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As expected, many fans didn’t warm to Michael Owen during his three seasons at Manchester United. Still, thanks to that late winner against City, in one of the best derbies ever, Owen’s name is in our history books.
Yesterday he announced he would be retiring at the end of the season and so it’s probably only fair we mention it.
Whilst the derby winner is the favourite moment for most reds, I’d argue the day he lifted the Premier League trophy in 2011 has to rank pretty highly as well. A former scouse hero winning that record breaking 19th title with United.
“As they say, if you can’t beat them, join them,” he said with a smile at the time. “I won a lot of trophies with Liverpool but to win the Premier League is the pinnacle of anyone’s career. I’m very proud today.” | <urn:uuid:330ea6f4-0c0a-4606-a2a0-1279f5ff5558> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://therepublikofmancunia.com/picture-a-brilliant-owen-moment-not-the-derby/ | 2013-05-18T17:48:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979412 | 197 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Celebrating thirty years of performing, Lo'Jo, the French group from Angers, have released their thirteenth album. The title of the album says it all 'Cinema El Mundo', and the music unfolds as in a film.
It starts out with the aptly named "At The Beginning" and brings us along on a journey which incorporates music from North Africa. Vocals from the iconic English singer Robert Wyatt are added, and no Lo'Jo album would be complete without the El Mourid sisters.
In addition to the multiple guest musicians, there are a couple of different instruments added to the mix; a Chinese spike fiddle and the African n'goni. | <urn:uuid:589d14f3-b192-4110-84a8-416e51c99b39> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://tpr.org/post/cinematic-sounds-lojo | 2013-05-18T17:18:11Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957456 | 141 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
I promised a give away on twitter and I do my best to deliver so here it is. The BIGGEST give away in Tula Pink history, and that’s exactly what it is, the history of Tula Pink!Over the next six weeks I will give away a little piece of me every Friday, in the form of Jellyrolls. I have one JR of every collection I have ever done for Moda Fabrics and they are now up for grabs.
What do I have to do to win these fabulous prizes? you may be asking yourself this very question. All I want to know is what your favorite Tula Pink fabric collection was. Could it be Plume my most recent concoction or are you old school, Full Moon Forest maybe? or Flutterby? Neptune? Nest? Hushabye? They are all my babies so it has no bearing on who wins but still, for my own ego’s sake I would like to know.
As always the winners will be chosen at random. Leave a comment, get an entry, it’s that simple.
The winner will be announced every Friday, chosen from the comments to this post. Every comment will have 6 chances to win so keep checking back every Friday! Oh, and you can enter up until June 3rd, so have at it!
The winners will be announced as follows:
April 30th – Plume
May 7th – Hushabye
May 14th – Neptune
May 21st – Nest
May 28th – Flutterby
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Vol. 16 : No. 5< >
World Bankís Global Development Learning Network: Sharing Knowledge Electronically Between Nations to "Fight Poverty"
by George Lorenzo
Colleges and universities with strategic plans or serious intent to take their research and expertise to the developing world and beyond, as well as become part of some meaningful knowledge-sharing with other institutions and organizations across the globe, can look into the possibility of doing business with the World Bankís Global Development Learning Network (GDLN). GDLN operates one of the largest, most sophisticated and cost-effective, satellite-driven global communication systems to cross international borders.
In addition, GDLN is quickly building a large worldwide network of independently owned and operated Distance Learning Centers (DLCs) that are being utilized by private and public organizations and institutions. DLCs typically consist of a multimedia room with computers with high-speed ISDN or fiber-linked Internet access, along with a videoconference room equipped to receive and deliver learning programs around the globe, all capable of connecting to the GDLN global communications system.
These DLCs are the hubs for teaching and learning, providing the classroom facilities for holding far-reaching distance education and knowledge-sharing programs. Since launching in June 2000, GDLN has helped to build and/or established partnerships with 31 DLCs located in six regions: Africa, East Asia and the Pacific, Europe and Central Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East and North Africa, and North America. Eighteen of these centers have been financed in poor countries through no-interest loans sponsored by the World Bank. The remaining DLCs are within institutions and organizations that already have the facilities and technological infrastructure for connecting to GDLN.
The distance education programs being offered over the network include web-based courses, seminars and workshops by video conference, and learning activities that are a combination of both web and video conferencing. Printed materials, CD-ROMs, and/or face-to-face instruction often complement many of the programs.
More than 80 percent of the programs are offered by the World Bank Institute (WBI), which is the learning arm of the World Bank. However, according to the GDLN website, "GDLN carries learning programs drawn from a variety of public and private sources. They cover the full range of development issues from AIDS education to anticorruption strategies, from environmental compliance and enforcement to business journalism, and from macroeconomic policy to urban development."
"Itís quite a large network and itís growing even farther," says WBIís Director of Global Learning John Middleton. "The size of the network is such that thereís a huge opportunity for institutions to use the network to provide learning programs, and the use of the network is very low cost." As an example, Middleton explained that it would cost about $2,000 for two hours of video conferencing transmitted to five DLCs located around the world with an approximate total of 150 classroom participants or more.
A Worthy Vision
As stated on the GDLN website, the organizationís vision "is for decision makers across the developing world to have affordable and regular access to a global network of peers, experts and practitioners with whom they may share ideas and experience that will help them in their work: to fight poverty."
The audience for GDLN programs is primarily adult professionals who are "senior policy makers and decision makers who work in institutions and are in a position to affect change in their country," says Joan Hubbard, WBIís senior partnership specialist for the Global Learning Department.
For the time being, GDLNís partners are not involved in the program for monetary value, but instead have altruistic propensities to help developing countries fight poverty and share in a truly global exchange of valuable information. However, partners do see working with GDLN as a beneficial process to test market their learning programs to different cultures and find out what kinds of knowledge can really be shared with developing countries. Additionally, involvement with GDLN helps institutions and organizations build international contacts and relationships that they may not have had the opportunity to develop otherwise. Plus, says Middleton, "you donít have to erect infrastructure because the infrastructure is already there."
North American institutions, for the most part, have been slow to react to GDLN. Part of the reason why is that, during its beginning phase, GDLN built relationships with WBIís already well-established partners in foreign countries who had an interest in distance education, says Middleton. Additionally, "the Europeans (for example), are more centralized and better able to make the link between the government and higher education. In the decentralized environment inside the United States it is a little more difficult to mobilize the kind of support for the institutions that we have been able to achieve in other countries."
As a possible spur to action, Middleton mentions that U.S. colleges and universities could try contacting the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to possibly obtain financing for the development and delivery of U.S. higher educationís knowledge base through the GDLNís DLCs to enhance development assistance and knowledge sharing with foreign countries.
University of Alberta Taps CIDA
In Canada, for instance, the Canadian Industrial Development Agency (CIDA) recently contributed $5 million (Canadian) to the University of Alberta (UA) to help set up a DLC in Bosnia under GDLN. The new center, which brings in a partnership with the University of Sarajevo, will initially offer distance learning programs that focus on public and private-sector business management issues in the Balkans. "From CIDAís point of view it is a vehicle to do development in a slightly different way," says Terry Mackey, UAís Director of International Programs.
"We made the approach to CIDA," Mackey continues. "Itís something that we put into a proposal to CIDA, and they accepted it. I think they see the potential for using electronic learning in international development work."
Since UA has a major strategic initiative and commitment to the internationalization of its educational programs and research, GDLN brings an added dimension to help facilitate joint programming, says Mackey. "We see the possibilities for two-way processes. . . There is a lot of debate and discussion going on globally, and the potential for actually getting the researchers who are right at the front of the debate in contact with policy makers through video conferencing has enormous potential. So, from a university point of view, it is actually using what we do well, which is our research agenda, and making it more accessible to a much wider range of people."
U.S. On Board
Institutions in the U.S. are also staring to see the potential.
"As soon as we start talking about the benefits of bringing some global experience into their domestic programs, the lights go on," Hubbard says. "We recognize that institutions, particularly in the states, have to cover their costs, and we work very hard with them to ensure that they understand that they are not going to recover their costs in their first offering. But, if they look at this as a long-term relationship over a couple of years, they are going to more than cover their costs," she claims, adding that institutions will reap the benefits of participating in content building activities that will eventually gain acceptance over a wider worldwide network. "They (U.S. institutions) also know that we are the cheapest game in the international town. There is nowhere else they are going to reach these countries at rates that are as reasonable as ourís."
MSU Moving Forward
Once such institution that is investing in the future of GDLN is Michigan State University (MSU). Through MSUís relatively new Global Online Connection unit, three worthwhile distance learning programs are currently being developed for broadcast over the GDLN: a series of video conferences on the safety of organic foods, and two 16-week online courses, one in watershed concepts and another in international food law.
"All three programs have research projects internationally," says Chris Geith, director of MSUís Global Institute. "MSU has faculty exchanges with many universities around the world in these areas."
MSU has one of the largest programs in international studies in the country and is noted for being (among a long list of international education and research accomplishments) the largest recipient of USAID funding since the 1950s, as well for sending the largest number of students abroad from any single campus in the United States.
The planned watershed course, for example, will be taught by an international faculty, and it consists of local case studies and data collections from regions outside of the U.S. "We are not just exporting MSU research and knowledge to GDLN emerging countries," says Geith. "We are looking to use the network as a catalyst to work more closely with the researchers and scholars and officials in those topic areas that we already have going."
Howard University Joins Network of Networks This same practice holds true for Howard University, which is the home base for the first U.S. GDLN DLC.
In May of last year the Howard University College of Medicine, under the sponsorship of USAID and in partnership with a youth-led non-governmental organization called The African Futures Forum, along with the National Council of Negro Women, convened the first U.S.-university-based GDLN video-conference event, called the Global Youth Health Teleconference (GYHT). GYHT went over the GDLN bridge to DLCs in Benin, Uganda, Ghana and Senegal, Africa.
GYHT brought together more than 400 young people over the network who took part in a dialog on youth and HIV/AIDS, Women and HIV/AIDS, and Child Survival in their respective countries.
Luigi LeBlanc, technology coordinator for Howard Universityís Telehealth Sciences and Advanced Technology Center, says that the universityís College of Medicine has historically built relationships and partnerships around institutions in the Caribbean and in Africa.
"The GDLN presents a cost-effective venue to provide continual training and to actually reach these partners in real time, and we have been able to, through this venture, gain new partners," says LeBlanc. "The university here is preparing its staff to offer their expertise through this network. We are partnering with institutions to help put out programs that build on GDLNís concept of building a network of networks."
What kind of learning programs is the network seeking? GDLN Program Development Manager Claude Salem has put together an informational table representing the strategic priorities needed for building capacity for development in countries with DLCs. The table is divided into six broad categories of need: poverty reduction, economic management and financial sector development; governance and public sector reform; social sector and human development; environmental and rural development; private sector development; and other.
"I think U.S. institutions can contribute quite a bit since the areas in development are areas that are represented in their disciplines," says Salem. "Itís just a matter of how to package the material and how to make clients aware of the relevance of the materials."
"There are some areas that market very well," adds Middleton, pointing to learning programs in business management, health policy and education policy. Colleges and universities with an international dimension to such programs could be considered good candidates for a GDLN partnership.
"We are as open and broad and as wide in our interests as possible," says Hubbard. "You never know where there is going to be a good opportunity for content."
Overall, according to an excerpt from the GDLN annual report for fiscal year 2001, the World Bank, with more than 100 offices located throughout the world, "gave enhanced visibility and support to GDLN in their operational planning." Plans call for 27 more DLCs in fiscal year 2002, with a projected grand total of 80 DLCs on board by end of fiscal year 2003. "If secondary sites are included (national network sites linked to GDLN through the DLCs), the number of locations reached is expected to more than double that number (equaling 160) by the end of fiscal year 2003."
About the Author:
George Lorenzo is Editor and Publisher of Educational Pathways (EP), a monthly, paid subscription newsletter that covers higher education distance learning and teaching.
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Arctic Ring of Life at Detroit Zoo
Visitors at Detroit Zoo watch a polar bear play with a frozen treat in the cool environment of the underwater Arctic Ring of Life exhibit in Royal Oak, Michigan.
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2002 Volvo S80 Repair Question
2002 Volvo S80
How do you reset the scheduled service light after you have had the oil changed. The place that I went did not know how to do it.
Turn ignition switch to "I"
Press and hold reset button "A" (trip meter)
Switch ignition "ON"
Keep button depressed for 10 seconds.
Service indicator will flash.
Release reset "A" button within 5 seconds.
There will be an audible signal when reset complete and the service interval indicator goes out.
Note: If reset button was not released within 5 seconds, the service interval indicator will not reset but will stop flashing.
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My 9-month-old granddaughter’s pediatrician is expressing concerns about premature puberty, as she is large in both height and weight. At first we thought her chubbiness in the chest was just that, chubbiness.
But now I’m worried that the hormones I apply to my upper arm are rubbing on to my granddaughter when I hold her. Is that possible? If it is, is her condition reversible?
I use one squirt of the gel every two to three days, and I usually apply it at least several hours before I see my granddaughter, but I’m sleeveless a lot. Can I apply the gel elsewhere on my body instead?
A: Estradiol is available in many forms that can be applied directly to the skin, including creams, gels and sprays. Your granddaughter (or anyone else, for that matter) could absorb some of the estrogen hormone through skin contact with you, especially if their area of contact wasn’t washed with soap and water as soon as possible after exposure.
In 2010 the Food and Drug Administration warned that children and pets should not be allowed to have contact with skin where an estradiol spray marketed under the brand name Evamist had been applied. The FDA’s warning said that it was reviewing reports of such adverse events as premature puberty, nipple swelling and breast development in girls and breast enlargement in boys.
Because Elestrin’s manufacturer specifies that the product is to be applied to the upper arm, I recommend that you consult with your physician before applying it elsewhere on your body. The issue of whether your granddaughter’s condition is reversible is a question for her pediatrician.
By the way, this type of hormone replacement poses risks for you, as well: Elestrin can increase your risk of developing uterine cancer and it might elevate the risk of other cancers (including breast cancer), stroke, heart attack, blood clots and gall-bladder disease.
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Hudson Technologies, Inc. (Pear River, NY, U.S.), a leading refrigerant-services company specializing, has announced its results for the third quarter, which ended Sept. 30, 2003.
Revenues for the third quarter totaled U.S. $3.99 million versus $3.89 million for the same period in 2002. The increase in revenues was due to an 18-percent increase in the company's RefrigerantSide Service revenues during the same period in 2002.
Hudson Technologies also reported a net loss of $589,000 and, after non-cash charges of $219,000 for payment-in-kind preferred stock dividends, a net loss per common share of $0.16. For the same period in 2002, the Company reported a net loss of $855,000 and, after non-cash charges of $204,000 for payment-in-kind preferred stock dividends, a net loss per common share of $0.20. The company's operating loss for the third quarter of 2003 was $415,000 compared to an operating loss of $776,000 for the third quarter of 2002.
"The company is now starting to realize, in the form of revenues and cost savings, the benefits from the initiatives taken earlier in the year designed to achieve profitability based on our current level and mix of revenues," said Kevin J. Zugibe, chairman and CEO.
On the cost side, Hudson's selling expenses and its overall operating expenses in the third quarter of 2003 decreased 53 percent and 23 percent, respectively, from the same period in 2002. We are on track to realize the $1.6 million in annual savings we planned to achieve through our rightsizing initiatives."
Mr. Zugibe continued, "On the revenue side, we have increased our focus on the highest opportunity industries and customers for our RefrigerantSide Services and are now producing more revenue per job with higher margins. As a result, for the first time in two years, RefrigerantSide Services revenues for the third quarter of 2003 exceeded the RefrigerantSide Services revenues for the same period in 2002. We believe that this quarter over quarter growth signals that Hudson's plans to grow its service revenues are back on track."
Mr. Zugibe said it’s equally important is Hudson Technologies continues to grow its non-automotive refrigerant sales into the HVAC market. Overall, Hudson’s margins were down slightly due in part to $80,000 of non-recurring costs incurred in connection with the ongoing consolidation of its three refrigerant reclamation facilities into one new and larger facility in Champaign, IL, U.S., he said.
However, Mr. Zugibe, added, "We expect that the efficiencies gained from this consolidation will far outweigh the one-time costs incurred. We are pleased with the progress this initiative is making."
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Well, probably yes which is why I've been asked to run a mini-workshop on this stuff at the Museum Shops Association 2010 Conference on 9 September. If I was a museum shop manager what would I need to know about social media and Web 2.0? Find some answers and other resources on this page and the Powerpoint slides will be added soon'ish.
This session will be a shameless repeat/amalgamation of some sessions I have given before. First, from a paper I gave at the 2010 Australian Maritime Museums Annual Conference called Web 2.0 for small and volunteer museums, and the second from the George Brown Goode Memorial Lecture at the Smithsonian (talk titled How Web 2.0 is Changing the Nature of Museum Work).
Oh, and you're gonna vote for one of our Birds of Paradise exhibiton titles so that should be a hoot.
If you have any further questions, ideas or feedback please post them here for all to see and comment on.
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Join Date: Jun 2007
ReQuest Streams Ahead with iQ Intelligent Music System
ReQuest, Inc.’s iQ Intelligent Music System has won universal praise for its uniquely elegant integration of whole-house audio and music-server technologies. The iQ Intelligent Music System range combines the convenience of easy and intuitive multiroom sound with the high-end sonic quality and powerful musical storage of hard-disk-based design for which the New York State company is well known. Now the iQ Intelligent Music System adds even more value and utility, with the introduction of dual-stream Internet radio capability.
Effective immediately, fully integrated streaming audio takes the form of two additional, dedicated sources, over and above the four music-server “sources” already inherent in the iQ family design. This makes the Intelligent Music System the first server-based whole-house solution to offer six independent music sources out of the box, ready for plug-and-play enjoyment in up to eight rooms or zones. Users may stream any of the thousands of MP3 Internet-audio sources scattered across the Web, simply by entering the URL or IP address; “stations” can then be identified by an attached icon, or an image such as album-cover art or a user-selected photo, for easy graphical access from the iQ system’s in-wall and freestanding touchscreen controllers. And of course, either or both streaming source can be enjoyed from any or all of the Intelligent Music System’s rooms or zones.
Dual-stream Internet audio is included at no additional charge in all new shipments of iQ Intelligent Music System servers: models IMS.400, IMS.600, and IMS.800. Existing Intelligent Music Servers can be retrofitted with dual-stream capability by Request at a cost of $500.
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If you don’t want to fire an otherwise good worker, it’s perfectly reasonable to accommodate him by excusing him from the attendance policy—as long as he can provide a doctor’s note.
Recent case: Richard Fimbres worked as a longshoreman in Los Angeles and had to work at least 70% of scheduled time. When Fimbres developed psychological and physical problems, he began missing work. He asked for reasonable accommodation—originally a reduced schedule.
Instead, his employer offered to excuse any absences for which he had a doctor’s note. As an alternative, it asked his therapist to suggest a regular, steady work schedule.
Fimbres opted for using the doctor’s notes. But then he began failing to produce notes when he missed work. He sued, alleging that requiring the notes wasn’t an accommodation.
The court disagreed and commended the employer for setting up a reasonable mechanism for handling what otherwise would have been unexcused absences. (Fimbres v. Pacific Maritime Association, No. B214520, Court of Appeal of California, 2nd Appellate District, 2010)
Final note: Employers should choose accommodations that best suit their business needs. Courts want to see employers offer accommodations, but also want to see businesses succeed. There’s no need to provide accommodations that disrupt workflow when other possibilities exist.
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Annual Conference and Webinar series : CALL FOR SESSION PROPOSALS
Canadian Association of Science Centres
Annual Conference and Webinar series
CALL FOR SESSION PROPOSALS
Deadline December 1, 2010
Change is a constant in the science centre field. Science and technology are constantly changing, our audience demographic is changing, and our workforce is changing. Science centres strive to change their products and experiences on a regular basis by staging new exhibits and programs. How are we meeting these challenges of change across all facets of our organizations? We invite you to join us at the 2011 Canadian Association of Science Centres’ Conference or in an online webinar to inspire and share your change ideas and events with colleagues from across the country.
The 9th Annual Conference will be hosted by the Science North in Sudbury with anticipated attendance of more than 120 delegates. This 3-day conference will include a pre-conference activity, more than 20 learning sessions, a keynote speaker, and events including a welcome reception, a tradeshow (Friday June 10) and our national awards gala (Saturday June 11). New this year, the CASC will offer a complementary series of webinars to enable travel-free professional development. All you need is a high-speed internet connection and a headset to benefit from these interactive, small-group learning sessions.
All events are geared towards facilitating practical innovations in the development, delivery, and support of science engagement activities. Individuals from all areas of informal learning are welcome to participate.
Changing Science: Science centres share a common mission to engage visitors with current science and be resources for current topics in science. How do we involve and engage our visitors with current science? How do we keep our science exhibits and programs responsive to current science? Tell us about the mechanisms you have in place for changing exhibits and programs in your centre. How is technology helping you to keep science current in your centre? The program committee is interested in sessions that express innovative ways to keep science current in the midst of exhibit and program change.
Changing Audiences: The traditional science centre audience is changing. As the population ages and family sizes decrease, science centres can no longer be solely reliant on the family audience for attendance. Older adults and teens are becoming important and new audiences for our organizations. How are you reaching out to new audiences? Have you developed new content specifically to attract a new demographic? The program committee is interested in sessions that address both content development and marketing strategies that reach out to a changing audience.
Changing Organizational Development: Science centres are building staff teams that can develop, deliver, promote and fund the communication of current and responsive science. What are the trends in organizational development in our industry? How are we recruiting, training, inspiring, and retaining our work force to achieve these new and changing goals? The program committee is interested in sessions that address leadership, organizational models, team development and maintaining morale.
Change Management: From dealing with internal changes like departmental re-organization, new office layouts or staff turnover, to coping with changes in the greater social context, such as shifting visitor expectations, the process of change is challenging and potentially fraught with pitfalls. What are best practices in change management? How can we learn from others' mistakes and successes? Which models of communication can help ease the process? The program committee is interested in sessions that address communications strategies, organizational change models, analytical case studies of change and best practices.
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The Excursion is Ford's newest and the industry's biggest sport utility, measuring nearly 19 feet from stem to stern. That makes it about 20 inches longer than the Ford Expedition and more than seven inches longer than the Chevrolet Suburban and GMC Yukon XL, formerly the biggest SUVs.
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A snowstorm hit the city last weekend.
What better way to celebrate it than by having an outdoor photoshoot? :D
It wasn’t that cold, but there was A LOT of snow.
ps: thanks everyone for keeping up with my sporadic posts. I really 1000x appreciate it :) :) :)
striped dress from H&M
gray hoodie from Talula
green parka from Forever 21
dotted tights from EBAY
lace up boots from Urban Outfitters
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Today I get to share one of my favorite releases that came out of 1970′s Cadbury in the UK – Cadbury’s Monster Bars! Monster Bars were an imaginative and wonderfully-illustrated series of chocolate bar wrappers that received two different six-wrapper … Continue reading | <urn:uuid:ca83ad59-4bc7-44fc-a638-920b02eda3cd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.collectingcandy.com/wordpress/?tag=united-kingdom | 2013-05-18T17:57:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.887396 | 652 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
My husband and I took a cruise on the Elation in January 2010. We are both in our early 50's and traveled without children. This was my ninth cruise with Carnival, fourth ship.
Embarkation was so much easier with this cruise. We stayed at the Admiral Semmes in Mobile, using the park and cruise package, so we were dropped off at the entrance by the hotel shuttle. We progressed through security, check in and then sat and waited on our section number to be called. This took about fifteen minutes and we were onboard by noon and having lunch on the Lido deck. We learned not to carry a lot of baggage with us through the embarkation process. We each checked one bag, and my husband carried on one backpack with our meds, my Kindle, sunglasses, and our paperwork, passports, etc. We saw so many people carrying around loads of stuff who wished they had less. We each wore a lanyard/badge holder, and quickly slipped our sail and sign cards in them, so they were always within easy reach anytime we left the stateroom or needed them onboard. To check in you will need your passport, boarding pass, and the credit card you set up your fun pass with online. You also will fill out a health form for each person while you are in line.
Ok, so once on the ship, I was looking forward to the mongolian grill. The first day it was excellent. I like beef or chicken with black bean sauce and a touch of barbeque sauce. For some reason, after the first day, they stopped carrying the noodles to go in it, and they got very skimpy on meat, but the first day it was great. Note: If this had been our first experience onboard with staff, we would have been very disappointed, as these guys who cook mongolian never smile and seem very annoyed all the time. Everyone else onboard is really nice.
Our cabin was ready by 1:30, as they stated, and our luggage came soon after. The muster drill was much easier than on previous cruises. They stopped having you drag your life preservers along. We just sat through the safety/evacuation talk which only took about fifteen minutes. Everyone is required to go to muster drill.
We were happy with our state room. We had dinner with someone who felt it was beneath them to stay in an inside room, but we have stayed in both oceanview and inside rooms and find we like the inside better. For one thing, it's very dark, which is great for sleeping late. We never miss the view, because we found even when we had an ocean view, we never looked out a window, but preferred to look at the view from the deck of the ship. If you want a "view", just turn your tv on to the camera shot off the front of the ship, turn down the volume, and you have a 24 hour view. :-) We stayed very little in our room anyway, except for sleeping. As usual, carnival beds and pillows are AWESOME.
We are "foodies" and found the dining room food was very good, although not as fancy as on some previous cruises. Some of our favorites included the Chateaubriand, Lobster and Prime Rib, Warm Chocolate Melting Cake, Grand Marnier Souffle, Cream of Broccoli Soup, Wild Mushroom Soup, crab cakes, and the Lobster Bisque. For lunch, we liked the Hay and Straw pasta dish. We did take advantage of free room service for bagels, cream cheese, fruit, yogurt, coffee, etc for breakfast a couple of days. Some days we had omelets up on the Lido deck. We did have breakfast in the dining room a couple of days. I found the Eggs Benedict a little greasy tasting.
The best show was Rock On. We also really enjoy watching Karaoke, especially on the last sea days when it moves to an earlier time in the evening. We had no problem finding seats on this cruise in the main lounge for the big shows. (We actually got up and did karaoke for the first time, and it was so fun. You only live once, so go for it. You will never see those people again!)
We had problems with one of the propellers, and got into Cozumel late in the afternoon rather than early morning as planned. They did extend the time we spent there until 930 PM. However, the weather was horrible that day, so we got off the ship, took five steps, and got right back on. The wind and rain were unbelievable. Felt like a hurricane. Because of our propulsion system problems, our stop at Calica was cancelled (partial refund given) and we headed back slowly to Mobile. One sea night was extremely rough and although neither of us had ever gotten sea sick, both of us had some queasiness that night.
We enjoyed going to the trivia games, the art history lecture, the towel animal class, the wine tasting (costs 10 dollars extra per person). The only problem we had with the activities was that Carnival seemed to have planned poorly on the areas where they were held, having many in the "hallway" drama bar, which would not accomodate enough guests without most of them standing. We found plenty to do every day to keep us busy, and for the most part stayed out of the casino. We did buy the soda fountain cards, as we are big cola drinkers and find they are well worth the cost if you like several every day. The lines on this cruise were not long at any of the food lines. We learned that this ship has one of the highest health ratings in the Carnival fleet, and after watching a young man cleaning in the library one day, I am not surprised. He got under the tables and even cleaned the pedestals.
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Medication Causes of Symptom: Anxiety
Medications, drugs, or substance causes of Anxiety:
The following drugs, medications, substances or toxins are some of the possible
causes of Anxiety as a symptom.
This list is incomplete and various other drugs or substances
may cause your symptoms.
Always advise your doctor of any medications or treatments you are using,
including prescription, over-the-counter, supplements, herbal or alternative treatments.
Types of Anxiety: nervousness (9), fear (21)
Symptoms related to Anxiety: depression (47), moodiness (21), fear (21), emotional symptoms (95)
Anxiety type of: Common symptoms (662), Behavioral symptoms (152), Emotional symptoms (95), Society problems (157)
Symptoms: symptom center, symptom groups
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Square Enix shares some official artwork and screenshots for the Final Fantasy XIII-2 download content, which was reported in the latest Famitsu issue we talked about in yesterday’s news article.
Below you will find resort style Serah in her swimsuit costume, protector of space and time Noel in his knight costume, as well as Sazh’s scenario and the casino game.
To be released on February 21, 2012, Serah’s new costume is priced at ¥300 (240MSP).
To be released on February 21, 2012, Noel’s new costume is priced at ¥300 (240MSP).
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Video Description: Ill effects of Valentine's day.
A 13 yr old boy became father
How often do you thank your parents for what they have done for you? More often than not, you just yell at them for not understanding you. But, lets face it, no child truly realizes the pains that a parent goes through in providing and caring for his/her child. A programme now aims at teaching children just that. Titled Parents Worship Day, this occasion is being celebrated by the Sant Shri Asaramji Ashram. The day is celebrated to inculcate obedience, humility and respect for culture amongst children. Many schools will put up cultural programmes and skits dealing with the theme. It will also showcase a ceremony based on the mythological story where Lord Ganesha circles his parents to show respect. Children will worship their parents based on the rituals stated in the scriptures. Animated narrations of stories and tales from the puranas, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata too will be included.
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This is a page to be proofread from Salmon's Botanologia, 1710.
at the first approach of Winter, and therefore is to be sown a new every Tear if you will have it -, from whence rises up uftally but one upright Stalk nearly a foot high, variously branching forth it self on all sides, whereon, at every Joint, are set two heaves, broad, thick, and fat, a little pointed, of a pleasant sweet smell, of a fresh green Colour, and a little fnipt about the edges-, of which some one here and there, are of a black reddish hue: towards the upper part of the Stalk and Branches come forth a number of small whitish Flowers, which many times tend to a dark purple, with two small Leaves at the Joint, in some places green, in others brown-, after the Flowers come small black Seed.
IV. The Small Buih Basil, has a Fibrous perishing Root much like the former , from whence rises up small tender Stalks, which grow not so high as the former, but is thicker ffread with Branches, and smaller Leaves thereon, and set clofer together; these Leaves are little, less than those of Pennyroyal, and the whole Flant is low, and fine or small,growing into a kind of diminutiveBvdh, whence the Name oj Buih Basil ·, and is of a more pleafing sweet fent than the former by much: the flowers are small and white, and the Seed black like the other,- when it yields Seed with us, which is more feldom, it not often yielding ripe Seed here, because it neither Springs, Flowers, nor Seeds so early as the others. Parkmlbn adds another middle Kind something larger than this boih in the height of the Buih, and magnitude of the Leaves, but not otherwise differing -, which to me seems to be one and the same Herb, but differing according t a the goodness af the Soil,
V. The Anifated Basil, Is truely of the self same Kind with our ordinary Garden Basil but of a middle jize between /fo Common Great and Buih Basil, and differs nothing in its Roots, Stalks, Leaves, Flowers, nor Seed, but a little in the magnitude, and something in the smell, which is like the smell of Aniseeds.
\ L The Places. Whence these Herbs first came, is unsown to us, but in Italy, Prance, Spain and tingland, they are only ncmrilhed up in Gardens.
VII. The Times. They Flower in the heat of Summer as in June and July, by little and litde, whereby they are long a Flowering, beginning at the top first, and so Flowering as 'twere downwards.
VIII. The Qualities. They are hot and moist in the second Degree: They incide, attenuate, open, discusses, resolve, concocF, digest, and are carminative and anodyn ·, being Cephalick, Neurotick, Stomatick, PecForal, Cardiack, Nephritick, and Uterine: also Emmenagogick, andAlexipharmick.
IX. The Specification. Schroder lays, it is a peculiar thing to cleanse the Lungs, and provoke the Courses in Women.
X. The Proportions. The Shops make use of, i. The Leaves. 2. The Seed. 3. And Distil therefrom a Water. But you may farther prepare, 4- A Juice. An Essence. 6. A Spirituous Tincture. 7. A Saline Tincture. 8. An Oily TtnSure. 9. A Decoction- in Wine. 10. A Syrup. 11. An Oil. 13. A Cataplasm.
XL The Leaves. Their smell comforts the Brain (whatever some Authors say to the contrary) and were eaten in G^«'s time (Isuppose as a Sallet,) being corecFed with Oil and Vinegar. Some Authors will have it that they dry up Milk in Womens Breasts, which in my opinion is against their proper Nature, being hot and moift, and therefore more apt to breed Milk.
XII. The Seed. Being made into a fine Pouder, it may be given from half a dram to i. dram, in Wine, against the Palpitation or Trembling of rhe Heart, to cheer and comfort the same, and expel Melancholly, or fadness of Mind: It is good also against Poyson and the Stinging of Scorpions.
XIII. The DistilledWater from the whole Plant. It is good to clear the Eye-sight, and to be used as at Vehicle for the other Preparations.
XIV. TJoe Juice. If it is put into the Eyes, it takes away their I)imneis, anddrys up Humors which fall into them -, fnuft up the Noftrills it cauieth Sneezing, and fb Purges the Brain: given to j. ounce in a Glass of Generous Canary morning and evening, it provokes Venery, or Luft, and is good for such as are troubled with Heart Qualms, or Swooning Fits, or stoppage or tbeir Terms.
XV. The Essence; It much exceeds the Juice for Inward ufes, being cotrecfed, and made more Pure or fine, as being freed from its gross and feculent parts. It has the Virtues of the Juice, befides which it is an excellent Stomatick, Cardiack, and PecFo-ral, freeing the Lungs frcm the Tartarous Matter which obstrucf s them, and causing thereby a tree refpiration, and therefore is profitable against Coughs, Colds, Asthma's, and other like Distempers of the Lungs. Dose from j. ounce to ij. ounces in Wine, or Syrup, or some other Pectoral Vehicle, morning and evening.
XVI. The Spirituous Tincture. It is Stomatick and Cardiack, resists Poifon^ and is good against the ftinging of Scorpions, or bitings of other Venomous beafts: prevails against Fainting and Swooning Fits, Sicknessat Heart, and is good for such as are troubled with Lethargies, Cams and Apoplexies, and other Cold Diseases of the Head, Brain and Nerves. Dose ij drams or more, in the DistilledWater.
XVII. The Saline Tincture. It is powerful against Diseases of the. Reins, orjening their obstructions, and removing the Tartarous and Viscous Matter which affects them. It provokes Urine, expels Sand, Gravel, Slime and Stones out of the Reins and Urinary Passages. It provokes the Terms in Women, and facilitates | <urn:uuid:f97e719e-99ef-4481-88a6-46d9c4f47ca3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.henriettesherbal.com/proofread/salmon/pics/salmon-00102.html | 2013-05-18T17:37:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935804 | 1,505 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
I use a variety of eyeliners, both in shade selection and texture. Typically, I stick with liquid, gel, or cake liners for my top lid and if I use anything below my eye, it's pencil. However, my very favorite liners are cake liners, due to their precise and long-lasting application. They're easy to work with (you can adjust the thickness of the line based on your brush size) and they usually pack a good punch of pigment. Furthermore, they can be more discreet than many other mediums. For some reason, when I use a cake liner I never feel like I went over the top...unlike with the gel and pencil liners I've used. And liquid liners are iffy, depending entirely on the pen you use. I've tried many, many liner pens that are too thick, too thin, too hard or too soft, making them impossible to work with. Not so with cake liner.
Since I'm feeling the love for Laura Mercier today, I'm going to tell you about her most basic cake liner, Black Ebony. It's the perfect black...highly pigmented and deeply opaque, and the perfect shade of matte jet black. It doesn't get dull or dusty on the lid, but stays truly ebony with no shimmer at all. However, it never looks chalky or harsh, and it doesn't have that "lacquer" effect that many pens leave.
Black Ebony is housed in the same compact that her eyeshadows come in and weighs in at 1.4 grams, roughly half the size of an eyeshadow. This means it's big enough to last pretty much forever. I've used mine for several months and it hardly shows any wear at all. The liner pops out of its original compact and can be popped right into one of Mercier's 6-pan palettes, which is what I do. This is great for me since all of the compacts are identical and that can become a huge pain when I'm rooting through my eye drawer for the right color. With a $10 6-pan palette, all of my favorite combinations can be housed in one compact and my hunting woes are over.
As for color and performance, both are amazing. The liner applies in a single, totally opaque line without the need for retracing. The texture of the liner can be controlled by how much water is used...I like to get the brush quite wet, then swirl it in the color until it begins to thicken a bit. This gives me a consistency that's fluid enough to apply precisely, yet heavy enough to get that nice dark line I'm looking for.
Bottom Line: All Laura Mercier Tightline Cake Eyeliners are fantastic, but my favorite is the Black Ebony. It's smooth, dark, opaque, and easy to work with, and it goes with every color combination you can throw at it. These cake liners come in a variety of colors, including Orchid Shimmer, Bleu Marine, Charcoal Grey, Forest Green, Plum Riche, and Mahogany Brown, all of which give dramatic yet natural effects to the eye. Lasting power is fantastic. After collecting several of these, I think I've found my go-to line for eyeliners.
I'm a cosmetics junkie with a weakness for red lipsticks and an addiction to sunscreen. My mother taught me you can learn a lot about a woman by the contents of her makeup bag, and I've learned she was right. Join me on my adventures through lotions and potions, powders and paint! | <urn:uuid:9c00f9dc-08da-43ce-a4ee-bdd7546cb291> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.lipstickmusings.com/2012/02/laura-mercier-tightline-cake-eyeliner.html | 2013-05-18T18:07:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966284 | 739 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
BBK Bilbao Good Hostel kur Bilbao, Spain
Av. Miraflores, 16, 48004, Bilbao
Reviews of BBK Bilbao Good Hostel
Great hostel with friendly staff and modern facilities.
justinw28, 9 Geg. 13
The staff were so nice and helpful. The beds were comfortable and everything was clean. The hostel is a bit far from the center though.
aaron, 3 Geg. 13
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What an awesome Lomo LC-A anniversary year 2009 has been and it’s not over yet! As a special community treat we have an awesome line up of interviews day after day until the big one. First off the bat is Stéphane Heinz, aka Vicuna, telling us why you should pick up a Lomo LC-A+!
1. When did you get your first Lomo LC-A or Lomo LC-A+?
I got my first Lomo LC-A at the beginning of the year 2007. My friend jazzgohan told me he had a 1986 vintage LC-A to sell for a good price and as I absolutely wanted one I bought it! :) And shortly after that I also had the chance to become a happy owner of a brand new LC-A+ :))
2. Tell us your greatest Lomographic experience with your LC-A or LC-A+ camera?
Well, as my LC-A /LC-A+ is always with me, all my lomographic adventures are documented with it… but my best experience with this camera was when I spent some time in Burkina Faso, in Africa at the end of 2008. The kids I met there were so fascinated by this little camera that they always wanted to be photgraphed! And that allowed me to make some great portraits of these kids. And in general, what I really like is that the LC-A is so small that the people aren’t impressed by it and that you can very easily take pictures/portrait of them.
3. Which of the 10 Golden Rules of Lomography most applies to your shooting style and why?
Rule n°10 “Don’t worry about any rule”… because for me Lomography is all about freedom and creativity and I think there’s no rule for that…
4. How would your life be different if you’d never discovered the LC-A or LC-A+?
Totally different!!! If I never had discovered LC-A my whole photographic life (and life at all?) would be something else and I presume very boring and without creativity!! I can’t imagine my life without the world of colors and the fascinating eye of LC-A! :)
5. Here’s the scene: your somewhere in the world with your LC-A+, a sack of your favorite film, and your best friend in the whole world… where are you and why?
Well, if you had asked me at the beginning of 2009, my answer would have been French Polynesia, because I dreamed of this place for a very long time… and now the dream became reality because I really live in French Polynesia since August 2009!
So, if I had to choose another place today where I’d like to be, it would surely be New York, as this city fascinates me too…. The life and energy I can feel in all the lomographic pictures I see of New York is really something strong and I’d like to experience this city for real one day…
6. What advice would you give someone who is thinking about getting an LC-A+ and is still a bit hesitant?
The only advice I can give to someone about getting the LC-A+ is just to buy one without hesitation, because he can’t realize how powerful this camera can be until he’ll shoot with it, and once in his hands the LC-A addiction will be effectcive! And I’ll tell him that buying a LC-A+ is the thing he will never regret, as this camera will be the best companion and witness of his whole life! | <urn:uuid:aac490ae-a79d-40ad-92d5-5c471f51a467> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.lomography.com/magazine/news/2009/12/17/10-days-of-lomo-lc-a-celebration-with-vicuna | 2013-05-18T17:57:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96565 | 769 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Brower Piven, A Professional Corporation announces that a class action lawsuit has been commenced in the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware on behalf of all shareholders of American Surgical Holdings, Inc. ("American Surgical") (OTCBB: ASRG).
The claims asserted in the complaint arise from the proposed buyout ("Acquisition") of American Surgical by AH Holdings Inc. ("AH Holdings"), an affiliate of Great Point Partners, I LP. On December 20, 2010, American Surgical announced that it had entered into a definitive merger agreement for the company to be acquired and taken private by AH Holdings in a transaction valued at approximately $33 million. According to the complaint, and under the Agreement, American Surgical shareholders will receive $2.87 per share in cash.
The complaint alleges that the Acquisition is the product of a fundamentally flawed process in which American Surgical's Board of Directors failed to obtain the best possible price before entering into the Agreement with AH Holdings. The complaint alleges that the $2.87 per share acquisition price is unfair considering the company's growth prospects. Moreover, the complaint alleges that American Surgical's Board of Directors is forcing the Acquisition through by conditioning it only on the approval of a majority of all the company's shareholders, including certain members of American Surgical's management who own 64% of American Surgical's shares, who have entered into stockholder voting agreements pursuant to which they have agreed to vote all of their shares in favor of the Acquisition, and who will become part owners of the successor company along with Great Point Partners. The complaint also alleges that American Surgical's Board of Directors failed to provide shareholders with sufficient information to determine whether or not they should seek appraisal. The complaint also alleges that the American Surgical Board of Directors filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission a preliminary proxy that failed to provide any management projections, which are material given American Surgical's planned expansion across the United States, and failed to disclose the company's expansion plans.
If you are a current owner of shares of American Surgical, you may obtain additional information about this lawsuit by contacting Brower Piven at www.browerpiven.com (http://www.browerpiven.com/) , by email at email@example.com (mailto:firstname.lastname@example.org) , by calling 410/415-6616, or at Brower Piven, A Professional Corporation, 1925 Old Valley Road, Stevenson, Maryland 21153. Attorneys at Brower Piven have combined experience litigating securities and class action cases of over 60 years. If you choose to retain counsel, you may retain Brower Piven without financial obligation or cost to you, or you may retain other counsel of your choice. You need take no action at this time to be a member of the class. | <urn:uuid:3ece5261-822c-4828-9f9e-649e71cacc2f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.mdtmag.com/news/2011/01/brower-piven-announces-class-action-lawsuit-connection-acquisition-american-surgical-holdings-inc-great-point-partners?qt-video_of_the_day=0 | 2013-05-18T17:37:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951108 | 586 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
DeKalb County School Board members got an earful Saturday from parents frustrated over the dysfunction with the board. Their frustration comes a Governor Deal is set to announce on Monday if he will remove the school board members.
The problems of the school board have ultimately lead to the school district being put on probation and the frustration was evident on Saturday when a couple hundred parents packed a meeting in south DeKalb County with lots of questions for two board members who actually showed up.
Six of the nine board members stand to lose their jobs on Monday if Governor Nathan Deal accepts the recommendation to replace the elected officials.
The State Board of Education held a 14-hour marathon meeting on Thursday, during which DeKalb board members fought for their jobs in a courtroom-like proceeding. In the end, the State Board of Education recommended that the governor remove and suspend with pay Pamela Speaks, Eugene Walker, Sarah Copeland-Wood, Jay Cunningham Donna Edler and Nancy Jester.
The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools placed DeKalb Schools on accreditation probation status back in December. The agency gave the district one year to clean up its act. The district is the only school system out of 1,000 in the U.S. placed on probation.
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The Free Software Foundation has sent 499 letters to the top Fortune 500 companies (with Microsoft being the exception), trying to persuade the decision makers in the companies not to use Microsoft software, according to an article by Techspot. The FSF has made a list of claims against Microsoft, aiming to get big corporations to look at alternative software in order to reduce their dependency on Microsoft.
The letter they sent is titled "Re: Important notice regarding impending lack of privacy, freedom and security from Microsoft Corporation," and can be found on the website they set up, Windows7sins.org. The FSF accuse Microsoft of the following: poisoning education, invading privacy, monopoly behavior, lock-in (in regards to removing support for older versions), abusing standards, enforcing DRM and threatening user security.
The site encourages users and organisations to look away from Microsoft for their software, and instead look at free software alternatives such as Linux and OpenOffice. Why Apple was not mentioned (seeing as they create proprietary software too) remains a mystery, but it appears that the FSF are targeting Windows 7 specifically while it launches.
The group intends to send even more letters as they receive more donations, with a $25 donation paying for 50 more letters, and a $100 donation paying for 200 letters to organisations and companies suggested by the community. How successful they will be remains to be seen, but you can have a look at the site yourself over here, where you can find the letter and the list of companies that have received the memo. | <urn:uuid:e853ec92-d85e-4907-8d1c-e8212feddd9e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.neowin.net/news/fsf-make-their-case-against-windows-7-with-new-website | 2013-05-18T17:28:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951738 | 307 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Not every romantic movie match was made in heaven. We submit it's quite the opposite in a lot of cases.
This baker's dozen batch of film titles in particular, boasting some shamelessly twisted pairings, has definitely given our gag reflex an unhealthy workout over the years. From incest to incomprehensible deception to just plain strange, there are a lot of different variations of yuck to be experienced within this group. Get More » | <urn:uuid:c6e075bf-b44d-48cf-ba8b-8d8b65fe3168> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.nextmovie.com/tag/home-fries/ | 2013-05-18T17:17:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942694 | 86 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
You would have to be a pretty big poop head not to love Giants baseball. Today's victory against the Orioles was a good example: another solid win (6 innings, 2 runs, 8 hits , 4 walks , 10 strikeouts) from the Freak, another 5 out super-save from Wilson, and even another back-to-back barrage from Huff and Uribe. It may not have been the prettiest game - Tim's last out that grazed his shoulder comes to mind - but is was exciting and a big win that keeps us right in a wonderful race. Yep, you would have to be a BIG poop head.
But I love Giants baseball for even more reasons today. I have been married to my soul-mate for 11 years as of today. We spent this afternoon at The Black Sheep, a lovely pub at which we had our first date. As we enjoyed the "fayre and libations," my lovely bride and I shared one of our great joys together: Giants baseball. I truly felt like a fortunate man. It was a glorious occasion, independent of the score.
Bullshit. The win made it better.
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Amsterdam Airport Schiphol welcomes one billionth passenger!
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol welcomed its one billionth passenger today. The passenger arrived on board KLM flight KL0644 that left from Terminal 4 of John F. Kennedy Airport in New York last night.
The one billionth passenger was greeted at the gate by Mr Jos Nijhuis, President and CEO of Amsterdam Airport Schiphol and Mr Peter Hartman, President and CEO of KLM. The one billionth passenger is Ms Inge Serné from Haarlem, who arrived at Schiphol at 11:30 this morning after a city break to New York, and was pleasantly surprised by the welcome she received.
Jos Nijhuis: "This is a special day for Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. Since the foundation of the airport in 1916, we have built up a network of connections that links the Netherlands to the rest of the world via 303 destinations in more than 100 countries. Schiphol has grown into an airport that is vital to the Dutch economy and an important driving force for job creation in the region. Today we have reached the milestone of one billion passengers and we are celebrating this with passengers, airlines, ground handlers and staff." Peter Hartman explains: "New York is KLM's most important intercontinental destination from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. In collaboration with its partner Delta Airlines, KLM carries around 700,000 passengers on this route every year. We warmly congratulate Schiphol on this milestone in its history."
The one billionth passenger received a travel voucher from Schiphol and KLM worth EUR 2,000, a gift voucher worth EUR 1,000 to be spent in any shop at the airport, and a year's membership of Privium and Schiphol Excellence Parking. In addition, she was allowed to donate EUR 10,000 to a good cause of her choice. Ms Serné decided to donate the amount to the Dutch Cancer Society.
On leaving the aircraft the other passengers also received a Schiphol present.
Ten large, colourful digits two metres high proclaimed the news at the airport today: 1,000,000,000. Schiphol was handing out bags of sweets bearing the same digits to passengers and visitors.
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Giuseppe Mauriello: Hopflow is web and iOS social content discovery app which seeks to connect users with a stream of content based on their personal interests. It is similar to other services like Prismatic and Trapit.
From reviewed article by The Next Web:
"Hopflow lets users Discover and share content through following specific topics rather than individual sources, and based on these interests, a personalized flow of stories from around the Web is reeled in.
You’ll need to sign up with your Twitter or Facebook credentials.
Hopflow scanned my Twitter history and, quite accurately, told me all the subjects I am indeed interested in.
You can, of course, manually select and deselect options as you see fit, and once you click ‘Done’, you’ll have a long stream of news stories based around your topics of interest. It’s like Twitter, except you follow topics rather than accounts, and this comparison is given further credence with the ‘Rehop’ feature which lets you share your news with others.
“The social Web is full of content platforms that force people to manually follow and filter through sources and information,” says Erez Pilosof, CEO and Founder of Hopflow. ” In this contextual age, people want tools that are simple and provide targeted information. We believe that discovering and sharing stories about the things that interest you shouldn’t be tedious and time consuming but rather fun and easy. Hopflow eliminates unwanted noise and allows users to sit back and enjoy a beautiful image-based ‘flow’ of relevant content outside of their current social networks.”
"SEO has been declared “dead” almost from when it first began, as our post from a few years ago, Is SEO Dead?
1997 Prediction, Meet 2009 Reality, covers. Now, a new infographic is out looking at how SEO has been “dying” over the years.
The infographic is from SEO Book and is interesting in that rather than taking a timeline approach, it instead shows examples of various types of people who’ve declared that SEO is dead and why they are, as the infographic puts it, “deluded.”
Les 12 indicateurs de retour sur investissement les plus fréquemment utilisés en entreprise au sujet des médias sociaux (Médias sociaux : comment les entreprises mesurent-elles le retour sur investissement ?
Cet article est issu de la réflexion menée à l’occasion de la conférence Storytelling Digital du 08/04 à La Cantine en la présence de Cécile Cros (narrative), Julien Aubert (Story Factory et Faismoijouer.com), Nicolas Bry (TransmediaLab) et Denis Fabre (Shibo Interactive).
In viewing the philosophy and personas of the the top three social networks — Google+, Facebook and Twitter — all are taking and staking different positions online.
- Google sees Google+ as core to its online properties. This can be seen with the Google+ button on almost all its online properties from Gmail to Google “Reader”. Google is about relevancy and user experience. - Facebook positions its social network platform as being about people’s identity. The “Timeline” update further reinforces this position as it allows you to update your life history and place it with the appropriate date stamp in your timeline stream. - Twitter sees itself as about “Events”. Breaking news and events globally in real time but keeping its charm and interface simple.
The challenge that most Facebook users face with changing to other social networks is that firstly, it is very time consuming managing two social platforms, and secondly, why change when most of their friends already hangout on Facebook.
Here are some valuable tips, resources and insights to how to use Google+ effectively...
If you still have doubts about Google+, check out this collection of infographics and tips to make the most of it's power - especially for search.
You already know that we think Google+ is pretty rad, but can it really be a good business tool? It certainly can and we’ve got the infographics to prove it! Sit back, relax and enjoy the business lessons from these great Google+ infographics.
"When it comes to search strategy, Google and Facebook both seek to give users the best possible result. While Google will continue to trust technical data over social data, though, Facebook is likely to stake the success of its search engine - and perhaps the entire company - on a new kind of search that puts social context first.
For Facebook search to succeed, it needs to be more than a site that simply says “Your friend liked this sushi restaurant, so maybe you will too.” Eric Silver, founder of content management system maker WebKite, said Facebook will use a complex analysis of its social graph to push you toward the decision that's best for you".
La campagne américaine de 2008 a été un moment charnière pour les réseaux sociaux. Celle de 2012 devrait être celle de la vidéo, a annoncé Emily Bell, de l’Ecole de journalisme de Columbia, à New York, le 4 septembre (1).
The art and science of being found online is no longer just optimizing your site for search engines or paying for it with Google Adwords.
The three digital marketing strategies that can pay off and drive free traffic include social, search and the all important “unique” content that is the foundation element that facilitates and accelerates the sharing and lifts your search results.
"Author Rank. Panda. Penguin. Mobile. Google+. If you think about it, these things were not on most SEO and online content marketer radars in the early 2011. But in just a year’s time, they have become major components of Web marketing.
Have you responded to these changes? Have you learned how to tap into the potential of these developments and increase exposure for your brand, traffic to your site, and money in your bank account?"
"Social sharing is becoming one of the most prominent ways in which to determine the authority of a particular page.
This is why Google has made some many changes to its algo: Because people are sharing so much content across the social web, it was time to evaluate how they were affecting search rankings".
Je vous donne la traduction d'un article que j'ai trouvé en SEO qui comporte 55 astuces en référencement. Cette articles à été écrit par Richard V. Burckhardt, aussi connu comme The Optimist Web , est un entraîneur de ...
I see a lot of great blog posts go to waste simply because the writer or marketer didn’t understand how content marketing works (if this includes you, read this post on 98 Content Marketing Articles to Make You an Insomniac). These people are relying on the “build it and they will come mentality” which just doesn’t work unless you have a giant powerhouse with a massive existing readership.
So how can you get the word out about your latest and greatest?
The infographic at the link has a 12-point checklist that walks you through an useful process...
"Twitter recently updated its robots.txt file and, though the change opens up millions of pages to being crawled, there’s no guarantee that the main search engines want what Twitter is offering.
The Sociable seems to have been the first to notice Twitter’s robots.txt changes, which now specifically allow Google, Bing, Yahoo, Yandex and other bots to crawl through some of Twitter’s search results pages".
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The Jellyfish is a 36-inch-tall rooftop wind turbine that you plug right into any outlet and generate up to 40 kWh a month. The Jellyfish is currently a finalist in Google’s Project10tothe100, where people were asked to submit videos that will change the world for the better for a shot at $10 million.
“For me, so many of these [wind] systems just aren’t practical,” inventor Chad Maglaque told the Seattle Times, referring to expenses and inspections with standard wind turbines. “I should be able to go down to Costco and pick one up by a big jar of mayonnaise.”
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State Rep. Kathy Rapp joined fellow Pennsylvania House Republicans on Tuesday morning to launch a package of bills she said aims to "permanently eliminate this anti-American, anti-freedom policy known as forced unionism."
The policy Rapp referred to is that of fair share fees, or contract agreements between a collective bargaining unit, or union, and an employer which include a provision requiring employees to pay a fee to the bargaining unit, regardless of membership.
Rapp, along with Reps. Daryl Metcalfe (R-Butler), Stephen Bloom (R-Cumberland), Jim Cox (R-Berks), Fred Keller (R-Union/Snyder) and Jerry Knowles (R-Berks/Schuylkill) held a press conference announcing their intent to re-introduce the Pennsylvania Open Workforce Initiative, a package of bills comprised of what is popularly known as right to work legislation.
Supporters of right to work legislation cite lower unemployment and higher personal income levels in right to work states.
Opponents call the legislative efforts an attempt to roll back workers' rights gained through collective bargaining throughout the 21st Century, give employers an advantage in bargaining and also cite wages, noting average wages tend to be lower in right to work states.
"The greatest reason is not economic, it's moral," Justin Davis, director of legislation for the National Right to Work Committee, said at Tuesday morning's session. "They (unions) force themselves into employee/employer relationships preventing employees from being rewarded for their hard work. Make no mistake; the villains in this fight... are union bosses insisting on remaining the gatekeepers to employment."
Pennsylvania AFL-CIO President Rick Bloomingdale said at a 2011 Pennsylvania House of Representative Labor and Industry Committee meeting on the bill package, "What collective bargaining does is allow the worker to get a share of those profits so they can have a middle class lifestyle. That's what unions do. They provide a middle class in America."
The package includes four bills which failed to pass during the 2011-2012 legislative session: House Bills 50, 51, 52 and 53.
Rapp is primary sponsor of House Bill 51 and is a co-sponsor of the rest of the package.
House Bill 50 would make it illegal to base eligibility for employment, or continued employment, on membership status in a collective bargaining unit or to impose fair share fees on non-union employees.
Bills 51 and 52 aim to repeal sections of Pennsylvania's Act 84 of 1988 which provide for instituting fair share fees. Specifically, HB 51 targets sections applying to agreements between unions representing school employees and school districts, intermediate units and vocational-technical schools. Bill 52 concerns sections dealing with other state level employees union agreements.
Bill 53 addresses Act 15 of 1993, which provided provision for fair share fees in agreements between collective bargaining units and political subdivisions within the state not addressed by the other bills in the initiative package, including municipal and county governments.
Also included in the initiative package is House Bill 250, which would allow public employees to opt out of union membership at any time, rather than only within the 15 days prior to expiration of a union contract, as current law allows.
"This is a declaration of independence for Pennsylvania," Keller said.
He called not paying fair share fees, "... a fundamental right that every person should have... that person might choose to spend that to put more food on the table or, in this cold weather, turn the heat up a few degrees. Six hundred dollars (per year dues), in ten or twelve years, that's a semester of college."
"I'm the proud sponsor of House Bill 51," Rapp said. "I believe that teachers in Pennsylvania deserve a much better deal."
She said union leaders, "maintain their existence by leeching off the hard work of others," and that school district residents are, "paying these ransoms through higher taxes."
Rapp also called out Gov. Tom Corbett, who recently said he didn't think the political will currently existed to pass right to work laws in Pennsylvania.
"There are many core conservatives in the legislature who have the will to do this," Rapp claimed.
"We don't lead by consensus," Jennifer Stefano, Pennsylvania state director of Americans for Prosperity, said at the news conference. "You need leadership."
There is no law requiring fair share fees be included in an agreement between a collective bargaining agreement and an employer, but they can be implemented if both the unit and employer agree to it as part of contract negotiations.
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Kyle Vanden Bosch
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Tennessee Titans announced today that defensive end
Vanden Bosch is now a finalist for the league-wide 2009 Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year Award that will be awarded during Super Bowl week in Miami. This prestigious NFL award has been in existence since 1970 and is the only NFL award that honors players who demonstrate outstanding balance in their lives between civic and professional responsibilities. In 1999, the NFL renamed the award after the late Walter Payton as a tribute to his greatness, both on and off the field. Man of the Year candidates were chosen based on guidelines from the NFL that state all candidates should have completed at least 3 seasons in the NFL and be currently playing in at least their fourth season in the league.
In one of the closest votes ever, Vanden Bosch was selected from a group of eligible finalists that included
Kyle Vanden Bosch's family, including his wife, Lindsey, who played a significant role in planning many of the charity events.
Vanden Bosch signed with the team in 2005 and has become one of the league’s most dominant defensive ends, earning trips to two Pro Bowls and racking up 38.5 sacks in his five seasons in Tennessee and a total of 43.5 career sacks. He is undoubtedly one of the leaders on the team as he was selected for Team Captain for the third year in a row.
In addition to being a key member of the Titans defense, Vanden Bosch has become an advocate for numerous charitable causes in Middle Tennessee. He formed his own charitable foundation – the KVB S.A.C.K. Foundation, which stands for “Supporting and Assisting Charities for Kids.” In the short time that S.A.C.K. has been established, the foundation has raised well over $100,000 for it’s partner charities. The S.A.C.K. Foundation continues to grow with each event and is quickly becoming a very recognizable charity in Middle Tennessee.
The following are his 2009 community service projects and events:
• Annual “Tailgate For A Cure” event held at LP Field this past September, a community-wide tailgate and fundraiser for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CF) hosted by Kyle and his wife Lindsey. In addition, they host several families affected by the disease at Titans training camp.
• KVB’s Birthday Brawl is an annual wresting event to benefit The Boys and Girls Club of Middle Tennessee. Vanden Bosch and his Titans teammates join pro-wrestlers for this fundraiser that has become one of the most unique charity events in Nashville and a must-see for Titans and pro-wrestling fans alike.
• KVB Media Center – In April 2009, in partnership with the Andrew Jackson The Boys & Girls Club, his foundation entirely funded the KVB Media Center, a multimedia arts center – a first of its kind for a local Boys & Girls Club. The multimedia center will offer technological tools for youth who look to creatively express themselves, while assisting in job skills and career development.
• Barn Bash - The Boys & Girls Clubs of Middle Tennessee (BGCMT) honored Vanden Bosch during the inaugural "Barn Bash, Celebrating the Youth of the Year" on May 15, 2009. Vanden Bosch was honored as one of the Sydney F. Keeble, Jr. Distinguished Service Award recipients, along with Casey Cramer. Over 450 guests were in attendance and brought in more than $160,000 (gross) for BGCMT to impact the lives of over 3,500 youth in five local Clubs.
• 3-A-Day Campaign: Vanden Bosch partnered with Purity Dairies to help promote "3-A-Day," a national campaign encouraging school age children to eat and drink three dairy products a day along with proper nutrition.
“I would like to congratulate all of the nominees this year and thank them for countless hours that they devote to the Mid-South,” said Coach Jeff Fisher. “I am pleased that Kyle is being recognized for more than he does on the field. He is a terrific player and is committed to making our community a better place.”
In addition to Vanden Bosch, the Titans will recognize a variety of players as Community All-Stars that have played an integral role in giving back to the community. Mr. Adams and the entire Titans organization are very proud of the terrific community efforts of all players, who continue to make a difference in the lives of those less fortunate in our community. While the award recognizes only one player, the Titans organization is honored to have so many players deserving of this recognition.
Since moving to Tennessee in 1997, the team’s Community Man of the Year winners are:
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Vol. LXIV, No. 20
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
(Photo by Stephen Goldsmith)
EXIT WOUND: Princeton University mens lacrosse senior attacker Rob Engelke gets poked by a defender in Princetons 8-5 loss to Notre Dame last Sunday in the first round of the NCAA tournament. Engelke scored two goals in his final appearance for the sixth-seeded Tigers, who squandered a chance to be at home for the NCAA quarterfinals by virtue of their early exit from the tourney.
Although the Princeton University mens lacrosse team trailed Notre Dame 6-5 going into the fourth quarter last Sunday in the opening round of the NCAA tournament, the Tigers had the Fighting Irish just where they wanted them.
After all, the Tigers have owned the fourth quarter this spring, outscoring their foes 50-33 overall in the final period during the regular season.
Along the way, Princeton produced late rallies in wins over Penn, Yale, Rutgers, and Cornell, the latter coming just last week in the Ivy League Tournament championship game.
This time, though, the sixth-seeded Tigers couldnt pull off any late magic as a gritty Notre Dame squad utilized stifling defense and deliberate offense to outscore Princeton 2-0 over the last 15 minutes to earn an 8-5 win before a crowd of 3,305 at Class of 1952 Stadium.
Even though the Princeton University mens heavyweight first varsity crew hadnt won a race since early April, Greg Hughes saw his top boat as a title contender last weekend at the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges (EARC) Sprints.
We had some learning to do and everyone knew it, said head coach Hughes.
It was pretty apparent in our league that while we had lost some races, the racing was tight and we were in the mix. We knew we werent out of it.
Jim Fuhrman is the ace of the pitching staff for the Princeton Day School baseball team but he didnt look like a star in the first inning of the state Prep B championship game last Thursday evening.
The senior righthander struggled to find the strike zone, giving up two runs to Rutgers Prep in the top of the first at the Diamond Nation complex in Flemington.
Fuhrman, though, wasnt fazed by trailing early as the Panthers have made a habit of overcoming deficits this spring.
Caitlin Shannon started her final week on the Princeton Day School girls lacrosse team with a bang.
Celebrating her 18th birthday in style, the senior attacker scored the game-winning goal in overtime as sixth-seeded PDS upended No. 3 and two-time defending champion Oak Knoll 8-7 in overtime in the state Prep A semifinals on May 10.
A day later in the Mercer County Tournament semifinals, Shannon gave the Panthers a big lift, scoring three goals as PDS rallied from a 7-2 halftime deficit to stun No. 2 and 3-time defending champion Hopewell Valley 11-10 in overtime.
Amanda Curnan knows something about bouncing back from adversity.
After missing the entire 2009 season for the Stuart Country Day lacrosse team due to an ACL injury, Curnan has returned with a vengeance this spring.
The savvy Curnan has helped trigger Stuarts high-powered offense as the Tartans have emerged as one of the top teams in the area.
For Curnan, the chance to be back in the action has been special.
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Last week I made the heart-wrenching decision to stop publishing InJersey, a network of hyperlocal websites that I’d founded two years ago. It was particularly difficult because I’d grown to love the community of folks that supported our sites — from the site editors under the employ of Gannett to the community contributors to the far-flung partners and champions of the local-local journalism. To help get through the mourning period, I penned a post for Street Fight (reprinted below), a site that has emerged as the blog of record for the hyperlocal industry. The comments that were posted to both it, as well those on a fantastic article by Mallary Jean Tenore on Poynter (posted more or less simultaneously) and a follow-up Street Fight post, are a testament to how strong and uplifting this community has been. Thanks in part to this kind of camaraderie, and the promise that community-centric journalism still holds, you can rest assured that InJersey won’t be my last foray into the world of hyperlocal.
When we made the decision this week to shutter InJersey.com — a network of hyperlocal sites across the garden state that I helped build, nurture, and raise like a child — my biggest fear was that the effort would be branded a failure. In the age of Twitter, I was braced for the #epicfail hashtag. It came instead via Slate, in the form of a Jack Shafer missive, where he lumped my baby in as yet another vote of no-confidence in a “hyperloco” business model:
“The hyperlocal cemetery—where Bayosphere; the Washington Post’s LoudounExtra; Allbritton’s TBD; Backfence; and the New York Times’ New Jersey experiment, “The Local” are taking the dirt nap—got a new tenant today, as Gannett folded hyperlocal venture InJersey.”
The truth is that my colleagues and I viewed InJersey as a hugely successful experiment. Lest that sound like empty spin, here are the facts: We launched two years ago on a shoestring budget, and grew to 17 town blogs, 2,259 members, and 90 community contributors. Though we were never able to afford a full-time staff, we recruited site editors from the stable of reporters across the Gannett New Jersey newspapers — the Asbury Park Press, Home News Tribune, Courier News, Daily Record, Courier-Post, and The Daily Journal — who built up a tremendous online community. Some town sites, such as Freehold InJersey, earned as many as 65,000 pageviews and 47,000 unique users in a month. We sold sponsorships onto the town sites, and advertisers were thrilled with the response. We were profitable.
Let me repeat that: We were profitable.
But, alas, we never generated enough revenue to pay for a full time reporting (or sales) staff, and given the contractions of the newspapers (including a particularly tough round of layoffs last week), we couldn’t sustain the effort.
Still, as I said in my parting post on InJersey, even though we decided to suspend publishing, we did so knowing full well that the larger hyperlocal movement that we belonged to is as vibrant and innovative as ever. I’d hate for this act of infanticide to be minimized into a footnote on the wikipedia “hyperlocal” page. And so I want to share with you some of the major lessons I learned from InJersey.
1. Build Cheaply. Shortly after launching, Jeff Jarvis asked me to speak about the tools needed to launch a hyperlocal site at his New Business Models for News conference (or as I liked to call it, “HyperCamp”). I told the audience there that anyone can launch a killer community site for a few thousand dollars. Most can and do spend next to nothing. To drive home this point, I compared the budget to build InJersey ($3,720) with the cost of the movie “Paranormal Activity” ($11,000). It can be done.
We used WordPress for our CMS and BuddyPress for messaging, community registration, collaboration, and more. TribLocal uses much the same approach with their network. I have tremendous admiration for the kind of custom CMS that Patch has engineered — I’ve seen it; it’s impressive — but this doesn’t yield much of an advantage, IMHO. As hyperlocal swami Mark Potts says “It’s not about technology, it’s not about journalism, it’s not about whizbang Web 2.0 features. It’s about bringing community members together to share what they know about what’s going on around town.”
2. Recruit Via Twitter. I’m still so thankful for the Twitter DM gods for sending me Colleen Curry. She contacted me out of the blue, back when I was putting the finishing touches on our first WordPress theme, asking if we needed any writers. Luckily, we were able to bring her on to not only cover the blog, but also as a reporter for the Asbury Park Press, and she’s been an animal ever since — covering town hall, school boards, breaking news, dangerous intersections, and even stray turkeys. (Story of her hiring, in her words.) Her Freehold site was our top performing hyperlocal. At the same time we shuttered InJersey, I’m proud to say she was promoted to become USA Today’s New Jersey correspondent (#silverlining!).
3. Partner with Everyone. This may sound obvious, but I’m still surprised at how many hyperlocal sites start off all on their lonesome. We actively reached out to other startups (SeeClickFix, Outside.In, PaperG), local groups (United Way, Rotary, Libraries), and residents (liberals, conservatives, high-schoolers, old timers).
What made our approach to hyperlocal different than others (at least when we launched) was that we offered open registration and the ability for anyone to publish. Yes, we had our fair share of off-the-wall and inflammatory posts, but we took them down, contacted the contributor, and coached them on how to revise. It wasn’t a perfect system, but there was a great deal less friction than the Times’s “The Local” faced by editing every contributor’s post via email. We’d hoped to have 50% of our posts generated by the community, and while we only got half-way there, it wasn’t for lack of trying.
4. Local Advertisers Won’t Self Serve (but they will support local coverage). Like so many digital startups, we’d hoped that tools like PaperG’s Flyerboard (also looked at AdReady and AdTaily) would give advertisers the tools to easily build, schedule, and purchase their ads all by themselves. Yeah, didn’t happen. That said, there was definitely an appetite among local advertisers to support the kind of reporting and coverage we were providing. Still loved using Flyerboard, we just had to sell them, create the ads, and schedule it all ourselves.
5. Maps are eye candy. No more, no less. We kind of fell in love with Patch’s first map treatment on their homepage. So much so that we built a WordPress plugin to ape it. Only when we went live did we realize nobody was clicking on it. Next we tried Outside.In‘s full-page maps and widgets, which were even cooler — they automatically tagged our content with geo-locations based on contextual clues. Amazing magic trick. Alas, nobody clicked on them either.
(I suspect that the value of geo-tagging content and location will grow as we find new ways to integrate it with a mobile experience — e.g. presenting you with news and deals based on where you’re standing at that moment. Now that Outside.In is a part of AOL/Patch, I’m sure their technology will be put to good use.)
6. Aggregation and syndication are a smoke screen. During a previous round of layoffs, we attempted to automate the posting of content to some of our sites in Morris County. The idea being to aggregate other blogs and syndicate stories from dailyrecord.com, the sister newspaper site. It was almost immediately apparent that we’d ripped the soul out of the sites, and they quickly became ghost towns. Sure, they had “content” — and thanks to SEO a trickle of traffic — but not a whole lot of living, breathing residents.
7. Display advertising isn’t enough. We simply didn’t see enough local advertising to ever make our sites totally self-sufficient on display dollars. Howard Owens, prepare your flamethrower. I know that he claims to be able to generate upwards of $100-$150k per year on local advertising in The Batavian, and if this is true, my hat is off to him. But most sites are going to need to great creative, and there are plenty of other revenue streams that hyperlocals can employ. Local-local Daily Deals is one idea that has, of course, been discussed. Also promising: The sort of conference that NewWest.net operates; classes like the kind that we co-hosted with the Citizens Campaign; and commercial businesses like Brownstoner’s Brooklyn Flea. In fact, one of the most promising side-businesses just might be news cafes. Which brings us to …
8. Coffee shops are a natural hyperlocal nexus. Many hyperlocal editors work out of Starbucks and neighborhood joints already, but the aforementioned Colleen Curry took the bold step of opening up a bureau in Zebu Forno in Freehold. Alright, it was really just a computer set up with a “The Journalist Is In” sign atop it. But it proved to be a brilliant way to raise awareness of the site and a place to recruit contributors and interview subjects. We didn’t recruit as many folks as we would have liked, but there’s little doubt it raised our profile in town. The Winnipeg Free Press was so inspired by it — and other similar initiatives — that they opened up their own News Cafe this year. Even though some have tried and failed at this model, like Nase Adresa (“Our Address”) in Czech Republic, they never went so far as to actually merge their newsrooms with their cafes.
9. Host the conversation on Facebook. If I could do it all over again, InJersey’s comments, login, and social features would all be rebuilt on Facebook plugins. That’s not to say you should make the drastic move of ditching your website, like Rockville Central. But there’s no need to build your own social network, as we foolishly attempted.
10. Live in the town. File this under “do as we say, not as we do.” For the most part our reporters didn’t live in the towns they covered. Patch, on the other hand, makes it a requirement that you live where you report. Patch’s way is better.
Back when I was prototyping the site in the summer of 2009 with my colleague, Whitney Rhodes (now at Patch), I took great inspiration from Mark Potts’s post-mortem on Backfence (a site whose cemetery I’d be honored to share). His insights guided us in how we approached the site — both from an editorial and community-building standpoint. I hope this will do the same for future hyperlocal entrepreneurs. If we must dub such sites as failures, I just hope we can also see things as Henry Ford did: “Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”Read More | <urn:uuid:56314e03-bcda-477b-b9d9-2f9160695ee6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.turkeymonkey.com/2011/07/ | 2013-05-18T17:48:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959751 | 2,517 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Applications will be accepted as long as interview slots are still available.
Last day to interview will be April 29, 2013.
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University of Iowa Children’s Hospital
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I don't know what Tom Clancy dreams about, but at a guess I'd predict that his nights are filled with horrible visions of America being attacked by unstoppable evil forces. That's the impression I get from his books and video games, at any rate. Whether it's the Ruskies, Middle Eastern terrorists or a renegade corporate army, he's always worrying about a big load of baddies invading US soil. He must barely get a wink of sleep, the poor lamb.
In HAWX this threat takes the form of Artemis - a private military contractor that eventually decides to invade America. This is a pretty big thing to attempt, but Artemis is up for the challenge: They've got planes, tanks and moustaches they can twirl while laughing evilly. They might have even gotten away with it, if it weren't for those pesky kids in their flying machines. Yes sir, super-pilot David Crenshaw is on the case; he's going to send a radar-guided missile right up their private military sphincter. And the good news is this: David Crenshaw is you.
The plot of HAWX is absolutely ridiculous, but it's also exactly what the game needs. This isn't Flower - it's an arcade shooter where you scream about the skies, blowing stuff up. HAWX is a flight sim in the loosest possible sense: the plane models may look accurate, but they can carry over 200 missiles (so many, in fact, that you drop a few when you get hit by enemy forces). Under the circumstances, a subtle story is the last thing you need. You want to feel like you're in a Jerry Bruckheimer film, and thanks to the bombastic action and shiny presentation, that's exactly the experience you get.
HAWX is as slick as a lubed-up otter. As soon as you pick up the controller for the first time, you'll notice how well-produced everything is. The plane models are crisp and detailed, and as far as my untrained eye can tell they look like the real thing. They handle well too. Control wise, everything is where you'd expect it to be (throttle on the left stick, jet controls on the triggers and weapons on the face buttons) and most of the time the game maintains a silky frame rate. All of this makes for a very playable action game, even if what you're actually doing is largely that same-old shooty planes stuff we've been doing for years.
There are a few new bells and whistles that Ubisoft have thrown into the classic mix. The first is ERS - a sort of optional AI guiding system that can be triggered during specific situations. By holding down a button, your HUD will summon a series of coloured gates for you to fly through; following this prescribed flight path will help you to get behind enemy fighters or to evade incoming missiles. It works so well that at times it almost feels like cheating, but few people will mind since it's so genuinely useful. Besides, it fits in with the near-future setting of the story.
Slightly harder to grasp is the much-publicised "assistance off" mode. Here your perspective cuts to an external view of your craft, with the camera swirling about to keep track of your current target. When played this way the game also relaxes all safety restrictions on the way your plane moves, giving you greater freedom to steer yourself behind the poor blighter you're trying to shoot down. You can also use this mode to pull of all manner of aerial acrobatics, though you're also more vulnerable to stalling. Essentially assistance off is there to let you really mess about with your plane. By holding the left trigger (decelerate) and tugging back on the throttle, you can perform super-tight drifts and turns that are highly fun to watch and execute. It's not all about looking flash either, since this increased manoeuvrability does actually make it quite easy to shoot down other planes. Once you realise this, you'll probably appreciate it quite a bit. | <urn:uuid:7121a4b6-8b9f-4a2a-8777-398a39121e77> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.videogamer.com/ps3/tom_clancys_air_combat/review.html | 2013-05-18T18:07:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966833 | 839 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
A state police spokesman said Clifton Thomson was shot several times early Thursday morning after he advanced on them and would not comply with an order to put down his .30-caliber rifle.
The officers with Northern York Regional Police who were involved have been placed on administrative leave.
The incident began after Thomson called a crisis center and said he was considering harming himself. After police arrived, Thomson's wife was able to get out of the home safely.
Police say he fired at them at close range during negotiations, and Thomson ran from the home and was killed. State police are investigating. | <urn:uuid:88fa52a8-4480-4ae2-bf59-433fca9fe387> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.yorkdispatch.com/penn/ci_22636449/investigators-say-pa-officers-killed-armed-man | 2013-05-18T17:50:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.995005 | 119 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
when i die, my tombstone wont say RIP
it will say VIP
That’s because they reserved a special place in hell for you
yeah the throne
“i want to wear shorts because it’s hot but i really hate my legs” an autobiography
“I want to wear shorts but i didnt shave” the sequel.
when im older and my kid needs me to sign something for school im just gonna write “Dad” in really crappy handwriting so it seems like my kid forged my signature and the teacher calls to tell me and im just “yes no it is i dad”
i posted this when i accidentally took too much medication
screw you guys
i was going to make a list of people that annoy me, but it was too long so I decided to post a pic instead.
omg i’m in the same photo as tom hiddleston
ugh, my hair looks terrible
can we do it again i blinked
someone left this picture on the tester camera at target
A dog wandered into our yard so I checked her tags | <urn:uuid:06e27db7-a82b-4834-9d8b-3baad23cc9b8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://anjenah.tumblr.com/ | 2013-05-21T17:10:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94291 | 231 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Pronunciation: (um'brij), [key]
1. offense; annoyance; displeasure: to feel umbrage at a social snub; to give umbrage to someone; to take umbrage at someone's rudeness.
2. the slightest indication or vaguest feeling of suspicion, doubt, hostility, or the like.
3. leaves that afford shade, as the foliage of trees.
4. shade or shadows, as cast by trees.
5. a shadowy appearance or semblance of something.
Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease. | <urn:uuid:703cd9f4-4860-439a-8520-464157a3aad9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://dictionary.factmonster.com/umbrage | 2013-05-21T17:24:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.87734 | 136 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
When I first heard this, the source was Ron Paul supporters, many of whom wear tin foil on their heads to prevent the CIA from controlling their minds, so I pretty much disregarded it.
Well now a qualified source, Prof. Chin of the University of Arizona law school argues that John McCain is not eligible to serve as President of the United States. McCain, born to U.S. citizens living in Panama, fails the test of 14th Amendment natural born citizen, according to the good professor.
In April, the U.S. Senate passed a resolution declaring McCain eligible. Hmm, why was that necessary if McCain was already eligible? Technically, according to the letter of the law, Prof. Chin is absolutely right. McCain is not eligible to serve as President of the United States.
Sadly, some very bad law is about to be written as a result. Theodore Olsen, former Solicitor-General in the current Bush Administration will challenge that a citizen, registered to vote, lacks standing to bring a complaint forward challenging McCain's 14th Amendment qualification for office. Olsen's theory is that a citizen can't bring such a suit because an ordinary citizen can't prove damages should a non-qualified person become President.
So, if you intend to vote for McCain, you are voting for a man not eligible to serve. While this might not bother some, I wonder about the future when a man with Nazi affiliations such as California Governor Arnold Schwartzenegger and not qualified to serve under the 14th Amendment is deemed eligible by Senate declaration or resolution. | <urn:uuid:7474cbfc-e94a-4233-bcbb-3c406120c5cc> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://forums.prosportsdaily.com/showthread.php?244796-Ractually-McCain-not-eligible-for-highest-office&p=5844563 | 2013-05-21T17:18:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966899 | 316 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Joseph McCarthy was born on November 15, 1908 in the town of Appleton, Wisconsin. His parents were farmers and he attended classes at a one room schoolhouse through the eighth grade. As a teenager, he started a chicken business only to have disease wipe out the entire flock. He was left broke and forced to get a job at a local grocery store, where he was given the position of manager.
Within a year, he was transferred to the town of Manawa, where he was to manage a new grocery store. There, he attended high school, despite being twenty-one years old, and completed the curriculum in only nine months. Since he had earned excellent grades, he was accepted into Marquette University of Milwaukee in 1930, where he pursued a degree in law. While there, he coached the boxing team and was elected president of his law class.
In 1935, he earned his law degree and opened a law office in Waupaca. He left this position for an opening at a law firm in Shawano, where he was made a partner in 1937. In 1936, he made a run for the position of district attorney on the democratic ticket, but failed to win. In 1939, he made another political attempt to become a judge and managed to defeat the existing judge, who had served for 24 years. He was only thirty years old and became the youngest circuit judge ever elected in the state.
After winning the election, he moved back to his hometown of Appleton and began his judicial career. He was known as hard working, but was criticized for destroying court records and violating ethical codes. In 1942, he left his position to become a first lieutenant in the Marine Corps. He was placed in an intelligence unit in the Pacific, where he participated mainly in bombing runs.
After returning from World War 2, he sought nomination by the republican party for a position in the senate, but failed. A year later, he campaigned for his old position of judge and easily regained his office. Never one to accept defeat, he immediately formed plans for a 1946 campaign for the senate.
Despite facing a strong opponent, Robert La Follette (a senator of 21 years), McCarthy managed to win the republican nomination by a very small margin. In the general election, he defeated the democratic candidate with ease and was sent to Washington D.C.
During his early years in the senate, McCarthy worked on housing legislation and decreasing rationing. However, the main issue in the government at the time was fears of communist infiltration and McCarthy quickly joined the anti-communist movement. In 1950, he began his campaign of suspicion during a speech, accusing Secretary of State of knowing 205 communists in the state department.
McCarthy's accusations exploded on capitol hill, triggering the formation of a new investigative committee, headed by Senator Millard Tydings. The hearings first began on March 8, 1950 and McCarthy was not able to name any actual employee of the state department. On July 17, 1950, the committee reported that McCarthy's charges were unfounded, but McCarthy continued to accuse more people of being communist or knowing communist supporters.
Many people despised what they termed McCarthy's "witch hunt", but the anti-communist atmosphere at the time allowed him to continue throughout the early 1950s. He was investigated by a senate panel in 1952, which found unethical behavior in his political campaigning and tax filings, but no evidence that would hold up for prosecution. In spite of the report, he was reelected in 1952 with 54% of the votes.
In 1953, McCarthy became chairman of the Committee on Government Operations. His behavior in that post managed to anger everyone from fellow senators to the president after accusing the Eisenhower administration of sheltering communists. Eisenhower never publicly refuted the claims, but attempted to turn people away from McCarthy. That same year, McCarthy investigated the Army Signal Corps, but was unable to prove that an espionage ring existed there. He treated General Ralph Zwicker brutally during the investigation, causing many of his supporters to turn against his investigations.
In 1954, CBS broadcast a program that harshly criticized McCarthy's investigations and behavior. The army later released a report accusing McCarthy of pressuring the army to giving favored treatment to his former aide that had been drafted. In turn, he accused the army of holding the man as a hostage in order to put pressure on him and his investigations. The dispute was aired on television for several months and his behavior during the trials caused huge declines in his approval ratings. During the trials, he constantly interrupted people, calling for a point of order, which fueled parodies in opinion articles and cartoons.
After the trial ended, a committee in the senate investigated McCarthy and released a report referring to him as reprehensible, vulgar, insulting, and inexcusable. On December 2, 1954, the senate passed a resolution condemning McCarthy for abusing his power as senator, making the rest of his short senate career a quiet one.
McCarthy was a heavy drinker, which caused severe damage to his liver. In April of 1957, he was hospitalized for liver problems and died of hepatitis on May 2, 1957. | <urn:uuid:40f94331-179e-4003-97eb-0cb6ff7ec2f4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://freeinfosociety.com/article.php?id=53 | 2013-05-21T17:23:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.989975 | 1,037 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The Sundays with Joy schedule has been throwing some major curve balls at me lately. Just like the coffee bacon, I was skeptical about making this dessert. I have never had a grapefruit. I know, it sounds crazy right? I’ve never had a desire to try one. But there is a first for everything! And this is only one of the two hesitations about the recipe grapefruit soufflé pudding.
The last time I tried a recipe similar to a soufflé, it was a disaster. The top just burned and the inside didn’t cook. It was nasty with uncooked eggs and stuff and I have avoided trying it again. However, being that this is the current Sundays with Joy recipe, I had to give it a go. But, between the grapefruit and the water bath, I had little confidence.
Look how great that looks! I was pleasantly surprised at how good these turned out!
And they taste great too! The grapefruit flavor isn’t too strong or tart. It is subtle and the soufflé has a just enough sweetness to it. I love how as it baked, it turned into a two layer dessert with a spongy like cake on top and pudding on the bottom. How did it do that?! This is a nice light and airy dessert that is perfect for the spring and summer season. Although I had this grapefruit dessert, I still haven’t actually had a grapefruit by itself. I am going to have to now!
If you want the recipe, I highly recommend getting the Joy the Baker Cookbook and check out her blog too!
I am all about challenges in the kitchen. But those challenges are usually related to baking, not soda making. But a challenge is a challenge and I am excited to follow along with Love and Olive Oil‘s Monthly Kitchen Challenges. Last month, I made macarons. (Sorry for all the “challenges”!)
May’s Monthly Kitchen Challenge is ginger ale. My liking of ginger ale is more recent, within the last couple of years. Growing up, if I drank it when I wasn’t sick, it reminded me of being sick. Who wants that? I don’t know what is different, but I’m good with it now.
I chose to use a recipe by Food Network’s Alton Brown. Compared to some others, it is less involved with simple ingredients. That’s what I was looking for.
Making this ginger ale was extremely easy and quick. Except grating the ginger. Pretty messy.
Who needs a fancy soda making machine??? Not this girl. The bottle had to sit untouched for 48 hours. I had the urge to shake it for some reason, but I was able to resist.
Two days later and my result is a nice tall glass of ginger ale. To me the smell of ginger in the soda is much stronger than the taste, if that makes sense. Matt says it tastes more like ginger beer. It definitely does not taste like the ginger ale you find in a grocery store. I wonder what other flavors of soda I can make without a machine. If you want to try, this is a nice easy way to start!
For the past couple of years, Matt and I have been able to enjoy fresh vegetables from our garden. However, Matt is the one who put in all the work so I can’t take any credit for that. I just did the eating. Click here to read more about our garden!!
I was never one to have a green thumb anyway. I enjoy nice flowers and eating fresh vegetables from a garden, but not really into maintaining it. However, I feel different about this now. I decided I want to take part in our garden this season but to start small, have my own little project. I am going to have my own little herb garden.
I didn’t realize how many different herbs exist! Like chocolate mint! I wouldn’t even know what to do with that. But I am keeping it simple and going with five that I will use often:
Normally, I am not really good at keeping plants alive. But this is different. I am excited to take care of my herbs and to start using them in my cooking. I will update you throughout the summer with how the garden is going and how I will be using the herbs. So excited to get started! | <urn:uuid:02d65220-6351-4c78-b568-f9a2eac330ea> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://ineedtobake.com/ | 2013-05-21T17:24:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977192 | 915 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Generating electricity from a controlled nuclear reaction is an interesting idea. Unfortunately, human beings do not currently demonstrate sufficient intelligence or wisdom to do it safely or economically.
Take for example the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Plant, located in Vernon, Vermont. It went online in 1972 with a license to generate 500 megawatts of electricity for forty years. It is now in its forty-first year of operation, and since 2006 has been operating at 120% of original capacity, generating 620 megawatts. Both of those facts are proof that economic greed and a failure to construct a rational energy plan for America have trumped good science and common sense.
Nuclear reactors are constructed of metal and concrete. Both deteriorate with time, and both deteriorate faster when subjected to radiation and high temperatures. Some of this can be ameliorated with proper maintenance, but Vermont Yankee is owned and operated by a corporation, Entergy, whose primary responsibility is to generate profits for investors. Proper maintenance of the reactor costs lots of money.
So when the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) voted in 2006 to allow VT Yankee to increase power output by 120 megawatts, and when they voted in 2011 to renew VT Yankee’s operating license for another twenty years, it is indisputable that they considered Entergy’s profits, New England’s energy needs, and the job security of the plant’s 600 employees as being more important than safety. Would you take an old car that has been on the road longer than it was designed for, and run it 24/7 at 120% of top speed?
It is worth noting that the Chairman of the NRC, Gregory Jaczko, has just been forced out because he felt strongly that reactor safety was being subjugated to economic concerns. The scientific facts are obvious. VT Yankee is deteriorating. It has been leaking radioactive tritium, a cooling tower collapsed in 2007, its spent fuel pool is near capacity (3353 spent fuel assemblies, enough to contaminate thousands of square miles in an accident), and 88 tons of additional spent fuel stored in dry casks was accidentally dropped by a crane in 2008.
VT Yankee is a boiling water reactor, designed and built by GE, of the exact same design as the plants at Fukushima, Japan that melted down in March of 2011 and have been releasing horrendous amounts of radiation ever since. Besides the core meltdowns at Fukushima, the storage of massive amounts of spent fuel in cement pools on top of the reactor containment vessels has been clearly revealed as an unacceptable safety hazard, yet this continues at both Fukushima and VT Yankee.
Any rational appraisal, by either informed scientists or laypersons, would conclude that VT Yankee should be shut down and decommissioned as soon as is humanly possible. The plant has proven itself to be unsafe, the corporation running it and the regulators overseeing it are more concerned with short term economic and energy supply concerns than with the health and welfare of the millions of people living within range of a potential accident. Plus, when the head of the NRC talks about safety before profits, he is forced out. Perhaps humans are not intelligent enough to generate electric power from nuclear energy safely. They cannot figure out how to do it economically without ignoring the costs of spent fuel storage, decommissioning outdated plants, and insuring for losses in case of an accident. And human beings are not wise enough to see that energy conservation is the only rational solution to increasing demand.
Entergy wants to generate more power and profits, regardless of the long term risks and costs, and the US government encourages this short-sighted foolishness. The Vermont State Senate voted 26 to 4 to deny relicensing in 2010, but the federal NRC overruled this and the case is currently in litigation. As of today, the score is stupidity 1 and scientifically-informed common sense 0. | <urn:uuid:c4bf1b7f-f9be-4bfb-a804-2a175ff0e4cb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://ivn.us/2012/05/23/vermont-yankee-nuclear-plant-aging-leaking-shut/ | 2013-05-21T17:15:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964405 | 780 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The Knoxville Softball Squad’s perseverance paid off as the Panthers scored twice in the sixth to take a one run lead and then set Centerville down in order in the seventh to preserve a 5-4 win last night over the Redettes. Knoxville was aided by seven free passes from Centerville pitching, three of those were hit batsmen. Cheyenne Jones went 2/3 at the plate, while Kassie Griggs and Carrie Chambers each had an R-B-I. Emily Wallace got the win going the distance giving up four runs, scattering eight hits, striking out two and walking none and retiring the final seven batters she faced. Knoxville is now 5-10 on the season and will cross the river to play Pella High tonight. | <urn:uuid:a6cd5363-dd2e-450e-9034-e3553fdac31e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://kniakrls.com/2012/06/perseverance-pays-off-for-knoxville-softball-in-win-over-centerville/ | 2013-05-21T17:11:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965402 | 156 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
hplip scanner support?
hobbes1069 at gmail.com
Mon Jan 26 02:39:36 UTC 2009
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Tom Horsley <tom.horsley at att.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:02:31 +1930
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>> I'm using a C5180 all-in-one on my LAN and it works fine. I normally
>> use the GUI for scanning but I just tried scanimage and the scanner
>> lit up and moved, so I guess the answer is yes. If there's some
>> specific option you'd like me to try, just ask.
> Mostly just wanted to make sure they really work :-).
> I'm looking at maybe getting the new C5580 for the
> DVD/CD printing capability as well as the scanner
> and other things.
I got the 5580 off newegg when it was on sale and free shipping. Great
printer for the price. I had a bad black ink cartridge out of the box
but a new one fixed it right up. I've been using the scanner quite a
bit to scan in old photos to embarrass people old friends on facebook
and it's worked quite well.
If you like, contact me off list and I'll send you a glables template
I tweaked in to get pretty consistent CD/DVDs
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Last week, Tom Rademacher of the Grand Rapids Press told the story of a Michigan couple, Kelly and Ingrid Fleming, who saw the central air-conditioning in their home break down in May and decided to leave it unfixed. And despite this summer’s record-hot conditions, they have enjoyed the summer more than they usually do:
“We’ve spent more time out on the back deck in the last two months than we have in the last 10 years,” said Kelly, 54. “The lack of air conditioning has opened my eyes.”
In taking to the backyard instead of an icy environs within, the Flemings started sprucing up their outdoor “room,” starting with a rehab of their patio furniture.
They scrubbed the frames and bought new cushions for the chairs. At a big-box store, Kelly purchased a canopy that almost completely umbrellas the large deck on the east side of their home. A string of Christmas lights was hung against one wall, and tiki torches were installed. A weather-resistant rug was placed beneath the gathering table, and Ingrid trotted out little tabletop screen tents that allowed her to put food out without worrying about pests.
Neighbors began to notice that the Flemings were starting to spend more of this summer outdoors, and they came closer. Soon, Kelly was raising one of the tiki torches extra high on a post a la Paul Revere, to signal to friends it was time to commune, and neighbors like Jim and Lois Rainero and George and Shelly Wetzel starting drawing near, for everything from suds to cigars to conversation…
And for the first time in two decades, the Flemings are sensing things they didn’t know their backyard even offered.Hummingbirds, for one, lay siege to the bulging Rose of Sharon. They’ve spied a family of wild turkeys, and hawks overhead. One recent evening, Kelly was minding his own business when both a raccoon and an opossum helped themselves to the deck.
I’ve heard similar stories many times now since Losing Our Cool was published. America may finally be learning that immersion in industrial “comfort” is not the only way to enjoy the summer. | <urn:uuid:d5635502-53ab-4092-9e1f-65a7a57c7c9a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://losingourcool.wordpress.com/2010/08/29/another-family-goes-ac-free-and-enjoys-the-real-summer/ | 2013-05-21T17:16:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968271 | 479 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Workshops & Lectures
(description and background below)
Monday to Friday:
workshop Beauty of Decay
Monday 25 oktober:
11.00 hours lecture Mario van Horrik – SOUND (45 min)
12.00 hours lecture Remco Roes – Postcards from a journey (own work)
Evening lectures 20.00 – 22.00 hours:
Jozua Zaagman (designer/artist)
Uri Ben-Ari – Reusing the City
Denis Dujardin (urban architect)
Tuesday 26 oktober:
10.00- 15.00 hours workshop Maki Ueda – Aromascape of Eindhoven
19:30 – 23.30 hours – lecture by iLo Light Design Institute – experience of light
Wednesday 27 oktober:
Evening lectures 20.00 – 22.00 hours:
Urban change and making sense of Industrial heritage – Dimitra Babalis
Form and process. Investigations on the design of the city – N. Privileggio, M.A. Secchi
Thursday 28 oktober:
14.00-16.00 hours workshop Bridget Nicholls – The Wild Side of City Life
Evening lectures 20.00 – 22.30 hours:
Bridget Nicholls – Synesthetic City – Do other animals hold the key to how to live in future cities?
Michiel de Lange – The hybrid city: when physical and digital life meet
Friday 29 oktober:
Opening celebration of the exhibit of the workshop Beauty in Decay
Sunday 31 oktober:
14.00-16.00 hours workshop Sander Veenhof Layar & Augemented Reality
Description and backgrounds
Workshop: Beauty of Decay (7 dagen)
the Department of Architecture in the Technical University of Eindhoven had organised “Beauty of Decay”, a seven-day workshop engaging a total of 40 students. During DDW they did some researching and presented their results. Visitors were able to follow the entire process throughout the week.
Dis-repaired buildings are often neglected and omitted because they are by far too ordinary everyday life elements. Actually, they challenge our idea of ugliness and dislike; they inspire attention and fascination to people, they record memories and recall memories, be them real or imagined. And this decay that we experience as beauty because of the passing nature of the abandoned place, becomes more precious when we realize that those buildings will be swept away. Will we ever see them again?
Such premises will inspire the international workshop ‘Beauty of Decay’ promoted by the TU/e-University of Technology in Eindhoven. From Monday 25th to Friday 29th of October, students and professors from several foreigner universities and from The Netherlands will work on revealing the “Beauty of Decay” along the Eindhoven’s canal, a former industrial area in the east part of the city.
The workshop aims at the development of ideas and design proposals that make us reflect on the value of abandoned sites and disclose how meaningful and alive they are.
Students worked in the La Citta Mobile, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., in groups of 6. Guests could come to follow the process of their work and to give advice on the designs. The location is also open to everyone, as it is important the interaction with the general public to create awareness and stimulate curiosity regarding the topic.
During the week there were also some lectures (also open to the general public) to further address and illustrate the topic of the workshop.
On Friday 29th, at 7 p.m., will be the opening of the exhibition where the week’s activities will be shown to the public. A party will follow afterwards.
Workshop: Maki Ueda – Aromascape of Eindhoven
What do you smell if you walk around the City of Eindhoven? In this project we were going to explore Eindhoven on the level of smell. What is it that we are smelling, what does it make you imagine, what does it make you feel? This course dealed with these questions through a combination of lectures, hands-on workshops with fieldworks, and a final presentation. The workshops first focused on fieldwork and on observing the environment with the olfactory sense. You will smell a lot and learn how to communicate about smell with others, using a basic vocabulary for analyzing and expressing the character of a smell. We map the smell and texts and create [AROMASCAPE OF EINDHOVEN] Secondly we extract smells from these smelly materials: cheese burgers, old books, rubber tyres, flowers, soup, etc.
Workshop: Bridget Nicholls – The Wild Side of City Life
… if cities could speak whilst we sleep. We can use the sounds of other animals to build a different kind of city….. and discover how to re-read the data of the city. A practical workshop to reinterpret what the natural world knows about the urban environment.
Workshop: Sander Veenhof - Layar & Augmented Reality
- Introduction & AR expamples
- Technical explanation
- augmented reality items create
- Results are put in the public space so we can look at them
Lecture: Mario van Horrik – SOUND
The artists Petra Dubach and Mario van Horrik have carried out four audio-recordings in Eindhoven; in the City Park, the Central Station, Catharina Square and Vestdijk. The recordings are played continuously, affecting four shakers via hi-fi amplifiers. Their frequencies cannot be heard and are perceived only as vibrations. The shakers are mounted on zinc sheets hung in the main hall of La Cittá Mobile, a moving testament to the four recordings, a kinetic translation of four audio environments.
City Waves is the first publicly shown result of the artists’ research project WAVES.
Lecture: Remco Roes – Postcards from a journey
Picture postcards show you the buildings you absolutely had to see while visiting a city. The Sagrada Familia, Tower Bridge or Saint Peter’s square; a multitude of cards dictating the tourist’s route in the city, from one attraction to another. The way a tourist traverses the city is defined by commercial tourism, marketing and city branding. Postcards from a Journey is a series of five cards with detailed photos of different cities. These portray a lively, ever-changing organism that is influenced by the adaptations of countless individuals, and the futile attempt of placing it on a card.
Lecture: Jozua Zaagman (designer/artist)
“My work deals with our understanding of public space. I will try to expose the relation between economic structures and the informal use of space, the unorganized, individual infill of (urban) spaces. I will do this by means of maps, photos, videos, audio recordings, drawings, texts, installations, spatial interventions, concepts and designs. Besides researching and registering, my work strives to show the given public space at its realest. Not by identifying, but by observing without judgment. I have been mapping out public space in different scales in Barcelona, Belvedere (Maastricht), Bucharest, Calaf, Eindhoven, Euregio Maas-Rhein, Liege, Manresa, Montréal, Napoli, Transvaal (Den Haag) and Tirana, individually or in larger groups.”
Lecture: Uri Ben-Ari – Reusing the City
Our design schools teach us to innovate, to initiate, to cast away our inhibitions and above all, to be original. And yet here we are discussing reuse. The way reuse is presented and implemented in the Netherlands is open to debate. And whether reuse will become a dominant value for planners, architects, designers and users is still questionable. In fact, for a growing list of reasons why we should be encouraging reuse lies a mountain of complexities making it a challenge, even a burden to all parties involved.No patch of land is “new”, no creative process is entirely original. So what’s new about reuse? What defines and what confines it? How can we bridge the gaps between reuse as a vision for the future and as a factor in the present? Is adaptive reuse only one trend among others?An overview of this extra-curricular subject turned relevant.
Lecture: Denis Dujardin – The landscape is a battleground of requirements
The landscape is a battleground of requirements, each projecting its own intentions or wishes. Tourist. Economist. Ecologist. Egotist. The landscape architect is a plastic moderator. He submits his moderation en scène, effectually becoming a theatre director. He produces illusions, reflects a whirlwind of desires, forming peaceful compromises, promising to fulfill all wishes. But they cannot be fulfilled without being able to fit in. The landscape architect merely extends wishes, maintaining an illusory balance which cannot disguise the fundamental character of that which lies beneath, or underneath. The seductive system known as NATURE.
Lecture: Urban change and making sense of Industrial heritage – Dimitra Babalis
Dimitra Babalis is Senior Lecturer in Town Planning and Urban Design at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Florence, and an Architect-Engineer. She is member of the Scientific Committee of the post-graduate Master in Preservation and Evaluation of the Industrial Heritage in University of Padova and IUAV, University of Venice.
As a Researcher at the Department of Civil Engineering, she has been involved in various research activities on sustainable planning, theoretical and applicational basis of ecological design principles to urban form, urban regeneration and redevelopment of derelict industrial areas. She is currently Director of the “International Centre for Urban Design of Florence-CISDU”, in Faculty of Architecture of Florence.
Lecture: Form and process. Investigations on the design of the city – N. Privileggio, M.A. Secchi
Nicolò Privileggio, Ph.D Architect is currently Visiting Professor of Architectural Design at the Politecnico di Milano, Facoltà di Architettura Civile. He is editor of La città come testo critico (The City as critical text), Franco Angeli, Milano 2008 and, as co-author, of X Milano, Hoepli, Milano 2004.
Marialessandra Secchi, Ph.D Architect is currently Assistant Professor of Urban Planning and Design at the Politecnico di Milano, Facoltà di Architettura Civile. She is co-author of X Milano, Hoepli, Milano 2004
Their work (www.privileggio-secchi.com) is mainly concerned with the project of contemporary city.
The investigation on the form of the city and an understanding of architecture as a tool to critically address the relations between society and physical space characterize the office design research The point of view is that architectural practice should turn its attention from the design of autonomous objects to an expanded operating field, working on relations among multiple levels of spatial organization, concurrently dealing with diverse dimensional scales, contrasting the traditional scaling down approach.
This has been the main interest of a continuous design research, began in the 1994, and particularly tied to the following topics:
- the design investigation on the spatial structure of contemporary city based on the preponderant role of the open space and its morphological characters.
- the design of the residential habitat as an opportunity to investigate and express the collective dimension of the city.
- the design of large scale scenarios as a challenge to enunciate a spatial concept that orients the construction process of the city in time.
Lecture: Bridget Nicholls – Synesthetic City – Do other animals hold the key to how to live in future cities?
When we think of The Natural World we see it as separate to our own urban existence. But actually the natural world lives alongside us in our cities very successfully, in some ways more successfully. Other species that have been around for millions of years longer than us use other ways to navigate their way around the cityscape. Other ways, which give them a distinct advantage in these heavily visually, data oriented times.
So what can we learn from them?
Bats use sonar to see and mark iconic structures; these become ephemeral sonic markers around the city to guide them. By creating sound architecture they avoid the visual overload us humans absorb everyday.
The English are obsessed with helping other species with their historic migratory paths, paths that have been forged by generations of predecessors. For example, the £160 000 bridge over a motorway designed and built especially for water voles to continue their pilgrimage to the other side or the underpass for toads. However, we are far less inclined to put our heads together to create culture paths through the city for cultural ways of being, passed down from our own ancestors.
But looking to other city animals and how their past informs their present and future, surely this is of the utmost importance. The data we learnt from our past is why we are here today. The museum of yesterday has built our genetic blue print for today… So we should learn from how other animals see and use data collected about our urban city. We should see a new way to reconnect with our past and learn for our future.
Lecture: Michiel de Lange – The hybrid city: when physical and digital life meet
What happens to urban culture when digital media technologies take up an increasingly important position in city life? Urban life has alternatively been described in spatial terms as a large and dense concentration of functions; in social terms as a segmented and heterogeneous society of strangers; and in mental terms as leading to a typical urban mentality and playroom for identity exploration and expression. The rise of various digital media technologies turn the city into a hybrid city, in which physical and digitally mediated ways of life intersect. This has profound consequences for a range of formerly separate urban domains: living, working, leisure, travel, and meeting. What noticeably shifts are occurring? How can urban designers adapt to these changing circumstances? | <urn:uuid:009c36dd-54cc-4fba-a27d-fe53e0aff60f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://madlab.nl/blog/2010/10/19/city-research-program-lectures-workshops/?lang=en | 2013-05-21T17:45:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.920021 | 2,968 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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With more than forty classic Western films on ten discs, America's Greatest Westerns Collection is the most comprehensive compilation you'll find, and covers every genre imaginable--from feel-good musicals to the traditional bad-boy shootout--all in the dusty streets of sleepy settlements and rowdy saloons we've grown to love. Volume One features Academy Award® nominated films Tulsa, The Young Land, One-Eyed Jacks, and Howard Hughes' masterpiece The Outlaw.
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is an option for ShadowBox that specifies the style of the border around the rectangle above a shadow.
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“It could be argued that Microsoft’s unethical Technology Evangelism (TE) practices are “old news”—i.e., that Microsoft stopped using these questionable TE practices long ago. This is very unlikely to be the case, for at least three reasons.”
–James Plamondon, former Microsoft shill (aka ‘Technology Evangelist’)
We’ve mentioned this chap before, but we never got around to producing much evidence, unlike with others. We strive to map out those whom Microsoft pays (or “compensates”) for their work defending Microsoft on the Web… or anonymously defaming its critics.
This one is not guilty of attacks against Microsoft critics, but mostly for exceptional amount of cheering for Microsoft around the Web; expertise seems to involve a great deal of copying&pasting of Microsoft press releases. If claims are true, he happens to be among people who received laptops from Microsoft because they are influential [1, 2].
“If claims are true, he happens to be among people who received laptops from Microsoft because they are influential.”Many examples have already been accumulated by people who watch this character closely and here is the latest.
One of our readers, who goes by the name “Goblin”, says that “Chips over on Microsoft Watch manag[ed] to find a link to Andre Da Costa and pictures of the laptop he was allegedly given by Microsoft. Look at him, all smiles… I’m not surprised he supports Microsoft, poor lad is probably after more free gifts [...] If the allegation is true, what does it say about Microsoft. Target an impressionable lad in a poor country, send him a gift (which he probably wouldn’t be able to afford) and then sit back and watch him promote your products in the hope of getting more. Sounds like $6000 well spent [...] if its true, is probably one of the lowest acts Microsoft has ever done.”
Another reader remarks: “His face is on his profile page so it is not big news. Target an impressionable lad in a poor country, send him a gift…”
Look at the mouse pad. How can this not be a gift from Microsoft?
None of this should be particularly surprising because he behaves like others who are putting themselves up for sale, e.g.:
# Andre Da Costa May 23rd, 2008 at 10:53 pm
You are linked on my Windows Community based website ‘Teching It Easy’ under the ‘My Favorite Spots’ category.
I am begging please let me win this MacBook Air, I am desperate for a laptop like this. I would appreciate it so much. If you let me win it I can even get additional links at popular websites where you can get to increase your readership. I want an Apple laptop so bad that I have gone as far as emailing Steve Jobs asking for a free MacBook Air, he replied with a polite ‘Sorry, but no’ Sent from my iPhone, LOL!. There are a number of reasons I need this notebook, its slim design, my Dell Latitude 840c died on me in February, I like the look of Leopard and I am just desperate right now.
Just to let you know how much I want this, I am leaving my cell number here: 1-876-421-6545
Microsoft, unlike Apple, feeds these people. We saw similar cases before where bloggers beg Microsoft for freebies (schwag) and Microsoft is happily exploiting this, even inviting this. It may just be part of the policy or strategy. Microsoft also bribes bloggers to attack Apple. █ | <urn:uuid:57f701c6-8c8e-485e-89a6-3180200c45ef> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://techrights.org/2009/02/01/andre-da-costa-schwag/ | 2013-05-21T17:37:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951611 | 763 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Since Apple released Mac OS X Snow Leopard version 10.6.3, USB issues have plagued the Hackintosh community. Non-functional peripherals have made installation a major issue for many systems. There are two popular work arounds. The first is to use a system-specific pre-edited DSDT.aml to enable the USB ports. This is great if you have one, otherwise no. The other method is to use my USBFamilyMOD installer, which only enables 1.1 support.
Either of these solutions are lacking for use in iBoot. It's impossible to create a universal DSDT for every motherboard, and my USBFamilyMOD only supports USB 1.1. This makes things difficult when transferring files using USB sticks or USB drives.
Introducing the next generation: iBoot 2.0, with full USB support. A milestone for 10.6.3.
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UK Today News: American singer Lady Gaga recently revealed that she stripped down for American singer Tony Bennett. Gaga, in the Thanksgiving special show ‘ A Very Gaga Thanksgiving’ on November 24, 2011, revealed that she was asked by Annie Leibovitz to go naked so that Bennett could sketch her.
The ‘Poker Face’ singer explained that she just walked in the room, dropped her robe and got in to her position. Gaga even revealed that she felt shy and at a point thought that it was Tony Bennett and wondered why she was naked.
The sketches that have been drawn by Bennett will appear in the upcoming issue of Vanity Fair. The singer opened the show on Thursday along with Bennett by singing the duet ‘The Lady Is A Tramp.
While talking about that moment, Gaga said that she was star struck by the legendary singer and added that he was so handsome. The 25-year-old award-winning singer even added that she feels terrible when Bennett’s wife is around as he is so charming and is such a gentleman.
Gaga and Bennett have also collaborated for his album ‘Bennett’s Duets II’. During the ABC show, Bennett complimented Gaga stating that she is the most creative singer he has ever met. The veteran singer added that the ‘Born this way’ singer could even one day become the Picasso of America.
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Sep. 26, 2012 - Issue #884: Strangelove
Horror blends with hilarity in Victor and Victoria
'What on Earth was that?"
On a bed large enough to make its actors seem kid-sized, huddled in matching blue Victorian children's outfits perch fraternal twins Victor and Victoria, uncertain of the aural lurches coming from outside their room.
"A mysteeeerious noise," Victoria says to her brother with a tone of certainty. Of its mysteriousness, she's sure. A trumpeting harbinger of their doom, perhaps; maybe the scraping sounds of a dreadful monster's arrival. The whole mood of Victoria and Victoria's Terrifying Tale of Terrifying Things is on perpetual edge, spooky, ominous, and with a creeping, growing dread in the air. And then it gets really, really funny.
The tensile line between comedy and horror rarely gets as masterful of a walking as it does here. After a 2009 Fringe debut and a trip to the New York Fringe last year, it's hard to imagine Victor and Victoria's gothic horror/comedy mash-up being more effective at either of those things. The two elements complement each other, comedy pushing the darkness further yet tempering it from hitting any extremes, while the horror gives the comic angle a unified theme to riff on. And riff they do.
The terrifying tale the twins read to try and find sleep when mother and father are nowhere to be found recalls the dark Tales of the Black Freighter, the comic within a comic of Alan Moore's Watchmen. It does lead them toward a deeper familial revelation, but it's their journey through the tale, as well as the children's doomy musings, that play perfectly on the fears of Victorian era they've set themselves in.
The scenario even offsets the usual difficulties of adults playing kids: Graham in particular takes on one of the most entertaining and spirited comic turns of 2012 here, picking up the make-pretend horrors her and Victor imagine, or embodying a wealth of supporting roles within the Tale itself. Cuckow grounds the rest as the Tale's chief protagonist (as well as a few support rolls himself) in a mix of derring-do attitude and whimpering woory.
The onstage spooks—there are a couple jumps—are paired with a very effectively used, mood-crafting sound design (Terry Fairfield) and lighting (Bobby Smale), and while Terrifying Tale concludes with a certain inevitablity, it's one that makes it all seem like a perfect creepy bedtime story of its own, as capable of spooking you as breaking through its own shadows with mirth. A rare treat.
Until Sat, Sep 29 (7:30 pm)
Victor and Victoria's Terrifying Tale of Terrible Things
Directed by Kevin Sutley
Varscona Theatre, $15 – $20
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AP Sports Writer
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - P.J. Hairston scored a career-high 29 points in his second straight start to help North Carolina beat Virginia 93-81 on Saturday.
Freshman Marcus Paige added 17 for the Tar Heels (17-8, 7-5 Atlantic Coast Conference), who snapped a two-game skid with one of their strongest offensive showings this season. North Carolina shot 49.2 percent (29 of 59) and hit 13 3-pointers for its best total in a league game while staying with the four-guard lineup it used in Wednesday night's loss at rival Duke.
The Tar Heels had lost by 26 points at third-ranked Miami and by five to the No. 2 Blue Devils in the past week, but they buried shot after shot from outside Saturday and tore through a defense that ranked second nationally by allowing just 52 points per game.
Virginia (18-7, 8-4) hadn't allowed more than 69 points, a total UNC passed with more than 9 minutes left.
Joe Harris scored a career-high 27 points to lead the Cavaliers, who got off to a fast start by making 11 of 13 shots, with six of those coming from 3-point range for a 10-point lead in the first 11 minutes. Virginia finished at 58.5 percent (31 of 53) and hit 12 of 21 from 3-point range (57.1 percent), but the Cavaliers struggled to slow the Tar Heels after halftime.
Both teams needed this win to help their chase for a first-round bye at next month's ACC tournament, not to mention to solidify their NCAA tournament chances, too. Virginia won the first meeting in January by pulling away in the final minutes and had a shot to sweep the regular-season series for the first time since 2002.
But Hairston led the offensive surge for the Tar Heels, who scored eight straight points out of halftime to break open a tie game on the way to 53 second-half points.
The 6-foot-5 sophomore had averaged nearly 16 points per game on 51 percent shooting in his last six games and picked right up where he left off at Cameron Indoor Stadium, where he matched his career-high with 23 points in the 73-68 loss to the Blue Devils.
Coach Roy Williams started Hairston as one of four guards, shortened his rotation and played primarily with six players that night. Williams refused afterward to commit to using the same starting five against the Cavaliers, then went back to it anyway on Saturday.
Hairston went 8-for-14 from the field and 6-for-12 from behind the arc, where the Tar Heels finished at 13-for-28 (46.4 percent). In addition, Paige and Reggie Bullock each knocked down three 3s as the Tar Heels made at least 10 in a game for the first time since hitting 13 against McNeese State on Dec. 22.
The teams went into the locker room tied at 40 on Jontel Evans' running 1-hander from about 30 feet at the buzzer, but the Tar Heels sprinted out of the break. They pushed their lead to 83-65 on yet another 3 from Hairston with 5
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The J.T. Parts & Accessories Super Deluxe suspension system for the ’98-’07 Toyota Land Cruiser replaces the factory upper control arms with long-travel tubular arms equipped with Uniballs. Each suspension kit includes front torsion bars, rear coil springs (optional load rates available), differential drop, and a set of 21⁄2-inch King reservoir shocks specially tuned for the IFS Land Cruiser. Each kit is 100 percent bolt-on.
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Amor All’s Extreme Shield Wax is formulated to protect and shine your vehicle’s paint. The wipe on/wipe off, no-haze formula is intended to repel dirt and grime while creating an invisible layer between your paint and the elements. This new-age wax is also said to reduce cleanup time and make bug and sap removal easy.
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Clear up to 35-inch-tall tires with the ’05-’10 Hummer H3 and H3T leveling kit from Zone Offroad Products. The budget friendly 2-inch boost includes a pair of American-made CNC torsion bar keys. Working with the lift keys is a set of front shock spacers that help compensate for the added lift without limiting the suspension travel. Information: Zone Offroad Products, 888.998.ZONE, www.zoneoffroad.com.
Trail Master’s 41⁄2-inch suspension system allows for up to 35-inch tires on the ’10-’11 Dodge Ram 2500/3500 4x4 trucks. Each kit comes with heavy-duty front coil springs, control arms, a track bar drop bracket, and a pitman arm to maintain the Ram’s frontend suspension geometry. The rear lift comes by way of heavy-duty steel blocks and longer U-bolts. Finishing out the system is a set of Trail Master SSV shocks.
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4.0 Power Jam
The Trail Jammer EXT system from Superchips is engineered to pull out more power from the 4.0L inline-six in the ’98-’06 Jeep Wrangler TJ and ’98-’01 Jeep Cherokee XJ. Included in the EXT system is a Flashpaq performance tuner, a throttle body, and a cold air intake kit with a washable filter. Power, fuel economy, and tow tunes are included, as is a built-in tire calibrator for sizes up to 42 inches.
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Rough Country’s HD Tie Rod sleeves strengthen the factory GM 1500 and 2500 4x4 IFS steering links. By increasing the steering link diameter from 1⁄2 to 1 inch, the sleeves reduce the risk of the links bending or breaking. The installer-friendly kit can be fitted on both stock and lifted trucks. Currently the sleeves are available for ’99-’07 1500 and ’02-’08 2500 GM trucks.
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ARB’s rear bumper with optional spare tire carrier offers sleek and durable protection for the back of the ’07-’11 Jeep Wrangler JK. The bumper’s center section is designed to make room for a 37-inch-tall spare and includes dual shackle mounts and Hi-Lift jack points. The optional tire carrier is fitted with a catchless-style latching system that allows the carrier to unlatch automatically when the tailgate is opened.
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5.0 F-150 Intake
Volant’s cold-air intake for the ’11 Ford F-150 with the 5.0L replaces the factory air filter box and radiator coolant overflow tank. This system moves the intake several inches back toward the firewall to provide the sealed air filter box greater air volume and the ability to use an optional air scoop. Volant’s CAI kit comes with a five-layer Pro-5 cotton gauze reusable filter, and the coolant tank utilizes the factory fittings, cap, and hoses.
Ready Lift’s Anti-Wobble Track Bar is designed to remove the unwanted steering wobble from the ’05-to-current Ford F-250/350 4x4 trucks. The heavy-duty replacement track bar is comprised of 11⁄2x0.188-wall tubing and is fitted with 7⁄8-inch chromoly left- and right-hand joints for ease of adjustment. Track bars are currently available for 0- to 21⁄2-inch lifts and 4-inch-plus lifts.
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The TrekStep from Bestop is a side-mounted, spring-loaded, retractable step that offers easy access to toolboxes and gear in the bed of your truck. The no-drill, bolt-on upgrade has a 400-pound load capacity and folds in and extends with a simple press of your foot. The TrekStep is available for Chevy, Ford, Dodge, and Toyota pickups. Driver- and passenger-side options, along with an exclusive dully kit, are now available. | <urn:uuid:6c4559e2-b14c-4095-9bbb-f70eef535379> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.4wheeloffroad.com/departments/products/131_1206_june_2012_new_products/ | 2013-05-21T17:23:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.846278 | 1,085 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Sweet MIDI Player can audition and modify all types of MIDI files.
Software to help transcribing recorded music. Slow down music. Analyze chords.
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American RoadŽ's hand-embroidered long sleeve denim shirt is a must for every American Road enthusiast. You'll look great in this stylish, shirt made of 100% cotton pre-washed for comfort and softness. Makes a great jacket over a t-shirt or tank!
Available in S, M, L, XL, XXL, L (tall), XL (tall), and XXL (tall).
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Basil as lifestyle... more an more our dream is becoming reality! On the first of november 2008 the Cyclechic Fashionshow took place in Cork (Ireland).
For the first time in Ireland, the CYCLE CHIC Fashion Show has presented how cycling can be fashionable and stylish. European and local designers have showed you their latest innovations of trendy bikes, smart clothes and funky accessories. Amongst them was Basil!
See the video for yourself http://www.cyclechic.org/video.html
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President Barack Obama entered the conference room in the Capitol basement to a standing ovation, but after nearly an hour and a half of discussion with House Republicans, there was little evidence that the meeting -- part of the White House's "charm offensive" on Capitol Hill -- did much to change the partisan gulf between the president and his chief adversaries.
At a news conference after the meeting, House Speaker John Boehner thanked the president for coming but also noted the challenges remaining on a host of issues, especially ones related to reducing the deficit.
"We know how there are some very real differences between our two parties (on issues like) jobs, balancing the budget and what do we do to get economy moving again," Boehner said. "Republicans want to balance the budget. The President doesn't. Republicans want to solve our long term debt problem. The President doesn't. We want to unlock our energy resources to put more Americans back to work. The President doesn't."
The speaker added, "But having said that, today was a good start and I hope that these kinds of discussions can continue."
Republicans' top priority -- tackling federal spending and reining in record deficits -- came up early in the Republican conference meeting. Oklahoma Rep. Jim Lankford asked the first question, pressing the president to explain why he wouldn't join House Republicans in their effort to balance the budget in a decade.
Obama, according to several Republicans, explained that he didn't share that priority, an answer that many emphasized as they left the meeting.
Georgia Rep. Paul Broun, a conservative who is running for the Senate, mentioned that exchange as he left, telling reporters, "basically his whole talk was just a bunch of platitudes and no substance to it."
"He thought what was more important was that deficits fall below growth as a percentage of GDP -- certainly a laudable goal, but I think the federal government, like any business or any family, needs to work towards a balanced budget," Rep. Tom Cotton, R-Arkansas, said afterward.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor gave a blunt assessment about the divide on fiscal issues, suggesting it could carry over to other issues.
"If the president wants to let our unwillingness to raise taxes get in the way, then we're not gonna be able to set differences aside and focus on what we agree on," Cantor told reporters at the GOP leaders' news conference.
When Lankford raised fiscal issues during the meeting, he also pointed out that the president's other meeting on Wednesday was with his political arm, Organizing for Action. Word of that meeting rankled many GOP members who suggested Obama was more concerned with political goals than working across the aisle.
"We know the president is going to speak before Organizing for Action tonight," Rep. Greg Walden, R-Oregon, who leads the House Republicans' campaign arm, told reporters as he left the meeting. "We know he's made it clear that taking out the House is his big priority, and we know he's been on the never-ending campaign tour up to this point, so there's a trust factor."
Mindful of the House GOP undercurrent that Obama is chiefly focused on scoring political points, one source inside the meeting said the president addressed those concerns directly at the end of the meeting.
This source told CNN that the president told GOP members that if he were only focused on the midterms, he would not be pushing immigration reform because that's not necessarily helpful for some members of his party. He said he would not push for entitlement reform because a lot of Democrats don't agree and are nervous about tackling such a politically explosive issue.
He told them that he runs the country, that he wants it to succeed and that he looks around the room and sees other people who love their country. Obama said they have a moment and should seize it, according to this source.
But Walden did say the session helped build some trust, and it was a good opportunity to raise a wide spectrum of issues. He mentioned Israel as one area where both parties found some common ground.
Exiting the conference, House Budget Committee Chairman and former Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) said of the president: "He did himself some good."
Several members in the meeting said it helped open a dialogue but lamented that the session was only the second time the president had traveled up Pennsylvania Avenue to talk to House Republicans since he was elected.
"The president doesn't spend a lot of time working with members of Congress. He doesn't have to -- he's president of the United States -- but I think it's made his job a lot more difficult, and it's made our task a lot more difficult because there's very little communication," Florida Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart said after the meeting.
Cotton described the president's demeanor in the meeting as "affable" and said the various members who asked questions were "very cordial and respectful."
According to multiple GOP sources, conference Chairwoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington screened questions in advance and called on members after the president made opening remarks.
Rep. Michael Grimm of New York said the event had been peppered with occasional lighter moments such as speculation after word got around the room that the new pope was about to be announced.
"Anyone who thinks this president is anything but affable and pleasant when he's speaking with group is just simply wrong. They haven't met him," said Grimm. But he added he was waiting to see if the president would follow up his outreach with some bipartisan action.
Obama fielded some tense questions during the meeting. Michigan Rep. Candice Miller told reporters she was not satisfied with the president's response to her complaint that the White House had suspended public tours after forced spending cuts went into effect. Republicans have charged that the closures were politically motivated, but Obama said Wednesday the decision had been made by the Secret Service. | <urn:uuid:9c97714d-9630-4e0d-959e-a4b5fcc4dbd4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.clickorlando.com/news/politics/House-GOP-unmoved-after-Obama-meeting/-/1637100/19299220/-/ciixhu/-/index.html | 2013-05-21T17:39:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.986505 | 1,207 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
xpedx Earns ENERGY STAR® in Massachusetts and Michigan Locations
xpedx also aligns itself with ENERGY STAR program nationwide
CINCINNATI, Ohio - xpedx®, one of the largest and premier distribution companies in North America, has earned the ENERGY STAR at its locations in Livonia, Mich., and Wilmington, Mass., and has also been named as an “ENERGY STAR partner.” These acknowledgements reflect xpedx’s commitment to protect the environment through continuous improvement of its energy performance.
To earn the ENERGY STAR, the Livonia and Wilmington sites scored in the top 25 percent of similar facilities nationwide for energy efficiency, based on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s energy performance rating system. Qualified facilities meet strict energy performance standards, use less energy, are less expensive to operate and cause fewer greenhouse gas emissions than peer facilities. They save money and protect the environment.
David Wallace, xpedx’s director, Sustainability, said xpedx’s work with ENERGY STAR is a natural extension of its dedication to maintain responsible operations, offer sustainable product choices and provide leadership in sustainable business practices for its customers and suppliers. “We believe that an organization-wide energy management approach will help us enhance our financial health and aid in protecting the environment today and for future generations,” he said.
The xpedx sites in Livonia and Wilmington combined have nearly 740,000 square feet of space. Mike Casimiro is the division manager in the Wilmington location. “The ENERGY STAR partnership validates xpedx’s commitment to bring creative, effective solutions to customers to help all of us become more sustainable organizations,” he said. “This important priority is incorporated in all xpedx’s efforts to optimize customer supply chains and processes.”
With the Livonia and Wilmington locations already qualified, xpedx is closer to its goal of earning the ENERGY STAR in eight large distribution locations within the U.S. by the end of the year. These eight locations have approximately 2.4 million square feet of space.
As an “ENERGY STAR partner,” xpedx is tracking its energy consumption and carbon footprint and improving its operating costs through energy saving strategies. xpedx has also committed to highlight its achievements as recognized by ENERGY STAR, support the ENERGY STAR challenge to improve the energy efficiency of America’s commercial and industrial buildings by at least 10 percent and spread the word about the importance of energy efficiency to its employees and communities where it operates.
As a result of the increased awareness, xpedx employees at its Earth Day celebration in 2010 pledged to take individual actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 5.4 million pounds annually. These pledges are estimated to save nearly 3 million kWh of energy and more than $400,000 in energy costs.
About ENERGY STAR
ENERGY STAR is a joint program of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy that helps to save money and protect the environment through energy efficient products and practices.
Cincinnati, Ohio-based xpedx, a business of International Paper (NYSE: IP), is one of the largest and premier distribution companies in North America. xpedx distributes a wide variety of print, packaging and facility solutions supplies and equipment to printers, manufacturers, retailers and commercial facilities from more than 200 locations across the U.S., Canada and Mexico. For more information about xpedx, its business segments and stewardship efforts visit xpedx.com.
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AST2 Thomas Henry, a rescue swimmer stationed at North Bend, Oregon, received the Chester R. Bender award for heroism at the Coast Guard Foundation's 26th Annual Pacific Area Awards Dinner. Petty Officer Henry was honored for two harrowing air rescues he conducted last year. On March 25, 2010, Petty Officer Henry responded with the helicopter crew of CG-6514 to a distress call of four surfers pulled into a small enclave surrounded by steep cliffs and jagged rocks.
Pummeled by tumultuous waves and confronting the dangerously panicked surfers, he was sent into the water to hoist all four individually out of the water to safety despite peril and tremendous physical challenge. Petty Officer Henry was also honored for a courageous act performed on the evening of July 5, 2010 during a rescue of four people clinging to a 70-degree cliff, 120-feet above a beach. Demonstrating unwavering composure for more than 20 minutes, he bravely hung below the aircraft until he was safely delivered to a runway.
Petty Officer Henry demonstrated tremendous humility in accepting his award.
"I really appreciate this award, but there are hundreds of other rescue swimmers who would have done exactly the same thing," Henry said.
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Complete Dynamics - Support
I have problems installing on my Windows computer. What should I do?
Some people have reported problems with the installation under Windows.
These problems have nothing to do with Complete Dynamics, these are just 'normal' Windows problems.
Some common Windows installation problems:
- When during installation you get the error message that a file is corrupt, this means that the installation file was not downloaded completely.
Try to download the file again.
- On some Windows versions, upgrading only succeeds if you close Complete Dynamics before running the installation.
We advice to always close Complete Dynamics before installing a newer version.
- When downloading a newer version starts, Internet Explorer ask whether you want to Run or Save the downloaded file.
Run is the best option here. If you choose Save, be sure to run the installation yourself by double clicking on the saved file after download is complete.
If the above does not solve your installation problem, please do the following:
If already installed, or partially installed, uninstall the program with Control Panel - Add or remove programs - Choose Complete Dynamics and then click the Remove button.
Uninstalling will NOT remove any Cases and Analyses that you have saved with the Practitioner Edition.
- Reboot your computer
Download the latest installer file from the website www.completedynamics.com, section Downloads.
Normally, clicking on the Download button will download the installer file. If this fails, right click on the Windows Download button and choose Save target as...
Check the file, its name should be CompleteDynamics-CompleteDynamics-13.8-Windows.msi , the size 320,949,760 bytes.
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Parents say classroom sex education went too far
May 28th, 2008 @ 9:11pm
Sandra Yi reporting
A middle school health teacher is under investigation, accused of teaching too much about sex.
Parents say the teacher is saying crude and explicit things that don't belong in the classroom. Dewayne Smith says, "These are our children, and we're not going to breach the firewall of innocence."
Parents say sex education went too far inside the classroom full of 8th-graders at Fort Herriman Middle School. Suzanne Johnson told us, "She explained how the teacher talked about masturbation. Girl masturbation, boys, the wrong ways … the right ways to have sex, the wrong ways to have sex. How long to make it last. I mean, disgusting."
"What bothered me is that, not only did we get into discussions of masturbatory activity, but we got into explicit descriptions of homosexual acts," Smith said.
Parents say the teacher also showed students fliers with explicit cartoon images.
Seventh-grader Marissa Poloei had a friend in the class. She told us, "He thought it was gross and stuff, and she showed a lot of pictures of stuff."
A spokesperson for the Jordan School District would not comment on the allegations but said there is an investigation. The teacher has been put on administrative leave, but parents don't think that's enough.
Johnson says, "We want her fired. We want her never to teach ever again."
Some of the parents plan to meet with administrators at the school tomorrow. They've invited Rep. Carl Wimmer to attend.
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Unless I'm somehow mistaken, the purpose of a waiter is not just to serve but also to offer up helpful and informative advice about the menu, preferably with a smile. And at times that might even entail answering a few questions. So like scouts, waiters should always be prepared. With sharing trends still the rage, menus are often not at all what they seem: questions often include everything from how big are the portions to explanations of exotic ingredients.
At Edulis, alas, our server may be
well-versed on everything on the menu, but the continued eye-rolling, gusty exhalations and overly dramatic exasperation filled the room with an icy chill. Other than asking a few not-so difficult questions (we're not talking Final Jeopardy here) we're not quite sure what went wrong in this human interchange to elicit such a prickly response. It was difficult enough to get her to explain the size of a lightly-smoked herring a l'huile with Dijon potatoes ($14), but when we can't finish a dish that would feed a fishing village, we inquire about what to do. Answer: "Eat it." O-o-o-kay, then. Question period is clearly over.
On a more positive note, the herring is shockingly good. Similar to schmaltz herring, a classic Kosher-style staple, only less salty, this Pacific herring is cured in sugar, salt and juniper and smoked in-house over apple wood. Slices are layered in a deep clay terrine with thinly sliced carrots and onions, and topped with a small amount of vinegar and oodles of sunflower oil. With a side of fingerling potatoes tossed with just a trace of Dijon vinaigrette, this is sophisticated culinary simplicity at its finest.
As are the B.C. spot prawns ($14) served two ways, so long as you're okay with swallowing deep fried shrimp heads whole, eyes, brains and all. A Spanish delicacy perhaps, but a Fear Factor episode for most locals who would probably be happier with just the light-citrus infusion of the Peruvian-style tail ceviche with thinly sliced red onions, cilantro, parsley and mint over a sauce of pureed marcona almonds with spring water, garlic and other seasonings.
In between near-hysterical reactions from our "server" for simply existing, apparently, we take time out to appreciate some of the finer points at Edulis, like a home-baked Red Fife bread beautifully bagged in burlap, a nice touch; as is the "Gilda", a traditional Spanish amuse comprised of an olive stuffed with anchovy and hot pepper then skewered with a piece of toasted bread doused in oil.
A porcini soup ($14) with roasted veal sweetbreads topped with a walnut, apple and arugula salad is inventive, even if it lacks the depth and earthiness one expects from offal and fungi combined. But here at least ingredients are on familiar territory, which is more than I can say for a "double dare ya" confit of cocks' combs ($13), that red fleshy growth on a rooster's head. It may be a Catalan delicacy, but its near tasteless rubbery texture would serve a higher purpose at Pirelli. Thankfully, chef Michael Caballo blended it with hedgehog mushrooms, green garlic, shallots, stock dandelion and the tastiest, meatiest, thickest slab of house-smoked Berkshire belly. By far the most flavour-forward dish so far.
Then the ice princess returns when we inquire about the Arroz Caldoso ($25 per person, minimum of 2 people). After correcting my pronunciation, "Arroz Caldo-SA," she says, I point out the menu's reads "... Caldo-SO." Clearly infuriated, she slaps her arm to her side, takes a pointedly deep breath and begrudgingly begins to explain what it is to the naughty, naughty schoolchildren. After another haughty display, we decide on a pork hanger steak ($15) medium-rare; it arrives blue, barely having touched the heat. Served with a strange, but crispy trotter sausage (braised and deboned ground Berkshire, wrapped in caul fat then poached and browned), an acrid Belgium endive puree, hedgehog mushrooms and finely diced heirloom carrots, it's barely touched.
Desserts, though, are a triumph. Not only because they are executed so well, but because by this time the very friendly, accommodating and informative co-owner/manager Tobey Nemeth has taken over. So thrilled we are by our new server, these sweets could've been dusted with glass shards and we would've licked each plate clean. Thankfully, they are not. A classic baba au rhum ($10) is so moist and fresh, it would be great on its own, but comes with a tableside drenching of rum syrup and freshly whipped cream. A daily house made elderberry ice cream ($10) topped with gossamer-thin slices of poached rhubarb and Ontario wild ginger syrup is equally outstanding.
While Nemeth helps to take the edge off this agonizing dining experience, Edulis is not for anyone if not an adventurous eater. And while we're more than happy to try new stuff, execution is also an issue. As is a very complicated menu with many restrictions, that according to chef is "European with French and lots of Spanish influence. It is things we love." Yeah, you love.
Their website reads in part, "Our goal is to combine the warmth and approachability of a classic European bistro with our passion for the forests and farms of southern Ontario.... Edulis is about many things - the pleasure of enjoying a gathering around the table to share authentic dishes and to be greeted like a friend; conviviality, feasting, celebrating the craft and tradition of cooking, honesty, and spectacular ingredients." Someone, ahem, has clearly never read this. | <urn:uuid:c57f4f21-be91-4dd6-a6c0-485e8d30a980> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.dine.to/profile_features.php?feature=review&id=20205 | 2013-05-21T17:32:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949694 | 1,276 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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The following students researched and wrote all the bylined stories for this project:
Rebecca Behrens ’11 graduated with a neuroscience major and English minor. From Glendale, Ariz., she was a founding member of the a cappella group Duelly Noted and a Writing Center tutor. She is studying acting at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco and plans to obtain a master of fine arts degree in the near future.
While at Hamilton, Jeff Cardoni ’11 was an economics major, a creative writing minor, a Writing Center tutor and captain of the crew team. In the future, he will pursue a career in publishing and beer brewing. Today he resides in Kensington, N.H.
Ayebea Darko ’13 is an economics major and a dual mathematics and French minor from Accra, Ghana, who is active in HAVOC activities. She enjoys playing and watching soccer as well as listening to music. She aspires to enter the world of finance after graduation.
Russ Doubleday ’11 graduated with a degree in public policy. He was a member of both The Spectator newspaper staff and the College Choir while at Hamilton. The Seattle, Wash., native plans to move to Washington, D.C., this fall to put his degree to good use.
Allison Eck ’12 is a double major in comparative literature and physics from Clarence, N.Y. As editor-in-chief of The Spectator, a Writing Center tutor, principal clarinetist in the Orchestra and fledgling French hornist, she is considering a career in either science writing or arts-and-culture journalism.
Leigh Ercole ’11, from Westport, Conn., graduated with a major in psychology and a double minor in Spanish and education. She was on the swim team and served as a HAVOC site coordinator and a Writing Center tutor. She enjoys reading, baking, international traveling and chocolate. She attends Teachers College, Columbia University, pursuing a master’s degree in elementary education.
Courtney Flint ’11 majored in history with a minor in comparative literature. At Hamilton, she worked as a Writing Center tutor and was involved in various student activities including New Student Orientation and the Gamma Xi sorority. She has moved from the Hill to New York City, where she works at a small firm doing market research.
Caitlin Fitzsimons ’11 graduated as a dual English literature and art history major. On the Hill, she was a Writing Center tutor, a tour guide and a member of both HALT and the 2011 Senior Gift Committee. From Hingham, Mass., she now lives and works in Manhattan as a legal assistant with Sullivan & Cromwell.
Nora Grenfell ’12 is a comparative literature major and geosciences minor from New York City. She works as a Writing Center tutor and serves on The Spectator editorial board. After graduating, she hopes to pursue a career in journalism.
Katie Hee ’14 is a prospective dual major in creative writing and world politics from Ambler, Pa., who writes for The Spectator and swims for Hamilton. She hopes to become a foreign correspondent reporting from countries around the world.
Lauren Howe ’13 is an environmental studies major from Easthampton, Mass. She co-founded Slow Food at Hamilton, participates in the Hamilton Environmental Action Group, the equestrian team and intramural sports, and is philanthropy co-chair of Gamma Xi. She hopes to enter the nonprofit field for social justice and food access or attend law school for environmental law.
Tucker Keren ’13, a native of Middlebury, Vt., is a geosciences major. He recently traveled to Colorado with Professor Barbara Tewksbury, where they presented the findings of summer research at the annual Geological Society of America conference. He also enjoys live music, Tex- Mex and pick-up games of practically any sport.
Jesica Lindor ’12 has a concentration in philosophy. Her engagement in the Hamilton community includes her membership in several student organizations, receipt of a 2010 Emerson Summer Collaboration Grant on knowledge and happiness, and participation in a New York City internship and the Junior Year in France program. Lindor endeavors to become a teacher.
Lauren Magaziner ’12 is a creative writing major from New Hope, Pa. At Hamilton she is a resident advisor, a Writing Center tutor, a Hogwarts at Hamilton board member, a participant in Hillel and Writer’s Bloc, and a copy editor and writer for The Spectator. She hopes to become a novelist and either an editor or a literary agent.
Julia Mulcrone ’11 majored in English and French. She was a poetry editor for Red Weather, a features editor for The Spectator, and one of the founding DJs of the WHCL radio show Cookie Party. She is spending this year working for the French government as an English teaching assistant near Avignon.
Lexington, Mass., native Alexandra Orlov ’13 is a philosophy major and economics minor who founded the Hamilton/Colgate competitive synchronized skating team. She enjoys playing Ultimate Frisbee, serving as a residential advisor and adventuring with the Outing Club. Aspiring to continue writing, she hopes to pursue a career in publishing, journalism or advertising.
Ryan Park ’12, a creative writing and theatre major and a Moraga, Calif., native, has found it very easy to pursue his passion for writing at Hamilton College. He hopes to further explore his passion and spread the benefits of his education in the publishing industry.
Dana J. Quigley ’11, a Boston Posse scholar, was a creative writing major with a double minor in Asian studies and digital arts. He considers himself equally a writer and digital artist, though he plans to pursue a career in photography. He likes crafting things out of pixels, paper, words, code and various other things.
Redwan Saleh ’13 is a government major with a history minor from New York City. He is president of the Muslim Students Association and an Oral Communication Center tutor. With his writing experience at Hamilton, he hopes to become a lawyer, informing and persuading people to help the world at least a little.
Jacob Sheetz-Willard ’12 is a history major from Haverford, Pa. He is a captain of the varsity football team, an Adirondack Adventure leader, a member of the Delta Upsilon fraternity and a representative on the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee. He hopes to find a career that includes writing and climbing mountains.
Virginia Slattery ’12 is a sociology major and art minor from Brooklyn, N.Y. She joined the crew team as a novice rower her first year. She was the special events coordinator for the Campus Activities Board her junior year and is co-chair of CAB this year.
Nick Stagliano ’11 majored in archaeology while also writing and editing for The Spectator; singing in the Choir, the College Hill Singers and the Oratorio Society; serving on the Senior Gift and HALT committees; and working for two years as the Choir Tour manager. He is now development assistant to the vice president for development and public affairs at The Juilliard School in New York.
Kate Tummarello ’11 studied public policy and served as editor-in-chief of The Spectator. Since graduating, Kate has begun working as an editorial assistant at Roll Call, a D.C.-based newspaper that covers Capitol Hill.
Alyssa White ’11 majored in creative writing and minored in environmental studies and French. What she learned while working on “200 Days,” particularly through the mentorship of Judy Silverstein Gray K’78, helped her land a writing position at the North Star Academy charter school network in Newark, N.J.
Julia Wilber ’11 graduated with an interdisciplinary concentration in social justice, peace and development. At Hamilton, she led trips for Adirondack Adventure and was Duelly Noted’s first president. She is now traveling the world as a Thomas J. Watson Fellow, writing about her adventures studying the fair trade clothing industry.
While at Hamilton, Olivia Wolfgang-Smith ’11 was a double major in creative writing and Russian studies. She worked as a tutor in the Writing Center and served as editor-in-chief of Red Weather. She currently lives in Tallahassee, where she is pursuing a master of fine arts degree in fiction at Florida State University.
John Wulf ’12 lip-synchs to The Temptations, is more embarrassed by the fact that he enjoys Bugles, and is deathly afraid of life after College. He’s also the proud brother of Bo, Eve and Elizabeth, the grateful son of Steve and Bambi, and a captain of the Hamilton baseball team.
Joanna Fier ’11
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An award-winning storyteller, Judy Silverstein Gray K’78 has also received praise for her strategic communications work. At Kirkland College, her passion for history, film, the natural world and the lives of ordinary people sparked a journalism career, spurring her to explore remote corners of the world, write a book about the Coast Guard’s history and help train young writers.
Susan Hartman K’74 twice won the College’s Watrous Poetry Prize; she earned a master of fine arts degree from Columbia University. She has written cover stories for The New York Times, Newsday and The Christian Science Monitor. Her books of poetry include Dumb Show and El Abogado. She teaches journalism at New York University.
Edvige Jean-François ’90 is a producer for CNN International’s special projects unit, based in Atlanta. She earned a number of literary prizes as well as the Samuel F. Babbitt Kirkland College Fellowship at Hamilton, and since has garnered more than 20 awards, nominations and commendations for her writing and producing, including seven television Emmy nominations.
Kathleen McGrory ’05 is a reporter at The Miami Herald. After Hamilton, where she was editor of The Spectator and a founding member of Kappa Sigma Alpha sorority, she attended the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She has won national and statewide journalism awards and was named Florida’s Young Journalist of the Year in 2007.
John McMillan ’52 was an editor and publisher of daily newspapers until retiring in 1991. He then taught writing for 13 years as an adjunct professor at the graduate school of business at Willamette University in Salem, Ore. He is a former fellow at the Gannett Center for Media Studies at Columbia.
Cameron McWhirter ’86 reports for The Wall Street Journal. He majored in history at Hamilton, holds a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and has been a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. He is the author of Red Summer: The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America (2011).
A. James Memmott ’64 served as managing editor of the former Times-Union and of the Democrat and Chronicle in Rochester, N.Y. He was a senior editor and columnist before retiring in 2007. He continues to write a column for the Democrat, and he teaches journalism at the University of Rochester.
Lauren Reynolds Nelson ’02 is the senior college football editor for ESPN.com. She was rudely introduced to sports journalism at The Spectator when colleague David Zane ’02 threw an AP Stylebook at her head. Prior to ESPN, the former lacrosse player was the managing editor of The Globe in Jacksonville, N.C.
Dick Patrick ’72 worked as a newspaper sports reporter for 35 years — 25 of them at USA Today, where he wrote some incredibly brief stories — and is now trying to write books. His first, Run to Overcome with Olympic marathon medalist Meb Keflezighi, appeared in November 2010.
John Pitarresi ’70 graduated from Hamilton as a history major. He was co-captain of the football and lacrosse teams in his senior year and was a member of Delta Upsilon. He lives in New Hartford, N.Y., and has been a sportswriter with the Utica Observer-Dispatch since 1972.
Geoffrey Precourt ’70 has worked as a writer and editor in the newspaper and magazine businesses since graduation. He has been deputy managing editor of the San Francisco Examiner, contributing editor of Fortune magazine and founding editor of Adweek, Smart Business and Selling magazines. He currently is U.S. editor of Warc, a British business-news service, and editor-in-chief of The Journal of Advertising Research, working from his home in Western Massachusetts.
A. Barrett Seaman ’67 spent 30 years as a correspondent and editor for Time Magazine before retiring in 2001. He served in five bureaus, including a stint as senior White House correspondent during the Reagan administration, and later served as special projects editor for the magazine in New York. He co-authored Going for Broke: The Chrysler Story with Michael Moritz in 1981 and wrote Binge: Campus Life in an Age of Disconnection and Excess, published in 2005. He has been a trustee of the College since 1989.
A reporter at Sports Illustrated for 20 years as well as a documentary and feature film writer, Damian Slattery ’80 now works in marketing for Time Magazine. He lives in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, with his wife, Melissa ’82, daughter, Virginia ’12, and son, Jack, 17, a senior at Poly Prep.
Jim Willse ’67 retired last year after 15 years as editor of The Star-Ledger in New Jersey, during which time the paper won two Pulitzer Prizes. While at Hamilton, he covered night cops for the Utica Daily Press and was paid with wrinkled dollars and quarters from the circulation receipts. He has conducted writing seminars at Princeton and Columbia universities.
Massachusetts native Claudette Ferrone ’88, a biology major, spent nine years as the laboratory coordinator in Hamilton’s Biology Department before taking a position in the Alumni Office. She has been a photographer since her first experience with a camera at age 13 and in 2005 converted her passion into a freelance business. Her work has won recognition in local photography contests and appears frequently on Hamilton’s website and in the Alumni Review.
Nancy L. Ford has been a freelance photographer in Central New York for 30 years, specializing in editorial, commercial, corporate, portrait and stock photography. Ford worked at the Observer-Dispatch in Utica for 15 years as a staff photographer and photo editor, winning more than 20 awards from the Associated Press as well as others from the National Press Photographers Association, New York State Publishers and the Gannett Co. She is a graduate of Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute and Syracuse University.
Susan Kahn specializes in capturing the essence of a personality with her environmental portraiture for colleges and hospitals. Susan has also traveled the country photographing furniture, gardens and architecture for national magazines. She has enjoyed photographing VIPs visiting Hamilton College, including Bill Clinton, Aretha Franklin and Jon Stewart.
Freelance photojournalist Laura C. Laurey is a 2004 graduate of Rochester Institute of Technology. Originally from North Carolina, Laura and her husband Ryan operate Paris Hill Studios and specialize in editorial, wedding, portrait and entertainment photography. Laura also partners with Nancy L. Ford Photography on many editorial assignments.
J.D. Ross was the director of new media at Hamilton from 2006 until 2011. He is now the communications director at the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University. His photographs have appeared in various Hamilton publications, including the Alumni Review, On the Hill: A Bicentennial History of Hamilton College and the Hamilton College website.
Phil Scalia left a lucrative job as a locomotive engineer for Conrail in order to pursue a career as a cameratologist. He worked in photojournalism for several years before opening a commercial studio in Exeter, N.H. He moved in 2003 to the Mohawk Valley, where he shoots commercial and stock photography.
Dave Tewksbury, a geosciences technician at Hamilton, combines photography with geology-related travel. He has photographed geological research from land, air and sea in Antarctica, Egypt, Iceland and East Africa as well as many places in the United States. His current work involves high resolution GigaPans.
Leah Koren ’12 is a communication major from New York City who has been studying photography since she was 12. She hopes to work in Internet ad sales after she graduates and continue to build her photography skills.
Matt Poterba ’12 is a double major in economics and math from Belmont, Mass., and is a rower on Hamilton’s crew team. Upon graduation, he hopes to utilize the skills he has learned at Hamilton to pursue a career in investment banking.
Lily Reszi Rothman ’13 is a communication major, also petitioning for a second major in foreign languages to combine Spanish and Arabic. A Brooklyn, N.Y., native, she is active with the College radio station, hosting two shows each semester, designing WHCL’s website and sitting on the WHCL E-board as webmaster. Her interest in media continues with her involvement with The Spectator and the Campus Activities Board.
Suman Sarker ’11 was a dual biology and art major from the Bronx, N.Y. In addition to gallery shows, hehas made several short films and commercials. He is also a biochemistry and bioinformatics research student; he is attending the University of Buffalo for a master’s degree in public health in epidemiology.
David Schwartz ’13 is a dual government and sociology major from Orlando, Fla. When he isn’t taking pictures, he plays the drums and works on the WHCL E-board as the assistant general manager. He hopes to pursue a graduate degree related to public policy or urban studies.
Tom Youngblood ’13 is a history major from the northwest corner of Connecticut who competes on the water polo and swimming teams. A lifelong lover of art and visual storytelling, he hopes to use the writing and communication skills he acquires at Hamilton to find a career in the film industry.
Katie Hoar ’11
Catherine D. Brown is the director of visual communications at Hamilton College, where she designs and oversees the design development of a broad range of print and digital communications, including this Alumni Review bicentennial issue. Before coming to Hamilton in 2002, she managed her own design business for 15 years. Among her design awards are honors from Graphic Design USA, CASE, Distinguished Technical Communications, TED Magazine Best of the Best and the American Association of Museums. | <urn:uuid:4a3b4f2a-d7ab-4d31-b3b4-110d5ef9c9ef> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.hamilton.edu/magazine/200days/contributors | 2013-05-21T17:32:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961168 | 3,954 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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UNDATED (www.incnow.tv) - Homestead bested Leo in girls non conference basketball action Friday night, while Snider, South, Concordia, and Dwenger grabbed SAC girls wins and Woodlan won as well.
Sydney Buck tossed in 24 points as Homestead stepped out of the NHC and wion handily over ACAC co-champ Leo 64-37.
Deja Wimby netted 20 points and Meredith Shipman chipped in 18 in Snider's 83-56 victory at Bishop Luers.
Tashayla Sutorius connected for 20 points for the Lady Knights.
Ariana Siimmons went for 17 points and DeJoyah Johnson 13 more to help South Side finish at a perfect 7-0 in the SAC with their 67-44 win at Wayne.
Carmen Jones scored 20 for the Generals.
Courtney Smith tossed in 16 points and Concordia got past Northrop 41-39.
Alyssa Gibson continued her strong late season run with 23 points as Bishop Dwenger ran past North Side 58-37.
Lauren Ehle celebrated her senior night at Woodlan with 30 points, including seven three pointers, along with 12 rebounds in leading the Warriors to their 66-35 win over New Haven.
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Women's basketball reunion set for Friday
Feb. 11, 2013
BEAUMONT, Texas – Lamar University women’s basketball coach Larry Tidwell is doubly busy these days. Not only is he gearing up the Lady Cardinals for a run at the Southland Conference regular-season title, he’s also in the final stages of planning for the largest women’s basketball reunion in Lamar history.
Every former Lady Cardinals’ player and coach has been invited back to campus for this weekend’s festivities that include a dinner and reception at the Montagne Center on Friday night and recognition at halftime of Saturday’s conference game against archrival McNeese State.
“I’m very privileged to be able to honor these young ladies and what they have meant for the program,” Tidwell said. “We appreciate all they have done for the program. They laid the foundation for what we have now.”
The reunion begins at 6:30 p.m. Friday as the former Lady Cardinals arrive at the Montagne Center’s Cardinal Club Room to sign in and receive their reunion T-shirt. A dinner catered by Courville’s will be served at 7:15 p.m. before the program that includes a highlight video, guest speakers and recognition of former Lady Cardinals’ greats in the Hall of Honor and the Walkway of Champions gets under way at 7:45 p.m.
On Saturday, the former Lady Cards will tour the Lady Cardinals’ locker room prior to the 4 p.m. game against McNeese State and then be honored at halftime.
“It’s going to be a great weekend,” Tidwell said. “We already have more than 100 former players and coaches who have confirmed they are coming. We’re hoping for even more. We want to make this a special event.”
There is no cost for the former Lady Cardinals and a guest to attend the reunion. For further information, email Tidwell at email@example.com, or graduate assistant Hannah Burleson at firstname.lastname@example.org. | <urn:uuid:d5671715-92e7-42e9-8719-0ad3283f21a6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.lamarcardinals.com/sports/w-baskbl/spec-rel/021113aaa.html | 2013-05-21T17:10:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956404 | 455 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Enjoy some of the amenities of staying at the Brown Palace while lodging at the more affordable Comfort Inn just across the street. The two hotels are connected by a skybridge, which allows easy access to the Brown’s restaurants, shops, and spa. Guests at the Comfort Inn can also order room service from the Brown.
The 231-room Comfort Inn is just one block from the 16th Street Mall and shops and restaurants along this promenade, and is an easy walk from the Colorado Convention Center.
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2 Heat, Work, Internal Energy, Enthalpy, and the First Law of Thermodynamics
3 The Importance of State Functions: Internal Energy and Enthalpy
5 Entropy and the Second and Third Laws of Thermodynamics
6 Chemical Equilibrium
7 The Properties of Real Gases
8 Phase Diagrams and the Relative Stability of Solids, Liquids, and Gases
9 Ideal and Real Solutions
10 Electrolyte Solutions
11 Electrochemical Cells, Batteries, and Fuel Cells
12 From Classical to Quantum Mechanics
13 The Schrödinger Equation
14 The Quantum Mechanical Postulates
15 Using Quantum Mechanics on Simple Systems
16 The Particle in the Box and the Real World
17 Commuting and Noncommuting Operators and the Surprising Consequences of Entanglement
18 A Quantum Mechanical Model for the Vibration and Rotation of Molecules
19 The Vibrational and Rotational Spectroscopy of Diatomic Molecules
20 The Hydrogen Atom
21 Many-Electron Atoms
22 Quantum States for Many- Electron Atoms and Atomic Spectroscopy
23 The Chemical Bond in Diatomic Molecules
24 Molecular Structure and Energy Levels for Polyatomic Molecules
25 Electronic Spectroscopy
26 Computational Chemistry
27 Molecular Symmetry
28 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
30 The Boltzmann Distribution
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32 Statistical Thermodynamics
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DEAR AMY: My husband had an emotional affair with a teacher at my child's school last year.
They both lied to me repeatedly when I asked them to quit contacting each other, and the contact didn't stop until school was nearly over.
Being betrayed by two people whom I trusted has been extremely difficult. I think it's finally over, but I'm quite paranoid about the new school year starting when they will see each other again almost daily.
She is married, too, but that didn't seem to stop either of them.
I've saved copies of all their e-mails and cell phone records.
Part of me wants to share this information with the principal and the teacher's husband, but I know I should probably just let it go.
— Betrayed Wife
DEAR BETRAYED: You should tell the school principal about this inappropriate relationship before the start of the new year. Even if the school doesn't have a stated policy prohibiting relationships between a teacher and the parent of a student, this shows terrible judgment on a multitude of levels — most importantly concerning your son.
The school administrator should speak to this teacher about her actions, and your child should not be placed in any of her classes.
Professionals who work with children hold an important trust. They have a responsibility to safeguard the child's well-being. The teacher and your husband have destroyed her ability to work with your family.
In terms of your husband, I suggest counseling and total transparency regarding any contact with her. (He should have none and should tell you if she contacts him.)
You should notify her husband only if you feel doing so would benefit your marriage.
DEAR AMY: My 25-year-old daughter is living with my husband and me. During the past few years, while away at college, she gained about 40 pounds.
She is only 5-foot-2, so that is a lot of extra weight on someone who used to be in perfect shape.
She eats rapidly and chooses large quantities of fattening foods.
People say I cannot say anything to her because it will make her feel that she is only loved when she is perfect and will stress her into eating more.
Why is it that if you suspect your child is on drugs or engaging in other dangerous habits it's OK to intercede, but not if you see her eating toward obesity?
Do I have to just watch her overeat until she has 100 pounds to lose instead of 40? (I am 60 and am very fit and healthy.)
I am so worried about her that I cannot sleep most nights. I don't know how to approach my daughter without putting her on the defensive.
— Worried Mother
DEAR WORRIED: Any attempt you make to discuss this might put your daughter on the defensive — or the offensive. Understand this before you start.
You can discuss weight with your daughter, but you should do so knowing that you can't solve this problem for her. Sometimes, concern comes off as pressure, and a person with an eating disorder is very reactive to pressure.
So you say, "Honey, I'm worried about you. Your eating seems out of control. I'd like to try to help, but first let's talk about what's going on with you." Do not compare her to you — or to her formerly "perfect" self.
The answer for your daughter might be more complicated than diet and exercise. If she is bingeing her way into large weight gain, she may need clinical help.
DEAR AMY: A reader wondered what to do with a hideous gift of art from a friend.
Because these people are very good friends, it is easy to imagine that the receiver of the gift had at some time praised her friend's artwork. This was a time to be brutally frank. She could have praised the effort while making it clear that it was not her taste.
This is also a cautionary tale. Be truthful or you, too, might end up with a horror in an expensive baroque frame.
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DEAR READER: Being frank without being "brutally frank" might also work.
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Dáil Éireann - Volume 474 - 30 January, 1997
Written Answers. - Operational Programme for Tourism.
Mr. Killeen Mr. Killeen
92. Mr. Killeen asked the Minister for Tourism and Trade the progress, if any, on the mid-term review of the EU Operational Programme for Tourism; and the plans, if any, he has to alter current expenditure policies. [2630/97]
Minister for Tourism and Trade (Mr. E. Kenny) Enda Kenny
Minister for Tourism and Trade (Mr. E. Kenny): As part of the overall mid-term review of the Community Support Framework and in common with other operational programmes, the mid-term review of the Operational Programme for Tourism, 1994-1999 has already commenced.
The review process of the tourism operational programme began last year with the drawing up of detailed terms of reference for a mid-term evaluation, in consultation with the Department of Finance and the European Commission and the appointment of a mid-term evaluator.
I understand that the mid-term evaluator's report is being finalised and that it is the intention to have it considered at a specially convened meeting of the National Monitoring Committee of the tourism operational programme at the end of February. The results of this consideration will then be fed into the overall CSFS mid-term review process. This is to allow the Government and the European Commission to review the general thrust and direction of CSF programmes, to decide on any strategic changes required and to determine any inter programme reallocations which might be required in the first instance prior to considering changes within individual programmes. The CSF review is due to be completed by the middle of this year.
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1. Controls and coordinates job cards. Ensures that employee is assigned and working proper pre-assigned
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San Francisco, CA, March 15, 2013 --(PR.com
)-- COPUS is once again returning to its roots of presenting and producing the best indie talent in the Bay Area. Every First Friday of the month - beginning April 5th - the beautiful WestSide ArtHouse will be rockin' with singers, songwriters, poets, instrumentalists and comedians. WestSide ArtHouse is located at 540 Balboa Street at 7th Avenue in San Francisco.
COPUS will be the feature band in the middle of the evening with talented artists performing before and after. COPUS – an acronym for Creation Of Peace Under Stars – is a rap/jazz/fusion ensemble that presents powerful lyrics and beautiful melodies for the conscious listener. The group includes composer/pianist Wendy Loomis, poet/spoken word artist Royal Kent, flutist Monica Williams, bassist Patrick Mahon, drummer Greg McRay, and vocalist Barbara Jaspersen. “COPUS could become legendary if given the opportunity to thrive!” -Michael Allison, CEO MusicDish.com.
Unlike so many open mics with rushed time slots, each artist will have 10 minutes to rise and shine. Artists have the opportunity to sign up in advance on the COPUS Contact page to secure a spot. There will also be an open mic signup sheet at the event the night of the show for artists who prefer that spontaneity.
COPUS suggests patrons come early to secure parking spots and perhaps have some dinner at one of the many great Richmond neighborhood restaurants before attending the show. Non-alcoholic beverages will be available for sale at the venue and attendees may bring in their own wine or beer.
Public transportation is encouraged. MUNI line 31 Balboa stops in front of the venue and the 38 Geary is 2 blocks away. Wheelchair accessible.
Date: April 5, 2013 = 8-11pm
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BIT PIPELINE One thing about HDMI - the supposed be-all and end-all of HDTV connectors - is that it's one of the most rapidly changing standards in A/V history. To ensure your cables can handle all the millions of colors and 7.1-channel sound in version 1.3 (and beyond!), Straight Wire's SDMI cable can relay up to 10.2 Gbps (gigabits per second), enough to drive a high-def truck through.
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Thiruvananthapuram, June 25: A Catholic nun whose application for enrolment as a lawyer was rejected has approached the high court against the Kerala Bar Council’s “discriminatory” attitude towards individuals belonging to religious orders.
Justice K. Balakrishnan Nair, who heard the plea by Sister Teena Jose of the Little Flower Convent at Cherthala in Alappuzha district, has allowed her to include the Bar Council of India as one of the respondents in the case.
The nun, who belongs to the Kerala-based Congregation of Mother Carmel, has termed the state bar council’s decision “discriminatory, illegal, arbitrary and a violation of the Constitution”.
The council says its rules do not envisage persons in religious orders, like priests, nuns and monks, becoming advocates.
The nun’s fight for the robes started in January this year when the bar council rejected her enrolment application.
A law graduate from Mahatma Gandhi University in Kerala, Sister Jose pleaded with the council’s enrolment committee that she did not have a salaried job or profession. “Being a nun is part of my vocation and not profession,” she told the committee.
Her lawyer Wilson Urmese said priests and nuns practise at various courts in the country and that Jesuits were even enrolled in the Supreme Court. The bar council’s Advocates Act or Rules do not bar priests or nuns from becoming lawyers, Urmese added.
However, this is not the first such case in Kerala. Sister P.J. Mary and a priest belonging to the Syrian Jacobite Church had failed to get enrolment on the same grounds.
Kerala bar council chairperson K.B. Mohandas said the selection and enrolment committee scrutinises all applicants and would not comment on what was already before the court. He preferred to wait for the decision of the Bar Council of India, which would soon be posted with the case details.
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“I now have the time to be committed to the nurturing of this network. The vacation I thought I was going to have is kind of over, at least for the time being. I have committed everything I have to this cable venture. I wouldn’t bet against me … I have a dream of O.J. Simpson confessing to me and I am going to make that happen, people. I don’t just want the interview. I want the interview on the condition that you are ready, Mr. Simpson.”
—Oprah tells The Hollywood Reporter that she is now 100% in over at OWN, the Oprah Winfrey Network. Her biggest dream for the station? Getting OJ Simpson, who is currently in prison for kidnapping and robbery, to tell the truth about what happened to Nicole Brown Simpson. If anyone can make it happen, it’s the Big O. [PopEater] Keep reading »
Oprah has been gone for three weeks now, and there is a serious void in the daytime television universe. Who will step forward to give us life advice and book recommendations, and just generally take on the mission of keeping us sane? Perhaps … Bethenny Frankel? According to The Hollywood Reporter, Bethenny is filming a talk show pilot as we speak. And she’s working on it with heavy hitters—Telepictures, the company behind “The Tyra Banks Show” and “Ellen.” Ms. DeGeneres herself even has a hand in creating the series.
It’s hard to believe that, just a few minutes ago, Oprah concluded her final “Oprah Winfrey Show” after 25 years. The episode was quiet and thoughtful, as Oprah said in the first moments of it, “This last hour is my love letter to you. I want to leave you with lessons from my life.” And lessons she gave, along with some fun nuggets of personal history. Like that she started the show at age 30—hey, it’s never to late to start an empire—and that she hasn’t missed a day in her quarter century on the air. She even showed a picture of herself on her first day, wearing a Cruella de Vil-esque fur coat.
But you probably want the lessons, no? After the jump, some of my favorite quotes from the episode. Keep reading »
Is Oprah a Scientologist? Just Googling that question returns 127,000 results, so we know we’re not alone in asking.
On the heels of the announcement that Will and Jada Pinkett Smith would be guests on one of Oprah’s final shows, three things popped into my head: 1) random! 2) are they getting a reality series on OWN? and 3) man, she’s shared a lot of big, memorable moments with famous (alleged) Scientologists.
I mean, I’ve been convinced for months now that Oprah’s last show would be a tribute to her loyal viewers. (That’s thanks in large part to mainlining marathons of OWN’s ‘Oprah Behind the Scenes,’ on which Oprah is always saying it’s “for the fans.”) A walk down memory lane, a parting gift, in the spiritual sense, reminding them to pay it forward … not another chat with some fancy Hollywood A-listers! Read more…Keep reading »
People will do anything to get their hands on tickets to the taping of Oprah‘s final episode. But one Canadian dude, Robert Spearing, went above and beyond. He and his wife traveled from Ontario to Chicago to see the show. Robert told her he had tickets—only he didn’t. He had to think quick in how to justify this situation—so he beat himself up, using a rock to bust his forehead and scraping his hands across the pavement so it looked like he was in a scuffle. He then called the police and said he’d been robbed of two Oprah tickets. Spearing has now been charged with disorderly conduct and filing a false police report. And while what he did wasn’t cool, I’m secretly hoping the Big O decided to cut him a break and invite him to the finale. He gets an “A” for effort. [Newser] Keep reading »
I cannot believe that “The Oprah Show” is coming to an end next week. Seriously, I’ve been watching since I was, like, eight and I always thought I’d make it onto her couch. I guess it’s time to let that dream go. Sigh. After 25 seasons, the Big O is filming her final three episodes. Insiders say the final shows will be over-the-top, star-studded extravaganzas. Like we would expect anything less. Celebs like Madonna, Maria Shriver, Beyonce, Barack Obama, Tom Cruise, and Katie Holmes are set to appear. God only knows kind of tomfoolery will go down. [Powerwall]
After the jump, 10 moments I’m hoping for on Oprah’s final episodes. Keep reading »
What will Oprah do with her days once her talk show ends? She divulged to The Chicago Tribune that, in addition to running her own network, she is planning to head to Broadway. As in, for real deal you’ll be able to see her on the stage soon. “I have a stack of plays in my bag right now that I am reading,” she said. “And just this past weekend, I was in New York meeting with producers. We were just talking about what would be the best route to take. But yes, this is really going to happen. ” Did you hear that? That was the sound of every high-powered theater producer in Manhattan scrambling to bow down at Oprah’s feet.
“I cannot hold my husband responsible for the breakdown of our marriage. I’m responsible for that also. The fact that the marriage broke down is nobody’s fault—that’s just a mutual breakdown of communication between two people. But with Marie-Anne, she was my best friend and it was like, ‘Oh, isn’t life great.’ She kept reestablishing that right until the very last minute. Even when I did finally know and confronted her, it was like she didn’t know what I was talking about. Maybe that’s a natural reaction for someone who just got caught with their pants down … Who has the right to decide how my marriage ends from outside the marriage?”
—Shania Twain talked to Oprah yesterday about finding out that her husband Robert Lange was having an affair with her best friend and assistant, Marie-Anne Thiebaud, and said that in many ways, she holds Marie-Anne more accountable than Robert. It’s the first time that Shania has given an interview about what exactly went down, including how she turned to Marie-Anne’s estranged husband, Frédéric Thiebaud, in the aftermath of her divorce and ended up falling in love with him. Those two crazy kids got married in January.
Oprah sure loves pairing ’80s rock stars with the pop tarts of today. On yesterday’s “Woman Who Rock” episode, in addition to teaming up Avril Lavigne and Pat Benatar, she also had Miley Cyrus join Joan Jett for a medley of “Bad Reputation,” “Cherry Bomb,” and my favorite karaoke song ever, “I Hate Myself For Loving You.” Joan still looks and sounds amazing and, well, at least it kept Miley off the pole for a little while.
This week, “The Oprah Show” featured Pat Benatar and Avril Lavigne doing a duet of “Love Is A Battlefield,” a song that remains relevant after all these years. Pat seems to be winning the “war” seeing as she’s still with her husband of 30 years. Unfortunately, we can’t say the same about Avril. [Oprah] Keep reading » | <urn:uuid:3a02c1e4-1eb6-4a8e-9614-f110326b3b2e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thefrisky.com/tag/oprah/page/2/ | 2013-05-21T17:12:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968593 | 1,744 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
GREY'S ANATOMY EPISODE RECAP
|"NO MAN'S LAND"|
airdate: April 17, 2005
written by: Jim Harriott
directed by: Adam Davidson
|Despite a grim prognosis, Cristina stubbornly insists upon giving extra-special treatment to cancer patient Liz Fallon, who happens to have been the longtime scrub nurse for Meredith's surgeon mother Ellis Grey. In other developments, a constructor worker is brought to the hospital after shooting six nails in his head, a feat that turns out to be something far more than an on-the-job accident; and George (T.R. Knight) rebels at being treated as "one of the girls" by roomies Meredith and Izzie. The episode's high point occurs when Alex comes across a sexy lingerie ad featuring Izzie, which he then pastes all over the interns' locker room--leading to an extremely revealing moment!|
Read the full episode recap ►
|GREY'S ANATOMY OPENING QUOTE:|
|Intimacy is a four syllable word for "here are my heart and soul, please grind them into hamburger, and enjoy." It's both desired, and feared, difficult to live with, and impossible to live without. Intimacy also comes attached to life's three R's... relatives, romance, and roommates. There are some things you can't escape. And other things you just don't wanna know.|
|GREY'S ANATOMY ENDING QUOTE:|
|I wish there were a rulebook for intimacy. Some kind of a guide to tell you when you've crossed the line. It would be nice if you could see it coming,but I don't know how you fit it on a map. You take it where you can get it, and keep it as long as you can. And as for rules, maybe there are none. Maybe the rules of intimacy are something you have to define for yourself.|
| GREY'S ANATOMY QUOTES |
Memorable Quotes, zingers and one-liners
- Meredith: Where are the tampons?
- Izzie: He didn't buy them.
- Meredith: You didn't buy them?
- George: Men don't buy tampons.
- Izzie: You know what. You are gonna have to get over the man thing, George. We're women! We have vaginas! Get used to it.
- George: I am not your sister.
|GREY'S ANATOMY MUSIC|
|Could be Anything||The Eames Era|
|Let Myself Fall||Rosie Thomas|
|Break Your Heart||Get Set Go|
|Where Does the Good Go||Tegan & Sara|
|GREY'S ANATOMY MOMENTS |
Grey's Anatomy shockers, rule-breaking, grab-the-edge-of-your-seat moments....
|GREY'S ANATOMY EPISODE TRIVIA|
Goofs, behind the scenes facts, and little-known tidbits...
- When Izzie confronts the patient who is about to have his prostate removed over her photo spread as Bethany Whisper, her hair changes from being combed to the right when she enters the room to being combed to the left when she asks him "Then what the hell's your problem?".
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The first half of 2007 was a Dark Age of reading for me. Virtually every time I sat down with even the most promising book, my mind would float to the massive Redesign project headaches we were having at the newspaper. I couldn’t relax, I couldn’t get drawn in. I was in the wrong frame of mind to read. I was in the frame of mind to brood.
And then, as things do, the darkness cleared, and a new age of enlightenment began. And I began to read and absorb as if I’d just regained my sight. I began with Michael Chabon, an author I’d only heard of at that point. Very quickly I devoured two collections of short stories and three of his novels. His first novel, Mysteries of Pittsburgh and the collection A Model World introduced me to his storytelling and Wonder Boys and, especially, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay showed me the full depth and breadth of his writing.
Other highlights of the year include George Saunders’ Pastoralia, a fiction collection brimming with wit and insight, and A Field Guide To The North American Family, the illustrated novella from my Millions cohort Garth Risk Hallberg, whose intertwined tale of the Hungate and Harrison families, with its tight prose – somehow simultaneously economical and gloriously open, and its shifting point-of-view and tone, and thematically-linked photos, is nothing short of fascinating, both in concept and execution.
And capping the year, on the heels of my Hemingwayesque sojourn in Paris, was a re-read of A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway’s memoir of his formative years in 1920s Paris. Each vignette reads as a precise, evocative short story, and the collection is not only my favorite memoir of that era, but also my favorite Hemingway book. And my top read of 2007. | <urn:uuid:d27cff4b-8372-43dc-8d6e-add745d0c187> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.themillions.com/2007/12/year-in-reading-andrew-saikali.html | 2013-05-21T17:32:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965243 | 402 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Uncomfortable pauses in conversations are set to pepper this month in strangely uplifting ways, especially with very devout religious types (assuming you can get a word in edgewise).
Counterintuitive, counter clockwise and the counters in coffee bars are particularly well starred, especially when drinking lattes and dunking European biscuits.
Saturn has a plan for the 17th of the month that includes a cereal packet, a stick of glue, and either a Batman mask or the plastic outer casing of a smoke detector. Don't look at this page like that, we are only the messenger.
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You may be asking yourself, what the heck is Cartoon Paint and what is it all about. First off, my name is Chad Baldwin and I have been creating cartoons as long as I can remember… I love drawing cartoons so much that I have worked hard to create cartoons for other people. The bottom line is if you enjoy creating cartoons, why not make a little money too!
As a cartoon illustrator. I have been asked many times as to how I render (color) my cartoons onto the computer?? So, since I also enjoy creating websites I thought, why not create a site that shows off my cartoon rendering process. So, to keep it sweet and simple, Cartoonpaint is a place that focuses on how I go about coloring my cartoons onto the computer. If you have a cartoon style and want to take it to the next level, try out my course. I think you will like how the digital process works. | <urn:uuid:145f6d60-2b90-4e28-aaf7-c05349df061a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.usfreeads.com/1503153-cls.html | 2013-05-21T17:40:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972812 | 188 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Egypt's presidential race appeared headed on Friday to a decisive and polarizing runoff between the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood’s candidate and another with strong ties to former President Hosni Mubarak’s regime.
Preliminary counts from Egypt's first free presidential race show the Brotherhood's Mohammed Morsi in the lead and former prime minister and secularist Ahmed Shafiq a strong second.
The runoff, to be held on June 16-17, would offer Egyptians a stark choice between candidates from divergent paths.
Morsi was not his Islamist group's first choice for its presidential candidate. But he got the job when the Brotherhood's lead candidate was disqualified and then became a front runner in a show of the group's political muscle.
During the campaign, Morsi delivered fiery speeches and vowed his presidency would be based on Islam but not be a theocracy.
Shafiq was Mubarak's last prime minister before he lost power in last year's pro-democracy protests.
The former Air Force commander was appointed prime minister in hopes of appeasing the popular revolt. But because of that connection to Mr. Mubarak, he is viewed with some suspicion by activists involved in the 2011 movement and polarized voters.
Final results will not be announced until Tuesday.
A victory for one of the secularist candidates would mark a significant turn from parliamentary elections just six months ago when more than 70 percent of voters cast ballots for Islamist parties.
With some key pockets of voting remaining to be counted, independent candidate Hamdeen Sabahi also appears to have fared well and could gain on Shafiq. He rose steadily in opinion polls over the past week, attracting voters who wanted neither an Islamist or a former regime figure.
Some of the other 12 candidates who fared well include Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, a moderate Islamist supported by some liberals, leftists and minority Christians, and former foreign minister Amr Moussa, a secularist who served under Mr. Mubarak
VOA correspondent Elizabeth Arrott says voters are generally pleased with how election officials have handled the ballot-counting.
"In the polling stations themselves, they appear to be going through by hand and this has been one of the key things. Everybody has been very glad that they are doing it that way, By having observers watching them be counted in polling station by polling station, it's much, much harder to commit fraud on any large level."
Whoever wins faces massive challenges. Egypt's economy has collapsed as the key tourism industry dried up, crime has increased and labor strikes have proliferated.
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"The AS-Psychology Student's Textbook" is the definitive student's text for the 2008 AQA 'A' Psychology specification. This text covers the whole specification in colour-coded, clear and concise chapters. The philosophy behind this book is to facilitate a smooth transition between the current and the new specifications. The authors have looked closely at the way the new A level is designed, and have developed this text to ensure that the material you are familiar with, and for which you have lessons and resources, can be worked into the new design. Some changes in the specification are subtle, some are more obvious, but, throughout the book, the authors make it clear how the specification should be addressed.Electronic resources will also be available to enhance your provision. Each chapter is amply illustrated with photos and diagrams and contains key studies and vignettes to engage the student. These, together with the helpful "Ask an Examiner" sections make this the most user-friendly text available for the new AS specification. The book contains coverage of the all units described in the specification. It covers: Research Methods, Cognitive Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Biological Psychology, Social Psychology and Individual Differences. An accompanying revision guide will be available in September 2008, and the partner A2 text and revision guides will follow.
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I hope that I have demonstrated on three threads: one about Finnish texts translated by Google Translate, plus reviews of books by A S Byatt and Stephen Fry, that the world is still a long way away from the stage where you can pick a book that looks interesting, press a button, and get an instant translation of novel, whether it is 250 or 900 pages long.
Literary translators are hardly noticed in the rough and tumble of the modern international literary world. But if you look at the Fry and Byatt translations of the reviews (not even the books themselves!), you will see that you can hardly make any sense out of them and have to grope your way towards some sort of meaning.
So next time your read your Nabokov, Gavalda, Pessoa, Kehlmann, Strindberg, Gadda, Eliade, Paasilinna, Mahfouz, Lispector, Borges, Walser, Witkiewicz, Mulisch, Machado de Assis, Oz, Neruda, Rodoreda, Ibsen, Bolaño, and a thousand other writers, remember that you simply can't yet rely on a machine to bring the world of literature, from beyond the English language, to you. | <urn:uuid:32c41374-aa18-42fb-b731-ff6620788b19> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/showthread.php/50852-Do-we-still-need-literary-translators?p=108744 | 2013-05-21T17:24:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.918978 | 263 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Originally Posted by JoeQ
Thanks for the response. There isn't a separate alternator for battery charging. I'll check with a volt meter as you suggested the next time I'm aboard.
As for welding, yes. There was a contractor who attempted to weld the exhausts on the main engines. Would this have caused a problem?
Ok, It's one of these things that winds up and then charges the battery, does the alternator also provide the starter service? I have only seen 1 or 2 of these Onan sets and it was more than 20 yrs ago so my memory is a bit vague.
Electric Welding may well be the root cause of your problems, the side effect of welding with non isolated alternators is often to blow the diodes.
You might save yourself a lot of grief and trouble if you get a competent electrician to have a look at it for you.
I have had a bit of a look at a couple of sites to see if anyone has manuals etc. I see you have posted this same question in a few other places. Hopefully someone who can help you out with that will read your post.
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IS IRAN WITH OR WITHOUT A COACH?
According to Press TV, sources from the Iranian Football Association have indicated that there is a need for a German Coach including former coach of the Hungarian National Team Lothar Matthaeus.
While Lothar Matthaeus has stated that he is willing to discuss any job offers from the Iranian National Football Association, he has not received any information from their representatives.
I was under the impression that Iran had chosen Artur Jorge from Portugal to be their coach. There was also the story about how former Sunderland, Manchester City and Leeds United boss Peter Reid turned down the offer to be coach of the Iranian National Team without no apparent reason.
Winfried Schafer [who was Cameroon’s Coach] was also considered a candidate and nothing came of the proposal. If Iran wants to advance to the 2010 World Cup, it must find a coach for its national team and the sooner the better. This game of musical chairs in which who could be the next coach does not help any team.
I am sure that Iran is willing to resolve this inconvenient situation in order to move forward.
Press TV: “Iran finally introduces new coach”
Press TV: “Reid will not coach Iran soccer team”
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A new research study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on May 21, 2012, reports that the long and varied history of dogs and humans has resulted in a major disconnect between ancient dogs and modern breeds.
One of the few modern breeds of dogs to retain a tiny trace of its genetic origins, the Finnish Spitz was rescued from extinction by a single determined breeder. Photo of Ginger by NoŽl Zia Lee
Dogs were domesticated from the gray wolf at least 15,000 years ago, although where that happened and whether it happened once or several times is still a controversy. Since domestication occurred while humans were all hunter-gatherers at the time and thus led extensively migrant lifeways, dogs spread with them, and thus these dog populations developed in geographic isolation for a time. Eventually, however, human population growth and trade networks meant people reconnected, and that, say scholars, led to admixture in the dog population. When dog breeds began to be developed about 500 years ago, they were created out of a fairly homogenous gene pool, from dogs with mixed genetic heritages which had been developed in widely disparate locations.
Since the creation of kennel clubs, breeding has been selective: but even that was disrupted by World Wars I and II, when breed populations all over the world were decimated or went extinct: dog breeders have reestablished such breeds using a handful of individuals or combining similar breeds.
Larson G, Karlsson E, Perri A, Webster MT, Ho SYW, Peters J, Stahl PW, Piper PJ, Lingaas F, Fredholm M et al. 2012. New genetic, archeological, and biogeographic perspective on dog domestication. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Early edition. | <urn:uuid:20920593-36d5-4155-a325-26027c9ab832> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://archaeology.about.com/b/2012/05/22/genetic-basis-of-dog-breeds.htm | 2013-05-24T01:36:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965852 | 365 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
California Proposition 210, Minimum Wage Increase (1996)
Proposition 201 increased the minimum hourly wage paid by employers to employees working in all industries in California to $5.00 per hour beginning March 1, 1997, and to $5.75 per hour beginning March 1, 1998.
California first adopted laws setting a minimum wage in 1916, 22 years before the federal government set a minimum wage.
Text of measure
The official ballot summary that appeared on the ballot said:
- Increases the state minimum wage for all industries to $5.00 per hour on March 1, 1997, and then to $5.75 per hour on March 1, 1998.
- Requires the California Industrial Welfare Commission to adopt minimum wage orders consistent with this section, which orders shall be final and conclusive for all purposes.
The California Legislative Analyst's Office provided an estimate of net state and local government fiscal impact for Proposition 210. That estimate was:
- The fiscal effect of this measure would depend on whether the federal minimum wage increase passed by Congress in August is signed into law. Because California's minimum wage must be at least as high as the federal rate, an increase in the federal rate would reduce the incremental fiscal effects of this measure.
- Unknown net impact on state and local government revenues, primarily depending on the measure's effect on the level of employment, income, and taxable sales in California.
- Annual state and local government wage-related costs of approximately $300 million (about $120 million if the federal minimum wage increase is enacted).
- Net annual savings in state health and welfare programs, potentially in the low tens of millions of dollars ($10 million to $15 million if the federal minimum wage is enacted).
- Official Voter Guide to Proposition 210
- Full text of Proposition 210
- November 5, 1996 California election results (PDF)
- PDF of the paper version of the November 5, 1996 Ballot Propositions Voter Guide
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No. I’m not talking about sorting out the music for one’s funeral* …
I think every manager I have had in my 10 years at Microsoft has grumbled that I’m not great with planning – it’s a fair criticism and I try to work on it. When the subject comes up a quote from a book by William Gibson comes into my head. “I try to plan in your sense of the word, but that isn't my basic mode, really. I improvise. It's my greatest talent. I prefer situations to plans, you see.... Really, I've had to deal with givens.” the speaker is actually an artificial intelligence, but I think that is how a lot of IT people work: improvise, deal with the situation at hand, then deal with the next situation. It may be what we prefer – but be it training plans or plans for rolling out new software you’ve got to do it.
We do try to help on the software side, by being both transparent and predictable. The rule for core things (like desktop and server operating systems) is at least 10 years of support. (Embedded operating systems have a different support model which runs for longer). Mainstream support runs for 5 years from release OR until 2 years after the successor product releases whichever is later. Extended support runs for 5 years, or 2 years after the second successor product releases. After that those who can’t move forwards, but have deep pockets have the option on custom support. In order to be supported you have to be running a supported level of service pack, and I’ll cover that in a later post.
So let’s take a worked example.
* Windows 2000 professional’s General availability date was March 2000.
* The “n+1” release is Windows XP, which had a General availability date of December 2001.
* Two years after Windows XP would be December 2003 , less than the 5 year minimum so mainstream support for Windows 2000 runs to March 2005 when extended support begins. (In practice it got a mainstream June – products only go off the support list on particular days and they live on to the next one after the anniversary)
* The “n+2” release is Windows Vista with a General Availability date was Jan 2007.
* Two years Vista would be Jan 2009, again less than the 5 year minimum, so extended support support runs to June 2010. Again there is a few days extension.
So the cut off date for Windows 2000 professional is July 13th 2010. After that there will be custom support only for 2000 and if you are still running it you should understand that means we stop the routine distribution of security updates for it.
As it happens the cut off dates for Windows 2000 Server mainstream support was 2 years after the release of Server 2003 – putting it in May 2005 - so 2000 professional and server sync’d up. The 2 year point after Server 2008 and the 5 years of extended support take it to the same time, June 2010. So the cut off date for Windows 2000 Server is July 13th 2010.
I like to think that no-one reading this blog would still be running Windows 2000, but I know a good many are still running Windows XP. So let’s carve the dates on XPs tombstone:
5 years after XP’s GA date would be December 2006, but Vista had not shipped by then. So Mainstream support for XP ends two years after the GA date of Vista which takes us to Jan 2009 (In practice it was April 2009). Unless you have taken out a contract for extended support, you have only been getting security updates for XP since then.
5 Years after that is April 2014. Windows 7 had a GA date of October 2009, so 2 years on from there would be sooner. Extended support for XP ends on the later of the two dates, so April 2014.
For Vista, five years after GA will be later than 2 years after Windows 7, so Vista goes from mainstream to extended support in or shortly after January 2012. We’ve set the date, April 10th 2012. The end of extended support will depend on when the next version of Window ships, but it won’t be before April 11th 2017. Both dates for Windows 7 depend on future versions of Windows but won’t be sooner than January 13th 2015, and January 14th 2020. Put them in your diary now, with a reminder a long time in advance :-)
You can get all the dates from the Product lifecycle page
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See the press release on the "flip" for some "Hurt facts" to consider as you watch tonight's 5th CD debate (starts at 7 pm) between Brig. General (ret.) John Douglass, the Democratic nominee, and corporate puppet/empty suit Robert Hurt, the Teapublican incumbent. How bad is Hurt? Heck, the guy's radioactive, at least based on this photo of people in hazmat suit costumes, handing out stoppingthehurt.com> pieces about Hurt's ties to uranium mining interests. Should be an interesting debate, which I'm planning on live blogging (technology permitting).
UPDATE 7:59 pm: The debate is over, and Robert Hurt just got utterly walloped. No wonder why the poor guy doesn't want to debate. In stark contrast, John Douglass demonstrated great knowledge of the issues, the ability to think on his feet, and a balanced view that is a stark contrast to Hurt's doctrinaire views, right-wing ideology, Tea Party talking points, and empty-suited corporate puppet-hood. If voters of the 5th CD want someone who will represent them well in Washington, there absolutely no way they should vote for Robert Hurt, and every reason for them to replace him with John Douglass!
UPDATE 7:55: Hurt on a rant against Obamacare, throwing out falsehood after falsehood (including the $716 billion Big Lie, and many others). Need "market-based ways" to improve "quality of care." (uh, so why hasn't the market solved these problems?)
Douglass - The $716 billion is IN the Ryan budget he voted for, twice. Then he comes down here and tells us something completely different. We don't leave our wounded on the battlefield. It is horrible to leave our seniors, veterans without health care. Ryan budget would devastate people. They're dead wrong when they try to balance this budget on the backs of our seniors, veterans.
UPDATE 7:53 pm: We need to get rid of SuperPACs, system where millionaires and billionaires can do these terrible ads, never have to take responsibility for their lies. I'm going to fight for campaign finance reform.
Hurt - First Amendment protects speech, should be transparency (what a crock, his party does NOT support that!). Mentions that John Douglass was a "lobbyist." Claims he always stands up for people he represents, not a political party (hahahahahahahahaha, this guy should be a comedian!)
UPDATE 7:48 pm: Question on sequestration, military. Hurt - Gives us the history, his "unique" version anyway, of sequestration. Claims the House has again and again "offered a solution" so that we don't cut our military, and Harry Reid didn't do anything. (My god, this guy is a joke. Does he believe the lies he spews?)
Douglass - Hurt voted for sequestration, one of the worst bills ever produced in history of American legislature. If it doesn't get fixed, we could lose hundreds of thousands of jobs here in Virginia. Says he would have voted against sequestration, it's wrong. Pay cuts for our military because Congressmen can't get off their butts and make a decision. We won't have stupid bills like sequestration when I'm in Congress.
|UPDATE 7:43 pm: Question on political polarization, willingness to compromise. Douglass says he served at Ronald Reagan's side for 5 years. Worked under Republican and Democratic presidents. Won't find anybody as bipartisan as myself running for office. My opponent has thrown out names, tried to associate me with those names. I haven't done that, because I can work with people on his side of the aisle. We're all Americans. I'm not running for Congress to be a partisan person. I couldn't give a flip about moving up in the party. I'm running to help Virginia families, don't care whether Republicans help them or Democrats help them, as long as someone helps them. I worked with John Warner and Chuck Robb.
Hurt - Claims he worked across the aisle frequently in the Virginia General Assembly. (uh, dude? you're in CONGRESS now, not the Virginia General Assembly; what relevance does any of this have? plus, I'm highly skeptical Hurt worked across the aisle in the Virginia General Assembly). Claims he's found "many opportunities" to work with Democrats. We "might not know it" because you don't read it in the newspapers. Uh huh. "EPA regulating dust." What a joke, this guy is utterly unserious. Such a failure, can't believe this clown is in Congress.
UPDATE 7:39 pm: Question about "forcible rape". Hurt - I do believe that taxpayers shouldn't have to pay for abortions (note to Hurt - they don't!). Says he's against abortion. There's no "legitimate rape" vs. "illegitimate rape" in this country, "rape is rape." (so why did he vote for that heinous legislation?)
Douglass - Leave family planning up to families. Hurt's side of the aisle says it wants to get rid of regulations, but Virginia legislature wants to get in people's bedrooms and start making rules. Women have come a long way towards equal pay for equal work, come a long way in our military. We'd be up the creek without a paddle without young women in the military, they're defending America. Pretty sad for a young woman to risk her life in Afghanistan, then come back to Virginia and have legislature tell her what she can and can't do with her body. We've come too far to go back now on this.
UPDATE 7:36 pm: Question on marijuana. Douglass - I'm not a doctor. Soldiers don't take marijuana. We do have too many of our kids jailed for minor offenses like using marijuana. Absurd that we have largest % of our population incarcerated than any industrialized country around the world. Hurt - Worked as a prosecutor, got to see real devastating affect of drug use on families. Seems appropriate that marijuana be against the law. This is the first time I've heard this question. We've got 8% unemployment (FALSE!) and we've borrowed $16 trillion (most of which was borrowed under Reagan, Bush and Bush), blah blah blah. What does this have to do with marijuana? What's Hurt smoking, anyway? LOL People smoke marijuana because they don't have jobs? Or something. Who knows what this guy's blabbering about. Mindless.
UPDATE 7:29 pm: Question on M-1 Abrams tank and, more broadly, spending money on military equipment that the Pentagon doesn't want or need, and that we can't afford. Hurt claims he's increased funding for veterans (fact: his party has voted against many bills that would help veterans). Why is Hurt telling us what the three branches of government are, reminding us that it's Congress that spends money. Essentially, Hurt's saying Congresscritters know better than the military leadership what equipment they need in the armed forces. Unbelievable arrogance.
Douglass - As former Asst. Sec. of the Navy, I had members of Congress who never served in the military tell me they know more about the military than I did. Almost always, there's a factory in their district, big contribution to their campaign. What happens is that the soldiers get the short end of the stick, as money is taken away from them and put into tanks, etc. that our soldiers don't need in wars we shouldn't fight. (Wow, Douglass is on fire!) Start by bringing home our troops from Afghanistan, spend that money here in the 5th District. Just because Congress has the power does NOT mean they have the wisdom, we need to listen to our soldiers, people who have put their lives on the line.
UPDATE 7:24 pm: Question on Iran. Douglass says he doesn't support using force against Iran. We invested heavily in anti-mine warfare to keep Strait of Hormuz open. We've been at war too long, we don't need another ground war in Iran. This is a time for diplomacy before anything else, but keep all the options on the table.
Hurt - We all agree that national defense is our highest obligation. Thanks everyone who is active service, salute my opponent General Douglass. Challenges we face require real leadership. Claims foreign policy from this White House has not been leading from the front, been leading from behind. Brings up Benghazi - a national tragedy - and politicizes it. Says we should use diplomacy and sanctions against Iran, before we ever consider using force.
Douglass - I've seen the face of war. There were three kidnap attempts on me. I know what our ambassador was going through over there in Libya. We do have to be strong, but we have to be reasonable, and we need leaders who are soldiers. People who haven't served in military can talk all they want about veterans, but then they take billions away from veterans in the Hurt-Ryan budget.
Hurt - Claims he's never heard any veteran say I shouldn't be in Congress because I didn't serve in the military.
UPDATE 7:18 pm: Question on uranium. This should be interesting! LOL Hurt claims "regulatory structure in this country is killing jobs." Another Big Lie, that's simply not true. Starts blabbering about peaches and farm ponds. Dude, the question was about URANIUM, we know you don't want to talk about it since you're totally compromised on this issue. Obviously, uranium mining is something that takes place in this country and is highly regulated, claims he would never advocate reducing regulation on uranium mining (wait, I thought he said regulations killed the economy).
Douglass - Took Hurt a long time to get around to answering the question. Peach farmers, etc. won't be able to do anything if their farm is radioactive. Hurt tried to take EPA out of regulation of uranium mining. Property values already dropping, just at the prospect of uranium mining coming here. I was Asst. Sec. of Navy, bought every nuclear reactor the Navy bought for 4 or 5 years. I know about uranium, it's DANGEROUS. This is as clear a case as we've ever seen about good vs. greed. We don't need, only a few people will benefit from this, including Cong. Hurt's family. If we get that mine, we won't have the farms, we won't have the peaches, just go to Europe if you want to see.
Hurt - Says Douglass has lied about his relationship to uranium mining, claims (falsely) that he has no conflict on. Claims this is a state issue, that Douglass has shamefully brought this up.
Douglass - Says I'm "General Douglass" not "Mister." We need a Congressman who will protect people in the 5th District. If they do the wrong thing in Richmond, we have to stop it!
UPDATE 7:15 pm: Question on affirmative action. Douglass - Appropriate for colleges to look at ALL of the factors. Need to invest in education so that every single child who wants higher education has opportunity to do that. I've served overseas, we live in a global economy, we have to compete with the world, every child should be looked at as national asset. We should NOT care where they came from, who their parents are, etc. Everyone can help us be strong.
Hurt - There aren't many pleasures of being in Washington, DC. Dude! Then why on earth do you want to be there?!? Why should we hire someone for a job who doesn't WANT the job?!? Amazing. Hurt claims one of his favorite figures is Martin Luther King, "content of their character," claims that's what he believes. (translation: he opposes affirmative action). Starts ranting about how Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi have stood in the way of creating jobs. Total lie, of course, it is HIS PARTY that's the problem.
UPDATE 7:11 pm: Question on education. Hurt says top-quality education is crucial, but of course his party's presidential and VP nominees would utterly decimate it, with the Ryan budget and their austerity economics. Hurt now ranting about the "giant bureaucracy in Washington" and how we need more state and local control over education.
Douglass - Education is key to our future as a country. We're not in a good place right now, rural counties struggling, I've talked to teachers in all 22 counties. Our youngest son is autistic, we couldn't get him educated in the rural schools where our farm is. Kids in rural counties don't get same education as kids in wealthy counties. My opponent wanted to double student loan rates, get rid of Dept. of Education. I was deeply involved in education long before I ran for office. Education is a national security issue, should not be politicized, it's shameful to invoke partisan bickering when it comes to education of our children.
UPDATE 7:07 pm: Question about economy. Douglass says he's optimistic, this is a great country, Americans are a good, hardworking people. Created thousands of jobs producing our warships. Creating jobs requires a partnership, working as a team we can do anything as Americans. We HAVE to work as a team, stop this partisan bickering in Washington. That's why I'm running for Congress. I know how to create jobs.
Hurt - Top issue is jobs. Goes back to the usual right-wing blather/talking points about evil government, "Obamacare," the "stimulus" (which worked, by the way). He has the gall to blame unemployment on THIS administration, not the Bush Administration. Amazing. Basically, this is just lie and distortion upon lie and distortion. Oh, I also love how Hurt claims it's not the House - the most unpopular political body in America - that's at fault! What a jerk.
UPDATE 7:03 pm: Uranium man starts with opening remarks. Hurt claims he was disappointed in the direction of the country, even though it was HIS party's intransigence and crazy ideology that got us into the mess in the first place. Of course, Tom Perriello was an INFINITELY better representative for 5th CD residents than this loser.
John Douglass says he risked his life on numerous occasions to defend Democracy, the right to debate. "I'm not a politician, I'm a soldier." Worked my way through High School, college, rose to rank of Brigadier General in US Air Force. Served with presidents on both sides of the aisle, spent 5 years in Reagan White House, helping to end Cold War. Here tonight to help VA families. Not a career politician. Congress is dysfunctional. Need leadership to look out for seniors, veterans, 5th CD.
UPDATE 7:00 pm: Bob Gibson of the Sorensen Institute is the moderator. He introduces the candidates, the Empty Suit/Corporate Congressman Robert Hurt and Brigadier General John Douglass.
From the John Douglass for Congress campaign. It will be fascinating to see what corporate puppet and empty suit Robert Hurt has to say for himself tonight.
Visit StoppingtheHurt.com For More About the Corporate Congressman's Record
More on the "flip"
Chatham, VA - Ahead of tonight's debate, StoppingtheHurt.com provides the facts about Congressman Hurt's record of selling out to corporations, costing families, political partisanship and uranium payoffs. Watch the debate tonight at 7pm on NBC 29 and ABC 13 or view it online at www.wset.com
Energy & Environment
- Hurt Won’t Stop Uranium Mining in Congress. The Virginia legislature seems close to lifting ban, but Hurt is still willing to leave it as “entirely a state issue.” He even tried to get away with blocking federal safeguards against mining by opposing an amendment to keep particulate pollution produced from uranium mining”subject to the Clean Air Act. [Daily Progress, 08/01/12; Roll Call Vote 909, H.AMDT.905 (A005) [12/08/11]]
- Hurt Stands to Gain from Uranium Mining. It has been widely reported that uranium investors bankroll Hurt’s political career, including executives and his own father’s stake in the estimated $7 billion mining site, including $2,000 from Vice President Walter Coles Jr. (’01-’05, ’07, ’11), $1250 from CEO Norman Reynolds (’01-’03 and ’07) and $750 from Predrag Mastilovic (’07). [FEC and the Virginia Public Access Project]
Economy & Jobs
- Hurt Subsidizes Outsourcers, Blocks Job Training. Hurt pledges to spend billions of dollars on more tax breaks for corporate outsourcers, after being one of only 9 state senators to block job training for laid off workers. [SB 239. 2/8/10; Norquist Pledge]
- Hurt’s Cut to Safety Net. Hurt takes tens of thousands from Goldman Sachs, “a major proponent of privatizing Social Security.”He says balancing the budget requires “deeply cutting those programs right now.” [WSLS, 8/3/11]
Education & Health
- Hurt to End Medicare’s Guaranteed Benefits. Hurt twice-voted to turn Medicare into a private voucher program that could cost $6,400 more in out of pocket expenses for retirees, transit jobs for 11,636 Virginia workers and work study opportunities for 2,570 Virginia students.The Ryan-Hurt budget would also eliminate $11 billion in benefits for veterans. [H Con Res 112 - 2012-2013; Committee on Environment and Public Works State-by-State Impact of Ryan Budget; White House State by State Impact of Proposed GOP Budget for 2013]
- Hurt Leaves Public School Kids Behind
Hurt is an advocate for an across-the-board federal spending cut, specifically mentioning the Department of Education as a target for elimination. “If there’s a good reason for its existence, it’s not clear to me,” said Hurt.” [Washington Post, 01/11]
- Hurt Votes to Allow Loan Rates to Double. Hurt sold out to the big banks that handed him $96,050 in campaign kick-backs when he voted against a bipartisan bill to create transit jobs and stop student loan rates from doubling. [Govtrack.us – H.R. 4348]
- Hurt Votes for Across the Board Cuts to National Security. Hurt voted for the Budget Control Act of 2011, which would result in job losses for 207,571 Virginians, mostly in the defense industry. The automatic cuts, known as sequestration, would “weaken national security, hamstring our system of justice and ruin any opportunity our nation has for timely economic recovery.. [due in part] to the loss of some 3,700 agents and U.S. marshals” in the DOJ, FBI, DEA, ATF and others. [S. 365 ENR; Richmond Times Dispatch, 8/13/12; Politico, 10/3/12]
- Keep Spending Taxpayer Dollars in Afghanistan. The Hurt plan sticks Virginians with the bill for a longer stay in Afghanistan when he voted against a bipartisan resolution directing the President to remove United States Armed Forces from Afghanistan by the end of 2011. [H Con Res 28
Gen. John Douglass is running for Congress in the 5th District to help Virginia families get a fair chance at a better future after serving our country on President Reagan’s National Security Council and then as President Clinton’s Assistant Secretary of the Navy, before going on to promote air and space policies that grow our economy by creating manufacturing jobs and keeping our skies safe.
For more information or to request an interview, email email@example.com, call434-906-2022 and follow us on Twitter @JWDouglass | <urn:uuid:cced4b3d-e48a-426d-a202-6b946bb483c6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://bluevirginia.us/showDiary.do?diaryId=7856 | 2013-05-24T01:58:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962674 | 4,178 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
CG has best seats in the city for Olympic torch
The CG team will be waving their flags in July as the Olympic torch stops right outside the office.
The torch is due to travel past CG’s city centre HQ at around 5.50pm on July 14th, stopping for 15 minutes before continuing its journey through Southampton.
The flame is due to travel almost four miles through Southampton from the Red Funnel ferry terminal, via the Bargate and St Mary’s Stadium before ending at Mayflower Park where an Olympic party will be taking place.
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by Ed Sizemore
Continuing from my previous Otakon report, here is a list of Saturday’s panels and events.
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM Lost in Translation
This was another panel where I forgot to record the moderator’s name. The essence of the panel was to discuss things that can’t be directly translated into English and look at how anime companies have handled such phrases. One thing I learned is that in Japanese the verb is usually the last element of the sentence. That means when a sentence gets cut short, all the translator has is subject and predicate, but no idea of the relationship between the two. Since a phrase like, “Jim, ball” doesn’t make sense in English, translators have to supply verbs that might fit the circumstances. So they might translate the sentence fragment as “Jim got the ball” or “Jim hit the ball” or “Jim, look, a ball!” Other topics discussed were cliches and colloquialisms, gendered pronouns, use of familial language with strangers, and spelling names in English. This was the moderator’s first time running a panel, and she did a great job.
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM Phoenix
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Frederick Schodt Q&A
Fred, as he likes to be called, was one of the first translators of manga. He has written several books on manga; the most famous is Manga! Manga! The World of Japanese Comics. Currently, he is co-translating the Pluto series by Urasawa. This was an unstructured panel that allowed attendees to ask any question they desired. Mostly, Schodt endedup talking about how he got interested in Japan and manga and his experiences as a translator. Most of what he discussed can be found in this interview from Electric Ant magazine. Fred is a great speaker, and the hour flew by.
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM Ghost Slayer Ayashi
This is an animated TV series about a group of ghost/demon slayers set in Japan around the first half of the 19th century. It’s a good action series with a great cast. The animation is excellent. I will be renting this series.
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM Masquerade
This is one of the main reasons I go to anime conventions. The masquerade is where fans play instruments and perform skits, dance numbers, and stand-up comedy in costume. It’s been maligned and misunderstood by the mean-spirited, but for me, it’s the quintessential fan expression of love. I adore the masquerade. What sells it for me is the sincerity of the performers. Are the jokes cheesy? Yes. The acting and writing bad? Of course. Is it wonderful? Unquestionably. If you pardon the puns, it’s awfully charming and charmingly awful. I wouldn’t have it any other way.
It’s three parts anime, two parts video games, one part manga, one part American pop culture, a sprinkle of high school drama, a pinch of high school band, and a dash of randomness all put in a blender set on puree. One routine had a couple in costume flag twirling to a Broadway song, another routine was five girls dressed up as modern Sailor Moon Scouts singing a Spice Girls medley, and another routine was a costumed couple doing ballet. How can you not love such diversity and creativity?
I only stayed for the first two hours, which means I only saw about 2/3 of the acts. I was getting tired and knew I had just enough in me to make the drive back to where I was staying. If I had been staying in Baltimore, I would have stayed for the entire show.
Sunday Events and Panels
9:00 AM – 11:00 AM Resiklo
This was a low-budget, live-action Philippines post-apocalyptic sci-fi film about humans trying to survive after aliens have wrecked havoc on the Earth. It’s definitely a B movie, but I love B movies, so it was right up my alley. You can learn more at the official movie site.
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM The Roots of Japanese Anime
This collection of pre-World War II anime shorts is almost impossible to explain. These were made before the anime industry was trying to copy American animation styles. The shorts are steeped in traditional Japanese culture and story telling. You really have to see them for yourself. You can see a trailer for the DVD set at the official site.
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Osamu Tezuka, Astro Boy, and the Manga/Anime Revolution, moderated by Frederick Schodt
Schodt is currently giving this presentation around the country. He begins with a short biography of Tezuka and early experiences that influenced his writing and art. Schodt then goes on to show how with Astro Boy, Tezuka founded the modern manga system. Simply put, Tezuka demonstrated that you could take a popular serialized manga, collect the stories into trade paperback books, then license the property for animation and merchandising, and finally license the series for overseas distribution. The Astro Boy manga began its run in 1952, and the anime began in 1963, the same year it was licensed for US syndication by NBC. Astro Boy was the first weekly, half-hour, animated series in Japan. Astro Boy became a national icon and a symbol of scientific knowledge and advancement.
I enjoyed this year’s Otakon tremendously. The biggest change for me was going as press and meeting lots of new people. This is also the first year that I spent more time in panels than in the anime rooms. I used to go to conventions because they were the best place to see and sample a larger variety of anime. But with Netflix and Rent Anime, I have access to everything currently on the market and a large percentage of older series. So this has allowed me to shift my focus at conventions.
The shift in focus has given me a renewed enthusiasm for convention going. Truthfully, I half went to Otakon looking for excuses not to go again, but I failed. Instead, I came away with panel ideas for Otakon and maybe myself.
The only sad part of Otakon is the fact it happened the weekend before San Diego Comic Con. Even as I’m typing this, Otakon has already been forgotten by the public. Everyone’s attention is focused on the news coming out of SDCC hourly. Hopefully, Otakon can be scheduled further from any of the other big conventions to keep it from getting lost in the crowd.
With any convention, your attitude going into it greatly determines what you can derive from the experience. Large-scale cons like Otakon really are a culture unto themselves, and you have to have an open mind to see and experience the unexpected. There really is something for everyone at Otakon, and for serious manga and anime fans on the East Coast, I suggest you go at least once. You especially have to attend the Masquerade when you’re there.
Here are links to con reports by my dining companions and a couple others.
- Anime Almanac
- Reverse Thieves
- Ogiue Maniax
- Publishers Weekly
- Anime News Network
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