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You Oughta Know Who Phillip Phillips' Musical Idol Is
2:07PM Wednesday March 6, 2013
When it comes to musical idols, pretty much everybody knows that American IdolPhillip Phillips has been influenced by Dave Matthews: the two sound very much alike. But you may be surprised to find out some of the other musicians who've influenced the singer...including one unlikely female star.
Asked to name his top five music idols for People magazine, Phillip chose, of all people, Alanis Morissette. "She just speaks her mind and doesn't give a crap -- I really respect that," he tells People. "Plus, she's great live."
After years of admiration, Phillip was lucky enough to meet Alanis, and he admits to being starstruck. "I was dumbfounded," he says. "I got really nervous and didn't know what to say!"
As for his four other musical idols, Dave Matthews is there, of course -- "He inspired me to do interesting things on the guitar and sing in different ways," explains Phillip -- as well as rock legend Bob Seger, who Phillip admires for his songwriting ability. Angus Young, guitarist for heavy metal icons AC/DC, also made the cut: "my first hero" is what Phillip calls him, adding, "I thought he was a god."
Phillips' fifth idol is young blues guitarist Jonny Lang. "If I could have anybody's voice, it would be his," he tells People. | <urn:uuid:d39caa45-15c4-4851-94de-b4cb3d0055d9> | 2013-05-18T17:49:51Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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While what you say is essentially true, remember there are other tools than your own comp to launch brutes. For example, the pyrit project using GPUs (http://code.google.com/p/pyrit/ and might be included in BT5??) as well as the WPACracker project (http://www.wpacracker.com/) who will run the handshake against their huge dictionary using their own cluster (and there are many other services like this). From what I gather, generating rainbow tables for a single ESSID is not recommended, as it is slower than an actual dictionary attack? Also not recommended due to the fact that you can only use it for that ESSID or something? But those last two statements of mine are conjecture and could be wrong.
You probably also want to look into coWPAtty. http://wirelessdefence.org/Contents/coWPAttyMain.htm | <urn:uuid:4685e986-3e9c-4cda-a3ef-638d34bc8134> | 2013-05-18T17:41:39Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The Registrar General's office requires the following information for the acquisition of a marriage licence:
APPLICATION FOR LICENCE
You and your partner must be in The Islands of The Bahamas at the time of application for the marriage licence.
Many countries now require that official documents, such as international marriage certificates, be certified by the issuing country. In The Bahamas, this means that an Apostille (a special seal) is applied by the relevant authority to certify that a document is a true copy of an original. The Apostille can be made available to you within thirty days of the request. Your Wedding Planner or Marriage Officer will assist you in this regard. There will be a charge of $10 per document requiring an Apostille payable to the Public Treasury.
Persons wishing to be married in The Commonwealth of The Bahamas may do so after one day. That is to say, if a person arrives in The Bahamas on Monday, they may come into the Registrar General's office on Tuesday, obtain a marriage licence (while they wait), and get married on the same day.
Minors (under 18 years) may be married with both parents' consent. Consent forms for minors are available at the Registrar General's office.
If either party is divorced, the original final decree, or a certified copy must be produced. Where applicable, a translated, certified and notarised copy of the final decree must be produced.
If either party is widowed, the original death certificate, or a certified copy, must be produced. Where applicable, a translated, certified and notarised copy of the death certificate must be produced.
If either party is single and has never been married before, a declaration certifying this fact must be sworn before a notary public or other person authorised to administer oaths in the country of residence. This document must accompany the application for the marriage licence. This declaration can also be obtained in The Bahamas from an attorney-at-law or notary public.
MARRYING IN THE OUT ISLANDS
If you wish to marry on one of the Out Islands (any island other than New Providence), you can obtain a marriage licence at the Commissioner's office on that island and need not come to Nassau.
PROOF OF IDENTIFICATION AND RESIDENCY
Photographic identification issued by a government office in the country of residence is required. In most cases, a passport is used.
Both parties must produce evidence of their date of arrival in The Bahamas. The Bahamas Immigration Card and entry stamp in your passport is required.
No blood tests are necessary.
FEES AND VALIDITY
The fee for the licence is $120. Extra marriage certificates are available at $20 each.
The licence is valid for a period of three (3) months.
Note: Marriage licences are issued at the office of the Registrar General in Nassau (with the exception of wedding which will take place in the Out Islands). This office is open to the public Mondays to Fridays between the hours of 9.30am and 4pm.
Address: PO Box N-532
Tel: (242) 323-0594, (242) 323-0595, (242) 323-0597
Fax: (242) 322-5553, (242) 393-7908
Once marriage is complete, while each couple is provided a handwritten copy of the ceremony, changes to such documents as passports, driver licences and insurances require an Apostille affixed to a certified copy. This service attracts the services of three (3) government agencies and at times as many submissions dependant on the payment option available to the client. This means that couples should be aware and advise respective Marriage Officers to immediately submit records to this office confirming completion for entry in the computerized database. Once this information exists clients must advise where the document will be presented so that the correct Apostille instrument is affixed as in the absence of this information it would be prepared based on the jurisdication of the mailing address provided. You should also provide mailing, telephone and E-mail contacts. | <urn:uuid:54b40ee4-cacd-4395-85d3-dc342fcc5dff> | 2013-05-18T17:37:45Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Beef Pepper Steak
- 1/2 large vidalia onion, chopped
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- cooking oil
- lean sirloin steak, cut into thin strips
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch
- 1 green bell pepper, chunked
- 1/2 cup water
- 2 tablespoons soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon oyster sauce
- water + cornstarch slurry
- black pepper & kosher salt to taste
- In a hot pan, cook garlic and onion in oil.
- When softened, add beef & brown.
- Add green pepper and stir.
- Add water, soy sauce and oyster sauce to deglaze pan; bring to boil.
- Add slurry and bring to boil.
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From BR Bullpen
John Thomas Allen
- Bats Right, Throws Right
- Height 6' 0", Weight 180 lb.
- Debut April 19, 1932
- Final Game September 26, 1944
- Born September 30, 1905 in Lenoir, NC USA
- Died March 29, 1959 in St. Petersburg, FL USA
Biographical Information
Pitcher Johnny Allen was working as a bellboy in a hotel when he was discovered by New York Yankees scout Paul Krichell. He reached the majors with the Yankees in 1932 and went 17-4 that year, leading the American League with an .810 winning percentage. He won 15 games the next season, but after holding out for a raise and suffering a sore arm, he was traded to the Cleveland Indians following the 1935 season.
Allen won 20 games for the Indians in 1936. He then won his first 15 decisions the next year, one less than Walter Johnson's AL record, before losing a 1-0 game on an error by Odell Hale. He ended the season with a 15-1 record and a .938 winning percentage, a record at the time (since broken by Elroy Face). Through his first six years in the majors, he went 85-30 and had an impressive .739 winning percentage.
Allen won his first 12 decisions in 1938 and was chosed to start the All-Star Game before suffering an injury that sent his career into decline. Over the next six seasons, he had a record close to .500 with the Indians, St. Louis Browns, Brooklyn Dodgers, and New York Giants.
Following his playing days, Allen became an umpire in the Carolina League. He died of a heart attack at age 53.
Notable Achievements
- AL All-Star (1938)
- 2-time AL Winning Percentage Leader (1932 & 1937)
- 15 Wins Seasons: 4 (1932, 1933, 1936 & 1937)
- 20 Wins Seasons: 1 (1936)
- 200 Innings Pitched Seasons: 2 (1936 & 1938)
- Won a World Series with the New York Yankees in 1932 | <urn:uuid:db37db13-4219-4214-935d-874d7f88445a> | 2013-05-18T17:57:17Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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EU Iran sanctions: Ministers adopt Iran oil imports ban
European Union foreign ministers have formally adopted an "unprecedented" oil embargo against Iran over its nuclear programme, banning all new oil contracts with the country.
They also agreed a freeze on the assets of Iran's central bank in the EU.
The EU currently buys about 20% of Iran's oil exports.
There was no official Iranian reaction, but one Iranian lawmaker played down the decision, calling it a "mere propaganda gesture".
Iran had "failed to restore international confidence in the exclusively peaceful nature of its nuclear programme", British Prime Minister David Cameron, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in a joint statement.
"We will not accept Iran acquiring a nuclear weapon. Iran has so far had no regard for its international obligations and is already exporting and threatening violence around its region," the leaders added.
The measures were "another strong step in the international effort to dramatically increase the pressure on Iran," US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in a statement welcoming the move.
Meanwhile, the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN's nuclear watchdog has confirmed it is sending a team to Iran between 29 and 31 January "to resolve all outstanding substantive issues".
Last November the IAEA said in a report that it had information suggesting Iran had carried out tests "relevant to the development of a nuclear explosive device" - sparking the decision by the US and EU to issue tougher sanctions.
Tehran insists its nuclear programme is for energy purposes.
Earlier on Monday, the Pentagon said the US aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, as well as a British Royal Navy frigate and a French warship, had passed through the Strait of Hormuz at the entrance to the Gulf without incident, in the wake of Iranian threats to block the trade route.'Substantial impact'
The EU said the sanctions prohibit the import, purchase and transport of Iranian crude oil and petroleum products as well as related finance and insurance. All existing contracts will have to be phased out by 1 July.
Investment as well as the export of key equipment and technology for Iran's petrochemical sector is also banned.
Additional restrictions have been placed on Iran's central bank and in the trade of gold, precious metals and diamonds.
BBC Europe Editor Gavin Hewitt says it is one of the toughest steps the EU has ever taken.
So once the new measures are in place how successful will they be? Even western diplomats are uncertain.
There is no doubting that the Iranian economy will suffer. But the nuclear programme is a matter of national pride and ultimately national security.
Iran has seen the demise of regimes in Iraq and Libya and noted the survival of that in North Korea - the one so-called "rogue state" that has nuclear weapons.
Iran's rulers may well believe that having at least the potential for a nuclear bomb is something that could secure the country against outside threat.
Seen in this light one can imagine the Iranian authorities being willing to absorb considerable economic pain to pursue their nuclear research effort.
EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said the purpose of the sanctions was "to put pressure on Iran to come back to the negotiating table".
Earlier, UK Foreign Secretary William Hague said the embargo showed "the resolve of the European Union on this issue".
"It is absolutely right to do this when Iran is continuing to breach United Nations resolutions and refusing to come to meaningful negotiations on its nuclear programme," he added.
But the Russian foreign ministry said it was a "deeply mistaken" move that would not encourage Iran to return to the negotiating table.
"It's apparent that in this case there is open pressure and diktat, aimed at "punishing" Iran," it said in a statement.
Ali Adyani, a member of the Iranian parliament's energy commission, was quoted by the semi-official Fars news agency as saying the EU decision "would only serve some American and European politicians".
"It will not have any effect on Iran's economy," he said, adding that Tehran could sell oil to "any country" despite the ban.Rising tensions
BBC Iran correspondent James Reynolds says oil is the country's most valuable asset and sales help to keep the Iranian government in money and power.
A decision by the EU to stop buying from Iran may damage the Iranian economy - but in itself it won't destroy it, our correspondent says.
Iran sells most of its oil to countries in Asia. The EU and the United States are now working to persuade Asian countries to reduce their purchases from Iran as well.
Iran has already threatened to retaliate by blocking the Strait of Hormuz at the entrance to the Gulf, through which 20% of the world's oil exports pass.
The US has said it will keep the trade route open, raising the possibility of a confrontation.
Late last year Iran conducted 10 days of military exercises near the Strait of Hormuz, test-firing several missiles.
Oil prices have risen already because of the increasing tension and the expected impact of an EU ban on oil supplies to Europe. | <urn:uuid:1dc0d226-af75-4e94-9c3d-85043f0f9d0d> | 2013-05-18T18:10:34Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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15 October, 2010
High-powered air rifles now require licence
A new regulation requiring those who possess high-velocity air rifles to have a firearms licence came into effect today.
The change would make it more difficult for violent criminals to own and use the weapons, Police Minister Judith Collins said.
From 12am today these guns can only be possessed by a person at least 16 years old and the holder of a firearms licence, or a person under the supervision of a licence holder. Owners of air rifles affected by the change will have three months to obtain a firearms licence or dispose of the air rifle.
The change would apply to pre-charged pneumatic (PCP) air rifles which have been described as the weapon of choice for criminals. It would not apply to older-style spring-powered airguns or air guns powered by CO2 cartridges, BB guns or paintball guns.
"This change will mean that violent criminals can no longer walk in off the street and buy a class of airgun that can have similar power to a firearm," Ms Collins says.
"These weapons have proven popular with violent criminals who have, in the past, been able to own and use them without having to undergo the rigorous background checks required for a firearms licence."
PCP air rifles have been used in two fatal shootings in this country, including the murder of Police Sergeant Don Wilkinson.
Ms Collins said the change would ensure that responsible, law-abiding shooters still had access to PCP air rifles. "Many people use these guns for legitimate purposes, such as target shooting or hunting, and it's important that they can still do so." | <urn:uuid:462943de-52ab-40a9-bcf7-7c8863d01e38> | 2013-05-18T17:57:43Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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I want to expand from selling at the farm gate to selling at retail outlets. To do that I need to grade my honey. Grading for colour, and moisture are straight forward. I'm struggling with filtering. So far I've been letting the honey settle and bottle from the bottom of the tank. The clarity is good and my customers are happy. This won't fly for meeting grade No. 1. What are others doing to meet the regulation? What is involved in pushing the honey through a #80 mesh (.180mm)? Is gravity sufficient or does the honey need to be heated/pressurized? I'd like to do as little processing on the honey as possible.
I suppose I could always mark it as "substandard" I'm sure the customers would read it and put it back on the shelf....
Ontario No. 1
(a) contains not more than 17.8 per cent moisture or, where its container is marked “pasteurized”, not more than 18.6 per cent moisture;
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(c) contains not more than 0.1 per cent water insoluble solids or, where its container is marked “pressed”, not more than 0.5 per cent water insoluble solids;
(d) has a flavour characteristic of its colour classification and is free from any objectionable flavour, aroma or taint;
(e) where its container is marked “liquid”, is clear, bright, uniform in colour and free from visible crystals; and
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Princess Cleocatra wrote::D Hi,
I have been listening to Beethoven.com for awhile now.. And about 1 year ago I heard a piece of music here that sounded VERY familiar. It was the 'theme' from Star Wars. Now I know that John Williams is reputed to be the composer of the main theme, but I listened to the entire piece and at the end of the piece the announcer/DJ announced it was a piece from a Russian composer, that I unfortunately could not even spell out phonetically. Since then I have attempted a few times to discover the composer and name of this piece that John Williams 'borrowed for his composition, to no avail. Does anyone here know who the composer is that inspired John Williams in his Star Wars theme?? This is driving me quite mad trying to find out who the real master-mind behind the theme is. Any suggestions?? Thanks!!!
Bones wrote:...I'm afraid I can't be of much help.
Selma in Sandy Eggo wrote:Congratulations, I think. Which beach do you plan to grace with your presence?
Bones wrote:The real Bones will be retiring at the end of February and spending considerable time at the beach. (I guess I should have posted this in the "Fix Your Job" thread).
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What is Giant's Park?Giant's Park will be a landmark public park for north Belfast and the entire city. It will be made up of around 220 acres of land, currently the Dargan Road Landfill site on the North Foreshore beside Belfast Lough.
The name of the park originates from the nearby Cavehill (pictured right), which was Jonathan Swift's inspiration for the giant in Gulliver's Travels.
We are fully committed to the development of Giant's Park as a project of national and regional significance. It provides a unique opportunity to create a safe, easily accessible natural environment where people of all ages can enjoy the open spaces and recreational facilities.
Our vision for Giant's ParkOur vision is to:
- create a world class park with a cross-cutting environmental, ecological, and community focus
- provide a safe, accessible urban environment owned by local communities
- improve the quality of life for citizens of Belfast through the provision of cultural, leisure, educational and recreational activities on the site. | <urn:uuid:829d8510-a1fe-4d3d-b2df-39d7deada8d7> | 2013-05-18T17:48:13Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Islamic fanatics have murdered the only Christian in Pakistan's cabinet for opposing the country's savage blasphemy laws.
Minister of Minority Affairs Shahbaz Bhatti, a Catholic in his 40s, was sprayed with bullets outside his parents' home in Islamabad.
The killing today further undermines Pakistan's shaky image as a moderate Islamic state and could deepen the political turmoil.
In pamphlets found at the scene of the shooting, al Qaida and the Pakistani Taliban said they targeted Mr Bhatti because of his faith and because he allegedly belonged to a committee that was reviewing the blasphemy laws which at the moment carry the death penalty for insulting Islam.
Mr Bhatti had just pulled out of the drive when three men standing nearby opened fire.
Two of the men opened the door and tried to pull him out, as a third fired his Kalashnikov repeatedly into the car. The killers then drove off.
The government condemned the killing but made no direct reference to the blasphemy law controversy that apparently motivated the assassins.
"This is concerted campaign to slaughter every liberal, progressive and humanist voice in Pakistan," said Farahnaz Ispahani, an aide to President Asif Ali Zardari.
"The time has come for the federal government and provincial governments to speak out and to take a strong stand against these murderers to save the very essence of Pakistan."
In January, Punjab province governor Salman Taseer was killed by a bodyguard angry that the politician opposed the blasphemy laws. To the horror of Pakistan's besieged liberals, many ordinary citizens praised the assassin - a sign of the spread of hardline Islamic thought in the country.
After the killing of the Punjab governor, Mr Bhatti also received death threats.
The leaflets at the scene of the shooting blamed the government for putting Mr Bhatti, an "infidel Christian," in charge of an unspecified committee and said that "this is the horrible fate of this cursed one."
"With the blessing of Allah, the mujahedeen will send each of you to hell," said the note, which did not name any other targets. The committee it was apparently referring to was one said to be reviewing the blasphemy laws, though the government has repeatedly said no such committee existed.
Pakistani Christians reeled from the loss of their most prominent advocate. Christians are the largest religious minority in the country, where roughly 5% of 180 million people are not Muslim. They have very little political power and tend to work in lower-level jobs, such as street sweeping.
The blasphemy laws are a deeply sensitive subject in Pakistan, where most are Sunni Muslims and where austere versions of Islam - more common in the Middle East than South Asia - have been on the rise.
Human rights groups have long warned that the laws are vaguely worded and open to abuse because people often use them to settle rivalries or persecute religious minorities.
But in a sign of how scared the largely secular-leaning ruling party is of Islamist street power, party leaders have not supported calls for reforming the laws. Instead, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and others have repeatedly insisted they will not touch the statutes.
After the assassination of the Punjab governor, his confessed killer, bodyguard Mumtaz Qadri, was greeted with showers of rose petals from many lawyers who went to watch his initial court hearing.
Weeks afterward, another prominent opponent of the blasphemy laws, National Assembly member Sherry Rehman, dropped her bid to get them changed. The People's Party member said she had to abide by party leaders' decisions. She, too, faces death threats and has been living with heavy security.
No one has been put to death for blasphemy in Pakistan because courts typically throw out cases or commute the sentences.
However some who are released are later killed by extremists or have to go into hiding. Others spend long periods in prison while waiting for their cases to wind through the courts.
The laws came under renewed international scrutiny late last year when a 45-year-old Christian woman, Asia Bibi, was sentenced to death for allegedly insulting the Prophet Mohammed.
The family of Mrs Bibi - a mother of five - insists she was falsely accused over a personal dispute. There have been appeals from around the globe, including one from the Pope, to pardon her. But the government has said it is first waiting for a court ruling on her appeal. | <urn:uuid:32c0ae24-6a20-49dc-b1df-d2eb05fe5536> | 2013-05-18T18:11:04Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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How to Resolve Conflict
Express your concerns rather than your solutions. Before you meet with the other person, think how to state your concern in a non-threatening way. For example: "I am concerned about our shared use of the easement." is less threatening than: "I want you to keep your car off the easement.“
Express your needs. Help others understand why you are asking for the change and they are more likely to accommodate you. "It’s important to me to exit my driveway quite early in the morning."
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Encourage the other person to tell you his or her point of view. Realistic and durable solutions accommodate everyone’s needs, so ask others to express their point of view: "What are your needs with the easement?“
Listen! Listen! Listen! Even if you disagree with what is being said, it’s important to listen with an open mind. Be sure people know they've been heard and understood. Restate what you hear as accurately as possible. It’s easier for people to move forward toward a solution if they know their needs will be considered.
Ask for options. Engage the other person in developing options that meet everyone's needs, and work together to get several solutions on the table. "If we could find a solution that allowed me to exit my driveway early in the morning, and also addressed your needs, would you consider it?"
Pick the best option and then make it even better. Once you have chosen the best alternative, ask some "what if" questions. Make sure the option is realistic, and consider contingency plans. When you have settled on a solution, summarize the agreement. Include specific expectations and time lines when appropriate. | <urn:uuid:d37391a8-d6eb-4c81-86df-88f1ad875629> | 2013-05-18T17:48:59Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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We are having a conversation at work: There was a hosiery store located in the Audubon Building on Canal Street for a number of years. Can you locate the store?
For well more than 30 years, there was a very popular hosiery store called Lady Oris Hosiery Shops Inc. It wasn't actually in the Audubon Building located at 931 Canal St., however. The shop's address was 929 Canal St. It closed in 1990 or 1991. | <urn:uuid:63289eb1-0543-49fe-848f-336d2dbf8731> | 2013-05-18T17:50:44Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Fear Of Failure
Fear Of Failure
Fear of failure is fear of yourself (Doing something) ,while fear of rejection is fear of others(not accepting you).Experiencing some fear is natural,but because of your knew understanding, your fear no longer has to be an obstacle to your success.No matter what happens, if you're honest and sincere, you are less likely to fear failure.If you life your life in a way you feel is important , away that goes along with your values and beliefs, you're not likely to fear rejection either.When your self -esteem is intact, the more likely you are to eliminate those fears.
Self Esteem Kills Fear
With self -esteem, you're likely to take greater risk.with self-esteem.You're less likely to fer failure and rejection. When you know ho you are, respect yourself, and know where you're going, you wont't be concerned about what other's may think or say about you and what you say and do.
An important part of success is overcoming resistance. An airplane needs to overcome aire resistance t fly. A boat needs to overcome the resistance of water and wind to move ahead.Winners overcome various resistances to succeed. To be a successful leader you ned to overcome the resistance of your self and other people.
Sales people cannot be effective unless they learn to overcome resistance to rejection. With self-esteem, yo are not likely to be affected by rejection.Ot all boils down to self-respect and belief in yourself. How you perceive and what you believe about yourself helps structure what you achieve. It all depends on your self-esteem. The more you know yourself the more likely you are to allow yourself to become more vulnerable.You will ten to open up more to other people.
You are more comfortable with yourself. Are you sure you want to let people see who you really are? it's okay not to be sure at frist. Can you openly and honestly present yourself to other's with the attitude." here I come. faults and all."while still working to develop your skills? initially this idea can cause a great internal conflict until you are peaceful with yourself and the real you instead? It takes courage and to over come your fear and for you to believe you can do it for it to be done.
Once you reach an understanding about yourself and how to identify your fear who you are, it gets easier to open up and let others recognize who you are.The rejection from other's often stars with us and the rejection we give ourselves. We can cause ourselves a lot of pain when we reject ourselves. In other words,once you accept yourself, you open the door for other's to accept you more easily.
Fear Of Failure
Fear of failure ,fear of rejection,how man people do you know how are living their lives based on every on else's expectations? how many people pleasers do you know? Are you one of them?Have you ever operated by trying to lease other people? Have you ever thought people wouldn't like you. or may even reject you, if you didn't please them?Did ou ever stop to think your perception Click Here to Continue..... | <urn:uuid:1c1276a4-f2bf-41cb-a3ad-8a57f82cbe24> | 2013-05-18T18:07:19Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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1 Corinthians 15 (New International Version)
1 Corinthians 15
New International Version (NIV)
The Resurrection of Christ
15 Now, brothers and sisters, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received and on which you have taken your stand. 2 By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain.
3 For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance[a]: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, 5 and that he appeared to Cephas,[b] and then to the Twelve. 6 After that, he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers and sisters at the same time, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep. 7 Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles, 8 and last of all he appeared to me also, as to one abnormally born.
9 For I am the least of the apostles and do not even deserve to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. 10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me. 11 Whether, then, it is I or they, this is what we preach, and this is what you believed.
The Resurrection of the Dead
12 But if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? 13 If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. 14 And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith. 15 More than that, we are then found to be false witnesses about God, for we have testified about God that he raised Christ from the dead. But he did not raise him if in fact the dead are not raised. 16 For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised either. 17 And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins. 18 Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ are lost. 19 If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied.
20 But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. 21 For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man. 22 For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive. 23 But each in turn: Christ, the firstfruits; then, when he comes, those who belong to him. 24 Then the end will come, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father after he has destroyed all dominion, authority and power. 25 For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. 26 The last enemy to be destroyed is death. 27 For he “has put everything under his feet.”[c] Now when it says that “everything” has been put under him, it is clear that this does not include God himself, who put everything under Christ. 28 When he has done this, then the Son himself will be made subject to him who put everything under him, so that God may be all in all.
29 Now if there is no resurrection, what will those do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are people baptized for them? 30 And as for us, why do we endanger ourselves every hour? 31 I face death every day—yes, just as surely as I boast about you in Christ Jesus our Lord. 32 If I fought wild beasts in Ephesus with no more than human hopes, what have I gained? If the dead are not raised,
“Let us eat and drink,
for tomorrow we die.”[d]
33 Do not be misled: “Bad company corrupts good character.”[e] 34 Come back to your senses as you ought, and stop sinning; for there are some who are ignorant of God—I say this to your shame.
The Resurrection Body
35 But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?” 36 How foolish! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. 37 When you sow, you do not plant the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or of something else. 38 But God gives it a body as he has determined, and to each kind of seed he gives its own body. 39 Not all flesh is the same: People have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another and fish another. 40 There are also heavenly bodies and there are earthly bodies; but the splendor of the heavenly bodies is one kind, and the splendor of the earthly bodies is another. 41 The sun has one kind of splendor, the moon another and the stars another; and star differs from star in splendor.
42 So will it be with the resurrection of the dead. The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable; 43 it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; 44 it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.
If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. 45 So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being”[f]; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit. 46 The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual. 47 The first man was of the dust of the earth; the second man is of heaven. 48 As was the earthly man, so are those who are of the earth; and as is the heavenly man, so also are those who are of heaven. 49 And just as we have borne the image of the earthly man, so shall we[g] bear the image of the heavenly man.
50 I declare to you, brothers and sisters, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. 51 Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— 52 in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 53 For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. 54 When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”[h]
55 “Where, O death, is your victory?
Where, O death, is your sting?”[i]
56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
58 Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.
- 1 Corinthians 15:3 Or you at the first
- 1 Corinthians 15:5 That is, Peter
- 1 Corinthians 15:27 Psalm 8:6
- 1 Corinthians 15:32 Isaiah 22:13
- 1 Corinthians 15:33 From the Greek poet Menander
- 1 Corinthians 15:45 Gen. 2:7
- 1 Corinthians 15:49 Some early manuscripts so let us
- 1 Corinthians 15:54 Isaiah 25:8
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Description of the Procedure
The male, if fertile, refrains from ejaculating for two or three days. He then collects semen through masturbation. Penile scar tissue or other conditions may block the natural release of sperm. If this is the case, a sperm aspiration from the testicles may be done. Sometimes, the man's sperm can be frozen ahead of time. If the male partner is unable to produce viable sperm, donor sperm may be used. If male sperm counts are low, the chance of successful fertilization may be improved by directly injecting the sperm into the egg. This is called intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI).
An ultrasound-guided technique is often used to harvest the eggs. The ultrasound probe has a needle attached to the end. The instruments are inserted into the vagina.
The ultrasound uses sound waves to view the ovaries and the developed egg follicles in the ovaries.
The needle punctures the egg follicles.
fluid and eggs are removed through the needle. The fluid is inspected. It is immediately placed in a clean, nutritive culture material. The fluid will be kept in an incubator.
Between 50,000 and 100,000 of the most mobile, healthy sperm are chosen. They are mixed with the harvested eggs. Sometimes, ICSI may be done. It may help to increase the chances of fertilization. The culture dish is kept at normal body temperature inside an incubator for 2-3 days. During that time, sperm are expected to fertilize 60%-80% of the eggs. Once fertilized, early cell division begins and embryos develop.
A certain number of the embryos (usually 1-5) are placed into your uterus (womb). Fewer embryos decrease the chance of multiples (such as twins, triplets). The other embryos may be frozen. They may be saved for future IVF cycles. You may also choose to donate them to other infertile couples.
A catheter tube is inserted into the vagina. It will be threaded through the cervical canal and into the uterus. The embryos are then passed into the uterus. You may be positioned face down with your knees at your chest. A special table that tilts the uterus downward may also be used. These positions allow gravity to help keep the embryos in the uterus for implantation.
At the Care Center
Following egg harvesting, expect to rest at the center for a few hours before going home.
Following embryo transfer procedure:
- You will probably be able to resume normal activities within a few days.
- Follow the instructions for any medicine given.
- Return in 10-12 days for a pregnancy test.
- If the pregnancy test indicates conception, an ultrasound will be scheduled for a few weeks later. It will be able to see if more than one egg is growing.
- If all is going well, you will start your prenatal care. It is important to go to all of your scheduled appointments.
It can be difficult to wait two weeks for the results. Even if pregnancy occurs, a
remains a possibility.
If pregnancy did not occur, the next attempt should be at least one month later.
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Park History Links
Bidwell Park, often called the "Jewel of Chico", is by far the greatest legacy Chico founders General John and Annie Bidwell left to the community. It was Gen. John Bidwell's wish that Annie would give this land to the City of Chico for public use. She did so by deeding 1,900 acres in 1905 and another 301 acres in 1911. This parkland stretched from Upper Park and Hooker Oak in the east to Children's Playground in the west. Over the years, additions to the park were purchased by the City of Chico bringing the total acreage of the park to almost 2,300 acreas by 1935. At that time, Bidwell Park was the fourth-largest municipal park in the country. In 1995, the City of Chico acquired 1417 acres on south side of Big Chico Creek bringing the total park land to its current 3,670 acres. Bidwell Park stretches nearly eleven miles, beginning at Bidwell Mansion in downtown Chico and ending five miles up into the foothills of Upper Park. | <urn:uuid:5305a2dc-4761-42c3-9958-a18f1a17f7e9> | 2013-05-18T17:27:10Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Hummingbirds (family Trochilidae) are small birds capable of hovering in mid-air due to the rapid flapping of their wings (15 to 80 beats per second, depending on the size of the bird). They are named for the characteristic hum of this rapid wing motion. They are the only birds that can fly backwards.
Hummingbirds bear the most glittering plumage and some of the most elegant adornments. Male hummingbirds are usually brightly coloured, females duller. The males take no part in nesting. The nest is usually a neat cup in a tree. Two white eggs are laid, which are quite small, but large relative to the bird's size. Incubation is typically 14-19 days.
The names that admiring naturalists have given to hummingbirds suggest exquisite, fairylike grace and gemlike refulgence. Fiery-tailed Awlbill , Ruby-topaz Hummingbird, Glittering-bellied Emerald , Brazilian Ruby , Green-crowned Brilliant --are some of the names applied to the 233 species of the hummingbirds briefly described in Meyer de Schauensee's scientific Guide to Birds of South America.
Iridescent colors are common among hummingbirds. By changing position, the direction of the reflected light might give the effect of two completely different colors of the same plumage parts.
On the hummingbird's glittering throat or crown, the exposed surfaces of the barbules resemble tiny flat mirrors, which send forth their resplendence in the favored direction. This mechanism plays an important role in social interaction and species recognition.
All the metallic colours of hummingbirds are caused by interference.
Source (Skutch, 1973
Hummingbirds have the highest metabolism of all animals except insects in flight, a necessity in order to support the rapid beating of their wings. Their heartbeat can reach 500 beats per minute. They also typically consume more than their own weight in food each day, and to do that, they have to visit hundreds of flowers every day. But at any given moment, they're hours away from starving. Fortunately, they are capable of slowing down their metabolism at night, or any other time food is not readily available. They enter a hibernation-like state known as torpor. During torpor, the heartrate and rate of breathing are both slowed dramatically, reducing their need for food.
Studies of hummingbirds' metabolism are highly relevant to the question of whether a migrating ruby-throated hummingbird can cross 500 miles of Gulf of Mexico on a nonstop flight, as field observations suggest it does. The ruby-throated hummingbird like other birds preparing to migrate, stores up fat to serve as fuel, thereby augmenting its weight by as much as 40 to 50 per cent--this would increase the bird's flying time. (Skutch, 1973) --Ccson 10:06, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Hummingbirds of the U.S. and Canada generally migrate to warmer climates, though some remain in the warmest coastal regions. In addition, there is an increasing trend for Rufous Hummingbirds to migrate east to winter in the eastern United States, rather than south to Central America, this trend being the result of increased survival with the provision of artificial feeders in gardens. In the past, individuals that migrated east would usually die, but now they survive, and their tendency to migrate east is inherited by their offspring. Provided sufficient food and shelter is available, they are surprisingly hardy, able to tolerate temperatures down to at least -20°C.
Hummingbirds owe their wide distribution to their great power of flight and wandering habits no less than to their hardiness.
Hummingbirds and People
Hummingbirds will use feeders, particularly red ones. A suitable artificial nectar consists of one part sugar to four parts water. It is easiest to dissolve the sugar in boiling water, then cool it completely before putting it out for the birds. Sweet foods other than white sugar, such as honey, ferment too quickly and can injure the birds. Some commercial hummingbird foods are available, but they contain red dyes which are unnecessary and have been anecdotally reported to poison the birds. They also contain small amounts of nutrients, but hummingbirds apparently get their nutrients from the insects they eat, not from nectar, so the nutrients are also unnecessary. Thus plain white sugar and water make the best nectar.
The feeder should be rinsed and the water changed weekly, or more often in warm weather. At least once a month, or whenever black mold appears, it should be soaked in a solution of chlorine bleach. Hummingbirds tend to avoid feeders that have been cleaned with soap, possibly because they dislike the smell.
Much more detailed information is available at .
Hummingbirds sometimes fly into garages and become trapped. It is widely believed that this is because they mistake the hanging (usually red-colored) door-release handle for a flower, although hummingbirds can also get trapped in enclosures that do not contain anything red. Once inside, they may be unable to escape because their natural instinct when threatened or trapped is to fly upward. This is a life-threatening situation for hummingbirds, as they can become exhausted and die in a relatively short period of time, possibly as little as an hour. If a trapped hummingbird is within reach, it can often be caught gently and released outdoors. It will lie quietly in the space between cupped hands until released.
The Ohlone tells the story of how a Hummingbird brought fire to the world.
Traditionally hummingbirds were placed in the order Apodiformes, which also contains the swifts. In the modern Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy, hummingbirds are separated as a new hummingbird order Trochiliformes.
There are between 325 and 340 species of hummingbird, depending on taxonomic viewpoint, divided into two subfamilies, the hermits (subfamily Phaethornithinae, 34 species in six genera), and the typical hummingbirds (subfamily Trochilinae, all the others).
Hummingbirds have been thought by evolutionists to have evolved in South America, and the great majority of the species are found there. All the most familiar North American species are thought to be of relatively recent origin, and are therefore (following the usual procedure of lists starting with more 'ancestral' species and ending with the most recent) listed close to the end of the list.
Genetic analysis has indicated that hummingbirds diverged from other birds 30 to 40 million years ago, but fossil evidence has proved elusive. Fossil hummingbirds have been found as old as a million years, but older fossils had not been securely identifiable as hummingbirds. Then, in 2004, Dr. Gerald Mayr of the Senkenberg Natural History Museum in Frankfurt-am-Main identified two 30-million-year old German hummingbird fossils and published his results in Nature. The fossils of the extinct hummingbird species, Eurotrochilus inexpectatus ("unexpected European hummingbird") had been sitting in a museum drawer in Stuttgart. They had been unearthed in a claypit in Frauenweiler, south of Heidelberg. | <urn:uuid:10898cf8-af56-42f3-863a-7a402ec5c489> | 2013-05-18T17:47:58Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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When you have completed this chapter, you should be able to:
- Describe the main diagnostic criteria for the DSM-IV-TR listed personality disorders, and evaluate some of the controversial issues concerning both diagnosis and comorbidity.
- Describe and evaluate the main theories of the aetiology of a number of personality disorders, particularly Cluster A disorders, antisocial personality disorder, borderline personality disorder, and Cluster C disorders.
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I was able to get some vacation days hung onto either side of a the national landscape architect's convention in San Francisco, so I took a little ride. This is Mt Lassen. The road there goes between Mt. Shasta and Mt. Lassen through a volcanic plateau at about 5000'. There was hoar frost in the fields, snow on the roadsides and an electric vest blessing me with warmth. | <urn:uuid:9452c722-80ab-4962-932e-79cca1c6a58e> | 2013-05-18T18:07:49Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Playboy: Vesko, which is the best and which is the worst
thing about being a world chess champion?
Topalov: The most beautiful thing is when you see the happiness in the people’s eyes. And the worst is that you haven’t any free time.
Playboy: Which is the most absurd rumour you have heard about yourself?
Topalov: That I am married to a Spanish woman, and that my sponsor will be Hristo Stoichkov.
Playboy: Why is superstition is so wide-spread in your work. Tell me something about that.
Topalov: Maybe in this way it is easier for people to excuse their failures. It also boosts their self-confidence. I am not a fatalist, but at the World Championship in Argentina Nigel Short, the English chess player, brought to me luck when he had meals at our table.
Playboy: Which are your favorite openings for white and why?
Topalov: I will answer only this: the most unpleasant ones for the opponent.
Playboy: What about your favorite defence with black?
Topalov: The Sicilian Defence, because it gives chances to win with black.
Playboy: Which is your favorite piece on the board and why?
Topalov: All of them. They are just like my children, and I take care of them. I haven’t got a favorite piece.
Playboy: Karpov or Kasparov?
Topalov: Kasparov – my playing style is similar to his.
Playboy: Who is the strongest chess player you had played against?
Topalov: Him. Kasparov.
Playboy: And who is the strongest chess player you hadn’t played against?
Topalov: Bobby Fischer. I am hoping to play against him, even though we are different generation in chess.
Playboy: Which is your most shameful failure until now?
Topalov: There isn’t any.
Playboy: Do you play some of the others kinds of chess –“Scandinavian” and “Reverse chess”?
Topalov: Yes, I have played the two options in my childhood. Now I do not play them any more.
Playboy: How did you explain the Bulgarian phenomenon in the world chess? Maybe, because the chess is one of the cheapest and accessible sports for the mass?
Topalov in Bulgaria after winning the World Championship
Topalov: We have unbelievable individuals and schools with chess tradition.
Playboy: What is your vision? Are there any possibilities for changes and additions in the chess rules to make the game more attractive for the mass media?
Topalov: These anti-draw rules which were implemented at the M-tel Masters by Silvio Danialov made the games more interesting and attractive for the public.
Playboy: Who is the most beautiful town where you played?
Topalov: Las Vegas – undoubtedly.
Playboy: What would be your job, if you were not chess player?
Topalov: I don’t know… Maybe I’d be pilot in civil aviation (with smile).
Playboy: Which other sport do you watch closely? Do you have favorite sportsmen?
Topalov: Soccer, tennis. But I don’t have any concrete favorites in these sports.
Playboy: Tell me more about your life in Spain – how you lives there, what is your preference in entertainment?
Topalov: I live normal. I prefer if people don’t recognise me on the streets. For that reason I chose the little students' town of Salamanca. There I feel good and have a chance to prepare in peace and quiet. I like to meet with friends and go to the disco…
Playboy: We know – you are very sober. Are they times when you want to get drunk and think about nothing?
Topalov: I have hardly ever been drunk, and this is problem. There were cases when I am really exhausted and I wanted to drink.
Playboy: Who is the biggest playboy amongst the grandmasters in the world today?
Topalov: Argentinean Miguel Quinteros, but he is not so successful as a chess player.
Playboy: When you in Spain and feel nostalgia for Bulgaria, about what you remember – some favorite places here?
Topalov: Maybe Sofia, the garden in front of the National Theatre. That’s where chess lovers gather.
Post your thoughts here.
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I am not one of those who believe that the voice of the people is, without exception, the voice of God. It was not so at the Deluge, but quite the reverse. It was not so when Israel clamored for a king—not in mercy but in anger, God gave them their request. It was not so when Absalom stole the hearts of the people, and stirred up rebellion against his father. And yet, when a nation, independent of party, free from the excitements of momentary interest, without the influence of ambitious leaders, under the calm guidance of reason, history, and the spirit of the age,—rises spontaneously against oppression, against iniquity, and demands just laws; rights for all; free thought, free speech, free labor, free worship; when compacts are not violated; when moderation is maintained; when the spirit of humanity is preserved,—then, I believe, “the voice of the people is the voice of God.” I have no question that, in the great principle, Cromwell and his puritan hosts were right in their revolutionary action. I could never doubt that our fathers did a noble, glorious, and Christian deed in throwing off the yoke of Britain, and proclaiming a new government for themselves and their posterity. It was right to contend and bleed for equal representation, for freedom of conscience, and for an independent nationality in which these high ends could be secured.
The first government of which we have account was a Theocracy—that is, “the government of God.” He was the only King. He revealed the law, appointed leaders, gave rules for worship, instruction and warfare. Thus in the outset did he set up his claims among men. He established the great precedent, which men ought to have followed, which the world has ignored; but to which the thoughts and the will of the race shall ultimately return. It is true now that government, as such, is ordained of God. All government, in its elemental authority, is a theocracy. All power is of God; he ordains law. He originates the idea of civil compact. While, therefore, the principles of governments among men may be defective, and the administration wrong and hurtful, the great fact of government is a Divine fact. Good government is emphatically God’s government—intended to suppress evil, to promote holiness and happiness. “The powers that be are ordained of God.” “Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance | <urn:uuid:f8fa6db9-cb8a-41d0-80d3-a11c3301b91f> | 2013-05-18T17:39:59Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Mid-Book Test (up to Chapter 7, Love)
|Name: _____________________________||Period: ___________________________|
This test consists of 15 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
Directions: Circle the correct answer.
1. Where does Joey think he is going in life?
a) Joey thinks he's going to careen out of control.
b) Joey thinks he's headed toward success.
c) Joey doesn't think he's going anywhere.
d) Joey thinks he's headed for failure.
2. How does Kopydra react when Joey tries to engage him in the schoolyard battle?
a) He ignores Joey completely.
b) He jumps out the window.
c) He punches Joey in the face.
d) He joins the battle.
3. How do the children react when they read Pimko's notes about their behavior?
a) They are outraged.
b) They are confused.
c) They are apathetic.
d) They are excited.
4. What language does Joey's...
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Chapter abstracts are short descriptions of events that occur in each chapter. They highlight major plot events and detail the important relationships and characteristics of characters and objects. The Chapter Abstracts can be used to review what the students have read, or to prepare the students for what they will read. Hand the abstracts out in class as a study guide, or use them as a "key" for a class discussion. They are relatively brief, but can serve to be an excellent refresher of the text for either a student or teacher.
Chapter 1 Abstract
* Virginia "Vinnie" Miner is flying to London to research Play-Rhymes.
* She is accompanied by Fido, an invisible dog that manifests when Vinnie is feeling depressed.
Chapter 2 Abstract
* A Western-attired man sits next to Vinnie.
* He attempts to strike up conversation with Vinnie, even though she...
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This section provides a short description of all the major characters in the book. This can be printed out as a study guide for students, used as a "key" for leading a class discussion, or you can jump to the quiz/homework section to find worksheets that incorporate these descriptions into a variety of question formats.
Niccolo Machiavelli - This person was a well-known Italian statesman, writer, philosophy, diplomat and political scientist and is most well-known for writing "The Prince", which was composed in 1513 and published after his death in 1532. His name is synonymous with wily and deceptive politicking.
The Roman Empire/Republic - "The Discourses" is ostensibly a commentary on Titus Livius's history of this ancient civilization formed in 509 B.C. and continued for over 450 years. It was the basis for a wide range of modern governments.
The Republic - "The Discourses" is focused on...
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Multiple Choice Questions
This section contains 180 multiple choice questions about Watermelon: A Novel. Multiple choice questions test a student's recall and understanding of the text. Use these questions for chapter quizzes, homework assignments or tests. Jump to the quiz/homework section for the multiple choice worksheets.
Multiple Choice - Prologue to Chapter 5
1. How old is Claire Webster as the novel begins?
2. What date is Claire talking about as the novel opens?
a) June 25.
b) September 15.
c) May 7.
d) February 15.
3. In what city does Claire live?
4. What is Claire's husband's name?
5. What does Claire's husband tell her on the day she gives birth to their daughter?
a) He loves her with all his heart.
b) He is leaving...
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"Help me, Cooking Mama!" yelled an unknown woman as she burst into the kitchen. Cooking Mama turned to see who it was and was greeted by a splendidly attractive woman, complete with slightly curled blonde lock, rouged lips and a perfect body covered by a long pink dress.
"Who are you?" asked Cooking Mama, curious of this stranger's intent, "and why are you here?"
"I am Princess Toadstool Peach of the Mushroom Kingdom. A monster has kidnapped Mario, the savior of the kingdom and I fear that, without any other decent warrior in the land-"
"Hey!" yelled Luigi from the doorway.
"that I have had to come to you, Cooking Mama." continued Peach as if nothing had happened.
"Why me?" asked Cooking Mama, flattening her dull brown hair and grabbing a meat cleaver absent mindedly.
"Because, Cooking Mama, i fear that only you could defeat this beast."
"Ok, I'll go."
And so, Cooking Mama left on her quest. She encountered many beings in a place known only as world one: one, which was a place of low defination pixellated blocks. Everything was in two-D, which made looking ahead very confusing as all she could see was various coloured lines. She learned before long that she could transmit her mind to see the world from a different perspective so that she could see herself from the side, along with the rest of the two-D worlds. She jumped for dear life, using the meat cleaver as her best weapon, stabbing the turtle-like Koopas in their fleshy underbellies, before kicking the shells at the squat brown Goombas. Later, she made a fire, cooked a dead, blood stained Koopa and ate it out of its own shell. It was delicious and Cooking Mama was proud of her cooking, giving herself a shiny gold star. She noticed that suddenly, the land had become three-D once more and that there was a dark building up ahead.
This building was huge and grey, complete with what could be a peaceful moat, if it was not filled with red, bubbling lava. The castle’s drawbridge appeared to be stuck between two jagged jaws, lined with dagger-like teeth. Two large windows stood out from the rest, glowing red like the lava below. The entire castle was modified to look like this beast, cooking Mama realised, the great beast of legend, Bowser.
Cooking Mama slept badly that night, tossing and turning in her sleep, muttering about her student’s awful cooking. The next day came far too early for her, the sun blinding as she looked towards Bowser’s Castle, the final stage in this adventure. She walked apprehensively to the castle and went inside, due to the drawbridge being down. Everything went dark before some words appeared in front of her. These words read: World Eight: Eight Castle. Cooking Mama shrugged, and moved on. This area was lit only by torches hanging from the grey, stone walls. Occasionally, a sculpture of Bowser’s head was watching her with its eerie, gaunt eyes. Then, Cooking Mama finally found a worthy opponent: Dry-bones. What appeared to be a skeletal Koopa, the Dry-Bones shattered when she stabbed it. She was happy about that, and continued. She stopped when she heard a slight tinkling sound, the eerie kind, not the sparkling kind. She turned and saw that the Dry-Bones was back to normal. She stabbed it again, but the same thing happened: it rebuilt and ran at her. She jumped over it, narrowly avoiding the flailing arms. It ran right past her and fell into an abyss of lava below.
She jumped easily over the lava and saw what must be Mario, the saviour. He was trapped in what seemed to be a large bird cage, which confused Cooking Mama somewhat. What also confused her was how he looked. A fat midget Italian bloke in red dungarees with a corny black moustache being the saviour of the mushroom kingdom? Wow, that kingdom sucks. She jumped on the bird cage, somehow unlocking it and freeing Mario. He jumped and some cheesy music played in the background. Cooking Mama was confused until Mario’s MP3 player fell out of his pocket and shattered on the floor. They continued together through the hallways of the castle, fear enveloping them both now as they heard Bowser’s monstrous roars.
Cooking Mama lay her eyes on Bowser for the very first and last time then. A spiked green shell, covering a soft underbelly with a head like the castle itself, a couple of chubby little arms and a sprinkling of sage and onion, and you’ve got a dish. Mario put out an arm to stop cooking Mama from attacking Bowser, then he jumped, but hit Bowser and shrunk somehow. He was small enough already, thought Cooking Mama. Then Bowser hit him again, forcing him into unconscious. Bowser laughed when he saw Cooking Mama, and torched her with fire. All hope was lost now, until...
The flames cleared around Cooking Mama. She picked herself up and dusted off the ashes. Her eyes bulged and her pupils turned red, fiery and bloodshot. Her mouth opened, baring large jagged teeth. Her apron had turned orange somehow and her hands were balled up in fists. This was Cooking Mama in rage mode: the epitome of fear and anger. She raised the meat cleaver and roared, “You failed! You overcooked Cooking Mama at the wrong gas mark for four seconds! Now you must pay!”
Bowser, shocked, breathed more fire, but Cooking Mama was in rage mode and avoided it easily before sinking the meat cleaver right into and through Bowser’s fleshy underbelly. Blood splattered the clean walls. Cooking Mama then dunked Bowser into the lava for approximately a minute until he was brownish colour, then sprinkled some sage and onion on top. Then she put it in a blender, which she found in Bowser’s kitchen, and blended him. Then she wrapped it in a tortilla and served it with a dollop of tomato sauce and three pickled Koopas. Serves five. | <urn:uuid:99f55339-760b-4a6d-99f2-87af2d9b0eb8> | 2013-05-18T17:38:21Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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BAGHDAD -- Thousands of Iraqi troops launched a crackdown in Kirkuk yesterday, ordering residents to stay in their homes in an effort to put down violence that has swelled in the north amid efforts to rein in bloodshed in Baghdad.
Elsewhere in the north in the town of Tal Afar, a suicide bomber rammed a police checkpoint with a car packed with explosives, killing four policemen and 10 civilians. Some of them died when parts of nearby homes collapsed from the force of the blast . It was the deadliest attack in a day that saw 26 Iraqis killed around the country.
In March, President Bush had pointed to Tal Afar as an example of progress made in bringing security to Iraq after a major US offensive swept through the town, 30 miles from the Syrian border.
But after a period of quiet, yesterday's was the fourth suicide attack in the town in the past three weeks.
Thousands of US and Iraqi troops have been carrying out an intensified sweep of Baghdad since August, searching neighborhoods to root out insurgents and militias who have killed thousands this year.
But at the same time, shootings, bombings, and other attacks have been more frequent in northern areas such as Kirkuk and Mosul, the capital of the province where Tal Afar is located -- though the bloodshed has not been on the scale seen in Baghdad.
The US military announced yesterday that a US soldier was killed Friday near Beiji, about 60 miles southwest of Kirkuk.
Authorities in Kirkuk, 180 miles north of Baghdad, last week completed digging a 10-mile trench around the city's southern and western edges aimed at cutting off side roads to prevent car bombs from being brought into the city. Intensified checkpoints were set up on the city entrances.
Authorities yesterday announced that a curfew ordering all residents off the streets had been expanded to around-the-clock ``until further notice," said Kirkuk police chief Lieutenant General Sherko Shaker.
``This operation comes as a measure to cleansing Kirkuk from weapons, as well to prevent the militants from having any chance to reorganize their abilities," he said. ``We shouldn't give them any chance to rest."
Troops conducted searches and raids yesterday in the southern and western sectors of the city, where most of the Sunni Arab population is located. So far, 150 suspected Sunni insurgents have been arrested and more than 220 assault rifles have been seized, Shaker said.
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Rookie Anibal Sanchez has been alive a little longer than Roger Clemens has been in the major leagues.
The 22-year-old Sanchez, who was about 3 months old when Clemens made his major league debut in 1984, outpitched the seven-time Cy Young Award winner last night to lead the host Florida Marlins to a 3-1 victory over the Houston Astros.
Sanchez said he wasn't nervous facing the 43-year-old Clemens. But he said his wife was probably nervous for him, just like when he won his major league debut in Yankee Stadium June 25. Sanchez said his relatives were monitoring the game on the Internet from Venezuela.
``Today, everybody talked to me because everybody knows who is Roger Clemens. I don't know who was more excited," Sanchez said. ``I'm really happy. He's a great pitcher and I have a lot of respect for him."
Sanchez (2-0) was making his third career start and first at Dolphin Stadium. He didn't allow a hit until pinch hitter Willy Taveras singled to lead off the sixth. Sanchez pitched seven shutout innings, giving up two hits, striking out two, and walking one.
Clemens (1-3), making his fifth start of the season, lasted five innings, giving up two runs and seven hits with seven strikeouts.
``I'm not here to be just OK," Clemens said.
Mets 6, Cubs 3 -- Steve Trachsel won his seventh straight start, and New York used a four-run fourth inning to win at Chicago.
Trachsel (9-4) gave up two runs on three hits in six innings. The former Cub hasn't lost since May 17, a span of 10 starts.
Diamondbacks 4, Brewers 3 -- Johnny Estrada hit a two-run homer in the bottom of the ninth inning to lift Arizona.
Luis Gonzalez doubled to lead off the ninth against Brewers closer Derrick Turnbow (4-5). Estrada drilled Turnbow's next delivery 392 feet into the seats in right field for his seventh homer.
Giants 5, Phillies 3 -- Barry Bonds made a significant contribution to host San Francisco's victory without getting a hit.
The 41-year-old slugger walked twice, scoring both times, stole a base, and made a sliding catch in left field to help Matt Morris (8-7) to the win.
Cardinals 5, Dodgers 0 -- Chris Carpenter (8-4) threw a two-hitter and David Eckstein had four hits to help host St. Louis to its fifth straight victory.
Reds 3, Rockies 1 -- Adam Dunn homered in the first inning and Aaron Harang became Cincinnati's first 10-game winner, leading the rejuvenated Reds over visiting Colorado.
Pirates 7, Nationals 4 -- Jason Bay drove in two runs and Jose Bautista homered among his three hits, helping host Pittsburgh beat Washington.
Angels 4, Devil Rays 0 -- John Lackey (8-5) pitched a five-hitter for his second consecutive shutout, Vladimir Guerrero was 3 for 4 with a tiebreaking home run, and host Los Angeles picked up where it left off before the All-Star break.
The two-time defending AL West champions, who were nine games under .500 and a season-worst seven games out of first place June 30, are 9-1 since and only 2 1/2 games behind the division leaders.
Rangers 2, Orioles 1 -- Kevin Millwood (9-5) and three relievers combined on a six-hitter, and Texas capitalized on one shaky inning by Kris Benson (9-8) to slip past host Baltimore.
After scoring 15 runs one night earlier, the Rangers got their only runs on fourth-inning sacrifice flies by Michael Young and Mark Teixeira.
Mariners 5, Blue Jays 3 -- Gil Meche won his fifth straight decision and Adrian Beltre drove in two runs to lead Seattle at Toronto.
Meche (9-4) allowed three runs and six hits, striking out five and walking one in six innings.
Twins 3, Indians 2 -- Jason Tyner's RBI single in the 10th inning lifted host Minnesota over Cleveland.
Torii Hunter got things going in the 10th with a one-out single off Edward Mujica (0-1). He advanced to third on a single by Jason Kubel, and Tyner followed with a rope to right field that scored Hunter.
Tigers 10, Royals 9 -- Carlos Guillen hit a game-winning homer off Jeremy Affeldt with one out in the ninth inning, lifting host Detroit over Kansas City. | <urn:uuid:90509db1-5b5c-4f8c-b490-24117a78a521> | 2013-05-18T17:59:26Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Reunion '98Logic Grid puzzles come with a handy interactive grid that will help you solve the puzzle based on the given clues.
It's reunion time for the class of 1998, and it's your job to gather information on all of your former classmates for the reunion directory. You have finally organized all the information, but as you are handing it to the publisher's messenger, he clumsily drops a few pages into the shredder! You manage to rewrite most of those pages, but you realize you are missing some information on five of your classmates (3 men and 2 women). You need to match each person with his/her spouse, last name, occupation, and the city in which he/she lives. All you have to work with is what you recall from your notes, and your memories of your classmates from school days.
CLASSMATES: Casey, Dana, Jordan, Drew, Kelsey
SPOUSES: (women) Anna, Karen, Jane, (men) Matthew, David
LAST NAMES: Campos, Jones, Kaufmann, Smith, Thompson
OCCUPATIONS: lawyer, social worker, disk jockey, pediatrician, news anchor
CITIES: Lawton, Helena, Dayton, Madison, Springfield
1) The male classmates are the one from Madison, the one from Helena, and the lawyer.
2) The five classmates are Casey, the man that married Jane (who is not from Helena), the woman surnamed Thompson, the disk jockey, and the woman who lived in Lawton.
3) You recall that only two classmates (1 man and 1 woman) married people with the same first initial as their own. They both have jobs in the media industry.
4) You can also recall that nobody (including spouses) has a last name with the same initial as their first name.
5) The monogram on Karen's towels is the same forward as backward. Her last name is not Campos.
6) David's wife became the anchor for Lawton's 6 o'clock news. Her best friend became a pediatrician in Dayton.
7) Mr. and Mrs. Kaufmann's first initials are the same as the abbreviation of Mr. Jones' occupation.
8) In high school, Dana was always very compassionate and eager to help anyone in need. It is no surprise that he became a social worker (not in Dayton).
HintAll classmates' names are unisex. You must determine which are male and female.
A monogram generally consists of a husband's and wife's first initials on either side of their last initial. (ex: Tim and Janet Brown = TBJ)
AnswerCasey Smith married Anna and became a lawyer in Springfield.
Dana Kaufmann married Jane and became a social worker in Madison.
Jordan Thompson married Matthew and became a pediatrician in Dayton.
Kelsey Jones married Karen and became a disk jockey in Helena.
Drew Campos married David and became a news anchor in Lawton.
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Saint John IArticle Free Pass
Saint John I, (born , Tuscany [Italy]—died May 18, 526, Ravenna; feast day May 18), pope from 523 to 526. He ended the Acacian Schism (484–519), thus reuniting the Eastern and Western churches by restoring peace between the papacy and the Byzantine emperor Justin I. He also ratified the Alexandrian computation of the date of Easter, which was eventually accepted throughout the West.
Unfortunately the reunion ended friendly relations between the papacy and Theodoric the Great, the Ostrogothic ruler at Rome. Theodoric mistrusted the rapprochement, and his hostility flared when Justin took harsh measures against the heretical Arian sect in the Byzantine Empire. Theodoric was himself an Arian Christian, and in 525 he ordered Pope John to negotiate a withdrawal of Justin’s edict. John was the first pope to go to Constantinople, but his attempt there to obtain a reversal of Justin’s policies was only partly successful. After he returned to Ravenna (526), Theodoric had him cast into prison, where he soon died, probably of starvation. He is honoured as a martyr.
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Jönköping, city and capital of the län (county) of Jönköping, southern Sweden. It lies at the southern end of Lake Vätter and on the shores of Munk Lake and Rock Lake. In 1283 Franciscan monks built a monastery on this site, and the following year the town was chartered. Because of its strategic position, it suffered greatly in the wars between Denmark and Sweden, during which it was twice (1567 and 1612) set on fire by its own citizens at the approach of the Danes. The present town dates from the rebuilding begun in 1614. Historic buildings include the Old Town Hall (1696–99), the Court of Appeal (1655; one of the oldest in Sweden), and Christina Church, or Kristinekyrkan (1649–73); there is also a county museum. The leading industry in the city is the manufacture of matches; paper, textiles, and machinery are also produced. Jönköping is connected by rail with the main Swedish lines and has water connections through the Göta Canal with the Kattegat and the Baltic Sea. The city is home to Jönköping University. Pop. (2005 est.) mun., 120,956.
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Conservative Party of CanadaArticle Free Pass
Conservative Party of Canada, French Parti Conservateur du Canada, conservative Canadian political party. The party was formed in 2003 by the merger of the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party. The idea for a merger of Canada’s main conservative parties arose in the 1990s when national support for the Progressive Conservatives dwindled and the Reform Party (later the Canadian Alliance) was unable to expand its national support beyond its base in western Canada. Following the third successive election victory of the Liberal Party of Canada in 2000, support for establishing a united conservative party increased, and in December 2003 more than 90 percent of the members of both the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservatives endorsed a merger. The Conservative Party of Canada was officially registered with Elections Canada (an independent agency established by the Canadian Parliament to regulate elections and political parties) on December 8, 2003.
In 2004, in its first federal general election, the party won nearly 30 percent of the vote and 99 seats in the House of Commons, emerging as the official opposition to a Liberal minority government. In the subsequent election of January 2006, the Conservatives were elected to lead a minority government, and their leader, Stephen Harper, became prime minister. Harper proved adept at coalition building, and in November 2006 he co-opted members of the opposition Bloc Québécois with a motion that recognized the distinct national identity of the Québécois people while still asserting Quebec’s place in a united Canada. Hoping to build on those gains, Harper called early federal elections for October 2008, but the Conservatives failed to gain a parliamentary majority, though they added 19 seats to their to 2006 election results, reaching a total of 143 seats and remaining a minority government. Conservative stock rose as Canada ably weathered the global economic downturn that began in 2007, but failure to release budgetary information to Parliament led to the party’s being found in contempt in March 2011. In response, Liberal opposition leader Michael Ignatieff sponsored a no-confidence vote that brought down the Harper government. In the federal election held on May 2, 2011, however, the Conservatives captured 166 seats (up 23 from 2008), enabling Harper to win a clear majority for the first time in his prime ministership.
The party generally supports conservative social and economic policies, a strong federal system of government, and the use of Canada’s armed forces in international peacekeeping missions.
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Most complete collection of Michelangelo's drawings, £25.00
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Coins and Medals
Silver ryal of Mary Stuart, queen of Scotland, and Darnley
Edinburgh, Scotland, AD 1565
The head of the Queen of Scots
Only a few specimens of this coin of Mary Stuart are known. It comes from the time of her personal rule in Scotland, and after her marriage to Henry, Lord Darnley in 1565. By this time large silver coins had been introduced into most European coinages, and the coinage ordered by the Privy Council in December 1565 was to include such a piece, to be 'callit the Marie ryall', worth 30 shillings Scots.
This main series of ryals has a design of the Scottish shield and the legend 'Mary and Henry, Queen and King of Scots', but the design of this first version had the portraits of Mary and her husband facing each other, and the legend begins with Henry's name. The back shows the Scottish shield with thistleheads on either side, surmounted by a crown. The reverse legend reads (in Latin) 'Those whom God has joined together, let no man put asunder', suggesting that the issue may have been created to celebrate and commemorate the wedding. The English ambassador noted in a letter to William Cecil in December 1565 that the issue was put into circulation, but then recalled and replaced by the more usual Mary ryal.
At this time the husbands of ruling queens normally took the title of king, and the pattern of portraits of the king and queen being shown facing each other as on this piece was set by the extensive coinage of Ferdinand and Isabella in Castile, and later by Mary Tudor and Philip of Spain in England.
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A peaceful atmosphere radiates from Banjul, Africa’s smallest capital city. You feel that you are wandering around a village rather than a commercial centre.
Banjul, the capital of Gambia, is situated on an island, since it is separated from the mainland by a small river. The city was founded by the British in 1816 as a slave-trading centre. Today, most of its 50,000 inhabitants work in the peanut industry, as they are Gambia’s main export.
The Albert market is the living heart of the city. You can easily spend a few hours wandering around there looking for a charming souvenir. A visit to Gambia’s National Museum is also worthwhile. Its collection of photographs, maps and documents about archaeology, the peoples of Africa and the colonial period will certainly captivate you. Nearby, there is also the 35 metre high archway, which was built to commemorate the coup of 22 July 1994. | <urn:uuid:617530e8-fb83-47ef-b134-2605d557c73d> | 2013-05-18T17:48:28Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Jenny Wade is an actress who became known to TV viewers as Nina on the series Reaper. At present, she stars as Liz Traynor on the FOX series The Good Guys.
Wade made her TV debut in 1999 in the MTV anthology series Undressed before making her film debut the following year in the comedy movie Nurse Betty, starring Renne Zellweger and Chris Rock. Though her first film role was uncredited, she broadened her exposure in the small screen, landing guest roles on Arrest & Trial, 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter and a starring role in the ABC romantic drama movie Naked Hotel alongside John Corbett.
In 2005, Jenny made her comeback on the big screen as Jane Fonda's young replacement in Robert Luketic's romantic comedy film, Monster-in-Law, which also starred Jennifer Lopez. Simultaneously, she worked on other film projects including Wes Craven's drama/thriller Red Eye, Harold Ramis' neo-noir/comedy-drama based on the novel by Scott Phillips, The Ice Harvest, and Rumor Has It... Her biggest break came, however, when she was cast in in the horror movie Feast, playing the role of Honey Pie, a waitress and one of the characters that appears in all three movies. | <urn:uuid:19ab0945-1add-44d2-aa16-897dfda82d0b> | 2013-05-18T17:41:11Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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That's exactly what happened with Jason Citron, the 26-year-old CEO and creator of OpenFeint, a mobile platform for social gaming. Last month, he sold the company to Japanese mobile game maker GREE for a whopping $104 million.
Citron says he was obsessed with mobile games since getting a Nintendo DES at the age of five, and credits his parents for not limiting the amount of time he spent with it -- as long as he finished his homework first, they didn't care if he played video games instead of going outside.
Citron also shared some other amazing stories from his two-year journey from tiny startup to hundred million dollar payday:
- A great bluff: Aurora Feint, the predecessor to OpenFeint, had made a couple of unprofitable but well-reviewed iOS games and was running out of money. Citron floated the idea for OpenFeint in a brainstorming session. He and his partners put up a Web site, got TechCrunch to cover it, and were suddenly inundated with requests. They spent the next 45 days building the product.
- The importance of an incubator: Citron is a programmer first -- not a business type. But he managed to get into the YouWeb incubator, which helped him with tasks like hiring, marketing, and legal while he got the company off the ground.
- The funding game. Citron doesn't think there's a bubble, but he notes that two years ago it was almost impossible to land a startup round. Now, it's almost too easy.
Here's a transcript of the interview, lightly edited for length.
Business Insider: You're 26 years old, right?
Jason Citron: Yep, yep.
BI: Tell me a little bit about your background. When did you get into gaming and start programming?
JC: I got into gaming when I was five years old, my parents got me an NES and that was the beginning of the end of everything. Got into programming…. I must've been 12 or 13 and at my first sleepover party, my friend taught me how to program in Qbasic. We stayed up after everyone else went to sleep and made a text adventure video game. That was a long time ago.
BI: What was the computer? Early Windows PC?
JC: Probably a Pentium One, 80 Mhz processor on Windows 95 or 98.
BI: Did your parents limit your NES access?
JC: You know, they really didn't. A lot of my friends' [parents] would do it. They'd say "you have to go out and play in the pool now." We'd always begrudgingly go into it but my parents never limited my video game time. They just said to do my homework first, then whatever.
BI: So OpenFeint started by building an iPhone app, right? And that was a single player app at first?
JC: Actually it was a single player game, but it had high scores in it. The vision of the app the whole time was kind of like World of Warcraft but in your pocket. We started with what amounted to a single player puzzle game but with leaderboards..
BI: When did you pivot to making more of a general purpose platform? How did you make that decision?
JC: We launched the second game, which was a massively asynchronous multiplayer game for iPhone and we had inside the game walls, profiles, chat rooms, buddy lists, ghost battling, asynchronous multiplayer, all this stuff. And the game was a lot of fun but we launched it at eight dollars which was a lot of money for an iPhone game. Prices were just coming down and everyone was realizing that it was going to become a 99 cent world. So we launched this game and it was doing alright, but after that first month or so, we realized it wasn't going to be a very profitable business. So we started looking around and thinking about what we're going to try.
We tried a casual version of it where we took out a lot of features and launched it for a buck, and it did okay.
We were about to run out of money--we were maybe four people at the time--and just sitting around thinking "this sucks, what do we do?"
So I made this off the wall comment that was like "nobody built Xbox Live on this thing yet. I wonder if we can take some of our chat and video board stuff and spin it into an Xbox Live for iPhone? That sounds like a lot of work, but maybe I wonder if it would work. Let's just announce it and see if people would want it."
We literally did an announcement, got TechCrunch to cover it, put up a sign up form, and had about 400 developers sign up overnight! We said "oh crap, this is going to be big."
I personally spent the next 45 days programming and my team members went out and tried to recruit developers. We launched OpenFeint at the end of March, with 30 games from 15 developers, and the rest is history I guess.
BI: This is March of 2009?
JC: Yeah, it was two years ago.
BI: So as you worked on this product for 45 days, you must've been looking to hire pretty fast as well, right? How did you manage that?
JC: Back then, we weren't really hiring. It was seriously heads down "crank out" mode. We were four or five when we launched, and then we went into hiring mode and hired a couple of people, got to about eight or nine that summer, maybe fifteen around Christmas, and now we're sixty.
BI: And you got some investments from Intel Capital and some other folks right?
JC: Yes we did. We got a round at the end of 09 from DNA, and then in 2010 we got from Intel and The9.
BI: Were you always focusing on the programming and product features, or did there come a time when you had to focus more on some of these business aspects like hiring and legal and funding? How did that work for you?
JC: I focused a lot on programming in the early days. I started working out of an incubator called YouWeb. They did Crowdstar which is a big social game company, and iSwifter which is a streaming Flash game service for iPad, and most recently SpacePort which is a cross platform HTML 5 game engine which runs with native performance.
Anyway, so I started at YouWeb. The model there is that they bring in an entrepreneur, usually a developer, and give them a year to try and start a company. During that time, the incubator provides a lot of the support for things like legal, and business advice. So the first year of the company, YouWeb guys, mainly Peter Relan, the found of YouWeb, really acted as a hands-on mentor and advisor for me helping with hiring, marketing, business issues, sales and all that stuff.
At some point I transitioned into CEO a little after we launched OpenFeint. So for almost two years now, I really haven't been programming.
BI: Do you think the acquisition is going to allow you to get back to programming? Was that a goal?
JC: No, I don't think it's a goal. Maybe on the weekend sometimes I'll write some code and my programmers will not let me check it in.
BI: One big question for mobile developers is how to promote their apps. What's your take on the best way for app promotion? What do you think of Apple's recent move to block some of the incentivized app promotions like they did with Tapjoy?
JC: Well, I'll give you the OpenFeint CEO answer first. We have something called Game Channel which we use to promote apps every day. We've driven up to two million downloads over the course of a couple days.
The basic idea is that a developer will come to us and say they want to promote their game, and we'll do some kind of discount on the game, so he'll either make it free for the day, or drop the price after enough people to vote on it (like with a Groupon mechanic), or we have an app where users can come check it out and we promote it through our network. And if enough people download it it'll go up the charts and everybody's happy. We do that, and there are a couple other services that do a similar style promotion.
If you use OpenFeint, there's organic cross-promotion you can get just for people playing your game and seeing your game in a chat room.
I think the trouble with the Apple ecosystem right now is that there's no really slam-dunk way to promote any app. If you come to Game Channel with an app that's not so great, it's not going to get a ton of downloads, so you still have to build quality content. I think the incentivized API model was the only way that you could be guaranteed to get tons of downloads for your app even if it wasn't so good.
I think that Apple didn't like that. They're very much about having a high quality app store where people can come and find great content. The notion that you could buy app slot number 2 even if your game didn't deserve it is fundamentally questionable. I can understand why Apple changed the rankings and did what they did. Making the changes is probably good, but obviously not so good for the companies that were involved in it but they'll evolve.
BI: I've been hearing Android developers complaining a lot about discoverability in the Android Market. Do you think that's a problem, and if you think so, what would you suggest Google do to make the Android Market better for developers?
JC: What we're seeing as far as discoverability goes is that it's very much like iPhone. Tons of downloads on the free side. Paid games get much less activity. The problem though is that there isn't a great way to monetize the free game.
I think that to make the Market better, Google needs to focus more on its billing infrastructure. I think that Google Checkout, while a great idea and a good effort, falls short in a number of areas because people don't necessarily like whipping out their credit cards so there's a lot of friction in purchasing. And then in-app purchases as well has a done of friction and in many places doesn't even work. Google needs to fix its billing infrastructure. That's the most important thing.
BI: Right now you support iPhone and Android right? How do you decide which other platforms to support?
JC: Not exactly: we have an initiative called "OS Connect" which lets developers use OpenFeint from any platform as long as it has an internet connection. If you wanted to make a leaderboard for your toaster, you could do it if it has an internet connection.
The way that we approach the market is that we build native SDKs for platforms that our developers really want to use, so we'll build a lot of deep functionality for iPhone, iPad, and Android tablets. And then for all the other platforms that a couple developers want but aren't as popular, we have Connect. So as new platforms gain traction, and I think there will be at least one or two more, we will move to that platform and build deep native experiences for them as well.
BI: Who are those one or two more? Who do you handicap as a competitor?
JC: I think it could be Windows Phone 7. I think they have a shot. It could be WebOS, particularly on the tablet market. I think that HP has such tremendous distribution power around the PC market that they can just leverage that channel for tablets. Smartphones too, but definitely on tablets. I love the WebOS product itself, it's a beautiful operating system. Those are probably the two big ones up next would be my guess.
BI: Do you think that for gaming, native apps are a requirement? Or do you think that we're moving towards a future where everything is HTML 5 and it all works cross platform and people gradually move off native development?
So you're not going to get games like super top-end first person shooters written in HTML 5 technology or something like Infinity Blade on iOS. That's never going to show up on HTML 5. But most games that you play on your phone don't really push the processor. HTML 5 for casual games is probably a year or two years away, because you need penetration of the technologies and maybe iOS 5 will have it. But no smartphone right now really has these technologies. I mentioned in passing, SpacePort, the YouWeb company that has a very interesting hybrid technology that solves this problem by basically taking WebGL.
BI: Chrome supports WebGL -- what do you think about Chrome as a platform? Do you think that Chrome is going to move forward, or die and get sucked into Android?
JC: I really don't know. I think that Google's whole angle to build two operating systems for two devices that are going to converge at some point smells like a big company move. We have so many resources we'll do two operating systems! I think that Chrome might be a much longer-term play for a full cloud-based device whereas Android is really about a native operation system for devices that have apps. So to the extent that the "cloud" moves mainstream more than it is today, maybe in five years, maybe all of a sudden Chrome OS will be like this stroke of genius and Google will be like "aha we told you so!" But in the short term, next one to three years at least, I can't imagine Chrome OS having much traction.
BI: How long are you going to stick around? Are you there for a while? Do you have plans to do anything else?
JC: I will be sticking around for a while. My personal ambition--it might come off as a little naive--but it's a change-the-world kind of thing. I see OpenFeint as an opportunity for me to really help developers create what I call "shared experiences." You play games, right? So you've had experiences like Mario Kart or FIFA where you're playing with buddies and right as you're about to win, your friend comes up behind you and wins. You throw the controller on the ground and yell and scream at each other. Those moments of connecting with your friends where you can laugh and share like that are so powerful.
I feel like with OpenFeint I have the opportunity to create those kinds of experiences for billions of people all around the world, and particularly the touch screen platform. They're going to be everywhere. Every nook and cranny around the world is going to have a touchscreen device in the next five or ten years. I'm really into the idea of building a platform that lets developers create these shared experience to reach billions of people. We haven't gotten there yet though. We have 80 million users and the types of shared experiences that we're enabling are just scratching the surface. So I'm personally excited about chasing that dream and I think that the GREE merger enables me to accelerate my path towards that.
BI: The question I ask everybody: do you think that we're in a bubble?
JC: No. I don't think we're in a bubble.
Let me rephrase that. If by bubble like the '99 bubble, then no. That was lack of awareness around what type of value Internet companies could actually create. It was companies going public with no revenues or minimal revenues and no real foundation to stand on. So the definition of a bubble as I take it is as something fragile that could pop at any moment. So, I don't think that we're in a bubble that's based on misconceptions right now. I think the environment we're in is one where companies that are being bought and going public are revenue generating. Or they have real assets that they can build lasting businesses on.
I do think that early stage valuations might be in a bubble, because there's a lot of excitement to get in at the ground floor and build a company like this. So you're seeing lots of early stage funding go through the roof. So I think that that piece of the puzzle might be in a bubble, but across the board, we're not in a bubble.
BI: It seems like there's a lot of money flying around and there wasn't two years ago, so it's an interesting time.
JC: I remember when we started OpenFeint it was very difficult to raise a round. And over the last two years it's got to the point where I'd be getting emails every day from people trying to fund. It's a very different climate.
BI: Last question. Any new games that you're really hot on right now or addicted to?
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You can also set shows to record and stream them later, kind of like a DVR living in the cloud.
Pretty cool, right? Here's what it entails.
How much does it cost?
$12 per month.
How does it work?
It's a novel approach. Your monthly fee buys access to a physical antenna that picks up over-the-air TV signals and sends them to a central server. That server then sends video to your iPad.
Does this mean I have to use some sort of special app?
No. Aereo operates within the Safari web browser on your iPad.
Can I record shows?
Absolutely. If you're familiar with TiVo or other DVR services, you'll be right at home with this system. You can browse future programming in a TV guide format and select a show to record. Watch TV on your own terms while you're on the go.
So I can watch FX and HBO, right?
No! Aereo is only compatible with channels that broadcast over the air such as FOX, NBC, ABC, PBS, and CBS. This still leaves plenty of great programming at your disposal, so don't let that turn you off.
Is this even legal?
The company is sticking to its guns though. It issued a statement that reads in part "Consumers are legally entitled to access broadcast television via an antenna and they are entitled to record television content for their personal use," so it sounds like the company will see this through to the end.
Can anyone try it?
No. Aereo is only available in New York City right now. The company hasn't announced any plans to expand. | <urn:uuid:4a2cc39e-21b5-4196-a796-20e511df8d0c> | 2013-05-18T17:52:29Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The app provides built-in support for the following services:
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Recycling helps keep disposal costs down while preserving natural resources and protecting the air, soil, and groundwater. Much of the more than 1,800 tons of trash generated by the city each day can be recycled.
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I first saw this on my friends status:
"Thinking about entering into MMA & that so might come to Thai/ kickboxing training with u if that'd be cool?"
Then I looked at his profile pic!
The next picture is
And in his info box
"Do that again & I'll rip ya heed off" | <urn:uuid:3eeb4278-e6a9-4945-8b12-94f4c343d1eb> | 2013-05-18T17:29:52Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Musica et scolica enchiriadis
The ninth century Musica enchiriadis begins by comparing musical notes to letters.
Latin: Patrologia cursus completus, series latina, ed. J P MIgne, vol 132, p957
The same text also apparently enjoinders uniting the phrasing of words and music.
Item ut in unum terminentur particulae neumarum atque verborum.
Likewise, let the particles of neumes and of words end as one.
Latin: Patrologia cursus completus, series latina, ed. J P MIgne, vol 132, p982
The comparison between music and language is also seen in the treatise De harmonica
institutione by Hucbald (c.850-930). Hucbald states that all chant is performed in distinct and
predetermined sounds in 'rational' quantities, a comment which is more likely to refer to
proportional pitch than to proportional rhythm but is anyway characteristic of the ancient
belief in the appropriateness of ratio in music.
Latin: Patrologia cursus completus, series latin, ed. J. P. Migne, vol 132, p911
English: Hucbald, Guido and John on Music: Three Medieval Treatises,
by Warren Babb (1978) p20
Just as the elementary and indivisible
articulated parts of speech are letters, out
of which syllables are put together, they in
turn make up verbs and nouns, the web of
even and accomplished speech; thus are
the phtongi of the melodious voice, which
are called soni in Latin and the
content/restraining of all music ends in their
[but] Only those sounds ['voces'] which they
thought were distinguished and
determined by calculable quantities and
were serviceable for melody - only those did
they set as the sure foundation for all song.
These, then, they called "elements" or
phtongi. Just as all the diversity of
language is contained in its elements, the
letters, and whatever can be said is
expressed through them.
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atque individuae partes sunt litterae, ex
quibus compositae syllabae rursum
componunt verba et nomina, eaquae
perfectae orationis textum; sic canorae
vocis phthongi, qui latine dicuntur soni
origines sunt, et totius musicae
continentia in eorum ultimam
... sed eos tantum, quos rationabili
discretos ac determinatos
quantitate, quique melodiae apti
existerent, ipsi certissima totius
cantilenae fundamenta jecerunt. Unde
et elementa vel phthongos eosdem
nuncupaverunt; quod scilicet,
quemadmodum litterarum elementis
sermonum cuncta multiplicitas
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North Carolina-based Lowe's offered takeover bid of $14.50 a share for all issued, outstanding shares
Boucherville, Que.—Canadian hardware giant RONA has shot down an acquisition attempt by U.S.-based Lowe’s, the company announced.
After receiving an unsolicited, non-binding offer to buy all of RONA’s issued and outstanding shares at $14.50 a share July 8 from Lowe’s, the company’s board determined the offer wasn’t “in the best interest of RONA and its stakeholders.”
RONA’s shares were trading around $11.87 before the company announced it had resisted Lowe’s overtures.
According to the Quebec-based company, In its proposal, Lowe’s indicated it had communicated with a number of RONA shareholders and proposed entering into a board-supported transaction.
In light of these statements, RONA requested that Lowe’s confirm that it would not pursue a transaction that was not supported by RONA’s Board.
On July 28, 2012, Lowe’s responded that it was still its desire to proceed with a board-supported transaction.
Lowe’s also indicated that it remained very interested in pursuing a transaction with RONA and was going to consider all of its options.
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Finding the cause of your fever
This page has information on finding the cause of fever. You can go straight to sections on
To treat a fever, you need to know what is causing it. If you develop a fever, your doctor will want to examine you and ask you a number of questions. This is so they can find out the exact cause of the fever and treat it in the best way. They are likely to ask such things as
- When did the fever start?
- What symptoms do you have?
- What cancer treatments are you having?
- How long is it since your last treatment?
- Do you have any difficulty passing urine or opening your bowels?
- What medications are you taking?
- Do you have any pain? If so, where?
- Do you have any lines into your veins (for example a PICC line or central line)?
- Do you have any tubes or catheters?
- Is the fever there all the time, or does it come and go?
- Do you have night sweats?
- Do you have any wounds that have not completely healed?
- Do you have any other illnesses?
Your doctor will examine you if they suspect you have an infection. They will closely examine parts of your body where infection is most likely to occur.
Sometimes your signs and symptoms can give your doctor some idea as to where in your body your infection is. For example, if you have burning and stinging sensations when passing urine, then you may have a bladder infection.
The doctor will also check your breathing and you may have a chest X-ray to rule out lung infection. If you have a drip or central line in place, they will carefully examine the entry site for any signs of infection.
Your doctor will arrange for you to have a blood sample taken. This is to check that your blood cell counts are normal. And to look for infection in your blood. Doctors call this test blood cultures. Your doctor may also take urine and sputum specimens to check for infection. And perhaps a throat swab, or a swab from around a drip site or from any wound you have.
It is not always possible for your doctor to find out exactly what is causing your fever. Doctors cannot find the cause of infection in half of those (50%) with cancer who have an infection. But you can still have treatment with a broad spectrum antibiotic. This is a type of antibiotic that is active against a wide variety of bacteria.
Choosing antibiotics can be a bit hit and miss if the doctor can't actually find the bacteria. You may need to have some tests repeated. And you may need your antibiotics changed if tests show up a bacteria that needs treating with a specific antibiotic. Some infections are very hard to find and it is important that your doctor keeps checking to find the cause.
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Wildfaery wrote:ODB wrote:
Ummmm, I don't even know what to say about this???
The man looks unhappy....the dog...satisfied...
Wildfaery wrote:Per wrote:Farhan Lalji wrote:The dog does look pretty satisfied.
Of course it is! It's allowed on the couch! Every dog's wet dream...
Or every god's??? Namaste,i'mfeelingagnostic.WF
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Each year U.S. hospitals have 300,000 admissions for broken hips. Falling is often the cause of those fractures.
As we age, many physical factors put us at an increased risk of falling such as: hearing loss, vision loss, lack of mobility and loss of muscles mass. The average person will lose about one percent of their muscle mass per year after the age of forty five. The best way to counteract that is to use your muscles by leading an active lifestyle. Balance exercises can help you stay independent by helping you avoid the often permanent physical disabilities that may result from falling. And you don’t have to have fancy equipment to strengthen your muscles and improve your balance. There are many easy exercises you can do at home.
Stand on one foot.
- Stand on one foot behind a sturdy chair, holding on for balance.
- Hold position for up to 10 seconds.
- Repeat 10 to 15 times.
- Repeat with opposite leg
Walk heel to toe.
- Position the heel of one foot just in front of the toes of the other foot. Your heel and toes should touch or almost touch.
- Choose a spot ahead of you and focus on it to keep you steady as you walk.
- Take a step. Put your heel just in front of the toe of your other foot.
- Repeat for 20 steps.
Back leg raises (strengthens buttocks and low back)
- Stand behind a sturdy chair, holding on for balance.
- Flex your left foot, then slowly lift left leg straight back without bending your knee. Try not to lean forward. Hold position for 1 second.
- Keep your right standing leg slightly bent.
- Repeat 10 to 15 times with each leg
Side leg raises (strengthens hips, thighs, and buttocks)
- Stand behind a sturdy chair with feet slightly apart, holding on for balance.
- Flex your left foot and slowly lift your left leg out to the side. Keep your back straight and your toes facing forward.
- Keep your right standing leg slightly bent and hold position for 1 second.
- Breathe in as you slowly lower your leg.
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2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Summary: What was Beatrix Potter like as a little girl? Who were her friends and companions? Learn about the land and animals that inspired Beatrix Potter to create Peter Rabbit and all of the other magical creatures in her books.
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Summary: This class will focus on conversational Korean, utilizing the scripts of popular Korean television shows. Each class lasts two hours and will meet every Saturday in the Large Print Room on the First Floor.
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Jan 14, 2013 / 4:00 pm
The B.C. Liberal Party says personal issues it will not discuss are behind the decision to reject Liberal backbencher John Slater's re-election bid in the May election.
Liberal Party executive director Mike McDonald said Monday the party did not support Slater's candidacy in his Boundary-Similkameen riding, and is moving quickly to find a new candidate.
McDonald said the party has been in discussions with Slater for months, but was recently forced to act after Slater indicated he wanted to run again under the Liberal banner.
"It's an exceptional situation, and this is not something we take lightly," McDonald said. "We try to deal as discreetly and respectfully as possible. This is the last thing we want to see, getting into a situation like this."
But he said the Liberals decided it had to put the best interests of the party and Slater's constituents first when it refused to let Slater run for the Liberals.
Party President Sharon White said in a statement Slater's candidacy was not approved because of his personal issues and the party feels those issues would impact his ability to represent the Liberals.
White's statement did not identify the personal issues, but said Slater told the party last month he would not seek re-election, and only recently changed his mind.
"Mr. Slater's candidacy is not being approved due to personal issues that, in our view, impact his ability to represent the party," said the statement.
White's statement said the party tried to work out a solution with Slater, and the decision wasn't taken lightly.
Slater acknowledged he has personal issues, but suggested he may also have ruffled feathers with his candid opinions on Liberal issues, which he regularly expressed behind closed doors.
"Basically, they are saying I can't win the riding, so they'll get somebody who can," Slater said. "There were some times where I'd state my mind against some party policies, that's part of it too, I think."
He said he didn't want to discuss his battles within the party even though he's now out of the party.
Slater said there were other personal issues, of which he would not elaborate.
He said he consulted his doctor last spring after he was observed swaying down a hall at the legislature on his way to a caucus meeting.
Slater said Monday a combination of prescription medication, antihistamines and a glass of wine left him out of sorts for much of the afternoon.
Liberal officials kept Slater in the party caucus room for several hours after which he emerged and said he was discussing rural issues with party brass.
The current party standings now are, Liberals 45; New Democrats 36, and four Independents.
Slater's Liberal MLA website was deactivated shortly after the party announcement.
But on his personal MLA home page, Slater said he is proud to serve the citizens of his Osoyoos-area riding in the south Okanagan.
"We define our lives by what we give back and I have never taken for granted the trust that people have placed in me," he said. "My service to the community through my many volunteer activities has been deeply gratifying. I have found no greater reward than when working together to achieve that which cannot be achieved alone."
Prior to being elected in 2009, Slater was a veteran municipal politician, including serving six years as the mayor of Osoyoos.
On his Twitter account Monday, Slater said he was stepping down as a member of the Liberal Caucus effective immediately and would be sitting as an independent.
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Originally Posted by Frank Needham
can't even think of any quips about being interviewed in a crapper??
How about, "Robb takes a break from writing his blog for an interview with Tony Budding."
JOKE!!! I love the blog and I'm thrilled that the CF community once again stands to benefit from Robb's tireless efforts. | <urn:uuid:ca3088cb-1768-47e5-a675-18b3c5afb4df> | 2013-05-18T18:07:31Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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English Revolution of 1688
James II, having reached the climax of his power after the successful suppression of Monmouth's rebellion in 1685, then had the Tory reaction in his favour, complete control over Parliament and the town corporations, a regular army in England, a thoroughly Catholic army in process of formation in Ireland, and a large revenue granted by Parliament for life. His policy was to govern England as absolute monarch and to restore Catholics to their full civil and religious rights. Unfortunately, both prudence and statesmanship were lacking, with the result that in three years the king lost his throne. The history of the Revolution resolves itself into a catalogue of various ill-judged measures which alienated the support of the Established Church, the Tory party, and the nation as a whole. The execution of Monmouth (July, 1685) made the Revolution possible, for it led to the Whig party accepting William of Orange as the natural champion of Protestantism against the attempts of James. Thus the opposition gained a centre round which it consolidated with ever-increasing force.
What the Catholics as a body desired was freedom of worship and the repeal of the penal laws ; but a small section of them, desirous of political power, aimed chiefly at the repeal of the Test Act of 1673 and the Act of 1678 which excluded Catholics from both houses of Parliament. Unfortunately James fell under the influence of this section, which was directed by the unprincipled Earl of Sunderland, and he decided on a policy of repeal of the Test Act. Circumstances had caused this question to be closely bound up with that of the army. For James, who placed his chief reliance on his soldiers, had increased the standing army to 30,000, 13,000 of whom, partly officered by Catholics, were encamped on Hounslow Heath to the great indignation of London which regarded the camp as a menace to its liberties and a centre of disorder. Parliament demanded that the army should be reduced to normal dimensions and the Catholic officers dismissed; but James, realizing that the test would not be repealed, prorogued Parliament and proceeded to exercise the "dispensing and suspending power". By this he claimed that it was the prerogative of the crown to dispense with the execution of the penal laws in individual cases and to suspend the operation of any law altogether. To obtain the sanction of the Law Courts for this doctrine a test case, known as Hales's case, was brought to decide whether the king could allow a Catholic to hold office in the army without complying with the Test Act. After James had replaced some of the judges by more complaisant lawyers, he obtained a decision that "it was of the king's prerogative to dispense. with penal laws in particular instances". He acted on the decision by appointing Catholics to various positions, Lord Tyrconnel becoming Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Lord Arundel Lord Privy Seal, and Lord Bellasyse Lord Treasurer in place of the Tory minister Lord Rochester, who was regarded as the chief mainstay of the Established Church. The Church of England, which was rendered uneasy by the dismissal of Rochester, was further alienated by the king's action in appointing a Court of High Commission, which suspended the Bishop of London for refusing to inhibit one of his clergy from preaching anti-Catholic sermons. The feeling was intensified by the liberty which Catholics enjoyed in London during 1686. Public chapels were opened, including one in the Royal Palace, the Jesuits founded a large school in the Savoy, and Catholic ecclesiastics appeared openly at Court.
At this juncture James, desiring to counterbalance the loss of Anglican support, offered toleration to the dissenters, who at the beginning of his reign had been severely persecuted. The influence of William Penn induced the king to issue on 4 April, 1687, the Declaration of Indulgence, by which liberty of worship was granted to all, Catholic and Protestant alike. He also replaced Tory churchmen by Whig dissenters on the municipal corporations and the commission of the peace, and, having dissolved Parliament, hoped to secure a new House of Commons which would repeal both the penal laws and the Test. But he underestimated two difficulties, the hatred of the dissenters for "popery" and their distrust of royal absolutism. His action in promoting Catholics to the Privy Council, the judicial bench, and the offices of Lord lieutenant, sheriff, and magistrate, wounded these susceptibilities, while he further offended the Anglicans by attempting to restore to Catholics some of their ancient foundations in the universities. Catholics obtained some footing both at Christ Church and University College, Oxford, and in March 1688, James gave the presidency of Magdalen College to Bonaventure Giffard, the Catholic Vicar Apostolic of the Midland District. This restoration of Magdalen as a Catholic college created the greatest alarm, not only among the holders of benefices throughout the country, but also among the owners of ancient abbey lands. The presence of the papal nuncio, Mgr. d'Adda, at Court and the public position granted to the four Catholic bishops, who had recently been appointed as vicars Apostolic, served to increase both the dislike of the dissenters to support a king whose acts, while of doubtful legality, were also subversive of Protestant interests, and likewise the difficulty of the Anglicans in practicing passive obedience in face of such provocation. Surrounded by these complications, James issued his second Declaration of Indulgence in April, 1688, and ordered that it should be read in all the churches. This strained Anglican obedience to the breaking point. The Archbishop of Canterbury and six of his suffragans presented a petition questioning the dispensing power. The seven bishops were sent to the Tower prosecuted, tried, and acquitted. This trial proved to be the immediate occasion of the Revolution, for, as Halifax said, "it hath brought all Protestants together and bound them up into a knot that cannot easily be untied". While the bishops were in the Tower, another epoch-marking event occurred -- the birth of an heir to the crown (10 June, 1688). Hitherto the hopes of the king's opponents had been fixed on the succession of his Protestant daughter Mary, wife of William of Orange, the Protestant leader. The birth of Prince James now opened up the prospect of a Catholic dynasty just at a moment when the ancient anti-Catholic bigotry had been aroused by events both in England and France. For besides the ill-advised acts of James, the persecution of the Huguenots by Louis XIV, consequent on the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, revived old religious animosities. England was flooded with French Protestant refugees bearing everywhere the tale of a Catholic king's cruelty.
Unfortunately for James his whole foreign policy had been one of subservience to France, and at this moment of crisis the power of France was a menace to all Europe. Even Catholic Austria and Spain supported the threatened Protestant states, and the pope himself, outraged by Louis XIV in a succession of wrongs, joined the universal resistance to France and was allied with William of Orange and other Protestant sovereigns against Louis and his single supporter, James. William had long watched the situation in England, and during 1687 had received communications from the opposition in which it was agreed that, whenever revolutionary action should become advisable, it should be carried out under William's guidance. As early as the autumn of 1687 the papal secretary of state was aware of the plot to dethrone James and make Mary queen, and a French agent dispatched the news to England through France. The Duke of Norfolk then in Rome also learned it, and sent intelligence to the king before 18 Dec., 1687 (letter of d'Estrées to Louvois, cited by Ranke, II, 424). But James, though early informed, was reluctant to believe that his son-in-law would head an insurrection against him. On the day the seven bishops were acquitted seven English statesmen sent a letter to William inviting him to rescue the religion and liberties of England. But William was threatened by a French army on the Belgian frontier, and could not take action. Louis XIV made a last effort to save James, and warned the Dutch States General that he would regard any attack on England as a declaration of war against France. This was keenly resented by James who regarded it as a slight upon English independence, and he repudiated the charge that he had made a secret treaty with France. Thereupon Louis left him to his fate, removed the French troops from Flanders to begin a campaign against the empire, and thus William was free to move. When it was too late James realized his danger. By hasty concessions granted one after another he tried to undo his work and win back the Tory churchmen to his cause. But he did not remove the Catholic officers or suggest the restriction of the dispensing power. In October Sunderland was dismissed from office, but William was already on the seas, and, though driven back by a storm, he re-embarked and landed at Torbay on 5 Nov., 1688. James at first prepared to resist. The army was sent to intercept William, but by the characteristic treachery of Churchill, disaffection was spread, and the king, not knowing in whom he could place confidence, attempted to escape. At Sheerness he was stopped and sent back to London, where he might have proved an embarrassing prisoner had not his escape been connived at. On 23 Dec., 1688, he left England to take refuge with Louis XIV ; the latter received him generously and granted him both palace and pension. On his first departure the mob had risen in London against the Catholics, and attacked chapels and houses, plundering and carrying off the contents. Even the ambassadors' houses were not spared, and the Spanish and Sardinian embassy chapels were destroyed. Bishops Giffard and Leyburn were arrested and committed to the Tower. Father Petre had escaped, and the Nuncio disguised himself as a servant at the house of the envoy from Savoy, till he was enabled to obtain from William a passport. So far as the English Catholics were concerned, the result of the Revolution was that their restoration to freedom of worship and liberation from the penal laws was delayed for a century and more.
So completely had James lost the confidence of the nation that William experienced no opposition and the Revolution ran its course in an almost regular way. A Convention Parliament met on 22 January, 1689, declared that James "having withdrawn himself out of the kingdom, had abdicated the government, and that the throne was thereby vacant ", and "that experience had shown it to be inconsistent with the safety and welfare of this Protestant kingdom to be governed by a Popish Prince". The crown was offered to William and Mary, who accepted the Declaration of Right, which laid down the principles of the constitution with regard to the dispensing power, the liberties of Parliament, and other matters. After their proclamation as king and queen, the Declaration was ratified by the Bill of Rights, and the work of the Revolution was complete. English Catholics have indeed had good cause to lament the failure of the king's well-meant, if unwise, attempts to restore their liberty, and to regret that he did not act on the wise advice of Pope Innocent XI and Cardinal Howard to proceed by slow degrees and obtain first the repeal of the penal laws before going on to restore their full civil rights. But on the other hand we can now realize that the Revolution had the advantage of finally closing the long struggle between king and Parliament that had lasted for nearly a century, and of establishing general principles of religious toleration in which Catholics were bound sooner or later to be included.
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INCREASE OF MERIT
Factors that increase a person's supernatural reward for good works performed in the state of grace. There are four such factors: 1. the degree of sanctifying grace in which a person does some morally good action; 2. the intensity of will with which an act is done; 3. the sublimity of the action performed; and 4. the purity of love or selflessness that animates the performance. Difficulties of themselves do not increase supernatural merit, but, provided that a difficulty is not culpable, it normally demands additional effort of will and thus indirectly adds to the merit derived from a morally good act done in the state of grace.
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Kristen consciously made plans to meet Rupert while still living under the same roof as Rob. Agreed to get it on with Rupert behind Rob’s back while he trusted her completely. Why?! She had ROB! Why would any sane girl in her right mind want to do whatever it is she did with anyone else when she had ROB PATTINSON?! She is immature and selfish and needs to grow up. There are plenty of other girls out there who would do anything to be with Rob. He should just forget her and move on as she’s not to be trusted. | <urn:uuid:ac166a15-ab09-4be7-8596-5c78956e6d8b> | 2013-05-18T18:07:58Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The book of Revelation foretells that at the time of the end, in the last few years of Satan's dominion over the earth, a religious personality will arise and deceive the whole world by means of miraculous signs. This individual is referred to as "another beast" (Revelation 13:11), as well as "the false prophet" (Revelation 16:13; 19:20; 20:10). The False Prophet is given supernatural power to do things like calling fire down from heaven (Revelation 13:13), and the signs he performs, combined with the demonic words he speaks (Revelation 16:13-14), will cause people to give their allegiance to—and even worship—the Beast (Revelation 13:14). This man will wield tremendous religious influence, and inspired by the Dragon, he will successfully convince most of the world to commit idolatry (Revelation 13:12).
The Bible does not reveal the False Prophet's name or even the number of his name, as it does for the Beast. Instead, we will have to recognize him by his fruits—by what he says and does (Matthew 7:15-20). Yet, even this is a tricky proposition. For instance, the False Prophet will be able to call down fire from heaven, and yet Elijah, a true prophet of God, did the same (I Kings 18:36-38). If we see a man calling fire down from heaven, how do we know whether he is true or false?
The end time is prophesied to be full of deceptions (Matthew 24:11), and the elect will not be totally immune to having the wool pulled over their eyes (Matthew 24:24; Mark 13:22). It will take careful evaluation to see through the façade and to recognize Satan's servants for what they are, rather than what they appear to be (II Corinthians 11:14-15).
The details given about the False Prophet are few. However, if we understand the patterns and motivations that the Bible reveals about the class of people called "false prophets," we will be better equipped to recognize the general mold that the end-time False Prophet will fit. Both Testaments describe false prophets, and Peter, John, and Jesus Christ specifically warn of false prophets that affect church members.
Because of the way "prophet" is commonly used, there is a misconception that its basic definition is "someone who foretells the future," but this definition is too narrow. Prophet is better defined as "one who speaks for another." A true prophet, then, is a person who speaks for God, delivering a message that God has ordained him to give. In Exodus 7:1, God tells Moses that Aaron, his brother, would be his (Moses') prophet, even as Moses was God's prophet. Because of Moses' unbelief in God's ability to speak through him, God would speak to Moses, who would tell Aaron what to say to others—Pharaoh in particular (verse 2). It is the function of speaking for another, rather than the miracles they performed or their foretelling of what would befall Egypt, which defined Moses and Aaron as prophets.
Frequently, the words a prophet spoke on God's behalf were, in fact, foretelling what would happen later. However, the prophet's essential role was to speak for God, regardless of whether he did any predicting of the future. A prophet expresses the will of God in words, and sometimes he uses signs to back up what he says and to demonstrate God's power behind it.
In a similar way, a false prophet also may not be in the business of foretelling the future. A false prophet is simply someone who speaks for another but falsely. False prophets either speak for the wrong god, or they claim to have heard from the true God but do not accurately represent Him or His words. At the very least, they speak out of their own human hearts, but more likely, the "god" they are speaking for is really a demon.
It is true that, if a prophet foretells something that fails to come to pass, he is a false prophet (Deuteronomy 18:20-22), but foretelling the future correctly is not the determining factor when looking at false prophets. The real issue is whether one who claims to be representing God and speaking for Him, is doing so accurately or falsely. A prophet may accurately predict an event or demonstrate supernatural power, but if he is leading people away from the true worship of the true God, he is a false prophet.
If there arises among you a prophet or a dreamer of dreams, and he gives you a sign or a wonder, and the sign or the wonder comes to pass, of which he spoke to you, saying, "Let us go after other gods"—which you have not known—"and let us serve them," you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams, for the Lord your God is testing you to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul. You shall walk after the Lord your God and fear Him, and keep His commandments and obey His voice; you shall serve Him and hold fast to Him. But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has spoken in order to turn you away from the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of bondage, to entice you from the way in which the Lord your God commanded you to walk. So you shall put away the evil from your midst. (Deuteronomy 13:1-5)
This passage begins with the assumption that the prophet does foretell the future accurately or perform some other, humanly impossible work. Nevertheless, if that prophet's central message is to follow after a different god or to take a spiritual path that the true God has not said to take, that person is a false prophet. God states unequivocally that misrepresenting Him incurs the death penalty, and Revelation 19:20 says that this is exactly what happens to the False Prophet: He is thrown into the Lake of Fire.
Dodging Moral Teaching
The message of the false prophet is contrasted in Deuteronomy 13:3-4 with loving the true God with all of our heart and soul (life), walking after Him, fearing Him, keeping His commandments, obeying His voice, serving Him, and holding fast to Him. These elements indicate what God wants His people to be focused on, helping to define whether a man claiming to speak for God is truly doing so or not.
Verse 4 mentions obeying God's voice and keeping His commandments. This is a regular theme with God's true prophets: They always have God's law undergirding their messages. When the Old Testament prophets were sent to warn or inform Israel and Judah, they always pointed out the grievous ways in which the people had transgressed God's law.
False prophets, on the other hand, will not hold the moral line that God requires. Lamentations 2:14 says that the false prophets "have not uncovered your iniquity, to bring back your captives, but have envisioned for you false prophecies and delusions." False prophets will not connect the dots between the sinfulness of a nation and national calamity. They instead focus on something other than God's standard of righteousness.
This same principle appears in Isaiah 8:19-20. Both houses of Israel were guilty of seeking out mediums and wizards for spiritual guidance, and God's response is very telling:
And when they say to you, "Seek those who are mediums and wizards, who whisper and mutter," should not a people seek their God? Should they seek the dead on behalf of the living? To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
God gives us a standard by which to measure the words of a prophet: the law and testimony—His Word. If the prophet's message contradicts what is already established as God's Word, it is evidence that he lacks spiritual understanding. If his words do not line up with God's law and testimony, he is not speaking the truth.
In summary, the hallmark of a true prophet is his upholding of the law of God, while false prophets dodge moral teaching and instead preach a message that appeals to the masses. God's truth is abhorrent to the natural mind (Romans 8:7), and thus it is quite common for God's prophets to be killed, while the false prophets enjoy widespread popularity and support.
The current trend of outcome-based churches serves as a good example. Their leaders preach a widely popular message, and thousands of people follow them. Yet, Jesus says in Luke 6:26, "Woe to you when all men speak well of you, for so did their fathers to the false prophets." Popularity is not a good measurement of God's pleasure with a leader!
Jesus Christ, the most perfect Spokesman for God who has ever lived, only had about 120 true followers when His ministry ended (Acts 1:15). This was not due to failure on His part, but because His Father's message could be wholeheartedly believed only by those whose minds God had already prepared to accept it.
"Purpose-Driven" church leaders will not preach the unadulterated Word of God because they know it is divisive. It would also thwart their goals of a large following and a large income. Thus, their messages do not involve repentance, sound doctrine, or God's law, except where it may serve to further whatever purpose is driving them. Their messages do not remind people of their moral responsibilities to God and brother, and thus if they claim to speak for God or say that God sent them, we can know from biblical patterns that they are, in fact, false prophets. Their large churches, as amazing as they might seem, are not accurate indicators of God's involvement or blessing.
Fruits of False Prophets
The apostle Peter, in warning against false prophets, illuminates their characteristics. The entirety of II Peter 2 is about false prophets and false teachers. What sort of message would these men preach? What would be one's impression of God—whom they allegedly spoke for—after watching and listening to such men?
» "But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction" (II Peter 2:1). The King James Version calls their heresies damnable, implying that their words—their messages—are destructive to one's faith and relationship with God. "Denying the Lord" does not mean they deny that He lived or died or that He is God, but that their words and conduct are opposed to His fundamental nature. Their lives deny any close contact with Him.
» "By covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; for a long time their judgment has not been idle, and their destruction does not slumber" (II Peter 2:3). False prophets use human nature's proclivity toward covetousness to make inroads to a person's heart.
» ". . . and especially those who walk according to the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise authority. They are presumptuous, self-willed. They are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries, whereas angels, who are greater in power and might, do not bring a reviling accusation against them before the Lord" (II Peter 2:10-11). False prophets "walk according to the flesh"; their minds are primarily on physical things rather than the true things of God. God is not in all their thoughts (Psalm 10:4). They also despise authority—other than their own—and apparently think themselves superior even to God's angels. They are presumptuous and self-willed, acting out of the dictates of their own hearts (or the influence of a demon) rather than following God with humility and trusting Him to bring His will to pass.
» ". . . having eyes full of adultery and that cannot cease from sin, enticing unstable souls. They have a heart trained in covetous practices, and are accursed children. They have forsaken the right way and gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness . . ." (II Peter 2:14-15). The apostle says false prophets have "eyes full of adultery." While this may apply literally, it can also more generally describe unfaithfulness—a willingness to abandon an agreement if they feel it is in their interest to do so. They also worry little about resisting sin. Their hearts are especially trained in covetousness, and like Balaam, they are willing to do just about anything for personal gain.
» "While they promise them liberty, they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a person is overcome, by him also he is brought into bondage" (II Peter 2:19). They promise liberty—freedom, perhaps, from keeping God's law or from persecution or tribulation—but they are themselves enslaved to sin.
Not every false prophet will have each of these characteristics, but as generalities, they describe men who are much more concerned about their own situation, well-being, reputation, autonomy, and position than about accurately representing God. We will know these men to be false by the overall fruits they produce, even as they speak clever words that may even contain a degree of truth. This is seen in Jesus' warning in Matthew 7:15-20:
Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Therefore by their fruits you will know them. (emphasis ours)
Jesus does not spell out what "fruits" to look for, although in the Olivet Prophecy, He does link the deceptions of false prophets with the lawlessness and lack of love that abounds at the end time (Matthew 24:11-13). However, the rest of the Bible elucidates God's character and nature, so we already have the tools to evaluate whether a message allegedly coming from God fits with what His Word reveals about Him. God is not double-minded; He will not contradict Himself.
"By Their Words . . ."
A false prophet, then, can be anyone who claims to be speaking for God, but whose message is contrary to God. False prophets will not convict people of sin, for they themselves do not feel convicted. While true prophets speak according to God's law and testimony, false prophets speak soft, easy things to make them more popular. They will tell people what they want to hear.
A true prophet expresses the will of God with words. Sometimes signs, wonders, and foretelling are involved to add additional weight, but the most important part is the message. A true prophet points people to God and shows people their sins. False prophets point people to almost anything else. If they do try to point people to a god, it will be a different god from the God of the Bible. Whoever they point to, they do it for their own benefit.
Many false prophets simply point people to themselves. Their covetousness manifests itself in a desire for power, influence, control, prestige, or importance—the antithesis of being poor in spirit, meek, pure in heart, and mourning over their ungodly weaknesses. The true prophet does not draw attention to himself but to God. If a prophet or teacher spends a great deal of time talking about himself, it is a good indication just who his god is!
John the Baptist, the last Old Testament prophet, serves as a positive contrast. He undoubtedly knew what the angel Gabriel told his father, Zacharias (Luke 1:13-17), but there is no record of John promoting this remarkable story. His focus was not on proclaiming who he was, but on doing the work that God had given him to do. The fruit of his life and teaching reveals that he fulfilled the role of Elijah, which Jesus confirms. A false prophet, though, with his covetousness, presumption, and self-will, is more likely to end up spending a good deal of time talking about himself.
Other false prophets, like Balaam, are essentially in it only for the money, and so they will do what is necessary to ensure that the gold rolls in. The False Prophet in Revelation points the whole world to another man—the Beast. A true prophet would never suggest that a man be worshipped, with the exception of John the Baptist pointing the people to God's Son, Jesus Christ. John pointed people to a Man who was also God, and thus worthy of worship.
Prophets are false when they fail to express God's will accurately, and they fail because they are not in contact with the true God. The fruits of their lives and the meaning behind their words will indicate the source of their teaching. To paraphrase Jesus Christ, by their words they will be justified, or by their words they will be condemned (Matthew 12:37). If the words of a prophet are contrary to Scripture, contrary to God's law, the prophet is false, and worthy of condemnation for leading people astray.
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Players: Be Ready to Learn
Which would you rather have—a coach who accepts every move you make, every drill you run, as just OK, without a word? Or a coach who off ers advice, and who sets standards for you to meet? Correction is a compliment—your coach thinks enough of you to want you to get better. Seek feedback. Meet criticism eye to eye and say “thank you.” Commit to continuous improvement. | <urn:uuid:e39d612f-6e4f-4b73-992c-e95f95b86056> | 2013-05-18T17:57:43Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The sweetness of bell peppers is the flavor we're celebrating in this colorful dish. Stir strips of grilled chicken breast into the topping to make the meal more filling. Add a dash of red pepper flakes to make the flavor not only sweet but also zesty.
12 ounces mostaccioli (about 4 cups)
2 tbsp. olive oil, divided
1 red onion, cut into ¼-inch strips (about 1 cup)
1 red bell pepper, cut into 2-inch by ¼-inch strips
1 yellow bell pepper, cut into 2-inch by ¼-inch strips
1 green bell pepper, cut into 2-inch by ¼-inch strips
4 cloves garlic, minced
¼ c. toasted pine nuts
¼ tsp. freshly ground pepper, or to taste
Salt to taste
½ c. fresh basil chiffonade
Freshly ground pepper and freshly grated Parmesan or chévre cheese for garnish
Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil over high heat; add salt, then the mostaccioli. When the water returns to a boil, stir occasionally to separate the mostaccioli. Reduce the heat to medium-high and cook for about 12 to 14 minutes, or according to package instructions, until the noodles are al dente.
Meanwhile, heat 1 tablespoon of the oil in a large nonstick sauté pan over medium high heat. Add the onion; cook, stirring occasionally, until crisp-tender, about 3 minutes. Add the bell peppers and garlic; continue to cook, stirring occasionally, until the bell peppers are tender, about 8 minutes. Stir in the pine nuts, pepper, and salt. Taste and adjust the seasoning. Remove from the heat and cover to keep warm.
When the mostaccioli is done, drain well; return to the pot. Add the remaining 1 tablespoon of oil and toss. Add the basil and toss again.
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Psalm 59:1-17 When we were in St. Petersburg, Russia, for an evangelical music festival designed to reach Jewish people, one of the musicians sang a song that I'll never forget. The phrase "He is my defense" was repeated over and over again in the song. That phrase still resounds in my spiritual ears. God truly is our defense, and David knew this even though his enemies surrounded him and used their tongues as swords against him. He knew that God was his strong defense. David said, "God shall let me see my desire upon my enemies."
David also knew the secret of dressing himself in the garment of praise continually. After reviewing what he wanted God to do to defeat his enemies, he said, "But I will sing of Your power; yes, I will sing aloud of Your mercy in the morning; for You have been my defense and refuge in the day of my trouble-.-.-.-for God is my defense" (Ps. 59:16-17). When we sing aloud to the Lord, demons are put to confusion, and all of our enemies have to flee. Praise is the devil's death knell. When we praise the Lord, we place an invisible shield around us, and we can say with David, "You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies" (Ps. 23:5).
My twin sister one time had a vivid picture of just how the Lord's table looks as it is prepared in the midst of our enemies. She saw a table beautifully set with gold and silver, and laden with different kinds of fruits. The Lord Himself was at the head of this huge table. Above Him and all the people gathered was a shield that resembled a glass enclosure. The shield was in reality just a shelter of light. It was God's glory shield over all those present at His table. Just past this shield was total darkness. The people gathered, however, could see through the darkness, and they saw that although Satan with all of his demonic spirits was trying to penetrate this shield—they could not. Those dining were singing beautiful songs of praise as they partook of their wonderful feast.
God is our defense. He is our rock, our high tower and our hiding place. The clothing worn by the guests at this wonderful feast were garments of light that glistened brighter as the guests began to praise the Lord. These were the garments of praise mentioned in Isaiah 61:3—the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. The Bible tells us that God dwells in the midst of our praises. Something supernatural happens when we praise the Lord. As we praise Him, we are dressed in these special glory garments. We cannot see it, but Satan sees it, and he hates it because he knows he is unable to get to us. One morning as I was singing an old hymn, "Oh worship the King all glorious above," the phrase "pavilioned in splendor, and girded with praise" stood out to me. At that moment I heard the Lord speak this to my spirit: "Yes, I do dwell in the midst of the praises of My people. As they praise Me, I too am dressed with the glory garments of praise. My glory intensifies as My saints on earth praise Me."
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an audio speaker. There is a very interesting video at this link
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Subject:University of Iowa Hydraulics
Center Films on Youtube (six films)
Introduction to the study of fluid
motion (1961, 25 minutes) http://youtu.be/EIuU9Q8CGDk
The first in a widely used series of films on fluid mechanics, produced
at IIHR under the direction of Hunter Rouse.
This introductory program, designed to orient engineering students,
shows examples of flow phenomena from a host of everyday experiences.
Empirical solutions by means of scale models are illustrated. The
significance of the Euler, Froude, Reynolds, and Mach numbers as
similitude parameters is illustrated.
Dr. Hunter Rouse served as Director of IIHR from 1944 to 1966. During
this time, he was instrumental in strengthening IIHRs fundamental
research emphasis and in developing teaching programs for hydraulic
engineers. Through his writings, research, and global travels, he
established IIHR as an internationally acclaimed innovative research
and teaching laboratory.
Fundamental Principles of flow (23 min)
Second in the series, this video departs from the essential generality
of the first by explicitly illustrating, through experi ment and
animation, the basic concepts and physical relation ships that are
involved in the analysis of fluid motion. The concepts of velocity,
acceleration, circulation, and vorticity are introduced, and the use of
integral equations of motion is demonstrated by a simple example.
Fluid Motion in a gravitational field
(24 min) http://youtu.be/-xoyLhiEOus
In this third video of the series, which proceeds from the intro
ductory and the basic material presented in the first two videos,
emphasis is laid upon the action of gravity. Principles of wave
propagation are illustrated, including aspects of gen eration,
celerity, reflection, stability, and reduction to steadiness by
relative motion. Simulation of comparable phenomena in the atmosphere
and the ocean is considered.
Characteristics of laminar and
turbulent flow (26 min) http://youtu.be/eIHVh3cIujU
The fourth video deals with the effect of viscosity. Dye, smoke,
suspended particles, and hydrogen-bubbles are used to reveal the
Various combinations of Couette and plane Poiseuille flow introduce the
principles of lubrication. Axisymmetric Poiseuille flow and development
of the flow around an elliptic cylinder are related to variation in the
Reynolds number, and the growth of the boundary layer along a flat
plate is shown.
Instability in boundary layers and pipe flow is shown to lead to
turbulence. The eddy viscosity and apparent stress are intro duced by
hotwire-anemometer indications. The processes of turbulence production,
turbulent mixing, and turbulence decay are considered.
Form, drag, lift, and propulsion (24
In the fifth video of the series, emphasis is laid upon the role of
boundary-layer separation in modifying the flow pattern and producing
longitudinal and lateral components of force on a moving body. Various
conditions of separation and methods of separation control are first
illustrated. Attention is then given to the distribution of pressure
around typical body profiles and its relation to the resulting drag.
The concept of circulation introduced in the second film is developed
to explain the forces on rotating bodies and the forced vibration of
cylin dri cal bodies. Structural failure of unstable sections is
Effects of fluid compressibility (17
The last in the six-video series makes extensive use of the analogy
between gravity and sound waves and illustrates, through laboratory
demonstrations and animation, the con cepts of wave celerity, shock
waves and surges, wave reflec tion and water hammer.
Two-dimensional waves are produced by flow past a point source at
various speeds relative to the wave celerity to illus trate the effect
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To my fellow Chiefs fans. I have a Chiefs tat on my right arm. I am looking to get more work done and I need some ideas. If anyone has any good ideas they would be greatly appreciated. I want to fill in the rest of my arm like a sleeve.
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Variable HA10 : Should female teacher with HIV/AIDS be allowed to teach in school
Valid case(s): 6066 (6087.6)
Invalid: 108 (76.4)
Women aged 15-49
Source of information
The eligible woman selected for interview
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.
If a female teacher has the AIDS virus but is not sick, should she be allowed to continue teaching in school?
The following four questions are meant to ascertain the respondent's personal opinion and attitude towards people with AIDS. We present a situation to the respondent, asking her to imagine a particular scenario. Then we ask her to tell us how she would react to the situation. Circle the code for the response given. Once again, do not prompt the respondent or indicate the 'correct' answer in any way. If a respondent says she doesn't know, is unsure, or that it depends, circle '8' for 'DK/not sure/depends'. --- If a school learns that a female teacher has the AIDS virus, but she is not sick, how should the school handle this information? Should the teacher be allowed to continue teaching at the school, or should she be removed from her teaching position? We are not asking about whether or not a teacher has actually been asked to leave a teaching position, but rather, what is the respondent's opinion about how such a case should be handled; should the teacher be allowed to continue teaching? | <urn:uuid:6c25c1bd-dda3-49a3-a653-b9732e832418> | 2013-05-18T17:56:31Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Riad La Perle De La Medina的到达路线
Drive to "centre Ville", to the Royal Mirage Hotel (ex Sheraton Hotel).Leaving the Sheraton hotel behind, take the avenue lined with palms trees ahead of you. (This avenue is called "Avenue Hassan II").
Continue driving straight ahead on the avenue, until you reach an intersection which has a traffic circle featuring a fountain.You'll see on your right restaurant "MACDO " Continue straight ahead.
You will pass by a Shell and Mobil petrol station. Stay in the Left hand lane.Ahead of you will be a traffic signal and island. Stay left, and passes through the signal. Continue driving, and you will arrive in "Batha Square" On your right, you will find a bus stop.
Go on the lane on the right between the red taxi station and the building under construction till you reach a parking lot on your left where you should park your car for a while. "La perle de la Medina" is jus after "Oum El Banine" school in the first square on your right.
In order to make the final leg of your journey pleasant and worry-free, our representative can meet you at the Batha Post Office. From there, you will be escorted directly to our Riad. | <urn:uuid:a9332f95-fc2d-48e0-b6b7-e59853fa4771> | 2013-05-18T17:19:40Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Blood Clots During Pregnancy More Likely After IVF, Study Says
TUESDAY, Jan. 15 (HealthDay News) -- Women who became pregnant through in vitro fertilization (IVF) may have an increased risk of developing blood clots and potentially fatal artery blockage, Swedish investigators suggest.
Although the risk remains small, the odds are especially high during the first trimester compared to women who become pregnant naturally, the researchers said.
Blood clots -- called venous thromboembolism -- can develop in the leg veins and break free, traveling to the lungs and blocking a main artery. This condition, called pulmonary embolism, can cause difficulty breathing and even death.
"There is an increased incidence of pulmonary embolism and venous thrombosis among women pregnant after IVF," said lead researcher Dr. Peter Henriksson, a professor of internal medicine at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. "Embolism is the leading cause of maternal mortality during pregnancy. The diagnosis can be elusive, so physicians should be aware of this risk to facilitate the diagnosis."
The risk of clotting during pregnancy isn't confined to women who undergo IVF, another experts said.
"Any pregnancy carries a risk of clotting," said Dr. Avner Hershlag, chief of the Center for Human Reproduction at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, N.Y.
This is because hormones, particularly estrogen, increase during pregnancy, Hershlag said. "This changes what we call the clotting cascade," he said. "There are many factors in blood clotting that can be affected by hormones -- especially estrogen."
In addition, the enlarging uterus puts pressure on pelvic blood vessels, which can lead to clotting. Some women are advised to limit their movement to reduce the risk of clotting, Hershlag noted.
Although it's unclear why women who undergo IVF have a greater risk of clotting, Hershlag speculates that it could be due to fertility treatments that increase estrogen even beyond levels normally associated with pregnancy.
The genetics of women who need IVF to conceive may also be a factor, he added.
Worldwide, about 10 percent of couples experience infertility, according to background information in the study. In IVF, eggs are removed from a woman's body, fertilized by the man's sperm and returned to her body. Since the world's first "test tube" baby was born in 1978, about 5 million births have occurred after IVF.
For the study, published Jan. 15 in the online edition of the journal BMJ, researchers compared data on more than 23,000 women who became pregnant after IVF with nearly 117,000 women who conceived without assisted technology.
The researchers found that for women who had undergone IVF, the risk for a blood clot was 4.2 in 1,000 women. For the women with normal pregnancies, the risk was 2.5 in 1,000. Moreover, the risk was highest during the first trimester.
Pulmonary embolism occurred in 19 women who had IVF (8.1 out of 10,000) compared with 70 women who conceived normally (6.0 out of 10,000), the study found.
The researchers caution that the absolute risk of a pulmonary embolism among women who had IVF was still slight -- two to three additional cases in 10,000 women.
"We don't want patients to get scared," Hershlag said. "Even with IVF, getting a blood clot is still pretty rare."
Also, most blood clots do not go to the lungs and can easily be treated and resolved, Hershlag said. Women at risk for clots can be treated with blood thinners that prevent clots, he said.
For more information on IVF, visit the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
SOURCES: Peter Henriksson, M.D., Ph.D., profesor of internal medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden; Avner Hershlag, M.D., chief, Center for Human Reproduction, North Shore University Hospital, Manhasset, N.Y.; Jan. 15, 2013, BMJ, online
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Pediatric Health Library :: Pediatric Health Library Topics
Water Safety - Injury Statistics and Incidence Rates
The following statistics are the latest available from the National SAFE KIDS Campaign and the National Safety Council:
Injury and death rates:
- Approximately 838 children ages 14 and under drowned in 2002; more than 60 percent of these children were under age four.
- Approximately 15 percent of children admitted to hospitals for near-drowning die, while another 20 percent will suffer severe and permanent brain damage.
- More than half of drownings among infants occur in bathtubs.
- Among children ages four and under, there are about 300 residential swimming pool drownings each year.
- In 2003, about 200 children ages 14 and under experienced personal watercraft injuries.
Where and when:
- Most infants under the age of one drown in bathtubs. Other drownings in this age group tend to occur in toilets and buckets. Drownings in bathtubs account for 10 percent of all childhood drownings, most often when the child is unsupervised.
- Since 1984, more than 327 children have drowned in buckets containing water or other liquids. The majority (89 percent) of the children were between the ages of seven and 15 months.
- More than half of childhood drownings in pools occur in the child's home pool, with one-third of these drownings occurring at the homes of friends, neighbors, or relatives.
- Most drownings and near-drownings occur on the weekend (40 percent) during late spring and summer (May through August).
- More fatal drownings occur in the South and West.
- More fatal drownings occur in rural areas than suburban or urban areas.
- The majority (more than 85 percent) of children who drown in swimming pools are between the ages of one to four.
- Each year, 300 children ages four and under drown in swimming pools, while another 2,600 children in this age group are treated for near-drowning in hospital emergency rooms.
- Children ages four and under are two to three times as likely to drown than other age groups and account for 80 percent of home drownings.
- Boys are two to four times more likely to drown than girls.
- Girls are twice as likely to drown in bathtubs than boys.
- African-American children ages five to nine are four-and-a-half times more likely to drown in swimming pools than Caucasian children.
- Non-swimming pool drownings are more common among low-income children.
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Online Resources of Safety & Injury Prevention
It is important to remember the health information found on this website is for reference only not intended to replace the advice and guidance of your healthcare provider. Always seek the advice of your physician with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. If you think you may have a medical emergency, call your physician or 911 immediately. | <urn:uuid:f3ddf66f-2fcf-45bc-86fe-a98ea766670a> | 2013-05-18T17:48:43Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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|Rule No.||Rule Title|
|Rule Text||(a) The Board of Stewards appointed for a race meeting shall, immediately prior to the commencement of that meeting, designate the stakes, futurities or futurity trials or other races in which a jockey or a driver who is under suspension for ten days or less for a riding or driving infraction will be permitted to compete, notwithstanding the fact that such jockey or driver is technically under suspension at the time the designated race is to be run.
(b) Official rulings for riding or driving infractions of ten days or less shall state: "The term of this suspension shall not prohibit participation in designated races in California." However, the Board of Stewards may prohibit a jockey or a driver from participating in designated races if such jockey or driver has previously been suspended at least twice during the race meeting specified in subsection (a) of this rule.
(c) Prior to the commencement of a meeting, a listing of the races designated in accordance with subsection (a) of this rule shall be submitted in writing to the Board. A copy of the list of designated races shall be posted in the Jockey or Driver's Room, and any other such place deemed appropriate by the stewards.
(d) A suspended jockey or driver must be named at the time of entry to participate in any designated race.
(e) A day in which a suspended jockey or driver participates in one designated race in California shall count as a suspension day.
(f) A day in which a suspended jockey or driver participates in more than one designated race in California shall not count as a suspension day.
(g) Notwithstanding the above, a day in which a jockey or a driver participates in one or more designated races in another jurisdiction while under suspension in California shall not count as a suspension day.
(h) A suspended jockey or driver who participates in more than one designated race under subsection (f) of this regulation, or in one or more designated race(s) under subsection (g) of this regulation, shall complete his or her term of suspension on an equivalent day of the week following the day on which the jockey or driver participated in the designated race(s).
NOTE: Authority cited: Section 19460, Business and Professions Code. Reference: Sections 19460, 19461 and 19520, Business and Professions Code.
1. New rule filed 3-8-93; effective 4-7-93.
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The Search for God Is Never a Search in the Dark
Although it is a dangerous business to select a passage from a Shakespeare play and hold it up as a mouthpiece of the poet, there are nevertheless a few key passages that seem to express the bard's own thoughts on the creative process. In Act V, Scene I of A Midsummer Night's Dream, for example, Theseus, King of Athens, offers a mini-dissertation on the surprising similarities between lunatics, lovers, and poets. Of the poet's art in particular, he says: "Such tricks hath strong imagination, / That, if it would but apprehend some joy, / It comprehends some bringer of that joy."
Dictionaries, even the Oxford English Dictionary, offer little help at understanding Shakespeare's distinction between apprehend and comprehend. If we read the lines, however, in the context of Theseus's full speech, the following distinction emerges: To apprehend is to perceive some force or feeling that transcends our ordinary human faculties. To comprehend, by contrast, is to create some rational or artistic framework for making sense of, and thus "containing," the very force or feeling which seems to defy description. Thus, in the poet's case, an apprehended feeling of unbounded, free-floating joy is comprehended, through the device of poem-writing, into a single, concrete bringer of that joy.
In The Mystery of God: Theology for Knowing the Unknowable (Baker Academic), Steven Boyer and Christopher Hall seem to translate (unconsciously) Theseus's distinction into the realm of theology. Too often, they argue, theology attempts to put into concrete words and images an experience that is finally too large for us to take in—and not just quantitatively (there is too much of God for us to grasp), but qualitatively as well (as Uncreated Creator, God is wholly other than his creatures and cannot be contained in logical categories). When we try to force the essence of the eternal, omnipresent Creator into our own structures of thought, we often find that we have not so much explained him as explained him away. At this juncture, one might expect Boyer and Hall either to treat theology as a branch of subjective poetry—beautiful, perhaps even awe inspiring, but incapable of expressing universal truth—or to give up on putting into words (comprehending) that glory, majesty, and holiness of God that we can only barely apprehend.
Thankfully, they resist both options, instead offering a different distinction that maintains both the otherness and mystery of God and our capacity, through theological exploration, to reliably know his nature. Too often, modern theologians, especially pluralists, think of God as an "investigative mystery." If we are to understand him, we must amass scattered clues and then figure out how they might fit together. The Bible and traditional Christianity, in contrast, present God as a "revelational mystery." God has revealed himself to us through the Law and Prophets, the Old and New Testament, and Christ himself. We haven't been left to search in the dark. Still, because the God who reveals himself is beyond our comprehension, the mystery remains and cannot be fully contained in doctrinal statements. | <urn:uuid:8fbe4641-1032-43fa-a4ff-04b3228c4b53> | 2013-05-18T17:49:23Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Quelques mots sur la Prise de la Bastille ...
Bonjour, amis de la Libre Pensee!
"The mighty are only mighty because we are on our knees. Let us rise!"
"A person came in and announced the taking of the Bastille, the governor of which is beheaded, a crowd carries his head in triumph through the city. Yesterday it wa the fashion at Versailles not to believe there were any disturbances in Paris. I presume today’s transactions will induce a conviction that all is not perfectly quiet."
Gouverneur Morris, a framer of US Constitution, at the Royal Gardens of Versailles, July 14, 1789
"If I could have found 2,000 men filled with the anger that tore my heart, I would have placed myself at their head, stabbed Lafayette to death, burned the despot in his palace and impaled our odious representatives on their benches. When I proposed this to Robespierre, he listened to me in horror, paled and remained silent."
Jean-Paul Marat, L’ami du peuple.
"One must frighten those who govern; one must never frighten the people."
votre ami Fred, le Marat de Kansas, | <urn:uuid:b518007a-92b5-4572-a101-ee28c92dc682> | 2013-05-18T17:17:45Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Unsupervised adaptation of brain machine interface decoders
The performance of neural decoders can degrade over time due to nonstationarities in the relationship between neuronal activity and behavior. In this case, brain-machine interfaces (BMI) require adaptation of their decoders to maintain high performance across time. One way to achieve this is by use of periodical calibration phases, during which the BMI system (or an external human demonstrator) instructs the user to perform certain movements or behaviors. This approach has two disadvantages: (i) calibration phases interrupt the autonomous operation of the BMI and (ii) between two calibration phases the BMI performance might not be stable but continuously decrease. A better alternative would be that the BMI decoder is able to continuously adapt in an unsupervised manner during autonomous BMI operation, i.e. without knowing the movement intentions of the user. In the present article, we present an efficient method for such unsupervised training of BMI systems for continuous movement control. The proposed method utilizes a cost function derived from neuronal recordings, which guides a learning algorithm to evaluate the decoding parameters. We verify the performance of our adaptive method by simulating a BMI user with an optimal feedback control model and its interaction with our adaptive BMI decoder. The simulation results show that the cost function and the algorithm yield fast and precise trajectories towards targets at random orientations on a 2-dimensional computer screen. For initially unknown and non-stationary tuning parameters, our unsupervised method is still able to generate precise trajectories and to keep its performance stable in the long term. The algorithm can optionally work also with neuronal error signals instead or in conjunction with the proposed unsupervised adaptation. | <urn:uuid:0f33f689-5b4f-4fc9-8ac6-e06166642c6e> | 2013-05-18T17:27:52Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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I didn't like Guild Wars at all, and I don't know why, just the game was really unappealing to me. I thought WoW was amazing, except for the 15 bucks per month.
I play Silkroad Online, it's a fantasy rpg based off the ancient silkroad. It's great because you can have jobs such as a hunter, merchant and theif in the game, and it has a vast amount of skills and character builds.
I also like it becuase it uses some actual chinese weapons and names of armor. Also, most of the game's monsters are based off chinese, japanese, arab, berber, and greek mythology, which I LOVE.
Try it out | <urn:uuid:4e573db0-46ea-42a6-bb1f-00df6120d107> | 2013-05-18T17:49:20Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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A Brazoria County mother has been accused of beating her 6-month-old son to death, and police said she told them this is not the first time she has killed a child.
Angleton police said Kristi-An Walker, 20, is facing several felony charges, including murder, after she confessed to killing her son.
"She was irritated with the crying and all that stuff," Sgt. Kirk Coleman said. "They got to her and she said she just couldn't handle it."
Investigators said Walker, who also has a 3-year-old son, called them to her home in June. Police said she told them that her son was unresponsive and that she was performing CPR until help arrived.
The baby was taken to Angleton Danbury Hospital, where he died a few hours later. Detectives said he died after suffering severe head trauma.
Police said Walker admitted that she never tried to save her son.
"According to her, she didn't actually perform CPR. She pretended to do CPR," Coleman said.
Investigators said she then admitted that she killed another child. Her 4-month-old son died in Freeport in April 2011.
"She claims on both occasions she would throw the kids up against the wall," Coleman said. "She would throw them in the baby seat. She would bump them up against furniture and all stuff like that."
Police said Walker has been charged with murder and two counts of felony injury to a child. If convicted, she faces up to 99 years in prison for each charge.
Investigators said Walker is in the Brazoria County Jail, and she's pregnant again.
"She is being monitored at the county jail for the safety of the unborn," Coleman said. | <urn:uuid:d1e23e67-f08e-4384-961f-337700629e71> | 2013-05-18T17:28:47Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Re: PERSONAL MESSAGES
Insane people like those inside the "satanic cult" can be sued.
Your theory is wrong.
They can't touch me, but I can touch THEM.
Keep that in mind.
Start preparing for your future because you will soon be out of a job. | <urn:uuid:4378450f-e1e1-4614-ac21-abde752e7542> | 2013-05-18T17:19:22Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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[Mauiusers] Preemption with suspend/resume
Jan.Ploski at offis.de
Sun Sep 23 14:02:44 MDT 2007
I'd like to configure a preemption policy which favors short-running
multi-processor jobs from one queue over long-running single-processor
jobs from another queue as follows:
1. Single-processor jobs from queue X may be allocated any processor in
the cluster, provided that no multi-processor jobs from queue Y need the
2. As soon as a multi-node job is submitted to queue Y, if there are not
enough idle processors, but some processors are occupied by
single-processor jobs from queue X, these processors should be released
by suspending the single-node jobs which occupy them. The multi-node job
should then be able to start.
3. When a multi-node job from queue Y finishes and it has caused some
single-processor jobs from queue X to become suspended before, then
these suspended jobs are resumed.
Can such a policy be implemented in Maui at all?
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UPDATE 1-Canada's Flaherty reveals skin disease, explains bloating
* Flaherty taking steroids to treat rare skin condition
* Side effects include weight gain, bloating, sleeplessness
* Spokesman says Flaherty's ability to do job not affected
OTTAWA, Jan 31 (Reuters) - Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty revealed on Thursday he is suffering from a serious skin disease and is taking steroids that make him appear bloated and red-faced, but that the problem is not preventing him from doing his job.
Flaherty's health has been a source of speculation in Ottawa for months because of his changed appearance.
The minister, 63, has had the rare condition, called bullous pemphigoid, for nearly a year, his office said in a statement.
"This treatment has in no way impacted Minister Flaherty's ability to do his job," Flaherty's chief spokesman, Dan Miles, said in the statement. "The minister says the condition is clearing up and he is hopeful his appearance will return to normal in the near future."
The condition causes blisters on the skin and usually affects people older than 60, according to the Mayo Clinic.
Flaherty's doctor has prescribed a steroid called prednisone, which has side effects such as bloating, weight gain, redness in the face and bouts of sleeplessness.
In an interview with the Globe and Mail newspaper, published on Thursday, Flaherty said he has fielded questions about videotaped interviews in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 25 in which he had appeared to be slurring his speech.
He attributed his speech to the effects of the medication, which can cause dry mouth and mouth sores, and said he was exhausted from an overnight flight before his meetings in Davos.
Asked about his alcohol consumption, he said: "Since I've been on my medication, I drink less because I have to listen to what my doctor tells me when he says it's okay to have a glass of wine or two, or a beer or two, but that's it."
Flaherty told the newspaper he had informed Prime Minister Stephen Harper about his health problems late last year.
He said he intends to remain finance minister until the government's budget is balanced, a goal set for 2015. | <urn:uuid:965326a1-b41e-4f99-bf89-cf6faa804169> | 2013-05-18T17:59:07Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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London (CNN) -- Andrei Filatov, chess expert and Russian billionaire, is turning his hand to a new business: Soviet-era art.
Filatov, a 40-year old professional chess player and businessman, is investing in his love of Soviet Union art by scouting the world for pieces created behind the Iron Curtain.
The Ukrainian-born businessman, valued by Forbes at $1.3 billion and ranked as Russia's 68th richest person, has invested heavily in Russian infrastructure through his co-ownership of N-Trans Group.
But over the last five years, he has spent $100 million collecting Soviet artworks, hoping to gather enough to eventually open a museum.
Filatov's pieces -- including 1951's "A Letter from the Front," by Alexander Laktionov, 1930's "Daisies" by Nicolai Fechin and 1893's "Comrades" by Philip Maliavin -- have been collected from around the world, where they were scattered to gather dust after the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1991.
"When the Soviet Union collapsed, a huge amount of great artworks were taken out of the country to the west and elsewhere," Filatov says. "My task is to buy these artworks and show them to people."
Laktionov is one of the Soviet Union's most famed painters of the so-called socialist realist genre, which was sponsored by the state. He was commissioned by the USSR's communist leader Joseph Stalin to create "A Letter from the Front," a warm depiction of a family receiving news from the front line.
The original piece, painted in 1947, won the Stalin Prize and remains in the Tretyakov State Gallery in Moscow. Filatov's version, painted after Stalin requested a second version of the artwork to show to the world, was found by chance in the Bahamas by his art dealer, Rena Lavery.
Despite being critiqued as propaganda for its representations of life under Stalin's dictatorship, socialist realism has enjoyed a renaissance as those living in former Soviet countries seek artifacts from the previous era.
For Filatov, "A Letter from the Front" reminds him of his grandfather Alexey Pushkar, who died in 1943 as the Soviets fought the Germans in the bloody battles of the Eastern Front. He won't reveal how much the artwork cost but says it is an "emotional painting" that allows him to imagine what it must have been like waiting for news from loved ones during wartime.
Filatov was a student in Minsk when the Soviet Union fell and recalls being stunned by the news that his country didn't exist anymore. It was a "love for the lost motherland," that prompted him to start collecting the era's art.
Filatov says he is "aware of what kind of empire I lived in, that many times this empire, the leaders put the world at risk of world war."
But, he adds, "you can't not recognize the achievements of the Soviet Union. So I believe that the most important thing here is an objective view of the achievements, and the experience of that short and bright empire."
Lavery points to the technical achievements of the artists in fields such as realism and impressionism, despite living under a repressive regime. "The artworks are reflections of the time and that era of a country that doesn't exist any more," she says.
Filatov wants to collect up to 12 new artworks a year, primarily from the period 1917 to 1991, for the Filatov Family Art Fund. He intends to loan the pieces to museums and art galleries, exhibit and promote around the world. Filatov has previously merged his love of chess and art by sponsoring this year's World Chess Championship Match at Moscow's Tretyakov Gallery.
Filatov says he will continue to invest in art as long as his business -- which he built up in the 1990s and now straddles shipping, ports and infrastructure -- allows.
And despite his interest in the past, Filatov says Russians have never "lived more freely or prosperously than today. Never have our people been so free, not only in movement but in political choice." | <urn:uuid:e0e3d9b5-a507-40d3-9367-7b01364b7ebc> | 2013-05-18T18:07:17Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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(CNN) -- I love being reminded I'm totally unnecessary.
On Thursday, I
hosted tried to host a live video chat with Andrew Derocher, a polar bear researcher and professor at the University of Alberta. The goal was to answer a few of the many, many questions readers asked about my story this week on a plan to air-drop food on struggling polar bears in the Arctic.
A few minutes into the chat on Spreecast, however, my Wi-Fi connection dropped out and I disappeared from the screen, leaving Derocher to fend for himself.
He's a rock star -- so of course he barely missed a beat.
"I can see myself here on air, but I can't see John right now," the scientist said, calm, cool and collected. "I guess if people type in questions we can continue on."
I popped back on screen soon, but it wouldn't have mattered one way or the other. Derocher did a great job tackling a range of questions about his polar bear plans, which he outlined in a recent paper for the journal Conservation Letters.
The most interesting question was along these lines: Since the polar bear's sea-ice habitat is melting, why don't we just engineer a habitat for them? Some of you suggested a series of plastic islands that would help polar bears reach seals (their food) out in the middle of the ocean. Others suggested recycling plastics for this purpose.
"The issue of creating some sort of platform in the Arctic is an interesting sort of idea," Derocher said on video from Canada (which, apparently, has better Internet connections than our offices in New York). "The challenge is really one of scale. When you look at the size of a polar bear's home range -- the size they wander over in a year -- you're basically talking (about) an area that's two-thirds the size of Texas. So these are huge areas. And if you go around the circumpolar Arctic, there's so much habitat that would have to be put in place that it's basically untenable in terms of a spacial scale."
The other issue: Plastic doesn't support life the way ice does.
"You have to think about sea ice more akin to soil in a terrestrial ecosystem," he said.
He topped off the explanation with a stellar analogy:
"It's like trying to grow a forest in a bunch of Styrofoam chips."
So, the bottom line on that: No sea ice, no polar bears.
You can watch the whole Spreecast here (sorry for the train wreck of technical issues at the beginning of the video).
My other favorite thread of conversation on this topic concerned the value of a polar bear life versus a human life. Some of you asked why we would consider air-lifting polar bear food to the Arctic when there are so many poor and starving people on our planet today.
"We're going to have a lot more poor and starving people if we don't deal with the climate change issue in a realistic fashion," Derocher said. "Polar bears are telling us we're living too heavily on this planet and we're extracting too many resources and putting our waste into the atmosphere. ... I view the problems the polar bears are going to be facing largely as a precursor to the sorts of problems that humans are going to be facing."
If you've got more questions, keep 'em coming. I'll do my best to find a stable enough Internet connection -- and an answer.
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Join us on Facebook/CNNOpinion.
The opinions expressed in this column are solely those of John D. Sutter. | <urn:uuid:a528202b-1364-4821-9ae1-665cf0e46d11> | 2013-05-18T17:31:00Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The program presented here allows you to minimize any open Window to the system tray with just one click. After reading this article you will know how to call unmanaged code from a .NET application using P/Invoke.
All the functionality of this application is achieved using Windows API functions so you should be familiar with basic
winapi programming. Consequently you should know what P/Invoke is and how it works.
P/Invoke or Platform Invoke allows you to call unmanaged functions from managed code. To do that you need to declare a method and specify the name of the DLL file which contains the method using
DllImport attribute. For example here is a declaration needed to call
ShowWindow function from a C# application:
public static extern bool ShowWindow(IntPtr hWnd, int nCmdShow);
extern keyword is used to indicate that the method is implemented externally. Perhaps the most difficult task with P/Invoke is to know how to substitute unmanaged types with managed types. This is a great website which has lots of
winapi function declarations. There are many tutorials about P/Invoke so I won't go into more details here. See references for the links.
When you run the application it hides the main form and an icon is shown in the system tray. When you right-click the icon a list of all visible Windows is displayed. If you click one of them then that Window will disappear and a new icon will appear in the system tray. The icon is the same as the icon of the executable that launched the Window. Clicking on the icon will bring the Window back. Apart from this there are two commands available to minimize all Windows to tray or to show all minimized Windows. Both commands have hotkeys associated with them and they can be changed from the options Window. To open the options Window just double-click the main icon. Other options include adding the program to the start-up program list and ignoring Windows without a title.
When you right-click the icon a list of all visible Windows appears. To enumerate all Windows you should call
winapi function called
EnumWindows. The function takes two parameters. The first one is a pointer to a callback function. The code snippet below shows how this function works:
private void getwindows()
winapi.EnumWindowsProc callback = new winapi.EnumWindowsProc(enumwindows);
private bool enumwindows(IntPtr hWnd, int lParam)
StringBuilder title = new StringBuilder(256);
winapi.GetWindowText(hWnd, title, 256);
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(title.ToString())&& set.IgnoreTitle)
if (title.Length != 0 || (title.Length == 0 & hWnd != winapi.statusbar))
windows.Add(new window(hWnd, title.ToString(), winapi.IsIconic(hWnd),
window is a class that has just four fields:
hwnd - to uniquely identify the
title - the tit
le of the
ismaximized store information about the state of the
windows is an instance of the
When a user clicks on one of the Windows we need to hide it.
ShowWindow() API is used to achieve this. Just pass the handle to the Window as a first parameter and
SW_HIDE constant (which is equal to zero) as a second parameter.
private void showwindow(window wnd, bool hide)
winapi.ShowWindow(wnd.handle, state(wnd, hide));
private int state(window wd, bool hide)
The Window is hidden so we need to retrieve the icon of the executable file that created this Window. To achieve this we need to get the path of the executable first. These are the required steps:
- Get the process id that created the specified Window using
- Get a handle of the process by
- Get the executable path by calling
These steps were suggested by Mark Salsbery here: retrieve executable path by hwnd. All these functions are
winapi functions imported by
dllimport attribute. Here is the actual implementation ported to C#.
private string pathfromhwnd(IntPtr hwnd)
winapi.GetWindowThreadProcessId(hwnd, out dwProcessId);
IntPtr hProcess = winapi.OpenProcess(
winapi.ProcessAccessFlags.VMRead | winapi.ProcessAccessFlags.QueryInformation,
StringBuilder path = new StringBuilder(1024);
winapi.GetModuleFileNameEx(hProcess, IntPtr.Zero, path, 1024);
To retrieve the path to the executable file you can also use
GetProcessImageFileName API but it returns a path in device form and works on XP and higher.
GetWindowModuleFileName seemed to be another option but it works only if the specified Window is owned by the calling process.
Now when we have the path to the executable, we can extract the icon that is displayed by explorer using the
SHGetFileInfo() function. You need to pass the path of the executable and an instance of
SHFILEINFO structure that will receive the result. After you have retrieved a handle to the icon you must call
DestoyIcon() API to prevent a memory leak.
private Icon Iconfrompath(string path)
System.Drawing.Icon icon = null;
winapi.SHFILEINFO info = new winapi.SHFILEINFO();
winapi.SHGetFileInfo(path, 0, ref info, (uint)Marshal.SizeOf(info),
winapi.SHGFI_ICON | winapi.SHGFI_SMALLICON);
System.Drawing.Icon temp = System.Drawing.Icon.FromHandle(info.hIcon);
icon = (System.Drawing.Icon)temp.Clone();
At this point we have the necessary icon so we just create and show
NotifyIcon and setup its click event handler. When the click event occurs, the corresponding Window is shown and
NotifyIcon is destroyed.
When an icon is clicked we need to display the corresponding Window. First check if there exists a Window with the specified handle and then call
ShowWindow() again. This time the second parameter depends on the
state of the
window. If the Window was
minimized) while hiding it, it will be shown
void tray_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
NotifyIcon tray = sender as NotifyIcon;
window wnd = tray.Tag as window;
MessageBox.Show("Window does not exist");
tray.Click -= new EventHandler(tray_Click);
This program allows to customize hotkeys for two commands: 'all to tray' and 'show all'. To add hotkey functionality to your application, first you need to register it.
RegisterHotKey() is a function that is responsible for doing it. It takes four parameters:
- Handle to the
window that will receive
WM_HOTKEY messages generated by the hot key
- ID of the hotkey
- Combination of modifier keys (Alt, Ctrl, Shift etc.)
- The key itself that should be pressed. The code below registers hotkey for 'All to tray' command
if (mod > 0 && key > 0)
winapi.RegisterHotKey(this.Handle, 1729, mod, 64 + key);
To handle the
WM_HOTKEY message generated by the hotkey in a .NET application you should override
WndProc function which processes Windows messages. Don't forget to call
WndProc method of the base class so that other messages get handled.
protected override void WndProc(ref Message m)
private void ProcessHotkey(IntPtr wparam)
if (wparam.ToInt32() == 1729)
if (wparam.ToInt32() == 1730)
When the application exits or hotkey changes we don't need the existing hotkey any more so we should unregister it. It is easier then registering the hotkey and is achieved by calling
UnregisterHotKey() function. Just pass the handle of the
window and ID of the hotkey:
if (mod > 0 && key > 0)
You can add the program to start-up from the options Window. To add program to start-up you need to navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run key, create a new string and set its value equal to the application's path. Removing the program from start-up is easier: you just remove the value. The code snippet below shows how to do it:
private void startup(bool add)
isinstartup = add;
RegistryKey key = Registry.CurrentUser.OpenSubKey(
key.SetValue("Tray minimizer", "\"" + Application.ExecutablePath + "\"");
If you try to launch the second instance of the application you will get a message box saying that it is already running. This is achieved using
Mutex allows to share resources between threads. When the first instance of the program is launched it creates a new
mutex. When a second instance is launched it checks the existence of the
mutex. If it exists then it exits. When the first instance quits it releases the existing
static void Main()
Mutex mt = null;
mt = Mutex.OpenExisting("Tray minimizer");
if (mt == null)
mt = new Mutex(true, "Tray minimizer");
MessageBox.Show("Application already running");
This application shows how powerful
winapi is and how it can be used from a .NET application to achieve effects that would be otherwise impossible.
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This chapter specifies the interface for using SYMPHONY's callable library. These function calls can be used to build custom applications that call SYMPHONY as a subroutine, as described in Section 3.3. All callable library function begin with the prefix sym_. To call these function from an application, include the header file symphony.h and then link with the SYMPHONY library as described here. In general, if an array is requested, such as the array of lower bounds on the variables, for instance, the user is responsible for allocating an array of appropriate size and passing it to SYMPHONY. SYMPHONY will then fill up the array. | <urn:uuid:dd837c61-3a08-4bb5-8eac-5ccdaeeb38fc> | 2013-05-18T17:36:54Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Posted 6 months ago
These were my mom's. I believe she purchased them in Maine in the early 1950's or late 1940's. The necklace has stones missing. I know there were Americian Indian tribes in the Maine area, but don't know if they made them. The bracelet is carved. I treasure them because they were always in mom's jewelry box. I don't remember her wearing them much.
Can anyone tell me the origin of my jewelry? Are they from Maine? They seem to be silver with no hallmarks. | <urn:uuid:778ba483-58a4-4d7f-93ad-12567a1cbb09> | 2013-05-18T17:50:32Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Born in Victor, New York, on January 7, 1959, Karl Kesel is a comics inker and writer. Kesel's earliest professional contribution to a comic came under contract of DC Comics in New Talent Showcase #4, which was released in April of 1984. The first volume Karl Kesel was first a regular contributor in was Tales of the Legion of Super-Heroes, he was the main inker on the series. In addition to working on DC Comics published comic books, Kesel also worked for other publishers such as Dark Horse, Marvel, and Gorilla comics.
Kesel's work for DC Comics included the aforementioned New Talent Showcase, as well as Tales of the Legion of Super-Heroes. Additionally, Kesel contributed his inking skills on 'Mazing Man and 'Mazing Man Special, History of the DC Universe, Legends of the DC Universe, Superman Vol. 2 (specifically the story arc "Reign of the Supermen"). Working in collaboration with his former wife Barbara Kesel, the two co-wrote the 1988 miniseries Hawk and Dove, with Rob Liefeld drawing the comic.
Kesel is partly responsible, along with artist Tom Grummett, for the creation of Kon-El, the new Superboy. This led to a new Superboy series by Grummett and Kesel to be released in 1994. Karl Kesel also added his talents to Superman: The Wedding Album as partial creator, wrote the limited series Batman and Superman: World's Finest, and lastly a Harley Quinn series in 2000 with Terry Dodson. | <urn:uuid:277c064c-98c8-46ca-829a-5eaa82f58443> | 2013-05-18T17:58:20Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Tennessee native Phillip Sawdey didn't exactly rob a Huntsville, AL Starbucks, but he he still walked away with something. Around 7:30 a.m. Sunday morning, Sawdey walked into the chain and ordered the barista to hand him the money from the register.
Unfortunately for Sawdey, the barista was unable to open the register, so she offered to make him a free cup of coffee. He took the coffee, and police soon spotted him in a parking lot not too far away where he was arrested.
The lessons to be learned here are that coffee is apparently an adequate substitute for money, and that crime still doesn't pay. | <urn:uuid:43709701-0efe-4bf7-a171-0d35ac6c6fbe> | 2013-05-18T18:01:36Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Source Code - Download Acelerator
read the license below before downloading the source code.
Code License for ConnectFusion (GPL / Commercial)
source code for ConnectFusion is under GPL (GNU
General Public License).
You are required to release your source code if you distribute
products that are derived from ConnectFusion's
To compile ConnectFusion,
you will need
VC++ .Net Version 2002
intend to use the source of ConnectFusion for commercial
purposes, or if you do not wish to release the source code of
your modifications, you may purchase a commercial license to
use the source without the above restriction.
enter your name and email below :
advantages of Open Source has been advocated widely in many
literatures. Having the code makes it easy to resolve many
problems, like you do not have to depend on only one vendor to
fix problems of the software. You can also enhance the
software yourself if you think the features are not exactly
what you need.
In general, the advantages of the
software as a result of its openness is that it becomes more
stable, adaptable, better in quality, more frequently
innovated, secure and free !
For more information on
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A mystery was finally solved after homeowner David Hudgins wondered why snow always melted in a perfect circle.
"I knew something was wrong," said Hudgins. "We noticed the odd melting pattern after a snowfall."
And it was a recurring phenomenon until David and his wife, Ann, attempted to expand the kitchen at the rear of their late 1700's Flounder home at 909 Cameron St., Old Town. That's when a 13-foot deep, 10-foot wide abandoned cistern, dating to the early 1800's was discovered.
"We estimate that the cistern goes back to about 1820 or '25 because city water became available about 1850," said Francine Bromberg, preservation archeologist, Alexandria Archeology, a division of the Office of Historic Alexandria.
"It's an exciting find. One of the coolest things about it was that there was a very clear hand print on the interior wall. It was probably left by an African American slave who was putting the finishing touches on the plaster inside," Bromberg speculated.
The cistern consists of courses of brick with a dividing wall in the middle and domed off at the top, according to Hudgins. "I told my architect that it might be a well, but, we never expected this," Hudgins said.
Residents of the property since 1996, Hudgins and his wife, Ann, only became aware of the true nature of the mystery spot when they began to construct an addition for their kitchen which would expand into the yard. "I'm sure the previous owners had no idea it was there," he exclaimed.
"Cisterns were designed to capture rain water on one side and provide clean water on the opposite, that's why the dividing wall, with finished plaster on the useable water side, " Bromberg explained. "Rain water would flow through three holes at the bottom of the catch side, filter through stone and charcoal, and fill up the useable water side. Clean water was then bailed or pumped out for use."
PLANS CALL FOR the cistern to be filled in with excavatable materials so that the structure will be preserved, according to Harry Braswell, owner of Harry Braswell, Inc., Alexandria, builder of the renovation project.
"We have to fill it in because the kitchen structure can not span it and would collapse if we tried to do that. The material we will use is engineered to support the structure over it but can be dug out just like dirt, if anyone would choose to do that in the future," Braswell explained.
"Originally, we thought that we might be able to incorporate it into the new design, but, it was prohibitive," Hudgins acknowledged. "To think that something this massive was actually dug by hand is amazing."
The validity of that statement was verified by the handprint on the dividing wall. A footnote to history, that has been and will continue to be, frozen in time. | <urn:uuid:ceb9a45f-15a0-4f76-9feb-616af5564334> | 2013-05-18T18:07:13Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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8 Player Assassin games on Lunar War
- Lunar War: Assassin
No Round Limit
- Everyone will be divided into 8 groups.
- Each group will play games until there are 2 winners.
- The 16 winners will advance in the winner's bracket.
- The 48 losers will move into the loser's bracket.
- The winners will be divided into 2 groups and play until 4 from each group move on into the winner's bracket. The remaining 8 will move to the loser's.
- The losers will be divided into new groups of 8 and play until there are 4 winners. That means that 24 people will move on and 24 will be eliminated.
- The winners will play until 4 people win. 4 will move into the Finals and 4 will move into the loser's group.
- The losers will have 32 players and will be divided into 4 groups to play until there are 3 winners per group. That means 12 will move on and 20 will be eliminated.
- The 4 players in the winner's bracket get to relax.
- The 16 players in the loser's bracket will be split into 2 groups and each group will send 2 people to the finals. This will eliminate 12 people.
- 8 people
- First to win twice wins the tournament. | <urn:uuid:75620352-fba4-41ef-b5e1-e996bce18530> | 2013-05-18T18:01:53Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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There's an old saying in baseball -- "never waste an at-bat."
Everything about the moment is important, from a batter's initial stance to his final swing. Yet, it all starts with the walk-up music, which, as far as we're concerned, is always of the utmost importance.
A batter's walk-up music is self-descriptive -- it's the snippet of a tune played as the batter walks from the on-deck circle to the actual batter's box. The term -- or a variation on it, like "walk-in" or "entrance" -- also is used for the music played when pitchers, usually closers, take to the mound. These songs are frequently chosen by a team's music director (or someone filling that role), often with input from individual players.
In honor of the World Series opening this week, here's a look at some of the walk-up music used by the two teams battling for the championship -- the San Francisco Giants and the Detroit Tigers. (Note, walk-up music is known to change -- so this might not reflect exactly what will be heard at the games.) We'll go by projected batting order:
San Francisco Giants:
1. Angel Pagan
Song: "Blue," Gemini
Electronic Dance Music (EDM) is all the rage these days. It's even made it to the realm of the walk-up. This is a hip choice, courtesy of the British DJ known as Gemini.
2. Marco Scutaro (No. 19, 2B)
Song: "Danza Kuduro," Don Omar
This tune, which is also favored by the Tigers' Jhonny Peralta, is a fine reggaeton anthem. But, given Scutaro's performance in the playoffs, maybe R.E.M.'s "Superman" would be a more appropriate choice.
3. Pablo Sandoval (No. 48, 3B)
Song: "The Motto," Drake
This 2011 cut served Drake quite well -- it sold more than 2 million copies in the U.S. alone -- and it certainly works for Pablo's walk-up music.
4. Buster Posey (No. 28, C)
Song: "Me Myself and I," De La Soul
Was Buster even born when this song came out? It's an oldie, a No. 1 R&B hit from the hip-hop band in 1989, but it's certainly a goody. We wish more batters would go old-school with their walk-ups.
5. Hunter Pence (No. 8, RF)
Song: "A Warrior's Call," Volbeat; "Breakn' a Sweat," Skrillex
This Hunter splits his time between heavy metal (Volbeat) and EDM (Skrillex) -- and both are appropriately energized walk-up tunes. Plus, we likewhat the titles say about Pence -- certainly a warrior who's not afraid to break a sweat.
6. Brandon Belt (No. 9, 1B)
Maybe he prefers to listen to the crowd?
7. Gregor Blanco (No. 7, RF)
Song: "Welcome to Jamrock" -- Damian Marley
One of the best reggae rockers to come along in many a moon, this cut from Bob Marley's son -- Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley -- is a rollicking choice for the walk-up.
8. Brandon Crawford (No. 35, SS)
Song: "Writer's Block," Royce da 5'9
On principle, we are against anything that uses the term "Writer's Block" -- which puts the Fear of Editor into every journalist. Plus, this song features Eminem, a proud Detroit guy. So, maybe, Crawford should get a new walk-up song for this series.
9. Pitcher's spot
Barry Zito (Game One starter) might turn to one of the best rappers on the planet, Nas, for "Doo Rags." We're just glad that he doesn't use one of his own tunes.
1. Austin Jackson (No. 14, CF)
Songs: "Ballin'," Young Jeezy; "Ambition," Wale
Young Jeezy's "Ballin'", featuring Lil Wayne, is a good selection for a leadoff man -- since it's his job to get the party started. And, clearly, it's also his "Ambition" to get on base.
2. Quintin Berry (No. 52, LF)
Song: "Hypnotize," the Notorious B.I.G.
This was one of Biggie's biggest hits -- and it fits as a walk-up song. Berry has many weapons in his arsenal (notably, his speed), but the Giants might be in trouble if hypnosis is one of them.
3. Miguel Cabrera (No. 24, 3B)
Song: "(Expletive) in Paris," Jay-Z and Kanye West
This was arguably the most memorable hit of last year -- a surefire crowd-pleaser from the two kings of hip-hop. It's the perfect choice for the best hitter in baseball -- who this year became the game's first triple-crown winner since 1967.
4. Prince Fielder (No. 28, 1B)
Songs: "Moments in Love," Art of Noise; "Down For My (Expletive)," C-Murder
Art of Noise's experimental electronic love ballad, which moves along at a strikingly glacial pace, is no doubt dramatic -- but it's a weird one for a walk-up. C-Murder's hip-hop blast is a much safer bet.
5. Delmon Young (No. 21, DH in the Tigers' park, LF at AT&T)
Song: "I'm Raw," Lil Wayne
As a designated hitter, Young probably has a lot of time to consider walk-up material. We applaud the choice of Weezy.
6. Jhonny Peralta (No. 27, SS)
Song: "Energia," Alexis Y Fido: "Danza Kuduro," Don Omar
The shortstop gets his game on by turning to a pair of Puerto Rican reggaeton acts.
7. Alex Avila (No. 13, C)
Song: "I Got Mine," the Black Keys
The modern blues-rock duo, which has been compared to the White Stripes, provides the right punch for a walk-up song.
8. Omar Infante (No. 4, 2B)
Song: "Prendelo," El Shick
It's an unusual dance-club ditty, kind of a nightclub shaker with a cutting-edge electro-pop vibe, but it does the trick.
9. Pitcher's spot
Yes, the Tigers will have to hit while they are in San Francisco -- which will be a new thing for these American League cats. Look for Justin Verlander (Game One starter) to go with Eminem's "Till I Collapse" -- and, for a Detroit dude, you can't go wrong with Slim Shady.
Follow Jim Harrington at http://twitter.com/jimthecritic, www.facebook.com/jim.bayareanews and http://blogs.mercurynews.com/aei/category/concerts. | <urn:uuid:bc85407a-28b1-46dc-b10f-51deeb3711f2> | 2013-05-18T17:39:23Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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OAKLAND -- The musical "CATS" doesn't just appear on the Woodminster stage in the Oakland hills, it pounces, says show director Joel Schlader.
"It's a spectacle of difficult dancing, complicated singing and incredible costumes," said Schlader. "It was such a long-running production on Broadway, and anyone could be awed by it -- especially by the dancing. It's like a symphony of performance."
The production will run from Sept. 6-16 as part of Producers Associates' Woodminster Summer Musicals. It's the final show of three being staged this summer in the Oakland hills, and the first time that "CATS" is being done at the Woodminster Amphitheater.
"We've never done it before, because it's such a hard show to dance," explained Schlader, an Alameda resident. "You have to have lots of time to choreograph it, which is why we started our work on it two weeks early. It's a very demanding show to put on."
Andrew Lloyd Webber's "CATS" is loosely based on a collection of poems written by T.S. Eliot. It ran for 21 years in London and 18 on Broadway.
Jody Jaron has done the choreography for the Woodminster production, with music direction by Michael Horsley. Original cat costumes for the musical were designed and built by Christine Weiland, a longtime resident of Montclair.
"This project is right up my alley, since I love doing something off beat," said Weiland, who is taking classes at Apparel Arts in San Francisco. "I had to make
Like Schlader, Weiland says the results of working on "CATS" seem to speak for themselves. "It's great to watch people on stage and others get so excited as the show comes together," she explained. "Everyone involved in the design of the show has their own creative, specific perspective, and this makes it so fresh and special."
She began working on the costumes about six months ago and has benefited from the help of family and friends. "The cats' heads take six hours to make," said Schlader, "and they are made by hand with lots of yarn put into them. The outfits are spray-painted leotards, with a different style for each cast member."
In addition to the elaborate costumes, the performers in "CATS" have to rely on demanding movements to make their characters come to life on stage. "It's pure acting," said Schlader. "They have to do all of the performing with their body and tell the story with catlike movements."
From the first second they appear on stage, the performers have to move entirely like felines. "They have to take on all the mannerisms of a cat and perform as these creatures at all times," the director explained. "It's very difficult."
This makes the show tough for performers but mesmerizing for the audience, he says, young and old alike. "I'm in awe of the dancers on stage and what they're putting into this show. They're like Olympic athletes."
Tickets can be bought at www.woodminster.com or by calling 510-418-8523. There are many free tickets for kids, $12 tickets for everyone on Sept. 6 and other discounts available, organizers say. | <urn:uuid:77d0fc40-f032-41c6-a3e8-3da016744470> | 2013-05-18T17:30:14Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Led by the running of Brandon Stephens and the passing of quarterback Nick Sternad, the visiting Cougars got their first win, leading from start to finish.
Stephens led Albany (1-3, 1-8 TCAL-Stone) with 71 yards on 13 carries. He rushed for 3 yards in the first quarter for Albany's first score. The two-point conversion gave the Cougars an 8-0 lead, which turned to 8-7 when Jordon Cowart scored for De Anza in the second quarter.
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Sternad completed 4-of-6 passes for 64 yards in the first half, including a 21-yard touchdown toss to Jarin Panigbatan.
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Conspiracy in act of 'free choice'
Dateline: exposes conspiracy in act of 'free choice'
26 August 1999
The Dateline program shown on SBS television (25/8/99), made serious allegations against the governments of Australia, The Netherlands, the United States and United Nations for their part in denying the legitimate right of choice to the peoples in West Papua during the confrontation between Indonesia and the Dutch in the 1960s. The program showed how these governments and the UN manipulated public opinion and used all possible measures to destroy the future of the people of West Papua. The program also showed how The Hague and Canberra, who were seen to be leaders in supporting the decolonisation process elsewhere in the world, had in this case worked against the people of West Papua by supporting the integration of West Papua into Indonesia
"I deeply regret that these governments and the UN continue to deny our right to self-determination. They have intentionally violated the rights of our people for the sake of protecting their own strategic, political and economic interests. This is a serious crime against humanity" said Otto Ondawame, International Spokesperson of the OPM in Canberra.
"My people have been saying that these governments have been responsible for selling the future of our people and country to Indonesia. These international governments still refuse to accept the fact that the so called 'act of free choice' was in fact an act of no choice. As a result of this sham, considerable numbers of civilians were killed, executed, raped and disappeared. Our natural resources have been exploited and our people have become a target of genocide. Finally the release of these documents also revealed that although they were aware of the injustices that were going on, the various governments involved, as well as the UN, failed in their duty to implement the universal recognised right of a vote for each man and women. The Act of Free Choice in 1969 in no way conformed to the universal declaration and, further, in the time leading up to the act, the population was intimiated, threatened and jailed. Similar tactics are being used in East Timor today.
"We do not want a new Kosovo happening on our doorstep. These governments and the UN must therefore, take the moral responsibility to end the injustices in West Papua. I urge the international community, particularly those governments involved, to investigate this issue immediately, stop all military aid and cooperation to Indonesia, and to reopen the case under UN auspices in a fair and democratic manner", said Ondawame.
In the context of the Asia and Pacific politics, the government of Australia as a close neighbour should play its important role to end political conflicts in West Papua and East Timor. Canberra must be well aware that the issues of West Papua and East Timor will not go away for many decades to come. This may have serious sides effects on the regional policies in the future.
"I urge Canberra to play its brotherhood role to end these conflicts putting more diplomatic pressures on Jakarta so that the following calls could take place without delay: demilitarisation, stopping human rights abuses and transmigration, serious engagement in national dialogue as submitted by FORERI, and most importantly, taking a leading role to reopen a healthy debate on the issue of West Papua and bring the issue to the South Pacific Forum for the next meeting." said Ondawame. | <urn:uuid:d75a1fc5-da5a-4369-ba22-2aa14d8b009e> | 2013-05-18T17:37:59Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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A pair of young boys in sailor suits who wear metal helmets. Like Hoshi, they are jealous of Kou's relationship with Nino. They self-proclaim that they have psychic powers and that their helmets keeps their powers under-control and so that they won't float away or be detected by the military. Their jobs are being in charge of the hot oil barrel baths.
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In 2005, a woman showed up at Emory University's sleep center in Atlanta complaining of being sleepy just about every moment of every day. She slept for 14, then 16, then 18 hours a night, but still woke up feeling drowsy. Doctors had prescribed her stimulants, which worked for a bit. But when they wore off, she would go on a sleeping binge, becoming unarousable for days at a time.
Her diagnosis? Hypersomnia, a rare and debilitating condition in which people sleep excessively, are extremely drowsy while awake, and respond poorly to existing anti-sleep treatments. The condition can make people unable to work or maintain relationships.
When the woman showed up at the sleep center, researchers did a range of tests and finally took samples of her cerebrospinal fluid. They discovered it had some unusual properties. Namely, something in it caused GABA, the main neurotransmitter molecule responsible for reducing the activity of brain cells, to have an outsized effect. In essence, a mystery molecule appeared to be working with GABA to tamp down brain activity, acting as a sort of constant sleeping pill.
There's another class of molecules that has a similar effect on GABA’s action in the brain. They are called benzodiazepines, which include Valium and Ambien.
The research team wondered whether something similar was at work in this patient, so they checked to see whether a drug used to counteract benzodiazepines, called flumazenil, would neutralize the effect of whatever was floating around in her cerebrospinal fluid. And it worked -- at least in a dish: Applying flumazenil to the woman's cerebrospinal fluid eliminated that strange effect of GABA.
But would it work in people? That's what the team, led by sleep expert Dr. David Rye, has been investigating since their discovery. And according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Science Translational Medicine, the answer is yes.
For the study, Rye and his team recruited seven people with various forms of hypersomnia and analyzed their cerebrospinal fluid. All had the same GABA-enhancing effect as the initial patient. And when the researchers treated the study subjects with flumazenil, they all became more alert.
According to an article on the project’s early days in Emory’s alumni magazine, that first Atlanta patient turned to her doctors after receiving the drug and exclaimed, after months of listlessness and days of nothing but sleeping, “I feel alive!” The moment brought her physicians to tears.
The finding is particularly noteworthy because flumazenil is not a stimulant and does not make normal people more alert.
Though flumazenil does appear to counteract the activity of the mysterious sleep-promoting molecule in the brains of these patients, laboratory analyses presented in the report suggest the molecule is not a benzodiazepine, and the researchers are still unsure just what it is.
That leaves the possibility that a better drug might come along for those with hypersomnia once researchers can identify what exactly causes the disorder. But for now, flumazenil appears to work well enough to get many with hypersomnia back to their lives.
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A solid sphere of radius 40.0 cm has a total positive charge of 26.0 C uniformly distributed throughout its volume. Calculate the magnitude of the electric field (a) 0 cm, (b) 10.0 cm, (c) 40.0 cm, and (d) 60.0 cm from the center of the sphere
An aerosol spray can with a volume of 441 mL contains 3.09 g of propane gas as a propellant. What volume would propane occupy at STP?
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Inmate Wins a Chance to Restore Parental Rights
(CN) - An inmate improperly lost parental rights after his court-appointed attorney withdrew and he was not given replacement counsel, the Delaware Supreme Court ruled.
Christopher Moore and Charlene Hall were unmarried and living separately when their child was born in August 2005. The pair moved in together the next month, but in July 2006, Hall alleged domestic abuse by Moore and obtained a protection-from-abuse order.
Moore was incarcerated five months later and has not seen his daughter, now age 7, since she was 9 months old. He is scheduled to be released in January 2019.
Hall petitioned to terminate Moore's parental rights in March 2011, and a Delaware court appointed an attorney to manage the indigent Moore's case.
One month before the termination hearing, however, Moore's attorney requested to withdraw, citing a "breakdown in the lawyer/client relationship."
Moore said that he was not going to hire new counsel, and the court directed his former attorney to act as "standby counsel" by appearing at the hearing and answering any questions that Moore had.
Moore's hearing did not go well.
"The father's only participation in the hearing was to cross examine one witness," the Delaware Supreme Court explained. "That cross-examination consisted of two questions. The father did not give an opening statement, present testimony on his behalf, call witnesses, present any physical evidence, object to the admission of any evidence, or give a closing argument."
At the conclusion of the hearing, the family court terminated Moore's parental rights on the grounds of unintentional abandonment.
Last week, the Delaware Supreme Court said this failure to appoint replacement counsel violated Moore's due-process rights.
"After a case-by-case determination is made that an indigent parent has a due process right to the appointment of counsel, we hold that that parent is entitled to the same procedural safeguards that are afforded by the Sixth Amendment to defendants in a criminal proceeding," Justice Randy Holland wrote for the en banc court.
"Although the Sixth Amendment right to counsel and the TPR due process right to counsel have different constitutional underpinnings, they are both entitled to the same protections," he added, abbreviating termination of parental rights.
Two lines of inquiry are necessary when an indigent parent requests the appointment of new counsel or seeks to represent himself, the court determined.
"First, the Family Court must decide if the parent's reasons for requesting substitute counsel constitute good cause to justify the appointment of new counsel," Holland wrote.
Second, if the parent requests no lawyer, the Family Court "must ensure that any decision by the parent to proceed pro se is made knowingly and intelligently."
In this case, Moore was not informed of what self-representation would entail. The standby role of his former counsel was insufficient to cure the deficiency.
Holland remanded the case, directing the Family Court to appoint replacement counsel for Moore and hold a new termination hearing. | <urn:uuid:930d7709-4b14-42cc-b5d6-53634eba5a1a> | 2013-05-18T17:57:13Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Updated: September 2, 2005
Julio Hernando Palacios Sánchez, Radio Lemas
Two armed motorcyclists shot Palacios, 55, a veteran radio news host, as he drove to work around 5:30 a.m. in the city of Cúcuta, in the unstable northeastern region near the Venezuelan border.
Palacios, who hosted the morning program "Radio Periódico El Viento" on Radio Lemas, was shot three times in the chest, said the local police chief, Col. José Humberto Henao.
Despite his wounds, Palacios drove back home and his family took him to a local hospital. He died two hours after arriving at San José Hospital in Cúcuta, Henao told CPJ. He did not immediately speculate about a motive, saying local police offered a reward for information leading to the capture of the gunmen.
Palacios was a controversial and outspoken journalist who devoted a segment of his program to denouncing local corruption, sources told CPJ. Local journalists said that Palacios had made enemies because of his tough talk against corruption; they said they believed the murder was connected to his work.
Palacios received anonymous threats in October 2004, sources told CPJ. The Cúcuta-based daily La Opinión said local police gave Palacios a security manual and suggested he change his daily routine.
He survived an attack nine years ago when assailants hurled a grenade into his office that failed to explode, The Associated Press reported. Palacios was a political conservative known for supporting President Álvaro Uribe.
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This Thanksgiving card captures a nostalgic wintertime scene in a small rural town. Opens to read "Happy Thanksgiving." By artist Will Moses, great-grandson of Grandma Moses. Matching envelope.
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Southwest Lower Michigan Weather History
The Weather History for January 18th
- Extreme cold weather prevails across the eastern United States. In Lower Michigan, a temperature of 28 degrees below zero was reported in Grand Rapids.
- Arctic air and deep snow results in record cold across interior Lower Michigan. The temperature plunges to 25 below zero at Lansing and 20 below at Jackson. Along Lake Michigan, clouds and an onshore flow keep lows from falling below zero. The low of 10 above at Muskegon is 35 degrees warmer than the low at Lansing.
- A blizzard moving through the Dakotas pulls warm air up over Michigan. Record highs in the upper 50s and lower 60s are followed by a line of heavy rain and severe thunderstorms. At least one weak tornado is spawned by the squall line, which is quickly followed by a blast of arctic air and rain changing to snow. Rapids snowmelt and heavy rains, followed by a quick freeze, leads to many areas of ice jam flooding.
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|Pietersen v South Africa, a needle clash|
|BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (AFP), 2013/04/19 08:16:13 ,||
That the explosive middle-order batsman reserves his best against the country of his birth can be gauged from the fact he averages 151.33 against South Africa, and 56.55 overall.
South Africa suffered from Pietersen's punishing blade in a home series in 2005 when the England batsman overcame a hostile crowd to hammer 454 runs in seven matches with three centuries.
He is currently in tremendous nick, having slammed England's only century in the ongoing tournament against defending champions Australia in a Super Eights game.
England hope he continues in the same vein in a match they need to win to sustain their hopes of qualifying for the semi-finals.
If South Africa win, they will be in the last four.
But lurking beneath the surface is a bitter relationship between Pietersen, who was condemned as an opportunist when he decided to qualify for England after protesting against the quota system in South Africa, and Proteas skipper Graeme Smith.
The two have been engaged in a torrid war of words for two years. "I think everyone knows we don't get on for whatever reasons, but that's gone. It's not about myself, Smith, Andre Nel or Michael Vaughan on Tuesday, it's about producing a big team performance," said Pietersen.
"I wouldn't say that it is the game that matters to me more than the others because the match against Australia is big as well, but it's an important game for me and I look forward to it.
"It's going to be a big game with a lot of needle. I don't know why there is needle between the two sides other than there are some really world-class players on both the sides."
Smith was furious when Pietersen switched allegiances.
"I'm patriotic about my country, and that's why I don't like Kevin Pietersen - the only reason that Kevin and I have never had a relationship is because he slated South Africa," Smith has said in the past.
Pietersen described Smith as a "muppet" and added: "I don't talk to Smith. It's a waste of breath because I don't have any respect for him."
The controversial Pietersen on Monday tried to diffuse a potential explosive situation.
"I saw Smith in India and I saw him in the world series and we said hello," said the 26-year-old.
An interesting tussle is on the cards when in-form Pietersen faces a quality South African pace attack, comprising Shaun Pollock and Makhaya Ntini, on a pitch having pace and bounce. Pietersen has the technique and temperament to play a long innings on any surface, having the shots to demoralise any attack when in flow. He has already played a big role in England's Ashes series win over Australia at home in 2005.
South Africa will like to see the back of Pietersen as early as possible because they will be under pressure if he stays longer at the crease. They are aware he can alter the course of the match in a few overs with his big-hitting.
Pietersen is England's leading scorer in this tournament with 341 runs in seven matches. He has so far scored 1,923 runs in 49 one-day internationals with four centuries, including three against South Africa.
James Anderson has become only the fourth England player to take 300 Test wickets.
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Crime Magazine is about true crime: organized crime, celebrity crime, serial killers, corruption, sex crimes, capital punishment, prisons, assassinations, justice issues, crime books, crime films and crime studies.
17 year-old William Heirens the alleged Lipstick Killer
On January 7, 1946, six-year-old Suzanne Degnan is kidnapped from her home in Chicago. Illinois. Police found a ladder outside the girl’s window, and also discovered a ransom note which had been overlooked by the family. The note asked for a $20,000 in ransom and a man (presumably the kidnapper) repeatedly called the Degnan residence demanding the ransom, but hung up before any meaningful conversation could take place.
Someone later telephoned police anonymously, suggesting that police look in the sewers near the Degnan home. A search of the neighborhood turned up the girl's body. She had been strangled to death the night of the kidnapping, then dismembered with a hunting knife. Her remains were left in five different sewers and catch basins. Police questioned hundreds of people regarding the Degnan murder, and gave polygraph tests to 170 suspects but none ever proved to be the killer.
A break in the case came on June 26, 1946, when 17 year old William Heirens was arrested after a failed apartment burglary. When police searched his dorm room they found suitcases full of stolen goods, and a letter to Heirens signed "George M." Authorities soon learned that some of the stolen items had come from the murder victim’s homes. However, they couldn't track down Heirens' apparent partner, George. Heirens was given sodium pentothal (truth serum drug) and interrogated. During questioning the subsequent questioning Heirens claimed that George Murman had killed Suzanne Degnan. However, it quickly became evident that George wasn't a real person at all, but an alter ego of Heirens himself. Slowly, investigators pieced together the pathology that drove Heirens. Apparently, he could only find sexual gratification through burglaries. He later found that killing during these burglaries added to the thrill. While doubtful that he was a true schizophrenic, prosecutors decided not to risk losing to an insanity defense and agreed not to seek the death penalty against Heirens.
Dubbed the Lipstick Killer by the media, Heirens pleaded guilty to three murders, Josephine Ross, Francis Brown and Susan Degnan and was sentenced to life in prison without parole. But many still doubted whether Heirens was the real killer. Though he remained imprisoned until his death, Heirens recanted the confessions, and asserted his innocence, claiming to be a victim of coercive interrogation and police brutality. He spent the later years of his sentence at the Dixon Correctional Center in Dixon, Illinois and died on March 5, 2012. At the time of his death Heirens was reputedly the world's longest serving prisoner, having spent 65 years in prison.
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This summer I will be returning to Daraja Academy for the second year in a row, but before I go I want to begin helping the Daraja community. Myself and a few of my peers will be running in the Bay to Breakers Race in San Francisco. While we are running in America the eager girls of Daraja will be running the same distance in Kenya. I cannot explain how passionate, happy, and confident the girls of Daraja are. The girl who I am running the race for Alice T. is from Nanyuki, Kenya where she has 6 siblings and throughout her life her parents have alawys struggled to feed them. Despipte having to gon to primary school on an empty stomach most of the time she says that she never let that stop her from learning. If Alice T. was not able to get a scholarship to Daraja she would be working as a house girl to help her parents take care of her younger siblings. At Daraja Academy Alice enjoys studying, playing volleyball, and has dreams of being an accountant. Please help me help her and the other girls of Daraja to raise money and awareness about the girls of Daraja. | <urn:uuid:b8f8a969-fe77-4327-98a9-631c1f8d34e6> | 2013-05-18T17:19:41Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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