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Welcome! I do not currently offer counseling or coaching but maintain this site for those interested in information about LGBTQI youth, mental health and well-being!
Disclaimer: None of the writing or information here is intended to serve as a substitute for professional medical or mental health care. If you are experiencing distress and are in need of help, please contact your doctor or a local mental health agency.
Looking for a place to talk to someone who understands? The Trevor Project is for LGBTQI youth in mental health crisis or who are feeling suicidal: 1-866-488-7386. You can also try The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255) or the GLBT National Youth Talkline at 1-800-246-PRIDE (1-800-246-7743). You are not alone. | <urn:uuid:cea2fcfa-d6cd-4d9e-b62a-f04935073b53> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.jaymepeta.com/ | 2013-06-20T11:58:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711515185/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133835-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.917537 | 173 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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This Website has industry-standard security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control, and we make good faith efforts to store your personal information in a secure operating environment. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be absolutely secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk. If JurdyGreen.com provides you with a user name and password to access other portions of the Site, JurdyGreen.com disclaims any responsibility for a breach of privacy as a result of your willingly or inadvertently disclosing your user name and password to others. | <urn:uuid:5af3d354-65fb-4cee-a369-3819fb813af7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.jurdybiz.com/index_files/Page1793.htm | 2013-06-20T11:47:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711515185/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133835-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.921892 | 1,132 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
New Mexico Limited Liability Company
New Mexico LLCs are governed by New Mexico Code – Chapter 53, Article 19 Limited Liability Companies.
New Mexico LLC registration:
Forming an LLC in New Mexico will cost a $50 LLC articles of organization state filing fee.
The state of New Mexico Public Regulation Commission is in charge of filing New Mexico LLCs, and it will take them about 3 months to process your New Mexico limited liability company articles of organization. You have to mail your NM articles of organization to the NMPRC.
When forming an LLC in New Mexico, our service includes:
Total New Mexico company cost if you use our services:
$275 for a New Mexico limited liability company and that includes the states New Mexico LLC filing fee.
Any NM company expedited options?
You can pay for expedited processing, which is a good idea if you want to get filed in the near future. If you pay $100 they will process in about 2 days, or $150 will get you filed the next business day. Make sure you include a separate check for the expedite fee.
How much does an NM LLC cost each year?
New Mexico LLCs do not have to file reports with the NMPRC.
What are the New Mexico LLC taxes?
There is a minimum franchise tax due of $50.
The average New Mexico sales tax rate is 6.4%. The state has a 5% tax, but the average local tax is 1.4% making a total of 6.4%.
Northwest Registered Agent, Inc.
Santa Fe, NM 87505
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The timer is set on Treyarch’s latest Call of Duty game Black-Ops and we still know very little about the multiplayer. All we know is the release date of November 9th, 2010 and some news and facts about the single player. I’m starting to get a bit excited and with MW2′s glitches time couldn’t be any slower. Btw I’m loving how the tight the machine gun in Black Ops looks. And backstaber looks like a kill we’ll see alot of.
One question: Is that little robot a view of Black Ops killstreak reward? What do you think of the video? | <urn:uuid:380c812e-360d-463a-a683-7cc0a77637ff> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.perezstart.com/microsoft/xbox360-microsoft/new-call-of-duty-black-ops-multiplayer-trailer/10875/comment-page-1/ | 2013-06-20T11:33:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711515185/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133835-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.910258 | 137 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The Catholic church shows no sign of backing down in its struggle with President Obama over Obamacare’s requirement that Catholic institutions cover birth control, casting the issue in broader terms as a matter of religious freedom.
Obama is sure to suffer politically from the fallout in key swing states with large Catholic voting populations, like Pennsylvania, Ohio and other areas of the Midwest. Most Catholics use birth control, but many may recoil at any perceived attack by Obama on the church.
On Meet the Press, Bishop William Lori, archbishop-designate of Baltimore, said:
What we’ve seen is an erosion of religious liberty. Our teachings had been accommodated, but now they are not being accommodated.
Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York said the church would continue the fight, brushing aside the White House “compromise” that allows Catholic institutions to avoid paying for contraception but still forces them to offer coverage for it.
The issue may be mooted if the Supreme Court strikes down Obamacare. But the perception that Obama was bullying the church and threatening religious freedom may linger right through Election Day. | <urn:uuid:a728fbf2-43fb-4bf6-9cec-13f4a249a0a4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.politisite.com/2012/04/09/catholic-leaders-take-the-fight-to-obama/ | 2013-06-20T11:33:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711515185/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133835-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963839 | 225 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
GSMA sees 2.6GHz future
Digs knife a little deeper into WiMAX
The GSMA argues that the majority of the 2.6GHz band should be LTE-friendly, conceding that WiMAX needs some space to play in the interest of neutrality.
The details come in a report (pdf) from the GSMA, the industry body representing GSM-based-mobile operators, which argues that 340MHz of the 2.6GHz band should be allocated on a Frequency Division basis - ideally suited to LTE - though it's prepared to see 50MHz handed over to the WiMAX crowd even if it ends up empty, as WiMAX itself probably won't last the age of the licence.
The band, which runs from 2.5GHz to 2.69GHz, was allocated (worldwide) for mobile communications back in 2000 when it was popularly expected that 3G services would expand there once 2.1GHz was full up with everyone making video calls. That didn't happen, but there is demand for more data now; so the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has proposed three options for dividing up the bands between Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) and Time Division Duplex (TDD):
The difference lies in how handsets communicate with the network. In FDD systems one frequency is used for the uplink, and a different one for the downlink: that's how existing 3G systems work and LTE (the GSMA's preferred 4G technology) also uses it to provide easy coexistence with 3G. TDD systems use one frequency over which the base station and mobile take turns to speak; much like a traditional walkie-talkie. TDD is what the current version of WiMAX uses.
Obviously the GSMA would prefer Option 2, but that doesn't even pretend to be technology neutral so must be discounted. Option 3 would seem the most flexible, but FDD and TDD systems don't like to be too close to each other, and should neighbouring countries allocate the same spectrum to different multiplexing systems the result will be a right mess, so the GSMA is forced to recommend Option 1 while predicting that it will leave 50MHz of spectrum fallow.
And that's what some countries have already adopted, with the notable exception of the USA and Canada who forged ahead allocating spectrum before international agreements had been reached. In the USA that means TDD services, much to the disdain of the GSMA, which sniffily reckons that "at some point it may well become desirable to make better use of the 2.6GHz band in the United States than is represented by the current investments of Clearwire and Sprint Nextel".
In the UK 2.6GHz was supposed to have been auctioned off 18 months ago, but got caught up in a series of legal complications and delaying actions by the operators, and now it's part of the Digital Britain project. During that process the TDD allocation has been significantly reduced, and the UK now endorses Option 1 if Ofcom ever gets round to selling the block.
Ofcom is supposed to be technology neutral, but while the next version of WiMAX could use the FDD spectrum it's much better suited to LTE. So the way in which the spectrum is sold (in pairs or blocks) determines the technology for which it's best suited.
But Ofcom also carries the legacy of last time it did this, when 20MHz of spectrum was allocated to TDD services over the 3G networks. Every UK operator except Vodafone bought 5MHz of that spectrum and it still lies empty. The GSMA expects the same fate to befall the 50MHz of spectrum allocated to TDD at 2.6GHz, as WiMAX dies, but sees no way to avoid that outcome without giving up any pretence of technology neutrality. ®
An unfortunate misunderstanding
I am one of the authors of the 2.6GHz report for the GSMA and hence hardly a neutral observer. However, I must protest against the perpetuation of a serious misunderstanding in this article about the report. The article implies that FDD=LTE and TDD=WiMAX. However, in the report we explicitly state and show by referring to the intense development being put into TDD LTE (led by China but involving Western as well as Chinese vendors) including the stress on maximizing its commonality with FDD LTE, that LTE will be available for deployment in TDD spectrum at 2.6GHz and other frequencies. There is no basis for the implication that the GSMA expects any 2.6GHz spectrum allocated to TDD to lie unused "as WiMAX dies." TDD LTE will be available while if you believe the WiMAX Forum so will FDD WiMAX. It is high time to abandon the idea that technology neutrality or fair competition between LTE and WiMAX are the same thing as or require neutrality in how spectrum is allocated between FDD and TDD modes of operation. As the report shows, the realities of interference mean that allowing freedom of choice in use of TDD and FDD is in a mild way equivalent to letting people decide which side of the road to drive on in the name of individual freedom (although electromagnetic collisions are less lethal than vehicular ones).
Ustrung Quotes GSMA Director as saying....
Yes but the GSMA also said,
“There is clear evidence that the volume of data flowing over mobile networks is growing rapidly and is being accelerated by the popularity of smart phones and the growth in music and video downloads,” said Tom Phillips, Chief Regulatory Affairs Officer at the GSMA. “The report highlights that the 2.6 GHz band will allow operators to address rapidly increasing traffic volumes in an efficient and harmonised way. Recent licensing of this band in Hong Kong, Norway, Finland and Sweden, for example, has highlighted that there is more demand for paired (FDD) than unpaired spectrum (TDD) and that the ITU’s recommended Option 1** plan is the best structure to stimulate market growth in a technology-neutral and competitive environment.”
from this link, http://www.unstrung.com/document.asp?doc_id=186640, under the heading of "Report: 2.6GHz Spectrum Key for LTE". | <urn:uuid:753354de-3492-43c1-8572-8d83fe1e0db0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/13/2_6ghz_options/ | 2013-06-20T11:30:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711515185/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133835-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94883 | 1,289 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
On February 23rd, Canada took it’s first step toward the creation of a national amateur radio DMR network with the launch of the first inter-provincial DMR networking server. This server, known commonly as a “c-Bridge”, which is manufactured by Rayfield Communications, will serve as a network hub for Canadian amateur radio DMR repeaters, allowing them to reliably link to one another and to the larger DMR-MARC global network using the Internet. The Canadian c-Bridge is located in Montreal and is currently supporting several DMR repeaters in Ontario and Quebec, including the VA3XPR digital DMR repeater located in downtown Toronto.
A special thanks goes out to all who made the launch of the Canadian c-Bridge possible, including Alain, VA2SPB, Chris, VE3BNI, Stephane, VE2TAX, Pierre, VE2PRT, Mike, AA9VI, JP, KC9KKO, John, W0PM and Don, VA3XFT.
For more information on the Canadian c-Bridge and how your organization can connect their DMR repeater to it, please contact Don Trynor, VA3XFT. | <urn:uuid:e70e85d2-c9ab-48a5-9714-3a041ce9e52c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.va3xpr.net/2013/02/ | 2013-06-20T11:52:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711515185/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133835-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949371 | 254 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
James snapped this picture of the yacht Lady Christine Saturday morning. The boat was docked over night in Troy up river of the Green Island Bridge.
The Monaco-based boat is also for sale, apparently. It went on the market for €45 million last year -- but you can have it now for the low low price of just €39.9 million (about $55 million). It seems the economic downturn has the super yacht market taking on water.
The Lady Christine's current owner is the infamous Irving Laidlaw -- a Scotsman who's been described as a "tax exile" in Monaco. The boat is named after his wife. Laidlaw made headlines in the UK last year when, as the Daily Mail describes it, he was "secretly filmed with four prostitutes and a male gigolo in the £6,000-a-night presidential suite of Monte Carlo's sumptuous Hermitage Hotel. He had paid £27,000 for the pleasure of their company."
So how did this boat end up in Troy? Good question. If you know, we'd love to hear it.
We've posted a wider crop of James' photo (bigger, too). As he said in an email to us: "The scale is very impressive. Nice helicopter, too."
(Thanks, James and Lissa!)
We'd really like you to take part in the conversation here at All Over Albany. But we do have a few rules here. Don't worry, they're easy. The first: be kind. The second: treat everyone else with the same respect you'd like to see in return. Cool? Great, post away. Comments are moderated so it might take a little while for your comment to show up. Thanks for being patient. | <urn:uuid:05858933-0639-479d-96ef-037d06e991e2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://alloveralbany.com/archive/2009/06/20/that-is-a-really-big-boat | 2013-05-18T11:42:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382360/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972568 | 363 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Manually Install Android 2.2 on your Google Nexus One
For Android enthusiasts, being able to run Android 2.2 on the Google Nexus One is a must. Those who received review units of the Google Nexus One back in January already received the 2.2 update, but the majority of Nexus One owners still did not receive the OTA update.
Someone managed to find the update file located on Google servers, but it was shortly thereafter removed by Google because they did not want their own update file being leaked on a massive scale to the public. However, many users who already downloaded the zip file on Google servers set up mirror files to distribute the file to the public. By performing a simple Google search, I’m sure you can find one of many zip files containing the necessary update. Just be careful about which sites you download from because the file may look legit but might actually be spyware/malware. Even though Google does not condone downloading the file and installing it yourself, Google will not void any warranties on phones that are running Android 2.2.
Below are ten simple steps reported by Helium that should work to run Android 2.2 on your phone.
1. Locate a link from an entity you feel comfortable with .
2. Rename the file to update.zip
3. If you are using Windows and do not have “Show file extensions” active in file explorer, you will not see the .zip extension. Rename the file “update” (No quotes used).
4. Copy the file update.zip onto the root of the microSD card – not into a folder
5. While your nexus One is off, hold down the trackball and then press the power button
6. When your phone boots, three Android robots on skateboards will appear. Select “Bootloader.”
7. At your next prompt, select “Recovery”
8. Your phone will reboot, and a picture of an Android robot with an exclamation point inside of a triangle will appear.
9. Press the power button and the volume up button simultaneously. It may take a couple tries to get this right.
10. Using the trackball, choose “Apply sdcard:update.zip” and the program will take over.
Now, if the zip file you downloaded is greater than 44MB in size, or less than 41MB in size, chances are it is not legit. In addition, your phone must have a build number of ERE27, if it is anything other than that code, the manual installation will not work. At Android-Apps.com, we advise you to proceed with caution. The real Google Android 2.2 OTA update should be sent out to all Nexus One phones soon enough. | <urn:uuid:eb0f52ca-ebeb-4647-a25e-fafbcc915e01> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://android-apps.com/articles/manually-install-android-2-2-on-your-google-nexus-one/ | 2013-05-18T11:56:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382360/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.918136 | 574 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The eight years of the Bush Administration were, for many of our liberal pundits, a certifiable catastrophe for civil liberties in the United States. Regularly paraded before us in the nation’s newspapers is the evidence: the Patriot Act of 2002 which, according to informed opinion, validated the invasion of individual privacy; the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, a vehicle for insidious personal searches at airports; the NSA Wire Tapping Scheme, an excuse to spy on Americans and the alleged torture of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay -a mark of shame for the American military.
All of these actions provided damning proof of a malignant Bush Administration seeking as its ultimate objective the destruction of the constitutional liberties of the American people.
But putting aside the motivations and intentionality of the Bush Administration, does our 43rd president really deserve the award for the most outrageous abuser of constitutional rights?
The answer is a defiant no. Those awards fall to two presidents who are not usually associated with serial human rights abuses.
Abraham Lincoln is revered almost universally as the savior of the nation, holding the Union together almost single handedly during its time of greatest crisis. But in order to bring about that salvation Lincoln was forced to take extraordinary measures, actions that had he performed them today, would have gotten him impeached.
Perhaps the most egregious of these was the suspension of habeas corpus. The concept of Habeas Corpus, the prohibition against detention without cause, was enshrined in Article 1, Section 9 of the U.S. Constitution and was the only direct import from English Common Law. It must be remembered that in the 1860s, America was still a society of small farmers where most people never saw a national army and certainly never encountered a national police force. In this small town environment the writ of habeas corpus came to represent America’s commitment to personal freedom, a guarantee of a right to a fair trial and a hedge against arbitrary arrest. .
But in April 1861, not a month after taking office, Lincoln was faced with the reality of an outright insurrection and with the secession of seven southern states. When some of the border states looked as though they might also tumble into the Confederacy, Lincoln became nervous. It was obvious to the North that if Maryland seceded, Washington D.C. itself would be surrounded, cut off from the rest of the Union and a virtual decapitation of the nation’s leadership would ensue.
When then, on April 19, 1861, 20,000 Confederate sympathizers in Baltimore tried to stop Union troops from traveling from one train station to another en route to Washington, Lincoln quickly decided to suspended the habeas corpus privilege on points along the Philadelphia-Washington route. That meant Union generals could arrest and detain without trial anyone in the area who threatened “public safety.” When a Marylander, John Merryman , was arrested under the edict, he filed a complaint under the Writ of Habeas Corpus to the Supreme Court. The chief justice, Roger Tanney, thereafter issued an order for Merryman to be released. However the commanding officer at Fort McHenry, where Merryman was held, refused to do so, citing the conflict with the Chief Executive’s order. Merryman was not released
If that wasn’t bad enough, then Lincoln’s actions in July, 1862 should surely have cast him as the constitutional villain of the 19th Century.
Following the institution of the highly unpopular draft in the summer of 1862, Secretary of War Edward Stanton, at Lincoln‘s behest, issued sweeping orders on August 8 suspending habeas corpus nationwide - the first time the writ was suspended in the country’s history beyond a narrowly defined emergency area. Stanton decreed that anyone “engaged, by act, speech, or writing, in discouraging volunteer enlistments, or in any way giving aid and comfort to the enemy, or in any other disloyal practice against the United States” was subject to arrest and trial “before a military commission.”
Overall, between 10,000 and 15,000 people were incarcerated without a prompt trial. Very few historians have ever contended that their detention truly enhanced American security or hastened a Union victory.
Our 28th president, Woodrow Wilson, has been showered by history with a reputation for humanitarianism, devotion to principle and fairness. But his record on civil rights is somewhat less than pristine.
After the United States’ entry into the First World in April, 1917, Wilson moved quickly and firmly to silent dissent to his policies. The Espionage Act of 1917 made it a crime to obstruct or criticize the war and gave the postmaster general the right to censor “seditious” magazines and newspapers. The Sedition Act of 1918 (an amended version of the Espionage Act) went further and said it was a crime to “willfully utter, print, write or publish” any expression of disloyalty toward or criticism of the U.S. government, its Constitution, its flag, or its military uniforms.
During World War I, a massive domestic intelligence system was erected to protect Americans on their own soil. It was the largest corps of homeland spies ever assembled in any nation during wartime and it included at least 300,000 volunteer spies in organizations such as the American Protective League, the National Security League, the Liberty League, the Home Defense League, the Sedition Slammers, and the Boy Spies of America.
The Armistice in November 1918 did not bring these draconian measures to an end. Rather, in 1919 wartime legislation intended to curb criticism of the government was extended and even strengthened. And decorated African-American soldiers, returning home to claim the democracy for which they had risked their lives, were greeted with lynchings across the south, accelerated discrimination and the arrival of secret agents from the government’s “Negro Subversion” unit who routinely shadowed outspoken black leaders.
Despite all of these abuses, both Lincoln and Wilson remain firmly lodged in the popular imagination as great presidents who used their office to advance broad national goals, promote national cohesion and security and to enunciate principles that have long guided their successors.
So what would Abe and Woodrow do today if faced with our security threats? Can there really be any doubt that these redoubtable presidents, informed of significant internal and external threats to the safety and security of the American public, would have acted just as Bush did? In fact, both might have even regarded Bush’s actions as inadequate in effecting a full defense of the homeland and may have called upon him to enact even more stringent measures.
No one should pretend that there is some kind of manual which provides American presidents with absolute guidance on to how to operate in all manner of crises. It is easy as a presidential candidate to decry what is seen from a distance as arbitrary measures taken against American citizens. But the long view of history offers a much deeper perspective on presidential action and it is not forgiving of errors which allow for breaches in national security.
Suffice to say the new American president will soon learn that the conflict between individual liberty and national security, is the defining conflict of this century. There is no one who can assure Barack Obama now of how history will judge his actions in addressing that struggle. He must trust to his instincts, far more than popular opinion, in determining the brake that is needed to be placed on individual liberties in a time of conflict..
And he should remember that in a nuclear age, when rogue regimes and terrorist organizations have increasing access to weapons which could annihilate the United States, the margin for error grows slimmer with each passing year. | <urn:uuid:ec22bac4-08ed-4292-8695-f63aabc0a92b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://avidavis.wordpress.com/2009/02/ | 2013-05-18T11:33:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382360/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966234 | 1,570 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Fig. 1: Reed projectile point, 23CN571, 2007
Late Woodland Mississippian, Reed points are less common than the Scallorn notched point. 28.6 mm x 15.5 mm x 2.9mm.
The study of the human past is divided into two general periods of time: prehistory and history. Normally, prehistory refers to the time before written records. However, this simple system of categorization is not entirely accurate. In Missouri, history is typically considered to have begun with the earliest settlement of Euro-Americans who sustained contact with and wrote about local Native Americans. The prehistory of Missouri is divided into four broad stages (Paleoindian, Archaic, Woodland, and Mississippian) and each of those is divided into three periods (Early, Middle, and Late).
The distribution of archaeological remains in this area is directly linked to the ways human groups structured their everyday activities. The prehistoric period within the area where Wilson Creek meets the James River has not been as abundantly examined as the historical era. Most prehistoric sites within the locale are represented by scatters of stone tools and other debris that cannot be dated. However, a few sites provide insight into the regional prehistory of this area and the people who lived during those times. Various sites have yielded evidence of prehistoric occupation ranging from the Paleoindian, which dates to approximately 13,000–12,000 before present (BP) to Archaic (12,000 – 3,000 BP) to Woodland (3,000-1,100 BP) through Mississippian (1,100 – 400 BP).
The Jameson site is located in the Delaware Town area and exhibits stratified or layered deposits of artifacts descending to four meters below surface. Three projectile point types have so far been recovered from various strata or layers at the Jameson site. These consist of: Packard, Graham Cave (Early Archaic) and Smith (Late Archaic). The occurrence of the Packard point indicates a likely Paleoindian component. It is assumed by some that Packard points immediately preceded late Paleoindian Dalton points; however, others consider Packard to date later than Dalton. Additional materials were located below the 3.35 meter depth of the identified Packard point, which suggests those artifacts date to the Paleoindian stage.
Two radiocarbon dates were obtained from charred material in alluvial sediments that contained the Graham Cave projectile point, dating to the Early Archaic period. A charred acorn nut meat dating to 8320+/- 40 BP was found above the Graham Cave projectile point and a Graham Cave preform. A piece of wood charcoal dated to 7800+/- 40 BP and was located below the Graham Cave artifacts and acorn nut meat.
Paleo—environmental evidence show that the Archaic period was a time of dynamic ecosystem change, resulting in shifting distributions of food resources. The people during this period were forced to adapt as well. During the Early Archaic, the people are thought to have pursued a generalist foraging strategy, meaning they gathered whatever resources were abundant in their environment.
A concentration of Middle to Late Woodland artifacts is present at the Delaware Bridge Cairn site. Burial mound construction is one characteristic of the Woodland period. These mounds sometimes contained grave goods, often made of exotic materials showing evidence of trade. The presence of mounds implies that cultural groups were more sedentary and likely adopted small scale food production. However, many archaeologists believe that Woodland peoples in this region continued to rely on hunting and gathering for their primary subsistence. The Delaware Bridge Cairn site contained a burial (Feature 3) with nine Anculosa snail shell beads found in the vicinity of the individual’s neck. Their presence indicates trade in exotic goods. The shells most likely originated from the freshwater river systems of the Southeast.
Another feature (Feature 1) contained charred human bone fragments found in association with five disc-shaped shell beads. In addition, two undecorated pottery sherds were found in this feature. Along with a polished bone awl, a corner-notched projectile point crafted from Pitkin chert was discovered in the locality of the bones in Feature 1. Four projectile points from Feature 6, a bundle burial with associated stone artifacts, were also made of Pitkin chert. The presence of the Pitkin chert type is significant because it is found in northwest Arkansas, not southwest Missouri.
The Mississippian period is represented by a component identified in Area B at 23CN1. Shell-tempered pottery, Scallorn arrowpoints, and a hearth were excavated by the 2005 MSU Archaeological Field School. The Neosho phase is an archaeological complex occurring during the Late Mississippian period. It appears about A.D. 1300-1350 and fades out around A.D. 1600-1650. This complex is believed to represent Caddoan influences on the material culture of peoples living in southwest Missouri at that time. In particular, the Kadohadacho Caddo, whose large villages centered on the Red, Ouachita, and Arkansas rivers in north Texas, eastern Oklahoma, and western Arkansas, are thought by some to be the historic descendants of earlier peoples of the Neosho phase. The Kadohadacho had a chiefdom society that practiced primarily agriculture, but also fished, hunted, and gathered plants. They grew crops of corn, beans, and squash. Their language is closely related to that of the Pawnee and Wichita tribes of the central Plains and it is thought that they were previously one group. Archaeologically, Neosho materials include flat-bottomed ceramic vessels of the shell-tempered Neosho Punctate and Woodward Plain types; Fresno, Scallorn, Huffaker, and Nodena arrowpoint types; Harahey knives; and end scrapers. | <urn:uuid:9231463d-64b4-4a42-9de3-1d3ee12a3a23> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://delawaretown.missouristate.edu/prehistoric.html | 2013-05-18T11:41:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382360/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964854 | 1,211 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
“We are extremely excited to have a partner on board to complete the final phase of the US 36 improvements that will address the needs of this vital corridor and support continued economic growth in the area,” said Mike Cheroutes, Director of the HPTE. “We wouldn’t be here today without the dedication and hard work by our local, state and federal stakeholders.”
CDOT and HPTE will enter into a 50-year agreement with Plenary Roads Denver who will:
Construct Phase 2 of the US 36 Corridor which includes:
- Constructing an Express Lane in each direction of US 36 between 88th Street and Table Mesa for Bus Rapid Transit (BRT), High Occupancy Vehicles (HOV) and tolled Single Occupancy Vehicles (SOV);
- Reconstructing two general purpose lanes in each direction between 88th Street and Table Mesa
- Widening the highway to accommodate 12-foot-wide inside and outside shoulders;
- Replacing the Coal Creek Bridge and rehabilitating and widening the S. Boulder Creek bridge and widening the McCaslin Boulevard bridge to accommodate a diverging diamond interchange;
- Adding Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) improvements, including new electronic display signage at stations and bus priority improvements at ramps. The improvements also will allow buses to operate on the shoulders of US 36 between interchanges to decrease bus travel time;
- Installing Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) for tolling, transit and traveler information, and incident management;
- Installing a separate commuter bikeway along the rest of the corridor; and
- Improving the RTD station at McCaslin Boulevard.
Operate and Maintain the following highways, which includes snow and ice removal:
- The entire US 36 corridor between I-25 and Table Mesa
- I-25 Express Lanes between downtown Denver and US 36
“The ability to construct large-scale roadway improvements has become more and more challenging as construction dollars are limited and we must look for ways to be more economical, efficient and effective with those limited resources,” said Trey Rogers, Chair of the HPTE Board of Directors. “The public-private partnership allows us to do just that, and as a result, we are able to move into the final phase of construction years ahead of schedule.”
About two-thirds of the Phase 2 Project costs are funded through private sector equity and non-recourse debt. The project delivers much-needed capacity, while shifting operations and maintenance and replacement obligations to the private sector for the next 50 years. And, the P3 arrangement enables the project to be completed 20 years sooner than originally planned.
The Concession team includes the following partners:
- The Plenary Group- team lead and managing partner
- Ames Construction, Inc.- construction
- Granite Construction- construction
- HDR- engineering design
- Transfield Services- maintenance
- Goldman Sachs- financial advisor
The second phase of the US 36 Express Lanes project is expected to begin construction in late 2013 and will be complete by late 2015.
About the US 36 Express Lanes/Bus Rapid Transit: The US 36 Express Lanes build upon the success of the existing I-25 Express Lanes by extending the regional Express Lanes system to form a continuous network from downtown Denver all the way to Boulder. It is a priority regional transportation project in one of the highest growth corridors in the state.
US 36 Express Lanes Project – Phase I CDOT selected the Ames Granite Joint Venture team as the design-build contractor for the $312 million project, and they began construction in July 2012. The project will open to the public in January 2015. The project is a multi-modal project led by the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) and the Regional Transportation District (RTD) to reconstruct and widen US 36 from Federal Boulevard to 88th Street in Louisville/Superior.
Phase I Project Details:
Adds an express lane in each direction of US 36 for Bus Rapid Transit (BRT), High Occupancy Vehicles (HOV) and tolled Single Occupancy Vehicles (SOV);
Widens the highway to accommodate 12-foot-wide inside and outside shoulders;
Replaces the Wadsworth Parkway, Wadsworth Boulevard (at 112th Avenue), Lowell Boulevard and Sheridan Boulevard bridges, and the US 36 bridge over the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway.
Adds Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) improvements, including new electronic display signage at stations and bus priority improvements at ramps. The improvements also will allow buses to operate on the shoulders of US 36 between interchanges to decrease bus travel time;
Installs Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) for tolling, transit and traveler information, and incident management;
Installs a separate commuter bikeway along much of the corridor; and
Improves RTD stations along the corridor, including new canopies with enhanced weather protection. | <urn:uuid:7d9f7676-f0a7-472d-9f78-e128bc5b3e67> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://goboulder.tumblr.com/ | 2013-05-18T11:33:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382360/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.912524 | 1,006 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Written by Tillman Franks and Jimmie Davis
Kitty Wells w/ daughter Carol Sue
Kitty Well's first recording session was for RCA Records in 1947 when she recorded such gospel songs, as "Gathering Flowers for the Master's Bouquet" and "How Far Is Heaven". Kitty re-recorded "How Far Is Heaven" two more times on Decca Records, in 1956 with daughter then age 9, Carol Sue.
In 1974, Wells was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, and with good reason. Kitty Wells broke down the doors for female country singers, paving the way for artists like Patsy Cline, Tammy Wynette, and Loretta Lynn. | <urn:uuid:cd4ff21b-f460-4825-85e4-18807296a25d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://heavens-gates.com/gospel/howfarisheaven/ | 2013-05-18T11:42:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382360/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940463 | 140 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
[MPlayer-users] Cannot play mkv file, error "MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: decode video"
letsokok at gmail.com
Thu May 27 18:00:56 CEST 2010
Sorry for the spam. I didn't realize that Carl has answered my
question already. As the default demuxer failed to work, it's
necessary to specify -fps in the command line. This will overwrite the
wrong fps (15) mplayer got from the media file, and make sure video
and audio are in sync. Anyway, if there is any change can be made in
mplayer to make it smarter as other players do, that will be really
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 9:22 AM, OK OK <letsokok at gmail.com> wrote:
> Adding option -demuxer lavf does help to enable the video playback.
> However, I just find another issue while playing that mkv file. For
> some reason, the audio timeline is wrong, it's about 5 seconds ahead
> of the video. If I play the file with other non-mplayer based player,
> the timeline seems correct. In the mplayer log, I found following
> Opening audio decoder: [faad] AAC (MPEG2/4 Advanced Audio Coding)
> FAAD: compressed input bitrate missing, assuming 128kbit/s!
> AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/8.33% (ratio: 16000->192000)
> Selected audio codec: [faad] afm: faad (FAAD AAC (MPEG-2/MPEG-4 Audio) decoder)
> Could that cause the out-of-sync issue? Thanks a lot for your help!
> The mkv file is available at: http://okeoke.net/downloads/beta/mkv.zip
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On a Monday evening in July, on Markham Street in Toronto, I witnessed something pretty amazing. Over 2,500 comics fans enthusiastically and peacefully gathered for one purpose: to be one of the first to purchase the sixth and final volume of the Scott Pilgrim graphic novels, Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour.
While over 150 comic shops across North America hosted midnight release parties that night, only one shop, The Beguiling had a very special guest in attendance: comics creator and former Toronto resident Bryan Lee O'Malley. There were costume contests, video game demos and live bands performing that night, and even Ellen Wong, the actress who plays Knives Chau in the Scott Pilgrim vs. the World movie was there too. But for the fans who came out that night, the main attraction was O'Malley, who signed books and posters and posed for photos at two autograph sessions, one earlier in the evening and another after midnight when the book was officially released to the public. To his credit, O'Malley signed items for over 1,250 fans that night, and stayed up until almost 3:45 am to make sure that no one went away disappointed.
I caught up with O'Malley in Toronto prior to that night's events, and before the full court press publicity blitz surrounding the release of the book and the Edgar Wright-directed movie adaption of his creation, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World was unleashed upon the crowds at San Diego Comic-Con 2010 a few days later. O'Malley had been up since 6 am that day to do interviews with several TV shows, newspapers and magazines, so he was a little dazed by it all, but in good spirits. We talked about his early manga influences, his Toronto roots, his encounters with Hollywood, and reflected a bit on why Scott Pilgrim is an unlikely superhero for our times.
Photo gallery: Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour Party at The Beguiling
EVEN A MONKEY CAN DRAW SHONEN MANGA
Q: For me, what's really interesting about Scott Pilgrim is that it starts off being this story about this slacker guy who's in a band, and he has some relationship problems. Then about a third of the way into the first volume, the video game element kicks in somewhat unexpectedly. When I read it for the first time, I thought, "Whoa. What the heck?" So what inspired you to do put this twist into your story?
Bryan Lee O'Malley: Y'know, I don't know! I have a hard time pinpointing that kind of thing. Obviously, I played a lot of video games when I was a kid, through middle school and high school. I was really into manga too.
I guess the concept of fighting the ex-boyfriends, and the structure of this story, one of the things that inspired this was the book, Even a Monkey Can Draw Manga (by Koji Aihara and Kentaro Takekuma). Me and Chris (Butcher, manager of The Beguiling), we both LOVED that book. I was just getting started as a cartoonist. I read the chapter about shonen manga in that book, and thought, 'Wow, this is great.'
It wasn't like I had read a whole lot of shonen manga before then. (Even a Monkey Can Draw Manga) described the structure of shonen manga plots kind of like it's a shish-kebab, where there's meatball, meatball, meatball on a stick, with each meatball representing a fight; that's how it explained what shonen manga really is. (laughs) So that just kind of stuck in my head.
I knew I wanted to structure this story like a video game. The other thing was that my wife, who was then my girlfriend, told me that she dated three guys named Matt — not at the same time, but at certain points in her life. I always thought that was kind of hilarious, so I thought it would be fun to draw a story about exes. Somehow, the 'evil' part came into play.
Also, I wanted to do a comic with fights in it, because I feel that comics are good at that, or that comics are supposed to be about fights. Similarly, if there's a band in the comic, I'll put "The Archies" on the drum kit, because all bands in comics are kind of like the Archies. I don't know – I guess that's how my brain was working at the time! A lot of it just flowed out naturally.
Q: Actually, I wanted to ask you about something that totally threw me for a loop in Scott Pilgrim. There's this scene in Scott Pilgrim vs. The Universe, when Ramona... well, for several volumes, when Ramona gets upset, she gets this intense look on her face, and these lines radiate out of her head. All the while, I’m thinking, 'Oh, that's Bryan's way of representing that Ramona is angry, that she's radiating emotional tension.'
But then there's a scene in Volume 5 when Kim asks Ramona, "Hey, what's with your head?" and Scott cries out, "You can see it TOO?" Whoah, wait. You mean those lines coming out of her head are more than just comic-book visual symbols to show the reader that Ramona is feeling certain emotions – but that these lines are actually something that the other characters in the book can SEE? Holy cow. Whut?
Bryan Lee O'Malley: (smiles) I like walking that line where you're not sure whether what's happening is real or not. I like it when I can pull the rug out from under you, a little bit! I think that there was some foreshadowing of this phenomenon in earlier volumes, and it's also definitely in Volume 6.
Q: I so did not expect that. So yeah, you kinda blew my mind there. (laughs)
RANMA ½ AND SAILOR MOON: THE GATEWAY DRUGS TO ANIME/MANGA FANDOM
Q: You've mentioned Ranma ½ by Rumiko Takahashi as one of your 'gateway drugs' that got you interested in manga. Were there other titles?
Bryan Lee O'Malley: I really got into manga in the first place because of Sailor Moon, which was really big on Canadian television. At first my little sister would be watching it, and I'd think "Ugh, girl's stuff!" I was 16 at the time. But she'd watch it every day, and I'd catch little bits of it. When it first premiered, it was playing every day. By the 10th or 12th episode, I was hooked!
So then I became this massive anime nerd! I lived in London, which is two hours away, so I'd come to Toronto with my Chinese friend, and we'd go to Chinatown, not downtown Chinatown but another one in another part of the city, where they had this big mall where they'd sell trinkets, CDs and videos, mostly bootleg stuff. I was really into that stuff. | <urn:uuid:728d8126-2a1f-4a11-bf33-5f4c6eb5e19f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://manga.about.com/od/mangaartistinterviews/a/Interview-Bryan-Lee-O-Amalley.htm | 2013-05-18T11:22:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382360/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98072 | 1,482 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Battle of Quebec Conflict & Date:
The Battle of Quebec was fought September 13, 1759, during the French & Indian War (1754-1763).
Armies & Commanders:
- Major General James Wolfe
- 4,400 men engaged, 8,000 around Quebec
- Marquis de Montcalm
- 4,500 engaged, 3,500 in Quebec
Battle of Quebec (1759) Overview:
Following the successful capture of Louisbourg in 1758, British leaders began planning for a strike against Quebec the next year. After assembling a force at Louisbourg under Major General James Wolfe and Admiral Sir Charles Saunders, the expedition arrived off Quebec in early June 1759. The direction of the attack caught the French commander, the Marquis de Montcalm, by surprise as he had anticipated a British thrust from the west or south. Assembling his forces, Montcalm began building a system of fortifications along the north shore of the St. Lawrence and placed bulk of his army east of the city at Beauport.
Establishing his army on the Ile d'Orléans and the south shore at Point Levis, Wolfe began a bombardment of the city and ran ships past its batteries to reconnoiter for landing places upstream. On July 31, Wolfe attacked Montcalm at Beauport but was repulsed with heavy losses. Stymied, Wolfe began to focus on landing to west of the city. While British ships raided upstream and threatened Montcalm's supply lines to Montreal, the French leader was forced to disperse his army along the north shore to prevent Wolfe from crossing.
The largest detachment, 3,000 men under Colonel Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, was sent upstream to Cap Rouge with orders to watch the river east back towards the city. Not believing that another assault at Beauport would be successful, Wolfe began planning a landing just beyond Pointe-aux-Trembles. This was cancelled due to poor weather and on September 10 he informed his commanders that he intended to cross at Anse-au-Foulon. A small cove southwest of the city, the landing beach at Anse-au-Foulon required British troops to come ashore and ascend a slope and small road to reach the Plains of Abraham above.
The approach at Anse-au-Foulon was guarded by a militia detachment led Captain Louis Du Pont Duchambon de Vergor and numbered between 40-100 men. Though the Governor of Quebec, the Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnal, was concerned about a landing in the area, Montcalm dismissed these fears believing that due to the severity of the slope a small detachment would be able to hold until help arrived. On the night of September 12, British warships moved to positions opposite Cap Rouge and Beauport to give the impression that Wolfe would be landing at two places.
Around midnight, Wolfe's men embarked for Anse-au-Foulon. Their approach was aided by the fact that the French were expecting boats bringing provisions from Trois-Rivières. Nearing the landing beach, the British were challenged by a French sentry. A French-speaking Highland officer replied in flawless French and the alarm was not raised. Going ashore with forty men, Brigadier General James Murray signaled to Wolfe that it was clear to land the army. A detachment under Colonel William Howe (of future American Revolution fame) moved up the slope and captured Vergor's camp.
As the British were landing, a runner from Vergor's camp reached Montcalm. Distracted by Saunders' diversion off Beauport, Montcalm ignored this initial report. Finally coming to grips with the situation, Montcalm gathered his available forces and began moving west. While a more prudent course may have been to wait for Bougainville's men to rejoin the army or least be in position to attack simultaneously, Montcalm wished to engage the British immediately before they could fortify and become established above Anse-au-Foulon.
Forming in an open area known as the Plains of Abraham, Wolfe's men turned towards the city with their right anchored on the river and their left on a wooded bluff overlooking the St. Charles River. Due to the length of his line, Wolfe was forced to deploy in two-deep ranks rather than the traditional three. Holding their position, units under Brigadier General George Townshend engaged in skirmishing with French militia and captured a gristmill. Under sporadic fire from the French, Wolfe ordered his men to lay down for protection.
As Montcalm's men formed for the attack, his three guns and Wolfe's lone gun exchanged shots. Advancing to attack in columns, Montcalm's lines became somewhat disorganized as they crossed the uneven terrain of the plain. Under strict orders to hold their fire until the French were within 30-35 yards, the British had double-charged their muskets with two balls. After absorbing two volleys from the French, the front rank opened fire in a volley that was compared to a cannon shot. Advancing a few paces, the second British line unleashed a similar volley shattering the French lines.
Early in the battle, Wolfe was struck in the wrist. Bandaging the injury he continued, but was soon hit in the stomach and chest. Issuing his final orders, he died on the field. With the army retreating towards the city and the St. Charles River, the French militia continued to fire from the woods with the support of floating battery near the St. Charles River bridge. During the retreat, Montcalm was hit in the lower abdomen and thigh. Taken into the city, he died the next day. With the battle won, Townshend took command and gathered sufficient forces to block Bougainville's approach from the west. Rather than attack with his fresh troops, the French colonel elected to retreat from the area.
The Battle of Quebec cost the British one of their best leaders as well as 58 killed, 596 wounded, and three missing. For the French, the losses included their leader and were around 200 killed and 1,200 wounded. With the battle won, the British quickly moved to lay siege to Quebec. On September 18 the commander of the Quebec garrison, Jean-Baptiste-Nicolas-Roch de Ramezay, surrendered the city to Townshend and Saunders.
The following April, the Chevalier de Lévis, Montcalm's replacement, defeated Murray outside the city at the Battle of Sainte-Foy. Lacking siege guns, the French were unable to retake the city. A hollow victory, the fate of New France had been sealed the previous November when a British fleet crushed the French at the Battle of Quiberon Bay. With the Royal Navy controlling the sea lanes, the French were unable to reinforce and re-supply their forces in North America. Cut off and facing growing numbers, Lévis was forced to surrender in September 1760, ceding Canada to Britain. | <urn:uuid:8fc74291-5e6e-4e02-9725-b0c661ee6090> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/frenchindianwar/p/quebec1759.htm | 2013-05-18T11:12:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382360/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974289 | 1,449 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Starting June 1st, I will be creating or being creative every day.
"Don't you do that anyway?", you say.
Well, yes and no.
Sometimes, even I, don't want to be "creative" every day. I want to take the easy route and make stuff I know I can make.
But here I am challenging myself to be creative. Some days will be easier than others but none the less 30 days of being creative.
I'll be posting my daily #30DoC via Facebook, Twitter, and most likely my Instagram.
Follow along and join in.
You can check out all the other 30DoC's by following @createstuff on Twitter, Pinterest and their site. | <urn:uuid:208d17cb-072f-4948-9d6b-e5b3ea727b03> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://mnrad.blogspot.com/2012/06/challenge-accepted.html | 2013-05-18T11:42:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382360/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963609 | 151 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology
© Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Edited By: D Jones, Queen's University of Belfast, UK
Impact Factor: 2.175
ISI Journal Citation Reports © Ranking: 2011: 128/261 (Pharmacology & Pharmacy)
Online ISSN: 2042-7158
Associated Title(s): Pharmacy and Pharmacology Communications
Inhalation Pharmaceutics (September 2012)
JPP has published a special issue entitled Inhalation Pharmaceutics which describes the pharmaceutical advances in respiratory drug delivery with a particular focus on the formulation, particle engineering and characterisation of respiratory dosage forms.
Recent Innovations in Dissolution Testing (July 2012)
JPP has also recently published a special issue entitled Recent Innovations in Dissolution Testing which covers not only the latest dissolution methods for parenterals, orodispersive products and medicated stents, but also introduces the application of biorelevant dissolution test results to physiologically based pharmacokinetic modeling with a view to predicting plasma profiles after p.o. drug administration. The prediction of drug absorption is especially important to formulation development, de-risking bioequivalence studies and to implementation of the Quality by Design paradigm. | <urn:uuid:66522506-d7da-44ac-be91-20b7f573277d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)2042-7158/homepage/themed_issues.htm | 2013-05-18T11:51:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382360/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.857975 | 253 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
On the manager front
I told been told this much on the manager front: The Reds have made at least preliminary contact with Joe Girardi. Bob Brenly is on their list but he has not been contacted.
As Bob Castellini said on FSN money is not going to eliminate anyone from the the list. Obviously, the list could expand after the season when the really big names come available.
Brenly, two firsts and a third in his three full seasons in Arizona, is very intriguing -- to say the least. His Ohio ties give the Reds an in. | <urn:uuid:16535447-1b81-4c2c-a5ae-c6658e402708> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://redsinsider.blogspot.com/2007/07/on-manager-front.asp | 2013-05-18T12:01:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382360/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985176 | 119 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
This is at face value a simple question that most blog writers will find themselves asking more than a few times a day, what is more important to them: the traffic that they get on a regular basis or the content that they write for people? This is not talking about making money, but more of the content or traffic.
In many ways, content is needed before you will get a lot of traffic but at the same time, not getting traffic to a blog can mean that the content is not valuable and this, for a writer can mean that you either are not producing something which to most is a valuable piece of writing or an informative piece or you will not get the traffic that you need to continue your online writing journey.
You could of course learn how to communicate to your fellow readers, but if the content turned them off before, chances are they will not come back to read more. So, content is important to keep readers coming back. This is not about comments but about people visiting your sites and reading them, and potentially adding links to their sites to give you more traffic.
So what about traffic, there are two ways to look at it, traffic for your content that gives you many page views, or traffic which makes you money. So, in a sense, traffic is a must. Traffic will build upon itself, but again without great content, traffic means nothing for your writing career.
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Is there any coverage given to agricultural crime, especially livestock, metals, crop, and chemical theft such as anhydrous ammonia? There is some AG Crime that does get reported locally. Missouri does have a Cattle Theft Task Force working these issues. For example for Missouri please look at line item for livestock for 2006:
http://notes.mshp.dps.mo.gov/cgi-bin/ibi_cgi/ibiweb.exe The other states do produce their own Uniform Crime Reports as well. Another source: Livestock Marketing Association - http://www.lmaweb.com/
Click on Business Alerts. Good objective program, enjoy watching it in the morning with my coffee.
I have a question about high fructose corn syrup: with the excessive demand for corn for ethanol competing with the global demand for corn for food, while the US is fighting epidemic obesity, why not limit/restrict the use of corn syrup and, especially high fructose corn syrup, in processed food. This could solve two problems. I understand that corn syrup and high fructose corn syrup were regarded as a marketing answer to corn surpluses for corn producers. Comments? I do really enjoy your show. I grew up on a farm in Iowa and lived in South Bend/Mishawaka for 5 years in the 1970s. Your show is so insightful and covers interesting subjects and commentary with great talent. | <urn:uuid:3bab2d75-d406-492d-8036-493979048fb5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.agweb.com/blog/AgDay_Inbox_146/?Year=2008&Month=10 | 2013-05-18T11:14:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382360/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939775 | 304 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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As 'fiscal cliff' looms, federal workers rally against further pay cuts
Federal employees in Maryland and elsewhere stepped up pressure on Congress Wednesday to avert the looming fiscal crisis without making significant cuts to government pay and benefits.
By John Fritze, The Baltimore Sun
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Thursday 4th January, 2007 Posted: 13:56 CIT (18:56 GMT)
Iraqi Shiites carry a hanged effigy of the executed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein during a protest in Basra, 550 kilometers (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Jan. 4, 2007. More than 1,500 demonstrators took to the streets in Basra in support of Saddam’s execution. Photo: AP
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) – Iraqi authorities reported the arrests of two guards and an official in the investigation into who taunted Saddam Hussein as he stood on the gallows and took cell phone pictures showing his body dangling at the end of a rope.
The unauthorized video has ignited protests by Saddam’s fellow Sunni Arabs in various Iraqi cities and threatens to make a martyr out of the ousted dictator.
The Bush administration sent conflicting signals Wednesday about the conduct of the execution, with the White House declining to join criticism and the State Department and U.S. military publicly raising questions about it.
The second–guessing over the conduct of the execution came as a video turned up of four Americans and an Austrian abducted in November in southern Iraq. The hostages spoke briefly and appeared uninjured in a video believed to have been recorded nearly two weeks ago and delivered Wednesday to The Associated Press.
The men – security contractors for the Crescent Security Group based in Kuwait – appeared separately on the edited video, and three of them said they were being treated well. They were kidnapped Nov. 16 when suspected militiamen in Iraqi police uniforms ambushed a convoy of trucks being escorted by Crescent Security on a highway near the southern border city of Safwan.
In violence Thursday, two bombs exploded in Baghdad’s upscale Mansour neighborhood, killing 13 people and wounding at least 25, police said. Mansour is a primarily Sunni neighborhood in western Baghdad.
Saddam, who was convicted for the killings of 148 Shiites, was dignified and courteous to his American jailers up to the moment he was handed over to the Iraqis outside the execution chamber, a U.S. military spokesman said.
He "was courteous, as he always had been, to his U.S. military police guards," Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell said. "He spoke very well to our military police, as he always had. And when getting off there at the prison site, he said farewell to his interpreter. He thanked the military police squad, the lieutenant, the squad leader, the medical doctor we had present, and the colonel that was on site."
National Security Adviser Mowaffak al–Rubaie and two other top officials variously reported one to three men were detained in connection with how Saddam’s execution was conducted.
"The investigation has already had an arrest warrant against one person and two to follow," al–Rubaie told CNN. He said the guard force at the execution was infiltrated by an Arab television station or another outsider.
The clandestine footage appeared on Al–Jazeera television and Web sites just hours after Saddam was hanged Saturday. The tumultuous scenes quickly overshadowed an official execution video, which was muted and showed none of the uproar among those on the floor of the chamber below the gallows.
Sami al–Askari, a Shiite lawmaker who advises Prime Minister Nouri al–Maliki, said two "Justice Ministry guards were being questioned. The investigation committee is interrogating the men. If it is found that any official was involved, he will face legal measures."
A second key al–Maliki adviser, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information, reported the arrest of the official who supervised the execution and said he videotaped the execution.
Prosecutor Munqith al–Faroon, one of 14 official witnesses to the execution, told The Associated Press that he saw two government officials using camera phones at the hanging but did not know their names.
Caldwell said no Americans were present for the hanging and that the tumultuous execution would have gone differently had the Americans been in charge.
As the storm over the handling of the hanging gained strength, Caldwell was among several U.S. officials who suggested displeasure with the conduct of the execution.
"If you are asking me: ’Would we have done things differently?’ Yes, we would have. But that’s not our decision. That’s the government of Iraq’s decision," the general said.
The White House declined to join in the criticism.
"The president is focused on the new way forward in Iraq so these issues are best addressed out of Iraq, out of Baghdad," deputy White House press secretary Scott Stanzel said. "Prime Minister Maliki’s staff have already expressed their disappointment in the filmings, so I guess we’ll leave it at that." | <urn:uuid:b8adee98-31c0-45b2-bb62-3fe081f8a82d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.caycompass.com/cgi-bin/CFPnews.cgi?ID=1019028 | 2013-05-18T11:12:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382360/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980251 | 1,004 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
As seen on The 700 Club's nationally televised broadcast for Dec. 14, the top headlines from CBN News include -- Critics Slam Congress as Legislative 'Do Nothings,' Senate Dems Say Payroll Tax Cut Bill 'DOA,' and more.
As seen on The 700 Club's nationally televised broadcast for Dec. 14, the top stories from CBN News include -- Obama Health Law Ruled Unconstitutional, Poll: Most Want Easier Way to Fire Bad Teachers, and more.
As seen on "The 700 Club" Dec. 18: Chaplains, K-9s help comfort a broken Newtown; Washington inching closer to a fiscal cliff Deal, and more.
As seen on "The 700 Club" Dec. 5: Signs of a deal emerging amid fiscal cliff rhetoric, Tea Party lawmakers stripped of posts over fiscal cliff?, and more.
They called a time of death on Jeff. Then, his doctor heard the Lord say, 'Pray for him.'
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The graffiti on a building in Belgium says it all: "Welcome to 'Belgistan." In fact, some are now calling it the Muslim capital of Europe.
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About Cedar Falls Equestrian Center
808 E Dunkerton Rd
Cedar Falls, Iowa
Cedar Falls Equestrian Center is located at the corner of Big Woods and Dunkerton Roads in Cedar Falls. Take the Lone Tree exit from Highway 218 north of Cedar Falls. Turn West on Lone Tree, then North on Big Woods Road. At the stop sign on Dunkerton, turn west. The 2nd drive leads to the barn and arena.
Cedar Falls Equestrian Center is owned and operated by Deb and Kevin DeVries.
CFEC was established as a lesson, training and show/clinic facility. Boarding can be included with lesson/training packages. The arenas are available for rent by local horse clubs for a variety of purposes. 4H Club and Pony Club use is free. Release forms are required.
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|12 Jul 2012|
On 5 July we welcomed our five judges - Gerry Badger, Phil Coomes, Alison Jackson, Simon Roberts and Ossian Ward - into the gallery to set about choosing one winner out of the 159 works on display for the Summershow. Hung floor to ceiling, in an array of sizes and frames and with work from genres as diverse as photojournalism and abstract photography, choosing one work as Best in Show is a challenging task. We now know which image has been awarded Best in Show along with the three Honourable Mentions, but there were of course discussions about other images and judges' favourites which ultimately didn't make it into the final top four. Here is a brief glimpse into the judging process and a look at the other images that were in the running.
After spending some time carefully looking around the two levels of the gallery that the Summershow occupies, the judges took turns discussing which images caught their eye and why. In the end they were left with a sizeable selection of prints to debate and discuss. One print singled out by Alison Jackson was 'Shopping for Prom' by Abbie Trayler-Smith. All judges agreed that the image was very well done, and was successfully able to communicate several emotions at once. "There are so many portraits that I like, it's very difficult to choose between them. But this one in particular I find very sad but funny", said Jackson.
Shopping for Prom, Shannon, age 15. From the series 'The Big O'. By Abbie Trayler-Smith.
Another portrait, a favourite of Simon Roberts, was Nigel Grimmer's 'In the Woods'. Roberts said of the work, "I find this image so intriguing - who is the man behind the painting, and why is he there? There is a strong element of humour, too, in the naff-eroticism and the femininity of the man. The woods as a setting fits perfectly as well; it is commonly seen as being both romantic and a threat."
In The Woods (Nigel, Painting, 2012). By Nigel Grimmer.
One quite surreal image of a face emerging from behind a painting, Marlies Plank's 'Breaking Through', was a favourite of Gerry Badger's and some of the other judges. Badger commented, "I really don't know what it is about this image but I like it. I can't tell you why but I do. It is just one of those images you are instinctively drawn to and have no explanation as to why."
Breaking Through. By Marlies Plank.
Other prints up for discussion were Claudia Leisinger's image from a cafe in Billingsgate fish market - judges were impressed with the composition and also the timelessness of the photograph; and Sipke Visser's 'Ponza Wedding' - which, judges commented, almost resembled a Richard Billingham photograph and somehow seemed wrong but in a calculated way.
Business in the safe at Billingsgate Market, London, 2011. Its walls are lined with old photographs of porters and views onto the old Billingsgate fishmarket. From a series on the last of the Billingsgate porters. By Claudia Leisinger.
Ponza Wedding. Total mayhem one hour before an Italian wedding on the island of Ponza. The groom buttons his trousers and somehow everyone in show manages not to look into the camera. By Sipke Visser.
In the end we were down to four. 'Freedom Seekers' by Yusuke Harada drew much praise from the judges for being "a different take on a popular topic" and for its composition and also height from which the image was captured. 'Boxer #7' by Luca Sage (who was the recipient of the Best in Show last year!) was commended for being "wonderfully done" in composition and theme, especially for a subject that has been so overdone photographically. The image of the Notting Hill Carnival stabbing by Oli Scarff represented for the judges the extraordinary ability of a photograph to capture a fleeting moment of such intensity and importance. And yet while the print itself was very understated, the work was very deserving of an Honourable Mention.
Freedom Seekers. Rebel fighters kneel down to pray on the road to Sirte from Misrata in the outskirts of Sadada, Libya. Many rebel fighters set up a base in the town os Sadada in preparation for the military strategy for taking control of Sirte. By Yusuke Harada.
Boxer #7. From an ongoing series 'The Boxers of Bukom', based on a small village in Ghana renowned for its fighting traditions and phenomenal ability to produce international boxing champions. By Luca Sage.
Notting Hill Carnival Stabbing. By Oli Scarff.
There can be of course, only one winner, and the print that was unanimously voted for by the judges was Titus Simoen's image from the series 'Blue, See'. It was commented that the photograph really stood out because of its "sinister edge" and "cold staged element, emphasised by the contrast between the soft toys and the harshness of the metal and wood". The image was seen as "very raw" and that "the photographer has captured the vulnerability and the contrast between what is going on in the frame and what is happening outside of it." (More information on this work is available here).
Untitled from the series 'Blue, See'. by Titus Simoens.
We now invite you to come and have a look at the Summershow as it was meant to be seen, in Foto8 Gallery, and vote for your favourite image which will be awarded with the People's Choice towards the end of the show on 18 August.
We are very appreciative of the work of our judges this year: Gerry Badger, Phil Coomes, Alison Jackson, Simon Roberts and Ossian Ward. Congratulations to the winners and a huge thanks to all who have participated this year. | <urn:uuid:cf046fe0-57ed-4e54-b425-46e3d190786a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.foto8.com/new/online/blog/1593-judging-the-2012-summershow | 2013-05-18T11:50:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382360/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978359 | 1,238 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The Georgetown College Challenge Course was built in July 1998. It was extended in 2004 to include an Alpine Tower II.┬áThe course was built with the intention of not only benefiting Georgetown College students, but also the surrounding community.┬áSince it’s inception, we have had over 8,000 participants.
The GC Challenge Course, located on the East Campus Complex of Georgetown College, is a series of ropes, logs, and cables constructed to create a challenging and unique series of obstacles.  The course helps to build cooperation, trust, and individual leadership skills.
The Georgetown College Challenge Course programs are unique:
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Pearl Corbett Egan
Pearl Corbett Egan, 78, of Orlando and formerly Bradenton, died March 5.
Mrs. Egan was an avid gardener and golfer.
Funeral services were March 11 at Mansion Memorial Park, Ellenton. Memorial contributions may be made to the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, P.O. Box 4486, Houston TX 77210. Griffith-Cline Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
She is survived by sons Robert of Kingwood, Texas, and Joseph of Suwanee, Ga.; daughter Joan Egan Foglia of Windemere, Fla.; brother-in-law Jack of Anna Maria; four grandchildren; six nieces; and four nephews.
Ernest Rives Martin
Ernest Rives Martin, 79, of Holmes Beach, died Feb. 25.
Born in Birmingham, Ala., Mr. Martin moved to Manatee County from Key West in 1989. He was a watchmaker. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II.
There were no memorial services. Covell Cremation and Funeral Center was in charge of arrangements.
He is survived by daughters Anita Nunez, Kathy Pazos and Melissa Chudy; sister Jane Moore; three grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
Arthur A. Stover
Arthur A. Stover, 57, of Anna Maria Island, died Feb. 28.
Born in Steubenville, Ohio, Mr. Stover moved to Manatee County from there in 1994. He was a member of Saints Peter & Paul the Apostles Catholic Church, Bradenton. He was a member of Knights of Columbus in Ohio.
Memorial Mass will be at 1 p.m. Monday, March 20, at St. Bernard Catholic Church, 227 S. Harbor Drive, Holmes Beach, followed by a reception at 3 p.m. at the Sandbar restaurant, 200 Spring Ave., Anna Maria. Brown and Sons Funeral Home, 43rd Street Chapel, is in charge of arrangements.
He is survived by daughter Amy of Steubenville; son Art of Steubenville; brother Brandt of Steubenville; mother Mary of Steubenville; and many nieces, nephews and cousins. | <urn:uuid:2f2fc8e9-7984-4970-b096-aaf3e66155a4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.islander.org/3-15-06/obituaries.php | 2013-05-18T11:43:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382360/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956146 | 480 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
I am new to this so here goes: I like to take out the trash, clean up my mess, and do my own laundry. I love being yelled at, manipulated and belittled in public. If you're into screaming, then you are the person I want to STAY AWAY. I was just kidding. I am someone who loves laughing, comedic bantering, working out and stimulating discussions. I love poker, playing golf, going to dinner and movies, and smoking cigars. Outside activities include skiing, walks on the beach (no joke this time), and sidewalk restaurants. I also like riding motorcycles. | <urn:uuid:eb21faf4-e36f-4dc6-9b70-c3c723aaf1ab> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.jdate.com/Applications/MemberProfile/ViewProfile.aspx?MemberID=114555282 | 2013-05-18T11:34:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382360/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966861 | 125 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
It’s always an honor when another photographer hires you to take their photos. Cat, a photographer in Dubuque, IA, selected us to take her wedding photos and it was quite the wedding!
I don’t know if I’ve ever seen so much thought go into all the DIY details around the wedding. From wedding programs that doubled as fans for the guests, to Jones Sodas with personalized labels and all sorts of amazing things in-bewteen, you could tell that there were many hours spent putting together all the details of her day.
The day started at Hotel Julien Dubuque, which was full of lovely light and amazing decor for taking the getting ready photos. We later went to the warehouse district to take photos despite the fact that it had been flooded just a few days prior. The ceremony by the river at the Port of Dubuque was gorgeous. Finally we ended our day with the reception at The Meadows Golf Club.
Hotel (Getting Ready Location): Hotel Julien Dubuque
Ceremony Location: American Trust Pavilion, Port of Dubuque
Reception Venue: The Meadows Golf Club in Asbury, IA
Dress: Mori Lee
Florist: The Flower Shoppe
Baker: Patti Cakes
Video: Wenger Media
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I served with Dan Garceau during his first term on the UD23 School Board and I recall how well he served with such a high level of enthusiasm and dedication.
He distinguished himself as a conservative watch dog and manager of public tax dollars. Dan has managed to serve consistently with that same level of enthusiasm and dedication throughout his years of public service.
Dan has been attending and actively participating in Select Board meetings for many years. Dan's participation has been consistently positive and constructively critical when needed. In all fairness, I should compare Dan's record at Select Board meetings with that of his opponent. Unfortunately I am unable to do that because his opponent has rarely, if ever, been in attendance to participate.
Dan Garceau has served his country and is serving his community in an unselfish manner that reflects his ability to commit and perform.
Dan is a hard working self employed businessman who operates his business in Danby.
He is well aware of "what is going on" and stays in touch with a wide range of Danby residents. It is no wonder that Dan wants to serve on the Select Board and has decided to seek a seat on the board.
Please consider voting for Dan Garceau to be on the Danby Select Board. He will represent you and act in the best interests of the whole Town.
The position of a town auditor, in my opinion, has been minimized and almost over looked during campaigns conducted to elect
Since recent Danby Town Budgets have totaled more then a million dollars, it is necessary and prudent that the people elected to audit a million dollar budget should have training, skills and experience that equips them to be able to properly monitor and audit all budget transactions.
Richard Smith is a candidate for the office of Danby Town Auditor. His education, work experience and acquired skills qualify him to perform all duties associated with the position of a Town Auditor.
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It's dark. The wood is scarred from knives and broken bottles. The restrooms have character.
Anger mingles with desperation. Circumstances are dire. Hearts are broken. People are hurting. That guy over there? A preacher stepping out on his wife. That woman? Oh, she's about to knock off her husband, the preacher. No, different preacher.
The bartender's dealing meth on the side, and if you need anything else, he knows a guy. There are a lot of guns. In the shadows, myths and legends and Southern culture float as ghosts. Eyes glow wicked in the neon.
But you can get cold beer and decent whiskey, and the jukebox is really good and exceptionally loud, and something about that volume is reassuring.
You'd walk carefully into a bar populated by the characters the Drive-By Truckers have put into the world, but it's a pretty great bar.
It's been 10 years since the Truckers released "Southern Rock Opera," the double album that was also a manifesto of sorts. As imperfect as it is great, it prefaced all that's followed: the loners, the losers, the pushed-to-the-brink, the foundational belief that rock 'n' roll can save.
From there to Thursday's show at the Wonder Ballroom, the road stretches thousands of miles.Key map points include Athens, Ga., and Muscle Shoals, Ala., where singer Patterson Hood's father was a member of the famed Muscle Shoals Rhythm section.
Key plot points include the arrival and eventual departure of singer/songwriter/guitarist Jason Isbell.
Constant to the story are Hood and singer/songwriter/guitarist Mike Cooley. They have been playing together for 25 years.
All this is important, because the Drive-By Truckers are important. Because they need to make it -- whatever "make it" means -- for all of us. They've achieved a level of success the vast majority of bands could only hope for, but not so much they don't have to grind it out on the road.
And so they keep grinding. And they set up and they tear down and they move on and in the next city they once again stare down our darkest ambitions, our nightmares and our fears and they beat them back with sweat and guitars and amplifiers -- with rock 'n' roll.
They aren't slick. They aren't streamlined by marketing people. They don't overshare on Twitter. They just try to write good songs and put out good records and play good shows. There's an inspiring honesty in the simplicity.
Since "Southern Rock Opera," they haven't put out a bad record. Some are better than others, some clunk and clang in places, but there's never the sense of lack of effort.
They roll into town touring off a high. "Go-Go Boots," released last month, is a different Drive-By Truckers record. They let in a little light. There's a bit of soul. There's a touch of country. There remain those characters scratching at society's fringe.
You can set those characters in the South (and they do), but as Cooley says in "The Secret to a Happy Ending," the recently released documentary about the band, "It's not the South -- it's America."
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Juicy Stakes Poker review
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The premise behind the Juicy Stakes scheme is that you earn Frequent Player Points for real money poker play on the site. These are then automatically converted into 'Gold Chips' at a rate of 100 FPPs to one Gold Chip. You can then exchange these Chips for tournament entries.
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Traffic is great already but the best thing is, with American poker players allowed it's getting more and more new players joining by the day. Also it means there's several 'peak' times, including European and American evenings. We expect Juicy Stakes Poker to get more and more popular in the next few months.
Juicy Stakes Poker factsheet
USA online poker players allowed? YES
Licensed and regulated by: Government of Curacao, Dutch Antilles
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Launched in: 2011
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layers composing these outcrops could have been
laid down by dust or volcanic ash settling from the
atmosphere, sand carried by martian winds,
or sediments deposited on the floor of an ancient lake.
This close-up view of the otherwise red planet spans
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Ages: Our program's are designed for boys and girls ages 18 months to 12 years old.
- SoccerTots (18mo to 5yrs)
SoccerTouch Jr's (6yrs to 8yrs)
SoccerTouch (9yrs to 12yrs)
When: Classes are held weekly.
Cost: $204 for our full 12 week session. Classes are prorated weekly so new customers join anytime as long as there is space available.
Duration: Classes are 50 munites long (SoccerTots) and 1hour long for the Touch Classes.
Registration fee: The $25 annual membership fee is due if your child is new to our programs. Fee include SoccerTots t-shirt.
Discounts:Sibling: One child will pay full class price and each additional child will receive $3.00 off per class.
Multi-Sport: $3 discount per class for 1 sport only.
Group Discount: 10% with 6 or more kids
do Not Apply when other Promotions are Active.
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Debbie Clement has a 'patchwork quilt' of experience teaching and working with children. She was a Resource Teacher and later a Support Services Coordinator at a private school for young children with special needs with over ten years of full time experience in that setting. Certified to teach Art K-12th grade, another favorite chapter was her opportunity to be the first Art teacher in a brand new elementary school in Monroe WI where she taught Art to K-6th graders on a daily basis. For the most recent 16 years she has had her own company, Rainbows Within Reach, where she has made school visits across the country sharing her enthusiasm, energy and excitement. Under her company's banner she has written and recorded over 100 original songs for children onto 7 albums. She has turned 3 of her songs into traditional picture books -- acting as author, illustrator AND publisher. Her picture books include a CD insert of the song (the text of the book) as well as end matter that includes a chart of the sign language to support the song and the music notation as well. All of these were included as requests from teachers familiar with her work. | <urn:uuid:8896a51a-28ee-4807-994b-b6b00ba1dfd4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Pollywog-Life-Cycle-Metamorphosis-of-the-Frog-Based-on-Song-Mp3-Format-298735 | 2013-05-18T11:46:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382360/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.989191 | 230 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Source: Xian Chen
Source: Alesya Krit
Information for Employers
Our graduates are very individual, with specific interests and skills. They do not conform to a type, but they have a calling. They have been through a programme where they have been encouraged to develop their own approaches to society and culture, and a more developed personal sense of vocation where they have a clear idea of their expertise, what their audience is, what their own work process is, how they present it, and what value it has. Anthropology and archaeology graduates as a rule build their own sense of what drives them, what their calling is, and what it is not. We relish this fact, and encourage it in every graduate.
We work to ensure our graduates have analytical and ethnographic skills first of all, and are able to make these skills relevant to specific areas of work. They also have a materials literacy and design literacy, giving them the ability to collaboratively engage with different materials and design approaches. The key people involved in the delivery of the MA have a range of experience in working for and with companies, state organisations, designers, NGOs, and scientific researchers. Our steering group is intended to keep our graduates directly in touch with the immediate up-to-date pressures and concerns of people working in relevant areas.
Among the areas and audiences our students engage with are:
Every graduate of the MA in Culture, Materials & Design undertakes their own extensive piece of research work. As a part of this, uniquely for our programme, they must envisage what audience would be interested in the research, to ensure that their work is not only of the analytically high standard deserving of a graduate of one of the world’s leading universities, but targets this analysis to issues relevant to companies, policymakers, NGOs, or heritage organisations. In our teaching, we draw for examples on work from key industry conferences, especially those concerning the overlap of the social sciences and design, and technological innovation.
While we focus on anthropological (and archaeological) skills in our teaching, most of our students maintain a range of design-related or management skills. These have included design, engineering, film and media, branding and marketing, set design and display design, fashion, heritage management, and architecture to name a few. What we do in our dedicated practical sessions is give them the opportunity to make these more relevant and useful, through the kinds of people-skills which ground them in work with actual people, objects and materials in actual contexts.
The practical sessions involve presentational and group work, which mean our students are able to work with ethnographic materials in ways familiar in many organisations, and also give them a critical point of view on these methods in terms of what tasks they are best applied to, and what they are not so good for. We run these sessions in parallel with traditional anthropological and ethnographic methods which involve individual and textual ways of working. This means students develop the deeply personal and individual sets of skills characteristic of a social and cultural analyst, but has the skills to collaborate, to communicate, and to engage.
If you need more information about the MA, or about how or whether the skills of a graduate of the MA may be of value to your organisation, please contact us.
Why do I need Design Ethnography Skills in my Team?
Our graduates are 1. as a rule, bright; 2. broadly qualitative researchers; 3. specialists in ethnography; 4. specialists in applying these skills to design, materials, technology and innovation; 5. analysts who think about culture and society using anthropology.
People skills are the necessary complement to technical skills in an increasingly computerised and mediated world. Technological innovation and proliferation bring with them the pressures of more social interconnection, not less, and the demands of design, materials innovation and technological innovation affect many different sectors of society and commerce. Innovation itself is increasingly human-centred. That is, the contemporary frontiers of innovation are in engagements with users and consumers, more than in laboratories and offices. It happens now in pull-factors more than technological push-factors. The smart economy is also moving from the simple provision of information and services, to a business model comprising supporting people who themselves do the creative work. The economy requires graduates increasingly who can not only deal with creativity, and work with creatives and innovators, but deal with creators as a public and a market.
This new need for people skills then has two dimensions: the ability to build connections with people in the places where new designs are encountered, and the capacity to build and maintain relationships with the audiences for ethnographic information.
At UCL, we have a range of Masters courses and options which address diverse elements and audiences in this situation. The Culture, Materials and Design students take a direct interest in design and materials, and develop options in a range of other areas. For example, those with an interest in software design take options from our digital anthropology courses, those with a fashion interest take textile courses, and those with a curatorial interest explore museum management in the archaeology department.
When is Anthropology Valuable?
It is often the alternative or critical voice which is the most useful, but researchers need to know when to provide data and when to provide opinion. Social research involves a balance of the skills of answering questions, and asking socio-cultural questions for other professionals to answer.
People-centred innovation involves new kinds of business models. Rather than having to turn lab technologies into products and services, some companies are including users within innovation from the outset of research. Different companies and different projects have different needs as to the ways in which skills are mixed and engaged.
The course develops a range of qualitative skills and methodologies, so students are equipped to use different methods according to purpose. For project work, we focus particularly on building ethnographic skills. Ethnography involves a longer-term engagement with and experience of informants’ social worlds, in which the researcher can place focussed research in context through observing the intersection and interaction of diverse elements.
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Citroen has released prices of its new C5 Tourer, with models starting at £16,995 and rising to £25,495.
There are two petrol engines available - a 127bhp 1.8 and a 143bhp 2.0 - and four diesels. The diesels are a 110bhp 1.6, 138bhp 2.0, 173bhp 2.2 and a 208bhp 2.7 V6.
Buyers can choose from three trims - SX, VTR+ and Exclusive. All models come with cruise control, air-conditioning, roof bars, dark-tinted rear side and tailgate windows, an adaptive front lighting system and a multifunction, fixed-hub steering wheel.
Options include a seat-back massage function, a NaviDrive system (a voice-activated combination of telephone, audio and sat-nav systems), and a panoramic glass roof with an retractable sun-blind.
C5 Tourers can also be specified with conventional, steel-spring suspension or Citroen's own self-levelling Hydractive system.
The boot has a capacity of 505 litres with the seats up, and almost 1500 with them down, and to help with loading and unloading, the rear suspension can be raised or lowered. The suspension returns to its correct level when you shut the tailgate. A motorised tailgate is available as an option, too.
Safety equipment includes up to nine airbags, electronic brakeforce distribution, emergency braking assistance, and stability control. A lane-departure warning system is also available.
Citroen also says its new car should be quieter than almost anything in its class, thanks to multiple door seals and laminated side windows. The latter should also make the car more secure.
The new C5 Tourer goes on sale on June 17, and is available with 0% finance over three years.
1.8i SX £16,695
1.6 HDi SX£17,695
2.0 HDi SX£18,595
2.0i VTR+ £19,795
1.6 HDi VTR+ £18,695
2.0 HDi VTR+ £19,595
2.0 HDi VTR+ auto £21,195
2.2 HDi VTR+ £20,995
2.0i Exclusive auto £21,295
2.0 HDi Exclusive £21,095
2.0 HDi Exclusive auto£22,695
2.2 HDi Exclusive £22,495
2.7 HDi V6 Exclusive auto£25,495
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Hull 18-18 St Helens
FG_AUTHORS: Super User
Hull (6) 18
- Tries: Whiting, Horne, Tickle
- Goals: Tickle 3
St Helens (12) 18
- Tries: Swift, Hohaia, Wilkin
- Goals: Makinson 3
A dramatic late penalty from Tom Makinson saw St Helens fight back to seal a draw with Hull FC.
Adam Swift went over for Saints and Lance Hohaia added a second before Richard Whiting responded with a try for the hosts.
Richard Horne closed the gap to two points after the break, Jon Wilkin then went over for Saints and Danny Tickle levelled before kicking Hull ahead.
But Makinson's third goal of the match late on ensured Saints claimed a point.
It was the second successive game that the hosts had seen victory snatched away from them in the final minute, having lost the Hull derby in dramatic circumstances at Magic Weekend.
Saints took advantage of a penalty award within sight of Hull's try line to go ahead, as Hohaia's long pass found Swift, who crossed over.
Hohaia then added a second before Whiting opened the home side's account, finishing a flowing move out wide orchestrated by half-backs Brett Seymour and Richard Horne, to leave the score 12-6 in Saints favour at the break.
Horne then forced his way over following five repeat sets within sight of the Saints' try line to reduce the deficit to two points.
Saints struck at the other end soon after as Jonny Lomax's pass set up Hull-born Wilkin.
Robust defending from the visitors looked as if it would secure their win before Tickle converted his own try and kicked over a penalty to give Hull the lead.
But with 90 seconds left on the clock, Makinson successfully put the ball over the posts at the other end to leave the sides level at full-time.
VIEWS FROM THE DRESSING ROOM
Hull FC coach Peter Gentle:
"We were guilty of panicking at times, lacking composure and trying to score off a lot of plays rather than sometimes sacrificing plays to lay a line for us to play off.
"They defended very well and it suited their defence the way we played at times. They were outstanding in defence and handled what we threw at them, but we still panicked and tried to go round them and not through them.
"We should have been better than that. We didn't really lay a platform to play off and we didn't take what we've done on the training pitch onto the field, and we have to start doing that."
St Helens caretaker coach Mike Rush:
"We were tempted to run it but at the end of the day Hull were two points above us in the table and we couldn't afford to let them go further above us by risking running the ball, so I think it was a sensible decision to (kick) the penalty.
"I don't think in all the levels I've coached at I've ever had to coach a team that has defended so much and for such a long period of time. I think we only had 12 sets in the second half and when the stats come out it is going to look a very one-sided game.
"We had a good hour and 20 minutes practising our defence and it was a big improvement on what we have done in defence."
Hull: Russell, Sharp, Turner, Crooks, T. Briscoe, Horne, Seymour, Moa, Moa, Houghton, Lynch, Manu, Tickle, Westerman,O'Carroll.
Replacements: Whiting for Sharp (10), O'Carroll for Moa (17), Aspinwall for Moa (53), Pitts for O'Carroll (30).
St Helens: Wellens, Makinson, Shenton, J. Jones, Swift, Hohaia, Lomax, Perry, Roby, Puletua, Soliola, Flannery, Wilkin.
Replacements: McCarthy-Scarsbrook for Perry (22), Clough for Puletua (24), Flanagan for Soliola (28).
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I came to the Belgian room for drinks and Belgian Frites after work one evening, but when I found out they had just added a veggie burger to their menu (something I had suggested to them before! Don’t underestimate the power of vegetarians asking for more options on the menu!) I immediately ordered it.
They told me the patty was one they made themselves, with black beans (and eggs – sorry vegans!) so I was quite eager to taste it.
It was served to me with no toppings – although a bottle of ketchup was offered. I tried it first as it was, and I must say it was a pretty tasty burger. Not too spicy, but the beans were pretty flavorful and the texture was soft and rich. I mentioned (constructive feedback!) that they should serve it with at least some lettuce and tomato, which were then brought out for me, and did add a nice crunch and juiciness to the whole thing. The bun was toasted (always a good thing), and pretty good although it was not as memorable as some amazing ones I have tried.
Since they have made a few changes to the menu, including the addition of the veggie burger, it sounds like they are still perfecting things – and might end up coming up with specialized toppings for the burger eventually. Since they have so many tasty dipping sauces for the fries (I am partial to the chipotle mayo, myself) I can imagine those flavors would adapt easily to a veggie burger.
Overall, I am quite thrilled that a bar I have often visited now has an entrée on their menu that I can actually order. First the GO Burger truck adding veggie burgers to their permanent menu, now the Belgian Room… this city is becoming even more vegetarian-friendly by the minute!
Rating: 3 stars
Burger patty: 4 Bun: 3 Toppings: 1
The Belgian Room
125 St Mark’s Place
between 1st Ave and Avenue A
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|ESRB Rating||E10 (Everyone 10+)|
|Publisher||Xbox LIVE Arcade|
|Release Date||Confirmed May 19th, 2010|
|Earliest Appearance||05/20/10 6:34 am|
|Popularity||Past Week: 1078th (0.02%)|
Stale Waffle games are between the 25th and 50th percentile in ease of gamerscore. They're usually difficult to earn gamerscore in.
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A Day out in Douglas 1964 features Manx Maid (II), Manxman (II), Tynwald (V) and Snaefell (V). New picture added 20 June 2004.
Belle Includes a rare picture of her early in her career.
Duchess of Devonshire
Duke of Cornwall Includes a previously unpublished photo of her officers in WW1
King Orry (II)
King Orry (III)
King Orry (IV)
Lady of Mann Includes a picture of her at Victoria Pier Douglas, from the late Charles Hill collection.
Manx Maid (I) (ex Caesarea)
Manxman (I) Includes two, previously unpublished, photographs of her original cabin crew.
Mona's Isle (III) Includes an 1892 newspaper image of her on the rocks at Castletown .
Mona's Isle (IV) Includes a moving personal account of her service at Dunkirk in May 1940
Mona's Isle (V)
Mona's Queen (II)
Mona's Queen (III)
Mona's Queen (IV)
Prince George (New St George)
Prince of Wales
Queen of the Bay
Queen of the North
Royal Daffodil (I)
Rushen Castle Includes a previously unpublished photo of her officers in WW1
TS St Seiriol
MV St Trillo
PS St Trillo
St Tudno (I)
St Tudno (II)
St Tudno (III) Contains a previously unpublished image of her final sailing from Llandudno to Liverpool in September 1962
A steamer bill from the 1932 season
Isle of Man Stamps A page devoted to displaying a fascinating collection of stamps designed by Lieut. Capt. F.W. (Frederick William) Groom, Appeals Organiser for Northern England for the British Sailors' Society.
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The NCAA’s health and safety needs are addressed through the collaborative efforts of national office staff, governance committees, sports rules committees, sports issues committees and external associations.
The NCAA Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports advises the Association’s constituents and continually tracks on events and issues related to the health and safety of the student-athlete. The committee acts on issues through the use of NCAA injury-surveillance data, NCAA-sponsored sports-science research, expert opinion and clinical experience.
The following examples highlight significant changes that have mitigated the risk of injury in sports participation.
NCAA sports rules modifications
1998 – The establishment of a wood-like standard for non-wood bats protects the integrity of the game and the safety of the student-athletes.
1995 – An analysis of concussion injuries in ice hockey leads to rules changes and officiating emphasis on reducing hitting from behind and contact to the head.
2003 – The use of appropriate eye protection in women’s lacrosse is mandated to minimize the risk of catastrophic eye injury.
Track and field
2002 –The size of the pole vault landing pit is increased.
1998 – Following the sudden deaths of three collegiate wrestlers, the NCAA Wrestling Rules Committee and the NCAA Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports implement a mandatory weight-certification program that promotes safe weight-management practices.
1998 – The NCAA requires all wrestling coaches covering practice or competition to be certified in first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
1976 – Rule changes for the 1976 football season eliminate the head and face as a primary and initial contact area for blocking and tackling.
1997 – Modifications of permissible equipment and contact in spring football are implemented to reduce risk of injury.
2003 – Divisions I, II, and III modify permissible equipment during the preseason period for student-athletes to minimize risk of heat illness.
2005 – The NCAA Football Rules Committee changes college football rules regarding spearing and head-down contact. In addition to the rule change, the NCAA focuses on the education of student-athletes, coaches, officials and administrators regarding prevention of head and neck injuries.
2008 – The NCAA makes the horse-collar tackle illegal, revamps illegal contact of an opponent and simplifies the chop-block rule. More emphasis is placed on eliminating hits on defenseless players and blows to the head. No player is permitted to initiate contact and target an opponent with the crown of his helmet, and no player is permitted to initiate contact and target a defenseless opponent above the shoulders.
2009 – A rule is added to allow for conference review and sanctions on fouls related to targeting/initiating contact to players.
A more complete listing of NCAA legislation involving health and safety issues is summarized in Appendix A of the NCAA Sports Medicine Handbook. Examples of the most recent changes include:
2003 –Divisions I, II, and III modify permissible equipment and multiple practice sessions by mandating an acclimatization preseason period for student-athletes to minimize their risk of heat illness and general injuries in football.
2003 – Division I modifies the summer workout period to help minimize the risk of heat illness and general injuries. The legislation mandates that a sports-medicine staff member be present during conditioning sessions and that supervising strength and conditioning coaches be certified in first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
2005 – The NCAA approves legislation that requires member institutions to certify insurance coverage for medical expenses resulting from athletically related injuries sustained while participating in defined covered events.
2007 - NCAA Divisions I, II and III approve legislation that mandates medical examinations for all student-athletes. Before participation in any practice, competition or out-of-season conditioning activities, student-athletes who are beginning their initial season of eligibility are required to undergo a medical examination or evaluation administered or supervised by a physician.
2009 – Division III approves sport-safety training legislation that requires each head coach to maintain current certification in first aid, cardiopulmonary resuscitation and automatic external defibrillator use.
NCAA Sports Medicine Handbook
The guidelines in the Sports Medicine Handbook are developed on topics relevant to intercollegiate athletics, applicable to a large population of student-athletes and not accessible in another easily obtainable source. The guidelines are reviewed or updated at least every four years. Guidelines added to the handbook since 1994:
1994 – The “Cold Stress” guideline is added to educate the membership about reducing life-threatening condition due to cold exposures in athletics.
1994 – The “Concussion or Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in the Athlete” guideline is added to help reduce recognition-management and return-to-play decisions for student-athletes with concussions, therefore helping reduce catastrophic events secondary to concussions.
1997 – The “Lightning Safety” guideline is added and is recognized as the premium standard for preventing lighting-strike incidence in sports.
2000 – The “Institutional Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug-Education Programs” guideline is added to educate the NCAA membership on the minimal criteria for conducting an adequate drug-education program to prevent drug and alcohol abuse.
2004 – The “Catastrophic Incident in Athletics” guideline is added to help institutions appropriately respond to a catastrophic medical event.
2006 – The “Depression: Interventions for Intercollegiate Athletics” guideline is added to address suicide in the sport population and to educate the membership on its prevalence and the importance of early recognition and appropriate referral.
Additional NCAA health and safety initiatives
1983 – The NCAA starts a sports-injury surveillance program to collect accurate and reliable data on injury incidence in NCAA championships sports and to analyze, interpret and disseminate those data to assist evidence-based decision-making. The goal continues to be reducing injury rates through suggested changes in rules, protective equipment or coaching techniques based on the data.
1986 – The NCAA begins conducting drug testing for NCAA-banned substances at Divisions I, II, and III championships. All student-athletes participating in NCAA championships are subject to drug testing.
1990 – NCAA Divisions I and II start year-round drug testing. Any Division I or II student-athlete may be tested for training drugs such as anabolic steroids.
1992-2005 – A 13-year analysis of non-contact anterior cruciate ligament injuries in basketball and soccer leads to a focus on prevention efforts for female athletes, who have a higher risk than males for such injuries.
2002 – Division I out-of-season workout guidelines are forwarded to the membership in an effort to curb unsafe practices.
2004 – After the death of a Cornell University student-athlete in lacrosse, the NCAA hosts a multi-organizational summit addressing the prevalence, mechanism and prevention of commotio cordis in sports. Language is added immediately to the “Emergency Care and Coverage” guideline in the NCAA Sports Medicine Handbook that recommends planned access to early defibrillation as well as continued research and development of appropriate chest protectors for the sports of men’s lacrosse.
2004 – Divisions II and III initiate an educational campaign to increase awareness of institutional responsibility for protecting the health of and providing a safe environment for all student-athletes participating in preseason workouts.
2006 – The NCAA teams with the American Council on Education and United Educators to publish “Safety in Student Transportation,” a 60+-page resource guide that colleges and universities can use to minimize the risk involved with transporting students.
2006 – The NCAA partners with Varsity Brands, the parent company of the largest national cheer organizations, to undertake an important cheerleading risk-management initiative to enhance safety for college cheerleaders. As a first step, the NCAA’s Catastrophic Injury Insurance Program includes a new requirement that cheerleading activities must be supervised by a safety-certified coach or advisor to be considered a covered event.
2009 – The NCAA recommends its member institutions test student-athletes to confirm their sickle-cell trait status if that information is not already known.
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getzlaf or voracek - rep given!
pts-only keeper, we keep 7 (talking about my team 1) - getzlaf's price is 5.8m, voracek is 1.8m. if their price was the same, i'd have no issues taking getz in return, but with voracek at such a price, should i trade away? i have ennis at 2.0m by comparison, could maybe send him off instead. i'm currently in a down year, trying to improve my keepers in anticipation of next year. the other guy's team is:
f - thornton (7.0), stastny 6.5, datsyuk 6.5, getzlaf 5.8, weiss 3.4, krejci 2.9, peverley 2.3, marchand 2.1, gallagher 2.0, umberger 1.9, berglund 1.4, seguin 1.4, huberdeau 0.6
d- streit 4.2, pietrangelo 1.4, OEL 0.9m, hamilton 0.6m
g - rask 1.5m, pavelec 2.3
my team with salaries:
f - e.staal 6.0, kopitar 5.6, eriksson 3.1, j.staal 2.4, ennis 2.0, voracek 1.8, eberle 1.8, backlund 0.8, granlund 0.6, tarasenko 0.6, baertschi 0.6
d - yandle 1.9, carlson 1.1, b.smith 1.0, faulk 0.8, gardiner 0.8, barrie 0.5
g - quick 3.9, fasth 2.5
my question basically is: should i keep packaging off to get the best 7 fwds possible? in doing so, should i trade off ennis or jake for getzlaf?
take note, un-kept players can be "signed" but are at risk of being drafted in a 30-pick dispersal draft at season's end. kept players are untouchable.
Team 1 - 15-Team keep 7f, 3d, 1g
F: E.Staal, Eberle, Kopitar, Voracek, Eriksson, Sharp, Tarasenko, Kulemin, Backlund, Granlund, Bjugstad, Loktionov, Toffoli, Chiasson, Baertschi
D: Yandle, Carlson, Edler, Gardiner, Gilbert, Barberio, Barrie
G: Quick, Ramo
Team 2 - 14-Team keep 7f, 3d, 1g
F: Zetterberg, Voracek, Eriksson, Ladd, Carter, Iginla, Hudler, Cullen, Backes, Callahan, Fisher, Brouwer, Setoguchi, Eakin, J.Jokinen
D: Kronwall, Phaneuf, Voynov, Edler, Chara, Del Zotto, Greene
G: Lundqvist, Quick, Anderson
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Thans for the reply, I have tried it but I don't see the RAND() to be
work. This list is always the same. TIA
From: mos <mos99@stripped>
To: sangprabv <sangprabv@stripped>, mysql@stripped
Subject: Re: Randomize by Score and DESC
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 13:05:09 -0600
Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 18.104.22.168
At 09:15 AM 11/29/2008, sangprabv wrote:
>I have a query like this "SELECT * FROM table ORDER BY score DESC,
>RAND()" The aim is to randomize the result by score with descending
>order. But it doesn't work. What missed here? TIA.
That is because you are ordering by Score then Rand. If Score is an
>SELECT * FROM table ORDER BY score+RAND() DESC
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Welcome Rowena! First off, congratulations on your upcoming trilogy release: The Kings Bastard, The Uncrowned King & The Usurper.
Thanks Mel. To be honest, I edited all three books ( 3 levels of edits and each book is over 100K) in the first few months of this year and I’m just feeling relieved it is over. I’m sure the excitement will catch up with me.
Each book of ‘The Chronicles of King Rolen’s Kin’, are released a month apart—great news for us readers, but how are you feeling (g)?
LOL. I just answered your question. At the same time I was teaching 3 subjects at college, renovating my house and writing a new book. Why did I do this to myself?
How did the concept come about?
The books have been growing for ages now. I set out to write the kind of book that you curl up with on a Saturday afternoon after a hard week at work. The kind of book that you reward yourself with. So it is a traditional fantasy, in that it is a medieval setting about the struggle for the throne. But then I had fun playing with the tropes of the genre. Instead of the younger twin wanting to usurp his twin the heir, he’s happy to be the spare heir, that sort of thing.
World building is obviously integral to your fantasy trilogy. Can you tell us how you developed your character’s playground?
It is funny what inspires us and what stays with us. When I was about 10 my family went to play tennis at a set of courts in the back blocks of the Gold Coast. This was in the days when the holiday strip was not as gaudy and glitzy as it is now. My parents loved to play tennis and they told me to watch my little brothers, 8 and 5 and my sister 3. Behind the courts was a stretch of land backing onto a creek. There were white sand dunes, scrubby trees and it was the perfect place for us to play (in those far off days when kids ran wild most of the time).
As the eldest I was used to organising the games and I always saw myself as a sort of hero character so we'd play these long involved games with my younger siblings as my army, following orders, fighting great battles against enemy foes.
While running down one high white sand hill through the hollow into the next we left my little sister behind. Halfway up the next dune I turned around to find she'd run through the deepest part of the hollow and the sand, which appeared to be solid, had given way. She was knee deep in some sort of sticky sand-clay mix and couldn't get out. Having seen plenty of Tarzan movies, I immediately thought of quicksand.
A real emergency! I told my brothers to stay back, afraid that they'd get trapped too, and edged forward. The sand's surface broke up under my feet. It was cold and smooth and wet, and I didn't know what was under there. My eight year-old brother (who was almost as big as me) came and grabbed my arm to pull me out if I got stuck. I managed to grab our little sister's arm and hauled her out of the sticky sand-clay which did not give her up easily. Meanwhile the five year-old brother danced on the edge of the danger zone in desperate to help and likely to get himself into trouble.
End of story, she was fine and we kept on playing. I don't think we even told our parents about it, because by the time they finished playing tennis our game had moved on and that was old news. But I will always remember that sense of something under the ground opening up and proving dangerous.
In King Rolen's Kin power seeps up from the land's heart, infecting people and animals. Only those trained to contain this power go near Affinity Seeps. So a childhood adventure was inspiration for something in my book many years later. These days I don't order my younger brothers and sister about to play out my great battles, I have a cast of characters and they play out the battles in my books.
You’ve also had some speculative fiction work published, one of which won World Best Fantasy. Enquiring minds would love to know all about it?
Mel, I had a story in Dreaming Downunder, an anthology that won World Best Fantasy. So my story (hopefully) contributed in a small way to that win.
You’ve studied martial arts and the art of the samurai sword. Have you used this knowledge in any of your story telling?
I definitely have used my practical knowledge of martial arts in fight scenes. I’ve also done heaps of research into great military leaders, their battle strategies and what makes men willing to die for a leader. It is all part of building a believable character.
You have six children and have served on various writer committees. I’m guessing you are super organised! What is your writing routine?
Gah! My writing routine has been hopeless since I became an associate lecturer. I used to get up, get everyone off to school and work, then write with total concentration. Now I’m stealing every spare moment I can. The other night I couldn’t sleep, so I got up at 3am and wrote through until 6am when I had to start the morning routine. But you can’t do that too often.
And finally, if you could impart just one gem of wisdom for aspiring writers, what would it be?
Read widely in your genre and associated genres. Read the books that are shortlisted and win awards to see the direction your genre is taking. Read real life accounts for authenticity so you can bring something fresh to your genre. Join a writing group where the other members are as passionate about developing the craft of writing as you are.
And lastly, Never Give Up, Never Surrender! (Spec Fic fans will get the Galaxy Quest movie reference). More than one tip, I know but all are important.
Thanks so much Rowena, I can’t wait to read The King’s Bastard, out this month!
***Rowena has very kindly offered to give away 2 of her books to two lucky commentators!***
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Well i'm feeling real sick - who's got the remedy ?
My life - under your authority
can't see straight - no visibility
Break it down - to the first degree
God damn think I lost my head again
Can't stop this way of thinking
God damn think i'm over the edge again
Gotta figure out how to bring myself back
well you're getting me sick - who's got the remedy ?
My life's - no authority
I can't see straight - the dim reality
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I’m dreaming about boots.
Not the leather, up-the-leg, riding kind. The shearling lined, stack heeled, lace up kind. The kind that evades us entirely in South Africa.
London – I’m a’comin’ for ya.
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So I'm not going to go into the very long rant which I so easily could about the media, female body images, celebrity and unattainable perfection. I'm sure you've heard it all before.
More to the point, I really don't need to use any words when this week's Heat cover (scan courtesy of Perez Hilton) says it all.
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It's just so delicious and healthy. A year later the Big Mac was invented. 1897 Assembly lines are cool. They allow
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Please tell me you’re here to kill me.
It might just be me, but I think Mai’s reaction to Ty Lee coming to her aid is too cute.
Women of A:tla: Mai
“What do you want from me? You want a teary confession about how hard my childhood was? Well it wasn’t. I was a rich only child and got anything I wanted… as long as I behaved… and sat still… and didn’t speak unless spoken to. My mother said I had to keep out of trouble. We had my dad’s political career to think about.” | <urn:uuid:d40eecd7-4f5e-470b-b1bf-506ae7a07bd2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://princessleiaiam.tumblr.com/tagged/mai | 2013-05-21T13:29:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700014987/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102654-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980015 | 135 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Taking the planet back from the radical Islamists.
April 30, 2008, All Rights Reserved.
When a very senior al-Qaeda operative made the serious mistake of transiting the small sliver of Chinese real estate abutting northern Pakistan in an attempt to smuggle a deadly Russian variant of VX nerve gas (R-33+) into neighboring Afghanistan, he obviously did not realize that his actions would set into motion a secretive program designed to target renegade scientists no matter where they resided. Apparently, he had simply concluded that the United States was far too compassionate and the United Nations far too impotent for anyone to carry out operations more intense than what the politically-correct world would allow.
As his vintage automobile roared down the equally decrepit dirt road his pride could not have imagined the Pilatus PC-12 Spectre aircraft operating high above under the guise of a Swiss corporate bird anymore than he could’ve understood the significance of the Gulfstream G-550 orbiting nearby over Pakistani airspace. That the former would observe his every move with its retractable sensor package and the latter would eventually knock out his vehicular electrical system with a short burst of electromagnetic pulse energy seemed beyond his care at the moment. The Chinese were always favorable to anyone with grievances towards the West and the thought that one of their own sympathetic to the Tibetan cause would squeal on his whereabouts was simply absurd.
The Muslim Russian merely wanted to excuse himself of the one-liter bottle secured away within his attaché case; itself containing a concentrated solution of the deadly V-agent liberated during the chaotic cleanup period following the ‘accidental’ fire which occurred on April 28, 1974 and consumed the wooden warehouse located on the premise of the Novocheboksarsk munitions loading facility. His charge was simply to showcase the quality of the product; that time had not diluted the potency of the chemical that came from the better part of fifty-five bombs ‘damaged’ during the inferno. Without quality, there would be no money and without money he could not retrieve the lifestyle that he had grown accustomed to when the mere word Soviet sent the hearts of the Western world trembling.
Even when his automobile’s engine conked out amidst a plume of bluish-white smoke, the only aggravation that he experienced was but that of another brief reminder on why capital was more important than faith or allegiance. He liked being spoiled and pampered; any momentary delay would simply inflate his asking price. While his driver finagled with the mechanics involved, he eased back into the rear seat and flushed out a local newspaper from beneath the passenger seat and set about reading what had already become ancient history. It was the last moment of relaxation that he experienced.
When the quintessential dilapidated tow truck arrived on scene, the delayed purveyor of harm didn’t give it a second thought. His arrogance blinded him to the expediency of the newcomer – he simply expected things to work along his schedule and the thought that perhaps, just perhaps, assistance arrived too conveniently wasn’t never considered. It was only when the tow truck crew pulled out submachine guns and quickly sprayed his driver with 9mm rounds did he understand his grave mistake. Terror gripped his soul as he made a mad dash for the door only to find himself facing another man brandishing an automatic weapon. Before he had a chance to react, the first assailant shoved a hypodermic deeply into his thigh, rendering him unconscious within seconds.
Subdued, the al-Qaeda thug was oblivious to the second Pilatus – which had been flying in close formation with the first – begin its approach towards landing on the desolate road. Before it had a chance to turn around for the takeoff, the special operations team had ‘Abdul’ and his attaché case out of the car and were dragging him over towards the large single-engine aircraft…
In the picturesque hills near Tuscany, a medieval castle stood poetically out of the early morning fog. The large estate, renovated consistently since the 1800’s, is owned by an American businessman possessing somewhat of a complicated past. He is a collector and maintains quite an assortment of icons, tapestries, furnishings, and…captured terrorists. That everything located above the lowest floor resembles something once featured on Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous was not entirely a ruse. The owner simply did not acquire that which was not considered either creative or classical in nature. That the lowest rooms resembled more of what Hollywood would consider appropriate for the Spanish Inquisition most definitely wasn’t a ruse. Its form followed function.
Racing at a rather high speed along the Italian countryside was a brown Bentley – just the type of auto that the local authorities would not consider stopping for routine matters of inquiry – and in the rear seat of the luxury automobile was a slumbering businessman. That he had been sleeping for many, many hours did not matter much to his fellow occupants. They simply wanted to transport their responsibility to the awaiting castle before the sleepy residents of the local community began to notice things. Once they pulled into the stone parking structure, they would be gone within moments – precisely the routine they had fashioned over the course of years of preparations; any pesky neighbors would simply see just another visitor arrive for any number of functions given by the owner of ‘the estate.’
Deep within the bowels of the castle all things ‘civilized’ ceased; the world was at war with the terrorists and some people knew that to win they would have to do that which most could not envision within their wildest nightmares. The fine line between brutality and civility was only broached because those orchestrating the interrogations sought to save lives – not end them as did the terrorists. In matters of efficiency, the only obstacle was the overly prying (and manipulating) souls of the media and here they rarely survived the encounter so no one remains to question the existence of this ‘private home’ in the green valleys of remote Italy…
The coral atoll sits rising out of the blue abyss of the South Pacific, hardly anything more than a sandy convergence of circling islets forming a ring not far from Papua New Guinea. Even in today’s age of the Internet, it takes a significant amount of time to locate a map showing the precise location of this tiny bit of dry earth in an otherwise unfathomable stretch of water. The Pacific holds other islands – lots of them – and this particular specimen attracts very little attention from the outside. Even the local tribesmen who occasionally beach their dugouts upon its shores to ask for fresh water or to fish its shoals pay much attention to the modern structures dotting the higher elevations. Even if they had toured the facilities, their primitive lifestyles could not comprehend the primitive nature of the research conducted at the location.
Its isolation was perfect to examine the R-33+ agent sent to the island; the buildings being nothing less than an advanced biological and chemical research center located hundreds of miles from prying eyes, transiting vessels, and over flying aircraft. Here, a small nuclear detonation could occur and the only people that would notice are those bored souls stuck within seismological laboratories around the planet. Yet, this facility is not interested in nuclear warfare; its concerns rest with the tiniest of chemical and biological specimens that, within the wrong hands, could unleash perhaps even greater tremors upon the unsuspecting world.
Herein the semblance to tropical paradise fades into ultramodern sterility. Lab technicians and scientists decked out in white dabble in the most heinous of nerve agents and toxins, including the infamous ‘Flash’ from Russia’s Soviet heyday – a chemical agent so powerful that the time between exposure and death is indescribably brief. The workers here understand the severity of their mission and most would not have it any other way. Their sacrifice in time away from loved ones cements their dedication to keep the most vicious instruments of death away from rogue nations and groups…
Traveling down a Midwestern Interstate in his blue Audi A8 W12, the ‘director’ received a phone call informing him that ‘Abdul’ was beginning to talk. The denial of senses efforts imposed upon him at ‘the estate’ were beginning to work. He did not inquire as to the methods used to get the Russian to talk; he just knew that they didn’t involve any physical torture. Mental intimidation was something that he was quite prepared to accept. The implications of failure were truly global and the protection of the peace-loving peoples of the planet was all that mattered. History might think ill of him but that history would never be allowed to mature.
The director had just left the confines of an otherwise unprepossessing office building first erected in the late 1960’s. Its function was purely administrative, though it sat near a pharmaceutical campus that toys with all sorts of unmentionables. Because of its own contracts with the federal government, this particular facility maintains an antiseptically clean track record. Everything located within the boundaries of the United States operates along similar guidelines.
When orders are given out – such as the disposing of ‘Abdul’ – the instructions are channeled through several secure networks maintaining the highest level of integrity. Of what happened to the arrogant al-Qaeda operative? We can only guess; but good riddance just the same. The world needs to dispose of terrorists once and for all even if it means incorporating several organizations which ignore international courtesy and boundaries. No civilized person should ever feel intimated to accord rogue terrorists the same level of respect that we grant honest criminals. Those who seek to destroy civilization should not be subject to civilization’s courtesies. They need to be removed from our midst and I, for one, will not lose any sleep over their demise
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I am married, with 2 children grown and out of the house. I am a grandmother of a little girl and a boy in april. I work full time. We have a dog that's getting old (14) but hanging in there. I like to cook, but don't as much now the kids are gone. I like to try new things. I sew and cross stitch. I make fabic photo albums.
We eat a lot of chicken and fish. We like to go out to eat once and while, for somthing different. I like to try new things. | <urn:uuid:3ccbdbc4-9997-4468-8158-2dc9e362a9d7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://share.food.com/community/dname/style.esi?member_id=79538 | 2013-05-21T12:54:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700014987/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102654-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946612 | 236 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Backlog from this morning. I needed something quick this morning and probably the subsequent mornings. I have to be at my rotation at 6am everyday, and it takes 40 minutes to drive there. UGH! It is such an adjustment from 9am. Yerba Mate – Thank you. You were so easy to steep and drink. | <urn:uuid:fb759f8f-3b27-4399-8b98-299ab5c7650e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://steepster.com/oOTeaOo/posts/67167 | 2013-05-21T13:31:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700014987/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102654-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976648 | 68 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
How to ask for accommodations?
Posted by Shrimp Goat King on 3/16/2009 at 10:28 AM
How do you all ask for accommodations? I have been looking for what works best, I have tried a number of ways of asking. Can you all give me some examples of what works for you.
I know when going to talk to teachers, I try to give specifics on what will help me.
Have you all had any bad experiences when trying get accommodations?
There are currently 3 replies
Re:How to ask for accommodations?Posted by savvysoulfulmimi on 3/16/2009 at 8:16 PM
Usually giving specifics about what you need should be okay, I have had teachers talk to me like I am a baby because I asked for accommodations but if you keep in constant contact with them in person and through email you can usually keep good repore with them and they will be more than willing to help you.
Re:How to ask for accommodations?Posted by Thrill Seeker on 3/18/2009 at 9:57 PM
I have a bad experienc every day. Me and my mom have been fighting for accomadations ever since I was in first grade. Whenever I ask for something I just get an excuse as to why I can't get it. I am in 10th grade, and I have had nothing but trouble since day one. It is awful. I hate school.
Re:How to ask for accommodations?Posted by ROCKSTAR! on 3/19/2009 at 1:13 AM
Be specific in what you need, don't be afraid to speak up and say you need something, present what you need for accomodations to them in a well thought out way, and just communicate. I have learned that if you try to build a little friendship with instructors, or teachers, getting accomodations is a little easier. I have great relationships with my college professors, and they are willing to help too much because they "love me so much." I will sometimes write or email a little note about what I need and introduce myself to a new professor, but I've generally taken classes from the same ones.
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I’m currently reading Designing the Obvious, and I’ve also read Rework before that, along with a few other web design and usability books. This by no means makes me an expert on the subject, but even someone new to the field can discern some main trends just from reading these few books. Most books advocate keeping things simple, reducing features, and the “less is more” philosophy (or, as 37Signals would say, “less is less“).
I don’t have a problem with this in principle. I think it’s an admirable goal, and it certainly makes everybody’s life easier when an app is easy to use and straightforward.
But I also wonder if the proponents of this simplification dogma are not, well, over-simplifying the problem.
For example, one of the most common piece of advice is reducing the number of features, until you’re left with only the ones that are absolutely vital to the application or website. This way the app will be both faster to develop and easier to use, and you’ll be well on your way to holding $1,000 a seat workshops. Sounds good, but how does this hold up to reality?
Not very well, it turns out. Most clients don’t hire you to tell them to drop half of their app’s features. They’ve already spent thousands of dollars developing these features, or maybe a big clients of theirs has requested them. Or maybe, and this is the most common scenario, those features are actually vital to the app but you just don’t have the experience in that particular field to know that.
Yes, there’s a world besides project management software and sign-up forms. A big part of design happens behind closed doors, on intranets or highly specialized applications for fields like medicine or finance. How can you be sure which feature is core to the application and which isn’t really needed? Is the decision even yours to make?
The real challenge of design lies in taking an app full of confusing features —including a few that you might not even understand yourself— and still make it usable.
And don’t believe those who tell you that you shouldn’t compete on features. A product with two features will always lose to a similar product with three well-implemented features. People might want “simple”, but they don’t want “dumb”. And in a lot of case, they don’t even want simple at all.
The other issue with this line of thinking is that you might start to always try to “out-dumb” your users. You’ll to think up the dumbest thing someone could do with your app, and end up designing for the lowest common denominator. And this leads to the inhibition of creativity and risk-taking.
Once you’re designing for the least computer-savvy users possible (the ones who try to log in to Facebook on ReadWriteWeb) there’s no way you’ll ever try anything new.
Ironically, people tell you to stick to user interface conventions to avoid confusing users, but they forget that in order to create those conventions, someone, somewhere had to once try out something that worked better than what was there before.
Thankfully, not everyone is buying into this. A perfect example would be the new Twitter for iPad app. Are the sliding panels absolutely necessary? No, none of the other Twitter apps use them. Do they make you think? Yes, they take some time getting used to. Do they make the app more enjoyable to use than any of the other, “simpler” Twitter apps? Absolutely.
So in conclusion, I think we should all trust our clients and our users a little more. Sure, most people hate computers and can’t tell their browser from their operating system. But our goal shouldn’t be to cater to their ignorance. It should be to take them by the hand, and make it easy and painless for them to get better at the Internet. | <urn:uuid:271f641b-2bb4-40b9-98cc-3537c52c74ed> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.attackofdesign.com/usability-and-the-lowest-common-denominator/ | 2013-05-21T13:07:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700014987/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102654-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967386 | 865 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
|Reviewed by baz busbe
|Really like this poem, interesting to look at the crucifixion from a childs view. Baz|
|Reviewed by Louisa Dobbins
|This is magnificent!|
|Reviewed by Kathy Armijo
|"And a child shall lead them" If we could always see His beauty through an innocent child's eyes - the world would surely be a better place. I love the beauty in this poem. Superb!
God Bless you. Kathy
|Reviewed by Jill Eisnaugle
|I agree with Georg. Everyone, at some point or another, finds ourselves in a moment when we doubt and harbor guilt. Eventually, though, our eyes are always opened and everything becomes crystal clear!
Nice poem, Larry.
All the best,
|Reviewed by John Linville (Reader)
|That is an amazing view. I LOVE it. I think I can see another book, in the future.
|Reviewed by Karla Dorman, The StormSpinner
|Spoken with a wisdom far beyond his age - beautifully penned. Well done, Larry.
(((HUGS))) and love, Karla.
|Reviewed by Jerry Bolton (Reader)
|I suppose Georg has it partially correct, we all, at one time or another deny Him three times before the . . . You know the rest . . . But I maintain this is a wakeup to reality which is, or should be, attributed to modern times . . . We, as a nation should understand that the crucifixion of Jesus was/is a metaphor for America the Beautiful in that we have allowed Pilate to "crucify" this once great country to the point where wrong is right and right is blasphemed . . . To the point where even as we speak a certain individual with roots in the murky past of a dark religion is asking us to accept him ascend to Pilate's chair . . .|
|Reviewed by Georg Mateos
|The saga continues and with it the author's soul towards the cleansing of the inner guilt that all we share.
A little bit of that boy should reside inside us.
|Reviewed by John Leko
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Psychic Vs Pokemon Lawsuit
Created 11/06/2000 - 01:00
files/pictures/picture-35.jpgUri Geller, world-renowned psychic entertainer and author, has filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles federal court against Nintendo for unauthorized use of his name on Pokemon cards and related materials. The lawsuit demands that the Koyto, Japan-based company stop using Geller as a character on its Pokemon cards and pay substantial general and punitive damages. In addition to Nintendo's unauthorized use of Geller's identity, name and his signature image of a bent spoon, Gellar also contends that the Pokemon Geller character is inflammatory due the lighting bolts on its chest which are similar to the Nazi SS army's symbol. Geller said, ``Nintendo turned me into an evil, occult Pokemon character. Nintendo stole my identity by using my name and my signature image of a bent spoon. I'm filing this lawsuit against Nintendo, not only to protect my name, but also, to tell the world before the start of the Holiday Season that I have nothing whatsoever to do with these violent characters that have a negative impact on children.'' | <urn:uuid:a402c335-457b-45ba-8bc9-c8e896259c71> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.awn.com/print/news/business/psychic-files-lawsuit-against-pokemon | 2013-05-21T13:23:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700014987/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102654-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951808 | 233 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
BY MIKE GRIFFITH Californian staff writer email@example.com
Two more familiar faces -- defenseman Erik Burgdoerfer and forward Evan Trupp -- will be back for the Condors this season.
The Condors announced the signings on Wednesday, bringing the total number of players under contract to 16 -- 14 of those returners from last season.
Burgdoerfer, 23, has played with the Condors since late in the 2009-10 season when he got in three games after finishing collegiate play at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York.
"I've only had the opportunity to play in Bakersfield as a pro, but I'm not sure I'd want to play anywhere else," Burgdoerfer said. "It's a first-class organization with first-class fans and I'm excited to come back to Condorstown. We have a great group of returners set on tying up unfinished business from last year."
Condors coach Matt O'Dette said Burgdoerfer (6-foot-2, 209 pounds) is a solid all-around defenseman with a lot of upside.
"He's still a young guy and this is a big year for him," O'Dette said. "He's a huge part of our blue line and I think he really has a chance to get to the American Hockey League.
"He has that edge and a bit of a mean streak in front of the net. He skates well, is steady and smart and we can put him in a lot of situations. He's become more of a leader."
Trupp (5-10, 180) joined the team in January after being acquired in a trade with Cincinnati. He clicked with the Condors, netting 22 points (10 goals, 12 assists) in 25 games after putting up 12 points in 20 games with the Cyclones.
"He's a dynamic offensive player," O'Dette said. "He has tons of skill and for an undersized guy he plays a feisty style of game which makes him really effective. He brings a lot of excitement to our team and gets the fans out of their seats."
Trupp was one of several players O'Dette picked up during last season, which turned out to be a rebuilding year.
"What I enjoy most about the team is that we get along well on and off the ice," said Trupp. "I would get texts and calls throughout the summer from guys letting me know they were coming back, and I want to be a part of that. ... I think with a little more experience under our belt now, we'll be pretty good this season."
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The following remarks were made by Lt. Col Shawn A. Smith, USAF, Commander, 6th Space Warning Squadron, for his keynote address at the Town of Barnstable’s Memorial Day Ceremonies at Beechwood Cemetery in Centerville.
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Ladies and Gentlemen, fellow citizens, thank you for allowing me to speak here before you today.
I have heard Memorial Day described as a “secular sacred day,” that is, a moment embedded in our American culture with deep, poignant significance and the reverence normally reserved for religious observances. That seems good and right to me, that we should come together to remember and be deeply moved by this moment, and it is my privilege to address you on such a sacred day.
I am proud and honored to be here to represent the Service members of the Massachusetts Military Reservation commands, and while I'm here, I would like to also thank the people of Cape Cod, who have been so gracious and kind in welcoming and caring for our military members here for more than 70 years. Many of us are a long way from home, and when we go downrange we leave our families behind, and your hospitality is often the difference between feeling alone and feeling that we have neighbors and friends.
I am thrilled to see so many people here to honor and remember. I think most people know the history of Memorial Day, with General John Logan's 1868 proclamation of Decoration Day, the renaming to Memorial Day in the 1880s, the gradual adoption of the holiday by all our states and finally its establishment as a formal Federal holiday in 1971.
In fact, I wonder just a little if a day like today needs more words from me, or anyone else.
After all, we're not here to honor people for their words, we're here to honor our fallen for their deeds. And like Abraham Lincoln implied when he spoke at the dedication of the Soldier's National Cemetery in Gettysburg Pennsylvania, our words aren't up to the task of further consecrating what the deeds of our fallen Service members have made sacred.
The true blessing of Memorial Day is the focus it affords us, for a moment in time, to consider as a nation the sacrifices of our fallen, and the sacrifices of their families. While I'm talking about their families, I should thank our Gold Star families who carry on, and who live with the memory of their loved ones long after the last note of taps has faded. I know I'm not alone when I say we want you to know that we remember, too.
I am afraid that the downside of setting aside one day to remember their sacrifice is that through the rest of the year, the memory of our fallen might live further from our national awareness. In some ways, it is understandable, since we are constantly confronted by the noise and immediate concerns of our day to day lives, and as USCG Air Station Cape Cod Commanding Officer, CAPT David Throop, put it this past Thursday at Otis Memorial Park, we are a forward-looking people.
Still, I think that in a society where we have the energy and inclination to sometimes regard our sports figures as heroes so much so that we routinely wear their names on replica jerseys and have entire daily radio programs and whole television channels dedicated to discussing their status, we might take more than just the one one day to remember.
It's not that I object to the adulation of sports figures; their commitment and dedication are admirable, and there is something inspirational about good teamwork and the spirit of competition.
It's more that I realize how very much hangs in the balance and rests in the hands of our Service members, who are now a smaller percentage of the U.S. population than at any time since World War II. We place tremendous burdens and expectations on these young men and women who have sworn to support and defend the Constitution.
Although the events and repercussions of September 11th, 2001 riveted our national attention for quite some time I think it is fair to say that, while we have not forgotten, our society may have resumed a more “pre-nine eleven” balance in our lives. The same cannot be said for our military.
Since that day, our military has been on a war-time footing, with frequent if not constant deployments for many, and the family separations they bring, over 7,000 dead, and another 43,000 plus wounded and missing American Service members, and a shift in our military focus to fully address the terrorist threat.
Some day in the future, we may no longer have to maintain rotating deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. And we will be glad to see all those men and women come home. At least for a while. In my heart, I hope that we'll have peace in this nation and on this earth. In my head, I know that is a precarious dream.
Osama Bin Laden is somewhat famously quoted in a video taken in Afghanistan, as saying that “when people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature, they will like the strong horse. ” He was talking about the United States, whom he regarded as weak, and how having revealed that weakness by his attacks of 9/11 and by his evading capture, he and his cause would be perceived as a strong horse and that, as the “strong horse” they would attract the support of Arabs and other peoples.
Osama Bin Laden believed that the U.S. would buckle, succumbing to a long war of attrition, without the will to maintain a protracted series of engagements against a seemingly undeterrable adversary. He thought we would withdraw in defeat the way Soviet forces had left Afghanistan in 1989, after just over 9 years.
Well, about 28 days ago Mr. Bin Laden found out the hard way that he was wrong about America and wrong about the will of a free people and of the young men and women we send into harm's way. As columnist Austin Bay scrawled on a air-dropped precision bomb slated for employment in Afghanistan, Mr. Bin Laden: “Greet the Strong Horse.”
I do not rejoice that a man was killed, even one so evil as he. But I am glad to see justice done, after so long, and at so high a price.
For as long as we insist on self-determination and liberty, and as long as we stand up for others who seek the same, we will be a target for everyone who wants a different kind of order in this world. Whether that order is a fundamentalist religious dogma or a secular fascism makes no difference. We believe in freedom; they do not.
I think there will always be tyrants in this world, and I think we will always be focused as we are now, on making sure that the front line of the battle between civilized democracies and those threats is far from our shores. Or as some people describe it, we are dedicated to making it an “away game.” And this isn't the first time that we have sent our military into harm's way on foreign soil to neutralize a threat, bring stability and justice to a nation or region, and defend liberty. In fact, it's somewhat of a national habit, with our latest generation of warriors taking their place in the line, and their place in our history.
And although we mourn those we have lost, our fallen Service members for whom this day is dedicated, today we can also celebrate our good fortune to live in a nation they helped to make and keep free. As long as we as a people are dedicated to principles worth dying for, we will inspire the same kind of selfless commitment that our Service members have shown throughout our history.
Our fallen Service members are not heroes for having died, but they are my heroes for the commitments they made and kept while they lived.
In closing, I hope you all have had the opportunity to visit a soldier's grave today, and I hope you think of their courage and sacrifice as I do when I look upon our flag. We are a rich nation for the benefit of their devotion. If we remember their sacrifices, and if we see to their families left behind, and if we maintain our liberty with fierce diligence, and live our lives as our conscience dictates, then we honor them more than any words ever could. | <urn:uuid:c1052ed6-972f-491e-9a17-b5459001fe11> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.barnstablepatriot.com/home2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=24983 | 2013-05-21T13:28:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700014987/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102654-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973206 | 1,751 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Help yourself to a serving of retro style with Zipp Speed Weaponry’s Cotton Sweater. You worship Zipp wheels—now show your love by sporting the Zipp logo when you’re not on your bike. Zipp gave this sweater a striped ribbed trim and a slim, athletic fit to keep you looking sharp anywhere from a bike-auction fundraiser to a dinner date with that cute tri-athlete.
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A foundation plan is a drawing or illustration that shows the footings, piers, or structural underpinnings needed to support the building. It provides all the information needed to prepare a strong base in which to build your home. Several factors come into play when determining which foundation to use. Depending on where you build, only certain types of foundations can be used. For instance, areas near the ocean are not ideal for basement foundations. Another governing factor is the make-up of your house site plan. The grade of the land or slope of the lot dictates what foundation type would be best to use. Other things that may affect your foundation choice include soil conditions and building codes.
There are typically three foundation types in which a home is built on. The least complex of the three is called a slab or monolithic foundation. The second type is known as a crawlspace which has pier support. The third foundation type is known as a basement which is generally beneath ground. Each one has its own need and purpose when it comes to building your home. Listed below are the different foundations found in a set of house blueprints.
Crawl Space Foundation
In the case of either foundation, the page may also consist of sectional details of the foundation to illustrate further clarity if space permits. If not, they are shown on one of several architectural detail sheets. These details show the foundation as if it was cut through a section to view how it is put together. You also see this type of cut-through for the foundation on the "building section" sheet as well. | <urn:uuid:bd69ed07-3a60-4647-9b7c-2056d29dcc08> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.designevolutions.com/articles/foundation-plan.html | 2013-05-21T13:07:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700014987/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102654-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963937 | 318 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
12/11/07 + hageir
Anybody remember that one?
it was filled with awesome bargains
Dec 15* + infradead
this thread has been dead of late
kawai k-1 II
i really want to score a nanovoice cart..
12/15/08 + SYIS
im debating on getting rid of my roland sp-404
one thing i really need is a projector let me know if anyone is interested in doing something tho.
12/15/08 + n9
I have an:
fcb1010 beringer pedal board (and I could even tell you how to program it, which helps)
Line 6 DL4 (a little beat up but functions perfectly)
powerbook g4 (no screen but works great in all other ways)
what I want:
roland fc-200 or fc-300 foot controllers
other things that have foot controllers
other midi control knob box type things
cash, I guess
Dec 23* + EsromCole
I got an M-Audio Trigger Finger in great shape. Got a cheap Behringer DX052 Dj Mixer and Zoom MRT3 layin around too I could throw in. I'd like to trade for a cheap usb soundcard (been eyeing the Lexicon Alpha). Ain't gotta be anything great just looking to record some stuff in from a lofi tape decks and maybe some of my own crappy vocalizations.
12/24/08 + acidburn
Roland MC-50mkII in good shape. No manual. Duct-taped Radioshack PSU, works well.
Roland MC-500 in fair shape. Lots of disks and manual.
Alesis MMT-8 in good shape. Alesis PSU.
not sure what i want for these. i'm not looking for anything in particular except a patchbay. maybe something non-musical.
12/26/08 + infradead
LSDJ newest stable version
looking for trades nanoloop maybe?
01/02/09 + Fant00m
Willing to trade my novation Zero SL.
willing to swap for a kaospad3, or a good offer
01/26/09 + n9
Looking for a bcf2000 fader box or a pedal controller that is NOT the FCB1010.
or something else!
01/31/09 + n9
8gb ipod g1 - trade or $220 (bumped around but works perfect, screen is good.)
korg padkontrol - trade or $120
beringer fcp1010 pedalboard - trade or $80+shipping
02/01/09 + monkvolcano
$220 for a g1 8gb ipod???
02/01/09 + indeep
its a relic. lol
02/01/09 + dkarma
monkvolcano said: "$220 for a g1 8gb ipod???"
thats what I said...
but in his defense it is "vintage" :P
02/01/09 + sohcahtoa
I'm pretty sure he means G1 iPod touch. The first generation iPods were 5Gb or 10Gb...no 8Gb model.
02/01/09 + elronhubbard
ie got a shit ton of old video processors like 4 or 5. id be willing to trade all of them for anything.
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Albino Snowflake 2010
This project was inspired by a documentary I had watched about African Albinos and the danger they face growing up in very superstitious cultures. The bones and tissues of Albinos are considered to have magical properties by the witch and “alternative” medicine doctors when made into potions. Tragically, many children get attacked and murdered for the harvesting of their body parts.
What struck me about the African Albinos is their unique appearance. The strange disparity in their features and their skin put me off balance when it comes to facial recognition. Their hybrid appearance left a very powerful and an un-forgetful impression on me.
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Gael is a qualified teacher and illustrator of over 15 years experience and runs local classes specialising in developing compositions that suit the material she is painting. Gael has written and published a number of articles, the most important of which was ‘painting nature on vellum’ in 2004. Gael has been teaching adults since 1992 utilising natural objects, affected, renounced and used by nature. Painting in watercolour (usually on vellum) recreating a season, a feeling, a scent or an experience for posterity. Gael relishes detail and is passionate about recreating this for the viewer to enjoy and treasure.
I have worked part and full time as a botanical and natural history artist for over fifteen years Following an early career in the NHS in human resources, I trained in fashion skills and pattern cutting, creating wedding dresses and evening wear, relishing the textures and colours of beautiful natural fibres. Continuing to paint and draw I also worked in senior management roles in the NHS and voluntary sector, and for six years ran a successful consultancy business, before becoming a full time natural history artist and teacher. I now develop work for exhibition and to commission from my own studio in North Hertfordshire. | <urn:uuid:693b714a-e95e-4813-a09a-8a4ba00d0044> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.fieldbreaks.co.uk/gael_sellwood | 2013-05-21T12:54:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700014987/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102654-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972276 | 247 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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My Friend Carole
Home Textiles Today Staff -- Home Textiles Today, 2/8/2011 4:49:55 AM
"For one time only, we can recognize someone who did everything in her life on her own terms to the greater benefit of all of us."
YOU MAY THINK you knew Carole Sloan, but you probably didn't. If that's the case, you missed someone pretty special.
If you just saw her at a trade show, all you noticed was a woman with a very individualistic sense of style, moving briskly through the market, not stopping for many social pleasantries. Carole could move faster than just about anybody else, even recently when her walking wasn't what it used to be.
If you were only a reader of her stories and commentary in Home Textiles Today over the past couple of decades, you knew her as an astute observer of the business, but you always wondered what she looked like. Carole never allowed her picture to be taken.
If you were on the other end of an interview with her, you knew her as probing questioner, not at all timid about calling you out on your answer if it wasn't credible to her. Carole was no shrinking violet.
And even if you had the opportunity to be with Carole socially at an industry function, you still saw someone who rarely gave an inch of herself to anyone yet expected you to tell her virtually everything you knew. Carole never met an answer that totally satisfied her.
Very few people got past those Carole Sloans. She just had very high standards for who she let into her life. But if you were special enough to make the cut, boy, were you in for a treat.
Beneath that gruff, sometimes abrupt and often curt exterior laid one of the kindest, sweetest and most caring people you'd ever want to meet. Once you were in her life, she couldn't do enough for you, whether it was helping you professionally in your career or calling you - Carole never e-mailed anyone ever - to ask how you or someone in your family was.
She remembered your birthday. A favorite for special benchmarks was an offering of calf's brains, whimsically and wittily suggesting that you needed mental augmentation as your personal aging process progressed.
She found you a job. The behind-the-scenes placement service she ran would have been a full-time job for just about anybody else. The number of people who can trace their career paths to Carole's assistance would fill a market building ... or two.
She knew everything. And everybody. She worked the phones better than anybody, often balancing two or three conversations at the same time. She usually had double or triple breakfast layers at shows. She could spot a news item buried in the bottom of page 27 of the New York Post quicker than the best investigative journalist. Carole was one of the best reporters I've ever known.
She had a wicked sense of humor. And a vocabulary that could make both a Harvard professor and a stevedore jealous.
She had a great appetite. For gossip, for dinner and for white wine ... not necessarily in that order.
But Carole was a private person and frankly, she would hate all the fuss we're making about her now. She never wanted to be acknowledged or honored by the industry, her coworkers or, for that matter, anybody. She regretted the one time she agreed to be part of a group of women industry leaders a couple of market lifetimes ago.
So we're doing something here that none of us would have dared to do when Carole was around. You never wanted to be on Carole's shit list. It wasn't a good place to be.
But for one time only, we can recognize someone who truly did everything in her life on her own terms to the greater benefit of all of us. That's not a statement very many of us can make.
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We Saved a Life Today. So Could You.
Eric B. Laxer MD
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Not Just a Saturday Morning Lacrosse Game
Saturday April 19, 2008 started as a perfect day for an athletic event. Warm, sunny skies, with a cool breeze. An ideal spring morning as we arrived in Raleigh to watch our sons from Providence Day School in Charlotte compete against the lacrosse team from Cardinal Gibbons High School.
Following the warm up, national anthem, player introductions and benediction, the game started and progressed without incident. Early in the fourth quarter, with Cardinal Gibbons up 5-3, Providence Day came down the field and one of the players took a shot. As the ball sailed toward the goal, it struck Alex Beuris, a Cardinal Gibbons defenseman on his front side. Alex bent over holding his chest, removed his helmet as he fell to the ground first in a seated position, then falling backwards.
From a distance it looked like Alex had the wind knocked out of him, but as Dr. Pat O’Brien, a Cardinal Gibbons parent arrived at his side, Alex began to twitch and go into spasm. Dr. O’Brien immediately turned toward the bench area, yelling across the field to “call 911”.
Hearing this, I ran onto the field, and arrived at Alex’s side as he was staring blankly into space, his body convulsing. He was having a seizure. I knelt above Alex’s head, holding and protecting it while maintaining his airway. The seizure lasted about 20 seconds. He then started to retch. We turned him on his side so he wouldn’t aspirate. This passed, and was immediately followed by 3 or 4 similar convulsing episodes. With each episode his breathing paused and his color went from pink, to ashen, to pink again, as his breathing resumed. We were joined on the field by Dr. Lee Ann McGinnis, and Dr. Matt Ohl, 2 other Providence Day parents. Just when it seemed that Alex was coming around, his body went flaccid and his breathing stopped. We called out his name but he lay motionless. He was unresponsive, and his color quickly turned blue. We could not feel a pulse.
Alex Beuris, an otherwise healthy 17-year-old high school senior, was lying on the athletic field in full cardiac arrest.
We removed his jersey and upper body equipment and started cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) compressing Alex’s chest, and providing mouth to mouth. He had a bruise just over the left lower portion of his chest where the ball had struck. An automatic external defibrillator (AED) was available on site and was quickly brought to the field. The leads were applied to Alex’s chest, CPR was paused, and the monitor confirmed that his heart had stopped pumping. It informed us that his heart needed to be shocked.
Following the verbal instructions from the AED, everyone ‘cleared’ off of Alex, the machine’s button was pushed, and Alex’s body jumped off the ground as the shock was delivered. No response. His face still blue, and precious time continuing to pass, we resumed CPR as the machine instructed us to give another shock. Everyone ‘cleared’ again as the button was pushed a second time, once again causing Alex’s body to jump. This time after the shock his cardiac rhythm resumed and he started breathing on his own; his skin turning pink as oxygen started flowing through his body once again. Within minutes of Alex coming back to life the paramedics arrived. They took over stabilizing him, and transported him to the hospital where, shortly after arriving he woke up and started talking. Alex’s cardiac arrest lasted about 6 minutes.
The purpose of this article is to share our experience, so those attending high risk athletic events are better prepared to do everything possible to save a life; possibly that of your own child.
Alex sustained blunt chest trauma resulting in sudden cardiac death, an injury known in the medical literature as Commotio Cordis (CC). The term comes from Latin, and means disturbance or commotion of the heart. The cause is a blow to the heart through the chest wall at a vulnerable point in the hearts electrical rhythm. High-risk sports include lacrosse, hockey, and baseball. The exact incidence is unknown. The death rate with CC is high. In a clinical review published in January 2007 by Madias and co-authors, survival is reported as being only15%. The only chance for survival is early resuscitation with CPR and a defibrillator to restore the heart’s normal rhythm. If resuscitation is initiated within 3 minutes of onset, survival goes up to 25%, but if it is delayed beyond 3 minutes, it drops to less than 3%. Unfortunately, commercially available chest protectors have not been shown to reliably protect an athlete from CC.
Be Aware and Be Prepared
So what can you do? The first thing is be aware. Sudden cardiac death from blunt chest trauma happens in a healthy athlete as a result of a series of recognizable events. Know what they are. If an athlete collapses after being hit in the chest area this is what can be going on. The second thing is be prepared. A coaches-parents meeting at the beginning of each season should review Commotio Cordis and identify specific steps that should be followed once it occurs. For example, following the ‘Cardiac Chain of Survival’ as outlined by the American Red Cross, is an easy to remember sequence of measures any bystander can initiate. Coaches, trainers, teammates, parents and officials should know CPR. Courses are widely available. Although several medical professionals were there today you do not need to be one to do what we did. Starting CPR early increases survival. However, while this gave Alex a chance, the availability of an on-site AED made the difference in Alex’s survival. AED’s are relatively inexpensive and easy to use. They should be on the field in a known, accessible location at every athletic event where this kind of injury can occur. A specific person should be assigned ahead of time to ‘grab it and run’ if it is needed. Coaches and parents should be taught its use at the beginning of every season.
We saved a life today. So could you.
The ‘We’ in this article refers to the collective efforts of many people, most of whom don’t know one another and will never meet. Starting with Mike Curatolo the Cardinal Gibbons lacrosse coach, and David Mills the Cardinal Gibbons trainer, who together made the decision to have an on-site AED (purchased 6 years ago with money donated by a player’s grandparent and raised by their student body); to the person who called 911; to those performing the resuscitation; and to the officials, coaches, parents, and athletes who ran, prayed, comforted and supported one another regardless of which jersey they had on.
Competitive sports are an exciting and important part in the growth and development of our kids. But nothing was more important on the morning of Saturday April 19, 2008 at Cardinal Gibbons High School than saving the life of a 17-year-old boy who collapsed on an athletic field.
We saved a life today. So could you.
Commotio Cordis -- Sudden Cardiac Death With Chest Wall Impact. Christopher Madias, M.D.; Barry J. Maron, M.D.; Jonathan Weinstock, M.D.; N. A. Mark Estes III, M.D.; Mark S. Link, M.D. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol. 2007; 18(1): 115-122.
US Lacrosse Sports Science and Safety Committee. Read the Position Statement on Commotio Cordis.
American Red Cross.
Personal communication with Dr. Barry Maron, Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
Personal Communication with Mike Curatolo (Cardinal Gibbons High School Lacrosse Coach), and David Mills (Cardinal Gibbons High School Team Trainer)
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by Stephanie Duchenne (Panda McBearface) Posted Monday, January 21, 2013 1:53:16 PM
You don’t like to do work, I have ways to help you not do work. Let’s procrastinate together and watch people play covers of gaming soundtracks so that all the lulz can be hazzed.
1. Vertexguy covering Contra’s “Jungle Jam”
If you are as old as me, you remember the 80s and thus probably played Contra if you were cool. If you are too young to know what the game is, it’s a platform shooter that involves using guns while not wearing a shirt and doing lots of flip jumps. Check out this guy’s guitar skills nao.
2. SongeLeReveur playing Monkey Island’s “LeChuck’s Theme”
Ok, so I haven’t actually played this game per se, but this guy does a freaking rad cover of the original soundtrack. And he plays a bass, 2 guitars and a mouth-keyboard thingy.
3. A massive
orchestra playing themes from classic 8-bit games
The video is
pretty long, but just do yourself a favour and watch because, really, I don’t
think you have lived until you have watched an orchestra play the noises from
Pong in the most needlessly elaborate way ever.
4. Kylelandry playing the Super Mario theme
I love the piano so much because I used to play and stopped when I was being a stupid rebellious teenager. Explanations of personal life dramas are now finished and you should watch this guy play on one of my favourite instruments:
5. Eyerecorddrums plays the drums for Gears of War
In an effort to include every instrument possible in this list, I present to you a drum cover of the GOW theme. The rad thing is that this dude is pretty good and has timing skills, so watching this isn’t a complete waste of your time.
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Do you have a spare crystal for that? I've had one of those in pieces for ages trying to find a glass for it.
Mine is a day-date. But otherwise identical.
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I had the Files Lite working fine when my phone was using the iPhone 2.1 software. I just upgraded to the 2.2 iPhone bits and now I cannot use my browser on my PC to view the files on the phone. Is this 2.2 issue? Has anyone else upgraded their phone to 2.2 and still been able to run Files Lite 1.2?
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WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney got a poll boost from his strong debate performance against President Barack Obama but it is too early to know how significant or lasting the bounce for the Republican challenger will be.
Gallup’s September 30-October 6 poll of registered voters across the nation showed Obama had a five-point lead over Romney in the three days before last Wednesday’s presidential debate.
But in the three days after the debate, that lead had melted away and the two candidates were tied at 47 percent apiece.
Obama still had a three-point edge, 49 to 46 percent, in Gallup’s seven-day rolling average ending Saturday, which included polls before and after the debate.
“Even on this basis, the race has become somewhat more competitive compared with before the first debate,” Gallup said. “Obama held four- to six-point leads in Gallup’s seven-day tracking results in the eight days prior to the Oct 3 debate.”
A separate national poll by the Pew Research Center conducted in the days after the debate showed Romney backed by 49 percent of likely voters and Obama with the support of 45 percent.
This represented a stunning reversal from a Pew poll conducted between September 12 and September 16 that gave Obama an eight-point lead among likely voters, but again it was unclear how quickly the Romney surge might evaporate.
The volatile national polls will only affect the result on November 6 if they translate to breakthroughs in key states like Virginia, Florida and Ohio, where Romney must win to have any chance of taking the White House.
Obama currently leads in nine of the 10 swing states.
The latest national polls are however an early measure of the damage done by Obama’s lackluster performance against a more aggressive and energetic Romney in Denver.
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This Week in Ruby: What to Expect in Rails 4.0 talk, EventMachine tutorial, and StrongParameters hit Edge Rails
Welcome to this week's Web-based syndication of Ruby Weekly.
Yehuda Katz Needs Your Input on the Tokaido (a.k.a. rails.app) UI
5 months ago, Yehuda Katz raised $51k to work on Tokaido, an app designed to make setting up a Rails environment on OS X easy. He now has some mockups of the app's user interface and needs your input.
Tddium Looking for Beta Testers of its New JRuby CI Service
Tddium is a cloud-based continuous integration service for Ruby apps and they're expanding into CI for JRuby. Got a JRuby app and want to get into the beta program? Check it out.
How Ruby Borrowed a Decades Old Idea From Lisp
Pat Shaughnessy shares another excerpt from his Ruby Under a Microscope book that digs deep into the world of blocks, lambdas, procs, and bindings and how they relate to closures.
raise 'hell': Better Programming Through Error Messages
Exceptions suck, but they don't have to. Learn how to program better with error messages, and see how improved messages will lead to a better experience in Rails 4.0.
Ruby's EventMachine: Event-based Programming (Part 1)
Not up to speed with EventMachine yet? No worries, Phil Whelan kicks off a series of blog posts introducing us to the popular event-processing library (which, incidentally, hit version 1.0 just this month.)
An Experiment in Static Compilation of Ruby: FastRuby
Charles Nutter (of JRuby fame) shows off an experiment in doing static compilation of Ruby to Java. Short and sweet and leans on JRuby's parser and AST walker.
8 (New) Steps for Fixing Other People's Code
Many moons ago, Dr Nic wrote a popular article about contributing to open source projects. Alex Grant builds on Dr Nic's work with a more up to date set of guidelines.
Refactoring: Replace Conditional with Polymorphism
From Joe Ferris of Thoughtbot.
Some things Mathias Lafeldt has picked up while learning to use the Ruby-based infrastructure automation framework.
Watching and Listening
Simulating the World with Ruby
Brian Liles (remember TATFT?) digs into creating simulations in Ruby, covering concurrency issues, domain modelling, testing, and more.
Ruby's Symbol#to_proc: A Walkthrough
A 15 minute extract from my Ruby Reloaded course that digs into what Symbol#to_proc is, where it came from, how it works, and how to make your own version from scratch.
What to Expect in Rails 4.0
Prem Sichanugrist shows off some of the new features and changes in the forthcoming new version of Rails.
Libraries and Code
minitest-reporters: Reporters for MiniTest
A new way to create customizable MiniTest output formats. I've tried it. It works. It's awesome.
oEmbed Ruby Library
oEmbed is a format for allowing an embedded representation of a URL on third party sites. The 'oembed' gem helps you lean on oEmbed's functionality in Ruby.
Ongoing ActiveRecord Optimizations: Freeze Columns Before Using Them As Hash Keys
An interesting (and ongoing) pull request on the Rails GitHub repository where freezing column names before using them as hash keys seems to result in memory and performance improvements.
Sinatra-Like Routes in Rails Controllers
Jose Valim demonstrates how simple it is to tinker with Rails controllers to support Sinatra-style routes.
Back-end Software Engineer at Geckoboard (London, UK)
We're looking for a Rails engineer to help architect, build, test and improve a young, fast moving and market defining web application with all the challenges that come with that. 2+ years’ experience with a dynamically-typed, object-oriented language.
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Dumper: Cloud Database Backup Service for Rails
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The Houston Cougars' path to the BCS won't be quite as easy as certain corners of Vegas had predicted -- the Coogs were favored over Southern Miss by two touchdowns -- but UH is still in respectable shape. The score at halftime of the 2011 Conference USA Championship Game is 21-14, Golden Eagles.
Wind-afflicted Case Keenum has only 152 yards on 22 attempts, though SMU's D deserves plenty of credit in keeping the nation's top offense contained for 30 minutes. With the ball to start the third quarter, the Eagles boast the momentum in addition to the lead.
Austin Davis has 39 yards rushing and 164 through the air, along with all three touchdowns. Dominique Sullivan is the box score star so far, having produced 85 yards worth of catches.
Very interested to see whether the SMU defense can keep holding on.
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- Posted on Nov 24th 2009 5:51AM by Richard Moore
On 21 November Fraiture posted a message on his Twitter page that reads: "While the guys are in L.A., I went to scout some studios in NYC with Ryan [Gentles -- The Strokes manager] today for what looks like Jan recording!!! mood = f------ excited!"
Comments made by Casablancas in a recent interview with Pitchfork also add weight to the rumours. "We're supposed to get back together in January," he said, before adding, "but don't hold me to that."
The singer continued, "We've been trying to do it for years. I'm always available and they know that but getting together is tough."
The band members' extracurricular activities have so far caused a delay to work on the much-anticipated record. Guitarist Albert Hammond Jr. has released two solo albums, drummer Fab Moretti has performed various guest spots and released an album as part of the band Little Joy, while Fraiture has a band called Nickel Eye and Casablancas a recently released solo album called 'Phrazes for the Young.'
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Buy whole fish if you can. It is easier to judge the quality.
The old rule of checking for clarity of the eyes doesn't always wash. Some fish
simply have cloudy eyes. Instead look for eyes that protrude, as if the fish is
Look under the gills. They should be bright, cherry red.
Smell the gills. They should smell like the ocean.
When buying a fresh fish, check the tail, it should not be dried out.
Whole fish should have a sheen. If the skin is leathery or has wrinkles, the
fish has lost enough moisture to be past it's prime.
Baked Halibut with Pineapple Salsa
1 1/2 lbs. halibut or other firm fish steaks
1/4 C. sliced onion
1 clove garlic, crushed
2 t. vegetable oil
Freshly ground black pepper to taste
1/3 C. pineapple juice
2 T. chopped cilantro
Preheat oven to 400°F.
Arrange fish in shallow baking pan. In non-stick skillet, saute onion and garlic
in oil until soft. Add pepper and cilantro. Stir in pineapple juice and pour
over fish. Bake, covered, in preheated oven 20 to 25 minutes or until fish
flakes easily with fork. Serve with Pineapple Salsa.
1 pineapple, skinned, cored, diced to 1/4-inch
1 red bell peppers, diced
1-2 jalapenos, chopped and seeded
1/2 small bunch cilantro, chopped
1/2 medium red onion, diced small
1/8 C. lemon juice
Salt and pepper to taste
Mix all ingredients together. It is better if you make it a hour ahead and let
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Mitt Romney won Republican presidential primaries in five states on Tuesday, adding to a delegate total that already exceeds the number needed to win the nomination.
Romney won primaries in California, New Jersey, South Dakota, New Mexico and Montana.
Romney has 1,398 delegates. He needs 1,144 to win the Republican nomination at the party’s national convention in August.
A total of 264 delegates were at stake in Tuesday’s contests including 169 in California and Romney has a chance to win them all.
With the primary season winding down, Romney is already in general election mode. He will take on Democrat Barack Obama in the fall. After Tuesday, only one Republican presidential primary remains, in Utah on June 26. | <urn:uuid:ce077edc-de96-4b5a-b070-a126363d9030> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/article3496061.ece | 2013-05-21T13:16:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700014987/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102654-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962618 | 148 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Comic Mike Birbiglia’s very funny one-man show about love, life on the stand-up circuit, sleepwalking and the perils of all three moves from the stage to the screen in “Sleepwalk With Me.”
Shot on a shoestring budget, the film works primarily because Birbiglia carries the weight. The movie leans heavily on the comic’s quirky, self-deprecating style.
The story itself is a familiar one in which Birbiglia plays nice-guy Matt, who can’t quite get the commitment thing right. The film opens with him behind the wheel of an uncool car, telling us how he came to be an underpaid, struggling stand-up with an impatient father (James Rebhorn), a flighty mother (Carol Kane) and an incredible girlfriend, Abby (Lauren Ambrose). It’s just the audience and Matt having a moment, so you know right away Birbiglia hasn’t left his stage influences completely behind.
Though he continues to break through that wall on occasion, for the most part “Sleepwalk” slips quickly into a more traditional blend of narration and scenes. We are taken back to the time when Abby and Matt get their first apartment together – the beginning of the end. Relationship pressures heat up after his sister gets married. Friends start having babies; their babies need buddies. Tick, tick, tick – that’s an emotional bomb you’re hearing, not a biological clock.
As the screws tighten, Matt’s sleepwalking begins. It’s a disturbing variety where he is living out his nightmares, trying to kill the jackal in his dreams – an episode that leaves a trash can pretty much destroyed. It gets worse, and far more dangerous, as Abby and Matt’s eight-year relationship flounders.
Ambrose, who has been sorely missed since the regular injection of her fine acting on “Six Feet Under” ended, is as delightful as ever. Indeed one of the movie’s strengths is the way in which it manages to make Matt and Abby’s troubled romance interesting without a lot of conflict, a credit to Ambrose and Birbiglia’s ease with each other on screen. Thematically, it is very relatable stuff. Both parties are nice people who are simply wrong for each other.
One of the great pleasures of the film is watching a comic find his voice – the stony silences giving way to genuine laughter when he finds the right line. It’s certainly enough to keep Matt on the road, where a good gig will net him $150 if he’s lucky. The payoff for us is getting to meet a lot of other funny people who didn’t make it into the stage act.
To help make the move to a film, the comic kept his Broadway team intact, starting with the decision to co-direct with the play’s Seth Barrish. For the script, Birbiglia, his brother Joe and Barrish got an assist from Ira Glass of “This American Life,” also a producer on the project. The filmmakers have succeeded in giving the story more breathing room, allowing the characters Birbiglia first conjured up to take distinctive shape and form.
It is a very good ensemble overall and the movie is filled with terrific turns by many of Birbiglia’s real-life friends, with Sondra James as his crusty agent Colleen a total hoot. On the family front, Rebhorn and Kane are excellent as Matt’s parents – the no-nonsense neurosurgeon dad wondering when his son will get a real job and mom forever coddling.
Ironically, the thing that should have offered a world of visual possibilities – sleepwalking – doesn’t always work. By the end, they get it absolutely right, taking a giant leap of faith to make sure Matt’s world comes crashing down exactly as it should. ‘SLEEPWALK WITH ME’
* * * *
Cast: Mike Birbiglia, James Rebhorn, Carol Kane, Lauren Ambrose
Directors: Mike Birbiglia, Seth Barrish
Running time: 1:30
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Americans rightly blame Wall Street’s and big banks’ reckless gambling in derivatives and other exotic, and often toxic, investments for the financial implosion that has wrecked the economy and spurred long-term unemployment. A report issued Friday by the Obama administration’s special master for executive compensation, Kenneth Feinberg, confirms what we have suspected about the extent of bankers’ greed that drove them to make those risky investments.
With the financial system about to go over the cliff in late 2008, a group of 17 of the nation’s largest financial institutions that had already taken hundreds of billions of dollars in TARP funds to avoid collapse quickly paid some $2 billion in mind-boggling bonuses to the group’s 600 highest-paid executives. His study showed that nearly 80 percent of that money ($1.58 billion of the $2.03 billion in question) was unmerited.
His criteria for that judgment: The bonuses were either overly generous exit packages, or there were no clear performance guidelines or other rationale for them.
Taxpayers might assume that there would be a claw-back provision to get back bonuses awarded under such questionable circumstances in the review period — from October 2008, when the first bailouts were issued, until February 2009, when the stimulus bill took effect. But that’s not the case.
Neither Mr. Feinberg nor the administration has legal grounds to demand reimbursement. Their case is diminished, as well, by the quick payback of TARP funds by 11 of the 17 banks. Indeed, it has been clear for some time that the reason for the banks’ rapid repayments of TARP aid was to eliminate the prospect of a demand for reimbursement of bonuses.
Even among the six banks that have not repaid their TARP loans, there apparently is little Mr. Feinberg can do except point out the excesses and hope Congress will come up with stiffer rules for banks. The most egregious bonus was the $100 million payout given by Citigroup to Andrew Hall and another trader in the bank’s Philbro energy trading section. Mr. Feinberg’s criticism of that bonus when he uncovered it, however, did prompt Citigroup to sell the Philbro unit to Occidental Petroleum last fall.
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May 25, 2011
Yale Accelerates Purchase of the Orofino Gold/Silver Property
News Release #11-09
Yale Resources Ltd. (TSX-V - YLL and Frankfurt - YAB) is pleased to report that it has accelerated the purchase of 9 concessions totalling 7,714.66 hectares (or 77 square km) that make up a majority of the Orofino Project, located in central Sonora State.
"By clarifying the ownership structure for the property, Yale has assured clear title to a project where the Company has had great success to date. The Company's funds can now be directed towards exploration at Orofino rather than ongoing payments to underlying owners. Exploration can now continue at a pace that makes sense to the Company.", stated Ian Foreman, P.Geo., president of Yale.
In order to accelerate the purchase, Yale and Canmex Barite have agreed to amend the option to purchase agreement such that upon transfer of the concessions in whole with no liabilities to Yale's Mexican subsidiary Minera Alta Vista S.A. de C.V., Yale will issue the remaining 700,000 shares that were to be issued over two years.
In addition, Yale has dropped the option on several interior concessions (the Olivaria Option) within the Orofino property that total 174.48 Ha (or 1.7 square km) as a majority of the exploration potential for the mineralization exposed in the historic open pits is outside of those small concessions.
However, Yale will continue with the option on two important concessions (the Pima de Oro Option) that total 264.65 Ha (or 2.65 square km). These concessions contain the El Gato target, where Teck drilled 2.27 g/t gold and 13.7 g/t silver over 15.24 metres, as well as the San Francisco and Koala targets, which were discovered by Yale.
About the Orofino Property:
The Orofino Property is now 7,979.31 Ha in size (or 79.8 square km) and contains four known exploration targets -- Santiago, San Francisco, El Gato and Koala. The success of Yale's exploration at Orofino continues to expand the property's significant exploration potential.
The San Francisco Target:
The structural interpretation for the property formulated by Yale was instrumental in the discovery of the San Francisco Target (see news release dated June 28, 2010). The San Francisco target is on trend with the Santiago Target located an additional 1.5 km away. This now creates a mineralized trend that measures as least 3 kilometres in length.
The San Francisco target is made up of a 30 to 40 metre wide zone of strong oxidation centred on a 5 to 6 metre wide core area of strong silicification and veining. It has been traced in the field for 300 metres along strike and remains open in both directions. The highlight sample was 2.1 metres with a weighted average of 2.70 g/t gold and 529.8 g/t silver.
The El Gato Zone:
At the El Gato target Yale geologists sampled 5.0 metres grading 2.27 g/t gold and 10.2 g/t silver metres (see news release dated October 6, 2009) and where Minera Teck drilled 2.27 g/t gold and 13.7 g/t silver over 15.24 metres (see news release dated October 1, 2009). The exploration potential within the El Gato area is considerable.
The Koala Zone:
The Koala Zone is defined by a zone of oxidation that measures approximately 175 by 90 metres. The discovery outcrop, located at the southern edge of the Koala Zone, returned values of 1.07 g/t gold, 60.1 g/t silver, 1.22 % lead and 1.82 % zinc over 1 metre. A hand dug trench, located 50 metres to the north, uncovered a second mineralized structure that returned 10 metres averaging 0.58 g/t gold, 57.4 g/t silver, 8.4 % lead and 1.4 % zinc located approximately 45 metres to the east (see news release dated January 29, 2010).
About Yale Resources:
Yale Resources is an exploration and development company concentrating in northwestern Mexico. By utilizing the joint venture business model, Yale is able to maximize its exposure to discovery while minimizing exploration risk. At the same time Yale continues to work on its non-optioned properties as well as reviewing new projects. Yale has four projects under option to value added partners with commitments greater than $1M in expenditures during the next 12 months.
All historic results are provided for information purposes only and as they are pre NI 43-101 they should not be relied upon.
Ian Foreman, P.Geo.
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Sayid sits in a taxi outside a suburban house and stares at the photo of Nadia. Finally he gets out and rings the doorbell. Nadia answers, and they fall into a hug. But it's not the type of long-lost romantic hug you'd expect after years of estrangement. And then a young boy and girl run out and wrap their arms around him shouting Uncle Sayid is here! A man also steps out and sees the flowers Sayid holds. He's surprised that Sayid would bring flowers for his wife. Sayid smiles and offers them to the man. They hug, and Sayid says it's good to see you, brother.
Later at dinner, Sayid says he has been all over the world translating contracts for an oil company. Omer, Sayid's brother, just opened up another dry cleaning store. Sayid is genuinely happy for him. Then Omer gets a call. He says it's business and leaves the table. It's the first time Nadia and Sayid have been alone, and she asks if he got her letters. Yes, he did. Nadia points out that he never wrote back.
"You hooked me up to this thing. You stuck needles in me. And you called it a test."WHOOOSH to the Temple as Sayid talks to Dogen about why they did the tests they did on him. Dogen says it would be best if Sayid were dead, but Sayid says he's a good man. Dogen is dubious -- and SLAM! Without warning, he drills Sayid in the throat with the edge of his hand. The fight is on. They crash into tables and wreck the place. Dogen grabs a paint brush and splinters off the bristle end, just about to stab Sayid in the neck, when he sees a baseball roll by on the floor. Something about it makes Dogen stop. He tells Sayid to leave the Temple and never come back.
Watch Matthew Fox and Jimmy Kimmel unbox the series box set
Interact and explore with excerpts from the official book
See some of the props, wardrobe and set dressing auctioned off to fans
Explore the major events plotted out chronologically and episodically
Hey, doc, get your own personal handle from Sawyer
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I had noticed that I had never released RoG on here for some reason, despite having released Oracle of Secrets on here. It's a straightforward, classic puzzling Zelda quest without a huge story in it. It has 11 dungeons (9 main, 2 secret), and will have the simple Zelda feeling to it. Despite this, though, I did do my best to make each area make excellent use of the New BS set. Anyway, I hope you enjoy this quest, and have as much fun playing throughout this as I did.
-Fixed a combo flaw in one room in Level 2
-Fixed Push Block glitch in one room in Level 3
-Fixed a room design flaw in Level 7
-Fixed 3 minor typos
-Level 8 boss intro text removed
Hyrule was peaceful, Ganon was out of the picture, and people of many generations continued to thrive; but it wasn't going to stay that way forever. One day, an esteemed member of Ganon's army, Synrilla, was Ganon's first aid, and fought side by side with him. Eventually, he began making plans to revive his sought-after master, so he knew what to do, sacrifice a member of the Royal Family, and put her/his ashes on the altar of Ganon. So he invaded Hyrule Castle and held Zelda prisoner. It seemed that all hope was all lost, but she knew precisely what to do. She had knew the many generations of the Hero who had sealed away evil long ago. Back in Taitl, a young man by the name of Link was just headed to Taitl Village to help the elder, but then Zelda called Link, telling him of what was going on, and the only way he could save her and stop Ganon's resurrection was to get back the Triforce of Courage, which was split and hidden by Synrilla, so Link grabbed his ancestor's sword, and then the adventure begins!!
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What about the big bang?
Even the idea that the universe is expanding is under attack by some astronomers.
In his book, A brief history of Time, the well-known British physicist, Stephen W. Hawking, identifies the ultimate question behind everything. ‘Today we still yearn to know why we are here and where we came from.’1
In the last chapter of his book he says:
‘We find ourselves in a bewildering world. We want to make sense of what we see around us and to ask: What is the nature of the universe? What is our place in it and where did it and we come from? Why is it the way it is?’2
Hawking concedes that the important question of why the universe exists cannot be answered by means of equations and theories.
‘Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?’3
Nevertheless, he concludes his book by limiting himself to the equations, instead of looking for their Author.
‘However, if we do discover a complete theory, it should in time be understandable … by everyone, not just a few scientists. Then we shall all … be able to take part in the discussion of the question of why it is that we and the universe exist. If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason—for then we would know the mind of God.’4
Like so many other astronomers and physicists, Hawking tries to explain the universe without acknowledging its Creator. But Isaac Newton (1642–1727), possibly the greatest physicist of all time, and a predecessor of Hawking in the same chair at Cambridge University, firmly believed that the solar system was created by God.
The idea that the solar system emerged from a swirl of matter began with Immanuel Kant (1724–1804). Many present-day cosmologists describe the cosmos in terms of evolutionary development and most of them accept the so-called big bang theory.
According to this theory, the universe began about 10 to 20 thousand million [10–20 billion—Ed.] years ago as an inconceivably small volume of space (or a single point of vast energy) which has been expanding ever since. The most important observation supporting the concept of an expanding universe is the ‘red shift’ of light from distant stars.
This inferred expansion cannot be observed directly, but light coming from distant galaxies seems to have longer wavelengths (i.e. gets ‘redder’) as the distance increases. This is attributed to either the Doppler effect (that the wavelengths of light are ‘stretched out’ when galaxies move away from one another) or the relativistic stretching of the space between the stars as the universe expands. The big bang theory suggests that the cosmos was originally compressed into a hot and dense ‘cosmic egg,’ and as the universe aged, it expanded.
Space does not permit a full discussion of the evidence for and against the big bang. However, many discoveries made in recent years with improved instruments and improved observational methods have repeatedly shaken this theory.5 Interpretations of the available facts in terms of currently held cosmological models very quickly lead to unresolvable inconsistencies. There is an increasing number of astronomers who raise substantial arguments against the theory.
If the universe came from a big bang, then matter should be evenly distributed. However, the universe contains an extremely uneven distribution of mass. This means that matter is concentrated into zones and planes around relatively empty regions. Two astronomers, Geller and Huchra, embarked on a measuring program expecting to find evidence to support the big bang model. By compiling large star maps, they hoped to demonstrate that matter is uniformly distributed throughout the cosmos (when a large enough scale is considered).
The more progress they made with their cartographic overview of space, the clearer it became that distant galaxies are clustered like cosmic continents beyond nearly empty reaches of space. The big bang model was strongly shaken by this discovery.
It should be added that the visible galaxies do not contain enough mass to explain the existence and distribution of these structures. But the big bang model was not discarded. Instead, the existence of a mysterious, unknown, and unseen form of matter (‘dark matter’) was postulated. Without any direct evidence for its existence, this ‘dark matter’ is supposed to be 10 times the amount of visibly observed mass.
A critic of the big bang theory, Ernst Peter Fischer, a physicist and biologist of Constance, Germany, reflects on its popularity. He refers to the:
‘… warning given by [physicist and philosopher] Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker … namely that a society which accepts the idea that the origin of the cosmos could be explained in terms of an explosion, reveals more about the society itself than about the universe. Nevertheless, the many observations made during the past 25 years or so which contradict the standard model, are simply ignored. When fact and theory contradict each other, one of them has to yield.’6
Another critic of the big bang theory, Halton C. Arp, was attached to the world-famous Mount Wilson Observatory near Pasadena, USA, and to the Las Campanas Observatories in California. He explains the reasons for rejecting the big bang model in a notable article, ‘Der kontinuierlicher Kosmos’ (The continuous cosmos).
‘Since antiquity, ideas of the universe have varied widely, depending on assumptions about factual observations. The current idea of a big bang has been the standard model for about 60 years. But, in the mean time, the number of observations that negate the assumption that the red shift of the light of distant galaxies can be explained by recessive motions, is increasing.’7
In other words, even the idea that the universe is expanding is under attack by some astronomers.
Arp continues his criticism of the big bang theory and calls for it to be rejected by the scientific community.
‘In my opinion the observations speak a different language; they call for a different view of the universe. I believe that the big bang theory should be replaced, because it is no longer a valid theory.’8
Professor Hans Jörg Fahr of the Institute for Astrophysics at Bonn University, Germany, writes of the demise of the big bang theory in his book, Der Urknall kommt zu Fall (The Demise of the Big Bang).
‘The universe originated about 20 thousand million years ago in a cosmic explosion (the big bang), it has been expanding ever since, and it will continue to do so until the end of time … This sounds convincing, and it is accepted by all present-day mainstream “natural philosophers.” But it should be obvious that a doctrine which is acclaimed noisily, is not necessarily close to the truth. In the field of cosmology the widely supported big bang theory is not more convincing than other alternatives. In fact, there are surprisingly many alternatives.’9
Dr James Trefil, professor of physics at Mason University, Virginia, accepts the big bang model, but he concedes that a state of emergency exists regarding fundamental aspects of explaining why the universe exists.
‘There shouldn’t be galaxies out there at all, and even if there are galaxies, they shouldn’t be grouped together the way they are.’ He later continues: ‘The problem of explaining the existence of galaxies has proved to be one of the thorniest in cosmology. By all rights, they just shouldn’t be there, yet there they sit. It’s hard to convey the depth of the frustration that this simple fact induces among scientists.’10
It is a great pity that many Christians are willing to ‘re-interpret’ the infallible Word of God to fit a fallible, man-made theory like the big bang. Such ideas are ultimately devised to counter the biblical record, which is firmly against cosmic evolution over billions of years. Those who urge trying to harmonize the big bang with Scripture find it only natural to go on to other evolutionary ideas, such as a ‘primitive earth’ gradually cooling down, death, and struggle millions of years before the Fall, and so on.
My considered opinion is that as long as we try to explain the universe apart from the Creator and without regard to biblical affirmations given by him, we will continue to be dazzled by a succession of ingenious cosmological ideas, none of which will remotely resemble the truth.11
This article was adapted from Dr Gitt’s book Stars and their Purpose: Signposts in Space.
Stars could not have come from the ‘big bang’
Evolutionists generally believe that stars formed by the collapse of gas clouds under gravity. This is supposed to generate the millions of degrees required for nuclear fusion.
But most clouds would be so hot that outward pressure would prevent collapse. Evolutionists must find a way for the cloud to cool down. One such mechanism might be through molecules in the cloud colliding and radiating enough of the heat away.
But according to theory, the ‘big bang’ made mainly hydrogen, with a little helium—the other elements supposedly formed inside stars. Helium can't form molecules at all, so the only molecule that could be formed would be molecular hydrogen (H2). Even this is easily destroyed by ultraviolet light, and usually needs dust grains to form—and dust grains require heavier elements. So the only coolant left is atomic hydrogen, and this would leave gas clouds over a hundred times too hot to collapse.
Abraham Loeb of Harvard’s Center for Astrophysics says: ‘The truth is that we don't understand star formation at a fundamental level.’1
References and notes
- S.W. Hawking, A Brief History of Time—From the Big Bang to Black Holes, Bantam Books, New York, U.S.A., p. 13, 1998. Return to text
- Ref. 1, p. 171. Return to text
- Ref. 1, p. 174. Return to text
- Ref. 1, p. 175. Return to text
- H.J. Fahr, Der Urknall kommt zu Fall Kosmologie im Umbruch—Franckh-Kosmos Verlag, Stuttgart, Germany, 327 pages, 1992. Return to text
- E.P. Fischer (Ed.), Neue Horizonte 92/93—Ein Forum der Naturwissenschaften—Piper-Verlag, München, Germany, pp. 112–173, 1993. Return to text
- Ref. 6, p. 113. Return to text
- Ref. 6, p. 118. Return to text
- Ref. 5, pp. 9–10. Return to text
- J. Trefil, The Dark Side of the Universe. Charles Scribner’s Sons, Macmillan Publishing Company, New York, USA, p. 3 and p. 55, 1988. Return to text
- See also R. Grigg, The mind of God and the big bang, Creation15(4):38–43, 1993. See also A Snelling, Galaxy-Quasar ‘Connection’ Defies Explanation, Journal of Creation11(3):254–5, 1994. Return to text
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Kansas City Chiefs: The Chiefs received some criticism for their draft selections, but coach Dick Vermeil was pleased with what he saw at last weekend's rookie camp. "I think it's going to be a better draft than it was rated by the experts," Vermeil told the Kansas City Star. "Junior Siavii at 351 pounds moved better than he did when we worked him out in Oregon. . . . Our seventh-round draft choice, (offensive tackle) Kevin Sampson, really jumped out at us. (Wide receiver Samie) Parker made a couple of spectacular catches running the ball down deep over his shoulder. He can run. Those things you can't coach and they're easy to evaluate. It was just impressive. Our defensive end that we drafted from Idaho State (Jared Allen) was impressive with his quickness and speed."
Tennessee Titans: Defensive tackle Albert Haynesworth was a no-show for Tuesday's organized team workout, and many of his teammates weren't pleased. "That is a slap in the face for us," quarterback Steve McNair told the Tennessean. "A lot of people, coaches, players think he should be here. We've got 11-year, 12-year veterans here. He is a third-year veteran. Does Albert really want to win? If he really wants to win he'd be here. If I am here, yes, he is disrespecting me not being here." Haynesworth plans on showing up at the team's facility today to explain his absence, which he said was due to his own confusion regarding the schedule.
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JUNEAU - State marine highway officials say they hope to have the ferry Aurora repaired quickly.
The Aurora is in Whittier after a hydraulic lifter on a service generator failed. That failure created cam shaft damage to the generator, which will require a new cam shaft and lifters to be installed.
Ferry general manager John Falvey said the Aurora is expected to resume service Friday.
During the Aurora's absence, ferry officials planned a sailing out of Whittier Tuesday by the Tustumena, with stops in Valdez and Cordova before returning to Kodiak.
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[Pkg-fonts-devel] Draining the font swamp
minghua at ubuntu.com
Tue May 22 03:59:42 UTC 2007
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 01:13:56AM +0100, Nicolas Spalinger wrote:
> > - Whether we still need all these horrible bitmap fonts
> You mean the fonts available in the x-fonts* packages?
I think the names are xfonts-*.
Last time I checked, X server won't start without the "fixed" bitmap
font from xfonts-base.
> I would suggest a poll on usage and possible demotion to universe or
> specific langpacks. Might be different for CJK fonts.
I believe the general consensus among Chinese users is that bitmap fonts
are preferred for small font size.
There is a technique called "embedded bitmap" that can put bitmap fonts
of different size into a TrueType font, and libfreetype handles this
correctly. There are currently one set of fonts (with two typefaces) in
Debian/Ubuntu that has embedded bitmaps.
A sad thing, however, is that although there is a group actively working
on a set of Chinese bitmap fonts and has improved the quality quite a
bit, their work can't be embedded into the existent TrueType font due to
licensing restrictions. So I am afraid in the short term stand-alone
bitmap fonts are still necessary for Chinese users who are picky about
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Holiday 2007: 4 red flags
Housing, credit market turbulence, product recalls and declining store traffic are threats that could trip retailers' sales and profits in the coming months and beyond.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The upcoming fourth quarter is the make-or-break period for the retail industry and the path leading to the crucial holiday season is peppered with landmines.
As much as 50 percent of merchants' annual profits and sales are accounted for in two months: November and December.
So far consumers continue to spend confidently, unmoved by the growing crises in the housing and credit markets.
Retail economists credit a still resilient jobs market and growth in real income for making Americans feel confident about their spending ability. But that confidence is waning according to one key barometer.
The Conference Board on Tuesday reported a steep drop in consumer confidence in August, the biggest in nearly two years and possibly the first clear sign that consumer spending - which accounts for two-thirds of the nation's economy - is on the brink of a contraction.
And that possible contraction in consumer spending along with these four red flags threaten 2007's holiday season.
Double trouble for retailers. Falling home prices, subprime mortgage and credit market meltdowns are finally pressuring consumer spending.
"The lower one-third of U.S. households who got into subprime mortgages in the later stages of a housing boom are now having problems making their payments and they're facing foreclosures," said Nigel Gault, U.S. economist with forecasting firm Global Insight.
The broader consumer base of middle-income households, who fuel a bulk of consumer spending, aren't losing their homes, but they're facing declining home prices after years of a price boom. So far, consumer spending has outpaced income growth because they tapped into home equity to fuel shopping habits.
But if creditors tighten their lending standards across the board, including consumer loans, the real concern for retailers is that middle-income shoppers will start to pull back.
"Consumers will ask 'how aggressive do I want to be with my spending'" Gault said.
"There's good reason for spending to pull back in the months ahead. It won't provoke a recession because the job market is holding up and real wages are up," he said.
Still, if nervous consumers start saving more of their wages and spending less then "I think the holiday season will most likely be a subdued one," he said.
Store traffic declining: Shopping trips to malls have declined for 6 of the past 7 months months, according to Chicago-based market research firm ShopperTrak RCT.
"It's the first time that we've seen traffic fall across the United States and we're alarmed by this continuous drop," said Bill Martin, CEO of ShopperTrak, which monitors traffic and sales at close to 50,000 retail locations nationwide.
Wal-Mart (Charts, Fortune 500), the world's largest retailer, said consumer traffic to its stores last quarter was softer than expected. Gap Inc., the No. 1 clothing chain also complained of weaker traffic trends last quarter.
Americans say they are making fewer trips to stores to save on gas, ShopperTrak's Martin said. They're also buying more online and bulk shopping at wholesale clubs like Costco and Sam's Club.
If traffic continues to fall in September and October, then sales growth might eventually reverse course as well, Martin said.
"We've rarely seen month-after-month traffic declines stacked up like this," Martin said. "When sales are flat and traffic is dropping, retailers are not as alert to the situation. When sales start to drop, then it might be too late for them to correct the situation."
"If this traffic trend persists, retail sales will suffer in January, February and in March," he said.
"Diminishing traffic is a phenomenon that tends to feed the strongest and starve the weakest," Richard Hastings, chief retail analyst with Bernard Sands, wrote in a note last month. "Weaker retailers, without enough traffic to fuel sales could be faced with sloppy inventory planning and higher [discounts] cutting into their profits," he said.
Trouble in toyland: The fourth quarter is crucial to toymakers and retailers. Over 70 percent of toy shipments to retailers and two-thirds of all toy retail sales take place in November and December.
Therefore, any significant threats to toy sales, such as this year's big recalls by Mattel (Charts, Fortune 500) because of lead poisoning found in toys made in China, could have a damaging financial impact for both toymakers and retailers.
"Retailers will have to continue to sell Chinese-made toys because most toys are manufactured there," said Chris Byrne, an independent toy industry analyst. "I don't think the recalls per se are the only the only threat out there to toy sales this year.
"We will see in the coming months whether or not consumers are feeling confident that enough testing has been done on toys sold in the U.S.," he said. "But the housing market could have a greater impact on toy sales."
Can clothing sellers iron out sales wrinkles? Retailers have blamed weather woes, gas prices and the housing market for weakness in clothing sales this year.
July was an especially punishing month for some specialty apparel chains like Abercrombie&Fitch (Charts) and Hot Topic. For Gap Inc (Charts, Fortune 500)., the No.1 clothing seller, the problem continues to be poor merchandise selections that don't resonate with customers.
Clothing typically is a top holiday gift purchase and merchants have relied on holiday sales to fuel a bulk of their annual profits and sales.
However, in recent years, consumers' love affair with the latest iPod, cellphones and other gadgets has cut into clothing purchases. Last holiday season, apparel sales rose just 3 percent compared to a 13.7 percent jump in electronics purchases, according to the NRF.
If this trend persists beyond the holiday season and into 2008, then soft sales combined with weakening economic conditions could force some clothing chains out of business or be put up for sale.
Paul Altman, principal with the Sage Group, a New York-based M&A firm that focuses on retail companies, thinks some struggling clothing sellers may be able to ride out a few more months of weak sales.
"[But] if the economy has more prolonged difficulty, short-term liquidity needs of these companies may force them to make a move more quickly than they might desire," he added.
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(born 8 July 1977 in Abbiategrasso
) is an Italian footballer
who plays as a goalkeeper
for Serie A
Having begun his footballing career at the age of 13, for Trezzano and Assago, he moved to Corsico and in 1996 secured a move to Monza. He transferred to A.C. Milan
in summer 1998. His debut in Serie A came on January 17, 1999 as a 92nd-minute substitute for Sebastiano Rossi
. He then became Milan's first choice goalkeeper, for four years, until he lost his starting spot to backup Dida
early in the 2002–2003 season after picking up an injury during a Champions League
qualifying match in August 2002. Dida's top form effectively ground Abbiati's playing time to a halt.
On 25 August 2004, a brief controversy surfaced when an editorial criticizing Dida and Milan coach Carlo Ancelotti
appeared on Abbiati's official website, stating that Dida had made mistakes in a friendly against U.C. Sampdoria
and that Ancelotti was blocking a move that would have sent Abbiati to Palermo
. Abbiati denied that he'd written the piece and said that it had been posted by his webmaster. "I never speak to the person who looks after my site. I would never judge one of my teammates."
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From Brotherly Love
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Her name is Eden Eskaros. On a recent trip to Mexico, she saw something she didn’t like and did something about it. That changed everything for hundreds of children.
It’s dinner time at the Eskaros home. Last year this close-knit family went on a service trip to remote areas of Mexico. While there, 10-year old Eden noticed many kids couldn’t play outside because they didn’t have shoes.
“And the ground there is all this broken up gravel, and sharp sticks so if you’re walking on it, your feet are going to get really ripped up,” she said.
That’s when Eden sprung into action. Once they got back home to Voorhees, she sat down with her mother Carol and wrote a letter asking for donations of shoes or flip flops. Her goal was 100 pairs of shoes.
Marisa Yellen, the manager of a local Payless Shoe Source, received one of the letters.
“I got teary eyed. At the bottom, she signed her name and drew a picture. That really got to me,” said Yellen.
Yellen and a co-worker donated 43 pairs of shoes to Eden paid for with their own money.
Almost halfway to her goal, Eden then went to her church encouraging the congregation to also donate. In a matter of weeks, she had collected 1352 pairs of shoes. The family went back to Mexico in August and handed out every single pair.
“This miracle was happening in my life and that I was able to witness it,” said Eden. “It was amazing.”
Eden’s next goal is to build a school for villagers in Mexico.
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|The Life and Death of King John|
| King John
| Act 3, Scene 1
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Enter CONSTANCE, ARTHUR, and SALISBURYCONSTANCE
Gone to be married! gone to swear a peace!SALISBURY
False blood to false blood join'd! gone to be friends!
Shall Lewis have Blanch, and Blanch those provinces?
It is not so; thou hast misspoke, misheard:
Be well advised, tell o'er thy tale again:
It cannot be; thou dost but say 'tis so:
I trust I may not trust thee; for thy word
Is but the vain breath of a common man:
Believe me, I do not believe thee, man;
I have a king's oath to the contrary.
Thou shalt be punish'd for thus frighting me,
For I am sick and capable of fears,
Oppress'd with wrongs and therefore full of fears,
A widow, husbandless, subject to fears,
A woman, naturally born to fears;
And though thou now confess thou didst but jest,
With my vex'd spirits I cannot take a truce,
But they will quake and tremble all this day.
What dost thou mean by shaking of thy head?
Why dost thou look so sadly on my son?
What means that hand upon that breast of thine?
Why holds thine eye that lamentable rheum,
Like a proud river peering o'er his bounds?
Be these sad signs confirmers of thy words?
Then speak again; not all thy former tale,
But this one word, whether thy tale be true.
As true as I believe you think them falseCONSTANCE
That give you cause to prove my saying true.
O, if thou teach me to believe this sorrow,SALISBURY
Teach thou this sorrow how to make me die,
And let belief and life encounter so
As doth the fury of two desperate men
Which in the very meeting fall and die.
Lewis marry Blanch! O boy, then where art thou?
France friend with England, what becomes of me?
Fellow, be gone: I cannot brook thy sight:
This news hath made thee a most ugly man.
What other harm have I, good lady, done,CONSTANCE
But spoke the harm that is by others done?
Which harm within itself so heinous isARTHUR
As it makes harmful all that speak of it.
I do beseech you, madam, be content.CONSTANCE
If thou, that bid'st me be content, wert grim,SALISBURY
Ugly and slanderous to thy mother's womb,
Full of unpleasing blots and sightless stains,
Lame, foolish, crooked, swart, prodigious,
Patch'd with foul moles and eye-offending marks,
I would not care, I then would be content,
For then I should not love thee, no, nor thou
Become thy great birth nor deserve a crown.
But thou art fair, and at thy birth, dear boy,
Nature and Fortune join'd to make thee great:
Of Nature's gifts thou mayst with lilies boast,
And with the half-blown rose. But Fortune, O,
She is corrupted, changed and won from thee;
She adulterates hourly with thine uncle John,
And with her golden hand hath pluck'd on France
To tread down fair respect of sovereignty,
And made his majesty the bawd to theirs.
France is a bawd to Fortune and King John,
That strumpet Fortune, that usurping John!
Tell me, thou fellow, is not France forsworn?
Envenom him with words, or get thee gone
And leave those woes alone which I alone
Am bound to under-bear.
Pardon me, madam,CONSTANCE
I may not go without you to the kings.
Thou mayst, thou shalt; I will not go with thee:KING PHILIP
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud;
For grief is proud and makes his owner stoop.
To me and to the state of my great grief
Let kings assemble; for my grief's so great
That no supporter but the huge firm earth
Can hold it up: here I and sorrows sit;
Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.
Seats herself on the ground
Enter KING JOHN, KING PHILLIP, LEWIS, BLANCH, QUEEN ELINOR, the BASTARD, AUSTRIA, and Attendants
'Tis true, fair daughter; and this blessed dayCONSTANCE
Ever in France shall be kept festival:
To solemnize this day the glorious sun
Stays in his course and plays the alchemist,
Turning with splendor of his precious eye
The meagre cloddy earth to glittering gold:
The yearly course that brings this day about
Shall never see it but a holiday.
A wicked day, and not a holy day!KING PHILIP
RisingWhat hath this day deserved? what hath it done,
That it in golden letters should be set
Among the high tides in the calendar?
Nay, rather turn this day out of the week,
This day of shame, oppression, perjury.
Or, if it must stand still, let wives with child
Pray that their burthens may not fall this day,
Lest that their hopes prodigiously be cross'd:
But on this day let seamen fear no wreck;
No bargains break that are not this day made:
This day, all things begun come to ill end,
Yea, faith itself to hollow falsehood change!
By heaven, lady, you shall have no causeCONSTANCE
To curse the fair proceedings of this day:
Have I not pawn'd to you my majesty?
You have beguiled me with a counterfeitAUSTRIA
Resembling majesty, which, being touch'd and tried,
Proves valueless: you are forsworn, forsworn;
You came in arms to spill mine enemies' blood,
But now in arms you strengthen it with yours:
The grappling vigour and rough frown of war
Is cold in amity and painted peace,
And our oppression hath made up this league.
Arm, arm, you heavens, against these perjured kings!
A widow cries; be husband to me, heavens!
Let not the hours of this ungodly day
Wear out the day in peace; but, ere sunset,
Set armed discord 'twixt these perjured kings!
Hear me, O, hear me!
Lady Constance, peace!CONSTANCE
War! war! no peace! peace is to me a warAUSTRIA
O Lymoges! O Austria! thou dost shame
That bloody spoil: thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward!
Thou little valiant, great in villany!
Thou ever strong upon the stronger side!
Thou Fortune's champion that dost never fight
But when her humorous ladyship is by
To teach thee safety! thou art perjured too,
And soothest up greatness. What a fool art thou,
A ramping fool, to brag and stamp and swear
Upon my party! Thou cold-blooded slave,
Hast thou not spoke like thunder on my side,
Been sworn my soldier, bidding me depend
Upon thy stars, thy fortune and thy strength,
And dost thou now fall over to my fores?
Thou wear a lion's hide! doff it for shame,
And hang a calf's-skin on those recreant limbs.
O, that a man should speak those words to me!BASTARD
And hang a calf's-skin on those recreant limbs.AUSTRIA
Thou darest not say so, villain, for thy life.BASTARD
And hang a calf's-skin on those recreant limbs.KING JOHN
We like not this; thou dost forget thyself.KING PHILIP
Enter CARDINAL PANDULPH
Here comes the holy legate of the pope.CARDINAL PANDULPH
Hail, you anointed deputies of heaven!KING JOHN
To thee, King John, my holy errand is.
I Pandulph, of fair Milan cardinal,
And from Pope Innocent the legate here,
Do in his name religiously demand
Why thou against the church, our holy mother,
So wilfully dost spurn; and force perforce
Keep Stephen Langton, chosen archbishop
Of Canterbury, from that holy see?
This, in our foresaid holy father's name,
Pope Innocent, I do demand of thee.
What earthy name to interrogatoriesKING PHILIP
Can task the free breath of a sacred king?
Thou canst not, cardinal, devise a name
So slight, unworthy and ridiculous,
To charge me to an answer, as the pope.
Tell him this tale; and from the mouth of England
Add thus much more, that no Italian priest
Shall tithe or toll in our dominions;
But as we, under heaven, are supreme head,
So under Him that great supremacy,
Where we do reign, we will alone uphold,
Without the assistance of a mortal hand:
So tell the pope, all reverence set apart
To him and his usurp'd authority.
Brother of England, you blaspheme in this.KING JOHN
Though you and all the kings of ChristendomCARDINAL PANDULPH
Are led so grossly by this meddling priest,
Dreading the curse that money may buy out;
And by the merit of vile gold, dross, dust,
Purchase corrupted pardon of a man,
Who in that sale sells pardon from himself,
Though you and all the rest so grossly led
This juggling witchcraft with revenue cherish,
Yet I alone, alone do me oppose
Against the pope and count his friends my foes.
Then, by the lawful power that I have,CONSTANCE
Thou shalt stand cursed and excommunicate.
And blessed shall he be that doth revolt
From his allegiance to an heretic;
And meritorious shall that hand be call'd,
Canonized and worshipped as a saint,
That takes away by any secret course
Thy hateful life.
O, lawful let it beCARDINAL PANDULPH
That I have room with Rome to curse awhile!
Good father cardinal, cry thou amen
To my keen curses; for without my wrong
There is no tongue hath power to curse him right.
There's law and warrant, lady, for my curse.CONSTANCE
And for mine too: when law can do no right,CARDINAL PANDULPH
Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong:
Law cannot give my child his kingdom here,
For he that holds his kingdom holds the law;
Therefore, since law itself is perfect wrong,
How can the law forbid my tongue to curse?
Philip of France, on peril of a curse,QUEEN ELINOR
Let go the hand of that arch-heretic;
And raise the power of France upon his head,
Unless he do submit himself to Rome.
Look'st thou pale, France? do not let go thy hand.CONSTANCE
Look to that, devil; lest that France repent,AUSTRIA
And by disjoining hands, hell lose a soul.
King Philip, listen to the cardinal.BASTARD
And hang a calf's-skin on his recreant limbs.AUSTRIA
Well, ruffian, I must pocket up these wrongs, Because--BASTARD
Your breeches best may carry them.KING JOHN
Philip, what say'st thou to the cardinal?CONSTANCE
What should he say, but as the cardinal?LEWIS
Bethink you, father; for the differenceBLANCH
Is purchase of a heavy curse from Rome,
Or the light loss of England for a friend:
Forego the easier.
That's the curse of Rome.CONSTANCE
O Lewis, stand fast! the devil tempts thee hereBLANCH
In likeness of a new untrimmed bride.
The Lady Constance speaks not from her faith,CONSTANCE
But from her need.
O, if thou grant my need,KING JOHN
Which only lives but by the death of faith,
That need must needs infer this principle,
That faith would live again by death of need.
O then, tread down my need, and faith mounts up;
Keep my need up, and faith is trodden down!
The king is moved, and answers not to this.CONSTANCE
O, be removed from him, and answer well!AUSTRIA
Do so, King Philip; hang no more in doubt.BASTARD
Hang nothing but a calf's-skin, most sweet lout.KING PHILIP
I am perplex'd, and know not what to say.CARDINAL PANDULPH
What canst thou say but will perplex thee more,KING PHILIP
If thou stand excommunicate and cursed?
Good reverend father, make my person yours,CARDINAL PANDULPH
And tell me how you would bestow yourself.
This royal hand and mine are newly knit,
And the conjunction of our inward souls
Married in league, coupled and linked together
With all religious strength of sacred vows;
The latest breath that gave the sound of words
Was deep-sworn faith, peace, amity, true love
Between our kingdoms and our royal selves,
And even before this truce, but new before,
No longer than we well could wash our hands
To clap this royal bargain up of peace,
Heaven knows, they were besmear'd and over-stain'd
With slaughter's pencil, where revenge did paint
The fearful difference of incensed kings:
And shall these hands, so lately purged of blood,
So newly join'd in love, so strong in both,
Unyoke this seizure and this kind regreet?
Play fast and loose with faith? so jest with heaven,
Make such unconstant children of ourselves,
As now again to snatch our palm from palm,
Unswear faith sworn, and on the marriage-bed
Of smiling peace to march a bloody host,
And make a riot on the gentle brow
Of true sincerity? O, holy sir,
My reverend father, let it not be so!
Out of your grace, devise, ordain, impose
Some gentle order; and then we shall be blest
To do your pleasure and continue friends.
All form is formless, order orderless,KING PHILIP
Save what is opposite to England's love.
Therefore to arms! be champion of our church,
Or let the church, our mother, breathe her curse,
A mother's curse, on her revolting son.
France, thou mayst hold a serpent by the tongue,
A chafed lion by the mortal paw,
A fasting tiger safer by the tooth,
Than keep in peace that hand which thou dost hold.
I may disjoin my hand, but not my faith.CARDINAL PANDULPH
So makest thou faith an enemy to faith;AUSTRIA
And like a civil war set'st oath to oath,
Thy tongue against thy tongue. O, let thy vow
First made to heaven, first be to heaven perform'd,
That is, to be the champion of our church!
What since thou sworest is sworn against thyself
And may not be performed by thyself,
For that which thou hast sworn to do amiss
Is not amiss when it is truly done,
And being not done, where doing tends to ill,
The truth is then most done not doing it:
The better act of purposes mistook
Is to mistake again; though indirect,
Yet indirection thereby grows direct,
And falsehood falsehood cures, as fire cools fire
Within the scorched veins of one new-burn'd.
It is religion that doth make vows kept;
But thou hast sworn against religion,
By what thou swear'st against the thing thou swear'st,
And makest an oath the surety for thy truth
Against an oath: the truth thou art unsure
To swear, swears only not to be forsworn;
Else what a mockery should it be to swear!
But thou dost swear only to be forsworn;
And most forsworn, to keep what thou dost swear.
Therefore thy later vows against thy first
Is in thyself rebellion to thyself;
And better conquest never canst thou make
Than arm thy constant and thy nobler parts
Against these giddy loose suggestions:
Upon which better part our prayers come in,
If thou vouchsafe them. But if not, then know
The peril of our curses light on thee
So heavy as thou shalt not shake them off,
But in despair die under their black weight.
Rebellion, flat rebellion!BASTARD
Will't not be?LEWIS
Will not a calfs-skin stop that mouth of thine?
Father, to arms!BLANCH
Upon thy wedding-day?CONSTANCE
Against the blood that thou hast married?
What, shall our feast be kept with slaughter'd men?
Shall braying trumpets and loud churlish drums,
Clamours of hell, be measures to our pomp?
O husband, hear me! ay, alack, how new
Is husband in my mouth! even for that name,
Which till this time my tongue did ne'er pronounce,
Upon my knee I beg, go not to arms
Against mine uncle.
O, upon my knee,BLANCH
Made hard with kneeling, I do pray to thee,
Thou virtuous Dauphin, alter not the doom
Forethought by heaven!
Now shall I see thy love: what motive mayCONSTANCE
Be stronger with thee than the name of wife?
That which upholdeth him that thee upholds,LEWIS
His honour: O, thine honour, Lewis, thine honour!
I muse your majesty doth seem so cold,CARDINAL PANDULPH
When such profound respects do pull you on.
I will denounce a curse upon his head.KING PHILIP
Thou shalt not need. England, I will fall from thee.CONSTANCE
O fair return of banish'd majesty!QUEEN ELINOR
O foul revolt of French inconstancy!KING JOHN
France, thou shalt rue this hour within this hour.BASTARD
Old Time the clock-setter, that bald sexton Time,BLANCH
Is it as he will? well then, France shall rue.
The sun's o'ercast with blood: fair day, adieu!LEWIS
Which is the side that I must go withal?
I am with both: each army hath a hand;
And in their rage, I having hold of both,
They swirl asunder and dismember me.
Husband, I cannot pray that thou mayst win;
Uncle, I needs must pray that thou mayst lose;
Father, I may not wish the fortune thine;
Grandam, I will not wish thy fortunes thrive:
Whoever wins, on that side shall I lose
Assured loss before the match be play'd.
Lady, with me, with me thy fortune lies.BLANCH
There where my fortune lives, there my life dies.KING JOHN
Cousin, go draw our puissance together.KING PHILIP
Exit BASTARDFrance, I am burn'd up with inflaming wrath;
A rage whose heat hath this condition,
That nothing can allay, nothing but blood,
The blood, and dearest-valued blood, of France.
Thy rage sham burn thee up, and thou shalt turnKING JOHN
To ashes, ere our blood shall quench that fire:
Look to thyself, thou art in jeopardy.
No more than he that threats. To arms let's hie!
| King John
| Act 3, Scene 1
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