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There had been a relative calm in my small part of the world — a gentrified area of south Tel Aviv where the tree-lined narrow streets are scattered with bustling restaurants and coffee shops — where my biggest concern was finding a working Telo-Fun bike machine.
Before last week, words like miklat (bomb shelter), Iron Dome, red alert siren and bus bombings were not part of my daily vocabulary or thoughts. How quickly that changes.
Mixed with the usual sounds of Bob Marley singing and chopping vegetables, an unfamiliar howl lofted into our studio apartment. “Is that a siren?” we said, in disbelief. Sure, the chances of rockets are more likely than rain in this part of the world. But the reality that one would actually be aimed for in Tel Aviv is a different story. After pausing for a second in shock, we followed the sounds of footsteps to the ground floor, where all of us living in the same building quickly discovered the lack of any bomb shelter.
As the unfamiliar sound that Israelis are preconditioned to know from an early age, resonated across the city, sabras acted accordingly, even though it’s been 21 years (since the first Gulf War) that red alert sirens sounded in Tel Aviv. It’s been half a decade since a bus was blown up in Tel Aviv. The goal of these attacks is to instill fear; never knowing where you might be in danger—a café, a grocery store, a bus route that many of us take daily—no place is off limits. I like to think that I have a high tolerance for challenging situations. However, the past week has got me questioning those limits. While I like to think I am not fearful, there is a certain unease that is present in the air.
Sure, business continues, but you can see the subtle differences—the news occupies television screens everywhere, drivers are laying off the horns, everyone knows someone who has been called up to the army and people are on edge, jumping at odd sounds and cautiously watching planes fly overhead.
Yes, I signed up to be here and you have to take it with the good, bad and the ugly. However, I’m a child who hails from the innocence of North America, where bomb shelter signs are remnants of a bygone era with the Cold War. I believe my North American upbringing inherently has a naiveté because war rarely touches North American soil. Instead, war is seen in images in a land far away and those who come back, scarred from what they have seen.
Populated areas like Tel Aviv and Jerusalem now know the feeling southern residents have felt for a long time. Tel Avivians, who are a primarily a secular bunch have been known to operate in the “Tel Aviv Bubble,” during past wars. This bubble burst in a matter of minutes last week and I wonder if I can ever get used to this. | <urn:uuid:431b770e-8907-4a78-a264-a0840a177907> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blogs.forward.com/forward-thinking/166645/when-bob-marleys-drowned-out-by-sirens/ | 2013-05-24T08:49:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97031 | 609 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Tuesday, March 26, 2013, 3:46 AM
I've heard it bandied about on the forums that a shield is a light weapon, and therefore there is nothing preventing you from Dual-Wielding Shields. I do not believe this was intended and it is an oversight. I also believe it should go uncorrected.
When we write the obituary of 4th Edition, Errata is going to be one of the causes. Continuous changes to the rules have rendered the original 4th Edition PHB basically useless. Monster math, classes, everything changed and made buying splat books, books with less flavor (The Power Books) a poor choice for people looking to buy books when the Character and Monster Builders were available.
Part of the Next Design philosophy has to be getting it right the first time after all this playtesting. I think they're falling into a trap right now where every packet changes and tweaks the classes' combat abilities. That big push for story focused gameplay has been so far a byproduct of a more flexible ruleset rather than a more intentional directed effort.
At the same time, Double Shield Dude isn't breaking the game like misprinting 30d6 instead of 3d6. And I think having a guy show up saying "Ah ha! I am double shield man! Your monsters will tremble!" would be a pretty easy way to screen ****s out of my D&D game. This isn't some broken feat from a magazine that only shows up after you've been gaming with someone for three hours, Double Shield Dude is readily apparent to gods and men. A keeping one stupid overpowered option in the game sounds to me like a great way to identify stupid players looking to beat the system rather than you know, play a game that is fair and challenging.
So go ahead, bring the character with two shields. Just not to our table.
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Wednesday, March 20, 2013, 7:08 PM
Since I began playing D&D Next, I've only played a rogue. Part of me really wants to play a wizard and I desperately want to ride a Bull Moose Thranduil style with my neutral elf paladin. But beyond that, I've largely rejected the published schemes as too narrow to pursue my own path. If you've read my stuff, you've no doubt heard me drone on about my ideal character, the Littlefinger Rogue. It's not about dealing damage, it's about being awesome. In fact, it is anti-damage, anti-damage. How far can I run away from being viable in combat and still be fun to play?
So building my own scheme in the first packet was a synch. Pick 4 skills. Any 4. Bam! It worked. Last time was the same deal, basically the Trickster's three bonus skill tricks with my own choices of other stuff. Also, Artful Dodger rather than Sneak Attack because I see the character as more about avoiding damage than dealing it.
This new rogue...yeesh. The skill tricks I loved so much are gone. Most are now feats. So not only can I not get them, I have to spend my feats to get them. All the schemes grant 3 bonus feats which tells me the Trickster was far and away everyone's favorite scheme last go around. The Skill Mastery mechanic I loved so much is gone and made much narrower. In general, I lack the optimism that greeted the last packet because things have largely been cut rather than added.
So how would I go about designing my Chessmaster scheme for the Rogues of March? Well let's boil it down to what makes any custom scheme.
Isolated Strike or Backstab?
2 Bonus Skills - We used to get FOUR! Ripoff!
3 Bonus Expert Feats
Skill Mastery - Gain a bonus 1d6 for checks related to your two bonus skills.
With my own background called Courtier giving me the Bluff, Persuade, Sense Motive, and Gather Rumors skills, time to work.
Isolated Strike - A Chessmaster has to go it alone sometimes. He can't be relying on having a friend nearby.
2 Bonus Skills & Skill Mastery - One thing I've really liked about Next is that it's been very easy to work around redundancy. But narrowing Skill Mastery makes that a bit of a pain in the ass. Being that I'm making my own thing using their mechanics, screw 'em. A Chessmaster gains a 1d6 bonus for checks to bluff and persuade. For bonus skills, I'll take spot and listen. A Chessmaster doesn't miss much.
3 Expert Feats - Unflappable, Read Lips, Hide in Shadows
Ta da! He'll be holding a dagger to Ned Stark's throat in no time!
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013, 2:32 PM
I have a narrative/wording/syntax problem with D
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Wednesday, March 6, 2013, 4:39 AM
After mining Mike Mearls twitter feed, I've figured out that what he specifically meant in Monday's L&L post is adding more feats and crunch books like Martial Power. I think that's certainly an admirable goal, I would be on board with it. But this smacks of "Mr. Mearls has made his judgment, now let us see him enforce it." If he wants to hold back the tide, great. But I lack faith.
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Friday, March 1, 2013, 3:22 PM
For those who may have read my signature you have no doubt noticed I included several slams against a group of people called the Character Optimization community. This is unnecessary and I know that. It's a playstyle that I don't happen to enjoy or understand. There's someone out there who really wants to talk to you about his "killswitch" whatever the hell that is.
But I was thinking about this the other day. To me, a game with people who like Character Optimization is like a game with race cars (also known as a race). Everyone is building something to achieve an end goal in the most efficient way possible. That goal varies depending on the builder. Damage or Accuracy? Armor or HP? Fuel Efficiency, Speed, Handling, there are trade-offs. And a great deal of the control is in the driver's hands. I wouldn't know how to play one of these characters in the most efficient way but there are objective standards with the end goal of winning the race. The mechanics are designed to minimize risks and make the character less prone to losing or being prone as the case may be. The goal of the game is winning.
And to be sure, no one wants to lose. No one wants to feel like they suck. But, the race car simile isn't how I want to think of my game. I think of my game like an ice cream sundae. It doesn't really matter what you put on the sundae, you're still eating ice cream. And everyone's sundae is equally valid if you're doing what you want. No one feels inferior because they didn't mod their ride. And while no one wants to lose, winning the race doesn't make sense because the point is to enjoy the sundae. I'm not building a car to win the race, I'm making the sundae I'm going to enjoy the most. Because the enjoyment is entirely personal and inaccessible to another person.
Well, that's one opinion. Race cars are built by teams after all. The creation and enjoyment of an ice cream sundae is a largely selfish pursuit. There is a social element in bandying about the correct way to accomplish the objective of winning the race. This is the part of the Character Optimization and indeed life perspective that I find most subjective. I know it exists, I know someone out there enjoys this, but it is completely inaccessible to me. This belongs to the realm of arguing about Darth Vader's alignment or who is the greatest quarterback of all time. My perspective is that a team is unnecessary. Yes we could all work together to build the most powerful character of all time. But only one person gets to drive the car and everyone can build their own car. Now, I can see that this is like saying, "why play football when you can't be the quarterback?" D&D is, to me, entirely non-competitive. I want to feel challenged but its at the core a collaborative experience.
The social experience is what drives the game. For the Character Optimizer, the building is the source of the experience. The game itself then becomes about the execution of perfect form and technique. The perfect ice cream sundae also has rituals and techniques it falls into as well. However, no matter how set I get in my ways or my rogue, there should never be a wrong way to experience it.
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Friday, December 21, 2012, 2:53 AM
Huzzah we won! They're going to continue releasing the magazines as compilations. Now for the show trials. Whose stupid idea was this in the first place after Dragon 399/Dungeon 189?
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Tuesday, December 18, 2012, 3:41 AM
Being that until now I played Next very infrequently, I do three things when a packet comes out. I check the skills, I check Goblins, and I check Rogues. So what've we got here? Skill Dice are the change for Skills. They take the place of your static bonuses and level up skill bonuses. The DCs for skills are also multiples of 5. My kneejerk reaction is negative. This is because it adds a layer of complexity. You normally add 1d20 + A Number (Ability + Training + Whatever). Now you add 3 numbers, 1d20 + A Number + A Skill Die. We'll see how it plays though.
The scheme gives an extra 4 skills. Skill Mastery is instead you get to roll two skill dice and take the higher result. You also get either an additional benefit or a bonus feat. This is kind of all over the map, but it really speaks to a character. Assassins get shields and all martial weapons. Acrobats get a bonus feat to gain Skill Focus (Sneak). Duelists get a Maneuver. Tricksters get 3 EXTRA SKILL TRICKS. Think that’ll be the choice for the Littlefinger Rogue. Because they’ve set extra skill tricks or a bonus feat as the baseline, this will be easy to play with and come up with your own schemes.
All rogues also get extra stuff for Dex Saving Throws at higher levels.
I really like this. It’s still allowing me to make my character, not some combat ninja just for the sake of the system. That said, I lament that Expertise is now Combat Expertise. It gives the perception, it gave me the perception that this packet pushes the game to be more about combat until I saw Skill Tricks. Not sure if this is good or bad, but there’s a lot of stuff. You have Martial Damage Dice, Martial Damage Bonuses, your scheme gives you a Talent, a Benefit, 4 Skills, and Skill Tricks. That first packet was like, here’s your light weapon, here’s your skills, go play. The Martial Damage Dice worry me about creating a strong incentive to deal damage every turn, but its balanced out by the return of the Sneak Attack. Personally I’d like to see someone from the design team paraded around on the back of a donkey for thinking they could TRY to take my sneak attack. Now I think I could honestly give it up for Artful Dodger.
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Wednesday, December 12, 2012, 7:56 PM
I started playing 3.5 in high school, it was the twilight of the edition. The reason I became a DM was largely because I was the one guy in my friends group who got those expensive ass books and studied them. For the year prior to the release of 4th edition WotC came down on 3.5 really hard. The podcasts slammed, SLAMMED the 5 minute workday and caster/martial imbalance. In a way they weren't just coming down on 3.5, these two issues were present in prior editions. 4E was a completely new direction and its where I got the meat of my DMing experience.
-A while back when I was a player, the DM had us chasing bandits outside a farm. My lawful character asked, can we appeal to the nearby Lord for assistance? Well, I didn’t really ask, I kind of demanded. I made what I felt was a convincing case that we were in a well settled area, not Athas or some dictatorship and that we were basically doing the feudal lord’s job with no help or reward. This isn’t a card one should play often. If at the start of the night the DM says, you hear a rumor of a cult and you say “I don’t care about this cult” everyone might as well go home. Our DM was really thrown by this. He flat out told us, if you get help, I’m going to make the adventure harder. He shouldn’t have said that, even if he needed to do it anyways to maintain the challenge. God knows I wouldn’t want my adventures to be a cakewalk because a PC spotted an angle I missed. So we got some NPC guards and they kind of blew but I was satisfied and it explained why we couldn’t just get help, the help sucks.
But the reason I started writing this post was about the DM’s fundamental discomfort and inability to respond to something outside the rigid structure. And I’m not putting myself on a pedestal as a DMing or roleplaying guru. I’m saying that this moment was not unique. In my experience as a DM and a player, 4th edition encourages some bad habits. Now, ever since Dungeon magazine began its new Giants series, I’ve been blown away with the quality of the published adventures. They really break outside the delve format, embrace player choice, and reward smart play. And that’s not to say there’s no good advice on roleplaying. It is just as possible to have a problem oriented game that doesn’t focus on combat. But the majority of my play experiences have not reflected this. Again, I don’t think this is too controversial a statement.
But what I don’t know is how Next and its adventures that really move away from delves are going to react with 4E players and DMs who are only used to delves. So far I’ve DMed one game for people familiar with 4E. The idea of a living dungeon mystified them. After some goblins ran off, it never occurred to them that the goblins would come back with more goblins. Getting outside that format is more fun for me, and I think it makes for better players.
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Saturday, December 8, 2012, 6:56 AM
Here are some quotes I've pulled off the discussion on Rogues, tricks, compulsion, and DM Fiat. The argument seems to be that a creative rogue player could do many of the the things 4E listed as "powers." So having things in the game life compelling an enemy to blunder forward on a failed saving throw is unnecessary. The counterargument to that is while the rogue is able to do these creative things, without them being spelled out they are subject to "DM Fiat." This is where the DM makes a decision that alters the mechanical/narrative direction things would naturally take. I have bolded my comments below.
I think that it makes sense for the rogue to have a few tricks up its sleave that go beyond (meaning not subject to?) DM fiat. Spellcasters should not be the only ones with access to such powers. To me, this seemed just an explicit declaration if what had been true all along, to shut up the "classes aren't balanced" whiners. A rogue could try a trick like this ALREADY. In EVERY edition of D&D. (technically, any class could, a rogue just had a better chance of success.) Making the process explicit makes the Balance Brigade shut up, without changing the game one iota. I agree with this poster that one of the rogue's best features is it offers a better chance of success (through skill bonuses) to a creative player.
Reply to the Above
Reply to Above the Above
A rogue could try a trick like this ALREADY. In EVERY edition of D&D.
Lightning Round - Each Line is a reply to the above.
“I'm not certain why a mechanical compulsion MUST necessarily translate into a narrative compulsion. Just because the ability forces a creature to take a certain action doesn't mean that there is any magical force at work which compels that action; it is merely a mechanical representation of something very realistic and possible. To insist that such an ability MUST be non-magical hypnosis is to be willfully obstinate.” Does it fall to the DM, or the player to describe what happens when a power compels an NPC to do something? Charm and Suggestion place the onus on the DM. But more than that, if there's a rule for something, there will be a point when it doesn't make sense.
I'm not convinced it's something that needs to be a codified power. These 'mind tricks' are subject to DM fiat and to the situation at hand. It's clear that against some creatures it will automatically fail. In addition, this "power" does nothing that the Improvised Action doesn't already cover.
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Friday, December 7, 2012, 9:31 PM
Cool article over on Critical Hits.
"It just seems WotC, the designers and developers, and the marketing department all felt like any focus on 4th edition support would take away from their push for D&D Next, a product that doesn’t yet exist and may not for some time.
This change in marketing, a simple decision about how they talk about things has ended up splitting the rift even further between those who love 4e and those who look forward to D&D Next. They wouldn’t have to change a single product to heal this wound. All they need to do is change how they talk about 4e and how they talk about Next."
For me personally, I couldn't get into Next without some WotC sponsored criticism of 4E. When 4E was annouced, the next D&D podcast put 3.5 on the back of a donkey to tear it down. They ripped into the 5 Minute Day and the Linear/Quadratic problem of character growth. This, combined with those two preview books I read at Borders in 2007 tore down the old gods so we could praise the new.
Now it seems WotC is content to make 4e an Unperson. Really until the PVP/Penny Arcade podcasts, you didn't hear good criticism of 4E from a sponsored source.
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Corbman's book, A Tiny Step Away from Deepest Faith, recounts her search for meaning, truth, identity and connection, both as an individual and as an American teen growing up in our materialistic culture. Through her own experiences and those of her friends, she depicts young people today struggling to find authenticity, yet often characterized by adults as shallow and jaded.
In the essay below Marjorie talks more about today's youth, its contradictions and its yearning for a meaningful way to live.
Young people… do not allow your youth to mislead you and give you the false hope that you might be able to realize your freedom and your happiness on your own. Be aware that other people are your brothers and sisters and your fellow sufferers in the struggle against death, but also be aware that this struggle will not bring freedom. No one can liberate us from death except Christ, Who is the communion of love in the Holy Spirit.
—Patriarch Pavle of Serbia, 2004 Paschal Epistle
I am a new freshman in college, and, perhaps more importantly, I am a person who was transplanted from one place to another. I am going to a Catholic college, a Jesuit school. Not just a nominally Jesuit school, but a school where faith is expected to be part of everyone's life, and it generally is. Ten p.m. Mass on Sundays essentially empties out the hall of my dorm. People here talk about God, and in terms I am completely unaccustomed to hearing. When we went around the room in my religious studies class, explaining our personal religious background, everyone had pretty clear convictions, and, to my shock, generally a strong rooting in the Christian faith. I realized then how provincial my thoughts were on youth spirituality.
Moving from one place to another, touching different parts of a whole, allows for greater insight into the essence of a phenomenon. I had thought of youth today as being obsessed with hating "organized religion" and dogma. But how does that characterization jibe with these devoutly Catholic college students?
There are matching strands. For one thing, there is a desperateness. Teenagers today live desperately; this is our spirituality, how we approach the world, how we open ourselves to what is beyond. The problem lies in the older generation’s insistence on compartmentalizing life—in putting "spiritual life" in one spot, "academics" in another and "having fun" still someplace else.
In other words, the modern world has managed to completely disassemble the experience of the sacrament— of the spiritual and the material as one, of God coming to us in bread, of the Spirit moving us through every moment of our lives.
Perhaps the good news is that we recognize the disconnections. A thick cloud of boredom has settled over our age bracket, and so we grope out through the mist. We reach out at extremes, and pull back, disillusioned.
We know that we want our lives transformed. We know that we are hungry, and we know that there is a way to appease that hunger. Some of us even believe in traditional theology, where God feeds our whole lives in the Eucharist.
We know that what surrounds us is diseased, yet we cannot fix it. How can a generation avoid feeding off the culture that envelops it? How can those coming-of-age create a new milieu? What have we to work with? We recognize the things that are poison to our souls but that is all that society provides for us? We cannot simply walk back into a pre-modern culture. We are desperate for purpose. Without that we are left with no alternative but spinning in the cycle of buying and being bought.
Yet, I am optimistic. I strongly believe that young people can reject society, despite the money we give and the shows we watch. Being here at school undergirds that hope. Walking beneath the striking blue sky, through the sun-pierced pines, looking at the ivy-covered buildings with their gold crosses glowing in the light, I am surrounded by beauty just like that of my tree-filled town at home. Like always, the majesty of God's Creation reassures me. But something else here helps my faith: the fact that we all talk about God. Oh, if only we could just keep talking about Him, part of me believes that we won't forget Him.
I am not blind. I am well aware that we sway in the winds of whatever fad blows our way. We can be mindless pack animals, slaves to death and instinct. Yet every Sunday at 10 p.m. when my hall becomes deadly quiet, I know that the feast that so many have joined affords the ultimate transformation. The victory over death will not and cannot be won by us. It has already been won for us, finally and irrevocably. Such is the mystery of faith, and such will win out in those who reach out desperately, no matter the darkened mists surrounding them.
Blessed are you who hunger now, for you shall be filled.
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Yes,I've fired it quite a few times.(with WWII vintage ammo- zero misfires) The recoil is substantial: more than a .45,but less than a full load .44 magnum. It is indeed .30 cal. carbine. The rounds are staggered ,so the integral magazine doesn't even extend into the butt.
I'm not sure of the weight,but it's quite heavy and about 34cm long.
The grips are translucent and I think that bakelite is opaque. I remember my Dad saying that he used this material because it was unusual at the time and so easy to work with. His .45 has grips made from the same stuff.
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Saturday, April 12, 2008
I think that the human body is beautiful in its many shapes and forms, and I think that it should be respected. I think it's great that people can love their bodies enough to want to take photos. Even nude photos. But I wonder if Hollywood feels the same.
The ABC website featured this slide show of women who have taken off their clothes for magazine covers, and it really makes me wonder: In Hollywood, do women really have a choice about whether or not to keep their clothes on?
I sort of touched on this issue in my post about Miley Cyrus, but I will admit, I don't know Hollywood that well. But all these pictures of young, nude, female stars make it seem to me that it might not be so much of a choice after all.
I know that there are women who love their bodies and would be excited to do a nude cover shoot. I also know that taking one's clothes off in front of other people could possibly be a liberating experience. But when we look at all these magazine covers in context, do we really see these nude women as being empowered?
In American society, I would say, it is rather common to see famous young women dressed provocatively, and covers like the ones I linked to are not uncommon at all. The reason that these covers are so commonplace is that they help sell magazines. It's true. So if a a naked young female star's body on a magazine means that a magazine will sell more copies, doesn't it also mean that if a female star wants the most exposure to the most people, she should take off her clothes?
Women in Hollywood are not dumb. Many of them know what will sell easily, and that happens to be, very often, at least near-nudity. And when things sell with their bodies associated with them, it means that they will make more money. So is it really a choice, then, for women to take their clothes off? Perhaps. But it seems to me like it may be one of only a few choices that Hollywood allows these women to make if they want to make money.
As a side note: It bothers me that women's bodies are what people focus on in Hollywood, because it means that a lot of times we only see perfection, not reality, and that does not send healthy messages to girls who look real (click on the porfolio link at the top - thanks to Shakesville). | <urn:uuid:a41a2912-ad5c-4390-aaaf-ded0ece2c17b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://impersonated.blogspot.com/2008/04/all-naked-ladies.html?showComment=1208291640000 | 2013-05-24T08:28:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981888 | 504 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Remarks: Minutes after arriving from London-Stansted as SWT521. Traveled on board, the
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First, let us introduce ourselves - we are CUnet. We are a company whose products and services largely center on providing marketing solutions within the higher education sector. We have diverse range of both internal and external creative needs, including web site development, display banner production, email marketing, landing pages/micro-sites, mobile media, and social marketing. We are a leade...
Advantage Business Media offers a fast-paced environment where individual success is based on a creative, team-focused approach. We operate in the pharmaceutical, manufacturing, communications and electronics sectors with over 100 years of history in our brands. We are currently seeking candidates for an Editorial Director based in our Rockaway, NJ headquarters location. Responsibilities: The Edit...
Northstar Travel Media, LLC, is the global leader in business-to-business media and information services for the travel/hospitality industry. We are currently seeking a Digital Media Sales Director for our Meetings Group business unit. This position is located in our Secaucus, NJ office. The Digital Media Sales Director is responsible for the overall digital success of the Meetings Group. This pos...
Levinson Axelrod, P.A. seeks talented individual to head Marketing and Communications efforts. About the firm: For more than 70 years, the attorneys at Levinson Axelrod, P.A. have dedicated their careers exclusively to the representation of accident victims. We specialize in the handling and litigation of serious personal injury matters, helping our clients to obtain a level of justice that would...
Internet Marketing / Web Presence Manager Job Summary: Rapidly-expanding national retail company in the durable medical device and services industry, headquartered in Somerset, NJ, seeks experienced Internet Marketing / Web Presence Manager to help us develop and grow our online marketing channel. This hands-on role is responsible for the development and growth of our online marketing efforts, inc...
Job Title: Strategic Consultant, Sr Job ID: 16668 Location: East Hanover, NJ, US Full/Part Time: Regular/Temporary: Regular Line of Business:Epsilon About the Opportunity Reporting to the Sr. Director, Strategic Consulting, this position will be onsite at Novartis and be expected to support the Sr. Director in CRM Marketing Strategy. The role is primarly a Marketing Consultant with heavy emphasis...
Job Title: Strategic Consultant, Sr Job ID: 16669 Location: East Hanover, NJ, US Full/Part Time: Regular/Temporary: Regular Line of Business:Epsilon About the Opportunity Reporting to the Sr. Director, Strategic Consulting, this position will be onsite at Novartis and be expected to support the Sr. Director in CRM Marketing Strategy. The role is primarly a Marketing Consultant with heavy emphasis...
The Business Development & Technology Coordinator reports to the Marketing Technology Manager and the Senior Business Development Manager. . He/she stays abreast of legal marketing and digital marketing trends and supports the firm’s goals by coordinating projects between multiple departments and attorneys. Job Responsibilities Business Development Conduct competitive intelligence and legal market...
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Web Developer The Web Developer will be responsible for the maintenance and administration of the Bergen Community College website including hands-on technical Web Developer/Designer responsibilities to develop, design and propose changes to the web site. Responsibilities will include but are not limited to day-to-day maintenance of web content, including photos, video, webcasts, podcasts and othe...
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Twenty Years Later, A Different Path Taken
A collection of photos sparks a search, and finds a one-time Lightning prospect with a different collection of memories from the past 20 years. Andrew Kemper wouldn’t have it any other way.
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One of the benefits to being a pack rat, and a fan of the Lightning for 20 years now, is I can finally use a storage bin-high pile of media guides, game programs, and ticket stubs to good use. One of my big summer offseason tasks was to go through the items, scan pictures of what I thought was historically relevant or at the very least mildly entertaining, and then schedule those items—one a day through the end of the season which I hope is some time in mid June. Heaven knows I have enough stuff from 20 years of watching this team to cover the time.
While sorting through the numerous items and scheduling them out, I found a scan from the March 1993 edition of the team’s magazine Flash. It was a one-page blurb about four junior players in the Lightning system: four headshots, four stats lines, and a brief paragraph explaining what junior hockey is. The paragraph concludes with line, “This month, we introduce you to four of them, players who will hopefully wear the Lightning colors in the future.” In each of the pictures you see four young men, all the age of 18, gazing not just in to a camera but also in to an uncertain future. Would they actually wear Lightning colors in the future? For the record, I needed to find out.
Off the top of my head I knew Aaron Gavey and Drew Bannister were the bigger prospects at the time, and I knew they did eventually make it to the NHL with the Lightning. Bannister played the most with the Lightning, appearing in 98 games, and 164 in the NHL while amazingly playing professionally up until this past spring in Great Britain before being named an assistant coach in Owen Sound. Gavey only appeared in 89 games with the Lightning, but had the longer NHL career with 360 career games. Brantt Myhres was a fan favorite tough guy who only appeared in 62 games with the Lightning and 154 in the NHL, but he may have had the longest unintended effect of the four—in 1997 he was part of a trade package with the Edmonton Oilers which netted the Lightning an extra draft pick in the 1998 entry draft. The Lightning selected Dmitry Afanasenkov, a depth forward who was part of the 2004 Stanley Cup championship team.
I didn’t recognize the fourth face though. He was a 6-foot-2, 190-pound defenseman named Andrew Kemper. He was also a 9th-round pick in the 1992 entry draft, which basically meant “long shot”. But that doesn’t mean “no shot”. After all if you look at the 1992 draft you’ll see 11 spots after Kemper was selected 193rd overall, some Russian kid named Nikolai Khabibulin was given a flier by the Winnipeg Jets so Kemper deserved a little research.
A quick look at hockeydb.com answered the question for me. After four seasons in the Western Hockey League, and a cup of coffee in Kansas City with the IHL, Kemper’s professional career ended in 1996 with the ECHL’s Mobile Mysticks. After sitting out a year due to Canada West Universities Athletic Association rules, he played three seasons with the University of British Columbia. In the world of hockey statistics, that was the end of the story. And it almost was for me, as I jotted down the line, “Kemper didn’t make it to the NHL.”
But then I thought, “This can’t be the end of the story.” We all love an underdog, and as a broadcaster I would be doing the late Paul Harvey a disservice by not figuring out what “the rest of the story” was. Curiosity, and a touch of guilt for kicking this kid to the curb, set in. So I started my quest for answers where it wasn’t possible to start 20 years ago—Google.
You’d be surprised to see how many Andrew or Andy Kempers there are, and quite a few are involved in hockey, but I couldn’t quite find the one I was looking for as I sifted through page after page and picture after picture. I then took a cue from his playing career—he went to school in British Columbia. So I narrowed the search and found a page from a corporate finance advisor’s website. The brief biography of Andrew Kemper the accountant to Andrew Kemper the hockey player’s timeline seemed to match. The thumbnail photo on the website presented some challenges however, as the Kemper on this website was wearing a suit and a tie. He had eyeglasses, shorter hair, and the picture was in a sepia tone which made a spot-on comparison to the faded color photo on newsprint from 20 years ago a little difficult to carry out. I thought there were enough similarities to where it might be a match. Beneath the photo was his email address, and I decided to take a shot in the dark.
Good day Mr. Kemper, and forgive me for interrupting you but I had a question that you may have had asked before in your life. Are you the same Andrew Kemper drafted by the Tampa Bay Lightning in 1992?
About 36 hours later I got a response:
That is me. Let me know what you would like to know and I will try to help.
Like a 9th-round pick panning out, a few Google searches and an email out of the blue found my target. After a few weeks of juggling schedules around, we finally did an interview over the phone.
“I probably took a different path than they did… they were probably better hockey players, that’s probably why they continued playing longer than I did”, a chuckling Kemper deadpanned early on in our interview. The story of the young man in that photo began to unfold. Born in Montreal, Kemper was born a Canadiens fan, although like many Canadian youths coming of age in the 1980s his hockey focus shifted west to the high flying Oilers where he modeled his playing style to the likes of Paul Coffey and Kevin Lowe.
Even though the other three players in the Flash feature may have been better players in Kemper’s eyes, not everyone gets drafted by an NHL organization. And while Kemper credits the large pool of scouts always present at WHL games for starting his path in professional hockey, the fact is in one game (or maybe a few) with the Seattle Thunderbirds he did something that caught the attention of someone watching for the Lightning. In June 1992, the Lightning took a chance with Kemper in the 9th round, and at first he didn’t know he was drafted by the Lightning. “I was actually travelling with my family at the time, with my mom and dad, we were on a vacation so I wasn’t home. The team had called and left a voicemail at my home. Obviously I listened to that later, but the next morning after the draft my dad was looking at the paper and found it. That’s actually how I really found out.” Less than two months later, Kemper found himself in Lakeland, taking part in the organization’s first training camp.
“It was pretty exciting. It’s a bit of a whirlwind when you’re a young guy going to your first NHL camp. I think I was lucky to go and experience that because being an expansion franchise they had less players in their system so I had the opportunity to go to training camp where as now teams have lots of players in their system. They do rookie camp, like development camp first… and some of those kids don’t end up actually getting to go to the main camp where the actual NHL players are. So that was pretty cool, looking back at it.” With Kemper looking back at the experience of the Lightning’s first training camp now, he also began to look back at his entire playing experience from that day forward. Although he never made it to the NHL, he certainly made it to plenty of other places thanks to the nomadic lifestyle of a player trying to make his way to the big leagues.
- MORE FROM LIGHTNING RADIO: Becoming Part of the Team 20 Years Ago
“I had great experiences with my hockey, not only getting to travel as part of that and seeing different parts of the world that I never thought I would see, but getting to play a pretty high level of hockey in a bunch of different leagues”, Kemper reminisced. Even places you or I wouldn’t find extraordinary by any means ended up being interesting destinations for someone who otherwise may have just stayed in Canada all his life. “Being an 18-year-old, 20-year-old kid, being in Kansas City or Mobile, Alabama, just seeing those kind of places and getting to travel those kind of places, it’s a different world right from here (Canada)? It’s hard to actually describe and imagine, first go there.” Kemper did manage to spread his wings a little further than the swamps of Mobile Bay, travelling as far as Europe while playing at the University of British Columbia.
While travelling the world and playing hockey provided some social and entertainment value, the real bang-for-the-buck came in 1996, when Kemper realized his chances at making an NHL roster were slim. “I knew I wanted to get an education, it was just a question of how I was going to do it. For every year you play with a team (in the WHL) you get a year of schooling paid for. Both the teams I played for, Saskatoon and Seattle were both great organizations, they agreed that they’d give me a year to try to go play pro and see how it worked out and if it didn’t work out come back to them and say, ‘Yeah I want my full scholarship money’ and go to school.” It wasn’t a tough choice for Kemper to make. “I’m two levels below the NHL, it’s a long road to get there, and this is an opportunity to use that money and get my education so I made the decision to go do that.”
It was a decision that many 22-year-olds would waffle on, but Kemper offers a solid reason why he chose to forgo his NHL dreams and go the education route-- one that resonates with tens of thousands of college-educated adults today; “Getting my schooling paid for… you can’t go wrong there. A lot of people walk out of university now with big student debts. I walked out debt-free, and with a good degree, and lots of good opportunities.”
That’s where the life of Andrew Kemper the pro hockey player ends, but more importantly where the eventful life of Andrew Kemper the accountant begins. He earned his degree in 2000, and has been in the field for 12 years now. After making the change from pro hockey player to student, he got married and started a family as he and his wife have 12-year-old and 9-year-old boys who both play hockey. Looking back at the picture from the Flash magazine, Kemper not only sees someone from 20 years ago, but perhaps someone 9 years from now. “It [the picture] is a carbon copy of my 9-year-old. That was great that you sent that picture… we had a few good chuckles at the office even about it.”
And one reason why Kemper has succeeded in the highly-competitive financial sector is his experience in the highly-competitive world of professional hockey. “Hockey teaches lots of life skills. Just things like determination, and commitment to doing something and team work. I can’t underestimate those factors. I see lots of people in business that are very very smart people, but they don’t know how to work on a team and it’s pretty tough to get stuff done all by yourself all the time.” And just because he doesn’t play hockey at a highly competitive level any more, doesn’t mean he’s completely out of the rink world we live in. Kemper has coached youth hockey for several years now, and is the president of his local hockey club. His own children have “an inkling” about his playing days, but he doubts the rest of the kids he coaches know the full story until now.
When you look back at 20 Years of Thunder, you find many great players, great plays, and great moments. And while a handful of players and moments can define the general theme of 20 years of hockey, there are many more people beneath the surface who make up part of the history of the Tampa Bay Lightning. Much like Phil Esposito hoped his dream of hockey in Tampa Bay would work, Kemper and other players posing for those pictures in 1992 hoped to be a part of the team... or any team in the NHL for that matter. There's plenty of reason to celebrate those who are famous and who made the team a winner, but there's no reason to collectively look past and look down upon those who didn't make the cut.
Twenty years later, Kemper isn't known as that 9th round diamond in the rough or that guy who played 15 years in the minors before getting a sniff at the NHL. But he's known as a husband, a father, a financial adviser for companies, and a coach trusted in guiding the hockey dreams of other peoples' children. And he's perfectly fine with that. “It all works out for a reason I think. I can’t complain with where my life has twisted me, that’s for sure. Everything is pretty good these days.” | <urn:uuid:30e2e972-59b0-4d1e-b834-2bb87307c698> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://lightning.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=642607 | 2013-05-24T08:45:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982174 | 2,949 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Jonathan Schwartz made the kind of news that makes Slash Dotters happy: he announced Sun is (sort of) giving away free servers. It’s a promotion, a media play, of course, but one that might make a few lucky people very happy.
Here’s the deal: Sun is really proud of their new T2000 eight core server. Each core runs at 1.2GHz, but they’re apparently applying some distributive power of multiplication and calling it an 9.6GHz machine and touting some impressive performance benchmarks. But rather than play the game of “our experts are better than your experts” against other vendors, they’ve extended a pretty generous try and buy program to users themselves. And, as Jonathan made noise in his blog post, a few people might get lucky enough to keep their machines.
So what’s my angle? WPopac rocks, and performance is excellent with my test corpus (160,000 bib records) on even a lowly single-CPU server with only 1GB of RAM, despite the fact that each bib record is represented in both its composed form in the wp_posts table and as about 20 more rows per record in a separate table (yup, I’ve got almost 3 million rows representing every atomic detail of every bib record), and all of this is full-text indexed.
And I’m fully confident that when I put our entire catalog into WPopac, all 330,000 bib records (resulting in about 6.2 million atomic records), performance will still be up to the task. My math suggests everything should be ducky on a relatively budget server up beyond about 1 million bib records, but what happens for libraries that have more than that, say, perhaps 6 to 8 million bib records (again, 110 to 150 million atomic records; again, all full-text indexed in MySQL)?
It would seem that WPopac’s combination of, um, large MySQL databases with high-volume Apache/PHP should be an ideal fit for the T2000′s big RAM space and support for high numbers of parallel threads. Jonathan claims the T2000 costs a modest $5,000 (but the online store shows a higher price?) and outperforms everything else, but is it up to WPopac? Do they want to try? | <urn:uuid:a8746eb2-88da-42d1-9b77-7233124a8b91> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://maisonbisson.com/post/11172/is-suns-t2000-up-to-it/ | 2013-05-24T08:29:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949927 | 489 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
That's the finding Steven Beach, a professor at the University of Georgia, discussed at this weekend's AAMFT Research Conference in Alexandria, VA. Research has shown for many years (1, 2) that marital satisfaction and depression can be greatly improved at the same time through couples treatment, regardless of which problem came first. However, new data from Beach and his colleagues suggests that when women are struggling with both depression and marital problems, individual therapy for depression will have negative effects on the relationship if the marital discord came first -- suggesting worse outcomes for the depression as well.
Why should this matter to MFTs, who are eminently qualified to identify and treat both issues? Because most depressed people don't start by seeking treatment from a family therapist. According to a 2009 NAMI survey on depression, people with depression usually receive treatment from their primary care physicians. Just 38% receive their primary depression treatment through a mental health professional of any kind. Physicians tend to treat depression with medication and/or referral for individual therapy. They rarely refer for couples therapy, in spite of the research supporting such referrals. The list of possible reasons for this disconnect is long, but some reasonable guesses include that physicians may not know the research, may not have a trusted marriage therapist to whom they can send clients, or simply may not think to ask depressed patients about relationship difficulties (an area of struggle patients may not bring up on their own).
Beach and his colleagues believe that the link between depression and relationship difficulty is so strong that physicians ought to screen for relationship problems whenever they are diagnosing a patient with depression and considering treatment options. They developed a simple 10-item screening measure for relationship problems, with an 11th question for those who show relationship difficulty: Which came first?
Notes: Two quick things about the research base here: 1, the studies of marital therapy to treat depression have universally, as best as I can tell, looked at depressed women. Whether the suggested treatment course and likely outcomes would be the same with depressed men is open to question. 2, while studies have looked at marital therapy and marital satisfaction, there is no reason to believe that non-married people in committed relationships have a different kind of link between depression and relationship difficulty. The screening instrument can be used for married and nonmarried couples alike. | <urn:uuid:86b48ce6-84e5-4cf0-b571-9964695b6116> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://mftprogress.blogspot.com/2010/07/from-aamft-research-conference-one.html | 2013-05-24T08:43:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970872 | 463 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Adam Sandler can breathe a sigh of relief: Thanks to fellow SNL alumus Mike Myers' crude, bafflingly unfunny comedy, Sandler's YOU DON'T MESS WITH THE ZOHAN won't be remembered as the worst movie of 2008.
Thanks to a string of self-help best-sellers like "If You're Happy and You Know It, Think Again," and his popular, acronym-filled sutras on the subjects of self-fulfillment and self-love, Guru Pitka (Mike Myers) is the world-famous representative of some vaguely Hindu-sounding belief system... and he's not even Indian. Pitka's parents were missionary doggy-stylists (there's a smutty joke there, but don't bother looking for it -- it isn't funny) who left him an orphan in India, where he was raised by one cross-eyed Guru Tugginmypuddah (Sir Ben Kingsley). When the guru learned his protege only wanted to become a guru to meet girls, he slapped a chastity belt on young Pitka, promising to remove it the day Pitka learned to love himself. Only then, Tugginmypuddah explained, could Pitka ever hope to truly love another. But as successful as Pitka subsequently became, he never learned that all-important lesson. He's also failed to rise above petty professional rivalry: Pitka's greatest ambition is to best his rival, number-one self-help guru Deepak Chopra, by appearing on Oprah. Pitka gets a shot at a spot with the big O when his manager, Dick Pants (John Oliver), gets a call from Toronto Maple Leafs hockey team owner Jane Bullard (Jessica Alba). Her star player, Darren Roanoke (Weeds' Romany Malco), has been off his game ever since his wife, Prudence (Meagan Good), learned he was cheating on her and decamped with legendarily endowed Quebecoise goalieJacques "Le Coq" Grande (Justin Timberlake), of the L.A. Kings. Over the objections of the Maple Leafs' skeptical coach (Verne Troyer), Jane hires Guru Pitka to work his magic on Darren: If Darren can win his wife back, the Maple Leafs might have a chance at winning the Stanley Cup from the L.A. Kings. And a high-profile success in Toronto will nab him Guru Pitka his coveted hour with Oprah.
Fart jokes, penis jokes, piss jokes, homophobic slurs, naughty names and jokes at the expense of South Asian culture and religion: Jokes, jokes everywhere and not a laugh is heard. You have to wonder what Myers was thinking. He seems to be taking satirical aim at Hollywood's affection for all things empty and New Age, but the moment the music swells and Alba's eyes get all misty, it becomes appallingly clear that at least some of this crap is meant to be taken seriously. With his long wig, false beard and prosthetic nose, it's easy to see why Myers is in disguise: He's hiding. A bomb like this is a career killer, and Myers' is set to blow. leave a comment --Ken Fox | <urn:uuid:f8588e18-8990-4653-bcba-1b182f6e383a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://movies.tvguide.com/the-love-guru/review/293491 | 2013-05-24T08:38:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970298 | 662 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Shakti Durga describes Parvati Ma as “ a true force of nature”. It has been said “When Parvati Ma sings it is the clarion call to the Divine. To hear her, your heart too will sing and your spirit will soar with devotion.”
The truth behind Parvati Ma’s “unstoppable joy” being more than that of a charismatic, larger than life personality blessed with a voice that compels you to listen with delight is her relationship with Shakti Durga. It is the pure Guru-Disciple relationship forged from the fire of devotion and service.
“ Shakti Durga introduced me to the concept of the higher vibrational nature and purpose of music,” says Parvati Ma,” She taught me to sing from my heart and this amplified my capacity to awaken others to their own magnificence”
Meditation and Energy Healing Session with Pravati Ma
Thsi was the warm up session for the one below where both Sam and I received an energy blessing. It certainly was significant, and I will surely see Pravati in Melbourne/
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Peel 7284: Obodiac, Stanlee (1922-1985) [info]. No substitute for victory: The story of the Canadian world hockey victory. Yorkton, Sask.: Printed by The Redeemer's Voice Press, 1952. .
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(Phys.org) -- This image, taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows a detailed view of the spiral arms on one side of the galaxy Messier 99. Messier 99 is a so-called grand design spiral, with long, large and clearly defined spiral arms giving it a structure somewhat similar to the Milky Way.
Lying around 50 million light-years away, Messier 99 is one of over a thousand galaxies that make up the Virgo Cluster, the closest cluster of galaxies to us. Messier 99 itself is relatively bright and large, meaning it was one of the first galaxies to be discovered, way back in the 18th century. This earned it a place in Charles Messiers famous catalog of astronomical objects.
In recent years, a number of unexplained phenomena in Messier 99 have been studied by astronomers. Among these is the nature of one of the brighter stars visible in this image. Cataloged as PTF 10fqs, and visible as a yellow-orange star in the top-left corner of this image, it was first spotted by the Palomar Transient Facility, which scans the skies for sudden changes in brightness (or transient phenomena, to use astronomers jargon). These can be caused by different kinds of event, including variable stars and supernova explosions.
What is unusual about PTF 10fqs is that it has so far defied classification: it is brighter than a nova (a bright eruption on a stars surface), but fainter than a supernova (the explosion that marks the end of life for a large star). Scientists have offered a number of possible explanations, including the intriguing suggestion that it could have been caused by a giant planet plunging into its parent star.
This Hubble image was made in June 2010, during the period when the outburst was fading, so PTF 10fqss location could be pinpointed with great precision. These measurements will allow other telescopes to home in on the star in future, even when the afterglow of the outburst has faded to nothing.
A version of this image of Messier 99 was entered into the Hubbles Hidden Treasures Competition by contestant Matej Novak. Hidden Treasures is an initiative to invite astronomy enthusiasts to search the Hubble archive for stunning images that have never been seen by the general public. The competition is now closed and the winners will be announced soon.
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All I knew (and this was said repeatedly whenever we had classes that focused on creating a folkloric look) was that generally, when one wants to dance ATS® to a folkloric music (with the mizmar, oud, doumbek, without any of the synthesized sounds), complete with the vintage head wrap and tassels, it is best to maximize the folkloric look by staying away from swirly, swishy moves. This categorization had eluded me for so long (a year, probably), but last Saturday, I finally received the answer.
Ms. Sandi Ball gave me the permission to copy this list. I've added some that weren't on the original list (look for the asterisk).
- Egyptian (I assume this means all variations of Egyptians, including Triple Egyptian, but excluding Egyptian Sevillana since this has a more Flamenco feel to it)
- Arabic (but not Arabic Hip Twist nor Arabic Hip Twist Flourish and its later descendant: the Alabama Twister)
- Pivot Bump
- Choo Choo
- Shimmy (including the variation with a slight dip on the one in every four counts. Since the Shimmy is a two-count move, it goes like this: one - two - one - two - one - two - one - two - one - two etc. The underlined is when you slightly dip)
- Turkish Shimmy (including Quarter Turn and Half Turn, but excluding Turkish Shimmy with Arms & Turn)
- Arabic Shimmy (excluding Arabic Shimmy with Arms & Turn)
- Reach & Sit (well, this one comes from the Tahtiyb / Stick dance, so it works well with songs with Saidi rhythm)
- Up 2 Down 3
- Double Bump & Single Bump
- Shoulder Shimmy
- Wet Dog
- Ghawazee Shimmy
- Chico Four Corners
- Ribcage Rotation
- Head Slides
- Circle Step*
- Camel Walk*
- Corkscrew, Propeller, Reverse Turns*
- Torso Twist*
- Circle Step*
- Arabic Hip Twist and Arabic Hip Twist with Flourish and the Alabama Twister
- Turkish Shimmy with Arms and Turn
- Arabic Shimmy with Arms and Turn
- Double Back
- Sahra Turn
- Wrap Around Turn
- Barrel Turn
Now, obviously this list is ever evolving. For example, the Water Pot from Devyani or The Box Step and Push Forward Push Back from the Ghawazi Caravan vocabulary are not on the list. Granted, the Water Pot is swishy and swirly (meaning it has lots of turns and spins), but it does have that folkloric look. In my opinion anyway. And the Push Forward Push Back and Box Step have that folkloric hard edge.
Also, I believe Floorwork falls into the Folkloric Look category.
One of the main reasons I post this is to remind myself that there are moves that are considered Folkloric Look. When I dance, especially when there's mizmar or any kind of wind instrument that's not droning, I like doing the swishy steps like the Arabic Hip Twist. So, the list gives me a kind of boundary in a good way.
I was going to include a YouTube snippet of The Tattooed One, but instead, I'm just going to post this.
When I stumbled upon it, it was like opening a treasure chest. Seeing Ms. Nericcio's fast solo is a rare treat too. | <urn:uuid:9938d9e3-def8-4e73-a493-b403fc3bab88> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://pinkcoinbelt.blogspot.com/2012/09/folkloric-look-for-ats.html | 2013-05-24T08:44:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941981 | 751 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The aim of this paper is to give the semantic profile of the Greek verb-deriving suffixes -íz(o), -én(o), -év(o), -ón(o), -(i)áz(o), and -ín(o), with a special account of the ending -áo/-ó. The patterns presented are the result of an empirical analysis of data extracted from extended interviews conducted with 28 native Greek speakers in Athens, Greece in February 2009. In the first interview task the test persons were asked to force(=create) verbs by using the suffixes -ízo, -évo, -óno, -(i)ázo, and -íno and a variety of bases which conformed to the ontological distinctions made in Lieber (2004). In the second task the test persons were asked to evaluate three groups of forced verbs with a noun, an adjective, and an adverb, respectively, by using one (best/highly acceptable verb) to six (worst/unacceptable verb) points. In the third task nineteen established verb pairs with different suffixes and the ending -áo/-ó were presented. The test persons were asked to report whether there was some difference between them and what exactly this difference was. The differences reported were transformed into 16 alternations. In the fourth task 21 established verbs with different suffixes were presented. The test persons were asked to give the "opposite" or "near opposite" expression for each verb. The rationale behind this task was to arrive at the meaning of the suffixes through the semantics of the opposites. In the analysis Rochelle's Lieber's (2004) theoretical framework is used. The results of the analysis suggest (i) a sign-based treatment of affixes, (ii) a vertical preference structure in the semantic structure of the head suffixes which takes into account the semantic make-up of the bases, and (iii) the integration of socioexpressive meaning into verb structures. | <urn:uuid:e986d8e1-db93-48b9-902a-3b734187dec5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/24553 | 2013-05-24T08:32:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949258 | 409 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 2,300 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 4 years to get that many views.
Click here to see the complete report.
Birthday dress from mum, with jewelry that was a Christmas gift! This was for an outdoor church dinner. No worries, I took sleeves too! And leopard print flats. Rawrr.
Sorry little blog, I’ve been neglecting you. There have been weekends away, and evenings spent like this, followed by multiple episodes of Battlestar Galactica. (I’m not surprised that’s already in my phone dictionary, but I don’t remember saving it!) Anyway, I’ll make an effort to post, even if its all, ‘look how good I am at eating’ and, ‘look how cozy my evenings are.’
I put the sponges in the dishwasher and…
We have one sponge with a plastic handle that had less than a tablespoon of dish soap still in it. I foolishly thought it would be fine because it’s only a little extra dish soap.
Little did I know… I won’t be making *that* mistake again!
That’s right, Warped Tour. You know, that concert you went to when you were 17. That’s the one.
So many teen girls in line at the door we nearly confused it with a Justin Bieber concert. Once we got inside there were more people our age and older, though the grounds were still dominated by the high school crowd. I have never seen so many girls wearing a bra — not a swimsuit top — without a shirt on. Maybe if I were younger and wearing cute underwear I’d do the same.
The shows were really, really good. None of the bands disappointed. I got to introduce some friends to Anti-Flag, and they introduced me to Taking Back Sunday, a band I had stealthily avoided the last time I went to Warped Tour, years ago. I was pleasantly surprised at the number of kids who knew the lyrics at Taking Back Sunday and Yellowcard.
And even though some bitch landed on my head failing to crowd surf, I had a really, really good time… though I realized I’m too old for crowd surfing. You should really be less than 125lbs to hop up on strangers.
We totally got photo-bombed. Haha.
Internet pirates are *so* much less exiting than the fictional world of the kindly dastardly sea-faring type. I had a Groupon/LivingSocial/DealoftheDay thing for Pirates Dinner Theater.
After a super stressful day driving all the heck over the county, this was the perfect way to end the day. Giant strong drinks, good friends, explosions, people dressed up in costume who don’t break character even when you try…
A great night.
Both of us were chosen as volunteers, so our team won, of course. My game was throwing bags of fake gold up to the pirates, and he wore a vest and pirate hat and carried stuff up to the ship. I wish I had better pictures, but it’s kind of dark in there.
Pirates Dinner Adventure in Orlando and California.
or ‘somber buys,’ as auto correct suggested…
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The Atlantic posts, "In Texas, From a Chief Justice, Welcome Candor About Unequal Justice," by Andrew Cohen.
Last Wednesday, in Austin, Texas, a remarkable thing happened. In a state where the promise of equal justice under law often is a farce, where poor people and people of color far too often are subject to unfair treatment by prosecutors, police, judges, jailors and jurors, the Chief Justice of the state supreme court spoke out at length with great clarity and candor about the desperate legal conditions of his fellow Texans and the immediate need to secure for them all the right to "liberty and justice." (Note good update below).
Wallace B. Jefferson, the first black justice on the state's supreme court, the first black chief justice of the state's supreme court, the man appointed by Republican Gov. Rick Perry to replace Alberto Gonzales, offered his remarks in his annual "State of the Judiciary" address and his timing could hardly be better. Next week, America marks the 50th anniversary of the United States Supreme Court's landmark decision in Gideon v. Wainwright, which was designed to secure the right to counsel for people too poor to afford their own attorney.
Jefferson's speech is yet another detailed reminder of how far we've come from the premise and the promise of Gideon. (Last week, on this topic, I wrote here about the Alabama case of Christopher Lee Price, a death row inmate whose constitutional right to counsel has been consistently denied by the courts. Next week, in advance of the March 18th anniversary of the decision, we'll be posting here at The Atlantic a special piece on the legacy of Gideon).
"Chief Justice Pushes for 'Innocence Commission'," is Maurice Chammah's coverage for the Texas Tribune.
At his biennial speech in front of the Legislature, Chief Justice Wallace Jefferson reiterated his calls for more funding for civil legal aid, indigent defense and juvenile justice reform, and pushed for the establishment of an "innocence commission" to investigate wrongful convictions.
Presenting his State of the Judiciary speech to Texas lawmakers, Jefferson said that "wrongful convictions leave our citizens vulnerable, as actual perpetrators remain free" and recommended the Legislature create a commission "to investigate each instance of exoneration, to assess the likelihood of wrongful convictions in future cases, and to establish statewide reforms." He cited the recent exoneration of Michael Morton, who spent nearly 25 years in prison for murder.
The creation of such a commission nearly passed in 2011, but failed at the last minute. Part of the opposition has come from Jeff Blackburn, chief legal counsel of the Innocence Project of Texas, a nonprofit organization that attempts to overturn wrongful convictions and investigate why they happen in the first place. He said recently that such a commission would have to be “extremely well-funded,” and would more likely become “a paper commission that would give a lot of people an excuse to turn away from a lot of the real issues we face in the criminal justice system." | <urn:uuid:3d979ad3-d940-4a73-8062-3afce3abb4bf> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://standdown.typepad.com/weblog/speech/ | 2013-05-24T08:30:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961766 | 620 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
“Ladies of Manure” is a calendar with typical calendar girls except for one thing. They are covered poop.
This calendar is meant to encourage urbanites to start composting their waste — veggie peels, fruit rinds and even feces (animal and human) — into fertile, black soil.
Month by month, scantily clad women pose in and around piles of poop to highlight the benefits of composting in a calendar being sold to benefit the Fertile Earth Foundation.
Ms. April is a smiling blonde with slender legs that end in three-inch heels.
A typical calendar girl, except for one thing: She is covered in poop.
Fish poop, to be exact.
“The whole point of this is to make it less disgusting. If this hot chick doesn’t mind smearing fish poop all over her, maybe it’s not that bad,” said Lanette Sobel, who started the Fertile Earth Foundation, the South Beach-based nonprofit organization behind the calendar. “It’s a resource; it’s not waste.”
Sobel, 34, dreamed up the project to get other people to think about organic waste as much as she does.
The result is a pictorial calendar that’s meant to encourage urbanites to start composting their waste — veggie peels, fruit rinds and even feces (animal and human) — into fertile, black soil.
For $25 online — or a $20 donation at a fundraiser Friday at Cafeina Wynwood Lounge — you can own a 12-month calendar that features the semi-naked manure babes.
The pictorials are equal parts bombshell glam and bathroom humor.
In the calendar, a long-haired brunette poses on a commode with pink lace panties stretched across her booted ankles. Another lies on grass, cupping her breasts while worms crawl through a patch of inky dirt piled over her nether regions. Still another crouches near a banana tree, her outstretched arms covering her bare chest as she lifts rotting fruit peels.
Each photo is accompanied by a brief biography of the featured girl. All of the models were chosen because of their work on environmental issues.
Fertile Earth is funded mostly through its worm sales, with a few out-of-the ordinary fundraisers — like the poop calendar. The group’s last fundraiser was a cook-off to bring attention to invasive, non-native species in South Florida. The winning dish consisted of python chili, wild boar sliders and snakehead fish slaw. | <urn:uuid:929414aa-5f22-4222-819c-f2b4689a3df4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://weeklyworldnews.com/headlines/54295/manure-models/?like=1&source=post_flair&_wpnonce=15d01e1108 | 2013-05-24T09:04:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941707 | 544 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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A Shifting Playing Field: Coming Out As A Gay Athlete
Originally published on Sun October 14, 2012 11:07 am
These days, we're more likely to see professional athletes on products than protest lines. But it wasn't always this way. In the 1960s, sports stars were often as famous for what they believed as for their home runs.
Back then, many athletes spoke out about civil rights. Muhammad Ali was stripped of his heavyweight title and threatened with imprisonment for refusing to fight in Vietnam, on the grounds of racial discrimination.
By the 1970s, the issue of the day was women's rights. Tennis player Billie Jean King used her fame on the court to fight for equal opportunities for female athletes.
Today, King is also an advocate for gay rights, but for most of her career, she stayed in the closet. Now, it's not uncommon for a female pro athlete to come out, but as of yet, no current male players of America's four major pro sports (football, basketball, baseball and hockey) has publicly said he's gay.
Lacking A Role Model
Former Major League Baseball player Billy Bean spent nine years in silence about his sexual orientation in the '90s.
"For me, I was a baseball player, and I did not identify as a gay person who played baseball. I was a baseball player first and foremost," he tells weekends on All Things Considered guest host Celeste Headlee. "You don't get to the major leagues — nobody does — without making that the absolute No. 1 priority and passion of your life."
He says no one knew he was gay.
"I had never told anybody. I'd never told my parents, I'd never told my best friend. The only person that knew was the person I'd left my wife for," he says.
He spent three years with his partner, who died in 1995.
"That was a very, very difficult experience for me to try to weather on my own," Bean says. "But I just think that because I had no precedent of anyone in the environment, there was no person for me to model myself after. And I think that I was afraid."
When Bean played, he says gay slurs were "thrown around like 'if,' 'and' or 'but.' " Bean, author of Going the Other Way: Lessons From a Life in and Out of Major League Baseball, never spoke up. "I didn't talk about gay rights, I didn't defend gay rights. I didn't bring up the topic. It was my dirty little secret," he says.
'A Powerful Statement'
Some people have been standing up lately, acting as role models for young athletes, and the response has been positive.
Cyd Zeigler, editor at Outsports.com, keeps track of important moments in LGBT sports history. He says this year, and really within the past few months, there have been a few standout moments for gay rights in the sports community. One of those happened the first week of October, when pro boxer Orlando Cruz came out.
"I think that was super important because we hear the risks of coming out as an athlete, and one of them is physical danger from other athletes," Zeigler says. "And here's an athlete whose opponents are paid to try to knock him unconscious. The fact that he willingly came out of the closet — I think it's a powerful statement."
Baseball player Yunel Escobar of the Toronto Blue Jays received a three-game suspension for a gay slur written in Spanish in the black grease under his eyes in September. As ESPN reported, his forfeited salary went to two organizations promoting equality and gay rights. On top of that response from the MLB, Zeigler says, fans also rejected Escobar's actions.
Players' Social Stances
Earlier this month, ESPN published a poll on athletes' political views, including whether the U.S. should legalize gay marriage. The study found overwhelming support in the NHL — 92.3 percent — as well as majority support in the NFL. MLB and NBA players were 45 percent and 46.2 percent, respectively, in favor of legalization.
Former Denver Broncos tight end Nate Jackson says he's not surprised that players are in favor of same-sex marriage.
"I think the players reflect Americans their age. Players are pretty progressive guys. They're generally liberal and they're accepting of their teammates," he says. "The thing about NFL teams is that you don't choose what team you go to. Guys come from all around the country, all different socioeconomic backgrounds, with different families, different races, and they form a team. And so you have to be accepting of the differences of your teammates."
He believes the results would not be the same if they polled the coaches, who generally want to avoid distractions.
"Coaches encourage players not to use their position as a professional athlete as a platform for any type of social issues," he says.
Jackson also says the draw of media attention — to the player and his team — could serve as a disincentive to coming out. So the first active player to come out may be from a team in a smaller town with less of a media spotlight. He also thinks it might have to be a superstar player.
"If you're more trouble than you're worth, essentially, in a coach's mind — regardless of what the distraction is — then they'll just cut you loose," he says.
Broadening The Base, Supporting Gay Rights
A number of teams have found advantages to reaching out to the LGBT community. Some teams have been making public service announcements and giving donations to community organizations. The Baltimore Orioles made a public service announcement encouraging LGBT youth, which Zeigler says came out of a request by a fan.
"I think part of it is they want to build their fan base. ... They have a lot of tickets to sell," he says. "But I also believe that sports has transformed, and it is no longer a place where homophobia thrives."
Wade Davis, a former NFL player, insisted for years that Zeigler didn't understand how homophobic the sports world was. Davis came out in June, as Zeigler reported for Outsports.com.
"He got a ton of incredibly positive reaction, not just from fans and other people, but from former teammates saying, 'Why didn't you trust me, man? I wish you'd come out,' " Ziegler says.
Davis says he now realizes he hadn't actually seen homophobia in the locker room.
"It was all in his head," Ziegler says, "and yes, there might be some slurs here or machismo going on in the locker room, but most of what's keeping athletes in the closet today is in their own heads."
CELESTE HEADLEE, HOST:
It's WEEKENDS on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Celeste Headlee, in for Guy Raz.
These days, we're more likely to see our professional athletes on products than protest lines, but it wasn't always this way. In the 1960s, sports stars were often as famous for what they believed as for their home runs.
JACKIE ROBINSON: The only thing that we're demanding is that we be allowed to move ahead just like any other American citizen.
HEADLEE: That's Jackie Robinson at a civil rights rally in 1963. Many athletes spoke out about civil rights in the 1960s. Muhammad Ali was stripped of his heavyweight title and threatened with imprisonment for refusing to fight in Vietnam on grounds of racial discrimination. By the 1970s, the issue of the day was women's rights. Tennis player Billie Jean King used her fame on the court to fight for equal opportunities for female athletes.
BILLIE JEAN KING: It just kills me to see some girls be passive. So I'm hoping that through - I call feminist movement - women's liberation that it's going to help both not to stereotype people.
HEADLEE: Today, King is also an advocate for gay rights. But for most of her career, she stayed in the closet. It's not uncommon now for female professional athlete to come out, but as of yet, we've not had a single male athlete active in a major sport come out as gay. And that's our cover story today: the uneasy relationship between professional sports and gay rights.
(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC)
HEADLEE: Major League Baseball player Billy Bean spent nine years in silence about his sexual orientation in the '90s. When we spoke, I asked him why.
BILLY BEAN: For me, I was a baseball player, and I did not identify as a gay person who played baseball. I was a baseball player first and foremost. You don't get to the major leagues - nobody does - without making that the absolute number one priority and passion of your life.
HEADLEE: Well, you know, I wonder what it is that made you feel such pressure. Was it the fans? Was it the management? Because I know at least one teammate came to you and said, I'm hurt that you didn't share this with me, that you didn't trust me enough to tell me what was going on.
BEAN: Well, I mean, that was a great bonding moment for me, but nobody knew that I was gay at the time. I had - I never had told anybody. I'd never told my parents, I'd never told a best friend. The only person that knew was the person I'd left my wife for, who've I spent, you know, three years and sadly died in 1995.
And that was a very, very difficult experience for me to try to weather on my own. But I just think that because I had no precedent of anyone in the environment, there was no person for me to model myself after. And I think that I was afraid.
HEADLEE: So while you were in the locker room, Billy Bean, did you ever hear any hurtful comments yourself?
BEAN: When I was a player, the word faggot or queer or, you know, all that, that was thrown around like if, and or but. I mean, it was just something that, in my book, I write explicitly. You know, Tommy Lasorda used to call every player on the other team, you know, a word like that. And you don't make...
HEADLEE: And you didn't speak up. I mean, you must...
BEAN: Of course not. And the last thing in the world - if I ever saw, you know, the trainers - and Oprah Winfrey had a show on about men who were - married men who were gay lovers or something. I walked out of that trainer's room in two seconds. I didn't talk about gay rights. I didn't defend gay rights. I didn't bring up the topic. It was my dirty little secret.
HEADLEE: That's Billy Bean. Not the Billy Bean featured in the film "Moneyball," but the author of "Going the Other Way: Lessons From a Life In and Out of Major League Baseball."
Some people have been standing up lately, being role models for young athletes. Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo made headlines in September for his defense of gay marriage. He says the response has been overwhelmingly positive. Here he is on NPR's TELL ME MORE.
(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED BROADCAST)
BRENDON AYANBADEJO: I mean, this story's got more legs than a dang millipede. The support's been coming worldwide. I've heard from other players on other teams. I've heard from fans from other teams. I've heard from people that didn't even care about football that are now football fans. And, of course, the LGBT community, they had my back. It's time we start treating our brothers, sisters, friends, relatives equally just like anybody else is treated.
HEADLEE: Former Broncos tight end Nate Jackson thinks gay players don't feel comfortable coming out not because of how their peers might treat them in the locker room or on the field, but because of how coaches might react.
NATE JACKSON: Coaches don't like distractions. Whether it's a political statement, whether it's religious views, whether it's about money, some type of business endeavor you have or sexuality, in this case, coaches encourage players not to use their position as a professional athlete as a platform for any type of social issues. And so if it causes too much of a circus, media-wise, then the coach would not be down with that.
HEADLEE: Well, I wonder if what you're saying is that the coaching staff lags behind the players. ESPN recently polled players in Major League Baseball, in the NBA, the NFL, the NHL. And anonymously, at least, the players all came out in supportive of gay marriage. Does that surprise you, first of all? And do you think the results would be the same if they polled the coaches?
JACKSON: I think the results would not be the same if they polled the coaches, but it doesn't surprise me that players are in favor of it. I think the players reflect Americans their age. Players are pretty progressive guys. They're generally liberal, and they're accepting of their teammates. The thing about NFL teams is that you don't choose what team you go to. Guys come from all around the country, all different socioeconomic backgrounds, with different families, different races, and they form a team. And so you have to be accepting of the differences of your teammates.
Players are very familiar with that. When I was playing, there were a few guys who we thought might be gay and no one really cared because it wasn't an outward thing. So it just remained in the locker room, and it was fine that way.
HEADLEE: So how much does this vary from team to team? Is there a team that you can imagine may be the first one to have an openly gay player?
JACKSON: Well, I do think it would be - it would need to be on a team where the media presence was minimal.
HEADLEE: Does that mean it has to be a losing team?
JACKSON: Not necessarily. Maybe in a smaller town. Big city media tends to get very excited about issues like this and then pepper the gay player with questions - maybe of them appropriate, some of them inappropriate - and possibly ask some of his teammates questions that make them uncomfortable. And this type of media presence would definitely factor into the player coming out.
HEADLEE: So help me to understand. For the 15-, 16-year-old kid out there who's hoping to play in the NFL someday and maybe have a chance to play in the NFL and is perhaps gay, is his best option to stay in the closet?
JACKSON: If the individual feels comfortable letting the world know who he is, then more power to him. But there are many who just don't feel comfortable, who don't want that responsibility.
HEADLEE: Will he have to be a superstar? Does he have to be a rockstar?
JACKSON: Yeah, I kind of think so. If you're more trouble than you're worth, essentially, in a coach's mind, regardless of what the distraction is, then they'll just cut you loose. And so I think it would help for it to be a superstar.
HEADLEE: That's Nate Jackson. He played for the Denver Broncos for six years, now writes about life inside the NFL. Nate Jackson, thank you so much.
JACKSON: Thank you.
HEADLEE: Cyd Zeigler is editor at Outsports.com. As part of his job, he keeps track of important moments in LGBT sports history. He says this year, and really within the past few months, there have been a few standout moments in gay rights in the sports community.
CYD ZEIGLER: Orlando Cruz, the professional boxer who came out of the closet just last week - I think that was super important because we hear the risks of coming out as an athlete, and one of them is physical danger from other athletes. And here's an athlete whose opponents are paid to try to knock him unconscious. The fact that he willingly came out of the closet, I think it's a powerful statement.
I also think that, again, last month, Yunel Escobar, the player with the Toronto Blue Jays who put a gay slur in Spanish on his eye black - what the reaction was, the fact that he got a three-game suspension. He donated $100,000 to gay sports organizations. And fans in Toronto really did not appreciate what he did. So those were a couple, just in the last month, that have been powerful.
HEADLEE: Well then, let's talk about the tolerance level of the athletes themselves. There was a recent ESPN poll - anonymous in this particular case - in which they were asking about the players in the major sports, their support for same-sex marriage and gay rights. NFL players overwhelmingly support same-sex marriage, same was true for the NHL, the National Hockey League. Less support among Major League Baseball. Why do you think that is?
ZEIGLER: Well, I've always felt the NFL and NHL would be the most supportive because of, A, the education that many of the athletes have; B, the diverse backgrounds that they come from - particularly in NHL, a lot of Canadians and Europeans. In Major League Baseball, it's heavily influenced by Hispanic culture, which is heavily influenced by the Catholic Church, which is not exactly marching in gay pride parades. And, you know, in basketball, it's heavily influenced by urban culture.
So those two sports at the professional level, the locker rooms are simply dominated by different factors that would make it a little bit harder than the other sports to come out in.
HEADLEE: So, Cyd Zeigler, in the end, these sports are basically businesses, right, and that must be why we've seen some sports franchises actively reaching out to the LGBT community, or is it? You've written about an example where a Major League Baseball team had gay nights. They reached out to gay organizations. They lowered ticket costs. There's also been Major League Baseball teams that have released public service announcements. They've contributed to the It Gets Better campaign. And we have a clip here from the Baltimore Orioles.
(SOUNDBITE OF BALTIMORE ORIOLES PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT)
JAKE ARRIETA: You should never feel like you need to hide who you truly are.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #1: Or keep hiding the things that make you special.
ARRIETA: The Orioles are just one part of a huge team of supporters that are here for you.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #2: To let you know that being different...
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #3: ...really means being extraordinary.
HEADLEE: Where do you think that is coming from? Is that a business decision?
ZEIGLER: I know the Orioles video came from the request of a fan. I talked to the executive who was in charge of getting it done. He said when they got that letter in, they just passed it around. They decided to do it. I think part of it is they want to build their fan base. And listen, gay people have more disposable income. And I think that's why a lot of baseball teams do it. They have a lot of tickets to sell. But I also believe that sports has transformed, and it is no longer a place where homophobia thrives.
HEADLEE: So if it's the players that are totally tolerant, for the most part, as you say, if the administration or the owners, the coaching staff is totally tolerant, do you think it's just the gay players themselves that are keeping us from having a male professional athlete who comes out while they're still playing a major sport?
ZEIGLER: I wrote a story earlier this year about Wade Davis, who was a former professional NFL player. And for years, he's told me that I didn't understand sports, that sports is far more homophobic than I think it is. He, after coming out in June, he got a ton of incredibly positive reaction, not just from fans and other people, but from former teammates saying, why didn't you trust me, man? I wish you'd come out.
And he says today that he didn't see homophobia in that locker room. It was all in his head. He told himself that there was homophobia. And, yes, there might be some slurs here or there might be some machismo going on in the locker room. But most of what's keeping athletes in the closet today is in their own heads.
HEADLEE: That's Cyd Zeigler, editor and co-founder of Outsports.com. Cyd, thank you so much.
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House in Normandy, Manche
Holiday let, House in vire
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|Price of property for sale (Euros):||0||Number of shower or bathrooms:||4|
|Minimum rental per week (Euros):||480||Number of WCs:||1|
|Condition:||Fully renovated||Property size (m2):||190|
|Local facilities include:||Size of grounds (m2):||1500|
|Description of House in Normandy:|
|Located just outside the town of Sourdeval, Manche this lovely property consists of four double bedrooms all with en suite bathrooms, very large lounge with original fireplace and seperate kitchen and|
L'Aueseniere was completely renovated to the highest standards in 2011. Equipped to provide every modern comfort, yet retaining its French charm.|
Only an hour from Cean, you will find yourself in the depths of the French countryside, yet only 45mins from the beautiful sandy beaches.
The garden has the sun from morning till evening and two sets of tables and chairs are provided.
Inside everything is more like a home than a holiday cottage. When you arrive, everything is ready for you to start your holiday.
If you are looking for a holiday home in the rural french countryside then this home is for you.
Located just outside the town of Sourdeval, Manche this lovely property consists of four double bedrooms all with en suite bathrooms, very large lounge with original fireplace and seperate kitchen and utility room. Central heating throughout house as well as log fire in lounge.
Large garden surrounding the property with patio to the side and fruit trees to the front and side gardens.
|vire - Surrounding area:|
Sourdeval contains local bars, convenience stores, cinema and local market every week. The larger towns of Vire and St Hilierre are approx 20km from property. Both towns have large array of shops and restaurants as well as local markets weekly.|
For those looking for a spot of sun and sea, an array of beaches are around 45mins drive from property.
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By subjecting their products to the harsh conditions served up by their beloved Vermont home, the folks at Darn Tough are confident that their socks can stand up to anything you throw at them. High density knitting, performance fitting and the finest Merino wool and Coolmax fabrics ensure that Darn Tough socks offer comfort, fit and durability. In fact, Darn Tough is so sure of their socks, they offer a full lifetime guarantee on their products!
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Focus on Research
Research lies at the heart of the biology experience at Boston College. The department offers a wide array of opportunities for scientific investigation within the areas of molecular cell biology and genetics, cell cycle, neurobiology, developmental biology, structural and cellular biochemistry, vector biology, infectious disease, and bioinformatics.
The department offers a program of study leading to a Ph.D. degree in biology and in some cases a joint B.S./M.S. degree. Basic areas of study include biochemistry, cellular and developmental biology, genetics, cell cycle, vector biology, and neurobiology.
Faculty and Research
Our faculty are skilled in teaching and advising students as well as advancing cutting-edge research. As a result, students enjoy a unique atmosphere in both the laboratory and the classroom that is defined by a mixture of academic rigor and personal relationships. Current areas of faculty scholarship and expertise include cell and molecular biology, genetics, neuroscience, bioinformatics, and immunobiology. The Biology Department also offers state-of-the-art research laboratories and core-research support facilities, including confocal microscopy, flow cytometry, and FACS facilities. Learn more about our research.
Department of Biology
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Old School 80s' flavor
Emulation II features a set of unique instruments to reproduce that typical music from the 80s: from warm digital sounds to the most analog-ish textures.
UVI adopted a hybrid approach to create these sounds, combining deep multi-sampling and powerful modeling tools (analog filters, LFO, envelopes, etc.), inspired by the original machine and enhanced with today most modern audio processing and script technology.
Sounds were recorded and carefully selected from the authentic restored instrument, with the very best analog and digital gear, suiting UVI quality standard. This process allows preserving the original sounds’ lo-fi charm.
Besides, hundreds of sounds and instruments among the best are included: drums, bass, bells, choir-voices, fretted instruments, FXs, keyboards, mallets, percussion, synths, strings, orchestral hits and a lot more.
A simple, yet complete, user interface reproduces the looks and feeling of the most famous and essential machine from the eighties. With 250+ best sounds and primary editing tools, Emulation II enables you to create authentic spin-offs with infinite options of sounds and tones.
This is definitely the ultimate digital version of the long standing professional sampler of the mid-80s, that has been used by Depeche Mode, Peter Gabriel, Pet Shop Boys, New Order, Jean-Michel Jarre, Stevie Wonder, Genesis, Paul McCartney, Enya, Vangelis, in John Carpenter's soundtracks, etc.
Discover also Drumulation: an utter beatbox with step sequencer from the eighties, loaded with 500+ drums and percussion sounds. Make your beats sound 12 bits!
From the Pop culture resurgence to the most modern Electro-Pop, make music without any frontier.
Also compatible with MachFive 3: make the most of all the editing features offered, like unlimited FX by part.
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UVI sample player is included in this virtual instrument - no more sampler required!
More information about UVI-Workstation and the latest version of UVI is available as a free download HERE and also useful as a full working demo version.
UVI Workstation 2 minimum system requirements:
This Instrument requires an iLok Key!
This USB protection device is not included in the box of this collection, it is a separate item you have to buy additionally. So you’ll have to order at least one iLok Key with your first purchase. It will be put inside the shopping basket automatically but can be deleted if not required. If you already own another iLok protection device you can use it for this instrument, too. Each iLok dongle can store up to 100 product licenses, the new iLok2 even up to 500 licenses.
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New Zealand economy looks positive
New Zealand, 14th April: New Zealand economic outlook has shown significant improvements in the current year, credit agency Dun and Bradstreet has stated.
The economy of New Zealand is expected to grow further by 1.8 percent in the year 2010, the agency maintained. The reason for the improved economic outlook of the country could be attributed to improvements in certain key markets providing support to New Zealand exports.
Some of the key markets that have resulted in reducing the risk of liquidity for New Zealand’s economy and ushered developments include China and Australia.
Despite improvements in the economy of the country, especially in three quarters of the year, unemployment has failed to show any downward trend and has continued to grow unabatedly. This has undermined the recovery made by the nation.
Nonetheless, the recovery by New Zealand’s economy is a remarkable achievement especially at a time when even developed countries are struggling to show any signs of recovery from the global economic slowdown, asserted general manager of Dun and Bradstreet (D&B) New Zealand, John Scott.
No wonder, New Zealand among the top four safest nations in the region and one of the top 20 nations in the world, the data by D&B states.
As per the ratings by D&B, total sixteen nations have slipped from their earlier rankings since the beginning of this year. Among the nations whose ratings have gone down include the Netherlands and Japan.
Although, New Zealand is stated to have significantly low risk environment for investments in businesses, however, global competition will increase many fold as the different nations of the world recover from economic crisis, Mr. Scott quipped.
To cope up with increasing global competition in the coming times, New Zealand needs to concentrate more on strong management of the economy, better reforms and ensure sound risk practices, he added.
New Zealand faces challenge of significant reductions in the government aided economic stimulus. Also, there is a probability of hike in the interest rates this year.
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What should you do if your child hates wearing underwear?
Many kids have a hard time adjusting to wearing tight clothing, like tights or underwear. What can you do to help your child adjust to wearing underwear?
I would completely understand because I hate them too!
I have let mine go without if he doesn't want to wear them, but with girls its probably different. Is there a reason she doesn't like them? are they itchy, pokey, just too tight. Try finding out why and then maybe try just some shorts under the clothes. Try one day a week to wear underwear and maybe buy a little big so they don't feel restrictive. Then gradually increase the number of days. Or at night when they are sleeping. I have tried many different things and finally had to go with the new kind that have the all cotton band and no elastic. Have a child with Aspergers and clothing is just plain annoying for them to begin with. Its been a struggle but have found what works. Just keep trying and eventually they will wear them. Once they get into school, they should want to because the other kids do. just a thought ;)
Personally, I'd be uncomfortable without it, but what's it hurting to go commando? They'll either get chaffed and decide to wear underwear or they'll go without. So you don't have to buy underwear for that kid.
I'd say who cares since underwear serves no purpose.
I never had a problem. I always took them to buy their first underwear, got them a size large and they were excited to wear them and couldn't wait. The other part is since I live in Texas and stay home, they could run around with just the underwear on until we went some where.
I have no issue with mine going without
Find a corner and cry tears of frustration.... :) unfortunately, this is a rule u will have to enforce. I am however, curious about the reason WHY your child is refusing?
Is it a potty training issue? For example, one mother explained to me
That her kindergarten daughter would remove her underwear at school everyday after using the bathroom and no one in that child's family could figure out why she was doing this ABSURD thing?
After recognized that this childs issue may have had something to do with previous potty training. When I suggested this to the mother, she informed me that although her daughter has been potty trained since age 3 1/2, they did used to discipline her rather severely when she soiled herself.
Tsk Tsk....that is called IMPROPER teaching. In essence, this child was still ocasdionally soiling herself, and instead of dealing with the harsh consequences, and I can empathize with the child, the child chose to throw away the "evidence." perceptive child! No child should EVER be ridiculed, criticized, or punished severely and harshly, for not using the toilet properly. If your child has failed at this, then the PARENT failed FIRST. Punish yourself instead and praise your child for the effort.
Again, this was just an example. There could be another sinister reason for her doing so. Or maybe they are too constricting. If she is always pulling "wedgies" out, then it's time to go up in size....
What does your child say when asked about it?
Most of the time if a child doesn't want to wear something it is because it is uncomfortable or they don't like the way it looks. If this is the case you can remedy this just by taking your child shopping and letting them pick out their own. Try various styles, let your child have a say in it and even let them pay at the register. Your child will be more excited about what they choose.
My daughter wore underwear for 6 months after being potty trained with no problem, then one day she couldn't stand to wear them. Said they were too tight. So for the past 6 months I have tried different brands, different sizes, even tried the little undies that come with dresses, nothing has worked. I have let her pick them out too. I'm trying to be patient and I don't want to force the issue however we are approaching spring/summer and she will have skirts, dresses and shorts to wear and I will have to insist that she wear them. Still having trouble!
My son had an issue with not wanting to wear underwear. We did not make any big deal about it. We let him try it out and bought a variety of boxers and briefs for when he wants to wear them. Now that he is in school and playing sports we started reminding him to put his underwear on. I guess he liked being free. He doesn't have a problem anymore about putting them on, but occasionally I will catch him with no underwear. I say "hey where is your underwear?". Then we both laugh!! But it is still very much encouraged since he is six years old!
go with the trend! take your kids to the store... introduce them to Snoopy, My Little Ponies,Tom & Jerry, Pooh Bear...etc.... the kids will soon learn to like wearing underwear!.
My nextdoor nabour was playing with me one day and she sat on me in a skirt and she didn't have any underwear on. She obviously finds it more comfortable and if nobody see that your not wearing anyunderwear thats fine. It is personal to you.
I would try a bigger size or a different style. I have boys so they have briefs, boxer briefs, boxers etc. I suppose it would also depend on the reason the only reason I could imagine as they were uncomfortable so a different style or size should really help eliminate that problem.
I thought we'd never get our now 3.5 yr old daughter to wear her "Dora" underwear! We made a big deal about switching to them even. It takes TIME. Eventually, putting them on will become a habit, just like going potty. It took us a good 6 months to get the whole potty thing down and then one day, it happened!
Now, as a 3.5 year old, I can't get her out of her tights. She must wear them to school. She must wear them to bed. Even though I say that princesses DO wear pants.....she immediately comes home form school and can't wait to put on tights and a skirt / dress! I know it's a stage. Pretty cute though. | <urn:uuid:7968cbdb-a3b4-45da-91d4-23fbfb757d31> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.circleofmoms.com/question/what-should-you-do-your-child-hates-wearing-underwear-1702059 | 2013-05-24T08:58:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.989729 | 1,336 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Gert Boddaert is an experienced embedded software architect and driver developer who worked for companies such as Agfa Gevaert, KBC, Xircom, Intel, Niko, (Thomson) Technicolor, Punch Powertrain, Fifthplay, Cisco and Barco. For more obscure details, please take a look at his LinkedIn profile. Anyway, he started out as a Commercial Engineer – option “Management Informatics”, but was converted to the code-for-food religion by sheer luck. After writing higher level software for a few years, he descended to the lower levels of software, and eventually landed on the bottom of embedded hell… and apparently still likes it down there.
His favourite motto: “Think hard, experiment and prototype, think again, write (easy and maintainable) code”,
favourite quote: “If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” – by Red Adair,
I can be contacted for real-time embedded software development projects via http://www.rtos.be and http://www.rtos.eu
Member since Thursday, July 6, 2000
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In the early part of the 20th century, candied apples were doled out to trick-or-treaters―perhaps as a reminder of the old-time game of bobbing for apples.
When we prepared these Candied Apples in our Test Kitchens, we were won over by their simple charm. In particular, we liked the way the cinnamon candy coating complemented the sweetness and cool crunch of the fruit in a classic flavor match. Our recipe uses cinnamon candies (Red Hots are a good choice) instead of the cinnamon and red food coloring used in other versions. The candies add a pleasant kick, too. We call for Red Delicious apples, which are known for their mild sweetness, but you can experiment with tart, juicy Granny Smith, pippin, or McIntosh varieties.
Whatever apple you use, as Halloween goodies go, these sweet tokens are low in fat and high in fiber, vitamins A and C, and the antioxidant flavonoid quercetin. And best of all, their sweet-hot flavor makes working your way down to the last bite a treat indeed. | <urn:uuid:96a2f8c6-9e04-4c62-bef7-a1615490bd73> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.cookinglight.com/entertaining/holidays-occasions/candied-apples-00400000001359/ | 2013-05-24T08:57:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948412 | 228 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Nor’easter-The North Face Open 2011
Ne2c Day before the before the comp: 9/22/11
After months of climbing out side with friends it’s time to shift gears and crush some plastic, in this year’s 2011 Nor’easter climbing conservation and music festival/ The North Face Open. The UBC pro tour is in Vermont, and the itch to take first place begins as I take on some of best of the best of the best. Climbing out side is my passion and I love the feel of real rock but, cant wait to see what the dedicated crew at Ne2c troughs at me plus the lights the crowds, the, energy it’s a personal addiction of mine.
For the Last several months I have been traveling with my fiancé Jes and climbing with some amazing people like Dave and Nalle . We have been busy climbing and developing a new area in Australia and I am now back in the states for the 3 annual Nor’ester climbing competition. After climbing with such talent I’m hoping to take down (win) this year’s comp. I feel stronger then I was this time last year and am really psyched to see where my new head space takes me. I have really enjoyed working with and climbing in the Ne2c pro tour completions. I say this only because I have had nothing but good experiences with how the comp is run, from the production to the setting each part of the Nor’easter is well thought out and not only a good time for the competitors but also for each spectators. After competing for a few years and doing World Cups overseas I have a good knowledge of how comps are run and what attracts people to events. I must say the crew of Eastern Mountain and NE2c have figured out a perfect chemistry.
The morning of the Qualifying round I was up and atum nice and early (5:30) usually I would not be up so early, but my fiancé Jes was working the event and need to be at ticketing by seven. This gave me the opportunity to see a truly beautiful Vermont sun rise and also to reflect on past competition and what I have learned throughout the last year of climbing and competing. My verdict was that the only way to do well during a pro competition is to stay relaxed and turn any fear in to energy and focus. The qualifying round went very well and I was able to send every climb within the time required. Only 10 people were getting knocked out before semifinals and I was confident that I could make it to the next round. Fingers were crossed for the weather holing up and for the rain not to fall for the rest of the festival.
All hope was lost as the rain began to fall right before the competition began and Semifinals was canceled in what could only be described as terrible conditions. For the first time in UBC history twenty people made it to finals. This was only after we were told that only the top six people from the first round were going to be in finals. Obviously, this was not fair and all the climbers voiced their oppinions with what we thought was the best/appropriate solution. The final decision was that all the competitors were going to move forward and all have a shot at finals. The Semi-final problems were tweeked and as soon as the setters and production team was ready finals began. It did eliminated three climbs but, it was believed to be the best and most fair option. It only took a few hours for the weather to clear up and the pads to dry. This was the first competition that I felt super relaxed and approaching the situation with a great head space. Its great to see my friends whom are also my fellow competitors. Being in ISO with them, warming up, talking and waiting felt like home. We all every get to see each other at competitions so its always a nice reunion.
Finals Problem #1: I found this climb very technical and very heavy with specific body position and balance. It had a core intensive last move and felt great to look at the problem work out the best possible beta in my mind and give it a go. I did flash it which set my pace for the competition and brought me to an even more psyched head space. It was great to have fellow friends/competitors around me like Ethan Pringle, Angie Payne, Matt Wilder, Dave Graham and my fiancé Jes front row watching and cheering me on.
Finals Problem #2: Knowing that no competitor has sent this problem and with such stiff competition such as Vasya and Big-Rob whom have gone before me I knew this problem was going to be quiet the challenge. It started with a one handed move to a terrible right hand sloppy ball and worked its way up to a roof which involved 2 hard hand sequences and a heinous hand foot match. It left me more or less pumped towards the finish of the problem where I found myself in a predicament. I either dyno for the finish hold or possibly loose the flash. After what felt like seconds of contemplation and feeling the left hand duel tex crimpn I switched into desperation mode. I grabbed an under cling foot jib on a volume and bumped my left hand to a good crimp. There I realized I was out of sequence, my only option left was to dyno, which I did, and snagged it! I suppose my training in Australia paid off since many problems Nalle, Dave & I did had very similar ending moves. This problem was my second flash which obviously made me smile even more and put me in the running for first place.
Finals Problem #3: With five minutes before climbing on problem #3 I was still pumped and could feel my body becoming super tired. I watched the clock beginning to count down and my only thoughts were about the possibility of having a perfect score and thinking about the people whom have helped me along the way. The buzzer sounded and I turned to see what the talented setting crew of NE2C had in store. The problem itself looked epicly-long and involved many hard crimp moved to a 360 turn on a pocket, which I read incorrectly. I took my first fall off of the pocket. After falling again at the same move, I laid down and let the clock run for two minutes as I watched the problem and tried to unravel the beta. With 35 seconds left on the clock I gave my last good burn. I only got a few moved further and then dropped off. Props to Vasya whom made that climb look very easy and even more props to my fellow competitors like Rob who finished #3.
As soon as it was over I knew I climb well and never felt as nervous as I did. Jes was right by my side and keeping me calm as I watched the final competitors, like Paul & Ty, climb. I wasn’t sure still if I got first place and no one was giving any information out. Once all climbers finished the production crew had the podiums up in a blink of an eye and I was being pushed into the first place spot with fellow female competitor Angie Payne. I really felt overwhelmed, speechless and just plain psyched. This is the first adult pro competition I have won. Sick. I can’t wait until the next UBC Pro Tour comp!!!
Jon Dory (Dad) reason for my climbing and my biggest fan!
Jes D’Emilio my fiancé for believing in me and loving me so much!
Lisa Dory (Mom) for always telling me I’m on the right path and my other biggest fan!
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People with high-level spinal cord injuries typically lose control of their arms and legs meaning they can no longer get around without some sort of adaptive assistance device. Quadriplegics have long relied on a type of control system for electric wheelchairs called the sip-and-puff system.
This type of control system allowed the user to move forward and backwards in an electric wheelchair by sipping a straw or blowing into it. A group of researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology (GIT) has devised a new method of controlling a power chair for those who no longer had functionality in their arms and legs. The new system uses the patient’s tongue to control the chair or to control the mouse cursor on a computer screen.
Maysam Ghovanloo, an assistant professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at GIT said, "This clinical trial has validated that the Tongue Drive system is intuitive and quite simple for individuals with high-level spinal cord injuries to use. Trial participants were able to easily remember and correctly issue tongue commands to play computer games and drive a powered wheelchair around an obstacle course with very little prior training."
The clinical trial was conducted at the Shepherd Center in Atlanta and involved the attachment of a small magnet, roughly the size of a grain of rice, to the tongue of the patient with a tissue adhesive. The magnet was used as a tracer to allow the magnetic field sensors to register its movements. The users of the system wore sensors that look like headphones on the head to track the magnet.
The researchers say that the nerve that controls the tongue in patients with high-level spinal injury is typically not affected in the injury. Software translates the movement of the magnet into motion for the chair via wireless connectivity with a computer attached to the chair.
The chair motion can be controlled in a constant setting that allows the chair user to move along an arc or in a control method for new users that only allows one motion at a time. According to the researchers, the Tongue Drive system can be used to create as many movement commands as the user can comfortably remember. | <urn:uuid:d54afc5d-8f9f-40ed-8c35-ab85096e4658> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=15621&commentid=464905&threshhold=1&red=2251 | 2013-05-24T09:03:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960505 | 425 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Author has written 4 stories for Sci-Fi, Action, and Fantasy.
Hello one and all, i'm just a writer, artist, and free thinker. I'm fond of many diffrent forms of prose, as well as too many genres to count.
Thing's that i like to think that i'm fond of.
I love to draw, and have qouted often that it's my "verb". It's what i do.
I'm known to write every now and then...you know, on the occasion, when i feel like it...
I love music, and it often inspires me to write, as many of the things i've written were under the influence of music.
I have a few authors in mind who i like include: James Patterson, Eric Nylund, William C. Deitz, and Karen Travis.
That's that, those are my likes, things that i love in alot of ways, now, ont the things that...aren't as loved...ummmm yeah...
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Transexual Anthology [MultiFormat]
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eBook by Darrell Bain & Jeanine Berry & Diana Hignutt
eBook Category: Erotica/Erotic Fantasy/Fantasy
eBook Description: Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be the other sex? What problems do they face, what pleasures can they experience? The Transexual Anthology may help you find the answers. This collection of stories by renowned authors in the field include Darrell Bain and Jeanine Berry, Diana Hignutt, Thomas Farrell, Dallas Denny, and Mike Reynolds. Contents Reality TV by Thomas Farrell Gateway to Love (a tale of the sex gates) by Jeanine Berry and Darrell Bain The Locket by Diana Hignutt The Reunion, a one-act play by Dallas Denny Night Ride by Dallas Denny Reaching "Out": six stories from Genderland by Mike Reynolds
eBook Publisher: Double Dragon Publishing/Double Dragon eBooks, Published: DDP, 2005
Fictionwise Release Date: June 2005
21 Reader Ratings:
1. Sharing Closet Space
Denise and I met in a closet the size of my living room. We sat on a sofa, sipped coffee, munched on pizzelles, and chatted about our lives as women, both of us in male mode. The closet was my living room. The closet was her and it was me. Odd thing about closets, we carry them with us, and when they meet up with one another, they become bubbles…they join, forming a prison-sanctuary for two, for three, for ten, for a thousand, for everyone, for a while. And for this while, we are safe in our seclusion.
"They called me gay, queer, faggot, beat me up, pushed me around a lot."
This is a story of fear, one of sheer terror, but not one of impending violence. Denise's fear is one of recognition. Like the great majority of transvestites, she lives only for a few hours at a time, and she lives in constant fear that those she depends on for her well-being, and those closest to her will one day find her, and when they do…kill her.
Her story begins in a closet, that of her older sister at their parents' house in Meriden, Connecticut. Small and slight of frame, "Henry", as we'll call her while in male mode, (though I've been asked to withhold all real names), was encouraged by his mother to wear his sister's things.
• • •
"Denise is something probably held under the surface for years and years. My mom made it very clear to me that she wanted another girl when I was born, even though she said she loved me just the same. Wouldn't let me play football or anything rough. We were poor, and my brother was a lot bigger than me. I got my sister's things when she grew out of them…her underwear, her jeans. She said no one would notice that they were girls'."
At the age of fourteen, his mother had him wear a pair of his sister's purple hip-huggers to school.
"Everyone knew, and they beat the crap out of me."
Incidents like that occurred throughout his childhood and early adolescence, and brought out a curiosity in him. In his sister's closet, he would wear her clothes in secret…her skirts and dresses, her panties, being careful to always put them back exactly as he found them.
"I don't know…maybe I had feminine tendencies I just couldn't see. I mean, I never felt like I belonged anyway. I was always a loner. It was easier to be alone than to be with people who would give me a hard time."
Denise existed only as an idea at that time, and did so in this form for thirty years. Henry would occasionally indulge Denise. Mostly, he would hide Denise. Sometimes he would try to kill Denise off altogether, but she would always reappear in one way or another. Five years ago, twelve years into his seventeen year marriage and well into his career as an emergency services dispatcher, Denise rose again.
Henry's sister-in-law, Aileen, was over one day. She told Henry, "I'd like to see you dressed up as a woman." It was as simple as that. The idea was for Henry and Aileen's husband to dress in drag and the four go out together and see what happened. The plan never came off, but the resulting turbulence awakened Denise, flattered by this surprise recognition.
"Aileen is like my best friend. There's just no fazing her. She believes if it feels good and it's not hurting anyone, just go for it. She helps keep me grounded."
Denise has been a force and a presence in Henry's life ever since. He can go sometimes for months without wanting to become her, but each time she reappears, as powerful as before.
"Sometimes it's months, but it could be days. It all depends on God knows what. I could be sitting at work and all of a sudden…Denise is there. I have to work very hard to hide it."
In Henry's mind, he and Denise are two separate people, each with their own needs, each in their own worlds, they are worlds which Henry's wife, Amanda, does not want to see joined.
"She says, 'I'm dealing with it in my own way'…deciding not to decide. She definitely doesn't want Denise to be a part of our lives."
Amanda, the oldest daughter of an alcoholic career soldier and a domineering mother, knows what it's like to keep skeletons hidden from prying small town eyes. She wants to give the outward appearance of a typically happy American family, one with no idiosyncrasies or dysfunctions to draw attention to it, a family to emulate rather than to criticize. To secure this appearance, Amanda keeps silently vigilant, shouldering her burden of supposed shame, keeping Denise's appearances confined to their house, keeping news from the neighbors, keeping hope that it will all just go away. Henry is keeping appointments at the local medical center, where he is being treated for depression.
"When I first told her, all she could say was 'How could you?!' She didn't go on from there."
Henry is bisexual, with submissive feminine tendencies in a world he believes despises people like that. He told Amanda about his bisexuality a year before telling her about Denise. At the time, they had been married for over ten years and had one daughter, Ellen, now seventeen. The news of Denise set Amanda on her present course of constraint.
"Ellen does the laundry, and one day found some of Denise's things in my hamper. She asked me about it. I just told her that this is just something Daddy does to feel better. She's been OK with it ever since."
It was just last year, two years after coming out to Amanda, that with his sister-in-law's help, Henry finally found the opportunity to dress completely, with a wig and a complete outfit. He had brought some clothes, make-up and a wig over to Aileen's house and was finally able to see the woman he'd felt inside for so long. Both of them were amazed.
"You know how it is when you really hate somebody, and you're finally able to smack him across the face…that release you feel? That's what it was like. It felt very natural…very right."
In some way to compensate for Denise, Henry has built around himself a world of machismo. As an emergency services dispatcher, he lives in a constant state of emergency-level tension in a world where violence is always near, and where his colleagues are always ready for it. It is primarily a world of men, a world where gender is twofold, separate and unique, where femininity is a woman's domain, where this domain is to be kept out of the workplace, and where crossing the lines is forbidden and punished severely.
"They issued a new dress code at the station recently. One of the rules says that male personnel are not to wear cosmetics. No one ever has, but, I mean why write that down in the rules?"
Regardless, Henry often wears panties, panty hose and a bra under his regular clothes while at work. It allows Denise to be satisfied, but also feeds her desire to be seen. It gives Henry a sense of control.
"If you asked me to describe myself, I'd say I'm a person, not a man, not a woman, but a person. Sure there are times I wish I could just snap my fingers and be a full woman, and then snap them back and be a man, but unfortunately, I wasn't endowed with that little bit of magic."
Denise is shy, aloof, and very quiet. When Henry thinks of her, he does not see her doing anything other than sitting quietly at home, watching TV, or perhaps having coffee with Aileen at a local diner, smoking cigarettes and chatting for hours. It's a safe, tranquil place, the closet, and as we talk, as the level of coffee drops lower in our cups, I find its cool serenity drawing me more deeply into it for a while.
"Society will never accept it. I could lose my job, Amanda, my family, get beat up again, maybe killed. I would say that eighty percent of the guys who feel like I do are afraid to show any sign of their femininity in public. It's seen as weakness. Women are the weaker sex. Men are there to help them. You can't hurt them. People don't like it when a man acts like someone who needs their help."
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This picture was taken in Jasper National Park several years ago. It has special significance for me because it was a memorable moment I shared with my mother. She passed away in June at the age of 89 so I'm posting this in her memory. She had medical challenges for the last few years, but they escalated early in 2012 and I spent much of my time this year trying to help her. Between that and juggling work before and after her death, I haven't been able to devote much time to Flickr.
For many years, I visited my mother in Alberta during the summer and often took her along on photo trips. She was a good travelling companion for a photographer; my dad never went anywhere without his video camera and mom was one of those rare people with the patience to wait uncomplainingly while a photographer fussed and struggled to get the perfect shot.
She was like that with me too -- except when it came to my complaining about the rain. It had been raining for several days on this trip and mom was tired of hearing me bitch about it. One day, the weather cleared enough that I decided to set out in search of Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep. I found a herd of female and young ones along the highway and, after shooting for nearly an hour, I was prepared to return to the hotel because it was clear the rain was coming in again. However, much to my surprise, mom suggested we keep going for awhile.
As we approached Jasper, we ran into rain again and turned back. I spotted this male elk grazing beside the road and got out to shoot. After about 15 minutes, I headed back to the car. That's when I saw mom urgently motioning to me to turn around. This was the scene that greeted me — the elk meandering down the grassy verge against a backdrop of lake, mountains, storm clouds, surreal lighting and a magnificent double rainbow. The light was fading fast but I managed to get several good shots. I was simply amazed at the confluence of events (including the accursed rain) and lucky timing that resulted in this picture.
When I got back into the car, mom said: “Are you satisfied now?”
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'98 Mountaineer startup problem
My '98 Mountaineer is having problems. When I start it, it will race then almost stall over and over. The colder the engine is, the worse it is. For instance, in my semi-heated garage, it's noticeable, but doesn't stall. In the parking lot at work (I live in the Northeast - it's cold.) and I have to work to keep it running. Once it warms up, it runs fine. So far, I've taken it to the shop 4 times. They replaced the O2 sensor the first time, cleaned the throttle bodies the second trip, replaced the mass air flow sensor on trip number 3, and a full fuel injection system cleaning on my fourth visit. All of this seems to have had no effect as the symptoms haven't changed. I saw another thread here about rough idling and replacing the upper and lower intake gaskets, but it didn't mention the motor racing in-between the poor idling.
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I can't use a tampon! I've tried and tried, but it just won't work. I hate getting my period, not only because of the cramps and PMS but because I can't stand pads. They're so annoying to dance in and it ruins vacations because I can't go swimming.
I went on a trip to California with some friends (guys, too!) and it was so embarrassing to explain why I couldn't go in the water. I'm the only one out of all my friends who can't use one. Do you have any tips? Is there something wrong with me?
There's nada wrong with you. In fact, I can totally relate to you! During my first year of my period, I used pads to avoid the pain of tampons, which I still never liked. Hopefully, the tips I learned from my experience will help you.
The most important thing to do is RELAX! When you’re about to use a tampon and you’re thinking that it’s not going to work, it won’t work. So the next time you attempt to use a tampon, think positively!
You should probably set aside a time for a trial run when you don’t even have your period. This way, there’s no pressure, mess, whatever. You can just focus on getting the tampon in there. Choose a tampon that’s small, or junior-sized since you’re a newbie at this.
Be sure to read the directions. Usually, they have illustrations to go along with them. Study carefully and make sure that you’re doing everything right. Try standing, sitting, and all different positions. Did you push the tampon OUT of the applicator?
If nothing you’re trying works, I would talk to your mom or your doc to see if they have any other suggestions. Asking a friend for tips might help as well.
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Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ...
Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits
This page features links to reviews of movies, documentaries and exhibits with a historical theme. Listings are in reverse chronological order. Descriptions are taken directly from the linked publication. If you have articles you think should be listed on the Pop Culture page, please send them to the editor firstname.lastname@example.org.
SOURCE: Belfast Telegraph (5-22-08)
While republican factions continue to debate whether he would have supported the present peace process, they are united in regarding him as a martyr who died an agonising death for their cause after a 66-day hunger strike.
The film, the debut feature by the Turner prize-winning artist Steve McQueen, pulls no punches in its portrayal of the bitter dispute between prisoners at the notorious Maze prison in Northern Ireland and the Government.
It details the last six weeks of Sands's life. He died aged 27 in 1981 during IRA protests over the political status of prisoners. Michael Fassbender, who plays Sands, starved himself for two months in preparation for the role. With little dialogue, vivid images of prisoners being beaten and one 22-minute shot, the film is both...
SOURCE: Ascribe (5-22-08)
Museums like the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University collect works of art from many different cultures, including antiquities, to share with a broad public. But looters have ruined it for Indiana Jones-style archeologists, who for decades had worked successfully with foreign governments to distribute some antiquities found through archeological digs to Western museums, says Kimerly Rorschach, director of the Nasher Museum of Art.
"Now the rules have changed. Generally speaking, all exporting is illegal, in an effort to stem the tide of looting. University art museums face the dilemma of wanting to collect antiquities for legitimate educational purposes but not wanting to contribute to illegal looting and smuggling,"...
SOURCE: WaPo (5-19-08)
The museum is more fun than annoying. But not by terribly much.
An $18 ticket that promises visitors the opportunity to shoot a gun, drive a police cruiser and appear in a police lineup, the crime museum is to the Smithsonian as "America's Most Wanted" is to "Frontline." Well, let's modify that: There is one branch of the Smithsonian that shares the crime museum's approach--an almost random collection of stray facts and cool finds that tells no coherent or compelling story, but aims only to elicit a "Gee, Martha, look at this...
SOURCE: BBC (5-21-08)
Waltz with Bashir is a daring and provocative attempt by director Ari Folman to bear witness to an atrocity committed during his stint in the Israeli army in 1982.
The invasion of Lebanon, codenamed Operation Peace for Galilee, was an attempt to occupy the country as far as the capital Beirut.
It ended in what many think of as the worst atrocity of the entire Arab-Israeli conflict, when at least 800 Palestinian civilians were massacred at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps during Israel's invasion.
They were murdered by Lebanese Christian militiamen allied to Israel while the Israeli forces encircled the camps.
Folman was among them. His film is a personal journey with his own narration accompanied, unusually, by animated images.
The director says he had blanked the massacre...
SOURCE: Michael Nelson in the Chronicle of Higher Ed (5-30-08)
Ginsberg and Shefter published the first edition of Politics by Other Means: The Declining Importance of Elections in America (Basic...
SOURCE: Press Release--N-Y Historical Society (5-22-08)
SOURCE: Gene Kannenberg Jr. in the Chronicle of Higher Ed (5-23-08)
David Hajdu's The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008) has been greeted mostly with glowing reviews. A lively read, The Ten-Cent Plague digs deeply into the social context surrounding the "comic-book panic" of the first half of the 20th century. The movement culminated in 1954 with dramatic televised Senate hearings and the subsequent establishment of the comic-book industry's self-regulatory organization, the Comics Magazine Association of America.
Hajdu's strategy, as he noted in a recent talk at the Cartoon Art Museum, in San Francisco, was to write a "war story." He stressed that he tried to be fair to both sides; indeed, his representations are far from one-dimensional. Still, this war story ultimately casts the anticomics movement as the...
SOURCE: http://www.archaeology.org (5-20-08)
SOURCE: http://news.communitypress.com (5-19-08)
Larry Lawrence said he wanted to visit the museum because you see so much in the media and so much has been written proving evolution.
"It was just real interesting to me to see something that gives the opposing viewpoint," he said.
The Lawrences are among thousands of visitors that have trekked their way to the controversial museum since it officially opened on Memorial Day last year. A year after that opening, the museum continues to draw thousands of visitors.
The museum depicts creationists' literal interpretation of the Bible's Book of Genesis on how the Earth and mankind were created. Answers in Genesis, a Christian organization, operates the museum that was years in the making.
The Lawrences had gone through part of the museum and Shirley said the museum...
SOURCE: http://www.thestate.com (5-19-08)
There is Orville Wright, supine and centered on the lower wing of the fragile heavier-than-air craft, gliding a few feet above the flat sands near Kill Devil Hill. His brother Wilbur is a few feet from the right wing tip, frozen in chase. It is a famous frame, the inspiration for postage stamps and the silhouette forever in flight above the numbers of North Carolina license plates.
“We in North Carolina pay homage to that famous photograph of that first flight,” said Larry Tise, the Orville and Wilbur Wright distinguished professor of history at East Carolina University.
It was the first picture taken, but not the first published of the aviation pioneers in flight. That distinction belongs to an image captured May 14, 1908 — 100 years ago this past week — by one of America’s first...
SOURCE: Nick Turse at TomDispatch.com (5-20-08)
"Liberal Hollywood" is a favorite whipping-boy of right-wingers who suppose the town and its signature industry are ever-at-work undermining the U.S. military. In reality, the military has been deeply involved with the film industry since the Silent Era. Today, however, the ad hoc arrangements of the past have been...
SOURCE: Independent (UK) (5-20-08)
It is a return trip for Melvin Dummar, 63, whose first attempt to lay claim to $156m he said was left to him by Hughes was thrown out by the courts in a lengthy probate trial in 1978. Though he was widely branded a liar at the time, he says he is trying again with a new witness ready to back him up.
His Good Samaritan tale is already well known, not least because it became the inspiration for an Oscar-winning film directed by Jonathan Demme in 1980 named Melvin and Howard.
Mr Dummar still sticks by its every detail. He relates driving from Utah to California in December 1967, stopping at a place called Lida Junction in the middle of Nevada to relieve himself by the side of the road and...
SOURCE: AP (5-19-08)
Plans to run a hotel out of a former home of the von Trapp family immortalized in the movie "The Sound of Music" have triggered fierce resistance from neighbors who fear tourists will tie up traffic and make a nuisance of themselves.
"We will fight this with all means at our disposal," said Andreas Braunbruck, who lives near the Villa Trapp in a neighborhood of Salzburg already teeming with "Sound of Music" tourists seeking a glimpse of the house.
"Buses and cars are constantly in the street in front of our homes as it is," he told Austrian television on Sunday.
The 125-year-old, pale yellow villa trimmed in white and black is perched on the outskirts of Salzburg, where the 1965 film starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer was made.
SOURCE: NYT (5-19-08)
Fleming, who saw 40 million copies of his books sold in his lifetime but died before the Bond franchise went stratospheric, had no literary pretensions. He described his first Bond book, “Casino Royale,” as “an oafish opus,” and offered further disparagement in a 1963 BBC radio interview. “If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn’t arrive,” he said. Asked if Bond had kept him from more serious writing, of the kind achieved by his older brother, Peter, a renowned explorer and travel...
SOURCE: NYT (5-16-08)
Set almost a decade after Roosevelt left office, in 1918, at Sagamore Hill, his estate in Oyster Bay, N.Y., the play gives us a Roosevelt who, entertaining visitors in his study, reminisces about his upbringing, his adventures in the American West and with the Rough Riders in Cuba, and his political achievements.
Mr. Smith bears an astonishing resemblance to his subject and has an unforced ease. (He has toured widely with the production since its debut in Florida in 2004.) He certainly conveys Roosevelt’s gregariousness and prodigious energy, his speech punctuated with “Bully!” and “By Godfrey!,” followed by a brisk hand clap. (That energy also infuses the play’s pacing; its...
SOURCE: Lee White at the website of the National Coalition for History (NCH) (5-16-08)
SOURCE: Independent (UK) (5-16-08)
But Jan Younghusband, the executive producer of the film and commissioning editor of arts at Channel 4, said the harrowing story merely exposed the mentality of someone ready to die for a cause, such as the London suicide bombers. "You look at suicide bombers and wonder what it is that drives them to kill themselves in their attempt to make the world better," she said.
"This is a very contemporary issue, destroying your body for something you believe in. We look at terrorists and we think, 'Aren't they horrible; they are blowing us up'. But we have to ask what is our role in that? We are not without responsibility."
Using only sparse dialogue and including violent scenes of IRA prisoners being...
SOURCE: Telegraph (UK) (5-16-08)
It is a repulsive and fascinating item and true obsessives will make a beeline for it. “This is the original 'Dear Boss’ letter,” confirmed Julia Hoffbrand, the co-curator of a new exhibition dedicated to Jack the Ripper. The letter marks the point in the Ripper story at which reality turned into myth.
It was sent to the head of a London news agency on September 25, 1888 following the murders of three women in a month in the East End. Written in red ink, it starts “Dear Boss”, gives warning that “I am down on whores and I shunt [sic] quit ripping them till I do get buckled”, and is signed “Yours truly, Jack the Ripper”....
SOURCE: NYT (5-15-08)
Yet a museum has never devoted a major exhibition to the history of this transformational group — that is, until Friday, when “Catholics in New York, 1808 to 1946,” opens to the public at the Museum of the City of New York.
The show, with some 400 objects and images, includes political banners, parochial school report cards, yearbooks going back to the 19th century, vestments, school uniforms, trophies, academic medals and a pew rental receipt. There are holy cards, ceremonial swords, parade...
SOURCE: NYT (5-14-08)
Warren Christopher, the former secretary of state who served as the public face of the Gore team in the early days of the recount effort, said this week that he believed the film, “Recount,” was “pure fiction” in its portrayal of him as a weak strategist unprepared to stand up to the aggressive tactics of James A. Baker III, the former secretary of state who was the chief Republican adviser.
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January 24, 2011, 1:52 PM — Microblogging service Twitter, which is ambitiously trying to grow revenue, is expected by Internet research firm EMarketer to more than triple advertising sales this year to $150 million.
Twitter generated $45 million in ad revenue in 2010, the first year the microblogging service sold advertising. However, the company didn't announce its advertising program until last April, so the $45 million figure doesn't reflect a full year of ads. Major advertisers include Sony Pictures, Doubletree Hotels, Red Bull and Starbucks.
(Also see: Twitter says it's now valued at $3.7 billion)
EMarketer also predicts Twitter ad revenue will hit $250 million next year -- assuming it continues to increase users and provide a return on investment to advertisers this year.
“If Twitter can grow its user base and convince marketers of its value as a go-to secondary player to Facebook, it will succeed in gaining revenue,” said Debra Aho Williamson, eMarketer principal analyst. “In 2011 it must work overtime to give its early advertisers a positive experience.”
While Twitter's advertising revenue will continue to be dwarfed by Facebook's -- EMarketer expects the social networking giant to pull in $4.05 billion in ad revenue this year and $5.74 billion in 2012 -- the microblogging company's ad sales should surpass those of Myspace by next year.
Twitter was founded in 2006 and, as EMarketer notes, has become a household word. But despite its high media profile, only 8 percent of online Americans have accounts. Worldwide there are an estimated 190 million Twitter users. However, that number is misleading because Twitter, according to Nielsen Online, has a retention rate of only 40 percent. In part that means a lot of people sign up, tinker around briefly and then stop using Twitter, without actually deleting their accounts.
Twitter's assumed value has grown rapidly in the past 16 months, from $1 billion in September 2009 to $3.7 billion in December 2010. Recently it received $200 million in funding from Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
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As a junior:
- MVP of JMU's Purple and Gold World Series during his first Fall with the team
Played for the Raiders and head coach Mike Mordecai at Houston
Academy in Dothan Ala.
Also, played club baseball for Larry Tubbs at Dothan American
Legion Post 12
Played junior college baseball for Mackey Sasser and the Wallace
Community College Govs in Dothan, Ala.
As a sophomore, hit .286 for the Govs with eight doubles, three
triples, three home runs and five steals
As a freshman batted .341, slugged .600, had nine home runs and 51
runs batted in and was named All-League and All-Region
Was a member of his junior college's President's List, Phi Theta
Kappa and Sigma Kappa Delta
Son of Cynthia and Jeff Gregory
Majoring in kinesiology
Would like to attend chiropractic school after JMU
Enjoys camping, going to the beach or lake and reading
Getting to know Tyler...
Why did you choose JMU
I chose JMU first and foremost for the campus and atmosphere. I had been to smaller schools my whole life, so I was looking for a bigger school with a great campus and JMU had that. I also wanted to go somewhere that would take me outside my comfort zone, 13 hours away from home in Alabama and not knowing a single person seemed to fit that.
What's your current major:
Kinesiology with an exercise science concentration
If you didn't play baseball what other sport would you want to play
Describe yourself in three words
Christian, Alabama, Sals
Samuel L. Jackson's twitter feed
Favorite personal baseball memory
All double headers I've ever played
Best advice you were ever given
"Don't do that." - a lot of people
Favorite part of being on a team
Making lots and lots of friends
Personal saying or motto you try to live by
Overall things are overall.
"People would be surprised to know that I..."
Do things every day
Biggest pet peeve
Any weird pre-game rituals
I have to do 17 ½ jumping jacks while chugging a Gatorade and texting a number I don't know.
Your Go-To outfit
Button down, 7 inch inseam shorts, Chacos
Favorite place to eat on campus
Taylor Swift getting married
Things in general, they happen. - Quad
What do you enjoy doing other than playing baseball
Last movie you watched
The Dark Knight Rises
"After college I see myself..."
Going to chiropractic school
Baseball in the hot or cold weather: hot
Early bird or night owl: night owl
Pepsi or Coke: Coke
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Partisan Politics at the Justice Department
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Attorney General Alberto Gonzales faces more questions about partisan politics in the administration of justice. Were federal prosecutors hired for their Republican leanings? Did they use their power to influence some of last year's closest elections? Also, Congressional Democrats respond to record-high gas prices and, on Reporter's Notebook, is a sarcophagus broken into hundreds of pieces the long-sought Herod's tomb?
Gas Prices Climb Higher and Higher ()
The latest Lundberg Survey shows that gasoline has gone up to a record $3.07 nationwide. In California, $4 for premium could be a reality in the near future. Democrats in Congress are preparing price-gouging legislation for later today. Economist and consultant Phillip Verleger publishes the newsletter, "Petroleum Economics Monthly."
- Philip Verleger: independent petroleum economist
Partisan Politics and the Administration of Justice ()
Last year, the Boston Globe reported that former Attorney General John Ashcroft changed the process for hiring new attorneys for the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division, which handles sensitive issues, including racial discrimination, employment opportunity and voting rights. The potential for political interference in the division is greater than in other areas of federal law. In previous administrations--Democrat and Republican--career jobs had been handled by civil servants. Ashcroft assigned that task to political appointees, a move that has reportedly changed the division dramatically. Now the focus is on the current Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales, who is headed back to Capitol Hill to answer some controversial questions: Have federal prosecutors been hired for their legal experience or their Republican leanings? Were legal cases either filed or ignored because of their likely influence on close elections that determined the balance of Congressional power? We hear from Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Charlie Savage and Justice Department veterans on both sides of issues that go to the heart of Constitutional democracy.
- Charlie Savage: Legal Affairs Reporter for the Boston Globe, @charlie_savage
- Roger Clegg: President and General Counsel of the Center for Equal Opportunity
- David Becker: Director of the Democracy Campaign at the People for the American Way
- David Bowermaster: Federal Courts Reporter for the Seattle Times
King Herod's Tomb Found ()
Herod the Great expanded the Second Jewish Temple and built the walls of the old city of Jerusalem. The Romans appointed him King of the Jews in 40 BC. The Christian Gospel of Matthew says that Herod ordered the Massacre of the Innocents, the killing of all children in Bethlehem under two, when he learned that Jesus had been born. Now archaeologist Ehud Netzer of Hebrew University claims he has found hundreds of pieces of what he believes to be Herod's sarcophagus--a major discovery. Professor Kathryn Gleason of Cornell University is Project Director of the Excavation of Herod's Promontory Palace at Caesarea on the coast of Israel.
- Kathryn Gleason: Project Director of the Excavation of Herod's Promontory Palace
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In a state with nearly 38 million residents, it's inconceivable that there's a county with a peewee population. But Alpine County, with just 1,102 residents, is by far California's smallest. But what this county, in the Sierra Nevada about half an hour south of Lake Tahoe, lacks in numbers, it more than makes up for in recreational opportunities.
Although Markleeville (population 210) is the county seat, the best bet for cozy lodging is about 15 miles north at Sorensen's Resort (14255 Highway 88, Hope Valley; 423-9949, http://www.sorensensresort.com). Located along the cascading West Fork of the Carson River at an elevation of 7,000 feet, its log cabins — some with wood-burning fireplaces — provide a true escape from life in the city or even life in a small town. Seasonal activities such as fishing or snowshoeing are available just steps away.
Soak up the rural ambience amid an eclectic mix of locals and motorcyclists at the Wolf Creek Restaurant (14830 California 89, Markleeville; 694-2150) Located in the former Hot Springs Hotel (built in 1886), the restaurant features main courses such as mountain trout ($18.95) and rib-eye ($28.95). Open year-round.
On summer weekends, the county seat is a beehive of activity. Visitors can sit a spell outside the historic Markleeville General Store or gaze at landscapes painted by locals at the Markleeville Art Gallery. But the biggest draw is Grover Hot Springs State Park (Hot Springs Road, four miles west of Markleeville; 694-2248, http://www.lat.ms/O9xRSU). For just $7, bathers can enjoy the steaming mineral baths amid a beautiful meadow. The outdoor pool is accessible all year long, so it's special when there are several feet of snow on the ground.
The lesson learned
Don't expect cellphones to work in these parts. That said, smartphones get a good Wi-Fi signal in or outside Ali's Café in Markleeville.
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Social media and gossip websites were buzzing after Wednesday's sold-out Marilyn Manson concert in Saskatoon, where the 44-year-old rocker collapsed onstage during his encore performance of The Beautiful People.
The story reached popular gossip websites Perez Hilton and TMZ, which posted a fan-made video of the collapse. Twitter users speculated on the cause of the abrupt end to the show, with many offering well wishes.
Manson mentioned partway through the show in front of about 2,000 that he wasn't feeling well and some fans on Twitter guessed he had the flu. Several people claimed to have seen Manson vomit on stage.
@Bates_Home wrote: "... he got sick. I thought it was just a show however they shut it down quick. A lot of people are collapsing Flu or Drinking"
@basement galaxy wrote: "There was confusion onstage. Band was locked into a click track, so were stuck playing. Tech told drummer to end it, I think."
The house lights came up quickly after just an hour on stage. According to set lists from previous shows, Beautiful People is typically the last song of his show.
TMZ reported later Thursday that he was suffering from a bad case of the flu. "Sources close to the rocker" said Manson had been feeling ill all day, the gossip website reported. TMZ goes on to say that Manson was not taken to hospital but returned to his hotel room to rest.
Manson is scheduled to play Calgary on Friday.
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Lipper Weekly U.S. Fund Flows Video Series - March 6, 2013
Published on 08 Mar 2013 by Matthew Lemieux
With the second month of the year behind us, things seemed to be continuing to move in the right direction in terms of both the economy and the financial markets. Although most stocks did not provide as strong returns as in January, year-to-date performance through February stood at roughly 6% for the broader U.S. equity indices. On generally good employment news, the upwardly revised Q4 2012 GDP numbers, and strong exports out of China, investors continued to show confidence by pushing markets to new highs. Initial concerns over the enactment of sequestration on March 1 were pushed to the wayside as the Dow closed at an all-time high on Tuesday, March 5. General feelings of optimism paved the way for continued strength in fund flows; investors injected roughly $10.8 billion into mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) for the week. | <urn:uuid:562240a9-f50c-414f-991f-076e6b3ae167> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.lipperweb.com/Commentary/lipper-weekly-u-s-fund-flows-video-series-march-6-2013.aspx | 2013-05-24T08:29:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972445 | 204 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
I wouldn't say that camera stores are as common as Starbucks by any means, but 2 of the biggest---not necessarily the cheapest---are BIC Camera and Yodobashi Camera. They have numerous branches in Tokyo/Yokohama/Kawasaki.
There is a big Yodobashi in Akihabara (also called Akiba now) and also in Yokohama at Nishiguchi. Others branches may or may not have as big of a selection. One BIC Camera branch I would not recommend is the one in Ginza---poor selection, always packed, and shabby service in my opinion.
Yodobashi lists that lens on their site for about 69,000, if I remember correctly. I have not actually seen one at the shops yet, but I haven't been seeking it out either. If I were seeking that lens, I would try either the Akihabara or Yokohama Yodobashi first.
Fujiya camera in Nakano is a worth a try... Usually quite a bit cheaper even considering no duty free offered compared to the larger chains.
Take the Chuo line from Shinjuku towards Nakano, get off there, I think it's the 'south' exit (the one that doglegs, you'll know when you get there). Turn right out the exit, where there's a large taxi rank, and you'll see a mall.
Head into it, taking the first right between the fish shop, and an octopus ball shop, heading into the ally. Head down until on your left, you'll notice a shop front with camera posters, and yellow coloured motif. Bottom floor focus is Canon and point and shoot, with a little nikon gear, upstairs (head around the right side of the store to go upstairs) focus on medium and large format, and nikon gear.
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Keith Phipps and Nathan Rabin of The AV Club bring us their recommendations - John Mulaney’s stand up special New In Town, and the movie reboot of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus, directed by and starring Ralph Fiennes. (Embed or Share the AV Club's Picks)
The hugely innovative and influential hip hop group A Tribe Called Quest began as many groups do -- as a band of friends, passing out demo tapes, dreaming of hearing their songs on the radio. But after releasing five gold and platinum selling albums in the late 1980s and early 90s, the group combusted and left fans like Michael Rapaport in the lurch.
Rapaport was an actor known for his roles in several Woody Allen films, Boston Public, Friends and Prison Break. He set out on his directorial debut to capture the past, present and future of A Tribe Called Quest, hoping to better understand what made them tick. The resulting documentary, Beats, Rhymes & Life creates a compelling oral history of the group from interviews with members Q-Tip, Phife Dawg, Ali Shaheed Mohammed and Jarobi White, along with hip-hop producers, radio personalities and other rappers. We spoke to Rapaport last year, and the film is now out on DVD. (Embed or Share Michael Rapaport on Bullseye)
The latest scientific findings, human interest stories, and much more, all brought to you by the top fake news anchors -- San Francisco based sketch comedy group Kasper Hauser. (Embed or Share Kasper Hauser on Bullseye)
Werner Herzog is an acclaimed (and prolific) film writer and director, known for narrative films like Aguirre, the Wrath of God as well as documentaries like Grizzly Man. His filmmaking distinctively pushes boundaries and explores humanity's extremes. His documentary Cave of Forgotten Dreams is a 3D look into the Chauvet Cave, home of the earliest known cave paintings in the world. With a tiny crew and jury-rigged 3D cameras, Herzog looked at some of the first images ever created. Herzog takes the opportunity not just to present to us the beauty of the caves, but to consider what it means to create and how we define our own humanity. We spoke to him about the film last year. It’s now available on DVD, Blu-Ray and Netflix Instant. (Embed or Share Werner Herzog on Bullseye)
Jesse suggests that one of the best ways to experience Sly Stone is through his beautiful, heartbreaking hit "If You Want Me to Stay." (Embed or Share The Outshot)
I love Fresh Air's "rock historian" Ed Ward. He really nails it every time out - even when he covers stuff I know a lot about I learn something, and I'm never lost when he covers something I've never heard of.
He's had two great Fresh Air segments recently. This one covered the early days of Sly Stone (aka Sylvester Stewart), when Stone was still best known as a radio DJ and record producer. It even includes some rock records he produced (I had no idea, and I couldn't be a bigger fan).
This one covered another early-70s soul legend, Syl Johnson. I had no idea his career stretched so far back before his days working with Willie Mitchell, as the bluesier Al Greene. | <urn:uuid:9d4fd6a8-56c2-40e1-930d-63cc37659eaf> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.maximumfun.org/tags/sly-stone | 2013-05-24T08:44:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955608 | 697 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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For now, click throughout pre-owned inventory pages and see what you like, love and what you cannot live without! Make sure you check our online specials and deals as well. See how they might apply to purchasing a pre-owned vehicle or a new Hyundai. McCarthy Olathe Hyundai is the best choice for an enjoyable and rewarding car buying experience. | <urn:uuid:6a59cf81-17bc-4fa8-8f99-1134f1daafc6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.mccarthyolathehyundai.com/used-inventory/index.htm?sortBy=year+asc&view=list&model=Camaro&accountName=McCarthy+Morse+Chevrolet&odometer=1-80000&make=Chevrolet | 2013-05-24T08:42:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961135 | 177 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Hi Hope, good to hear from you. Sorry to hear you havent beaten the meds yet, but hopefully with hubbys' support things will go better. A new strategy is cause for hope...all the best and heaps of courage to you, Kev.
Oh its bad, isn't it. I am still wondering how to keep this monkey off my back. Day three. My husband is really surprising me with his support. I still haven't told him that the meds are why I had those episodes. I don't think I ever will. It won't help anything. I have a 16 yr old son, as well as my 5 and 2 yr old sons. My teenager no longer lives with us, he is going to school, a very good school, in SC at my mother's house. She helped raise him, since I was a teen myself when he came along. I am hanging in there. I really truly thought I was the only one tramadol caught in its evil snare. I only heard about Oxy's and Hydro's ...never knew one single person on tramadol. Thanks for your note!!
Hi Hope, I was thinking about your 'bully at work' and our difficulty saying' no' today and I remembered something useful.. a few years ago I went on a training program for developing 'assertive' behaviour. It helped quite a bit, especially for dealing with agressive people etc AND saying 'no'. It was really very useful. Hope you're having a good day,all the best, Kev.
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One bid was received by the county for its exclusive contract for collection, transportation and disposal of solid waste in the cities and unincorporated areas of Logan County. The sealed bid, which was from Scott Waste Services, LLC, was opened Tuesday at the fiscal court meeting by Judge Executive Logan Chick. Scott Waste is the company who currently provides residential and commercial trash pickup services in the county and four cities of Adairville, Auburn, Lewisburg and Russellville.
Magistrates tabled making a decision on the future contract, to allow more time to read through the proposal. They expect to bring a decision back at the next court meeting in two weeks.
Judge Chick said in thumbing through the document, it sounded pretty fair. This contract will also include curbside recycling for those who take the residential waste service.
The plan to bid out a future contract for the county and four cities began over a year ago after the proven success of a pilot program the county launched with the help of Scott Waste. The pilot program offered curbside co-mingling recycling for 350 plus customers. The program was very successful, prompting Magistrate Thomas Bouldin to push for the recycling to be offered to everyone at no to little additional cost. The best way to do that and get a competitive price was to bid out a future solid waste agreement that would include the unincorporated areas of the county and the four cities.
Scott Waste stepped up saying they would offer the recycling, if they could have a shot at bidding for the county and four cities’ business for a lengthy future agreement.
The way it is contracted now is Adairville, Auburn and Lewisburg bid with the county and Russellville bids on its own. By adding more customers together in one agreement, it makes the rates competitive. Plus the county wants to see all those who receive trash pickup services to get curbside recycling as well.
Scott Waste Service said if they were awarded the bid, they would offer the curbside recycling to everyone of its customers right away, even though the agreement is slated to begin April 1, 2015.
The bid received held two sets of costs, one if the county chose to accept the bid starting immediately and one if the county waited until 2015. The later being a tad bit more.
Each city had to agree to enter into an interlocal agreement with the county to proceed with this plan. They all agreed and the state passed the agreement last month. A committee was put together with representatives from each city, along with Judge Executive Logan Chick to assure each entity would get what they had been receiving in their current agreements. Chick reported that nothing has changed other than adding recycling and accounting for the closure of the landfill in 2015.
In the contract agreement it specifies that the local landfill will close in 2015, and as such, Logan County would lose a great deal of benefits including two free dump days a month. The county has said the future contractor would have to provide, at no charge, comparable services to substitute for the loss of services. Scott answered that need in the bid.
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XII. This activity involves reading a scenario and discussing the correct way for a school bus driver to handle it. Options for using the scenarios can be found on page 5.
Follow these steps to conduct the activity.
- Review the instructions (XII.A-D) with the participants.
- Read the scenario slowly.
NOTE: There are 10 scenarios, covering the various conditions addressed in the module. You will not need to use all of them. If you have presented the entire module, you can choose 5-6 of the scenarios. If you have only presented one section of the module, you can use a scenario that corresponds to that section. You may choose to develop your own scenarios using weather conditions particular to your local area.
- Ask participants to say how that scenario should be handled by the school bus driver. In each scenario the school bus is a medium-sized conventional bus equipped with a two-way radio and carrying middle school students.
NOTE: One alternative would be to first have each participant write down how he or she would handle the situation. Then discuss the scenario as a group. This process ensures that each school bus driver will have had to think about the scenario.
- Record the responses on a flip chart.
- After all the responses are listed, ask if certain actions need to happen before others. Starting with #1, indicate the order in which the actions should happen.
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GARY | Indiana University Northwest graduates shared their pride during commencement Thursday at the Genesis Convention Center.
"Today's ceremony is brief compared with the years of diligent effort that all candidates have invested in their education," Indiana University President Michael McRobbie said.
Nearly 500 graduates of the 812 who were conferred degrees took part in the ceremony.
IUN Chancellor Bruce Bergland, in his final commencement before retirement, encouraged graduates to live up to their dreams and expectations.
"Today, our graduates reflect on all they have learned and all they have accomplished as students of Indiana University Northwest," he said. "Tomorrow, they begin living their futures, futures made possible by their IU education."
Hobart resident Jeff Renn graduated with a master's degree in business administration. He attended IUN over the past four years while balancing a full-time job and starting a family.
"I'm ecstatic because two or three years ago I said I'm finishing this process no matter how much longer it takes," he said.
Renn, a program director at the Hobart Family YMCA, received his bachelor's degree from IUN in 2006.
"I'm so thankful to be here," he said.
Derek Lusk, of Cedar Lake, also received his master's in business administration and plans to pursue a Ph.D. in economics.
"I started here in 2007 and worked full time during the process," he said. "It's been a long road and I'm excited. It's awesome."
During his charge to the class, McRobbie quoted Cornell University President Emeritus Frank Rhodes, who wrote that "the university is the creator, the conservator and the mediator of knowledge."
Among the graduates was Amy Kordeck, an alumna of Boone Grove High School who became the first student to graduate with a four-year anthropology degree from IUN.
McRobbie told the graduates they were far more than keepers of knowledge.
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I'm not sure if you picked up on this yet, but I have a bit of a sweet tooth. While sugar in all its wonderful forms has—for better or worse—found a permanent place in my diet, my favorite form is through chocolate. Chocolate is a guilty pleasure for me, a crutch after a bad day, a moment of celebration during a long, weekend afternoon. Each day I eat it in one form or another (and it usually weasels its way into my breakfast).
When Sunday brunch rolled around last weekend, it shocked no one when I reached for the bag of chocolate chips. I can't help but sprinkle a few over my own pancakes when they are cooking on the griddle, even when feeding a table of hungry loved ones. This time, however, I tossed a handful in the batter to share the sweetness with everyone.
In addition to chocolate, I also added another unique ingredient—buckwheat flour.
When I spotted a bag of the flour hidden among the shelves at the store, my curiosity got the better of me and I added it to my basket. The name "buckwheat" tricked me into thinking it was simply wheat in another configuration, but after doing a little research I realized how wrong I had been. Buckwheat is not related to wheat at all; in fact, it is a seed more closely related to rhubarb. It is also gluten-free, though I never would have guessed it.
After playing around with it in these pancakes and experiencing the subtle, nutty flavor, I am excited to experiment with it in new forms.
Buckwheat Chocolate Chip Pancakes are a bit of an unexpected, healthier twist on the classic pancake. The addition of buckwheat flour adds an earthy, nutty flavor that is not unlike the flavor of whole wheat flour. With a few chocolate chips and a heavy swirl of berry syrup, the pancakes will quickly become a breakfast favorite. I also included gluten-free directions for those who are sensitive to traditional wheat below. | <urn:uuid:9bca582e-d9ac-4e26-9cbf-4350bd599639> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.pastryaffair.com/blog/tag/chocolate | 2013-05-24T08:43:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968295 | 417 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Photo: D. Gordon E. Robertson
Good morning, friends. I hope your weekends have been cheerful and insect-free so far (unless you are a friend of the insects). I don't have many links for you this morning, but I do have some. I wouldn't come back from a hunting trip in the Link Forest empty-handed.
- According to Wikipedia, small breeding populations of Nile monitors have been settled in parts of Florida for over twenty years. Why people would intentionally add MORE athletic, toothy beasts to the Florida environment is beyond me, but...cool. Apparently people keep these as pets.
- U.S.A-Spain is at 10 A.M. EST tomorrow. No sleeping 'til noon, y'all. (Russia-Argentina's at six, by the way).
- Our old friend Phil Naessens was kind enough to have me back on his show to talk about the Knicks' offseason and the Olympics and stuff (this was before the Argentina game yesterday). I think I got a little worked up about Jeremy Lin.
- I don't remember if we've already learned this, but it's clear now that Mike Woodson arranged for Amar'e Stoudemire to spend time working with Hakeem Olajuwon (his old teammate). Also, Amar'e's apparently headed to China later this summer.
- Alan Hahn suspects that this is Carmelo Anthony's last trip to the Olympics, though medaling for a historic fourth time might be enticing (and any planned age limits wouldn't be in effect yet to stop him).
- Update: A cool thing about the first time Tyson Chandler and Kevin Love met, back when Love was just a "little fat kid".
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This is how the venue of Bharatiya Janata Party's meeting in New Delhi on Wednesday looked as party president Lal Kishenchand Advani and former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee took their seats.
Uma Bharti was smiling and so was former finance minister Jaswant Singh.
But just minutes later Bharti had plunged the party into one of its most serious crises since it lost power earlier this year and Singh was left to do the damage control.
Uma suspended from party
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Auschwitz I Appelplatz (Roll Call Square)
The first view is of the corner of a barracks built with prisoner slave labor. As you move to the right you see one of the camp's streets of dirt and stones, and then a row of barracks.
Moving on to the right you see the rear half of the Appelplatz (roll call square) where prisoners stood at attention in ranks in the morning and in the evening. They were forced to stand here with no exceptions for weather [link]. When the prisoner count was short they stood until it was correct, sometimes all night. This, while enduring a conscious program of psychological dehumanization and physical degradation consisting of frequent beatings, insufficient food, primitive sanitary conditions promoting disease, little or no medical attention, and long hours of brutal slave labor with constant harassment and beatings.
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Oct. 21, 2008
DHEC recognized by EPA; wins Environmental Justice Award
COLUMBIA - The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced that the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) is among 12 winners of its first annual Environmental Justice Achievement Awards during an award ceremony today in Atlanta.
The EPA awards recognize organizations for their distinguished accomplishments in addressing environmental justice issues. This award was presented to the Office of the Community Liaison within DHEC's Environmental Quality Control (EQC) office, which was recognized for its work over the past five years to improve public participation in order to achieve environmental protection.
"We are excited and honored by this award and are very pleased to have had the support of Bob King, deputy commissioner for EQC, who made this effort one of the top priorities for the agency," said Nancy Whittle, community liaison for DHEC's EQC office. "But it is truly EQC's staff members who deserve the most credit for their individual efforts to apply the Public Participation program principles in their day-to-day interactions with those who are most affected by these environmental justice issues - the citizens of South Carolina."
DHEC was selected, according to the EPA release, because, "Among its most notable accomplishments, DHEC convened a Public Participation Task Force and working groups that developed public participation training materials and subsequently offered training to all EQC staff. To further enhance public participation, DHEC added public participation goals to employees performance plans and hired two regional community liaisons. State legislation passed in 2007 mandated the creation of a South Carolina Environmental Justice Advisory Committee. Its first meeting was held in October 2007, and in December 2007 the committee convened its first regional public listening session."
For more information about the Public Participation program at DHEC, call Nancy Whittle at (803) 896-8967 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.org. For more information about the Environmental Justice Achievement Award Program, including more details about this year's recipients, visit epa.gov/compliance/environmentaljustice.
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14th August, 2012
An umbrella organisation of US-based Baptist churches have urged the United States government to designate Nigerian Islamist sect Boko Haram as "a terrorist group" and to support religious minorities in the Middle East, North Africa and South-Central Asia.
That designation would allow more funding and policy initiatives towards combating Boko Haram and related groups.
“Boko Haram currently conducts hit and run drive-by murders of government officials, imams, traditional rulers and individuals deemed to have betrayed or oppose it...The group has also given Christians, including those indigenous to the north and center, the alternative of conversion or death..."
- Progressive National Baptist Convention (PNBC)
The distributed appeal by the Progressive National Baptist Convention (PNBC), seen by BosNewsLife on 10th August, came just days after suspected Boko Haram fighters opened fire at an evangelical church in central Nigeria killing at least 19 people before Bible study began and, in a separate attack, shot and killed a colleague of a Nigerian evangelist and BosNewsLife stringer.
Most died on 7th August, at the Deeper Life evangelical church in Otite, quiet neighborhood on the outskirts of the city of Okene, 250 kilometres southwest of Nigeria’s capital, Abuja.
Separately, Evangelist Ali Samari, 57, was killed after he returned from work, said Paul Jongas, himself an evangelist who also reports for BosNewsLife from the region.
"My fellow evangelist Ali Samari of Good News Church was killed (7th August) at his resident house in Mafoni (neighborhood) in in Maiduguri metropolis" in the country's north-eastern Borno State, he told BosNewsLife.
At least two gunmen were involved in the attack, Christians said.
The PNBC resolution, adopted at its 51st Annual Session, said that since its inception in 2002, Boko Haram has “sought the elimination of Christianity and the Nigerian Federal state and its replacement with a Shari’a state governed by an extremist orthodoxy defined by its leader, Mohammed Yusuf.”
“Boko Haram currently conducts hit and run drive-by murders of government officials, imams, traditional rulers and individuals deemed to have betrayed or oppose it...The group has also given Christians, including those indigenous to the north and center, the alternative of conversion or death and has mounted massive attacks on Christian suburbs and homes, and gun and bomb attacks on church services,” the PNBC noted.
Boko Haram, which means 'Western Education is a Sin', aims to establish a Muslim state and has threatened to expel Christians from especially northern areas.
In an effort to ease religious tensions, the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) denomination donated food items this week to six mosques in the town of Tudun Nupawa in north central Kaduna State, Christians said.
Organisers said the move was aimed at assisting less privileged families with their post-Ramadan feasts, following a period of fasting.
The handover of the Ramadan gift, which included bags of sugar, maize, millet and beans, occurred at the residence of the local traditional ruler Alhaji Shuai'b Balarbe, the Sarkin Dutse, Tudun Nupawa, added advocacy group Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW), which applauded the initiative.
In a statement, the PNBC also said it adopted a resolution urging the US government to appoint a special envoy at the State Department focusing on religious minorities in the Middle East, North Africa and South-Central Asia.
The group stressed the plight of Christians in countries such as Egypt, Syria, Iraq, and Iran, including Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani, who awaits possible execution in an Iranian prison on charges of "apostasy", or abandoning Islam.
“Conflict and political instability has had a negative impact on religious minorities in the Middle East, North Africa and Pakistan and Afghanistan with acts of persecution increasing and high levels of religious minorities fleeing these countries,” the PNBC explained.
It urged Washington to “actively promote religious freedom as a fundamental part of its policy in its relations with the countries of the Middle East, North Africa and Pakistan and Afghanistan, to ensure that aid and political cooperation is conditioned on the respective governments taking concrete steps to protect religious minorities and uphold religious freedom in their countries.”
CSW’s Advocacy Director Andrew Johnston said his group "welcomes the PNBC's recommendations."
A "special envoy at the State Department would help to coordinate efforts" to support religious minorities in the regions where they are vulnerable, he added.
"We also support calls for Boko Haram to be designated as a terrorist organisation, a move that would release much needed funding and support to combat the threat that this group poses to both within Nigeria and beyond her borders."
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Address: Stara Loka 31, 4220 Škofja Loka
The Castle of Stara Loka or Strahl’s Castle was mentioned in feudal book in the year 1423 and was probably developed from bishop’s manor house.
Particularity of the Castle are circular towers
which were used for defence.
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Take some of the best and toughest ice-hockey players in the world, a sizzling atmosphere, stunning surroundings, tonnes of steel, a huge cooling system and thousands of square metres of frozen water. The result? Red Bull Crashed Ice! Since the first ever race back in 2001, Red Bull Crashed Ice has developed to become the most breathtaking winter sports events in the world. Ice-hockey aces hurtle down courses up to 500 metres in length in groups of four, shoulder to shoulder, as they fight it out for victory. The whole race is held on a steep downhill track dotted with chicanes, jumps and rollers. Pushing, sliding, sprinting and wrangling are all on the menu as the athletes race down the course, but the rules are, in fact, very simple: first to the bottom wins. | <urn:uuid:ef5487fa-02b7-4262-b763-654e77b7b0e8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.swatch.com/il_he/sportevents/event.id-redbull_chrashed_ice.html | 2013-05-24T08:54:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956894 | 172 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Islamic Republic of Pakistan, a country of 170 million people, full of natural resources and more than 60 years of independence but still not respected in the world community. In less than 30 years of independence, it’s one wing gets separated (Bangladesh). Remaining part till today is living on IMF, World Bank and foreign donations. Majority of the population is living in rural areas without basic necessities of life. It is a country where financial gap between rich and poor is widening day by day. From the last 10 years, extremism is increasing. What ever happens in the world it is almost understood even before investigations that it will have a link with Pakistan. Almost every kind of problem exists in Pakistan, including electricity load-shedding, bad economy, less educational facilities, less hospitals, inflation and no pure water in many parts. These problems exist in Pakistan right from its independence which as mentioned above was more than sixty years ago. Thus in these 60 years, why our beloved country is not among developed nations even with so many natural resources? Like China, it got independence after us and is now a super power in the world. Like Japan whose major cities were bombed to ashes and has no natural resources but still today they are world economic power. If one would think about the reasons for the problems which Pakistan is facing today, there are numerous. But above all is one. i.e., politicians. “Do our politicians represent our people”? In a democratic system, the elected people should represent the nation so that nation should have faith on their decision. They should think for the betterment of their people and country. In case of Pakistan, look at our politicians. Majority of them are only interested in securing their seat in national assembly through any means. Many of them have criminal cases on them. And above all, there are people who cheated constitution of Pakistan but still are part of parliament. It looks like the more corrupt you are, the more you will have chances of being a parliamentarian.After looking at these personalities, can one say that Pakistani politicians represents majority of Pakistani nation? Answer is NO. These elected people are from elite class. None of them is from a mediocre or poor family. None of them knows that what the feelings of a father or mother are when their children gets kicked out of the school because of not paying fees. None of them knows that how it feels when you are hungry and do not have money to feed you children. No one of them knows how it feels when parents bring their children on road for SALE because of poverty. None of them knows when a son, daughter, father or mother is dying and family members have no money to bring them to hospital.On the other hand, each and every one of the above mentioned people in the politician list and including many other parliamentarians have millions of rupees. There are many who are in the top 10 list of richest people of Pakistan. So how could they know the problems of a common person? All of them are busy in increasing their own assets.Pakistan can never make progress unless these people OR their family members are ruling. Leaders should represent the people. Look at the example of Hazrat Umar RA. Is our PM or president more capable or honorable than him? Are they ruling like him by providing justice to each and every one? He ruled the whole Muslim ummah but traveled on foot with his servant. Can we expect from the today’s politicians of Pakistan that they will not rest until every child in Pakistan will get education, every common person will get health facilities and every person will have a job? Answer is simple. NO we can not trust them for this.Now question is how we can solve problems of Pakistan. Answer is EDUCATION and JUSTICE. We need to change our educational system. A system which is based on MEMORISING can never give us desired outcomes. We need a system which will give education with understanding, wisdom and ability to think. When we will be able to think beyond our emotional attachments based on our education, only then we can chose good leaders. Education will give us opportunity to think about the betterment of our country by thinking beyond emotional attachment to our politicians, political parties, provinces and personal benefits.Justice is another key thing for any society. A society where leaders know that they can manipulate system according to their own benefits can not survive. That is evident from our own country. Look at the condition, only common people are accountable to law, not our politicians. A parliamentarian resigned because of a fake degree and now he is laughing at our nation and judiciary because no one punished him and he is again in parliament. Similarly, look at our government, Supreme Court asked government to write to Swiss government to open cases against Mr. Zardari and how bluntly government is saying we will not do so. Now suppose that these two charges (corruption cases and fake degree) were being faced by a common person. Don’t you think that person would have been behind the bars? YES. So, we have to make every one accountable to LAW and for that judiciary have to play a vital role. | <urn:uuid:48b27597-787a-4aaf-9c61-5892145f58d8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.tafreehmella.com/threads/problems-of-pakistan-their-solution-essay.188878/ | 2013-05-24T09:04:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977556 | 1,040 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
This week, Jews around the world and in the Tampa Bay area have been celebrating the lesser-known holiday of Sukkot, building temporary hut-like structures in their yards and rejoicing after the intense high holy days of the weeks before.
Sukkot is a biblical holiday that lasts eight days, and Jews traditionally build sukkahs — temporary dwellings in which to eat, pray and socialize. Some live and sleep in their sukkahs, while most use them primarily for meals.
This is only the second year my husband and I put up a sukkah. As "baalei teshuva" (ones who return to Judaism), we have been gradually learning more about our religion the past few years. Our two young children love this holiday and all the time they get to spend in our backyard, as well as the yards of our friends.
But celebrating Sukkot is more than a fun, backyard barbecue — it's yet another way to connect with God, with friends and family, as well as to the previous generations of Jews who have been building sukkahs for 3,500 years. My parents and grandparents never did it, but this is one way we are reconnecting to our heritage.
For Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, we spent hours in synagogue, praying that God should forgive our past transgressions and grant us a good, healthy year. Now that we have cast off our sins and burdens of the previous year, Sukkot is a time of rejoicing.
According to Rabbi Yossi Eber with Chabad Jewish Center of West Pasco, the first mitzvah (commandment) associated with the holiday is to sit in the sukkah, make a blessing and eat. It's even better if you can invite guests.
The second mitzvah is to make a blessing while holding the "lulav and etrog," which actually include four Israeli "species" that are said to symbolize the four types of Jews.
The lulav, a closed frond from a date palm tree, smells sweet but has no taste, like a Jew who studies the Torah but doesn't do good deeds.
The myrtle (hadas) has a sweet taste but no smell, like a Jew who doesn't study Torah but does perform good deeds. The willow (arava) has neither a sweet smell nor taste, like a Jew who does neither. And the etrog — a yellow citron — smells and tastes sweet, like a Jew who does both.
All four types are important — even necessary — for the Jewish people as a whole.
"The symbol of Sukkot is unity," Eber said. "Don't look down on people who do less than you." Only when Jews are united as one family, he said, are we pleasing God.
We received our lulav and etrog as a donation from a New Jersey-based outreach organization called Oorah (Hebrew for "awaken"). It's relatively easy and inexpensive to get a set -— the cost can be as little as around $30. Jews locally can contact one of the rabbis listed at right.
The price of etrogs ranges dramatically, however, and people have been known to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars for this rare species.
They typically grow in Israel, though you can get them from other exotic places like Calabria, Italy.
Rabbi Shmuel Reich with the Jewish Enrichment Center in Clearwater explained that by spending money on something holy and spiritual like an etrog, we should be less inclined to buy mundane items that do not necessarily elevate our lives.
As a guest in our crowded sukkah Tuesday evening, he spoke to our extended family about the spirituality and mysticism behind Sukkot and observing other aspects of the Torah.
People work hard for their money, he said, so it becomes very important to us. "When you spend money on a good thing, it elevates you," he said. "Money can elevate a person to a much higher spiritual level."
One of the names for Sukkot is "the season of our joy," according to Rabbi Danielle Upbin with Congregation Beth Shalom in Clearwater. In the ancient days, when our people were farmers, that joy stemmed from the rest they finally enjoyed after the harvest season, she said.
"I imagine that our ancestors finally had some time to sit around and enjoy one another's company without the daily grind of laboring the land," she said. "Today, that joy is communicated by inviting friends and family into the sukkah for essentially a week-long party."
Sukkahs are usually assembled using natural things like wood, palm fronds, and bamboo. It's okay to use metal and plastic for the sides, but the "roof" can't include any man-made materials. It's also necessary to be able to see the sky through the roof, so the structure doesn't really protect from rain — or bugs — but that's the point.
The sukkah is meant, in part, to serve as a reminder not to take our material possessions — including our homes — for granted. And it's important to remember that all we have comes from God, no matter how comfortable or complacent we may become with our lives and our belongings.
"All of our sustenance comes from Hashem (God)," said Rabbi Reich.
The final day of Sukkot is called Simchas Torah — "rejoicing of the Torah" — which this year begins at sundown tonight. Men, women and children will gather in the synagogue to sing and dance with Torah scrolls, carrying them in a procession, reciting verses asking God to help us and save us from our troubles. Men carry children on their shoulders and it's a very festive time, and there's known to be plenty of candy for the kids and drinks for adults. I've never witnessed such genuine joy as on Simchas Torah.
On this holiday, the final portion of the Torah is read, and then we begin again with the first portion of Genesis, detailing God's creation of the world. By beginning again as soon as the last Torah reading is finished, the Jewish people demonstrate that the Torah is always fresh in our minds, and we are never finished learning from it.
As Rabbi Sholom Adler with Young Israel-Chabad of Pinellas so eloquently explained, Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur are the solemn days when we accept God's kingship and grandeur, while Sukkot and Simchas Torah reveal our intimacy with Him, like a marriage.
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Congress must love the adrenaline of making big decisions as deadlines loom. Lawmakers have until Friday at midnight to figure out how to fund the government. Yep, we're at that point again, where the stopgap bill that keeps the government up and running runs dry. Lawmakers have an allegedly bipartisan bill that House appropriators have come up with and it will be voted on Thursday. But now, political posturing is getting in the way. President Obama is urging Senate Democrats to hold the spending bill hostage until lawmakers can come up with an agreement on how to fund the payroll tax cut. He vows to veto a plan that passed the House that ties the payroll tax cut into a controversial oil pipeline stretching from Texas to Canada. Oh, and did we mention that Congress is trying to get this all done by Friday so they can skip town and have a happy holiday away from the Capitol?
Also talked about tonight, remember the President who tried to be liked by almost all and talked about bipartisanship? That guy appears to be gone. President Obama is ready for a fight and not just with his GOP rivals. The commander-in-chief has taken swipes at Congress and he has said several times over the past few weeks, he won't budge on certain issues. He's said he'll veto bills and he'll have lawmakers stay on Capitol Hill until they find compromise. It looks like it may be a long holiday season when it comes to politics. | <urn:uuid:6f39fb9e-b81e-4bf2-8bba-fa5b7ec3acbf> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.tbd.com/blogs/capital-insider/2011/12/the-spending-bill-saga-continues-and-the-country-is-seeing-a-new-version-of-president-obama--13930.html | 2013-05-24T08:42:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981963 | 294 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Hello, and happy Wednesday! Sadly, it’s not Friday. But on the bright side, it’s almost Friday. Do you have enough juice to get you through the mid-week slump? If you’re running on empty, you probably need a quick GIF snack to reboot and recharge. Thankfully, that’s just what we’re serving up.
Tired? Well, like Beyonce, you’ve got a lot (of GIFs) to smile about,
so turn that yawn… into something happier!
…like burritos! Though, we don’t understand WTF you’d be doing, just casually throwing a gigantic — therefore, amazing — burrito off to the side, even if you’re in the middle of a gymnastics routine.
But we totally get this. People who try to take your food are annoying. Hands off, get your own! (Does that sound mean? It is, a little. But sometimes it’s really, really hard to share.)
Obviously, Jennifer Lawrence is a girl after our own hearts.
Robert Pattinson agrees.
And while some people might be like:
Eating something delicious makes the world go round and our hearts pull a Niall Horan.
Don’t judge, Shailene Woodley.
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There were a few recipes that really flew under the radar this past year. Maybe their humble appearances didn't quite tell the whole story. Maybe the ingredients sounded a little too far out or too simplistic. Maybe the timing just wasn't quite right. Whatever the reason, we absolutely love these "sleeper" recipes and think they deserve a little more time in the lime light.
• 1 Vegan Lemony Eggless Egg Salad
• 2 Kumquat Tarts with Almond-Date Crust (Gluten-Free)
• 3 Black Rice Salad with Avocado and Grapefruit
• 4 Simple Salmon Teriyaki
• 5 Banana Pudding Ice Cream Pie
• 6 Thai Red Curry Mussels
• 7 Lemon Sandwich Cookies with Triple-Citrus Filling
• 8 Roasted Cauliflower and Potato Soup with Dill Whipped Cream
• 9 Hibiscus-Earl Grey Iced Tea
• 10 Creamy Tofu and Green Pea Dip
• 11 Strawberry Ice Cream with White Chocolate-Covered Pop Rocks
• 12 Cornmeal Lime Cookies
• 13 Fig and Raspberry Bakewell Tarts
• 14 Baked Panko Rockfish with Gingery Cabbage
• 15 South African Cheese, Grilled Onion & Tomato Panini (Braaibroodjie)
Welcome to The Kitchn's Best of 2012 roundup!
From December 17 through January 1 we are rounding up some of our favorite (and your favorite) posts from the past year.
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The Triangle Tavern is the spiritual home of the Green Jack Brewing Co, and is the best & most easterly Real Ale house in the whole of the UK.
We pride ourselves on our Award-winning Ales, warm welcome and friendly pub atmosphere. With at least 6 Green Jack Ales and as many as 3 Guest Ales at any one time, this truly is Lowestofts year-long Real Ale Festival!
Essentially, the Pub comprises two bars ~ the Front Bar and… wait for it… the Back Bar!
The Front Bar is generally more relaxed, and the regulars will help make you feel welcome. There is a lovely fire to keep you toasty in the winter. This is where the Live Music takes place on Friday nights, usually starting at about 9ish. Arrive early to get a seat though!
The Back Bar is where you’ll find the Juke Box, Games Machines and Pool Table. Although it appears there is a ‘young/old’ divide between the Bars, the Triangle has a ‘community’ feel about it. Most of us all know each other, and when you come and visit there will always be someone to talk with (if you choose).
As well as our choice of Real Ales, we serve Carlsberg & Stella, Aspalls Cider, Guinness, Hoegaarden, Bacchus Framboise and an ever changing ‘Guest’ continental keg product aswell as at least two real ciders (usually Westons 1st Quality and Organic). In the Chillers is a selection of bottled Belgian beers, Lagers, Newcastle Brown, J20, Smirnoff Ice, etc. We have a long line of spirits and also serve wines, tea & coffee and other soft drinks | <urn:uuid:1575f6ba-1764-4e06-8f04-4229a3589d0e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thetriangletavern.co.uk/ | 2013-05-24T08:37:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940879 | 368 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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The fashion show was to benefit the art departments at Kinston High, North Lenoir, South Lenoir and Arendell Parrott Academy.
Sixteen groups of four, with one person representing each school, competed. One person was the model and the other three people helped make an outfit made of 100 percent recycled materials such as newspaper, cardboard and plastic.
“It was a great turnout; many people came out to support,” said junior Eliza Deaver, who helped with the decorations and refreshments at the show.
Kinston High hosted Green Lamp’s Trike-A-Thon on March 25.
The Trike-A-Thon is an event for pre-schoolers to have fun while raising money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
There were many activities for the kids to do, such as jumping on a Moon Bounce, watching a puppet show, and, of course, riding tricycles.
No meals. No snacks. Not one crumb for 30 agonizing hours.
I was starving, and so were the rest of the teenagers at Gordon Street Christian Church on Friday, April 1, and Saturday, April 2. We stopped eating at 1:30 p.m. on Friday and committed to an only juice and water diet until Saturday at 7:30 p.m.
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UPPER SALFORD — Best friends Sharon Jarrett of West Chester and Bonnie Blacklock of the Florida Keys, both 60, sat inside Jarrett’s blue minivan outside the entrance gate of the Philadelphia Folk Festival’s campground early Thursday morning waiting for their turn to mark their territory.
“We’re just two moms who have been going to this event for years, always having a great time,” said Blacklock.
The duo, as well as 20,000 folk fanatics, are spending the next four days in Upper Salford at Old Pool Farm to attend the 51st annual Philadelphia Folk Festival.
For several hours on Thursday, thousands waited their turn as onebyone and carbycar, campers headed into the campground area pulling wagons full of weekend essentials — like tents, clothes, food and instruments — through thick and muddy grass to enter the gated grounds.
Blacklock and Jarrett have been attending Folk Festival for more than 30 years and they have their arrival day down to a science.
“We like to get here early and this year they are redirecting traffic really well so the wait hasn’t been long at all,” said Blacklock.
Within the 80-acre camp area that sleeps 3,200 campers and volunteers, campers group together each having a specific camp name. Blacklock and Jarrett are known as The Key Women, a camp that is home to nearly 10 women.
The Key Women have a “girly” camp set up, which includes a rug, twinkling lights, fully equip kitchen, a private shower and beds within their vehicles.
While The Key Women create a comfortable environment for the weekend, Blacklock admits her first years were not as fabulous. She has, however, always slept inside a vehicle — a school bus, camper, truck and now a minivan.
“The school bus I came in for years had a brass bed in the back. That’s actually where my 32-year-old daughter was conceived,” she said.
In the parking lot, camper Ron Watson, 24, of Burlington, N.J., was wrestling a six-foot stuffed banana who was wearing a rastafarian hat and dreadlocks off the rooftop of his car. The giant banana will be carried during one of Watson’s potential 10 trips he averages each year from the car to the campground.
“I’ve been to 23 of the folk festivals, and each year the night before I am so excited I barely sleep,” Watson said. “I was up until 1 a.m. getting things together. It’s all about strategically getting everything there.”
While Watson makes sure to pack vital belongings, with his biggest priority being his guitar, he knows if anything was ever left behind, others would come to his rescue.
“Everyone at fest is amazing. If you only came with clothes on your back you’d be cool. Other people are welcoming and would let you eat their food and drink their drinks. The crowd here is unbelievable,” he said.
As territories were marked, tents were pitched and campers were already getting underway with festivities, crafters were beginning to set up shop on the hill of the Folk Festival entrance.
Susan Forker of Doylestown is attending the festival for the second time with her company joeyfivecents, a handmade vintage jewelry and accessory company. In her tent you will see belts, necklaces and rings laying on her table.
“You know last year was an absolute mess with weather, but it didn’t scare me off because I’m back again,” said Forker.
While Forker enjoys the business she gets over the weekend, she also enjoys the overall atmosphere of the event.
“The community and spirit everyone has is great to see,” she said. “It’s fun seeing people, especially the individuals who have been coming here for years.”
The 51st annual Philadelphia Folk Festival takes place Friday through Sunday, Aug. 17-19, at the Old Pool Farm, 1323 Salford Station Road, Upper Salford.
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Spies were taking on silent stars in London Sunday, as espionage thriller "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" and mute movie "The Artist" faced off at the British Academy Film Awards.
"The Artist" has 12 nominations and "Tinker Tailor" 11 for Britain's equivalent of the Oscars, with each up for best picture and director, leading men Jean Dujardin and Gary Oldman competing for best actor.
Bookies gave "The Artist" the edge, making the French film odds-on favorite to continue its awards-season success. It has already won three Golden Globes, and has 10 Oscar nominations.
Dujardin, who plays a silent screen icon eclipsed by the talkies, said the "The Artist'"s appeal lay in its accessibility.
"It's a simple story," he said. "It's a love story. It's universal. And there's a cute dog" - Jack Russell terrier Uggie, who almost steals the film from his two-legged co-stars.
George Clooney was the best-actor favorite for Hawaiian family drama "The Descendants," with Meryl Streep considered likely to win the best actress trophy for her much-praised performance as former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in "The Iron Lady."
The British prizes, known as BAFTAs, are considered a strong indicator of likely success at Hollywood's Academy Awards, to be held on Feb. 26.
Clooney, Streep, Brad Pitt, Jessica Chastain, Penelope Cruz, Colin Firth and Judi Dench were among the stars braving the London cold and bouts of sleet to walk the red carpet before a televised ceremony, hosted by comedian, writer and actor Stephen Fry, at the Royal Opera House.
"The Help" star Viola Davis, a best-actress nominee, arrived in a pink Valentino "eco gown" made from recycled plastic bottles.
Martin Scorsese's Parisian fantasy "Hugo" has nine BAFTA nominations, and there are six for moviemaking saga "My Week With Marilyn" and five each for Deep South drama "The Help" and equine adventure "War Horse."
But many BAFTA-watchers are focused on the contest between French froth and British grit.
"The Artist," a buoyant black-and-white Gallic take on the golden age of Hollywood, has become an unlikely Oscars favorite.
"Tinker Tailor," an atmospheric adaptation of John le Carre's Cold War classic, has received rave reviews but has so far been snubbed during the U.S. awards season.
Both films are up for best picture, along with "The Descendants," "Drive" and "The Help."
The best actor contest pits Clooney, Oldman and Dujardin against Michael Fassbender for sex-addiction saga "Shame" and Pitt for baseball drama "Moneyball."
The movie has been well received in the U.K., despite focusing on a sport few British people understand.
"Don't tell anyone it's got baseball in it," Pitt advised. "It might as well be about cricket."
The best actress category includes two performers playing real-life icons - Streep as Thatcher and Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe in "My Week With Marilyn."
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Virus-infested files are capable of causing many different problems for computer users, making it essential to verify that downloads are safe before allowing them to access the system. There are a multitude of different tools available for computer users to help keep valuable machines protected against these malicious threats. Use one of the following methods to make certain a virus is not allowed to attack your computer system.
1. Use an Antivirus Package
Many of the most popular antivirus tools allow specific files to be checked for potential corruptions. This is a valuable resource for computer users who fear a potential virus or malware infection. Simply download a file from the Internet and use the built-in antivirus scanner to check for problems. This will provide peace of mind in launching the file in question.
2. Rely on a Firewall
Firewalls are additional security tools that are programmed to look for suspicious files and keep the user aware of any problems as they arise. These are particularly valuable tools when computer users are visiting sites that may try to download payloads of malware without the user’s knowledge. Firewalls are also valuable when a file is consciously downloaded, as they will look for any problems within such downloads.
3. Use an Online Scanner
Instead of downloading a file that could potentially wreak havoc on the computer, some users turn to online scanners. These scanners do not require a download to the system itself, but simply ask for the URL of the file that is suspected of being infected. The server will download the file in question and peruse the content for any infections. This is an incredibly safe way of looking for viruses, and will not unnecessarily expose the machine to potential problems.
4. Find a Download Manager
Sophisticated download managers have been created for users who need a way to easily look for files that may be unsafe. In addition to making downloads easier to manage, powerful download managers can scan files for potential issues, alerting the computer user of the presence of any unwanted infections before the file is launched on the machine.
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Many computer users are surprised to discover they can control what downloads are allowed to launch on their machine. Default file settings should be modified to ensure that files and applications are only allowed to run after they have been given explicit permission by the computer user. These settings can be changed within the control panel, and will allow users to stay on the lookout for nefarious files that could otherwise launch without their knowledge of the issue.
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Geoffrey D. Dabelko
Geoffrey D. Dabelko is director of environmental studies at Ohio University’s Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs. He joined the School in August 2012 and was previously director of the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program. He remains a senior advisor to the Environmental Change and Security Program and is also an adjunct professor at the Monterey Institute of International Studies.
For more than 20 years, he has brought together policymakers, practitioners, journalists, and scholars grappling with complex links among environment, population, development, conflict, and security. His current research focuses on climate change, natural resources, and security as well as environmental pathways to confidence- and peace-building, with a special emphasis on water resources.
Geoff has held prior positions with the Council on Foreign Relations, Foreign Policy, and Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. He currently works on two Wilson Center efforts supported by USAID: the Health, Environment, Livelihoods, Population, and Security (HELPS) Project and the Resources for Peace Project. Geoff is co-editor with Ken Conca of Environmental Peacemaking and Green Planet Blues: Four Decades of Global Environmental Politics (4th edition). He is an IPCC lead author for the 5th assessment (Working Group II, Chapter 12), and member of the UN Environment Programme’s Expert Advisory Group on Environment, Conflict, and Peacebuilding. He holds an AB in political science from Duke University and a Ph.D. in government and politics from the University of Maryland.
- Ken Conca and Geoffrey D. Dabelko, Eds. 2010. Green Planet Blues: Four Decades of Global Environmental Politics. (Boulder, CO: Westview).
- Geoffrey D. Dabelko. 2009. "Avoid Hyperbole, Oversimplificiation when Climate and Security Meet" Bulletin of Atomic Scientists (August 24).
- Geoffrey D. Dabelko. 2009. "Planning for Climate Change: The Security Community's Precautionary Principle" Climatic Change Vol 96 (1): 13.
- Kent Hughes Butts and Geoffrey D. Dabelko. 2009. "One Way to Boost US-China Military Cooperation" Christian Science Monitor (April 21).
- Geoffrey D. Dabelko. 2008. "An Uncommon Peace: Environment, Development, and the Global Security Agenda." Environment Vol. 50 (3): 32-45.
- Karin Bencala and Geoffrey D. Dabelko. 2008. "Water Wars: Obscuring Opportunities." Journal of International Affairs Vol. 61 (2): 21-33.
- Coleen Vogel, Susanne C. Moser, Roger E. Kasperson, and Geoffrey D. Dabelko. 2007. "Linking Vulnerability, Adaptation and Resilience Science to Practice: Players, Pathways and Partnerships." Global Environmental Change (17): 349–364.
- Geoffrey D. Dabelko. 2005. "Speaking their Language: How to Communicate Better with Policymakers and Opinion Shapers – and Why Academics Should Bother in the First Place" International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law, and Economics 5:4 (December): 381-386.
- Aaron T. Wolf, Annika Kramer, Alexander Carius and Geoffrey D. Dabelko "Managing Water Conflict and Cooperation", State of the World 2005: Redefining Global Security (Norton, 2005): 80-95.
- Ken Conca, Alexander Carius, and Geoffrey D. Dabelko. 2005. "Building Peace Through Environmental Cooperation," with Ken Conca and Alexander Carius, State of the World 2005: Redefining Global Security (Norton): 144-155.
- Alexander Carius and Geoffrey D. Dabelko. 2004. "Institutionalizing Responses to Environment, Conflict, and Cooperation," Understanding Environment, Conflict, and Cooperation (Nairobi: United Nations Environment Programme): 21-33.
- Ken Conca and Geoffrey D. Dabelko, Eds. 2004. Green Planet Blues: Global Environmental Politics From Stockholm to Johannesburg, 3rd Ed, (Boulder, CO: Westview Press).
- Geoffrey D. Dabelko, Ed. Environmental Change and Security Program Report (annual journal).
- Ken Conca and Geoffrey D. Dabelko. 2002. Environmental Peacemaking, (Washington and Baltimore: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Johns Hopkins University Press).
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Feline asthma has been called by many other names, including chronic bronchitis, bronchial asthma, and allergic bronchitis. Regardless of the name, it is a common feline ailment. Inhaled allergens cause sudden contraction of the smooth muscles around airways, leading to typical clinical symptoms. It is usually impossible to determine which allergens cause asthma in individual cats, but common ones include grass and tree pollens, cigarette or fireplace smoke, various sprays (hair sprays, deodorants, flea sprays, deodorizers), and dust from cat litter.
Feline asthma is found in all areas of the world and in cats of all ages. The prevalence in the general adult cat population is about 1%. The most common symptoms in cats with asthma are wheezing and coughing. The coughing has been described as a dry, hacking cough that could be confused with gagging or retching. Many cats are misdiagnosed as having hairballs! Paroxysms of coughing occur frequently. In mildly affected cats, coughing and wheezing may occur only occasionally. A few cats with asthma are asymptomatic in between acute and severe bouts of airway constriction. The most severely affected cats have daily coughing and wheezing and many bouts of airway constriction, leading to open-mouth breathing and panting that can be life threatening.
The symptoms of asthma can mimic other diseases, such as heartworm, pneumonia and congestive heart failure. A diagnosis is reached by using chest x-rays, a complete blood count, a feline heartworm test, and a technique to sample cells from the lower airways (transtracheal wash, bronchial wash, or bronchoalveolar lavage). Chest x-rays may be normal in some cats with asthma, while others will have signs of bronchial inflammation, collapse of the right middle lung lobe, and over inflation of the lungs.
Unfortunately, feline asthma is a chronic progressive disease that cannot be fully cured. Medications can reduce the symptoms of asthma a great deal, but may not be able to eliminate coughing fully. In recent years, veterinarians have found that the most effective therapy for feline asthma may be to use inhalers such as human asthmatics use. A mask and spacer system, called AeroKat®, has been invented to enable cats to use inhalers or puffers. This system is similar to the mask and spacer system used to treat babies and small children. ........ [Read complete article]
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Halloween: Its Roots and Traditions Around the World
Halloween is a holiday celebrated on the night of October 31st. Traditional activities include trick-or-treating, bonfires, costume parties, visiting "haunted houses" and carving jack-o-lanterns.
Irish and Scottish immigrants carried versions of the tradition to North America in the nineteenth century. Other western countries embraced the holiday in the late 20th century including Ireland, the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and the United Kingdom as well as Australia and New Zealand.
Halloween has its origins in the ancient Celtic festival known as Samhain (pronounced "sah-win").
The festival of Samhain is a celebration of the end of the harvest season in Gaelic culture. Samhain was a time used by the ancient pagans to take stock of supplies and prepare for winter. The ancient Gaels believed that on October 31st, the boundaries between the worlds of the living and the dead overlapped and the deceased would come back to life and cause havoc such as sickness or damaged crops.
The festival would frequently involve bonfires. It is believed that the fires attracted insects to the area, which attracted bats to the area. These are additional attributes of the history of Halloween.
Masks and costumes were worn in an attempt to mimic the evil spirits or appease them.
Trick-or-treating, is an activity for children on or around Halloween in which they proceed from house to house in costumes, asking for treats such as confectionery with the question, "Trick or treat?" The "trick" part of "trick or treat" is a threat to play a trick on the homeowner or his property if no treat is given.
Trick-or-treating is one of the main traditions of Halloween. It has become socially expected that if one lives in a neighborhood with children one should purchase treats in preparation for trick-or-treaters.
The history of Halloween has evolved. The activity is popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, and due to increased American cultural influence in recent years, imported through exposure to US television and other media, trick-or-treating has started to occur among children in many parts of Europe, and in the Saudi Aramco camps of Dhahran, Akaria compounds and Ras Tanura in Saudi Arabia.
The most significant growth, and resistance is in the United Kingdom, where the police have threatened to prosecute parents who allow their children to carry out the "trick" element.
In continental Europe, where the commerce-driven importation of Halloween is seen with more skepticism, numerous destructive or illegal "tricks" and police warnings have further raised suspicion about this game and Halloween in general.
In Ohio, Iowa, and Massachusetts, the night designated for Trick-or-treating is often referred to as Beggars Night.
Part of the history of Halloween is Halloween costumes. The practice of dressing up in costumes and begging door to door for treats on holidays goes back to the Middle Ages, and includes Christmas wassailing.
Trick-or-treating resembles the late medieval practice of "souling," when poor folk would go door to door on Hallowmas (November 1st), receiving food in return for prayers for the dead on All Souls Day (November 2nd). It originated in Ireland and Britain, although similar practices for the souls of the dead were found as far south as Italy. Shakespeare mentions the practice in his comedy The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1593), when Speed accuses his master of "puling [whimpering, whining], like a beggar at Hallowmas."
Yet there is no evidence that souling was ever practiced in America, and trick-or-treating may have developed in America independent of any Irish or British antecedent.
There is little primary Halloween history documentation of masking or costuming on Halloween, in Ireland, the UK, or America, before 1900. The earliest known reference to ritual begging on Halloween in English speaking North America occurs in 1911, when a newspaper in Kingston, Ontario, near the border of upstate New York, reported that it was normal for the smaller children to go "street guising" on Halloween between 6 and 7 p.m., visiting shops and neighbors to be rewarded with nuts and candies for their rhymes and songs.
Another isolated reference appears, place unknown, in 1915, with a third reference in Chicago in 1920. The thousands of Halloween postcards produced between the turn of the 20th century and the 1920s commonly show children, but do not depict trick-or-treating. Ruth Edna Kelley, in her 1919 history of the holiday, The Book of Hallowe'en, makes no mention of such a custom in the chapter "Hallowe'en in America." It does not seem to have become a widespread practice until the 1930s, with the earliest known uses in print of the term "trick or treat" appearing in 1934, and the first use in a national publication occurring in 1939.
Thus, although a quarter million Scots-Irish immigrated to America between 1717 and 1770, the Irish Potato Famine brought almost a million immigrants in 1845–1849. British and Irish immigration to America peaked in the 1880s; ritualized begging on Halloween was virtually unknown in America until generations later.
Trick-or-treating spread from the western United States eastward, stalled by sugar rationing that began in April 1942 during World War II and did not end until June 1947.
Early national attention to trick-or-treating was given in October 1947 issues of the children's magazines Jack and Jill and Children's Activities, and by Halloween episodes of the network radio programs The Baby Snooks Show in 1946 and The Jack Benny Show and The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet in 1948. The custom had become firmly established in popular culture by 1952, when Walt Disney portrayed it in the cartoon Trick or Treat; Ozzie and Harriet were besieged by trick-or-treaters on an episode of their television show, and UNICEF first conducted a national campaign for children to raise funds for the charity while trick-or-treating.
Although some popular histories of Halloween have characterized trick-or-treating as an adult invention to re-channel Halloween activities away from vandalism, nothing in the historical record supports this theory. To the contrary, adults, as reported in newspapers from the mid-1930s to the mid-1950s, typically saw it as a form of extortion, with reactions ranging from bemused indulgence to anger.
Likewise, as portrayed on radio shows, children would have to explain what trick-or-treating was to puzzled adults, and not the other way around. Sometimes even the children protested: for Halloween 1948, members of the Madison Square Boys Club in New York City carried a parade banner that read "American Boys Don't Beg."
A jack-o'-lantern (sometimes also spelled Jack O'Lantern) is typically a carved pumpkin. It is associated chiefly with Halloween. Typically, the top is cut off, and the inside flesh then scooped out; an image, usually a monstrous face, is carved onto the outside surface, and the lid replaced. During the night, a candle is placed inside to illuminate the effect. The term is not particularly common outside North America, although the practice of carving lanterns for Halloween is.
In folklore, an old Irish folk tale tells of Jack, a lazy yet shrewd farmer who uses a cross to trap the Devil. One story says that Jack tricked the Devil into climbing an apple tree, and once he was up there, Jack quickly placed crosses around the trunk or carved a cross into the bark, so that the Devil couldn't get down.
Another myth says that Jack put a key in the Devil's pocket while he was suspended upside-down.
Another version of the myth says that Jack was getting chased by some villagers from whom he had stolen from, when he met the Devil, who claimed it was time for him to die. However, the thief stalled his death by tempting the Devil with a chance to bedevil the church-going villagers chasing him. Jack told the Devil to turn into a coin with which he would pay for the stolen goods (the Devil could take on any shape he wanted); later, when the coin/Devil disappeared, the Christian villagers would fight over who had stolen it. The Devil agreed to this plan. He turned himself into a silver coin and jumped into Jack's wallet, only to find himself next to a cross Jack had also picked up in the village. Jack had closed the wallet tight, and the cross stripped the Devil of his powers; and so he was trapped. In both myths, Jack only lets the Devil go when he agrees never to take his soul. After some time, the thief died, as all living things do.
Of course, his life had been too sinful for Jack to go to heaven; however, the Devil had promised not to take his soul, and so he was barred from Hell as well. Jack now had nowhere to go. He asked how he would see where to go, as he had no light, and the Devil mockingly tossed him an ember that would never burn out from the flames of hell. Jack carved out one of his turnips (which was his favorite food), put the ember inside it, and began endlessly wandering the Earth for a resting place. He became known as "Jack of the Lantern", or Jack-o'-Lantern.
There are variations on the legend:
Some versions include a "wise and good man", or even God helping Jack to prevail over the Devil.
There are different versions of Jack's bargain with the Devil. Some variations say the deal was only temporary but the Devil, embarrassed and vengeful, refuses Jack's entry to hell after Jack dies.
Jack is considered a greedy man and is not allowed into either heaven or hell, without any mention of the Devil.
Despite the colorful legends, the term jack-o'-lantern originally meant a night watchman, or man with a lantern, with the earliest known use in the mid-17th century; and later, meaning an ignis fatuus or will-o'-the-wisp. In Labrador and Newfoundland, both names "Jacky Lantern" and "Jack the Lantern" refer to the will-o'-the-wisp concept rather than the pumpkin carving aspect.
Halloween costumes are outfits worn on or around Halloween. Costuming became popular for Halloween parties in America in the early 1900s, as often for adults as for children. The first mass-produced Halloween costumes appeared in stores in the 1930s when trick-or-treating was becoming popular in the United States.
What sets Halloween costumes apart from costumes for other celebrations or days of dressing up is that they are often designed to imitate supernatural and scary beings. Costumes are traditionally those of monsters such as vampires, ghosts, skeletons, witches, and devils.
There are also costumes of pop culture figures like presidents, or film, television, and cartoon characters.
Another popular trend is for women (and in some cases, men) to use Halloween as an excuse to wear particularly revealing costumes, showing off more skin than would be socially acceptable otherwise.
Halloween Originated in Ireland
Ireland is said to be the birthplace of Halloween. Much like the United States, the Irish celebrate the holiday with costumes, trick-or-treating, and community gatherings.
At those gatherings, typically after trick-or-treating, games are played, including a game called ‘snap-apple’. The game begins with an apple being tied to a doorframe or tree and players then attempt to bite the hanging apple. The game is much like ‘bobbing for apples’ here in the United States.
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A Halloween tradition in Austria involves bread, water and a lighted lamp. Some of the locals will leave bread, water and a lighted lamp on the table before retiring on Halloween night. Considered a magical night, Halloween to Austrians was a way to welcome the dead souls back to earth.
In Belgium, some believe it is unlucky if a black cat enters a home or travels on a ship. Also, much like in the United States, Belgium citizens believe that it is unlucky for a black cat to cross one's path. On Halloween night, a custom there is to light candles in memory of dead relatives.
With the arrival of Scottish and Irish immigrants in the 1800s, modern Halloween celebrations in Canada began. Festivities include parties, trick-or-treating and the decorating of homes with pumpkins and corn stalks, as well as the carving of Jack O' Lanterns.
In China, the Halloween festival is known as Teng Chieh. Food and water are placed in front of photographs of family members who have departed while bonfires and lanterns are lit in order to light the paths of the spirits as they travel the earth on Halloween night. Worshippers in Buddhist temples fashion "boats of the law" from paper, which are then burned in the evening hours. There are two purposes to this custom: as a remembrance of the dead and in order to free the spirits of the "pretas" in order that they might ascend to heaven. "Pretas" are the spirits of those who died as a result of an accident or drowning and whose bodies were consequently never buried.
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On Halloween night in Czechoslovakia, chairs are placed by the fireside. One chair is placed to commemorate each living family member and one for each family member's spirit.
While the Irish and Scots preferred turnips, English children made "punkies" out of large beets, upon which they carved a design of their choice. Then, they would carry their "punkies" through the streets while singing the "Punkie Night Song" as they knocked on doors and asked for money. Halloween became Guy Fawkes Night and moved a few days later. Recently, it has been celebrated on October 31st, in addition to Guy Fawkes Night.
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Britain - Guy Fawkes Day
On the evening of November 5th, bonfires are lit throughout England. Effigies are burned and fireworks are set off. Although the day is around the same time and has some similar traditions, this celebration has little to do with Halloween. As Martin Luther's Protestant Reformation began to spread, the celebration of Halloween ended. In 1517, on Halloween, Martin Luther attempted to begin reformation of the Catholic Church. The formation of the Protestant Church was the result instead. They didn't believe in saints; therefore, they had no reason to celebrate the eve of All Saints' Day. However, a new autumn ritual did materialize. Guy Fawkes Day festivities were designed to commemorate the execution of a notorious English traitor, Guy Fawkes.
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France - la fête d'Halloween
In France, Halloween is not celebrated to honor the dead. It is considered an ‘American Holiday’ and until 1996, it was virtually unknown in the country.
However, because of the love of parties, fêtes’ and costume events in France, a rapid rise of the holiday has been noticed in recent years.
Foreign residents brought details of Halloween to the country for years before remnants of the day began to stick in French culture. In 1982, the American Dream bar/restaurant in Paris began celebrating Halloween.
The village of Saint Germain-en-Laye held a Halloween party on October 24th, 1996, in the middle of the day, to give locals an idea of what the holiday was all about.
So, do you want to know more about how the French celebrate Halloween? CLICK HERE to learn more about the revolution of Halloween in France!
To not risk harm to, or from the returning spirits, in Germany, people put away their knives on Halloween night.
Hong Kong calls their Halloween festivities, "Yue Lan", which translates into the Festival of the Hungry Ghosts. It is believed that spirits roam the world for 24 hours. To bring comfort to the ghosts, some believe that burning pictures of fruit or money will reach the spirit world.
Halloween is known as "Alla Helgons Dag" in Sweden. It is celebrated from October 31st until November 6th. "Alla Helgons Dag" has an eve, which is either celebrated or becomes a shortened working day. The Friday prior to All Saint's Day is a short day for universities while school-age children are given a day of vacation.
Want to know more about how other countries around the world celebrate Halloween? CLICK HERE to learn more about the festivities in Japan, Korea, Mexico, Latin America, and Spain!
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Deliver the Mountaineer's Ale to Forba Slabchisel at Slabchisel's Survey.
- Mountaineer's Ale (provided)
Alright. We need to get this ale to where it's going right away!
Ironforge has sent out an expedition of surveyors to check the damage done to the wetlands when the dam burst. Forba Slabchisel's the one leading it...and believe me, you don't want to get on her bad side!
Showing up with an armful of ale will help with that. Go and take this ahead to her, and she might even ask you to stick around for some work.
Aye? What've you got for me there?
Hah! Nice to see those addlebrained mountaineers knew to hand the ale off to a real man/woman to get the job done.
Welcome to my survey. If you're of the mind to help Ironforge by takin' over the jobs of some useless, lazy sods that call themselves dwarves, you're in the right place!
Patches and hotfixes Edit
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Continuing our theme from the last couple weeks, here is a recipe from Karen in our shipping department. This spicy Buffalo Chicken Dip would be a great one to serve for football games or as an appetizer at the parties this holiday season.
1/2 Cup Ranch Dressing
1/2 Cup Shredded Mozzarella Cheese
1/4 to 1/2 Cup Frank’s Hot Sauce or Buffalo Sauce (or your preferred brand)
1 (8 oz ) Package Cream Cheese Softened
1 (9.75 oz) Can Chunk Chicken
Combine ingredients then bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes or until bubbling. The dip can be served warm or cold.
Dawnee, the executive assistant, makes this dish for get-togethers and recommends cooking this recipe in the slow cooker until ingredients are warm. She also had success using the buffalo sauce instead of the hot sauce to create her dip.
The dip can then be served with tortilla chips, pretzels or crackers.
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When we laminate the fiberglass cloth to the board, we try to squeegee all of the excess resin off. This leaves a very heavily textured finish. A Hot coat is a layer of resin that fills that texture. It is called a Hot Coat because it has a high amount of catalyst in it to make the resin gel quickly. Any resin left in the bucket will get rather warm when it begins to harden.
The wood for the fins arrived from Northern California last week as a 14″x14″x8″ block of Curly Redwood. I re sawed it, templated and did a rough cut out of about 20 fins. I must thank George Buck for getting it here so fast.
I then put all of the fin blanks on a rack and graded them. 12 were selected and sent to 1 World in Florida where Juan Rodriguez masterfully foiled them. Then he put the bead on and shipped them overnight to Waterman’s Guild. Kudos to Mr. Rodriguez who went way beyond the call of duty. He is in a class with Greg Martz as a craftsman.
And, speaking of stepping up to the plate, Greg Martz has done that and more. He has been a great subject to photograph and has been extremely accommodating | <urn:uuid:606a3e4a-48ce-426c-ae89-5c1b4fe0ac66> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.harboursurfboards.com/2009/03/12/curly-redwoodbalsa-get-hot-coated | 2013-06-18T22:31:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967885 | 263 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
This past Thanksgiving, I was grateful for many things. My parents came from out of town to spend a weekend full of family, feasting, football (Go Packers!), laughter and plenty of turkey comas. I also got to experience my first Black Friday working at the Nike Outlet at Aurora Farms. This definitely didn’t help me get over my sickness, but at least I was able to make it on television on News Net 5! My friend sharing with me a great SNL video of Will Ferrell and Chris Katan singing as Air Supply about Thanksgiving time capped off the weekend. A definite great way to end the weekend!
I also came across a recent photo my brother shared with me, which he found on Deviant Art. This really opened my eyes about what you really should be thankful for. I hope you find some meaning in this as well!
“If you have food in the fridge, clothes on your back, a roof over your head and a place to sleep, you are richer than 75% of the world. If you have any money in the bank, your wallet and some spare change in a dish someplace, you are among the top 8% of the world’s wealthy. If you woke up this morning with more health than illness, you are more blessed than the million people who will not survive this week. If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the agony of imprisonment or torture or the horrible pangs of starvation, you are luckier than 500 million people alive going through this suffering. If you can read this message you are more fortunate than the 3 billion people in the world who cannot read at all.”
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To outsiders Aron White may seem like nothing more than a backup tight end with a good academic resume. But inside the Bulldogs’ locker room, there might not be a more influential person. Yes, he’s a cut-up and a mile-a-minute talker, but he’s also a fifth-year senior and a leader and an extremely bright individual who has bought into everything that is UGA. And in terms of being a team spokesman, nobody has embraced the role more than this Missouri native, who might be the only member of the football team who actually looks forward to his weekly media opportunities with the local press.
With that in mind, White had so much to say and so passionately about the Georgia-Florida game during our relatively brief session on Wednesday, I decided to share it with you in full. With White it’s important to note that he speaks extremely fast and almost in a stream-of-conscious manner. Let me know what you think.
Meanwhile, I’m on my way to Jacksonville and will have more for you later. Enjoy . . .
On the team’s attitude the week of Florida game . . .
“People get a little tight during Florida week and that’s the way it’s always been. That’s fans, players, staff, coaches, everybody. Everybody just gets a little more serious during Florida week. There’s not as much joking around. That’s just across the board. That’s everybody.
“Players joke about who will be the first person to get yelled at. And when they do, you’ll hear half the team go, ‘it’s Florida week!’ Because they know, it’s Florida week and there’s no playing around. I get busted a lot for joking around because I talk a lot at practice. Not necessarily bad stuff but I’m just a character sometimes. Sometimes the coaches don’t like hearing it, sometimes they don’t mind. So every once in a while I’ll get caught off guard and they’ll chew me out. I might’ve gotten caught this week once or twice.”
On the lack of recent success versus Florida . . .
“I want to win it because of the fans. The Bulldogs don’t like Florida and they let you hear it whenever you lose to Florida. I want to win it because they’re an SEC East opponent. I want to win it because we need another victory to stay in the hunt to get back to the ’ship (championship game).
“But more than any of that, I’m playing for my teammates, I’m playing for my coaches and I just hate Florida. Regardless if Florida was on the other side of the United States, if they were in the Pac-10 or the MAC or whatever, I don’t care. I’m still gonna hate Florida, I’m still gonna want to play Florida and I’m still gonna want to kill Florida.
“I’ve been around here long enough to see a win against Florida and know how good that feels. But I have yet to do it on the field. I’ve had some good games against Florida and I’ve had some bad games against Florida. But regardless, this is a new year, this is a new day. This is two new teams as it is year in and year out and we’re coming to get them. I don’t care what anybody says; I don’t care if somebody’s out; I don’t care if somebody thinks we don’t stand a chance; I don’t care if all the Bulldogs are behind us; I don’t care if one Bulldog is behind us. I’m still going to come out there with the same passion and intensity against Florida that I do every year and I feel like my teammates will echo that.”
Do you share this passion with the young players?
“I think if they haven’t heard it enough they will by the end of this week. As much as we take everybody one game at a time, this is a game we look forward to every year. Just like we look forward to Tech, just like we look forward to Tennessee, just like we look forward to Auburn.
“I think it’s easy to see here what games are a little bit more important to us. There might be some other games we just need to go out there and win. But I definitely think we’ve done a good job of conveying to the guys who have never played in this game before how important it is.
“I think we echo the frustrations of the Bulldog Nation in general the last couple of outings, because we feel like we have not necessarily been playing to our ability when we go down to Jacksonville. We’ve definitely have made some mental errors and, not necessarily given games away, but given them more momentum than they deserve. You know, Florida has a great program and they’ve played great against us. But last year we felt like it was about time for the tables to turn. We felt like we were playing great and we let a close one get by and that one really hurt.
“For me personally, I’ve always played well against Florida and that was the first year I felt like I did not play well. I made a critical error. I tipped the pass that got picked right before the half when we were going down there close. That’s something I’ve been thinking about all year. That was a game that really left a lot of frustration with me personally. I’ve got a lot of anger pent up about what happened in that game.
“Blood is definitely going to run hot this weekend. I’m sure at some point something will happen that everybody will say was uncalled for or the emotions got the best of us, whether it’s on their side or on our side. We’ve both been caught doing some antics down there. My freshman year we ran out on the field. The year after that they had us blown out by a pretty good lead and they started calling some timeouts late. But all that’s out the window and it’s a new year and we’re going to come and we’re going to play. And while we didn’t forget those things, we’re going to focus on our game plan and we’re going to need to because guys that get caught up in all that emotion usually lose. It’s the players that stay focused and do what they do best, they usually win.”
On when he first realized the intensity of the Georgia-Florida rivalry . . .
“I got my first taste of it when I was coming out of my junior year of high school in a Nike camp down in Gainesville. Me and Logan [Gray] and our running back went down to Florida and we were touring everything. Logan already had an offer and they were debating offering me because they had already signed Aaron Hernandez, who was obviously an outstanding player for them. I remember Coach [Dan] Mullen was recruiting me and Logan and I didn’t feel like I got treated very well down there. Coach [Urban] Meyer didn’t take time to talk to me and that’s something that resided in me. And when I did commit to Georgia, all I heard was ‘y’all have to go get Florida.’ I realized at that time it was a big rivalry, but I didn’t realize how deep that hate was between us.
“Since I’ve been here there’s a lot of rivalries I’ve really bought into. All the rivalries really. They’re all going to stay with me throughout my lifetime. They’re a part of me and I’m a part of them. But I don’t think any of them run quite as deep as Florida. It’s something that I’ve bought into fully. I don’t care if I’m in Missouri or I’m in Georgia, I don’t care where I’m at, if I see Florida on somebody’s shirt or even a license tag, I’m going to slide them a little look. That’s the way it’s going to be. And if they have something to say about it I’m going to say something back. At the end of the day I’m always going to be a Dawg and everybody’s going to know that.”
On whether UGA wants to beat Florida too badly . . .
“I think over the last couple of years we’ve maybe been too pent up about this game. But this whole season has had a different feel to it. I don’t know if you guys see it, I don’t know if the Bullog Nation, the fans out there, have been able to tell, but there’s just a completely different mentality around here. It doesn’t have the same feel to it, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing.
“I loved the feeling in ‘07. We had a great group of guys then and since then it changed. But this year it’s completely different. I don’t think we’re an uptight crew. Even when we were 0-2 I don’t think we were an uptight team. I don’t think we played uptight. We made some errors, definitely, early on, especially in the South Carolina game. And we’ve made mistakes since then. But we’ve jelled enough to the point that I don’t think we play uptight and get super emotional and where it doesn’t allow the team to play to the best of its ability. We make mistakes sometimes.
“But it is still Florida week and, for whatever reason, guys hone in a little bit more; guys study that game plan a little bit more; guys are in here watching more film. You hear guys all the time say ‘I’m going to the Butts.’ You say, ‘it’s only 1:30,’ and they say, ‘I’m going to go on in and catch some film’ or ‘I want to hit the ice tub again.’ And I love seeing that. I love seeing guys dedicated and there’s no time you see it more than this week and Tech week, in my opinion.” | <urn:uuid:caebc232-b0fe-4e9c-bbfd-aac9cd89d371> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blogs.ajc.com/uga-sports-blog/2011/10/27/georgias-aron-white-blood-definitely-runs-hot-against-florida/?cp=2 | 2013-06-18T22:39:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971538 | 2,285 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Medallion Embossed Blouse
Love this top!
Love the colors, fit and it is a dream to travel with! It looks great with blue, khaki and red! Get compliments every time I wear it and it is SO comfortable! LOVE!
April 24, 2013
This fits good and makes a great top for work or casual wear.
April 11, 2013
Fits well, stylish and easy to take care of.
March 21, 2013
I like the pattern and the top fit comfortably, but the overblouse has too much material and makes it look frumpy and boxy.
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(A) The practice intervention and improvement program shall utilize educational providers as defined in paragraph (B) of rule 4723-18-01 of the Administrative Code to provide the remedial educational intervention prescribed for a program participant.
(B) An educational provider that desires to offer a prescribed educational intervention for PIIP shall:
(1) Agree to meet the requirements set forth in paragraph (C) of this rule; and
(2) Agree, as a representative of the board, to maintain the confidentiality of all PIIP records in accordance with section 4723.282 of the Revised Code.
(C) The employer of a licensee or certificate holder determined to be eligible for the practice intervention and improvement program pursuant to rules 4723-18-02 and 4723-18-03 of the Administrative Code may serve as an educational provider if the employer:
(1) Employs or contracts with a registered nurse who holds a master's degree and has at least two years of experience in nursing education or adult education;
(2) Designs and executes a learning plan approved in advance by the board supervising member for disciplinary matters or the supervising member's designee that is tailored to meet the educational intervention prescribed for the PIIP candidate; and
(3) Agrees to maintain confidentiality of PIIP records in accordance with section 4723.282 of the Revised Code.
(D) When an educational provider is selected by a PIIP participant the provider shall:
(1) Maintain the confidentiality of the participant's participation in PIIP and of all records associated with the participant's specific prescribed educational intervention;
(2) Timely review the practice deficiency information provided by the participant that sets forth the specific prescribed educational intervention needed by the participant;
(3) Formulate and provide to the participant a learning plan for the participant that includes:
(a) Measurable objectives the participant must meet to successfully complete the prescribed educational intervention;
(b) The anticipated duration of the prescribed educational intervention; and
(c) The site at which the prescribed educational intervention will take place;
(4) Report to PIIP regarding the participant's progress in remediation at the intervals specified by PIIP;
(5) Notify PIIP in writing within five days of the occurrence of any of the following:
(a) Failure of the participant to satisfactorily progress through the prescribed educational intervention in the manner and during the time frame prescribed by the supervising member, or the participant's expulsion or termination from the intervention; or
(b) Failure of the participant to successfully complete the prescribed educational intervention.
When notification is provided in accordance with this paragraph, the educational provider shall provide to PIIP, within fourteen days after notification, evidence that documents the participant's failure to progress through or complete the prescribed educational intervention;
(6) Provide written verification to PIIP when the participant successfully completes the educational activity; and
(7) Provide a means acceptable to PIIP for the participant to complete the educational intervention if the provider ceases to provide the intervention.
(E) For purposes of providing the prescribed educational intervention directed by the supervising member, an educational provider selected by a PIIP participant shall be considered a representative of the board and, in accordance with section 4723.021 of the Revised Code, shall not be held liable in damages to any person as the result of any act, omission, proceeding, conduct, or decision related to official duties undertaken or performed pursuant to this chapter.
R.C. 119.032 review dates: 10/01/2012
Promulgated Under: 119.03
Statutory Authority: 4723.07, 4723.282
Rule Amplifies: 4723.282
Prior Effective Dates: 02/01/2001, 02/01/2002, 02/01/2007, 02/01/2009 | <urn:uuid:7d27d32c-1912-4891-ac16-146abd8e75df> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://codes.ohio.gov/oac/4723-18-06 | 2013-06-18T22:37:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.911898 | 804 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Member since: Jan 3rd, 2008
Jan 3rd 2008 7:54PM Well, sometimes they do... ;)I mean sure, there's a perfectly reasonable justification for blocking certain computers from Internet access, but I have gone years without ever seeing a single reason to lock down a client workstation from all Internet access. Every kiosk in the region has the *sole* purpose of web browsing. Hell, our department's primary management system is completely web-based...I would be shocked if someone even suggested the idea.Anyway, my point isn't to suggest that maybe *you're* doing it just for "gits and shiggles", but if that is in fact the case, don't brag about it. That kind of attitude is a one-way ticket to having a whole department or school or office staring down their noses at you...and whoever replaces you...and whoever replaces them when they resign from the stress of being hated so damn much.IT admins are the Homeland Security of the office...they're handed sweeping authority over the thing sitting on your desk that you use for 8 hours a day. If that authority ever finds itself abused, you could go years without somebody smiling at you in the hallway.
Save your tabs and Panorama tab groups in Firefox 4
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[Q] Caller can't hear me when screen fades with bluetooth
I have an HTC HD2 on TMobile and for some reason when bluetooth is being used (plantronics voyager) the instant the screen fades to save power the caller no longer hears me and thinks he's lost the phone connection.
But, I can still hear him...hello? hellloooo?
If I'm near the phone and wake the screen up by pressing a button, then they can hear me again.
I've put a lot of time in setting up my phone and trying new apps and don't want to start from scratch.
Anyone have any registry changes that might help or other solution?
"How can I get hot water that's Ready and at Temp at sinks and showers using an htc hd2?"
ANSWER: Start your browser app on your htc hd2 and search for "hot water optimizer control box" | <urn:uuid:3d437057-431a-4f7d-b66b-a95a3c8176df> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25025611 | 2013-06-18T22:45:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944786 | 193 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
dbus-cpp attempts to provide a C++ API for D-BUS.
Hint: dbus-cpp is abandoned in favor of dbus-c++
All dbus-cpp discussion is currently on email@example.com.
CVS commits can be monitored on the dbus-commit mailing list.
Bugs & Patches
Please report bugs (and submit patches) through the freedesktop.org Bugzilla. | <urn:uuid:dc01d4b9-75cb-4464-a85f-d149eb9f2a86> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus-cpp/?action=PackagePages | 2013-06-18T22:51:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.723975 | 97 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Hope everyone is having a great weekend. I am actually writing this post incredibly late due to a date mix up. Recently, my dear friend Cammie, came out with a beautiful set called Whimsical Autumn release through Gina K. Designs. What makes this set EXTRA special, is that she is donating ALL her proceeds to the Alzheimer's charity. Cammie recently lost her grandmother to this memory robbing disease. So, in order to help with the cause, Kim is giving a 10% discount on ALL stamps on the MFT site. Use the coupon code Cammie at checkout to receive 10% off all the stamps in your shopping cart. (It won’t discount your other merchandise, just stamps.) She will donate 10% of ALL proceeds (including money spent on other items on the site) to the National Alzheimer’s Association. The problem is the SALE ends TODAY! But you still have time to place that order and also contribute to a great cause!
Cammie is also having a HUGE BLOG CANDY Extravaganza!! Make sure to check out her blog for more details.
Sunday, September 21, 2008
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I changed a computer from work from a domain to a workgroup. Instead of going and changing the user accounts etc my machine restarted. Now I have the Log On To Windows screen with the Username and Password up and it won't accept the Admin account. Neither does it have the drop down list where I can ask to login to local machine. How can I bypass this welcome screen and get into windows.
May 7, 2008 2:47 PM
May 8, 2008 2:45 PM | <urn:uuid:30a406ce-4d1f-4def-bd25-34fa5194663e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/help-logging-in/?watch=33484 | 2013-06-18T22:51:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928263 | 100 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Eyewitness is an action thriller with a spiritual twist. Sal Longo is an American archaeologist in Qumran, Israel, searching for Biblical treasures in the rugged hills overlooking the Dead Sea.
Since 1947 eleven caves have been unearthed here. Inside were 800 Biblical texts and the community rules of a breakaway Jewish sect known as the Essenes. Unlike earlier expeditions, Longo's team is using computerized imaging equipment to locate hidden caves. After three blistering seasons though, he is still searching for a super cave. When a Bedouin boy stumbles upon what may be the greatest scroll of all time, he unwittingly thrusts Sal Longo into a classic battle between good and evil.
The novel's story inside a story transports readers to Jesus of Nazareth on that fateful weekend 2,000 years ago that changed the world. Just as the ancient scroll once made a hurried journey to safety in Qumran, Longo and his gritty intern with digital media skills, Lucy Stone, must find a contemporary sanctuary. One unforeseen slip-up will mean Jesus' backstory, as told by a non-disciple, and their lives will be lost in the forbidding Judean Wilderness. | <urn:uuid:957b6c03-5e22-40ff-845a-e97b6cbfad6d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://jacktscully.com/ | 2013-06-18T22:56:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939829 | 241 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
One winner receives access for him/her and 19 guests to a Hall of Fame Suite at Kauffman Stadium for a 2012 regular season home game (to be scheduled at the Kansas City Royals sole discretion). Food and non-alcoholic beverages included.
One winner also receives a jersey signed by a 2012 Royals All-Star representative.
See the Official Rules, which govern the sweepstakes, for more information.
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To be eligible for this ticket offer, fans must successfully transmit at least one (1) MLB All-Star Game 2012 ALL-STAR GAME MLB Ballot(s) between 10:00 a.m. ET on April 20, 2012, and 11:59 p.m. ET on June 28, 2012 (the "Entry Period"), with the Kansas City Royals selected as a "favorite" or "other favorite" Club. 2012 ALL-STAR GAME voting has ended. | <urn:uuid:233ba9f9-c3c9-4ed0-aee6-2f20883aba15> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://kansascity.royals.mlb.com/kc/fan_forum/allstar_offers.jsp?partnerId=aw-6514096682203368167-1121 | 2013-06-18T22:51:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.92711 | 243 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
June 8, 2010
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Kim Terry, Director of Marketing and Communications
Published: June 21, 2012
Noon Tunes, the popular series of musical lunch breaks in the Atrium of the Downtown Library, 300 Park Avenue, continues in July and August. The programs are free and take place every Thursday from Noon to 1:00p..m. Bring a sack lunch or just relax to the beat.
For more information about this or any Metropolitan Library System program, visit the
MLS website, www.metrolibrary.org.
The Metropolitan Library System of Oklahoma County includes 13 libraries and five extension libraries. Libraries include Belle Isle, Capitol Hill, Patience S. Latting Northwest, Ralph Ellison, Ronald J. Norick Downtown Library, and Southern Oaks in Oklahoma City, as well as Bethany, Choctaw, Del City, Edmond, Midwest City, Village and Warr Acres. Extensions are located in the communities of Harrah, Jones, Luther and Nicoma Park and include Wright Library in Oklahoma City. You can also reach us at www.metrolibrary.org. | <urn:uuid:01776f21-782e-4187-b441-2c6cd45ecdd0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://mls.lib.ok.us/mls/mls_news/2012/noon_tunes_at_downtown_lib_2012-06.html | 2013-06-18T22:57:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936859 | 220 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
An alternate I created by combining 2 Indiana Jones Lost Tomb sets.
About this creation
Lost Tomb x2+My imagination=A much better set!
PLZZZZ leave reviews! The reason i put stuff on MOC pages is to get YOUR input.
For my birthday I got a couple Borders cards from Aunts/Uncles, I of course spent them on legos. (I also bought myself a copy of Blue Harvest, WOOT!)In all I got 4 different sets, two Lost tombs, and two of the little motorcycle chase ones. When I got back from the store, U popped in my new DVD, sat down, and began building...
Originally I intended to make alternates for each of the different sets, but because the motorcycle ones consist of like nothing, I had to settle with only making one.
This Alternate consists of 20 snakes, 4 jackals, 4 spears, 2 skeletons, and one much impoved treasure! (the original one was so wimpy, my sock would be worth more!)
Interior shot of the hall way, i kept all the original decals.
I dont know why i included these, it's just a wied little chain i made using the jackal's hands. (theres one on each side)
In the end, i used almost all of the pieces. The few that were left over were totally useless, like the littlle rubber things and the 1x2s with holes im em.
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Retirement communities aren't just geared toward golfers and pool loungers anymore. Niche retirement communities are on the rise, says Andrew Carle, the founding director of George Mason University's Senior Housing Administration, a management program for retirement facilities. "Retirees want more choices," Carle explains. "When you have 78 million baby boomers, they have a lot of expectations with retirement."
Carle adds that the market for niche retirement communities will continue to explode. "This is just the tip of the iceberg," he says. "The days where your only choices are assisted living or a nursing home are long gone."
Specialized retirement communities fit retirees' needs for a variety of hobbies and cultures. The most popular are university-based retirement communities, which Carle refers to as UBRCs, which offer retirees the opportunity to attend campus events, like concerts and arts programs, as well as sit in on classes. Kendal, a retirement community near Oberlin College in Ohio, capitalizes on its relationship with the school by having string quartets perform at its facility. About 37 percent of Kendal residents are alumni or former faculty and staff of the school, according to the community's website.
Other niche retirement communities offer a more unique experience. The national average rent for an assisted living community in 2011 was $3,477 monthly, according to a Metlife Market Survey. Here's a look at seven that break the mold without breaking the bank, according to Carle, who says they're equivalent in price to regular retirement communities.
Express yourself. Burbank Senior Artists Colony in Burbank, Calif., targets a specific demographic: aspiring artists. Americans looking to paint well into their 60s and 70s or write their first novel can do it at Burbank. The 141-unit community boasts a 40-seat performance theater, artist studios and classrooms, a library, and art display galleries. Rent runs between $1,300 and $1,900 per month, not including healthcare services.
Shoot for the stars. Astronomy lovers can gaze at the stars among others with an affinity for the night sky at Chiefland Astronomy Village in Chiefland, Fla. The village's skies aren't affected by light pollution as much as some other spots, which explains why stargazers flock to the community, where nearly every home has a built-in telescope.
Take flight. Aviators gather at Spruce Creek Fly-In, a community just a few miles south of Daytona Beach, Fla. Built around a training facility used by the Navy in the mid-1970s, Spruce Creek was formed by a group of aviators from Atlanta. "They thought this would be a great way to combine a place for their business in the sky and a place to raise their families," says Ken Renner, a 54-year-old resident. Renner raised his daughter at Spruce Creek and has lived in the community for more than 20 years.
Renner's home is one of more than 1,500 in the area. The community comes together for events like the annual Wings & Wheels Day, a celebration of Spruce Creek's love of cars, motorcycles, and airplanes. Aside from aviation, the community offers a country club with an 18-hole golf course, tennis courts, swimming pool, and social groups for everything from kayaking to quilting.
Live well. Health enthusiasts rejoice at Fox Hills Club, a Bethesda, Md., retirement community with a calling card of "wellness" offerings for the mind, body, and spirit. Retirees take advantage of the gym, which is stocked with Keiser athletic machines designed for elite athletes but well-suited for seniors, a full-service spa, three health-conscious gourmet restaurants, organic herb garden, indoor golf range, putting green, outdoor walking trails, swimming pool with electronic lifts, and onsite physical therapy. If that's not enough to burn off the calories, there are daily classes including water aerobics as well as an onsite personal trainer. Units are for sale and priced between $600,000 and $2 million, according to the New York Times. | <urn:uuid:7e255503-8a83-498b-80b6-29a3fac52cb4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://money.usnews.com/money/retirement/articles/2012/04/13/boomers-flock-to-niche-retirement-communities | 2013-06-18T22:33:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968979 | 849 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |