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Finding Beauty & Laughter Everywhere
The Epicenter | of Epi's Thoughts
My adventures as a 20-something expat in Barcelona, Spain
a peek into the realms of my twisted mind
#art #Caribbean #fashion #spanish #portuguese #reggae
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General News of Monday, 25 February 2013
Source: Ghanaian Times
George Aguddey, the Chief Executive Officer of Gocrest Security Limited, is facing trial at an Accra District Court for non-payment of a total GHC2, 653,161.90 Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) contribution of his workers.
He pleaded not guilty to the charge and was on Saturday, granted bail in the sum of GHC100, 000, with a cash surety of GHC50, 000.00 to be justified, until March 23.
According to Ms Freda Naa Adjeley Konney, the prosecutor for SSNIT, Mr Agudey, the Presidential Candidate of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) in the 2004 election, failed to pay GHC1, 036,986.77 SSNIT contributions of | his workers, as at December 2012, which had accrued an interest of GHC1, 616,172.13.
At the initial hearing on February 2, his counsel, Mr Kwamena Baiden, disputed the amount, and requested SSNIT to furnish him with the details, but Ms Konney indicated that the accused had already been provided details of the case.
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Hi Please unblock the newsx package and check its migration to testing in two days. It fixes a buffer overflow (CVE-2008-3252) and the patch is minimal. There shouldn't be | anything holding it back, so I'd rather let it migrate in two days straight away, than prepare a DTSA. Cheers Steffen
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The Courteeners are a band that seem to strongly divide opinion. But whichever way you’re swayed, there’s no denying they have one of the most loyal fan bases around, and that's evident here at the Birmingham Academy. With hardly any radio play or press they’ve just managed to get themselves a top 10 album with ‘Anna’, whilst selling out this show, and many others around the country, so they must be doing something right.
It’s evident that tonight isn’t going to be a stand-and-nod-your-head gig when we see numerous crowdsurfers going over the barrier before the band have even taken to the stage. When they do though, they kick things off with ‘Are You In Love With A Notion?’ the opener from ‘Anna’. The album has only been out a couple of weeks but all the way back the crowd are singing along word for word.
With a brief “Hello Birmingham,” Liam Fray and co. carry on with the new songs and play ‘Push Yourself’ and recent single ‘Lose Control’. There’s a definite beefed up sound on these new tracks especially with their live keyboard player. The development of their sound is really noticeable when they skip from new to old and play early singles ‘ | Cavorting’ and ‘Acrylic’. There’s no doubt these are the songs that started them and they’re always going to be the ones everyone is chanting, but you can tell they’re keen to give the new material an airing. ‘Van Der Graaff’, their next single, sounds big. It takes them in | [
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STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — The final game of No. 24 Penn State's tumultuous season will be played on Jan. 2 in the Ticket City Bowl against No. 20 Houston.
Penn State and the bowl made the official announcements Sunday night on their respective websites.
The Nittany Lions (9-3 | , 6-2) finished tied with Wisconsin for first in the Big Ten Leaders Division.
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Watching the events of the last few weeks unfold, I have been struck anew by how many former Catholics there are in the news media. None of them have a clue about what it means to be Catholic. That, coupled with this post at 8 Kids and a Business, got me thinking about how to keep our kids Catholic. I decided to create a list.
Please note: my children are still preteens, so I cannot say, “It worked for us.” But I have done some research on the matter, and observed other Catholic families. I’ve often wondered how my husband and his siblings all remained good Catholics, while some of my siblings did not. I almost | left the Church myself in my 20s. I also know that a parent can do everything right, and his children can still choose to leave the Church. We have freewill. This list is not meant for pointing fingers or accusing other parents of failing. It’s | [
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Monday, April 26, 2010
Billy Gould's Aria Integra Bass For Sale?
Being a big Billy Gould fan, I was very interested when fellow Aria bass fan Nuno sent me an email that said the exact bass Billy Gould used at the Rock in Rio II festival in 1991 was for sale here.
I have no way of telling if the bass was really played by Billy or not, but it certainly is the right model (IGB-600 or IGB-DLX in the US). The knobs have been replaced and the truss rod cover is missing. The Brazilian seller doesn't appear to give any proof of authenticity. He is asking about $700 USD (not $1300 like I originally thought!). I'm a huge fan, but unless I had proof and lots of extra cash, I don't think I'd bite on this one! For comparison, here is a pic of Billy with one of his Integra IGB-600s (I assume he had more than one while on tour). Unfortunately there | isn't much to go on comparison wise since the bass is black and therefore has no wood grain or other distinguishing characteristics. Black paint, black hardware. Billy's was missing one knob at the time of the photograph. Do you think it | [
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With a super location on one of Milan's top shopping boulevards, the four-star Galles Hotel is the perfect venue for your stay in Milan. This Italian hotel has a terrific top-floor restaurant (great view), a gym, and you're within walking distance of the main sights of Milan. The hotel tends to attract business travellers on weekdays and shoppers on the weekend. Both are drawn by the excellent central location and the stylish comforts of a | very pleasant hotel. The marble-floored lobby has a big-screen TV showing sports, while the gym has fitness machines, sauna, Turkish bath, massage, shower and a relaxation lounge | [
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callie was playing in the living room, where she's allowed under supervision. i ended up getting into a tv show and knew i couldn't give her adequate supervision, so i picked her up and sat her in my lap on the rocking chair. she sat still, we snuggled, | it was great.
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Top 10 Portal-Themed Minecraft Mods
Minecraft has a huge fan base. Portal has a huge fan base.
Somewhere, those two fan bases overlap, and the result is a group of Minecraft players eager to think with portals.
These mods are for them.
1. Portal Gun
In this mod, you can actually craft yourself a portal gun, which allows you to create a pair of portals on most areas in the Minecraft world. You can even craft a pair of advanced knee replacements to nullify that pesky falling damage that can seriously interfere with your portalling fun.
But the fun doesn’t end there; you can craft your own weighted storage cube and upgrade it to a companion cube that heals you through the power of love.
This mod is essential to many of the other mods on this list, easily securing it the #1 position.
There’s even a Portal parody trailer made with this mod:
This mod runs you through a series of test chambers, making use of the Portal Gun mod. The mod is under heavy development, and the author plans on including many more | test chambers, but it’s still playable in its current beta status and continues to rise in popularity.
Here is a video walkthrough of a user showcasing this mod. He does a very convincing GLaDOS.
3. Portal. In Minecraft.
This mod was made before the Portal Gun mod, and has users place their portals in a more traditional Minecraft manner. It’s not a recreation of Portal, but a whole game mode with a Portal theme.
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Like the end of a cool, winter day, this necklace reflects the beauty of a setting sun behind snow-filled clouds and a violet sky. Its sparkling touches of eye-catching wonder paired with the multi-textured focal makes this simple piece perfect for wear for a festive party.
Cut a 20-inch long piece of jewelry wire using a nipper tool. Attach one end to the bar portion of the sterling silver petal design circle toggle using one sterling 2x2mm crimp tube. Read our Handy Tip on how to use a crimp tool if you need help with crimp tubes.
String the following beads onto the jewelry wire:
one Swarovski 8mm faceted round in Violet
one Swarovski 3mm faceted round in Crystal Copper
one Violet round
one TierraCast® 7mm silver-plated pewter plain heishi spacer
one Swarovski 8mm | chessboard bead in Crystal AB
Repeat this pattern five more times, and then string the first three beads of the pattern. String the Unicorne Beads purple swirl with bubbles boro glass bicone bead and another spacer. Repeat the patter from Step two on the other side of the boro glass bead.
Attach the loop portion of the clasp to the open end using a crimp tube.
Approximate size: 18 ½ inches Estimated time: Less than 1 hour Difficulty level: Beginner
These are fun alternatives to those listed above:
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Waiting to get officially baptized into what will be my first full foray onto the job market. Most assuredly it won't be my last given all the doom-y prognostications. 120; really? For how many candidates? Let's get an over/under on this sh | its in the comments.
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some of the VBBF veterans might remember me. I left the group back in 2010 because I was having a lot of health problems and reverted back to a lacto-ovo vegetarian diet and felt that it would be an insult to everyone here if I stayed a part of the group as a non-vegan.
Last year, I was diagnosed with endometriosis and endured surgery and aggressive hormone therapy. A couple months later, my brother passed away. All of this was very stressful and I neglected my diet and started having even more health problems. I have seen several doctors, been in and out of hospital, and given stronger doses of medications. I decided that enough was enough and that I had to take charge of my health as I was facing surgery again. I cut out all dairy, and I never really liked eggs that much so that had to | go. However, I have to admit (and I feel very guilty and bad about this) I started eating fish a couple years ago because I had become dangerously anemic, and now with an endometri | [
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More than a decade ago, Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis was accused of murder in Georgia. He hired Ed Garland to handle the case. Eventually, the worst of the charges against Lewis were dropped, and he pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice.
Now, Garland will be asked to help another high-profile NFL player.
Per a league source, Garland has been hired | to represent the interests of Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger in the sexual assault investigation that is still unfolding in Milledgeville, Georgia. Roethlisberger has not yet been charged.
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Sun April 15, 2012
Tornadoes, Storms Swirl Through Midwest And Plains
Originally published on Sun April 15, 2012 8:29 am
The midsection of the U.S. was wracked by storms and tornadoes overnight, with the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center forecasting more severe weather to come. Five deaths have been confirmed in northwest Oklahoma, the state's Department of Emergency Management tells NPR.
Storm | s were reported in Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska and Oklahoma, according to The Associated Press. There have been more than 100 reports of unconfirmed tornadoes, Brian Thompson of Kansas Public Radio tells our Newscast unit.
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This one has a nice stained glass window. This cemetery has several.
Gypsum Hill Cemetery
Buried here is Winfield W. Watson. He was born in Indiana in 1848. He was a businessman, a wholesale grocer and known for two primary contributions to history involving non-business achievements. He was among the first to support the Good Roads cause in Kansas, a nation-wide movement seeking to improve country roads and establish a highway system. In 1911 he joined the Meridian Road Association, serving as President of the Kansas Division helping to finance the first markers for the gravel road that stretched from Winnipeg, Canada to Mexico City. | The Meridian Highway is today largely the route of Highway 81 and the first road completed across Kansas. Watson also was the primary supporter and financial contributor to the building of Sal | [
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Hopefully, there weren't masses that headed to DUMBO on Saturday (10/15) expecting a few Mozz-a-repa stands, a sausage & pepper cart, and a dealer selling his collection of "tobacco" pipes while looking for the live music. The Creators Project had much more to offer. It celebrated the different facets of creativity within art, music, and theater while showcasing live music alongside interactive sculpture to create a wholly different "festival" environment.
The musical portion was limited to two live stages and a third "DJ" stage which also housed a few exhibits. One live stage was located under an archway beneath the Manhattan Bridge. The other was in the "Tobacco Warehouse", a brick structure that | has also hosted the Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival. The shows were free, though you needed to RSVP (and even then you needed a confirmation that you were accepted).
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In Israel, a new five month scholarship program being offered to young aspiring athletes – one of them could be you.
Boycotting Israeli products from the settlements not only violates the agreements that have been signed between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, it could have a devastating boomerang effect on the Palestinians themselves.
Daniel Retter, Esq., is counsel to the Manhattan law firm of Herrick, Feinstein, LLP, where he practices immigration and international business law. He is a frequent contributor to The Jewish Press.
About the Author: Daniel Retter, Esq., author of the HaMafteach, the indexed reference guide to the Talmud Bavli and mishnayos, is counsel to the Manhattan law firm of Herrick, Feinstein, LLP, where he practices immigration and international business law. He is a frequent contributor to The Jewish Press.
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The growing revelations that the Obama State Department watered down public statements on the attack in order to cleanse | them of any mention of al Qaeda and terrorism is a travesty.
We must confront Islamist groups with what Prime Minister David Cameron referred to as “muscular liberalism.”
Al-Qaradawi’s visit and statements also serve as a reminder that the Israeli-Arab conflict is centered, more than ever, around religion.
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Wow! Did I ever open a can of worms?
Ever since I posted the last entry about our "Specials" (see below) it's been a very hot topic around here. One | camp saying "a few ads about our company's products is ok", and the other camp saying "any blog that blatantly advertises is a bad blog!" Out damned Spot!
With opinions flying hot and heavy from both sides, it brings to light a pretty important question, Do we? Should we? Will we...Advertise on our own blog?
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A segment in which marginally experienced webeditor and novice blogger Ryan Grim describes what he would like various movies, television programs and books to be about.
The year is 10,002 BCE. Din | osaurs have long since gone the way of the dodo. Dodos, however, are thriving. 90% of people on Earth, while they don’t realize it, are very ugly and not all that clever. They live in dirty | [
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This trope is the sole premise behind Ghost in the Shell. Series Creator Masamune Shirow holds a degree in engineering and the original manga contains countless side notes that explain how many of the machines and mechanisms are supposed to work. Both of the Oshii films contain several scenes which can be considered hardcore technology porn, some of them several minutes long. The two season series does it to a lesser extent.
Any incarnation is sure to show several scenes of both the main characters and the antagonists carefully assembling and preparing their high-tech equipment.
Both films start with highly artistic scenes showing the assembly of androids. Female, of course. And naked. Up close. Technology Porn for real..
It's a cyborg being fitted to a prosthetic body in the first movie, actually...There's deliberate contrast between the two, as the making of a cyborg is very mechanical, while the birth of a gynoid has an organic feel, especially with the initial formation of the neurochip, resembling an egg being fertilized.
The second movie includes a several minute long scene showing nothing but a plane circling a massive cathedral with its segmented wings flapping in the wind like feathers. And then there's the horde of naked robo-chicks | spinning and jumping through the corridors while decapitating armed guards. And the virtual assault on the facilities internal computer defense. And...
Obsessive detail for futuristic machines and weapons is a recurring trait in Masamune Shirow's creations. He even has a recurring small arms manufacturer, Seburo, which shows up in his various works.
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|A Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta) butterfly shares a sap flow on our ash tree with an ant.|
Just like Monarch butterflies, who are visitors to our area and undergo seasonal migration, so too do Red Admirals. We normally get to see Red Admirals on the wing from late April through early October. This year, though, they arrived a little earlier. I saw a few in late March, and I've seen much higher numbers of them all season. It's been a stellar year for the Red Admirals! I didn't know much about Red Admiral migration, so I checked my books but didn't find much. After a quick internet search, I found admirals do not overwinter here because they cannot survive cold winters. Some individuals from the fall generation migrate south to winter in the Carolinas, Georgia, Florida, and other southern states, but not all, and research is still needed on why some stay. Mostly North America is rec | olonized each spring by butterflies coming up from the south (click here and here). It always amazes me that creatures seemingly so fragile can undertake these massive migrations and survive.
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This fall, Cayuga Community College Community Education and Workforce Development is offering a new course that is designed to prepare service members and veterans for college success. College Bootcamp for Veterans will address the cultural differences between military and college life, veteran benefits, and academic skills needed to be successful in college.
New York State Division of Veterans Affairs counselor and former U.S. Army infantry soldier Kevin Justian will teach the course, which will provide an overview of all major federal veterans’ benefits: VA healthcare, VA educational benefits, compensation and pension benefits, and | other federal resources available to help with the reintegration process.
“Veterans have experienced a different environment and mindset in the military as compared to what they will encounter during academic work,” Justian said. “There are social and psychological effects of military service; college is different from the formal military lifestyle and can be used to fill the social belonging void found when leaving the structured unit cohesions of the military unit.”
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If a psychopath like Cho Seung-Hui lurks at Yale University, he won't be able to slaughter his fellow students with fake swords purloined from the drama department.
"In the wake of Monday's massacre at Virginia Tech in which a student killed 32 people, Dean of Student Affairs Betty Trachtenberg has limited the use of stage weapons in theatrical productions," the Yale Daily News reported.
Responding to crises with meaningless, self indulgent gestures has long been a hallmark of the academic left, but it's spreading.
Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) responded to the massacre by touting her bill to ban (among other things) barrel shrouds. But she admitted to CNN's Tucker Carlson she doesn't know what a barrel shroud is. (A barrel shroud is a ventilated cover which dissipates more rapidly the heat generated when the gun is fired. Barrel shrouds are used only on long guns, not on handguns, which is what Mr. Cho used.)
The solution to global warming is not for her and her Hollywood friends to cut back on travel on private jets, thinks singer Sheryl Crow. It's to restrict how many squares of toilet paper may be used in one, er, sitting:
"I think we are an | industrious enough people that we can make it work with only one square per restroom visit, except, of course, on those pesky occasions when 2 or 3 could be required," Ms. Crow said Saturday in a post on a left-wing blog.
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Tony Blankly agrees with me about Gore's prospects for future media attention:
Contrary to some expectations, this is pretty much the last we will see of Mr. | Gore. Initially, his policy speeches will be cited briefly in political potpourri columns. After a few months, only obscure and rabid Internet sites will bother to report his considered opinions. Within six months, even pathological Gore haters will succumb to the boredom of reporting non-news stories. | [
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We’ve all seen photographs of cadavers with the skin pulled back to see the anatomy or accidentally clicked on a medical tv show and see a birthing video but Claudiu Cândea’s beautifully drawn and incredibly grotesque drawings depict this in the figures of young girls, beautiful (and very | alive) ladies laying about casually with their skin pulled back to reveal every muscle, vein, and organ. Disturbing? Yes. gorgeous artwork? Absolutely! | [
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I am working on a project for school and we're making a space shooter.
But now we are done we have one problem the camera refuses to follow the space ship over the Z-ax now I found a blender script (Bah_camera_bug) and I did what the author said I should do but it just won't work!
| So is here anybody who had the same problem and knows a way of solving the problem??
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Originally pegged as an early 2013 release, publisher Capcom has announced that Lost Planet 3 won't be coming out until June. Specifically, it'll be available for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC on June 25 in North America and on June 28 in Europe.
The newest trailer shows lead character Jim Peyton landing on the frozen wastes of E.D.N. III | and finding out that all is not kosher on the foreboding ice planet. Seems like there's going to be a plot that's actually digestible in this Lost Planet—developed by Spark Unlimited—and some storytelling that doesn't just shuffle players from one big set-piece to the next. We can only hope, right? | [
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Feminist Daily News Wire
Experts Speak Out Against FDA Delay on Emergency Contraception
Several members of the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) expert advisory committees are speaking out against the agency’s delay of its decision to make the emergency contraceptive Plan B available without a prescription. Two doctors on the advisory committee and Jeffrey M. Drazen, MD, the editor of New England Journal of Medicine, published an opinion piece in this week’s issue of the journal charging that the postponement of the FDA’s decision on making EC available over-the-counter “suggests that the FDA's decision-making process is being influenced by political considerations.”
The doctors further argue that “treatment for any other condition, from hangnail to headache to heart disease, with a similar record of safety and efficacy would be approved quickly. Why has the FDA adopted its own plan B with respect to approval for over-the-counter use, instead of going ahead with the recommended approval?”
An overwhelming 23 out of the 27 FDA Reproductive Health Drugs and Nonprescription Advisory Committee members agreed that Emergency Contraception is safe, effective and meets all the requirements for over-the-counter status. Despite the recommendations of these expert medical committees made in December | 2003, the FDA announced that it would delay its Feb. 20 decision on the status of the emergency contraceptive Plan B by 90 days.
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A beautifully crafted, searing memoir by the Chilean American writer about his dispersion and homelessness after fleeing the military junta of General Pinochet.
As a deeply engaged supporter of President Salvadore Allende, Dorfman (Desert Memories: Journeys Through the Chilean North, 2004, etc.) was banished from Chile when Pinochet seized power in 1973, assassinating the president and throwing the country into a convulsion of military repression and fear. Along with his wife and small son, Dorfman first sought refuge in Argentina (where he was born in 1942), then Amsterdam, Paris and finally the | United States over the next 20 years—a bitter exile that defined and transformed him. A child of “perpetual wanderers”—his father, a communist, had been forced to leave Argentina with the family for Chile, then the U.S., before being hounded out during the McCarthy era—Dorf | [
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Fate, on its own way
A little wish from myself: the three main heroines of Nortia (original story) in one picture.
From left to right:
Innocentia Infans, Pura Castus L | umen, Hidé
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« "Stability, Not Crisis: Medical Malpractice Claim Outcomes in Texas, 1988-2002" (Black, Silver, Hyman, Sage) |
CJD's med-mal math »
April 1, 2005
"Is There a Crisis in Medical Malpractice? New Evidence from Texas"
By Ted Frank
I attended yesterday's AEI forum debating the Texas study of Professors Black, Silver, Hyman, and Sage. Based on their study, the authors made a broad statement in a NY Times op-ed: "The medical | malpractice system has many problems, but a crisis in claims, payouts and jury verdicts is not among them. Thus, the federal'solution' that Mr. Bush proposes is both overbroad and directed at the wrong problem." At AEI, however, Professors Black and Hyman made the following two concessions (which I paraphrase from my notes):
- Over the long run, malpractice insurance prices reflect claim outcomes.
- Caps on non-economic damages should reduce insurance rates.
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Game Rant’s Rob Keyes reviews Ghost Recon: Future Soldier
In the last half a decade the Tom Clancy brand of Ubisoft shooters has taken a back seat to the company’s flagship Assassin’s Creed series, but after more than five years, the world’s most elite special forces unit is finally back in Ghost Recon: Future Soldier.
After two years of delays, does Future Soldier and its depature from series norms successfully relaunch the Ghost Recon franchise and still offer the tactical shooter gameplay that fans of the series expect? Read on for our review.
Ghost Recon: Future Soldier moves the series even further into the near future than the Advanced Warfighter games did previously, again putting players in the shoes of four “Ghosts,” the special ops of special ops who do the missions nobody knows about and are equipped with the Army’s best tech. Travelling through enemy-occupied areas in Africa, Russia, the Artic and other international locations, the game’s locales bring more environmental variety than any other series installment. Players | will experience sand storms, blizzards, rain and nifty lighting effects in day/night missions out in the wilderness and in detailed urban downtown areas – all having an effect on gameplay which heavily relies on the Ghosts remaining hidden.
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This pasture mixture slashes costs, expands grazing window
With today's high input costs, beef producer Jeff Schmidt wants to get as much bang as possible from every production buck. That's why he seeds a blend of winter triticale and spring oats in mid-August and gets both fall and early spring grazing.
Schmidt, operator of JR ranch, Othello, WA, says cattle that would normally get baled hay from October through November and then in March and early April now have access to grazing.
“The less hay I have to cut and bale, the more money there is in my pocket,” says Schmidt. “It's just basic economics.”
He says the oats in the irrigated mix emerge quickly and are available for intensive grazing in October, while the triticale sprouts but remains in the understory until winter sets in. A severe winter kills most of the oats, while the triticale goes dormant but remains viable. When conditions are normal in Schmidt's region, the | triticale breaks dormancy at the end of February.
“In milder years, when there is less winterkill in the oats and a shorter or no dormancy period in the triticale, this opens the door to year-round grazing,” he says.
Besides the financial advantage of extending his grazing season, Schmidt notes that seeding simultaneously for fall and spring grazing is more efficient than seeding the two grains separately. Based on research by Schmidt's seed supplier, ProGene Plant Research, Othello, it's estimated that 14 acres of the blend can accomplish | [
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Union label: Redfish Seafood Kitchen, reviewed by Robin Chotzinoff in this issue, doesn't look (or taste) like part of a chain--but you sure can tell its public relations firm is from out of town. A release faxed over on July 29 announces, "Soooo, Denver's been having a little heat wave. You think that was hot?? We'll show you hot!!" The release then proceeds to describe Redfish, which opened July 10, as "Denver's newest eatery." Close, but no cigar. Several eateries in Denver's hot, hot restaurant scene come much closer to the title, including Vesta Dipping Grill, which opened a week later close by at 1822 Blake Street.
1822 Blake St.
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Region: Downtown Denver
Contacted at her Ohio office (the chain | 's Chicago owners recently traded their three Redfish restaurants to a Phoenix-based group, which will soon open a fourth Redfish in Cincinnati), a PR person helpfully pointed out that come September, Redfish's Voodoo Lounge will be the only bar in LoDo offering live blues and jazz--for free. Close, but no cigar bar: Enoteca LoDo, just up the street at 1730 Wynkoop, already features jazz several nights a week | [
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Vince Young is on the way out in Buffalo.
Although Young’s release hasn’t been officially announced by the Bills, he wrote a farewell message on Twitter on Monday morning.
“I want to thank the Bills organization for the opportunity and wish the organization and my teammates good luck this season,” Young wrote. “Respect Bills fans.”
When the Bills decided to acquire quarterback Tarvaris Jackson in a trade from the Seahawks, it was a clear sign that Young would be sent packing. With Ryan Fitzpatrick as the starter and Jackson | as the new No. 2, there’s really no reason for Young to be on the roster.
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Learning analytics software recommends courses and predicts grades at Austin Peay State University in Texas, reports Inside Higher Ed.
Tristan Denley, the provost, has built software, called Degree Compass, that analyzes an individual student’s academic record, along with the past grades of hundreds of Austin Peay State students in various courses, and predicts how well a particular student is likely to do in a particular course long before the first day of class. That includes first-year students; the software draws on their high school transcripts and standardized test scores.
... The Degree Compass software, which the university developed with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, combines the predicted grade score with other factors, including how many unsatisfied degree requirements both general and major-specific the course would fulfill for that student. Then it produces a star rating for how well-matched the student is with the course.
In its first trial, Degree Compass predicted with 90 percent accuracy whether a student would earn a C or higher in any given course.
Course Signals, which was | developed at Purdue, and Rio Salado Community College use analytics to warn when a student is having trouble with a course but don’t predict how well they’ll do before they start.
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The antimatter costs 62.5 trillion per gram. In the future it is theoretically possible to use antimatter as fuel for spaceships to other planets. The problem is that its production requires extremely expensive technology, and to create just 1 gram, the world would have to work a whole year (global GDP is 65 trillion dollars). In physics the'anti-matter is a conglomeration of antiparticles corresponding to the particles that constitute the ordinary matter...
Californium costs $ 27 million per gram. Why is it needed? An element of californium is so expensive to produce, the isotopes of californium do not have any practical application. In the West it was created only once since its opening in 1950. The californium is a'chemical element with the symbol Cf and the atomic number 98. It is a transuranic element, synthetic, radioactive : californium has very few practical uses | and was discovered by bombarding c...
The price of diamonds is of 55 000 dollars per gram. The colorless stone can cost more than 11 thousand dollars per carat, but colored diamonds are worth more. Why do we need diamonds? The natural diamonds are most often used in the jewelry industry. Also, the extreme hardness of diamonds finds its application in ind...
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A film too far: The Battle of Hormuz Strait
by Jim Chaffee
Finally, Hollywood has made the definitive war epoch of our time. A film that puts into proper perspective the US role as a military superpower in the late 20th century. More, it presages the US mission as peacekeeper and maintainer of order in the 21st century. We refer to the heroic actions of the US Navy in the Persian Gulf, in the Strait of Hormuz, on 3 July 1988. The film is entitled The Battle of Hormuz Strait. It recounts a heroic encounter between the forces of good and evil that too many Americans have forgotten or never learned.
Produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by Alan Smithee from a script collaboration of Joe Eszterhas, Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck with historicity by Dan Brown, the film boasts a star-studded cast of veteran actors who are also patriots of the highest order, all of them war heroes. In fact, everyone connected with this film is a war hero.
From the musical opening by Pat Boone, hero of the Korean War (he | enlisted in a secret military branch at age 17), we see an A-list of great American actors whose service goes well beyond words: Jon Voight (Staff Admiral William Crowe), James Woods (Secretary of Defense Frank Carlucci), Dean Cain (helicopter pilot Lt Mark Collier), Tom Selleck (Lieutenant Commander Scott Lustig), Kelsey Grammer (VP George Bush), Kurt Russell (President Ronald Reagan), Stephen Baldwin (Lt Clay Zocher), Denzel Washington (Lt Cmdr Victor G Guillory), James Ca | [
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Regional hero: Freese
Why not an almost local hero? David Freese isn't from Kansas City, but he plays for the Cardinals and grew up outside of St. Louis, about a four-hour drive to Kansas City. He led the Cardinals to the title last year and he has more than helped fill in for the departure of Albert Pujols in the offseason.
Freese's numbers are way better than Bryce Harper's and Chipper Jones'. They are slightly better than Michael Bourn's | and Aaron Hill's. Freese has hit 13 home runs, he's driven in 48 and his average is.279. On top of that, he has made just four errors at third base.
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January 17, 2013
The Real Questions about Violent Video Games
Amid all the nonsense and extreme poses on gun control, gun violence and guns for self-defense that continue in the wake of the Connecticut school shootings, a secondary nexus for blame has been video games.
The best comment on this issue that I've seen was posted on the Rangutang Blog just before Christmas. I got the author's permission to offer it here as a Civilization Watch guest column, not only because of its treatment of this issue, but also because it is a fine and all-too-rare example of what rational discourse looks like.
Amid all the shouting, blaming and personal attacks that seem to be all that's left of public conversation in America, it's refreshing to hear someone set forth a point of view while admitting the possibility that | opponents may have a valid point or two.
Here is the essay:
Whenever there is a major public tragedy, one of the first places people go for an explanation is violent video games.
It makes sense realistic modern games are still a fairly recent addition to our culture, only a decade or two old. For most of the people who set the tone of our national discussion, modern video games are an alien, incomprehensible thing with which they have zero personal experience, except to watch in flabbergasted horror as their grandchildren score headshots.
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WASHINGTON -- Administration and congressional officials say President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner spoke on the telephone early Tuesday evening.
The conversation occurred after both sides exchanged new proposals on how to avoid looming fiscal | cliff. Obama and Boehner met Sunday at the White House.
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Hays proposes bill to reform homeowners associations
Published: Friday, February 8, 2013 at 5:13 p.m.
Last Modified: Friday, February 8, 2013 at 5:13 p.m.
State Sen. Alan Hays has proposed a wide-ranging bill designed to curb abuse within homeowners associations.
| The Umatilla Republican seeks to empower state regulators to investigate residents’ complaints about bad behavior by their developers or HOAs and, if necessary, punish the developers or the associations’ officers for violations.
The bill also offers other initiatives designed to address the commonly expressed grievances of homeowners under the management of an HOA.
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Trapezoids of sunshine streak over the floorboards, heating our feet. The air is cold but the light is warm. A baby who is a toddler takes up all the space on my lap and a preschooler who is a little lady weaves imaginary tales at the kitchen table.
The microwave beeps an alarm: oatmeal approaching. I cross the room, bare feet finding the light and heat, shying from shadows.
The sky is so blue outside that it might be spring, but the trees are so grey that it might be death. I shake off last night's dream -- a failing baby boy -- and steam my face over the bowl of oats. Life is sweet and cling | y this morning, and it's so, so soft. I wrap myself in its cashmere arms and burrow into its silken folds.
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For the last few years, there's been discussion within the agriculture community about a shortage of food animal veterinarians and finding solutions to help generate interest in the profession. Since then enrollments in many veterinary schools | are up, but an American Association of Bovine Practioners' committee report says there actually is not a shortage of food animal veterinarians, but rather an issue of rural economies being able to sustain large animal practices.
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Economists Opposing Fed Audit Have Undisclosed Fed Ties
As the debate over an audit of the Federal Reserve intensifies in the House, one camp is trotting out eight academics that it calls a "political cross section of prominent economists."
A review of their backgrounds shows they are anything but.
In a letter to the House Financial Services Committee earlier this month, all eight wrote that they support the type of amendment now being introduced by Rep. Mel Watt (D-N.C.). Watt's approach purports to increase Fed transparency while it actually would tighten restrictions on any audits that could go forward.
The letter was sent around Wednesday by Watt's staff to members of the committee in advance of a vote scheduled for Thursday.
Watt's measure is in competition with an amendment cosponsored by Reps. Ron Paul (R-Texas) and Alan Grayson (D-Fla.), which would repeal the restrictions that Watt leaves in place.
But far from a broad cross-section, the "prominent economists" lobbying on behalf of the Watt bill are in fact deeply involved with the Federal Reserve. Seven of the eight are either currently on the Fed's payroll or have been in the past.
The | Fed connections are not outlined in the letter sent around to committee members on Wednesday, but are publicly discernible through a review of their resumes, which are all posted online.
In September, Huffington Post reported that the Federal Reserve has accomplished a soft form of effective control over the field of monetary economics simply by employing -- and being the means for career advance -- for an overwhelming proportion of the discipline.
Now that the Fed is locked in a legislative battle on the Hill, it can call on those economists to give their "unvarnished" opinions to lawmakers.
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The north-eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh is "missing" from the map of India in the state education board's geography textbooks in a chapter titled "India and its neighbouring countries" for Class X students, the Times of India reports. China has... Firstpost.com, 2 days ago
Arunachal missing from India map in Maharashtra textbook - New Delhi News.Net, 3 days ago
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New Delhi, May 14 (UNI) China did not respond to an Indian proposal to clarify the Line of Actual Control (LAC) made a few years back. India feels that had this work of clarifying each other's perception of the Line of Actual Control been done, it...United News of India, 4 | days ago India to prod China into talks Deccan Herald, 1 week ago China's motives remain a mystery Observer India, 2 weeks ago Lesson from an unsettled boundary The Hindu, 3 weeks ago
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***THIS POST CONTAINS COUNTLESS TRIGGERS AND PG MENTIONS. I AM SORRY. I NEED SOME SUPPORT, AND I DON'T KNOW WHERE ELSE TO TURN.***
I am so sorry if I am about to hurt or offend anyone by posting this here. I posted yesterday on the Pregnancy after Loss group I joined, and I have literally gotten ZERO responses.... I am feeling so isolated, scared, and so alone. I just don't know what to do with myself. My baby girl -- my first born -- Sadie, was stillborn on June 19th, 2012...when I was 36 weeks and 6 days pregnant. I found out last Friday that I am pregnant again. I am terrified, I wanted this to happen, but now that it has, I am just a total wreck. I am so horrified of losing another baby.
I don't know how to cope with the stress of this pregnancy...yesterday I was so irritable and nervous. I think it's just really terrifying me that I could go through another stillbirth....another funeral...another everything. I'm still so incredibly depressed about Sad | ie not being here. I don't think I would make it through burying another baby. So I guess in a way, I feel like this pregnancy is holding so much...it determines my future. If this baby is stillborn, I think I will give up. I was very close to suicide after Sadie died...my fear of not getting to go | [
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Rock-star scientist. Pin-up professor. Dr Cox the Fox. Particle physicist, high-profile TV presenter and author Brian Cox has heard it all before but he's still mildly embarrassed talking about his famous good looks.
''I don't play it up at all,'' he says. ''If you look at the programs, I just wander around looking a complete mess.''
In person he's anything but a complete mess. He's all loose-limbed energy, good hair and blindingly white teeth. But he'd much rather talk about his passion for communicating science than his reputation as this generation of women's Melvyn Bragg.
In his day job, away from all the popular books and the TV and radio shows, Cox does some very big science. Among other commitments, he is a Royal Society | university research fellow at the University of Manchester and works on the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland.
But aside from his intellect and appearance, he has built a reputation on the ability to explain hideously complex concepts and make the readers/viewers/listeners feel that maybe this science stuff is not beyond them after all.
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Crackle is one of the few legit apps on the market that provides completely free streaming of television shows, movies, and other video content. Sure, it's ad-supported, and programs are occasionally interrupted by commercials, but considering the amount of content on offer, it's well worth it. The bad thing is that none of it is in HD.
If you've used Netflix or HBO Go on Android, then you'll probably notice that Crackle's user interface is similarly simple and intuitive. The Home screen starts you off with featured content, while the main navigation buttons lead to pages with Movies, Shows, and your personal Watchlist. Content is laid out in an attractive tiled thumbnail view, or you can switch to a basic list view, if you like.
Because Crackle is completely free, it doesn't exactly offer all of the latest and greatest shows and movies for streaming | . That said, it still has a wide selection of programs available, and not all of them are obscure. For instance, I spotted old TV favorites like "Seinfeld," "Sanford and Son," and "The Three Stooges," plus a | [
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Though April may feel like a thing of the distant past, long gone and almost entirely forgotten, it was indeed a rainy one. Gloomy, grey, and wet, it teased mercilessly of a lingering winter, a chill that could not be | shaken embedded deep within the core of every moment. Finishing with hurricanes and floods, April sure did go out like a lion this year. But May, oh, lovely little May, did she ever make up for | [
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Newest Tricks of the G-men
Criminals who duel with the FBI buck an ultra-modern crime lab served by tough men competent in 88 sciences.
By J. Edgar Hoover, as told to James Nevin Miller
SOME months ago thieves broke into an Ohio metal-working concern and stole a number of valuable copper ingots. The local sheriff’s office found a pair of gloves at the home of a suspect. A preliminary study indicated the gloves were impregnated with what appeared to be copper filings which might have been wiped from the surface of an ingot.
These specimens were sent to the FBI Laboratory in Washington, with a request to determine | whether the copper particles found on the gloves were the same as the metal in the stolen ingots. A microscopic study revealed the presence of copper particles on all the fingers, and on the palms, of the gloves.
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- Special Sections
COLUMBIA CITY — With reindeer, lights and the sounds of Christmas, Santa will be ushered to his house on the Courthouse Square Friday night.
The City of Columbia City and the Downtown Business Association, along with The Clugston on the Square, will present a lighted Christmas parade Friday at 6 p.m.
This is the first parade of its kind in Columbia City in recent memory.
Once Santa reaches the Courthouse, a holiday lighting ceremony will initiate the holiday season as Santa begins entertaining children.
Santa’s house is a long-standing tradition. Lori Shipman is the Downtown Business Association president and said the association is looking forward to the weekend.
“Guestbooks from the visitors to Santa’s house show that people from all over Northeast Indiana come to Columbia City,” said Shipman. “This is a neat tradition.”
This Saturday also marks National Small Business Saturday and Shipman has been gearing up downtown business for the weekend.
“This weekend just encapsulates the small town idea,” Shipman said.
“People come close to home in an intimate venue | to see Santa, shop local business and take in the warmth of our small town.”
Children visiting Santa can have their picture taken and receive a candy cane for free, thanks to the Downtown Business Association.
Shipman said, “If this isn’t part of your family’s holiday tradition, it ought to be.”
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(cross-posted from blog.conceptworks.eu)
Due to increasing use of domain specific languages (DSLs), declarative style of modeling is quetly spreading among users of MDE tools. Indeed, it is easy to find examples of declarative DSLs, e.g. at DSM Forums or this blog. There is however a group of users, among which the delarative style of modeling has not managed to spread – transformation developers. I am not sure if it has something todo with the group itself or with the fact that the majority of today’s transformation definition languages (TDL) are still more imperative in style (I am aware of QVT Relations and ATL, but these are rather exceptions than the norm).
There are quite a few good reasons why one would consider using a declarative language for transformation definition: reduction of information content in transformation definitions (and hence higher productivity of transformation developers), more agile DSL evolution, transformation definitions as models, higher compatibility with parallel computing, etc..
Today | I would like to share some practical results that illustrate reduction of information content due to use of a declarative language.
CHART vs. Java
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Gove pushes on with plans for the return of O-levels as he prepares to unveil new qualification before next election
- Liberal Democrats have vowed to oppose any return to a 'two-tier' | system
Shake-up: Michael Gove plans to replace GCSEs with a more rigorous, O-level style of exam
Michael Gove will this week press ahead with reforms designed to fix the ‘broken’ exam system as he vows to replace GCSEs with a more rigorous, O-level style of exam.
The Education Secretary is expected to unveil plans to introduce a new qualification before the next election in 2015, arguing that GCSEs ‘haven’t worked’.
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Seen as geologic formations rising from the land, the design for the KAFD Men’s and Women’s Portal Spas by WORKSBUREAU form great shade porticos beneath long cantilevered masses | . Located in two of the civic Attractor beacons of the dense urban King Abdullah Financial District of Riyadh, the project also forms the gateway to the masterplan, framing the main park as it flows into the Wadi pedestrian artery. More images and architects’ description after the break.
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Oh, and a quick note. These principles do not just apply to your workouts but to all areas of your life. Live the best you peeps :-) As for the pigs, they look like they have a very happy and abundant life, no?
Talking about and intending to do things is a great first step but action steps are what will get you results. We here talk, talk, talk all day long. Talk without action makes your goals into nothing more than a wish list. Get busy!
Don't get distracted by what other people are doing, you are only in competition with yourself! Commit to being the best YOU you can be and leave the rest behind. each one of us comes with a different genetic | background and life experience. Focus on outdoing yourself, not everyone around you.
Find the humor in everything. Enough said, it will lighten your load, make you happier and work your abs. Only the most heinous situations do not have a humorous side (and even most of those do, just keeping it real!)
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Nadal confirms return in Abu Dhabi
Rafael Nadal has confirmed he is ready to return to competitive tennis at the end of the month in an exhibition tournament in Abu Dhabi, following a six-month break | to recover from a knee injury.
The 11-time Grand Slam champion said on his Facebook page that he "can't wait to get back on court in Abu Dhabi," and that he "would love to get my hands on the trophy again this year!"
The 26-year-old Nadal began practising on a court in his hometown of Manacor on the Balearic island of Mallorca on November 20 under the supervision of his uncle and coach Tony Nadal and a physiotherapist.
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|By ACN Newswire||
|February 26, 2013 12:43 AM EST||
The global economic downturn has created a dichotomy in many organisations - how do they cut costs while still addressing the skills shortage in different areas of the workforce?
According to the latest Hays Journal, out now, businesses need to recognise talent | as an asset to be deployed within an organisation while HR needs to be more planned and strategic about how it goes about talent allocation.
"HR professionals have had to become even more innovative and commercially driven, with a need to understand and address talent shortages in the new landscape in different ways," says Jonathan Sampson, Regional Director of Hays in Japan.
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How do we love Disney?
We can’t possibly count the ways. For starters, this magical world is only a car ride away for South Floridians -- and even with high gas prices, that’s much less expensive than airfare.
Plan your trip to coincide with Florida resident discount offerings and save | even more. There are a variety of hotels and packages from affordable to luxurious that makes Disney do-able and desirable for everyone.
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In today's Gazette: Teen in hospital after taking legal high
8:14am Tuesday 5th March 2013 in News
In today's Gazette: A 14-year-old girl was hospitalised after taking a legal high.
The Stanway School student became ill after taking a herbal mixture sold over the counter of a Colchester shiop.
* A man was repeatedly stabbed in the head, chest and legs at a house in Colchester.
Police and paramedics were called to Monkwick Avenue to find the 41-year-old with multiple stab wounds. He was taken to Colchester General Hospital.
* Items belonging to Antartic explorer Capt Lawrence Oates are going up for auction in Colchester.
Oates, who lived in Gestingthorpe, near Halstead, famously sacrificed himself during Scott's expedition to the South Pole saying "I am just going outside and may be some time".
* A pensioner was left lying on a cold pavement for more than an hour waiting for an ambulance after suffering a suspected broken leg.
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If you are a Chinese speaker who is working to improve your American English pronunciation, you may have found that you’re having trouble with your /l/ & /n/ sounds.
Don’t worry!! This is a very common problem & you can fix it. ✔
The /n/ & /l/ sounds are articulated in almost the same manner.
- The tongue touches behind the tooth ridge.
- The tongue is a bit flatter for the /n/ sound.
However, the /n/ sound is a nasal so you need to push the air through your nose to make this sound.
The /l/ sound is a | liquid so the air flows along side your tongue & out of your mouth.
Here are a few words with the /n/ & /l/ sounds that may be problematic for you:
When I work with Chinese speakers in my accent reduction coaching program I teach them how to articulate the American /l/ sound, /n/ sound, and the /ŋ/ sound. ☆
Mastering these sounds will make your American English more clear & easy to understand!
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'When the light of love has faded inside the darkness of your mind that died
Under the wind of white whisperers full of dirt and lies
You will come one day alone and crippled towards the skies.
It is then the moment of your life when | the great and white Lady
Will become your wife, forever and more.
But do not be fooled by her brown lips of iron'
These were the words of my bloody Raven,
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A white country kitchen can solve a lot of design problems. Oftentimes you’ll find that white rooms are boring. At the same time, you’ll find that an entirely country room can be overwhelming and cluttered. Going with this look really tones down the natural country look and at the same time gives a little bit of life and warmth to a basic kitchen. This gives you the opportunity to add a theme to a basic rental or neutral room. Here are a few tips on decorating a white country kitchen that looks classy.
Bring in natural elements. This will provide a more rustic feel. You could do this by whitewashing the dining room set to put in your breakfast nook. The natural wood grain will still show through but you’ll have a neutral looking room. You can also try a pickling effect on your cabinets to give them a totally new look that will be a little bit toned down and won’t be the same basic white cabinet that everyone else has in their home.
You really want to focus in on adding character to white kitchen cabinets. These are a staple in many kitchens so you need to make them country | . You can do this by adding very unique hardware or even making hardware out of old utensils. You could try distressing them. Another option would be to add beadboard or molding at least around a kitchen island. This can tie in with an entire bank of white painted cabinets for your little character to your kitchen. You’ll really only have to redo one piece in your room that still makes an impact while relating to what you already have.
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Seminar: Deploying First-Person Shooter games in peer-to-peer
Giuseppe REINA - PhD student - RS department
Networking and Security
Date: December | 6, 2011
This talk will give an overview on the current research problems in deploying First-Person Shooter games in peer-to-peer networks to address open problems of the centralized architecture, namely scalability and cost. We explore the issues related to the achievement of a distributed game simulation, introducing the trade-off between reactiveness and consistency peculiar to the First-Person Shooter games. Moreover we will present the current solution we adopted, | [
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Lagos — Goroye Folagade, a police corporal, has been dismissed from the Nigeria Police Force for stealing a motorcycle in Lagos. Until his dismissal from the force, the | corporal was attached to Ikorodu police division.
The dismissed cop was said to have seized the motorcycle from its owner simply identified as Saheed a few days after Christmas having violated the Lagos traffic laws but could not produce the same afterwards, claiming that it had been taken to Alausa.
A statement by Lagos Police Public Relations Officer Ngozi Braide said the corporal was given an Orderly Room Trial before he was dismissed.
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I have been knitting predominantly with wool and alpaca yarns lately. It occurred to me that I do not have to throw away all those little scraps of yarn because they will felt. So, I started collecting a pile of loose yarn scraps to make into little felt balls. They can become beads, cat toys, buttons, or whatever you like.
Save up wool yarn scraps from past projects.
Wad-up the scraps of | yarn, reserving a few longer strands. Wet the wad down in very warm water, squeezing out some of the water. Use the reserved longer strands of yarn to help firm up and gently bind | [
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The flask in the image above contains cell cultures in the laboratory of UMass Amherst cellular engineer Susan Roberts who is studying cells extracted from the yew tree, known to produce the powerful anti-cancer agent, Taxol. Produced by plants as a defense against predators, | Taxol and other secondary metabolites have many beneficial uses. Roberts and her colleagues are developing methods to enhance Taxol productivity in lab cultures to enable a large-scale, sustainable supply. Roberts also directs the interdisciplinary Institute for Cellular Engineering, whose researchers are working to harness the cellular “machinery” in plants, animals, and microorganisms for applications in human health, bioenergy and the environment. Learn more.
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Farhad Moshiri installing a show of gold-leafed toy guns. Photograph courtesy of Daneyal Mahmood Gallery
It is a truth of the art market that the richest nations always call the tune, setting global tastes, anointing the next stars, and establishing trends that the market may follow for years to come. By | that logic—and the Middle East's seemingly unstoppable economic rise—the Damien Hirst of 2020 could be a native Farsi speaker. Or at least that's what some of the industry's key players are wagering as they ramp up their presence in the region.
Like the Chinese-contemporary-art juggernaut spawned by that country's roaring economy, Middle Eastern art and buyers could emerge as the next big thing. When Christie's International opened in Dubai in 2005, its business plan projected $30 million in sales between 2006 and 2009. Yet in just 18 months of auctions, Christie's has raked | [
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During the final days of last year, Danny Brown published his list of 5 bloggers that everyone should follow and read.
Three of the five I never heard of before, and therein lies the | beauty of Danny’s list. It is his list.
Do you have a ‘best of’ list? What are your suggested blogs for me to subscribe to, read, comment on, and share?
Please add a comment with their links and a brief description why they’re so damned good. Your own blog does not count.
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I'm currently working on a small team of a few developers, but even a small team of productive developers can develop a lot of functionality in one iteration (2 weeks in our case). We don't have a QA team, so generally we'll spend the last day or two of an iteration doing manual testing for the parts we don | 't have automated testing for (we're writing automated tests as we go along as well, but something things are just really hard to automate).
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Retrial hearing expected today for convicted killer Dennis Dechaine
Motion for retrial based on DNA evidence
According to the Maine Attorney General's office, a hearing for retrial for convicted killer Dennis Dechaine is scheduled to start Tuesday morning.
The hearing will be on Dechaine's motion for a retrial based on DNA evidence.
Dech | aine is serving a life sentence for kidnapping and strangling Sarah Cherry, who disappeared while baby-sitting in 1988.
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I am succumbed by a vibrant calm upon my arrival to NYC for Fashion Week. The city is a constant vibration of activity, diversity, and liveliness, yet I’m calm and content. Ready to enjoy my fourth visit to the city, I almost feel as if I’m coming home, versus visiting as a tourist. As I hop in the taxi at La Guardia, I’m quickly reminded that I have yet to become de-sensitized to the gregarious cab rides I will have to endure throughout | the trip. From calm and content to a pinball rickashaying hyper-actively, I quickly become. If you’ve never been jerked around, just hop in a NYC taxi | [
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Augmented Reality Plugin for Google SketchUp
Inglobe Technologies released version 2 of their Augmented Reality Plugin for Google SketchUp with a lot of interesting features. The new version allows you to create Augmented Reality movies by using multiple targets at once. Here’s a video that shows off the new features in ARmedia Plugin 2.0.
And here’s an illustration that shows the setup:
|A simple Augmented Reality setup for SketchUp, using an external monitor to show the video output. Note that a second monitor isn’t necessary for using this plugin|
To get started, download their “Quick Start Guide” (PDF format for Windows or Mac), you’ll find the relevant links about halfway down the plugin’s webpage. Follow Steps 2 and 3 to download and install | the software; the free Personal Learning Edition will let you see how everything works without spending any money. After that, achieve instant gratification (my favorite kind) by skipping ahead to Step 6 in the Quick Start Guide: “ | [
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Hello. I had my last period 11/19/12 there was no cramping. Which is abnormal for me. I had no symptoms which is also abnormal for me. I got off the mirena in July. My nipples are sore and I'm tired all the time. Could I | be pregnant and ovulated earlier than the 4 of December?
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Drug monitoring database implementation moved to Oct. 17
Though originally projected to go live at the end of September, a statewide prescription drug monitoring program will now be implemented on Oct. 17, according to recent projections.
A database to track prescription drugs in Florida, now called E-FORCSE (Electronic-Florida Online Reporting Controlled Substance Evaluation), was a long time coming. Though the program (which was signed into law by former Gov. Charlie Crist) didn’t initially have the full support of the state Legislature or Gov. Rick Scott, Scott eventually came around to support the project.
The database hit other hurdles, as well: funding and privacy concerns among them. A federal grant program (NASPER) that would have given the database financial support was cut in April, and, as the bill is written, the database can only be funded by grants and private donations. An offer of $1 million from Purdue Pharma (makers of the pain pill Oxy | Contin) was rejected by Scott. Concerns about privacy were also rampant, particularly after a similar database in Virginia was hacked, putting millions of patient records at risk.
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Blundell's argument misses point
Letters to the Editor
Published: Thursday, September 21, 2006
Updated: Sunday, December 14, 2008 01:12
I am sorry to learn that my column "Unions Don't Guarantee Fair Employee Wages," in The Maroon's Sept. 8 issue, was "so incoherent" that it didn't even rise to the level of being wrong, in the view of Professor Boyd Blundell who responded in the Sept. 15 issues of The Maroon.
This professor of religious studies charges that I am guilty of a "straw man" argument; but there are | indeed "some" who think that without unions, and the labor legislation they have engendered, we would now revert back to the horrors of 19th century industrial factory wages and working conditions. But many people believe this fallacy. Blundell himself is a case in point.
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So I want to know what is everyone's favorite piece of lore in Wow?
What is the piece of lore that you want in game the most?
This is not meant to be a debate, just a survey.
Also for the love of Medivh, just leave the high elf playable race fan boys to their opinions
My favorite bit of lore is
to me he is very fascinating. He defied Malfurion Stormrage and the Druids and lead his followers
across the newly created ocean and made an interesting trek to where Silvermoon is now.
The Lore I want to see the most in game is
Bronze dragon flight | quest givers transferring us to old expansions. We step through the portal
and its magically three years ago.... How about instead of a warchief/king board sending us to
Outland/Northrend/Cata Zones you give us a Bronze Dragon flight quest giver that gives the quest
from Org or SW and ports you to Outland/Northrend/Cata-zones for the first time. It would help
new players understand and seal up some lore cracks in the game.
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Ex-UA student convicted of murder can argue for parole
TUCSON, Ariz. -- A woman serving a natural life prison sentence for her University of Arizona dormmate's murder will soon be able to argue for a chance at parole.
The Arizona Daily Star reported Wednesday that the state Court of Appeals has upheld a Pima County Superior Court judge's order for a new sentencing hearing for Galareka Harrison.
Harrison, 23, was convicted of first-degree murder in the September 2007 stabbing death of Mia Henderson, 18, a fellow Navajo and freshman.
Harrison's attorney argued last August that her previous lawyers failed to obtain her medical | records for her sentencing hearing and didn't properly investigate her background.
Appellate attorney Alex Heveri also said Harrison shouldn't be in prison for the rest of her life without the possibility of parole.
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|Made both cookies.. still need to take photos of mallows and will post tonight or tomorrow morning, I promise.|
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My friend, 'Nifer, pointed out to me that her husband would get his BVDs in a bunch over the fact that I pretty much just told the world that I would be away from my home for a large portion of the summer.
So, world, I just want you to know that our house will NOT be empty this summer. Funny thing is that this is Hawaii and, amazingly, people like to vacation here. And, since WE won't be needing the house while we're gone, we've offered it to friends who have visitors coming this summer. Kind of a house-swap, of sorts.
Only we won't be staying in THEIR house...
Not to mention my wonderful neighbor | across the street who is big, mean, and owns several guns and a Rottweiler will be watching the house for us as well. *I* wouldn't want to mess with him.
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Totally Focused. Photo: Win
With that in mind, the morning of the race, Joe dropped me off at the ski lodge at 4:45am and in 15min we would be chasing the light of our headlamps up the ski slopes | to kick-off the 11th annual running of the Waldo 100k (or, in the case of this year, 105 kilometers due to the rerouting that had to be done as a result of the fires). Speaking of headlamps, at 4:50am I realized I had forgotten mine back at camp, so I ran 300m across the parking lot to our campsite (tripping over some tree branches in the process), snagged it, and casually walked back over with 3min to spare. Deep breath. A determined look forward. A | [
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Airline license suspended
Kingfisher Airline’s licence was suspended on Saturday after it failed to address the Indian regulator’s concerns about its operations, forcing the debt-laden carrier to stop taking bookings. Controlled by Vijay Mallya — the self-styled “King of Good Times” — and seven months behind on salary payments among other missed bills, Kingfisher’s fleet has been grounded since the start of this month when a staff protest turned violent. The airline, which has never made a profit since being founded in 2004 and reeling | under US$1.4 billion of debt, will have its licence reinstated if it provides a plan that satisfies the Directorate General of Civil Aviation.
Land prices slowdown
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IR35 dictates the circumstances in which services supplied by a ‘one man band’ company are to be treated as supplied by the person directly, rather than through the | company. It allows HM Revenue and Customs to regard a person who trades through the medium of a company as the employee of the businesses which employ his company. It is therefore unpopular, particularly in the IT industry where the use of one man band companies is commonplace.
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A new George Harrison documentary featuring home movies, interviews and never afore apparent actual will accomplish its admission in October on HBO, the cable approach said on Wednesday.
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The remainder of time that she’ll play the sport can be measured in days — a non-guaranteed number from one to eight.
For the sport that has so consumed her life — and the lives of four other Oxford seniors — even a state title will only take them to a week from today, then for the crew, it’s off into a brave new world.
It’s something Goodwin doesn’t like to think about.
“Some of us will never play again,” said second baseman Goodwin, wsho picked a full academic scholarship to Jacksonville State over continuing her softball career. “I’m not going to know what to do at all, I’m going to have so much free time, with no softball and nothing to replace it. Just the memories of high school ball.”
Oxford embarks today on its quest to make those final memories good ones in the North Regional at Huntsville’s Sportsplex. The Yellow Jackets take on Austin | at 5 p.m. Eight schools qualify in each classification with only the top two qualifying to move on to the state tournament in Montgomery beginning next week.
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Political species at risk
Having read Bob Bancroft’s article in the NovaScotian (Feb. 17), I am saddened by the thought that wildlife means so little to some people. Can we take time | from our busy, important lives to consider wildlife left without homes, due to greed, ignorance and thoughtless deforestation?
Creatures like ourselves, who may have taken millions of years to evolve, can be eliminated in seconds!
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Today we are getting ready for the last day of the FRIEZE ART FAIR NYC. Looking forward to get the FRIEZE ferrry out to Randall’s Island.
MULBERRY hosted a dinner in NYC this weekend for the artists at the Frieze Project, here with favorite bag girls Lana DEL REY and A | LEXA Chung + Emma Hill/Creative Directior.
View the Mulberry talk with the artists here:
Believe the hype! You know things are good, when on the cover of British Vogues big fashion issue (March 2012), and MULBERRY is naming a bag after you this spring.
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