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“If you are gentle with yourself and accept your setbacks with compassion, you can change your life for the better”. ~Kelly McGonigal
So my mom and I have been working the same waitress job for 5-6 years now. She had been waitressing years before, but this is recently. Anyway, about… 15 minutes ago this guy she waited on left and told her to take care. Just that. Prior to this she had talked to him about Italy. Her people are from Florence, this and that, and she said she’s never been. She’s got 8 years of art education and she’s working a waitress job. It’s pretty… Sad and disappointing, I guess. Her and my father divorced 6 years ago and she hasn’t had a real job ever. Just been stuck in a small town she’s not from.
This man who we have never seen before tipped her 1000 dollars for a trip to Italy. Walked out, not another word.
…you know. Just when I start to lose faith in humanity….Hm.
An Indulgent Aunt on Etsy
I love this! <3
I just found PicMonkey.com :-) Yay!
Some postures of the Sarvangasana Cycle (there are some others I’ll put in another picture).
If you can’t stay 5 minutes in sarvangasana, practice the amount of time you can! And don’t practice it when you have your period.
Yay! I learned how to make cool collages, with this video tutorial!
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I couldn’t have said it better! #regram #yogainstructors #yoga #mylife
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Two killed in mishap in Amethi
Amethi: Two persons were on Friday
killed and five others injured when their car collided with a truck near Gauriganj.
The incident took place when the driver of the car lost control over the vehicle, Circle Officer, Gauriganj, Aditya Shukla said.
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No Arsenal games, but that doesn’t mean our boys aren’t in action at EURO 2012. Our players’ performances so far have been a mixed bag, some have set the world alight, some wish the ground would open up and swallow them, and others have been warming the bench. Let’s check in on our European stars:
Szczesny – Had one really bad day at the office and hasn’t played since. Got his wires crossed with his defender terribly wrong and allowed Greece an easy open goal. If that wasn’t enough he was, perhaps unluckily sent off as he was one on one with his man. Did what he could, made himself big, but that’s the risk you have to take. To rub salt into the wound Smuda did not call him up for the third match (even though he was available after a one match suspension) which was disappointing. Szczesny is a mature goalkeeper with a world of confidence in him, I’m sure he’ll be fine, but this horror tournament, especially the fact he wasn’t recalled in the third game might test this confidence.
Arshavin – Why can’t be play like this for Arsenal? It is frustrating to see him make assist after assist for Russia, dictating the play, really showing his opponents who is boss. Overall a great tournament, but whether or not we’ll see him back at Arsenal remains to be seen. Massive shock to see his country bow out after such a great start.
Rosicky – Had a tough time of it in the opening game as his side was thrashed by Russia. Couldn’t really play his natural game in midfield, as he spent a lot of time tracking back. Against Greece this completely changed, his vision and movement were excellent as he found gaps in the Greek defence. Ruled out with injury for the game against Poland, let’s hope he makes a swift recovery.
Podolski – Has been quiet given his ridiculously high standards, however celebrated his 100th appearance in a Germany shirt with a goal. The youngest player ever in Europe to make 100 appearances for his country, what an achievement.
Mertesacker – Has been warming the bench.
Van Persie – Was playing in a team who severely underperformed. Had a couple of uncharacteristic misses against Denmark in the first game. Made up for with a brilliant right footed finish against the Germans, but overall wasn’t the shining star he is for the Arsenal, partially due to himself, but mainly due to a team who was poor, and played like a team of champions, rather than a champion team.
Bendtner – Surprisingly efficient and helped by a Denmark side who dug deep in a group of death, where they had nothing to lose. A brace against Portugal almost got them a priceless point.
Walcott - Came on very late against France, but really came into his own against Ukraine. His half hour burst started off with a dipping shot from outside the box, equalising for England. Then his weaving run set up Wellbeck for the winner. If ever there was an impact substitute.
Oxlade-Chamberlain – Started the game against France, adjusted well to the baptism of fire that was his first competitive game for his country. Made a few useful runs before being substituted late on. Hardly used against Ukraine.
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Shermans Travel » Blog » New Pope Announced: Places to Wear Red Slippers!
New Pope Announced: Places to Wear Red Slippers!
But seriously, this probably isn’t cool. Pope Bergoglio might find offense to this.
This seems like a no-brainer. Kick back anywhere you please and sport some fashionable red fuzzy ones.
Did you know that in Hawaii, they call flip flops ‘slippers?’ That’s crazy – right?! What do they call slippers?
Who could forget Dorothy’s famous glitzy heels? Of course she had to make this round-up!
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They Reminisce, They Reminisce
July 19, 2007
Over at HipHopMusic.com, which Jay Smooth has relaunched as a group blog, Brandon Soderberg offers When They Reminisce Over Mixtapes. The same industry that makes millions from “Now That’s What I Call Cherry-Picking Hit Singles! Vol 42” tries to throw black artists in jail for making mixtapes that were commissioned by the labels themselves. And an artform dies in the crossfire.
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TATA MOTORS placement paper MAY 2006
The test consisted of 2 parts aptitude and technical. Aptitude part cosisted of regular stuff like RC's, Maths, Analogies Word Meanings etc. There was negative marking of abt 1/3 mark for every wrong question.
The maths section of Aptitude consisted of a lots of questions of probability.
I woud suggest that u get all your probability fundas in place before the test.
Rest all was regular stuff.
English section was relatively the easiest.
Then there was technical section.
U need to be technically very sound to answer these question.
Technical questions were really tough and they had some question from the stuff we study in +2 like ideal gas equation, vander wals eqn etc.
Bottom line for clearing the test is to give in your best in aptitude section. Questions in apt are easier and less time consuming. After the test there was GD for the students who got through.
We got to discuss on the topic "Should higher education in
be Privatised" After GD students who got through were interviewed. India
There were around 6-7 DGM and AGM's(Was really Scary Situation) throwing questions of all sorts at you.
There were some HR questions in start like Tell us something about yourself, what does your father do, would you be comfortable if sent to Places like Pune, Jamshedpur , Dharwad or Lucknow etc
Then there was some hardcore technical stuff. Most of the people were asked about their Projects both while Training and their major projects. Sp be very clear about them.
Some people like me were asked about their fav subject which in my case was quality control and inspection and i was asked about control charts...... and about engine working.
One amazing thing i found was that all the people taking interview were really polite and were really encouraging. So i would suggest you to be calm and composed, if u dont know something just potray your ignorance and they would not mind. Wrong answers and guesses irritated them. Average time taken up in interview was around 25minutes. Finally the interview process | <urn:uuid:8eea9aa3-1df8-43f4-a027-c57b5d77887e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://forums.sureshkumar.net/tata-motors-placement-papers/19093-tata-motors-placement-paper-may-2006-a.html | 2013-05-26T03:43:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706578727/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121618-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984855 | 443 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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The MX-81 Hypersonic Operations Aircraft Covered with high-tech alien-fighting weaponry, the MX-81 is five incredible vehicles in one, including a mining scout rover with quick-deployment platform, twin attack cruisers with swing-out wings, a mobile flying lab, and more.
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"Geocoding is the process of finding associated geographic coordinates (often expressed as latitude and longitude) from other geographic data, such as street addresses, or zip codes. With geographic coordinates the features can be mapped and entered into Geographic Information Systems, or the coordinates can be embedded into media such as digital photographs via geotagging."
"Reverse Geocoding is the opposite: finding an associated textual location such as a street address, from geographic coordinates."
Clicking on the map near roads sends a request to get the address by location (street number, street name,postcode/zipcode & country). In the screenshot a click was made halfway along 'Downing Street' response was 10 Downing Street, SW1A 2, UK.
Virtual Earth has been updated and there is lots of advances and new features this is just one working example that can be implemented in a few lines of code.
Find sporting events or concerts by location fast.
Map Channels is an exceptional website portal and provider of a range of free mapping tools and custom mapping services:
It has now expanded and now integrates events, mapping and ticket purchase in one website.
Quickly locate events all over the world and select the event by map or city search, also different currencies are supported.
"A world of events at your fingertips" • Interactive event calendars and venue maps • Find events by name, category, date or location • Ticket price comparison • View city tours, attractions and activities • Explore venues with Google Street View and Google Earth
* Static maps * Direct map tile access * Aerial map imagery metadata * Pushpin clustering * Landmark-based directions * Improved geocoding * Expanded rooftop geocoding in the US
# Pushpin clustering. Use the VEShapeLayer.SetClusteringConfiguration Method to set how to display and cluster overlapping pushpins for better shape display at higher altitudes.
# Hints for route instructions. Help your users find route turns with hints about nearby landmarks and intersections using the VERouteItineraryItem.Hints Property.
# Imagery metadata. Retrieve information about imagery using the VEMap.GetImageryMetadata Method.
# Base map disabling. Use the Virtual Earth Mercator projection in non-mapping applications by turning off the base map with the VEMapOptions.LoadBaseTiles Property. You can use the VEMap.HideScalebar Method as well.
# Support for other languages. Retrieve maps with labels in French, German, Italian, and Spanish from Virtual Earth. See the Returning Localized Results topic for a list of supported culture strings.
# 3D model import. Import 3D model data files into a shape layer using the VEMap.Import3DModel Method. Interact with these models as you would any shape.
# Updated interactive SDK. See the new functionality of the Virtual Earth map control demonstrated in the updated Virtual Earth Interactive SDK. [not yet available]
Seems to me that Nokia are now competing with Google Picasa 3. Though the Nokia application seems to be more seamless with loading geotagged photos from your phone and showing those photos on a map than Picasa is. Maybe Picasa 4 will make use of the Google Map API and overlay photos onto that.... there is hoping. Nokia ViNe Alpha (Mapping) Nokia ViNe application is currently in closed Alpha but the website is up and running.
"new geo-tracking-photo-and-video-and-music application" Clinton Jeff - Darla Mack
ViNe combines and uploads music, photos and gps tracks you record from your Nokia Device on one process.
Why the fuss? Why not use the applications that already exist? It's one application that encapulates three applications and expands the mapping potential of geo-location tagged files (photo,music & video). The Mapping is based in flash (website) - the users tracks link photo, music and videos that were captured when the ViNe Application is set to record. There are concerns over the battery life - lucky for Nokia this is still in pre-release alpha and can be addressed before a public beta version. Nokia's LifeviNe project has been renamed, it seems, to just Nokia ViNe.
There is nothing new but - for the non-savvy phone user it makes it easier for the user to record trip for sharing with friends afterwards.
For a more in depth review of the new application vist the Darla Mack Blog below where the whole process is shown.
As Google have released v2.3.1 of Google Maps Mobile It is now possible to access 'StreetView' and 'Walking Directions' on Mobile Devices
Here is the new Streetview functionality on a Nokia N82
Street view (screen shot from a Nokia N82 here) is new to mobile devices but there is huge data transfers (2000k+) so make sure you have access to wifi or an unlimited data plan (3G/GPRS) *Expand button makes streetview full screen. The images are large (in terms for mobile devices) and a little grainy when panning around but does sharpen up when paused.
This is top news for GIS users who support Open Street Map, there is no longer any need to convert the osm.bz2 to shapefiles as it is supplied in shape format now. Directory Listing now with Shapefiles
This saves time (and money) Extracting Footpaths - No conversion needed only re-projecting the data for the UK into British National Grid.
Full Directory http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/ (updated daily)
TO DO: (fictional to-date) Load into a File Geodatabase Check Attribution (Q&A) Build Topology - Clean Data (snapping linework) Build Network (checking phase) export to SQL Routing (via Postgres and PG Routing) Create Buffering Routes - find my nearest... (pub on my footpath route) (load into an online mapping api and have UK footpaths route-able!)
Review of the Day at Wembley Stadium 17/09/2008 The new turf getting laid down for the next event England v Kazakhstan (thanks the friendly security guard for letting me go turf side to take this pic.)
Meeting some of the real developers people for Google Maps API but not all. Some wanting more details of what is coming - like the reverse geocoder and new geocoder response (creates a bounding box set of coordinates so zoom levels can be applied). But Google rarely give away what is likely to be coming out.
Seemed a little less busy than last years event maybe due to having more space.
Some items like 'clouds' and 'dojo' completely over my head for some of it. Like the Google Apps potential for saleability - 4 users or 400,000 users hosted and load balancing handled by Google.
(jump to 2.25 minutes in the video to view the maps)
Good Food, Good Location, Good Company made a nice day out.
Google have announced the full line up for the day
Here are the 'Mapping' related sessions
Mashing up Google Data APIs
This session will provide a quick overview of Google Data APIs and demonstrate some ways to use them in mashups with other APIs like Maps, App Engine and more. Expect to see code in a variety of languages.
A Deeper Look at Google App Engine
Google App Engine allows you to build and run applications on the same highly scalable web infrastructure that Google uses to run it own applications. This allows you to build an application once, and then never have to worry about how many people are using it, how many machines you're using, or how you're going to handle all the traffic. This talk will introduce you to the basic features of Google App Engine, and walk you through building a quick, interactive application.
Some of the topics we will cover are:
App Engine's Datastore
Authentication using Google accounts
The web framework
Our image manipulation API
App Engine best practices
This session is intended for intermediate developers who are new to Google App Engine.
Prerequisites: If you want to follow along with setting up an application, then you should have a laptop with Python 2.5 and the App Engine Development Server installed and an App Engine account. Python knowledge is helpful but not required.
What's New in Geo
This session will cover recent developments in Google Maps and Google Earth, including the Earth browser plugin and new ways to share and leverage geographic data.
Gears for mobile and the new Geolocation API
Prerequisites: You should have reviewed the Gears APIs on code.google.com/apis/gears and in particular, have familiarised yourself with the Geolocation API.
Note:It is recommended you have a laptop with the 'Prerequisites' installed.
Very impressive Silverlight Demonstration showing weather (cloud/radar) across the USA. (Hurricane Ike can be seen in the bottom right)
Silverlight 2.0 interface and Virtual Earth tiles with real time weather feeds showing current weather conditions. There also is a radar refresh rate 5 minutes or 15 minutes http://demo2.ischosting.net/weathersldemo/ [requires Microsoft Sliverlight]
Other geospatial applications that can be used with Virtual Earth:
26 September 2008 11:00 GMT, London (so 12 noon as UK is on BST)
Following the success of the previous webcast, the second of our quarterly Virtual Earth technical briefings is once again presented by Johannes Kebeck, EMEA Virtual Earth Technology Specialist.
This webcast is aimed at developers and offers an opportunity to get an update on the Virtual Earth platform. Additionally you will learn some of the latest tips and tricks and can take part in an online Q&A with Johanne.
Thursday, October 02, 2008 9:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada) (5pm BST)
Microsoft is excited to announce the latest version of the Virtual Earth platform, which can now deliver the Virtual Earth mapping experience on the desktop, on mobile devices, and via broadcast. The new release features mobile support, expanded international mapping, richer imagery, a broader range of data, and improved functionality. Organizations using Virtual Earth can see more and do more than ever, with enhancements that allow users to find, discover, and visualize data in new and innovative ways. http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032388370&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US
Virtual Earth Globalisation BBC 'The BBC BOX' that is getting tracked around the globe using a GPS beacon that is attached to a Shipping Container. Not very exciting stuff currently but in a year hopefully the paths of the all the routes it has taken will be shown on the Map. Update: They have just filled the BBC Box with whiskey in Glasgow.
This Shipping Container is going to be tracked for a year.
BBC Virtual Earth is being used to track the box at a 12 hourly rate.
"We decided to have a little fun and do a friendly ranking of some relevant blogs. The Top 25 Blogs in GIS, GeoWeb and Cartography will be ranked according to the number of sites/blogs linking to each, as reported by Technorati. If a blog does NOT have Technorati Authority (if they have not registered for example), then we’ll take the number of blog reactions listed and divide by 3 for an estimate.
We realize Technorati is not a perfect barometer, but it is open, and this is not a FortiusOne subjective ranking. We think this will be a great way to share blogs and get feedback from others regarding their top GIS, GeoWeb and cartography blog picks. We’ll note changes in rankings, new blogs and up and coming blogs.
If you’re on the list and feel so inclined, you’re welcome to place the following badge on your blog to share your ranking."
NOTE* The most annoying issue for this site is not the author's fault at all. It's the Ordnance Survey with ridiculously low openspace tile quota (currently 30,000 per 24hrs). This is a very popular site and 30,000 tile impressions needs to be 75,000 at least. Why does the Ordnance Survey insist of bottlenecking useful web mapping applications? And why allow users to have 1:50,00 colour rasters (Landranger Maps) and StreetView 1:10,000 and not the very useful 1:25,000 (Explorer Maps)?
The interactive tracking map will show storms current center location and forecasted positions based on the latest advisory from the National Hurricane Center.
The predictor is activated when you click on labeled town/city in front of the current location of the storm.
Clean layout and ease of use make this a compelling map for all users.
Other information is available
Clicking ‘More‘ will bring up Wind Fields, Ocean Buoys, Map Grid, and Map Labels. Wind Fields will hide or show the reach of the storm’s winds, displayed as circles around the selected point. These circles represent Tropical Depression force (white), Storm force (yellow), and Hurricane force (orange) winds.
The Ocean Buoys option loads the latest observations sourced from the National Data Buoy Center. This may take a moment depending on your internet connection speed. Ocean buoys appear as blue boxes that can be clicked for more details. Land-based weather stations appear as red boxes that can also be clicked for the latest observations from that location.
The Map Grid option will hide and show latitude and longitude lines, including the equator and tropics.
The Map Labels option will hide and show labels for cities, countries, continents, oceans, and seas.
There are currently lots of maps out there showing the status of hurricane Gustav but this one created by MSNBC simplifies all of the huge amounts of data and makes it easy for users to see what is currently going on right now.
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Good vs Evil school.
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2.No killing (unless the character says you can kill him off)
3.No eating bugs
4.Dont kill or harm the staff...please
5. No sex. keep it pg-13
6.No leaving school grounds
Good or Evil:
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Powers(max 3): can control the element of wind. Can control plasma, and has dragon wings protruting from his back. (Yes that counts as a power)
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The TinCaps’ six-game winning streak came to an end Tuesday night, as they lost, 3-2, to the first-place Bowling Green Hot Rods at Parkview Field.
Joe Ross had what in any other game against any other team would be a pretty good start–6IP, 5H, 3ER, 2BB, 7K–but this wasn’t any team. Bowling Green is a pesky group that finds way s to get on base and is able to manufacture runs unlike any other team in the Eastern Division. They steal bases seemingly at will (81% of the time they’re successful) and don’t hit many home runs, but they get timely hits.
One of the biggest plays of the game, although it didn’t necessarily seem like it at the time, was a wild pitch that he threw with Tyler Goeddel at the plate in the third inning. Joey Rickard had led off the inning with a single up the middle, and the wild pitch allowed him to go to second base.
Jose Valentin said after the game that it appeared Ross had mistaken a pick-off signal from the dugout for a pitch-out signal, which led to the wild pitch. As it turned out, Goeddel followed with a single to left, and the next batter, Luke Maile, singled to right, scoring Rickard. With a final score of 3-2, that turned out to be the game’s deciding run. Ross finished the inning smoothly after that, striking out Justin O’Conner and inducing a double play off the bat of Tommy Coyle. That miscommunication, however, ended up being costly, as did Fort Wayne’s lack of timely hitting.
“Today the clutch hit never came,” Valentin said after his team went 0-for-7 with runners in scoring position.
The eighth and ninth innings were especially crucial for Fort Wayne. They had the bases loaded and nobody out with Gabriel Quintana at the plate, where a base hit could have tied the game, with the TinCaps trailing, 3-1. Quintana instead grounded into a double play, bringing home a run, but killing any chance at a big rally. With the tying run on third, Luis Tejada meekly popped out to second, ending the inning. Alberth Martinez came up in the ninth inning with the tying run at second base, but struck out to end the game.
Today it’s a battle of first-rounders on the hill as the TinCaps and Hot Rods square off at 11:05. Max Fried, who went 5 2/3 innings last start without giving up a hit, faces Blake Snell of Bowling Green. Snell, who was a supplemental first-round pick of the Rays in 2011, has allowed a first-inning run in five of six starts this season. In the first inning, Snell has surrendered eight total runs. In every other inning outside the first, Snell has surrendered four total runs. (That stat courtesy of the Bowling Green Media Relations Department, also known as the one and only Hank Fuerst.)
From the other side of the tracks, the TinCaps are a perfect 5-0 with Fried on the mound. Who will be the victor?
We meant of this baseball game, Mr. Hugo, but thanks for the offer.
You’ll have to tune in (or show up) to find out. Join me and Kent Hormann on XFINITY 81 at 11:00 or check out John Nolan and Mike Maahs on The Fan 1380 and TheFanFortWayne.com at 10:45.
TROLLEY TO THE GAME
The TinCaps are offering a new service today, where you can park for free and ride to the game on a trolley. It’ll be just like you’re on an episode of Full House! I know what you’re saying, “Cut. It. Out.”
But we’re for real. Here are the details of how you can park and ride for free:
Those attending the Fort Wayne TinCaps 11:05am day game on Wednesday, May 15th will have an additional parking option. The team announced that they will be providing free parking located at 2400 West Jefferson Boulevard, adjacent to SweetCars and Westwood Lanes. Once game attendees have parked, they will be transported to Parkview Field by trolley directly to the South Gate of the ballpark.
The lot at 2400 West Jefferson Boulevard will be open for service at 10:00am with trolleys running every 15 minutes. Drop off will take place directly in front of the South Gate at Parkview Field. Trolleys will continue running until 45 minutes after the final out of Wednesday’s TinCaps game.
To hear post-game thoughts from TinCaps Manager Jose Valentin, listen to the podcast below:
Justin Timberlake…take it away!
Last night featured the type of game that good teams win, or that bad teams lose–it all depends on whose side you take. Facing Dayton in the finale of a three-game series, the TinCaps were down 2-0 after five innings, having been befuddled at the plate all night long by Dragons starter Robert Stephenson. He was dominant, striking out seven batters and not issuing a single walk for his second straight start. Stephenson, a first-round pick in 2011, allowed just one unearned run.
And then either a) the bullpen came in or b) the bats came to life. The Dragons brought in Wandy Peralta, a pitcher who was 0-3 and had an ERA of 5.14. He left the evening with a record of 0-4 and an ERA of 6.14, after giving up four runs (three earned) in just an inning of work. Peralta, it is safe to say, is not the best pitcher in the Dayton bullpen. The Dragons pitching staff has also been the worst in the league ERA-wise, with a staff mark of 4.80. Fort Wayne checks in at 3.67, which is fifth.
Peralta gave up a two-run homer to Brian Adams in the sixth, and two more runs were charged to his tab in the seventh, after he left with runners on base. Even though the TinCaps trailed, 4-1, yesterday, they still made a valiant comeback effort to win the game, 5-4.
They won their sixth consecutive game, and they are still just one game behind first-place South Bend and Bowling Green heading into tonight’s home game with the Hot Rods.
Bowling Green took two out of three from the TinCaps when they squared off last month in Kentucky, and two of the games were blowouts (Bowling Green won 10-5 and 12-6) before the TinCaps eked out a 3-2 win in the series finale. The Hot Rods have the best staff ERA in the league at 2.69 (second place is Burlington at 3.44), and they also have the second-most wins in the league (23). This will be a big series for the TinCaps who can go into first place with a series win, or fall further back if they dont.
In today’s TinCaps Report Podcast, I chat with catcher Rodney Daal about his quintlingualism (made that word up, but he speaks five languages) and how Spongebob was one of the first shows he watched from the U.S. when growing up in The Netherlands:
Mike Stud…take it away!
It’s the final day of the TinCaps’ quick three-day stint here in Dayton, Ohio, and Fort Wayne plays today for a sixth straight win. The TinCaps swept the Great Lakes Loons at Parkview Field last week, and now are looking for a three-game sweep here against the Dragons. Despire their less than stellar 12-23 record, the Dragons have not been swept in a three-game series yet this season.
Some notes for today’s game:
-Fort Wayne’s five-game winning streak is its longest of the season. A six-game winning streak would mark the first one since July 16-22, 2012, which was the team’s longest streak of the year last year.
-Over the first two games of this series, the Fort Wayne catchers have been the catalysts for the offense. Saturday Dane Phillips went 3-for-5 with a home run, and yesterday Rodney Daal went 4-for-4 with two home runs and four runs batted in.
-TinCaps starting pitchers have gone at least five innings in every game (10) this month. The starters’ ERA is 2.51 during that stretch, when the team has gone 10-3.
-Walker Weickel looks for his first Midwest League victory, and just the second win of his professional career tonight. The pitching matchup features two first-round draft selections, in Weickel (#55, 2012) and Dayton’s Robert Stephenson (#27, 2011). Stepehnson, who is from Martinez, California, was taken two sports behind Fort Wayne’s Joe Ross. The Dragons righthander is coming off the best outing of his pro career, having dominated Lansing on Wednesday, throwing six innings, allowing three hits, no runs, no walks, and striking out nine.
Air time is 6:40 on The Fan 1380 and TheFanFortWayne.com. I hope you’ll join me.
LIFE ON THE ROAD
I had lunch today at Jimmie’s Ladder 11, a restaurant near the University of Dayton. It’s built in what was once a firehouse, constructed in 1896. When the firehouse was built, the fire department relied on horses to take them to the location of the fire.
Here’s a cool little piece from the restaurant. This is a railing, that was behind where I was seated, and it’s got Monopoly “Chance” and “Community Chest” pieces in it, surrounded by dominoes. The support for the railing, according to the information listed on the back of the menu, is made from the old radiators that were in the firehouse, and the original brass fire pole in the fire house.
FROM THE DUGOUT
TinCaps middle-infielder Maxx Tissenbaum blogs throughout the season, and today put up a new post, writing about the team’s current winning streak. He also included a great anecdote about his first-ever trip here to Fifth Third Field in Dayton:
“Let me flash back to June of 2008. I was a high school Junior, and had just been selected o play on Team Canada during its spring Dominican Summer League trip. I was beginning to receive letters from both college and pro teams requesting more information on both my playing, and my academic careers. When I found out I’d be away from home for 10 days I knew I’d be missing out on the excitement of checking the mail to see who wanted me to fill out what forms. I told my parents that I wanted them to call me every time someone sent me baseball related mail, and told them to open it and read it to me. I came home from one of our games against the DSL teams and had my daily phone call with my mom and she joked “okay it’s time to commit mail fraud,” a running joke over the course of the week. What she read next floored me. I had been a relatively obscure player in terms of the prospect rankings, and so I was totally off guard when she told me that the New York Yankees had sent me a huge package. She read to me that they wanted me to go to a workout in Dayton, where I’d be evaluated by scouting directors, cross-checkers and other pro scouts from across MLB. I freaked out, I wrote it in my calendar, and put in on my computer I made sure there were reminders everywhere. When I came home I made sure to rearrange the exam I had scheduled for the morning of the workout. My parents and I traveled to Dayton, and I walked through the home plate gate of 5th 3rd Field where I met the scout who had invited me. He handed me a Yankees batting practice jersey and cap, and told me to head to the 3rd base dugout. I sat there putting on my spikes with about 50 other high school kids in either Yankees, Reds, Diamondbacks or Tigers uniforms. We were all wide eyed, and I’d assume more nervous than any of us let on. The workout was a blast, I got to work with all sorts of pro scouts and coaches, got to play with and against some of the top players in my graduating class and to top it all off I was in a GORGEOUS minor league stadium. Let’s just say it was one of my best baseball memories.”
To hear my Sunday Conversation with TinCaps Manager Jose Valentin in which we discuss his durable six-man rotation, his dilemma at catcher, and how important his wife, Ilka, is to his family, listen below:
It was Mother’s Day yesterday, and when you do a little Googling, you’ll find this great MLB.com photo from 2005, where Jose discusses how important his wife is:
WISLER ON THE MOVE
Padres farmhand Matt Wisler, who was with the TinCaps last season, spending almost the entire season as a 19-year-old, was promoted to Double-A San Antonio this season after just six starts with Advanced-A Lake Elsinore. That is not a normal rate of progression. In fact, it’s much faster than normal. Corey Brock of MLB.com has a great story on Wisler today, and his rise through the farm system:
“He’s pretty calm out there, but he’s got that bulldog inside of him,” Hedges said. “He’s not the guy who is going to have these crazy antics or start pumping his fists. He just goes out there expecting himself to get every hitter out. When something doesn’t work, he digs even deeper and still finds a way.”
Better still, Wisler doesn’t claim to have all the answers about pitching. He’s been a sponge with his pitching coaches along the way. His coach in Fort Wayne last season, Willie Blair, now bullpen coach for the Padres, helped Wisler sharpen his slider.
“From last year to this year, my confidence is so much better,” Wisler said. “I know I’m going to get guys out. I trust myself more. I feel better from the stretch. I’m learning how to pitch to guys more. I learned a lot last year about facing guys, seeing what they can hit, what they can’t hit.”
No Doubt…take it away!
Before we get to any baseball today: Happy Mother’s Day. Very special wishes to my mother, Diane, who has raised (tolerated?) me for 23, and going on 24 years. What a fantastic person she is. Here’s all of the Couzens family at my sister Kimberly’s graduation from college in 2007.
A special thanks, on behalf of the players, to the baseball moms who have driven/taxi’d/flown their children halfway across the country and back to help them achieve their goals of playing professional baseball. Thanks for reading, and I hope you have a great day.
Now, to baseball-related items…
-The TinCaps are on a four-game winning streak, their longest since July 28th-August 1st last year when they won five straight. They’ve outscored their opponents 18-10 in the last four games.
-Fort Wayne’s starting pitchers have gone the entire month of May (9 games so far), each throwing at least five innings. Last night Zach Eflin went a career-high six innings, and picked up his first professional win in front of a crowd of 9,491, the largest crowd the TinCaps may see this season.
-The home runs hit by Brian Adams and Dane Phillips last night were the first in a week by any member of the TinCaps. Gabriel Quintana, who is back in the lineup, last hit one in the series opener at Peoria LAST Saturday. Fort Wayne was swept in that three-game series, only scoring two runs the whole set.
-Ruben Mejia starts today, taking the hill as a starting pitcher for the third time this season. The TinCaps are 0-2 in his outings this year.
First pitch is at 2:00, so if you’re out barbecuing, don’t be afraid to flip on the radio; I won’t mind (or know, but you can tell me you did, anyway). Pre-game coverage begins at 1:40, and I’ll have Jose Valentin as my guest to talk about how well his pitchers have worked the last week or so, and his thoughts on how important his wife has been helping to raise his kids, as he has been away from his family playing baseball. You can tune in on The Fan 1380 and TheFanFortWayne.com. Talk to you on the radio.
FIFTH THIRD FIELD ABBREVIATED TOUR
One of my favorite parts of Fifth Third Field is the basement level, which houses each team’s clubhouse. On the way to the visiting clubhouse is a one-of-a-kind hallway, which features the logo of every team in the Midwest League. Not surprisingly, the TinCaps logo is featured first:
Up on the suite level, where the press box is located, there are 29 luxury suites. Here’s a look inside one of the newly-renovated ones:
Here’s my Saturday conversation with the first voice of the Fort Wayne Wizards, and now sixth-year voice of the Dayton Dragons, Tom Nichols:
THE PADRES’ PLUMBER
Before I arrived in Fort Wayne, I spent the 2011 season working as the broadcasting and media relations assistant with the Dayton Dragons. Part of my responsibilities were to put together a feature story each Saturday night, and the one I’ve shared below is one of my favorites. Dragons hitting coach Alex Pelaez, now in his third season with the team, reached the major leagues in 2002, but only for three games with the Padres. 90% of the players on all minor league rosters will never make it to the big leagues, so for Pelaez to be one of the few to ever reach the apex of baseball is no small feat. Hear from his then-Triple-A manager (with the now-defunct Portland Beavers) Rick Sweet, and from Pelaez himself about his trip to the majors, and how he hopes to make it back:
Lit…take it away!
Greetings and salutations from the home of the Dayton Dragons, Fifth Third Field in Dayton, Ohio:
The TinCaps open a three-game series here tonight against the Midwest League affiliate of the Cincinnati Reds. First pitch is at 7:00, and I’ll have pre-game coverage at 6:40 on The Fan 1380 and TheFanFortWayne.com. I hope you’ll join me, as my pre-game guest is the first-ever voice of the Fort Wayne Wizards, and now voice of the Dayton Dragons, Tom Nichols, who has called more than 3,000 Minor League Baseball games in stops like Fort Wayne, Mobile, Alabama, and Gary, Indiana.
Some notes heading into today’s game:
-Fort Wayne’s starting pitchers have gone eight straight games in which they have thrown at least five innings. Joe Ross began the trend on Wednesday, May 1st, and Justin Hancock extended the streak last night by going a career-high (and season-high for TinCaps pitchers) seven innings. During the stretch, TinCaps pitchers have allowed 13 runs in 46 innings, working to a 2.54 ERA.
-Corey Adamson has hit in seven different spots in Jose Valentin’s lineup this season, and has excelled no matter where he’s been. He’ll be hitting leadoff tonight. He’s got a .313 batting average and a .398 on-base percentage through his first 27 games. Last year in 29 games, he hit just .111 with the TinCaps.
-The Dragons have gotten off to a rocky start, beginning the year with a 12-21 record, and playing to just a 6-10 record at home. Their series victory against Lansing in the previous set was their first series win of the season.
-Here is last night’s post-game interview with Luis Tejada, and a look at the highlights from Fort Wayne’s 6-2 win over Great Lakes:
Calvin Harris…take it away!
HISTORY IN FORT WAYNE
Many folks left Parkview Field Thursday night shaking their heads. Not in disappointment, but more in bewilderment, as they’d never seen a game quite like the one that had just witnessed. For a few reasons, the strange walk-off walk to Brian Adams among those, they certainly were normal to feel that way. But the chief reason to feel like Thursday night brought a game like no one had seen before in Fort Wayne’s 21-year history as a franchise was because, well, it hadn’t happened.
Until last night, there had never been a nine-inning no-hitter thrown, by one pitcher or by a team, by either the Wizards or the TinCaps. Fort Wayne defeated Great Lakes, 1-0, and did not allow a hit all night. Max Fried started the game, turning in his best Midwest League performance, after having not pitched in thirteen days. He went 5 2/3 innings, struck out eight batters, and walked four. Matthew Shepherd pitched 1 1/3 innings, while Leonel Campos and Roman Madrid each pitched an inning, too.
It was a special night for Fried, a native of California, who had his dad in attendance. Even though the family lives on the west coast, Fried told me after the game that his father happened to be in Chicago, and was able to make the trip over to Fort Wayne to see his son start.
Here’s the post-game recap, including my interview with Fried:
The first Fort Wayne no-hitter came in 2009, tossed by Simon Castro in a seven-inning win over Dayton. Last night’s game was the third in the Midwest League this year, and the 155th no-hitter in the history of the Midwest League, dating back to 1950. The league has already seen three no-hitters in just more than one month of play, while last year there were only two all season. With the incredible number of games that have been postponed this year (four more yesterday), it’s no surprise there have already been three no-hitters.
How about this stat on Roman Madrid, who picked up his fourth win of the season last night?
He’s the only pitcher in the Midwest League to lead the league in wins (4) and saves (5). Last year with Eugene, Madrid finished the year as the team’s leader in wins (7) and saves (13). He’s on pace to easily surpass those numbers this season. And, by the way, he still has not allowed an earned run this season.
“It’s bittersweet,” Madrid told MiLB.com after the game. “I wish someone who threw more innings than I did got the win. I came in and got a couple of big plays by my defense. We came back in, got some guys on and got a run in. We all picked each other up as a team.”
Perhaps even more remarkable, is the success the TinCaps have had when either Joe Ross or Fried takes the hill. When Ross pitches, the TinCaps are 6-0. When Fried starts, Fort Wayne is 5-0. When anyone else starts, they’re 7-13.
Tonight Justin Hancock gets the call (they’re 3-2 when he pitches) against one of the league’s top arms in Great Lakes’ Carlos Frias, whose 0.91 ERA is now the best in the Midwest League. The Loons are riding a seven-game losing streak, while the TinCaps, after being swept in Peoria, will look to take out their anger with a home sweep over Great Lakes.
Tonight’s action starts at 7:05. You can watch the game with me and Kent Hormann on XFINITY 81 or listen with Mike Maahs on The Fan 1380 and TheFanFortWayne.com.
Here’s post-game audio from the TinCaps locker room after yesterday’s win:
TURN THE TOWN PINK
The TinCaps’ very own Walker Weickel, Maxx Tissenbaum, Brian Adams and Matthew Shepherd were out early this morning around downtown Fort Wayne, helping to turn the town pink. It’s a joint effort between the TinCaps and the Vera Bradley Foundation:
Today is wear pink day, and May 23rd (7:05 home game against South Bend) is Turn the Park Pink day. See those special jerseys the guys are wearing? There’s more where that came from…
It’ll be a big weekend in Syracuse, New York, as the class of 2013 celebrates its commencement at Syracuse University. Included in that class is TinCaps Broadcasting and Media Relations Assistant John Nolan. You’ve heard John on the radio, you’ve read his work here on the blog with such entries as “Walk-Up Wednesday” and “Throwback Thursday”, and you’ll continue to hear and see lots more of his great work throughout the season.
Congrats to John. Today’s song is dedicated to you.
Matchbox Twenty…take it away!
In baseball, you can go years and years and have every day teach you something different and show you something you’ve never seen before. That’s the type of game it is. Jose Valentin is in his second season as a manager after a 16-year playing career, and so he’ll continue to encounter new situations at the helm of a team throughout this season, and in years to come.
In Wednesday’s game, one of those new situations was one Valentin had been anticipating for some time. He said he’d been looking forward to it–how could he not?-but that he didn’t know how he would feel when it finally hit him.
The odds of making it as a professional baseball player, that is, one who is paid to do it for a living, are slim. There are millions of little leaguers, thousands upon thousands of high school athletes, even fewer college athletes, and at the highest levels of baseball, only a select few who even make it as a draft pick or a non-drafted free agent. So what are the odds that Jose Valentin would coach against his own son, Jesmuel, an infielder for the Great Lakes Loons, Wednesday afternoon at Parkview Field?
“It was a little hard in the beginning,” Jose said following Wednesday’s win. “Today felt different than other days. You want to see (your son) doing well, but he’s playing for the opponent, so you’re hoping he has a good game, but hopefully he doesn’t get an (at-bat) where he does some damage against you.”
Jesse, as Jesmuel is known by many, finished the game 0-for-2 with two walks, one of them intentional. Let’s call that a draw for game one of the series.
In the top of the seventh inning, Valentin called for an intentional ball four against his son, who was at the plate with runners at second and third. That was to set up the possibility of a double play, which, although it didn’t come to fruition didn’t matter by the time the ninth inning rolled around.
“It’s always nice to see your son do well after all the time you’ve spent with him, and trying to help him out and make him a good player. But now that I’m coaching against him, I have to divide myself between father and son and just be a coach and try to win. Late in the game, that’s the way I was feeling,” Jose said.
Jesse, who is a switch-hitting middle infielder just like his father, who played in the major leagues for 16 seasons, and was originally signed out of Puerto Rico by the Padres, also wears his dad’s number, 22.
“It’s nice to see that. I would like to see him do well and keep wearing the number that I wore during my career,” Jose said from his subterranean office at Parkview Field.
For now, the score stands: Dad 1, Son 0.
“I hope he has his best games all three days that he’s here, but I have to get a win.”
For the third time this season, the TinCaps won in walk-off fashion, defeating Great Lakes, 6-5, in front of 7,434 fans at Parkview Field Wednesday afternoon. Here was the scene as Alberth Martinez hit an infield dribbler, scoring Brian Adams from third for the game-winning run:
In all three of the walk-off wins this season, the man to drive in the game-winning run has been an unlikely candidate.
The first walk-off hit came April 26th, courtesy of Stephen Carmon, who had come in to the game as a ninth-inning pinch runner, winning the game with his only at-bat. Jeremy Baltz delivered with his only hit of the game for a win just two days later, and Alberth Martinez’s RBI fielder’s choice yesterday preceded an 0-4 stretch against Loons pitching. Martinez, unfortunately, is still stuck in an 0-18 slump, as the run scored on a fielder’s choice.
They’re not pretty wins, but the TinCaps will take them.
Listen to our TinCaps Report Podcast to hear post-game interview with Manager Jose Valentin and pitcher Joe Ross:
U2…take it away!
The TinCaps were on the road for a week, so you can imagine that Brian Adams probably heard more than his fair share of “Summer of ’69.” But now with the TinCaps back in control of the speakers at Parkview Field, we return with the third installment of Walk-Up Wednesday, featuring Corey Adamson.
In this edition, Fort Wayne’s favorite Australian outfielder divulges on his original walk-up song selection that was rejected, explains how a romantic comedy led him to his current choice, and educates us on the music scene “down under.”
We present — without comment — Corey’s walk-up song…
First, in case you’re not familiar, let’s go behind-ish the music of Natasha Bedingfield:
* She’s British, not Australian.
* Natasha’s most successful song so far has been “Unwritten,” which earned her a 2007 Grammy Award nomination for “Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.” She lost to Christina Aguilera for “Ain’t No Other Man,” so no shame in that.
* Yes, she had a hit single called “I Wanna Have Your Babies.” No, her last name isn’t made-up. It’s coincidental.
* “Pocketful of Sunshine” peaked at No. 5 on the US Billboard Hot 100 in 2008.
* On a personal note, I attended Natasha Bedingfield’s one-song performance at Syracuse University in the fall as part of the One World Concert where she sang “Unwritten.” And — if I may add — she crushed it. Thankfully there’s no video of me attempting to sing along. (I can only hit the high-notes on grand slam calls.)
John Nolan: How did you come to choose “Pocketful of Sunshine” for your walk-up song?
Corey Adamson: I wanted to have “Milkshake,” because that’s my song from back home, but I couldn’t have that.
So I was watching the movie Easy A, and she got a card and it was playing “Pocketful of Sunshine.” It was really a snap decision. I was like, “You know what, that’s what I’m gonna get for this year.” I listened to it a couple of times, it sounded good, and that’s what I chose.
JN: Will you be keeping “Pocketful of Sunshine” for the season or changing it up?
JN: Wait. Did you just say “Space Jam”?!?!
CA: People love “Space Jam.” Even the umpires were like, “Are you really walking out to ‘Space Jam’ right now? That could be the coolest walk-out I’ve ever heard.”
JN: I concur with those umpires. But moving on, does Natasha have any baseball-related symbolism in “Pocketful of Sunshine” for you?
CA: Nothing at all. I literally just saw it on a movie and was like I guess that’ll do.
JN: Switching subjects a bit, how do you think music here in America compares to music back home for you in Australia?
CA: When it comes to the big names here, we have them over there, too. The same sort of stuff is popular. But over there, Australian hip hop is coming through. A couple guys – Illy and Drapht — sound really good and completely different than anything over here. (Fellow Australian TinCap) John Hussey and I showed a couple of guys on the team today and they thought it was awesome. Rodney Daal actually wants Illy as his walk-up.
JN: Guess we’ll have to watch out for Illy and Drapht. (Note to readers: Also watch out for the cold draft that could make you ill.) The list of Australians who’ve had the most success in the U.S. includes the Bee Gees, Olivia Newton-John, Rick Springfield (“Jesse’s Girl”), and Gotye. Anyone else us Yankees should know about in Australian music?
CA: One guy that not many people know about is Bon Scott, the lead singer of AC/DC. He’s from right where I’m from in Australia. But if you want to hear new Australian music, like Illy and Drapht, you can listen online to Triple J. That’s the best radio station there is in Australia.
Thanks to Corey for having some fun with us and dropping knowledge, too.
Feel free to give us some Walk-Up Wednesday feedback on Twitter @John_G_Nolan or by email to email@example.com. We’re all ears for suggestions, including more takes on Australian hip hop.
After a glorious Midwest League-wide off day yesterday, the TinCaps are back in action this morning from Parkview Field. Entering today’s play Fort Wayne is 16-13, putting them third in the Eastern Division behind South Bend and Bowling Green, respectively.
The last series was a difficult one for the TinCaps, as they were swept in a three-game set by the Peoria Chiefs, and only scored two runs in 27 innings. Overall, though, the outlook remains positive for a TinCaps team that is hitting .264, which is fifth-best in the 16-team Midwest League. That sweep at the hands of the Chiefs was the first time Fort Wayne had been swept in a three-game road series since July 7-9, 2012, at South Bend.
A day of rest was much needed after a 4:45 a.m. arrival back at Parkview Field on Tuesday morning. The TinCaps went 2-3 on their six-day road trip, which included a rainout on Friday in Burlington. Now the rotation starts fresh, with Joe Ross taking the bump today in search of his fourth win of the season. Max Fried and Justin Hancock round out the trio of pitchers scheduled to throw in this set against Great Lakes. Being back home at Parkview Field is a small blessing for the TinCaps after being swept, considering they’re 10-3 at home, and only Cedar Rapids (11-2) has fewer home losses.
The Loons are 12-18, and come into Parkview Field on a five-game losing streak, having lost eight of their last 10 games. One interesting name on their roster is Jesmuel Valentin, the son of TinCaps Manager Jose Valentin. Jesse, as he’s known for the sake of easy pronunciation among those without fluent Spanish tongues, was selected by the Dodgers 51st overall in last year’s draft, and because of surgery to his hamate bone, missed out on making the Loons’ opening day roster. Just like his dad, Jesse is a switch-hitting shortstop. Through 12 games, the younger Valentin is hitting .297 (11-37) and has two stolen bases. That’s a father-son matchup we in the press box will have our eyes on for the next three days.
LIFE ON THE ROAD
Here’s a snapshot I took during batting practice on Monday in Peoria.
To hear my pre-game chat from Monday with Morgan Burkhart, during which we discuss his transition from the coaching ranks of independent baseball into affiliated baseball, and the early season success of Alberth Martinez and Corey Adamson, listen below:
Lana Del Rey…take it away!
The first inning of Sunday’s afternoon game in Peoria looked promising–Maxx Tissenbaum and Jeremy Baltz put together back-to-back one-out hits. Although Fort Wayne didn’t score in that first inning, it appeared as though they would have similar success against Chiefs starter Tyrell Jenkins as when they last faced him July 23, 2012. In that start, the 2010 supplemental first-round pick gave up six runs in four innings, in a game that Quad Cities eventually won, 9-6.
Unfortunately for the TinCaps, the first inning was as good as it was gonna get, because they didn’t pick up another hit until the ninth inning. Jenkins, who had never pitched more than six innings in four seasons since being drafted, turned in a complete-game, three-hit performance, completely dominating the TinCaps lineup. After a leadoff walk in the third to Felix Cabrera, Jenkins retired the next 16 batters, with the streak ending when Brian Adams reached on an error in the eighth.
Peoria’s only run scored in the fifth, on a two-out bloop single to right field by catcher Casey Rasmus.
The last time fort Wayne was shut out was August 29, 2012, at the hands of the West Michigan Whitecaps at Parkview Field. In that loss (also by a 1-0 count), Fort Wayne starter James Needy threw nine innings, allowing four hits and no earned runs. However, an unearned run for West Michigan in the second inning proved to be the difference on a day when Fort Wayne mustered only three hits. That complete game by Needy proved to be the most impressive pitching performance of the year by a Fort Wayne pitcher. Rarely in the Midwest League do pitchers throw complete games because of pitch counts, so to see it is a rarity.
Today the TinCaps will try to avoid a three-game sweep in Peoria. First pitch is at 7:30 EDT, and you can hear the broadcast on The Fan 1380 in Fort Wayne, and TheFanFortWayne.com everywhere else. I’ll be joined by hitting coach Morgan Burkhart during our pre-game show.
Yesterday, during my Sunday chat with Jose Valentin, I asked him about why his team has played in so many close games (two walk-offs, two ninth-inning rallys) over the last week or so.
“It’s the kind of team that they’ll battle and win as many games as they can. The game of baseball is not going to be easy like you want it to be. Most of the time, this team finds a way to get it done,” Valentin told me in the manager’s office at Peoria Chiefs Stadium. ” Sometimes we do it ugly. It’s better to win ugly than to lose. I’m happy. I’m happy for the way the guys are playing. Sometimes you get upset and get into the guys, but it’s going to happen. Guys are going to make mistakes. It’s about not making them too often and not making any more mental mistakes. All I want is for those guys to go up there and play hard. Sometimes we have to be more consistent. Our pitching staff lately has been pitching great, but our defense has let them down. There are going to be times when your offense is not going to show up, so you have to be able to play good defense and keep the game close. We’ve got to find a way to play better on the road, which has been a negative. Overall, I’m happy. “
We also talked about his young pitching staff. Three of the six members of the starting rotation are 19 years old–Zach Eflin, Max Fried and Walker Weickel–and were taken in the first round of the 2012 draft. I asked Valentin about what he though the biggest adjustment has been for the teenage trio in their first month in the Midwest League:
“I think it’s how to use their teammates. Those guys, in their high school careers, they were probably so dominant on the mound they probably didn’t need too much defense behind them. Out of nine innings, they probably struck out 15 guys a game, which is good for that level, but this level is different. The hitters are more mature and it’s a different level of baseball. You have to be able to come through in hard times and understand that you have people behind you that want to help you. “
Weickel will start today, in search of his first win during the 2013 season. We’ll see tonight how well he uses his teammates.
To hear my full Sunday chat with TinCaps Manager Jose Valentin, listen to the podcast below:
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From top left, by vertical row: The Grizzlies and Jerry West arrived in Memphis. A custody battle ended with Anna Mae He being taken to China. The FBI's My Harrison waged war against dirty politicians. Willie Herenton was Memphis mayor for most of the decade. Shelby County Mayor A C Wharton succeeded Herenton in 2009. Former state senator John Ford went to prison. Robert Glen Coe was the first person executed in Tennessee in 40 years. Mississippi elected Haley Barbour governor, who guided the state’s Hurricane Katrina recovery. Memphis Tigers basketball coach John Calipari went from hero to Wildcat. Mary Winkler killed her husband with shotgun blast to the back. Carol Johnson’s tenure as Memphis City Schools superintendent was cheered then jeered. Running back DeAngelo Williams carried the Tigers to their first bowl game in 32 years. Former South African president Nelson Mandela received a Freedom Award. The Dalai Lama got a fist bump welcome from Mayor Pro Tem Myron Lowery. Medical Examiner O. C. Smith was accused of faking a bizarre incident. | <urn:uuid:b162698a-2659-4c2d-b6ff-c19ee70183dd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.commercialappeal.com/photos/2009/dec/24/145859/ | 2013-05-26T03:17:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706578727/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121618-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957004 | 214 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Donna’s magic touch with knitting
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Portland Conservatory of Music Noonday Concert, holiday sing-along with Robert Russell and Choral Arts members, First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church, Portland. Free. 775-3356. 12:15 pm "Magic of Christmas," annual holiday concert with the ...
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Holiday arts/crafts event set in Whitehouse - Toledo Blade
Holiday arts/crafts event set in Whitehouse
The village of Whitehouse is having a holidays arts and crafts sale, which also includes an Anthony Wayne Schools art exhibit, local musicians, and a magic show. The event is free and is to run from 2 to 8 pm Dec. 3. The village's first-time event is ...
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Find Halloween coloring pages and other Halloween printables from FamilyFun, including a countdown, pumpkin carving patterns, and printable games.
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Offers coloring pages of a leaf, oak tree, pumpkin, and umbrella for toddlers, preschoolers, and kindergarten students.
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If you look at the stats from today's Featured Article at OpinionJournal.com it's not just the "wealthy" who will benefit from Bush's tax plan but rather all income brackets. In fact in terms of raw percentages those in the lower brackets will actually see a greater reduction in taxes that the "rich". Now that the facts are out there I'm sure the Democrats will get on board to ease passage of the cuts through Congress and cease and desist in their efforts to label the plan as "tax cuts for the wealthy" or even more outrageously as "income redistribution" as if somehow not taking money from people was the same as taking it from one group and giving it to another.
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Y'all know what a nut I am for Scandinavian horror -
"Let the Right One In"
Here's some upcoming ones including this wild one called "Thale." If you loved the way they handled their legends of trolls, this is yet another Scandinavian take on a myth.
Swedish horror movie Zon 261's director / writer Frederik Hiller is
better known for his acting (Beowulf, Vallander). But actors get behind
the camera all the time. Anyway - it's zombie time! A southern Swedish
is cut off from civilisation after an zombie outbreak, and the trapped
and isolated swedes must band together to survive the zombie onslaught.
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CHEYENNE — A parolee who says he was restrained while a nurse inserted a catheter to obtain a urine sample despite his protests is suing the Wyoming Department of Corrections and the city of Cheyenne.
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of Daniel Delaney on Friday. The suit alleges a parole officer ordered a nurse to insert the catheter while Delaney was handcuffed to a hospital bed on Aug. 26, 2011, as police officers stood by, even though Delaney had admitted consuming alcohol and taking over-the-counter sleeping pills. He had been unable to provide a sample on his own while lying in the bed restrained.
In his parole agreement, Delaney consented to testing without search warrants. However, Delaney’s lawyers say he is still protected by the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition against unreasonable searches. They contend forcibly obtaining the urine sample was unreasonable, given his admission and the results of previous blood test and a breathalyzer.
According to the lawsuit, a blood test performed before the urine sample was taken didn’t show any controlled substances besides alcohol and the sleeping pills, and a Breathalyzer showed a blood alcohol level of 0.007 percent, below the 0.08 legal limit for driving.
“If we don’t stand up for the rights of society’s least liked members, then everyone’s rights are at risk,” ACLU staff attorney Jennifer Horvath said in a statement.
Department of Corrections spokesman Tim Lockwood said the department doesn’t comment on pending litigation. Cheyenne City Attorney Daniel White didn’t return calls seeking comment.
According to the lawsuit, Delaney drank and took sleeping pills after he had an argument with the mother of his children on Aug. 26, 2011, and his parole officer denied his request to speak to a counselor. He was arrested at his halfway house after first trying to flee from the parole officer. He was then taken to Cheyenne Regional Medical Center.
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12:58 am, Wednesday, November 17, 2010 -- On Election Day afternoon, he was shaking hands with voters arriving at the city's Black Rock School, where there were two polling stations.
Pia was one of 25 speakers Tuesday night who addressed the five-member panel charged with probing the city's Election Day mayhem, which began when most of...
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- Install ceiling fans and then change your thermostat. You will feel as cool as before.
Attic with insulation and no radiant barrier
Half of the inside of the roof sprayed with HeatBlock-Ultra
The finished product. Note that the rafters do not need to be covered. HeatBlock-Ultra
To provide the Houston & Fort Bend County area with the best service possible, Gulf Coast Insulation staff is comprised of expertly trained technicians. Gulf Coast Insulation is an approved contractor of the energy efficient Owens Corning L77 Insulation, Radiant Guard, attic ventilation, energy conservation evaluations, and the radiant barrier HeatBlock-Ultra. We can answer your questions and begin installation HeatBloc-Ultra and Attic Insulation today. | <urn:uuid:54cdb7a3-6090-4f45-85cc-c50bccb3875d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.gulfcoastenergysavers.com/radiant_barrier_3.html | 2013-05-26T03:37:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706578727/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121618-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.918669 | 1,517 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Foreign Trade Zone
What is a Foreign-Trade Zone?
A Foreign-Trade Zone (FTZ) is a specific area where any form of imported merchandise may be stored, packaged, assembled, manufactured, cleaned, sorted and graded without the expense of Customs duties or taxes.
What are the benefits of a FTZ?
Import duties are not paid until the goods leave the Zone.
Re-exported goods are never entered into U.S. commerce and are not subject to Customs duty.
No duty is paid on scrap, waste, or damaged goods.
The company has the use of the duty dollars for the time the goods are in the FTZ.
The final duty rate paid is that of the component part or of the finished article, whichever is lower.
Products transferred from Zone to Zone are duty free.
Most merchandise subject to quotas may be held in a Zone until quotas open.
Foreign Trade Zone No. 157
The Casper/Natrona County International Airport has an active Foreign-Trade Zone which comprises a total of 1,476 acres.
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Reconfigurable VBSME Architecture Using RBSAD
Joaquin Olivares (University of Cordoba, Spain)
Abstract: This paper presents an architecture which is capable of processing variable block size motion estimation (VBSME) and which is able to apply pixel precision reduction techniques in a reconfigurable way. The design has been carried out by using online arithmetic, which allows to process all motion vectors of a block in just one iteration. The system has been implemented on FPGA and just requires 7724 slices, reaching a performance of 55 4CIF frames per second (fps) in full precision and of 72 with 4 bit precision. Results for different search areas 31 x 31, 32 x 32, and 46 x 46 are presented. Using 4bit precision real time processing for HDTVp is achieved. Thanks to the reduced cost and high performance, this architecture is perfect for mobile devices.
Keywords: high-speed arithmetics, parallel architectures, special-purpose and application-based systems, video
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Synopsis: Dear ol' Dada Ji (Kumar Pallana) has just moved in with his daughter Rima, her American husband and their eight year old son.
He's always taunted Rima for her rejection of her Indian traditions, but now that they're living under the same roof, she insists on putting her foot down. Despite their differences, Dada Ji will do whatever it takes to mend their relationship .... even if it means driving Rima up the wall!
Dada Ji is a humorous and heartwarming story about family, love, loss, and what happens when different generations, new and old traditions, come together.
a short film by Sabina Shamdasani
(a.k.a. Shaan Dasani)
I first saw Kumar Pallana alongside Tom Hanks and Catherine Zeta-Jones in the movie 'The Terminal'...
....and he pretty much stole the show. I wondered who the quirky yet gentle actor was, and as fate would have it, I met him one week later on another film shoot I was working on. I was so engaged by this elderly gentleman, he was an actor-comedian-magician-yoga guru all in one.
For the next few months I wrote and re-wrote the script for what became 'Dada Ji' and when it was ready I finally sent it over, along with a letter explaining that I was a student (in case he didn't remember me), and that I knew he had worked with greats such as Steven Spielberg and Wes Anderson, and then humbly asked if he would do me the honor of working with him.
He called literally the next day - and the rest is history. We spent 6 days filming 'Dada Ji' in Orange County, CA, and a wonderful friendship began.
Funny how life works...sometimes those golden moments just come to you, and when you feel like you've happened upon one, all I have to say is, go with it! I hold this film very close to my heart, I replay the events of the making of this movie and I realize it was fate who played a big hand in pulling it all together.
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A rally in Sanford, Fla., today "to demand justice in the Trayvon Martin shooting death," is expected to draw "tens of thousands of people," Orlando's WFTV says.
The rally — one month after the black teen's death — is due to begin at 4 p.m. ET and end with those thousands gathered outside the city's civic center as the Sanford City Commission meets to hear from the 17-year-old Martin's parents.
In 1998, when Pope John Paul II made his historic visit to Cuba, few Cuban-Americans made the pilgrimage across the Florida straits.
But when Pope Benedict XVI arrives in Cuba on Monday, hundreds of Cuban-Americans will be on hand in Santiago de Cuba when he celebrates Mass.
Carlos Saladrigas is well-known in Miami's Cuban-American community. He's a prominent businessman and co-chairman of the Cuba Study Group, an organization working to make Cuba a free and open society. He'll be in Antonio Maceo Revolution Square for Mass. | <urn:uuid:acba7ebe-16fd-474d-8410-a382b45787b7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.kunc.org/term/florida?page=94 | 2013-05-26T03:44:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706578727/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121618-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956073 | 210 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
I have an idea... I'm not giving up.. Does anyone remember how the RNC gave us the shaft? How about the DNC with their "scripted" bullying?
Here's the planCONTACT YOUR STATE'S ELECTORATES.Maybe we can convince them to vote their "conscience" by giving Ron Paul the "electoral votes". It may not work but it may. What do we have to lose besides our freedom?
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Writing Style Guide
Narrative Copy Guidelines (Print & Web)
I. Official Name References
Use "Indiana University," not "IU," as first reference to the university as a whole. "IU" may be used in subsequent references.
Indiana University Jacobs School of Music
The official name of the school is "Indiana University Jacobs School of Music." When used with "the," please note that "the" is not part of the title and should be set in lower case. This is a trademarked name.
Students from around the world compete to be accepted at the
Indiana University Jacobs School of Music or
Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.
Use the school's complete name the first time the school is referred to in a publication or corresponding unit, such as a section, chapter, or article.
For second reference in text, any of the following are appropriate: the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music the IU Jacobs School of Music the Jacobs School of Music the Jacobs School the school (lowercase) Using just the name "Jacobs" should be avoided unless it is very clear through previous references in the body of the document that it is the Jacobs School of Music. The name "Jacobs" should not appear alone to identify the school on marketing materials, t-shirts, mugs, etc. Other organizations own that name.
The following names should be used when referencing these locations. Use the location's complete name the first time it is mentioned in text. After that, the complete name or a second reference version is acceptable.
First: Musical Arts Center
Second: the MAC
All: Auer Hall (not Auer Concert Hall, Auer Recital Hall, or Auer)
First: Ford-Crawford Hall
Second: Ford Hall should be used only when space limitations prohibit the use of the full name.
All: Simon Music Center (not Simon or Simon Center, to avoid confusion with IU's Simon Hall and Simon Cancer Center) Building/Hall/Other Names (cont.)
All: Frank E. McKinney Jr. Fountain or McKinney Fountain
First: William and Gayle Cook Music Library
Second: Cook Music Library (not Cook, since that name is owned by a company) or Music Library
All: Sweeney Lecture Hall or Sweeney Hall
First: David H. Jacobs West Terrace and Plaza
Second: Jacobs West Terrace and Plaza or Jacobs Terrace and Plaza or Jacobs Plaza
First: Music Building Addition
Second: Music Addition or Round Building (not Music Annex)
All: North Studio Building
First: Music Practice Building
Second: Music Practice or Practice Building
First: Helen Clouse Plaza Second: Clouse Plaza
First: Indiana University Opera and Ballet Theater or IU Opera and Ballet Theater, if Indiana University has been referred to earlier in the same text.
Second: IU Opera and Ballet Theater, IU Opera and Ballet
First: Indiana University Opera Theater or IU Opera Theater, if Indiana University has been referred to earlier in the same text.
Second: IU Opera Theater or IU Opera
First: Indiana University Ballet Theater or IU Ballet Theater, if Indiana University has been referred to earlier in the same text.
Second: IU Ballet Theater or IU Ballet
Please note that the word "theater" in all versions of "Indiana University Opera and Ballet Theater" ends with "er" not "re." Also note that "the" does not precede "Indiana University."
This is her debut with Indiana University Opera Theater.
II. Musical References
Refer to The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians for
Italicize the name of a large work, and enclose in quotation marks a smaller
work from it or one that stands on its own.
"O mio babbino caro" from Puccini's Gianni Schicchi is
one of my favorite arias.
The commissioned work "Blue Fields and Green Sky" will be
performed at the ensemble's upcoming concert.
Do not italicize generic names of large works.
The repertoire includes Beethoven's Sonata in C Minor, Op. 111, Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10, and Strauss's Don Juan.
Italicize the names of recordings and broadcasts.
Their new album, Dizzy for Diz, will be featured next week on
WFIU's Just You and Me.
Italicize names of publications except for papers, which should be enclosed
in quotation marks.
Her article, "Vocal Improvisation and Creative Thinking by Australian and American University Jazz Singers: A Factor Analytic Study" was just released in the Journal of Research in Music Education.
"Major" and "Minor" as well as "Sharp" and "Flat" should be capitalized in names of works.
"Op." and "No." have one space after period, before numeral. Note that there is no comma between an opus and a number reference.
Sonata in D-Flat Minor, Op. 23 No. 1
"D." and "K." have no space after period, before numeral.
Concerto No. 25 in C Major for Piano, K.503
"BWV" has no periods and one space before numeral.
J. S. Bach's Prelude and Fugue in C Major, BWV 846
"WoO" has no periods and one space before numeral.
Beethoven's Duet in E-Flat Major, WoO 32
III. General Style
Refer to the Indiana University Style Guide for comprehensive information.
Use the serial, or Harvard, comma (i.e., the final comma before "and," "or," or "nor") in a list of three or more items.
red, white, and blue ribbons
An exception exists when items in the series contain commas themselves. In that case, use semicolons between all items.
The letters in question are dated August 7, 1989; May 15, 1990;
and January 4, 1991.
In general, spell out months and days of the week; use numerals for years. Use no punctuation if listing just the month (or the season) and the year, but set the year off with commas if using the day of the month as well.
May 2005; spring 2004; a February 5, 2006, deadline
Join us on Thursday, April 28, for a celebration.
However, when the name of a month immediately precedes a date, it may be abbreviated using the Associated Press (AP) style—but only if the month's name is six letters or longer.
We got married in September last year.
We got married on Jan. 6 last year, but we were divorced on July 10.
When referring to degrees in a general way, do not capitalize them. Note that while "bachelor's" and "master's" end in "'s," the other generic words for degrees do not.
an associate degree, a bachelor's degree, a master's degree,
a doctoral degree or a doctorate
In references to degrees, the word "degree" is never capitalized.
Caryn earned her Master of Music degree last spring.
Use periods when abbreviating degrees.
A.S., B.S., B.M., B.S.O.F., D.M., M.M., Ph.D.
Pluralize abbreviations of degrees with "'s"
Lowercase and hyphenate "e-mail."
Use numerals for 10 or more; spell out fractions and numbers that are less than 10. Maintain consistency among items of the same category within each sentence. Generally, if any number of the group has a value of 10 or more, use all numerals.
She read 4 of the 14 required books in just two weeks.
Often, however, it's more congenial to spell out the number "one."
We're one of the top 15 schools in that ranking.
In general, spell out ordinals, space permitting. Always spell out ordinals from "first" to "ninth." Spell out numbered streets from First Street through Twelfth Street; numerals are usually used for streets with higher numbers. Ordinals in course titles are usually spelled out as well.
Third Street, Tenth Street, 17th Street, twentieth century, Topics in Nineteenth-Century Literature, one hundred seventy-fifth Commencement
Spell out names of states in sentences unless they are preceded by a city, county, or military base name. Then, according to the Associated Press (AP) style, abbreviate all state names except the two states outside the Lower 48 and all continental states that have five or fewer letters in their names.
I live in Indiana. I lived in Bloomington, Ind.
I live in Ohio. I lived in Cleveland, Ohio.
Titles of People
Personal titles immediately preceding a name are capitalized; those following a name or set off by commas are not.
The latest work by Professor Don Freund . . .
Don Freund, professor of music, composed . . .
A professor of music at IU, Freund teaches . . .
This rule applies not only to academic titles, but also to administrative titles.
Chancellor Una Mae Reck
Una Mae Reck, the chancellor
Reck has been chancellor of Indiana University South Bend since 2002.
An exception to this rule is a "named" title or appointment announcement.
Michael Schwartzkopf is the Pam and Jack Burns Professor of Music
at Indiana University.
Michael Vernon was appointed Professor of Music (Ballet)
at Indiana University.
Capitalize the terms "Web" and "World Wide Web" in running copy. Write "Web site" and "Web page" as two words. Lowercase other terms that use "Web" as a root, such as "webmaster" and "webinar."
Always keep your readers in mind, and write for that audience.
Put information in order of importance. State your main point in the opening paragraph, followed by supporting information and background history.
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21 May 2012
Lassa fever in Nigeria - update 3
This updates the information posted on Lassa Fever in Nigeria on 5 April 2012.
The outbreak of Lassa fever in Nigeria, first reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) by the Federal Ministry of Health, Nigeria in January 2012, is continuing . As of 11 May 2012, a total of 869 suspected cases of Lassa fever have been reported including 143 laboratory confirmed cases and 92 deaths . As of 11 May 2012, 22 of the 36 states of Nigeria have reported cases (Abuja Capital Territory, Abia, Adamawa, Anambra, Bauchi, Benue, Borno, Ebonyi, Edo, Gombe, Kaduna, Kano, Kogi, Lagos, Nassarawa, Ondo, Oyo, Plateau, Rivers, Sokoto, Taraba and Yobe ) [2, 3].
The most recent cases have been reported in Nasarawa, Plateau and Sokoto, the most affected states remain Edo and Taraba .
View a map of areas affected by Lassa fever outbreak as of 11 May 2012 .
The Federal and State governments responded to the outbreak by enhancing the disease surveillance for early detection and reinforcing treatment of patients [1, 3].
The response to the escalating outbreak is challenged by limited availability of resources .
Lassa fever, named after the town in north-eastern Nigeria where the disease was first described, is an acute viral haemorrhagic fever caused by Lassa virus, a member of the Arenavirus family. Lassa fever is also endemic in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. In recent years, there is evidence of infection in the Central African Republic, Mali and Senegal.
Lassa fever is usually transmitted to humans after broken skin or mucous membranes are contaminated with urine or droppings from rats living near rural homes in endemic countries. Person to person transmission can occur after direct contact with body fluids of infected individuals, usually in hospital or healthcare settings.
A total of 12 imported cases of Lassa fever have been reported in the UK since 1970, including five from Nigeria . The two most recent cases occurred in 2009, in travellers who had returned from Nigeria and Mali [5, 6].
Advice for travellers:
Currently there are no restrictions on travel or trade with Nigeria and Lassa fever is a rare risk for travellers [1, 7, 8]. Travellers at greater risk include those living or working in endemic areas, particularly healthcare or humanitarian aid workers, or those undertaking rural pursuits (e.g. camping) or work activities, where contact with rodents may be more likely .
There is no vaccine to protect against Lassa fever. Travellers to endemic countries should avoid contact with rodents. Rodent populations can be reduced by clearing rubbish around dwellings, and preventing rodent access into buildings.
Healthcare workers should use personal protection measures when caring for persons suspected to have Lassa fever. Guidelines which are designated for use in endemic settings are available from WHO: Infection control for viral haemorrhagic fevers in the African health care setting.
Advice for Health Professionals:
Health professionals who suspect Lassa fever in a returned traveller must contact the Health Protection Agency’s Duty Doctor for advice on 020 8200 4400 as a matter of urgency. Expert advice can also be obtained from the HPA Rare and Imported Pathogens Laboratory.
1. The World Health Organization. Global Alert and Response (GAR). Lassa fever in Nigeria. 4 April 2012. [Accessed 21 May 2012]. Available at: http://www.who.int/csr/don/2012_04_04/en/index.html
2. Federal Ministry of Health, Nigeria. Weekly Updates on Epidemics in Nigeria: as at 11TH May 2012. 18 May 2012. [Accessed 21 May 2012]. Available at: http://www.fmh.gov.ng/index.php/component/content/article/945-weekly-updates-on-epidemics-in-nigeria-as-at-11th-may-2012
3. Federal Ministry of Health, Nigeria. Weekly Updates on Epidemics in Nigeria: as at 11th May 2012. 21 May 2012. [Accessed 21 May 2012]. Available at: http://www.fmh.gov.ng/images/stories/documents/Weekly
4. Health Protection Agency. Table of imported confirmed cases of Lassa fever in UK since 1970. [Accessed 21 May 2012]. Available at: http://www.hpa.org.uk/Topics/InfectiousDiseases/Infections
5. NaTHNaC. Imported case of Lassa fever in the United Kingdom, 30 January 2009. [Accessed 21 May 2012]. Available at: https://www.nathnac.org/pro/clinical_updates/Lassa_300109htm.htm
6. Health Protection Agency. Patient dies from Lassa fever at a London hospital, 18 February 2009. [Accessed 21 May 2012]. Available at: http://www.hpa.org.uk/webw/HPAweb&HPAwebStandard
7. Health Protection Agency. Lassa Fever Africa. [Accessed 21 May 2012]. Available at: http://www.hpa.org.uk/Topics/InfectiousDiseases/InfectionsAZ/
8. Beeching NJ, Fletcher TE, Hill DR, Fletcher TE. Travellers and viral haemorrhagic fevers: what are the risks? Int J Antimicrob Ag. 36 (S1):S26-S35, 2010. | <urn:uuid:a63ab567-2db4-415a-b9f1-f17faac44059> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.nathnac.org/pro/clinical_updates/lassa_210512.htm | 2013-05-26T03:37:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706578727/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121618-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.897632 | 1,203 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Usage Guide > The Basics
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Currently only the basics are covered here, but check back in the near future for a comprehensive guide to using our tool to maximise your punting profits! | <urn:uuid:9a16fdbd-fe29-441d-a132-d9ce13bdf708> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.odds.com.au/help/ | 2013-05-26T03:36:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706578727/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121618-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.887337 | 130 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
A Hemet police officer interrupted a kidnap-carjacking and freed two victims who had been told they would soon be killed, investigators say.
The incident happened Friday afternoon, Jan. 4, along the 200 block of West Stetson after a car turned in front of the officer, nearly ramming his patrol cruiser, Sgt. Jeff Davis said in a written statement.
“The driver and front passenger ran … towards Officer Cunningham who was getting out of his police car,” according to the statement.
“Two additional males … ran away from Officer Cunningham.”
Both victims said they had just been kidnapped at gunpoint a block away, along the 100 block of East Stetson.
“The victims were told to drive home where they were going to be killed,” the statement read. “Two loaded firearms were located in the vehicle where the two suspects (had been) sitting.”
The victims and suspects knew each other, police said, but the motive for the kidnapping wasn’t immediately determined.
Arrested about 4:30 p.m. were 33-year-old Adam Eugene Barnett and 34-year-old John Jason Blackwood. Both were booked into jail for investigation of kidnapping, robbery, carjacking, making criminal threats, weapons violations and prior prison enhancements, according to jail records.
The incident is at least the second kidnapping reported during the past week in the Hemet area.
On Dec. 29, a man told Riverside County deputy sheriffs that he was beaten and kidnapped by four men at a gas station near Florida and New Chicago Avenue. The kidnappers tossed him into the trunk of his vehicle and drove him into the San Jacinto Mountains where he said he escaped along Highway 74.
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With their 3-1 victory last night over the Cincinnati Reds behind the dominant performances of Jason Marquis and Eric Young Jr., the Colorado Rockies are in rarified air for the franchise--19 games above .500. They once again own a three game advantage in the Wild Card race (which has quickly narrowed to Colorado and San Francisco) while LA is within range (3.5 games) with just 23 games to play. The win pushed the Rockies' record under Jim Tracy to 61-32.
The Rockies are going on a joyride down the home stretch--the Denver Post writers instruct you to sit back and enjoy it, Rockies fans (bandwaggoners are welcome). They outline ten things you should know about this Rockies squad and how they have gone from 18-28 to 79-60. It's a good primer for the uninitiated and those who need a refresher course on the 2009 Rockies.
Here is how the Rockies' playoff chances stack up as of last night. According to this simulation the Rockies are most likely to win 92 games, with most of the simulation outcomes between 90-94 victories. Even the low end of that spectrum would require only an 11-12 record down the stretch--and there's a 73.2% chance that if the Rockies were to end up with 90 wins that they would make the postseason. At the upper range (94 wins and a 15-8 record down the stretch), the division comes into play.
CoolStandings: 78.6% chance
What can we take away from this? These simulations, which do a great job of weighting the potential outcomes of the season, see the Rockies with an excellent chance of not only reaching the postseason, but doing it at a pace heretofore unseen in the Rocky Mountains. Heck, just by playing .500 ball the Rockies will set a franchise record for victories--and there is the potential for much more.
It's a great time to be a Rockies fan.
According to Patrick Saunders, Troy Tulowitzki will likely be out a few more days with lower back pain, while Ian Stewart's back pain is not as serious. Obviously this is a blow to the Rockies, but like some have advocated, giving Tulo and Stewart some rest as the Rockies gear up for Rocktober can really pay long-term dividends for the club. Plus, if Eric Young, Jr. keeps hitting this well, the Rockies will have yet another weapon primed and ready for the postseason should they need him.
In the notes, the article mentions that Ubaldo Jimenez's hamstring feels "much, much better" and that he predicts that he will make his regular Saturday start against the Padres. Obviously this is good news for the Rockies, who would like to avoid a Tim Lincecum situation with their ace.
Thomas Harding chimes in with an article about Ian Stewart's back spasms and in it he mentions that Dexter Fowler will likely be activated for tonight's game after being evaluated by Rockies trainers and coaches.
Franklin Morales notched his fifth save in a week last night since assuming the role with Huston Street's bicep tendonitis. Harding writes that Morales is making the closer's role his own. My opinion for next year is that Morales should be a starter--even as a dominant closer, Morales would be less valuable to the team than as a middle of the rotation pitcher--and Morales has the potential to be a number two guy, which is much more valuable.
The Rockies are inviting your votes for the Top Nine Rockies ever (by best hitting seasons) on 9/9/09. I'll have my say on this in a couple of weeks when I finish my WAR Lords series, but this list is...inadequate.
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Rich (Goose) Gossage was inducted into Baseballs Hall of Fame yesterday. Goose was drafted by the Chicago White Sox in 1970. After five seasons with Chicago and a cup of coffee with the Pirates, the hard throwing reliever came to the Yankees in 1978. As a relief pitcher, he helped define the modern day closer, pitching the final out to clinch a Division, League or World Series title seven times. The Yankees, with the help of Goose, pioneered the set-up/closer configuration that every major league team has used since. He was named an All-Star eight times, played for nine major league teams, but I thought it was fitting he entered the Hall of Fame wearing a Yankee cap. | <urn:uuid:439a7fae-af8e-41d6-82c0-30ae3193db14> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.roibal.net/blog/2008/07/28/goose/ | 2013-05-26T03:45:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706578727/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121618-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972282 | 155 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Early this year, after a lot of struggling with the tech and funding, we rolled out Find-a-Doc, our database system to help young people find quality, in-person services like sexual and reproductive healthcare, counseling, and LGBT, youth and domestic violence crisis shelters and services. The database includes a rating system so that those who have used the services can add recommendations or comments to help other users choose services, or know things about services from a first-person perspective. As you probably know yourself, we all tend to feel a lot better about using a service someone else has personally recommended or vetted: that's why we set up Find-a-Doc, and did so the way that we did.
We also use the database as staff and volunteers when working one-on-one with a user to help them find in-person services they need. But since it's been slow-going to get the database packed, we still have to spend a good deal of time searching in other ways, which is far less efficient and useful. Having the database have many, many options doesn't just help our users, it helps our staff and volunteers in serving them best and in managing our time effectively, especially given our high traffic and heavy workload.
As of right now, we have close to 200 different listings from around the world. But we'd really like a whole lot more. So, we're asking for your help.
Many young people haven't yet used any of these services because they don't know where or how to find them, or aren't sure what's safe for and supportive of them. We know that from the work we do here every day
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"It is," Biden agreed, to laughter from the audience. "We Irish call it malarkey."
At another point, Ryan used Biden’s own history of gaffes to explain away Romney’s much-criticized comment dismissing the 47 percent of Americans who pay no income taxes, a comment Biden brought up repeatedly after Obama had failed to mention it in his debate.
"I think the vice president very well knows that sometimes the words don’t come out of your mouth the right way," Ryan said.
There were spirited exchanges on taxes, abortion, Medicare, Libya, and more. It may not have broken new ground, but the conversation gave viewers a clear illustration of the sharp choices before them come Election Day.
"In case you haven’t noticed, we have strong disagreements," Biden said in his closing statement. And then he distilled the Democrats’ campaign pitch into a simple bid to give anxious Americans "a little bit of peace of mind."
Ryan then spoke of the "big choice" in this election, and argued that Obama had had his chance and failed.
"This is not what a real recovery looks like," he said. "You deserve better."
For all the political back-and-forth during the past two months, the race essentially stands where it was in August, before the two national political conventions, with the two candidates running about even in national polls.
There’s been no shortage of drama in between: the revelation of Romney’s caught-on-tape comment about the 47 percent, Biden’s remark that the middle class has been "buried" in the past four years, Obama’s weak showing in the first debate, the ongoing tussle over the administration’s handling of the attack that left four Americans dead in Benghazi, Libya, and more.
With turnout critical, both campaigns are devoting considerable energy to ensuring that supporters are registered to vote and taking advantage of the early voting options available in many states. Nearly a million Americans already have voted.
The Democrats’ monthlong "gotta vote" bus tour will be in Milwaukee on Friday, just in time to rev up supporters for the opening of Wisconsin’s early voting season on Monday.
And both sides are keeping up the push for campaign contributions to keep the battleground-state airwaves full of political ads. Within a few hours of the debate, Romney, Obama and Biden all emailed supporters asking for more cash.
Benac reported from Washington.
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| Posted: Wednesday, Mar 06, 2013 06:00 am
The St. Albert Merchants pulled victory from the jaws of defeat in the Capital Junior B Hockey League quarterfinals by winning the fifth and deciding game 4-3 in overtime Sunday.
Blair Macuch’s unassisted goal at 4:05 in sudden death against the Beverly Warriors at Londonderry Arena punched the Merchants’ ticket to the best-of-seven semifinal against the Wetaskiwin Icemen.
Mike Roeleveld sent the game into OT on the power play with 21 seconds left in regulation time.
Ryan Harrison also tallied twice and Casey Reid added three assists for the Merchants. In net was Justin Pawlenchuk (5-2, 2.66 GAA in 451 minutes played).
Three games in the series were decided in OT.
In game one captain Brady Reid scored the 5-4 winner in the extra period at Bill Hunter Arena.
The Merchants won game two 7-3 at Akinsdale Arena, then lost 7-0 at Londonderry last Wednesday and 3-2 in four OT periods Friday in St. Albert as Evan Kuhr netted the winner on the power play in the 116th minute of play.
There was no scoring after Beverly tied at two apiece with 2:54 to go in period two.
Brady Reid potted a pair in the marathon affair.
The Merchants will now host the Icemen in the semifinal opener tonight at 8 p.m. at Akinsdale.
Game two is 7:30 p.m. Friday in Wetaskiwin.
Game three is Sunday at 8 p.m. in St. Albert and game four is next Wednesday at 8 p.m. in Wetaskiwin.
The winner will play the Sherwood Park Knights or the North Edmonton Red Wings in the best-of-five Founders Cup final.
In league play the Merchants (22-12-4) finished third in the west division and the Icemen (25-12-1) placed second in the east standings.
The Icemen swept the season series 4-3 in overtime in a penalty-filled affair at home in October and 6-4 in December in St. Albert.
Raiders in tough
The St. Albert Raiders are teetering on the brink of elimination in the best-of-five midget AAA north division semifinals against the Lloydminster Bobcats after losing game three 3-2 in double overtime Monday at Akinsdale Arena.
Cole Nicholson struck on the power play with 31 seconds gone in the second OT period after Matteo Gennaro of the Raiders was penalized for charging with only seconds left in the first extra period.
All the scoring in regulation time took place in the middle frame. The Bobcats scored on the power play and while shorthanded. Replying for the Raiders were Jake Kohlhauser on the power play and Kyler Hehn at even strength with 13 seconds left in the period to knot it at two.
Shots were 31-22 for the Raiders. In net was Mitch Martell.
The 2012 provincial finalists won the series opener 4-2 in St. Albert last week and the Bobcats posted the same result in game two Saturday in Lloydminster. Brett Smythe and Harrison Klein scored and Martell and Pat Gora shared netminding duties in the loss.
Game four goes tonight at 6:30 p.m. in the Border City.
If needed, game five is Friday at 7:30 p.m. in St. Albert.
In the north standings four points separated the second-place Raiders (19-9-6) and fourth-place Bobcats (16-10-8).
In league play the Raiders won 5-2 on the road and tied the Bobcats 2-2 at home.
The season is over for the St. Albert Slash after losing the fifth and deciding game in the Alberta Major Midget Female Hockey League north division semifinals Sunday in Grande Prairie.
The hometown Storm won 5-2 after letting a 2-0 series lead slip away from them in losses of 2-1 Friday and 2-0 in double overtime Saturday in St. Albert.
In game three Abigail Benning and Charity Price scored in the third period and Andrea Dombowsky made 21 saves for the shutout.
Rebecca Wall sniped the OT winner in game four 51 seconds into the second extra period and Dombowsky stopped a game-high 36 shots.
In game five the Storm led 4-0 before Rachel Rochat and Wall connected in the second. Dombowsky faced 25 shots.
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Oliver Letwin re-opens Martinstown Post Office with extended opening hours
West Dorset MP Oliver Letwin opened the new look Martinstown Post office - which will see opening hours extended by over 30 hours a week.
Newly appointed subpostmistress Emily Trent has been able to restore services at the Post Office, which closed in April 2011 after the retirement of the former subpostmaster.
Ms Trent said: "People really love having their local Post Office open again. Customers really appreciate that they can buy their groceries and do their Post Office transactions all at the one counter - this has proved very popular.
"Customers are very happy with the longer trading hours as the opening hours are much more convenient as they can now visit before or after work or school runs or call in at the weekend - whatever suits them."
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Martinstown Post Office is now open Monday to Friday; 8am to 6:30pm, Saturday 8am to 6pm and on Sundays from 9am until 1pm.
Mr Letwin officially re-opened the Post Office by cutting the ribbon last week.
"It is great news that Martinstown has a Post Office once again" said Mr Letwin.
"What's even better still is that this Post office is now modern and is open much longer than before. These longer trading hours will really benefit residents and small businesses.
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Champion competitors and dedicated volunteers
A network of 15,000 volunteers, 11,000 athletes, 99 Iowa counties and 44 years all add up to one thing: the Special Olympics of Iowa (SOIA). Come May 17 through 19, all of these variables will be present at the 2012 Summer Games in Ames.
|Working with SOIA led UNI student Bryan Coffey to major in social work.|
The Special Olympics is an international non-profit organization, which encourages both children and adults with intellectual disabilities to compete in summer and winter versions of the games. Participation for athletes is free and further promoted through the organization's motto, "Let me win, but if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt."
Director of Sports and Competition, Rhonda Schwarzkopf, has been working with SOIA since 1998 and has held many positions within the organization. Schwarzkopf finds joy in watching the athletes practice, train and compete. "Everyone who competes in Special Olympics receives an award. We strive for fair and equitable play. We want all our athletes to excel, do well and have an opportunity to win."
Both students and faculty highlight the University of Northern Iowa's involvement in SOIA. Senior transfer student and social work major, Bryan Coffey has worked with SOIA for seven years. His life goals and involvement with the Special Olympics led Coffey to his major. As a Boy Scout, Coffey was introduced to a member of his troop with autism. This connection caused Coffey to realize his desire to work with at-risk youth and those with intellectual disabilities. "I want to be in a position to encourage other people and I want others to benefit from the work I'm doing," said Coffey. He believes his social work major will give him this opportunity.
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benefit from the work I'm doing."
- Bryan Coffey, UNI senior
Coffey's volunteer work with SOIA has ranged from event planning and organization to fundraising and media relations. He furthered his involvement by becoming an intern with the organization. "Now that I'm an intern with SOIA I've had many more opportunities to do things that I hadn’t yet done," said Coffey. "I've been a part of SOIA’s 2012 Winter Games, Midwinter Tournament, Young Athletes Play Activity Days, Challenge Days and I even led SOIA’s Ames Polar Plunge, which turned out to be the biggest Polar Plunge ever for SOIA, raising more than $92,000." The money raised by Coffey, and many others, funds different aspects of the Special Olympics, including housing, health screenings, transportation and basic living costs.
Coffey isn't UNI's only representative at the SOIA. Joe Wilson, associate professor of health, physical education, and leisure services at UNI, has volunteered with the organization for 44 years. Wilson has served as the Northeast Iowa area director since 1986 and noted the important role UNI students play for SOIA. "We generally have several hundred UNI volunteers help with our area events every school year. " With such a large number of athletes participating, the need for volunteers is evident.
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Barack Obama won the White House in a landslide in 2008, posting the most convincing win of any Democrat since Lyndon Johnson in 1964. By promising "hope" and "change," he garnered more than 69 million votes, winning just under 53 percent of the popular vote and 365 votes in the electoral college.
He did it by campaigning as a post-partisan centrist, tapping into the resentment many Americans felt against the party in power over issues ranging from the war in Iraq to the Wall Street bailout. His manner of governing, however, has been a far cry from the kind of president he promised to be.
Beginning with the earliest days of his administration, Obama has come across as a man who doesn't care to listen to the people with whom he disagrees. From his dismissal of GOP congressional critics because "I won" to his walking away from Arizona GOP Gov. Jan Brewer in the middle of a conversation at Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport, the president shows little tolerance for those who think differently about the way the nation should be governed. To put it bluntly, the president is a polarizing figure, something that is reflected in the latest Gallup Poll released Friday. Democrats love him, and Republicans? Well, not so much.
According to Gallup, "the historically high gap" between what Republicans and Democrats think of Obama has existed for most of his tenure in office. "In fact, Obama's Year Three average 68-percentage-point partisan gap is tied for the fourth highest" the venerable polling firm has recorded, going back to the Eisenhower administration—and little surprise, as 80 percent of Democrats and only 12 percent of Republicans approve of the job he is doing as president.
Some, especially those who say George W. Bush was also a polarizing president, say the numbers are consistent with divisions that dominate the political life of the nation and are not an indictment of the current president. Others suggest that Obama's numbers are a reflection of his own presidency, of the way in which he himself has sought to polarize the country. That he sees the country as a collection of opposing interest groups—like the 99 percent vs. the 1 percent, or labor vs. management, or the rich vs. the middle class—is evident from his rhetoric on the stump.
As he prepares to campaign in earnest for a second term, it is clear that he and his campaign team want a "base election," one in which the two major party candidates battle it out to see who can deliver the most reliable supporters to the polls. Such a campaign leaves little room for casual voters, disaffected members of either party, and self-described independents—all of whom want to vote "for" something rather than cast a ballot "against" someone. It's the strategy that George W. Bush successfully employed to defeat Sen. John Kerry in the 2004 election.
But it's a strategy that has costs. It is difficult to come out of a base election claiming much of a mandate, something Bush found out as he tried to introduce new initiatives in his second term that required a mass consensus to get them through Congress. Instead, as the polarization increased, his party lost control of Congress just two years later—although not exclusively for reasons tied to the president's agenda.
Obama will not, it appears, be able to bring America together in the next campaign which means he has to come up with an entirely new strategy for victory. Whether he can and still win re-election depends on whether America remains a center-right country, as many political observers believe it to still be. Running to the left could hurt Obama in November. Unfortunately, it's the only place he has to go.
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THE L WORD meets SEX AND THE CITY!
Scarlet Zabrinski, (Susan Priver, Mafioso) is a successful L.A. matchmaker. But she’s at odds with her family. Her mother, Ruth (Golden Globe winner Sally Kirkland, Anna) keeps trying to find her the perfect man. And her brother Ben (Jere Burns, Good Morning Miami) has it in for Scarlet after she inadvertantly sets him up on a date with a prostitute.
When Sabrina Fisser, (Musetta Vander, Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?) an out of work foreign actress, rear ends Scarlett, she offers this seemingly helpless vagabond a place to stay. When Ben tries to seduce Sabrina, Scarlet realizes she’s attracted to her new friend – leading to surprising romance between these two very different women.
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“A refreshing and unusual screen couple.” – LA Times “Screwball take on lesbian love!” – Hollywood Reporter “Compelling” – Variety
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Tickling the Old Ivory - Piano Solos
We've been playing solos from our favorite performers and songs. So far, we have had the guitar string us along and we've had the doldrums beaten out of us by the old drums. Today, sit back, smile and show your ivory! We're going to share our favorite songs that include a piano solo - it might even be an instrumental.
There are a lot of fabulous performers with multiple talents - some play all the instruments we've discussed, but there are several who really stand out as stand up piano players.
Please list one song choice per post and do include the performer's name, link for easy listening and any memorable experiences you have to share about your choice of performer or song.
Did you grow up with a piano in your home? Were you forced to practice?
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On orders from President Barack Obama, the U.S. military launched cruise missiles early Thursday against two suspected al-Qaeda sites in Yemen, administration officials told ABC News in a report broadcast on ABC World News with Charles Gibson.
One of the targeted sites was a suspected al Qaeda training camp north of the capitol, Sanaa, and the second target was a location where officials said "an imminent attack against a U.S. asset was being planned."
The Yemen attacks by the U.S. military represent a major escalation of the Obama administration's campaign against al Qaeda.
In his speech about added troops for Afghanistan earlier this month, President Obama made a brief reference to Yemen, saying, "Where al Qaeda and its allies attempt to establish a foothold -- whether in Somalia or Yemen or elsewhere -- they must be confronted by growing pressure and strong partnerships."
Until tonight, American officials had hedged about any U.S. role in the strikes against Yemen and news reports from Yemen attributed the attacks to the Yemen Air Force.
President Obama placed a call after the strikes to "congratulate" the President of Yemen, Ali Abdallah Salih, on his efforts against al Qaeda, according to White House officials.
A Yemeni official at the country's embassy in Washington insisted to ABC News Friday that the Thursday attacks were "planned and executed" by the Yemen government and police.
Along with the two U.S. cruise missile attacks, Yemen security forces carried out raids in three separate locations. As many as 120 people were killed in the three raids, according to reports from Yemen, and opposition leaders said many of the dead were innocent civilians.
American officials said the missile strikes were intended to disrupt a growing threat from the al Qaeda branch in Yemen, which claims to coordinate terror attacks against neighboring Saudi Arabia.
The al Qaeda presence in Yemen has been steadily growing in the last two years. "Al Qaeda generally has been pushed into these ungoverned areas, whether it is the Afghanistan-Pakistan border area [or Yemen]," said Richard Barrett, coordinator of the U.N.'s Taliban al-Qaeda Sancitions Monitoring Committee. "I think many of the key people have moved to Yemen."
The U.S. embassy was attacked by suspected al Qaeda gunmen last year.
And the presumed leader of al Qaeda in Yemen, Qaaim al-Raymi, has frequently appeared on internet videos, offering an alternative to the training camps in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
"If they can go to Yemen just as easily or easier and get training there and come out again," said Barrett, "all your efforts in Pakistan and Afghanistan are a waste of time."
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"Two layer pineapple upside down cake." — Donna
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1 (10 ounce) jar
maraschino cherries, drained
packed brown sugar
1 (8 ounce) can
sliced pineapple, drained with juice reserved
1 (8 ounce) can
crushed pineapple, drained with juice reserved
1 (18.25 ounce) package
yellow cake mix
I've made this cake several times now, always to rave reviews. A few notes:
- I've tried Pillsbury Moist Supreme Butter Recipe Yellow cake mix, and both Duncan Hines Butter Recipe Golden and Pineapple cake mixes. The pineapple cake mix gave a stronger pineapple flavor (of course), but I got the best/moistest cake out of the Pillsbury mix.
- I've had good luck with Land o Lakes Baking Butter...otherwise I use the ultra creamy variety.
- **Try the coconut!** It doesn't taste like you think it will. It adds SO much to the flavor/look of the cake!
- It's sometimes hard to gauge the baking time with this one...the toothpick test can be deceiving. Just keep an eye on it.
- Another reviewer suggested this and I always do it because it WORKS...after layering the cakes, place the pan, upside-down, back onto the top layer. Remove it after about half an hour; this should take care of the cracking problem.
It's OK. Nothing great. I think its the package yellow cake mix in the recipe that I don't like. I am used to the pineapple upside-down cake from scratch that makes this cake tastes better. Not going to make it again.
This was excellent!! I used a 9 x 13 glass pan put the pineapples, brown sugar, cherries, and butter on the bottom a little bit of the cake mix and then the crushed pineapple and the rest of the cake mix. I think it turned out awesome! Thanks alot
This would have been 5 star if I didnt tweek the 2nd time around. First off, Golden Butter Cake mix, instead of plain yellow changes this from being just ok, to incredible. The amount of liquid needed for Golden Butter is also the perfect amt. for what you get out of the pinapple cans. 2nd, the cooking time is way too long. I'd start checking this after 25 min, as over cooking is one of the main reasons it cracks/falls apart when taking out of the pans. I have yet to throw out any of the left-overs on this cake, as the whole thing ALWAYS gets eaten!
Great cake - my only complaint is that in the recipe instructions, it says to let the cake sit for 30 minutes after taking it out of the oven - BAD IDEA! The topping stuck to the pan when it cooled, and I ruined both layers when I removed them from the pans. It still tasted good, but didn't look all that pretty!
Great cake that tasted so much like my grandma's homemade one! I omitted the coconut because hers didn't have it, and it was just fine. Be careful not to shake the layer with the pineapple slices when you remove it because it breaks the cake. Thanks for the recipe!
Very tasty, without being overly sweet. I simplified and slightly modified the recipe: Butter was increased to 1/2 cup. I placed it in an ungreased 9x13 pan, and let it melt in the oven while the oven was heating. Then, sprinkled the brown sugar, coconut, and a 20 oz can of drained crushed pineapple, and the drained marischino cherries over the melted butter. (I didn't use the sliced pineapple). When mixing the cake mix, I added 1/2 tsp. coconut extract, along with the pineapple juice. The baking time was a bit longer, due to pan size... about 35 minutes. The coconut extract flavor didn't "jump out", but gave the cake a nice, fresh, (not from a mix) taste. I'll definitely make this again.
I love pineapple so I decided to make this and it was wonderful! I took the advice of MomDad4Kiddies, and used a 9x13 pan. I decided to leave the coconut out. I layered the pineapples, brown sugar & cherries on the bottom, then half the cake mix, then crushed pineapple and last the rest of the cake mix. Very easy to make and tasted great! Thanks Donna.
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
Pineapple Upside-Down Cake V
Serving Size: 1/12 of a recipe
Servings Per Recipe: 12
Amount Per Serving
Calories from Fat: 88
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(I originally wrote this two years ago after a week of watching dreary arguments about copyright, digital rights management (DRM) and failing advertising models on the BBC Backstage mailing list. Sadly, it still seems fairly relevant. Here’s the original post in context.)
“Where all your ideas are derivative works of ours”
Attempt all questions.
Mr A enjoys model railways so much, he wants to tell everyone about them, so he decides to publish a free newsletter for all called The Story of O-Gauge. Learning the lessons of the other free newsletters lying near telephone booths, he sets up an automated printer/dispenser in Old Compton Street, which prints and dispenses a copy of his newsletter each time its shiny red button is pressed by anyone at all.
Quickly, he discovers that his newsletter is popular, for many copies are dispensed to anyone that comes within arm’s length; but this popularity comes at a cost. So Mr A decides to defray his dispensing expenses by asking Mr B, the owner of a local trinket emporium, to pay him to give away their brochure, Astounding Trinkets!, with his newsletter. They agree, but only on the grounds that Mr B will pay one red cent for each brochure given away with a copy of Mr A’s newsletter.
Time passes, and Mr A is enraged to discover that he has been giving away many more copies of his newsletter than the Astounding Trinkets! brochure, which, in his mind, is an integral part of the whole newsletter experience, and not something the public is at liberty to ignore, throw away or clean their ears with.
1) On a scale of nowhere near long enough to way too long, how long has Mr A’s brain been cooking on the Wishful Thinking grill?
2) On a scale of not at all to exceedingly, how stitched up has Mr A been by Mr B’s transfer of business risk?
3) Using any international Laughing Policeman scale, how helpless with mirth will Police Constable C become when Mr A accuses members of the general public Messrs D through Z of stealing his newsletter that he chooses to dispense freely to all and sundry? Will Mr A’s case be strengthened if he also stamps his little foot indignantly during these accusations?
4) Mr A decides to use DRM to restore economic sanity to the surly public’s enjoyment of his total content experience, but he wants to keep them involved in the process for some reason. So he asks his newsletter’s readers which DRM model they prefer; the overwhelming answer is: “the one with the biggest tits“. List at least three dubious, yet profitable business opportunities that Mr A sadly overlooks at this point.
5) Assume that Mr A started his dispenser at midnight on Jan 1 2007, that he dispensed one hundred copies on that day, that his newsletter dispensing grows at 375% per month, and that his pent-up frustration grows exponentially with dispensing figures. At what time will Mr A die from an aneurysm if he never realizes that most potential advertising impressions generate no response, and you couldn’t make some people read them if you put a gun to their head?
6) How will the date of his demise change if, when he dispenses his 50,000th copy, he discovers that two thirds of his newsletters are being eaten by a local circus horse called Googlebot that loves the taste of toner in the morning?
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And now, back to the exam.
On a graph with Wastefulness along the X axis and Obnoxiousness up the Y axis, plot the size and position of all the advertising-supported business models you know of.
Keep the graph within the bounds of good taste by calibrating it in mega-Saatchis, and by using the colour scheme that you think will be most attractive to avocado-eating ABC1 18-34-year-olds.
Include a statistically significant sample of their names, phone numbers and tasteful photographs so that your answer can be verified by an independent panel of lonely experts.
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Sony Playstation 3
Exam Raider X – the Final Challenge
Compare and contrast the relative speed, fidelity and legal vulnerability of the following copying machines:
- the Gestetner Automatic Cyclostyle
- the British Parliamentary rumour mill
- EMI Records
- Shawn Fanning’s original Napster
Explain, in sufficient detail to prevail at appeal, how these legal vulnerabilities can be avoided by any media player that Sony might bring to market in the future.
Exam Raider XX – the Ultimate Hurdle
Show how a rigorous, yet fair, system of intellectual property governance, applied at the outset of rampant DNA copying by multicellular organisms, would have sped up the process of biological evolution to the point where we would all be walking on sunshine by now.
Exam Raider XXX – the Desperate Gambit
Perform a market-impact assessment of a machine that could make perfect, free, unlimited copies of itself and Angelina Jolie, paying particular attention to the international trades in lip gloss, little brown babies and grainy photographs of Jennifer Aniston.
Using any system of logic that is legally permissable, show how hacking such a machine to make copies of Steve Ballmer would lead directly to the end of the world, as well as causing a widespread loss of confidence in Blu-Ray technology.
End of the exam.
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mrr625 Senior Member Joined: 18 Oct 2012 Posts: 1 Location: Wichita Falls Expertise: Professional
Posted Thu Oct 18, 2012, 8:47pm Subject: Re: FS Rio Super Jolly
I'm interested in the Super Jolly. I know you wrote that the burrs are in great shape and that it's been well cared for, but I have a few specific questions. Are there any mechanical glitches or aesthetic wear and tear? You wrote that it's an older machine. Do you know how old it is? How many owners total? Have you replaced the burrs since you bought it? Do you know when or if the burrs were replaced? If I were to purchase it, how do you accept payment?
Any answers and additional info you can give would be appreciated. I look forward to hearing back from you.
Moduspocus Senior Member Joined: 29 Mar 2011 Posts: 25 Location: Fairfax VA Expertise: I like coffee
Posted Thu Oct 18, 2012, 9:10pm Subject: Re: FS Rio Super Jolly
I checked the serial number. According to some google searches I did the first two numbers are the year, so if correct this is a model from 1995.
No mechanical glitches.
Aesthetically it looks like a used machine. The finish is not shiny. I don't see any dents. One small area on the tray is missing paint. A few missing paint chips on top. I'm sure it could be brightened up with some elbow grease and minor touch ups.
I don't know when the burrs were last replaced. I haven't changed them. I don't know how many owners, but there has been at least two.
I've used it to make espresso and aero press coffee. I've actually had it in a second home for the past two years, so lightly used since I've had it. Excellent grind on both the espresso and aero press.
A check or money order is fine, if you can wait for it to clear. I would rather not use PayPal because of the cost, but if that helps seal the deal I'm all for it.
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With Amped-up Live-Music Programming for 2012, Aloft Hotels Gives Emerging Talent a World Stage
- Expanded, Worldwide “Live at Aloft Hotels” to Showcase More Up-and-Coming Artists
- “Project Aloft Star” Talent Discovery Goes Global, Holds First Live Showdown
- Green River Ordinance, Jon McLaughlin, , Ryan Star Among Artists on “Live” Roster in North America
STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 17, 2012-- With an amped-up calendar of live-music moments unveiled today, Aloft is giving emerging talent a world stage to connect with new audiences.
Responding to fan demand, Aloft’s smash-hit “Live at Aloft Hotels” performance series will showcase a wider range of artists at more hotels than ever. Aloft hotels across the globe will host these must-see live-music events, where guests and music fans can experience up-and-coming artists and white-hot buzz bands.
Aloft’s rocking live-music roster for 2012 also includes a fresh partnership with Nylon magazine and the debut of a live music showdown.
Aloft is the sizzling “style at a steal” brand from Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: HOT) that has rocked the world since its 2008 debut. By fusing music, pop culture, and hospitality, Aloft continues to top the industry charts. Aloft will open hotels in nearly every corner of the globe in 2012, including China, India, and parts of South America and Europe.
“Live at Aloft Hotels” Dates to Showcase Buzz Bands Across The Globe
For “Live at Aloft Hotels 2012,” Aloft is curating a buzz-worthy roster of up-and-coming artists to perform at Aloft properties everywhere:
- In North America, artists include hot emerging talent like Dar Williams, Sleeper Agent, Susan Justice, Green River Ordinance, Ryan Star and Jon McLaughlin.
- In the Asia-Pacific region, Thai crooner Aof Pongsak wowed fans at Aloft Bangkok, and “Queen of Beijing Rock” Nova Heart – aka Helen Feng – graced the stage of Aloft hotels across China. More live performances by emerging talent will be announced.
- In India Aloft Hotels in Chennai and Bangalore set the stage for live wire performances by upcoming local bands every Saturday through July and August in association with Chennai Live Radio’s Purple Fest.
Stateside, the bigger-than-ever “Live at Aloft Hotels 2012” continues with dates at Aloft Charleston (July 14); Aloft Chicago ORD (July 16); Aloft Milwaukee (July 17); Aloft Houston (July 18); Aloft Austin & Aloft Nashville (July 19); Aloft Dallas (July 20), with more hot dates to come. The series kicked off May 17 at Aloft Tallahassee with Canadian indie-pop sextet Hey Rosetta!
Aloft live-music moments are open to guests and local fans alike. Music lovers everywhere can check out the schedule of events, performance footage, and photos at facebook.com/alofthotels.
“Project Aloft Star”: Are you the next big deal in music?
For an even bigger world stage, Aloft will expand its groundbreaking “Project Aloft Star” talent discovery to find the next big deal in music across the globe. In this worldwide “Project Aloft Star” search, Aloft will name three winners to represent the Americas, Europe & Asia Pacific. All three winners will have the chance to get showcased around the globe -- with Aloft Hotels as their stage.
In India, for example, Aloft hotels has partnered with Chennai Live Radio and presents the Band Hunt Contest Season 3 as part of the “Project Aloft Star” initiative and will host live auditions at Aloft hotels in Bangalore and Chennai, with more than 150 bands expected to compete. Winning bands, as chosen by fans, will get a high-profile showcase at Aloft hotels across India. Editions of “Project Aloft Star” will also roll out around the world.
In Europe and Middle East, Aloft is teaming up with hot indie rockers We Are Scientists to scout up-and-coming talent. Based on demos submitted through “Project Aloft Star” and live performances at Aloft hotels in London, Abu Dhabi and Brussels in September and October, We Are Scientists will choose a winning band. The grand prize: A chance to co-write and record a song with the band – and perform it together at Aloft London Excel.
In both North and South America, pop-culture media icon NYLON Magazine is on board as a new presenting partner for the “Project Aloft Star” talent discovery. Both NYLON Magazine editor-in-chief Marvin Scott Jarrett and music editor Ellen Carpenter will join Aloft music insiders to select “Project Aloft Star” finalists. “Project Aloft Star” will then invite Facebook users to vote on their favorite finalist and help select the winner. When “Project Aloft Star” launched in 2010, Aloft made history as the first hotel to “break” a new musical artist.
In another musical milestone, “Project Aloft Star” will launch its first live showcase, where on-the-verge artists will strut their stuff for a panel of high-profile music insiders. Live “Project Aloft Star” showcases will take place at Aloft Austin at the Domain and Aloft Portland Airport at Cascade Station. Bands can also get heard by submitting demos via Facebook. One lucky artist in “Project Aloft Star powered by NYLON” will get a coveted headlining slot during the “Live at Aloft Hotels” fall tour and a chance to be signed by NYLON Records.
“Aloft is all about what’s next in design, tech, and pop culture, and our music programming is a great way for us to share that,” said Brian McGuinness, Starwood’s Senior Vice President of Specialty Select Brands for Starwood. “Our guests consider Aloft part of their pop-culture experience, whether it’s a breakout band, an exclusive peek at a television series, or a fun way to use social media. And we’re having a great time as their partner in discovery.”
Pioneering initiatives in music, design, and technology have positioned Aloft as a must-have living-social brand for the next generation of travelers. Aloft has reported consistently high guest satisfaction scores since launch, reflecting the success of its modern and vibrant design at an affordable price point. Aloft's social guest experience, with the buzzing re:mix lounge and w xyz bar, has also earned select hotels within the portfolio designations in TripAdvisor's 2012 "Top 25 Trendiest Hotels in the US" rankings.
About Aloft Hotels
With more than 60 hotels in 10 countries, Aloft has changed the hotel landscape by offering “style at a steal” everywhere from Baltimore to Beijing to Bogota to Brussels – and everywhere in between. For more information, please visit www.alofthotels.com.
Aloft, like all brands within Starwood's portfolio, is proud to offer the Starwood Preferred Guest(R) program, which offers a breakthrough policy of no blackout dates on Free Night Awards. To learn more, please visit www.spg.com.
About Starwood Hotels & Resorts
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. is one of the leading hotel and leisure companies in the world with 1,103 properties in nearly 100 countries and 154,000 employees at its owned and managed properties. Starwood is a fully integrated owner, operator and franchisor of hotels, resorts and residences with the following internationally renowned brands: St. Regis®, The Luxury Collection®, W®, Westin®, Le Méridien®, Sheraton®, Four Points® by Sheraton, Aloft®, and ElementSM. The Company boasts one of the industry’s leading loyalty programs, Starwood Preferred Guest (SPG), allowing members to earn and redeem points for room stays, room upgrades and flights, with no blackout dates. Starwood also owns Starwood Vacation Ownership, Inc., a premier provider of world-class vacation experiences through villa-style resorts and privileged access to Starwood brands. For more information, please visit www.starwoodhotels.com.
(Note: This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of federal securities regulations. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance or events and involve risks and uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results or events to differ materially from those anticipated at the time the forward-looking statements are made. These risks and uncertainties are presented in detail in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Although we believe the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are based upon reasonable assumptions, we can give no assurance that our expectations will be attained or that results and events will not materially differ. We undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.)
Source: Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc.
Starwood Hotels & Resorts
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The Curse of the Cobra Goddess anytime man desecrates or violates the cobra, they are doomed to suffer the petrifying curse of the snake woman, of death and infertility. Only respect and worship can keep the population safe and the women fertile. Over 4000 years ago the inhabitants of the Indus Valley sculpted the image of the shape shifting snake. These half cobras, half human creatures were said to inhabit an awesome, mysterious temple, made of material unknown to mankind, deep within the jungles, far, far away in the legendary spice forests of the Malabar Coast. Children grew up hearing about the story recounted to their grandfathers, by their forefathers about an ancestor, who had journeyed to the edge of the world, and came back to recount a frightening story about the Snake Goddess and her mate.... and from here the legend travelled across India, and the far east along the silk route passed on from generation to generation for thousands of years until this day. It is the year 2008, an American man, named George, packing high tech gear, and evil intentions, makes the arduous journey into the heart of the forbidden forest. He captures a male cobra the size of a large python when he's at his weakest, while mating. Little does he realize when they embark on testing this mysterious creature in their high tech lab, what horror and destruction awaits him.... | <urn:uuid:524d59b6-91b7-4efd-a7b7-8bf7fbdfa9d4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://fridaymoviez.com/bollywood/movies/hisss/synopsis/85393 | 2013-05-18T18:51:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382705/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951585 | 281 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Dame Margaret Price (1941 - 2011)
It was with sadness that Glyndebourne has learnt of the death of Welsh soprano Dame Margaret Price who died of heart failure at the age of 69 on 28th January. Described by The Guardian as “one of the most beloved singers of her generation,” Dame Margaret Price made her operatic debut with Welsh National Opera as Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro in 1962 and later stood in for Teresa Berganza at the Royal Opera House again as Cherubino, a performance which won her overnight fame.
Dame Margaret performed in venues all over the world, specialising in Mozart and the lighter Verdi roles. She appeared at Glyndebourne in 1966 as the Angel in Handel's Jephtha, then as Constanze in Die Entführung aus dem Serail in 1968 (and the revival in 1972) and in 1971 as Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte.
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Our lovely friend Susie stayed here with her boys for a few nights and she and her sister looked after #2 on Friday night when I took my mummy/zombie boy to the disco. He told me his friend's cowboy costume wasn't scary enough!
There was lots of dancing and music for kids (and parents) and fun times for all. I was impressed by how many mums and dads dressed up too. I'll have to come up with something for next year. It did take a while to get all that black off. | <urn:uuid:dd64b426-e240-4fb3-ad98-7ef7e7907335> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://growingkiwis.blogspot.com/2009/11/his-first-school-disco.html | 2013-05-18T18:32:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382705/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.992921 | 110 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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I’m going to India tomorrow for a few days.
It’s a work trip, so unfortunately I’ll be spending most of my time in an office with a load of web geeks (like me), but that does also mean that I’m not paying for it.
I will try to take photos.
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- serpentskirts said: Safe travels & hope you get to see lovely things and people!
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RSS (Really Simple Syndication) or syndication permitted to be included in a single file all the new content on a website, which is both useful to users and referencing.
The standard allows RSS to be informed about news from a website, without having to consult. The RSS file in XML format, also known as RSS feeds, or RSS channel, allows to describe in summary form the content of a site. This file is maintained automatically updated to always contain the latest information to disseminate. Sites by providing such a flow often affix a logo RSS for this type: on their pages, or even the same symbol will be visible in the right corner of the address fields (Firefox) or on the navigation bar (IE7) web browser.
The use of these flows allows a user through a reader or feed aggregator, to view many sites without having to visit them, and so to read the latest content published by these sites without disclosing any personal information.
Moreover, a webmaster can also use these feeds to syndicate content, then automatically publish it on their site different information from other sites. This will effectively generate many links “deep” for the site at the source of the stream. These links will be beneficial to complete referencing, ie including the inner pages or deep site generating the flow. | <urn:uuid:36e2ff49-590d-4279-90b0-ff5dcd500f6c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://linkbackseo.com/syndication-rss.html | 2013-05-18T18:33:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382705/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.905274 | 267 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
I like this idea, of turning m0n0wall into more then a firewall.(on
different boxes) Having a m0n0proxy, among other things, and having them all
able to be intertwined on a click of a button. Of coarse we would need
developers to help out.
On 10/21/05 8:18 AM, "lola" <lola at yais dot net> wrote:
> hi all,
> there have been many discussions about proxy support on the list. but afaik
> there is no easy "plug and play" solution yet. i agree in having a seperate
> proxy box rather than implementing squid into m0n0wall. so here is my
> 1. build a m0n0wall-like transparent proxy based on m0n0bsd using squid. of
> course having a simple web frontend like m0n0wall. (thats the easy part)
> 2. in m0n0wall have a option "enable proxy". this would basicly alter the
> dhcp server config and set the proxy ip as default gateway.
> this means the default getaway for all clients on lan is the proxy. http
> traffic is filtered, other traffic is forwarded to m0n0wall. thats the
> downside of my idea: all traffic has to go through the proxy first. but i
> think its the easiest way to enable proxy support in m0n0wall.
> a proxy needs much more performance than a gateway. thats the reason many on
> the list dont want squid on embbeded boards (wrap, soekris). but why dont we
> let the user decide what hardware to use? i'm pretty sure a proxy running on
> a wrap board with a small (10 or 20 mb) cache stored on a mfs will do basic
> access control and simple filtering such as domain blacklisting. who wants
> to run a big proxy simply uses generic pc hardware with lots of memory and
> fast hard drives. therefore i suggest having the same images as we have with
> m0n0wall: generic (cache stored on hdd), embedded (only basic functionality)
> and cdrom (cache stored on mfs, requires a lot of memory).
> as internet bandwidth isnt the main concern these days i think the core
> function of the proxy should be access control and content filtering. im
> running an internet cafe in germany and i can tell you filtering porn on 20
> or more computers is either a pain in the ass or really expensive.
> "m0n0proxy" should have a self updating blacklist system (don't know how to
> do that yet).
> thats my idea. what do you guys think? anybody with me or am i alone on this
> Thomas Lohner
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It’s not easy getting older, but this is one birthday we’re happy to celebrate. Tomorrow, ScienceNOW, Science’s daily online news site, turns 15. ScienceNOW was one of the first science news sites on the Web, and over the past decade-and-a-half we’ve brought you the biggest and most bizarre science stories out there. Here are a few of our favorites. If you’ve got one of your own, let us know in the comments section!
Perhaps not surprisingly, given that ScienceNOW launched in the second week of October, our first ever story was about the Nobel Prize. Peter Doherty and Rolf Zinkernagel took home the physiology or medicine honor that year for their insights into the inner workings of the human immune system. And that was just the beginning of our coverage of the biggest breakthroughs, from the cloning of Dolly the sheep, to the first sighting of an alien world, to the discovery of a new type of cell called a “stem cell.”
Looking back, we were reminded of the salad days when Pluto was still a planet and the world’s fastest computer performed 1 trillion mathematical operations per second (today’s champ is 8000 times speedier). And we noticed that some stories keep coming back in the news, from political battles over climate change, to fears of human cloning, to claims of life on Mars.
And, of course it wouldn’t be ScienceNOW without some bizarre headlines (“The Elvis of E. coli,” “The Upside of Diarrhea”, “A Little Fellatio Goes a Long Way”), odd creatures (“Slug Sex Shocker,” “Mongoose Nannies From Hell,” “Ants on Stilts”), and far-out ideas (“Why Only Three Dimensions?,” “Does Our Universe Live Inside a Wormhole?,” "Tiny 'Flying Saucers' Could Save Earth From Global Warming”).
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I'm Keith Olbermann's ego and I'm here to tell the internets just how wonderful I am. But you already knew that right?
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Failure to Worship Keith Olbermann's Ego has Consequences
Watch as The Ego barely acknowledges a waiting crowd at the inauguration festivities in D.C. last month. Why would Keith Olbermann's Ego ignore the fans you ask? Because they weren't groveling and worshiping The Ego enough. | <urn:uuid:56d59c6d-bbac-4ee4-b2a4-ac1e9766d493> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://olbermannsego.blogspot.com/2009/02/failure-to-worship-keith-olbermanns-ego.html | 2013-05-18T18:13:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382705/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957207 | 106 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Spectacular weekend, I must say! The weather was down-right magical (I hope this doesn’t mean the end of the month is going to be brutal).
- Quickly ran down to Capitola to submit for the Begonia Festival, but no one was there… Grocery store for snacks and wine for the party.
- We had one of the most amazing Pop-Up Art Party yet! Andres’ place, with its incredible view, was perfect! We ate, we drank, we enjoyed the art. Check out more at the official Art Party page.
- After everything was packed up, we carpooled out with Jess and Brian (and their pup, Ruby Tuesday) to a great diner party at John and Lesley’s. Great food, more drinkin’ and a thrilling game of Apples to Apples!
- A touch hungover, but headed over to work at Jack’s grandparents (light cleaning stuff).
- Once Jack was up and ready to go, we headed back down to Capitola and dropped off our submission to the Begonia Festival (which is above). This just happened to be at the Major’s house, who Jack has known for since he was little. So, if was fun chit-chatting with him for a bit.
- Chilled out and watched They Live (which I can’t remember the last time I watched).
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Many Sega fans should be able to recall the anger that transpired when it was announced that Microsoft snapped up the rights to Shenmue II, just one month prior to it’s US Dreamcast release. The game was eventually released in Europe, but Americans would have to endure another year of waiting to see the fate of Ryo Hazuki. Shenmue II fast became the most imported PAL title ever, with thousands of American fans seizing the chance to play the game. Microsoft has finally delivered their port of Shenmue II, so get ready to go looking for sailors, collecting toys, playing arcade games, and maybe go and discover why your father was murdered, if you can spare the time.
Shenmue II picks up right were the last game left off, with Ryo landing in Aberdeen, Hong Kong. Ryo intends to find Master Lishao Tao in Wan Chai, but within minutes of landing on the dock, his bag and money are stolen. Ryo must recover his possessions, find out the truth behind the Phoenix mirror and his father's past, and attempt to confront his father's killer, Lan Di. If you didn't actually see the events of the first game, Microsoft have been nice enough to provide a free copy of Shenmue: The Movie, a feature length movie detailing all of the events which took place during the first game. If you can't spare 90 minutes, there is a much shorter movie on the game disc, called the Digest movie.
I'm looking for sailors
The narrative forms the core of the Shenmue II experience - you control practically every aspect of Ryo's life during the game thanks to the F.R.E.E. engine (Full Reactive Eyes Entertainment). You essentially have free reign over what you wish to do - instead of finding clues to further the game's plot, you can mess around collecting toys, playing Yu Suzuki arcade games, gamble, consume drinks and work at different jobs and so on. Ryo keeps a journal which automatically records any hints and tips he receives during the game, as well as recording the important details of any conversations or cut scenes which take place. The journal is essentially your key to remembering what do to in the game; Shenmue II can become very immersive at times, and you may often forget what you're meant to be doing next.
The F.R.E.E. engine has seen a few enhancements since its debut in Shenmue. You can now choose to fast forward time when Ryo is forced to wait around somewhere until a certain point of time, which should please some of the fans and critics of the original. Markers can be placed at specific locations around the world if you need to remember the exact placement of a location. NPCs around the world are much more helpful to Ryo as well as they will lead you to specific locations that you're looking for. Finally, the last major enhancement is the ability to save anywhere at any point in time - a lifesaver for anyone without hours to spend on a game at a time.
One of the best parts of the original Shenmue was the fighting (F.R.E.E. Battle), and it has come back in a big way in Shenmue II. Once you've cleared the initial introductory phase, you'll find that Shenmue II is a much more action packed affair than the original, with the number of QTEs (Quick Time Event) and fighting seeing an exponential increase. Fights use a modified version of the Virtua Fighter engine, though you will find that Ryo tends to have to fight up to, and sometimes more, than 5 opponents at one time. Throughout the game you will learn new techniques either through moves scrolls or the Tai Chi master at Aberdeen, though you cannot practice moves in the same fashion that you were able to in the original game. QTEs are situations similar to the old arcade classic Dragon's Lair, where you will be required to quickly press a direction or button to make Ryo successfully complete an action on screen. AM2 have upped the anti for the sequel and added combination QTEs, where you will be required to mash in a combination of buttons. These can be frustrating, but after a little trial and error, you shouldn't have any trouble with them.
Shenmue II is a fairly long quest, clocking in at about 20 hours - provided that you don't take too much time to explore and immerse yourself in the world. You are, in fact, limited to a certain amount of game time to finish the game - we believe that you have until the end of the Hong Kong summer to finish the game (a good 4-5 months game time). Once you're done with the main quest, you have access to a variety of Yu Suzuki's arcade games, including Space Harrier, Afterburner, Hang On and Outrun, which should insure a little extra replay value.
Keep the damn sub!
Shenmue was an excellent looking game upon its release on the Dreamcast during the 2000 holiday season, and while Shenmue II has improved upon the visual stylings of the original, you can't help but feel that the game looks rather dated. Most of the characters look decent enough, with especially good facial texturing, but some look excruciatingly bad (the Mexican arm wrestler), and animation of the characters is generally stiff across the board.
Hong Kong has been recreated for the game, just in the same way that Yokosuka was recreated for the original game, though citizens of the area say that it has changed a heck of a lot, and may not be 100% accurate. The architecture is really quite impressive, though some of the texturing is a little suspect, but that's due to the Dreamcast's slightly lower texture ram capability. Some extra features and improvements have been made, such as the colour masking (press a button and change the entire colour scheme of the game) and the improved lighting. All of the slowdown experienced in the Dreamcast version is also a thing of the past. Sega have also included a 60 Hz mode, which was nice of them.
The Dreamcast version of Shenmue II featured Japanese voices and English subtitles - a very good mix suited to this type of game. Unfortunately, on Microsoft's request, the game was re-dubbed with English voices, and they sound absolutely horrible. It's not that all of the actors are bad; it's the fact that Shenmue's conversations don't flow very well - you'll find that Ryo will be repeating things that the conversant just said, and it will irk you. The other bad thing is that this horrible dub overshadows the excellent musical score, which is a perfect compliment to the style of gameplay that Shenmue uses. The cut scenes utilise Dolby Digital 5.1, while the rest of the game is encoded in 4 channel surround sound.
Can't we just end this?
Arguably the worst part of the Shenmue II experience is the fact that the fate of the series is up in the air, and the thing that will make this more painful is the way that Shenmue II ends - it's like you're stuck in the middle of a book, and can't read any more because the other pages have been glued together. We'd love to see the series finish up, but given the underwhelming sales of Shenmue II, we don't know if we'll ever see it (so go buy it now! It's only $50). Shenmue II is a great example of the fusion of two different genres, and it provides an excellent, engrossing narrative to compliment the excellent gameplay. Everyone needs a copy of this game (so we can see a Shenmue III). | <urn:uuid:b3562f5f-3b97-436d-a6e1-4b5d39bc6248> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://palgn.com.au/xbox/749/shenmue-ii-review/ | 2013-05-18T18:53:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382705/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965116 | 1,606 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Aconcagua Summit Log (#17372)
- Signed By: Hans - Georg Viehbrock
- Date Submitted: May 12, 2002
This was my second trip to Aconcagua. Last time, in descember 1997 i had to turn around after i got a bad flu in camp 2 on Polish Glasier.
This time i was going there with 7 friends. Four of them was girls. We all had a nice climb - and together with Jonas Lie - Nielsen, Christian Eide, B'rd Tuseth and Christine Bredvei Aasen, I did make the summit via Polish Glacier route. NICE! | <urn:uuid:524ffceb-0722-48a6-83da-8ea5809c1f98> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://peakware.com/peaks.html?pk=1895&view=logs&log=17372&showLogin=1 | 2013-05-18T18:14:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382705/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962499 | 136 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Adam and Eve are created and placed in Eden, where they are tempted by the serpent to eat from the Tree of Knowledge.
Biblical epics do fall under the category of fantastic cinema, since miracles are indeed fantastical happenings. In fact, the story of Adam and Eve is probably the best known in the Bible. It is so well known, in fact, that despite the fact that this movie was in Spanish without subtitles, I didn't have the slightest problem following it. Of course, it helps that there is very little dialogue to begin with; except for some opening and closing narration, and a couple of comments from God, there is no dialogue to this movie. It is also one of the best looking Mexican movies I've seen to date, and it has a wonderful soundtrack to it. There are some definite pleasures here.
However, there's a cinematic problem with telling the story of Adam and Eve that I've barely touched on so far, so let me give you the naked truth: it's very difficult to tell this story visually and keep the viewer in the properly reverent state of mind. To phrase this another way (while remaining annoyingly coy in the process) let me just say that you will most likely get caught up in the fact that an accurate telling of this story puts very little strain on the clothing designer, and that in order to compensate for the relative easiness of this crewperson's task, we must give extra work to the casting director ("We need a woman with long hair!"), the hairdresser ("These strands go down the back, but these need to hang down in front."), the cameraman ("Yes, we need to shoot it from THIS angle!"), the choreographer ("Make sure when you're walking from point A to point B that you hand is positioned just so!), and finally, the foliage wrangler ('So how much waist-high foliage do you need in this scene?") Actually, the clothing designer isn't completely idle, but it's still a fairly easy job; for the first half of the movie, you just need certain garments of small size and specific color, and for the second half of the movie, you can consult with the foliage wrangler.
The movie does start wandering a bit at the fifty minute mark; that's when Adam and Eve are evicted. Let's face it, there's just not a whole lot of story left, but there's twenty minutes of movie to go. So we get a lot of wandering in the desert. And here's a game for Biblical scholars; spot the Biblical error that occurs shortly after Adam invents shade. (Hint: Adam and Eve see something that hasn't been created yet.) | <urn:uuid:cf6bcc91-bb7b-453a-abed-c760ac4d743f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://scifilm.org/musing1433.html | 2013-05-18T19:03:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382705/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96976 | 550 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
While the Microsoft Surface certainly wowed yesterday due to its numerous innovations, the real question left to be asked is how other OEMs feel now that Microsoft has directly announced it plans to compete in the hardware market. Both Acer and Lenovo have previously confirmed that they plan on releasing Windows 8 tablets, while others such as Dell and HP were expected to follow suit.
Now with Microsoft poised as both the hardware maker and software provider, where these manufacturer’s sit with their plans in relation to Windows 8 tablets remains dubious. The Verge recently reached out to several in order to determine their opinion on the announcement. Both HP and Acer declined to make statements about the new tablet, while Dell said that Microsoft is “an important partner” for the company and that Windows 8 tablet production will continue. Lenovo had much of the same to say, saying Windows-based tablets put the company in a “very strong position”.
It’s interesting to see these hardware manufacturer’s stances, as both Acer and HP confirm that they learned of Microsoft’s plans for its own tablet directly at the conference. | <urn:uuid:c44d3517-c497-4f70-babf-9fb4a5fad837> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://winsource.com/2012/06/20/what-does-the-microsoft-surface-mean-for-other-oems/ | 2013-05-18T18:32:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382705/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973423 | 226 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Oak Creek shooting
Milwaukee Admirals honor Oak Creek police officers, Sikh temple members
Annie Scholz reports Video by 620wtmj.comvideo
MILWAUKEE- They risked their lives to stop the Oak Creek Sikh temple gunman, so a special honor was held for Oak Creek Police Lieutenant Brian Murphy, Officer Sam Lenda and the Oak Creek Sikh community.
The officers were invited to drop the ceremonial puck in Friday night's Milwaukee Admirals home opener at the Bradley Center. They were joined by members of the Oak Creek Sikh temple, and the crowd made it clear -- they haven't forgotten what happened that day.
Oak Creek Police Lieutenant Brian Murphy, Officer Sam Lenda, and members of the Sikh temple received a standing ovation at the Admirals game Friday night.
"I've actually had some of them down at our range shooting with them, so it's really an honor that they invited us here to do this today," says Officer Lenda.
Fans say the honor was theirs.
"What the officers did was amazing and to be respected, I'm just glad to be part of the crowd that could honor them in a small way," says fan Ann Snyder.
For the Sikh temple members, it's another show of support and solidarity.
"Hockey traditionally is not an Indian sport but it's nice that the diversity is celebrated tonight," says Oak Creek Sikh temple member Pardeep Kaleka.
And the crowd celebrated Lieutenant Murphy's miraculous recovery.
"Brian's doing good," says Officer Lenda. "He's getting his voice back..."
Admirals owner Harris Turer may have said it best.
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For the last decade, as the biopharmaceutical industry has struggled — largely unsuccessfully — to live up to its anticipated potential, a litany of experts, analysts, participants, and commentators have offered up their diagnosis and treatment for pharma’s productivity problem.
The basic question they’re all trying to solve: how can it be that despite profound improvements in many aspects of drug discovery, actual productivity – measured by cost per new NME – seems to be declining?
That’s the problem that Jack Scannell (an industry analyst at Bernstein & Co.) and colleagues tackle in the latest issue of NRDD (here – abstract only), expanding upon a nice piece of work they did on this subject last year to now offer an even more comprehensive and thoughtful review of this important subject. While painfully depressing, the article is worth reading, as it cogently summarizes many years worth of hand-wringing and angst.
Having spent much of the last decade wrestling with many of the same issues (his topics will be familiar to regular readers of this column), I was perhaps most struck by the rather dismal take-away: there isn’t a clear unifying explanation for the R&D productivity problem; perhaps if each company examined its internal failures rigorously, new insight might emerge, but meanwhile, essentially, beatings will continue until morale improves.
More specifically: the payor environment is likely to make reimbursement increasingly difficult; regulators will always have an easier time tightening screws than loosening them; each success raises the bar higher; and the only immediate solution is likely to be continued R&D cuts.
I am reminded of the Woody Allen’s famous exit line: “I wish I had some kind of affirmative message to leave you with; I don’t. Will you take two negative messages?”
If only there were just two; highlights of the Scannell piece include:
- Analogy to futile coal mining: Scannell observes that if the cost of extracting coal had increased by 80x over the last 60 years despite improved technology, and if the only deposits left were difficult to access, then “continued investment would be justified by the realistic prospect of either massive improvements in mining technology or large rises in fuel prices. If neither was likely, it would make financial sense to do less digging.”
- Why the drug business is different from all other businesses: “In most intellectual property businesses (for example, fashion or publishing), people get bored with last year’s creations, which maintains demand for novelty. Unfortunately for the drug industry, doctors are not likely to start prescribing branded diabetes drugs because they are bored with generic metformin.”
- Critique of “low-hanging fruit” explanation: “Many drugs may derive their therapeutic benefit from interactions with multiple proteins rather than a single target. These drugs are ‘magic shotguns’ rather than ‘magic bullets’. If this turns out to be more generally true, then worrying about the ‘low-hanging fruit’ problem would be similar to worrying that a shortage of notes is threatening the future of music composition.”
- Expectation that regulation tends to move in only one direction: “Each real or perceived sin by the industry, or genuine drug misfortune, leads to a tightening of the regulatory ratchet, and the ratchet is rarely loosened, even if it seems as though this could be achieved without causing significant risk to drug safety.”
- One “solvable” problem: R&D expense: “Unfortunately for people working in R&D today, tackling the ‘throw money at it’ tendency looks feasible. Investors and many senior executives think that a lot of costs can be cut from R&D without reducing output substantially.”
- Have we been solving the wrong problem in drug discovery? “So how can some parts of a process improve dramatically, yet important measures of overall performance remain flat or decline? There are several possible explanations, but it seems reasonable to wonder whether companies industrialized the wrong set of activities.”
- Potential reason to reconsider “old-school” phenotypic screening approaches: “Target-based approaches are efficient for pursuing validated therapeutic hypotheses but are less effective in the search for innovative drugs.” Scannell adds, “The intellectual challenges of reductionism and its necessary synthesis (the ‘‑omics’) appear to be more attractive to many biomedical scientists than the messy empiricism of the older approaches.”
- Dominant role of narrative in science: “The ‘basic research–brute force’ bias is supported by survivor bias among R&D projects. This makes drug discovery and development sound more prospectively rational than it really is. Drugs are sold with a biological story that sounds like molecular reductionism and that sometimes, but not always, turns out to be true.”
- Need to leverage astute clinical observation – and serendipity: “Even recently, it appears that many — perhaps most — new therapeutic uses of drugs have been discovered by motivated and observant clinicians working with patients in the real world….[Despite this,] opportunities for serendipity are actively engineered out of the system.”
(Interested readers might also enjoy these previous pieces, addressing phenotypic screening, clinical champions, serendipity and reductionism, impact of long cycle times on innovation, and our dependency on narrative.)
As comprehensive as Scannell’s critique is, I’m not sure it brings us any closer to an actionable solution. If anything, the very breadth of explanations that have been curated seems an implicit endorsement of screenwriter William Goldman’s famous aphorism, “nobody knows anything.” More to the point, if any of the hundreds of industry critics, observers, and analysts were to become CEO or head of research at a big pharma company, I’m not at all convinced that they would do any better than existing management – or even know where to begin. (More puzzling, and perhaps disappointing: in some cases, these helpful critics were former industry leaders – discussed here.)
I suspect most current senior pharma leaders have recognized the apparent futility of seeking an epiphany, and long ago stopped looking for the magic key to unlock industry productivity. Sure, Big Pharmas might pay lip service to grand strategies and innovation-driven visions (undoubtedly articulated for them by well-paid but equally mystified consultants), but at the end of the day, their real strategy is almost certainly the same as everybody else’s – to scramble like hell to survive. Incidentally, this happens to be a very good description of the current state of play.
As an inveterate optimist, I see a silver lining in all this. If Big Pharma is truly evolving from a thematic, highly strategic business into what I suspect may be an opportunistic, pragmatic, highly tactical, perhaps even somewhat desperate enterprise, this could lead to important new partnering opportunities for an unexpectedly wide range of small upstart companies.
Rather than seeing their partnering options limited by what’s in vogue for pharma this week (it’s CV – no its inflam – no its orphan diseases….), small companies increasingly may have some reason to hope that whether they pursue a new idea using target-based screening of established libraries or adopt the sorts of alternative approaches that Scannell, I and others have been discussing for a while (clinical champions, phenotypic screening, etc.), if the data look promising, a Big Pharma partner may be flexible, empirical, and opportunistic enough to carefully consider it. Admittedly, this does not accurately characterize the considerably more structured and highly constrained way most Big Pharma BD operates at present, but I did point out that I was an optimist.
Meanwhile, we also need to continue to try to change the current ecosystem in a way that lowers the barriers to collaboration (as articulated by Andy Grove and implemented by Sage and other organizations), makes regulation more nimble and efficient (I’m a fan of the progressive approach advocated by Desmond-Hellmann and others), and reduces the cost of clinical trials and drug development so that it doesn’t effectively become a business where only a handful of Big Pharmas with deep pockets can afford to play (a point made in a recent column by Avik Roy, although I don’t agree with his allegations of a vast Big Pharma conspiracy).
A friend of mine taught me the priceless expression: “Oh no, not another learning experience.” I’m starting to feel this way about the burgeoning literature on pharma productivity as well. Enough already.
I’m deeply (if conveniently) convinced that the solutions here, if they are to be found, will be developed not by analysts, consultants, and other spectators tut-tutting from the bleachers, but rather by the participants (especially the intrepid start-ups) themselves, bloodied and battered, striving mightily in the arena. | <urn:uuid:2064ed51-66df-47a2-b4e8-2118e2cbec71> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.aei.org/article/health/medical-technology/prognosis-for-pharma-beatings-to-continue-until-morale-improves/ | 2013-05-18T18:40:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382705/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955471 | 1,881 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Dr Paul Amoako Acquah
Former Governor of the Bank of Ghana
Education: BSc Economics, University of Ghana, Legon; Masters Degree, Yale University, United States; PhD, University of Pennsylvania, USA.
Career: Economist, 1976-98; Deputy Director, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington DC, US, 1998-2001; Governor, Bank of Ghana, 2001-09.
Commentary: In September 2009, Paul Acquah was part of a team formed to stabilise the debt of the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) and manage its crude oil supply. He was joined by Minister of Finance and Economic Planning Kwabena Duffuor, Chief of Staff John Martey Newman, and Minister of Energy Joe Oteng-Adjei.
As Governor of Ghana's Central Bank, Acquah led the re-denomination of the cedi, a decision that was heavily criticised by Duffuor, who felt the re-denomination exercise harmed the economy.
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Pep Guardiola steps down as Barcelona coach
FC Barcelona manager Pep Guardiola will hold a news conference tomorrow. And to paraphrase Andrew Coyne, unless something astonishing happens, he’ll announce to fans and media that he’s stepping down from a position he has filled to much success since 2008.
Observers may recall 2008, a year when Barcelona were down in the dumps. La Blaugrana had been managed since 2003 by Frank Rijkaard, a legendary former defender and defensive midfielder for AC Milan. He had coached the club to a Champions League win over Arsenal and two La Liga titles in 2004-05 and 2005-06
But in 2007-08, the team found itself on a downward slide after losing to Manchester United in that year’s Champions League semi-final. Rijkaard was fired and then-Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho had been considered for the job but the two sides could not come together due to the “special one’s” aggressive media presence.
Management opted for Guardiola, who had played for Barcelona for most of his professional career as a defensive midfielder. Taking over at the start of the 2008-09 season, he moved away from Rijkaard’s attacking style and stressed the tiki-taka tactic, which involves short passes in midfield and an emphasis on possession.
The style saw many successes under Pep’s tenure, including three La Liga titles, two Champions League titles, two Super Cups, two Club World Cups and a Copa del Rey, but the last season saw the possession tactic wear out its effectiveness
Barcelona were nearly incapable of getting a pass into the opposing team’s box, let alone much of a chance against either Chelsea or Real Madrid. Even Lionel Messi began to look shy in more recent games as defenders watched him with a hawk’s eye to ensure he didn’t get a chance.
The result was that these teams knocked them out of Champions League and La Liga contention, respectively.
By all accounts, Guardiola has done an outstanding job managing this club. He has guided it to great fortune with calm and humility. But there have been missteps along the way. This season he failed to get consistent play out of Alexis Sanchez, whom he acquired on a transfer from Udinese. Alexis saw some success but his goals became more sporadic as the season went on as the error-prone player failed to connect on some great chances.
There was rancour among the Blaugrana ranks also in 2009-10, when Barcelona shipped striker Samuel Eto’o off to Inter Milan in exchange for Zlatan Ibrahimovic. The season started well for the club that year but tensions soon became apparent between the manager and his star acquisition as their styles clashed through the remainder of the season.
Zlatan was moved to AC Milan prior to the mega-successful 2010-11 season, which saw the blue-and-claret capture every football title under the sun save for the Copa del Rey.
Guardiola’s news conference tomorrow should be an emotional one, but it’s inconceivable that he would want to stay on any longer. The team has come to the end of a cycle and Guardiola likely feels too much loyalty to this group to make any significant changes. He’ll want the best for a club with whom he has spent most of his working life, as a player and as a manager. | <urn:uuid:d8dc886c-9811-4ad6-a2e0-753cf815b73a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.africasoccernet.com/pep-guardiola-steps-down-as-barcelona-coach/ | 2013-05-18T18:31:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382705/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976798 | 706 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The Big Picture: Integrating Strategy and Execution
November 14, 2007
In this presentation Marta Dapena-Barón, Founding Partner, Big Picture Partners and Hans Schwarz, Product Director, Johnson & Johnson discussed a marketing framework that helped align all areas of the organization along a common goal and facilitate decision-making.
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Academy Picks Students for CG Internships
The Science and Technology Council of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has selected three students to participate in its second annual summer internship program designed to provide real-world experience to students interested in careers in motion picture computer graphics and animation technology. Pixar Animation Studios, Rhythm & Hues Studios and Sony Pictures Imageworks will each take one of the students under their wings for an eight-week period and provide hands-on opportunities in animation, production management, software programming and visual effects.
Tony Fan from New York University will gain valuable experience at Rhythm & Hues Studios, while Tiffany Houghton from Otis College of Art and Design spends some time at Pixar Animation Studios and Liron Topaz from Ringling College of Art and Design learns the ropes at Sony Pictures Imageworks. In addition to the opportunity to work with and learn from some of the best artists and technicians in the industry, each student will receive a stipend of $4,000 from the Tech Council.
“Our mission is to cultivate the next generation of motion picture technologists and researchers,” says Barry Weiss, the Tech Council’s internship program chair. “The interns are placed into the center of three companies that exemplify the high standards of artistic and scientific excellence that the Academy seeks to foster in tomorrow’s talent.”
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I hope someone can help me here because I'm really stuck..
A week ago I bought a acer aspire one umpc and today I decided to test it with backtrack 3.
I downloaded the usb version and plugged my memory stick into my aspire one.
I entered the command for auto config my graphics card which seems to went ok.
Then I started backtrack and it showed me an error message saying my graphics card cannot handle it.
I rebooted my laptop and it doesn't do anything anymore. the power led goes green but that's it. nothing on the screen, no way to get in the boot... | <urn:uuid:5876e173-8728-4102-92e4-f9b8b27393a9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.backtrack-linux.org/forums/showthread.php?t=12898&mode=hybrid | 2013-05-18T18:15:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382705/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965867 | 130 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Win the Balenciaga A4 Bicolor Papier Tote
So if you missed the news last week, I (BagBliss) won StyleFind’s (InStyle’s sister shopping site) world wide Fan Favorite search for the 11th “It Bag” for 2011.
Five top celebrity stylists selected 10 of this year’s hottest must-have bags, and through popular vote you guys helped crown Yves Saint Laurent’s Roady as the final “It Bag”. And for the last week through the end of this month they’re giving away all 11 bags! It’s pretty easy and takes only a minute to sign up.
Today’s giveaway – the Balenciaga Bicolor Papier Tote in luscious Framboise pink with a Vermillon red flap.
Schedule for the rest of April:
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I don't think that asking just for opinions from people already owning a 1D series is a matter of elitism. Internet forums are full of third hand opinions, of harsh criticism by people that know something just because they had read other people opinions or just because it is easy to appear as great experts hiding behind the Internet virtuality.
Actually I could, now, sell myself as owner of a Phase One, gathering here and there some information, and contributing to the birth of some urban legends... That happens on cars, bikes, cameras, planes, boats etc forums and it is one of the weakest point of the Internet.
By the way, I'm the owner of a (second hand) 1Ds MkIII and of 5D MkII.
Apart from the fact that I can't now invest in a new top range camera, particularly since I'm very happy about my present equipment, I have to say that the 1Dx appears to be a nice piece of technology but it is not what I need. A very cool and chic present opinion is to despise the need for very high resolution. That could be true for some kind of photography but not for other ones. Obviously nobody will accept high resolution if that means high noise or bad IQ, but I think that 18 Mpx are nevertheless not enough in many situations, when you need to crop your image for composition requirements or because you need, for professional/scientifical needs, to catch very small details.
After four years from 1Ds MkIII presentation, I'm sure that Canon could issue some more Mpx , improving, at the same time, IQ. The problem is that the World is going more and more generic and it is difficult to invest for very specific target. So you get a bit of everything, also of features you don't need. For instance, I don't need high fps, or a huge amount of AF points, I need as many Mpx as I can and the best pixel quality I can.
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I should talk about the inauguration today, or maybe MLK, but instead I’m here to tell you what I’ve been watching on TV. This is what it looks like when Raylan puts on the One Ring. The biggest news is … Continue reading
Not long ago, prompted by seeing one in action at my sister’s house, we bought us a Roku-like device (we actually got a Sony one. I don’t know what these things are actually called.) What this is is a box … Continue reading
Other than I, Claudius, Project UFO and Doctor Who I haven’t talked about TV much lately. It’s true that we — and especially I — don’t watch much TV. I occasionally catch 30 Rock, Community, Parks and Rec, and The … Continue reading | <urn:uuid:b409881e-edf1-4430-ba7d-363956f50ca5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.daveexmachina.com/wordpress/?tag=project_runway | 2013-05-18T18:41:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382705/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.917713 | 205 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Sharing A Dorm Space
Picking a Roommate
Most colleges offer students the opportunity to choose who will be rooming with them. A student may have a life long friend, high school buddy, sibling or other family member who they would prefer to be roommates with. Of course, these roommates will have to be accepted to and be attending the same college in order to live together on a campus dorm. Preferences for roommates are usually completed during the housing application process once a student is accepted into that college.
Sharing A Small Space
When sharing the living space of a dorm, students must realize the limited space they will have to work with. Typically, a student will have to share a dorm with one other roommate. However, some colleges may have three to even four students rooming in one dorm. In this case, students may have to sleep in bunk beds and use a multitude of storage options to maintain their stuff. College students often use under bed storage units that can easily slide in and out for clothing, shoes and other items. They may use file cabinets to store any additional items such as school assignments, books and office equipment. Each dorm should have a working space, such as desks to accommodate a proper area to complete homework assignments and other projects. Roommates should come together in planning out how their space will be utilized. For example, students should determine who is in charge of cleaning what, how long each can have company over, who can borrow what and when to return it and the best times for quiet time and bedtime.
Getting To Know A Roommate
It is very important for students sharing a dorm to get along with their roommates and make the best out of college life. Sharing such a small space can be daunting on some and may cause issues between roommates. In order to keep dorm life a little simple, roommates should spend time together each week. Having game days, inviting friends over, going out to the movies, school social events or campus parties together could build a stronger bond between roommates. Being able to positively communicate with one another can be helpful by sharing any concern before it escalates beyond repair. Being able to have a positive relationship with a dorm roommate can lead to life long friendships and can make the college life experience much more rewarding. | <urn:uuid:e7b7d5d0-3624-4039-af4a-ca29c2db5924> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.dormroomideas.com/2012/03/sharing-a-dorm-space/ | 2013-05-18T18:51:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382705/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966251 | 468 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Banks Mill Studios on Bridge Street in Derby is once again opening its doors at the end of November and you’re invited along to see what happens in this old Victorian rope factory.
Banks Mill, a University of Derby managed business incubation centre, boasts over a decade of supporting creative business start-ups. During this time, the iconic building has become known for its creativity and wealth of artistic talent, and demand for the studios remains high.
There will be over 50 artists exhibiting between Friday, November 19 and Sunday, November 21 including fine art, sculpture, jewellery, fashion, photography, weaving and graphic design.
Take advantage of this unique opportunity to purchase exclusive items for gifts or even stocking fillers just perfect for Christmas, as well as gaining an understanding of the wealth of talent that lies within this unassuming building in the centre of Derby.
The Friday evening promises to provide a great atmosphere – join us for a glass of wine, a mince pie and live music in the foyer from 5pm.
The weekend takes on a family friendly feel, with face painting and a trail to keep the children occupied.
Admission is free and everyone is welcome.
Refreshments available. Please note there is no lift and ramp access is to the ground floor only. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
Friday, 19 November: 5pm-8pm
Saturday, 20 November: 10am-4pm
Sunday, 29 November: 10am-4pm
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Clinton's legacy: Today's terrifying world of terror
Charles Krauthammer is exceptional man. A psychiatrist
by training, he has left his original profession to become a celebrated pundit,
applying his unique insights into the world of the demented to the word of the
truly demented -- international politics. In a recent syndicated column Bracing
for the Apocalypse, Dr. Krauthammer provides us with his chilling diagnosis
of humankind's current chances for longevity and pronounces the situation terminal
-- unless forceful action is taken immediately. Even more interesting (and just
as chilling), he posits a hypothesis regarding the origins of our current terminal
condition, tracing the terror and apocalyptic threat to the world today to the
irresponsible and self-serving actions of none other than America's most undistinguished
presidential procrastinator and First Felon, William Jefferson Clinton.
And which inconvenient cans is Charles Krauthammer exactly referring to? Well, in his own words, here's how he catalogues them:
--Iraq: Saddam continued defying the world and building his arsenal, even as the United States acquiesced to the progressive weakening of U.N. sanctions and then to the expulsion of all weapons inspectors.
As Charles Krauthammer sardonically notes regarding the preceding negligent or self-deluding actions of the Clinton administration:
That is how one acts on holiday: Mortal enemies are dealt with not as combatants, but as defendants. Clinton flattered himself as looking beyond such mundane problems to a grander transnational vision (global warming, migration and the like), while dispatching American military might to quell 'teacup wars'' in places like Bosnia. On June 19, 2000, the Clinton administration solved the rogue-state problem by abolishing the term and replacing it with 'states of concern.' Unconcerned, the rogues prospered, arming and girding themselves for big wars.
And what do you know? The consequences of all that procrastinating, prattling and putting off the inevitable have arrived. The Clinton administration's delayed detritus has finally hit the fan. As Charles Krauthammer puts it: "On Sept. 11, the cozy illusions and stupid pretensions died. We now recognize the central problem of the 21st century: the conjunction of terrorism, rogue states and weapons of mass destruction."
Of course, according to the fashionable Clintonist spin, everything that could be done to stop terrorist actions was done after the Word Trade Center and 1998 embassy bombings. For example, according to Madeleine Albright, "We consumed all the intelligence we had. It's so easy to finger-point. [But] we tried everything we could."
Yet General Henry Shelton, retired chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, was also quoted as saying after 9/11: "Absolutely nothing prevented us from running the kind of [anti-terrorist] operation we're running now, if there had been a commitment to do that."
In fact, on several occasions, Bill Clinton refused to consider any military action against the al Qaeda terrorist network. Of course, according to the Great Prevaricator, that was because of all the bad advice he got from his national security team, who believed that a few verbal darts from the President would be enough to do the trick.
On the other hand, when the delicate matter of that stained blue dress threatened to get splashed all over the front pages of even the most friendly American newspapers, Mr. Clinton wasn't adverse to lobbing a few missiles at some abandoned tents in the middle of the Afghanistan desert, or bombing Sudan's only pharmaceutical factory (mistakenly identified as a chemical weapons factory by more of those unnamed "others" who have conspired to mislead the Clintons throughout their long history of "unintended" misdeeds).
Finally, as the piece de resistance of our little trip down Clinton memory lane, it's necessary to again bring up that pivotal time in 1996, as originally reported in the Los Angeles Times, when Sudan offered to extradite Osama Bin Laden to the United States and the Clinton administration politely declined the offer. Oops! On whom do we blame this mammoth miscue, Bill?
Well, as it happens we are told, once again the all-knowing William Jefferson Clinton was tripped up by the advice of yet another bumbling lackey, this time National Security Advisor Sandy Berger who evidently felt that the United States did not have enough evidence to convict Mr. Bin Laden in a U.S. court of law. Many thanks, Sandy, for your legal acumen, from all the occupants of the World Trade Centre on September 11th.
Of course, Bill Clinton did not have to take that advice. But based on the record of America's most self-involved president, it seems most likely that President William Jefferson "High IQ" Clinton willingly chose that path, and all the wrong policy paths cited by Charles Krauthammer (with their many disastrous consequences), because they appeared to be in Bill Clinton's self interest: they were ways of ensuring more soaring poll numbers and digging his way out of what were, in his mind, the real national crises -- Whitewater, Travelgate, Bimbogate, The Starr Report and impeachment.
Aren't you glad George W. Bush is the president today? Despite all the carping by the New York Times and the "useful idiots" fifth column of Noam, Peter, Dan, Babs, Susan and company, the moral clarity and resolute determination of Dubya may be the one last hope for America and Western civilization.
So perhaps instead of Apocalypse Now, we can still have Apocalypse Not -- thanks to the decisive actions of George W. Bush and his courageous administration.
Murray Soupcoff is the author of 'Canada 1984' and a former radio and television producer with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. He also was Executive Editor of We Compute Magazine for many years, and is now the Managing Editor of the popular conservative Web site, The Iconoclast
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2012 ALABAMA - July & August 2012
Food Festivals, & Other Food, Wine and Beer Events
(these events are waiting for new dates)
July 4, 2012 Grand Bay Watermelon Festival - Grand Bay, Alabama
Bring the whole family and enjoy pony and train rides, games, and contests. Entertainment, festival marketplace, food court, seed spitting and watermelon eating contests and greased watermelon race.
July 26, 2012 9th Annual Flavors of the South - Robertsdale, Alabama
Showcasing food & wine from local restaurants and caterers, attendees get to taste a variety of food and drink while listening to music and mingling. The showcase will offer a silent auction and a 50/50 drawing.
August 17-18, 2012 32nd Annual Franklin County Watermelon Festival
Miss Watermelon and her Court reign over the festivities, concert, antique car & truck show. Always the 3rd weekend in August (Fri-Sat)
August 18, 2012 Stokin' The Fire BBQ & Music Festival - Birmingham, Alabama
The competition will feature more than 80 local amateur barbecue teams. In addition to the barbecue battles, visitors can enjoy headliner music, grilling demonstrations, kids' zone and more.
August 25, 2012 Annual Okra Festival - Burkville, Alabama
Enjoy incredible food, fresh vegetables, arts and crafts, and okra! Come join us for a taste of fresh home grown okra and jazz music during the annual community event.
August 31-Sept 9, 2012 Alabama State Fair 2012 - Pelham, Alabama
Oak Mountain Amphitheatre. Ten days of Fantastic Family Fun. 4h & Open Livestock Contest; Horse Show; Circus; Talent Contest; Photo Contest; Rides; Entertainment; etc. | <urn:uuid:05620fd1-45a2-4d7c-a4f2-a59fd79d8a1f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.foodreference.com/html/alabama-july-august.html | 2013-05-18T18:41:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382705/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.869963 | 362 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Frostburg State University is welcoming the largest undergraduate class in its history, 4,755 students, thanks largely to a strong transfer class from community colleges, increased international enrollment and more students who are staying to complete their degrees at FSU. This enrollment success is reflecting increased confidence in the institution, the result of an ongoing University strategy to ensure stable, consistent enrollment growth.
Undergraduate enrollment, which has been increasing steadily in recent years, is 3.8 percent higher than last year and up nearly 10 percent since 2006, when FSU’s enrollment had dipped to its lowest point in 17 years. Total undergraduate and graduate enrollment is 5,385, up 170 students from last year.
“I am very pleased that our total enrollment has increased by close to 10 percent since 2006. This growth shows that an institutional approach to enrollment management and to targeted marketing and public relations really can increase enrollment at Frostburg State University,” said FSU President Jonathan Gibralter. “FSU offers an incredibly rich and vibrant learning environment for students, and the word is getting out. Our student population is representative of the entire state, and we will continue to grow, flourish and be an incredibly rich asset to the University System of Maryland and to the State of Maryland.”
A demonstration of the confidence students have in FSU is that 3,170 undergraduates are “continuing students,” meaning they returned to FSU from the previous semester, the strongest group in at least two decades. Figuring out how to keep students in college, especially those students who are the first in their families to attend college, is an ongoing dilemma in higher education nationwide.
“Students are staying here because they want to be here,” Gibralter said. “They appreciate the quality of education they receive at Frostburg and the environment that this University provides to them.”
A number of FSU initiatives are designed to improve student success, such as FSU Connections, learning communities that allow freshmen to explore an area of interest with a small group of fellow students; the Center for Advising and Career Services, providing essential support for transfer students and those who have not decided on a major; and a wide array of academic support services and monitoring programs, including tutoring, math and writing instruction, study groups, career development and assistance with the financial aid process. All of these measures are designed to keep a single area of weakness from sinking a student’s entire college career.
In addition to more students staying at FSU, the University welcomed 416 transfer students, the highest number of transfers since 1991, reflecting increased success in recruitment from Maryland’s community colleges.
“We are extremely pleased with our enrollment this fall,” said Wray Blair, associate vice president for Enrollment Management. “We are particularly pleased to see such a large group of transfer students enter FSU. We have worked very hard with our community college partners to help transfer students in their transition here. It is gratifying to enroll these outstanding students.”
FSU has dual admission agreements with Allegany College of Maryland, Hagerstown Community College and Frederick Community College. These agreements ensure a smooth transfer to FSU, with regular advising on course selection and prospective majors, as well as allowing the community college students to join in on FSU’s student life through access to activities, athletic events and communications.
For more information, contact the FSU Office of Admissions at 301-686-4201 or visit www.frostburg.edu.
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The Health Loft by Dr.Stephaniehttp://www.genbook.com/bookings/slot/reservation/30060221
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New Patient Exam ($135.00)
A full body assessment, including spine, muscle and foot mechanics, posture, and a thorough history. This appointment is 45-60 minutes.
Pediatric New Patient Exam ($67.50)
Newborns - 12 years of age. Pediatric Chiropractors perform a full body assessment, including spine, muscle and foot mechanics, posture, and a thorough history from birth to present. This appointment is 45 minutes.
Pediatric Treatment ($22.50)
Newborns - 12 years of age. A customized treatment which may include pediatric adjustments, exercises, and muscle work. This appointment is 15 minutes.
15 Chiro ($45.00)
To maintain symptom-free results. May include a combination of re-evaluation, muscle techniques, and adjusting. This appointment is 15 minutes in length.
30 Chiro ($65.00)
A customized treatment which may include adjustments with deep muscle work. This appointment is 30 minutes in length.
60 Chiro ($115.00)
A back to back chiropractic treatment. For patients with more than 3 body parts to address, or requiring a longer appointment time. This appointment is 60 minutes.
Combination [Chiro + Acu] ($99.00)
A combination of both Chiropractic and Acupuncture treatments. This Appointment is 60 minutes in length.
Athletic / Spidertech tape ($15.00)
Athletic and/or Spidertech Taping session. This appointment is 15 minutes in length
A complimentary thorough exam of standing and walking mechanics and balance. This appointment is 15 minutes.
Mon8:00am - 8:30pm
Tue8:00am - 8:30pm
Wed8:00am - 8:30pm
Thu8:00am - 8:30pm
Fri8:00am - 8:30pm
Sat8:00am - 6:30pm
Sun12:00pm - 6:30pm
Recommend for anyone who is expecting!
Morgan J - Apr 23, 2013
Dr Romana has been wonderful throughout my pregnancy. I suffered sciatic issues as well as headaches and backaches. With regular sessions these symptoms have GREATLY improved and I can't imagine being this comfortable without her.
Dr. Lara has fixed any ailment I've thrown at her
Kelvin - Apr 7, 2013
I suffer from quite a few basketball injuries and my first visit was for a debilitating lower back injury after landing awkwardly. Dr. Lara worked her magic and alleviated my pain with a proper assessment/treatment and adjusted my back. I then suffered a grade 3 ankle sprain. Dr.Lara sped up the recovery process through acupuncture all the while teaching me how to strengthen my core and ankle that I'm forever grateful for. My back has never felt better and my ankle is almost at full recovery!
Amazingly helpful prenatal massage by Julie
J.L. - Mar 27, 2013
Julie is a miracle worker! After only one session my very sore hips and sciatica from pregnancy are feeling better. I was finally able to get a restful sleep.
I Got Better!
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02-24-2012, 06:29 PM
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Jay, Oklahoma, God's country.
I'd be VERY careful about opening that barrel! LOL! Like ol' forrest Gump said, "you never know what you'll get!!!!"
Adapt, improvise, overcome.-Gysgt Highway, Heartbreak Ridge
IN GOD WE TRUST!
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Pearl, the main character and narrator has moved on after leaving, forcefully her successful career and has landed as an interpreter for law enforcement as well as other agencies while struggling with the heartache of being separated from the love of her life Andrew.
Page after page Junying reveals each of her characters layers, one at a time artfully drawing us in until we are emotionally, intertwined and invested in this story and its characters. Right before our eyes Pearl becomes a real, breathing human being with flaws, passion and the age- old, soul born struggle of good versus evil. You may find yourself disagreeing with some of her choices, yet you will cheer her on and wonder what is coming next. You will swear you can hear Pearl’s as well as the other characters’ hearts beating louder with each turning of the page.
This story is one of fiction yet it is deeply rooted in truth. The struggles of illegal immigrants are real, gritty and beyond shocking. Human beings that leave everything they own and loved ones to cross borders into other lands, not just America but all over the world can easily find themselves victims of the world’s most dark, notorious criminals. They can be sexually exploited, financially devastated and/or sold into slavery. Junying does not just ‘touch on’ the politically charged topic, she dives right into what I personally believe is our world’s most current, egregious and under reported crimes against humanity of all time, the epidemic of human trafficking.
Parts of this book were painful and quite difficult for me to read through because of my own past but I applaud and congratulate Junying for finding the words that will shine a very bright light on a very dark reality.
This book will emotionally affect you, it will bring every ounce of compassion and empathy you hold in your soul to the surface and leave you deep in thought
Doreen McGettigan is the author of Bristol boyz Stomp. The book is the true story of the random road rage murder of her brother, musician David Albert and the family’s struggle for justice.
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Julia L Zehr
Affiliation: Michigan State University
- Dendritic pruning of the medial amygdala during pubertal development of the male Syrian hamsterJulia L Zehr
Neuroscience Program, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
J Neurobiol 66:578-90. 2006....
- Factors regulating the timing of puberty onset in female rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta): role of prenatal androgens, social rank, and adolescent body weightJulia L Zehr
Psychology Department, Emory University, Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
Biol Reprod 72:1087-94. 2005..This study supports late gestation as a period of increased sensitivity to environmental insult and demonstrates that multiple factors, including prenatal programming, modulate the specific timing of pubertal events...
- Adolescent development of neuron structure in dentate gyrus granule cells of male Syrian hamstersJulia L Zehr
Neuroscience Program, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
Dev Neurobiol 68:1517-26. 2008....
- An association of early puberty with disordered eating and anxiety in a population of undergraduate women and menJulia L Zehr
Neuroscience Program, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 1116, USA
Horm Behav 52:427-35. 2007..The fact that early puberty was associated with increased eating and anxiety symptoms in both sexes suggests that puberty may influence these symptoms through both biological and psychosocial mechanisms...
- Gonadal hormones masculinize and defeminize reproductive behaviors during puberty in the male Syrian hamsterKalynn M Schulz
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience Program, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Horm Behav 45:242-9. 2004..These studies demonstrate that gonadal hormones during puberty further masculinize and defeminize neural circuits and behavioral responsiveness to steroid hormones in adulthood...
- Pubertal hormones organize the adolescent brain and behaviorCheryl L Sisk
Neuroscience Program and Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
Front Neuroendocrinol 26:163-74. 2005....
- Pubertal hormones modulate the addition of new cells to sexually dimorphic brain regionsEman I Ahmed
Neuroscience Program, 108 Giltner Hall, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
Nat Neurosci 11:995-7. 2008..Removing gonadal hormones before puberty eliminates these sex differences, indicating that gonadal steroids direct the addition of new cells during puberty to maintain and accentuate sexual dimorphisms in the adult brain...
- Testosterone programs adult social behavior before and during, but not after, adolescenceKalynn M Schulz
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience Program, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
Endocrinology 150:3690-8. 2009..Thus, adolescent maturation of social behavior may involve both steroid-independent and -dependent processes, and adolescence marks the end of a postnatal period of sensitivity to steroid-dependent organization of the brain...
- Hormones and history: the evolution and development of primate female sexualityKim Wallen
Emory University, Department of Psychology, 532 Kilgo Circle, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
J Sex Res 41:101-12. 2004..The evolutionary pressures that produced such flexibility in sexual behavior remain puzzling, but may reflect the importance of sexuality to primate social attraction and cohesion...
- Puberty: a finishing school for male social behaviorCheryl L Sisk
Neuroscience Program and Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1007:189-98. 2003..Whether puberty is a critical period for the proposed second wave of steroid-dependent organization of behavioral circuits remains to be determined...
- Steroid influences on brain maturationJULIA ZEHR; Fiscal Year: 2006..A basic understanding of the processes controlling pubertal brain development provides a timely foundation for future studies of self-administered steroids, disease states, or environmental endocrine disrupters. .. | <urn:uuid:55597aa5-ebca-4feb-82d9-bda9926690e7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.labome.org/expert/usa/michigan/zehr/julia-l-zehr-852262.html | 2013-05-18T18:17:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382705/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.80079 | 896 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
A nonimmigrant is a foreign citizen present in the United States (U.S.) on a temporary basis. A non-immigrant visa is required for entry into the U.S. and authorizes a stay for a limited period of time for a specific purpose. Once a person is admitted as a nonimmigrant, they are restricted to the activity for which they were admitted. The type of visa required is defined by immigration law, and relates to the principal purpose of the travel. Foreigners come to the U.S. for a wide variety of reasons, including tourism, business, study and transit.
Definition from Nolo’s Plain-English Law Dictionary
People who come to the United States temporarily, with a nonimmigrant visa, for some particular purpose. A nonimmigrant must depart the U.S. within a designated length of time, and in most cases may not act with the intention of remaining in the U.S. permanently. There are many types of nonimmigrants. Students, temporary workers, and visitors are some of the most common.
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Apologies for not posting for ever but I haven't always had time the time or the energy and I discovered Facebook!
Home wise is still the same I still have ME , I had another fab holiday in Cyprus, and my mum needs two knee replacements and two hip replacements :(
Football wise all hell has broke loose Mike Ashley and his minions have taken over the club and what seemed like a good thing is rapidly turning into a disaster. The appointment of Keegan was always going to be risky but bringing in people over his head, and telling him how to manage was never going to work and it was no surprise when Keegan resigned. Cue one very unhappy football club and one super angry fan base. I am currently debating on whether to go on Saturday as I don't know if I can face a riot so I will wait and see. Trouble at SJP not half!!! | <urn:uuid:d25af51b-960d-4d39-b314-7efb58606f40> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.loulouland.co.uk/2008_09_01_archive.html | 2013-05-18T18:50:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382705/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985774 | 176 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Letters to the Editor
The article in the June issue of Memphis magazine on Sun vs Stax [Point/Counterpoint] brought back many fond memories to me about the early days of Sun Records. In the late 1950s, I sang as tenor in the Collegiates, a band that also included R. Dickey Lee, Allen Reynolds, David Glenn, Eddie Weill, and J.L. Jerden. The Sun record we made (Sun 297) was the group's rendition of "Dreamy Nights" and "Fool, Fool, Fool." I still have one of these 45 rpm Sun records. This record was a fairly popular hit in the Memphis area. Dickey Lee would thereafter come-out with a pop hit at Nashville: "Patches." He and Allen Reynolds moved to Nashville and had great success. Allen Reynolds became one of the most successful producers and songwriters anywhere, writing big hit songs for such popular performers as Crystal Gayle and Garth Brooks, and has been inducted into the Nashville Song Writers Hall of Fame.
During the 1950s WHBQ's disk jockey, Dewey Phillips, promoted quite a few careers for local musicians and singers. I will always remember the Collegiates' trips to WHBQ's radio station to visit with Dewey Phillips during his broadcasts. His advertisement and promotion of Falstaff beer was legend:
"If you can't drink it, you can freeze it and eat it, and if you can't eat it, you can open up a rib and pour it in"
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Boshe Earns MVC Scholar-Athlete Recognition
ST. LOUIS -- Missouri State sophomore Lacey Boshe has been named to the 2010 Missouri Valley Conference Women's Basketball Scholar-Athlete Team, released Tuesday by the conference office. Boshe was tabbed a second-team MVC Scholar-Athlete by the MVC's sports information directors, becoming the first Lady Bear in two seasons to be chosen for one of the conference's all-academic squads.
A Marshfield, Mo., native, Boshe has maintained a perfect 4.0 grade point average as a cell and molecular biology major through her first two seasons as a Lady Bear. The 6-0 forward has enjoyed a standout season on the hardwood as well, closing the regular season as MSU's fifth-leading scorer with a 7.9 point per game average. Boshe has been one of the most consistent free throw shooters in the Valley during conference play, hitting on 89.4 percent of her attempts and completing a streak of 21 consecutive made free throws from Jan. 9 through Feb. 28.
The criteria for the scholar-athlete team balloting parallels the CoSIDA (College Sports Information Directors of America) standards for Academic All-America voting. Nominees must be starters or important reserves, have played at least 75 percent of a team's games, and must carry at least a 3.2 GPA (on a 4.0 scale). Student-athletes must also have completed at least one full academic year at their present institution.
A total of 30 Valley women's basketball student-athletes met the criteria for scholar-athlete honors in 2010. Indiana State senior guard Kelsey Luna was selected MVC Scholar-Athlete of the Year, and was joined on the first team by Jacqui Kalin of UNI, Maggie Krick of Illinois State, Sam Schuett of Creighton and Jenny Van Kirk of Bradley.
Boshe was honored on the second team along with Lizzie Boeck of UNI, Ashleen Bracey of Illinois State, Kelsie Cooley of Indiana State and Kellie Nelson and Megan Neuvirth of Creighton.
Honorable mention recognition went to UNI's Erin Brocka, Bradley's Renee Frericks, Evansville's Amy Gallagher, Illinois State's Nicolle Lewis, Southern Illinois's Christine Presswood, Drake's Kristin Turk and Amber Wollschlager and Creighton's Kelsey Woodard.
The Lady Bears will begin their quest for an unprecedented 10th State Farm MVC Tournament title when they head to St. Charles for their quarterfinal round match-up against Wichita State this Friday. Missouri State will tip-off against the Shockers at The Family Arena at 8:35 p.m. | <urn:uuid:ebf92a1b-9c74-4644-ba89-e6ea9a792acd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.missouristatebears.com/sports/w-baskbl/spec-rel/030910aaa.html | 2013-05-18T18:14:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382705/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954866 | 574 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Writer/director/producer Judd Apatow (The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Funny People) brings audiences This Is 40, an original comedy that expands upon the story of Pete (Paul Rudd) and Debbie (Leslie Mann) from the blockbuster hit Knocked Up as we see first-hand how they are dealing with their current state of life.
I wish that I could talk to Judd Apatow and tell him to stop putting the same people in all of his movies. They all are just bleeding together because there isn't much new "flavor" in his films. It seems like Leslie Mann only gets work when it's in Judd Apatow movies. She isn't a poor actress but it's time to stop depending on being in your husbands films and moving on with your career. This movie was pretty boring throughout most of it. It left me sitting there wondering why I was watching it. The previews looked like it would be alright but it was less than average. The youngest daughter in the film had zero acting talent. It's sad when you know that someone is the directors or a producers kid because they have no talent and yet they are still in the movie. In this case it was Judd Apatow's kid. Megan Fox is also in this movie. There is another person who has no talent. It's too bad how she keeps getting acting work just because of how she looks. There are actresses that have beauty and talent that are yet unknown, maybe those women should be put in a movie like this to make it a lot better! I would skip this one because it just wasn't that good! 4/10 | <urn:uuid:04d8a4fc-2509-4ce5-9d84-223c318a02d9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.moviereviews.com/movie/This-Is-40/2012 | 2013-05-18T18:24:11Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382705/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.989579 | 334 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Student Performance Vs. Class
If you have a browser capable of running Java, this option provides you with
a graph that plots each assignment score as a percentage.
The graph compares a student score (in red) with the class average on an assignment (in blue).
If your teacher has defined Grading Periods, you can limit the report to
a specific grading period.
The Print this Page link at the top of the page gives you another page formatted without advertisements. Use the Print feature of
your browser to print the report.
NOTE - Your teacher may disable this screen in which case you will not see a link to it in the menuing system. | <urn:uuid:74ce1847-326a-477b-b3aa-058ff361e692> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.mygradebook.com/secured/help/student_parent_performance_vs_class.cfm | 2013-05-18T18:50:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382705/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.897346 | 137 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Saturday, September 12, 2009
A first annual West Asheville garden tour this weekend (in a creative and eclectic neighborhood of Asheville, NC) provided a number of fun garden scenes. Incorporating reclaimed metal objects (formerly useful), recycled glass (blue bottles and marble), and a sense of fun, these gardens were a wonderful reflections of their gardeners. Even the messy one.
The light was bright this afternoon, but we enjoyed seeing a few of the gardens.
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Naviair’s main office is located close to Copenhagen Airport.
The Area Control Center (ACC), Approach Control (APP) and Copenhagen Information (COIF) are all located in the same building as the main office, while Tower Control is located in Naviair’s new control tower in the part of the airport called Kastrup South.
In addition to the above units in Copenhagen, you will find Naviair at the following airports:
Billund ATC, Roskilde ATC, Aalborg ATC, Aarhus ATC, Esbjerg ATC, Rønne ATC, Greenland ATS and Vágar ATS (Faroes).
The new air traffic management system will start out with the installation in the Area Control Center and in the Towers in Copenhagen, Billund and Roskilde (marked with blue).
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In distances.c, I see:
hwloc_setup_groups_from_distances(struct hwloc_topology *topology,
struct hwloc_obj **objs,
float (*distances)[nbobjs][nbobjs] = (float (*)[nbobjs][nbobjs])_distances;
As far as I can tell, _distances is a 1D array of floats, but it is of size (nbobjs*nbobjs) -- i.e., you could think of it as a 2D array, and index the i'th column in the j'th row at _distances[i * nbobjs + j]. From how its used in the code, distances is treated as a 2D array -- i.e., distances[i][j] is accessed.
I have a bunch of guesses as to what this means, but none of them seem quite right, so I figured I just ask -- what the heck does that declaration statement mean?
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Message to the community from Luren E. Dickinson:
Several weeks ago, during pre-Election days, I noticed the political campaign signs around town. One that stood out was Cuyahoga Community College’s slogan, “Tri-C—where learning begins.” That’s not a bad slogan, but it struck me that learning should begin a lot sooner than after high school.
Many libraries have changed their old slogans or created new ones to be more reflective of this technological age. The American Library Association pushed the phrase “Read, Learn, Connect!” At another library, we altered it to “Read, Learn, Enjoy!” Even the current ALA publicity effort is a follow-up to “Read, Learn” with “@ your Library” affixed as a suffix to a variety of programs and events. “Join the Major Leagues @ your Library,” for example, was a national “@ your Library” program.
Cleveland Public Library dubs itself “The People’s University.” Cuyahoga County Public Library contends that, “Browsing is just the beginning,” while Cleveland Heights-University Heights suggests “Opening Doors, Opening Minds.” Lakewood Public Library proclaims, “Knowledge Illuminates Opportunity.” Some libraries use phrases such as “Discover, Explore, Inspire, Grow;” others tout their services through alliteration, “Information, Inspiration, Imagination.”
Many large public libraries, such as the Philadelphia Free Library, the Chicago Public Library, and the Los Angeles Public Library don’t seem to have slogans. That puts Shaker Heights Public Library in good company because we don’t have a slogan either! If we did, I expect it would emphasize the concept of learning throughout a lifetime. Several years ago I was part of a statewide group in Ohio that won an award for the slogan “Libraries: Learning for Life.” It is a phrase that still rings true.
More and more, researchers are discovering that it is never too early to learn. That is why it is important for Shaker Library to continue to collaborate with the Shaker Family Center on the Play and Learn Station at the Main Library. This free, literacy-based, drop-in program is available for children from birth to 5 years who are accompanied by a parent or caregiver. The Play and Learn Station serves more than one hundred preschoolers each day it is open. The Play and Learn Babies program, geared to children from birth to 18 months, is an integral part of this service, as are the many other outreach efforts and reading programs we offer for children.
According to some experts, our youth have been getting “smarter” for decades. Researcher James Flynn has shown that from 1947 to 2001, average IQ scores increased by 17 points—and the rate of increase has accelerated in recent years. A score in the top 20% in the 1940s might only be average today. The theory is that radio, TV, computers, and especially video games have wired our brains differently so that we are capable of thinking at different levels than in the past. That’s why it is important for the Shaker Library to continue its outreach to teens through the Teen Center to ensure that our materials and services are up-to-date and in the latest formats.
Other interesting studies have shown that seniors who exercise their minds, through reading, book discussion groups, and similar pursuits, live longer healthier lives. Public libraries provide learning opportunities for folks from “cradle to grave”—though I think that slogan is used elsewhere. Nevertheless, continuous learning is the key for everyone in today’s society. Shaker Library provides the opportunity to learn regardless of your age, income or education. What better slogan, then, than to promote the Shaker Library as the place “where learning never ends!”
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Amazon's Bezos confirms content pays for Kindle
Finally admits hardware sold at cost
That Amazon makes little or no money selling its Kindle e-readers has been a popular assumption for some time. But assumption no longer - company chief Jeff Bezos has confirmed Amazon is after content sales profits instead.
The first Kindle was launched in April 2008 and cost $399 - £248 at today’s exchange rate - and follow-up models didn’t get significantly cheaper until October 2009 when Amazon cut the price of the Kindle 2 to $259 (£161) - still thought to be $75 more than the build price.
But in July 2010, Amazon released the Kindle 3 - now called the Kindle Keyboard - for $139/£111 and observers began to talk about book sales subsidising the price of the hardware. Disassemblies of these and subsequent Kindles showed that Amazon wasn’t selling the hardware at a loss, but it was clear it wasn’t making much money on the machines themselves.
However, Amazon would never confirm this. Now, in an interview with the BBC, Bezos has.
"We sell the hardware at our cost, so it is break-even on the hardware," he told the broadcaster . “We want to make money when people use our devices, not when people buy our devices.”
Of course, the same is true to a greater or lesser extent of most other e-reader makers who also sell e-books. The current pricing level of e-readers - largely defined by Amazon’s aggressive price cutting - makes that the case.
However, the majority of Amazon’s rivals use a nominally open DRM technology - it’s proprietary Adobe technology, but at least any third-party can make use of it - allowing users to purchase books from a variety of outlets.
Amazon, on the other hand, uses a unique DRM scheme, ensuring Kindle users can largely buy (DRM limited) books only from the one supplier. Apple does the same with its e-book shop.
To be fair, Amazon’s success in the market suggests most ordinary punters aren’t overly bothered by this at the moment. But it will be interesting to see how, as the e-book market expands, whether this lack of purchase freedom comes to matter, especially if Amazon beefs up its currently fairly weak, easy to remove DRM. ® | <urn:uuid:d1e0ed22-e4d6-463b-8c37-90f0c8e4dc3c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10/12/amazon_ceo_bezos_confirms_content_pays_for_kindle/print.html | 2013-05-18T18:26:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382705/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94375 | 495 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Throughout history, the rose stands alone in its rich range of color and meaning. It has been used for hundreds of years to express messages without words; roses have traditionally a symbol of confidentiality and secrecy - the Latin word sub rosa (literally "under the rose") means something told in secret. The popularity of roses, especially in weddings, is readily apparent with their unique beauty and subtle fragrance, along with the wonderful messages they can convey with their style and color. Why not add a bit more of rose romance with a perfect rose cake topper! We have many rose cake toppers to choose from- you will be sure to find one to suit your wedding day style. | <urn:uuid:5578ef0d-76da-463f-956c-2fcc459d0de1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.weddingcollectibles.com/Rose-Cake-Toppers.html | 2013-05-18T18:24:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382705/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939002 | 135 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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06-02-2003, 12:01 AM
ALICE might have been in WONDER about this LAND.
Infrared filtered with a purple tone added...
06-02-2003, 12:14 AM
Ah trees of pink cotton candy! Nice work Ron!:D :clap: :clap: :clap:
06-02-2003, 12:44 AM
Haha, Sunny is right, they look just like cotton candy. Very cool.
Any particular reason why you cross-posted this in the Pub, though?
06-02-2003, 01:03 AM
Thanks, Amy and Johnene. Well I posted it here FIRST, but decided I really wanted to post it there, since at the time I didn't realize there were two forums.
Either I posted it here by mistake or there by mistake. so now I have to decide which was the mistake!
If you aren't confused by this, good, because I AM!
06-02-2003, 01:39 AM
That's real pretty. I like it.
I think perhaps we are supposed to post our photos here and visit and chat in the Pub.(more on a personal level) You could also post photos of home, family, pets, etc. in the Pub and not here. Does that make sense? We will get it all sorted out eventually....
06-02-2003, 06:21 AM
Nice capture Ron - Oh! ...and it definately belongs here in the darkroom. This is THE main forum for "photography" now.
I was playing with your image to see how it looks in sepia, B&W etc and while I know I'm stating the obvious, it's amazing how the the same image can display so many different moods.
06-02-2003, 09:10 AM
Ron...this is a beautiful, dreamy scene. I like the toning you used.
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A collaborative design process emphasising student involvement results in an inspired teaching tool
Completed in April 2011, Samuel Brighouse Elementary School is a replacement K-7 school located in Richmond, British Columbia. Built for an enrollment of 505 students, the two-storey 4,777-sq-m structure includes classrooms, administration space, a library, community space and a renovated gymnasium.
The school is the result of a collaborative design process that emphasised student involvement. Through charettes, illustrations, and videos that captured the qualities they wanted in their school, field trips through the construction site and a project blog that kept the community up-to-date, the students offered the design team informed, dynamic, and environmentally progressive input. This input inspired the playful roof form and was used to substantiate many design decisions, such as the provision for touch-screen technology and lots of windows and colour.
Based on goals of transparency and collaborative learning, the school creates connections both internally and with its surrounding community. Centered on flexible and adaptable learning environments, the design includes indoor collaborative project areas and outdoor courtyards, low ‘peek’ windows that connect even the youngest students to nature and a shared community garden. A Neighbourhood Learning Centre houses community-based organisations offering during-and-after-school care programs and adult literacy courses, extending the school’s operating hours into the evenings, weekends and summer.
The school is the physical manifestation of the district’s environmental stewardship policies and serves as an educational tool. Through geo-exchange energy sources, carefully managed daylighting and solar hot water collectors, the school has operated without consuming fossil fuels on several occasions and is one of the most energy-efficient and lowest carbon-emitting elementary schools in Canada. Locally harvested wood is the primary building material, contributing to a welcoming and inspiring learning environment. Transformed into an evocative architectural gesture, the undulating atrium wood roof - constructed from typical 2x4s and steel v-shaped king-posts - is the school’s signature architectural feature. | <urn:uuid:eb3b964e-6ed0-46c2-9b96-9807d1cfc973> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&upload_id=19183®ion=1 | 2013-05-18T19:05:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382705/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947155 | 426 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Green Bay, Wisconsin. Home of the butter burger. I got 4 words for ya about Green Bay…
Friendly Faces, Freakin’ Freezin’!!!
And that’s about it. I’ve never been to downtown GB. I imagine it’s not too big. But they have some great fans here and the people here are the nicest people anywhere! A casino is attached to our Radisson (which is conveniently located next to the airport) that has a great steak buffet. Green Bay also has Kroll’s restaurant, which is located next to Lambeau Field and they have the most delicious butter burgers! Wait…you’ve NEVER had a butter burger? Well…let’s see…it’s a burger with a patty of butter on top with ketchup, Wisconsin cheese and toppings to taste! Mmmmmmm…and my arteries are still screaming!
The best butter burger anywhere???
Where IS my butter burger? Oh yeah…I ate it already…
So, on that note, I’ll leave you with some pics of Green Bay and Lambeau Field. Hey…considering it’s 5 degrees here, feel lucky that you’re getting ANYTHING from this frozen tundra!
A photo moment for Erin?
Lunch in 5 degree weather…not fun
Yeah…this is ridiculous
Steve & Russ eating breakfast???
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Nov 29, 2010 2:34 PM | 1
At twice the national average, New York City has one of the highest HIV/AIDS rates in the country. Awareness and education are the best ways to combat AIDS and support those who are living with HIV, so BPL is partnering with CAMBA for a day of awareness, remembrance and inspiration on World AIDS Day this Wednesday.
The day-long event will feature musical acts, dance performances and theatrical presentations at Central Library by the CAMBA Anti-Stigma Project. There also will be seminars, film screenings, educational games and a wealth of informational materials from a host of other organizations. Because one in five Americans living with HIV don’t know they have the virus, several testing agencies will also be on hand, offering free testing in a confidential and supportive environment.
This will all lead up to a special program at 6:15 PM, capping off the day with rousing remarks and inspiring performances.
Please come to Central Library this Wednesday to learn more about HIV/AIDS and the toll it is taking on our community. In the meantime, if you or someone you love is living with HIV, visit CAMBA’s HIV/AIDS resource center for valuable help managing the disease.
BPL’s World AIDS Day Program
Wednesday, December 1
12:30 – 8 PM
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NEWS AND GOSSIP
Governor Asked to Interfere
in the V. M. I. Case.
REQUEST FOR REINSTATEMENT
Virginia Glass Company to Bnlld n
Branch Factory?Beatdencea Bob?
bnd?General WUeeler Accopta an
Invltatlou to Come to Richmond
Jlrs. Buwdeu Improving?A Prot?
(Special to Virglnlan-Fllot.)
Richmond, Va? Jan. 4.?Governor
Tyler and Adjutant General Nalle are
hearing a great deal of, tho action of
General Scott Shipp, Superintendent ot
tho Virginia Military Institute, yester?
day expelling tho entire graduating
class, with one exception, from the In?
stitution. They are receiving callers,
and letters "^king them to interfere tt>
have the boys reinstated. Neither the
Governor nor the Attorney-General can
I a Kb nny official action. The matter
will bo brought up at the meeting of
the Board of Visitors, probably some
time this month, nnd will be fully in?
Tho Virginia Glass Company, of Al?
exandria, wl'H build a branch factory
here. Tho plant will bo in operation
by September, and will give employ?
ment to two hundred men. The com?
pany manufactures glassware of every
character. The factory here will be the
principal one. It will be operated day
and night, according to Mr. John S.
Bardner, tho general manager of the
company, who I? here to superintend
the construction of the factory build?
ings. The factory will be located near
the Seventeenth street Chesapeake and
It was announced to-day that the J.
Wright I'lug Tobacco Manufacturing
Company, of this City, one ot the
largest In the country, had been sold
to the Continental Company.
RICHMOND IS RICH.
The meeting of the Council last night
wns notable for a statement made by
Mr, Ebel, which shows the city to be
In a better financial condition than In
many years, her resources being ample
for all needs and growing greater un?
der wise nnd conservative legislation.
He suited that the sum In the treasury
over and above all debts to be paid,
Mr. Ebel held that it was more a
matter of habit with the Finance Com?
mittee to ask for $200,000 than any?
Three residences In tho West End
were entered and robbed last night. At
Mr. It. W. Powers' residence. No. 1201
West Franklin street, the thief suc?
ceeded in getting only a cheap watch.
He was seen by occupants of the
house and ran off. This wns a white
man and undoubtedly had one or more
"pals" on the outside. Mr. William C.
Preston'8 residence. No. MS Park ave?
nue, was robbed of a sum of money,
und Mr. W. W. Barrow, n.t No. 1103
Floyd avenue, lost $33 in money. The
police are confident tho same parties
committed all three of the robbe?
GEN. WHEELER'S VISIT.
General Joseph Wheeler has positive?
ly accepted the invitation to coine to
Richmond and take part in the exer?
cises incident to the presentation of
Major Pelham's picture to Lee Caonp.
The date has not been fixed. General
Wheeler personally Informed Major
Thomas A. Brander in Washington
thnt he would come. Already the ar?
rangements for the reception nnd en?
tertainment of the General ore being
discussed. A reception in his honor will
be given, and it is expected a supper
will be tendered him, at which a num?
ber of prominent citizens will be pres?
A PROSPECTIVE WEDDING.
Mf. and Mrs. J. T. Anthony have Is?
sued invitations to the marriage of
their daughter. Miss Marie Anthony,
to Mr. Walter Dudley Jones, the cere?
mony to take place on Wednesdny
evening, January 18th, at 7:30 o'clock,
In the First Presbyterian Church,
Charlotte, N. ('. Mr. Jones holds a re?
sponsible position with L N. Vaughan,
in this city, and is popular with a wide
circle of friends. Miss Anthony is an
accomplished young lady and a favo?
rite in Charlotte society.
Miss Estelle Amelia Hlrsh, the
charming daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Sampson Hlrsh. of 824 West Franklin
street, was married at 7 o'clock this
evening from the residence of her par?
ents, to Dr. William S. Deutsch, a well
known physician of St. Louis, Mo. T'.ie
ceremony wns performed by Rev. Dr.
E. N. Callsch, pastor of Beth Ahaba,
after which Dr. nnd Mrs. Deutsch went
on it. Southern tour.
PRINCIPAL OF WOMAN'S COLLEGE
Miss Mary Carter Anderson, recently
of the "But'termllk" Academy at Ash
cake, Hanover county, has been made
principal of the Woman's College, in
place of Miss Raghy, who was mar?
ried yesterday to Dr. Dickinson. Miss
Andcittnn Is a graduate of the college
. of which she is now principal, nnd Is a
talented and accomplished teacher,
DIED IN TEXAS.
The death Is announced here of the
Rfv. James E. Hammond, at Uvalde,
Texas. Mr. Hammond was a native of
Virginia, and has many relatives in this
State, who mourn his loss. He was at
one time a beloved and most popular
rector in Manchester, having founded
and organized the parish of Meade
Mem?rlal church, and he was its first
BRIDEGROOM-ELECT IN JAIL.
The father of Miss Eflle Gunn, of
Dinwiddie county, who, left hurriedly
for Dinwiddie Courthouse on Tuesday
to procure a license for the marriage
of h.'s daughter to Mr. Joseph Towns
den, who Ks in jail here on the charge
of failing to keep his vows, baa not
returned. Mr. Townsden in the mean?
time languishes in Jail.
MRS. BOWDEN RECOVERING.
Information from Baltimore states
that Mrs. George E. Bowden is get?
ting along nicely. Her attending phy?
sician took the stitches out of her
head Monday, nnd thinks ho will be
able to take I he bandage off the laut
of the week. The fracturo of her right
shoulder blade is improving;, though
THE TRIAL OF BARNES.
The trial of Eugene Barnes for the
alleged larceny of certain funds from
John T. Powers & Co., was set this
morning by Judge S. B. Witt, of the
Hustings Court, for the ISth Instant.
A BIO FIOHT SETTLED.
v The School Board last night, after
twenty-four ballots, elected Mr. Charles
P. Walford, secretary of the School
Board and Supervisor of Schools, to
fill the vacancy caused by the death
of Mr. Charles P. Rady. There were
27 applicants for the place, which yields
a salary of about $1,500 per annum. i
DEATH OF MR. HENRY WRIGHT.
This morning Mr. Henry T. Wright
died at the residence of Mr. A. C. Llg
gon. No 1102% Beverly street, in the
<ls: year of his age.
BOTH WILL DIE.
William Brltton. a 6tono cutter, 3S
years or age, entered a saloon on
Nineteenth street late to-night, at
which he had been drinking nil day,
and, without warning, shot tho bar?
tender, John Rlley, with a shot gun
loaded with No. 3 shot. The load onter
ed his abdomen^just above the navel.
Rlley sprang to his feet, drew a 32
callbre revolver and put five bullets In
Brltton's head and shoulders. Brltton
will certainly die. Rlley has hardly a
chance to recover. Both men arc un?
WILL DISBAND ORGANIZATION.
Tho 170 ladles composing the Ladies'
Auxiliary of the Masonic Home of Vir?
ginia. Including Hie best known women
In the Slate, to-day decided to resign,
and will disband the organization.
They say that tills action is tho re?
sult of the board of governors not
showing them proper consideration and
by reducing their authority. Tho organ?
ization bus raised $16,000 for the In?
stitution. Their resignation has created
a profound sensation.
Mr. E. S. Riddick Dies from a Par
t'lneil for an Assault?odd Follows
Feast?Prastrly Transfer? ? Con?
federate. Veterans Celebration ?
(Special to Vlrglnlan-Pllot.)
Suffolk. Va., Jan. 4?Mr. Edward
Sumner Riddick, a former Suffolk mer?
chant, who was later In business at
Rounoke, Va.. Is dead. The end came
at 11:10 o'clock this morning at the
home of his slater, Mrs. R. H. Morgan,
on Clay street. The deceased hnd been
unconscious for several days. He suf?
fered a stroke of paralysis and his mind
was also affected.
The "funeral will take place at 3:30
o'clock to-morrow afternoon from the
Main Street Methodist Church. The
pastor, Rev. W. T. Green, will conduct
The deceased leaves two sisters?
Mrs. Morgan and Miss Bettle Riddick?
a wife who was Miss Nellie Cutchin,
and one son, Sumner, . about 5 years
old. Mr. Riddlck's first wife was Miss
Lucy Faulcon, from which union there
wus no Issue.
THERE'S NOTHING IN IT.
A falpe rumor has been circulated
about Suffolk regarding the existence
of smallpox. The two persons whose
families rumor connected with the con?
tagion have sent a stutement to this
ofllee denying the report indignantly.
They tire Messrs. R. H. Powell and R.
E. Monell. whose^people are in splendid
health. There Is no smallpox In Suf?
folk, nor has there been for years.
J. McPhail was honest enough to
confess in Police Court this morning, or
else no conviction could have followed.
McPhail was charged with striking a
woman. In a fit of anger she had him
summoned to court and probably re?
lented afterward, for she never ap?
peared against him. Judge Brewer lold
McPhail he couldn't be convicted with?
out a confession. But the defendant
loved truth better than money and ac?
knowledged striking the woman. The
Judge made it HHit-S3.3l)
Mamie Johnson, a dark skinned maid,
hnd to pay $4.30 for Imbibing too much
new year liquor.
ODD FELLOWS' FEAST.
The Odd Fellows last night had a lit?
tle Christmas on their own hook. It
was the regular semi-annual installa?
tion of officers. After that was over
the noble grand did a graceful thing
when he "set up" cake, wine and other
refreshments to the whole lodge. These
were sworn in: A. A. Turner, noble
grand: J. T. Roberts.vice grand: A. P.
Gomer, recording secretary; W. B.
Hawkins, financial secretary; E. (,'.
Brooks and J. M. Swlndel, right and
left supporters to noble grand; J- T.
Parr, right supporter to vice grand.
The other officers were not installed
last night. They were absent.
SPIVEY IN TROUBLE.
A. G. Splvey, of Isle of Wight eoun
county, is alleged to have removed
goods after an officer had levied
on them. That Is what ho was
charged with in a warrant called for
trial to-day near Windsor. It is a
criminal prosecution. The trial jus?
tices were J. II. Holland and Seth Kiev.
Lawyer S. E. Everett, of Suffolk, was
there to defend Splvey and Attorney
W. L. Hyde represented the complain?
ant, Constable J. Johnson. The cnsi
was continued on motion of the plaintiff.
Splvey is accused of removing and dis?
posing of a lot of peanuts and other
goods of the value of $.". after an
officer had made a levy on them.
PROPERTY CONVEX A NCES.
A number of small deeds were re?
ceived in the county clerk's office to?
John B. Pinner et ux to Romus Coop?
er, one lot on the eastern suburbs, $100.
S. J. Wlnborno et us to Willfam N.
Stokes, a lc< on Kllby street extended
A. S. Eley, substituted trustee, for
R. H. Rawles, special commissioner, to
Sarah Williams, a lot hi West Jericho,
Benjamin Dumville ot ux to Sarah
Dumvllle. ono lot on Western avenue,
$5 and other considerations.
Edward R. Rogers et ux to Thomas
M. Benton 37 1-2 acres In Nansemond
county, on the Whlto Murah road, $370.
IN HONOR OF LEE.
The old vets are fixing an appropriate
celebration of General Robert E. Lee's
birthday, January 10. At a meeting of
the Tom Smith Camp, last night, the
matter was discussed, and the follow?
ing committee was appointed to look
after arrangements: H. E. Smith, R.
R. Allen, J. C. Causey, Sr. The com
nitttee waited on States's Attorney E.
10. Holland and requested a repetition
ofk his address made two years ago.
Mr. Holland answered in the affirma?
tive late this afternoon. The address
referred to was a masterful effort, pre
uuant with oratory and word paint?
FOUND A HAG OF MONEY.
Jack Gardner found a bag of money
to-day. He also located the owner. Jack
picked up a package ou Main street,
near Second, and found it contained
coin and bank checks. It belonged to
Mr. Eugene Hurley, to whom It was re?
LEFT PROPERTY AND INSURA-NCE
The funeral of the late John M. Gay.
of Windsor, took place this afternoon
at Antloch Christian Church, Dr. W.
W. Staley, of Suffolk, preached It. A
big crowd attended. The deceased's
life was insured for $1,500. in favor of
a son, John L. Gay, of Suffolk?$2,000
in the Pennsylvania Mutual, $2,000 in
the Northwestern and $500 in the Wash?
A FEW PERSONAL DOINGS.
John R. Kilby left to-day to resume
hia studies at Randolph-Macon Col?
Miss Elsie Urquhart has left for Rad
ford, Vau, where she teaches school.
Luclan D. Pr?den, of Isle of Wight
county, htis taken a position In Joseph
P. Hull's drug store.
Concluding a short stay with the
family of former Mayor John R. Pin?
ner, Miss Rosa Temple left this after?
noon for her home in Petersburg.
Mr. J. C. Nelins. w ho spent the holi?
days with his family in SuiTolk, has
gone back to business in KinsUm, N. C.
Ending a pleasant visit in "Suffolk
with her college mate. Miss Hattie Par?
ker, Miss Lizzie Warner Courtney has
returned to her home in Lynchburg.
Mr. W. P. Mitchell got back this
morning from a stay in Gates county,
Miss Jennie Holland left to-day for
Elon College, accompanied by her vls
itor.MIss I'o.ttlo Long. Miss Julia Long
started for her home at Graham, N. C.
Robert W. Withers has gone back to
his law studios art. Washington and Lcc
Miss Luclle Kilby, who visited Judge
W. J. Kilby's family, went to her Roa
noke home to-day.
Misss Georgie llowell is visiting
friends in Petersburg.
Miss Ruth It rooks has gone to Balti?
more to re-enter school. _
Some of the public school students
had holiday to-day. The principal, W.
C. Morton, and Miss Daisy Nurney, one
Of the teachers, were sligtly ill.
Mr. Stuart Baker took out a pack of
hounds to-day ami caught a b?g fox.
Misa Llzzio Baker returned to-day
from a visit to Norfolk. Mrs. II. S.
Herman accompanied her.
Miss Lola and Rena Rlddlck left this
morning to attend school at Burkville,
Willie McAnge left to-day to resume
his studies at Blacksburg, Va,
Miss Linda Cook, of crty Point. Va,,
is being enterUained by her cousin, Mrs.
John W. Eley, on Bank street.
Mrs. W. A. Carpenter left to-day for
Ablngdon, Va., to attend the bedside
of a nephew, who is ill.
Mrs. W. G. Elam has r^tur.-ied from
a visit to her rather, Mr. William T.
Holland, in the county.
Mr. William N. Camp, of Albion,Fla,,
was in Suffolk, his old home, to-day.
The Injunction Against Street
Appeal ?o Ilka Supremo Court Xoled?
To Vote on Street Improvement
Komis luo Iturge* Levied I'pon
Newport News, Va., Jan. 4.?The in- |
junction against the Newport News
and Old Point Railway and Electric
Company was dismissed by Judge Bar
ham, of the Corporation Court, but will
remain in effect pending action by the
Court of Appeals, to which the plaint?
iff will apply for a supersedeaa.
It was brief and to the point. A
number of the authorities submitted by
both aides were reviewed, and the I
Judge announced that in his opinion
the plaintiff had no right of amend?
ment, and he did not consider it nec?
essary that he should even x>uss upon
the question as to who should bring
the suit. The Commonwealth's Attor?
ney asked him if he would not pass
upon this point, however, but the Judge'
said it was not necessary, and he did.
not care to pass upon it. lie would] say*
though, that he hail grave doubts as
to whether the Mayor was the proper
party to bring the suit for the city. He
diil not pass definitely upon this
Mr. Newton then expressed Iiis in?
tention to note an appeal, which matter
was discussed to some extent, both ns
to the amount of the bond, and the ef?
fect an appeal would have upon the
status of the injunction. Mr. Brnxton
said that his clients wanted a bond of
$20,000, and stated his reasons briefly,
referring to the loss the company was
under by reason of the delay caused
by the proceedings.
There will be an election held this
month for the purpose of determining
whether or not bonds shall be issued to
the amount of $90,000 for municipal im?
provements. There is no doubt on this
point nnd the registered voters and
freeholders will be asked to record
their votes either for or against this
issue, which Is of vital importance to
every citizen at this time.
The Common Council will meet In
special session to-morrow night for the
purpose of passing nn ordinance order?
ing tho election and a canvass of the
Council resulted in favor of the pro?
posed bond issue. There is no doubt
then about the passage of the ordi?
TWO BARGES RELEASED.
There are no new developments local?
ly M the proceedings against the At?
lantic Transportation Company, except
the release of two of the company's
barges, the Samuel L. Watson and the
City Sergeant Milstead released these
vessels this morning at the Instance of
tho plaintiff, It being considered that
the Knickerbocker Steam Towboat
Company was sufllciently secured with?
Cornelius Elder, the father of George
Elder, the negro convicted sometime
ago of highway robbery, and sentenced
to one year in tho penitentiary, is here
from Brunswick county endeavoring to
get the proceedings against the man
nollied. George has been In jail about
six months pending further proceed?
ings In his case.
Corporal T. T. Nunnally, of the
Fourth Virginia Regiment, who has
been noting ns police sergeant, has been
reduced to ranks and Sergeant James
J. Ward, of Company C. of Newport
News, Captain Maryc commanding, has
been appointed police sergeant In his
Jlr. J. C. Cartwrlght. a painter living
in North End, was painfully Injured at
his home last night by accidentlly fall?
ing from a first story window. Irt
which he was sitting at the time. He
received a scalp wound which gives
him considerable trouble.
Mr. Helle M. Eddins and Miss Susie
Virginia Dobbins were married yester?
day at the parsonage of the Second
Baptist Church, in East End, by Rev.
Thomas J. MacKay, the pastor. A
small number of Invited guests wit?
nessed tho ceremony.
OKIIKK Of HI VI IV*. 11,.
MUTINOUS CADETS OP VIRGINIA
The full text of the order dismissing 1
all but one of the graduating class is
Headquarters Virginia Military Insti?
Virginia, January 3, 1S9S.
Special Orders No. 1:
The active commandant of cadets ban
forwarded to the superintendent
charges against cadets?
From Virginia: O. H. Alexander, J.
B. Ayres, A. A. H?ge, P. Jones, J. C.
Kent. L. K. Leake, J. J. Marshall. V.
E. McBee, S. H. Me em. R. W. Miller.
H. O. Morrison. I?. Oley, K. Payne, J.
M. Peters. L. U Powell, N. D. Sott,
H. L. Shaner, D. B. Shaver, S. C. T il
l>ot, D. T. Williams, W. Wood. J. W.
Yatcs. N. T. Y'oung and W. L. Zimmer,
From Ohio: H. J. Kramer and M. E.
From Texas: P. D. Griffin and A. C.
From District of Columbia: S. F.
From Colorado: H. S. Ervey.
From Pennsylvania: P. D. Ewing.
From California: W. M. Gwynn.
From South America: A. Moreno.
From New York: G. W. Pohl.
From Kentucky: F. A. Sullivan,
?for violation of pargraphs 157 and
158 of the regulations on the night of
December 31. lS'JS.
The facts, which fully and clearly es?
tablish the charges, are admitted, with?
out qualification by the cadets charged.
Tho regulations prescribe and definite
fix the penalty. The gravamen of the
offense Is not in the acts perpetrated,
but In the mutinous combination upon
the part of the cadets implicated to
disregard, defy and trample upon au?
thority and discipline, and this In the
face of admonition, warning and appeal
upon the part of the Board of Visitors
and the officers Immediately respon?
sible for maintenance of discipline.
The past record of the accused, with
few exceptions, has been good, but this
cannot condone conduct subversive of
the essential basis of discipline, obedi?
ence, subordination and respect for
regulations and authority. The conduct
charged was not tho result of hasty
impulse, but was willfully and deliber?
ately premeditated and carried out In
entire disregard of admonition and ad?
vice given after t'he combination wns
entered Into, and before Its purposes
were executed, when \herc was full
time and opportunity to recede from a
recklessly false position. Bui in spite
of every warning nnd Influence that
kindly regard for the cadets them?
selves could suggest, there was un?
yielding persistence. It only remains
to the superintendent to perform the
most painful duty of his official life,
to execute the decree of the ' regula?
tions," in accordance with which decree
tho cadets herein named are dismissed
and their connection with the Virginia
Military Institute terminate with this
By command of Brigadier General
(Signed) ' H. E. HYATT,
Captain and Adjutant, V. M. I.
THE EXPELLED CADETS.
(Special to Virginian-Pilot.)
Lexington, Va., Jan. i?The Virginia
Military Institute episode, the dismis?
sal yesterday of the that class of cadets,
remains unchanged. A few of the ex?
pelled cadets have left tor their homes.
Others will remain here until after I lie
special meeting of the Board of Visi?
tors, which bus been called to meet at
the Institute on January 12th. A num?
ber of the dismissed cadets will apply
for reinstatement. Opinion is divided
as to what the board will do, us the
offence was In direct disobedience to
an order adopted by them. The com?
panies are now officered by non-com?
missioned officers of the second class.
I First Captain George A. Derbyshire, of
' Rleimi'Midi in tho only member of the
class of 1S99.
[New York Marine Journal.1
The Washington Monument appears
to the ordinary observer to be about
as immovable and dead a tiling ns there
is within the District of Columbia's
limits, but Col. T. F. Bingham, the
Superintendent of Buildings and
Grounds, who is responsible for the con?
dition nnd behavior of the monument,
the White House and many other build?
ings in the city, finds tho monument
to be a somewhat lively, not to say
vivacious and frisky thing. While it
does not live, the scientific gentlemen
who observe Its habits say that it
"breathes." Although It does not In?
dulge in wild jigs of joy, it may be
said, scientifically speaking, to dunce.
Colonel Bingham, in his report, gives
nn account of the method and appara?
tus by which It Is ascertained that the
monument has been restless, that It has
shifted Its position from time to time,
sometimes nearly an Inch to the cast,
then about as far to the south, and then
again whichever way the weather
pleased- The readings were made at
the centre of gravity, and It. Is stated
that the variations at the top of the
monument were greater, the top moving
three times as far, as the centre of
gravity. The superintendent does not
fully understand why it is that the
inner iron frames of the monument are
buckling and promising to cause some
annoyunoc, although he assures visitors
that they should not for a moment he
concerned about the snfety of the
structure. One theory of the variations
of position Is the vibrations of the
earth, and the acceptance of this
theory may account also for the twist?
ing and buckling of tho Iron frames.
Grippe and influenza invariably leavo
the System with a bad cough. For
such Dr. John W. Bull's Cough Syrup
is highly recommended. This won?
derful remedy gives relief at once,
conquers the worst cough overnight
nnd soon effects n thorough cure.
Cures Grippe and Influenza.
Da'cs are small nnd pleasant to take. Doctors
recommend iU Price, sjcts. At all druggists.
All the Year Round
THE NEWEST STYLES,
THE FINEST GOODS,
THE LOWEST PRICES,
THE EASIEST TERMS.
Furniture, Carpels, Druggets,
Rugs, Portiers, Curtains &c.
A new and elegant line of
White Enameled Bedsteads and Cribs.
Cook Stoves, Ranges and Heaters,
Baby Carriages, Fur Robes.
SEE OUR STOCK. CASH BOUGHT IT.
LOW PRICES WILL SFJ.K IT._
Our Slock of goods is complete. Thoroughly reliable
and prices always reasonable. A CALL SOLICITED.
PIONEER INSTALLMENT HOUSE,.
3I9 and 321 Church Street.
Great Dissolution Sale!
Never within the recollection of the oldest citizen has a sale
taken place, that can in any way compare with this one.
COMMENCING JANUARY 1, 1899,
We will ofTer the best of goods in all departments at unheard of prices.
Those attending this "GREAT SALE," will at once be able to
see for themselves, that the "pruning knife" has been applied to this
stock in a manner without precedent. Come early and don't miss this
"great host" of bargains, which will probably never be equ&led again.
Black, Colored and Fancy Dress Goods,
Silks, Laces and Velvets,
Table Linens, Napkins, Towels and Quilts.
Ready Made Skirts, Linings, White Goods,
Hosiery, Gloves, Corsets and Ribbons,
and in fact all of our fine stock must go, and go fast.
The early bird catches the worm, and we trust that a word to
the wise will be sufficient.
This sale will continue until FEBRUARY 1,1899, at which time
MR. S. DOZIER will retire from the firm.
All parties indebted to us will please call and settle their ac?
wmtenurst & Duzier.
I LEGAL SHOES, $3.50. 3
% Special Reductions?Men's Wear. =?
g~- Men's Smoking' Jackets and 11 alb. Robes 'will be eloped out at sharp ?^
a*- reductions ihl? week. We be?evo tint the best stock of Men's tin- ??:
Jfc: derwear. Shirt*, Hosiery, Neckwear, Oloves, Men's Furnishings gen- ~Tt
erallv which the city showi Is here. A saving in prices also. -?*
Legal BIiops fit a Man's feet and the price fits bis purse. The way
they sell \n wonderful; n new stock comes in, Its gone in a week and,
another has to be ordered. No wonder they go: the men are making a
SliOL- at $3.50 which Is the equal of any sold In Norfolk at $5. Have as much
)r more style, have as much worth; all leathers, all colors, several styles.
I So IIIM^H ?S& SON, i
332 Main Street
H [VIE! [NTS HATS?Soft and Stiff.
To Rock a Cradle or Run an Ore Crusher
VIRGINIA ELECTRIC CO,
ICE CRL-AM PARLOR
Wo can furnish you with a better and
eheapor cream than it Is possible to get
elsewhere. Come and ?ainple our cream
and gut prices and bo convinced.
CHCUCII STREET, OPPOSITE HOLT.
BOTH PHONES, 603.
Vv -sr*?? 'W' *>?*> ? ? ?
? Passengers Booked $
To or from all Parts of Europe. ^
HENRY BRANDT & SON, ?
Foreign and American Railroad ^
and Steamship Agent* ? $
Representing Whlta Star , Allan. ? .
American, Anchor Cunard. Nord- A
deutscher Lloyd, New York. Baltl- v
?mor'., Mediterranean, Bed ?tar,
Hamburg American Packet Co.
T Unas, Compaitnlo Generale Trana- A
9 atlanltquo and all other lilua. v
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