To be fair, the service has improved a bit, and maybe if you are more pleasant with her, she will be in more of a hurry to open the door for you. Anyway, Raven, Mandy, and Michelle are always a treat, and Lucy has been around more lately, which is excellent news for all concerned. Still my favorite dancer bar.
As far as I know Janelle (or whatever) doesn't dance, she just (supposedly) tends bar. Half the time she can't even be bothered to open the door - one of the dancers has to do it. I'd definitely buy a dance, but I'm done tipping her for lousy bar service. She needs to dance or GTFO. Some good news to share, I've heard a rumor about a VIP price restructuring in the works. Nothing official yet, but it looks like the best deal in town is getting even better.
M, you've got me all wrong. This isn't the place for that sort of thing. BU is, dare I say it, classier. Try Lusty Adventures or Jen's Den for that sort of action. At BU you get dances, that's it. no contact beyond a bit of grind, certainly no swallowing. Think of it like a neighborhood bar except the beer is on-alcoholic and the women are better looking and will take their clothes off.
Hey Nick, you seem like the guy to ask, which girl swallows that you were talking about? and what about that tall petite blonde? does she do any extras or allow "contact"? I like them petite and discreet, who would you best recommend?
Mandy tues& fri 11-4 wed 4-8!l Taylor mon & thurs 8-12 sat 4-8! Raelyn tues 8-12 thurs 11-4 and every other sat! Jamell mon&sat 11-4, tues& thurs 4-8! Noel mon 4-8 wed 11-4! Daisy fri 4-8 and every other sat! Bianca wed & fri 8-12! Lucy is dancing on fridays & saturdays 1-6pm! Come show the girls some attention! Awesome barmaids, lots of dancers ! Positive feedback please!
Just because you have no taste doesn't mean others can't appreciate quality. Your negative comments only serve your attempt to make you feel better by trying to bring others down. Speaking the truth is not begging. The BU is a quality place with honest hard working people. I like the people and I feel very welcomed at the BU. I stand by every comment. I made each with total honesty and sincerity.
Good going, k. Just when I thought you couldn't be a bigger pussy beggar, you surprised me. I can only hope you are joking or are a dancer trying to promote the bar. If you are serious, then please go out and get laid.
Curiosity Rover: you lost me at "private dances", considering every move that the customers make are monitored with cameras and microphones.
It had been way to long since I last visited but I was not disappointed. Met some new quality ladies. Aubry is a definite cutie with a growing legion of fans of which I am one. Vicki was also cute and charming and will definitely share some time with when I return. As for my all time favorites Mandy, Raven, and Lucy, OMG where do I start. Mandy was behind the bar and was as lovely as every. She is such a delight. Raven has found the fountain of youth and looks like a teenager. Her appeal only grows larger each time I see her. Lucy may be the most stunningly beautiful woman I have ever seen. Amazing ladies every one.
Was in friday night....not much happening, but some good ones were there, Satana, Krystal amongst others....Although she wasnt in that night, Aubrey is quite beautiful and a real sweetheart! Just wishd some of my other favs were in, Taylor, Ariel, and Violet.....
Mars is great if you like air dances and crappy souvenirs. At least at BU I'm not getting hassled to buy at-shirt or an ugly mug. The VIP is a total rip-off at Mars - last time I was there the girl just sat and "rested" for half the time (still got charged full-price though). If the Curiosity Rover landed at THIS Mars, it would self-destruct out of boredom. At BU everyone knows why you are there - to get private dances from hot women. That's what they advertise and that's what you get at BU. If I want to go t-shirt shopping I'll go to hot topic, not a dancer bar. Sounds like Tony might be employed by Mars. Just sayin'
@Nick, my name is Aubrey, and I don't have braces lol but I'm glad you like me. For everyone else, I work Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday anytime usually after 6. My schedule keeps changing but that's how it is for now :) Come see all the pretty ladies!
Wow - negative comments from Tony? What a surprise. In my book voluptuous = big titties, small waist, round ass. This place is the best dancer bar in the city. But don't take the word of some anonymous jerk off like me - see for yourself. Worst case, you're out a small door charge but unlike some of the dives around here, BU still has a floor show. Every one here loves titties. Go, see some titties. If you don't like it, that's just more titties for me.
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Stephen King truly needs no introduction.
King is responsible for keeping people awake at night long after they have put down one of his novels and crawled beneath their covers to imagined safety. He is the master of the horror genre, become a pop culture icon, is one of the bestselling authors of all time, and his fandom has only grown as more generations have come to his work.
That work began in earnest with his debut novel, Carrie. It is one of King’s best, a haunting tale about bullying and ultimately what happens when the bullied snap. If you haven’t read it, here is a bit more about it:
Stephen King’s legendary debut, about a teenage outcast and the revenge she enacts on her classmates.
Carrie White may have been unfashionable and unpopular, but she had a gift. Carrie could make things move by concentrating on them. A candle would fall. A door would lock. This was her power and her sin. Then, an act of kindness, as spontaneous as the vicious taunts of her classmates, offered Carrie a chance to be a normal and go to her senior prom. But another act–of ferocious cruelty–turned her gift into a weapon of horror and destruction that her classmates would never forget.
Just reading that summary gives me chills. Of course, I will forever have the Sissy Spacek Carrie White in my mind. I’m a product of my generation and I actually saw the movie before I read the novel. Still, with Carrie receiving a brand new book cover, it made me remember the novel and made me curious.
That curiosity led me to this question:
What is your favorite early Stephen King novel?
Personally, I love The Stand and The Gunslinger, gravitating more to the epic and less the horror. But Carrie would be my favorite horror novel in that time, followed by Cujo. That damn St. Bernard…
Here is the list of early novels for you to choose from:
- 1974 – Carrie
- 1975 – Salem’s Lot
- 1977 – The Shining
- 1978 – Night Shift (stories)
- 1978 – The Stand
- 1979 – The Dead Zone
- 1980 – Firestarter
- 1981 – Cujo
- 1982 – The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger
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June 22, 2010
UCLA skills camp - Part II
As you would expect players who already offers before the camp showed why they had already had that distinction, two of them were Inland Empire standout receivers in Junior Pomee (6-3, 215, 4.6) from Moreno Valley (Calif.) Rancho Verde and Devon Blackmon (6-0, 175, 4.4) from Fontana (Calif.) Summit.
Pomee displayed outstanding body control in midair adjusting to the football. He definitely will present matchup problems for defense. He also saw action at tight end and could end playing at both positions in college.
Blackmon showed why he is considered one of southern California's most athletic players. He may project as a wide receiver on the D-I level, some schools are looking at him as an athletic quarterback because he has such playmaking abilities with the ball in his hands.
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In our ongoing 'get to know The Film Experience community' project, here's another Reader Spotlight. This time we're talking to Tony who grew up overseas and now lives in Texas. He sent me the nicest note once about the site that really cheered me up on a down day.
What's your first movie memory?
TONY: I spent my entire childhood watching Disney movies. It was literally everything I did when I wasn't in school. They were mostly dubbed in French so it was a little bit of a revelation to rediscover them in English when I grew up. But my very first movie memory that I can recall semi-vividly is watching The Beauty and the Beast with my cousins. I was so captivated that I had to move to a different row in the movie theatre to sit away from my cousins because they were distracting me so much.
I love it. A well behaved moviegoer from the start! When did you start reading The Film Experience?
TONY: When Nathaniel was drunk on Moulin Rouge! I must have found the site by trying to read everything related to the movie. That movie was and still is a dizzying experience. I was hooked on "Film Bitch" at the time. Checked the website every day. I was in Lebanon at the time. No one around me knew what I was talking about which made it all the better!
Three favorite actresses?
I have a very open mind about actresses. Almost any actress can win my heart with the right role. Nicole Kidman is my absolute favorite, though. Ironically my first memory of her is Batman Forever. I thought she was the perfect woman! Moulin Rouge! came and sealed the deal. I can't think of anyone else who combines the same amount of talent, style and courage. The choices she makes are quite admirable even when they don't pay off and auteurs are lucky to have her. Isabelle Huppert is another favorite of mine. Such a powerful presence. Her words always manage to cut through the screen. Third is probably Cate Blanchett. I miss her!
Take one Oscar away. Regift it.
I think the oscars are like a time capsule. It's always fun to go back and contemplate what the Academy chose to reward in a given year and for what reason. And for that I usually don't talk about stolen oscars. But if forced to choose I would take away The King's Speech's oscar and give it to The Social Network. I thought that was a bit embarassing. I mean the latter was clearly clearly the superior movie by any standard.
If you were in charge of Hollywood for a year...
I would greenlight all the cold political thrillers. Think Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Cerebral well acted well designed movies with great stories are my favorites. Also international movies. Like Babel but better.
Have you ever broken up with someone because of their taste in movies?
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NEW YORK (AP) -- To millions of people, the Christmas tree is a cheerful sight. To scientists who decipher the DNA codes of plants and animals, it's a monster.
We're talking about the conifer, the umbrella term for cone-bearing trees like the spruce, fir, pine, cypress and cedar. Apart from their Yuletide popularity, they play big roles in the lumber industry and in healthy forest ecosystems.
Scientists would love to identify the billions of building blocks that make up the DNA of a conifer. That's called sequencing its genome. Such analysis is a standard tool of biology, and doing it for conifers could reveal genetic secrets useful for basic science, breeding and forest management.
But the conifer genome is dauntingly huge. And like a big price tag on a wished-for present, that has put it out of reach.
Now, as Christmas approaches, it appears the conifer's role as a genetic Grinch may be ending.
In recent months, scientific teams in the United States and Canada have released preliminary, patchy descriptions of conifer genomes. And a Swedish team plans to follow suit soon in its quest for the Norway spruce.
"The world changed for conifer genetics," said David Neale of the University of California, Davis. It's "entering the modern era."
What happened? Credit the same recent technological advances that have some doctors predicting that someday, people will have their genomes sequenced routinely as part of medical care. The technology for that has gotten faster and much cheaper.
"Until just a few years ago, the idea of sequencing even a single conifer genome seemed impossible," said John MacKay of the University of Laval in Quebec City, who co-directs a multi-institution Canadian project that's tackling the white spruce. The new technologies changed that, he said.
How big is a conifer genome? Consider the 80-foot Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center in New York. It's a Norway spruce, so its genome is six times bigger than that of anybody skating below it. Other conifer genomes are even larger.
Nobody expects a perfect, finished conifer genome anytime soon. MacKay and others say that reaching that goal would probably require some advances in technology. But even partial versions can help tree breeders and basic scientists, researchers say.
Why bother doing this?
For breeders, "genomes can really help you speed up the process and simply do a better job of selecting trees, if you understand the genetic architecture of the traits you want to breed for," MacKay said.
The prospect of climate change brings another dimension. As forest managers select trees to plant after a fire or tree harvesting, genetic information might help them pick varieties that can adapt to climate trends in coming decades, Neale said.
It's all about "giving them a tree that will be healthy into the future," he said.
To sequence a genome, scientists start by chopping DNA into small bits, and let their machines sequence each bit. That's the part that has become much faster and cheaper in recent years. But then comes the task of re-assembling these bits back into the long DNA chains found in trees. And that is a huge challenge with conifers, because their DNA chains contain many repeated sequences that make the assembly a lot harder.
As a result, conifers present "these large regions I think we will never be able to piece together" with current technologies, said Par Ingvarsson of Umea University in Sweden, who is leading the Norway spruce project.
Will scientists develop new technologies to overcome that problem?
"You should never say never in this game," Ingvarsson said.
This past summer, Neale's group presented partial results for the genome sequence of loblolly pine, based on DNA extracted from a single pine nut. It includes about a million disconnected chunks of DNA, and altogether it covers well over half the tree's genome.
Neale figures it will take his team until 2016 to complete genomes of the loblolly, Douglas-fir and sugar pine. The project is financed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Mackay's group recently released its early results on DNA taken from a single white spruce.
As for the Swedish project on Norway spruce, Ingvarsson said its results will be made public early next year. The 2 million DNA pieces have captured most of the estimated 35,000 to 40,000 genes in the tree, even if researchers don't know just where those genes go in the overall genome sequence, he said.
People have about 23,000 genes, not much different from a conifer. The tree's genome so much bigger because it also contains an abundance of non-gene DNA with no obvious function, Ingvarsson said.
He said his chief reason for tackling conifer genomes was to fill a conspicuous vacancy in the list of sequenced plants.
"It was like the one missing piece," he said. "We just need this final piece to say something about how all the plant kingdom has evolved over the last billion years or so."
Canadian project: http://bit.ly/UQdTPd
U.S. project: http://pinegenome.org/pinerefseq/
Swedish project: http://www.congenie.org/
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Fulfilling Orwell’s Prophecy: 15 Futuristic Films You Should See
By John W. Whitehead
July 18, 2011
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever.”—George Orwell
It has been over 60 years since George Orwell published his novel1984. Described as political satire, it is, in reality, a political prophecy—one that is being fulfilled in our own times.
1984 portrays a global society of total control in which people are not allowed to have thoughts that in any way disagree with the corporate state. There is no personal freedom, and advanced technology has become the driving force behind a surveillance-driven society. Snitches and cameras are everywhere. And people are subject to the Thought Police, who deal with anyone guilty of thought crimes. The government, or “Party,” is headed by Big Brother who appears on posters everywhere with the words: “Big Brother is watching you.”
Orwell’s story revolves around Winston Smith, a member of the Outer Party. When Winston meets and falls in love with Julia, they begin seeing each other secretly, thus embarking on what is an “illegal” relationship. They are eventually arrested by the Thought Police and placed into reprogramming.
Much of what Orwell envisioned in his futuristic society has now come to pass. Surveillance cameras are everywhere. Government agents listen in on our telephone calls and reads our emails. Political correctness—a philosophy that discourages diversity—has become a guiding principle of modern society. The courts have eviscerated the Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches and seizures. In fact, SWAT teams battering down doors without search warrants and FBI agents acting as a secret police that investigates dissenting citizens are common occurrences in contemporary America. We are increasingly ruled by multi-corporations wedded to the police state. And much of the population is either hooked on illegal drugs or ones prescribed by doctors.
All of this has come about with little more than a whimper from a clueless American populace largely comprised of nonreaders and television and internet somnambulists. But we have been warned about such an ominous future in novels and movies for years. In fact, film may be the best representation of what we now face as a society that is fulfilling Orwell’s prophecy.
The following are 15 of the better films on the topic.
Fahrenheit 451 (1966). Adapted from Ray Bradbury’s novel and directed by Francois Truffaut, this film depicts a futuristic society in which books are banned, and firemen ironically are called on to burn contraband books—451 Fahrenheit being the temperature at which books burn. Montag (Oskar Werner) is a fireman who develops a conscience and begins to question his book burning. This film is an adept metaphor for our obsessively politically correct society where virtually everyone now pre-censors speech. Here, a brainwashed people addicted to television and drugs do little to resist governmental oppressors. Good supporting cast, including Julie Christie in a dual role.
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). The plot of Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece, as based on an Arthur C. Clarke short story, revolves around a space voyage to Jupiter. The astronauts soon learn, however, that the fully automated ship is orchestrated by a computer system—known as HAL 9000—which has become an autonomous thinking being that will even murder to retain control. The idea is that at some point in human evolution, technology in the form of artificial intelligence will become autonomous and that human beings will become mere appendages of technology. In fact, at present, we are seeing this development with the massive computer databases generated and controlled by the government—such as ACQUAINT—that are administered by such secretive agencies as the National Security Agency and sweep all websites and other information devices collecting information on average citizens. This film is a great visual tour de force that presents a frightening scenario.
Planet of the Apes (1968). Based on Pierre Boulle’s novel, astronauts crash on a planet where apes are the masters and humans are treated as brutes and slaves. While fleeing from gorillas on horseback, astronaut Taylor (Charlton Heston) is shot in the throat, captured and housed in a cage. From there, Taylor begins a journey wherein the truth revealed is that the planet was once controlled by technologically advanced humans who destroyed civilization. Taylor’s trek to the ominous Forbidden Zone reveals the startling fact that he was on planet earth all along. Descending into a fit of rage at what he sees in the final scene, Taylor screams: “We finally really did it. You maniacs! You blew it up! Damn you. God damn you all to hell!” The lesson is obvious here, but will we listen? The script, although rewritten, was initially drafted by Rod Serling and retains Serling’s Twilight Zone-ish ending. Great performance by Heston. Lackluster remake by Tim Burton in 2001.
THX 1138 (1970). George Lucas’ directorial debut, this is a somber view of a dehumanized society totally controlled by a police state. The people are force-fed drugs to keep them passive, and they no longer have names but only letter/number combinations such as THX 1138. Any citizen who steps out of line is quickly brought into compliance by robotic police equipped with “pain prods”—electro-shock batons. Sound like tasers?
A Clockwork Orange (1971). Director Stanley Kubrick presents a future ruled by sadistic punk gangs and a chaotic government that cracks down on its citizens sporadically. Alex (Malcolm McDowell) is a violent punk who finds himself in the grinding, crushing wheels of injustice. This film may accurately portray the future of western society that grinds to a halt as oil supplies diminish, environmental crises increase, chaos rules, and the only thing left is brute force. Fine performance by McDowell.
Soylent Green (1973). The year is 2022 in an overpopulated New York City whose inhabitants depend on synthetic foods manufactured by the Soylent Corporation. A policeman (Charlton Heston) investigating a murder discovers the grisly truth about what soylent green is really made of. The theme is chaos where the world is ruled by ruthless corporations whose only goal is greed and profit. This is Edward G. Robinson’s final screen appearance.
Blade Runner (1982). In a 21st century Los Angeles, a world-weary cop (Harrison Ford) tracks down a handful of renegade “replicants” (synthetically produced human slaves). Life is now dominated by mega-corporations, and people sleepwalk along rain-drenched streets. This is a world where human life is cheap, and where anyone can be exterminated at will by the police (or blade runners). Based upon a Philip K. Dick novel, this exquisite Ridley Scott film questions what it means to be human in an inhuman world. Outstanding performance by Rutger Hauer as the leader of a group of rebel replicants.
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984). The best adaptation of Orwell’s dark tale, this film visualizes the total loss of freedom in a world dominated by technology and its misuse, and the crushing inhumanity of an omniscient state. The government controls the masses by controlling their thoughts, altering history and changing the meaning of words. John Hurt is Winston Smith, the doubter who turns to self-expression through his diary and then begins questioning the ways and methods of Big Brother before being re-educated by O’Brien (brilliantly played by Richard Burton in his last screen performance).
Brazil (1985). Sharing a similar vision of the near future as 1984 and Franz Kafka’s novel The Trial, this is arguably director Terry Gilliam’s best work, one replete with a merging of the fantastic and stark reality. Here, a mother-dominated, hapless clerk (Jonathan Pryce) takes refuge in flights of fantasy to escape the ordinary drabness of life. Caught within the chaotic tentacles of a police state, the longing for more innocent, free times lies behind the vicious surface of this film. Good supporting cast, including Robert DeNiro.
They Live (1988). John Carpenter’s bizarre sci-fi social satire action film assumes the future has already arrived. John Nada (Roddy Piper) is a homeless person who stumbles across a resistance movement and finds a pair of sunglasses that enables him to see the real world around him. What he discovers is a monochrome reality in a world controlled by ominous beings who bombard the citizens with subliminal messages such as “obey” and “conform.” Carpenter manages to make an effective political point about the underclass—that is, everyone except those in power. The point: we, the prisoners of our devices, are too busy sucking up the entertainment trivia beamed into our brains and beating each other up to start an effective resistance movement.
The Matrix (1999). Written and directed by the Wachowski brothers, the story centers on a computer programmer Thomas A. Anderson (Keanu Reeves), secretly a hacker known by the alias “Neo,” who begins a relentless quest to learn the meaning of “The Matrix”—cryptic references that appear on his computer. Neo’s search leads him to Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) who reveals the truth that the present reality is not what it seems and that Anderson is actually living in the future—2199. Humanity is at war against technology which has taken the form of intelligent beings, and Neo is actually living in The Matrix, an illusionary world that appears to be set in the present in order to keep the humans docile and under control. Neo soon joins Morpheus and his cohorts in a rebellion against the machines that use SWAT team tactics to keep things under control.
Minority Report (2002). Based on a short story by Philip K. Dick and directed by Steven Spielberg, the setting is 2054 where PreCrime, a specialized police unit, apprehends criminals before they can commit the crime. Captain Anderton (Tom Cruise) is the chief of the Washington, DC, PreCrime force which uses future visions generated by “pre-cogs” (mutated humans with precognitive abilities) to stop murders. Soon Anderton becomes the focus of an investigation when the precogs predict he will commit a murder. But the system can be manipulated. This film raises the issue of the danger of technology operating autonomously—which will happen eventually if it has not already occurred. To a hammer, all the world looks like a nail. In the same way, to a police state computer, we all look like suspects. In fact, before long, we all may be mere extensions or appendages of the police state—all suspects in a world commandeered by machines.
V for Vendetta (2006). With a screenplay written by the Wachowski brothers, this film depicts a society ruled by a corrupt and totalitarian government where everything is run by an abusive secret police. A vigilante named V (Hugo Weaving) dons a mask and leads a rebellion against the state. The subtext here is that authoritarian regimes through repression create their own enemies—that is, terrorists—forcing government agents and terrorists into a recurring cycle of violence. And who is caught in the middle? The citizens, of course. Hugo Weaving shows what a fine actor he is, even if it’s all done behind a mask. This film has a cult following among various underground political groups such as Anonymous, whose members wear the same Guy Fawkes mask as that worn by Weaving.
Children of Men (2006). It is 2027, and the world is without hope since humankind has lost its ability to procreate. Civilization has descended into chaos and is held together by a military state and a government that attempts to keep its totalitarian stronghold on the population. Most governments have collapsed, leaving Great Britain as one of the few remaining intact societies. As a result, millions of refugees seek asylum only to be rounded up and detained by the police. Suicide is a viable option as a suicide kit called Quietus is promoted on billboards and on television and newspapers. But hope for a new day comes when a woman becomes inexplicably pregnant.
Land of the Blind (2006). This dark political satire is based on several historical incidents in which tyrannical rulers were overthrown by new leaders who proved just as evil as their predecessors. Maximilian II (Tom Hollander) is a demented fascist ruler of a troubled land named Everycountry who has two main interests: tormenting his underlings and running his country’s movie industry. Citizens who are perceived as questioning the state are sent to “re-education camps” where the state’s concept of reality is drummed into their heads. Joe (Ralph Fiennes), a prison guard, is emotionally moved by the prisoner and renowned author Thorne (Donald Sutherland) and eventually joins a coup to remove the sadistic Maximilian, replacing him with Thorne. But soon Joe finds himself the target of the new government. Great cast.
It is definitely time to realize that what we call “the government” is not what it seems. Unfortunately, most Americans, like animals in a cage, have come to believe that the zookeeper is friendly. And, as freedom continues to diminish, we had better wake up or we will become the Winstons of our time.
In fact, as Orwell’s novel concludes, Winston and Julia are taken to the Ministry of Love as part of the reprogramming process. Since Winston fears rats, he is tortured with rats until his feelings for Julia are destroyed. As confirmation that he sees the new reality of the state, Winston writes that 2+2=5. The reprogramming is successful. He is cured. As the final sentence of Orwell’s book concludes, “He loved Big Brother.”
Let us hope this is not an epitaph for our times.
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View Full Version : Bacardi Silver Watermelon comingout, Limon cancelled?
04-07-2005, 02:43 PM
just noticed bacardi silver watermelon billboards up in Illinois, but havent seen it on the shelves yet.
however, just read the press release up on bevnet.com's main page, and they fail to mention Limon in their listing of the current flavors, and regular Bacardi Silver seems like an afterthought.
i've noticed in alot of places they just car Raz and O3, and maybe 1 of the low carbs..
are they just pushing the low carb versions and the o3/raz right now? is limon dead?
is bacardi silver going to be phased out?
runwiththelilguy, get in here and answer these queries!!!
04-08-2005, 10:10 AM
from what i've seen in the market, we will be left with raz, o3, low carb black cherry (because apple didn't get slotted into a lot of major chains, but that could all change) and then maybe this new one. it's a war of flavors right now. as far as i know, limon's all but gone and silver, they are trying to get rid of.
04-08-2005, 01:07 PM
so i guess that kills the party pack unless they do a new version of that.
any new smirnoff or bacardi silver flavors on their way do you know?
04-08-2005, 11:39 PM
well i found bacardi silver watermelon tonight, at a liquor store that always seems to be the first to get everything, they are the only place i know to have the bottles of Bud energy still, and they were the first to have bacardi silver watermelon...
i enjoyed it, but i dont know if i liked it more than smirnoff twisted V watermelon.. basically, if i wanted the watermelon drink, i'd pick one of these two, and the one that i'd buy would be whichever one was cheaper at the store i was buying at.
bacardi silver has a "new look", according to the label.. seems to follow along more with the low-carb type bottle look... probably update the graphics of o3/raz and whatever flavors they keep huh?
run, do you think bacardi silver regular will actually be cancelled? and when?
any word on cancellations of other brands/flavors in the fmb catagory?
04-09-2005, 08:42 PM
okay, been having a hard time finding a 6 pack of bacardi silver limon for collecting purposes..
but ran across a liquor store this evening that was blowing out the bacardi silver party boxes.. i had a hard time finding these at all , and all of a sudden, this liquor store has 30 of them out there, $6 a box or $10 for 2 (a case)..
so i bought quite a few party boxes, as thats less than 50cents a bottle of bacardi silver, which is quite the deal considering it goes for $7.49 or $7.99 mostly and is $6 on sale or something.
04-10-2005, 07:47 AM
that sounds like a blowout price. i know that here in Lansing, they got rid of those rather quickly. those party boxes never seemed to take off. plus they are hand-packed so they are most costly to make.
04-10-2005, 03:41 PM
hell yah thats a blowout! seems this was the only store in that chain to have it in this area too, musta just dropped off the remaining stock at this one store for nearly nothing huh?
$9.99 for 24 bottles of bacardi silver is quite the steal, considering normally its $6.99-$7.99 for a 6 pack, and on sale at about $6 a pack.. so that makes it $1 a bottle on sale, this was 42 cents a bottle, so I just had to load up..
i now have bacardi silver for the entire summer, i have to throw a BBQ or two and a party, as.. I just wont have the space for all this bacardi silver...
i tried a regular bacardi silver last night which i hadnt had in a while, and only have had it a few times total, and it was pretty tasty, i enjoyd it.. Raz and o3 I havent had in ages so ill give them a go, and I think i've only had 1 bottle of limon ever..
the bacardi silver watermelon is quite good however...
04-12-2005, 11:56 AM
I've never had any of these drinks in watermelon flavor. Are they generally very popular?
04-12-2005, 12:02 PM
The malt bev's are pretty good. If they're not sickeningly sweet, or too too tart. I don't know if I'd care for the watermelon one. Was it really sweet?
04-12-2005, 01:16 PM
bacardi silver watermelon and smirnoff twisted V watermelon are both very good, though the smirnoff is sweeter IMO, so if you find them too sweet sometimes you might prefer the bacardi silver one.
the watermelon versions are delicious and interesting IMO...
i am finding the regular bacardi silver to be a really good flavor, it is an interesting mix of citrus, something i seem to have overlooked previously... it has the obvious lemon/lime flavorings but it seems to have some grapefruit in there as well as other "citrusy" flavors, i really like it and think its under-rated.
04-13-2005, 03:53 PM
i wonder how the low carb bacardi silvers are doing..
04-14-2005, 08:35 AM
If a malt bev is too sweet or tart it can give me mass heartburn not to mention a stomache ache if I drink even 2 or 3 of them. I'd like to see one that's very light in flavor, and sweetness. I haven't really found any that I like, but I don't like liquor really, and I'm not a huge beer drinker. | <urn:uuid:4f1a8646-374d-4a51-adb7-dd446afa2ab5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.bevnet.com/bevboard/archive/index.php?t-29238.html | 2013-06-19T06:09:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963595 | 1,337 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Staged! Presents ABLAZE IN THE BARN
Staged! kicks off its 7th season with "Ablaze in the Barn"--a celebration of contemporary musical theatre and a sneak peek of ABLAZE, the a cappella musical thriller by Matthew B. Zrebski.
Come get a sneak peek of ABLAZE before Staged! launches it professionally. This runaway hit will open at the Portland Center for the Performing Arts this coming Spring with an all-star youth cast.
"Ablaze in the Barn" features an insider preview of ABLAZE, as well as performances by Portland luminaries SUSANNAH MARS, DARIUS PIERCE, ELIZABETH KLINGER, EMILY BELEELE, MATTHEW ZREBSKI, and top young talent.
When: Saturday, Sept. 15, 6:00-9:00 pm.
Where: The home of William & Marta Shely,
5810 SW Blackberry Lane, Tualatin, OR 97062
Tickets: $150 each; tables available for $1000 (8 seats).
Doors open at 6:00 pm for mingling, cocktails, and pre-show music. The main show begins at 6:45 pm.
We can't wait to see you there.
The Barn at William & Marta Shely's home
5810 SW Blackberry Lane
Tualatin, OR 97062-9723
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About Aung San Suu Kyi, Meditator and Teacher
Source: http://www.alicewalkersblog.com/, May 21, 2009
To paraphrase our beloved James Baldwin: the world is held together, really the world is held together by the love and compassion and clarity of thought of a very few individuals. Though this idea may be frightening, the world being in such distress, it is also comforting.
At least there are a few people who can be counted on to lead us in a proper direction for survival as humans, and for thriving as a species. Aung San Suu Kyi is at the top of the list. That is really the reason she is jailed and on her way to being imprisoned in Insein Prison, in Burma, where conditions are notoriously horrific and from which inmates often emerge, if indeed they do emerge alive, broken and in need of things like wheelchairs. What can we do?
My parents grew up in a society very much like Burma’s, in the Southern United States of North America. Repression of every kind, for people of color, was the order of the day. They taught their children to hold an inner dignity as the highest possible sign of human development, and they taught us to believe in education. These are things that, when I traveled in Burma recently, I recognized immediately in the Burmese people. These people, like the Palestinians who suffer a fate remarkably similar to theirs under Israeli occupation, are holding a sacred thread, not unlike the thread of Ariadne, which we can use, if we lend our whole selves to the effort, to lead us out of the labyrinth of confusion, and away from the people eating Minotaur that has turned out to be human greed. It is as astonishing as it is fascinating to see so clearly that it is our own greed that is eating us.
In Burma it is the greed of a faceless mob of generals who dream up ways every day to further ransack and impoverish the Burmese population and the land of Burma itself. Selling its precious woods, gems and minerals, and routinely enslaving its people to work on “public projects” designed to enrich those in power. I am sure the Junta viewed a recent film made in Burma by unbelievably courageous journalists, journalists with cameras, called Burma VJ: Report from a Closed Country that thoroughly exposes their implacable brutality. In graphic detail it shows the relentless attempt by the Generals to dominate and destroy the Burmese people. It depicts the soul stirring solidarity of common people with the monks and nuns who rise in defense of them, and the slaughter of monks whose very chants, as they’re bludgeoned or shot down, remind the Burmese people of their non-negotiable belief in Non-Harming. This is one of the places I suggest we start: viewing and widely distributing and discussing this film. From the point of view that everyone on earth is Burmese. Greed knows no nationality or boundary, and if we wait for things to change in Burma of their own accord, we will have abandoned what is most threatened in all of us: our human dignity and our freedom to pursue the life we choose for ourselves; in other words, democracy. Indeed, true democracy is what Americans, from all the Americas, are working toward. Largely because of centuries of greed and theft, we are far from the goal.
When I returned from Burma in February 2009, I wrote a long letter to Aung San Suu Kyi. I understood she might never see it; the point was to send it as a postcard for the world to read, for those who knew nothing or little of her situation, of Burma’s situation, to have a quick study in preparation for the struggle to free her and to give her country back to her, and to the people who love it. As an offering to a contemporary view of a tiny part of Burma, by a North American, that I was able to grasp in less than two weeks, I offer this letter/postcard to anyone who wishes to read it.
There is also an Aung San Suu Kyi webpage where one can find suggestions for actions. There is a petition that asks the United Nations to intervene. There are suggestions for places to contact and people to write. I personally feel we as a world have almost passed the following point, but I will offer it: It is time for people to descend en masse in places like Burma and Palestine and to …. Well, show up. Do I know how to get hundreds and thousands of people on this journey? No, I don’t. But somebody does; it has been done before. People showed up en masse in Mississippi decades ago, and changed the direction of the world. Without the Mississippi struggle there would be no Obama, for starters; there would be no possibility of Americans, black and white, feeling the freedom and joy in each other’s being that is so frequently the most pleasant and astounding surprise of the recent quarter century.
What makes Aung San Suu Kyi so very special – and Buddhists will yawn – is that she is a meditator. This means her mind is well trained to grasp the implications of actions, especially violent ones, too many of our world leaders seem clueless about. They talk about annihilating, obliterating, beggaring, starving, impoverishing, raping and pillaging other human beings as if this behavior has no consequences to themselves or to those they represent. This is an incredibly antique way of looking at our problems: that we can bomb them away. War is a dead end, literally. And, what is more, we simply can’t afford it. Not morally, and not financially. How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed? We see, if we care to look, that everything really is connected, and, not only connected, it is the same thing. Aung San Suu Kyi gets this, which is why she renounces violence in the face of one of the most violent regimes in the world, while at the same time not condemning those who, driven to desperate measures by their mistreatment by the regime, resort to violence in an attempt to defend themselves.
I can’t think of anything more important than Aung San Suu Kyi’s struggle, which she is waging so brilliantly. She has proved she is not afraid of death, and one feels imprisonment will be to her - as being jailed was for Martin Luther King - simply part of a necessary pilgrimage of the soul. I am not as concerned about her, to be honest, as I am about the rest of us. We need Aung San Suu Kyi. We need her example of integrity, courage, a raging and revolutionary loving kindness that has kept her steady in her long years under house arrest. It is amazing to think of the discipline she has taught herself over these years: to see through the masks of even the most brutal dictators, and to discern the confused, unwell, frightened persons behind the masks. To say, even after years of house arrest: I would hope one day to be friends. I would sit down and talk with them.
This is a rare being. But not too rare for this world. It was this world and the Burmese culture and life in India and England, and her own special spirit that produced her. A spirit, for all its rareness, not of “heaven” but of Earth. Reading her thoughts one finds nothing vaporous or otherworldly; she is among the most practical of people. Aung San Suu Kyi and the people of Burma are world treasures; if we lose them, we lose knowledge of a human capacity for wisdom, and an instinct for understanding our human responsibility for the gift of life, that will mean we may never know what, on this endlessly giving and radiant planet, a planet that bows to us every single day, we are doing here.
It is up to the citizens of the world to free Aung San Suu Kyi and all Burma’s political prisoners, as well as the country of Burma itself. Our governments, bogged down with the accumulated mistakes of the past, and burdened by their own entanglement in greed, are not likely to be sufficient help, even when they are willing. We must remember as we look about the planet at people like ourselves who are oppressed and discouraged, that we are the majority. Sometimes the feeling of being very small in so large a scheme of suffering hinders us. But, take heart. Before the ice at the polar caps completely melts and we are all submerged, along with our dreams, we can do a lot. Especially if we can commit to do even a little. Once someone pointed out to Sojourner Truth how insignificant she was; a black person, a woman, recently enslaved. To paraphrase her acerbic rejoinder: If I’m only a flea on the back of the stubbornest mule on earth, by God I intend to keep him scratching.
That we can do. Somebody who reads this, perhaps in China, Cambodia, Thailand or Burma, will know how to be a flea on the backs of the Generals in Rangoon. Somebody in Washington, D.C. may know how to do this. Each of us must find our own mule. Meanwhile, we cheer you on!
With metta, and in Solidarity with Aung San Suu Kyi, and the Brave People of Burma, especially the monks and the journalists!
Alice Walker is an American novelist, short-story writer, poet, essayist, and activist. Her most famous novel, The Color Purple, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1983. ©2009 by Alice Walker | <urn:uuid:a4178d2f-75ce-4326-b0c3-01f3d8b4c633> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=8,8207,0,0,1,0 | 2013-06-19T14:19:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969569 | 2,052 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Asian Fisheries Science 2003 Vol. 16 pp. 235-240
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St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland was chartered in 1784 upon a most liberal plan for the benefit of youth of every religious denomination. In 1937 the New Program, under which the college still operates, was instituted. Under it, we help our students learn to ask fundamental questions and practice thoughtfulness in public. We introduce them to the textual tradition of reason that illuminates such central features of modern life as democracy and technology, as well as to the literary and musical tradition of the West. We are committed to the use of a list of great books that is both fairly stable and under continual review. These are books agreed to be excellent, to form a coherent sequence, and to raise most cogently questions we want our students to consider. We foster literacy in three kinds of texts: verbal, mathematical, and musical.
Read more… We want our students to develop the intellectual virtues of courage in inquiry, caution in forming opinions, candor about their ignorance, open attentiveness to the words of their colleagues, industry in preparation, and meticulousness in verbal translations as well as in mathematical demonstrations. We give our students the experience of living in a community of learning imbued with attitudes of consideration and respect that foster moral virtues appropriate to their future lives as citizens. We think that the college has a wider mission in contributing to the invigoration of American education by giving help to other institutions that ask for it, by encouraging our students to become teachers, and by providing to a wide constituency occasions for actual learning in the spirit and through the materials of our program. | <urn:uuid:0760263d-536c-4604-9e0d-98ab085111e8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.cappex.com/colleges/St-Johns-College-Annapolis/overview | 2013-06-19T14:32:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963257 | 318 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Skin Renewal Serum
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24 October 2012
Surprisingly great product
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Make the banana cake:
Reheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 13 x 9-inch baking pan using baking spray.
Cream the butter and sugars in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment for about 4 minutes on high, scraping down the sides of the bowl with a rubber spatula as necessary.
Add the eggs one at a time, blending each time until incorporated.
In a small bowl, dissolve the baking soda, baking powder, and salt into the sour milk. Alternately add the milk mixture and flour to the creamed butter mixture, starting and ending with the flour (add the flour in 1/2-cup increments), mixing to fully incorporate the ingredients each time.
Blend in the oats and mashed bananas. With the mixer on low, beat for 30 seconds.
Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake for 20 to 25 minutes, until the top is golden and a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Remove from the oven and let the cake cool completely in the pan.
Meanwhile, make the cream cheese frosting:
In bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream the butter and cream cheese for 2 minutes on high, scraping down the sides of the bowl with a rubber spatula as necessary. Sift the confectioners' sugar into the bowl and beat for another 2 minutes, or until smooth. Add the vanilla extract and salt and beat on high for another 30 seconds.
Using an offset spatula, frost the top of the cooled banana cake.
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28th ACPT • March 11-13 2005
Leslie Billig took first place in the American Crossword Idol competition, held Saturday night.|
Sung to the melody of "Bill" from Show Boat
"My Will"I used to dream when I was evolving
That I'd be solving one day
A puzzle that was funny and punny and full of fair play.
I always used to solve in pen
When Farrar and Weng were editing them.
Then Maleska came with his clues so tough
Till I finally cried "I've had quite enough."
Then along came Will, who's not that type at all.
He'd never put "salt compound" crossing "Kurdish tribe."
His verbal skills and clever fills
Donšt carry a stigma, 'cause he majored in enigma-
Tology, which no one else can claim.
Now near and far,
His work shines
In every New York Times,
as well as NPR.
That's why I say you've come a long, long way
Your puzzles have never come up Shortz
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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- Dog-pile celebrations and whipped cream pies became a regular occurrence this season for the Oakland Athletics.
Perhaps none was as improbable or memorable as this last one, which made sure a season filled with dramatic endings wouldn't end just yet.
Seth Smith hit a game-tying, two-run double off closer Jose Valverde in the ninth inning, Coco Crisp capped Oakland's rally with a two-out RBI single, and the A's staved off elimination for a second straight night with a 4-3 victory over the Detroit Tigers in Game 4 Wednesday night.
"This club, we've been battling the whole year, giving 100 percent, and these walkoffs have been our MO this year," Crisp said.
The A's rode a major league-leading 14 walkoff wins in the regular season to an improbable AL West title. Those paled in comparison to No. 15, which set up a win-or-go-home Game 5 against Justin Verlander and the Tigers.
Josh Reddick led off the ninth with a single just under the glove of diving second baseman Omar Infante. Josh Donaldson followed with a double off the wall in left-center and both runners scored on Smith's double. Two outs later, Crisp lined a single and Smith scored easily when right fielder Avisail Garcia couldn't handle the ball.
That set off a raucous celebration near first base as the A's poured out of the dugout to mob Crisp, who was the recipient of a whipped cream pie that became a custom in this remarkable season in Oakland. This marked the second time the A's erased a two-run deficit in the ninth inning to win a postseason game, the other coming in Game 5 of the 1929 World Series.
Crisp ended three games with RBIs this season, tied for most in the majors. And like the others, this one ended with Reddick nailing him with a whipped cream pie during a postgame television interview.
"He's been our walkoff leader all year," Reddick said. "Once we got into that situation, I think everybody in the dugout knew he was going to come through for us. Once we get one or two runners on with that situation we have a really good feeling that we're going to win the ballgame. He's been clutch for us in the ninth inning."
Ryan Cook retired four batters for the win.
The A's, who have the lowest payroll in baseball, need just one more surprising result to win their second postseason series since 1990. Rookie Jarrod Parker will take the mound in Game 5 on Thursday night against Verlander, the reigning AL Cy Young winner and MVP.
"That's why this is the greatest game of all," Tigers manager Jim Leyland said. "It looked like we were going to get it. We didn't do it. We didn't quite get the 27 outs, that's part of the game. You get tested all the time in this game. And this is a good test."
The Tigers looked to be in prime position to advance to their second straight ALCS and have a rested Verlander for Game 1 when they took a 3-1 lead into the ninth behind a strong start from Max Scherzer and a homer from Prince Fielder.
Now the A's are one win away from repeating last week's three-game sweep of Texas that gave them the AL West title on the final day of the regular season. After losing the first two games in Detroit, the A's won 2-0 in Game 3 and are looking to become the eighth team to rally from two games down to win a best-of-five series.
"There's no ending yet," Oakland closer Grant Balfour said. "I'm hoping that the ending comes at the end of October. I hope there's a period at the end of the story. It's an unbelievable story. It just keeps going. And we're going to take it out there tomorrow and give it everything, just like we have the last two games. If we can do that then I like our chances."
The San Francisco Giants will have a shot to do it as well earlier Thursday when they face Cincinnati in Game 5 of their NL division series.
Scherzer, who was dealing with shoulder, deltoid and ankle injuries late in the season, looked in top form against the A's. He allowed just one baserunner in the first four innings and struck out seven of the first 15 batters he faced.
The A's finally got to Scherzer for an unearned run in the sixth. Crisp reached when Fielder misplayed a hard grounder to first base into a two-base error. Crisp advanced on a wild pitch and scored on Stephen Drew's double to right-center. But the A's ran themselves out of a potential big inning when Drew was easily thrown out trying to stretch the hit into a triple.
Octavio Dotel and Phil Coke both retired a batter to get out of the sixth and Al Alburquerque pitched a perfect seventh in his first appearance since his memorable kiss of the baseball on a comebacker by Yoenis Cespedes in Game 2. Joaquin Benoit escaped a first-and-second jam in the eighth by striking out Brandon Moss, but Valverde couldn't close it.
"This is the toughest moment in my whole career," Valverde said. "I had everything. These guys hit it. There's nothing I can do."
NOTES: This is the seventh postseason walkoff win for the A's in franchise history and first since Ramon Hernandez won it with a squeeze bunt in the 2003 division series against Boston. ... A.J. Griffin allowed two runs in 5-plus innings. He was the third Oakland rookie pitcher to start a game this series, the most ever by a team in a single postseason. The A's used just two rookie starting pitchers in 147 postseason games before this year: Joe Bush in the 1913 World Series and Barry Zito in the 2000 division series. ... Triple Crown winner Miguel Cabrera has reached base in all 15 postseason games with the Tigers but has no RBIs this series. | <urn:uuid:67bdfc49-311a-4f85-9951-1b0d178c2550> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.daily-jeff.com/latest%20headlines/2012/10/11/a-s-rally-past-tigers-4-3-to-force-game-5 | 2013-06-19T14:28:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972869 | 1,280 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Epic Games announced that Impossible Studios, which consists of Big Huge Games former employees, has just been opened under the umbrella of the Gears of War creators. The new studio is currently working on the upcoming iOS title, Infinity Blade: Dungeons.
The studio’s logo is as follows:
Big Huge Games was in turn a subsidiary of 38 Studios, which was recently shut down because of debts and failing to repay a loan from the state of Rhode Island. At that time, Mike Capps, from Epic Games, said that his company was looking to help those affected by the closure, forming a new studio to house them. Sean Dunn, Big Huge Games’ general manager, is now working as the studio director at Impossible.
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The centuries-old patio at the Barcelona, Spain, apartment of economist Peter Fehlbaum and his family strikes an exquisite balance—classic architectural bones, modernist touches, and a healthy dose of quirk. Fehlbaum’s playful sense of humor—he describes his style as “jive”—and his impeccable taste combine to form an area ripe for outdoor entertaining. Working within its modest dimensions—about 850 square feet—and existing plan, Fehlbaum chose the same dark green used in the home’s indoor hallway to adorn the sitting area wall, seamlessly connecting the interior living space with the exterior as well as delineating a space for reclining and relaxing (as opposed to the socializing-focused dining area). The green and red hues used throughout, a combination that can often feel garish and holidayesque, here makes an artful, subtle duo. A Le Corbusier dining table and red Maarten van Severen chaise lounge elegantly anchor and update the traditional Mediterranean design, while the plants—an array of potted specimens including fig, tangerine, lemon, olive, and pomegranate trees in addition to hibiscus and vines—stay true to the area’s native climate. But it’s the one-of-a-kind details that truly breathe life into the patio. Intricately patterned tile floors are original to the home; wall-mounted taxidermy, found in Saintes Maries de la Mer, France, pays homage to Fehlbaum’s love of ornithology. The resulting mélange of styles and objects is comfortable and fun—just as outdoor living should be.
The red minimalist MVS chaise, designed by Belgian Maarten van Severen for Vitra in 2000, stands out against the dark walls of the sitting area. Photo by Costas Picadas/Gap Interior Images LTD.
Get This Look
The beauty of Peter Fehlbaum’s patio lies in its mix of high-design furniture pieces and whimsical, personal touches.
1. Studio Green No. 93: Farrow & Ball’s dark green paint in an exterior eggshell finish, with just a hint of black, adds elegance and a feeling of welcome to an outdoor (or indoor) space. ($110; Farrow & Ball)
2. Vegetal Chair: French design duo/brothers Rowan and Erwan Bouroullec, inspired by the organic shapes of plants, created this dyed-through polyamide chair for Vitra. ($750; Lumens)
3. Reed Fence: Natural reed fencing doubles as an attractive, easygoing pergola topper, perfect for blocking out the sun, growing vines, and adding an earthy accent to a patio. (from $60; Gardeners)
4. Industrial Pendant: West Elm’s industrial hanging light brings a chicly modern, streamlined vibe to an outdoor oasis. (from $19; West Elm)
5. Domed Parrots: A long, oval cloche encases two species of parrot, Melopsittacus undulatus and Forpus coelestis, presented against a hand-painted outdoor scene — a unique, quirky accessory and souvenir of the natural world. ($1,495; The Evolution Store)
6. Dazzle Tile: Mosaic House’s striking Dazzle line, imprinted with eight-point stars framed by undulating lines, introduces pattern and color, instantly brightening a space from the ground up. ($163 per square foot; Mosaichse)
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Biosearch Technologies said today it acquired the oligonucleotide manufacturing division of Danish-owned DNA Technology and German-owned controlled-pore glass (CPG) manufacturer VitraBio, in a deal the buyer said reflected its growing commitment to Europe’s biotechnology and diagnostic markets. Prices for both acquisitions were undisclosed.
Biosearch, headquartered in Novato, CA, said the deals would benefit the company by adding a production team with a mature quality system; supplying an established European customer base focused in the continent’s Nordic countries; growing the company’s European sales, production, and regulated contract manufacturing capabilities; and providing manufacturing redundancy for its North American operations.
Until now, Biosearch has done business in northern Europe through a pair of distributors. BioCat has represented Biosearch in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland, while Bio-Mediator has represented the company in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden.
Founded in 1993, privately-held Biosearch designs, develops, and manufactures oligonucleotide-based tools. They include fluorophores such as the CAL Fluor®, Quasar® and Pulsar® dyes; and dark quenchers such as the Black Hole Quencher® dyes. The dyes are included in custom-synthesized probe formats for real-time, quantitative PCR, Stellaris® RNA FISH, and other genomic-based applications.
Biosearch’s dual acquisitions come less than a year after the company bought a 120,480-square-foot office/industrial building in Petaluma, CA, for $7 million and disclosed plans to expand operations there by shifting from Novato some 90 administrative and production staffers. At the time, the company had about 120 employees in two 30,000-square-foot Novato buildings, as well as annual sales of around $30 million, according to a North Bay Business Journal report from August 2012.
VitraBio, founded in 2003, manufactures CPG routinely used in solid-phase oligonucleotide synthesis. Biosearch gains control over VitraBio’s CPG manufacturing technology and production facility in Steinach, Germany, which will expand its repertoire of oligo synthesis tools and processes.
In addition to continuing VitraBio’s production of DNA/RNA synthesis support products for the research and therapeutic oligo markets, Biosearch said, it intends to supplement its existing production of specialty amidites and modified CPGs in the U.S. by bringing chemical manufacturing capabilities to VitraBio’s Steinach facility.
The acquisition will enable DNA Technology, a producer of custom-manufactured synthetic oligonucleotides in Nordic countries, to expand production capabilities and product offerings through full access to Biosearch’s specialty modifications, manufacturing tools, and IP portfolio. Founded in 1992, DNA Technology is headquartered in Risskov, Denmark. | <urn:uuid:4867fc2b-03ad-4d59-8496-0a78201a84c1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.genengnews.com/gen-news-highlights/biosearch-eyes-europe-growth-with-two-acquisitions/81248015/?kwrd=DNA%20Technology | 2013-06-19T06:11:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938696 | 603 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
OMAHA, Neb. (Feb.
17) - The Creighton women's tennis team fell 6-1 to Illinois State in its
Missouri Valley Conference opener at the Hanscom Tennis Center Sunday afternoon.
Sophomore Jennie Hartjes led Creighton (1-3, 0-1 MVC) at
the No. 1 singles spot with a straight-set win to claim a point for the
Bluejays. Illinois State (5-2, 1-0 MVC) jumped out to an early 1-0 lead by
sweeping the doubles matches.
The Redbird duo of Kadi Ilves and Emmie Marx won an 8-2
decision over CU senior Anna Kirshenbaum and freshman partner Sam Anderson on
court one. In No. 2 doubles ISU's Phyllis Tigges and Stefanie Youngberg claimed
the doubles point with an 8-3 win over the Creighton tandem of Hartjes and
freshman Karlin Naslund. At the No. 3 spot the Bluejay pairing of sophomore
Amanda Noonan and junior Analese Snyder fell 8-5 to Carolina Abello and Heather
Nisbet of Illinois State.
Hartjes was the first off the court in singles with an
easy 6-1, 6-1 win on court one over Tigges. Kirshenbaum was the final Bluejay
on the court in a three-set match decided by a superbreaker on court three.
Kirshenbaum won the first set 6-4 but Ilves fought back in the second stanza to
win 6-3 and force a third set. The Redbird claimed the breaker at 10-4 to
conclude the match.
Creighton sophomore Liz Vermillion claimed four games in
each set in a 6-4, 6-4 setback on court five to Youngberg. At No. 4 singles, Noonan
pushed Abello to extra games in set one before dropping it 7-5. The visitor
closed out the match in the second at 6-2.
Naslund saw her first singles action of the season in a
6-1, 6-4 downfall on court six to ISU's Gabby Phillips. Snyder dropped to 1-3
at No. 2 singles after a 6-2, 6-2 setback to Marx.
Creighton concludes its three-match home stand with a
non-conference contest against Arkansas-Little Rock at noon Tuesday on the
Hanscom Tennis Center courts.
Illinois State vs.
Feb 17, 2013 at
Illinois State 6, Creighton 1
1. Jennie Hartjes (CU) def. Phyllis Tigges (ILS) 6-1, 6-1
2. Emmie Marx (ILS) def. Analese Snyder (CU) 6-2, 6-2
3. Kadi Ilves (ILS) def. Anna Kirshenbaum (CU) 4-6, 6-3,
4. Carolina Abello (ILS) def. Amanda Noonan (CU) 7-5, 6-2
5. Stefanie Youngberg (ILS) def. Liz Vermillion (CU) 6-4,
6. Gabby Phillips (ILS) def. Karlin
Naslund (CU) 6-1, 6-4
Order of finish: 1, 2, 6, 5, 4, 3
1. Kadi Ilves/Emmie Marx (ILS) def. Anna Kirshenbaum/Sam
Anderson (CU) 8-2
2. Phyllis Tigges/Stefanie Youngberg (ILS) def. Jennie
Hartjes/Karlin Naslund (CU) 8-3
3. Carolina Abello/Heather Nisbet (ILS)
def. Analese Snyder/Amanda Noonan (CU) 8-5
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I have been back from my fabulous vacation for a week now and the time has come for me to actually post something here.
The 9400 GT appeared sometime around August 25th. You can find a few of them at Newegg by checking out our 9400 GT page. The only thing that makes this card special is a feature that it does not have. The 9400 GT does not work in SLI and it is the first Nvidia card to lack SLI since the 8400 GS. | <urn:uuid:eb98b9ad-cbe4-41e0-bee7-862741c34982> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.gpureview.com/geforce-9400-gts-do-exist-and-that-is-about-all-they-do-article-726.html | 2013-06-19T14:27:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971318 | 98 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The Treatise on Environmentally Responsible Publishing is an
industry-developed agreement which defines shared goals for
improving the environmental impacts associated with the book
industry's average consumption of over one million tons of paper
each year. The Treatise was developed with the perspective and
participation of over 25 stakeholders over a six-month
period—including publishers large and small, book printers,
paper companies, and merchants.
A Leadership Council is guiding the Treatise
implementation process and will oversee future content
The current Council consists of:
Participation by others is welcomed.
Purpose: Setting a Standard and Building Collaboration
The Book Industry Treatise is one of the
first sector-wide holistic agreements on paper and publishing.
However its goals are grounded in existing precedents such as:
Given the wide spectrum of perspectives on
the issues, the Treatise is designed to establish shared goals
and standards which can unify varying policies and advance
consistency and collaboration.
Addressing Global Warming and Conserving Resources
Specifically, the Treatise calls for
increasing the industry's average use of recycled fiber from 5%
now to 30% by 2011. When realized, this will conserve 524
million pounds of greenhouse gases-equivalent to keeping 45,818
cars off the road each year. In addition, this shift will save
the equivalent of 4.9 million trees, 2.1 billion gallons of
water, and 264 million pounds of solid waste each year. [Paper
Protecting Forests and People
The Treatise also sets goals for ensuring
that identified Endangered Forests in regions such as the
Canadian Boreal, U.S. Southeast and Indonesia are protected,
that conversion of natural forests to plantations does not take
place, and that concerns of local and indigenous communities are
Endorsing the Treatise: What Does it Mean?
Endorsing the Treatise is based on good faith
and is non-binding. For paper users and producers, an
endorsement signifies the intent to develop and implement
internal goals and/or policies consistent with the Treatise and
to work in collaboration. For other industry stakeholders [book
sellers, authors, associations, etc.], an endorsement shows
support for the Treatise and its signatories.
What Can the Treatise Accomplish?
Improved dialog and collaborations between
paper-users and paper producers and suppliers.
Continued development of infrastructure and
new papers with strong environmental attributes.
More demand and associated lower costs for
environmentally responsible papers.
A mechanism for identifying companies that
are committed environmental leaders.
Risk avoidance [reduces the likelihood of
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London, Dec mber 6: A new has demonstrated for the first time that a simple breath test could be used for colorectal cancer screening.
Cancer tissue has different metabolism compared to normal healthy cells and produces some substances which can be detected in the breath of these patients. Analysis of the volatile organic compounds (VOCs) linked to cancer is a new frontier in cancer screening.
Led by Donato F. Altomare, MD, of the Department of Emergency and Organ Transplantation at the University Aldo Moro of Bari, researchers collected exhaled breath from 37 patients with colorectal cancer and 41 healthy controls which was processed offline to evaluate the VOC profile. VOCs of interest had been identified and selected, and VOC patterns able to discriminate patients from controls set up.
A probabilistic neural network (PNN) was used to identify the pattern of VOCs that better discriminated between the two groups.
Results showed that patients with colorectal cancer have a different selective VOC pattern compared with healthy controls, based on analysis of 15 of 58 specific compounds in exhaled breath samples.
The PNN in this study was able to discriminate patients with colorectal cancer with an accuracy of over 75 percent, with the model correctly assigning 19 patients.
“The technique of breath sampling is very easy and non-invasive, although the method is still in the early phase of development,” Altomare notes. “Our study’s findings provide further support for the value of breath testing as a screening tool.”
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Saturday, February 20, 2010
Medieval Disability Studies
In the comments to an announcement that reaffirms for me, once again, the revolutionary promise of postmedieval, Michael Pryke mentioned that his "postmedieval reading group" at York University (about which he was supposed to guest post at ITM, but never did, the lying bastard) might turn to medieval disability studies next.
I've been thinking quite a bit about that topic lately because I have a formerly disabled student undertaking an independent study with me on disability theory and the Middle Ages. We've been, quite to my surprise, unable to find a satisfying corpus of criticism in the field. Vigorous outside of medieval studies, disability studies seems always to be about to arrive in the discipline, but never quite has accomplished a full advent. We've noted work in the area many times here at ITM: guest posts by Greg Carrier and Alison Purnell; I blogged Chris Baswell's disability studies plenary at NCS Swansea; MOR has reminded us that work in the field tends to get forgotten, so that disability studies keeps being hailed as 'field-inaugurating'; Charlotte Allen had a tizzy over the subject; it figured (as it should) in our discussion of race; I wrote a piece on monsters and disability for a conference in Salerno, but threw it away in the wake of Sept. 11; MIMs is not a disability studies book per se, but wouldn't have developed as it did without the field (and without the reading group I once belonged to along with Rosemarie Garland Thomson and Robert McRuer).
So, disability studies makes frequent appearances on this blog, as it has at medieval studies conferences, and in some journal articles, but outside of Irina Metzler's under-cited, overpriced book and Edward Wheatley's forthcoming monograph on medieval blindness (from the press description it is very difficult to tell how cognizant this book is of the greater field) ... well, what is there? My student and I have been reading some classics in the field and then seeing if they travel back in time or not. So this weekend I've been perusing -- and very much enjoying -- Georgina Kleege's memoir of 'coming out as blind,' Sight Unseen. What I didn't realize until I began the volume is that Kleege was married to the medievalist Nick Howe. He has left an evident imprint throughout her work ... and what I'd like to do next with this book is to follow Kleege's influence on Howe's own scholarship, which -- now that I think about it -- has much to say to the topics of vision, cognition, identity, beauty and perception.
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The Learning College Manual
Annual and Bonus Leave
I. FACULTY AND INSTRUCTIONAL PARAPROFESSIONALS
- Annual Leave
Annual leave for faculty and instructional paraprofessionals shall consist of all days that the College is not in session, except those days required for faculty and/or student orientation and other officially designated workdays, graduation programs, special occasions, or other days as determined necessary by the President. Except as stated herein or otherwise required by law, faculty and instructional paraprofessionals do not earn any other annual leave.
The College is considered to be in session from the first required workday of the semester through the last required workday, including graduation as specified in the official academic calendar. Official College holidays which fall between the beginning and ending dates of a semester shall be holidays for faculty and instructional paraprofessionals.
- Bonus Leave
From time to time, the General Assembly has offered bonus leave days for certain classes of employees in lieu of or in addition to a raise in salary. There is a limit to the amount of bonus leave that can occur at any one time without jeopardizing the quality of instructional services. Therefore, the use of these days must be approved in advance by the Dean and Vice President of Academic and Student Services and Institutional Assessment prior to being taken. Providing appropriate class coverage at no additional cost to the College and the quality of instruction and learning will be determining factors in granting the request. The Dean will coordinate this coverage with the faculty member requesting the leave. Requests for bonus leave should be submitted on the Faculty Leave Request Form and must be made, when possible, 30 days prior to the requested leave. Bonus leave cannot exceed two days per semester unless recommended by the Vice President and approved by the President.
- Amount Earned
Staff who is in a pay status (working, on paid leave, or is receiving worker’s compensation benefits) for one-half or more of the regularly scheduled workdays and holidays in any month earns annual leave. The rate is based on the length of creditable state service.
A permanent part-time employee on annual contract who is employed on a continuing basis for as much as half-time shall earn annual leave on a half (.5) time pro-rata basis if he/she worked one-half or more of the scheduled work days in a month. The leave shall be computed based on the total amount earned by a full-time employee.
Annual leave for employees shall be computed at the following rates:
Annual Leave Rates Years of Creditable State Service Hours Earned in one Month Hours Earned in One Year Less than 2 years 7 hrs. 40 min. 92 hours 2 but less than 5 years 8 1/2 hrs. 102 hours 5 but less than 10 years 10 1/4 hrs. 123 hours 10 but less than 15 years 12 1/4 hrs. 147 hours 15 but less than 20 years 14 hours 168 hours 20 or more years 16 hours 192 hours
Years of creditable state service, for the purpose of calculating annual leave, will be determined on the anniversary date of each employee. It is the responsibility of each employee to notify the Human Resources office of a change in eligibility for annual leave. Anniversary date is determined by using the creditable state service.
- Maximum Accumulation
Annual leave may be accumulated without any applicable maximum until December 31 of each calendar year. However, if the employee separates from service, payment for accumulated annual leave shall not exceed 225 hours (30 days), except in cases where employees have been awarded bonus days by the North Carolina General Assembly. On December 31, any employee with more than 225 hours (30 days) of regular earned annual leave shall have the excess accumulation transferred to sick leave so that only 225 hours (30 days) are carried forward to January 1 of the next calendar year.
- Bonus Leave
From time to time, the General Assembly has offered bonus leave days for certain classes of employees in lieu of or in addition to a raise in salary. Staff may use bonus leave in the same manner in which they could use annual leave.
New employees may be granted leave only as it is earned through the first six (6) months of service. After six (6) months, an employee may be advanced that amount of leave he/she would earn during the remainder of the calendar year if requested in writing and approved by the President.
- Scheduling Annual Leave
Annual or bonus leave may be taken only upon authorization of the immediate supervisor who shall designate such time or times when it will not interfere with the efficient operation of the College. Unless the employee first receives permission from his/her appropriate Vice President and the College President, employees may not use annual or bonus leave on those days mandated by the President (i.e. Professional Development, Convocation, etc.). When possible, employees shall request the use of annual or bonus leave thirty days prior to its use.
Hours taken are cumulative to and reported as the nearest quarter (.25) hour.
- Leave Charges
Only scheduled workdays shall be charged in calculating the amount of leave taken. Saturdays, Sundays, and/or holidays are charged only if they are scheduled workdays.
- Other Uses of Annual and Bonus Leave
Annual and bonus leave may be used for the following additional reasons:
- Medical appointments;
- In lieu of sick leave;
- For absences as a result of adverse weather conditions;
- Personal matters or time lost by reporting late to work;
- For days in excess of bereavement leave policy in the death of a member of an employee’s immediate family;
- Illness in the immediate family; and
- As donations to an employee or immediate family member who is an approved voluntary shared leave recipient.
Unused annual leave and/or bonus days may be transferred when an employee transfers from the College to another state agency. Annual leave and/or bonus days may also be transferred to other recognized public agencies if the agency is willing to accept the leave; otherwise, the employee leaving College service will be paid in a lump sum for accumulated leave. When a local employee transfers from one of the agencies listed above to a state agency, annual leave (not to exceed 225 hours – 30 days) or any portion of unused leave may be transferred to the state agency. If a person requests and is paid for unused annual leave and/or bonus days at the time of transfer to or from a local agency, this will not preclude consideration for transferring sick leave. Any unused annual leave and/or bonus days of an employee transferring to the College from another state agency will not be accepted.
- Separation - Payment of Annual Leave
- Lump sum payment for annual leave is made only at the time of separation. An employee shall be paid in a lump sum for accumulated leave not to exceed a maximum of 225 hours (30 days). The exception is bonus days that have been awarded by the North Carolina General Assembly in lieu of monetary compensation.
- Should an employee separate from service before earning all of the advanced annual leave taken, it will be necessary to make deductions from the employee’s final paycheck for overdrawn leave.
- Payment for annual leave may be made on the regular payroll reflecting the number of hours of annual leave and the amount of payment. The payout of annual leave will be charged to the respective budget allocation which the employee's position was charged.
- Retirement deduction shall be made from all leave payments.
- In the case of a deceased employee, payment for unpaid leave and unpaid salary shall be paid, upon establishment of a valid claim, to the deceased employee's administrator or executor. In the absence of an administrator or executor, payment must be made to the Clerk of Superior Court of the county of the deceased employee's residence. A copy of the death certificate must be submitted to the Business Office for the files.
- An employee ceases to earn leave and ceases to be entitled to take sick leave after the date of separation. The last day of work is the date of separation, except when an employee exhausts sick and annual leave before disability retirement then the date separated will be the ending date of annual leave taken. When exhausting leave, the employee continues to accumulate leave, is eligible to take sick leave, is entitled to holidays and is eligible for salary increases during that period.
III. ANNUAL AND BONUS LEAVE RECORDS
It is the responsibility of the Business Office to maintain annual records for annual and/or bonus leave earned and taken for each employee. The crediting and balancing of an employee’s leave record is to be done each month. Leave balances are listed in the employee’s payroll advice each month. Leave reports and time sheets submitted to the Business Office must be signed by the employee and supervisor or designee.
The College will retain annual and bonus leave records for all separated employees for a period of at least four years from the date of separation.
Adopted: June 29, 2010
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Pakistan Seen Losing Fight Against Taliban And Al-Qaeda
By Griff Witte
Washington Post Foreign Service
Wednesday, October 3, 2007; A01
PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- Pakistan's government is losing its war against emboldened insurgent forces, giving al-Qaeda and the Taliban more territory in which to operate and allowing the groups to plot increasingly ambitious attacks, according to Pakistani and Western security officials.
The depth of the problem has become clear only in recent months, as regional peace deals have collapsed and the government has deferred developing a new strategy to defeat insurgents until Pakistan's leader, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, can resolve a political crisis that threatens his presidency.
Meanwhile, radical Islamic fighters who were evicted from Afghanistan by the 2001 U.S.-led invasion have intensified a ruthless campaign that has consumed Pakistan's tribal areas and now affects its major cities. Military officials say the insurgents have enhanced their ability to threaten not only Pakistan but the United States and Europe as well.
"They've had a chance to regroup and reorganize," said a Western military official in Pakistan. "They're well equipped. They're clearly getting training from somewhere. And they're using more and more advanced tactics."
Pakistan's military, on the other hand, is considering pulling back from the fight -- at least partially -- in the face of mounting losses, the official said.
"They're not trained for a counterinsurgency. It's not their number one priority. It's not even their number two priority," said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. "These are the reasons things aren't going their way."
Pakistani military officials concede they are searching for a new strategy now that the old one has gone awry. But with Musharraf struggling to stay in office and expected to soon step down from the military, no decisions are likely until questions over the country's leadership are settled.
"The federal government is busy with its problem of legitimacy. Getting Musharraf elected for another five years -- that is keeping everything on hold," said retired Brig. Gen. Mehmood Shah, who until 2005 was a top security official in the tribal areas.
In recent years, Pakistan has relied on deals with insurgents to keep them from launching offensives. But two such agreements -- in North and South Waziristan -- fell apart this summer when insurgent leaders abruptly announced they were backing out.
The main criticism of the deals, both in Pakistan and in the West, had been that they gave al-Qaeda and the Taliban sanctuary in which to train, plot and launch attacks.
Now, security experts say Pakistan is paying the price for not confronting the problem head-on, with insurgent groups capitalizing on their newfound strength.
Last month, a suicide bomber attacked a bus carrying workers with the nation's hugely influential spy agency, Inter-Services Intelligence, killing 22 people. Just a week later, a bomber reportedly wearing a military uniform breached one of the most secure army installations in the country, where elite commandos train. The assailant detonated his explosives in the officers' mess during dinnertime, leaving 17 soldiers dead.
The latest blows came Monday, when a suicide bomber killed 15 people, including four policemen, in the northwestern town of Bannu. Late Monday night, more than 20 Frontier Corps troops went missing after their post near Bannu came under attack.
The insurgent strikes represent a humiliating breakdown in security for the world's sixth-largest army. But most embarrassing is the fact that about 250 soldiers remain in Taliban hands more than a month after they were taken hostage.
The soldiers were traveling in a supply convoy through the hostile terrain of South Waziristan on Aug. 30 when their route was blocked by a group of local fighters. Although they were vastly outnumbered, the fighters managed to persuade the soldiers to surrender without firing a shot. Since then, the government has been unable to win the soldiers' freedom because the Taliban is seeking major concessions.
"This kidnapping is a lesson to the government to honor its peace deal with us," said Zulfiqar Mehsud, a spokesman for the Taliban, which blames the government for violating the agreement. Mehsud's group wants to transform Pakistan into a radical Islamic state modeled after Afghanistan before the 2001 U.S.-led invasion.
The troops' surrender has called into question the army's commitment to fighting an unpopular war that requires Pakistanis to kill their countrymen. It has also exposed the army to ridicule.
"In Waziristan, people are laughing at the army," said Lateef Afridi, a tribal elder and lawyer. "I really feel pity for these soldiers."
One of those soldiers, Najmul Hasan, 29, recently spent 50 days in Taliban captivity in Waziristan. "The ringleaders would threaten on a daily basis to behead us if the government didn't release their members," Hasan said. He and two others eventually escaped, but other soldiers were, in fact, beheaded. The Taliban videotaped one such incident in which an execution was carried out by a teenage boy.
While Waziristan is believed to be the operational headquarters for the insurgency, militant groups have expanded their reach significantly over the past year. They now have a firm grip not only on the tribal areas that line the Afghan border but on other sections of northwest Pakistan as well.
Residents of this frontier city are beginning to feel besieged, with the surrounding countryside falling under insurgents' sway and assailants occasionally carrying out attacks in Peshawar.
Even hard-line religious leaders are not safe. Last month, one of Peshawar's most prominent clerics, Maulana Hassan Jan, was assassinated as he rode in his car to evening prayers. Although he had been outspoken in his criticism of the United States and was revered among many who want to bring Islamic law to Pakistan, he was not radical enough to satisfy insurgent groups, who are blamed for his killing. He had, for instance, shunned the pro-Taliban clerics at Islamabad's Red Mosque, or Lal Masjid, when they instigated an armed standoff with the government in July.
"Traditional religious and political leaders are losing ground because people consider them very soft against Pervez Musharraf and America," said Qibla Ayaz, dean of the Islamic studies program at Peshawar University. "Among the youth, their influence is weakening."
The United States has pumped about $10 billion into Pakistan since 2001, the vast majority of it for the military. But the aid does not seem to have won the United States many friends here. Nor has it successfully prepared the Pakistani army to battle insurgents.
"The sad thing about it is that a lot of these militants are better off than the Frontier Corps," said the Western official, referring to the Pakistani force that is supposed to be on the front lines fighting the Taliban and al-Qaeda. The militants "have rockets. They have advanced weapons. And the Frontier Corps has sandals and a bolt-action rifle."
Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has sought to exploit the Pakistani military's deficiencies and its unpopular ties to the United States. Last month, he released an unusual audio recording in which he focused almost all of his wrath on Musharraf and called on Pakistanis to overthrow their government.
Shah, the retired general, said that knowing how strong al-Qaeda has become, Pakistani officials are deluding themselves if they think insurgents will back down anytime soon.
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FORT WORTH -- Worried about the stigma of being HIV positive, a single Fort Worth mother would only tell us her story is we agreed not to identify her. She told us she contracted HIV from a man who knew he had the disease at least a year before they became intimate.
"I never knew," she said. "I didn't have any clue."
She said she trusted 42-year-old Jimmy Bernard Billingsley to the point where she abandoned her insistence that they have only protected sex.
"He would say, 'You'll be okay. I won't get you pregnant. I don't have anything. You don't have anything to worry about,'" she said.
But then, "I started feeling sick," and a quick blood test brought the dreaded news she was HIV positive.
"I just cried," she said. "I'm not going to live for a long time is what I thought."
But she lived to see Billingsley face justice Monday. He was sentenced by State District Judge Robb Catalano to 15 years in prison for aggravated assault causing serious bodily injury for knowingly infecting the woman. Billingsley faced 20 years, but the judge settled on 15 years.
She is glad he's going away, but it doesn't take away her own life sentence.
"I am just so tired of going to the doctor, and so tired of taking medicine," she said.
Every day, she has to take a cocktail of pills that she hopes will ward off full-blown AIDS. As she takes care of herself, she prays for the numerous other partners that prosecutors say Billingsley admits to having sexual relations with after he knew he was positive in 2008.
And she warns everyone else to protect themselves.
"Just be careful out there," she said. "Don't trust anybody. It's not a game to play with. You don't want to be in this situation."
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Dance Habit is a brand, spanking new dance school in Melbourne's west. Whatever your dance background, our inclusive approach and super talented instructors will provide you with a leg-up to loving the way you move.
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Miami Commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones was arrested in a bribery scandal and booted off the Commission, but she didn’t give up the fight to clear her name and reclaim her seat.
Love her or hate her, but give her credit for her tenacity. From Day 1, she said she was innocent, that the state attorney was out to get her in a political witch hunt. Few seemed to believe her, but like the Energizer bunny, she kept going and going and going.
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Shawn Schrock lays down the first layer of paint on a 1966 Mustang at Kasper Automotive in Waupaca, Wis.
I’m retired and want to learn to pain my own car a 1978 grand marquis gray metallic with a burgundy top, I’m tired of going to garages and pay fifty bucks for parts and $1,500 for labor, the young mechanics if they don’t have a machine to tell them everything, they cannot do anything. I also have one of a kind Sparton II with a large investment, but nobody can tell me how to fix the Nissan 280 Z turbo, cannot get over 45 miles per hour, and it spinets and sputters so far nissan does not want to to touch it, everything is Japanese and have $35,000 invested and jerks tell me, I’ll give you $2,500 for it, I would set it on fire first. 907-360-3570 if anybody can help me.
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Kate was an absolute pleasure to work with! She was very responsive to questions and extremely flexible. Despite very cold and windy weather conditions, she remained fun and was great at photography direction. She even pre-screened the area prior to the event for perfect photo opps. I would definitely recommend her work. Affordable and great quality :)
very helpful in deciding what kind of pictures to take at the wedding and reception.
Very professional and affordable photographer who does great outdoor/nature shots!
My fiance and I worked with Kate for our engagement photos. She was awesome! Not only did she have great ideas, but she was open to using our suggestions as well. I would definitely recommend her services!
Furek Photography offers beautiful, casual and affordable wedding, engagement,
family and event photography in the Tuscaloosa and Birmingham, Alabama area. Kate is a natural light photographer who emphasizes natural settings and captures interesting photos that reveal your personality. Artistic, fun, flexible and completely
digital, Kate is an affordable alternative to studio type portraits.
My pricing is simple and straightforward. Every photo package -- including weddings -- comes with an online gallery and digital downloads of all your edited images with rights to print. Professional prints may be purchased a la carte.
- Up to 10 hours continuous wedding coverage
- Minimum 300 images, online proofing AND hard copy proof book
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- $500 Print Credit
Get a FREE engagement session when you book *The Paris* wedding package. Engagement session includes a 2 hour photography session, a free 8x10, and online proofing of at least... | <urn:uuid:111a2357-a32d-47ea-ac04-422ad5014568> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.projectwedding.com/vendor/show/kate-bailey-photography | 2013-06-19T14:39:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952032 | 331 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Ann Arbor, MI (PRWEB) July 19, 2012
With the summer travel season in full swing, many are planning their vacations. Although traveling to new destinations is a great way to experience different cultures?one of the biggest parts being new food?it can also bring people in contact with new germs and bacteria. Travel, time zone changes, and late nights can weaken the immune system and increase the likelihood of getting sick. In fact, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that more than 10 million overseas travelers contract diarrhea and other sicknesses each year from food and drinking water.
?Trying new foods when travelling is one way many travelers experience the culture of their destination, but any trip – at home or abroad – will quickly be ruined if you eat food that has been improperly cooked or handled,? said Cheryl Luptowski, Public Information Officer for NSF International, an independent public health and safety organization committed to protecting and improving human health on a global scale. ?At NSF International, we have developed food safety recommendations for travelers to help them recognize food safety warning signs and reduce the likelihood of getting food poisoning during their vacation.?
To help protect travelers from being exposed to germs or consuming foods and beverages that might be contaminated with foodborne pathogens that make people sick, keep the following tips in mind:
1. Sanitize “high touch” areas.
Germs linger longer on nonporous materials like plastic. When travelling via plane, train or bus, wipe down common surface areas such as tray tables, seat armrests and lavatory door handles with an alcohol-based wipe or gel before you use them. If you?re staying at a hotel, do the same for the TV remote controls, bathroom door handles and telephone.
2. Be aware of who is handling the food.
Avoid establishments where the food handlers don?t practice good hygiene such as tying back their hair, wearing protective gloves and having clean hands and fingernails. If you see food servers touching their face, smoking, chewing gum, or sneezing or coughing near food, avoid purchasing food from that vendor.
3. Look for crowds.
When surveying the street food scene in any location, look for crowds — locals get sick, too, and won?t return to stalls suspected of serving unsafe food, so if there?s a crowd it?s usually a safer choice to make.
4. Be selective when choosing foods.
Since raw food is subject to contamination, and does not have the benefit of a cooking process to reduce pathogens, travelers should try to avoid salads, uncooked vegetables and unpasteurized juices and milk products. Dry foods such as cakes, cookies, and bread are safer options.
5. Spice things up.
Become familiar with spices, such as chilies and turmeric, that are known to have anti-bacterial properties and seek out dishes that include them. Acidic fruits, such as citrus fruits and pineapple, are also safer bets when traveling.
6. Be aware of the local water quality.
Avoid consuming beverages that may be mixed with the local tap water supply, such as juices or sodas from sources such as fountain machines. Be careful with beverages containing ice, since freezing does not kill most microorganisms. Beverages made with boiled water and served steaming hot (such as tea and coffee) are generally safe to drink.
7. Boil tap water before consuming.
If you need to use tap water from an unknown source, be sure to boil it for several minutes first at a good rolling boil.
8. Not all bottled water is safe.
Bottled water products in other countries can be impure or even counterfeit (i.e. refilled from a local tap source), so always check the seal to ensure it is intact. Look for a certification mark on the bottle, such as the NSF Mark.
9. Avoid over handled foods.
Avoid foods that require a lot of handling before serving or that contain raw or under cooked meat or seafood. In most cases, foods that are boiled should be safe to consume.
10. Wash vegetables and fruit prior to eating.
If you purchase fresh produce from a roadside stand be sure to wash and peel them before eating. Bacteria can be present on their exterior and when sliced can be carried into the edible section. If you are travelling in an area with unsafe water, be sure to wash the produce with bottled or filtered water.
11. Eat hot foods hot and cold foods cold.
If the dish you ordered is supposed to be served hot, make sure it is hot when it is served to you. The same is true for any foods that are intended to be served cold. Otherwise, it may not be safe to eat.
12. Remember the one-hour rule.
Don?t consume any perishable foods that have been sitting out beyond one hour.
13. Wash hands before eating or handling food.
Wash your hands with soap and water for at least 20 seconds before eating or handling food. If fresh water is scarce, use antibacterial hand gels or wipes to help keep your hands clean, especially after using a restroom and before eating. If you are traveling with children, be sure they wash their hands, too.
?Following this food safety advice on vacation will reduce the likelihood of coming in contact with bacteria that can cause food poisoning,? said Cheryl Luptowski. ?However, if you do get sick while traveling, remember to drink lots of fluids to avoid dehydration. If you experience severe abdominal cramps or pain, high fever, blood or mucus in your stool, and/or severe dehydration, contact a medical professional.?
Additional food safety information can be found in by visiting http://www.nsf.org/consumer/newsroom/kit_food_safety.asp or contacting NSF Consumer Affairs Office at info(at)nsf(dot)org.
About NSF International: NSF International (http://www.nsf.org) has been testing and certifying products for safety, health and the environment for nearly 70 years. As an independent, public health and safety organization, NSF is committed to protecting and improving human health on a global scale. NSF is working hard to protect families by testing and certifying thousands of consumer goods each year, including kitchen products and appliances, cleaners, dietary and sport supplements, bottled water, toys, pool and spa equipment, water treatment systems, plumbing fixtures, and many other products used in homes every day. Look for the NSF Mark on products you purchase.
Operating in more than 150 countries, NSF is committed to protecting families worldwide and is a World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Food and Water Safety and Indoor Environment. In addition, NSF also and certifies organic food and personal care products through Quality Assurance International (QAI). | <urn:uuid:9f1711fd-4e89-49c3-bd84-a3b9d9ff1a7a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.qualone.com/291/dont-let-food-poisoning-spoil-your-summer-vacation/ | 2013-06-19T06:01:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942575 | 1,420 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
New Sutton Hoo a Disappointment
Submitted by Milica on Tue, 2003-09-16 17:46
Weekly Telegraph: English Heritage has turned Sutton Hoo, one of Britain's prime historical
sites, into a tourist trap lacking imagination, according to "Weekly Telegraph"
writer Giles Worsley
Sutton Hoo is one of the treasures of English archaeology. The site of a Dark
Age ship burial near the Suffolk coast, the wind-swept hill, thrilled several
generations of British school children and older visitors alike with visions of
Anglo-Saxon warriors and kings. But the new visitor center, paid for by lottery
money, is a disappointment, according to journalist Giles Worsley, who reviewed
it for the Weekly Telegraph
this past spring.
"The interpretation centre and all the facilities that go with it are the
bloated product of too much lottery money swilling around and not enough good
ideas about how to spend it. The total cost of the project, which also includes
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Join Slyon and friends on a fun and addictive brick breaking adventure. Smash your way through over 90 levels of excitement. Each level brings new challenges that will have you coming back again and again. With beautiful 3d graphics, simple controls, and lack of violence; Slyon Ball can be enjoyed by nearly all age groups. Updated regularly with fresh new content. | <urn:uuid:38fdc54b-7c29-43a0-ac4b-1436bd85a9b0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.slidetoplay.com/games/slyon-ball/ | 2013-06-19T14:39:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.922134 | 72 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Salman Rushdie hissy-fit forces Facebook name U-turn
Site run by 'morons', huffs Satanic Verses writer
Facebook has upset Salman Rushdie after the company initially refused to let the controversial author use his common name rather than his first name when signing up to the network.
The writer, who is a newcomer to the Web2.0 game, explained on Twitter that his full name is Ahmed Salman Rushdie.
"Amazing. 2 days ago FB deactivated my page saying they didn't believe I was me. I had to send a photo of my passport page. THEN..." he tweeted, "they said yes, I was me, but insisted I use the name Ahmed which appears before Salman on my passport and which I have never used.
"NOW... They have reactivated my FB page as 'Ahmed Rushdie,' in spite of the world knowing me as Salman. Morons. @MarkZuckerbergF? Are you listening?"
The author of The Satanic Verses, who was forced into hiding in 1989 when a fatwa ordering Muslims to kill Rushdie was issued against him by Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini, continued to rant about his Facebook plight on Twitter.
"Maybe @MarkZuckerbergF is a phony. Is the real #Zuckerberg on Twitter? Where are you hiding, Mark? Come out here and give me back my name!" he huffed. "So if @finkd is the real #Zuckerberg: what are your people up to, sir? Why have I been denied my name on FB? An answer would be nice."
Rushdie kept up the pressure on the dominant social network by continuously tweeting to his 115,000 followers in the hope of getting a response from Zuckerberg's crew.
He argued that Facebook "forcing" him to change his name was akin to "forcing" F Scott Fitzgerald to have a Facebook profile with the name Francis Fitzgerald instead. He went on to list other people in the public eye who had commonly used their middle names, including James Paul MacCartney, George Orson Welles and William Bradley Pitt.
Eventually, Facebook gave in.
"Victory! #Facebook has buckled! I'm Salman Rushdie again. I feel SO much better. An identity crisis at my age is no fun," said the author.
He later added that the social network had sent him an apology.
"All is sweetness and light," was Rushdie's verdict. ®
Well, Rushdie _is_ right...
Farcebook _is_ run by morons. This kind of pissfight over "real" names is proof.
At any rate... good for you, Mr. Rushdie. Shame you have to be famous to get any action out of Farcebook, and a shame he was forced to show them his passport.
I recently was forced to give up my mobile phone number to have one of my Gmail accounts reactivated after Google suspended it, citing "suspicious activity" (as they have yet to define what the "activity" was, I'll have to assume they're doing it to drag in all the "refuseniks" who aren't giving in to the "let us have your mobile number in case your account is compromised" nag). Technically, it wasn't a phish as I got the message from Google as I was logging in (rather than a scam email), though due to their inability to tell me what the actual "suspicous activity" was, I'll have to assume that Google is phishing for mobile numbers.
Normally, I would've withheld my mobile number and abandoned the account, but it was the account I had to establish to set up a blog on Blogspot. Bastards. Call it a "hissy fit" if you want, but I'm totally behind Rushdie on this one.
It shouldn't matter whose religion it is....
...it should be possible to insult it without actually getting death threats.
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Krakow Call Of Booty Stag Weekend Package
There is always one guy in a group who is more competitive than then rest and one that would be the first to run off to 'get help' in a fight. If you aren't sure who these people are, go paintballing for your stag weekend. You'll soon find out!
Get stuck into the stag with a volley of paintballs fired with a satisfying ‘pop’ and bursting against his torso with a resounding ‘SPLAT’. Then get cleaned up and hit the town with our comprehensive nightlife guide to lead you in the direction of the Krakow stag do trail’s best pubs, clubs and other haunts of night. Super!
This is a strange game in the sense it really can bring out the best and worst in you. The best being you can really hammer the hell out of your mates with a tins of Dulux, the worst being they can do the same to you on paint-soaked stag do Krakow style. | <urn:uuid:d7033bd6-8fa0-4d80-9809-db0e67374608> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thestagcompany.com/krakow-stag-weekends/paintball-package | 2013-06-19T14:38:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957048 | 217 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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LNX Leather Jacket
Designed, patterned and styled specifically for women.
Constructed with a combination of perforated and non-perforated top-grain, Grade A Aniline Drum-Dyed leather (1.2-1.3mm).
Removable, CE approved shoulder and elbow armor.
Full circumference and 8 jacket/pant attachment zippers.
Removable insulated liner features 100 gm poly fill insulation in the body and 50 gm in the removable sleeves.
Stitched with high-strength bonded nylon thread.
Zippered hand pockets feature a mesh liner and double as vents.
Large rear exhaust vent with 2-way zipper.
Two vertical hip zippers improve the fit when rider is seated.
Accordion-style expansion panels at the shoulder and waist for increased flexibility and fit.
Rotated sleeves for comfort and performance in the riding position.
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|Sam Serley - 2
2011 AVCA All-American Honorable Mention Selection (two-time selection)
2011 AVCA All-Midwest Region (two-time selection)
2011 First Team All-Conference USA
2011 Conference USA All-Academic Team
2011 Conference USA Spirit of Service Award
Enters the season ranking in the top 25 in Conference USA history in career hitting percentage (.326/16th), blocks per set (1.12/22nd) and total blocks (379/24th). Ranks in the top 10 in UAB history for career hitting percentage (3rd), total blocks (4th), block assists (6th) and solo blocks (7th).
AS A JUNIOR (2011)
Started all 32 matches and participated in all 118 sets ... finished third in the conference in overall hitting percentage (.351) and blocks per set (1.31) ... ranked 29th in blocks per set and 42nd in hitting percentage out of all Division I student-athletes ... concluded the year in the top 10 in UAB single season records for block assists (121/3rd), total blocks (154/4th) and attacking percentage (.351/6th) ... recorded first two double-doubles of career - vs. Illinois State (15k, 10b) and vs. Eastern Kentucky (10k, 10b) ... the 10-block outings marked career-highs ... totaled a team-high 287 kills ... averaged 2.43 kills per set ... posted 14 matches in double-digit kills ... produced 15 matched of five-or-more blocks ... stonewalled opponents with 33 solo blocks and 121 block assists ... captured first-ever C-USA Offensive Player of the Week award on Oct. 10 ... rocketed a season-high 20 kills, including six in the fifth set of a victory at UCF on Oct. 8 ... registered a C-USA-best hitting percentage of .750 (16k-1e-20ta) on Sept. 30 in a five-set win at Tulane...named to all-tournament teams at the Creighton Classic, First State Skyhawk Invitational and Kennesaw State Owls Classic (MVP) ... earned a spot on the C-USA All-Academic Team, commissioner's honor roll and the academic medal ... C-USA Spirit of Service Award recipient.
AS A SOPHOMORE (2010)
Became the third player in UAB history to earn honorable mention All-America honors from the AVCA ... also an AVCA All-Region selection and second-team All-Conference USA performer ... tabbed to the C-USA All-Academic Team, as well ... the only UAB player to start all 32 matches ... led the Blazers and ranked third in C-USA with 128 total blocks (1.08 per set) ... posted 36 solo blocks, the most by a Blazer since 1995, to rank ninth on the school's single-season list ... topped UAB and ranked ninth in the league with a .318 attack percentage, the ninth-best single-season mark in school history ... also led the team with 333 kills (2.82 per set) ... finished second on the squad with 20 service aces ... posted double-digit kills in 16 matches and managed at least 14 kills 10 times ... racked up a career-high 23 kills Sept. 11 in a five-set win over Arkansas ... had nine matches with an attack percentage better than .400 ... tallied 13 matches with at least 5.0 blocks ... reached a season-high 8.0 blocks three times - Oct. 3 at Marshall, Oct. 15 versus Rice and Oct. 22 at UCF ... had a nine-match stretch from Oct. 10 through Nov. 6 where she averaged 3.37 kills and 1.37 blocks per set while hitting at a .360 rate ... named to the all-tournament team at Georgia Tech's Courtyard Marriott Classic (Aug. 27-28) ... selected to the C-USA Commissioner's Honor Roll and received the C-USA Commissioner's Academic Medal.
AS A FRESHMAN (2009)
A Conference USA All-Freshman Team selection ... played in 31 matches with 26 starts ... ranked seventh in C-USA in attack percentage (.310) and 11th in blocks per set (0.96) ... part of a unit that helped make UAB the third-best blocking team in the league ... finished second on the team with 279 kills (2.76 per set) ... reached double-digit kills in 10 matches ... had a season-high 19 kills twice - Sept. 17 at Memphis and Sept. 27 against Rice ... managed 18 kills on two other occasions ... led UAB in kills for six straight matches from Sept. 12-22 ... hit for a percentage of .350 or better in 12 contests ... posted at least five blocks in eight matches ... set a season-high with nine blocks twice - Sept. 5 vs. Milwaukee and Nov. 14 against Memphis ... selected to all-tournament teams at the Tiger Invitational in Memphis (Sept. 18-19) and the War Eagle Invitational at Auburn (Aug. 28-29) ... named to the C-USA Commissioner's Honor Roll.
Played at Independence High School for coach Stephanie Prewitt ... led Independence to a state championship in 2008 on her way to all-state recognition ... also named region MVP her senior year ... a two-time all-midstate selection and a three-time all-district honoree ... named one of PrepVolleyball.com's Top 79 Sophomores in 2006 and selected a PrepVolleyball.com Senior Ace in 2008 ... played at the club level for Impact Volleyball Club in the Nashville area, where she was a teammate of fellow Blazer Alison Woods ... led Impact to a pair of national championships and was chosen as the JOVC MVP in 2006 ... graduated with honors from Independence, where she was a member of the Principal's List and the High Honor Roll.
Samantha Lilly Serley ... born Dec. 14, 1990 in Syracuse, N.Y. ... daughter of Bob and Dee Serley ... has one brother, Zach ... majoring in health care management with a minor in accounting. | <urn:uuid:a6a64cff-7a58-4c8a-a328-0d8d05039d81> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.uabsports.com/sports/w-volley/mtt/serley_sam00.html | 2013-06-19T14:38:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943732 | 1,291 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
OPAL & DIAMOND CLUSTER RING, THE LARGE OVAL OPAL SET WITH A SURROUND OF BRILLIANT-CUT DIAMONDS & THE SETTING MARKED 18K (480-550)
A Fine Swiss Guilloch Enamel and Silver Mantel Clock. Circa 1910. The case deorated in coloured enamel with floral swags centered by a vignette of a classical maiden and a winged cherub. The dial with Aravic numerals. Hour striking movement . The case by Hask of Geneve. Stamped no. 58326 and 925 for sterling silver.
A JAPANESE FULL ARMOUR (TOSEI GUSOKU), EDO PERIOD comprising thirty-two plate kabuto with lacquered peak and neck-guard (losses), lacquered mempo, black lacquered cuirass and a pair of full arm and leg defences formed of lacquered plates and mail on fabric (the lacquer with losses, areas of rust) Stand not included
A second half 20th Century Art Deco style figural table lamp, modelled as a nude girl wearing a sash, leaning backwards holding the lamp above her, raised on stepped marble base, 33in. (44cms) high.
A pair of Indian, Moghal style chandelier earrings set with table cut diamonds with smaller rose cut diamonds on articulated links and an intricate enamel design to rear. Suspending 9 pear shape droppers, each diamond set. Approx. 12cts per earring.
A ladies platinum and diamond HAMILTON wristwatch circa 1920's, weighing approx. 25g and set with both single and full cut diamonds. Set with approx. 2.5cts of diamonds in total. Bracelet is fitted with double hinged fastener and safety chain.
BRAM BOGART. Framed, signed oil on canvas. 20th Century Belgian school. Modernist composition. 60.5cm x 40cm.
FRANK WILLIAM WARWICK TOPHAM. Framed signed and dated 1886 oil on canvas. Continental fishing village with soldier and his wife, watching their children playing with toy boats. 84 x 60 cms
An impressive collection of used stamps of Great Britain in 4 SG Windsor albums, sparse in earlier years but many better stamps present incl. 1883 5 s. red (SG 180), 10s. blue (SG 183a) and £1 green (SG 212), all fine used. 1902 5s. red ( SG264 good used), good seahorses, £1 blue silver wedding issue (SG 494 ) fine used and sets of King Geo VI higher values also noticed, requires viewing
An Armand Marseille 'Flapper' lady doll, having a composition head, weighted eyes with eyelashes, and an open mouth with teeth, her body being straw filled cotton, wearing her original apple green linen dress with felt flower trims and cloche hat, marked Germany, 390, A.5/OX.M, 37 cm
A George V two-handled presentation cup, by Horace Woodward & Co. Ltd., London 1913, circular tapered with embossed mid rib, engraved inscription 'Presented to Daniel Thornton in Commemoration of 50 Years Continuous Service with the firm of Edward Ripley & Son Ltd....', engraved facsimile signatures, 9in. (23cms), 27.380oz.
A Charles II oak dresser, the planked top with a moulded edge and frieze above three drawers, the central drawer with geometric panels and fitted brass handles, shaped apron below, panelled sides, the whole on baluster turned and block legs, approx. 82cm high x 42cm wide
Very Rare Pooh Calender 1930 decorated by Ernest Shepard verses by A.A.Milne Methuen & Co. London some deterioration in corner light staining and scuffing
William John Caparne (British 1856=1940) Rocks at Bec du Nez, Guernsey watercolour, signed 21.5 x 30in (54.5 x 76cm).
William III silver sixpence Exeter stamp 1697 slight pitting otherwise good condition
LIN FENGMIAN. With stamped signature and character mark, framed watercolour on paper. Mountainous lake scene. See Chinese storage invoice verso. 32.5cms square.
SILVER SALVER, SHEFFIELD 1946, 30GMS (200-300)
OVAL CAMEO BROOCH IN DECORATIVE MOUNT MARKED 9CT (70-90)
A James Macintyre & Co Florian Ware vase by WilIiam Moorcroft, Iris pattern of narrow necked baluster form with flaring rim painted in shades of blue, printed mark, incised monogram, numbed M. 705, approx. 23cm. high A/F
A Chinese silver pedestal bowl makers mark indistinct, of circular form with engraved rim and engraved hexagonal segmented interior, set on a raised and engraved circular foot, weight 20.3 oz 578 grams, 10in (25cm) diameter, 5.5in (14cm) high.
A pair of Naples cabinet plates with decoration in raised relief depicting Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette,with gilt ground centres, 10in (25.5cm) diameter (2).
Breché Marble Fireplace with Matching Clock Dated 1865 Medal D'Argent Gold Winner from 1855 and Candelabras.
A highly unusual Italian Renaissance style carved giltwood and faux tortoiseshell Folio Stand, foliate carved sides with 'C' scrolls and on four short scrolling legs, original collection labels to underside, 45cm wide
A FINE PAIR OF 25 BORE FLINTLOCK DUELLING PISTOLS BY TWIGG, LONDON, CIRCA 1785-88 with browned twist octagonal swamped sighted barrels signed in block capitals, case-hardened breeches inlaid with a pair of engraved gold lines, gold-lined vents, stamped with London proof marks and one with the barrelsmith's initials 'TP' beneath, engraved case-hardened tangs fitted with standing back-sights, stepped bevelled locks signed in first form of signature and engraved with a sunburst, fitted with bolt safety-catches also engaging the steels, gold-lined rainproof pans, rollers, blued detents, blued mainsprings, set triggers, highly figured walnut half-stocks with finely chequered butts (light bruising, minor scratches), engraved blued steel mounts comprising spurred trigger-guards with pineapple finials and ramrod-pipes, silver vacant shield-shaped escutcheons, silver barrel bolt escutcheons (one cracked, barrel bolts with chips), horn fore-end caps, with one original steel-tipped and an associated horn-tipped ramrod, retaining much original finish, and in untouched condition throughout: in original mahogany cased lined in red baize (the interior worn, the lid slightly warped), the lid with flush fitting carrying handle and rectangular escutcheon engraved 'Captain Coghlan Royal Navy, and with a steel bullet mould 25.5cm; 10in barrels Jeremiah Coghlan (1774/5-1844), naval officer, was in January 1796 mate of a merchant ship at Plymouth, and on the occasion of the wreck of the East Indiaman Dutton displayed such energy and courage that Pellew offered to put him on the Indefatigable's quarter-deck. He continued for three years in the Indefatigable and in March 1799 followed Pellew to the Impétueux. In June 1800 Coghlan was put by Pellew in command of the cutter Viper, and while watching Port Louis proposed to cut out a French gun-vessel at the entrance of the harbour. Pellew lent him a ten-oared cutter, and in this, with eighteen men and a midshipman - Silas Hiscutt Paddon - on the night of 29 July, he boarded the gun-brig Cerbère and after a hard fight captured her 'within pistol-shot of three batteries, surrounded by several armed craft, and not a mile from a 74 bearing an admiral's flag, and two frigates' (E. Pellew, Despatch). Both Coghlan and Paddon received several severe wounds, six of Coghlan's men were wounded, and one was killed; but the Cerbère was taken and towed out under heavy fire from the batteries. The squadron, to mark their admiration, gave up the prize to the immediate captors; and Pellew, in his official letter to Lord St Vincent, emphasized the courage and skill 'which … effected so daring an enterprise' (ibid.). St Vincent, in forwarding Pellew's letter to the Admiralty, praised the achievement and in a letter to Pellew privately asked him to present to Coghlan a sword of 100 guineas' value. On St Vincent's representation, Coghlan, though he had served in the Navy for only four and a half years, was promoted lieutenant on 22 September 1800 and continued in command of the Viper until she was paid off in October 1801. In spring 1802 he was appointed to the cutter Nimble, and on 1 May 1804 was promoted to command the sloop Renard on the Jamaica station. On 20 March 1805 he brought to action the French privateer Général Ernouf, which, after an action of thirty-five minutes, was set on fire and blew up with the loss of upwards of a hundred men. In August 1807 Coghlan was moved into the brig Elk on the same station, and for nearly four years was senior officer of a light squadron for the protection of the Bahamas. He was promoted captain on 27 November 1810 but continued in the Elk until the following summer. In September 1812 Coghlan was appointed to the Caledonia as flag captain of Pellew, then commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean. At the end of 1813 he exchanged into the frigate Alcmène and continued in her until the end of the Napoleonic wars. On 4 June 1815 he was nominated a CB, and from 1826 to 1830 commanded the frigate Forte on the South American station. Coghlan married a daughter of Charles Hay of Jamaica, widow of Captain John Marshall RN; he had one son Sir William Marcus Coghlan (1803-1885). Taken from <http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/5817?docPos=4> , 26th March 2013, with amendments pending for the next edition, September 2013. John Fox Twigg (1732-90) is recorded gunmaker in Charing Cross 1755-60, 132 Strand 1760-76 and at Piccadilly circa 1776-9. He was in partnership with his nephew, John Bass, from 1788 until his death.
Fine and early McEwan feather ball longnose curved face long spoon c.1840 – the elegant dark stained beech wood head measures 5.25” x 1” deep face x 1 7/8” w – fitted with a scarce 45” extra long and slender whippy shaft with two small bands of whipping – retaining nearly two thirds of the original grip and underlisting
EDWARDIAN SILVER BOOT PIN CUSHION S. BLACKENSEE AND SONS LIMITED, CHESTER 1909, VELVET CUSHION AND WOODEN BASE, 12.7CMS LONG (180-220)
A pair of 18ct white gold CARTIER cufflinks, accompanied with Cartier Box. The stirrup style cufflink fitted with a hinged bar which locks into place. Signed Cartier, marked 750, numbered 75662
A Fine Pair of Late Victorian/Edwardian Diamond Earrings. Approximately 7 carats in total. 65mm drop. In an original case for Kirkby and Bunn Court Jewellers 44 Old Bond Street.
A child’s elephant teething ring, Birmingham 1953
† Curtis (William) The Botanical Magazine, or, Flower-Garden Displayed, vols 1-46 in 25, 8vo, early 19th-century diced calf gilt, spines gilt in compartments, portrait, 2110 engraved plates (some folding), all but 3 hand-coloured, index leaf to each volume, 'General Indexes to... the first twenty volumes' bound at the end of vol 20, 1793- 1819 See illustration 120, 903B uncoloured
A rare and unusual 15 carat gold Photo Locket engraved with a floral bouquet and birds and floral sprays verso, with a 15 carat gold Chain
A Royal Worcester vase of ovoid 2 handled form, decorated with highland cattle by Harry Stinton, ht 8.5"
A 1930's Clarice Cliff jug (hairline crack)
A 1930s oyster tambour-worked lace and satin wedding dress, as worn by Miss Mary Heath in 1937, comprising panelled and darted bodice with ribbon straps, above a tiered skirt, together with scallop-cut satin jacket, green velvet belt and trimmings (a/f)
<p>Subject to more than 30 years' research into its provenance and materials, this Renaissance painting of the Madonna and Child, believed to be by Raphael as the prototype for the Sistine Madonna, is now offered for sale by auction.</p> <h2>Evidence of its originality includes</h2> <ul> <li>Pentimenti - underdrawing - where the artist has experimented with the composition which would not appear on a copy.</li> <li>The blue coloration is a vegetable-derived dye <em>turnsole</em> (or similar organic indicator dye), known to be used only up to about 1600 for manuscript illumination, and not previously recorded in an oil painting.</li> <li>X-ray analysis shows pounce-marks exclusively across the knuckles and around the fingers of the Madonna's right hand and around the upper bicep of the Child. This indicates use of an auxiliary cartoon – a technique peculiar to Raphael.</li> <li>And its size (approx. 98 cm diameter) is consistent with the size of Raphael's known tondos</li> </ul> <h2>Important scientific and historical evidence includes</h2> <ul> <li> Analysis by eight independent laboratories, including Raman spectroscopic analysis by Professor Emeritus Howell Edwards, University of Bradford, which showed the yellow colour to be <em>massicot</em>, substantiated the date of the painting to pre-1700.</li> <li>The monogram on the reverse of the canvas substantiates that the picture was in the collection or possession of Queen Henrietta Maria (1609-69), wife of Charles I.</li> </ul> <p>The opinion of Professor Dr Jürg Meyer zur Capellen, scholar at the forefront of Raphael research, of the University of Münster and of the Raphael project jointly with Würzburg university, confirms:</p> <blockquote>"I believe it very likely that the tondo had once been in the collection or possession of Sir Richard Wynn of Gwydir coming from Queen Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I. The painting might have had a certain significance in the catholic aims of Henrietta Maria, fostered by the Holy See. So it is possible that the painting was done in Rome for this purpose".</blockquote> <h2>Condition Report</h2> The painting is of a circular image within a square canvas. The canvas size is (height x width) 102.5 (+) x 103.7 - 104 cm. The horizontal diameter of the image is between 95.5 and 98 cm. and the vertical diameter is between 99 and 100 cm. The painted "frame", between the circle of the image and the square of the canvas, is loosely painted brown. The stretcher is of dressed wood and is constructed in a square with uniform diagonal battens across the corners. The stretcher is tensioned by wedges at the corners and the intersections. The canvas is secured to the stretcher by hand-made tin-tacks. Two areas of overpainting are clearly visible: the folds of the sleeve of the Madonna, and Her bodice. The overpainting is crude, especially on the sleeve where the brushwork is out of character with the rest of the painting. The fold is a stylised fold, without any unique detail which observation would have provided. Excerpt quotations as above from Dr Murdoch Lothian PhD thesis 'The Methods Employed to Provenance and to Attribute Putative Works by Raphael'. Liverpool University 1991 The painting was reframed and glazed at the National Conservation Centre, Liverpool 1, following conservation work on the painting undertaken at the Centre in the period January to May 2000.
A framed etching ‘H.M.S. Victory’ sig. Chas H. Clark.
Mickey Mouse ''Silly Symphonies,'' set of records in original presentation book.
An Austrian cold painted bronze depicting a Bedouin riding a camel, 13cm (5'') high/see illustration
Nautical – White Star and Cunard luggage labels and menus etc.
Rare 1967 Ryder Cup Victory Dinner signed menu - held at The Champions Club Houston Texas October 1967 – fully signed by both teams and captains alongside their team details to incl US Captain Ben Hogan, Arnold Palmer, Julius Boros, Billy Casper, Johnny Pott, Bobby Nicols, Gardner Dickinson, Gene Littler, Doug Sanders, Gay Brewer and Al Gieberger and US PGA President Max Elbin – and GB Captain Dai Rees, Peter Allis, Bernard Hunt, Tony Jacklin, Brian Huggett, Neil Coles, Christy O’Connor, George will, Malcolm Gregson, Hugh Boyle and David Thomas and PGA President Earl of Derby – minor marks to cover otherwise (VG)
A Fine and Rare Moonstone. Approximately 487.3 carats. Of purple blue fluorescent colour. 50 mm long. 97.7 grams.
Laurence Stephen Lowry (1887-1976). Berwick Upon Tweed, artist signed coloured print, 53cm x 43cm
A FINE AND RARE 80 BORE THURINGIAN WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING RIFLE, CIRCA 1590 with very heavy swamped sighted barrel, small bore, probably for birding, rifled with eight slender grooves, flat lock struck with the maker's initials 'V.S.' , retained by two side nails, fitted with external wheel with low domed brass cover engraved with scrollwork and retained by an engraved moulded brass band decorated with trellis pattern interrupted by fruit and foliage, finely engraved pan-fence, engraved sliding pan-cover decorated by a grotesque and with button release, engraved dog formed as a scaly monster rising from a scroll of foliage, and a later grotesque rondel, the inside with filed spring and details retained by a shaped bridle delicately engraved with a grotesque mask, full stock profusely inlaid over its entire surface in staghorn with scrolling ball flower tendrils inhabited by exotic birds within ropework frames, a broad ropework panel along the entire length of the underside of the fore-end, a staghorn panel decorated with a bird-of-prey plucking fruit beneath the lock, the tang enclosed by staghorn panels decorated with bearded profiles within scrollwork frames, the butt applied with staghorn veneer engraved with strapwork involving masks, garlands of round fruit and podded legumes on the spine, with raised cheek-piece decorated en suite including a stag set upon by a hound on the left and with patchbox with sliding cover veneered in staghorn with a Wildman clutching an arrow and a flaming orb beneath further matching garlands of fruit on the right, later engraved staghorn butt-cap, steel trigger-guard shaped for the fingers, engraved staghorn ramrod-pipes and fore-end cap (the inlay with minor restorations and lifting, the butt with a small crack), and wooden ramrod with staghorn tip, perhaps the original 100cm; 39 3/8in barrel Provenance The Lord Astor of Hever, sold Sotheby's, London, 5th May 1983, lot 75. A sporting rifle, formerly in the collection of Beriah Botfield at Norton Hall, signed by the same lockmaker and decorated in an identical manner is preserved in the Royal Armouries, Leeds (inv. no. XII.1197). The armouries rifle is of larger bore, shorter barrel length and is engraved with the arms of Saxony on the butt-cap. It is evident that these two guns were made for the same patron and probably formed part of a larger garniture. See G. Rimer 2001, p.42. This rifle belongs to a distinctive group of highly decorated wheel-lock firearms that have been attributed to the hand of Klaus Hirt of Wassungen, Thuringia on the basis of a single pistol that is signed by him and is preserved in the Historischen Museum, Bern. A pistol from this group signed by the stockmaker 'L.B.' was sold Sotheby's Olympia, 5th December 2002, lot 241. Another unsigned pistol decorated in this manner was sold in these rooms, 5th December 2012, lot 303.
Karl Heffner 1849-1925. A fine gilt framed oil painting on canvas ‘Flood Time’ 11x14ins signed.
A pair of Oriental blue glaze soli fleur vases decorated with applied lacquer (now worn), 11in. high.
An Edwardian 9ct gold necklace with a central pear shape precious opal set into a claw setting, surrounded by a decorative foliate wreath frame, set with old cut diamonds and pearls.
A sterling silver decorative egg locket by Saramai. The locket inlaid with a royal blue enamel and set with marcasite and seed pearls. Marked 925
Hassall, John (1868-1948) SET OF FOUR CHROMOLITHOGRAPHS C. 1900 TITLED “THE DRIVE”, “A BAD LIE”” BUNKERED” AND “PUTTING” – in original oak frames with gilt slips – mage 10x 26 – overall 15.5x32” – some staining otherwise good sharp colours Note John Hassall was born in Kent in 1868 and lived until 1948. He was one of the most influential illustrators of the early twentieth century and illustrated ads, prints, pottery and postcards in England. He was a contemporary of Cecil Aldin and similarly a member of the London Sketch Club and produced several well known golfing images
A German Field Artillery Officers pickelhaube, c.1897-1915, with ball pattern finial on a black leather skull mounted with a brass helmet plate, red and black painted rosettes holding scaled chin strap and metal-rimmed front peak, 8in. (20cms) high; with original canvas cover.
An early 20th Century glass table lamp, the hexagonal cut stem with knop towards base, starcut underside and metal mount.
**A FINE AND RARE CHINESE DECORATED HELMET, 17TH/18TH CENTURY, PROBABLY FOR A MEMBER OF THE IMPERIAL HOUSEHOLD with tall skull formed of four iron plates each decorated on the outside in damascened gold with four Lentsa characters above a running five clawed dragon, the plates joined on the inside by a slender iron panel and the outside with two gilt iron panels with engraved shaped foliate projections (two outer panels missing), the top of the skull with a large pierced iron central boss retained by four bud-shaped rivets all thickly encrusted with gold, decorated at the top with an expanded flowerhead, and at the front with a pair of dragons on either side of a central flaming jewel motif, all framed by a pair of ropework bands, the base of the skull encircled by an iron beadwork band surmounted by matching foliate projections secured by a pronounced bud-shaped rivets, all thickly encrusted in gold and with traces of a cheek and nape defences (probably of leather), fitted at the front with a brow-plate decorated in inlaid gold with a symmetrical pattern of scrollwork filled with differing flowerheads, topshells and a central flaming jewel design, pierced shaped peak thickly encrusted in gold and decorated with a design of scrollwork and a central monstrous mask, and retaining much gold throughout (the skull plates with small areas of pitting) 23cm; 9 1/8in high Provenance Morris J. Pinto, Geneva 1990 A helmet with two-piece skull and decorated in a closely related manner is preserved in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (inv. no. 2005.270. See D. Larocca 2006, no. 18 pp. 83-4. The five clawed dragon was adopted as a motif on the robes of Government Officials and members of the Imperial family from the 14th Century. It is one of the twelve ornaments, all twelve being present only on the robes of the Emperor.
A FINE PAIR OF 20 BORE SILVER-MOUNTED FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOLS FOR PRESENTATION TO A POTENTATE, CIRCA 1830 in the English taste, with swamped barrels formed in three stages, engraved and inlaid in gold with a sunburst behind the muzzles, lines over the medians, foliage, flowers and strapwork over the breeches, matching tangs, stepped bolted locks engraved and gilt en suite with the breeches, fitted with rainproof pans, rollers and 'French' cocks, and matching top-jaws and steels, full stocks profusely inlaid in silver with scrolling leafy tendrils and flowers, full silver mounts cast, chased and parcel gilt with flowers and leafy scrolls in low relief against a matted ground, comprising shaped solid side-plates, spurred pommels, trigger-guards, a pair of ramrod-pipes, and escutcheons, engraved barrel bolt escutcheons, and original silver-tipped ramrods 22.8cm; 9in barrels (2)
A large Chinese famille-vert bowl, bearing banded decoration incorporating animals and birds, surrounding a central circular reserve containing two mythical creatures frolicking within a stylized garden, 38 cm
**A RARE 80 BORE FOUR BARELLED FLINTLOCK TRAVELLING PISTOL BY DURS EGG, CIRCA 1800 with plain barrels numbered 4-7, border-engraved breech numbered en suite, box-lock action signed on the left within a rectangular panel carried by trophies-of-arms, fitted with tap-lever on the left for exposing the upper and lower pans, and with sliding lever on the right for covering the right-hand chambers, engraved thumb-piece safety-catch also locking the steel, engraved tang, rounded figured walnut butt (probably an early association), engraved trigger-guard, and vacant silver shield-shaped escutcheon 6.7cm; 2 5/8in barrels Durs Egg (1748-1822), son of the Swiss gunmaker Leonz Egg, came to London and worked for John Twigg in 1772. He is recorded Contractor to the Ordnance 1784-1820, and Gunmaker to George IV and the Duke of York.
A Ruskin vase with mottled decoration and a Doulton Lambeth green glazed ewer
Spanish Netherlands Silver Brabant Patogon, Thaler Crown. Date 1634 Philip IV. Weight 27g
Inlaid Edwardian Bookcase Display Cabinet. Needs Some Repair. Attractive.
A set of four 19th Century William IV Classical Revival Walnut Salon Chairs decorated in the manner of Thomas Hope (Dutch / British, 1769 - 1831). Each chair decorated with gilt highlights to the stop fluted legs, the uprights, backs and front rails inlaid with exotic wood (possibly Thuya or Amaranth). The turned legs united by turned and block 'H' form stretchers with the front legs terminating in miniature cup bun feet complete with original gilt metal castors, (later upholstery), (4) cf. The Phillips Guide to Chairs by Peter Johnson p. 58 and 59 for two examples of similarly decorated chairs.
Emile Vernon (1872-1919). Flowers and pink bowl, oil on canvas, signed and dated (18)96, 61cm x 77cm
A Naples casket 19th century, of oval form with gilt metal mounts and polychrome decoration, the hinged lid decorated in raised relief with Amphitrite riding on a sea serpent with four putti attendants, the sea with realistic waves enclosed by gilt painted border, the base with a depiction of Poseidon and two sea horses and attendants in high relief, 8.5in wide (21.5cm)
A Peranakan Chanab (Offering Box) Straights Chinese, late 19th century, of rectangular form in two sections, the top section front and back ornately carved and pierced with red lacquered and gilt decorated pinewood, depicting battle scenes, the sides with birds, flowers and leaves, the base with six division open interior offering section with cinnabar red decoration, the exterior with pierced and gilded decoration depicting dragons, 10.5 (26.5cm) wide, 8in (20.5cm) high, 5in (13cm) deep.
An Art Nouveau glass pot with brass lid.
18CT GOLD EMERALD & DIAMOND CLUSTER RING. THE OVAL EMERALD IN A SURROUND OF 12 BRILLIANT CUT DIAMONDS (3000-4000)
A JAPANESE LACQUERED HELMET (JINGASA), LATE EDO OR MEIJI PERIOD of very low conical form, slightly raised brim, the outer surface lacquered black and decorated in red and gilt with a pattern of densely scrolling foliage, and three differing mon, and the inside lacquered black (areas of wear, small chips) 42cm; 16 1/2in diameter
A 19th Century mahogany decanter box with hinged lid enclosing six plain square-shaped decanters, each with mushroom-shaped stoppers, fitted brass carrying handles, 10 1/2 x 7 1/4 x 8 1/2in. (27 x 19 x 22cms) high.
A cased 5 piece silver and tortoiseshell back dressing table set, Birmingham 1923
A Pair of early 19th Century Staffordshire pearlware bocage figures by Walton of a Showman and Show woman, the man playing a trumpet and the lady a tambourine, decorated in enamel colours and each marked to back with scroll each approx. 17cm high, with another 20th Century figure marked 'Tenderness' with a Walton mark to back
A Victorian oak and marquetry inlaid work table, circa 1860, the rectangular moulded edge top inset with flowerheads and fleur-de-lys, initialled ''R.B.'' centred with an eagle crest, upon a Gothic trefoil and quatrefoil carved frieze and octagonal carved stem with carved crossover base, 76cm x 56cm (30'' x 22'')/Provenance: Wells House, Gorey/ Co. Wexford/see illustration
A George III mahogany writing table with rectangular gadrooned top, with fitted drawer and square chamfered legs, the frieze and legs carved with blind fret work, 96.5cm (38'') wide/see illustration
A 19th Century mahogany folding games table, a pair of hinged flaps opening to reveal the green baize lining, fitted a single drawer to the frieze with slide under, raised on turned tapering legs, 18 x 18 x 28in. high.
Hand painted enamel of wood and river scene mounted in gold metal brooch with niello work and eleven claw set pearls
A Georgian mahogany chest of drawers, having satinwood cross banding, single frieze drawer flanked by two false examples, two short over three graded long drawers with ivory escutcheons and later turned handles, gadrooned stiles, shaped apron and bracket feet, 123 x 52 x 121 cm (a/f)
Irish Silver 5 Pod Candlestick by Irish Silver Limited Dated 1971.
Irish school of artists – Maurice Canning Wilks 1911-1983. Attributed. A framed oil painting on canvas ‘Autumn near Bryansford, County Down’. 20x24ins. Purchased by the vendor, in Ireland c1974
† A lion skin rug, by Rowland Ward, London,with stuffed head fitted glass eyes, mounted on blue baize, 81 x 100in. (206 x 254cms).
A Chinese long necked white ground bottle vase with 6 character mark to base, 11'' high
A Unique Opportunity to Purchase Parts from The Chinese Rocket HN 3. Fired in 2007 at a low orbit satellite. The first time in history this has been successfully attempted. Provenance of the 130cm, 3.690 kg, HN-3 Marked Duralumin Strut from the 2007 Chinese Satellite knock Down in Space using " Kinetic Energy ", Salvaged under International Maritime Laws from the Far North Eastern Coast of Hokkaido's Sea of Okhostk in May 2011. Please see our 'Press Release Page' for more.
A Victorian sugar basket, by Charles Thomas Fox, London 1840, of circular tapered form, with openwork leaf and twig design, swing handle, on leaf pattern feet, 5in. (13cms), with associated glass liner, 6.580oz.
Marathon Horse Carriage with 4 Hydraulic Disc Brakes and Hand Brake Feature. New
Bohemian Armorial green glass goblet with enamelled decoration and painted anchor and cross makers mark underneath
An interesting Collection of Roman and other Ancient bronze and silver coins (117 pieces.) A genuine old collection, still with their Victorian collectors envelopes.
Alex Doig Musselburgh Mahogany inlaid slim longcase clock with a hand painted early golfing scene to the half moon face top c/w with Roman Coliseum pillars, scroll cornices, the face features roman numerals, ornate skeleton hands together with veneer motif to the base - c/w pendulum and weights – overall 87”x 9.5” x 9” Note Alexander Doig (1780-1853) was noted clock maker who moved from Edinburgh to Musselburgh in 1814 and carried on his watch making business up until the time of his passing in 1853. There were two marriages recorded in the family both who had sons named Alexander who more than likely carried on in the family clock making business
A Rene Lalique opalescent glass bowl, Ondines pattern no 380, relief moulded with six swimming female nude mermaids to sides, etched mark to side, approx. 20cm dia
John Boyd (1940-2001). Still life model ship, oil on canvas, signed, 74cm x 89cm, bears artists label verso
A Chinese carved jade/quartz box and cover modelled as a Kylin on fitted carved wood stand, height 5.25'' and a carved soapstone group of birds of paradise on fitted stand.
A large bevelled wall mirror in ornate Florentine giltwood and gesso frame, decorated with leaf motifs and acanthus scrolls, 37 x 46in. high.
Alberto Morrocco (1917-1998). Italian male, oil on board, signed and titled verso 26cm x 49cm
A sapphire and diamond cluster ring, the oval mixed cut sapphire claw set within a bezel of mixed cut diamonds millegrain set in shaped mount above tapering shoulders, hoop stamped 18ct., ring size J.
A gold, enamel and diamond pendant, of marquise shape centred by a diamond set monogram on a red guilloché enamel ground within a border of white enamel swags, the reverse with applied monogram on mother of pearl, hung on an articulated neck chain, the pendant 6cm (2.25'') high including bail/see illustration
A pair of brass candlesticks on square bases, 10in. high; a pair of brass candlesticks on stepped square bases, 10in. high; a pair of brass candlesticks on plain circular columns on circular bases, 10in. high; a pair of brass candlesticks on spiral twist columns and circular bases 10in. high; a pair of brass candlesticks with turned columns and knop stems on circular bases, 8 1/2in. high; and one small circular chamberstick on dish base.
A blue glass snuff bottle painted with coloured flowers to sides, 3'' high
A PARTIAL GERMAN SPAUDLER FOR THE LEFT SHOULDER, BY VALENTIN SIEBENBURGER, NUREMBERG, CIRCA 1535 formed of three lames overlapping outwards from the second, the first struck with the mark of its maker (defaced by a later hole), the quality-control mark of the City of Nuremberg and five dots indicating the position of the spaudler within its garniture, its main edge formed with a roped inward turn accompanied by a double recessed border of which the broader outer one is finely etched on a stippled and blackened ground with running foliage involving vine-leaves, and the centre of its second lame formed with a lenticular recess divided medially by a roped rib and etched to either side of it with a narrower version of its border-design 17.0 cm; 6¾ in Provenance The Marques of Breadalbane, Taymouth Castle, Scotland Gerald I. Mungeam, London Anthony. B. L. Dove, London Ian Eaves, London The spaudler was among a group of pieces that came to light in a tea-chest in an out-house of Taymouth Castle in the 1960s, having evidently been overlooked at the time of the dispersal of the collection of the Marquess of Breadalbane by Christie's on 20 May 1895 and 5 June 1917. The armour for man and horse of the Pfalzgraf Philipp in the Musée de Rennes, Brittany, possesses exactly the same kind of double borders, lenticular recesses and running-vine ornament as the spaudler (Alexander von Reitzenstein, 'Ein Harnisch Valentin Sibenbürgers in französischem Museumsbesitz', Waffen- und Kostûmkunde, Vol. 3, pt. 2, 1973, pp. 99-108). Other pieces showing these features can be recorded in the Musée de l'Armée, Paris, Inv.Nos. G. 314, G. 591, G.436-6 & G.568, and in the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg. All bear the mark of Valentin Siebenburger (circa 1510-1564), the leading Nuremberg maker of his day. His house, opposite that of Albrecht Dûrer, is now a public house named 'Zum Geharnischten Mann".
A Fine Chinese green Glaze Vase. With moulded decoration throughout. Bears a six character Quinlong mark to base. 31 cm high
An early C20th African carved ivory oval box and cover decorated with elephants, 5'' wide
A Ruskin pottery handled jug of necked ovoid form with flambe glaze of sang de boeuf red and purple glaze with green speckles throughout, impressed mark to base RUSKIN England 1933, approx. 20cm high
Fred Yates (1922-2008). Beach scene, oil on board, signed, 30cm x 36cm
A very large Chinese Republic Period (1912 - 1949) famille rose porcelain Landscape Vase decorated with mountainous rocky outcrops, pine trees and brightly robed figures at leisure in pavilions with musicians and children playing between decorative bands of pendant's and lappets. The base with an apocryphal iron red Qianlong seal mark, (A/F drilled base and hairline to neck), Height 56 cms. 一个非常大的中国民国时期（1912年 - 1949年）粉彩山水瓷花瓶。花瓶装饰与山区的岩石露头，松树和鲜艳长袍的人物，在休闲亭台之间装饰吊灯和乐队的音乐家和孩子们玩。底座与一个杜撰铁乾隆红色印章标记，（钻基地和颈部的发际线），身高56厘米。
2 Victorian carved Cameo panels.
A FINE PAIR OF 20 BORE AUSTRIAN LONG FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOLS BY JOHAN SCHIFTER, CIRCA 1720 with swamped scratch rifled barrels fitted with brass bead fore-sights on a shaped bed, signed in silver on a chiselled moulded panel and engraved with a classical warrior bust in a further shaped panel over the breeches, engraved breech tangs decorated with a devilish monster and incorporating the back-sights, stepped bevelled brass locks signed behind the cocks, decorated with trophies on the tails and with a reclining figure, probably of Victory beneath the pans, fitted with faceted pans, engraved steel cocks chiselled with foliage on the necks and engraved steels, figured walnut full stocks carved with foliage and mouldings in low relief about the tangs, locks and mounts (light bruising, the forward portion of the fore-ends expertly replaced, one butt expertly repaired), gilt-brass mounts cast and chased in low relief, comprising openwork foliate side-plates, spurred pommels engraved with strapwork and with small warrior profiles en suite with the breeches, matching trigger-guards, a pair of ramrod-pipes and escutcheons with the owner's coat-of-arms, horn fore-end caps, traces of early gilding, and later horn-tipped wooden ramrods 37cm; 14 1/2in barrels (2) Provenance Charles Draeger, sold Sotheby's Monaco 7th December 1987, lot 178 Johan Schifter is recorded in Wiener Neustadt circa 1694-1730. Two guns by this maker are preserved in the Hofjagd-und Rüstkammer, Vienna (inv. nos. WS.G210), and another in the Musée de l'Armée, Paris (M2004). See H. Schedelman 1972, p.214, and H. Stöcklein 1926, p. 26.
After REMBRANDT. Two volumes numbers 32 of prints of the artist's etchings. Titled "Rembrandt's samtliche radierungen" by Jaro Springer and Hans W. Singer, (500 approx)
A Chinese moonflask with raised bat decoration to sides, mark to base, 9½'' high
Two pairs of Cauldon two-handled bowls, one pair circular, the other square-shaped, decorated with painted flowers, the exteriors with gilt foliate motifs on gros-blue ground, 9in. diameter and 8 1/2in. wide.
LIN FENGMIAN. With stamped signature and character mark, framed watercolour on paper. Mountainous coastal scene with cormorant fisherman. See Chinese storage invoice verso. 30cm x 36.5cm.
Chrysler New Yorker de Luxe St. Regis by Revell Great Britain Kit # H 1201-6 and a Pyro 32 Scale 1930 Bentley Blower.
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Category Archives: nVidia
Wed, Jun 19, 2013 | 00:34 BST
Nvidia is planning to make its graphics tech available to smartphone and tablet manufacturers, putting it in competition with Qualcomm and opening the door to deals with Apple and Samsung.
Fri, May 31, 2013 | 08:00 BST
Razer has proudly announced a new Blade which it is describing as “the world’s thinnest gaming laptop”, and is offering it on the cheap to indie developers.
Thu, May 30, 2013 | 22:19 BST
NVIDIA has announced its GeForce GTX 770 is now available and will run you around the $399 mark depending on the retailer. The GeForce GTX 770 features “the same desirable styling as the recently-released GeForce GTX 780, and compared to its predecessor is 15% faster thanks to higher clock speeds, 192 more CUDA Cores, and faster 7Gbps memory,” says the firm. The GTX 770 also supports GPU Boost 2.0, Overvolting, Display Overclocking, and ShadowPlay. Blue has a list of reviews if you wish to have a look.
Thu, May 23, 2013 | 20:15 BST
Nvidia has released its GTX 780 graphics card, and while it will run you £549, the thing clocks in at 863 Mhz and can be boosted to 900 Mhz. It also contains 3GB of DDR5 with a memory speed of 6Gbps. MCV says it also has “TDP of 250W and outputs via 2xDL-DVI slots, 1xHDMI and 1xDisplayport.” Whatever all that means. Just tell me if it makes things shiny and I’ll be pleased. Furthermore, the firm also launched its GeForce Experience software which will collects 20 minutes of game footage as you play, as well as analyzes your system to automatically choose the optimum settings configuration for whatever game you’re playing. Nifty.
Wed, May 15, 2013 | 06:28 BST
Android-based portable gaming device Nvidia Shield is due in June, with pre-orders opening next week. To entice you to try out the slick-looking device, which can even stream games from your PC so you can relax on the couch, Nvidia has released a video showing off its final design and feature set.
Tue, May 14, 2013 | 14:19 BST
Mon, May 13, 2013 | 01:51 BST
Tue, May 07, 2013 | 15:32 BST
Wed, May 01, 2013 | 10:23 BST
Nvidia has appointed Deepu Talla as head of the company’s Tegra division, following the departure of Phil Carmack, who has now taken up position as CEO at an unnamed partner company.
Fri, Apr 26, 2013 | 09:48 BST
Nvidia has posted a pair of new PhysX water tech demos, following the first entry yesterday. They’re even more mind-blowing than the first.
Thu, Apr 25, 2013 | 12:56 BST
Nvidia has released a new PhysX trailer, this time showing off convincing water effects that react to objects in real-time, all running on a single GTX 580. First AMD’s TressFx tackled hair, now Nvidia is working on water. What’s next?
Sat, Apr 20, 2013 | 14:06 BST
Those planning on picking up Metro: Last Light who are also looking to purchase a new video card may want to consider killing two birds with one stone: Nvidia has announced the game will come bundled with its GeForce GTX cards – 660 or above.
Fri, Apr 19, 2013 | 15:14 BST
Crystal Dynamics’ Tomb Raider has been patched via Steam. Patch 1.01.743.0 is primarily intended to fix a problem that a previous patch inadvertently added. Additional details down below.
Thu, Apr 18, 2013 | 09:57 BST
Hawken developer Adhesive Games and Nvidia have released a trailer showing the game’s PhysX functionality at work, by basically exploding everything in sight.
Mon, Apr 15, 2013 | 13:02 BST
ARMA Tactics has been included as part of Nvidia’s ‘Android Thursdays’ series of video – although I’m sure its currently Monday – and the game has been shown running in real-time. The clip shows off Bohemia’s neat visual trickery, strategic combat and more.
Wed, Apr 03, 2013 | 18:47 BST
Mon, Apr 01, 2013 | 23:51 BST
Nvidia’s senior vice president of content and technology Tony Tamasi believes the next wave of mobile devices will be more powerful than current-generation consoles.
Wed, Mar 27, 2013 | 14:24 GMT
Nvidia has posted its destruction tech demo footage from GDC. It shows an ancient city exploding, sending hundreds of dynamic shards spewing everywhere.
Tue, Mar 26, 2013 | 01:43 GMT
Nvidia has released a new set of drivers for its GeForce range of GPUs in celebration of the release of BioShock: Infinite today – along with the recent Tomb Raider. The manufacturer reckons it’s empowered some tasty framerate boosts with the new software; full details and downloads are available on Nvidia’s website.
Mon, May 13, 2013 | 01:47 BST
New facial rendering tech FaceWorks was shown off at the Nvidia GPU Technology Conference this week; see the impressive real-time demo in action through the break. | <urn:uuid:998c45dd-f8be-44c7-aa71-7378eabf2743> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.vg247.com/category/pc/nvidia/?wpfpaction=add&postid=327775 | 2013-06-19T14:40:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938196 | 1,151 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
September 27, 2012 - Cancer is now the leading cause of death among Hispanics in the US. That's according to a report released by the American Cancer Society. The finding is due in part to the younger age distribution of Hispanics. There are fewer Hispanics in the United States over the age of 85, where heart disease is predominant. The cancer death rate in Hispanics has been on the decline since 2000. Cancer death rates for all Americans have dropped since 1991.
Also, Leon County School and health officials are taking on big sugar and tobacco. Superintendent Jackie Pons, Tallahassee Mayor John Marks and others took time to talk to students at Leon High School about the School District's 95210 initiative. It stands for 9 hours of sleep, 5 servings of fruits and vegetables, 2 hours of screen time, 1 hour of exercise and 0 tobacco products or sugary drinks. | <urn:uuid:adde1057-686b-4524-82cb-644f50384527> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wctv.tv/health/healthalert/headlines/Health-Alert-9-28-12-171515771.html | 2013-06-19T14:20:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962966 | 176 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Every week WhatIfSports.com simulates thousands of college football games. This week the Maryland Terrapins win 65.3% of the time by an average score of 24.7-21.2. The stats in the box score below represent the average outcomes of those simulations.
Mon., Sep. 5
|Win %||34.7||Win %||65.3|
|First Downs||20||First Downs||21|
|3rd Down Eff||6/14||3rd Down Eff||6/13|
|4th Down Eff||1/2||4th Down Eff||1/1|
|Avg Rush||4.2||Avg Rush||4.0|
|Passing Yards||217||Passing Yards||264|
|Time of Possession||30:13||Time of Possession||30:06|
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MONTREAL — Montreal police have issued a Canada-wide warrant for Luka Rocco Magnotta — a man with a disturbing online profile who is now accused of murder after the grisly discovery of a torso, whose severed foot and hand were mailed to the Conservative and Liberal party offices in Ottawa.
Police also confirmed that the suspect at large in the gruesome murder and dismemberment once dated Karla Homolka — though in 2007, Magnotta denied he dated the notorious sex killer.
A video purporting to show Magnotta stabbing a man repeatedly on a bed has been circulating online and was sent to the Montreal Gazette. The Gazette has been unable to confirm that this is the same video that police received. The Gazette has not been able to confirm whether the video was staged.
Police have obtained a disturbing video of the crime and are taking steps to have it removed from a website where it was posted, the Gazette has confirmed.
Investigators are seeking the public's aid in locating the 29-year-old Magnotta, who may also go by the names Eric Clinton, Kirk Newman or Vladimir Romanov.
"We really need the public's help on this," said Montreal police Cmdr. Ian Lafreniere. The assistance of residents in the area where the body was discovered had also helped the investigation advance quickly.
Magnotta is said to be a stripper and a porn star. The suspect was not previously known to police, Lafreniere said.
One of Magnotta's relatives told the Ottawa Citizen the family spent Wednesday night close to the phone in case Canada's highest-profile fugitive calls while on the lam.
"He hurt us when he was younger and we haven't been in contact with him in a while. We heard about all of this on the news, and then the police called and asked us to let them know if he calls us," the relative said.
A headless, limbless torso was discovered in a suitcase with a heap of garbage Tuesday at Place Lucy and Decarie Blvd. in Montreal's Snowden neighbourhood. At about the same time Tuesday, an employee of Conservative Party of Canada headquarters in Ottawa opened a package that contained a severed foot. A second parcel containing a hand was later located at a Canada Post sorting facility in Ottawa — that package apparently was destined for the Liberal party's headquarters.
On Wednesday, Ottawa police linked the severed appendages to the torso and transferred the case to Montreal Police.
Montreal Police focused their attention on a second floor apartment in a building on Decarie near where the torso was found Tuesday.
"The suspect and victim knew each other," Lafreniere told reporters Wednesday. "It isn't linked to organized crime."
The tenant of the building is being sought by police, said residents of the building.
The apartment smelled terrible and it appears the homicide may have been carried out on a bed in the small apartment. A reporter saw a mattress stained with blood Wednesday afternoon.
Area residents also said police believe the torso belongs to an Asian man who is apparently missing. The police have been showing them a photo of the Asian man on Wednesday.
Residents described Magnotta as a very quiet man who kept to himself. The building's superintendent joked about it.
"It's like you see in the movies. It's always the good neighbour. It's the cliche," he said.
Residents of the building said they believe Magnotta worked in the gay porn industry.
One said the only time Magnotta spoke to him was about five days ago. He asked the man, an actor, how he could get started in "legitimate" movies.
Residents of the building said they also saw Magnotta wearing a bizarre wig days ago and that they commented on his strange appearance.
Employees at a Canada Post office just a few blocks away from where the suspect lives said the police have not questioned them about the possibility of body parts being mailed from their location. Both employees were aware that a torso had been found near their location. But they said no one had asked them about the case until two reporters asked them about the strange story Wednesday afternoon.
Magnotta has also been the subject of an international social media campaign for allegedly killing kittens, videotaping their deaths and posting the videos online. Animal rights activists around the world mobilized to identify him and offered a $5,000 reward to bring him to justice.
The online efforts to find him may have fuelled some of Magnotta's online writings defending his reputation and complaining about "cyber stalking" and "media propaganda" on his website www.Luka-Magnotta.net.
"I do not feel the necessity to address the specific accusations made in the posts since they are so far from my character that responding to them will give them more credibility than they will ever hold. If the readers of these posts can look behind the storyline that has been created, they will see that there is no reference to a concrete transaction or event that has taken place with any specific person in which I have committed any illegal activity," he wrote on one of his websites.
"Many hoax websites are created using my image and name, posing as me to seem more believable in respect to the type of audience these website have, I feel I don't need to list them specifically but people need not be told, not to believe what they read and to take it as fact," he write in one article entitled "Cyber Stalking", posted with a photo of him shirtless and reclining.
Police have not released the victim's name. An autopsy is expected to reveal how the man was killed and whether he was dead before being dismembered, police said.
The autopsy will be performed in the coming days but so far "all indications are that these are from the same body," a communications agent for Montreal police told the Gazette on Wednesday morning, citing a preliminary report. "We are still waiting for final results." She spoke on condition her name wouldn't be published.
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Recently, a Brooklyn man tried to scam a Bushwick bodega by faking an injury inside the store, but unfortunately for him, it was all caught on video… from multiple angles. ANIMAL obtained footage from the security cameras that show him standing in the aisle drinking a soda. He then proceeds to pour some of his drink on the floor, spread it around with his feet, put the now half-empty bottle back into the refrigerated case and then, dramatically fall on the spill, he just created. What the video doesn’t show is the aftermath as the man performs a theatrical cradling of his wrist — which he may have actually hurt — while sitting on a milk crate near the front of store, waiting for the ambulance to arrive. It never did. | <urn:uuid:afa540db-dc51-4c2d-840d-6b0bb5c04d31> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://animalnewyork.com/2012/this-soda-jerk-is-the-worst-con-man-ever/ | 2013-05-19T18:34:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97622 | 159 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
running towards each other in slow motion through the pale gelatin of our respective inhibitions and various troubles
nobody goes to that restaurant anymore because it is too crowded
If there’s an exception to every rule then every rule mush have at least one exception; the exception to this one being that it has no exception
have you figured out what Auntie Nomy is yet?
“The first number not nameable in under ten words” appears to name it in just nine words
Ooh very DFW: is the word “heterological”, meaning “not applicable to itself,” a heterological word?
The Pinocchio Paradox: What would happen if Pinocchio said “My nose will be growing”?
I went to Suzanne’s gallery in the old Deitch to check out ANTONIO
this must be him!
this never happend in deitch! cool temp walls
jogging down the block with a turkey sandwitch
The first number that can be considered “dull” rather than “interesting” becomes interesting because of that fact.
The Friendship Paradox: for almost everyone, their friends have more friends than they do.
i have no friends, how do i fit into this?
To be rational, I will thus end up swapping envelopes indefinitely.
The mathematics behind this problem led to a well-known cryptographic attack called the birthday attack.
Should one tolerate intolerance if intolerance would destroy the possibility of tolerance? Take that, Museum of Tolerance
pat was always obsessed by the Museum of Tolerance i dont remember why
a light at the end of the rice pudding?
i was pouting and joe stuck a camera in my face
Diluted nitric acid will corrode steel, while concentrated nitric acid doesn’t.
Goat Town is a new expensive American white tiled restaurant but the food is not so great. That is a paradox
“Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.” –John Stuart Mill
this is a poop-dox
hard to pretend to be grumpus with a puppy tho
Sex jokes aren’t funny, I mean cum on people.
some of you guys may have noticed the sad fact that the above captions are just my tweets!
and that last one was Tracy Jordan’s
i realized that twitter is perfect for what i do when i read books which is jot down any short bit that is funny or interesting or has a new word i want to learn
Matt Leines and some buddies opened a gallery!
We learn from history that we do not learn from history.
sorry we have a few more paras
Thanks for asking!
Cleave seems to mean both separate and adhere. My wishy-washily vegan ex-boyfriend sure was a meat cleaver!
Charles II said St. Paul’s was “awful, pompous and artificial” which back then meant “awe-inspiring, majestic and ingeniously designed.”
Buttered Cat Paradox: cats always land on their feet + buttered toast always lands buttered side down, so a cat w the toast on his back…? | <urn:uuid:ba225074-40e6-4eaf-b40e-5ea10b6e2a21> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.artfrombehind.net/auntie-nomy | 2013-05-19T18:27:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947149 | 676 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Rowan Williams' authority is in tatters
What will the Archbishop of Canterbury's fatuous remarks about Sharia do to his authority as head of the Anglican Communion? Pretty well finish it off, I should think.
Will there be a new incumbent at Canterbury soon?
For years, African Anglicans have been threatening to blow the "Communion" to smithereens unless Rowan Williams follows their line on homosexuality. He has duly fallen in with their wishes, despite his long (and, in retrospect, phoney) record as a defender of gay rights. But now that Williams has said nice things about Sharia, his credibility in Africa will be destroyed.
Anglicans in parts of Nigeria live under what is, in effect, totalitarian Sharia. It goes without saying Williams does not defend the stoning of adulterous women and other charming Islamic practices. But, in his interview with the BBC, his condemnation of "bad" Sharia is deeply buried in acres of Vichyite waffle about the need to see Sharia "case by case within an overall framework of the principles laid down in the Koran and the Hadith".
For the Archbishop of Canterbury to propose an extension of British Sharia in the same week that we learned of the extent to which the Sharia authorities cover up "honour crimes" reveals a degree of ineptitude that even George Carey never managed.
And, talking of George, watch this space. Lord Carey of Clifton is no fan of his successor, but a very big fan of African Anglicans persecuted by Sharia. I would be very surprised if he can resist intervening in this dispute.
Anyway, I reckon it's all over for Rowan.
Gay shoes and groovy bishops: no wonder young people are losing their faith
May 17th, 2013 21:23
Cardinal O'Brien plays the compassion card and loses
May 16th, 2013 11:48
Obama and the IRS: even The Guardian is worried
May 16th, 2013 10:45
Cafod's love-in with Ed Miliband
May 15th, 2013 10:43
Cameron splits the Eurosceptic Tories
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Over the last few days, the saga a 15 year old girl, Jakadrien Turner, made national headlines. At 14, Jakadrien ran away from home after her parents split up and her grandfather passed away. Apparently, the stress of the two events was too much for this young girl to handle and she ran away from her home in Dallas and found herself in Houston.
The details of what happened next are still fuzzy; however, many in the blogosphere have already made up their minds as to what happened and who’s at fault. And predictably, the nation is split between those that are compassionate, understanding, and outraged at U.S. law enforcement, and those that want to paint the girl as a free-loading drug addict, welfare queen, from yet another broken Black family.
According to one CNN article, after Jakadrien went missing, Facebook postings indicated the girl started working at a DJ club under an assumed name. Clearly, the girl wanted to get away from her home and start making a life for herself as an adult. This story should sounds familiar to millions of American families.
The National Runaway Switchboard reports, “Between 1.6 and 2.8 million youth run away in a year. Youth aged 12-17 are at higher risk from homelessness than adults. 47% of runaway/homeless youth indicated that conflict between them and their parent or guardian was a major problem. Over 50% of the youth in shelters and on the streets reported that their parents either told them to leave or knew they were leaving but did not care. 80% of runaway and homeless girls reported having ever been sexually or physically abused,”
We don’t know if Jakadrien was ever subjected to any physical or sexual abuse at home, nor should we jump to that conclusion. I do know that since her disappearance her parents and grandparents desperately worked endlessly with the police to help find their child. We also know Jakadrien worked equally hard to hide from her folks, including changing her name in order to present herself as a 22 year old woman.
Even at age 45, I can remember back to when I was 14 years old and running away from home. I spent one night sleeping in the balcony of a local church. While there was some physical abuse in my family (in the name of “tough love”), it was never bad enough for me to want to completely run away at 14. However, by the time I was 18, I walked away from home and never looked back.
Believe it or not, there is a big difference between the brains of a 14 year old, a 18 year old, and a 21 year old. Recent studies on adolescent show teen brains are going through some of the greatest changes in their lives during this period. The following two paragraphs are from a report jointly conducted by Cornel University and ACT for Youth Upstate Center for Excellence:
“Until recently most scientists believed that the major “wiring” of the brain was completed by as early as three years of age and that the brain was fully mature by the age of 10 or 12. New findings show that the greatest changes to the parts of the brain that are responsible for functions such as self-control, judgment, emotions, and organization occur between puberty and adulthood. This may help to explain certain teenage behavior that adults can find mystifying, such as poor decision-making, recklessness, and emotional outbursts.
… In a study conducted at Boston’s McLean Hospital, psychologist Deborah Yurgelun-Todd and colleagues showed pictures of people wearing fearful expressions to teenagers between the ages of 11 and 17 while the teens had their brains scanned using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). She found that compared to adults the teens’ frontal lobes (the seat of goal-oriented rational thinking) are less active and their amygdala (a structure in the temporal lobe that is involved in discriminating fear and other emotions) is more active. The teens often misread facial expressions, with those under the age of 14 more often seeing sadness or anger or confusion instead of fear.”
From a growing mountain of studies on teens, and troubled teens in particular, we know that 14 year olds are not capable of making the same rational decisions as adults. That is why teenagers can’t be held legally responsible for contracts and why we have developed an entirely separate legal system for juveniles.
As stated earlier, what happened next in Jakadrien’s case is still a mystery. However, we do know that she was picked up for shoplifting and provided police with her false identity. Unfortunately, and unbeknownst to Jakadrien, that name belonged to a 22 year old illegal immigrant from Colombia, who just so happened to have warrants out for her arrest.
Houston police then handed Jakadrien over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) who fingerprinted Jakadrien but didn’t get a match. Nonetheless, Jakadrien, was then moved in mass with other ICE detainees through the system, and before she could bat her eyes found herself in Colombia.
Political Science professor at Northwestern University, Jacqueline Stevens explains how quickly this can happen:
“Often in these situations they have these group hearings where they tell everybody you’re going to be deported… Everything is really quick, even if you understand English you wouldn’t understand what is going on. If she were in that situation as a 14-year-old she would be herded through like cattle and not have a chance to talk to the judge about her situation.”
Soon after Jakadrien found herself deported to Colombia, a country in which she didn’t speak the language and knew nothing of the culture. However, this creative young kid in no time founds herself working in a Bogotá call center and partying with the locals. Next we know, Houston police finds her posting on Facebook, where she admits to smoking marijuana and being pregnant, just Jakadrien turned 15 years old.
Now that Jakadrien has returned to the U.S, the blame game is on. In reviewing this article, I looked at the comment threads of both right-wing and left-wing leaning websites. The line between who is at fault by the two political sides are fairly distinctive. For the most part, the left-wing is blaming ICE and other law enforcement agencies for not doing their job. Essentially arguing that once ICE discovered the fingerprints didn’t match the 22 year old Colombian woman, they needed to follow up. Had they, they would have discovered the girl didn’t speak Spanish and was completely ignorant of the history and culture of Colombia.
On the other hand, the right-wing blames the child and her family. Researching this article, I’ve read dozens of comments which have called Jakadrien everything from a drug addict, thief and a whore, (Remember we are talking about a 14 year old girl) to those that claim her whole story was set up by her “lazy” “welfare” reliant grandmother (who just so happens to have a full time job). According to some right-wing theories, the family sent Jakadrien into the ICE system just to see if she would be deported, in order to then sue the U.S. government and sell books. The whole conspiracy theory can be found on dozens of sites, including some of the so called “liberal” news sites like MSNBC. Just check the comment thread on this link. You will have to open the hidden comments to find this conspiracy theory, along with other racist accusations and remarks.
Professor Jacqueline Stevens has actually studied the problem of the illegal detention and deportation of U.S. citizens and says in recent years the problem has increased. The following is an excerpt from an interview Stevens gave with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez of DemocracyNow! Stevens provides us with the statistical data to better understand what happened to Jakadrien:
“I did research in the southern Arizona area to look at the rate at which people who had been detained in that area were found—had their deportation orders terminated by an immigration judge because they were determined to be U.S. citizens. And I found that between 2006 and 2008, 82 out of the over 8,000—the 8,007, I think—files that I considered showed these cases that were terminated because the people were found to be U.S. citizens. That area has 10 percent of the nation’s detainees. And so, I think it’s, you know, reasonable on the basis of that research and additional research, including interviews with immigration judges, ICE agents and people who have actually been deported, to extrapolate that figure. There was also a study that was done by the New York City Bar Association in 2009, and they found that 8 percent of the people that they interviewed in the Varick detention center appeared to be U.S. citizens. So, I think there’s a systemic problem in this country of ICE detaining and, in addition, deporting U.S. citizens”.
There are those that are quick to blame Jakadrien, her parents, and grandparents for this unfortunate ordeal. They seem to show no understanding of what it is like to raise a teenager. They are quick to attack her and her family, labeling them a bunch of lazy losers, who have fantastically designed this elaborate plan to deport their 14 year old daughter in order to push a book deal and sue the government. There is absolutely no basis for such angry race laden claims. However, that is how some will justify the governments failings in the case of Jakadrien Turner.
They will blame the parents because the kid ran away, even through millions of kids from all sorts of families (good or bad) run away. Even worse, they will blame the kid, whose brain is not even fully formed and may very well be running away from a bad family. They will blame her for shoplifting and lying about her name and age. And in doing so, they will be ignoring the facts that children actually lack “self-control, judgment and emotions” which explains “certain teenage behavior that adults can find mystifying, such as poor decision-making, recklessness, and emotional outbursts.”
In addition, those that wish to blame the kid will ignore that fact that, according to Professor Stevens, 10% of the nation’s immigration detainees are actually U.S. citizens, that can sometime languish in U.S. immigration prisons for months and in some cases years, we can see a “systemic problem in this country,”
Who is to blame? Unlike some, I will not put too much blame on a troubled 14 year old girl. Yes she ran away from home. At the time, her family was going through a divorce and death. In Jakadrien’s case, we have no evidence of the sexual or physical abuse in the family which is common in most runaways. We do know the family worked tirelessly to find their lost daughter. We also, in spite of the false and ugly accusations about the parents and grandparents, the family is not a lazy family that relies on welfare. To me, those accusations seem completely unfounded and appear to be racially motivated.
On the other hand, we also do not know why ICE did not follow-up and do a further background check on Jakadrien, after the prints didn’t match. It might be argued that this was just an isolated incident where one poor girl simply slipped through the cracks. However, considering Stevens’ evidence, deporting American citizens has become a systemic problem. Perhaps the one good thing to come out of Jakadrien’s story, other than she being returned to the U.S. is the fact that her story is highlighting ICE’s egregious deportion of American citizens. | <urn:uuid:aef34404-0553-4583-b266-c5840fb49b9e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://deanwalker.wordpress.com/tag/cornel-university/ | 2013-05-19T18:26:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977401 | 2,451 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The heroes and villains of LA crime. What Double Feature already knew about Drive. Nicolas Winding Refn: crazy person. The precision of Drive. Roadsploitation. A protagonist with no name. Modern day nuwave musicians and composer Cliff Martinez. Stripped down plot. Unconventional (and more realistic) relationships. The alpha male. The role of minimalism. The mysterious man’s actual past. Drive as a superhero film. Ill intentions. The superhero mentor. Violence! Bordering on surrealism. What audiences can handle. Collateral as an introduction to Michael Mann. Real people. The beginning of digital filmmaking. Why don’t people like Tom Cruise? A different look at jazz. Rooting for the villain. Who is Max?
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Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
Writer: Hossein Amini
Starring: Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, Ron Perlman
A mysterious Hollywood stuntman, mechanic and getaway driver lands himself in trouble when he helps out his neighbour.
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Director: Michael Mann
Writer: Stuart Beattie
Starring: Tom Cruise, Jamie Foxx, Jada Pinkett Smith, Mark Ruffalo
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A meat that is growing in popularity in the United States is venison. Many think immediately of deer when they hear the name venison, but that is not always the case. Venison is a very gamey meat and the name comes from a Latin word that means, “to hunt.”
Venison is actually the meat of any game animal, but is now thought of as deer, moose, reindeer, and elk. In southern areas of Africa, the word venison refers to antelopes. It can be served the same way you eat beef. Many hunters get their deer cut into steaks, roasts, jerky, ground, and mined. Because it is a game meat, it has to be prepared differently because it is tough.
DSM Food Limited is going to start providing you with a cooking tip that will hopefully make your life a little easier. Life gets in the way of cooking sometimes and you need a little direction as to where to go with your cooking. This next cooking tip works for those who might have a little time crunch when it comes to their cooking. Maybe you work full time or have kids to tend to, hopefully this tip will help you enjoy your valuable time.
Tip: Cook double batches of your meals and freeze the extra. | <urn:uuid:f6cd250a-7511-438b-b13d-e6bfb92fd726> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://dsmfoodlimited.com/blog/tag/easy/ | 2013-05-19T18:34:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975983 | 265 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
By >Akihabara News Team
Fujitsu winter 2010 ~ spring 2011 Cell Phone Lineup
On the heels of the Docomo winter 2010 ~ spring 2011 press conference last Monday is Fujitsu’s press conference today in Tokyo, showcasing their own cell phones in Docomo’s new model lineup, all waterproof, all clamshells, and all with a fingerprint scanner in back:
A high-spec model, with a 3.4-inch touchscreen and a 13.2 megapixel camera.
The stylish model of the pack, with a 12.2-megapixel camera and a collaborative gold-color version with Anteprima, a Japanese brand operating out of Italy.
More business-oriented than the first two, this camera has a 12.2-megapixel camera and a 3.3-inch screen, as well as a 2.0-inch display on the front cover with quick access to mail, schedules, bookmarks, music, TV, and camera. | <urn:uuid:492b01b6-3406-477c-9f0c-125d1683b817> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://en.akihabaranews.com/71388/phones/fujitsu-winter-2010-spring-2011-cell-phone-lineup | 2013-05-19T19:06:11Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.900892 | 207 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Godbole, Rohini Μ (1997) Accelerator Information on SUSY and its Implications for Dark Matter. In: Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy, 18 (4). pp. 313-319.
In this short contribution I want to discuss one particular candidate for the Dark Matter (DM) in the Universe, viz., the lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP). I discuss, very briefly, the motivation for Supersymmetry as well as the LSP as DM candidate. Then I summarise the current accelerator bounds on its mass and couplings and end by pointing out the implications of these limits for the experiments which search ‘directly’ for the DM.
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- titter (v.)
- 1610s, "giggle in a suppressed or covert way," probably of imitative origin. Related: Tittered; tittering. The noun is first recorded 1728.
- titties (n.)
- 1746 (plural); see tit (n.1) + -ie.
- tittle (n.)
- late 14c., "small stroke or point in writing," representing Latin apex in Late Latin sense of "accent mark over a vowel," borrowed (perhaps by influence of Provençal titule "the dot over -i-") from Latin titulus "inscription, heading" (see title (n.)).
- titular (adj.)
- 1590s, perhaps by influence of Middle French titulaire, from Latin titulus (see title).
- tix (n.)
- short for tickets, by 1947, originally headlinese.
- tizzy (n.)
- 1935, American English colloquial, of uncertain origin, perhaps related to slang tizzy "sixpence piece" (1804), a corruption of tester, a name for the coin (see tester (n.2)).
- by 1953 as an abbreviation of tender loving care.
- Indian group in Alaska and Canada, the people's word for themselves, literally "human beings."
- 1570s, from Greek tmesis "a cutting," related to temnein "to cut," tome "a cutting" (see tome). The separation of the elements of a compound word by the interposition of another word or words (e.g. a whole nother).
- 1915, abbreviation of trinitrotoluene (1908).
- to (prep.)
- Old English to "in the direction of, for the purpose of, furthermore," from West Germanic *to (cf. Old Saxon and Old Frisian to, Dutch too, Old High German zuo, German zu "to"), from PIE pronomial base *do- "to, toward, upward" (cf. Latin donec "as long as," Old Church Slavonic do "as far as, to," Greek suffix -de "to, toward," Old Irish do, Lithuanian da-).
In Old English, the preposition (go to town) leveled with the adverb (the door slammed to) except where the adverb retained its stress (tired and hungry too); there it came to be written with -oo (see too).
The nearly universal use of to with infinitives (to sleep, to dream, etc.) arose in Middle English out of the Old English dative use of to, and it helped drive out the Old English inflectional endings (though in this use to itself is a mere sign, without meaning).
Commonly used as a prefix in Middle English (to-hear "listen to," etc.), but few of these survive (to-do, together, and time references such as today, tonight, tomorrow -- Chaucer also has to-yeere). To and fro "side to side" is attested from mid-14c. Phrase what's it to you "how does that concern you?" goes back a long way:
Huæd is ðec ðæs?
[John xxi:22, in Lindisfarne Gospel, c.950]
- particle expressing separation, from West Germanic *ti- (cf. Old Frisian ti-, Old High German zi-, German zer-), from Proto-Germanic *tiz-, cognate with Latin-derived dis-. Some 125 compound verbs with this element are recorded in Old English; their number declined rapidly in Middle English and disappeared by c.1500 except as conscious archaisms.
- to-do (n.)
- 1570s, from the verb phrase to do, from Old English to don "proper or necessary to be done" (see to). Meaning "disturbance, fuss" is first recorded 1827.
- toad (n.)
- Old English tadige, tadie, of unknown origin and with no known cognates outside English.
- toadstone (n.)
- "stone or stone-like object, supposedly magical (with healing or protective power) and found in the heads of certain toads," is attested from 1550s, from toad + stone (n.). Translating Greek batrakhites, Medieval Latin bufonites; cf. also French crapaudine (13c.), German krötenstein.
- toadstool (n.)
- late 14c., apparently just what it looks like: a fanciful name from Middle English tadde "toad" (see toad) + stole "stool" (see stool). Toads themselves were regarded as highly poisonous, and this word is popularly restricted to inedible or poisonous fungi, as opposed to mushrooms (e.g. toad-cheese, a poisonous fungi).
- toady (n.)
- "servile parasite," 1826, apparently shortened from toad-eater "fawning flatterer" (1742), originally referring to the assistant of a charlatan, who ate a toad (believed to be poisonous) to enable his master to display his skill in expelling the poison (1620s). The verb is recorded from 1827. Related: Toadied; toadying.
- toast (v.1)
- "to brown with heat," late 14c., from Old French toster "to toast or grill" (12c.), from Vulgar Latin *tostare (source of Italian tostare, Spanish tostar), frequentative of Latin torrere (past participle tostus) "to parch" (see terrain). Related: Toasted; toasting.
- toast (v.2)
- "to propose or drink a toast," 1700, from toast (n.1). This probably is the source of the Jamaican and U.S. black word meaning "extemporaneous narrative poem or rap" (1962). Related: Toasted; toasting.
- toast (n.1)
- "a call to drink to someone's health," 1700 (but said by Steele, 1709, to date to the reign of Charles II), originally referring to the beautiful or popular woman whose health is proposed and drunk, from the use of spiced toast (n.2) to flavor drink, the lady regarded as figuratively adding piquancy to the wine in which her health was drunk.
- toast (n.2)
- "a toasted piece of bread," early 15c., from toast (v.1); slang meaning "a goner, person or thing already doomed or destroyed" is recorded by 1987, perhaps from notion of computer circuits being "fried," and with unconscious echoes of earlier figurative phrase to be had on toast (1886) "to be served up for eating."
- toaster (n.)
- 1580s, agent noun from toast (v.1). Electrical type is from 1913. In reference to a person who proposes or pledges a drinking toast, from 1704 (from toast (v.2)).
- toasty (adj.)
- "warm and comfortable," 1890, from toast (v.1) + -y (2). Related: Toastiness.
- tobacco (n.)
- 1580s, from Spanish tabaco, in part from an Arawakan (probably Taino) language of the Caribbean, said to mean "a roll of tobacco leaves" (according to Las Casas, 1552) or "a kind of pipe for smoking tobacco" (according to Oviedo, 1535). Scholars of Caribbean languages lean toward Las Casas' explanation. But Spanish tabaco (also Italian tabacco) was a name of medicinal herbs from early 15c., from Arabic tabbaq, attested since 9c. as the name of various herbs. So the word may be a European one transferred to an American plant.
Cultivation in France began 1556 with an importation of seed by Andre Thevet; introduced in Spain 1558 by Francisco Fernandes. Tobacco Road as a mythical place representative of rural Southern U.S. poverty is from the title of Erskine Caldwell's 1932 novel.
- tobacconist (n.)
- "dealer in tobacco," 1650s, from tobacco + -ist + abnormal inserted consonant; earlier meaning was "person addicted to tobacco" (1590s).
- masc. proper name, from Late Latin Tobias, from Greek Tobias, from Hebrew Tobhiyyah, literally "the Lord is my Good," from Hebrew tobh "good." Toby is a short form.
- toboggan (n.)
- "long, flat-bottomed sled," 1829, from Canadian French tabagane, from Algonquian (probably Micmac) tobakun "a sled." The verb is recorded from 1846. As American English colloquial for a type of long woolen cap, it is recorded from 1929 (earlier toboggan cap, 1928), presumably because one wore such a cap while tobogganing.
- familiar form of masc. proper name Tobias, in various colloquial usages, e.g. "jug" (1840), "drinking mug in the form of a stout old man;" as a type of collar (1882) it refers to that worn by the dog Toby in the 19c. Punch and Judy shows. Also in Toby show (by 1942, American English) "comedy act based on the stock character of a boisterous, blundering yokel."
- word used for the letter T in radio communication, 1898.
- toccata (n.)
- 1724, from Italian toccata, from toccare "to touch." A composition for keyboard instrument, intended to exhibit the touch and technique of the performer, and having the air of an improvisation.
- in reference to an extinct people and Indo-European language of Chinese Turkestan, 1927, from French tocharien, from Greek Tokharoi (Strabo), name of an Asiatic people who lived in the Oxus valley in ancient times. Earlier Tocharish (1910), from German tocharisch. The identification of this culture with the people named by Strabo was suggested in 1907 by F.W.K. Müller and "is obviously erroneous" (Klein).
- tocsin (n.)
- "alarm bell," 1580s, from Middle French toquassen "an alarm bell, the ringing of an alarm bell" (late 14c.), from Old Provençal tocasenh, from tocar "to strike" (from Vulgar Latin *toccare "strike a bell;" see touch) + senh "bell, bell note," from Late Latin signum "bell, ringing of a bell," in Latin "mark, signal." The current English spelling is from 1794, adopted from modern French.
- today (n.)
- Old English todæge, to dæge "on (the) day," from to "at, on" (see to) + dæge, dative of dæg "day" (see day). Generally written as two words until 16c., after which it usually was written to-day until early 20c.
Similar constructions exist in other Germanic languages (cf. Dutch van daag "from-day," Danish and Swedish i dag "in day"). German heute is from Old High German hiutu, from Proto-Germanic *hiu tagu "on (this) day," with first element from PIE pronomial stem *ki-, represented by Latin cis "on this side."
- masc. proper name, also a surname (late 12c.), from Middle English todde "fox," a Northern English word of unknown origin.
- toddle (v.)
- "to run or walk with short, unsteady steps," c.1600, Scottish and northern British, of uncertain origin, possibly related to totter (1530s); an earlier sense of "to toy, play" is found c.1500. Related: Toddled; toddling.
- toddler (n.)
- 1793, agent noun from toddle.
- toddy (n.)
- 1610s, alteration of taddy (1610s), tarrie (c.1600) "beverage made from fermented palm sap," from Hindi tari "palm sap" (in which the -r- sounds close to an English -d-), from tar "palm tree," from Sanskrit tala-s, probably from a Dravidian language (cf. Kannada tar, Telugu tadu). Meaning "beverage made of alcoholic liquor with hot water, sugar, and spices" first recorded 1786.
- toe (n.)
- Old English ta (plural tan), contraction of *tahe (Mercian tahæ), from Proto-Germanic *taikhwo (cf. Old Norse ta, Old Frisian tane, Middle Dutch te, Dutch teen, Old High German zecha, German Zehe "toe"), probably originally meaning "fingers" as well (many PIE languages still use one word to mean both fingers and toes). The Old English plural tan survived in southwestern England to 14c. To be on (one's) toes "alert, eager" is recorded from 1921.
- toe (v.)
- "touch or reach with the toes," 1813, from toe (n.). First recorded in expression toe the mark, which seems to be nautical in origin.
The chief mate ... marked a line on the deck, brought the two boys up to it, making them 'toe the mark.' [R.H. Dana, "Two Years Before the Mast," 1840]
Related: Toed; toeing.
- toenail (n.)
- also toe-nail, 1735, from toe (n.) + nail (n.).
- toff (n.)
- lower-class British slang for "stylish dresser, member of the smart set," 1851, said to be probably an alteration of tuft, formerly an Oxford University term for a nobleman or gentleman-commoner (1755), in reference to the gold ornamental tassel worn on the caps of undergraduates at Oxford and Cambridge whose fathers were peers with votes in the House of Lords.
- toffee (n.)
- 1825, tuffy, toughy, southern British dialectal variant of taffy. Modern spelling first recorded 1862.
- tofu (n.)
- soy bean curd, 1880, from Japanese tofu, from Chinese doufu, from dou "beans" + fu "rotten."
- tog (n.)
- 1708, "any outer garment," shortened from togman "cloak, loose coat" (1560s), thieves' cant word, formed from French togue "cloak," from Latin toga (see toga). Middle English toge "toga" (14c.) was also a cant word for "coat."
- toga (n.)
- c.1600, from Latin toga "cloak or mantle," related to tegere "to cover" (see stegosaurus).
The outer garment of a Roman citizen in time of peace; toga prætexta had a broad purple border and was worn by children, magistrates, persons engaged in sacred rites, and later also emperors; toga virilis, the "toga of manhood," was assumed by boys at puberty.
Breeches, like the word for them (Latin bracae) were alien to the Romans, the dress of Persians, Germans and Gauls, so that bracatus "wearing breeches" was a term in Roman geography meaning "north of the Alps." College fraternity toga party popularized by movie "Animal House" (1978), but this is set in 1962.
- Old English togædere, from to (see to) + gædere "together" (adv.), apparently a variant of the adverb geador "together," related to gadrian (see gather).
German cognate zusammen substitutes second element with Old High German verbal cognate of English same (Old English also had tosamne "together"). Adjective meaning "self-assured, free of emotional difficulties" is first recorded 1966.
- togetherness (n.)
- 1650s, "state of being together," from together + -ness. Sense of "fellowship, fellow-feeling," is from 1930.
- toggery (n.)
- "clothes collectively," 1812, from tog + -ery.
- toggle (n.)
- 1769, "short pin passed through the eye of a rope," a nautical word of uncertain origin, perhaps a frequentative form of tog "tug." Meaning "a kind of wall fastener" is recorded from 1934. Toggle bolt is from 1794; toggle switch first attested 1938.
- toggle (v.)
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I'm interested in dabbling in Nintendo DS, 3DS, or GBA development. I would like to know what my (legal) options for development tools and IDEs are. In particular, I would not consider moving in this ...
Firstly I'd like to say that this doesn't seem like the right "forum" for this question as it actually doesn't relate directly to the development of games. As this is my first post on 'game ...
Presumably a development machine for sure, but would it contain any sort of editor (of any kind)? Or are there any editors in existence that work with the SDK that are commercially available?
Is it possible to use Pokemon images, names, elements in a game I would like to make? Are they still copyrighted, patented, would I get sued? (Maybe their rights have expired by now, is what I am ... | <urn:uuid:fdca2f80-9f64-4884-87f3-aa2f28395c44> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/nintendo?sort=votes | 2013-05-19T18:50:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961549 | 384 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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The CREST program has been developed jointly by the Ministry of Ukraine for Education and Science (MES) and the U.S. Civilian Research & Development Foundation (CRDF). Its aim is to strengthen the research component, to create a modern experimental base, and to promote integration of science and education in Ukrainian higher education institutions (HEI) of the 3rd and 4th accreditation levels of any administrative subordination.
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Edwin Daniel Hirleman (2008), "CREST 2008 Competition for a Research and Education Center for Energy Efficiency Technologies," http://globalhub.org/resources/75. | <urn:uuid:24450d17-b977-44f1-b7af-e9f6c2b8eca9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://globalhub.org/resources/75 | 2013-05-19T18:57:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.913984 | 141 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Thank God. Bill appeared on the ‘Today Show’ this morning to report that his wife was a “trooper,” after double lumpectomy surgery.
We’re so glad to get this news. Bill told Ann Curry in a live from LA interview that Giuliana underwent a two hour surgery and “she pulled through it and was kind of relieved to get it over with and get the cancer out,”he said. “She’s doing well at home recovering and I’m adding nurse to my resume now — she’s having a lot of fun with that.”
Apparently the surgery happened yesterday and Bill said it was a long day. He explained that Guiliana had to have an MRI and a mammogram so the surgeon could see where the “guide wire” would be put in each breast to remove the cancer.
Poor Giuliana, 36, has had an extraordinarily difficult and emotionally- exhausting year between her attempts to get pregnant, her decision to try IVF treatments and then after starting those treatments, discovering that she had breast cancer.
She only went public with her breast cancer diagnosis on Monday, Oct. 17th the Today show and the surgery took place two days later.
“Giuliana’s had a tough year and a half,” he agreed. “For me, I just wish I could carry some of the load. I just wish I could take the pain away … watching her be wheeled into the operating room was heartbreaking for me.”
We’re so glad that Giuliana has such a loving and supportive husband. Bill said “I’m trying to do everything I can to support her … trying to make her laugh as often as possible.”
The couple still has to wait until tomorrow to get more news from their doctor. “We’re going back tomorrow,” he told Ann. “to make sure the lymph nodes, they had to remove a couple of lymph nodes and we’re hoping we get a good report tomorrow, God willing.”
We hope so too, Giuliana and Bill.
The next step after that, will be radiation treatments, says Bill. “Then we’ll kick off 2012 with new outlook on life — we’re ready to take on the world.”
Amazingly, Bill says Giuliana is planning to go back to work next week, “God willing.”
“It’s funny when you go through a situation like this, it turns down the volume on things that are not that important.”
He says that he and Giuliana are so gratified that they’ve received so many tweets from women who’ve said they scheduled their first mammogram, because of their experience: “That was the goal of this!”
We’re so glad that Giuliana and Bill are able to see a silver lining in their situation.
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It’s 1:05 AM and I’m supposed to get up at 2 AM so we can get ready and leave the house for Christmas. I just couldn’t leave Chicago without getting this post up though. Merry Christmas Brynn and Jeff!
Becca Dryer was my second shooter for this event. If you’re in Portland, book her! Her work is fabulous and she really came through for me, allowing me to be a little bit of a guest during the reception and do some dancing with my son. Thanks Becca!
My biggest group photo ever! I’m actually in this shot, as I set it up and then turned the camera over to my friend (and fellow photographer) Kelli Nicole. My husband is pictured here too, as he was one of the groomsmen in the wedding!
The Portland temple is absolutely majestic.
The Portland temple also has this little atrium where you can take pictures right inside the lobby. It’s a little strange carrying my camera in the front doors but it was the only chance Brynn had to let her train down and not worry about holding her dress out of the puddles!
I had some fun playing with off camera flash during the sunset. Thanks for giving me all of this portrait time guys!
The fire alarm was pulled (there were many, many kids present at this wedding) and the fireman was willing to step in and model for a little bit. This is Becca’s shot and I love it!
Another shot by Becca that I absolutely adore.
This was some of the most enthusiastic dancing I’ve seen at a Mormon wedding!
I got a little crazy on the dance floor
Is it just me, or do the littlest girls always catch the bouquet?
I cried when Brynn danced when her grandmother, and I’m not usually a crier at weddings. It was such a touching moment.
The sparkler send-off was INSANE. It was pretty dangerous just to walk through to find a spot!
I think this picture is absolutely hilarious. I shouldn’t laugh at the poor kid in the right corner, but his expression is so hilarious. (And sad if he was just burned by one of those sparklers. I hope he wasn’t burned!)
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The Walking Dead retail compilation delayed
3rd Dec 2012 | 19:28
US gamers will be able to pick up all five episodes of Telltale's The Walking Dead game in disc form when the compilation arrives on Tuesday, December 11.
That represents a slight delay from the originally announced December 4 release.
The retail version of The Walking Dead will consist of five episodes previously released by Telltale Games as DLC.
Priced at $69.99 (the standalone version will cost $29.99), the GameStop-exclusive Collector's Edition will feature The Walking Dead Compendium One, which packs in issues 1-48 of Robert Kirkman's comic book series, with exclusive cover art by Charlie Adlard.
The PC version of the game will only be sold via Best Buy.
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MrX16 |3 pointswritten 23 hours ago
I got a japanese import from my uncle for xmas. So good!
MrX16 |8 pointswritten 1 day ago
Thanks for spoiling the ending!
Seriously though, nice job
MrX16 |10 pointswritten 3 days ago
Shut the Door
MrX16 |1 pointwritten 3 days ago
Does the president have to be in office or would you allow wiggle room to include ex-presidents?
10 points | 3 comments | 3 days ago by MrX16 to Showerthoughts
3 points | 4 comments | 3 days ago by MrX16 to AskReddit
5 points | 3 days ago by MrX16 to AdviceAnimals from qkme.me
MrX16 |1 pointwritten 5 days ago
What are some skit ideas that you've rejected. I've always wondered what kind of stuff would be considered TOO out there for Jake and Amir!
MrX16 |3 pointswritten 6 days ago
Just because they grew up believing it, doesn't make it any less stupid.
MrX16 |6 pointswritten 6 days ago
This man asks the tough questions, the questions nobody else has the balls to ask
MrX16 |108 pointswritten 6 days ago
He did in fact delete his account
922 points | 106 comments | 6 days ago by MrX16 to cringepics from i.imgur.com
2 points | 10 comments | 19 days ago by MrX16 to AskReddit
MrX16 |2 pointswritten 21 days ago
The fact the puzzle is not in fact the rug itself disappoints me
MrX16 |9 pointswritten 24 days ago
Is OP even going to answer any of the questions? He probably just wants to talk about Rampart.
0 points | 1 comment | 26 days ago by MrX16 to AdviceAnimals from qkme.me
MrX16 |1 pointwritten 26 days ago
I understand that, I've been on reddit for well over two years. I was looking at the fact that Horatio was still misspelled.
MrX16 |17 pointswritten 27 days ago
You didn't edit anything.
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MrX16 |2 pointswritten 1 month ago
Record Exchange is a freakin' labyrinth. You could get lost for hours searching for gold.
There's also Meshuggah's in the Loop, that's pretty quiet. I've done some studying there.
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MrX16 |-4 pointswritten 1 month ago
What is this, breaking bad all of a sudden?
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I'm not gonna post anything about any other shop than RMP. Its the only place my car has ever been, and the only place my car will ever go.
-Rocco's prices are great
-He is not only a certified BMW technician, he worked for BMW as a tech for almost as many years as i've been alive
-I've never had a problem with his work,
-He, although being very busy with other work, always has time (and patience) to answer questions that i have, (often more than once, since i really dont know much about cars)
-He often stays later than the shop is open to finish a job if necessary.
-what i love most about RMP, is that both mark and rocco treat EVERY car like a showcar. It doesn't matter if you bring in a brand new m5, or a beater, he'll do the job right, the first time, with no problems or surprises. The shop is clean, the tools are in order. Rocco must have jacked up thousands of e36's in his life, yet when putting my car on the hoist he'll check everything twice, then check it again. Closing your hood, he'll check for loose tools, and verify everything is in order twice, then check again.
Some of the work i had done at RMP includes
-new clutch, CDV delete. (on that visit, rocco checked the torquing of my bearings, noticed one was VERY loose, and tightened it for me. He also topped off my tranny fluid, and final drive fluid. He recommended i start looking for some brake pads, as mine were getting worn. He scanned my car, read the fault codes for the CEL and the SRS light. I'm sure there was more, but i dont remember it. And the most fantastic part was, he checked over my car without me having to ask. He understands i'm not a mechanic, and when i come in with a problem, i'm not implying that that's the only problem on the car.)
Since then, i've also had rocco swap a starter for me, and install my euro headlights, and angel eyes.
I'm one happy and loyal RMP customer, and think everyone would be if they'd give rocco and mark a try.
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Jermann 'Were Dreams" is an amazing Italian white wine made from Chardonnay grapes.
It has a sparkling straw-yellow colour. To the nose it offers charm and complexity, with aromas of rare elegance and refinement. Exotic hints of ripened fruit, melted butter, vanilla and pastry prevail. In the.. | <urn:uuid:ae214e9c-8424-4b2b-990f-6c9248b92564> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://morrellwine.com/catpages_new_filter.php?varietal=Chardonnay®ion=35&price=50-100 | 2013-05-19T18:50:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.884968 | 68 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
We have told you about how important it is to have a presence on Tumblr, seeing as it is a huge force where music fans assemble. If you already have a blog the last thing you want to do is take time to put your content in twice. Thankfully, Tumblr allows you to import the RSS feed of any blog into it your Tumblr so you don’t have to worry about doing any more work. To do this simply go to “Customise” and then under services is an area where you can copy your RSS feed in. If you want your information to spread to countless users who may be interested in your music, I would advise doing this right now.
- Why You/ Your Band Should Have Been On Tumblr Yesterday
- How To Sync Your Facebook, Myspace, Tumblr And Twitter Without Any Outside Service
- Tumblr Now With Facebook Aggregation And #Hashtags
- How You/ Your Band Should Think Of Your Website, Facebook, Twitter, Blog, Myspace, Etc.
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Sunday, 24 February 2008
This Is . . . My Favourite Accessory...
This is a bag I made recently in a class at The Kimono House in Melbourne. The class was run by the lovely Nicole of Nicole Mallalieu Designs. who was incredibly patient and managed to keep us all on track. At the end of the day I was amazed I had created such a beautiful satchel.
The subject for this weeks "This is..." was suggested by One Red Robin. Sorry I didn't include a picture of me with thw bag, but the photography and flash into the mirror caused me all sorts of problems - in addition to that, it was a really bad hair day, so this is will just have to do.
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First, let me reacquaint you with the Unwritten Law of Romantic Comedies: 99.5 percent of them don't work. This is inevitable. There is no feeling more difficult to replicate than the airy reaches of romance, from the queasy electricity of acceptance to the anvil dread of rejection (and all the intersecting emotions between). But, of course, filmmakers will always try, sure that they have something new to say. Not many of them do.
Now, let me introduce the First Law of Media Backlash: After heaping praise upon a fresh young filmmaker, critics will turn their knives on him or her at the first sign of weakness. This is done mostly to protect their critical reputations: "You made a merely adequate movie after I dubbed you the Orson Welles of the 90s? Then I have no choice but to declare your genius barren!" This has happened to Steven Soderbergh, Spike Lee, John Sayles, Jim Jarmusch; one minute poised to rule Hollywood, the next languishing in the pits of "pretentiousness."
Both laws come into play in Richard Linklater's Before Sunrise, a romantic comedy that has been met with a withering barrage of disappointment from critics: How could the clever boy of Slacker and Dazed and Confused fame possibly make something less than perfectly engaging? Maybe he's not a visionary.
Truth be told, Before Sunrise doesn't have the fresh feel of either of Linklater's previous efforts, relying on a gimmick that's getting a tad familiar. But neither is it a bustBefore Sunrise has more genuine moments of romance than most Hollywood efforts. It is a film that deserves more of a chance than it will probably get.
Linklater's cinema is the drama of experience. He doesn't rely on plot hooks so much as emotions and themes. Not much "happens" in the movie-movie sense of the wordbut a lot happens in terms of real-life experience. People diffuse their aimlessness with talkative explorations in Slacker, a boy experiences the strictures and freedoms of becoming a teenager in Dazed and Confused. Linklater plays out small moments between unusually intelligent characters, letting them talk out their fears and needs. He has managed to do so in an effortlessly entertaining way, putting seemingly "real" experiences and "real" people up on the screen in natural settings. And he's funny, too.
That is, until Before Sunrise. Here we finally see some of the effort behind his technique. Here we must listen to dialogue for so long that we start to get fidgety. Here we have a Linklater film with bona fide "movie stars" instead of people pulled off the street. And it all showsbut not nearly enough to create the "bomb" other reviewers have deemed it. Before Sunrise still accomplishes what Linklater intends: it is an entertaining, light comedy with equal doses of romance and reality.
Ethan Hawke stars as an American bumming through Europe on his EurailPass after being dumped by his girlfriend in Spain. He spies Julie Delpy sitting across the train aisle, and engages her in conversation. Feeling lucky, he invites her to spend the day with him in Vienna; he must catch his plane to America the next morning, so why not take a chance? She agrees, and we watch them go sightseeing together, sharing their thoughts and feelings as they, yes, fall in love. It's a pretty audacious plot by Hollywood standardscan you carry an entire movie these days with just dialogue and handholding? Shouldn't you throw in a few car chases? Maybe a terrorist plot
Nevertheless, Linklater carries it off in his major studio debut, which is an achievement in itself. His trademarks are still intact. Quirky dialogue fills the script, working more often than not, though at times it definitely feels "written." Naturalistic acting abounds, though in the hands of Hawke and Delpy it sometimes faltersyou can't help but get the jarring sense that you've seen these people before in other movies. Linklater's earlier films had an almost endearing, unspoiled quality because he cast total unknowns. While the acting wasn't as polished, it certainly felt more "real," and the lack of familiar faces made fewer ripples in that reality.
Despite these few missteps, Before Sunrise keeps Linklater's reputation as a rising auteur intact. In fact, it shows healthy progress in his evolution from struggling indie to moderately successful playerhe has met the major studio test, and he has survived, priorities intact. He is one of the few directors today with an identifiable style that can't be homogenized by the Hollywood machine.
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There are some interesting things to note in there:
I think that ray tracing in the classical sense, of analytically intersecting rays with conventionally defined geometry, whether they be triangle meshes or higher order primitives, I’m not really bullish on that taking over for primary rendering tasks which is essentially what Intel is pushing. But, I do think that there is a very strong possibility as we move towards next generation technologies for a ray tracing architecture that uses a specific data structure, rather than just taking triangles like everybody uses and tracing rays against them and being really, really expensive. It
involves ray tracing into a sparse voxel octree which is essentially a geometric evolution of the mega-texture technologies that we’re doing today for uniquely texturing entire worlds. It’s clear that what we want to do in the following generation is have unique geometry down to the equivalent of the texel across everything.
- ray tracing in the classical sense, in which rays intersect with triangles, is far too expensive for use in games, even with next generation hardware
- the sparse voxel octree format permits unique geometry
Octrees can be used to accelerate ray tracing and store geometry in a compressed format at the same time.
Quote from a game developer (Rare) on the voxel octree:
Storing data in an octree is far more efficient than storing it using textures and polygons (it's basically free compression for both geometry and texture data). It's primarily cool because you stop traversing when the size of the pixel is larger than the projected cell, so you don't even need to have all your data in memory, but can stream it in on demand. This means that the amount of data truly is unlimited, or at least the limits are with the artists producing it. You only need a fixed amount of voxels loaded to view a scene, and that doesn't change regardless of how big the scene is. The number of voxels required is proportional to the number of pixels on the screen. This is true regardless of how much data you're rendering! This is not true for rasterization unless you have some magical per-pixel visibility and LOD scheme to cut down the number of pixels and vertices to process, which is impossible to achieve in practice. Plus ray casting automatically gives you exact information on what geometry needs to be loaded in from disk, so it's a "perfect" streaming system,
wheras with rasterization it would be very difficult to incrementally load a scene depending on what's visible (because you need to load the scene before you know what's visible!)
If you want to model micrometer detail, go ahead, it won't be loaded into memory until someone zooms in close enough to see it. Voxels that are not intersected can be thrown out of memory. Of course you would keep some sort of cache and throw things out on a least recently used basis, but since it's hierarchical you can just load in new levels in the hierarchy only when you hit them.
Voxels have some very interesting benefits compared to polygons:
- It's a volumetric representation, so you can model very fine details and bumps, without the need for bump mapping. Particle effects like smoke, fire and foam can be efficiently rendered without using hacks. Voxels are also being used by some big Hollywood special effects studio's to render hair, fur and grass.
- id wants to use voxels to render everything static with real geometry without using normal maps.
- Voxels can store a color and a normal. For the renderer, textures and geometry are essentially the same.
- The position of the voxel is defined implicitely by the structure that is holding it (the octree). Here's the good part: this structure represents both the primitives that need to be intersected and the spatial division of these primitives. So, in contrast to triangle ray tracing which needs a separate spatial division structure (kd-tree, BVH, ...), voxels are right away structured in a grid or an octree (this does not mean that other structures can't be used as well). So for voxel ray tracing, octrees are perfect.
- Voxels are very cheap primitives to intersect, much cheaper than triangles. This is probably their biggest benefit when choosing between voxel and polygon ray tracing.
- A voxel octree permits a very natural multiresolution. There's no need to go deeper into the octree when the size of a pixel is larger than the underlying cell, so you don't have to display detail if it's not necessary and you don't streal in data that isn't visible either way.
- Voxels are extremely well suited for local effects (voxel ray casting). In contrast to triangle rasterization, there are no problems with transparency, refraction, ... There are also major benefits artwise: because voxels are volumetric, you can achieve effects like erosion, aging materials, wear and tear by simply changing the iso value.
- Ray casting voxels is much less sensitive to scene complexity than triangles
(partly translated from http://forum.canardplus.com/showpost.php?p=1257790&postcount=96)
Disadvantages of voxel ray tracing vs polygon ray tracing:
- Memory. Voxel data sets are huge relative to polygon data. But this doesn't have to be a problem, since all data can be streamed in. This does however create new challenges when the point of view changes rapidly and a lot of new data bricks have to be streamed in at once. Voxels sets have the benefit over polygons that voxel subsets can be loaded in, which permits some sort of progressive refinement. Other possible solutions are: using faster hard disks or solid state drives to accelerate the streaming, limiting depth traversal during fast camera movement or masking the streaming with motion blur or depth of field postprocessing.
- Animation of voxels requires specialized tools
- Disadvantages of ray tracing in general: dynamic objects require the octree to be updated in realtime. However, there are solutions for dynamic objects which don't require updating of the octree (such as building a deformation lattice around dynamic objects so that when you raycast into it bend the rays as it hits the deformation lattice). id Tech 6 plans to tackle the problem of having many dynamic objects with hybrid rendering.
More on dynamic raytracing:
Dynamic Acceleration Structures for Interactive Ray Tracing, Reinhard, E., Smits, B., and Hansen, C., in Proc. Eurographics Workshop on Rendering, pp. 299-306, June 2000. Summary: This system uses a grid data structure, allowing dynamic objects to be easily inserted or removed. The grid is tiled in space (i.e. it wraps around) to avoid problems with fixed boundaries. They also implement a hiearchical grid with data in both internal and leaf nodes; objects are inserted into the optimal level.
Towards Rapid Reconstruction for Animated Ray Tracing, Lext and Akenine-Moller, Eurographics 2001. Summary: Each rigid dynamic object gets its own grid acceleration structure, and rays are transformed into this local coordinate system. Surprisingly, they show that this scheme is not a big win for simple scenes, because in simple scenes it is possible to completely rebuild the grid each frame using only about a quarter of the runtime. But, this would probably not be true for a k-d or BSP tree.
Distributed Interactive Ray Tracing of Dynamic Scenes, Wald, Benthin, and Slusallek, Proc. IEEE Symp. on Parallel and Large-Data Visualization and Graphics (PVG), 2003. Summary: This system uses ray transformation (into object coordinate system) for rigid movement, and BSP rebuild for unstructured movement. A top-level BSP tree is rebuilt every frame to hold bounding volumes for the moving objects. Performance is still an issue for unstructured movement.
Interactive Space Deformation with Hardware Assisted Rendering, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Vol 17, no 6, 1997, pp. 66-77. Summary: Instead of deforming objects directly, this system deforms the space in which they reside (using 1-to-1 deformations). During raytracing, the rays are deformed into the object space instead of deforming the objects into the ray space. However, the resulting deformed rays are no longer straight, so they must be discretized into short line segments to perform the actual ray-object intersection tests.
Ray casting free-form deformed-volume objects, Haixin Chen, Jürgen Hesser, Reinhard Männer A collection of techniques is developed in this paper for ray casting free-form deformed-volume objects with high quality and efficiency. The known inverse ray deformation approach is combined with free-form deformation to bend the rays to the opposite direction of the deformation, producing an image of the deformed volume without generating a really deformed intermediate volume. The local curvature is estimated and used for the adaptive selection of the length of polyline segments, which approximate the inversely deformed ray trajectories; thus longer polyline segments can be automatically selected in regions with small curvature, reducing deformation calculation without losing the spatial continuity of the simulated deformation. We developed an efficient method for the estimation of the local deformation function. The Jacobian of the local deformation function is used for adjustments of the opacity values and normal vectors computed from the original volume, guaranteeing that the deformed spatial structures are correctly rendered. The popular ray casting acceleration techniques, like early ray termination and space leaping, are incorporated into the deformation procedure, providing a speed-up factor of 2.34-6.56 compared to the non-optimized case.
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This species may reach a length of 1 m and width of 25 mm or more. The worms, however, are exceptionally contractile and may be less than half their extended length (C. marginatus). The head is sharply tapered and bluntly pointed, with wide cephalic furrows (C. marginatus-detail). Although it is stated that eyes are absent from this species, pigmented eyes are present. Their small size, however, makes them easily overlooked in living individuals. The body behind the mouth is dorsoventrally compressed, with sharp lateral margins. Transverse epidermal folds of varying sizes often give the nemerteans an irregularly wrinkled appearance, particularly when the body is contracted. The transparent caudal cirrus is slender.
The colour is typically a uniform greyish-brown with whitish or transparent lateral margins through which the pink coloured lateral nerve cords are often visible. Younger individuals are generally paler, and the dorsal pigmentation of older animals may be somewhat darker than that of the underside. Variations in colour reported include dark greyish green, slate-blue or dull brown. Both the mouth and cephalic slits are pale on their inner margins. In young specimens the cerebral ganglia and proboscis apparatus may show through the epidermis. Cerebratulus marginatus is able to swim actively with strong dorsoventral undulatory movements. When swimming it often rotates about its own longitudinal axis and frequently projects its head above the water surface. It also readily fragments when handled.
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119 Broadway Blvd., Santa Monica
We visited The Yard Friday @ 10 pm
Dish we will try to cook – Skirt Steak $18
After visiting 25 different restaurants in the Los Angeles area for our blog, with the majority of those visits being the first time to the restaurant, you would think we’d be use to the idea that there are such wonderful places to eat near where we live. Yet here we are on our “Y” restaurant post, once again being pleasantly surprised. With a few exceptions (Melisse, Rustic Canyon, Michael’s, and a few places on Main Street and Montana Avenue), Santa Monica isn’t a town known for its to-die-for restaurants. Being located on the beach, Santa Monica is very popular with tourists and therefore most dining establishments and bars are over-run by loud, annoying out-of-towners. The Yard, is the hidden gem amongst all the hustle and bustle of the newly redesigned Santa Monica Place. It holds true to their tagline: Your Neighborhood Gastropub.
The foodies out there may recognize chef Chris Jacobson’s name from season 3 of Top Chef or more recently as the sous chef for Michael Chiarello on Top Chef Masters. Or if any of you are die hard volleyball fans, you may recognize him from his formers days as a professional volleyball player, which, due to traveling for competing, is where he developed his love for different foods and flavors. Apart from these merits, chef CJ began his culinary career as a private chef for the likes of Arianna Huffington and the Marciano Family (of the Guess Corporation). After outgrowing his original restaurant site of offering dinner in the backyard of a beach house in Santa Monica, chef CJ opened The Yard on the corner of Broadway and Ocean Blvd. in 2008.
After a short walk, we arrived at The Yard around 10pm on Friday night to a lively atmosphere. We passed the time of a 20 minute wait for a table by enjoying drinks at the large bar towards the back of the restaurant. In fact, the restaurant is about half bar and half tables for dining, with an oversized, long table between the two areas that can be used for either purpose. The bar has large chalkboards with lists of beers hanging overhead and a large T.V. for watching the game. While we sipped on beer and a mojito, we had ample time to people watch and really get a feel of the place. We noticed chef CJ interacting with guests at one end of the bar, and what seemed to be a large group of friends out sharing drinks on a Friday night surrounding the long table. While the crowd was loud, they weren’t annoying. Most patrons were in their late 20’s – 30’s, casually dressed for a night out. This was definitely not a crowd of tourist living it up in LA, or college kids out for the sole purpose of getting wasted. This was a crowd of true Santa Monica locals.
We hadn’t researched much on the place or food before showing up for dinner so we weren’t quite sure exactly what to expect. Soon, we discovered a diverse menu full of Santa Monica Farmer’s Market fresh ingredients. The menu had 2 salads, seafood, beef, fried chicken, fish tacos, scallops and pork. While they are known for their House Ground Yard Burger (aged angus, chuck, short rib), we decided to order the persimmons salad (dallop of buratta, grilled bread, pomegranate seeds, mint) $11, the skirt steak (watercress, grilled balsamic grapes, horseradish crème fraiche) $18, and the mac n cheese (pancetta, sautéed market kale, crispy bread crumbs) $14.
The persimmon salad was a daily special not printed on the menu and we ordered it because we haven’t had much experience with persimmons but had noticed them at many of the tables at the farmer’s market. Wow. That sums up what we thought about the dish and expresses our excitement for the main courses. The salad was simple and smart. Chef CJ didn’t fuss with the dish, he let the ingredients shine and impress. The persimmons were at the peak of ripeness and easy to cut with a fork, combine that sweetness with the salty burratta and bold mint and all the taste buds were awakened. Our only disappointment with the salad is that we would have liked a few more pomegranate seeds. We can’t wait to go to the farmer’s market and bring home some persimmons to recreate this dish. Actually, we would have picked the salad to highlight this week, but we thought it was a bit too close to the fig appetizer we prepared from Rustic Canyon. So instead, we encourage you to go to The Yard soon, while the persimmon salad might still be on the menu.
As we had expected, the skirt steak and mac n cheese main course plates were created with the same balance of bold, natural flavors and playful combinations of ingredients. The mac n cheese is not your normal kid-meal variety. Chef CJ prepares the bowl using orecchiette noodles in a light, white cheese sauce. The sauce is a sophisticated blend of cheeses that are both cheesy (for lack of a better word) and mild. Sauteed kale is a surprising ingredient that kicks it up a notch and makes you feel like an adult while eating it. Our waitress pointed out how instead of serving the mac n cheese is a deep bowl where it can lump together, they started serving theirs in a more shallow yet wide bowl so that the bread crumbs could cover more surface area and create a nice crispy crust for every bite. Even Romeo, who notoriously doesn’t like mac n cheese, commented that he actually enjoyed the dish. The skirt steak was a bit more complicated of a plate than the mac n cheese, yet still restrained enough to let the ingredients do the talking. We ordered ours rare, and the meat was tender to the fork and full of juice. In fact, our only complaint of the dish was that the meat had not been allowed to rest long enough before being served and a bit too much of the juice (and blood) had pooled out onto the plate when they sliced it for plating. The horseradish crème fraiche gave the dish a welcomed boldness yet surprisingly was light and didn’t over power the flavor of the beef or the grilled balsamic grapes.
Our plan was to save a little bit of room for dessert, but we just couldn’t do it. Our waitress, Kara had noticed our not-so-subtle tripod and camera on the table and started chatting with us about our blog. She even surprised us with a plate of their arancini (crispy risotto balls, spicy marinara) $9, so we could experience even more of the dishes they offer. While we loved them, we had to laugh recalling our previous adventure of trying to replicate the arancini from Bottega Louie for our second blog post. To this day, Romeo thinks risotto is the bain of all rice dishes. However, we were delighted to try The Yard’s version and decided that we liked there’s much more than Bottega Louie’s. The outside of the balls were super crispy, while the inside was satisfyingly creamy and smooth. Their rice was cooked to perfection and the spicy marinara was a perfect combo to the creamy cheese in the risotto. As we were enjoying the arancini, another waitress stopped by to asked for one of our We Can Cook That business cards so she could read about what we do as well. (We’d like to say hello to both Kara and Helena as you read this!)
The four dishes plus a few beers and a blood orange martini left our taste buds happy and our stomachs full. We had such a fun time at The Yard and hope to return often to try more of the dishes chef CJ and his crew offer. If you’re young (or young at heart), like to have fun, and live on the Westside, we definitely recommend spending a night out at The Yard. Due to the lively patrons and loud music being played, the restaurant isn’t one for quiet romance but is the perfect place for drinks with friends and great food. Be sure to check our their website as they have all types of events being offered weekly, from Thursday night grilled cheese dishes to bourbon tastings. They even have a late night menu from 11-1am and brunch on the weekend.
(prices reflect the cost of the package, not the portion we used.) The rest of the ingredients we already had in the kitchen.
Cream Fraiche $4.49
Skirt Steak $8.98
Black Grapes $5.51
Below is our take on skirt steak with watercress, grilled balsamic grapes and horseradish crème fraiche. While we have no idea exactly how they prepare theirs, we looked around online for recipes then combined that knowledge with the flavors we tasted in the original dish and went from there.
Makes 2 servings.
1 lb skirt steak
1 bunch watercress (cut from stems and rinsed)
6 black seedless grapes
1 cup balsamic vinegar
1 tsp horseradish
1/4 cup crème fraiche
3 TBSP unsalted butter
1 TBSP Olive oil
salt and black pepper
Marinate grapes in balsamic vinegar for at least 1 hour, or up to overnight. Using a stovetop griddle, grill grapes for around 1 minute. Remove from heat and allow grapes to cool. Mix crème fraiche and horseradish together and chill.
Next, season steak with salt and pepper. Melt butter and 1 TBSP olive oil in a pan on medium-high. Place steak in pan and allow steak to cook about 4 minutes on each side or until medium-rare, continuously bathing in butter. Remove steak from heat and allow to rest for about 5 minutes. Meanwhile, lightly drizzle watercress with olive oil, season with salt and pepper and toss.
On bottom of plate, place about a 1/8 cup of crème fraiche in center. Layer with skirt steak and top with watercress. Lightly drizzle olive oil around the edge of crème fraiche. Finish with 2 to 3 balsamic grapes on sides of steak.
Rating- We give our dish 4 out of 5 stars.
For all our readers out there, we strongly encourage you to try and make this dish. It is very simple and straight forward, yet the flavors are bold and make you want to eat every bite off of your plate. Even if cooking is not your forte, this dish is very approachable and something anyone can easily do in less than an hour.
Our high notes:
We feel we cooked our steak perfectly and more or less matched the flavors from the original dish. We also gave ourselves some points based on allowing our steak to rest long enough not to let the juices run on the plate.
Our low notes:
The creme fraiche had the right flavor, but we feel we could have used a bit more horseradish and used a little less mixture on the plate overall. Also, we could have grilled our grapes a little longer. Lastly, based on the comparison pictures, it looks like The Yard may have lightly wilted the watercress.
After all was said and done we still had one of our more successful dishes that we were happy to write about. We’d love to hear your experiences on cooking this dish and if you’re ever in the neighborhood, we’ll be more than happy to meet up for dinner and drinks at the Yard.
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Flight of the Conchords: Minimum concept
Less is sometimes more in a sitcom, says Gerard Gilbert
Wednesday, 6 May 2009
This Sunday the UKTV channel GOLD will be screening a 30th-anniversary Fawlty Towers reunion documentary, featuring all of the main cast - including, uniquely for such an exercise, Connie Booth. Here lie revealed the inner workings of a show that exorcised Cleese's comic demons while inspiring six hours of the tightest, most well-worked farce ever made for television. Brilliant but slightly exhausting - something that might also be said of 'Reggie Perrin' - the disinterred and retooled David Nobbs sitcom whose origins are now also well over three decades old.
Next week, on the other hand, sees the return of a sitcom that is highly unlikely to be feted in 30 years time, 'Flight of the Conchords'. There is no sophisticated comic engineering a la 'Fawlty Towers' here, or a high 'Reggie Perrin'-style concept. In fact 'Flight of the Conchords' comes with minimum concept. Two New Zealanders try to make it as musicians in New York. That's it. Indeed it's not even gut-bustingly funny. So why does it leave such a warm feeling in so many viewers?
"Formerly New Zealand's fourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo accapella-rap-funk comedy folk duo" (Wikipedia more helpfully categorises them as 'sub pop'), Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie have been stealthily conquering the world. 'Flight of the Conchords' first incarnation was on Radio 2 in 2004, after the duo's Perrier nomination at the previous year's Edinburgh Festival. Rob Brydon narrated, and Jimmy Carr played their number one fan, Kipper.
And now they've broken into both television and the States. This, the second season of their HBO show (showing on BBC4 here), is to be followed by a tour of North America. Commentators in the US professed themselves baffled as to why HBO added the show to their esteemed roster, but were won over nonetheless. That seems to be the way with this pair of comedians whose songs wryly catalogue their mishaps and shortcomings. Not a lot happens. There are no intricately worked plots or earth-stopping punchlines.
But then quite often in sitcoms, it seems, less is more. From Tony Hancock to Larry David, a light grip on the 'situation' side of the sitcom equation can often intensify the comedy. It can be so much more relaxing as well, none of that awful gag-driven needling of studio audiences that so often sounds like people being harried with cattleprods.
In fact one of my favourite old sitcoms starred Hywel Bennett as the eponymous Shelley - a slacker before the term was coined. Shelley's inaction, like Hancock's before him, allowed room for comic rumination. Being instead of doing. For this sort of comedy, you need the right deadpan face. Hywel Bennett had it, Hancock had it and Jemaine Clement has it. He looks a bit like Mick Jagger if Jagger had experienced repeated rejection instead of uninterrupted success.
Of course the extra dimension to 'Flight of the Conchords' is the songs - often wistful ditties that comment on the action and whose titles I defy you not to smile at. Songs like 'The Most Beautiful Girl (In the Room)' are exceptions to the rule that the comedy pop song is a contradiction in terms. 'Flight of the Conchords' is back, and it's time once again to look on the bright side. Only don't expect to be able explain exactly why.
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Moscow News: American Oil Greed Pushing Sudan Towards Civil War
By Samer Elias,
Anbaa Moscow (Moscow News in Arabic), 26 April 2010 The key role of oil behind the scenes of the first multiparty elections to take place in Sudan in 24 years became evident days before the election. President of the Government of Southern Sudan, Salva Kiir, accused the Khartoum Government of delaying the demarcation of the border between North and South in order to keep control of oil reserves.
Discoveries of large oil reserves in Sudan have added difficulty to the already contentious issues at stake. The possible Southern secession and a threat of renewed civil war are looming as the political struggle grows between the South and the central government for control of the oil production areas, especially the region of Abyei. Also under contention is the creation of a mechanism for sharing oil revenues with the inhabitants of the South.
Although the Comprehensive Peace Agreement signed in 2005 between Khartoum and the SPLM formally ended the 21-year long civil war, it did not resolve the issue of the region of Abyei. The agreement stipulates that the fate of the region would be determined in a 2011 referendum. Residents will decide whether Abyei will join the North or the South.
With the boycott by the President of the elections held in the Darfur region of western Sudan, questions have been raised about the fate of the oil and gas rich Southern region. Experts point out that at stake is a huge share of Sudan's national wealth, primarily in energy exploration and production rights. Currently some thirty oil companies from East and West are competing for the oil reserves, confirmed at an estimated six billion barrels, placing the region fifth in Africa. Competition has flared due to promising studies of the geological composition of the Sudan, which may be floating on a sea of black gold. In addition, Sudanese oil is of high quality and cheap to extract, with price ranges from $3 to $4 dollars per barrel. | <urn:uuid:96ce5a2d-40f6-42b4-91a4-e082dbccf777> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.albawaba.com/news/moscow-news-american-oil-greed-pushing-sudan-towards-civil-war?quicktabs_accordion=0 | 2013-05-19T19:06:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959577 | 405 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
This recent NY Times article shows statistically how war could now well be an obsolescent phenomenon. Using a generally accepted measure of war violence, there has been a remarkable fall in conflict from the middle of last century to the current time. While the writers conjecturing on the cause of this is debatable, it nonetheless identifies what clearly seems an irreversible trend. This trend follows closely the activities of Maharishi since the late 1950s in moving the world away from ignorance and incoherence to that of world peace and invincibility for all nations, and in particular his establishment of coherence-creating groups like Purusha to usher in not just a world without conflict, but heaven on earth.
The departure of the last American troops from Iraq brings relief to a nation that has endured its most painful war since Vietnam. But the event is momentous for another reason. The invasion of Iraq was the most recent example of an all-out war between two national armies. And it could very well be the last one.
The idea that war is obsolescent may seem preposterously utopian. Aren’t we facing an endless war on terror, a clash of civilisation, the menace of nuclear rogues states? Isn’t war on our genes, something that will always be with us?
The theory that was is becoming passe gained traction in the late 1980s, when scholars noticed some curious non-events. World War III, a nuclear armageddon, was once considered inevitable, but didn’t happen. Nor had any wars between great powers occurred since the Korean War. European nations, which for centuries had fought each other at the drop of a hat, had not done so for four decades.
Armed conflict hasn’t vanished, and today anyone with a mobile phone can broadcast the bloodshed. But our impressions of the prevalence of war, stoked by these images, can be misleading. Only objective numbers can identify the trends.
“War” is a fuzzy category, shading from global conflagrations to neighbourhood turn battles, so the organisations that track the frequency and damage of war over time need a precise yardstick. A common definition picks out armed conflicts that cause at least 1000 battle deaths in a year — soldiers and civilians killed by war violence, excluding the difficult-to-quantify indirect deaths resulting from hunger and disease. “Interstate wars” are those fought between national armies and have historically been the deadliest.
These prototypical wars have become increasingly rare, and the world hasn’t seen one since the three-week invasion of Iraq in 2003. The lopsided five-day clash between Russian and Georgia in 2008 misses the threshold, as do sporadic clashes between North and South Korea or Thailand and Cambodia. Countries remained armed and hostile, so war is hardly impossible. But where would a new interstate was plausibly erupt?
China has not fought a battle in 23 years. India and Pakistan came dangerously close to war in 2002, but they backed off when both sides realised that millions would die and have since stabilised relations. Neither North nor South Korea could win a war at an acceptable cost.
What about other kinds of armed conflict, like civil was and conflicts that miss the 1000 death cutoff? Remarkably, they too have been in decline. Civil wars are fewer, smaller and more localised. Terrible flare-ups occur, and for those caught in the middle the results are devastating — but fewer people are caught in the middle. The biggest continuing war was Afghanistan, last year killed about 500 Americans, 100 other coalition troops and 5000 Afghans including civilians. That toll, while deplorable, is a fraction of those in past wars like Vietnam, which killed 5000 Americans and nearly 150,000 Vietnamese per year. Over all, the annual rate of battle deaths worldwide has fallen from almost 300 per 100,000 of world population during World War II, to almost 30 during Korea, to the low teens during Vietnam, to single digits in the late 1970s and 1980s, to fewer than one in the 21st century.
As the political scientist John Mueller has pointed out, today’s civil wars are closer to organised crime than traditional war. Armed militias — really gangs of thugs — monopolise resources like cocaine in Colombia or coltan in Congo, or terrorise the locals into paying tribute to religious fanatics, as in Somalia, Nigeria and the Philippines.
Nor has the suffering merely been displaced from soldiers to civilians. The much-quoted statistic that war deaths a century ago were 90% military and 10% civilian, while today the ratio is reversed, resulted from an error in a 1994 United Nations report that mistakenly compared deaths in World War I with refugees and wounded in the 1980s. The real ratio is around 50-50 and stable through time. Yes, atrocities against civilians continue, but consider a historical perspective. During World War II, Allied forces repeatedly and deliberately firebombed Axis cities, incinerating tens of thousands of civilians in a night. The Germans and Japanese did far worse. Today’s rapes, ethnic cleansings and suicide bombings are just as atrocious, but much smaller in scale.
Why is war in decline? For one thing, it no longer pays. For centuries, war reallocated huge territories, as empires were conglomerated or dismantled and states wiped off the map. But since shortly after World War II, virtually no borders have changed by force, and no member of the United Nations has disappeared through conquest. The futility of conquest is part of the emergence of an international community regulated by taboos and yielding more effective tools for managing conflicts. Among these tools, the United Nations 100,000 deployed peacekeepers have measurably improved the success of peace agreements in civil wars.
War also declines as prosperity and trade rise. Historically, wealth came from land and conquest was profitable. Today, wealth comes from trade, and war only hurts. | <urn:uuid:36bf3ade-5e31-406e-85a0-6e1acfcc520a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.alkpurusha.net/war-is-now-passe/ | 2013-05-19T18:28:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960901 | 1,200 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
- Member: LantisEscudo
- Studio: Honou Productions
- Title: A Kanon Carol
- Premiered: 2007-08-17
- Trans-Siberian Orchestra The Lost Christmas Eve
- Anime Evolution 2007, Anime Evolution 2007 AMV Contest (2007-08-18)
Kanon has been in my mind for this song for several years, and I was planning on making an all-girls video using the 2002 version of the series for quite a while. I was looking for a copy of the DVDs for the series for less money than I was finding when the first episode of the 2006 remake broadcast. My plans for this video were immediately put on the shelf until I could get the new version.
The first step was shortening the song; I've always hated the middle section with the "Christmas..." chant, so I wanted to take that out, along with the final section after the faded chord, since it seemed superfluous to the song. I ended up also cutting the second verse and chorus, since I was having a great deal of difficulty finding scenes that would fit that section of the song once I decided to focus on Ayu rather than have the video skip among the various girls for different parts of the song (Ayu was always intended for the final section before the instrumental finale, though, which I think is the best segment).
The video on the R2 DVDs was insanely high quality; it's no surprise that they retail for 6000 yen each. They were progressive and anamorphic with almost no video issues coming off the disk, so I didn't need to filter a thing, and it allowed me to release an 848x480 distro copy. Whatever KyoAni paid their encoders for these disks, it wasn't enough.
Editing was pretty straightforward, without much in the way of effects other than a few white flashes/fade to white moments. I'm still a KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) editor, and prefer to have the footage tell the story, rather than have the video taken over by effects. Editing this way does make the user have a passing knowledge of the series you use, but it's the way I feel more comfortable.
Distro copy is an 848x480 MP4, AVC/AAC.
Finalist at AnimeEvolution 2007
Finalist (Best Sentimental) at Anime Weekend Atlanta (Pro Competition) | <urn:uuid:6d66fefe-791e-4c0e-949e-a1d63913d5ce> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members/members_videoinfo.php?v=150731 | 2013-05-19T19:07:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967902 | 498 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Board of Directors Approved Minutes: December 7-9, 2001
Present: Norine G. Johnson, PhD; Philip G. Zimbardo, PhD; Patrick H. DeLeon, PhD, JD; Ronald F. Levant, EdD; Gerald P. Koocher, PhD; Raymond D. Fowler, PhD; Laura H. Barbanel, EdD; Charles L. Brewer, PhD; ; Katherine C. Nordal, PhD; J. Bruce Overmier, PhD; Ruth Ullmann Paige, PhD; and Nathan W. Perry, PhD; incoming Board members Carol D. Goodheart, EdD, and Robert J. Sternberg, PhD
I. MINUTES OF MEETING
A.(1) The Board voted to approve the minutes of the August 22 & 25, 2001, meeting of the Board of Directors.
II. ELECTIONS, AWARDS, MEMBERSHIP AND HUMAN RESOURCES
A.(2) The Board voted to refer the item “Prohibiting the Running for Two Offices Simultaneously” to the March 2002 Cross-Cutting Agenda, the Division Leadership Conference and State Leadership Conference for discussion. The Board requested that the item be brought back to the Board at its June 2002 meeting.
B.(3) The Board voted to approve changing the order of appearance of presidential candidates in the APA Monitor on Psychology beginning in 2003. Candidates names will be chosen randomly by the Chair of the Election Committee for the order in which they will appear in the first issue of the APA Monitor on Psychology and then will be rotated into the next position for subsequent issues of the Monitor on Psychology and on the ballot.
C.(4) The Board voted to reject the following motion:
That all President-elect and Board of Directors campaign materials to be provided at the February Council meeting be distributed in one packet by Governance Affairs staff. Potential President-elect and Board of Directors candidates will be informed that they shall provide to Governance Affairs staff any campaign materials they wish to distribute to Council and that they are prohibited from distributing materials at the Council meetings themselves.
D.(5) The Board voted to recommend that Council approve amending Association Rule 40-1.8 as follows (bracketed material to be deleted; underlined material to be added):
The appointment of an alternate representative [other than an officer within the] for a voting unit shall be certified in writing to the Recording Secretary in advance of the [meeting at which the alternate is seated] alternate representative being seated. The certification shall be from [the president or secretary] an officer or director of the voting unit so represented[, or shall make clear by what authority or custom the appointment has been made] or from a person authorized in writing by the voting unit to make such appointments. Consistent with the APA Bylaws, an alternate representative shall be a member of the voting unit who is also a member of APA and shall not be a member who has served as a Council representative for the six consecutive years prior to the year in which they serve as an alternate
E.(6) The Board voted to recommend that Council reject the following motion:
(1) candidates for the APA Board of Directors will have an opportunity to submit a statement of 500 words (or less) when they return their questionnaire indicating interest in nomination. These statements will be mailed to members of Council with the nomination ballots; (2) these statements will also be posted on the APA-website with the permission of each individual, and (3) the Council of Representatives encourages candidates and final nominees for the APA Board of Directors to utilize the above standard mechanisms that are designed to inform Council members of their unique qualifications and interests relevant to the respective governance groups and discourages nominees from engaging in additional direct campaigning efforts. All actions will be approved for a three-year trial basis. An evaluation of these actions in meeting their intended outcomes will be presented to Council after the completion of three election cycles, by the Election Committee.
The Board noted that the proposal is too restrictive.
F.(7) The Board voted to recommend that Council reject the following motion:
(1) nominees for each APA board or committee (excluding the Board of Directors) elected by Council members will be invited to submit a statement of 300 words (or less) that will accompany election ballots; (2) nominees for each APA board or committee (excluding the Board of Directors) will be also have the option of having their statement posted on the APA website; and (3) the Council of Representatives encourages nominees for each APA board or committee (excluding the Board of Directors) to utilize the above mechanisms that are designed to inform Council members of their unique qualifications and interests relevant to the respective governance groups and discourages nominees from engaging in additional direct campaigning efforts. All actions will be approved for a three-year trial basis. An evaluation of these actions in meeting their intended outcomes will be presented to Council after the completion of three election cycles, by the Election Committee.
The Board noted that the proposal is too restrictive.
G.(8) The Board postponed the item “Membership Recruitment and Retention Fund Proposal” to its February 2002 meeting. The Board requested that additional information regarding the proposal be provided.
H. In executive session, the Board took the following action on appointments:
Approved Elizabeth Lira Kornfeld as the recipient of the 2002 APA International Humanitarian Award.
Approved the appointment of Frederick R. Kobrick as a non-voting member of the Finance Committee for a term beginning 1/1/2002 and ending 12/31/2004.
Approved the appointment of Patricia Hollander as a non-voting member of the Commission for the Recognition of Specialties and Proficiencies in Professional Psychology for a term beginning 1/1/2002 and ending 12/31/2004.
Approved the appointment of Max Heinrich, PhD, as APA's representative to the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations' Behavioral Health Care Professional Technical Advisory Committee (JCAHO PTAC) and Richard Hunter, PhD, as alternate representative, for terms beginning 1/1/2002 and ending 12/31/2003.
Approved the appointment of Nicole B. Barenbaum, PhD, to the History Oversight Committee for a term beginning 1/1/2002 and ending 12/31/2004.
Approved the appointments of Natacha Blain, JD, PhD, Robert T. Kinscherff, JD, PhD, and Sandra B. McPherson, PhD, to the Committee on Legal Issues for terms beginning 1/1/2002 and ending 12/31/2004.
Approved appointments to continuing committees. Terms will begin 1/1/2002 and end 12/31/04, except where noted. See Attachment A for list of appointments.
A.(31) The Board received an update on work by the Ethics Code Task Force in the ongoing revision of the Ethics Code.
B.(32) The Board received an update regarding the Ethics Committee's plan to award a prize for a graduate student paper on psychology and ethics.
C. In executive session, the Board took action on seven cases.
D. In executive session, the Board voted to approve the following revisions to the Ethics Committee's Rules and Procedures (bracketed material to be deleted; underlined material to be added):
Part III, Section 2.1.
Specific Jurisdiction. The Ethics Committee has the authority to review and make recommendations concerning all applications for readmission by persons who have lost membership as a result of unethical behavior, who have resigned while under an ethics investigation, or whose membership was voided because it was obtained on the basis of false or fraudulent information. The Membership Committee shall transmit all such applications for readmission to the Director of the Ethics Office.
Part IV, Section 6.
Review and Recommendation by the Committee Following a [Response] Request for Review . Upon receipt of the respondent's [response] request for review and supporting statement and upon conclusion of any necessary further investigation, the case shall be reviewed by the Ethics Committee. (Note: No changes to remainder of this section.)
IV. BOARD OF DIRECTORS
A.(9) The Board approved the following meeting dates for 2003: February 12 & 13, April 25-27 (retreat), June 6-8, August 5 & 9, October 10-12 (retreat), December 5-7.
B.(10) The Board took emergency action and approved the following Resolution on Terrorism:
WHEREAS On September 11, 2001, terrorists hijacked four commercial airplanes and attacked the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in the Washington, DC, area and crashed the fourth plane in rural Pennsylvania;
WHEREAS Those attacks caused the deaths of thousands and great destruction of property;
WHEREAS The physical impact of terrorism is death and destruction; its behavioral effects include disorganization, fear, anger, a sense of helplessness, loss of confidence, and problems in coping;
WHEREAS The fear of anthrax contamination has heightened these psychological states;
WHEREAS Different segments of our diverse society use different methods of coping with and managing stress, some being more comfortable with individually-focussed methods like behavioral, affective and cognitive self-management and relaxation techniques, while others are more comfortable receiving support from their extended families, communities and places of worship.
WHEREAS Psychology as a discipline and a profession has much that it can contribute through application of psychological knowledge and expertise;
WHEREAS The events of September 11 have led to a dramatic increase in the incidence of hate crimes based on ethnicity, ranging from harassment at work to murder;
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the American Psychological Association, an organization devoted to the promotion of health and well being, calls upon the psychology community to work toward an end to terrorism in all its manifestations;
Be it further resolved that the American Psychological Association:
Encourages its members to use their knowledge and expertise to help alleviate the public's high levels of stress, anxiety, fear and insecurity and to mobilize the public's strength and resilience to cope with terrorism and its aftermaths;
Provides relevant information to its members which will enable them to reduce the public's high levels of anxiety, fear, stress and insecurity;
Advocates at the congressional and executive levels for increased use of behavioral experts and behavioral knowledge in dealing with both the threat and impact of terrorism;
Encourages increased support for behavioral research that will produce greater understanding of the roots of terrorism and the methods to defeat it, including earlier identification of terrorists and the prevention of the development of terrorism and its related activities;
Encourages increased research, treatment and prevention of trauma-related and disaster-induced problems among children, adolescents and adults;
Encourages ways to develop stress management, fear management and support programs specifically designed to help citizens deal with the continuing threat of terrorism;
Condemns prejudice leading to harassment, violence and hate crimes.
Council will be informed at its February 2002 meeting of the emergency action taken by the Board.
The Board also voted to allocate 2 of its 2002 convention hours for a Symposium and Town Hall Meeting on Psychology Responds to the Threat and Impact of Terrorism sponsored by the APA Board of Directors Subcommittee on Psychology's Response to Terrorism.
C(11). The Board voted to allocate $33,000 from the President's contingency fund to support the 2002 presidential initiative “Psychology Making a Significant Difference: Psychological Science and Research Enrich Our Lives” and $2,000 from the President's contingency fund to support a reception for ethnic minority students in the Division 45 hospitality suite at the 2002 APA convention.
D.(12) The Board voted to recommend that Council approve the addition of $77,000 to the 2002 Final Budget to 1) enhance central office research capabilities and 2) provide electronic access to APA journals and research tools for the Congressional Research Office.
E.(12A) The Board requested that a plan be brought to the Board in February 2002 regarding a request for new staff to work with issues on Psychology and Health.
F.(33) The Board received as information the annual report of the Ad Hoc Committee on Early Career Psychologists.
G.(34) The Board received an update regarding the activities of the Board of Professional Affairs in relation to APA guidelines.
H. In executive session, the Board discussed the coordination of Board activities relating to terrorism.
I. In executive session, the Board took action on the following Psychology Defense Fund Case:
#2001-6: On recommendation of the Executive Management Group, the Board voted to grant $15,000 to the Missouri Psychological Association to help fund their pursuing a lawsuit against the Missouri Department of Social Services, Division of Medical Services.
J. In executive session, the Board voted to recommend that Council approve and forward to the membership for a vote the following amendments to the APA Bylaws to provide that an APAGS Representative serve as a voting member of Council and non-voting member of the Board of Directors (bracketed material to be deleted; underlined material to be added):
ARTICLE V: Composition of the Council of Representatives
Council shall be composed of Representatives of Divisions, Representatives of State and Provincial Psychological Associations, members of the Board of Directors [and] the Officers of the Association (the chief staff officer shall serve without vote), and the APAGS Representative….
The APAGS Representative shall begin his or her term on Council in January of their term as Chair of the American Psychological Association of Graduate Students Committee and will serve for a term of one year.
ARTICLE VII: Board of Directors
The Board of Directors shall consist of the President, the President-Elect, the Past-President, the Recording Secretary, the Treasurer, the Chief Staff Officer (without vote), the APAGS Representative to the Council of Representatives (without vote), and six others elected by a preferential ballot by those Members and from those Members holding seats on Council during the year immediately preceding the election. Directors not serving ex officio shall serve for staggered terms of three years. All members of the Board of Directors shall serve until their successors are elected and qualify.
An item will be forwarded to Council in August 2002 after the Finance Committee has reviewed the item.
V. DIVISIONS AND STATE AND PROVINCIAL ASSOCIATIONS
A.(13) The Board voted to recommend that the Council of Representatives approve the American Society for the Advancement of Pharmacotherapy, Division 55 of the American Psychological Association, as a permanent APA division.
VI. ORGANIZATION OF THE APA
VII. PUBLICATIONS AND COMMUNICATIONS
A. In executive session, the Board discussed the report of the Board of Directors American Psychologist Task Force. The Board voted to approve the continuation of the model of having the Chief Executive Officer serve as the editor of the American Psychologist. The Board also approved the following revised editorial coverage statement:
The American Psychologist is the official journal of the American Psychological Association. As such, the journal contains archival documents and articles covering current issues in psychology, covering the science and practice of psychology, and regarding psychology's contribution to public policy.
Archival and Association documents include, but are not limited to, the annual report of the Association, Council minutes, the Presidential address, editorials, other reports of the Association, ethics information, surveys of the membership, employment data, obituaries, calendars of events, announcements, and selected award addresses.
Articles published cover all aspects of psychology. Submissions should be current, timely, and of interest to the broad APA membership; they should be written in a style that is accessible to and of interest to all psychologists, regardless of area of specialization. American Psychologist contributions often address national and international policy issues as well as topics relevant to Association policy and activities. The first step in the AP editorial review process is performed by the AP editor/APA CEO. Approximately 70% of author-submitted manuscripts are returned without review within 30 days for a host of reasons: empirical manuscript more appropriate for one of the APA primary journals; topic of the manuscript or style of the writing too narrow for the broad AP readership; topic of the manuscript recently covered in the AP; inappropriate content or style; or other, more typical reasons such as not a major contribution to the field or simply not written well enough. As the official journal of the APA, AP does not publish papers advocating policies contrary to officially adopted APA policy, although debates of the evidence supporting such policies may appear from time to time.
Comments on the policies of the Association and articles published in the American Psychologist are also considered for the AP Comment section.
VIII. CONVENTION AFFAIRS
A.(14) The Board voted to approve Boston, Massachusetts, as the site for the 2008 Convention to be held within the period of Thursday, August 14 to Tuesday, August 19, 2008, as determined by the approved convention structure. The Board recommended that the Board of Convention Affairs book conventions earlier so as not to conflict with the start of the school year.
IX. EDUCATIONAL AFFAIRS
A.(15) The Board voted to approve the following motion:
The Board of Directors directs the Board of Professional Affairs, the Board of Educational Affairs, the Committee for the Advancement of Professional Practice, and relevant staff to develop an implementation plan for recommendations C-J of the Commission on Education and Training Leading to Licensure in Psychology. The implementation plan should describe the resources necessary to implement the various programmatic activities and infrastructure recommendations and the extent to which the recommendations may be implemented using existing resources. The implementation plan should be presented to the Board of Directors at its June 2002 meeting for its use in making a recommendation to Council on the Commission recommendations.
B.(16) The Board voted to recommend that the Council of Representatives confirm the recognition of Family Psychology as a specialty in professional psychology.
C.(17) The Board voted to approve the proposed changes to the Guidelines and Principles for Accreditation of Programs in Professional Psychology (G&P) and the Accreditation Operating Procedures. The Board noted the policy changes were minor and therefore did not require Council approval.
D.(18) The Board voted to recommend that Council reject the following motion:
In order to realize the benefits that would accrue from more uniform education and training standards, the American Psychological Association (APA) urges all U.S. and Canadian jurisdictions to seek changes in administrative policies and regulations and, where necessary, in law that would require all health service provider applicants for licensure to have completed a doctoral training program in psychology that is accredited by an accrediting body recognized by the U.S. Secretary of Education (or comparable recognition in Canada). The Association adopts this position as official policy and calls upon its affiliated state and provincial psychological associations, state and provincial regulatory bodies, the Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards (ASPPB), the Council of Graduate Departments of Psychology (COGDOP), the Councils of Training Directors in Psychology, and the National Council of Schools of Professional Psychology (NCSPP) to endorse and support the implementation of the policy.
E.(19) The item “APA/CPA Memorandum of Understanding for Concurrent Accreditation” was withdrawn.
F.(35) The Board received information regarding the creation of an Undergraduate Advisory Panel.
G.(36) The Board received an update on the Task Force for Distance Education in Professional Psychology.
H.(37) The Board was informed of the decision by the Committee on Accreditation to retain Footnote 4 of the Guidelines and Principles for Accreditation of Programs in Professional Psychology.
I.(38) The Board received an update on recent activities of the Board of Educational Affairs regarding the Committee on Accreditation.
X. PROFESSIONAL AFFAIRS
A.(20) The Board voted to recommend that Council reject the following motion:
That the Council of Representatives recommends that existing APA and Divisional guidelines be re-titled, terming them “considerations” and to title all future such documents with this term.
B.(21) The item, “AACAP Policy Statement on Juvenile Death Sentences” was withdrawn.
XI. SCIENTIFIC AFFAIRS
A.(39) The Board received an update on Science Directorate activities in the areas of research regulations and institutional review boards.
XII. PUBLIC INTEREST
A.(22) The Board voted to recommend that Council receive the report of the Working Group on Children's Mental Health and refer the report to the Committee on Children, Youth and Families for consideration of specific proposals.
B.(23) The Board voted to recommend that Council adopt the following Resolution on Ageism:
WHEREAS ageism is defined as prejudice toward, stereotyping of, and/or discrimination against any person or persons directly and solely as a function of their having attained a chronological age which the social group defines as “old”; and
WHEREAS psychologists have documented the role of ageism in assessment and treatment of older adults, the degree to which aging does (or does not) affect human behavior and performance, the effects of age stereotypes, the extent to which ageism is a factor in workplace discrimination, among other concerns related to age and behavior; and
WHEREAS over the past several years APA has affirmed its opposition to discrimination and stereotyping based on gender, race, physical disability, sexual orientation, and ethnicity; and
WHEREAS most recently (February 1999) APA affirmed by Council resolution its support of Affirmative Action and equal opportunity for all persons regardless of race, gender, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation and national origin; and
WHEREAS APA embraces diversity in all efforts and programs and recognizes the dimension of age as an important element of diversity;
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the American Psychological Association rejects ageism in all its forms and is committed to support efforts to eliminate it from our society.
Calasanti, T.M. (1999) Feminism and gerontology: Not just for women. Hallym International Journal of Aging, 1, 44-56.
Kimmel, D.C. (1988) Ageism, psychology, and public policy. American Psychologist, 43,175-178.
Laws, G. (1995) Understanding ageism: Lessons from feminism and postmodernism. The Gerontologist, 35, 112-118.
Palmore, E. (1990). Ageism, negative and positive. New York: Springer.
Schaie, K.W. (1988). Ageism in psychological research. American Psychologist, 43, 179-183.
C.(40) The Board received as information a report on the meeting Sexual Orientation and Mental Health: Toward Global Perspectives on Practice and Policy, International Meeting on Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Concerns in Psychology.
D.(41) The Board receive an update on the activities of the Task Force on Advertising and Children.
E.(42) The Board received information regarding the APA response to recent correspondence to the APA President and President-elect from the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality.
XIII. ETHNIC MINORITY AFFAIRS
XIV. INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
A.(24) The Board postponed to its February 2002 meeting the item, “Draft Resolution on the Mexico City Policy.”
XV. CENTRAL OFFICE
XVI. FINANCIAL AFFAIRS
A.(25) The Board voted to recommend that Council approve the following motion:
Council approves the Proposed 2002 Final Budget calling for a net bottom-line deficit of $1,585,600.
In addition, Council supports the passage of this budget authorizing management to do what is necessary to ensure that the deficit for 2002 is no greater than the $1,585,600 deficit being proposed at this time and asks that the CEO develop a plan to achieve a balanced budget by 2004 including substantial progress toward a balanced budget in 2003.
B.(26) The Board voted to recommend changing the name “contingency fund” to “discretionary fund” and requested that relevant Association Rule changes be drafted and provided to the Board and Council for action.
The Board voted to postpone action on the recommendations that an allowance pool be included in the budget to provide funding of core and fully loaded costs for contingency (discretionary) requests and that the core and fully loaded costs be included in each agenda item with fiscal implications beginning in 2002.
C.(27) The item, “APA Dues Payment Mechanisms/Options” was withdrawn.
D.(28) The Board postponed the item “Association Wide Operational Review” until additional information is received.
E.(29) The Board voted to approve, in principle, that:
the Sponsor Approval System (a) be managed to strive to generate over time an average 10% profit margin after overhead beginning in 2003; (b) be made to increase the profit margin in 2002 from 3% to 5% to the extent possible; and (c) be managed in a way that future fee increase not be disproportionately imposed on affiliated sponsors to the extent possible. 2) the CE Credit Programs (a) be managed to strive to generate over time an average of 5% profit margin after overhead beginning with 2002; and (b) be managed whereby the least profitable activities be considered for elimination if it is deemed necessary to meet the establish goal.
The Board requested that relevant Association Rule changes be drafted and provided to the Board in June 2002.
F.(43) The Board received as information the report from the Finance Committee on the annual review of the employee compensation package.
XVII. COMMUNICATIONS CONCERNING OUTSIDE ORGANIZATIONS
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SMART-1 Final Days
|SMART-1 artist's impression.
After sixteen months orbiting the Moon, ESA's lunar mission is preparing for the end of its scientific exploration. On 19 June, SMART-1 mission controllers initiated a 17-day series of manoeuvres aimed at positioning the spacecraft to enhance science data return as the mission winds down.
SMART-1, Europe's successful first Moon mission, is scheduled to end on 3 September 2006, impacting on the Moon's surface in a disposal plan similar to that of many earlier lunar missions and almost three years to the day after its 2003 launch.
The recently started manoeuvre campaign aims to avoid having the spacecraft intersect with the Moon at a disadvantageous time from the scientific point of view, as it would have naturally about 17 August if left alone. Instead, this 'extension' to mission operations will provide new opportunities for low-altitude scientific observations and give optimum science returns during and after the spacecraft's controlled impact on the Moon.
In preparation for mission end, spacecraft controllers at ESOC, ESA's Spacecraft Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany, have started a series of thruster firings to give a 'delta-velocity,' or change in velocity, of approximately 12 metres per second. This will raise the orbit perilune (point of closest passage over the Moon) by about 90 kilometres, and will shift the impact to 3 September.
"The shift in date, time and location for Moon intersection is also optimised to favour scientific observations from Earth," said Gerhard Schwehm, ESA's SMART-1 Mission Manager. "Projections based on the current orbit indicated that the spacecraft, if left as is, would impact the Moon on the far side, away from ground contact and visibility. The new location is on the Moon's near-side, at mid-southern latitudes."
For the manoeuvre campaign, the use of the electric propulsion system (the ion engine) had to be ruled out since all Xenon propellant reserves were exhausted during the mission. The mission control team have instead developed an imaginative approach.
|Possible impact projection for SMART-1. Credit: ESA
"The manoeuvre strategy consists of a series of reaction-wheel off-loadings combined with about three hours of intermittent thrust centred at apolune (point of furthest distance from the Moon) during the next 74 orbits," said Octavio Camino, Spacecraft Operations Manager at ESOC.
The off-loading consists of braking a set of spinning wheels inside the spacecraft, which has the effect of transferring angular momentum from the wheels to the spacecraft and hence changing its velocity.
"We use asymmetric firing of the attitude thrusters to produce a small velocity variation aligned with the flight direction. This will change the orbit by an accumulative effect," added Camino.
"After these manoeuvres, science activities will resume until the impact, with short interruptions for two trim manoeuvres to adjust the impact time, one around the end of July and one at the beginning of September," he concluded.
This manoeuvre campaign and the following trim manoeuvres will make it possible to predict the exact time and location for the SMART-1 impact with more accuracy.
SMART-1 is the first in a series of 'Small Missions for Advanced Research and Technology' in which elements of the platform and miniaturised payload technology have been conceived as a demonstration for future scientific missions and an early opportunity for science. SMART-1 used an innovative ion-propulsion system powered by a small quantity of onboard Xenon and solar energy to generate electricity used to ionise the fuel to travel to the Moon.
|Mosaic of lunar images from SMART-1. Moon image using AMIE's clear filter.
After a 27 September 2003 launch, SMART-1 spiralled out over a 14-month period until being captured by the Moon on 15 November 2004, thus successfully achieving the primary objective of demonstrating solar electric propulsion during interplanetary travel. In addition to helping prove new technology from the perspective of satellite design, the mission has also provided an opportunity to develop new ways of conducting ground control operations based on both increased satellite autonomy and improved tools for ground automation.
The wealth of scientific data from SMART-1 are still being processed and analysed. Thanks to SMART-1, scientists all over Europe and around the world will have access to the best-resolution surface images ever taken from lunar orbit, as well as a better knowledge of the Moon's minerals. For the first time from orbit, SMART-1 detected Calcium and Magnesium using an X-ray instrument. It measured compositional changes from the central peaks of craters, volcanic plains and giant impact basins. The camera studied impact craters, volcanic features and lava tubes, and monitored the polar regions.
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(CNN) -- The voice on telephone messages left for Manti Te'o matches that of the 22-year-old man who says he posed as a woman in carrying on a relationship -- by e-mail and over the phone -- with the Notre Dame linebacker, according to the "Dr. Phil" show.
"They all say, with scientific certainty, that Ronaiah Tuiasosopo is the female voice in those recordings," host Phil McGraw said, citing conclusions by forensic voice analysts with three independent contractors.
That conclusion supports Tuiasosopo's assertion that, posing as a woman, he was involved in a relationship with Te'o, who had not known that his love interest was a man.
Te'o rose to prominence while leading Notre Dame's Fighting Irish to an undefeated regular season. This year's Heisman Trophy runner-up, he told interviewers in September and October that his grandmother and girlfriend, whom he described as a 22-year-old Stanford University student, had died within hours of each other.
The sports website Deadspin broke the story last month that the girlfriend Te'o talked about wasn't real.
McGraw reported in the first part of the two-part interview, which aired Thursday, that the voice analysts had concluded that the voice used by Tuiasosopo in the interview was likely not that of the person who had left the voice mail messages on the gridiron star's answering machine.
McGraw asked the confessed hoaxer repeatedly to adopt the female voice he said he had used with Te'o in order to prove that it was he, but Tuiasosopo refused, saying he was not comfortable appearing on camera sounding like a woman.
A first attempt at overcoming his objection -- putting Tuiasosopo behind a screen in McGraw's home, where the interview took place -- resulted in equivocal findings from the voice analysts.
But when the venue was switched to Tuiasosopo's house, where he said he had made the calls to Te'o, the results were uniformly in agreement, McGraw said.
Tuiasosopo told McGraw that the ruse had its roots in sexual abuse he endured from someone close to his family that began when he was 12 years of age.
"It started off with a hand and then touching and stuff like that," he told the talk show host in the segment that aired Friday. "I didn't know what was going on."
Tuiasosopo said he kept to himself knowledge of the abuse, which escalated to rape, out of fear that his parents would become angry if they were to find out and that it might drive his father -- who was already out of town much of the time -- to leave.
"I knew that I could not go forward with that," he said.
Tuiasosopo said he went on to create an alter persona -- the fictional Lennay Kekua.
"I felt that I couldn't do things, accomplish things, pursue things, live out as Ronaiah," Tuiasosopo said to McGraw. "And I felt the need to create this. It has everything to do with what I went through as a child and my experience with child molestation and abuse."
Asked why he had not created a fictional man instead, he said that it was because he had been "abused as if I was a girl."
In the initial segment, which aired Thursday, Tuiasosopo said the athlete knew nothing about the ruse.
"He had no idea," he said.
Te'o has said he was not a part of the hoax.
Asked whether he was in love with Te'o, Tuiasosopo said: "I mean, yeah ... as twisted and confusing as it may be, yeah, I cared for this person. I did all that I could to help this person become a better person, even though I wasn't getting nothing out of it. Of course, it's very shameful and it's very painful to even talk about. Even now, it's hard to talk about. But, you know, the truth of it is that that happened. I grew feelings. I grew emotions that, sooner or later, I couldn't control any more."
Asked whether he is gay, Tuiasosopo said, "I would say, yeah, I am gay, but honestly, I am so confused, I'm so lost."
Tuiasosopo said the relationship began after he started a Facebook page under the name Lennay Kekua, the first name an elision of his mother's and grandmother's first names and the last name one he had heard "thrown around in the neighborhood."
He said he "randomly added different people" as Facebook friends with the persona he had created. "One of the people I happened to add was his cousin," he said, referring to Te'o's cousin. "Shortly after, I got a friend request, and it was from Manti."
They began speaking nightly, and Te'o seemed to have been smitten, too, Tuiasosopo said. "He really had fallen in love with this, we'll say, character."
A love story unravels
Tuiasosopo said his motives were pure; he never tried to make money off their relationship. "I just wanted to help him become better," he said.
The charade became difficult to maintain, and he tried to end it several times.
"There are many times where Manti and Lennay had broken up. But something would bring them back together, whether it was something going on in his life or Lennay's life, in this case in my life," Tuiasosopo said.
He added: "I wanted to end it because after everything I had gone through I wanted to move on with my life. Me, Ronaiah, I had to just start living and let this go."
Finally, after learning that Te'o had Skyped with four women -- including two of his former girlfriends -- Tuiasosopo said he essentially killed off Lennay, having her die of leukemia.
"I was just trying to do everything to end it because I knew that, no matter what, you know, it just wasn't right -- and it was never going to be."
In Friday's segment, Tuiasosopo apologized to all those he hurt, including Te'o, Teo's family and his own family. "I can't express how sorry I am," he said. "The truth is I hurt every day for the decisions I have made."
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Chadron State College offers wonderful opportunities for you to step outside your boundaries and experience a new way of life, to meet new friends and grow into a different person.
At Chadron State College you can become involved in activities you have never done before or ones that may be familiar to you. You may enjoy professional speakers, performers and intramural sports, or choose to join one or more of the 55 clubs on campus. Step off campus and the friendly, small-town community will welcome you to bowling, movies, dancing, golfing and more.
You will get to meet interesting new people and enjoy an array of events and programs while living in a beautiful and unique area of Nebraska. The Chadron area's pine trees, hills, creeks and trails offer a variety of outdoor activities. Within a day's drive are attractions in the Black Hills of South Dakota and the Rocky Mountain regions of Wyoming and Colorado.
Please visit us, and see for yourself why so many people fall in love with Chadron State College and the area!
“Sports Afield” magazine named Chadron one of the 50 best outdoor sports towns in the nation for three years running. “Hooked on the Outdoors” magazine has named Chadron one of the top mountain biking towns in the country.
CSC is a community that encourages involvement. Students can meet a variety of people in settings ranging from sand volleyball to study groups. These social experiences will enhance your ability to interact successfully with others once you leave the college environment. A wide variety of activities found on and off campus include golfing, hiking, bowling, indoor and outdoor swimming, hunting, state park adventures, volunteer opportunities and visits to our three museums.
CSC students frequently make trips to Denver, Colo., and Rapid City, S.D., for concerts, sporting events and an assortment of cultural activities.
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Dan manages to keep his personal life very, well, personal. But every so often he gives us a revealing glimpse into his world. In this Ask the Office Guy, he tells us whether or not he wears a man purse or, more familiarly, murse.
Got a question for our office guy? E-mail him at firstname.lastname@example.org.
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- Cast: Jeremy Renner, Gemma Arterton, Famke Janssen, Pihla Viitala, Peter Stormare, Zoe Bell, Derek Mears, Monique Ganderton, Thomas Mann, Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Thomas Scharff, Isaiah Michalski, Cedric Eich, Jason Oettle, Alea Sophia Boudodimos, Lucy Ella von Scheele, Joanna Kulig, Alessija Lause, Vanessa Wieduwilt, Robin Atkin Downes, Bjørn Sundquist, Rainer Bock , Kathrin Kühnel, Matthias Ziesing, Sebastian Hülk, Vegar Hoel, Jeppe Laursen, Christian Rubeck, Stig Frode Henriksen, Fritz Roth, Lucas Mann
- Director: Tommy Wirkola
- Writers: D.W. Harper, Tommy Wirkola
- Producers: Will Ferrell, Beau Flynn, Chris Henchy, Adam Mckay, Kevin J. Messick
- Co Producer: Christopher Fisser
- Associate Producers: Tracy Grayson, Robyn Wholey
- Executive Producer: Denis L. Stewart
- Art Directions: Stephan O. Gessler, Anja Müller, Andreas Olshausen
- Castings: Deborah Aquila, Jennifer L. Smith, Tricia Wood
- Costume Design: Marlene Stewart
- D.O.P.: Michael Bonvillain
- Editor: Jim Page
- Makeup: Mike Elizade
- Music: Atli Örvarsson
- Production Design: Stephen Scott
- Set Decoration: Bernhard Henrich
In this spin on the fairy tale, Hansel & Gretel are now adult bounty hunters who track and kill witches all over the world. As the fabled Blood Moon approaches, the siblings encounter a new form of evil that might hold a secret to their past.
- Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
- Filming Locations: Berlin, Germany; Lower Saxony, Germany
- MPAA Warning: Strong fantasy horror violence and gore, brief sexuality/nudity and language
- Production Budget: $60 million
- Production Companies: Siebzehnte Babelsberg, Gary Sanchez Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Paramount Pictures, Spyglass Entertainment
- Production Schedule: 13 March 2011 - 3 June 2011
2013 Guide Analysis: "After cult success with 2009's Nazi zombie horror comedy "Dead Snow", Norwegian filmmaker Wirkola was hired for this $60 million pseudo-sequel to the classic Brothers Grimm fairy tale. Here the siblings are now grown adults who've become expert witch-killing bounty hunters. The pair are hired to rid a small town of an evil sorceress, one who plans to sacrifice the local children. At the same time they have to deal with a brutal sheriff.
The second fairytale action epic originally slated for 2012 and delayed nine months (the other being "Jack the Giant Killer"), this one's ambitions and expectations aren't as high - something which actually works in its favor. In fact this is one case where the delay is not only justified but has proven quite beneficial.
For starters it hits in January, a month that has proven surprisingly profitable for mid-range genre films such as "The Book of Eli" and "Cloverfield". It's two stars - Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton - have seen their profiles go up, especially Renner who is coming off a strong year with three successful tentpoles under his belt. While it is dark, there's much more a vibe of fun and 'f**k it' attitude on display here than other fairytale adaptations of late.
The first trailer was a misfire but not terribly so - all the focus on swirling leather trench coats, anachronistic and almost steampunk-esque firearms, and witches that looked like 250-year-old Marilyn Manson impersonators. As a result we really didn't get a good glimpse of what to expect, rather the film came off like a "Van Helsing" spin-off - perfect for teenage boys but not really anything on offer for the rest of us.
In late Summer though the buzz shifted for the better after word leaked out that two versions of the film were tested. One a PG-13 teen friendly movie, the other an explicitly humored and far superior R-rated cut. Wirkola previously said in interviews during production that it's definitely an R-rated film due to the blood and gore, and it was hoped that it would be the version we'll get to see. Sadly that is no longer the case." | <urn:uuid:820574e2-7f1c-4139-ade9-91a3963895af> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.darkhorizons.com/films/1157/Hansel-and-Gretel-Witch-Hunters | 2013-05-19T18:50:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.873756 | 971 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
iPhone(R) 3GS 32GB for AT&T - Black (GameStop Premium Refurbished)
Great iPhone at a great price
I bought this iPhone 3GS 32GB at my local GameStop and it was a great deal. I love the iPhone and I'm not on a contract so its one of the few ways i can get an iPhone. It is in great condition and I even purchased the 1 year replacement plan that covers more then AT&T would cover and for less money.
iPhone 3GS 32gb
Reserved my iPhone on the web, and picked it up the same day. For $199.00, you cant beat this price, along with 30day return policy. For a refurbished phone, i was not expecting to have something in brand new condition. When i arrived at the store my iPhone was ready for me to purchase. Had a few scratches on the back, but I can imagine it was from setting it down on a table, which i was ok with, considering this phone is a couple of years old. I am very happy with the iPhone and I would purchase another one again.
I ordered this phone on a Thursday and got it Friday. The shipping was fast i was very pleased. When I received the phone it worked perfect and didn't have a problem getting it activated. No scratches or anything wrong with this phone. Thank you game stop. I will definitely be upgrading
After reading the few reviews on the site, I was expecting nicks and scratches, but when I unboxed my iPhone, it looked like it was being held for the first time.
Phone works flawlessly, and it looks great. AT&T had no problems activating it or transferring contacts and other files.
Great phone, great price, great refurbishing.
An old iPhone is better than no iPhone
My old iPhone was destroyed and I was not eligible for 8 months. I tried using an old blackberry to hold me over but it just wasn't the same. The iPhone I received from Gamestop was free of scuff marks and in very good condition. I had to downgrade the rating because I ordered the black iPhone & received a WHITE one. It wasn't worth the hassle of returning it since the phone was in working condition and I had an Otter cover that would cover most of it anyway so it wouldn't make that much of a difference. I just would have liked to receive what I had ordered. Gamestop did offer to replace it but I elected to keep it and had the shipping charges credited back to me as I did not feel it was right to pay for an incorrect order. They did so all is well.
Nice phone, lousy refurbish job
Okay first and foremost, the phone and it's capabilities easily a 9-10 range. It's still a very functional phone even with the iPhone 4 and 4S out.
This is not why I gave the product a 5, I gave the product a 5 cause it was not as advertised, it was supposed to free of scuff scratches and defects, it is why it's called a gamestop premium refurbished item.
It hardly lives up to that name, the back had wear and scuff all over, and even had a nick on the back into it as well as a complete scratch down the touch surface. The condition was far from premium.
If I had bought a scratch and scuff version I would not have been upset, but I paid more for one that was supposed to be like new, and I didn't get that.
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