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Bradley, Interesting post! Thanks very much for the link to the corpus. Wow, I will certainly be exploring that in the next few days!
I gave wordnik a try on the word "pip". I had recently found "pip" as a clue for the entry "LULU", and wanted to see what wordnik said. BTW my Merriam-Webster has one of the definitions for "pip" pointing to "pippin" which was given as "standout", hence the connection to "lulu".
Here's the link: http://www.wordnik.com/words/pip
Wordnik provides you with an aggregation of definitions from various sources. The usage examples on the right side - which are the added value being promoted - were mixed. One of the examples was an incomplete sentence which made no sense (“In all pairs involving the Japanese Yen (JPY), a pip is the”). The other examples were not useful for my particular sense of the word.
I also looked into the entry for pippin:http://www.wordnik.com/words/pippin
Again I found the examples to be mixed in usefulness, the most useful quote being '... his wife ... was a "pippin" for looks...'.
OK then I looked up slub, a word I hadn't known until recently when my sister used it in our "happy new year" puzzle (shameless plug http://worldofcrosswords.com/?p=15
). Here's the wordnik link - http://www.wordnik.com/words/slub
Once again I found mixed results on the entries: the first couple actually appear to be in Polish
, while several other examples just didn't make sense to me in the context of this word (also they picked up a sentence with "slub-bering").
So it's an interesting idea, may be especially useful in certain cases, but definitely has limitations currently. | <urn:uuid:114b212a-9cae-4f1e-9ce0-cf2be9fbd113> | 2013-05-18T17:18:36Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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In an ironic counterpoint to yesterday's distressing news from rival Festival/First European, the Genoa-based Costa Cruises -- which launched two brand new ships just last year -- has placed an order for a brand new vessel. The 112,000-ton, 3,800-passenger ship is expected to launch in summer 2006. At that time, it will assume the mantel (from CostaFortuna) of not just the cruise line's biggest-ever but also the largest in the history of Italian seafaring.
The new ship will be built at Fincantieri's Sestri Ponente shipyard. The company plans to deploy it in the Mediterranean on a year-round basis (similar to the role CostaFortuna is playing now). Highlights will include a wider range of formal and casual dining venues, one of the largest health and wellness centers at sea, and four swimming pools (two will feature retractable domes). The ship will also feature plenty of cabins with balconies; approximately 62 percent of outside staterooms will feature that all-important amenity. | <urn:uuid:f738904e-ca4e-4267-b239-5af527c1bf09> | 2013-05-18T17:18:22Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Comparison of Shared Virtual Memory across Uniprocessor and SMP Nodes
|Authors:||Bilas, Angelos, Iftode, Liviu, Singh, Jaswinder Pal|
As the workstation market moves form single processor to small-scale shared memory multiprocessors, it is very attractive to construct larger-scale multiprocessors by connecting symmetric multiprocessors (SMPs) with efficient commodity network interfaces such as Myrinet Using a shared virtual memory (SVM) layer for this purpose preserves the shared memory programming abstraction across nodes. We explore the feasibility and performance implications of one such approach by comparing the performance of two SVM protocols on systems with uniprocessor and SMP nodes. AURC (Automatic Update Release Consistency) is a protocol developed for the SHRIMP multicomputer that takes advantage of the available Automatic Update hardware support. HLRC (Home-Based Lazy Release Consistency) is an all-software version of AURC. These protocols were demonstrated to achieve good performance and to outperform earlier all-software systems on configurations with uniprocessor nodes. In this paper we use an architectural simulator and ten applications to investigate the potential of using SMP nodes. Through detailed simulations we find that using SMPs improves performance for most of the applications, because of more sharing, effective prefetching and lower synchronization costs. The protocols, however, exhibit different behavior for some applications. HLRC is in general more robust and predictable, whereas AURC exhibits more problems with contention due to the increased traffic. | <urn:uuid:0e916a30-91b5-486c-a513-7ac9857f7924> | 2013-05-18T17:37:44Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Head out to the famous Fléda club for an indie, techno, hip hop or classical music concert in Brno. Musical productions are complemented by film projections, plays and many other activities. The club got its name from the popular Brüner Fledermause cabaret, which was established here in 1911, i.e. at a time when Brno was more of a German than a Czech city. Somewhat later, jazz was first played in Brno here. Since 2000, Fléda has been a top name in the club scene all over the country. Thanks to the club’s high quality productions, you can come here practically whenever you want and will not leave disappointed. | <urn:uuid:2df53950-f054-4b2c-a754-191ec6c7997d> | 2013-05-18T17:38:34Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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What can the city officials of Lafayette be thinking when they not only allow a meth contaminated house to be sold and bought by unsuspecting citizens, but have allowed a meth-contaminated house to exist within their local neighborhood without any warning what-so-ever.
While those same officials 'nit-pick' about a tea shop allowing the legal smoking of cannabis, they care nothing for the health and welfare of the children exposed to the seriously contaminated house on their own street. Furthermore, what kind of irresponsible home appraisers and home loan 'geniuses' approved the closing of a home loan on a meth-contaminated property? Where was the buyer protection for those unsuspecting buyers who put everything they had in a piece of uninhabitable property, the history of which should have been public record.
Lafayette needs to get their priorities straight. They worry about a medical marijuana dispensary being any place near a school and they don't think they have any responsibility to warn the residents of a Lafayette neighborhood that they are living near a toxic dump.
Lafayette needs to assume their responsibility in creating this outrageous situation, which resulted in the couple, who in good faith, bought a house that should have been condemned the moment it was found to be a methamphetamine processing house. | <urn:uuid:3cfb15b3-ad59-43fd-9037-55113922f600> | 2013-05-18T17:51:18Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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First, a little background. OK, a lot of background.
The actor has been made fun of repeatedly on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" over the years, a gag that started in the show's early days when guests weren't that great and Kimmel was trying to liven up the show by pretending they didn't have enough time for the movie star. (Kimmel later admitted that he did the gag simply to amuse a producer, because the show was so bad they would never have bumped any A-lister.)
Damon did eventually make an appearance on the show, albeit a short one, during a 2006 prime-time special. Kimmel spent so much time recapping all the times Damon had been bumped from the lineup that by the time the actor made it to his chair, they had run out of time. Damon went faux-ballistic.
The taunt then instigated Kimmel's then-girlfriend, comedian Sarah Silverman, to surprise the talk-show host with a 2008 birthday video called "F*@#ing Matt Damon," which went viral.
Kimmel retaliated shortly after with another jab at Damon, featuring Damon's buddy Ben Affleck in a video called "F*@#ing Ben Affleck," chock-full of celebrity cameos, including Brad Pitt, Robin Williams, Cameron Diaz and more.
But the feud (and Kimmel's lack of handsomeness) got him evicted from his Handsome Men's Club, which aired as a post-Oscars special in 2010. Matthew McConaughey declared that Kimmel wasn't handsome, and despite a rebuttal helped by Lenny Kravitz, Jimmy was out the door. And there was his good ol' frenemy, Matt Damon, to slam it behind him. Fortunately for Kimmel, it was only a nightmare, and Affleck returned to calm his nerves.
Kimmel then spoofed Damon's "The Bourne Ultimatum" by bumping the actor from his own film and having it star the host's late-night sidekick Guillermo instead.
Next, Kimmel cast several A-listers in his 2012 post-Oscars special segment "Movie: The Movie." Damon was included -- as a grape. And Kimmel proceeded to cut him out of the fake film.
And the battle rages on.
Now that Kimmel has made his debut in the 11:35 p.m. time slot and is doing battle with late-night heavyweights Jay Leno and David Letterman, it seems that Kimmel's team is angling for a ratings boost, hence the kidnapping.
On Thursday morning, ABC's "Good Morning America" teased to the showdown, which takes place Thursday night. When Damon was booked on the show earlier this month, Kimmel issued this statement: "God help Damon if he dare show his stupid face."
Damon's response: "Words hurt, Jimmy. But not as much as a tire iron. I'm coming for you."
Which brings us to this video, showing Kimmel tied up in a chair and gagged with a tie, with an all-too-smug Damon announcing his takeover.
The show airs tonight at 11:35 p.m. Will you tune in? | <urn:uuid:ee4f78aa-8919-4750-bf02-ed8079dc78df> | 2013-05-18T17:27:53Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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"At the #Oscars w/ Josh Fox of @gaslandmovie and director of Wasteland http://ow.ly/i/8Dl6," he messaged, referring to two of his fellow nominees in the category. The tweet was accompanied by a photo of Hetherington, beaming, in a tuxedo.
Those starkly dissimilar dispatches reflected two disparate but complementary sides of Hetherington, 41, who was killed Wednesday in an explosion believed to have been caused by a mortar round in Misurata. The rebel-held city in western Libya has been under siege for several weeks by forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi.
The same mortar blast fatally wounded Chris Hondros of Getty Images, a veteran combat photographer whose work appeared on the front page of Wednesday's edition of the Los Angeles Times, and appears in today's edition as well.
Hondros, 41, suffered a severe head injury in the blast and was taken to a hospital, where he died several hours later.
Hondros had received multiple awards, including war photography's highest honor, the 2005 Robert Capa gold medal. He was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for his work in Liberia.
Two other photojournalists were injured in the blast: Michael Brown of the Corbis Agency and Guy Martin of Panos Pictures.
Doctors at Misurata's Hikma Hospital said that seven rebel fighters and a Ukrainian doctor also were killed Wednesday in shellings, and 120 people were wounded.
Hondros had been taking photographs in Misurata on Wednesday morning under the protection of a rebel militia commanded by a fighter named Salahidin. His photos captured the militia in action as it tried to flush snipers loyal to Kadafi from their hiding spots.
After transmitting the images to his employers at Getty Images, he returned to the front lines with Salahidin and his men in the afternoon.
Hetherington and Hondros were part of a group of six photographers who made their way up a dangerous strip of Tripoli Street, a front line where Kadafi snipers hide in buildings in the rebel-held city.
At some point, at least some of the photographers broke away from Salahidin to get to a safer position, said Guillermo Cervera, a freelance photographer who was among the group. They were hit by shrapnel from a mortar round.
"We were trying to get to a safe place. It was too quiet. It felt dangerous," said Cervera, who was a few yards away at the time of the blast. "I heard the whoosh of an explosion, and everybody was on the ground."
Rebels took the photographers to Hikma Hospital.
Hetherington was pallid and bleeding from a bad leg wound, and he had also been hit in the head, Cervera said.
Through his photos, which sometimes straddled the line between journalism and fine art photography, Hetherington sought to bridge the perceptual gap between chaotic events in developing countries and the more privileged worlds of his Western readers. His projects had included multi-screen installations and hand-held device downloads.
Born in Liverpool, England, he studied literature at Oxford University and later returned to college to study photography, according to a biography on his website.
A contributing photographer to Vanity Fair, he lived for eight years in West Africa before making his first trips to Afghanistan a few years ago. | <urn:uuid:6ecb291d-8ec2-47e9-8a4b-0c3fc561bd30> | 2013-05-18T18:08:51Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Glynn Boyd is an award-winning reporter who began working as a journalist in 1985.
Glynn worked in Houston at KPRC-TV for three years before returning home to New Orleans. Prior to Houston, Glynn worked in Baton Rouge, Montgomery, Alabama, Lafayette, Louisiana, and Biloxi, Mississippi (where he landed his first reporting job).
Glynn won an Emmy for spot news for his coverage at WGNO of the discovery of a child snatched from her mother. Some big stories Glynn has covered: former Governor Edwin Edwards' racketeering trial, Edwards' fourth and final run for Governor against David Duke, and Hurricanes Georges, Juan, Elena and Frederick, just to name a few.
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THE official report into the botched Newsnight programme found there was confusion about who had the ultimate responsibility for "final editorial sign-off" on the story which falsely linked Lord McAlpine to a paedophile ring.
SENIOR employees at the BBC are facing the prospect of disciplinary action after the corporation admitted the Newsnight programme which falsely accused a Tory of being part of a paedophile ring, failed to complete "basic journalistic checks".
It comes as the Prime Minister and Culture Secretary added their voices to growing criticism over the £450,000 pay-off given to former director-general George Entwistle, calling it "hard to justify" in the wake of the botched investigation by the BBC's current affairs show.
Mr Entwistle, who resigned on Saturday, has been awarded a full year's pay after bowing out 54 days into his reign, despite normally being entitled to only half that figure.
BBC Trust chairman Lord Patten yesterday defended the sum, saying it was "justified and necessary" to allow a clean break and avoid lengthy delays.
The settlement was discussed in Parliament on a further day of drama which saw two senior figures - BBC director of news Helen Boaden and her deputy Stephen Mitchell - step aside from their posts temporarily.
Last night, the official report into the botched Newsnight programme by the BBC's Scotland director Ken MacQuarrie found there was confusion about who had the ultimate responsibility for "final editorial sign-off" on the story which falsely linked Lord McAlpine to a paedophile ring.
In the report, he said the programme's editorial management structure had been "seriously weakened" as a result of the editor having to step aside over the Jimmy Savile scandal, and the departure of the deputy editor. Mr MacQuarrie added that there were shortcomings in the quality of the journalism.
He said: "During the editorial decision-making process, some of the basic journalistic checks were not completed.
"Specifically, identification was not confirmed by photograph with the first victim. The second victim could not be traced in order to provide up-to-date corroboration."
Although legal advice was sought over the report, no right of reply was offered to the unnamed individual at the centre of the allegation.
The programme featured an interview with Steve Messham, an abuse victim who said a senior political figure of the time abused him. He later said he wrongly identified his abuser and apologised.
The BBC said Peter Johnston, director of BBC Northern Ireland, had been involved in the decisions about the Newsnight report.
London mayor Boris Johnson said there should be a "wholesale massacre of everybody involved professionally speaking" but backed Lord Patten to keep his role.
He told ITV1's The Agenda with Tom Bradby there had been "an absolutely catastrophic breakdown of journalistic standards" surrounding Newsnight that meant other heads should roll.
"First of all, they ignored the Savile scoop which they were sitting on, and it seems like they had quite a lot of evidence and then they had this crazy switching the steering wheel in the other direction and going for some 'top Tory paedo' without any real evidence.
"It was absolutely disastrous."
The BBC Trust said Mr MacQuarrie's findings of "serious failures" were "very concerning".
A spokeswoman said: "It is clear from the MacQuarrie report on the November 2 Newsnight that there were serious failures in the normal checks and balances that the trust expects from BBC journalism, and these were compounded by the confusion created by the dual reporting structure in news established during the Pollard inquiry. This is very concerning."
Acting director-general Tim Davie has set about to trying to restore confidence in the broadcaster, claiming his role was "to get a grip of the situation".
Mr Davie addressed staff by email yesterday telling them he was "determined to give the BBC the clarity and leadership it deserves", and said management would pull together as "one team".
He also pledged to personally apologise to Lord McAlpine following the resignation of Mr Entwistle, who has been given 12 months' pay - the amount he could have expected if he was sacked - rather than the six-month figure he was entitled to under his contract. The extra money is equivalent to the income from 1,546 licence fees.
In the House of Commons yesterday, Culture Secretary Maria Miller described it as a "reward for failure" but said ultimately it was a matter for the BBC Trust to decide the figure.
The payment was described as "outrageous" by some MPs, and a spokesman for David Cameron said it was "hard to justify". | <urn:uuid:99f60caa-5448-427f-be45-cf53d0d9566b> | 2013-05-18T17:22:16Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Jim Rome says he thought he was asking a "softball question" about the NBA draft lottery that led Commissioner David Stern to ask the radio host if he had stopped beating his wife.
Rome asked Stern whether the lottery was fixed. The New Orleans Hornets, recently sold by the league to Saints owner Tom Benson, won the No. 1 pick.
Stern responded that it wasn't, and after some debate over the legitimacy of the question, Stern said: "Have you stopped beating your wife yet?"
Rome said later Wednesday on his TV show on CBS Sports Network that he didn't take great offense, calling Stern's phrase a "rhetorical device" that some fans may not understand but he did. He defended his question, saying he doesn't believe the lottery is fixed but that it was fair to ask. | <urn:uuid:136acd99-7673-4e15-8669-450945355581> | 2013-05-18T17:29:00Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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49ers wide receiver Michael Crabtree (rear) is unable to catch the ball on fourth down with Ravens safety Ed Reed covering in the fourth quarter of Super Bowl XLVII. There's much debate about whether a penalty should've been called on this play. / Robert Deutsch, USA TODAY Sports
NEW ORLEANS -- Regardless of the pain in Jim Harbaugh's gut, the San Francisco 49ers were not robbed. The Lombardi Trophy earned by the Baltimore Ravens is not tainted.
No call on fourth-and-goal?
The officials got it right by not throwing a flag for the contact involving Michael Crabtree and Jimmy Smith - which went both ways - before 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick's pass sailed out of reach.
Had referee Jerome Boger or head linesman Steve Stelljes, the official closest to the play, thrown a flag it would have been a disaster that would have likely settled the Super Bowl by a penalty. Championships should not be determined by a flag.
Harbaugh - whose sideline fit included slamming his cap to the turf and gesturing for a holding call as he screamed at officials - disagrees. After the game, he whined that a penalty should have been called on the third-down incompletion to Crabtree, too, due to the receiver's contact with Cary Williams.
"There's no question in my mind that there was pass interference, and then a hold," Harbaugh said. "I realize I'm on the side of the 49ers. I'm the coach of the 49ers. There's some bias there, but I wouldn't bring it up unless it was obvious."
It was a tough break, for sure. Yet while Smith's arms got around the outside of Crabtree for a split-second, it also appears that the receiver initiated contact by jamming into the cornerback off the line of scrimmage. And Crabtree also extended his arm as he pushed off Smith's helmet.
The good non-call was also consistent. It's how the game was played.
"You can't just look at one play," former NFL linebacker Bill Romanowski, who started his career with the 49ers, said Monday afternoon as he passed through his hotel lobby. "You have to look at how the refs called the entire game. They let the guys play. The last thing you want to see - especially at the end of a Super Bowl - is for a bad play to be bailed out by a penalty flag."
The legacy of one of the most thrilling Super Bowls ever should not be the call that wasn't made. There's a lot more to remember, from the power outage to the Harbaugh brothers to MVP quarterback Joe Flacco to Ray Lewis' last ride.
Jim Tunney, a retired referee who worked three Super Bowls, told USA TODAY Sports he would not have thrown a flag, either, on that fourth-down play.
"If you let 'em play for 59 minutes," Tunney said, "you've got to let 'em play the last minute."
The non-calls went both ways. On the last Ravens scoring drive in the fourth quarter, an apparent late hit on quarterback Joe Flacco on third down wasn't called, either. A penalty would have extended the drive.
Besides, there's much to second-guess about the 49ers' play-calling choices on their final three plays. The 49ers threw to Crabtree, rather than tight end Vernon Davis or Randy Moss, on back-to-back passes. After a first-down run, offensive coordinator Greg Roman didn't attack the middle of a Ravens defensive line that was thinned by the knee injury that sidelined Haloti Ngata.
For egregious non-calls, the officials missed it by not ejecting Williams for shoving an official during the melee that ensued after Ed Reed's interception in the second quarter. Although Williams maintained that it wasn't intentional, we've seen players get ejected for merely touching an official.
Ask Washington Redskins cornerback DeAngelo Hall, who was ejected from a game in October for making contact as he protested a non-call. In the Super Bowl, Williams should have noticed that the man he shoved was wearing black and white stripes.
Says Tunney, "When you go to break up a fight, sometimes you're going to get bumped."
That the human element of officiating is part of the post-Super Bowl debate seems fitting . This season started with the lockout of the officials and the glaring miscues of their replacements. If not for the fiasco at Seattle, when the Green Bay Packers' apparent game-ending interception was ruled a touchdown , the lockout might have lasted longer.
Now this. Although 49ers fans might argue, it's a good thing that the non-call won't go down in history as the most memorable thing about Super Bowl XLVII.
Copyright 2013 USATODAY.com
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Thomas Cordero, a 41-year-old from the Bronx who is paid to clean houses in the nude, and finds clients via Rentboy.com, confessed to killing client John Conley way back in October 2001, prosecutors revealed today in a case hat has the killer facing a 25-year prison sentence. Conley, a 50-year-old paralegal, "got too rough" in bed after he "wanted to get down to business" and grabbed a knife — which has Codero claiming the slaying was in self-defense. Condero says in a videotaped confession that he "grabbed the knife from him and hit him in the back of the head." Then he left Conley's apartment but not before grabbing from his wallet, "per our agreement. So why did Cordero, who was tied to the murder in 2007 through surveillance video, send his client into such a frenzy? "It's because I have a nice ass." | <urn:uuid:d91914b7-a075-4fc3-9a49-3fcaebecc5ae> | 2013-05-18T17:29:45Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The whole area around Ameyoko is filled with side streets which branch off all over the gaff. Somewhere in here you can make some dog tags of your 2D girl/boyfriends, buy some frozen pigs ears to bring back for your nephew, stock up on old military equipment so that you can get treated like a criminal while going through security checks at the airport and you can also stop by the many stalls selling hot n cold snacks to keep you going.
While there are many foreigners who visit Ameyoko, many locals come here to do their daily shopping which makes this place special in that you also get to see a slice of life in Japan.
Previously however, Ameyoko wasn't so much about "A slice of life" - rather a "Slice of somebody's knife." After the Second World War, Ameyoko became a black market where a load of rogue soldiers and gangsters would come to wheel n deal and occasionally shoot others.
The authorities at the time turned to a business man called Hirokichi Kondo and asked for his help to buy up 80 stores in the Ameyoko area with the main purpose to drive out the trouble makers. Over time, Ameyoko started to become a safer place to be. | <urn:uuid:9af2e3c0-47ac-423d-afa1-d5363c0d0971> | 2013-05-18T17:38:11Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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10.05.12Rollercoaster of a ride for Kent at Estoril
The third round of the Moto3 Championship on 6 May at Estoril, Portugal, was a rollercoaster of a ride for Red Bull KTM rider Danny Kent, who crossed the line in eighth position after a mid-race incident caused him to drop back to 17th.
Tedbury- based Kent demonstrated his potential by qualifying fourth and giving him a promising start from the second row of the grid. Kent didn’t quite get the start he was hoping for in the initial two laps, finishing in sixth and seventh respectively. The first half of the race was spent in battle with Antonelli and primarily Fenati.
However, the battle for fifth position with Fenati resulted in the mid-race incident, forcing 18-year-old Kent straight into the gravel and towards the back of the pack, thwarting his chances of a podium finish. Kent however managed to stalk his way up the group to finish in eighth position.
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Spanish Riding School
The Spanish Riding School in Vienna is the only institution in the world which has practiced for over 430 years and continues to cultivate classical equitation in the Renaissance tradition of the haute école.
The objective of classical equitation is to study the way the horse naturally moves and to cultivate the highest levels of haute école elegance the horse is capable of through systematic training. The result creates an unparalleled harmony between rider and horse, as only Vienna's Spanish Riding School achieves.
Welcome to the Spanish Riding School in Vienna.
A 13-minute walk from Hotel Tyrol.
1., Michaelerplatz 1
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Leave a legacy.
These are three simple words that laid the foundation for what has become the most successful football season at Utah State since 1979.
The last time the Aggies won seven regular season games, Jimmy Carter was president of the United States; the Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the Baltimore Orioles in Game 7 to win the World Series, and it was the first year of the ever-popular McDonald's Happy Meal.
The last time the Aggies ventured to a bowl game was in 1997. Bill Clinton was president and legendary quarterback Brett Favre won his first Super Bowl title in leading the Green Bay Packers over the New England Patriots.
In 1997, Utah State played in the inaugural Humanitarian Bowl in Boise, Idaho. This week, they will head to the same city to play in the newly renamed Famous Idaho Potato Bowl.
"They started out this season with a goal to leave a legacy, and that's exactly what they've done," said head coach Gary Andersen. "They've done a tremendous job of taking the next step. This team has been a crew of fighters all year long."
During fall camp, the team, led by the senior class, set a series of goals for the season. With a Western Athletic Conference title and a bowl game in mind, they set off with positive attitudes and driven hearts. However, the season did not start as smoothly as expected. Game after game ended in heartbreak.
More than halfway through the season the team was at a 2-5 record.
Ask any Aggie, fan or player, and they will tell you the Hawaii game was the turning point of the season. At halftime, USU was down 28-7. Starting freshman quarterback Chuckie Keeton was hurt and had been taken to the hospital. After a motivating halftime discussion, the team came out of the locker room with a changed mind-set.
Junior quarterback Adam Kennedy came in and turned the game around. With that, he turned the Aggies' season around.
"Everyone just kind of looked each other in the eye and asked what had been going wrong," Kennedy said. "It wasn't necessarily blaming anyone, but just finding out what wasn't working, and what we needed to do to make it work. Looking at the guy sitting next to you had a lot to do with the turnaround."
Senior running back Michael Smith said the halftime talk was fairly simple.
"We basically looked at each other and realized our option was to win or to lose," Smith said. "We chose not to lose. We chose to fight. We started playing as a team, as one."
Senior defensive end Levi Koskan added when he said the team finally realized the potential they had.
"A couple guys got in each others' faces, and we just realized that we're a great team," Koskan said. "There's no way we should be at the point we're at. We're better than this. We deserve to be better. Let's go out and do something about it."
The Hawaii game stirred something in the hearts of the Aggies. It showed them they could win. They recognized the talent they had. They went on to win the rest of their regular-season games, ending the season with a 7-5 record.
"Anytime that you're losing, you're never as happy as you are when you're winning. They handled it very well," Andersen said. "I think they always thought they were a good football team. They had the mind-set they could win physically and mentally every game."
This football team has fought hard year after year. For this class of seniors, a season like this one has been all they have worked for.
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designer's own words:Why we did what we did The brief for this project was to create a poster for Tivoli Audio, celebrating their 10th anniversary. ‘TIVOLI AUDIO is a world leader in the design and manufacture of table radios. The company was founded in 2000 with the goal of bringing beautifully designed, simple-to-use, high quality audio products to the consumer. for the past 10 years, TIVOLI AUDIO has become world renowned by introducing some of the finest and highly acclaimed audio products ever made.’ This statement as provided by Tivoli, in conjunction with research into Tivoli lead to defining this piece by the following words • beautifully designed, simple-to-use • high quality audio products • classic • iconic This was the inspiration and idea behind the development of this project. The objective was to visually show the words above, and so the idea of showing three elements of beautifully designed, classic and iconic was the inspiration. The little back dress, and classic tux, these were the imagery that portrayed these words, and were the perfect accompaniment to the Tivoli style of design and their image. No text was used, other than the Tivoli name, the idea behind such a clean design was to let the imagery speak to the audience, let the visual message be the one that all potential customers will associate with the Tivoli name. Colours were also kept to a minimum, clean and classic, like the elements that were represented. | <urn:uuid:6837f138-4b7d-4f5a-a529-19e4ef91348e> | 2013-05-18T17:49:23Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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PRAGUE, Czech Republic -- Detroit Red Wings goaltender Dominik Hasek escaped having charges pressed against him for a fight during an inline hockey game in the Czech Rebublic, a Czech court official announced Friday.
According to eyewitness testimony, Hasek, skating as a defender for Bonfire Strida, checked SK Pardubice's Martin Sila to the ground. Hasek then sat on Sila and hit him on the neck with his stick. Sila was hosiptalized for three days following the incident.
After a lengthy investigation, police recommended that Hasek be charged with inflicting bodily harm, a crime punishable by up to eight years in prison.
Prosecutor Lenka Strnadova determined that there was no evidence that Hasek caused bodily harm to Sila during the May 18 match in Hasek's hometown of Pardubice.
"Criminal charges will not be pressed," Strnadova told The Associated Press.
Strnadova did not explain how she had reached the conclusion that Hasek did not cause any harm to Sila.
Hasek has denied any wrongdoing since the incident. Pavel Jelinek, Hasek's lawyer, said in a statement that media reports about the incident were exaggerated.
"In fact, Mr. Sila did not have any fractures, not a broken nose, no teeth knocked out, no cuts, not a single scratch or bruise," Jelinek said.
Sila can appeal Strnadova's decision by asking it be overruled by the country's supreme prosecutor.
After the incident, Hasek was suspended from the Czech inline league for one year.
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The course, a Thomson Reuters Cortellis Regulatory Online Learning module, describes the establishment of the European Union and its founding treaties, main institutions, and lawmaking process. The course outlines the different types of secondary legislation and reviews key European pharmaceutical legislation, starting from the first European directive issued in 1965. It also describes the current pharmaceutical marketing authorization procedures and the role of the regulatory authorities involved in drug application evaluation and approval. The course concludes by reviewing the structure of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and the role each committee plays in safeguarding public health.
- EU founding treaties, main institutions, and lawmaking process
- EU pharmaceutical marketing authorization procedures and regulatory authorities
Who Should Attend
Professionals and experts in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device fields
Participants who complete this course should be able to:
- Describe the establishment of the European Union and its evolution and enlargement
- Identify European Union institutions’ roles and responsibilities
- Outline the lawmaking process
- Describe the evolution of the pharmaceutical legislation since 1965
- Introduce European drug registration procedures
- Discuss the European Medicines Agency (EMA) role, function, and structure
The course takes an average of 1.5 hours to complete.
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Color Grades are on a scale from D to Z. D is the most white, and Z is the most yellow. Diamond Harmony never sells below the fine grade of G-H.
Clarity describes the presence or absence of inclusions within the diamond and blemishes on its surface.
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Sideswipe Meaning and Definition in Dictionary
Definitions from Wordnet 2.0
- strike from the side
Definitions from Wiktionary
- a glancing blow from or on the side of something (especially motor vehicles)
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Wikipedia Meaning and Definition on 'Sideswipe'
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- Sideswipe (trick): The Sideswipe is a more advanced tricking move and is sometimes called a "slant 540" or a "540 slant". While the concept is very similar ...
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Sideswipe Sample Sentences in News
- Fallout from huge solar flare to sideswipe Earth
By Mike WallSpace.comA huge explosion on the sun will deal Earth a glancing blow Friday but should not pose a threat to the planet, scientists say.The sun storm erupted late Tuesday during a powerful solar flare — the fourth unleashed by a single sunspot in just 48 hours — and hurled a massive cloud of charged particles out into space at millions of miles an h Read more on this news related to 'Sideswipe'
- Brillantes slams Namfrel over public sideswipe
We did tell you so. Despite Sixto Brillantes’ assuranc... Read more on this news related to 'Sideswipe'
- Woman, 22, dies in fiery crash
A Miami woman was killed Monday evening after an alcohol-fueled fender bender, sideswipe and then a fiery head-on collision, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. Kristine Marie Rivera, 22, was... read more Read more on this news related to 'Sideswipe' | <urn:uuid:102da57c-d935-4044-a557-828fe918f1fa> | 2013-05-18T17:48:53Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Photoshop-like interior light control interface
"This is a lighting system, called Lighty. There's a group of robotic lights on the ceiling, and their orientation and brightness can be controlled through this interface."
"This feels just like Photoshop. To specify which places you want bright or dark, all you need to do is color in the corresponding areas."
In this system, the interactive pen display is used to paint the room in light or darkness, with a camera placed in the ceiling returning the results in real time to the display. By coloring in white with the brush tool areas of the interior can be brightened, and by using black they can be darkened. This intuitive interface simplifies the controlling of complex lighting systems.
"Brightening a room up is easy, but combining dark and bright areas is hard for people to think about. The main feature of this system is, the computer does the hard work of calculation. So, the user can get a good result simply by coloring in the screen."
The brightness distribution levels input to the computer are rendered visible as contours. In this 1/12 scale prototype, there are 12 lights, which are moved on two axes by gimbals, to create accurate levels of brightness distribution. The optimal arrangement is calculated by parallel processing with a GPU, which makes it possible to reflect the result immediately.
"Currently, we've created test environments on a miniature scale. From now on, we intend to install this system in actual home environments."
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A teenager in Finland has broken the world record at this year's Mobile Phone Throwing World Championships.
18-year-old Ere Karjalainen managed an impressive distance of 101.46 metres (332 feet, 10 inches) in the competition securing himself first place, Yahoo! reports.
The competition has taken place in the town of Savonlinna since 2000 and is now in its 13th year.
Finland is the home of Nokia and therefore has a huge selection of obsolete phones.
The competition features both men and women's competitions as well a junior contest. Organisers have the help of satellite-based instruments to measure the distances thrown.
Karjalainen won by a comfortable margin as second place thrower, South African Jeremy Gallop, threw a phone 94.67 metres.
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Unveiled at Mobile World Congress, AirSharing allows the latest Huawei devices to sync photos, videos and games through Huawei's wireless cloud.
Available on Huawei's Emotion user interface, a new overlay for Android, AirSharing means content can be synced from a mobile phone to a compatible device.
Users will be able to see their photos on a larger screen, or play mobile games with others on televisions or monitors.
Huawei also feels that AirSharing can be used for business, allowing people to show files stored on their smartphone or tablet on a work monitor or TV through a WiFi connection.
The system is similar to the AllShare Plus on Samsung mobile devices, and the AirPlay function offered by Apple.
Richard Yu, the chief executive of Huawei consumer business group, said that the Chinese firm will open up AirSharing to third-party developers in the future.
"Airsharing is our latest software innovation which, together with our proprietary Emotion UI, is a way to differentiate ourselves and offer an easy-to-use solution for our customers," said Yu.
"In the near future, we also plan to open Airsharing to third-party content providers and developers to further build on this multi-platform to benefit customers even more through a smart, integrated world."
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The year 1971 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events in 1971.
For the American TV schedule, see: 1971-72 American network television schedule.
- January 1 – The final cigarette advertisements are televised in the United States, with the final one occurring during that evening's broadcast of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson on NBC.
- January 3 – BBC Open University broadcasts begin in the UK.
- January 12 – CBS airs the first episode of All in the Family, with a disclaimer at the beginning of the program warning viewers about potentially offensive content. Within a year, it became television's most popular program, and started a trend toward realism in situation comedies.
- January 27 – Valerie Barlow is electrocuted by a faulty hairdryer, and then perishes in a house fire on Coronation Street.
- February 23 – The Selling of the Pentagon documentary airs on CBS.
- March 2 – On an All in the Family episode, Archie and Edith get brand new next-door neighbors—Michael and Gloria's best friend, Lionel Jefferson (played by Mike Evans) and his parents. The episode marks Isabel Sanford's first appearance as Louise Jefferson; George Jefferson would not be depicted on-screen until 1973 (by Sherman Hemsley).
- March 11 – ABC cancels The Lawrence Welk Show after sixteen years on the network. The show, however, returns to the airwaves in syndication in September, where it would run for another eleven years.
- April 3 – RTÉ launches Color television in Ireland with the Eurovision Song Contest 1971, held in Dublin.
- May – CBS debuts its schedule for the fall 1971 season, and cancels, in the words of Pat Buttram, "every show that had a tree in it," including Buttram's Green Acres, The Beverly Hillbillies, and Mayberry R.F.D. Hee Haw was also canceled by CBS, but would continue production for the next two decades in syndication.
- June 7 – The UK children's magazine show Blue Peter buries a time capsule in the grounds of BBC Television Centre, due to be opened on the first episode of the year 2000.
- August 1 - The much-acclaimed 6-hour BBC miniseries The Six Wives of Henry VIII, starring Keith Michell as Henry, makes its U.S. premiere; CBS would air it over 6 consecutive Sundays through September 5.
- September 13 – U.S. network prime time programming shrinks as the original Prime Time Access Rule takes effect. NBC, unable to take advantage, immediately feels the pinch and fails to win any of the 1971–72 season's first thirteen weeks.
- October 21 – One-off drama Edna, the Inebriate Woman, starring Patricia Hayes, is shown by BBC One in its Play for Today slot.
- November – Top-rated As the World Turns loses the #1 slot in the daytime Nielsens for the first time since 1959.
- Michael Zaslow first appears as Roger Thorpe on The Guiding Light.
Television shows
- Coronation Street, UK (1960–present).
- My Three Sons (1960–1972).
- ABC's Wide World of Sports (1961–1998)
- Four Corners (Australia) (1961–present).
- It's Academic (1961–present).
- The Mike Douglas Show (1961–1981).
- The Late Late Show, Ireland (1962–present).
- Password (1962–1967, 1971–1975, 1979–1982, 1984–1989, 2008–)
- Professional Bowlers Tour (1962–1997)
- The World Tonight, Philippines (1962–present)
- Z-Cars, UK (1962–1978).
- Doctor Who, UK (1963–1989, 1996, 2005–present).
- The Doctors (1963–1982).
- General Hospital (1963–present)
- Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom (1963–1988, 2002–present)
- Another World (1964–1999).
- Bewitched (1964–1972).
- A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965–present, aired annually).
- It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966–present, aired annually).
- Charlie Brown's All-Stars (1966–1972, aired annually).
- Crossroads (UK) (1964–1988, 2001–2003).
- Jeopardy! (1964–1975, 1984–present).
- Top of the Pops (UK) (1964–2006).
- Days of our Lives (1965–present).
- The Dean Martin Show (1965–1974).
- Tom and Jerry (1965–1972, 1975–1977, 1980–1982)
- Kimba the White Lion (1966-1967), re-runs.
- World of Sport (UK) (1965–1985).
- Mission: Impossible (1966–1973).
- The Money Programme (UK) (1966–present).
- The Newlywed Game (1966–1974).
- Play School (1966–present).
- Ironside (1967–1975).
- Love is a Many Splendored Thing (1967–1973).
- Mannix (1967–1975).
- The Carol Burnett Show (1967–1978).
- 60 Minutes (1968–present).
- Dad's Army (UK) (1968–1977).
- The Doris Day Show (1968–1973).
- Hawaii Five-O (1968–1980).
- Here's Lucy (1968–1974).
- Laugh-In (1968–1973).
- Magpie (UK) (1968–1980).
- Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (1968–2001)
- The Mod Squad (1968–1973).
- One Life to Live (1968–present).
- The Benny Hill Show (1969–1989).
- The Brady Bunch (1969–1974).
- Bright Promise (1969–1972).
- The Dick Cavett Show (1969–1974)
- Hee Haw (1969–1993).
- Love, American Style (1969–1974).
- Marcus Welby, M.D. (1969–1976).
- Monty Python's Flying Circus (UK) (1969–1974).
- Room 222 (1969–1974).
- Sesame Street (1969–present).
- Clangers (UK) (1969–1972).
- The Wonderful World of Disney (1969–1979 under this title)
- What's My Line? (1968–1975, syndicated version).
- Where the Heart Is (1969–1973).
Ending this year
Changes of network affiliation
- January 1 – Suzanne Virdee, British regional TV newscaster.
- January 5 – Jayne Middlemiss, UK television presenter.
- January 6 – Charlie Neil, British regional TV weather reader.
- January 7 – Gillian Lacey-Solymar, television presenter
- January 12 – Jay Burridge, UK television presenter
- January 13 – Sarah Tansey, UK actress.
- January 14 – Yiolanda Koppel, UK television presenter
- January 15 – Regina King, American actress.
- January 16 – Julia Ford, English actress
- January 18 – Wendy Elsmore, television presenter.
- January 19 – Shawn Wayans, American actor
- January 20 – Pixie McKenna, Irish television presenter
- January 21 – Amy Lame
- January 22 – Dawn Harper, British television presenter
- January 23 – Lorne Spicer, British television presenter
- February 15 – Alex Borstein, Actress/comedian.
- February 16 – Amanda Holden.
- February 23 – Melinda Messenger, British television presenter and model.
- February 25 – Sean Astin, American actor.
- March 2 – Lisa Lackey, Australian actress
- March 4 – Shavar Ross, American actor.
- March 9 – Emmanuel Lewis, American actor.
- March 11 – Johnny Knoxville, American actor/host.
- April 12 – Shannen Doherty, American actress.
- May 26 – Matt Stone, American writer/animator.
- June 5 – Mark Wahlberg, American actor
- June 16 – 2Pac, rapper (died 1996)
- July 9 – Dani Behr, television presenter and actress.
- July 12 – Kristi Yamaguchi, Professional ice skater
- July 30 – Tom Green, comedian.
- August 9 – Kate Sanderson
- August 10 – Angie Harmon, American actress.
- September 2 – Lisa Snowdon
- September 8 – Brooke Burke.
- September 9 – Natasha Kaplinsky, British television presenter.
- September 21 – Alfonso Ribeiro, American actor.
- September 25 – Jessie Wallace, British actress.
- September 28 – Liza Walker, British actress.
- September 30 – Jenna Elfman, American actress.
- October 13 – Sacha Baron Cohen, British comedian.
- October 20 – Snoop Dogg, American rapper.
- October 29 – Winona Ryder, American actress.
- November 5 – Corin Nemec, American actor.
- November 25 – Christina Applegate, American actress.
- December 5 – Justine Kerrigan, British actress.
- December 26 – Jared Leto, American actor/ musician.
- March 11 – Philo Farnsworth, 64, television pioneer.
- March 15 – Bebe Daniels, 70, actress.
- December 12 – David Sarnoff, 80, television pioneer.
- December 30 – Melba Rae, 49, soap opera actress (Search for Tomorrow).
- December 31 - Pete Duel, 31, actor (suicide).
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|— Municipality and Town —|
|• Mayor||Živorad Smiljanić|
|• Municipality||333 km2 (129 sq mi)|
|Population (2011 census)|
|Time zone||CET (UTC+1)|
|• Summer (DST)||CEST (UTC+2)|
|Area code||+381 25|
Apatin (Serbian Cyrillic: Апатин) is a town and municipality in the Vojvodina administrative region of Serbia, located in the West Bačka District, at . The town of Apatin is the administrative, economic, cultural, educational and tourist centre of the municipality of Apatin (333 km²). The population of the town is 17,411, while the municipality has 28,929 inhabitants.
In Serbian, the town is known as Apatin (Апатин), while the same name is also used in German, Romanian, Croatian (Šokac), and Hungarian. According to some claims, the name Apatin is derived from the old form Opaty, by which the town was first mentioned in the 11th century.
The Municipality of Apatin is located on the left bank of the Danube river (natural border with Croatia), between the Municipality of Sombor (in the northeast) and Municipality of Odžaci (in the southeast).
The favourable geographic position, proximity to the Danube, and natural wealth of this area (fruitful ground, woods next to the river, abundance of fish in swampy regions and backwaters, and game in woods) attracted people through all ages and made them settle here. Because of these reasons, even in pre-historic times, cultures such as the Sarmatians, the Celts, the Goths and many others were replacing each other within this region, one by one.
In the 1st century, during the Roman conquest, the settlement was turned into a military trench with fortifications, and played an important role in the defense of the Pannonia province. Subsequently, the area came under control of the Huns, Gepids and Avars. In the 6th century the Slavs settled, and in the 9th century, the area was included into the Bulgarian Empire. Bulgarian duke Salan who had residence in Titel ruled over region of Bačka. In the 10th century the Hungarians came to Central Europe, thereby establishing a state, which was populated by both, Hungarians and Slavs.
The first mentioning of Apatin in any written script was in the year 1011, by the Abbey of Kalocsa Bishopric. According to other source, Apatin was firstly mentioned in 1407. During this time, settlement was part of the Bodrogiensis County within the medieval Kingdom of Hungary.
During the 14th and 15th centuries, the area became feudalistic, and in exchange for lands, the vassals would need to complete military service to the lord of the property. Many fishermen, hunters, and millers then began to settle down in this area.
In 1417, Apatin is mentioned as a property of Stefan Lazarević, who was crowned as the Despot of Serbia in 1402. In 1526-1527 it belonged to the short-lived Serb state of Emperor Jovan Nenad, and soon after (in 1541) this area became part of the Ottoman Empire. During the Ottoman administration Apatin was part of the Sanjak of Segedin and was mainly populated by ethnic Serbs.
In the end of the 17th century it became part of the Habsburg Monarchy. Many of the refugees during the massive migration of Serbs led by Arsenije Čarnojević in 1690, came to Apatin, Sombor and Prigrevica, thus the Serb population in this area increased. A new wave of colonisation occurred in 1748 when many German colonists settled in Apatin, pushing out the Serbs mostly by force, who then evacuated towards Stapar.
The German colonists came from many different regions. The gathering centre was in Ulm, Germany and from that point they were transported by the Danube to Apatin, which became the main base of the German expansion in Vojvodina. The church was built near the port and the city square was also built at this time. The real estate value of buildings, such as schools, fishermen’s station, hand craft’s workshops, began to rise.
The Chamber of Court decided to put forth economic objectives to better the economy, and in 1756 the brewery and distillery were built. In 1764 a large textiles factory was built. In 1760 Apatin was officially proclaimed a town and a main trade centre with a special status.
At the end of the 18th century, a catastrophic flood destroyed the old town square, and ruined half of the settlement. The new square was built north-westward from the brewery. The town as seen today, began to take shape. During the 18th and in the early part of 19th century, Apatin had prospered economically, mostly because of developed trade, handcraft and shipbuilding.
During the initial years of the Habsburg administration, Apatin was administratively a part of the Batsch County within the Habsburg Kingdom of Hungary. Subsequently it was included into the newly formed Batsch-Bodrog County. In 1848-1849 Apatin was part of the Serbian Voivodship, a Serb autonomous region within Austrian Empire, and between 1849 and 1860 it was part of the Voivodeship of Serbia and Banat of Temeschwar, a separate Austrian province. After abolishment of the voivodeship, in 1860 it was again included into Batsch-Bodrog County within the Habsburg Kingdom of Hungary, which became one of two autonomous parts of the Monarchy after 1867.
In the year of 1869 numerous banks and saving-banks were established, and that opened the door to industrial development. A great number of brickyards produced brick and tile, which were used to construct many buildings in Vienna and almost all in Pest. In 1912 Apatin was connected to Sombor and Sonta by the railroad, and the following year, a shipyard was founded. Today, the shipyard has been modernized as it the only shipyard on the whole Danube which has a special lift for quickly drawing boats out onto the docks. According to 1910 census, most of the inhabitants of Apatin spoke the German language.
In 1918, as part of Banat, Bačka and Baranja, Apatin became part of the Kingdom of Serbia, which later together with the Kingdom of Montenegro and the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs formed the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (renamed to Yugoslavia in 1929). In 1918-1919, Apatin was part of the Banat, Bačka and Baranja region and also (from 1918 to 1922) part of the Novi Sad District. Between 1922 and 1929, the town was part of the Bačka Oblast and between 1929 and 1941, part of the Danube Banovina, one of the provinces of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
When Axis Powers invaded, occupied and partitioned Yugoslavia in 1941, Apatin was included into Bács-Bodrog County within the Horthy's Hungary. The town remained under Axis control until 1944. During the Battle of Batina, the front was stretched all the way to Apatin and Bogojevo, and these places became military bases overnight. Yugoslav Partisans entered Apatin on October 24, 1944, and since then Apatin was part of the Yugoslav Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, which (from 1945) was part of the People's Republic of Serbia within new Socialist Yugoslavia.
In 1944, as a consequence of World War II events in Yugoslavia, one part of Yugoslav citizens of German ethnicity left from the area, together with defeated German army. The antifascist council for deliberation of Yugoslavia (AVNOJ) declared the remaining German population as public enemies and sent them to communist prison camps, where one part of them died from disease, cold and malnutrition. The death toll among the German population of Apatin amounts to 2,074 people known by name. This figure includes the victims of deportation to the USSR. After prison camps were dissolved (in 1948), most of the remaining German population left Yugoslavia in subsequent decades, mainly because of economic reasons. After the war, Apatin was populated by (mainly Serb) settlers from other parts of Yugoslavia, largely from Lika. Population censuses conducted after World War II recorded Serbs as the largest ethnic group in the town.
Between 1992 and 2003, Apatin was part of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, between 2003 and 2006 part of the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro, and since 2006 it is part of an independent Serbia.
Inhabited places
Apatin municipality includes the city of Apatin and the following villages:
Demographics (2011 census)
Ethnic groups in the municipality
- Serbs = 18,164 (62.79%)
- Hungarians = 3,102 (10.72%)
- Croats = 3,015 (10.42%)
- Romanians = 1,148 (3.97%)
- Roma = 654 (2.26%)
- Others (including Montenegrins, Macedonians, Muslims, Albanians, Germans, Slovaks, etc.).
Settlements by ethnic majority
Ethnic groups in the town
- Serbs = 13,990 (72.41%)
- Romanians = 967 (5.01%)
- Hungarians = 848 (4.39%)
- Croats = 658 (3.41%)
- Yugoslavs = 612 (3.17%)
- Roma = 369 (1.91%)
- Germans = 142 (0.74%)
- Montenegrins = 100 (0.52%)
Near the city of Apatin lies the Junaković spa. It is a modern and well-equipped rehabilitation and recreation centre with sports fields, outdoor pools, indoor therapy, and saunas.
The largest companies in Apatin today are the Apatinska pivara AD (brewery, built in 1756), Rapid (silicate bricks factory), Jedinstvo (agricultural company) and Apatin Shipyard (formerly known as "Boris Kidrič").
Free port Apatin
The Free port Apatin is a free customs zone, cargo-transportation center and port with wharf, which will form an economic unit known under the name "Slobodna zona Apatin" (and will cover 160 hectares of ground next to river Danube). It will also represent one of the potentially largest economical undertakings in the region.
Tourist attraction
Apatin has popular tourist location, and because of its proximity to the Danube river and the forests, it is gathering place for fishermen and hunters. There is also an annual gathering called "Apatinske ribarske večeri" (Apatin Fishermen Nights), which has taken place for the last forty some years. "Ribarske večeri" usually starts on July 1, and lasts five or seven days.
Apatin has a rich history in sports. Željko Rebrača is by far the most famous athlete from this area, but in the past, Apatin has had athletes represent Yugoslavia (and now Serbia) on the international stage. Today, some of the well known professional sports clubs are:
- FK Mladost - member of the Serbia First League Soccer Association
- RK Apatin - member of the Serbia Second League Handball Association
Notable natives and residents
- Paul Abraham (1892–1960), a Jewish composer, born in Apatin.
- Frank Dancevic (born 1984), a Croatian-Canadian tennis player whose father hails from Apatin.
- Mirko Đurić (born in 1960), a famous classical guitarist.
- Jovan Lakatoš (born in 1944), ornitologist of Hungarian origin, born in Apatin.
- Pavle Marčetić (born in 1957), a writer and ethnic Serb, born in Apatin.
- Nenad Medić (born 1983), poker player.
- Gyula Pártos (1845–1916), an architect and ethnic Hungarian, born in Apatin.
- Željko Rebrača (born in 1972), a professional basketball player, and ethnic Serb, playing in the NBA with the L.A. Clippers. He was born in 1972 in the village of Prigrevica near Apatin.
- Josef Sayer (born 1941), German Roman Catholic priest, theologian and development aid official.
- Ervin Šinko (1898–1967), a writer and ethnic Hungarian, born in Apatin.
See also
- "Municipalities of Serbia, 2006". Statistical Office of Serbia. Retrieved 2010-11-28.
- "2011 Census of Population, Households and Dwellings in The Republic of Serbia: Ethnicity - Data by municipalities and cities". Statistical Office of Republic Of Serbia, Belgrade. 2012. ISBN 978-86-6161-023-3. Retrieved 2012-11-30.
- DATANET.RS Galerija Meander/Gallery Meander
- Arbeitskreis Dokumentation: Verbrechen an den Deutschen in Jugoslawien 1944-1948, Die Stationen eines Völkermordes, 2000, Munich
- "Population by ethnicity – Apatin". Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia (SORS). Retrieved 23 February 2013.
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kaht wrote:I went to the Cardinals game on Friday to see Adam Wainwright get his 20th win of the season. He's pulled in the 7th inning to a standing ovation, leaving the field with a commanding lead of 6-1. Win #20 seems inevitable at this point.
The relief pitching proceeds to give up 11 runs in the next 2 innings, crushing his chance of achieving 20 wins for the season.
Oh well, at least they still made the playoffs.
I feel ya. I was, well put in nicer words, very pissed off.
Now we are crappin' up the playoffs... | <urn:uuid:c74d599b-69de-4bca-bf0f-19baab321c1e> | 2013-05-18T17:20:49Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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- uploaded: Feb 12, 2013
- Hits: 93
With the news that Benedict the 16th is stepping down, thoughts are now turning to who his replacement might be.
A new Pope is expected to be elected by the end of March, ahead of the feast of Easter.
Some of the most likely successors come from Africa and Latin America.
Al Jazeera's Rory Challands reports.
Source, credit to Aljazeera- http://www.aljazeera.com/video
FAIR USE NOTICE: This video has been posted to further advance our understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic, Technological, democratic, scientific, and social justice issues which constitutes a "fair use" of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 for research and educational purposes.
Benedict XVI was elected Pope at the age of 78. He is the oldest person to have been elected Pope since Pope Clement XII (1730--40). He had served longer as a cardinal than any Pope since Benedict XIII (1724--30). He is the ninth German Pope, the eighth having been the Dutch-German Pope Adrian VI (1522--23) from Utrecht. The last Pope named Benedict was Benedict XV, an Italian who reigned from 1914 to 1922, during World War I (1914--18).
Born in 1927 in Marktl, Bavaria, Germany, Ratzinger had a distinguished career as a university theologian before being appointed Archbishop of Munich and Freising by Pope Paul VI (1963--78). Shortly afterwards, he was made a cardinal in the consistory of 27 June 1977. He was appointed Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith by Pope John Paul II in 1981 and was also assigned the honorific title of the cardinal bishop of Velletri-Segni on 5 April 1993.
In 1998, he was elected sub-dean of the College of Cardinals. On 30 November 2002, he was elected dean, taking, as is customary, the title of cardinal bishop of the suburbicarian diocese of Ostia. He was the first Dean of the College elected Pope since Paul IV (1555--59) and the first cardinal bishop elected Pope since Pius VIII (1829--30).
Even before becoming Pope, Ratzinger was one of the most influential men in the Roman Curia, and was a close associate of John Paul II. As Dean of the College of Cardinals, he presided over the funeral of John Paul II and over the Mass immediately preceding the 2005 conclave in which he was elected. During the service, he called on the assembled cardinals to hold fast to the doctrine of the faith. He was the public face of the church in the sede vacante period, although, technically, he ranked below the Camerlengo in administrative authority during that time. Like his predecessor, Benedict XVI affirms traditional Catholic doctrine.
In addition to his native German, Benedict speaks French and Italian fluently. He also has a very good command of Latin and speaks English and Spanish adequately. Furthermore, he has some knowledge of Portuguese. He can read Ancient Greek and biblical Hebrew. He has stated that his first foreign language is French. He is a member of several scientific academies, such as the French Académie des sciences morales et politiques. He plays the piano and has a preference for Mozart and Bach.
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THE REAL JEWS& ISRAELITES LOST THEIR IDENTITY ACCORDING TO PROPHECY. YOU KHAZARS/EDOMITES ARE FAKES!! Jer 17:4 And thou, even thyself, shalt discontinue from thine heritage that I gave thee; and I will cause thee to serve thine enemies in the land which thou knowest not: for ye have kindled a fire in mine anger, [which] shall burn for ever. Deu 32:26 I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men: 2 Esdras 2:5 As for me, O father, I call upon thee for a witness over the mother of these children, which would not keep my covenant, 2 Esdras 2:6 That thou bring them to confusion, and their mother to a spoil, that there may be no offspring of them. 2 Esdras 2:7 Let them be scattered abroad among the heathen, let their names be put out of the earth: for they have despised my covenant. | <urn:uuid:2ce7592d-0dc8-44ad-9884-0645c3aa40df> | 2013-05-18T17:40:21Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Vocal Type: Mezzo-Soprano
Whistle Register: No
Vocal Range: 2.7 octaves (C3-B5 approx)
Vocal Pluses: Powerful, passionate voice, with a rock tinge. Expressive and well controlled voice that does not lean on melisma to impress, though she is capable of using this vocal technique if required. Lady Gaga's low notes are well supported, and have a dark, solid and weighty timbre to them. The mid-range can be melodic and lyrical as well be utilised in a talk/singing fashion- see Poker Face.
The lower part of the belting range has a weight, and thick timbre to it along with a strong resonance. This resonance can be carried into the higher part of the chest register- past a C5- but it calls for the use of improper technique, making the sound raspier and raw, as its placed in the throat. These qualities can be eliminated, at the expense of the resonance of the voice, by mixing with the head voice. The sound produced is clearer and brighter with a healthier sound.
The head voice alone can be light and airy- see the chorus of Paparazzi- or thicker and with an operatic like tone- see the intro of Government Hooker. Lady Gaga's vibrato is strong, quick and reminiscent of that utilised by stage singers, but she is capable of singing without it if she chooses.
Vocal Negatives: Lady Gaga's high belting can sound like shouting at times, which would indicate bad technique or singing outside of her range.
There are some higher notes in the video below, but I'm not including them in Gaga's range because I consider exclamations and singing two totally different things. One requires a degree of skill- singing- and one doesn't- screaming and exclamations. If you want to know how big Gaga's range is if the notes in this video are included then Gaga has a range of 4 octaves 1 note. | <urn:uuid:230a185c-2c70-403c-a833-437d3e8f504c> | 2013-05-18T18:06:42Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Qyzbud wrote:I must say I was really playing through DK64 hoping that if I played just a little more, I'd start to really like the game. Sadly, that never happened. I played up until the boxing match with K. Rool, and got to where he turns invisible and weaves side to side. I've got a feeling I just had to hit him one last time and I'd have beaten him and finished the game, but I lost that round and never tried again...
It's a very strange feeling, actually.
in DKC2 manual, Cranky wrote:I've never seen so much worthless rubbish! I'm surprised they don't give you a special 'trash barrel' to haul it all around in!
cfh wrote:Maybe I'll get an actual N64 some day
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Landscape Allegory: Manchu-Chinese Imperial and Ethnic Images at the Early Qing Tomb Parks
Please allow me to begin by expressing appreciation for the financial support of my research project, Landscape Allegory: Manchu-Chinese Imperial and Ethnic Images at the Early Qing Tomb Parks.
I focus on four crucial imperial tomb park landscape issues, each relevant in a different way to understanding important aspects of Manchu-Chinese interaction in the northeast and north China during the seventeenth century. First, I investigate how the earliest tomb parks reflected Manchu aesthetic and cultural orientations and how the Manchus used royal tombs to bolster an image of power and permanence. Next, I look at the parks' garden and landscape elements, especially Chinese influence on Manchu formulations at the northeastern sites. Third, I integrate this discourse with an examination of a broad geographic-topographical setting, that is, a constructed Homeland in which the tomb parks simultaneously enhanced this ethnic group's stature and self-defined greatness. Finally, numerous inscribed stelae, along with documentary records, provide an opportunity to study the Manchus' public emphasis on the historicity of Qing tomb parks. The last matter involves an evaluation of Manchuness, the Manchus' identification, appreciation, and preservation of qualities they considered uniquely theirs, and a discussion of the Sinification process, its presumed start in the early 1600s and acceleration thereafter.
From prior research experience in China, I know that well-established relationships (in Chinese, guanxi) are central to having access to materials and sites as well as finding new portals that often lead to unexpected sources of additional information. Consequently, soon after arriving in Beijing in mid September I contacted scholars who I know at two tomb research departments outside of Beijing. In discussions of bibliographical sources with Mr. Li Yin at the Qing Eastern Tombs in Zunhua I learned of and examined an un-catalogued Qing-period manuscript on the construction of an imperial tomb park. Another scholar, Mr. Fang Guohua, informed me of the research department's collection of hand-written notes taken from various documentary collections by an earlier generation of researchers active in the 1980s and 1990s. Unfortunately, the notes are carbon-paper copies on thin paper and faded by time. I did not have time to study them at length and the few photocopies I made proved unreadable. At some point in the future, I hope to reexamine these notes and determine to what degree they may supplement materials I have already studied.
At the Western Tombs' research department in Yixian, Director Li Jun showed me a detailed ground survey of the Guangxu Emperor's tomb park (Chongling), which I had not previously seen. In discussions with him, he asked if I knew anything about the occupation of the Western Tomb Park by foreign military forces during the suppression of the Boxer Uprising. I told him of a book on the subject published by a French army officer. I have now obtained a photocopy for him, which he intends to have translated into Chinese for use by his research department's scholars. I want to emphasize here that these several experiences illustrate the invaluable nature of personal relations/contact with Chinese scholars and how this frequently leads to mutually beneficial exchanges of information. I am positive that my experiences will benefit future scholars working at the tomb parks.
Another reason for being in China was to research the Qing/Manchu official records housed at Beijing's First Historical Archives (FHA), which are located on the palace grounds of the former dynasty (now commonly referred to in Chinese as Gugong and in English as the Forbidden City). During September, I familiarized myself with the FHA's many regulations for users and surveyed catalogues of Qing-period documents for relevant documents to retrieve. Although FHA catalogue descriptions indicate the documents' dates (in reign year, month, and day format), there are only brief content comments based on an archivist's review of it, usually done many years ago. Catalogues do not specify page length so a title entry may include only one sheet or a whole packet/bundle of documents. All researchers who use the archives are aware of this situation and welcome the FHA's ongoing efforts to reevaluate and recatalogue its collection of over two million documents. Obviously, this will take some time to complete. After two weeks in the northeast at the earliest Qing tomb parks (more below), I returned to the FHA for an extended period of work. Among the many documents I examined I found information that helps elucidate the aforementioned issues of interest. My preliminary conclusion is that the Manchus, especially the first generation of conquest leaders and heroes, took a deliberate course of action in first consolidating control in their heartland and later in north China, and that the establishment of grandiose imperial tomb parks played a key role in this process. Discussion of why and how is not explicit in the documents because Manchus leaders apparently did not feel it necessary to specify these details: they all knew the purpose and agreed on the importance of constructing tomb parks. Some may argue that high Chinese advisors influenced the Manchus' position, and, though this is partially true, implicit evidence plus the visual/material culture of the tomb parks themselves lends credence to the fact that the Manchus had their own agenda.
Central to understanding Manchu actions are the four early Qing tomb parks in the northeast. Located at Hetu Ala is Yongling, built in 1598, and thus the first of all the Qing tombs. Its modest size belies its importance as the site of Nurhaci's ancestors' graves, retroactively upgraded in 1657 to imperial tomb park status. Concurrent with this came rebuilding and remodeling projects that brought its appearance somewhat in line with the Manchus' evolving seventeenth-century view of the task. Mr. Xing Qikun, director of the Yongling Tomb Park, met with me and shared several local publications that are out of print. He also permitted me to photograph and survey the site. Next, I visited Liaoyang's Tomb Park (Dongjingling). Constructed in 1621, it was the Manchus' second imperial mausoleum site and a first-level tomb park until 1657 when the emperor decided to move his imperial ancestors' remains back to Hetu Ala. Today, the modest park includes grave memorials for four Manchu princes. Its value is both historical and comparative. Although it has not been as well maintained as the other tombs, the facilities do suggest something about the original form and landscape design. The most impressive tomb parks are those in Shenyang where we find separate sites for Nurhachi (Fuling) and Hongtaiji (Zhaoling), founders of the Manchu State. Both are excellent examples of early Qing architecture and garden layouts, albeit the Manchus later remodeled both. Fuling's locale and ground plan indicate that the connection Manchus felt to the natural world did not change after the establishment of their capital at Shenyang. Today, it is somewhat isolated from Shenyang city yet well maintained. Zhaoling, on the other hand, became a public park in the mid-twentieth century and is now surrounded by urban development including (sadly) a nearby amusement center. Fortunately, its core features are still visible and easily accessed for study. Both Zhaoling and Fuling reveal important ethnic dimensions to early Manchu tomb park planning.
While in Shenyang, I also investigated the holdings of the Liaoning Provincial Library and Liaoning Provincial Museum but their materials proved to be somewhat tangential to my research. On the other hand, meetings I had with several local scholars who are not only interested in the early Qing period but also have specialized knowledge regarding various Manchu imperial landscape projects went very well. Mr. Tong Yue of the Shenyang Palace Museum's research department and Mr. Li Qinpu of the Lu Xun Art Institute are two that especially impressed me. Discussions with them were wide ranging and productive as they both generously shared information as well as publication offprints with me. Given the overlapping nature of our research, I am sure we will remain in regular contact.
To close, I am quite satisfied with the amount of research I completed in such a short time. Moreover, I feel confident that my work brings new perspectives to the topic, ones that will help us to understand fully the Manchus' earliest tomb parks and the role they played in the transition to the grandiose ones built in the Beijing area. | <urn:uuid:b6721780-bd21-4485-93f1-fd99ae29990a> | 2013-05-18T17:57:37Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Why Does my Dog Hop Like a Rabbit or Bunny?
My Rotweiler is 8 months old and someone pointed
out to me at the doggy park that he was running
funny. He trots normally (using all four legs) and
"jogs" the same but when he picks up the pace to
go run he picks his back legs up at the same time
(almost like a bunny). He has always done this
and I figured it was a puppy thing but I am not so
Browns Mills, NJ
An eight-month-old Rottweiler is roughly equivalent to a 14-year-old human. Both individuals will generally be in the process of rapidly growing and adapting to their new bodies. And, as anyone who can remember being 14 will attest, that process can be awkward.
Therefore, it does not surprise me that your pet might look awkward as he runs. It is a very common phenomenon in dogs that age. There is a very good chance that he will outgrow it as he matures.
However, keep in mind that Rottweilers are predisposed to problems such as hip dysplasia that also can cause abnormal ambulation or running.
Although I suspect that there is nothing wrong with your dog, I'd still recommend a veterinary checkup to make sure everything is OK. | <urn:uuid:0fb60161-ac0c-4625-819f-657f07f5c4ea> | 2013-05-18T17:59:01Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Legion of the Damned|
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Earth date - Wedensday, Febuary 12th, 2345.|
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Now, the Department of Defence has been informed by scientists, that the IFTIF will not send people through space, only time, therefore, quadrent Alpha B, sector J7GH8 was selected because on 12/02/28 it is commonly known that the Hell Spawn were not resident in the area. Military intelligence proves that. Seeing as this is a test flight the Department of Defence did not want to send you in to a populated area. I know, you are thinking, well why don't they send you further back? The reason is that the human body cannot with stand traveling more that 20 years at a time, we think, you may transport back 20 years, and then back another 20 years, but not 40 at once, see?
The area that has been selected for launch is barren, this way the military do not risk sending you into a populated area thus you will meet no resistance and there is no possibility of any encounters of any kind.
Well, you are seated outside the briefing room, you watch the top dogs discussing your future through a partially open door, then, they come out. You are approached, and General Waskity places his hand on your shoulder and says, "Son, you are going to be taking one small step for bioman, and one giant leap for bioman kind." There is a loud round of applause as you smile, you have been waiting for something exciting ever since you came out of therepy as a result of the invasion.
You are sent to the specially constructed IFTIF truck, you see the time pad at one end, you are at the other. All along the walls of the truck there is computer machinary.
The truck sets off for quadrent Alpha B, sector J7GH8.
As you arrive, General Waskity speaks:- "Make us proud son!"
You think to yourself, "military intelligence got me into a mess through the invasion, I hope it is more accurate now. I hope there is nothing out there except the pad home."
They then walk out of the truck and seal the door. All you have to do is walk over to that time pad......let's hope that there is no building, just a desert!!!!
THE SERIOUS DESCRIPTION FOLLOWS
Eerie, dungeon/castle type level designed for one player, or co-operative play. Many cool features, including DOOMs Donut eater! Will be used as E1M2 for a 9 level episode that I am working on. DEVINC.WAD is going to be E1M1. I will port it over to DOOM II soon. Lookout on this same FTP site for it.
id Software for DOOM/DOOM II. Matthew Ayers for WADED. Whoever sampled the Nirvana midi that I used. The people behind DCK. The people behind MIDI2MUS. Bill Neisius for DMMUSIC. Obituary, death metal band, for being great.|
New level from scratch.|
WADED, DMMUSIC, DCK, MIDI2MUS.|
None - please report any you find to me at the above E-Mail address.|
|Blah Blah Blah, Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah!||x|
|Poor, and a poor advert for the author's forthcoming "9 level episode" (which doesn't seem to have ever happened). It's basically a rote set of flat square rooms, same height, with an outdoors bit. You collect all three keys and then exit. The most exciting design feature is a twisty corridor. No detail, gameplay no more exciting than any set of square rooms with monsters in.||x| | <urn:uuid:77ee30ef-1b67-4c99-8d0a-0c932781b29e> | 2013-05-18T17:50:22Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Newest Review: ... she knows that if she is to escape the gangsters who are on her tail, she must trust the old woman. It's all the same to Aliide; &quo... more
What Price Freedom?
Purge - Sofi Oksanen
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Purge - Sofi Oksanen
Advantages: Cleverly woven plot; strong characters
Disadvantages: Some knowledge of recent Estonian history useful; quite brutal in parts
In rural Estonia elderly Aliide Truu spends her days canning fruit and vegetables and trying to ignore the harassment doled out by those of her neighbours who know about her Communist past. Now a widow she lives alone, her daughter having long ago moved away to Helsinki. She has tried to shut out the events of the past but when she finds the dishevelled Zara bruised and battered one morning in her yard, the sad and often brutal past looks set to re-surface.
At first Aliide believes that Zara is a decoy, sent by burglars to find out if there's anything of worth in the house and she's highly suspicious of the story that Zara tells her. Zara, too, is wary of Aliide even though she knows that if she is to escape the gangsters who are on her tail, she must trust the old woman. It's all the same to Aliide; "they might as well all come - Mafia thugs, soldiers - Reds and Whites - Russians, Germans, Estonians . . . Aliide would survive. She always had."
Over the course of the novel we learn the price of Aliide's survival and it's a dramatic and often horrific tale. The "purge" of the novel's title refers to the mass deportations (for the fortunate?) under Stalin's regime of those Estonians who had been reported (often by their neighbours, sometimes even by family members) of having collaborated with the Germans during their occupation of the country between 1941 and 1944.
Aliide's brother-in-law, Hans - whom Aliide has always wanted for herself - a peasant and a nationalist, goes into hiding to avoid being arrested by the Russians. Before long, Aliide, her sister and her sister's young daughter are taken in for questioning and are subjected to a terrifying sexual assault, after which ordeal the young girl becomes mute. Aliide deals with the situation by marrying Martin, a Communist party official, an act which will, she hopes, mark her out as co-operative and willing to submit; however, she still harbours her secret love for Hans and, behind Martin's back, she helps her sister to hide him.
"Purge" is an epic tale spanning over sixty years; it is by necessity lengthy and involved but it is vivid and compelling and told in such a way as to keep the reader thoroughly engaged. The story darts around but each chapter is clearly headed with a reminder of time and place. I did find the early part a little confusing (Estonia was first occupied by the Russians, then "liberated" by German troops before being taken again in 1944 when it became part of the Soviet Union; one failing of Sofi Oksanaen's storytelling is that it assumes an understanding of the timeline of twentieth century Estonian history that not all readers may have. At first the scenes run, not chronologically but darting here and there between Zara's and Aliide's stories and, for Aliide, the current day and several points in the past. By halfway in, though, the chronology is more conventional and manageable and the way the background to the current day reveals itself is a triumph of skilful writing combined with an excellent story.
Sofi Oksanen (she is Finnish-Estonian) is rather brave in telling the story of her ancestors; it must take some courage to so deliberately highlight the culpability of previous generations. When the story arrives at the point of independence from the Soviet Union, there are the unsurprising recriminations with Communists claiming to have simply been following orders. Aliide, though, believes that "too many people had dirty flour in their bags, and people with filthy fingers are hardly enthusiastic about digging up the past . . . those who poke around in the past will get a stick in the eye." To Aliide it doesn't matter who has the power and looking at the experiences of Aliide and Zara she might just be right. Both are the victims of sexual terror, affected in the same way but forty years apart. Aliide thinks to herself "Even if the ruble had changed to the kroon . . . there would always be . . . a boot on your neck" and when Tallinn gets its first sex shop, the fact that its run by ex-KGB men seems to bear out her theory.
As terrible as Zara's ordeal is, it is overshadowed by Aliide's behaviour and her betrayals which she justifies with her own warped sense of morality. "Purge" is frequently uncomfortable reading verging on the Gothic in terms of its darkness and power to shock. It's a thought provoking examination of conscience and morality in terrible circumstances but though its message may be grave, it never ceases to entertain with superbly developed characters - especially the highly complex Aliide - and clever and surprising twists. "Purge" is a challenging but worthwhile read but one that may require a brush up on your Estonian history.
Summary: A competent thriller set in twentieth century Estonia | <urn:uuid:4b148432-42bd-4df1-ae07-f57bbf394331> | 2013-05-18T17:19:13Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Posted by Honore on March 31, 2007, at 16:57:57
In reply to Betrayed and put into what type of condition?, posted by Phillipa on March 31, 2007, at 15:28:37
Since luvox wasn't doing much for you, Phillipa, why not try something else?
Even if the latest treatment didn't work, it makes sense, now that you're off the luvox, to go onto another type of AD, which might be more effective.
Just a thought. | <urn:uuid:6124bad4-e180-4f1d-8a4b-3d184b3e465c> | 2013-05-18T18:06:39Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Posted by Deneb on February 28, 2006, at 16:29:18
In reply to Re: More about loving Dr. Bob » Deneb, posted by JenStar on February 28, 2006, at 14:25:59
> But I would say that no, it isn't "real" love that you're feeling - not exactly. I think you've created a "Dr. Bob persona" in your mind, an ideal Dr. Bob, that treats you the way you'd like to be treated.
I'm not really sure what "real" love is. Is it love when I say I really "love" the colour green? I feel like I have an intense love with green. Maybe I feel the same way with Dr. Bob. Maybe I just like the small bits of himself he shows to us and maybe that is enough. With all my thinking of him I've not actually imagined many details about him. Sometimes I just feel things and I don't know why I feel them.
I think I still know what you mean. I don't really know Dr. Bob at all. I can only guess from what he does here what he is like. I must fill in a lot of blanks.
> Although I'm sure the REAL Dr. Bob is polite, conscientious and caring, he definitely won't be the same as the imaginary one. It might be a little disappointing. But I bet you'll get over in a few seconds and enjoy meeting the real guy.
I hope it won't be too disappointing. LOL. I think you're right. I think I'll be less infatuated after I meet him. I hope he uses full sentences! I wonder if he will talk to me? I wonder what we will all talk about?
I'm amazed by what you wrote JenStar! You have really good insight and you described things just right! | <urn:uuid:a721d116-ca0f-46b3-8adc-eb6ee10ac84a> | 2013-05-18T17:58:11Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Move through Fantasy and Reality while watching Asian Drama!
Description: "Love Rain" depicts a 1970's pure love and a love from the present day at the same time. It shows how the offsprings of a previous ill-fated couple, who met in the 1970s, managed to meet and fall in love. Seo In Ha and Kim Yoon Hee, a art student and a shy beauty, met and fell in love with each other during college in the 1970s but unfortunately their love was fated to never be. Now in the present 21st century Korea, Seo In Ha's son, Seo Joon (a liberal photographer) meets and falls in with the daughter of Kim Yoon Hee, Yuri, a cheerful and energetic girl who's personality is different from her mother's. Will their love for each other keep them together or will they have to face the same fate as their parents? | <urn:uuid:523271f8-f958-4bee-be65-54afc8c09b68> | 2013-05-18T17:48:03Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Mobile software development company Agile Fusion has released a free SDK for Android, iOS, and mobile web application developers. The mURL.cc SDK is positioned as a means of creating "deep links" when sharing in-app content that, when clicked, automatically launches a specified application to display the intended content.
In terms of form and function, if a developer creates a deep link to an application that is not installed on a particular machine or device, then mURL.cc redirects the user to the application's website or a URL hosting a download link.
The firm defines and describes a "deep link" as one that is that is smart enough to determine if an app is already installed, then launch that app within a scenario of "correct context and content" in terms of a user's ID.
According to Agile Fusion, this creates a richer end-user experience which, in turn, helps drive traffic to a developer's app and in-app content.
As a working example, imagine if a user were to click "Accept" in an email an invitation from LinkedIn on a mobile phone. Even if the app is already installed, it doesn't launch the app. Instead, you are directed to the LinkedIn site, where you're required to login and navigate to the appropriate page.
mURL.cc automatically determines if the app is installed once the user clicks "Accept" and launches the app.
NOTE: It is worth nothing that the use of this tool appears to assume that having a dedicated website "app" is a superior experience for the user. LinkedIn and/or any number of dedicated applications designed to serve news feeds, social media services, or perhaps even retail stores (for example) are favored by many; still, the option to keep one's device clear of too many apps and just opt for a simple web log in is arguably still a more attractive and preferred option for many users. | <urn:uuid:0b3d65dc-c6d3-4985-9907-7279b5585c4b> | 2013-05-18T18:06:02Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Microsoft Open Technologies has developed its open source focused subsidiary division to the point where it can now offer a public preview of its app store for Windows Azure. Known hereafter as VM Depot, this resource is intended to allow developers to construct, deploy, and share Linux configurations, create custom-made open source stacks, collaborate, and build new architectures.
VM Depot is described as a community-driven catalog of open source virtual machine images for Windows Azure, including preconfigured operating systems, applications, and development stacks.
The wider goal supports Microsoft's intention to push more open-source applications forward (running on Linux) as guest inhabitants on the Azure cloud service. Reports suggest that although Microsoft already operates a store for Azure with a defined developer focus, this development with VM Depot is perhaps more similar to what Amazon Web Services is doing with the Amazon Machine Images service.
The preview launch of VM Depot is an introduction of things to come: You can already easily deploy different Linux-based virtual machines that include custom and curated installations and configurations. We have the latest, full-fledged distributions of Debian, Alt Linux, and Mageia for your hacking pleasure," said Gianugo Rabellino, senior director of Open Source Communities at Microsoft Open Technologies.
Rabellino goes on to suggest that developers should grasp the chance to use the service, make comments, and rate the free offerings that exist on the portal. He also encourages programmers to "rate and remix" them to their own liking — and then of course share results with other members of the community.
"Or why don't you go ahead and just create a new one from scratch with your favorite software? For ultimate speed, you can quickly deploy images already customized for specific business scenarios," he enthused.
As complex as it may seem, Microsoft insists that VM Depot was "relatively easy to build" as it relies exclusively on published Azure APIs. The firm finishes by saying that VM Depot is another illustration of how the Azure platform is "effectively open" in it nature. | <urn:uuid:1f381104-76dc-43e3-9d32-637fa30ff7e7> | 2013-05-18T17:38:53Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Silverlight 3 doesn't offer native support for loading and rendering 3D models. However, Balder offers a very complete managed 3D engine for Silverlight 3. It achieved the necessary frame rate taking advantage of Silverlight's threading capabilities.
I've been working with Balder in many projects in the last year and I had the possibility to talk to Einar and Petri Wilhelmsen (two gaming gurus) about many potential performance improvements. Balder doesn't use the GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) to render 3D models. It uses a software rendering process. Silverlight 3 has many restrictions and you cannot access DirectX or OpenGL from a Silverlight application. Therefore, an efficient software rendering process was the only opportunity to bring 3D models to life in a Silverlight viewport.
There are other open source 3D engines offering some software rendering capabilities to Silverlight. However, one of Balder's key features is its optimization to take advantage of multiple logical cores (hardware threads) in the software rendering process. This way, it is capable of offering a very interesting frame rate when running on microprocessors with two or more logical cores (hardware threads). Silverlight 3 doesn't offer the new task-based programming included in .NET 4. You have to work with the classic .NET 3.5 Threading model in order to take advantage of multiple cores.
Balder's software rendering process had a reasonable performance. However, it was not enough to reach 60 frames per seconds (FPS) with dozens of 3D models being rendered in real-time. The software rendering process was using a single-threaded model, old-fashioned non-scalable sequential code. Rewriting a complete software rendering algorithm to take full advantage of multiple cores is indeed a very complex task.
However, there was a very easy to detect hotspot. A very easy to identify block of sequential code that could be broken down into many concurrent blocks of code. Balder's team worked to optimize this loop using multiple threads. They used wait handles to coordinate the start and the end of many concurrent loops. Of course, this process required a new design. It wasn't just a copy and paste. It wasn't a simple code refactoring. The new design had to consider concurrency. Nevertheless, as the focus was in just one block of code, it was easier to achieve faster results than rewriting the complete engine.
The performance improvements were really important. The rendering process was really faster when more than two logical cores were available. Balder became a really serious 3D engine with a high performance software rendering process. It has a great advantage over other 3D engines for Silverlight, because it uses many logical cores to improve its performance.
But wait, what about compatibility? There were many incompatibility problems with the new multithreaded version. A classic multithreading problem. Some code in the engine was supposed to run on the main UI thread (the only thread capable of making changes to the UI controls). In the optimization process, some of this code wasn't running on the main UI thread anymore. Therefore, some applications didn't work as expected. Luckily, the problem was solved in a newer version. This is a very interesting situation. When you optimize an engine to take advantage of multiple cores using concurrent code, you have to keep compatibility with previous versions. There is a lot of code prepared to use the services offered by this engine. Einar solved the problem in just a few hours.
Performance improvements in engines shouldn't destroy backward compatibility.
The parallel code used in Balder isn't perfect. There are many other possibilities to offer more scalability and to improve its performance. However, it's a good example of how to translate multicore power into application performance. I'm sure Balder's team is going to improve the engine in future versions and they'll be able to take even more advantage of multicore microprocessors.
What are you waiting for? It's time to go parallel. If you find a RIA running too slow, remember that you can take advantage of multiple cores in many programming languages used for developing RIAs.
You can read more details about Balder's optimizations in Balder Silverlight 3 optimization - round 1 by Einar Ingebrigtsen. you can compare the performance and the code for this 3D engine downloading the different versions from its Codeplex website. | <urn:uuid:f2d20647-f025-4662-8166-5577867c99f1> | 2013-05-18T18:08:02Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The Cardinal is probably one of the most recognizable and popular backyard birds because of its brilliant red color and crested head. It is a great bird to admire year-round. The color contrast of the brilliant red against fresh white snow really is a high point during the winter months.
Early settlers were said to have named this bird after the Cardinals of the Catholic Church who wore red robes.
Both sexes are accomplished songsters and may be heard at any time of year. Cardinals will mate for life and remain together throughout the entire year. That's why you will usually see a male and female together at your feeding station.
||They can be found across the eastern U.S. from lower Canada south to the Gulf Coast and west to Arizona and parts of Southern California. The Cardinal's range has expanded dramatically since 1886 when it was rarely seen north of the Ohio River. Habitat is typically dense thickets along fields, hedges, swamps, and parks and gardens.
||Cardinals are not migratory. Their bright plumage brings color to our yards during the winter when many other species have flown south. In winter, most cardinals flock and roost together but, at other times of the year, they are quite territorial. In flocks, males dominate females when feeding. It is also nice to hear a pair calling to each other in late winter or early spring.
||A Cardinal's nesting season lasts from March to August. They usually raise 2-3 broods a year. The female builds a nest of small twigs and grasses in a shrub or dense bush. She lays about 3-4 white to greenish eggs that average about one inch in length. The female usually incubates the eggs, which takes 12-13 days. However, after the eggs hatch, the male tends to the chicks while the female incubates her next brood. Young leave the nest after 9-10 days. Male Cardinals often feed the females while courting and when they're nesting.
||About 90% of the Cardinal's food consists of weed seeds, grains, insects, fruits, and
sunflower seeds. They prefer seeds that are easily husked. Cardinals are less selective during winter in the colder climates. Cardinals also drink maple sap from holes made by sapsuckers.
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||Cardinals range from 8 to 9 inches long, with a wingspread of 10-1/4 to 12 inches across. The adult male is bright red with a black face and red bill. The adult female is buff-brown with a red tinge to the crest, wings, and tail. Like the male, the face is black and the bill orange.
||Male and female Cardinals both sing. Songs are loud, beautiful whistled phrases. Some songs you may hear sound like "whoit whoit whoit" and "whacheer whacheer." These songs are used in forming territories and in courtship. Male and female cardinals use "chirps" as contact calls and alarms. They also have many visual displays such as "tail-flicks" to signal alarm. The crest may be raised and lowered. Strongly territorial, males will fight other males, along with their own reflection in windows!
||Create a dense hedge or thicket around your backyard. Cardinals are especially fond of roosting and nesting in honeysuckle thickets. Provide open areas with trees and berry producing shrubs such as mulberry, blueberry, grape, and dogwood. At
feeding stations, they prefer unhulled
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white proso millet, bread, nutmeats and
peanut butter mixes. Offer a
source of water for drinking and bathing.
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Honoré is walking down the street, preparing to meet with Emily and pondering how he will make a living once rationing comes to an end, when an elderly medieval knight suddenly materialises out of thin air, attacks him, and passes out. Honoré reads the man's timeline and discovers that he has travelled through time from the 11th century. When Emily arrives and Honoré tells her what's happened, she becomes intrigued and convinces him to investigate. Together, they leap back along the man's time-snake to the camp of Godfrey de Bouillion, one of the crusaders laying siege to the city of Antioch. The newcomers' strange clothing attracts attention, and Honoré's skin colour marks him out as a Saracen -- and when a man is found dead in the camp with a look of terror on his face, Honoré and Emily are accused of murder.
Godfrey has Honoré thrown into a pit to await punishment, but a kind young knight named Simon offers to place Emily under his protection, apparently hoping to convince her to reject the "devil-worshipping" Saracen with whom she's been associating. Emily eventually manages to convince Godfrey that she is not responsible for the death, and he allows her to examine the body of this man and the other, similar victims that have been found. The bodies have strange puncture marks on their necks and have already begun to decompose, as if the energy binding the bodies together has been drained out of them. Simon introduces Emily to Alice, a woman who claims to have had a religious vision; however, while Alice is convinced that she saw St Luke arrive in the camp, Emily privately believes that Alice in fact witnessed the time-traveller's arrival.
Emily convinces Simon to release Honoré, and together, they question Bishop Adhemar of Le Puy, who claims to have seen the dead walking between the camp and the city. Their investigation stalls at this point, but while they are discussing their next move, Honoré and Emily hear a scream and find themselves frozen in place, unable to move as a strange slurping sound echoes from outside. Honoré forces himself to move, and catches a glimpse of a large, slug-like creature slithering away from its latest victim. Pinned beneath the body is a coin from Antioch, and Honoré thus asks Simon for permission to lead a small raiding party into the city, partly for supplies and partly to investigate this lead. Simon insists that Emily remain in the camp, where it's safe, and Honoré shakes his hand to seal the deal -- but as he does, he catches a glimpse of Simon's time-snake, which is unlike any other he's ever seen. When he takes a look at the time-snakes of the nearby knights, he sees that they've all been unnaturally truncated, as if something is about to cause them to die before their time.
Honoré sneaks into the city, accompanied by a preacher named Peter and two of Simon's vassals, Timothy and Edward. Seeking to avoid bloodshed, he convinces the reluctant Christians to pretend to be his servants, and they remain silent while he strikes a deal with one of the Saracen commanders, Firuz, to trade food and supplies with the crusaders in exchange for an agreement to negotiate terms. At the last moment, however, Timothy and Edward turn on their escort, kill them and open the gates of the city. Edward is killed in the subsequent fighting, but the crusaders successfully breach the gates and break the siege.
Furious with himself for his gullibility, but unable to prevent the ensuing slaughter, Honoré sets off with Peter to investigate rumours of a Christian knight living at the Church of St Peter in the heart of the city. The knight in question turns out to be a younger version of the elderly knight from 1950, and Peter identifies him as Reynald, former Earl of Marseille and traitor to the Christian cause. Timothy arrives, recognises Reynald and tries to kill him, but is halted in his tracks by the manifestation of a skeletal knight. Reynald banishes the spectre with a spearhead that the horrified Timothy concludes must be the Lance used to pierce Christ's side -- and while Timothy is distracted, Reynald stabs him with the Lance, draining the life out of his body and leaving only a rapidly decaying corpse. He then attacks Honoré and stabs him in the leg with the Lance, but their close proximity allows Honoré to read Reynald's time-snake -- while, at the same time, Reynald is able to read Honoré's. Not only are they both time-channellers, but they share a common ancestor.
Emily leaves the Christian camp to look for Honoré, and leads a group of crusaders to the church, where they overpower Reynald just in time to save Honoré's life. The tide of the battle then turns as Saracen reinforcements arrive from Kerbogha, but despite the danger, Honoré insists that Emily find Simon and try to convince him that they have a more important battle to fight, in the church. Emily makes her way back to the crusaders' camp, and as she tells Simon her story, a slug-like creature materialises out of thin air and attacks Simon's vassals, killing one and injuring another. Simon asks Emily to stay and tend to the injured Aimery while he enters the city to deal with Reynald, but Aimery dies despite her efforts, and she thus follows Simon into the city.
Honoré returns to the church to find that Reynald has killed his captors and is using the Lance to summon the true object of his worship: the Fendahl. The summoning causes a localised time-storm that throws Honoré out of the church, and he awakens to find Fendahleen roaming the streets, sucking the life out of anyone they encounter. Simon contacts Honoré and claims that only Honoré can defeat Reynald, as the other knights are too frightened to confront the renegade -- but when they return to the church, they find it littered with bodies, and Honoré realises that Simon lied to him. Though Simon is clearly no coward, he seems determined not to confront Reynald himself; convinced that Simon is hiding something, Honoré forces the issue by overpowering Simon and flinging him at Reynald. Reynald stabs Simon with the Lance, but instead of dying, Simon transforms into an angelic being, similar to the time creature Honoré and Emily encountered in 1921. Simon was sent back in Time to stop the Fendahl from manifesting here, but thanks to Honoré's interference, Reynald has accelerated his plans and is now close to success.
Reynald takes the Lance to the roof of the church, where he is struck by lightning and completes his transformation into the Fendahl Core. Emily arrives and attacks him, but he tries to convince her to join him and spread the Fendahl's reign of death throughout all time and space. Horrified to realise that part of her finds this appealing, Emily prepares to sacrifice herself by jumping through time with Reynald to take him away from this place. However, upon realising what she intends to do, Simon finally takes responsibility for his own fight, moves Emily to safety and attacks Reynald himself. As Simon tries to force Reynald through Time, Reynald struggles to resist, causing his own personal timeline to advance; as Emily and Honoré watch, Reynald ages decades within seconds, and merges with Simon's own timeline as he does so. Finally, the two beings become one, and Reynald becomes too old and weak to unleash the full force of the Fendahl within him. Reynald and Honoré share one last glimpse of each other's timelines, and then Reynald disappears; presumably Simon has taken him into the future to meet Honoré in 1950 and ensure that these events take place.
Without Reynald, the Lance is a harmless shard of bone; Honoré gives it to Peter, who intends to use it as a symbol to inspire the crusaders to victory. Honoré and Emily then make a series of leaps forward along people's timelines until they're back home in 1950. The elderly knight has vanished, and Honoré and Emily are unsure whether Simon has taken Reynald to a place of safety or merely shuffled the problem of the Fendahl off onto someone else. In any case, they now have other things to fear; Honoré saw nothing in his future when he looked through Reynald's eyes, and Emily is concerned that she found the concept of mass death appealing in some way. Perhaps she has amnesia because, like Simon, she's trying to reject her true nature -- and perhaps she's right to do so... | <urn:uuid:e1e37401-d17f-415a-99f6-e8ec411972eb> | 2013-05-18T18:05:28Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Create a Continuous Binding Strip for Your Quilt
When making bias strips for your quilt, you can either create one long strip or cut individual strips and then sew them together to get the length you need. You can use either of these methods to produce different types of bias binding.
To end up with a continuous binding strip, follow these steps:
Cut a 44" x 44" square of fabric (with selvages removed) in half diagonally to make two large triangles (see a in the following figure).
The square is cut on-grain at this point.Making a continuous bias strip.
You now have a trapezoid shape with two bias edges (upper and lower).
Decide how wide you need the binding to be, and mark lines on the wrong side of the fabric using a ruler (refer to c in the preceding figure).
Stitch the short ends of the fabric together (right sides facing), off-setting the lines by one strip line to form a funny-looking tube (refer to d in the preceding figure).
Carefully press the seam allowance open.
With scissors, cut the binding in one continuous strip, starting at the offset overhang and cutting along the marked lines.
A symbol (asterisk) in a written stitch pattern indicating that whatever follows gets repeated.
A symbol (bullet) in a written stitch pattern indicating that whatever follows gets repeated.
A synthetic fiber used to make yarn that mimics the look and feel of natural materials.
1. The Afghan crochet stitch produces a rather solid fabric that closely resembles a knitted fabric. 2. An afghan (lowercase a) is a soft blanket or shawl, crocheted or knitted, often in a geometric design
Abbreviation for approximately.
To knit or crochet stitches at an angle on the back (or wrong) side of a fabric, producing a pattern in which the stitches overlap.
A type of crochet stitch in which you insert your hook around the post of a stitch that's one or more rows below the current row, creating raised patterns that appear to recede on the side of the fabric facing you.
A stitch used to assemble knitted pieces by using a tapestry needle, going in and out of the stitches in knitted fabrics.
Yarn wound around a cardboard center or an open hole.
A knitted border on a piece of knitted fabric that keeps the center edge from stretching; adds a neat trim to an otherwise rough-looking edge; and creates a place for fastenings such as buttons. Most often appears on cardigan sweaters.
1. A type of knitting increase that leaves a horizontal bar under the increased stitch. 2. In filet crochet, a long space that crosses over the two blocks or spaces, or the one lacet, below it.
A knitting stitch pattern that creates a fabric that looks like a woven basket.
Knitting pattern abbreviation for beginning.
Crochet pattern abbreviation for between.
To make a finished edge by securing the knitted stitches in the last row worked, which prevents unraveling.
A crochet stitch used to assemble crocheted pieces, adding some stability to the backside of a seam made with long stitches, such as triple crochet.
1. (verb) To wet down or steam a piece of knitting or crochet in order to coax it into its final shape. The moisture and/or heat smoothes out uneven stitches and straightens out wavy, rolling edges. 2. (noun) The actual crocheted substance of a filet crochet design.
Wooden sock- or mitten-shaped template with biscuit-type holes cut out to aid air circulation when blocking a knitted or crocheted piece.
A flat surface made from a material that you can stick a pin into, often marked with a 1-inch grid to aid in blocking a knitted or crocheted piece.
Long, slightly flexible stainless steel wires in various lengths that you thread through the edges of your knitted pieces so that you can pin a knitted or crocheted piece into place for blocking without the edges becoming scalloped at the pin sites.
Crochet pattern abbreviation for back loop only.
A piece of shaped plastic used to keep colored yarns separate while knitting or crocheting with multiple colors and strands of yarn. You wrap one color of yarn per bobbin. Commonly used in Fair Isle and intarsia knitting.
A highly bumpy, textured yarn composed of loops.
A knitting stitch that has the same look and feel as seed stitch, but on a larger scale.
A thick, heavy fabric into which raised patterns have been woven.
Knit pattern abbreviation for cable 4 back, meaning a cable worked over 4 stitches from behind your work.
Knit pattern abbreviation for cable 4 front, meaning a cable worked over 4 stitches in front of your work.
Knit pattern abbreviation for cable 6 back, meaning a cable worked over 6 stitches from behind your work.
Knit pattern abbreviation for cable 6 front, meaning a cable worked over 6 stitches in front of your work.
A knit pattern in which you cross one group of stitches over another by knitting them out of order.
A short knitting needle that's point at both ends, has a divot or curve toward the middle, and is used to hold stitches temporarily while you work on their neighbors.
When knitting or crocheting with different colors, the process of moving yarn not in use to the next position it will be used by working it into the stitches being made in another color, rather than fastening off and rejoining the yarn with each color change.
Create a series of loops on one needle as a knitted starting row. The opposite is to bind off or cast off.
Crocheting or knitting stitch pattern abbreviation for contrasting color.
A simple, common crocheting stitch used to make a crochet piece's foundation and to start new rows.
A type of yarn material (usually made of rayon or cotton) with an attractive appearance and velvety texture.
Knitting pattern that makes the fabric form arrow-like shapes.
A crocheting or knitting technique that works the stitches in a continuous, spiral-like fashion without turning the piece; also called crocheting or knitting in the round.
A knitting needle designed especially for circular knitting, made up of one long double-pointed needle in a circular shape.
A set of crochet stitches that you work across an equal number of stitches and join together at the top, forming a triangle shape that resembles an upside-down shell stitch.
Knitting style in which you hold the yarn in your left hand and pick the stitches through each loop.
A soft, white natural fiber from plants, often made into yarn.
Worked like a single crochet stitch, but from left to right, rather than right to left.
A style of embroidery that's worked with any type of yarn, rather than thread.
A kind of needlework in which loops of a yarn are interwoven by means of a single hooked needle, or crochet hook.
A specialized needle with a hook at one end used to create crochetwork.
To knit or crochet stitches at an angle, producing a pattern in which the stitches overlap; crosses can be in the back or front of a stitched fabric.
A type of needlework, usually done with thread, in which stitches are crossed in the form of an X on some surface.
A band or fold at the end of a sleeve.
Removing stitches from a crocheted or knitted row to create a piece with sophisticated shaping; abbreviated dec.
One of the most common crochet stitches, it's about twice as tall as a single crochet; abbreviated dc. Compare with single crochet.
Decreasing 2 stitches at the same time; abbreviated dbl dec.
Increasing 2 stitch in the same place; abbreviated dbl inc.
A long space in filet crochet that crosses over the two blocks or spaces, or the one lacet, below it.
A tall crochet stitch that creates a loose and holey fabric.
Knitting needle that has a point at each end.
How a knitted or crocheted fabric falls, including how much movement the fabric allows.
Adding loops to your crochet hook by crocheting a row onto a foundation chain.
A knit stitch or purl stitch that has fallen off the knitting needle, leaving that stitch unworked.
A simple way of adding an additional color to your knitting without actually knitting with that color; instead, you embroider the additional color on the fabric, mimicking the stitch it covers.
The batch of dye with which a certain yarn was colored.
The quality or condition of being elastic, meaning springy, flexible, and resilient.
To decorate a fabric with a design in needlework, usually by using embroidery floss.
A style of knitting in which the knitter holds the yarn in his or her right hand and wraps it around the right-hand (RH) needle as he or she creates stitches.
1. A small hole through which you pass something, such as a button. 2. A type of lace pattern characterized by small openwork motifs distributed over a solid fabric.
A liquid medium that you apply to a worked piece during blocking, which dries invisible and makes your fabric rigid.
A kind of knitted lace pattern composed of nothing but the simplest lace-making unit — a yarn over followed (or preceded) by a decrease.
Knitting technique, also called stranding, that involves color patterns using more than one color in a row. You can work with two strands of yarn, carrying them along the back of your work, and picking up and dropping them as needed.
A filet crochet stitch that looks somewhat like a V and is worked across five stitches or the width of two spaces.
To cut the yarn in a crocheted piece and then draw it through a loop on the crochet hook at the end of the design or the end of that particular yarn's use in the design.
To transform knitting or crochetwork into a dense, sturdy fabric by running the finished piece through the washing machine.
A crochet technique that imitates a 17th-century form of lace worked on mesh netting stretched across a frame, which has evolved into a series of blocks and spaces that form a design.
Wool from a sheep or similar animal.
The strand on the wrong side of loose stitches that connects those stitches.
A soft, loosely twisted thread or yarn used in embroidery.
A crochet stitch pattern abbreviation for front loop only.
A crochet or knitting stitch pattern abbreviation meaning follows or following.
A series of chain stitches that creates your first row of crochet.
A border or trimming of cords or threads, hanging loose or tied in bunches.
To knit or crochet stitches at an angle on the front (or right) side of a fabric, producing a pattern in which the stitches overlap.
A type of crochet stitch in which you insert your hook around the post of a stitch that's one or more rows below the current row, creating raised patterns on the surface of the fabric facing you.
A knitting stitch that you create by simply knitting (or purling) every row.
The number of knitted or crocheted stitches and rows there are to an inch of fabric.
A way to join two knitted pieces that mock knits by using a tapestry needle, creating a very stretchy and almost invisible join.
A crochet stitch in between a single crochet and a double crochet in height, which you work by drawing the yarn through three loops on the crochet hook.
A knitting stitch that creates a fabric that looks and feels like a woven fabric.
A technique used to make combination stitches, such as the puff or cluster. The stitch is worked only partway, and then finished at the end of the combination.
A large circle of yarn twisted into a figure-8 shape.
A type of yarn that has been blended from a number of different-colored or -dyed fleeces, and then spun; muted in color.
A border on a garment or piece of cloth, usually made by folding the edge and sewing it down.
A technique used to knit a cord that curls in on itself.
To add stitches to a row so that the row has more stitches than the previous row.
A knitting technique that works with different colors without using floats; instead, each color area has its own strand of yarn, and you intertwine the yarns when it's time to work in another color.
To connect separate pieces of knitting or crochet by using one of a variety of techniques.
A knitting stitch pattern abbreviation for knit 2 stitches together.
A knitting stitch pattern abbreviation for knit in stitch below
An explanation of symbols used in a stitch chart.
1. (verb) To make cloth by interconnecting loops of yarn or thread in rows of stitches by using a pair of special needles. 2. (noun) A particular stitch in knitting that goes into the stitch from front to back.
A crochet stitch that looks like rows of Vs nesting in the row below, much like a knitting knit stitch.
A knitting stitch pattern abbreviation for knit stitch through the back of the loop.
A knitting stitch pattern abbreviation for knitwise (as if to knit).
A fabric knitted or crocheted in ornamental designs with various-sized holes.
A fancy crochet stitch that looks somewhat like a V and is worked across five stitches or the width of two spaces.
Left-hand needle; the knitting needle that you hold in your left hand.
A slick, smooth strand of floss or yarn that you thread with a tapestry needle through the last row of stitches below a mistake you've made in knitted lace, which allows you to put stitches back on your needle if you rip out too many when correcting the mistake.
A yarn, cloth, or thread made of flax, a plant fiber.
Description of a stitch that's still on the knitting needle.
A single crochet stitch that you work into either the tops of stitches or spaces between stitches one or more rows below the current row, creating a vertical spike of yarn that extends over several rows of stitches.
1. The section of yarn wrapped around your crochet hook or knitting needle with which you work to form new stitches. 2. Three or more crochet chain stitches worked in a row.
A knitting increase in which you create a new, separate stitch between 2 stitches that are already on the needle.
A type of plied yarn in which the plies are different colors.
A type of knitting stitch that creates a practically invisible and nicely flexible seam for joining pieces side by side.
A crocheting and knitting stitch pattern abbreviation for main color, used in multicolored patterns.
A fuzzy yarn made from the long, silky hair of the Angora goat, often mixed with other fibers.
A knitting pattern of repeating geometric shapes.
A knitting stitch that's an elongated version of seed stitch, in which you work 2 rows of the same sequence of knits and purls, then alternate them.
A crocheting or knitting design with a repeating figure or shape.
A knitting needle; an eyeless, usually long, needle of metal or plastic that has a blunt point at one or both ends, used in pairs when knitting by hand.
A synthetic fiber with great strength and elasticity.
A lace pattern that has more openings than solid spaces in its composition.
A knitting stitch pattern abbreviation for purl 2 stitches together.
The sequence of crochet or knit stitches that, when repeated, create a certain fabric; either written out with abbreviations or presented in a chart. Abbreviated as pat.
A knitting stitch pattern abbreviation for purl in the stitch below.
1. To use knitting needles and yarn to pull up new loops along a knitted edge and knit a border on that edge. 2. To fix a dropped stitch.
A little round-shaped crochet stitch that add a decorative touch to an edging or fill an empty space in a mesh design.
1 (noun) A small, thin piece of rustproof metal, often T-shaped. 2. (verb) To secure a knitted or crocheted fabric to the blocking board by using rustproof, non-plastic pins.
A finished slit on a garment that has a fastener, such as on the collar of a shirt, to make it easy to put on and take off.
The number of smaller strands twisted together to form the larger single strand of yarn.
A type of synthetic compound, such as nylon.
A fabric made from synthetic material also used in making plastics.
An ornamental ball or tuft of yarn often attached to garments and curtains.
A crochet stitch that forms a rounded, compact oval that stands out from the fabric.
A crochet stitch made by inserting your hook around the post of a stitch that's one or more rows below the current row; can be worked in the front or back of the post.
A knitting stitch pattern abbreviation for pass slipped stitch over; used for decreasing.
A crochet stitch that gently puffs up into an oval shape.
A knitting stitch that you create by working a knit stitch backwards, going into the stitch from back to front.
A crochet stitch that looks like rows of rounded bumps, much like a knitting purl stitch.
A synthetically produced textile fiber produced by pressing a cellulose solution through small holes and solidifying it into filaments.
A crocheting and knitting stitch pattern abbreviation for remains or remaining.
A given stitch sequence or combination. Stitch patterns are based on stitch repeats and row repeats. A given stitch sequence repeats horizontally across a row. A series of rows of given stitch sequences repeats vertically. Together they make up a stitch pattern that makes the fabric smooth, bumpy, cabled, or striped.
Right-hand needle; the knitting needle that you hold in your right hand.
A crochet or knit stitch pattern that creates textured vertical stripes.
To undo knitted stitches by removing the loops from the needle and pulling the yarn to unravel the stitches.
A knitting stitch pattern in whcih purl stitches make wavy lines.
A single line of stitches crocheted or knitted in the round; abbreviated rnd.
A single line of stitches crocheted or knitted in a flat pattern.
A crocheting and knitting stitch pattern abbreviation for right side, meaning the side that will be displayed when used/worn.
The horizontal strand of yarn that connects the first stitch on each needle when working a make 1 increase.
A small outline drawing of each piece of a knitted or crocheted project pattern.
1. (verb) Joining two pieces of material with a line of stitches. 2. (noun) The line along which two pieces of material are joined.
A knitting stitch that has a regular texture of little bumps that look a bit like seeds.
An extra stitch at the edge of your knitted fabric that (in combination with others) serves to create an even, stable border. Also spelled selvage.
To join or fasten with stitches using a sewing needle and thread.
The portion of a crochet hook that holds the loops you're working with; its diameter largely determines the size of the stitches.
A projection, such as a ring, on the back of a button by which you sew it onto a fabric.
A crochet stitch that involves working from 3 to 5 double crochet stitches all in the same stitch; the pattern looks like a seashell.
A yarn material made from the soft, shiny fiber produced by silkworms from their cocoons.
A long crocheted strip of very short vertical single crochet rows.
A compact, fundamental crochet stitch that creates a tight, dense fabric. Compare with double crochet.
The most common form of yarn packaging; an oblong, machine-wound bundle of yarn.
To move a stitch from one knitting needle to the other without working that stitch.
The first stitch you form on your knitting needle or crochet hook to begin a project.
A flat or small knitting or crochet stitch that you use mostly as a utility stitch or a technique for activities like making a seam or joining a new ball of yarn.
The opening in a piece of crochetwork created by working 1 or more chain stitches in between other stitches.
A process to block your crochetwork or knitting by spraying the fabric with water to dampen it, then laying the fabric in the intended shape.
A knitting stitch pattern abbreviation for slip, slip, knit the slip stitches together, which creates a left-slanting decrease.
A tasteless, odorless substance used to stiffen and shape fabrics.
Using a steam iron to block the shape of a knitted or crocheted piece.
A shortcut used to open up a knitted tube in which you sew or crochet two vertical lines of stitches an inch or so apart, then cut the stitches that fall between those lines.
A small ring that you add to your knitting or crochet work to remind you where you need to make a change to your needlework, such as the beginning of a round or the spot to work an increase.
A single loop of yarn worked off a needle in knitting or crocheting.
A knitting stitch which you create by alternating a knit row with a purl row.
To crochet, generally with yarn, onto a crocheted background; resembles embroidery.
1. (verb) To make a sample of knitted fabric for various reasons, including measuring gauge and practice. 2. (noun) The knitted fabric sample created by swatching.
A tool that looks like a wooden umbrella, which is specially designed to help untwist a hank of yarn.
The loose bit of yarn left after you finish knitting or crocheting your pattern.
A large-eye needle with a blunt point that you use to sew knitted pieces together.
An ornamental tuft of threads of equal length, hanging loosely from a knob or from the knot by which they're tied together.
1. (noun) A light, fine, string-like length of material made up of two or more spun fibers. 2. (verb) To put a thread through the eye of a sewing or tapestry needle, or to work that threaded needle through a fabric.
The part of a crochet hook that does the actual hooking of the yarn and pulls that yarn through a stitch.
A crocheting and knitting stitch pattern abbreviation for together.
A type of closure that has a ring on one end and bar on the other; the bar slides through the ring vertically and then lays on the ring horizontally to keep it from coming back through.
A crochet stitch which is slightly longer than the double crochet and which creates longer openings between the stitches, producing a very loose fabric.
A crochet stitch that involves creating a length equivalent to 5 chain stitches by using a yarn over 4 times.
Reversing your crochet work so that you can start a new row of stitches.
The 1 or more chain stitches that you crochet after you've turned your work and are about to begin your next row so that your yarn is at the height necessary to work the first stitch of the next row or round.
A wool yarn with a background color flecked with bits of fiber in different colors.
A smaller version of a knit cable that consists of 2 stitches, 1 crossing over its neighbor.
Dyed in several different colors or shades, such as yarn.
A synthetic material often used to make rayon and other synthetic yarns.
A crochet stitch made up of a double crochet, chain, and double crochet stitch all in the same stitch, forming a V shape.
To work the remaining bit of yarn into already-created stitches to hide the tail.
The thickness of a yarn.
An ancient name for a knitted horizontal stripe.
Getting a piece of knitting or crochetwork completely wet in a sink or basin of water before laying it out to shape it.
A stitch used to join crocheted rows of short stitches, such as single crochet, worked with a tapestry or sewing needle and yarn or thread.
A machine with a crank that turns a spindle, which can wind and unwind a skein of yarn attached to the winder.
Yarn spun from the fibers of sheep, goat, llama, or other animal hair.
An adjustable wooden frame with arms that you can dress with your wet, knitted or crocheted garment to block that garment.
Crochet a designated stitch or stitches across the whole length of a row.
A smooth, firmly twisted thread or yarn made from long-staple wool combed to make the fibers lie in the same direction.
A crocheting and knitting stitch pattern abbreviation for wrong side, meaning the side that will be hidden when used/worn.
Any fiber, such as wool or nylon, spun into strands for knitting or crocheting.
The hand that's feeding the yarn from the ball or skein. In crochet, the hand not holding the hook.
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Famous Women in Astronomy
Part of the Astronomy For Dummies Cheat Sheet
When you’re studying astronomy don’t forget the women that made an impact in the field. Check out this list of amazing achievements by women astronomers and astrophysicists:
Caroline Herschel (1750–1848) Discovered eight comets.
Annie Jump Cannon (1863–1941) Devised the basic method for classifying the stars.
Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868–1921) Discovered the first accurate method for measuring great distances in space.
Sally Ride (1951–2012) A trained astrophysicist, she is the first American woman in space.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell Discovered pulsars in her work as a graduate student.
E. Margaret Burbidge Pioneered modern studies of galaxies and quasars.
Wendy Freedman Leader in measuring the expansion rate of the universe.
Carolyn C. Porco Leads the Cassini imaging science team in the study of Saturn and its moons and rings.
Nancy G. Roman As NASA’s first chief astronomer, she led the development of telescopes in space.
Vera C. Rubin Investigated the rotation of galaxies and detected the existence of dark matter.
Carolyn Shoemaker Discovered many comets, including one that smashed into Jupiter.
Jill Tarter Leader in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. | <urn:uuid:c1a9e1d0-9350-465a-a08c-c188f4ed1b70> | 2013-05-18T17:58:32Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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How to Enter Basic Formulas in Excel 2007
As entries go in Excel 2007, formulas are the real workhorses of the worksheet. If you set up a formula properly, it computes the right answer when you first enter it into a cell. From then on, it keeps itself up to date, recalculating the results whenever you change any of the values that the formula uses.
You let Excel know that you’re about to enter a formula in the current cell by starting the formula with the equal sign (=). Some formulas follow the equal sign with a built-in function, such as SUM or AVERAGE. Many simple formulas use a series of values or cell references that contain values separated by one or more of the following mathematical operators:
+ (plus sign) for addition
- (minus sign or hyphen) for subtraction
* (asterisk) for multiplication
/ (slash) for division
^ (caret) for raising a number to an exponential power
For example, to create a formula in cell C2 that multiplies a value entered in cell A2 by a value in cell B2, enter the following formula in cell C2: =A2*B2
To enter this formula in cell C2, follow these steps:
Select cell C2.
Type the entire formula =A2*B2 in the cell.
Select cell C2.
Type = (equal sign).
Select cell A2 in the worksheet by using the mouse or the keyboard.
This action places the cell reference A2 in the formula in the cell.To start the formula, type = and then select cell A2.
Type * (Shift+8 on the top row of the keyboard).
The asterisk is used for multiplication in Excel.
Select cell B2 in the worksheet by using the mouse or the keyboard.
This action places the cell reference B2 in the formula.To complete the second part of the formula, type * and select cell B2.
Click the Enter box (the check mark in the Formula bar) to complete the formula entry, while at the same time keeping the cell cursor in cell C2.
Excel displays the calculated answer in cell C2 and the formula =A2*B2 in the Formula bar.Click the Enter box, and Excel displays the answer in cell C2 while the formula appears in the Formula bar above.
If you select the cell you want to use in a formula, either by clicking it or moving the cell pointer to it, you have less chance of entering the wrong cell reference.
After creating a formula like the preceding one that refers to the values in certain cells (rather than containing those values itself), you can change the values in those cells, and Excel automatically recalculates the formula, using these new values and displaying the updated answer in the worksheet! Using the example shown in the figures, suppose that you change the value in cell B2 from 100 to 50. The moment that you complete this change in cell B2, Excel recalculates the formula and displays the new answer, 1000, in cell C2. | <urn:uuid:12d6c5bf-9b7b-40ab-9be2-047a27d2fee2> | 2013-05-18T17:49:49Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Why Teach Engineering In High School?
This PDF document and this PowerPoint file from the American Society for Engineering Education provide an overview of why teaching engineering in high school makes sense. Some of the benefits include:
- Engineering topics are everywhere
- Engineering combines math and science topics into real world projects
- Engineering requires group work, so all students can participate while learning their math and science
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It is particularly tragic that rotor blade (and tail rotor blade) strike mishaps, along with airmen, have included bystanders, passengers, and children among the injured persons. Rotor strike mishaps differ from other aircraft mishaps in that they usually result in fatal or serious injury. This is due to the fact that a rotor rotating under power, even at slow speed, has sufficient force to inflict serious injury. It should be remembered that a rotating rotor is extremely dangerous and should be treated with all due caution.
The rotor is difficult to see when in operation, and the nonprofessional public is often not aware of its danger. Even personnel familiar with the danger of a turning rotor are likely to forget it.
1. Some manufacturers of rotor blades use paint schemes to increase the conspicuity of the blades. Owners should give strong consideration to maintaining the conspicuity paint scheme of the original manufacturer.
2. In the event that the paint scheme does not lend itself to conspicuity, the owner should consider having the blade repainted. A customized paint scheme should not be used until an evaluation is made by a person qualified to determine that it will not interfere with the pilot's visibility, promote vertigo, or create an unbalanced blade condition.
3. In August of 1978, the FAA issued Report No. FAA-AM-78-29, Conspicuity Assessment of Selected Propeller and Tail Rotor Paint Schemes. The report summarizes the evaluation of three paint schemes for airplane propellers and two for helicopter tail rotor blades. The document is available to the public through the National Technical Information Service, Springfield, Virginia 22161.
In-Flight Crew Personnel
Persons directly involved with enplaning or deplaning passengers and aircraft servicing should be instructed as to their specific duties through proper training, with emphasis placed on the dangers of rotating rotors. Ramp attendants and passenger handling personnel should be made aware of the proper procedures and methods of directing passengers to and from parked aircraft. The following safety measures should be considered to help prevent accidents on airport ramp areas:
1. When the possibility of passengers wandering on the ramp exists, physical barriers should be provided such as rope stanchions from the aircraft to the terminal doors.
2. Airport management personnel should be on the alert to keep unauthorized persons from milling around on ramps among parked aircraft. When spectators are permitted to view and move among aircraft parked on a ramp, the airport management personnel should caution those persons to stay clear of all propellers and not touch or move them.
3. Helicopter landing and ramp areas should be marked and provided with safety barriers to restrict access by unauthorized persons.
4. Tail rotor danger areas should be clearly marked on ramp areas. Helicopters should be parked with tail rotors within the marked area.
Aircraft Service Personnel
Persons directly involved with aircraft service are most vulnerable to injuries by rotors. Working around aircraft places them in the most likely position for possible rotor strike mishaps. Aircraft service personnel should develop the following safety habits:
1. Treat all rotors as if they were turning, remain clear of the rotor arcs.
2. Remember when removing an external power source from an aircraft, keep the equipment and yourself clear of the rotor.
3. Always stand clear of rotor blade paths (rotor arc's), especially when moving the rotor. Particular caution should be practiced around warm engines.
4. Ground personnel should be given recurrent rotor safety lectures to keep them alert to dangers when working around helicopters.
5. Be sure all equipment and personnel are clear of an aircraft before giving the pilot the signal to depart.
Flight Personnel / Flight Instructors (CFI's)
Prior to starting an engine, flight personnel should make certain that all personnel are clear of the rotor.
1. The engine of a helicopter should be shut down (and rotor stopped / rotor brake engaged if equipped) before boarding or deplaning passengers. This is the simplest method of avoiding mishaps.
2. Boarding or deplaning of passengers, with an engine running, should only be allowed under close supervision. The pilot in command should have knowledge that either the company or the airport operator has ground attendants fully trained in their specific duties to board or deplane passengers from an aircraft with an engine(s) running / rotors spinning. The pilot should instruct passengers, before they exit an aircraft with an engine(s) running / rotors spinning, the path to follow to avoid the rotor blades.
3. When it is necessary to discharge a passenger from an aircraft on which the engine is running / rotors spinning, never have the aircraft with the tail rotor in the path of the passenger's route from the aircraft.
4. When flight and ground instructors are instructing their students about rotors, they should emphasize the dangers of rotating rotor blades. Safety through education is the best and most positive means available for reducing potential mishaps from blade strikes.
5. The prestart portion of the checklist should include an item to make sure the rotor blades are clear. The proper use of the aircraft checklist should be taught to all student pilots.
In reviewing rotor blade strike mishaps, the most impressive fact is that every one of them was preventable. The danger of rotor blade strikes is universally recognized.
The pilot can be most effective in ensuring that his or her passengers arrive and depart the vicinity of the helicopter safely by stopping the engine / rotor system completely at the time of loading and unloading, or by providing a definite means of keeping them clear of the rotors if they are left in motion.
Prominent warning signs, placed in the aircraft's interior near or on the inside face of the aircraft doors to alert passengers and crewmembers of rotor hazards, could be helpful in preventing a mishap.
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The year is 1562. Lady Catherine Grey, cousin of Elizabeth I, has just been arrested along with her husband Edward. Their crime is to have secretly married and produced a child who might threaten the Queen's title.
Alone in her chamber at the Tower of London, Catherine hears ghostly voices, echoes, she thinks, of a crime committed in the same room where she is imprisoned.
The story flashes back to 1483 and another Catherine - Kate Plantaganet, bastard daughter of Richard III. She has heard terrible rumours of the death of the young deposed Edward V and his brother (the Princes in the Tower) but loyalty to her father prevents her believing them. After his death at Bosworth, she is viewed with suspicion by Henry VII's court, even more so when she becomes pregnant.
Catherine, too, is pregnant, a friendly warder having sneaked Edward into her room. She finds documents relating to Kate's life and gets swept up both in Kate's story and the mystery of the Princes, which she realises Kate never solved.
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You'll find there's nothing about us that 'sucks'. However, I've come to the conclusion that I'd rather dress as a Nazi and visit Auschwitz than listen to/read anything you have to say.
It's Alex and yes he's doing good work with this character.
You're right, Jesus is nicer. But Alex is a close second.
When you get fired from the TFWF, Ian tells you to f**k off.When you get fired from the VWF, B says "that's okay, the VWF isn't for everyone, and everyone isn't for the VWF."Gee, I can't quite figure out which is more evil.
Midas would chop off his Penis if he thought it would win him a Mafia game.
How does Ian Monks translate to 9115?
I = 9th letter of the alphabeta = 1st "" n = 15TH ""Ian is British, which automatically makes him the bad guy.
Wow, I just got out-smarted by T-Bone.I'm off to cry in a cold, dark room...
“I heard you urinated on the grave of Vernon Nelson's mother...no thanks Evil Version of Sheik Farooq..."
Ian is British, which automatically makes him the bad guy.
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Download and Connection
- What do I need to do to join a game and start playing Mahjong?
- How do I download the Mahjong software (client)?
- What are the system requirements for my computer if I want to play?
- I downloaded the software but now I can't find it.
- I installed the software. Where do I go to start playing?
- Do I need to go to the web site each time I want to play?
Mahjong Game and Rules
- How do I play Mahjong?
- What kind of Mahjong games do you offer at eMahjong?
- What rules do you apply for the Mahjong?
- What should I do if I suspect that another player is cheating?
- What is the commission to the house for the Mahjong?
- What are your chat rules?
- I don't like my chosen Avatar. Can I change it?
- Where can I view upcoming Mahjong tournaments?
- How do I register for a Mahjong tournament?
- Can I play a sidegame and a Mahjong tournament at the same time?
Couldn't get answers to your questions?
Download and Connection
What do I need to do to join a game and start playing Mahjong?
To play Mahjong at eMahjong you’ll need to download and install our free software: It can be downloaded simply, securely and easily. download here
How do I download the Mahjong software (client)?
Just click on the download button at any page on the eMahjong site.
What are the system requirements for my computer if I want to play?
The minimum system requirements needed to run the Mahjong software are:
Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP or Vista
- 200MHz processor or faster
- 64MB of RAM
- 800 x 600 pixel screen resolution
- 16-bit Colour ("High Colour")
- Sound card (if you desire audio)
- 20MB or greater free disk space
Most computers purchased within the past 5 years will meet these above requirements.
I downloaded the software but now I can't find it.
If you downloaded the software but forgot where you saved it, Just go to Start-->Find-->File or Folders and type in “ MahjongSetup.exe” in the "Named:" box. When you find it, simply double click and the installation wizard will start!
I installed the software. Where do I go to start playing?
Once you have downloaded the software, locate the eMahjong icon and click on it. Or you may click on the "Start" and find it under eMahjong program
Do I need to go to the web site each time I want to play?
No, you just have to click on the eMahjong icon on the desktop and it will automatically connect you so you can start playing.
Mahjong Game and Rules
How do I play Mahjong?
Vist our how to play section for instruction how to play Mahjong. Click here
What kind of Mahjong games do you offer at eMahjong?
We offer Express games, Sit and Go and Mulit table tournaments for Riichi, Traditional and Classic rules.
What rules do you apply for the Mahjong?
To read the rules go to the rules section on the site. Click here
What should I do if I suspect that another player is cheating?
If you suspect a player is trying to cheat please contact us with the players screenname and if possible any hand numbers they may have been involved in. Please send as much details relating to the event as you possibly can and we will take appropriate action.
To contact support please click here
What is the commission to the house for the Mahjong?
Mahjong commission structure:
Cash table - 5% of the winning pot
Sit n Go - 10% fee of the initial bet. Max $20
Multi Table Tournament - 10% of the initial bet. Max $20
What are your chat rules?
Certain forms and topics of chat are not allowed on eMahjong. Players engaging in offensive chat will be subject to a chat warning or a suspension of their chat privileges. Chat that is not permitted on eMahjong includes (but is not limited to):
Profanity: We do not permit profane, vulgar, racist or abusive/insulting chat in our chat windows. We do have a feature by which certain profane or otherwise unacceptable words are asterisked out; A filtered word is one that has been deemed unacceptable on our Mahjong site. Players attempting to bypass the filter may also be subject to a warning or suspension of chat privileges.
Begging/Solicitation: We do not permit players to beg or panhandle for tiles, whether play money or real money. No solicitation is permitted in any Mahjong game at any time. There are facilities in place to prevent many instances of solicitation.
Flooding: The sending of multiple and frequent messages to the chat window in order to drown out legitimate chat is forbidden.
Non-English chat: We are aware that our players are from around the world, and that for many of them English is not their first language. However, at this time our policy on most tables is that English is the only language allowed to be used in eMahjong chat. On a small number of tables and in a small number of regional tournaments, chat may be allowed in a particular language and in English. These tables and tournaments will be clearly labeled. If you are not comfortable with non-English chat, please do not join these tables or tournaments.
I don't like my chosen Avatar. Can I change it?
Yes, you may change your image by selecting "Select/Change Image" from the Preferences menu in the Client.
Where can I view upcoming Mahjong tournaments?
You may view upcoming Mahjong tournaments by selecting the Tournament tab" in the Mahjong Client main lobby. You will see all Mahjong tournaments in progress (“Running”), recently completed Mahjong tournaments (“Completed”), and Mahjong tournaments which begin soon (“Registering” or “Announced”).
How do I register for a Mahjong tournament?
If a Mahjong tournament is in the
"Registering" state, highlight that tournament by clicking
on it, then click on the Tournament Lobby button. Once the Tournament
Lobby screen opens, click on Register. You will need to log-in if you
have not already done so for this session.
For more detailed instructions, see how to play section
Can I play a sidegame and a Mahjong tournament at the same time?
Yes, you are welcome to play a side game and a Mahjong tournament simultaneously. In the interest of fairness to all players, we ask that you act promptly when it is your turn in either Mahjong game.
What is eMahjong's stance on Responsible Gaming?
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Fungal Nail Infections
What is a fungal nail infection?
A fungal nail infection occurs when a fungus attacks a fingernail, a toenail, or the skin under the nail, called the nail bed. Fungi (plural of fungus) can attack your nails through small cuts in the skin around your nail or through the opening between your nail and nail bed.
See a picture of a fungal nail infection.
If you are healthy, a fungal nail infection probably won't cause serious problems. But it may look bad, hurt, or damage your nail or nail bed.
A fungal nail infection could lead to more serious problems if you have diabetes or a weak immune system. Talk to your doctor about the best way to treat a nail infection if you have one of these problems.
What causes a fungal nail infection?
Yeasts, molds, and different kinds of fungi can cause fungal nail infections. Most are caused by the same type of fungus that causes athlete's foot.
Fungi grow best in warm, moist places, and they can spread from person to person. You can get a fungal nail infection from walking barefoot in public showers or pools or by sharing personal items, such as towels and nail clippers. If you have athlete's foot, the fungus can spread from your skin to your nails.
You are more likely to get a nail infection if you:
What are the symptoms?
A nail with a fungal infection may:
When you have a fungal nail infection, it can be uncomfortable or even painful to wear shoes, walk, or stand for a long time. The fungus could also spread to other nails or your skin. Over time, the infection can cause permanent damage to your nail or nail bed.
How is a fungal nail infection diagnosed?
Your doctor will diagnose a fungal nail infection by looking at the nail, asking about your symptoms and past health, and possibly doing tests to look for fungi. Finding out what is causing the infection can help you get the best treatment.
How is it treated?
Whether to treat a fungal nail infection is up to you. If it is not treated, it won't go away, and it might get worse. But fungal infections can be hard to treat. If you do treat it, you could spend a lot of money, and the treatment might not work.
If you decide to treat a fungal nail infection, you can try an antifungal cream, lotion, or nail polish. You can buy some types without a prescription, or your doctor can prescribe a stronger one. You may need to use this medicine for a few weeks or for as long as a year. Even so, it may not get rid of the infection.
Antifungal pills give the best chance of curing a severe fungal nail infection, but they may cost a lot and have serious side effects. You will need to see your doctor for regular testing if you take these pills. You should not take them if you have liver or heart problems.
How can you prevent a fungal nail infection?
Fungal nail infections often come back after treatment. It is important to take steps to prevent this.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Asthma: Using an Asthma Action Plan
What is an Actionset?
If you or your child has asthma that requires daily treatment, it is important to have an asthma action plan. An asthma action plan is a written plan that tells you what asthma medicine to take every day and how to treat an asthma attack. It can help you make quick decisions in case you are not able to think clearly during an attack.
An asthma action plan usually includes:
- Treatment goals, which include your personal goals about your asthma.
- An outline of which medicines you take daily for asthma control and when to take them.
- An asthma diary where you record peak expiratory flow (PEF) and the triggers that cause asthma symptoms.
- Steps to take and medicines to use to treat an asthma attack early, before it becomes severe.
- What to do if an attack becomes an emergency, and where to get medical treatment.
Using an asthma action plan can help you stay active with fewer asthma problems. Following your plan is a big step toward controlling the disease so you can live the life you want.
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An asthma action plan has three zones. You can find out what zone you are in by checking your peak flow or symptoms. Peak flow is a measure of how fast you breathe out when you try your hardest. You check your peak flow with a peak flow meter, an inexpensive device that you can use at home. Your doctor can show you how to use it.
The zones of an asthma action plan are based on the colors of a stoplight. See an example of an asthma action plan(What is a PDF document?).
Green zone. Green means Go.
- You are in the green zone if your peak flow is 80% to 100% of your personal best measurement. You should have no asthma symptoms when you are in the green zone. You want to be in the green zone every day.
- If you continue to stay in the green zone, your doctor may lower your daily asthma medicines.
Yellow zone. Yellow means Caution.
- You are in the yellow zone if your peak flow is 50% to 79% of your personal best measurement. You may not have any symptoms, but your lung function is reduced. When symptoms are present, they may be mild to moderate, or may keep you from your normal activities or disturb your sleep.
- Being in the yellow zone means that you should take action. Your action plan should state what medicines you need to take, how much to take, and when to take them.
- If you keep going into the yellow zone from the green zone, talk with your doctor. You may need a different medicine. Or the doses of your medicines may need to be increased.
Red zone. Red means STOP.
- You are in the red zone if your peak flow is less than 50% of your personal best measurement. Your symptoms will be severe, and you may cough and be very short of breath.
- If your symptoms and peak flow are in the red zone, follow your action plan.
- Callright away if you are in the red zone and you have followed your action plan, but:
- You are having severe difficulty breathing.
- 20 to 30 minutes after taking the extra medicine, you do not feel better and/or your peak flow is still less than 50% of your personal best measurement.
Using an asthma action plan takes the guesswork out of treating asthma attacks. It can help you to:
- Take control of your treatment.
- Have fewer or less severe attacks.
- Avoid trips to the doctor or the hospital.
Develop your plan
- Work with your doctor to make an action plan for you or your child. The action plan is based on peak flow and asthma symptoms. These help your doctor know how bad your asthma is. An action plan may include:
See an example of an asthma action plan(What is a PDF document?).
- The peak flow readings and symptoms for each zone.
- What medicines to take in each zone.
- When to call a doctor.
- A list of emergency contact numbers.
- A list of your asthma triggers.
- Let your doctor know what you want regarding asthma care. For example, if you are not comfortable using a peak flow meter, tell your doctor.
- If you make an asthma action plan for your child, give a copy to the child's school or caregivers and make sure they know how to use it.
Follow your daily treatment, and use the asthma action plan
- Take your daily medicines to help minimize long-term damage and avoid asthma attacks.
- Check your peak flow every morning and evening. This is the best way to know how well your lungs are working.
- Check your action plan to see what zone you are in.
- If you are in the green zone, keep taking your daily asthma medicines as prescribed.
- If you are in the yellow zone, you may be having or will soon have an asthma attack. You may not have any symptoms, but your lungs are not working as well as they should. Take the medicines listed in your action plan. If you stay in the yellow zone, your doctor may need to increase the dose or add a medicine.
- If you are in the red zone, follow your action plan. If your symptoms or peak flow don't improve soon, you may need to go to the emergency room or be admitted to the hospital.
- Use an asthma diary. Write down your peak flow readings in the asthma diary. If you have an attack, write down what caused it (if you know), the symptoms, and what medicine you took. See an example of an asthma diary(What is a PDF document?).
Review the plan with your doctor
- Take both the asthma action plan and the asthma diary when you see your doctor. Get answers to any questions you may have about your asthma plan or your symptoms. Let your doctor know if treatment is not controlling your asthma attacks.
- Take your peak flow meter and medicines so your doctor can review your treatment.
- Make sure you know how and when to call your doctor or go to the hospital.
- Tell your doctor if you are having trouble following your action plan.
Now that you have read this information, you are ready to start using an asthma action plan. For related information, see:
Talk with your doctor
If you have questions, take this information with you when you visit your doctor. You may want to mark areas or make notes in the margins where you have questions.
If you would like more information on asthma, the following resource is available:
|Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA)|
|1233 20th Street NW|
|Washington, DC 20036|
|Phone: ||1-800-7-ASTHMA (1-800-727-8462)|
|Web Address: ||www.aafa.org |
The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA) provides information and support for people who have allergies or asthma. The AAFA has local chapters and support groups. And its Web site has online resources, such as fact sheets, brochures, and newsletters, both free and for purchase.
|Primary Medical Reviewer||E. Gregory Thompson, MD - Internal Medicine|
|Specialist Medical Reviewer||Lora J. Stewart, MD, MPH - Allergy and Immunology, Pediatrics|
|Last Revised||March 17, 2011|
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Kevin Vosper wrote:
(Yes I know it's not strictly true but it is a good example).
Kevin Vosper wrote:So a better example would be "Tony Blair has been Prime Minister since 1987." The example is "good" in that it illustrates the fact that the present perfect deals with past time from the point "now." It looks back in time from the present (hence the term present perfect) into the past and is therefore used when either the exact date of an event is not important or when a situation may still be true.
Kevin Vosper wrote:Tense refers to the way verb endings change in order to show differences in time for an event. In English there are two tenses, past and present.
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Oceana Petitions the Government to Protect Loggerhead Sea Turtles
The majestic loggerhead sea turtle, an animal that has inhabited Earth longer than man, faces extinction because of human activities, such as threats from fishing gear. In fact, loggerhead sea turtle populations in the Atlantic are plummeting and a recent report by the federal government shows that the greatest man-made threat to loggerhead sea turtles in the Atlantic is capture in fisheries.
The future for loggerhead sea turtles in the Atlantic is grim at best. On top of the existing pressure from human impacts, climate change could soon push these sea turtles even closer to the brink of extinction. Oceana has issued a new report showing the possible impacts of climate change on sea turtles.
As a result of these factors, Oceana and the Center for Biological Diversity petitioned the U.S. Department of Commerce and the U.S. Department of the Interior to uplist this loggerhead population from "threatened" to "endangered" under the Endangered Species Act. In addition, the petition asks the government to protect the key habitat areas for these turtles in the Atlantic from human impacts. | <urn:uuid:5b6a5419-cd3f-45e5-93ce-b46ec204322f> | 2013-05-18T17:28:57Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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We describe a previously unreported phenomenon: positional dysphagia secondary to a Chiari I malformation. A 38-year-old woman presented with progressive dysphagia and cough. Flexible endoscopic evaluation of swallowing detected severe pharyngeal dysphagia and aspiration, as well as an intermittent cough reflex with all consistencies in the upright position. Various compensatory strategies were attempted to relieve the aspiration, but only assumption of the supine position was successful. Subsequent magnetic resonance imaging detected a herniation of the cerebellar tonsils to the level of C2 and the presence of a cervical syrinx-findings consistent with a Chiari I malformation. After surgical decompression of the malformation, the patient's symptoms completely resolved. | <urn:uuid:e3532c73-c6c0-4c62-b7ec-60e25bcd7d28> | 2013-05-18T18:06:25Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The Rt. Rev. Edward S. Little II, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Northern Indiana, reflects on Ayn Rand's influence in his life beginning in his teen years.
It is interesting throughout.
Rand challenged me to reject sloppy thinking, to apply reason meticulously, not least when dealing with culturally mandated assumptions. But that very commitment to reason gave me tools that led, much to my surprise, to a critique of Objectivism itself. The unseen Reality to which Plato pointed made sense not simply as an alternative way of seeing the world, but also under the test of reason.
Indeed, that very test points to God himself. The order and complexity of creation, the fact, as Lewis notes in Mere Christianity, that there seems to be a moral law with a claim upon human beings ("right and wrong as a clue to the meaning of the universe," he calls it), all stand upon the foundation of the firm application of reason. Rigorous thought can set the stage for faith and demonstrate the reasonableness of the Christian claim that Jesus Christ is King of kings and Lord of lords. While reason cannot, unaided, present the fullness of Christian truth, it can support and undergird it. | <urn:uuid:7f61c0c8-6dfe-4b45-89f2-346bf36b1875> | 2013-05-18T17:37:15Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Infidel wrote:DevilDan wrote:We don't know if Parson has a "heavy" attribute. Parson may look heavy, and he may mass the same as a twoll, but Charlie though three archons were enough to lift him when he offered Parson a way out.
I don't think it's a weight thing. Assume Parson weighs 500 pounds and the dragon can carry 600. But because Parson is classed heavy, the dragon can't fly with him on its back.
That's precisely why my first point was mentioning that, weight aside, we don't know that Parson has a "heavy" attribute. I said, in fact, that even if he weighs the same as a twoll it doesn't mean that the game considers him a heavy. | <urn:uuid:001a48e7-d08d-4bef-a764-1577aee4b38b> | 2013-05-18T17:31:15Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Croaked units leave bodies, which exist as physical objects for a short time after croaking. Bodies disappear at the start of the next turn that their side has, unless moved/claimed (e.g. uncroaked, reanimated as golems, eaten, used for something else like the teddybearskin rug and mounted gwiffon head in Parson's room)Erf-b1-p035. In the event that their side is eliminated, unclaimed bodies disappear at the next nightfall.
Proposed Canon
Due to the facts that Wanda had to retrieve the body of Manpower Erf-b1-p3 and later said that they had to capture Ossomer, rather then croak and drag the body over to GK's hex afterwardsErf-b2-p6, there is speculation that moving a dead body from hex to hex causes it to be impossible to uncroak/decrypt. The evidence either way is weak though as somebody was going to have to retrieve Manpower's body so it may as well have been Wanda who could uncroak it immediately; in Ossomer's case, Ansom wanted Ossomer alive to try and turn him, Wanda decided she wasn't going to bother and decrypted him instead. | <urn:uuid:439f6eb1-4d66-4081-a784-9c8789ac7a2e> | 2013-05-18T18:02:03Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Use the ESET SysInspector utility to inspect your PC. Fix problems straight away, or submit a log to ESET Customer Care for resolution.Download
What does ESET SysInspector do?
ESET SysInspector is an application that deeply inspects the computer and generates a detailed report of the current state of the computer. Gathered data are displayed in a comprehensive way with detailed description. SysInspector helps you to investigate suspicious system behavior often caused by a malware infection.
Will ESET SysInspector tell the user directly what to do after encountering potentially dangerous processes, registry entries, network connections, etc.?
No, ESET SysInspector is an analytical and diagnostic tool only. It will not advise the user what to do.
Will ESET SysInspector generate a log with the users’ personal data thus attacking his privacy?
No, when generating a system scan the user may pick an option to generate an analysis for public purposes. ESET SysInspector then scans the system while leaving out all private content.
Is there a possibility to use command line parameters?
Yes, the ESET SysInspector supports command line parameters: /gen (generate report directly from command line without running graphic user interface), /privacy (generate report with excluded sensitive information), /zip (a report is stored in a compressed file), /help (display information about usage of command line parameters)
Does the ESET SysInspector support key shortcuts?
Yes, you can use the key shortcuts for file opening and saving, log generating, items filtering, etc. | <urn:uuid:1864b342-d9b1-4ffe-9579-109cba79fdfb> | 2013-05-18T17:57:28Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Someone said that to me once, I simply replied "I don't think so."
I don't take the comment as anything about her and her kids - it wasn't a statement about her, it was a statement about me. If she wanted sympathy or cmiseration or something, she should have made a 'me' statement about herself, like "I envy women like you/without kids." But she didn't. She commented on my life circumstances, of which she knew nothing. I did think it was a nasty thing to say to someone such as myself. She might not have known I would rather I had kids, but it wasn't her place to comment on it with a value judgement. | <urn:uuid:5f83790d-24f1-4f43-aeab-003f85c3005f> | 2013-05-18T17:50:21Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Elizabeth Haynes follows her best-selling "Into the Darkest Corner" with another solid thriller.
In "Dark Tide," Genevieve Shipley has quit two jobs and used her savings to start a new life aboard a houseboat. Her day job in London involved sales, and at night, she worked as a pole dancer at a gentlemen's club. When her boss discovered her night job, he began to harass her.
Genevieve saw things at the gentleman's club that put her life in danger. Now, in her houseboat in Kent, with her past hidden and a new life ahead, she believes everything will be just fine. Then one of her friends—a fellow dancer—is murdered. Her body is found floating next to Genevieve's houseboat.
The narrative jumps between the present and the past as what forced Genevieve to give up everything is slowly revealed.
The danger seems a bit distant, but the story is compelling. Haynes sometimes isn't forthcoming with details relevant to the story until it's too late. Terrible for Genevieve, but great for the reader. | <urn:uuid:3d9764b3-8ffa-4fc0-9533-1a60243ca896> | 2013-05-18T17:27:34Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The striker, who signed from Genk in the summer, missed a free header from a Gabriel Agbonlahor cross in the second half, raising questions over his selection ahead of proven goalscorer Darren Bent.
"That was a big moment," Lambert said. "When you have chances like that you have to put them away.
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A Lost Human Race: Neanderthal
Today, it has been definitively verified that
Neanderthal man, who is presented as the "primitive ancestor
of man" by evolutionists, is simply a lost human race.
Trinkets made of bone, which belonged to the Neanderthals.
Neanderthals are human beings who suddenly appeared
100,000 years ago in Europe and disappeared–or were assimilated
by being blended with other races–quietly yet quickly 35,000 years
ago. Their only difference from modern man is their skeleton being
more robust and their cranial capacity slightly bigger.
A comparison made between Neanderthal man and modern human
races. To the far left and second from left are Neanderthal
men. Neanderthals bear the greatest resemblance to Eskimos
who live in cold climates today.
we had seen a Neanderthal in the street today, we would think
him or her to be no different from other people.
Neanderthals are a human race and this fact is
admitted by almost everybody today. Evolutionists have tried very
hard to present them as "a primitive species", yet all
findings indicate that they were no different from a "robust"
man walking on the street today. A prominent authority on the subject,
Erik Trinkaus, a paleoanthropologist from New Mexico University
Estimations based on bone fragments indicate that Neanderthals
were physically stronger than modern man.
Detailed comparisons of Neanderthal skeletal
remains with those of modern humans have shown that there is nothing
in Neanderthal anatomy that conclusively indicates locomotor, manipulative,
intellectual, or linguistic abilities inferior to those of modern
Many contemporary researchers define Neanderthal
man as a sub-species of modern man and call him "Homo sapiens
neandertalensis". The findings testify that Neanderthals buried
their dead, fashioned musical instruments, and had cultural affinities
with the Homo sapiens sapiens living during the same period. To
put it precisely, Neanderthals are a "robust" human race
that simply disappeared in time.
man had thick eyebrow projections just like those of the
Australian natives living today.
||The cranial capacity
of Neanderthals was bigger than that of modern man by
150 cc. This finding refuted the evolutionist claim that
"the brain got bigger over time."
The skull of Neanderthal man differed
slightly from that of modern man.
55- Erik Trinkaus,
"Hard Times Among the Neanderthals", Natural History, Vol 87, December
1978, p. 10; R. L. Holloway, "The Neanderthal Brain: What Was Primitive",
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Reason, not Revelation: Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Watchmaker
As I wrote here in an earlier article, Jean-Jacques Rousseau drew upon Newtonian physics to develop an argument for a cosmic intelligent designer. Rousseau was a deist who, by the time he published his thoughts on intelligent design in Emile (1762), had largely rejected Christianity. I bring this up because of the historical interest but also to point out the absurdity of the criticism that portrays ID as a recent invention of the Christian Right.
Rousseau argued that if we follow the causal chain of "action and reaction" back far enough, we eventually come to a first cause, which must be an entity capable of "spontaneous, voluntary action." Rousseau realized that one need not have a complete account of the characteristics of an intelligent designer to be able to infer the designer's existence and activity. "The will is known to me in its action, not in its nature," he wrote in analyzing his own experience as an intelligent agent.
Rousseau understood that he possessed a will that could make choices and initiate a ripple of effects in the physical world. He compared his inference to cosmic design with the reasoning of someone observing a watch's interior for the first time, before seeing the watch face that reveals its purpose of time keeping. The coordinated parts of the watch must have some purpose, though the observer is ignorant of it. He wrote:
I judge of the order of the world, although I know nothing of its purpose, for to judge of this order it is enough for me to compare the parts one with another, to study their co-operation, their relations, and to observe their united action. I know not why the universe exists, but I see continually how it is changed; I never fail to perceive the close connection by which the entities of which it consists lend their aid one to another. I am like a man who sees the works of a watch for the first time; he is never weary of admiring the mechanism, though he does not know the use of the instrument and has never seen its face. I do not know what this is for, says he, but I see that each part of it is fitted to the rest, I admire the workman in the details of his work, and I am quite certain that all these wheels only work together in this fashion for some common end which I cannot perceive.A few decades later, William Paley would make a similar inference, drawing on the analogy to a watchmaker's design. Darwin wrote the Origin of Species (1859) in an attempt to refute Paley's watchmaker.
Rousseau marveled at the well-coordinated parts of living organisms and how they are "organized" in a way that is similar to the arrangement of letters in a printed book. This insight, expressed in the passage below, brings to mind information theory as it has been applied in biology since the mid 20th century (see Stephen Meyer's Signature in the Cell for more background).
So life could not have originated by chance, as Rousseau argued:
Let us compare the special ends, the means, the ordered relations of every kind, then let us listen to the inner voice of feeling; what healthy mind can reject its evidence? Unless the eyes are blinded by prejudices, can they fail to see that the visible order of the universe proclaims a supreme intelligence? What sophisms must be brought together before we fail to understand the harmony of existence and the wonderful co-operation of every part for the maintenance of the rest? Say what you will of combinations and probabilities; what do you gain by reducing me to silence if you cannot gain my consent? And how can you rob me of the spontaneous feeling which, in spite of myself, continually gives you the lie? If organized bodies had come together fortuitously in all sorts of ways before assuming settled forms, if stomachs are made without mouths, feet without heads, hands without arms, imperfect organs of every kind which died because they could not preserve their life, why do none of these imperfect attempts now meet our eyes; why has nature at length prescribed laws to herself which she did not at first recognize? I must not be surprised if that which is possible should happen, and if the improbability of the event is compensated for by the number of the attempts. I grant this; yet if any one told me that printed characters scattered broadcast had produced the Aeneid all complete, I would not condescend to take a single step to verify this falsehood. You will tell me I am forgetting the multitude of attempts. But how many such attempts must I assume to bring the combination within the bounds of probability? For my own part the only possible assumption is that the chances are infinity to one that the product is not the work of chance. In addition to this, chance combinations yield nothing but products of the same nature as the elements combined, so that life and organization will not be produced by a flow of atoms, and a chemist when making his compounds will never give them thought and feeling in his crucible."The mere generation of living organic bodies is the despair of the human mind," if we try to explain their origin without invoking intelligent agency, Rousseau concluded. He also wrote of "the insurmountable barrier raised by nature between the various species, so that they should not mix with one another." The world and its living creatures display an amazing organization and harmony that resist being explained by the "blind mechanism of matter set in motion by chance!"
In vain do those who deny the unity of intention manifested in the relations of all the parts of this great whole, in vain do they conceal their nonsense under abstractions, co-ordinations, general principles, symbolic expressions; whatever they do I find it impossible to conceive of a system of entities so firmly ordered unless I believe in an intelligence that orders them. It is not in my power to believe that passive and dead matter can have brought forth living and feeling beings, that blind chance has brought forth intelligent beings, that that which does not think has brought forth thinking beings.Rousseau further reasoned that material particles could not arrange themselves into intelligent creatures such as ourselves. Indeed, human beings possess a sophisticated form of intelligence that requires a cause that is also adequately intelligent. Here is how Rousseau expressed the point:
I believe, therefore, that the world is governed by a wise and powerful will; I see it or rather I feel it, and it is a great thing to know this. But has this same world always existed, or has it been created? Is there one source of all things? Are there two or many? What is their nature? I know not; and what concern is it of mine? When these things become of importance to me I will try to learn them; till then I abjure these idle speculations, which may trouble my peace, but cannot affect my conduct nor be comprehended by my reason.These are not the confessions of a Christian, much less a representative of the so-called Christian Right. Here is a deist who comforts himself with the apparent remoteness of the cosmic designer. His mind is able to "feel" (sense) the designer's existence based upon reasoning divorced from textual divine revelation.
Rousseau's personal life and other philosophical musings illustrate the distance he had travelled from religious tradition and morality. See, for example, Paul Johnson's essay on Rousseau in his book Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky (Harper & Row, 1990). Rousseau gave up all five of his infant children to an orphanage (he had produced these little ones with his mistress). The extremely high infant mortality rates at such institutions means that all of Rousseau's children likely died at an early age. Yet his book Emile became a celebrated Enlightenment treatise on how to educate children.
Any idea of a God who judges sin and calls us to self-sacrificial love is, he wrote, mere "idle speculations, which may trouble my peace, but cannot affect my conduct nor be comprehended by my reason." Rousseau elaborates:
Recollect that I am not preaching my own opinion but explaining it. Whether matter is eternal or created, whether its origin is passive or not, it is still certain that the whole is one, and that it proclaims a single intelligence....This being who wills and can perform his will, this being active through his own power, this being, whoever he may be, who moves the universe and orders all things, is what I call God. To this name I add the ideas of intelligence, power, will, which I have brought together, and that of kindness which is their necessary consequence; but for all this I know no more of the being to which I ascribe them. He hides himself alike from my senses and my understanding; the more I think of him, the more perplexed I am; I know full well that he exists, and that he exists of himself alone; I know that my existence depends on his, and that everything I know depends upon him also. I see God everywhere in his works; I feel him within myself; I behold him all around me; but if I try to ponder him himself, if I try to find out where he is, what he is, what is his substance, he escapes me and my troubled spirit finds nothing.As an intelligent-design advocate who happens also to be a Christian, I agree with Rousseau that, without recourse to religious teachings, this is about as close as we can come in seeking to understand God, or the designer, or call him or it what you will.
Yet all this supports my main point. Contrary to what some critics of ID maintain, Rousseau's highly influential thought and life demonstrate that intelligent design is an idea that comes to us through the application of reason, not revelation.
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|THE ROSARY DISSECTED|
|T. L. Frazier
the most emblematic sacramental in Catholicism is the rosary, that string of
beads with a crucifix attached. Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart pictured one on the
dust jacket of his anti-Catholic book, <Catholicism and Christianity>.1
Swaggart wrote, "The rosary (or prayer beads) was introduced by Peter the
Hermit in A.D. 1090. This was copied from the Hindus and Muhammadans [sic]. The
counting of prayers is a pagan practice and is expressly condemned by Christ
Aside from the fact that the rosary consists of prayer beads, Swaggart got nothing right. This is regrettable since such crude misrepresentations frighten away uninformed Christians from a powerful aid to prayer and contemplation.
Tradition links the rosary not to Peter the Hermit but to St. Dominic (1170-1221), who is said to have received it from the Virgin Mary to combat the Albigensian heresy. This legend seems to be derived from the writings of Alan de la Roche (1428-1475), that indefatigable Dominican preacher of the rosary. Modern critical scholarship from Dominicans and others reveals a far more complicated history, though one having nothing to do with Hindus and Muslims.
Medieval monks had a practice of daily praying the 150 psalms. Since lay brothers of the orders were illiterate and couldn't read the psalms, among them arose the practice of reciting the Our Father 150 times. Beads were used to keep track of the prayers. (The word "bede" in Middle English, from which we derive the word "bead," originally meant "prayer.") This practice spread among the laity, and other easily-remembered prayers were added. During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries the rosary settled into its present form. It now consists of the Apostles' Creed, the Our Father, the Hail Mary, and the Gloria.
The Apostles' Creed appeared first as a second-century Roman baptismal creed, and it took its present form in the 400s. Although this creed wasn't written by the apostles, it's generally agreed it could very well have been of apostolic origin.
The Our Father is prayed on the solitary beads that separate the groups of ten beads (the "decades"). Every Christian is familiar with this prayer, which is found in Matthew 6:9-13. Significantly, it is given in the same passage of Scripture in which Jesus says, "But when you pray, do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do. For they think that they will be heard for their many words" (Matt. 6:7). This is the verse Jimmy Swaggart says condemns the "pagan practice" of "counting prayers." Though Jesus himself gave us the Our Father, some Fundamentalists try to discourage Christians from using it as anything other than a model prayer because they feel that actually praying it would constitute a "vain repetition."
But let's look at the context of the "vain repetitions" verse. Matthew 6:5-6 deal with the prayer practices of the Jews themselves; Jesus derides these as hypocritical. He doesn't condemn repetitive Jewish prayers, of which there were a countless number. For example, the book of Psalms is a collection of hymns and prayers repeatedly used in Jewish celebrations in which Jesus himself participated. The Passover, celebrated by Jesus before his Crucifixion, had fixed prayers that were repeated annually. Following the Last Supper, Jesus went to the Garden of Gethsemane and prayed the same prayer three times in a row (Matt. 26:39-44)—he engaged in repetitive prayer.
In the next pair of verses Jesus warns against the prayer practices of the pagans, who held a magical view of prayer and whose repetitious prayers he <does> condemn. Verse 7 reads, in the King James Version, "[D]o not use vain repetitions [<battalogeo>] as the heathen do." This is a misleading rendering. The Greek word <battalogeo> is better translated as "babbling," and it is so translated in the New International Version. (The Revised Standard Version has "empty phrases.")3 Jesus isn't condemning mere repetition—something he himself engaged in, as did other good Jews—but the babbling of the pagans.
What sort of babbling did the pagans practice? Look at 1 Kings 18:2629, where the pagan prophets on Mount Carmel tried to invoke Baal all day long, repeatedly calling on his name and performing ritual dances: "[They] called on the name of Baal from morning until noon, saying, 'Oh Baal, answer us!' But there was no voice, no one answered. And they leaped about the altar which they had made.... And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their custom with swords and lances, until the blood gushed out of them. And as midday passed, they raved on until the time of the offering of the [evening] oblation, but there was no voice, no one answered, no one heeded." Once the pagan prophets had given up, Elijah came forward and called on the God of Israel, and immediately his prayer was answered.
The prayers of the pagan prophets were "vain" because, after spending the entire day frantically calling upon him, Baal never responded. He wasn't a real god, unlike the God of Israel, who always answers sincere prayer. Jesus' point in Matthew 6:7 is that we don't need to spend all day leaping over altars, cutting ourselves, and raving to get our heavenly Father's ear. He hears our prayers no matter what type of prayer is offered: lengthy or short, composed or extemporaneous, group or individual, repetitious or unique.
Thus Jesus says in the next verse: "Therefore do not be like them [the pagans]. For your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask him" (Matt. 6:8). This doesn't mean that, since God already knows our needs, we don't have to pray at all. As Jesus taught in the parable of the persistent widow (Luke 18:1-8), we are to be tenacious in prayer, freely and repeatedly (repetitiously) bringing our petition before the seat of grace.
Paul says we are to "pray without ceasing" (1 Thess. 5:17), not "pray reservedly lest we repeat ourselves" (as is inevitable in ceaseless prayer). One of the benefits of the rosary is that it leads naturally to the ceaseless prayer and meditation which Scripture enjoins upon us.
If there should be any lingering doubt that God doesn't look askance on repetition in prayer, note that in Revelation 4:8-11 we find the heavenly host engaging in repetitive prayer ("Holy, holy, holy Lord God Almighty"), said "day and night" before the throne of the Almighty, followed by repetitious antiphons from the elders.
The Hail Mary is the heart of the rosary and is said on each of the ten beads which are grouped together to form a decade, there being fifteen decades totaling 150 Hail Marys- as many Hail Marys as there are psalms. The first part of the prayer is composed of two Bible verses strung together: "Hail Mary full of grace, the Lord is with thee" (Luke 1:28) and "blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb" (Luke 1:42).
The remainder of the prayer reads, "Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen." As she was on earth called the object of divine grace (Luke 1:28) and is now in heaven a glorified saint, Mary is called "holy."
The title "Mother of God" (Greek, <Theotokos>, "God-bearer") is an ancient one. A piece of papyrus found in Egypt and dating to 250-270 invokes the intercession of the <Theotokos>.4 Catholics maintain that the person born of the Virgin Mary is the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity, the divine Word (Greek, <Logos>), and is therefore God (John 1:1,14). As Jesus is God, humanity and divinity fully united in one Person, the mother of Jesus is therefore the mother (but not the originator or creator) of God; she is the <Theotokos>.5
Many non-Catholics object to the practice of asking the saints in heaven, including the Virgin Mary, to pray for us. Often cited is 1 Timothy 2:5, "For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus." Since Jesus is our only mediator, they argue, Mary (or any other saint) shouldn't be asked to pray on our behalf. By praying "Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death," Catholics intrude on the sole mediatorship of Christ. But this idea can be held only if one believes that death creates a chasm between Christians on earth and Christians in heaven.
Catholics believe that Christians aren't separated from Christ or each other at death (Rom 8:38-39). The Body of Christ "is one though it has many parts" (1 Cor. 12:12), and Christians don't become amputated from the Body when they go to heaven. Nor are there two Churches, one in heaven and another on earth, separated by death and thus somehow not in communion with each other. The Church is the Bride of Christ (Rev. 21:9ff), and Jesus is a strict monogamist. We reject any idea that separates us from one another and consequently destroys the unity of the Church.
As stated in the Apostles' Creed, Catholics believe in "the communion of saints." This means that since we're all one in Christ, we can ask the saints in heaven to pray for us every bit as much as we can ask our brothers and sisters in the Lord here on earth to pray for us. Since we are specifically commanded to pray for each other (1 Tim. 2:1, Eph. 2:1, Heb. 4:16), and since the word of the Lord "stands firm in the heavens" as well as on earth (Ps. 119:89), we don't violate Scripture by asking for the prayers of the saints in heaven. It is precisely because of Christ's mediatorship that Christians in heaven can pray for those on earth.
We know the saints in heaven are aware of what occurs to us (Heb. 12:1, Luke 15:7) and that they offer prayers (Rev. 5:8-10, 8:3), including praying for God's intervention on the earth (Rev. 6:9-10). Hebrews 12:22-24 tells us we approach not only Jesus, "the mediator of the new covenant," but the heavenly Jerusalem and the "assembly of the first-born enrolled in heaven" and "the spirits of the just made perfect." We don't hesitate to ask them for their prayers because the prayers of the righteous "availeth much" (Jas. 5:16b).
Some object that the saints are dead and that the Bible forbids communication with the dead (Lev. 19:31, 20:6, 27) through mediums and other occultic means (necromancy).
But Catholics do not attempt to get information from spirits, as is done in seances. The Church condemns occult practices. Moreover, the saints in heaven aren't "dead"; they're more alive than you or I: "I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob," Jesus quoted from Exodus. "He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living. Ye therefore do greatly err" (Mark 12:26-27). If Jesus did not intend the saints on earth to communicate with the saints in heaven, he certainly set a rather poor example in appearing to Peter, James, and John on Mount Tabor (Matt. 17:1-8).
Sometimes Fundamentalists such as Jimmy Swaggart say that praying ten Hail Marys to every Our Father confirms their worst fears about Catholicism: Catholics prefer Mary to God by a margin of ten to one. This assertion is not only offensive to Catholics, but it's logically awry as well. Looking at a King James Bible, does the fact that Paul's name occurs 126 times in the book of Acts compared with only 68 times for Jesus' name imply that the author of Acts thought Paul twice as important as Jesus? Does the fact that the Protestant translation of the book of Esther contains neither the word "God" nor the word "Lord" mean that the author of that book was an atheist? Such statistical "proofs" prove nothing at all. The rosary is a devotion in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary, who, under divine inspiration, herself prophesied that all generations would call her blessed (Luke 1:48). In such devotions Catholics happily fulfill the prophecy, recalling that God blesses us when we bless those whom he has especially favored (Gen. 12:3, 27:29, Num. 24:9).
After the ten Hail Marys, the Gloria is said on the solitary bead separating the decades. It's a doxology that has been used since the Trinitarian controversies of the early Church: "Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen." It is, like the Apostles' Creed and the Our Father, to be found in most mainline Protestant churches.
Yet there is more to the rosary than "rattling off" prayers. The rosary is a contemplation of the Gospels. With each decade is associated a "mystery," Gospel episode to be meditated upon, the word "mystery" being used in the theological sense of divine revelation. There are fifteen mysteries divided into three groups of five: joyful, sorrowful, and glorious.
The joyful mysteries are the Annunciation (Luke 1:26-38), Mary's visitation to Elizabeth (Luke 1:3956), the Nativity (Luke 2:1-20), the presentation of Jesus in the Temple (Luke 2:22-38), and the finding of Jesus in the Temple (Luke 2:41-52).
The sorrowful mysteries are the agony in the garden of Gethsemane (Luke 22:39-53), the scourging (John 19:1; Is. 53:5), the crowning with thorns (Mark 15:17-20), the way of the cross (Mark 15:20-22), and the Crucifixion (John 19:18-30).
The glorious mysteries comprise: the Resurrection (John 20:1-29), the Ascension (Acts 1:6-12), the descent of the Holy Spirit (Acts 2:1-13), the Assumption of Mary (Rev. 12:12), and Mary's coronation in heaven (Rev. 12:1-2, 5).
Note that all of the fifteen mysteries, except for the last two, are explicitly taught in the Bible. We'll close with an examination of the two that are present only by implication.
The bodily Assumption of Mary into heaven at the end of her life is neither explicitly taught nor contradicted by the Bible, though there are precedents (Hebrews 11:5 mentions the assumption of Enoch; 2 Kings 2:113 recounts that of Elijah; Paul admits the possibility of his own bodily assumption in 2 Corinthians 12:2-4). There is no indication that Mary's remains were venerated as relics (a customary practice in the early Church), and the belief in her Assumption is held both in the East (Orthodox) and in the West (Catholic).
Mary is perceived in Catholic thought as the proto-Christian and the symbol of the Church as a whole. Hence her Assumption is seen as a sign of the ultimate destiny of the Church: Christ will come at the end in order to take his Bride into the kingdom and to glorify her (2 Thess. 4:16-17). The belief in the Assumption is affirmed by all Christian communities having historic links with the ancient Church—which our Lord promised to lead into all truth (John 16:12-13; cf. Matt. 16:18, 28:20). The belief is very old as well as widespread, and those who deny this teaching do so without scriptural warrant, for Christians are to follow <all> apostolic traditions, whether or not written in the New Testament (2 Thess. 2:15).
The coronation of Mary in heaven should be understood against the Jewish background of early Christianity. In Judah, partly because of the Fourth Commandment (Ex. 20:12), the mother of the anointed king had a function of considerable importance, and her name is with only two exceptions associated with the accession of the king in the official annals.6 The king's mother bore the powerful and prestigious title of Gebirah7 and received honors of the first order. She had an official place at the court, was mistress of the harem, had enough power to seize complete control over the nation (as did Athaliah in 842 B.C., 2 Kgs. 11:1-3), was sent into exile with the king (as was Nehushta in 597 B.C., Jer. 29:2), and could be deposed (as was King Asa's idolatrous grandmother, Maacah, who first became queen mother during the reign of her son Abijam,1 Kgs. 15:2, 10,13, 2 Chron. 15:16). The <Gebirah> was a monarchical institution and had a throne and a crown.8
As Jesus is the ultimate King of the Jews, fulfilling the messianic prophecy in 2 Samuel 7:10-17, it would be strange indeed if Mary did not have this crown as the ultimate queen mother. The monarchical nature of the kingdom of God, complete with queen mother, may be difficult to appreciate for those who live in a democratic culture, but it was something accepted as natural in early Christendom, as witnessed by the art and literature.
In 1 Kings 1:16, 31 we see Queen Bathsheba petitioning King David, her husband, by bowing "her face to the earth, and [doing] homage to the king, and [saying], 'Let my lord, King David, live forever!'" This was common protocol in the court of an Oriental monarch, though the position of the queen seems to have been somewhat higher in other Near Eastern countries than it was in Judah and Israel (but compare Jezebel in 1 Kings 21:7-11).
Contrast this to the next chapter. In 1 Kings 2:13-20 Solomon, the son of David, has come to the throne. Adonijah approaches "Bathsheba the mother of Solomon" with a request and says, "Please speak to King Solomon, for he will not refuse you." Bathsheba promises to intercede with Solomon on his behalf (compare John 2:1-11, where Mary intercedes with Jesus), not seeing through Adonijah's plot to seize the throne. "Bathsheba therefore went to King Solomon, to speak to him for Adonijah." The use of the title "King Solomon" hints that Solomon acts in his official capacity (cf. verse 23).
Instead of Bathsheba scraping her face on the floor before Solomon as previously she had done before David, King Solomon "rose up to meet her and bowed down to her and sat down on his throne and had a throne set for the king's mother; so she sat at his right hand. Then she said, 'I desire one small petition of you; do not refuse me.' And the king said to her, 'Ask it, my mother, for I will not refuse you'" (vv. 19-20). Solomon wasn't merely being a nice son. It was a custom throughout the ancient world to make the right-hand seat the place of honor and of delegated authority, which is precisely why the New Testament speaks of Christ as being seated at the right hand of the Father. Bathsheba's status in society had changed; she had become the "king's mother."
The Bible teaches that the Old Testament types (such as the Passover lamb, the Flood, Hagar, and Sarah) find their fulfillment in the New Testament (John 1:29, 1 Pet. 3:18-21, Gal. 4:21-31). As Christ is superior to the Passover lamb which foreshadowed him, the fulfillment of the type is always greater than the type itself. Christians have recognized that Jesus Christ, Son of David and King of Israel <par excellence>, is the perfect fulfillment of King Solomon, the original son of David. Christians have also recognized that the Virgin Mary fulfills perfectly the role of Solomon's mother, the original <Gebirah> who foreshadowed the mother of the Messiah.
Catholics believe Jesus rose from his throne in heaven and, like Solomon, came down to meet his mother and elevated her to be with him (the Assumption). He then led her to a throne set up for her at his right hand in a position of authority and special honor (the coronation). Here, like Bathsheba, she intercedes on our behalf as the queen mother of the Church, the spiritual Israel (Rom. 11:17ff, 1 Pet. 2:9). From lowly handmaid of the Lord to <Gebirah> of the kingdom of God: "For he has regarded the lowly state of his maidservant; for behold, henceforth all generations will call me blessed. For he who is mighty has done great things for me.... He has put down the mighty from their thrones and exalted the lowly" (Luke 1:48-49, 52).
Epicetus in the second century said that "if your heart is set upon a crown, make and put on one of roses, for it will make the prettier appearance." "Rosary" comes from the Latin <rosarium>, which means "rose garden" and suggests the presention of a rose wreath to our Lady.
Here is the crowning of the King's Mother (Rev. 12:1) and, more importantly, of the King of Kings himself (Rev. 6:2). It is through persevering in the faith that we hope to be given our own crowns (Rev. 2:10), and no other devotional practice surpasses the rosary in obtaining and strengthening the grace necessary for this end. "Every athlete exercises discipline in every way. They do it to win a perishable crown, but we an imperishable one" (1 Cor. 9:25).
T. L. Frazier writes from the Los Angeles area, where he prays the rosary regularly.
1. Jimmy Swaggart, <Catholicism and Christianity> (Baton Rouge: Jimmy Swaggart Ministries, 1986).
2. Ibid., 160-161.
3. <Battalogeo,> which is a very rare Greek word except in writings dependent on the New Testament, is perhaps connected with the Aramaic word <battal> (idle, useless). <Battal> is used in an Aramaic papyrus from Qumran with the meaning of "without effect." The Sinaitic Syriac manuscript of Matthew renders this verse as "Do not be saying idle things."
4. Papyrus 470 in the John Rylands Library, Manchester, England.
5. If a biblical proof-text is wanted for the title <Theotokos>, one should look at the visitation of Mary to her cousin Elizabeth, who looks at Mary and exclaims, "But why is this granted to me, that the mother of my Lord (Greek: <ha mater tou kyriou mou>) should come to me?" (Luke 1:43). As anyone familiar with the Bible is aware, the title "Lord" is practically synonymous with the God of Israel (Ps. 110:1-4). Indeed, whenever the translators of the Greek Old Testament (the Septuagint) found the word "YHWH" (the Tetragrammaton, "Yahweh") in the Hebrew text, they translated it as Lord (kyrios), though kyrios is really the Greek translation of <Adonai>, the Hebrew word for Lord. Thus what Elizabeth exclaimed could be reworded, "But why is this granted to me, that the mother of my God should come to me?"
6. See 1 Kings 14:21; 15:2,10; 22:42; 2 Kings 8:26; 9:6-7,22; 12:1; 14:2; 15:2,33; 18:2; 22:1; 23:31,36; 24:18.
7. Literally "lady" or "mistress," used six times in the Bible and always as the title of a queen, whether the wife (1 Kgs. 11:19) or mother of a king (1 Kgs. 15:13, 2 Kgs. 10:13, 2 Chron. 15:16, Jer. 13:18, 29:2). It ought to be noted that the title is used only once in reference to the wife of a king, and even there it is used of Tahpenes, the queen of Egypt, and not of a queen of Judah, where the title is associated more with the queen mother.
8. Compare Jeremiah 13:18, where the prophet proclaims to the eighteen-year-old Jehoiachin and the queen mother, Nehushta, "Say to the king and to the queen mother, 'Come down from your thrones, for your glorious crowns will fall from your heads.'"
This article was taken from the September, 1994 issue of "This Rock," published by Catholic Answers, P.O. Box 17490, San Diego, CA 92177, (619) 541-1131, $24.00 per year.
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If you have trouble writing or coming up with ideas a story project plan may be just the thing to help you on your way. The very first thing you must decide on is the type of genre you want to write. If you are unsure of what the genres are, here is a good explanation you can study as well as here. Once you have your story genre chosen, you can move on to setting up your story project plan.
1. What do you want to do with your story?
2. What characters do you want to involve?
3. Is there a back story within the plot?
4. Where do you want to go with the story?
5. How do you intend to get there?
These questions may take a lot of consideration and thought on your part. A word of advice, do not answer these questions unless you are in a calm state of mind and have clear thinking.
1. Set up your characters as they come to mind in a document. Label it something to help you remember what it is.
2. Set up the city, state, country, and environment where the story is taking place. This should be done for each character. Remember an environment is your immediate surroundings of which you are in right now.
3. Set up any minor characters that may be involved.
4. Plan to make time to write. (If possible), and choose an environment that is not distracting.
5. Set up a "deadline" for when your story has to be finished.
6. If there is a delay, or a time you cannot write on your scheduled day, simply reschedule. Simple as that.
A story project plan can be implemented into a story outline and chart. The first two sections are best to go into a story outline while story schedule would go into a chart. Or better a time chart. Next you will want to research the towns, provinces, or country where your story is taking place. Suppose you wanted to put your character in Baltimore, MD. Your resources are the Web and the library. You should NEVER write your character in any place of living that you have NEVER been to without RESEARCH first! Once you have gathered all your requirements, you can then start writing. | <urn:uuid:cc32f9ee-6575-4ad1-93b8-725da1eb146a> | 2013-05-18T17:39:10Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Dark Shadows is an award-winning delight, in every manner. The sparsely-used humor is well-timed and the special effects are marvelous. Depp is awesome as Barnabas Collins. The bad times begin in 1972, when Depp is released from the casket which has served as his deathcare vessel. He's been slumbering for 200 years and is therefore a little cranky.
He shreds the eleven men who have had the misfortune of having discovered his unmarked grave, then returns to the mansion. His first order of business is to begin making money for the Collins family.
He meets Angelique Bouchard, (Eva Green) an enemy from his previous existence and she is still a witch.
Barnabas' next order of business is to secure industrial real estate and to renovate the manor, which he does.
Bouchard is still in love with Barnabas, but he has only given in to her attraction once and vows never to do it again. Later on, she tries to have him again, to no avail.
Hence, she eventually chains him up and places him into a casket, for which young David finds him in the family mausoleum and frees him. Bouchard is busy trying to frame the Collins family as she has set a great fire in Collinsport.
Soon afterward, the ultimate showdown begins between the witch and the vampire and she is defeated with the help of David's mother, the woman who truly loved Barnabas.
Barnabas has fallen in love with Victoria, the nanny and she commits suicide as did the first woman who truly loved him. Again, he jumps in after her, but he bites her neck on the way down and the two live on as vampires | <urn:uuid:27bc7852-ba19-464c-ac9e-f96dd5c97f91> | 2013-05-18T18:06:28Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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- New member
- From: Doha
- Registered: 2012-12-12
- Posts: 4
Italian chef willing to relocate
I am Antonio, an Italian Chef currently living and working in Qatar.
I am willing to relocate in Japan, after having travelled around Europe to improve my skills.
I would like to find a good job and decent company. Any suggestion?
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- Registered: 2012-05-02
- Posts: 19610
Re: Italian chef willing to relocate | <urn:uuid:0d1afdb6-e886-4335-9d97-c5df649dac8d> | 2013-05-18T17:40:47Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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LESLIE, Mich. - A man widely believed to be the model for the smiling chef on Cream of Wheat boxes finally has a grave marker bearing his name.
Frank L. White died in 1938, and until this week, his grave in Woodlawn Cemetery bore only a tiny concrete marker with no name.
On Wednesday, a granite gravestone was placed at his burial site. It bears his name and an etching taken from the man depicted on the Cream of Wheat box.
Jesse Lasorda, a family researcher from Lansing, started the campaign to put the marker and etching on White's grave.
"Everybody deserves a headstone," Lasorda told the Lansing State Journal. He discovered that White was born about 1867 in Barbados, came to the U.S. in 1875 and became a citizen in 1890.
When White died Feb. 15, 1938, the Leslie Local-Republican described him as a "famous chef" who "posed for an advertisement of a well-known breakfast food."
White lived in Leslie for about the last 20 years of his life, and the story of his posing for the Cream of Wheat picture was known in the city of 2,000 located between Jackson and Lansing and about 70 miles west of Detroit.
The chef was photographed about 1900 while working in a Chicago restaurant. His name was not recorded. White was a chef, traveled a lot, was about the right age and told neighbors that he was the Cream of Wheat model, the Jackson Citizen Patriot said.
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Bernhardt to Reveal CP Lounge at London FestivalInnovation award
UK- London | Jul 9 2012 | (23:02:29 - EDT)
"It starts as a thought, and then becomes an idea, something I might think about for years. When the time is right, I express it on paper, usually as a simple line in space. Finally it takes shape and becomes a product or sculpture," recalls Charles Pollock in describing the creative process that has served him well for seven decades. This deliberate process of creation produced the iconic Pollock Chair. When it was released by Florence Knoll in 1965, the chair became the most successful office chair in history and a symbol of the modern office. Bernhardt Design will introduce the 82-year-old Pollock's first new product for an American company in 47 years. The CP Lounge Collection will launch globally during the London Design Festival in September.
"I've always been fascinated by Charles Pollock. He created such a significant product, yet very little has ever been published about him. Given our fascination with mid-century American designers, this lack of information seemed remarkable to me," says Jerry Helling, President of Bernhardt Design. "When I started my search to find Charles, I simply wanted to meet him and hear his story. I didn't dream at the time that he would be willing and excited to design a new product after all these years."
After graduating from Pratt in the early 1950's, Pollock joined George Nelson's design studio. During his time with Nelson, he designed his first ground-breaking product, the Swag Leg Chair, based on an idea he had begun developing at Pratt. In 1960 Pollock created his first product for Knoll, the 657 Sling Chair. The 657 Chair subsequently became a mid-century collector's piece and is sold today by auction.
With the support of Florence Knoll, he devoted the next five years to developing the Pollock Chair. "I made the chair over and over and over again," says Pollock. "If Florence wanted to change it by 1/4'', I would have to make a new chair by hand. It was very difficult, but Florence kept pushing us forward; she was wonderful; she made it happen." All the time and effort were rewarded when the Pollock Chair was introduced in 1965 to great acclaim and instant sales success.
In 1982, the Italian company Castelli introduced another breakthrough Pollock design in Europe. The Penelope Chair was one of the first passively ergonomic chairs produced with simple parts. Twenty years before mesh became an indispensable material in furniture, Pollock used it as the key component in the Penelope Chair.
In late 2010, a hand delivered letter of introduction from Helling encouraged Pollock to schedule a meeting. Surprisingly, their first meeting concluded with a plan to explore several design concepts for a new product. Pollock and Helling spent the next few months evaluating a number of ideas before selecting the CP Lounge as their first project together.
Pollock's approach in designing the CP Lounge was a departure from anything he had done previously. "At Pratt we were taught to sketch, model and build, and that has always been my discovery process," states Pollock. "Sixty years later with this chair, I did my first production drawing and Bernhardt made the prototype." Even though the design process was a deviation for Pollock, the inspiration for the chair—an unbroken line in space—was very familiar. "Designing using a continuous line leads you in one direction: toward simplicity," maintains Pollock. "Your eyes follow the line around the perimeter of the chair and it appears to be floating in space; it is so simple."
Where Pollock used metal to trace the exterior shape of his chairs in the past, he turned to distinctive sewing techniques in the CP Lounge. "The large loop stitch, made of the same material as the chair, is more subtle and adds a new dimension," says Pollock. "It also brings a higher level of craftsmanship to the chair. It is a lot like an old Jaguar, the profile of frame makes it look racy and fast, but you look inside and you see hand-sewn leather and burl. The chair has speed and craft."
More information about the CP Lounge can be found at www.bernhardtdesign.com.
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AUSTIN, Texas, Nov 15, 2012 (AFP) - Lewis Hamilton on Thursday rejected McLaren team chief Martin Whitmarsh's suggestion that he was having regrets and second thoughts about his decision to leave for Mercedes next season.
The 27-year-old Briton, who lines up this Sunday for his penultimate race with the team that has been his home since he was a 13-year-old karting star, said instead that he was very happy with his choice for the future.
Speaking ahead of this weekend's potentially-decisive United States Grand Prix, Hamilton said: "I'm sure everyone has emotions within the team, but I'm still here giving 100 percent to them for the last two races.
"Of course it's quite emotional for me but I'm very, very happy with my decision."
Last week, Whitmarsh had told the official Formula 1 website that he hoped Hamilton would feel he had 'made an awful mistake'.
He said: "He's not going to say 'hey, they offered me more money'. He's also not going to say that he's made an awful mistake.
"I hope he thinks today that he's made an awful mistake and I hope he thinks that next year. He's made that decision and he has to live with that decision."
Hamilton said: "I was a little bit surprised to hear that because it's definitely not the case... But I've got a great team and I've been with them a long time.
"It is what it is. I'm happy just to be here fighting in the last two races for my team. I just want to do the best job.
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Her volatile mentor/director Mauritz Stiller, who brought her to Hollywood, was abruptly fired from directing her second MGM Hollywood film, The Temptress (1926), after repeated arguments with MGM execs. Unable to hold a job in Hollywood, he returned to Sweden in 1928 and died shortly after at the age of 45. Garbo was devastated.
Her favorite American director was Ernst Lubitsch, although Clarence Brown, directed her in six films, including the classics Flesh and the Devil (1926), A Woman of Affairs (1928), Anna Christie (1930), and Anna Karenina (1935).
Left John Gilbert standing at the altar in 1927 when she got cold feet about marrying him.
Popularized trenchcoats & berets in the 1930s.
Her first "talkie" film was Anna Christie (1930).
Her greatest confidante was Salka Viertel, a German friend who had known her back in Sweden. Viertel proved to be very manipulative of her, including relationships (particularly with that of Mercedes de Acosta), film choices and general living. It was Viertel, in fact, who persuaded her not to return to films. Ironically, Viertel was friendly with Marlene Dietrich, Garbo's enemy, whom Salka had known back in Germany's Weimer Republic, and she had a lot of dirt on Dietrich's deepest secrets and past. Garbo's film choices were largely determined by Salka's persuasion; they co-starred in the German version of Anna Christie (1930), and shortly after that Garbo insisted that Salka be placed on the MGM payroll as a writer for her films.
In Italy, her first films (like Mata Hari (1931) and Grand Hotel (1932)) were dubbed by Francesca Braggiotti. Because Braggiotti had been living in the United States for many years and had a slight American accent, the Italian public didn't really accept her voice so the very Italian Tina Lattanzi was chosen as Garbo's official Italian voice instead (she even re-dubbed Mata Hari (1931)). For her last two films Ninotchka (1939) and Two-Faced Woman (1941), she was dubbed by Andreina Pagnani. When some of Garbo films were re-released in Italy in the 1960's, they were re-dubbed once more. This is how stage actress Anna Proclemer lent her voice to the divine Garbo.
Pictured on a 37¢ USA commemorative postage stamp issued 23 September 2005, five days after her 100th birthday. On the same day, Sweden issued a 10kr stamp with the same design. The likeness on the stamps was based on a photograph taken during the filming of As You Desire Me (1932).
In late 1934, after Queen Christina (1933) and The Painted Veil (1934), which were both huge hits in Europe (making twice their budget in the UK alone) but underwhelming US successes, Garbo signed a contract with MGM saying that she would only make films under David O. Selznick and Irving Thalberg. Her next two films, Anna Karenina (1935) and Camille (1936), were notable hits at the US box office, and produced by Selznick and Thalberg respectively. In 1937 her contract had to be revised, as Selznick left the studio in 1935 and Thalberg had died. She made only three films after "Camille".
When she heard that David O. Selznick, who had produced her hit Anna Karenina (1935), was leaving MGM in 1935 to start his own studio, she begged him to stay, promising that she would let him personally supervise all of her pictures exclusively. He said that it would be a great honor, but he had other plans. Ironically, the usually very finicky Irving Thalberg, Garbo's other favorite producer, was the first person to give Selznick money to start his company ($200,000).
Her personal favourite movie of her own was Camille (1936).
Throughout her entire MGM career, she insisted that William H. Daniels be cinematographer on her pictures. This may not have been purely superstition, as the two notable films she made without him--Conquest (1937) and Two-Faced Woman (1941)- were her only notable flops.
Her performance as Ninotchka in Ninotchka (1939) is ranked #25 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006).
Her performance as Ninotchka in Ninotchka (1939) is ranked #53 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.
A photograph of Greta Garbo, probably cut from a movie magazine, was one of several images of movie stars, royalty, pieces of art, and family members used as decoration by Anne Frank on the wall of her room in the "Secret Annex" in Amsterdam where she and her family hid from July 1942 until their capture by the Nazis in August 1944.
She was originally chosen for the lead roles in The Paradine Case (1947), My Cousin Rachel (1952), and The Wicked Dutchess. Garbo turned down these roles, with the exception of The Wicked Dutchess, which was never shot due to financial problems.
Was offered the role of Mama Hanson in I Remember Mama (1948), but she turned it down. Irene Dunne was cast instead and went on to receive a Best Actress Oscar nomination for her performance.
In the mid-1950s she bought a seven-room-apartment in New York City (450 East 52nd Street) and lived there until she died.
Was offered the role of Norma Desmond in Sunset Blvd. (1950), but she turned it down. Gloria Swanson was cast instead and she went on to receive a Best Actress Oscar nomination for her performance.
1951: Became a US citizen.
According to her friend, producer William Frye, he offered Garbo one million dollars to star as the Mother Superior in his film The Trouble with Angels (1966). When she declined, he cast Rosalind Russell in the part - at a much lower salary.
Although it was believed that Garbo lived as an invalid in her post-Hollywood career, this is incorrect. She was a real jet setter, traveling with international tycoons and socialites. In the 1970s she traveled less and grew more and more eccentric, although she still took daily walks through Central Park with close friends and walkers. Due to failing health in the late 1980s, her mobility was challenged. In her final year it was her family that cared for her, including taking her to dialysis treatments. She died with them by her side.
Is portrayed by Kristina Wayborn in The Silent Lovers (1980) (TV)
Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume Two, 1986-1990, pages 316-319. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999.
October 1997: Ranked #38 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list.
Letters and correspondence between Garbo and poet, socialite and notorious lesbian Mercedes de Acosta were unsealed on April 15, 2000, exactly 10 years after Garbo's death (per De Acosta's instructions). The letters revealed no love affair between the two, as had been rumored.
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1913 These are our regulations-- There's just one law for the Scout And the first and the last, and the present and the past, And the future and the perfect is "Look out!" I, thou and he, look out! We, ye and they, look out! Though you didn't or you wouldn't Or you hadn't or you couldn't; You jolly well must look out!
Look out, when you start for the day That your kit is packed to your mind; There is no use going away With half of it left behind. Look out that your laces are tight, And your boots are easy and stout, Or you'll end with a blister at night. (Chorus) All Patrols look out!
Look out for the birds of the air, Look out for the beasts of the field-- They'll tell you how and where The other side's concealed. When the blackbird bolts from the copse, Or the cattle are staring about, The wise commander stops And (chorus) All Patrols look out!
Look out when your front is clear, And you feel you are bound to win. Look out for your flank and your rear-- That's where surprises begin. For the rustle that isn't a rat, For the splash that isn't a trout, For the boulder that may be a hat (Chorus) All Patrols look out!
For the innocent knee-high grass, For the ditch that never tells, Look out! Look out ere you pass-- And look out for everything else A sign mis-read as you run May turn retreat to a rout-- For all things under the sun (Chorus) All Patrols look out!
Look out where your temper goes At the end of a losing game; When your boots too tight for your toes; And you answer and argue and blame. It's the hardest part of the Low, But it has to be learned by the Scout-- For whining and shrinking and "jaw" (Chorus) All Patrols look out! | <urn:uuid:a6188f95-d303-4547-a714-831cc80b0cad> | 2013-05-18T17:27:50Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Sequel to 'Dark Knight in Denver'. Team Seven goes to Gotham.Rated: Fiction K+ - English - Chapters: 6 - Words: 8,805 - Reviews: 14 - Favs: 4 - Updated: 03-15-06 - Published: 02-14-06 - id: 2800508
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As he drove towards Gotham late the next evening Batman was surprised to see the BatSignal lit.
"Jim?" he called a short while later as he stood near the BatSignal.
"It's Chris," came the answer.
Batman stepped out of the shadows and turned off the signal. "Why?" he demanded.
"I needed to talk to you, and the others don't need to hear this conversation."
Chris suddenly wondered if this was how others felt when they talked to him. "The first night, in Gordon's office, you said I didn't owe you anything. If I had been able to bring in the man who shot your parents, would you think you owed me something?"
When Batman remained silent for a moment, Chris knew he'd gotten his point across.
But Batman didn't give in that easily. "You would have been doing your job, and I was doing my job."
"You didn't answer my question."
"We both know the answer. But that's the kind of debt that can't be repaid. That, between friends, doesn't need to be repaid."
"Allies might be a better word," Batman replied. Bruce Wayne had friends, Batman didn't. But he did have allies. A few select people who he trusted. Chris was one of those few people.
"Allies," Chris agreed, holding out his hand.
Batman extended his own hand. Rather than shaking hands they gripped each other's wrists in the ages old tradition of warriors.
"Killer Croc escaped from Arkam today. I'm going to need to focus on tracking him down. From your Team's record I doubt you'll need my help to deal with what's left of Two-Face's operation," Batman said. "But my resources are at your disposal if you need anything. . . now, or in the future."
"Thank you," Chris said. Considering the combined resources of Bruce Wayne and Batman, that was a very generous offer.
A few weeks later Team 7 was back in Denver, but the connection to Gotham remained. Barbra and JD emailed each other so often that both Dick and Casey got a bit jealous, much to the amusement of Barbra and JD. Some of Barbra's e mails were profiles Batman wanted Josiah's opinion on, and JD would sent profiles that Josiah wanted Bruce to look over.
Leslie and Nathan also stayed in touch.
"What has you smiling like the proverbial cat who just ate the canary Mister Wilmington?" Ezra asked one morning.
"I just arranged for a couple dozen roses o be delivered to Selina."
"The young lady you and Wayne were both so interested in at the restaurant?"
"Yeah. Seems like Bruce is taking her for granted. I thought someone else paying attention to her might remind him that he needs to pay attention to her."
A few days later Buck wasn't smiling. They were at Inez's bar. Bruce had sent her a ruby bracelet, and she wanted Ezra's opinion of it's value."
"Most impressive. I would recommend having it appraised and insured immediately," Ezra suggested.
Seeing the look on Buck's face, Chris smirked. "You really should have known better than to take on a guy with the fortune Bruce has, Pard."
Buck's only response was a glare.
A week later Buck got a call from Gotham. "Buck, it's Selina."
"Hi, Darlin'. I got your thank you note for the roses."
"They were beautiful. They are also part of what I wanted to thank you for."
"Part?" Buck asked.
"Yes. I'm guessing you sent them to help me make Bruce jealous. So he would pay more attention to me, and our relationship."
"Well, that and I always enjoy sending flowers to beautiful women," Buck teased.
"I wanted to let you know that it worked. Bruce isn't taking our relationship for granted anymore. I think you made him face the fact that I have other options than staying with him."
"Glad I could help."
"How are things with the lady who managed to steal your heart before I could?" Selina asked, in a teasing tone, though she was genuinely interested in his answer.
"Bruce sent her a ruby bracelet," Buck grumbled.
"That sounds like Bruce. His competitive streak sometimes gets the best of him. Anything I can do to help?"
"No, but thanks."
"I've gotta go. I'm meeting Bruce for dinner in a few minutes."
"We will," Selina assured him. "Don't be a stranger. You or the others. Bruce would never admit it, but he values the friendship he has with your Team."
"Yeah, well, don't tell him this, but we're all glad to have him as a friend."
"You're secret's safe with me," Selina assured him.
THE END. . . . For Now. . .
A/N: Trecebo, THANKS! Glad you liked the conversations. Sorry about the story having so little action. I have to admit, I much prefer writing character studies and relationships to action. . . | <urn:uuid:0fbe9256-bbe0-44d1-9d07-409e1fce9738> | 2013-05-18T17:49:50Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Earlier chapters have presented all the key elements of an observer programme. This final chapter gives a brief overview on how to put all the elements together. Three aspects are considered: design, implementation and maintenance.
There are two main sets of influences that condition the framework of a programme.
Policy decisions (and complementary decisions at management, science, MCS/compliance and observer operations levels) - possibly reflected through the fishery management plan that lays down programme objectives.
The situation (or environment) within which the programme must function, i.e. the factors that will shape the programme strategy and ultimately define its success or failure.
Decisions that underlie an observer programme were outlined in the Introduction, and programme objectives were discussed in Chapter 1. It is important to define objectives in a way that is easy to understand, but which is sufficiently comprehensive to meet the needs of observer data users. Over-ambitious objectives may lead to disappointment within and outside of the observer programme.
Once the objectives have been defined, they must continually be assessed in terms of the functional environment of the programme. This involves attention to the following components.
a) Physical environment
Conditions of the area covered - e.g. temperate or tropical location of ports.
b) Biological environment
For example, the key species, by-catch and predictions of catch rates.
c) Fishing activity
The resource users e.g. vessel nationality, size of vessel, fishing methods.
d) Owner organization
Background information on the government FMA that will be home to the programme.
e) Other data collection programmes
Any other programmes that collect data for fisheries management.
f) The potential observers
Consider skills, abilities, professionalism and qualifications.
g) National level policies and objectives
Consider wider political, social and economic policies that may influence the programme, e.g. the need to address national employment problems, including gender or empowerment questions.
h) International level
Is the fishery sector party to any international or regional agreements that may influence the scope of the programme?
i) Legal instruments
What legal instruments exist, both informal and formal, such as acts, regulations, tribal rights, etc.?
l) Financing options
Where will the programme finance come from? If from donor support, how will donor objectives influence the strategy of the programme? If from industry, should joint management be considered?
Who will care about the programme? Draw up a list of all the possible stakeholders and consider current links and historic problems between them, and gauge their interest in the programme.
Assessment of the functional environment helps to clarify programme prospects and problems. These can be further clarified through SWOT analysis (Strength, Weakness, Opportunity and Threat analysis). SWOT analysis looks at all the aspects of the programme in relation to the required outputs and simply asks logical questions about the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (Table 16). SWOT analysis serves as a kind of reality check. Are threats too big to overcome or can they be overcome by opportunities? If the threats are considered too big, then should programme objectives be reconsidered?
The analysis might contribute to a background paper that defines the intentions and plans for the programme for circulation among potential stakeholders for feedback. A possible structure of a background paper would include:
Name of programme, background and objectives
Situation analysis and overall strategy
Proposed organization and delivery
How to address sustainability
This paper can also serve as a basis for securing donor assistance to the programme. Following feedback from stakeholders, decisions can be made on its feasibility or on any programme re-design.
Table 16 How to make a SWOT analysis
What are your advantages and
Consider this from your own point of view and from the point of view of the people you deal with. Be realistic.
What could be improved?
Again this should be considered from both an internal and external perspective. Do other people perceive weaknesses that you don't see? Do your colleagues do any better? It is best to be realistic now, and face any unpleasant truths as soon as possible.
What good changes do you face?
Useful opportunities can come from such things as:
Changes in technology on both a broad
and narrow scale
What obstacles do you face?
Carrying out this analysis will often be illuminating - both in terms of pointing out what needs to be done, and in putting problems into perspective. Make a risk analysis by defining what could go wrong.
If the chances for a successful programme are deemed good, a project will be necessary in order to implement it. Project duration might be anywhere from one to five years, depending on the scale and scope of the programme to be established.
Planning is vital, and a project logical framework (logframe) approach should be used. A pilot phase, incorporating also pilot work on a sampling strategy (Section 4.5), should first be implemented. Trials during this phase will be used to establish work plans, working practices, codes of conduct, training manuals and guides, and consideration of employment options and other administrative systems for the programme. The pilot phase might run for any amount of time, but usually a period of 12 months should be sufficient to complete trial work.
Evaluation and revision of the project will occur in light of the lessons learnt during the pilot phase. This may require adjusting the objectives in relation to the initial mandate of the programme and what is practically achievable. Monitoring and evaluation as described in Chapter 3 should continue during the full project set-up phase and as the programme matures.
It will always be necessary to verify that the programme is producing quality data outputs to fulfil its objectives, that the objectives are still in tune with the management system for the fishery, and that an observer programme is still the best way to achieve these objectives.
Observer programme managers will always need to assure all stakeholders that the programme remains sustainable. This will require a dynamic and flexible approach to allow the programme to adapt to changing circumstances. This flexibility combined with contact with stakeholders, annual planning, target setting, annual review and feedback will help to assure sustainability.
The ownership of the programme will also have a major impact on sustainability; a good programme will have a broad ownership network. That means that the scientists, compliance officers, managers, industry and observers will all feel that the programme is theirs.
Realistic budgeting is also required for sustainability. The aim should always be to provide value for money, and in this respect every programme needs to find a balance between what it produces as outputs and the personnel and technology it employs. High-tech solutions may be right for one programme but not for another, but they are only tools to enable observers to do their work.
Outputs are what the programme will ultimately be judged on. Information quality and timeliness must almost become the motto of the programme, and every effort should be made to uphold it.
Finally, observers are always at the centre of every observer programme, and they will require recognition and reward when they have done a good job. Life at sea is often difficult, and support and feedback from the shore staff is vital to maintain morale and a sense of purpose in what can easily become a very monotonous existence. Knowing that they are part of a bigger picture and that their contribution is important and appreciated will motivate observers to achieve excellent results and to keep going under what can be very arduous conditions.
The ownership of the programme will also have a major impact on sustainability; a good programme will have a broad ownership network.
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Published on Thursday, September 23, 2010
Written by The Editors
Here are seven maintenance tips a foodservice operator can follow to extend the service life of their walk-in refrigerator or freezer.
There are basic maintenance requirements that can help extend a walk-in's service life. Please note that the following is a list of general maintenance requirements. The manufacturer's recommendations and requirements should always be followed.
- Make sure the door gaskets are in good shape and replace any that are split or damaged, so cold air doesn't escape. Also, check that the door is level and doesn't have any gaps that would allow outside air to enter the storage area.
- Clean cooler walls and floors with a sanitizing solution consisting of one part bleach and 32 parts water (4 oz. bleach to 1 gal. of water). Be sure to rinse with clean water and avoid letting the water soak into the floor panels through the seams.
- Ceilings and walls should be regularly wiped down to avoid mildew and bacteria growth.
- Refrain from cleaning freezers with water, which will freeze on the floor and cause slip and fall accidents. Instead, sweep freezer floors clean with a broom.
- Keeping condenser coils clean is a major maintenance point. If coils become clogged, they will eventually make the compressor overheat, resulting in premature failure of the refrigeration system.
- Remove any debris that can compromise the door seal.
- Once a year, empty and bring to temperature a walk-in and then clean it with a hose. | <urn:uuid:00f43bd3-7b49-4b57-a5e7-11741b1c454d> | 2013-05-18T17:48:13Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The National academic Bolshoï theater of Russia is one of the best music theater in the world. The Bolshoï Theater was founded in 1776, originally the theater did not have its own building. In 1780, the Petrovsky Theater was built on the place of the modern Bolshoï Theater. The repertoire of this first professional musical theater in Moscow consisted of drama, opera, and ballet performances. But the center of spécial attention were operas, that is why the Petrovsky Theater was more often called the Opera House. In 1805, the edifice of the theater was burnt down, and till 1825 performances were staged on varions theatrical sites. In 1824, a new theater, which was named Bolshoï Petrovsky, was built by O. Bove. It became on of the most beautiful theater buildings in the world due to its perfect classical architecture. Of great significance to the history of the theater was opera and ballet legato of the great Russian composer Piotr Chaikovsky. His operas "Eugeni Oneguin , "The Queen Of Spades", "The Cherevichki", "Mazepa", "Iolanta", ballets "The Swan Lake", "The Sleeping Beauty", "Nutcracker" are placed on golden record of the repertoire. In 80’s and 90’s of the XIX century, works of composers from "The Mighty Group" were produced on the stage of the Bolshoï Theater: "Boris Godunov" by Modest Mussorgsky, "Sadko" and "The Snow-Girl" by Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov, "The Prince Igor" by Alexander Borodin. The operas "The Decembrists" by Juri Shaporin, "The War and the Peace", "Semion Kotko", "The Gamblers" by Serguei Prokofiev, "The Optimistic Tragedy" by Alexander Kholminov, "The October" by Vano Muradeli, "The Unknown Soldier" and "Quiet Are the Dawns Here" by Kirill Molchanov, "The Stealing of the Moon" by Otar Taktakishvili, "The Dead Souls" by Rodion Schedrin, the ballets "Romeo and Juliet", "The Cindirella", "Ivan the Terrible", "The Stone Flower" by Serguei Prokofiev, "Spartacus" by Aram Khachaturian, "Assel" by Vladimir Vlassov, "The Legend about Love" by Arif Melikov, "Anna Karenina", "The Sea-Gull", "The Lady with a Doggy" by Rodion Schedrin, "The Hussar Ballad" by Tikhon Khrennikov, "Aniuta" by Valeri Gavrilin are brillant productions of the Bolshoï Theater in 1950s-1980s. Thanks to the ballet-dancers Ekaterina Maksimova, Nina Timofejeva, Natalia Bessmertnova, Ludmila Semeniaka, Nadezhda Pavlova, Svetlana Adyrkhajeva, Nina Semizorova, Alla Mikhalchenko, Nina Ananiashvili, Vladimir Vassiliev, Maris Liepa, Mikhail Lavrosky, Alexander Bogatyriov, Viacheslav Gordejev, Irek Mukhamedov, the ballet art of the Bolshoï Theater gained international acknowledgment. | <urn:uuid:69b651a9-51dc-4b2a-bc8e-82c9f89a0888> | 2013-05-18T17:58:02Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Petkovic delighted with qualification
Young Boys coach
Three goals in the space of four second-half minutes turned the game around in the Swiss side's favour to take them through to the last-32 as group runners-up. And Petkovic felt he had seen some of his side's best football of the season.
"The fans got to see a good and attractive game which we dominated for around 75 per cent," he said. "That was one of our best performances this season, comparable with our 3-2 win over Tottenham in the Champions League qualifiers."
He was, however, referring to the wintry conditions which saw the game temporarily halted midway through the first and second half as the snow persisted.
The lines had to be cleared of snow to let the game recommence and the second halt in play seemed to knock the Swabians out of their rhythm.
"We had a blackout for five minutes after leading 2-1 and that has cost us victory," Keller added.
Nevertheless, Stuttgart still secured the group victory by virtue of their superior head-to-head record with the Swiss and they can now look forward to playing the second leg of their first knockout stage match at home. | <urn:uuid:11e6fe3c-5875-4b11-bb7f-e3f1e6554951> | 2013-05-18T17:31:05Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Nelsen enjoying his horizons
New Zealand defender Ryan Nelsen is relishing the prospect of a reunion with former manager Mark Hughes after his second Olympic campaign with the All Whites. The 34-year-old centre-half will link up with Hughes once more after the Olympics when he heads to Premier League side Queens Park Rangers following a short stint with Tottenham.
It will be the second time Nelsen has worked with Hughes after the Welsh manager launched the New Zealander's Premier League career at Blackburn Rovers. "I owe him and his coaching staff my life," Nelsen said of Hughes after a New Zealand training session on Wednesday.
"He looked past the fact I was a New Zealander playing in America (for DC United). He took me to Blackburn purely on my football ability. He gave me an opportunity a lot of managers would not have had the guts to make."
Nelsen is confident of helping QPR in their attempts to become an established member of the top-flight. "It should be another fun chapter in the twilight of my career," he said. "I have a chance to be part of QPR's aim to become a big club and I am excited about that."
But Nelsen's first priority are the Olympics, where New Zealand are grouped with Brazil, Egypt and Belarus. "You always want to represent your country," said Nelsen. "The World Cup in 2010 was a special tournament and a special time. We have moved on and now this team wants to create history. We want to make New Zealanders proud and hopefully inspire a lot of young kids to take up the sport." | <urn:uuid:b98f4c70-d94d-4486-8e4c-2a635b5ed3b4> | 2013-05-18T18:08:29Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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After a crash, a mysterious entity appearing as a human finds himself in Ponyville. His purpose and reason for entering Equestria is unknown to all, even to the creature. Yet this human can remember what his journey was about. After recollecting the events that transpired before, he finds himself in the presense of the main six, who turns out rescued him and also welcome the unknown creature to Ponyville. Will this entity be able to coexist in Equestria peacefully? Or will his quest hinder his stay?
(My Little Sinner is the side story to my book in progress Sinner)
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Tokyo - Japanese electronics maker Sharp said on Wednesday it expected a full-year net loss of $3.8bn, blaming falling prices, a high yen and the global economic slowdown.
The firm expects a net loss of ¥290bn for the year to March, reversing an earlier projection of a ¥6bn net profit.
For the nine months to December it made a net loss of ¥213.5bn, compared with a ¥21.83bn profit in the corresponding period in the previous year, it said.
During the same period, operating loss came to ¥9.1bn, reversing operating profit of ¥66.5bn in the previous year, while sales fell 18.3% to ¥1.9 trillion, Sharp said.
"Major price falls of products and devices such as LCD colour televisions and solar batteries as well as a dramatic increase of the yen" resulted in the lower revenues, the company said in a statement.
Sharp booked an extraordinary item of ¥80.9bn for structural reforms and losses related to the suspension of a large LCD plant in Japan after the devastating earthquake and tsunami in March.
It also booked corporate tax and other expenses of ¥115.2bn yen after revaluing deferred tax assets on its books.
For the year to March, the company expects only to break even at the operating level, compared with an earlier forecast of ¥85bn in profit.
It lowered its sales estimate by 8.9% to ¥2.55 trillion from ¥2.80 trillion. | <urn:uuid:61d48adb-f1d8-4067-9ea0-de891a882f6d> | 2013-05-18T17:49:34Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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'Henry's Garnet' Virginia sweetspire is a very dependable, showy plant. It is an arching, 3- to 5-foot-tall shrub that holds its leaves well into fall, allowing the maroon, yellow, and orange tones to develop and reveal themselves over time. Virginia sweetspire also produces an early-summer show, featuring slender, drooping racemes of white flowers that attract all sorts of pollinating insects. Its suckering, slowly spreading, 6-foot-wide habit makes it a good choice for slopes and mass plantings. | <urn:uuid:0848708f-c2b1-4af5-ab7a-9a581d13cb26> | 2013-05-18T17:29:59Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The kid was skating all over the place. Down the stairs, down the rails, over onto the fountain...just everywhere. I'm not surprised that he crashed. He never wanted to wear the protective equipment. I guess that he got what he deserved...one broken wrist and a broken arm too."
As a first responder, you will treat many patients who have suffered various types of open or closed painful, swollen or deformed extremities. It is important that you recognize the signs and symptoms of injuries of the musculoskeletal system. Proper care given at the scene can prevent additional injury or disability.
The skeleton has 206 bones and provides support and form for the body. It also protects the body's vital organs. The skull protects the brain, the spinal column protects the spinal cord, the ribs and sternum protect the heart and lungs, and the pelvis protects the organs of the lower abdomen.
The four primary functions of the skeletal system are to provide support, protect the body, assist in body movement and produce red blood cells. Because muscles and bones work together to produce movement, they are often called the musculoskeletal system. This movement occurs at joints, the contact points between bones that are next to one another. The joints are held together by ligaments, thick bands that arise from one bone, span the joint and insert into the adjacent bone.
A vital but often overlooked function of the skeletal system is the production of red blood cells. Red blood cells are made primarily in the spaces inside the bone called the marrow.
There are three major types of musculoskeletal injuries: fractures, dislocations and sprains. It is often difficult to distinguish one type of extremity injury from the other. All three types are serious and all extremity injuries must be identified so they can receive appropriate medical treatment. Since we are often not sure of the type of exact injury, we now are using new terminology to describe an injured extremity as "painful, swollen and deformed."
A fracture is a broken bone. Fractures can be caused by a variety of mechanisms but a significant force is almost always required. Fractures are generally classified as either closed or open. Closed fractures are more common. In the case of a closed fracture, the bone is broken but does not cause a break in the skin.
In an open fracture, the bone is broken and the overlying skin is lacerated. The open wound can be caused by penetrating objects, such as a bullet, or by the fractured bone end protruding through the skin. The open fracture is contaminated by dirt and bacteria; this contamination may lead to infection. Every fracture injures adjacent soft tissues, resulting in bleeding at the fracture site. Fractures also can injure adjacent nerves and blood vessels, causing severe nerve injury and excessive bleeding. Open fractures result in more bleeding than do closed fractures.
A dislocation is a disruption of the joint that tears the supporting ligaments. The bone ends that make up the joint separate completely from each other and lock in one position. Any attempted motion of a dislocated joint is very painful. Because many nerves and blood vessels lie near joints, a dislocation also can damage these structures.
A sprain is a joint injury in which the joint is partially, temporarily dislocated, and some of the supporting ligaments are either stretched or torn. It can be thought of as a partial dislocation. The following are the primary signs and symptoms of extremity injuries:
- Pain at the injury site.
- An open wound.
- Swelling and discoloration (bruising).
- The patient's inability or unwillingness to move the part.
- Tenderness at the injury site.
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- General overall assessment of the patient.
- Examination of the injured part.
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How would society handle technological disaster?
Watching the pilot of NBC’s new show, Revolution. How would our society handle it if electricity decided to just quit? Would it dissolve into chaos, going back to pre-industrial tech? Or would it merely revert to the last technology we had that didn’t rely on electricity (say, late-1800’s)? Or would something else happen?
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One in six Americans will get sick from food poisoning this year. That’s about 48 million people. Most of them will recover without any lasting effects from their illness. For some, however, the effects can be devastating and even deadly.
Here are some serious effects associated with several common types of food poisoning.
Hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS) is a serious illness that usually occurs when an infection in the digestive system produces toxic substances that destroy red blood cells, causing kidney injury. HUS may occur after infection with some kinds of E. coli bacteria.
HUS is most common in children. In fact, it is the most common cause of acute kidney failure in children.
A small number of persons with Shigella or Salmonella infection develop pain in their joints, irritation of the eyes, and painful urination. This is called reactive arthritis. It can last for months or years, and can lead to chronic arthritis, which is difficult to treat. Persons with Campylobacter infections may also develop chronic arthritis.
Brain and nerve damage
A Listeria infection can lead to meningitis, an inflammation of the membranes surrounding the brain. If a newborn infant is infected with Listeria, long-term consequences may include mental retardation, seizures, paralysis, blindness, or deafness.
Guillain-Barré syndrome is a disorder that affects the nerves of the body. This occurs when a person's immune system attacks the body's own nerves. It can result in paralysis that lasts several weeks and usually requires intensive care. As many as 40 percent of Guillain-Barré syndrome cases in this country may be triggered by an infection with Campylobacter.
In the United States, approximately 3,000 people die each year of illnesses associated with food poisoning. Five types of organisms account for 88 percent of the deaths for which the cause is known: Salmonella, Toxoplasma, Listeria, norovirus, and Campylobacter.
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Wenger: We have Gervinho so why buy?
By Football News
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger says there was no point trying to strengthen his squad in January because the club already has Gervinho.
The Gunners, who currently sit sixth in the Premier League and four points short of fourth, added only left-back Nacho Monreal to their squad during the winter transfer window.
But despite running the risk of missing out on Champions League qualification, the Frenchman claimed that securing top talent in the middle of the season is too difficult - even with the opportunity to scout at the Africa Cup of Nations available to him.
Ivory Coast international Gervinho has been the best player at the tournament in South Africa, a point noted by Wenger.
"We worked very hard on it, we were everywhere. I would have loved to take somebody else but we didn't find anyone," he said.
"In the Africa Cup of Nations, the best player is Gervinho. It's simple. Why should we go there when the best player is Gervinho? We already have Gervinho.
"Manchester United, who did they buy? Chelsea, who did they buy? Liverpool bought. Man City didn't buy - for one single reason.
"For the top, top, top clubs, it's difficult to strengthen your team in the middle of the season."
Gervinho is set to return from the tournament this week after Ivory Coast saw their Afcon 2013 dreams ended by a 2-1 quarter-final defeat to Nigeria.
Wenger just trying to save money once again.
Hes an average player. They need a natural goal scorer. | <urn:uuid:3a9537d9-b408-452a-bc00-422cae8b19e0> | 2013-05-18T17:59:47Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Debtor was a general partner in a since-disbanded law firm, and was sued in his individual capacity by the firm’s former landlord. Judgment was eventually entered against all the partners for over $3.2 million.
To recover on the Judgment, the landlord brought a fraudulent transfer action against the Debtor and his wife for transfers the Debtor made into various entireties accounts in Pennsylvania during his 35 years with the law firm and his long marriage with his wife.
The Trustee alleged both actual fraudulent transfer (i.e., the Debtor intended to defraud his creditors) and constructive fraudulent transfers (i.e., the transfers were without reasonably equivalent value and rendered the Debtor insolvent).
The Trustee’s actual fraudulent transfer case failed, because the evidence showed that the Debtor had been depositing his wages into an entireties account for at least twenty years, and thus there was no evidence that his deposits were meant to defraud the landlord.
On the constructive fraudulent transfer, the Debtor’s main defense was that he didn’t make any transfer at all, but rather the transfers to the entireties account was automatically made by the law firm. The Court rejected this defense since the Debtor had control of his wages when they became due, and could direct the law firm to pay them wherever he wanted them paid.
Otherwise, the Court found that the transfers of the Debtor’s wages to the entireties account constituted fraudulent transfers because no consideration exchanged for the transfers (although the Court allowed the Debtor to try to prove that a portion of the moneys were spent on necessities, which would have been consideration), and the transfers rendered the Debtor insolvent or he was insolvent when they were made.
As to the latter point regarding insolvency, the Court took into account the debt owed to the landlord and also that — as an exempt asset — the moneys in the entirety accounts would not be allowed to count towards the Debtor’s solvency.
On the other hand, there is a four-year Statute of Limitations for a fraudulent transfer, which limited the Trustee’s recovery to the past four years.
The Court also considered the Debtor’s payment of their children’s college educations, and concluded that those expenses were reasonable and necessary for the maintenance of the Debtor’s family, at least for fraudulent transfer purposes. Similarly, the Court found that the purchase of certain life insurance policies by the Debtor to support his wife in case he died, were also reasonably and necessary expenses.
However, the Court found that $21,634 paid by the Debtor for vacation travel expenses, $2,601 for wines and liquor, and $804 for entertainment tickets, were all not reasonably necessary, and allowed the Bankruptcy Trustee to surcharge the entireties accounts for that amount. More painfully, the Court found that the Debtor could not account for $463,575 that were taken from the entireties account over the years, and allowed the Bankrutpcy Trustee to surcharge the entireties accounts for that much larger amount as well.
I really don’t deal with Tenancy by the Entireties (a/k/a TBE) very much, since I practice in Southwestern States that are mostly community property states. As such, I am reticent to comment more than to point out that while such property may be exempt by statute — the transfers that change the character of the property from non-TBE to TBE property can often be challenged as a fraudulent transfer (as here) or as a “fraudulent conversion” in some states.
This Opinion also recalls the concept of “surcharge”, which is the application of otherwise exempt assets to pay debts because of misconduct (liberally defined) by a debtor. Thus, if a debtor has $1 million in exempt property, but to spite his creditors variously burns $1 million off a bridge, or gives it to a charity in Africa, or gives it to his ex-wife, all for the purpose of keeping that $1 million from creditors, then the Court can order the debtor’s exempt $1 million to be surcharged for the $1 million that the debtor lost.
The concept of “surcharge” is often overlooked in asset protection planning, and results in the planner and client presuming that something which is exempt stays exempt — but exemptions have exceptions, and surcharge is one of them. Which is to say that is somebody is expecting exemption planning to provide a substantial part of their asset protection planning, they had better make sure that no other part of the planning results in a surcharge against those exempt assets.
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MILTON — The following are arrests from May 15 to June 4.
May 15 — Jeffrey Smith, 23, of Flagg Road, Rochester, was charged with attempt to commit blackmail.
May 18 — Kenneth M. Kinney, 32, of Kings Highway, New Durham, was charged with possession of a controlled drug.
May 19 — Kenneth L. Stanley, 53, of Charles Street, was charged with two counts of "dog a menace" and two counts of "dog running at large."
May 20 — Courtine Stanley, 18, of Charles Street, was charged with "dog control" and "dog a menace."
May 21 — Steven Smart, 28, of Varney Road, Wolfeboro, was charged with driving after suspension.
May 25 — Ronald K. Angell, 30, with no address provided, was charged on a warrant out of Rochester for willful concealment.
May 27 — Joseph Jacob, 31, of White Mountain Highway, was charged with operating without a valid license.
June 1 — Tara Lee Smith, 38, of Williams Avenue, Kittery, Maine, was charged with driving after suspension. Jason Gautreau, 28, of Champion Street, Lebanon, Maine, was charged with driving after suspension.
June 3 — Bradford Sargent, 31, of Little River Road, Strafford, was charged on two bench warrants, for disobeying an officer and criminal solicitation.
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Extra Points: Newton doesn't need Moon's help
Cam Newton was the toast of Charlotte after his brilliant rookie season with the Panthers. But, success in the NFL can be as fleeting as the weather. Wait five minutes and it could change.
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Katy Perry recently unveiled her own wax figure for Madame Tussauds' Las Vegas, and let's just say she has some mixed feelings about getting immortalized in wax.
"It's a little bit freaky because at some point I feel like this wax figure is going to come to life," she jokes. "And then they'll be two of me! Nobody wants that ..."
Katy shares that Las Vegas is the perfect place to display her lifelike mold, thanks to her beloved grandma.
"I think it's the perfect home because my grandma lives in Las Vegas, and she's 92, and I can send her over whenever I can't make it to grandma's," she says. "But then I think it's great because then there will be two Hudsons there!"
As for the uncanny similarities between her wax figure and herself, Katy says there's at least one major difference -- the figure's six-pack abs.
"I mean, she does have this strange six-pack that I know I don't have because I have more of a fupa, and she doesn't have that, so ... " she says. "Can't have it all I guess. [But] she can't speak, [and] I can speak so -- I have that."
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Why Haven't the Burmese Joined the Recent Wave of Pro-Democracy Protests?
(Pictured: Burma's 2007 Saffron Revolution.)
Note: An earlier version of this post mistakenly attributed Roland Watson's quotes to David Tharckabaw.
At Dictator Watch, Roland Watson asks, "Why Are There No Protests in Burma?"
Thus far Burma's military dictatorship has been immune to the uprisings to which the world has been witness to -- or engaged in -- elsewhere. Perhaps that's because Burma comes in a close second to North Korea as the most merciless administration in the world. You think Bahrain and Libya have been barbaric in their responses to protests? One shudders to think how North Korea (where, actually, an opposition movement is unimaginable) and Burma's ruling junta would react. Watson, though, sees a ray of hope.
He begins by citing all the nations where mass protests have been mounted and criticizing the United States both for supporting rulers such as Mubarak and failing to switch their support to the protesters in timely fashion. He then writes that
. . the generals of the SPDC military junta . . . are among the most repressive in the world [including] ethnic cleansing . . . committed against minority groups. The theft of Burma's natural resources by the junta, its cronies, and their international partners, is also so severe that it is in the first tier, financially, of worldwide corruption. It is therefore a surprise that there have not been any demonstrations in the country.
. . . As a long-time Burma analyst and activist, I personally do not understand the popular inaction. Obviously, there is fear and a multitude of other factors. But still, one would expect some sort of response.
At first glance, sounds suicidal. Watson explains.
The crackdown on the Saffron [monks] Uprising in 2007 only occurred after the junta was able to bring troops from border areas to Rangoon. The local commanders did not want to fire on the protestors. It has also been revealed that some leading generals opposed the crackdown.
There is significant dissent and factionalism within the junta. Really, everyone is positioning for power in advance of the demise of the top general . . . Than Shwe.
There is good reason to believe that the regime's response to renewed demonstrations would be muted, particularly in light of the precedent set by the Egyptian military.
Bear in mind that Watson wrote that before Gaddafi's brutal suppression in Libya. He presents another reason, though, that the junta's reaction to new protests might not be as harsh as we've come to expect from it.
In addition, a new crackdown would end the hesitancy to launch war crimes prosecution against the SPDC.
Perhaps more to the point, Watson suggests that a crackdown by the junta could meet with an armed resistance that was absent in previous protests.
Right now, the resistance groups in Burma are working to establish a federal army. The generals have already exhibited an inability to move against them singly. As a coordinated front, [the resistance groups] will become much more powerful.
As for specific tactics, he recommends that this time
. . . the Burmese should avoid marches. As the protestors in Egypt illustrated, it is better to choose a central location, with many access points and surrounded by buildings for video documentation to rally. In Rangoon, one such area is Bandoola Park/Square.
The generals can hide in Naypyidaw [the new capital], but their rule will be a sham once the people of Burma control Rangoon [the old capital]. There will then be a coup against Than Shwe, or he and his family will flee to China or Singapore. The people of Burma will be through with the likes of [them]! . . . Democracy has a cost as the adage says "No Pain, no Gain". The secret is to know when to spend it. That time is now.
For her part, Aung San Suu Kyi has offered cautious support for the Egypt protests, while telling the Toronto Globe and Mail that she'd like to link up with pro-democracy activists via Facebook and Twitter. "I think we need to -- what do you call it -- raise the megabyte?"
Meanwhile in a piece for Irrawaddy, The Dictator's Survival Guide, the Burmese exile publication's managing editor Kya Zwa Moe ponders why the junta has lasted for almost 50 years.
What are some of the secrets to a dictator's survival? Here are some that Than Shwe and the Burmese generals have practiced:
— Crush all protests as soon as possible
— Consolidate all security forces, especially the military, under one command
— Apply divide and rule techniques among dissidents and the public
— Show no sympathy toward any dissent (as Tunisian leader Ben Ali did for the street vendor.)
— Never negotiate with opponents
— Pay no attention to pressure or suggestions from the international community
Than Shwe has applied these techniques since taking power and they are still working well for him. His recent formation of a "civilian government," following the convening of a "civilian parliament," appears to be his attempt to plant his seed of power in Burma and watch it grow even from beyond the grave.
If you think that Burma sounds like a horror movie, you're right. Perhaps, though, should mass protests re-occur there, the urge to keep from jeopardizing its developmental and commercial deals with China and India would be enough to keep the junta from responding to mass protests with killings, torture, and imprisonment as it has in the past. | <urn:uuid:4e61588c-1def-49fc-bd41-718b47692776> | 2013-05-18T17:37:32Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Latest update: 13/04/2012
Nadine Morano's Twitter #Fail
MEDIAWATCH, Thurs. 12/4/2012: She's a junior minister in Sarkozy's government and one of his most prominent cheerleaders, but Nadine Morano is also known for her gaffes. On Twitter today, she re-tweeted a video in support of the far-right National Front party. This, plus street art in the election and parallels between Bashar al-Assad and Vladimir Putin. | <urn:uuid:1713ff59-783c-4e3a-92c4-12d9465a0b0b> | 2013-05-18T17:31:20Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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- exhibitions - fashion - music
Philippe Katerine's exhibition is currently on display in the art gallery of a Parisian department store.
Phillipe Katerine is a writer, composer, singer, actor, filmmaker but he’s also an extraordinary artist. His works are currently on display in the art gallery of a Parisian department store. The exhibit is called “Like a Pineapple.”
Philippe Katerine is showing his drawings and watercolors for the very first time. They portray ordinary everyday objects that are then modeled and set in a giant water fountain. The centerpiece is none other than the musician and designer Kanye West.
The comments of the artist can be summed up in one word: emancipation. In his fight against all forms of domination, subservience and constraint, he represents a liberated mind that is out of the ordinary. I’m lucky to be a tourist, he says, which is the necessary condition for exploring new horizons.
The next performance by Katerine will take place this autumn at the Pompidou Center. A theater piece created with the designer Robert Stadler. | <urn:uuid:3c8ec7a6-1480-45ba-9f5f-8f81ebd0a351> | 2013-05-18T17:19:58Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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When you think of allergic reactions, you probably envision itchy eyes and a runny nose. But an allergic reaction can occur in the esophagus ? your food pipe ? as well. Symptoms happen when your immune system produces too many white blood cells in reaction to an allergy-causing substance. The white blood cells involved are called eosinophils.
The condition is called eosinophilic esophagitis, or EE or EoE. It affects between one and four of every 10,000 people in the U.S.
Symptoms of EoE vary from person to person and may include:
Acid reflux that doesn?t respond well to medication
Trouble eating and swallowing food
Food getting stuck in the throat
Having to drink a lot of fluid to finish a meal
Feeling too full to continue eating halfway through a meal
Stunted growth or poor weight gain in children
Who?s at risk
The disease affects both children and adults, but is more common in men. People with asthma and food or environmental allergies have a much greater chance of developing it.
Your doctor will take your medical history and will likely want to test you for allergies. He or she will probably do an endoscopy. This is an outpatient procedure that involves passing a thin, flexible scope with a camera through your mouth to look at your esophagus. The doctor will check for physical signs of inflammation and an increased number of eosinophils. To confirm the diagnosis, your health provider will likely need to take a biopsy, or tissue sample, from your esophagus.
For treatment, you will need to work closely with an allergist and a gastroenterologist, a specialist in digestive disorders. They?ll help you figure out what substances or foods to avoid. No specific medications can cure EoE, although certain steroids may help to reduce the swelling in your esophagus.
You can best manage EoE by learning what substances cause your allergic reaction and avoiding them. In many cases, the allergens come from food. With your medical team, you can develop an action plan to change your diet accordingly.
It?s also important to know that the reactions related to EoE might take days or weeks to develop. Keep this in mind when beginning a food elimination plan. It might take some time after avoiding a particular food to determine whether that strategy worked.
When to call the doctor
Call your doctor if you have EoE and notice any of these symptoms: | <urn:uuid:5cdee585-9b06-47a3-9a7c-fa61e1fe39ff> | 2013-05-18T17:18:25Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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University of Minnesota
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