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Hey there Lovelies, So, after transfer, started the longest two week wait of my life. You’d think I’d be used to the TWW by now. Being as I am, after all, three years into this hell. That’s a lot of Two Week Waits I’ve endured. Let me tell you though, it did NOT make this one any easier. Especially since my clinic doesn’t test until 14 days past transfer. Most clinics do this at 10 days past … not mine, mine likes to drag that shit out. So of course I spent the whole time symptom spotting. My Two Week Wait Symptom Sheet: Day 1 and 2 past transfer: Not much to report. Day 3 past transfer: Strong cramping in the evening. A little more tired. Intense craving for a bagel with cream cheese. Day 5 past transfer: Moody and tired and crampy. Boobs ridiculously sore. Got a hug and thought I might die. Day 6 past transfer: Boobs are still sore and all of a sudden HUGE. Like can’t fit in my tops huge. I’m not imagining it, I couldn’t do them up! Like two cups sizes huge. And my hair is way more greasy than normal. Day 8 past transfer: Boobs sore and huge. Greasy hair still and feeling wickedly dehydrated. Like no matter how much I drink I still get deep lines from my pants. Day 9 past transfer: No cramps really for a few days and then all of a sudden deep achiness in abdomen. Boobs still and hair still. Day 10-14 past transfer: Boobs still sore and getting veiny. Hair greasy and limp, I do not approve. Still felt ridiculously dehydrated all the time. Day 14 was my beta HCG blood test… but it’s not instantaneous. I have to wait TWO MORE DAYS for results. I keep thinking that if these were all just from the progesterone and estrogen meds then I want my money back. I know not to look too far into symptoms because the meds can mimic pretty much any and all of them. So saying “oh, but thats how I KNEW I was pregnant” isn’t valid here. They are REAL symptoms, but may or may not be caused by a real pregnancy. Infertility is a tricky bitch. Then again, it felt good to have SOME symptoms. Gives me something to obsess over whilst I wait. Like how these were not my symptoms last time I was on progesterone… But I’ve never been on estrogen… Tune in Thursday when results will go up.
I’m halfway through my 4-part series on webcomics to watch in 2009 over at ComicBookResources.com right now. You can check out the first two installments with Jon Rosenberg of “Goats” and Jerry Holkins of “Penny Arcade” at your leisure. Watch for more on both of the next two Tuesdays. Month: January 2009 Here’s a quick rundown of some of what I’ve been up to on MTV’s two movie blogs over the last couple of weeks. For those who haven’t been watching, I’ve assembled an easy-to-use recap menu: °Emma Stone Joining Woody Harrelson For ‘Zombieland’ °Terry Gilliam Returning To ‘The Man Who Killed Don Quixote’ °Sam Rockwell Confirms ‘Iron Man 2′ Role, Was Considered For Tony Stark °Sam Rockwell Heads To Park City With Two Films In Tow °Danny Boyle Shaky On ‘Judge Dredd’ & Terry Pratchett Adaptations °Danny Elfman To Score ‘Terminator Salvation’ °Rob Zombie Unveils New Face Of Michael Myers For ‘H2’ °In Adapting Neil Gaiman’s ‘Coraline,’ Director Henry Selick Says Less Interaction Was Better °‘Watchmen’ Actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan On Film’s Rape Scene: ‘It’s Rated ‘R’ For A Reason’ °Obama Amazing Spider-Man Issue Fist-Bumps Media, Heads To Third Printing °‘The Dark Knight’ Video Game… For The 8-Bit Nintendo? °Frank Miller’s ‘Sin City 2’ Script Finished & Filming To Begin In 2009, Says Jamie King °‘Watchmen’ Pirate Film ‘Black Freighter’ Gets R Rating, Says Report °Lex Luthor Not Returning For ‘Superman Returns’ Sequel? [Editor’s Note: This is the fifth in a series of some of my favorite webcomics creator interviews that previously ran on WizardUniverse.com and were a part of the site’s archives that are no longer hosted there. Jon Rosenberg’s Goats is one of those webcomics that could really have only been born in webcomics. He’s also one of my favorite individual creators in the webcomic world. Hearing that the strip is getting released in 2009 in a series of print volumes from Del Rey made me really happy. This interview was originally posted on September 25, 2006.] Jonathan Rosenberg’s webcomic Goats has been raking in the hits since he first launched it 1997. Nine years later, the creator is making a living off of his surreal fantasy strips that shift settings and characters as often as he pleases and long ago dumped his daily journal format for outer space, demonic chickens and extra-dimensional exploits. BRIAN WARMOTH: Goats started off as an autobiographical strip and morphed into something else all together. What changed along the way, and why did you change creative gears so drastically? JONATHAN ROSENBERG: One of the things I hate about newspaper comics today is how static they are, how unmoving the styles and characters and plots can be. An audience can tell when an artist is uninterested in their work, when they’re phoning it in. So you’ve got to keep the work interesting, keep creating fresh challenges for yourself. If you’re not learning and growing then it becomes this repetitive, pointless exercise. After ten years I’ve found a way to integrate change into the nature of the strip, so that it becomes a part of how the strip functions. These characters have a literally unlimited universe to play in and/or kill each other. Anything can happen. It’s always new for me, so I’m having fun with it, and I hope that makes it more fun for a reader as well. This isn’t the sort of thing that would fly in a traditional newspaper environment, but as an independent artist I don’t need to appeal to the same aunts-and-uncles demographic that a newspaper does. Aunts and uncles always want to see the same thing on their comics pages. They feel safe from Soviet attacks when they see good ol’ Dagwood eating one of his large sandwiches. They love consistency above all. My life is far too boring for me to take the sort of interest in it that a daily comic strip would require. It would mostly be a strip about me running out of breakfast cereal. I prefer fictional autobiographies to the real ones. Webcomics are still one of those things — like Twitter, lutfisk, glögg, and Highlander — that my friends ask me about frequently when I bring the topic up. A lot of comics readers aren’t webcomics readers and a lot of people aren’t readers in general, so I get put on the spot to name a few that they should check out. Well, get happy because I finally put up a “Favorite Webcomics Menu” sidebar that lists a sampling of my favorite online strips, graphic novels, and serialized adventures in webcomic form. It’s not exhaustive or organized by genre (some are complete stories, some have ended their runs, some are humor, some sci-fi, etc.), but if you want to check out a new, free comics story online, head over to your right and scroll down. Each of those comes with my personal recommendation. I also filled in the “Blogroll” field at long last. Tiny additions will dribble in to both of those in the near future. [Editor’s Note: This is the fourth in a series of some of my favorite webcomics creator interviews that previously ran on WizardUniverse.com and were a part of the site’s archives that are no longer hosted there. What Gary Larson Far Side was to me in fifth grade, Nicholas Gurewitch’s Perry Bible Fellowship is to me now. It’s definitely one of those webcomics that’s jumped the planet into the larger awareness of comics. More and more are doing it every day. This was originally posted on January 3, 2007.] Nicholas Gurewitch squirms a bit when you try to pigeonhole The Perry Bible Fellowship as a webcomic. The comic creator got his start at Syracuse University with the campus newspaper The Daily Orange. Gurewitch has long since taken his comics to the Web and expanded across the globe on the Internet and in print, landing spots in Maxim and The Guardian. We pulled Gurewitch away from his craft for a few minutes to talk about his vast arsenal of art styles and the year ahead, which he says will include his first full book of PBF comics. BRIAN WARMOTH: You’re slated to introduce a screening of Jim Henson’s “The Dark Crystal” at a local theater next week. Is it one of your favorite films? GUREWITCH: I don’t know if it’s one of my favorites, but I’m really attracted to the techniques involved, and they were looking for someone to introduce the flick, and I said I’d love to. Is filmmaking something you’d be interested in pursuing? GUREWITCH: I’m always writing scripts. I’m trying to crank out a feature [length] right now. I’m trying to expand some things into a longer form, and I guess one way of doing that is by writing a movie. I’ve always been interested in film, though. It’s what I went to school for. What areas did you focus on? Writing, production or directing…? GUREWITCH: All of it. Production. Neat. I guess that begs the question of what else you’re into. Are you spinning anything else on the side right now? GUREWITCH: Not a ton. I’ve always been drawing pictures, and I dabbled in superhero comics in my youth. I actually had a piece in Wizard [issue #88] at one point. It was one of the envelope art things. I really liked it. It had Scud the Disposable Assassin on it. No offense to the janitors of the world, because I have well-respected family and friends who are janitors. Still, come on, Craigslist: Things are really busy now, as I’m engaged in a handful of side projects in varying capacities. One of those is over at the wonderful MTV Movies Blog, who did me the honor of entertaining my bloggery today regarding the new “Halloween” mask sculpt. [Editor’s Note: This is the third in a series of some of my favorite webcomics creator interviews that previously ran on WizardUniverse.com and were a part of the site’s archives that are no longer hosted there. This was one of those chats that was almost intimidating to gear up for, being that xkcd’s Randall Munroe may be one of the smartest webcomickers out there. It was originally posted on July 27, 2007.] It’s really easy to make a bad comic out of stick figures. I’ve been churning them out and handily irking authority figures with such images since preschool. Randall Munroe, by contrast, has elevated stick-figure diagrams to high and hilarious art. If there’s a genre in which to pigeonhole xkcd, the comic belongs atop the heap of nerdy jokes doodled every day during boring physics lectures around the world which, unsurprisingly enough, is how xkcd got its start. It’s hard to imagine a cooler job than testing out cutting-edge robots for NASA, which Munroe freely admits, but imagining another job is exactly what he did, and now he has a fulltime gig as a webcomicker. Munroe took a break from work for a quick “Cursory Conversation” about which is cooler: making robots or making comics; as well as to talk about how xkcd got to where it is now and, thankfully for xkcd readers everywhere, how one is supposed to pronounce its title. BRIAN WARMOTH: When you say your webcomic’s name in conversation how do you refer to it? RANDALL MUNROE: I say “X-K-C-D” and I’ve noticed sometimes when I try to say it fast I often skip over the “C” and so it’s like “X-K-D” or something like that. I read the description of the comic’s name on your site and you said it’s not supposed to be an acronym for anything. So how did you put those letters together? MUNROE: I was sitting up very late one night. I was trying to pick a screen name on AOL or one of their related services and I was trying to come up with a text to represent me unambiguously. So I thought, “Okay, I want a short group of letters and nothing with meaning or nothing with any obvious interpretations,“ and so I just started picking letters that I kind of liked that couldn’t be confused with other letters and that looked good together without any pronunciation. I wanted the “L” in there, but “L” can be confused with “I,” like a lowercase “L” and a capital “I.” So I went through a number of them that were already registered screen names until I finally hit “xkcd.” The whole plan was to do it unambiguously representing me, and then I ruined that by making it into a comic, so now it’s not clear whether “xkcd” means me or my comic or what.
Honda posted a more than doubling in quarterly operating profit, as production recovered from the earthquake and tsunami in Japan last year, and it forecast a 38 percent rise in global sales in the year ahead as it makes up for lost time. The company, which has lagged a recovery from the effects of disasters in Japan and Thailand by rivals Toyota and Nissan, reported operating profit for the January-March fourth-quarter of 111.98 billion yen (£800m). Net profit, which includes earnings made in China, rose 60.7 per cent to 71.59bn yen. The results ended a five-quarter decline in operating profits for Japan's No.3 automaker, after a 2011 hammered by the yen's record strength, natural disasters and a crisis of reputation in its key US market. Honda suffered more than its rivals from disasters in Japan and Thailand last year. It was the last Japanese car maker to get its supply chain in order after a massive earthquake and tsunami in March 2011, and only re-started work at its Thai car plant at the end of March this year after a six-month hiatus following October's floods. Honda forecast its global car sales to jump 38.4 per cent to 4.3m vehicles and its motorcycle sales to rise 10.2 per cent to 16.6m in 2012/13. It sees sales in North America rising 31.5 per cent to 1.74m vehicles, sales in Japan climbing by 20.7 per cent to 710,000 and the rest of Asia by 56.5 per cent to 1.31m.
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\|Número de publicación\|\|US5528772 A\| \|Tipo de publicación\|\|Concesión\| \|Número de solicitud\|\|US 08/350,526\| \|Fecha de publicación\|\|25 Jun 1996\| \|Fecha de presentación\|\|7 Dic 1994\| \|Fecha de prioridad\|\|7 Dic 1994\| \|Número de publicación\|\|08350526, 350526, US 5528772 A, US 5528772A, US-A-5528772, US5528772 A, US5528772A\| \|Inventores\|\|Jesse E. Cheek\| \|Cesionario original\|\|Cheek; Jesse E.\| \|Exportar cita\|\|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan\| \|Citas de patentes (18), Citada por (33), Clasificaciones (7), Eventos legales (3)\| \|Enlaces externos: USPTO, Cesión de USPTO, Espacenet\| The present invention relates to a protective glove with a padded surface to protect the hand from the painful impact and threat of injury of a fast moving article. The present invention may be used by athletes involved in active sports such as baseball or softball or people involved in industrial job activities requiring the use of the hands. The present invention is particularly beneficial in active sports such as baseball or softball because it protects the palm, thumb, and index finger of the athlete's hand by providing a padded surface to absorb the shock of the ball being caught. It also distributes the impact forces of the ball over a greater area of the hand, thereby reducing the threat of injury. Athletes involved in sports such as baseball are constantly faced with the stinging sensation and pain felt when they catch a ball; particularly one which is thrown at a high speed. Not only does this pose a constant threat of injury and pain to the hand, but it also lessens the player's confidence while participating in the sport. This is a particular problem with young children wherein a child may avoid playing baseball or softball all together because of the pain he or she experiences in catching the ball. Moreover, if a child fears the stinging sensation caused by catching the ball, he or she may not aggressively attempt to catch the baseball or softball. While baseball gloves are designed to protect the player's hand and to assist in catching the ball, these gloves do not provide protection necessary to minimize the pain and reduce instances of injury. Protective palm pads worn inside a baseball glove are known in the prior art, however, these devices are accompanied by several disadvantages. These devices frequently shift within the glove and do not provide sufficient surface area to dissipate the impact forces of a ball. An example of such is disclosed by U.S. Pat. No. 4,987,611 to Maye which provides a protective device worn by a baseball player inside the glove but which only protects a portion of the palm and does not protect a large portion of the thumb or any of the index finger. Moreover, the device of Maye does not encircle the entire palm, and thus, it would be more difficult to maintain the device in its proper location, particularly after catching a baseball. Devices which cover the entire hand are also known in the prior art. Although these devices may not shift location within the baseball glove, they are often bulky and inhibit the dexterity of the baseball player's hand while playing ball. An example of such is U.S. Pat. No. 4,748,690 to Webster which provides a protective glove which covers the entire hand and which is a somewhat complex structure involving a glove and glove cushions. Devices of this type are more complicated to manufacture and therefore more costly to the athlete. Moreover, although these devices do protect the athlete's hand more than the protective palm pads, they substantially lessen the flexibility the baseball player's hand. A larger baseball or softball glove would be required to utilize a device such as that disclosed by Webster. It is thus an object of the present invention to provide a protective device which can be worn by athletes, particularly those involved in catching baseballs or softballs, to avoid pain and to reduce instances of injuries to the hand. Thus, the athlete will possess a higher degree of confidence knowing that the impact forces of the oncoming ball will not produce its usual attendant pain. It is a further object of the present invention to provide a protective baseball glove which is easier to manufacture, less costly to the athlete, and does not involve a complex structure. It is yet another object of the present invention to provide a protective padding which maintains its proper position within a conventional baseball or softball glove and yet which is easily and comfortably fitted within the glove without hindering the dexterity of the hand. The protective glove of the present invention protects the athlete's palm, thumb, and index finger by providing a padded surface which covers substantially all of these areas yet leaving the remaining fingers free. The padded surface of the present invention is streamlined and formed of a unitary material which is flexible such that the dexterity of the player's hand is not inhibited. The present invention comprises a thin, flexible back portion which is sewn together with the protective padded surface to form a glove which completely encircles the hand to prevent the device from shifting from its proper location. The protective device of the instant invention is sized to easily fit within conventional baseball gloves. It also can be worn inside various gloves without having to repurchase the more costly outside glove. This is a particular cost benefit to young children whose hands are constantly growing as the present invention is formed of stretchable fabrics. The present invention pertains to a protective device to be worn about the hand and wrist of an athlete to protect the palm, index finger, and thumb of an athlete's hand and to lessen the impact of catching balls while the athlete engages in athletic activities. The protective device includes a padded catching panel including a thumb protective portion, an index finger protective portion, and a palm protective portion which is connected to a similarly configured flexible back panel. These panels are positioned in overlying relation, such that the seam connecting them extends along the sides of the hand and around the thumb and index finger, thereby leaving an opening along the top margin for the remaining three fingers to extend therethrough and an opening along the wrist margin to permit the hand to be inserted within the protective glove. The seams around the periphery of the index finger, thumb and side margins form a substantially glove-like enclosure for receiving the thumb, index finger, and palm of the hand either fully as in the preferred embodiment or partially as in a second embodiment. The foregoing and other objects, features, and advantages of the present invention will be made apparent from the following detailed description of the preferred embodiment of the invention and from the drawings, in which: FIG. 1 is a view of one side of the protective device of the present invention as it is worn on an athlete's hand; FIG. 2 is a view of the opposite side of the device shown in FIG. 1; FIG. 3 is an exploded view of the various portions of the protective device of the present invention. The present invention will now be described more fully in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which the preferred embodiments of the invention are shown. This invention should not, however, be construed as limited to the embodiments set forth herein; rather, they are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete and will fully convey the scope of the invention to those skilled in the art. FIG. 1 illustrates a protective device or glove according to the present invention worn about an athlete's hand viewing the palm or catching side of the hand. The protective glove 10 consists of a padded catching panel 11 which includes a thumb protective portion 12, an index finger protective portion 13, and a palm protective portion 14. The catching panel 11 is outlined by opposing side margins 16 which extend along the sides of the hand. Side margin 16, on one side, extends from the base of the athlete's smallest finger to the wrist and, on the other side, from the base of the thumb to the athlete's wrist. The catching panel 11 is further defined by a thumb margin 17 which extends around the thumb of the athlete. Furthermore, the index finger protective portion 13 is defined by an index finger margin 18 which extends about the periphery of the athlete's index finger. The catching panel 11 provides a cushioning effect to protect the hand upon impact from an oncoming baseball or softball. This panel 11 may be formed of any material which provides cushioning, padding, or shock deadening properties. Suitable materials include open cell foams, closed cell foams, and synthetic or natural rubber materials such as NEOPRENE in the most preferred embodiment. Particularly preferred is a synthetic rubber material having shock deadening properties, such as the product sold under the trademark ZORBATHANE. Preferably, the material of panel 11 has a thickness of from about 1/16 inch to 1/4 inch. The materials of the preferred embodiment are chosen because they provide the requisite amount of protection to the palm, thumb, and index finger while at the same time do not inhibit the dexterity of the athlete's hand. As seen in FIG. 1, catching panel 11 is formed from a unitary material such that a substantially continuous structure is provided. This configuration ensures that the present invention is not bulky when worn within a baseball or softball glove and there is no seam across the palm, index finger, or thumb. Furthermore, vents 20 are provided in predetermined locations of panel 11 to ventilate the athlete's hand, a particular benefit when the present invention is worn within a baseball or softball glove. As shown in FIG. 1, these vents 20 are located substantially on the catching portion of the index finger protective portion 13 and thumb protective portion 12 and in predetermined locations of the palm protective portion 14. These locations are most apt to be contacted by the baseball or softball which is being caught. While the vents 20 depicted in FIG. 1 illustrate the most preferred embodiment of the invention, the present invention would equally protect the hand without the addition of these vents, and the present invention is not limited to the precise locations of the vents 20. These vents may be located anywhere along the glove including along the flexible back panel 21 to ventilate the athlete's hand. FIG. 2 illustrates the back side of the protective inner glove device 10 of the present invention as it is worn about an athlete's hand. The flexible back panel 21 comprises a similar configuration as the padded catching panel 11 illustrated in FIG. 1. More specifically, the flexible back panel 21 comprises a thumb portion 22, index portion 23, and the back side of the hand portion 24. The flexible back panel 21 is formed in substantially the same configuration as the panel 11 and likewise contains opposing side margins 26, thumb margin 27, and index margin 28. The flexible back panel 21 of the protective glove 10 is formed from a single piece of material such that a unitary and continuous structure is formed. Suitable materials include woven, knitted or netted fabrics, or nonwoven fabrics. While any flexible fabric may be utilized as a flexible back panel 21, in the most preferred embodiment, a knitted fabric made of stretch yarns, such as LYCRA, is utilized because of its elastic characteristics. An elastic or stretch fabric advantageously holds the glove snugly on the hand and accommodates hands of various sizes. The back panel 21 secures the present invention on the athlete's hand without causing excess bulk. Also in the most preferred embodiment, the flexible back panel 21 is not provided with any padding as is the protective padded panel 11 and thereby easily fits within a baseball or softball glove. The padded catching panel and flexible back panel 21 are secured to one another by a seam 30 which secures the side margins 16, the thumb margin 17, and index margin 18 of the catching panel 11 with the side margins 26, thumb margin 27, and index margin 28, of the flexible back panel 21. The seam is generally shown at 30 in FIG. 2. While the most preferred embodiment is shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 wherein the index finger and thumb are completely encased by the protective device of the present invention, the present invention is not limited to this embodiment. It may not be desired by some athletes to have their entire index finger or thumb fully received within the protective device of the present invention. Thus, in an alternative construction, the glove may have an open-ended index finger protective portion and/or an open-ended thumb protective portion so that the tip of the index finger and/or the tip of the thumb is exposed. As seen in FIGS. 1 and 2, the padded catching panel 11 and flexible back panel 12 are provided with unsewn top margins 31 and unconnected bottom margins 32. Thus, the fingers other than the index finger and thumb are not received within the protective device of the instant invention. Thus, the bulk of the present invention is greatly reduced as it is unnecessary to protect these fingers further than the protection provided by a conventional baseball glove. The bottom margins 32 are left unconnected such that the user may insert his or her hand into the device to be worn. The bottom margins 32 are shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 and, after the panels are connected, will encircle the wrist. While the materials utilized in forming the padded catching panel 11 and flexible back panel 21 in the most preferred embodiment comprise somewhat elastic material, particularly the flexible back panel 21, a wrist attaching member 34 is preferably provided to further secure the present invention on the athlete. As best seen in FIG. 3, wrist attaching member 34 is secured along the bottom margins 32 of the panels 11 and 21 to further secure the device on the athlete's hand. While any wrist attaching member may be used, in the most preferred embodiment a highly elastic material is utilized. A variation of this embodiment, however, would be a non-elastic wrist attaching member comprising a fastener such as Velcro or the like to secure the present invention around the athlete's wrist. The unitary elastic structure depicted in FIG. 3 is less bulky, is easily applied to the athlete's hand, and more comfortably fits within a conventional baseball glove. While particular embodiments of the invention have been described, it will be understood, of course, the invention is not limited thereto since modifications may be made by those skilled in the art, particularly in light of the foregoing teachings. It is, therefore, contemplated by the appended claims to cover any such modifications that incorporate those features of these improvements in the true spirit and scope of the invention. \|Patente citada\|\|Fecha de presentación\|\|Fecha de publicación\|\|Solicitante\|\|Título\| \|US1479771 \|\|15 Jun 1922\|\|1 Ene 1924\|\|Spencer Campbell Guy Edward\|\|Hand covering\| \|US1612757 \|\|15 Feb 1926\|\|28 Dic 1926\|\|Wells William O\|\|Glove and the like\| \|US2025710 \|\|18 Feb 1933\|\|31 Dic 1935\|\|Beemer Idalyne M\|\|Hand covering\| \|US2596349 \|\|21 Oct 1948\|\|13 May 1952\|\|Thurlow Glove Company\|\|Seamless palm glove\| \|US3581312 \|\|21 May 1969\|\|1 Jun 1971\|\|Nickels Terrill Franklin\|\|Basketball training glove\| \|US4559646 \|\|24 May 1984\|\|24 Dic 1985\|\|Zwicker Knitting Mills\|\|Work glove\| \|US4630318 \|\|18 Ene 1985\|\|23 Dic 1986\|\|Trion Corporation\|\|Baseball catching means\| \|US4658441 \|\|13 Dic 1985\|\|21 Abr 1987\|\|Smith Steven A\|\|One piece thumb support and protector\| \|US4742578 \|\|2 Dic 1985\|\|10 May 1988\|\|Seid Arnold S\|\|Penetration-resistant surgical glove\| \|US4748690 \|\|3 Abr 1987\|\|7 Jun 1988\|\|Webster Charles H\|\|Protective glove for use in athletics\| \|US4787376 \|\|3 Mar 1987\|\|29 Nov 1988\|\|Joel H. 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I'VE WORKED WITH : University of Virginia University of Dayton Featured Work IN : Greg Puglese is a multidisciplinary creative dude; currently living, working, and tinkering in Philadelphia, PA. His greatest joy is chasing down stories, ideas and concepts, and bringing them to life, no matter what the medium. Let’s talk about working together. Say hello at email@example.com
Ms. Marilyn Shafer Bush did a beautiful watercolor of a young Mountain gorilla. It was entitled "Let Me Be" and was put into a limited edition print and was exhibited at Planet Hollywood in New York for the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund's first ever fundraising event in New York. The painting was done in 1995 and this gorilla had the most beautiful face but very sad eyes. Unfortunately, or fortunately for the Fund, every print was sold and there are no more. In 1997 Ms. Bush had a wonderful exhibit to coincide with a lecture which she chaired given by Dr. Dieter Steklis who was then Executive Director of the Karisoke Research Center and his wife, Netzin Gerald Steklis. The lecture was presented at The Hill School in Pottstown, PA. Because of her devotion to the gorillas and her helping the fund through her art, Ms. Bush was given an infant gorilla adoption and award by the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International. Ms. Bush was a wonderful supporter of DFGFI and it was a pleasure having known and worked with her. The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International is dedicated to the conservation and protection of gorillas and their habitats in Africa. We are committed to promoting continued research on their threatened ecosystems and education about their relevance to the world in which we live. In collaboration with government agencies and other international partners, we also provide assistance to local communities through education, health, training and economic development initiatives. If you are interested in learning more about the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International and its work, please visit our website at www.gorillafund.org. Director of Development
A specific set of metabolic pathways allows organisms to grow and reproduce, maintain compartments and structures, and respond to environments. Metabolic pathways cover a wide range of enzyme activities from "classical" anabolic and catabolic reactions of metabolites, to "novel" regulatory roles in signaling pathways and organelle biogenesis. Understanding this delicate metabolic network might offer novel therapeutic intervention in oncology, inherited metabolic disorders, inflammation and degenerative diseases. The SGC MOB group investigates human metabolism from three different perspectives. 1. High throughput structural biology for metabolic enzymes & complexes With a repertoire to date of >150 structures of metabolic enzymes (50 of which are linked with genetic diseases), we aim to understand structure-function relationships, delineate enzyme mechanisms, and deorphanize new genes. 2. Understanding Inborn Errors of Metabolism (IEM) A subset of our target proteins are linked with inherited monogenic disorders (Inborn Errors of Metabolism). We adopt an open-access model to share our reagents and data in a protein-centric platform with geneticists, clinicians, patient groups and drug developers. 3. Small molecule inhibitors/activators for metabolic disorders We develop a collaborative programme ('Target Enabling Packages, TEP') for novel drug discovery, to identify small molecule starting point for stabilizing misfolded/aggregated proteins (pharmacological chaperones), or reducing the accumulation of toxic metabolites or down-regulating gain-of-function (inhibitors).
only 1 use (click/touch triangles for details) Definitionwillfully obstinate; or stubbornly disobedient - Again a mystic sisterhood would contumaciously assert itself, as she met the sanctified frown of some matron, who, according to the rumour of all tongues, had kept cold snow within her bosom throughout life.Chapter 5 -- Hester at her Needle (92% in) There are no more uses of "contumacious" in The Scarlet Letter. Typical Usage (best examples)
What every traveller or communicator between the US and UK needs to know – the language differences… You could be forgiven for thinking that English is a one-size-fits-all. When I was enjoying a front row seat unwittingly living the inspiration for what became Love Travels, we came across many terms that were alien to each country. It was a source of great amusement and entertainment. That was in a social setting but there are some I wouldn’t want to get wrong. We talked about creating our own version of what so many people have since published to ease relations between the countries. I liked the one that found me today and reminded me of those fun exchanges; some of which are referred to along the way in Love Travels. It isn’t just the language, it’s also the spellings. American spellings often have fewer characters. For example we say travellers, they say travelers. We say colour, they say color. Have you realised how many words there actually are? This is a useful list: http://www.tysto.com/uk-us-spelling-list.html Left me wondering how fewer printer cartridges the US uses simply because they use fewer letters in some common words? I suspect someone could actually measure that. As someone who has battled through the hidden settings of US English spelling and grammar checkers, I wonder if one day in the future we may decide on a little more agreed commonality… The world seems to strive to make things easier but then there is often resistance to change. Brexit and Trump – say no more. Text-speak of course took off with a life and language of its own. However that’s the young for you! I love languages, I love differences. And I’ll always have a soft spot for what the US and its ancestors have done with the English language.
To try and find some new means of creating content I decided I would start making these videos that show off my process of editing in Adobe Lightroom. This set with Jacqui Daniels was something I did a few Months ago but figured it would act as a good test run. In this set you will notice one big thing that needs adjusted and that is white balance. All the images were taken in shade and came out a very cool color. Ivy is a much warmer feeling character so I needed to move the white balance to reflect that. Another thing you will notice is that I didn’t have to do much correction on Jacqui’s skin. She is a very talented Make Up Artist and know what she’s doing with makeup and skincare making my job as a photographer easier in post. If I don’t have to do a lot of skin retouching I’m not going to. You can check Jacqui’s stuff out here as well as her instagram and her Make Up Page. Bellow you find the original gallery I have posted. I don’t always edit my images in black and white… but some times I just can’t help myself. I never go into a shoot automatically knowing what I’m going to do in post processing. But once I’m sitting down playing around in Lightroom, the decision comes down to feel. This is most defiantly the case of my most recent Cafe shoot with Samantha Arellano. When I make the decision to edit the images in black and white itnormally comes down to one question: is it working better than the color version? I have a particular style that involves having very detailed images with high levels of contrast. Some times this will results in vibrant colors but often they can also become very muddy. If I don’t feel like the image has good color I’ll switch it to black and white and a lot of the problems I was having will go away. Another reason I will switch to black and white is if I had to shoot at a high ISO. This wan’t so much the case in this photo shoot but often when I have to shoot in conditions where I need to be at something like 3200-6400 I’ll opt into black and white 99.99% percent of the time. This is mostly because when you shoot at the higher ISOs you start to introduce noise and the color detail begins to fall apart. When you’re in black and white that color detail is irrelevant and the noise begins to look more like film grain than it does digital artifacts. Another thing going to black and white helps with is removing distractions from the background. With on location shoots gaining control over a background is practically impossible. Busy color schemes, bright highlights and distracting elements all become less of an issue with black and white images, so it’s not hard for me to opt into a black and white photo. Now black and white is clearly a style that is as old as photography itself and clearly can’t be considered original. A common thing I’ll hear from models after handing in images is that they’ll say “I love this photo, can get it in color.” It’s taken a while for me not to get offended by those kinds of statements but It’s a common thing for artist to hear people to ask for changes especially when they don’t understand reasoning behind your decisions. Sometimes it doesn’t hurt to have both a color and black and white version everyone is allowed to have different taste when it comes to photos. If the job requires me to stay in color and forsake black and white images I will do so, and make the color work as best I can. However, if I get the option I’m going to go with the one I think works best. Black and white just worked better on this rounds of photos. More often than not people always tell you that it’s all about networking when it comes to getting jobs and people finding your work and that’s exactly what happened this weekend when I helped Ashley Perry start her modeling portfolio. Ashley was referred to me by someone I did a shoot with a month prior and since she just got into a modeling agency, she needed to get some portfolio images put together. All the photographers her agency refereed her to were very expensive so I cut her a deal. Working with a new model is always an interesting experience and you never quite know what to expect. Sometimes they can be a bit timid or shy especially around the camera. However, Ashley didn’t have any of these problems; she was very comfortable around the camera, was able to give me different looks and took direction extremely well. One of the biggest factors in any shoot is the weather during the shoot. The photography gods very gracious in giving light overcast, no wind and moderately warm temperatures giving me everything I needed to just do my thing and shoot. There was one point where the sun was piercing through that clouds but it was at golden hour making for some excellent light. For this shoot I relied heavily on my 85mm 1.8g lens for most of the shots. I played around with using the 28mm and the 50mm but everything always comes back to my work horse lens. I shot exclusively at f2.8 making sure I got enough sharpness and detail out of Ashley while still getting nice Bokeh (blur) in the background. As far as post processing goes I kept things very simple. I tried to bring in as much contrast and color as I could while still keeping things natural. I ran in to some issues with Ashley’s tan skin but I normally get around that by bringing in some vibrancy but pulling down the saturation. Other than that I did some spot correcting, but nothing super drastic. When I edit my portraits I try to keep things subtle while at the same time making things pop. Over all it was an extremely fun shoot and I’m looking forward to working with Ashley in the future. By request of a close friend of mine I went to shoot a live performance of his band. Concert photography can be complicated and difficult because it backs you into corners and the lighting is usually sub par. So with careful edits you can make or break these photos. Watch my Lightroom editing process in the video. I’ve recently decided to start doing some editing videos using light room to show my editing process. What I like to do, what I don’t like to do and just goof around with the differen’t things I can do with photos. I’m probably going to start being less formal in these just so I can bring out more of my personality out. There are so many tutorials out there these days that I don’t necessarily want to do what everyone else does. This is also a part of an Adobe Student Rep program that I’m doing this semester so if you want to get a month free trial of Adobe Creative Cloud you can click this link http://adobe.ly/1jr9L5U and you’ll get access to all of adobe’s creative software to take for a test drive.
Improving commercial fishing vessel safety through collaboration. Woodley-CJ; Lincoln-JM; Medlicott-CJ IFISH4: Proceedings of the Fourth International Fisheries Industry Safety and Health Conference, May 10-14, 2009, Reykjavik, Iceland. Cincinnati, OH: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 2009 May; :15 Purpose: Commercial fishing in Alaska's Bering Sea / Aleutian Island (BSAI) crab fleet has been one of the most dangerous occupations in the United States and figured prominently in the development the Commercial Fishing Industry Vessel Safety Act (CFIVSA). Despite implementation of the CFIVSA in 1991, the BSAI crab fleet continued experiencing staggering losses. From \990-1999, an average of eight lives were lost annually as a result of vessels capsizing or sinking, falls overboard, and industrial accidents. Methodology: After conducting extensive casualty analysis of fatalities and vessel losses in the BSAI Crab fleet and sharing the results with key crab industry stakeholders, the Dockside Stability and Safety Compliance Check Examination program was developed by the USCG, partner agencies and the BSAI crab industry. This is an innovative regional safety program that focuses on the prevention of vessel losses and addresses the specific hazards of this dangerous fishery. Results: Following implementation of the exam program, fatality rates declined from an average of 8 lives lost annually to an average of I life lost annually. There were also zero vessels lost after implementation of the program in October of 1999 through January 2005. In addition, this paper discusses the effect of the 2005 BSAI Crab Rationalization program on fleet safety. Conclusions and Recommendations: The Dockside Stability and Safety Compliance Check Examination program resulted in a 75% reduction in fatalities after implementation. This program has had a significant impact on improving safety by reducing vessel loss and subsequent fatalities in the BSAI crab industry. The high level of coordination and communication between all stakeholders, particularly between the USCG and the crab industry, should be used as a model for other fishing vessel safety intervention programs. Accident-analysis; Accident-prevention; Epidemiology; Fishing-industry; Injuries; Injury-prevention; Mortality-rates; Occupational-accidents; Occupational-hazards; Occupational-safety-programs; Safety-education; Safety-measures; Safety-research; Statistical-analysis; Work-environment; Work-operations; Workplace-studies; Work-practices Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
Guys. Is it possible for you to really really like a girl as a friend, enjoying talking to her and find her attractive and pretty, but somehow don't want to date her? She doesn't become a monster when being a girlfriend but somehow you just can't match as a couple. Is it possible? What is it like? Most Helpful Guy I am friends with someone I met in California. We had no problem with communication and our interests were the same. I never dated her because she had a problem with lying, and her family was strong-arming me into making the decision to date her. Both of those reasons together (mostly the lying), made me avoid a relationship. There may be something about you that turns him off about dating, but otherwise he loves spending time with you. If you want to be more than friends, it's best to ask what is going on or if he's interested in dating. Be prepared for good or bad news though. :)1
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First and foremost, the staff, from the front desk staff to the housekeeper, was the most courteous and helpful I have seen in years! They seemed to truly like their jobs and went beyond the call of duty to make us comfortable. Bravo! The location is perfect, a stone's throw from Jackson Square, and more importantly, the Cafe du Monde and beignet deliriousness! The property itself is lovely and historic, though they could do a bit more to highlight the building's historical role in New Orleans. They have a great pool and the room was impeccable, well-apportioned and always clean. We are regular visitors to NOLA and this will be were we stay in the future. - Official Description (provided by the hotel): - Discover a place where old world charm meets new world luxury. Nestled in the heart of the French Quarter, the Bourbon Orleans New Orleans Hotel features a rich history and opulent French styling reminiscent of the early 1800s. Its central New Orleans location, just steps away from the famed St. Louis Cathedral, means you're never far from the best the city has to offer-from upscale shopping on Royal Street, to the local artists and performers of Jackson Square, to all of the restaurants, galleries and nightlife in between. ... more less - Reservation Options: - TripAdvisor is proud to partner with Expedia, Odigeo, Booking.com, Hotels.com, TripOnline SA, Ebookers, HotelQuickly, Evoline ltd and Cancelon so you can book your Bourbon Orleans Hotel reservations with confidence. We help millions of travellers each month to find the perfect hotel for both holiday and business trips, always with the best discounts and special offers. - Also Known As: - Hotel Bourbon Orleans - Wndham New Orleans
Action Comics #44 By Greg Pak, Aaron Kuder, Howard Porter and Tomeu Morey First arc’s begin to wrap up in the new DC You initiative and this has been something that has been met with some criticism from fans and consumers alike. While some books have still been pretty good, other have fallen a bit flat. Fear not though, Action Comics has been consistently good, and the creative team is a big reason why. Greg Pak has been around the industry for a while and he has put out some very good work. That being said, since the New 52 launched, Pak is pretty much the best writer Superman has had yet. One of the things that make his run great is that he grounds Supes in reality. Everyone knows who Clark is now and he has to try to win people over. When you are looked at as a God, people will love you, but when they find out you’re just a normal schmuck, it’s a little harder to win them over. Pak also makes great use of the people in the city. We honestly care how Lee and Dante are, because Pak took the time to develop them. Another cool thing that Pak does here is that he doesn’t always make Superman the hero. Sometimes the “Man of Steel” can’t save everyone. These are all things that make Superman a more relatable character, which is something he’s struggled with in the past. Greg Pak has really been doing some wonders on this book and has made it the must-read Superman title. The pencils this issue are handled by both Aaron Kuder and Howard Porter with colors by Tomeu Morey. Usually dual pencils are problematic for a book, but this one is not really effected by that since Porter mostly come on near the end of the book. Aaron Kuder is an artist who has progressed nicely from his early days. His lines are incredibly smooth now and his characters look great. The first page of this book should hook you right away as Clark battles Wrath and the shadow monsters. The panel is engaging and is slightly off kilter, but Kuder has always been pretty good with his panels. Much of this issue is a battle, but Kuder makes it interesting. His pencils allow you to just glide from panel to panel in one smooth motion. He really did an excellent job on this issue. The colors by Tomeu Morey are great as well. His deep blues and bright reds allow the colors to jump off the page at you. This is a tandem that should stick together because they really rock this issue. Without a doubt, this current run on Action Comics is the best it’s been in a while. Greg Pak understands Superman and writes him as well as anybody has in years. The art from Aaron Kuder and Tomeu Morey is some of the best out in a book this week. These guys love what they do and it shows in every panel. Any die-hard Superman fan should be reading this book.
We Just Read Girl seriously injured in collision with car from West Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust West Midlands Ambulance Service was called to reports of a collision between a pedestrian and a car near to the junction of Brockworth Road and Bells Lane in Druids Heath at around 7.15pm yesterday (Sunday). An ambulance, a responder paramedic and a MERIT trauma doctor attended. A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokeswoman said: “A three-year-old girl had sustained a serious head injury which required immediate trauma care on scene. The girl was then taken by land ambulance on blue lights to Birmingham Children’s Hospital; the trauma doctor travelled in the ambulance to continue treatment en route. “No one else was injured.” Continue reading →
Un-Go isn’t the sort of show that hits you over the head with it’s themes. Yes, there are themes and ideas more obvious than the others but Un-Go never tries to overplay them. It takes things in moderation, and this isn’t something I find often in the recent anime I’ve watched. Yes, there is a lot going on and the pacing was all over the place when it started but once you follow the show every week, it’s easy to get used to how Un-Go flows as a story. The themes in Un-Go all interconnect in one way or another, and the reoccurring characters in this arc prove that. The Prison Arc in particular, points out how war is being turned into a ‘toy’, and that’s with each character having their personal agendas and using Kaishou’s post-war contributions against him. They way things have played out, it appears it’s Kaishou who possesses a clear vision of what is in front of him. Chances are that this series is going to go ahead and crush that trust under its heels but watching Kaishou’s reactions during the trial have me convinced that he’s just as baffled as everyone else. Speaking of the trial, it was possibly the most intense moment of the whole episode. The commotion and clamor following Izumi’s big reveal is a large contrast to how the case was being treated before the existence of a document altering software was revealed. You could see most of the people involved weren’t necessarily taking it as seriously as they ought have been. That is, until Kaishou’s suspicious actions are revealed. There’s also a jab at how people naturally jump at the wildest conclusions whenever something terrible happens. Kaishou speaks of how people often feel that the truth is being hidden from them, and then there are those who believe that they are the only ones who have arrived at the truth. His philosophy is simple: “There are an innumerable number of truths.” Kaishou sees things differently and while his words do strike me as being hypocritical– what exactly do we know about Kaishou? He too, must have his own reasons as to while he decides to cover up the ‘truth’. I love the script in Un-Go. It’s dialogue heavy but it never, never gets boring. This episode in particular mostly had characters exchanging words. The voice acting here shines through, and it’s the sort of acting unusual of anime. I found Izumi’s breakdown during Kaishou’s funeral to be an excellent example of how voice acting can speak volumes about a certain character. Another aspect to this episode that I really liked was Shinjurou doing his information gathering. The scene with the Novelist in particular was weird with Kazamori cutting his mouth open like nothing. It’s just weird and nonsensical but somehow the characters all decide to overlook it. The novelist elaborates on Bettenou’s rules and restrictions, giving Shinjurou more data to go by. Listen…Guys, I love it when a series goes on about rules and restrictions and how these characters are required to comply to aforementioned rules and restrictions. Things like these are vital to stories in that it adds realism and highlights the importance of cause and effect. I recall mentioning this on my post on the fourth episode and I’ll repeat it again, Un-Go is a show that isn’t too immersed in it’s own absurdity or its supernatural elements. Bettenou and Inga have their own weaknesses and their own goals too, but in one way or another– it’s not completely impossible for either Kaishou or Shinjurou to comprehend and analyze their actions regardless if they’re spirits or deities. Dude, I just want to eat souls. The biggest, and perhaps one of the most important mysteries here is how it’s hard to find out what Inga’s motives are throughout the first two episodes of this arc. Bettenou is being controlled by someone, Shinjurou just wants to seek the truth while Kaishou obviously wanted (? – It’s not like we’re 100% sure he’s dead) to prove his innocence…what’s in it for Inga? Is it really that difficult to east human souls without killing them? I was under the impression that she was fine with her current arrangement with Shinjurou too. The other mystery would be who exactly is controlling Bettenou? We’ve seen a mysterious silhouette from time to time and it resembles Hayami’s stature a lot. If the scene in the trial is any indication, Hayami has feelings for Izumi and the Diet member (the girl with glasses) is very aware of this. There’s also the involvement of Mizuno to be considered. There’s a chance that there are multiple people involved in framing Kaishou but we’ll never know until the next episode. Fantastic background art for this series. I’m surprised to see CG cars and doors but this show’s visuals are enough to make up for that.
St. Thomas’ Cathedral (1718) Church Gate Street, Fort (presently Veer Nariman Road) The colonial government regularly reminded Bombay’s citizenry that it subsidized the cost of divine worship at St. Thomas’ Cathedral. Pew rents, a common means through which churches generated income by charging worshippers for the use of pews, were not imposed, states city directories from the late 1800s. Notice a lady’s Louis Vuitton handbag in the corner that could well do with subsidizing.
Struggling between study and a social life this Easter break? Aileen O'Leary tells us how to do both. It’s the plight of college students these days: we get a few weeks off college and we have to decide if we want to use those weeks to study or socialize. Fortunately, there is a way to do both. Spending weeks with your head in the books is going to have you worn out before exam season even starts, while trying to manage a part time job and an active social life on top of that is even more pressure. But how can we do both? It requires a lot of time management, motivation and a bit of discipline. It isn’t impossible though. With semester two now coming to a close, this is a time for study. However, it is also a time to recover, rest and relax and to be a bit selfish with your time too. Like a lot of students, I am holding down a part time job during college. Being home, I did take on extra shifts at work but I found my own balance between work, play and study. If you can, maybe take the early shift; for me, that means opting to cover the breakfast shift at work, which does require an early start but it means I have time in the afternoon to study or meet up with friends or get some exercise in. To make the most of this downtime, you need to be realistic about what you want to get done; you can’t expect to cover an entire module in a day. If you are going to make plans, make sure you give yourself time to do so, don’t try to overload your schedule. Also, if you are struggling with revising and working, talk to your boss, mention your exams and maybe cut down your shifts to four or five days a week instead. If you are going away this Easter, whether it’s with family or friends, enjoy the escape. Don’t miss out on valuable bonding time by bringing books with you and attempting to study while everyone else is having a good time! Even I am planning a mini escape; I managed to get myself a ticket to Ed Sheeran’s sold out gig in the 3 Arena this Thursday. I’m heading up to Dublin with some of my best friends and to be honest, I can’t wait to just have a break from studying and working. My wardrobe has consisted of black clothing, nametags and sweats for the last two weeks, so any excuse to dress up somewhat is more than welcome. When we come home from the chaos that is college, we forget how much home is where the heart is. Being back in the comforts of decent wifi, food, hot showers and free washing can deter the motivation to study but power through, just think of how relieved you’ll feel once that final exam ends. Use this time wisely, catch up with people you haven’t seen in a while, spend some time with your family. Still, the most important thing is to use this time to your advantage. If you aren’t really grasping a topic, now is the time to do research, looks at past papers, look at the articles and help yourself ace those exams. Some useful advice though: do not leave all your studying to the last minute! The added stress will leave you cranky, tired and in a bad mood throughout the exams which is something nobody wants to see. Take time out but don’t avoid studying all together. The best thing you can do is make a plan. Prioritise your plan based on the order of your exams and if you’ve got a break in between you can use it as study time as well. You don’t have to cover everything in the course but try to be well-prepared for the exams. And don’t forget to eat some chocolate Easter Eggs as a reward for all of your hard work!
Tasmanian based bus operator Tassielink Transit, recently celebrated delivery of their new Custom buses and the opening of the environmentally friendly depot at Derwent Park in southern Tasmania. The depot was opened by Minister for Sustainable Transport, Nick McKim with the Custom CB80 bus serving as a backdrop to the celebrations. Mr McKim praised Tassielink and owner John Usher for the multi-million dollar investment in transport and infrastructure. “The depot and buses not only represents a significant investment by a company intent on providing high quality passenger transport services, it is also a demonstration of Tassielink’s commitment to a sustainable Tasmania,” stated Mr McKim. Tassielink General Manager, Shane Dewsbery (better known as Bubbles) said “by any standard the investment of $3.2 million in a new depot was significant. And these new Custom vehicles are in addition to the eight buses Tassielink has purchased over the past four years, worth an estimated $3.5 million”. “Tassielink has a great relationship with Custom based on friendship and quality products. The Custom CB80 is a high quality, first of its kind with a spare wheel, luggage compartments and a driver friendly bus to drive” concluded Bubbles. Custom Sales Director, Steve Jackson with National Sales Manager, Geoff Ross were both there for the opening celebrations. During the celebrations Geoff presented a plaque to John, acknowledging the partnership and friendship between Tassielink and Custom. The stronger, long lasting, light weight CB80 is a perfect fit for its environmentally friendly surrounding.
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I typically take a little business trip to the Tampa/St. Petersburg FL area in December and did so last week. After years of hearing about how interesting baseball’s Winter Meetings are, this year I found myself within reasonable driving distance of those Meetings when they officially opened up. That being the case, I decided I would check the situation out for myself. I had heard about all the players, agents, front office staff and media folks rubbing elbows and making deals in the hotel lobbies and bars at these Meetings. That sounded very interesting. It also sounded very unbelievable, to me. I’ve been to more “national conferences” in my life than I care to remember, much less count, and if there’s one thing I’ve learned by attending all those conferences it’s that absolutely nothing noteworthy gets done in the lobbies and bars (well, nothing noteworthy that pertains to the business at hand, anyway). So, it was hard for me to imagine that anything noteworthy would be going on in the public areas of the Swan & Dolphin Resort on Disney’s Boardwalk either. But I drove up anyway, just in case I was wrong. I wasn’t wrong. I had an enjoyable enough evening. I had a meeting. In fact, you could say I had a couple of “meetings,” but only if you stretched the definition of “meeting” to include having a beverage with some of the Kernels’ staff after their Affiliates Dinner with the Twins. Though, honestly, that’s a meeting I could have had at the Stadium Lounge in Cedar Rapids just as easily. But the people-watching at the Stadium Lounge wouldn’t be nearly as entertaining as at the Dolphin’s lobby. It was absolutely packed with, from what I could gather, hundreds of 20-somethings in suits who I believe were trying their damnedest to find work in the baseball industry somewhere. The competition for whatever jobs are available must be intense. I couldn’t help but feel they might have a better chance of standing out and eventually landing a gig if they’d simply start a blog. Or maybe not. Anyway, upon my return to the great white north, it occurred to me that, after a similar business trip to Florida a year ago, I posted some thoughts I had concerning the way the Twins’ 2012-13 offseason was shaping up at the time. If that was a good time for mid-offseason reflection a year ago, it probably is now, as well. A year ago, I wasn’t feeling terribly impressed with the roster reconstruction work Twins General Manager Terry Ryan was doing. While he had added some future pitching, in return for his top two Major League centerfielders, the only additions to his 2013 rotation he’d acquired had been Vance Worley and Kevin Correia. My take on Correia wasn’t really negative (I wrote, “he could well be better than most of the in-house options the team has,” and added that, “My problem at this point isn’t with signing Correia, it’s with NOT signing other… better… pitchers.”). I think, even with the benefit of 20-20 hindsight, I’d stand by that opinion now. Last year’s top starting pitching free agent, Zack Greinke, had signed by this time, as had Anibal Sanchez, Ryan Dempster and others of that ilk, pretty much establishing what the market rates were for starting pitching. This season, the market has been slower to set as pitchers such as Matt Garza wait for the Masahiro Tanaka drama to play out. But, unlike a year ago, Ryan has already made a legitimate effort to improve his team. Ricky Nolasco and Phil Hughes aren’t aces, but they are starting pitchers who have been good at times in their careers and there are reasonable cases to be made that they have upsides that could make them valuable additions to the Twins rotation. There were various reports linking both pitchers to multiple teams, but Ryan was aggressive and got them on board before the Winter Meetings. The re-signing of Mike Pelfrey has widely been panned by fans, but I’m OK with it. I feel much the way I did about the Correia signing a year ago. The Twins probably overpaid with a two-year deal, but I think he could be better than almost every other in-house option. And since, unlike Correia a year ago, Pelfrey is not the best free agent pitcher signed by the Twins, I’ll give Ryan the benefit of the doubt. If the Twins saw something in Pelfrey toward the end of 2013 that makes them believe he’ll be better in 2014, I’ll trust their judgment for now. I suspect that we’ll be seeing the Twins trade Sam Deduno, however. He, along with Worley and lefty Scott Diamond, are out of options, so the Twins are likely going to have to part with at least one of them. Deduno, it seems to me, is the only one of the group with any trade value at all right now. That would leave Diamond and Worley left to fight for the final rotation spot, with the loser perhaps getting the long-relief role in the bullpen to start the season. I won’t be surprised if Ryan makes another splash in the free agent market, however. It sounds like he’s continuing to at least stay in touch with the agents for Garza and Bronson Arroyo. I’m not sure that would change the dynamic significantly, though. I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see Correia traded if Garza or Arroyo is signed. It would be worth it, to me, if it’s Garza that’s added. I’d be less enthused with Arroyo because it almost feels like you’d just be adding another Correia, but paying more and committing for more years. What’s more important, to me, is that the Twins add some offense before camp opens. I’m just less optimistic that it will happen. There simply aren’t logical options, now that the offensive-minded veteran catchers are pretty much off the market. Joe Mauer and Brian Dozier are locked in on the right side of the Twins infield. Trevor Plouffe is going to hold down third base until Miguel Sano arrives. Josh Willingham has no trade value at this point, so he’s likely to be the primary left fielder. Oswaldo Arcia should open in right field unless the Twins think he needs more AAA time. Even if so, it’s unlikely any replacement would be a significant offensive improvement over Arcia. That really leaves just center field and shortstop as possible positions where an offensive upgrade would be feasible. The Twins have been linked to Stephen Drew and I think that idea has some merit. In center field, however, it’s hard for me to imagine any free agent signing with the Twins, knowing that the top prospect in all of baseball is due to arrive within a year or two, at most, to claim that position. In any event, as the folks at MLBTradeRumors.com point out, there simply aren’t many position players with impact potential still on the free agent market. Just five of the position players originally listed on MLBTR’s “Top 50 free agents” remain on the market. They are Drew, Shin-Soo Choo, Nelson Cruz, Kendrys Morales and Raul Ibanez. Unless the Twins make a run at Drew, it’s hard to imagine any of those guys wearing a Twins uniform in 2014. Maybe the Twins will catch lightning in a bottle and get a boost from one of their returning Jasons (Bartlett and Kubel), but I think the best shot at significant offensive improvement might be if Sano gets off to a hot start and earns a mid-year promotion. Likewise, while it would be unreasonable to expect, it’s fun to consider what could happen if Byron Buxton gets off to a start at AA similar to what he showed a year ago during his time in Cedar Rapids. Still, there’s a lot of conjecture going on about just how much improved the Twins could be if the roster stands more or less as it currently is constituted. I don’t think it’s post-season competitive yet, but I’m a lot more hopeful than I was a year ago. Was the Twins rotation so bad that the addition of Nolasco and Hughes could result in as many as 10 more wins for the Twins? I think so. It’s not that I think those two pitchers will be solely responsible for 10 additional wins, but I could see them accounting for, say, one additional win per month between them from April through August. If the Twins are healthy (read that as saying “if Mauer is healthy”) and not just going through the motions in September while providing cannon fodder for every team on their late-season schedule, I don’t think it’s outside the realm of possibility that they add a handful of wins to their 8-20 September record from 2013. I don’t think Terry Ryan is done making deals that he believes will improve the 2014 roster. Considering that and considering the pitching upgrades already made, I don’t think expecting an improvement of 10 games over 2013 is unrealistic. That’s not enough to get this team to “good,” but it would signal that things are once again moving in the right direction.
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In most races in which I participate, I would consider myself a runner, maybe even a competitor, but in some races, I would more accurately consider myself a student. In several respects, this weekend's run would most certainly fall under the latter. I tried my best to DNF. I really did. The race itself was described by it's designer thusly: "gas giant runs lack the tight organization of a fat-ass event. no awards, no aid, no wimps. lots of fun. (sic)" Whereas this might sound like an odd race description, maybe even a cop-out for the "RD," he is no novice to creating keynote events. Gary Cantrell, also known as Lazarus Lake, is the race director for the fabled Barkley Marathons and Last Annual Vol State 500k, and is a frequent source of sometimes painfully straightforward, yet always insightful and intelligent opinions on the Ultralist. That being the case, when the announcement for this race came, along with the offer for free pre-race lodging at the Cantrell house, my wheels immediately began turning. While deciding whether or not to run the Gas Giant, I informed Eric Gilbertson, a friend here in Auburn, of the event, to see if he was interested in a somewhat unique race experience (and heck, if he didn't want to pound the pavement, he could always crew...), and he opted to take on the race, which was intriguing to me, because the farther he goes, the better he seems to get. The day before the race, Eric and I loaded up in my truck and headed northward into Tennessee. Once at Cantrell Manor, we were greeted by Gary/Laz himself, along with his wife and daughter, and the notorious Big Dog, of Ultralist fame (although, truth be told, I spent much more time petting Little Dog than Big). Also staying at Cantrell Manor were Dave Combs, administrator of the Ultralist, trying to complete his first ultra-distance event in several years, Jo DuBose, crewing for Gary and Dave, and John Price, training for his upcoming double Vol State this summer and trans-continental run next winter. Needless to say, we were in fairly illustrious company. After chatting it up into the wee hours of the morning, reveille came at 5:45 or so Saturday, and everyone was scrambling to get ready to make the hour drive to the start, but not before we all got a chance to pet Big in the daylight, and rest assured, he lives up to his name; as Gary pointed out several times throughout the weekend, I'm fairly confident that my head would fit into Big's mouth, should he feel so inclined. Once we got on the road, and after following Gary and Jo through the backroads of Tennessee for an hour or so, we arrived at Columbia square, where we met a couple other runners, Mike Langille and Zane Smith, and shortly thereafter, we were off... From the start, Eric and I were out front, and as we made our way out of Columbia, the sparsity that would develop over the course of miles became apparent. The first few miles went largely without incident, although in retrospect we clearly went out at a blistering pace, as we hit the first convenience store in Santa Fe (pronounced Santa Fee, as we were instructed so as not to sound ignorant) in right around 90 minutes for almost exactly 10 miles. Oh well, we were just running comfortably, and it might have even worked to our benefit to get some relatively quick miles behind us before the heat of the day set in. After grabbing a bottle of gatorade and a payday bar at one gas station and heading to another to... well... take care of a little obligatory bowel business, Zane caught up and bought a bag of ice with which to fill out his water bottles, and he kindly let Eric and me do the same with our camelbacks. The added ice was glorious once we had bid Zane adieu and made our way back out of Santa Fe and onto the highway in the blazing sun. At this point, the day was really beginning to warm up, and I was starting to fall off the pace. Eric was kind enough to hold back with me for the next several miles to the Fly convenience store, which served as our next aid station. Again, we went inside to grab some fluids and talk with the proprietor for a few minutes while we cooled down a bit. He informed us that the next store was five miles down the road, followed by an eight mile traverse to the Highway 100 crossing, which had several gas stations for re-supply (the Hwy 100 crossing also served as the finish line for the 30-mile division of the race). All too soon, we thanked him and were off. Again, I was very much slowing down, and Eric waited with me for a while, even walking up one of the steeper hills with me, before settling into his own rhythm and putting an easy 200 or 300 yards on me by the next store, which I was oh-so grateful to see. This stop was one of the more amusing ones of the run. As I walked up the gravel lot to the store, I saw Eric sitting on a bench, half out of the sun, amidst a decently sized biker gang. Fortunately, as I soon found out, they were all utterly intrigued with the two of us. I got the usual bottle of gatorade and ate some Shot Blocks while sitting down to cool off in the shade. Before leaving this particular store, Eric bought a bag of ice, and we each bought two bottles of water to refill the camelbacks, and left the remainder of the ice for any of the other runners who might stop by later (namely we were thinking of Zane and John Price, who started without crews, as we had). The cashier was even kind enough to let us put the ice back in the freezer and let any future runners know it was there; she was as curious about us as the bikers... Yet again, we set out for the next long gap to a store, and yet again, Eric was clearly feeling much stronger than me, and before long, he was out of sight, cruising along just like any old day at the office. I, on the other hand, was beginning to struggle. Trying to keep running up the hills that never seemed to end (one was literally 6 miles long), I burned through my water supply relatively quickly. Before too long, I was reduced to walking up all the hills, as ultrarunners of often wont to do. On a brighter note, I think this was the point on the course where we got our one bit of shade for the day (but it might have been the previous traverse, I'm not entirely sure). All along TN Hwy 7, we were utterly exposed to the scorching sun, but somewhere along here, we passed underneath an overpass of the Natchez Trace, so we got 30 feet of relief from the sun. Awesome. Believe it or not, that 30 feet went by relatively quickly, and we were back out in the sun. Baffling, I know... At the top of one of the last hills (the actual top, not a false summit like we had seen all day...), I had been reduced to trudging along, and found that even running flats and down hills was becoming rather difficult. I think I was focusing on the running as a way to keep myself from noticing the slighly lightheaded feeling I was beginning to develop. Fortunately, right around this time, Mike Langille and crew arrived. Mike had dropped after passing out and he along with his crew were driving ahead to check on the rest of the runners. In any case, they pulled over a little ways ahead of me, and I walked over to the car. This is where I made my critical mistake: I sat down on the bumper of the car. Almost as soon as I had taken a load off, my head was utterly swimming, and I couldn't stand up straight, not that this particularly mattered, because within a few seconds I was doubled over on the side of the road, regurgitating around a liter and a half of pure water through painful heaves. This is what prompted me to drop. 28 miles: DNF (or so I thought...) Mike and his crew (aka, my guardian angels of the day), drove me the two miles to the next gas station, where Eric was awaiting my arrival. I went inside to tell him that I had dropped (had to lay down for a minute while telling him, because I couldn't stand up for the 5 minutes it took to let him know what was going on without getting lightheaded and nauseous...). Eric pressed on like a trooper, and Mike, crew, and I started back toward Columbia, 30 miles away, to drop me off at my truck so I could try to come crew Eric for the last few miles. Along the way, we stopped to check on all the runners, and in telling Gary and Dave that I was dropping, I was utterly convinced that I had made the right decision, because I noticed something that has never happened to me before: for a few minutes, I was unable to make my eyes focus on the same thing... weird... Once they dropped me off at my truck, I thanked them and spent a few minutes making sure I was in a condition to safely drive. I had had almost an hour in a car with air conditioning on full blast to cool me off, and I was back to feeling better (and able to see straight...), but I still walked around the Columbia square for a few minutes just to make sure. Reassured of my capacity for at least marginal lucidity, I hopped into my truck and drove the 40 miles back to Dickson, where I caught up with Eric making his way through a very highly trafficked part of town, just a couple miles and one turn away from his finish. After checking to make sure he didn't need anything, I drove on to the intersection of College St. and Main St. to try and decipher the finish line riddle posed by Laz. Soon enough, Eric trotted the final stretch to the finish and "touched Fayetteville," as the riddle had instructed (which, by the way, was not quite as straightforward as I had initially assumed... the faded mural map was, shall we say, not quite what I had thought it would be, but given my slightly-more-than-nothing knowledge of Tennessee geography, we figured it out and made sure to have photographic evidence...) Eric and I waited a few minutes, grabbed some less-nasty clothing (I had yet to change out of any of my running stuff), and within 45 minutes or so, Zane Smith came strolling into town, much to the delight of his crew comprised of his wife and two kids. We all stood around and chatted for a while before Zane and family headed back home, and Eric and I headed to Wendy's to get the first bits of "real" food since starting that morning (fries and frosties count as real food, right...?) Thus concludes the "race" part of the story. Thus begins the real part of the story. Temporarily sated, we piled back in the truck to head back down the road to find the other runners. John Price looked to be in alright shape, so we pressed on to find Dave and Gary as they hammered down the road. I'm not entirely sure where we found them, but it was somewhere between the last store I to which I survived (biker gang store), and the one before that (Fly convenience store). When I spotted them strolling down the highway, I pulled off the road around 300 yards ahead of them, flipped on the flashers, got out and headed toward them to see if either needed anything. They both appeared to be in decent shape, although I did notice that as soon as I turned my back on them, one or the other would bend down, hands on his knees in apparent discomfort/pain. After walking with them for a ways, I jogged back to the truck to leap frog them, park, and repeat the process. One or two iterations into the procedure, I met up with Jo DuBose again, crewing for them, to get a feel for how they had been doing. While talking with Jo, the two race horses (Gary and Dave) arrived and stopped for a sit. At this point, their "aid station" antics were on display, as they both took care of whatever needed some care and talked themselves into another mile or so (I know this procedure well, but seeing others do it was simply somewhat gratifying). During this stop, we also realized that we needed to go pick up John Price, who had called it a day at the 30-mile finish line and needed a ride back to Columbia. That being the case, Eric decided to walk a little ways with Dave and Gary while I drove to pick up John, drive him back to Columbia, and come back to find the two remaining stallions. By the time I got back, Eric was beginning to get a wee bit tired (I can't figure out why... it's not like he did anything earlier in the day...), so I started walking with Gary and Dave while he would follow Jo in the truck and get little naps between aid stops. At this point it was thoroughly dark (maybe 10pm?), so I can only imagine what any passers by thought when they saw us meandering down the road. Several times Gary made the statement that it was only a matter of time before the law showed up. By now, the apparent modus opperandi was to have Jo meet us every mile, but with the marathon mark approaching, she skipped the 26-mile mark to go to the first convenient spot after the marathon point. This convenient spot happened to be at the top of a pretty long, steep hill. As hard as it is to imagine, Gary and Dave were not thrilled to be trudging up the hill at this point, and I learned a few explitive combinations heretofore unknown to me. Things like ***- ; yep, that's right *-**. In any case, we eventually made it up the hill to find that Jo had parked around the 26.3 mile mark, technically giving Gary his 35th consecutive year with an ultra-distance event and Dave his first in a while. But this apparently wasn't good enough for Laz. Talking it over, they decided to press on to 27.3, and though I'm sure he's glad they kept going now, at the time, Dave was pissed. Gary got up and started meandering back along the highway while Dave talked himself into doing the same. When Dave and I got back out on the road, I beheld a scene that could very well be the stuff of nightmares and horror films for ultrarunners, especially Barkley veterans: as we first got on the road, maybe 50 or 100 yards behind, a car came toward us, creating the incredibly eerie scene of a hulking Lazarus Lake walking down the road in a slight fog and in what had developed by this point into an almost Frankenstein-esque gait, bent on getting to his final destination. I wish I had a camera at the time, but the image might be too much for some readers, so I couldn't have posted it up in good conscience, anyway. Dave was moving pretty well, so in a few minutes we had caught up with Gary, and sticking to my plan of hanging with whoever was in the back, I struck up more conversation with the ever-intriguing Gary Cantrell. If you have never had the opportunity to meet Mr. Laz, you are truly missing out, for several reasons that you'll just have to meet him to find out. So it's been a year and a half since I began composing this report. The memories of the event that was the Gas Giant V are still kept in a fond place within my mind. Whereas the details might not be to the level recorded in the previously written section, I figured that it would be worth bringing closure to such a story. Over the next several miles, Dave put on a Herculean surge, gapping Gary and myself by quite a bit. Cantrell and I continued our relentless trek toward the intersection that marked the finish line for the two true Gas Giants of the race. Sometime around 1am, Lazarus Lake finished the run that would keep a 35 year streak alive. We sat around on a traffic island on the outskirts of Dixon at 0100 for a while, Gary rewarding himself with a cigarette and joining the rest of us telling lies and war stories from runs gone by. True to form, before long a member of the local gendarmerie stopped by to see what a bunch of ragged, noisy, aromatic people were doing at such an odd place at such an odd time of night. After we informed him of our day's events, he somewhat warily let us be... All too soon, we began to feel the time, and opting not to drive all the way back to Cantrell Manor, we looked around for a hotel, and after being turned away at one (I can't say I blame them... I might have turned us away, too...), we were rented a couple rooms for the night at a little motel that had been downgraded from a Knight's Inn (that's right...). The next day we went our separate ways, Eric and I back to Auburn, Gary back home, Dave back to CA, and the rest back to their respective homes. I must say that this was one of the more unique events in which I've been lucky enough to participate. Long distance journey runs on the road are such an intriguing concept.... it may or may not have played a part in an event that would come to bear a year or so later...
Russian state-funded television outlet Russia Today (RT) announced earlier today that it has received a notice from Britain’s NatWest bank that its bank accounts are going to be closed. The notice did not provide an explanation, but did say that the decision was not subject to any review. RT accused the British government of being behind this, though the British Treasury Department has insisted that they had no role in the decision. That NatWest is owned by the Royal Bank of Scotland, itself overwhelmingly state-owned, makes it difficult to argue this was a decision totally independent of the British government. RT reported that a number of Russians have been having their accounts suspended by the “compliance offices” of British banks without any explanation recently, with the implication being that the recent Western tensions with Russia are fueling such moves. Several Western officials have been harshly critical of RT, accusing it of being a “propaganda network.” During tensions between Russia and Western countries, officials often call for moves against RT as a way to retaliate against the Russian government for perceived slights. Last 5 posts by Jason Ditz - Trump: Afghan War Decisions Made - August 19th, 2017 - UN Aid Chief Slams Saudis for Blocking Yemen Aid - August 18th, 2017 - Top US General: Attack on Japan Same as an Attack on US - August 18th, 2017 - Saudi Arabia Courts Iraq Alliance, Offering Reconstruction Aid - August 18th, 2017 - Assad Advisor: Syrian War Effectively Over - August 18th, 2017
Baltimore's Mural Magic The many murals that blanket the urban landscape of Baltimore are another example of those things that make the city's neighborhoods so unique. On a day with a glorious blue sky as a backdrop, I checked out some of those murals in Baltimore's Marble Hill neighborhood. A drive along McCulloh Street and Druid Hill Avenue reveals some of the murals that tell the stories of neighborhoods like it across the city. Tony Todd, who lives in Druid Hill Heights, talks to me in this video (below) about the importance of murals that are painted on walls in neighborhoods like his. Here's one of the murals (below) that tells the story of the Pigtown neighborhood in Baltimore. If you see folks painting walls of buildings in the city, they may be doing it as a part of CityPaint 2010: Baltimore Mural Program. It's an initiative sponsored by Mayor Rawlings-Blake and the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts that has the goal of decorating Baltimore City with numerous murals this year. It is the latest of many efforts over the years to engage city residents in efforts to create murals in their neighborhoods. Do you remember the City of Baltimore Wall Painting Project from years gone by? Mural artists have been busy both creating new murals and touching-up some of those that are already on the sides of neighborhood buildings in Baltimore. With the input of people who live in the various neighborhoods in Baltimore, mural artists help to reclaim walls in that in recent time are often polluted by graffiti artists and taggers. With that in mind, the city is partnering with neighborhood groups, community organizations, artists and corporations for CityPaint 2010. CLICK HERE for a listing of murals created since 1987 in Baltimore CLICK HERE for a map of the many murals in Baltimore Sometimes old school business advertisements (like the one above in Marble Hill) act as murals in some neighborhoods. It was very interesting to spend the morning learning about both the the history and significance of the murals that I found around this neighborhood in West Baltimore. One of the most impressive murals I came upon is one that highlights famous African Americans in Baltimore. This photo (above) zooms in on the mural artist's depiction of one of Baltimore's greatest citizens. Many people say these murals play vital roles in the neighborhoods where they are located. "In general, I found that the mural brings the community up in so many ways," Angela Chen told the JHU Gazette a few years ago. Chen spent two summers in Baltimore on a Woodrow Wilson fellowship studying the impact of murals on neighborhoods in the city. "For example, financially, you see people reinvesting in renovation of their homes," Chen told reporter Greg Rienzi with the JHU Gazette. "I also looked into how people felt about the area where they are living, and that would rise after the creation of a mural." That says a lot about the power of artwork. If you are interested in volunteering in the creation of murals in neighborhoods in the city CLICK HERE. And if you see my car double parked along a city street, it's a good bet I'm out taking another photo of one of the many great murals that are a part of the landscape of Baltimore.
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FOXBOROUGH — It’s not as though this is entirely new territory for Devin McCourty. He played safety at Saint Joseph’s High School in New Jersey, then during his first two seasons at Rutgers. But his primary position in 2½ seasons with the Patriots has been cornerback. It’s where he starred as a rookie, earning a Pro Bowl selection. It’s where he has picked off 11 passes, his career total. It’s where he started his first 40 games with the team, playoffs included. McCourty has been somewhere other than cornerback the last two games, though. For a number of reasons, he has been playing safety, giving him a completely different view of the field and providing the Patriots with a vocal, versatile defensive captain capable of making plays at multiple spots. It’s an experiment that began late last season, in two games. It just might continue, starting with Sunday’s home game against Buffalo. McCourty is more than OK with it. “Whatever they tell me to play,” McCourty said, when asked before Wednesday’s practice which position he prefers. Most Patriots fans know that pass defense is a team weakness. The Patriots are 28th in the league against the pass, and no team has given up as many long pass plays. As a defensive back, McCourty has been out there all season, and has heard the catcalls about the vulnerable part of the defense. He has made the position switch primarily because of injuries to the two players many assumed would start the season at safety. Patrick Chung has missed the last two games because of a shoulder injury. Steve Gregory has been inactive the past four games because of a hip injury. With a pair of rookies next on the depth chart — second-round pick Tavon Wilson and sixth-round selection Nate Ebner — the decision was made two weeks ago to move McCourty. A human Band-Aid, if you will. “There are always going to be some moving parts — there are moving parts every week because unfortunately we’ve had, like every team does, guys go in and out for various reasons, so it’s not perfect,” coach Bill Belichick said. “Ideally, if you could keep everything exactly the same every week, that would be great. “Devin works hard. I would say he’s pretty good at everything. He’s a good tackler, he’s fast, he’s instinctive. He has a good feel for the game wherever you put him in terms of leverage, angles, decisions, that kind of thing. He’s smart. He has the mental flexibility to go back and forth between assignments.” There are differences, though. Cornerbacks mostly draw man-to-man coverage assignments against wide receivers, while safeties tend to play deeper and provide help in zone coverage schemes. McCourty can play both. He spelled an injured Chung last season, and is doing so again now. He likes the new look playing center field. “It’s cool, it’s different, you get used to seeing more of the field,” McCourty said. “As a corner, I think you see guys individually, even if you’re in zone coverage. At safety, you see the whole field, so you see all the guys, what they’re doing, how they’re moving. “I think you have more of a responsibility since you have that viewpoint, to let everyone else know. Because I know, when you’re playing corner, it’s not as easy to see the different things that you see on film when you’re on just that side of the field, so I try to communicate and let guys know if I see anything from film study, I’ll send that alert out.” At least statistically, McCourty’s better games this season have come when he has played cornerback. His lowest tackle totals (three) have come in the last two games, and both of his interceptions came when he was on the field at cornerback, against the Bills in a Week 4 win. How long McCourty stays at safety remains to be seen. He professes to not have a position preference, and the Patriots could get Gregory and Chung back soon. They also traded for cornerback Aqib Talib, who is serving the final game of a league-issued suspension this week. The secondary, hit by injury and ineffectiveness, could soon get some missing pieces back. Where McCourty fits when Talib arrives and Chung and Gregory return hasn’t been finalized. “Everything is week by week as far as that’s concerned,” said defensive coordinator Matt Patricia. “Whatever the role is that week, where they can help us the most, that’s what we’re going to try to do with that particular player.” “Dev’s a selfless guy, he’s a team player,” added Gregory, who has returned to practice and said he expects to play against the Bills. “He just wants us to win, and whatever they ask him to do, just like the rest of us, we’re willing to do.” McCourty was twice named to the academic All-Big East team while at Rutgers, and now he spends his work week preparing to play both positions in the defensive backfield. Education is key, but so is communication. “It’s really just knowing what we’re doing as a defense in the secondary,” said McCourty. “Especially if you know what you’re doing at safety, then you know what the corners are doing, so it’s not a bigger workload. Just knowing what you’re doing at safety, I think, prepares you to play corner as well. “I have a good knowledge, especially for our corners, of what they’re doing, so I think a little bit of that helps. I can say things and then can communicate with them, to let them know that I’m on the same page as them. It helps them out a lot.”Michael Whitmer can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org. Follow him on Twitter @GlobeWhitmer.
Sayers, the women’s soccer coach at East Tennessee State, recently returned from Brazil, where he spent almost two weeks and attended four World Cup games. Along the way, he met some prominent people in the Brazilian women’s game and soaked in the Brazilian soccer culture while watching the world’s best players on the world’s biggest stage. He saw his home country of England play twice, falling 2-1 to Italy and Uruguay, as well as games featuring Argentina and Bosnia, and Spain and Chile. “It was amazing,” Sayers said. “To get to observe some of the world’s best players first-hand was fantastic.” Although Sayers is a fan deep down, when he watches soccer played at the highest level, he can’t help but watch it through the eyes of a coach. The former Tusculum College star will enter his fourth season as ETSU’s coach this fall. “You’re always looking to pick things up you can utilize on our team at ETSU,” he said. “It might be something as simple as a set-play routine or a certain philosophy. I’m always looking for things like that when we get to observe it first-hand.” Being at the biggest soccer tournament in the world gave Sayers a chance to observe all kinds of styles of play, and he was taking notes, at least mental ones. “The world cup is so unique,” he said. “Teams come from all over the globe. You get so many clashes of styles, so many philosophies. It is a unique soccer environment. “We have a lot of international players on our team as well as domestic. They all come from different soccer backgrounds. We have to mix it together.” Brazil was even more soccer-crazy than Sayers thought, and he knew it was soccer-crazy when he headed there. “It’s a real soccer culture,” he said. “Everywhere you look, there’s young kids playing the game. It might be on a barren piece of grass or in a parking lot. There’s young kids everywhere with balls playing soccer. That is one of the reasons they have so many good players. You can see why they traditionally develop some of the world’s greatest players. “That’s why they’re so in love with the game.” Brazilians weren’t quite so much in love with the game on Tuesday. A stunning 7-1 loss to Germany in the semifinals left the host country embarrassed and deflated. “I doubt we’ll ever see anything like that again in a World Cup semifinal,” Sayers said. “You can see from the faces in the crowd and on some of the players how much it means to them. There’s an old saying that England is the home of football but its soul is in Brazil. They were absolutely humiliated.” Sayers is a native of Birmingham, England, so seeing his country go out in three games at the World Cup wasn’t exactly what he had hoped. “That was pretty disappointing,” he said. “For them to go out so early. On the flip side, the USA had a fantastic run. Obviously, I’m a big fan of the USA as well. It was great to see them qualify from a very difficult group with Portugal and Germany. To come so close against Belgium was a bit disappointing, but I think it was another step forward for soccer in this country. “Down in Brazil, we saw more Americans than anyone else. The support down there was huge. It was just a great experience. The overall experience was just fantastic.” Follow Joe Avento on Twitter. Like him on Facebook.
The New York State Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) and Governor’s Traffic Safety Committee (GTSC) has issued a warning to motorists about the dangers of taking selfies while driving. The warning comes in the wake of increasing social media activity and a report by the Auto Insurance Center that put New York State in the top ten states with drivers who post the highest number of driving selfies, with 1.29 posts per 100,000 residents. “Smartphones can provide nearly limitless entertainment, but activities like taking selfies while driving are just irresponsible,” said Terri Egan, DMV executive deputy commissioner and GTSC acting chair. “A quick search of social media or local news reports across the country show that taking selfies and even live streaming are things motorists actually do behind the wheel, with some doing so on a repeat basis. Whether it’s answering a short text, making a quick phone call, taking a photo, or catching Pokémon, it’s never a good idea to be distracted while driving. Keep your eyes on the road and put the phone down – it can wait!” As part of the report, the Auto Insurance Center recently reviewed 70,000 Instagram posts with driving-related hashtags to determine where selfie-taking drivers took their photos and when they posted them. Despite proactively combating texting and cell phone use while driving since cellphones rose to popularity, New York State ranked eighth among states where drivers are posting the most driving selfies. New York is among one of only 14 states (plus Washington, D.C.) to prohibit all drivers from using handheld cell phones while driving, according to research by the Auto Insurance Center. The group adds that nearly four in ten drivers who use smartphones are checking social media apps while driving. While texting and talking on the phone while driving are dangerous, there is evidence to suggest that taking photos is even more dangerous, especially when the photo includes the driver. AAA reports that a driver’s eyes may leave the road for at least two seconds to snap a selfie, during which time a car can travel 176 feet, or nearly the length or two basketball courts, at 60 miles per hour. Recording a video can distract drivers for much longer, compounding the dangers of driving while distracted. With new technologies like Facebook Live, Periscope, and other live streaming apps, users – including motorists behind the wheel – are finding new ways to drive while looking into a smartphone, which puts themselves, other motorists, and pedestrians in danger. Governor Cuomo has made combating texting-while-driving a high priority. In 2011, he directed DMV to implement regulations increasing the number of points for a texting-while-driving infraction from two points to three points, and from three points to five points in 2015. The Governor also signed a law substantially increasing penalties for probationary and junior drivers convicted of texting-while-driving. Under the law, probationary and junior drivers could face a 120-day suspension for a first offense, and can lose their license for one year if a second offense is committed within six months. Motorists caught texting and driving face up to a $250 fine for a first offense and five points on their license.
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Tomorrow the email will come from my other server..Please let me know if you don't get the email on Wendesday the 9th. There are many positive and beneficial things that we know we should do, but we may feel that continuing to do them will be too difficult. "How can I keep being this way all the time?" we ask ourselves. Telling ourselves, "Just once," can help us start. After we do something positive once, we begin to build up momentum; it becomes easier than we had assumed to keep doing the positive action more frequently. Doing a worthwhile action "just once" doesn't seem so daunting. The next time it comes up, say you'll do it "just once" again. Even if it truly is difficult, since we only have to motivate ourselves "just once," right now, we can build up our level of inspiration and motivation. Think of something that you would want to do but also consider difficult to repeat. At the next opportunity, start by taking action "just once." If you're having difficulty thinking of something to do "just once," keep thinking until you find an area to apply the power of "Just once." Love Yehuda Lave ISRAEL: Tel Aviv and it's skyscrapers are lit up for the Festival of Lights as it publicizes the miracle of Chanukah. A 51 year old Saudi man and his 6 year old wife…does anyone see anything wrong with this? Speaking of something Goofy here is a divorce lawyers office. The 51 year old above will probably use their services John Lennon and Yoko Ono interview on the Cavett Show John Lennon - Imagine (Live '72) John Lennon - Imagine (Live) John Lennon - Imagine HD Eagles Hotel California Ringo Cries over John Lennon's Death ENGLISH IS AMAZING! Amazing word lesson This is the best, most Interesting English lesson I have had to date. Did you know "listen" and "silent" use the same letters? Do you know that the word "racecar" spelled backwards still spells "racecar"? And that "eat" is the only word that if you take the first letter and move it to the last, it spells its past tense "ate"? Have you noticed that if you rearrange the letters in "illegal immigrants," and add just a few more letters, it spells: "Go home you free-loading, benefit- grabbing, resource-sucking, non-English-speaking assholes and take those other hairy-faced, sandal-wearing, bomb-making, camel-riding, goat-shagging, raggedy-ass bastards with you." How weird is that? TORAH FROM KING DAVID'S TOMB MT. ZION, JERUSALEM, ISRAELWeekly Drasha from Rabbi Dr. Mordechai Goldstein, shilta "Rebbe of Ba'al Tshuvas" Rosh Ha'Yeshiva of Diaspora Yeshiva, SPREADING TORAH FROM ZION since 1967 In last week's Torah Portion Vayishlach, we learned that there is a morality of dignity and majesty, of power and capability. At the climax of the battling brothers (Jacob/Yisrael and Esau/Edom), Jacob displayed his greatness both spiritually and physically--he was able to defeat an "evil" angel and defuse the anger of a brother/ a foe. Yisrael made peace and settled in the Land of Our inheritance, Eretz Yisrael. More importantly, we learn from Jacob and his family basic human rights, especially to defend whatever GD gave them, and to defy the opposition, if the opposition is wrong and immoral. Specifically, we learn an important lesson of cleaving to the moral values distinguishing the Jewish Nation from whom we dwell amongst. Like Jacob we must defend ourselves from the effects that foreign cultures have on us. We have the responsibility to be on guard against both the physical and spiritual dangers posed to us by our "friends." In this week's Torah portion Vayeshev, the focus shifts from Jacob to his favored son, Joseph, the son of his "old age." In Joseph, Jacob saw a continuation of himself as well as aspects of all the other tribes. We learn "like father, like son." How? If we compare their lives there are many similarities--they were born circumcised; both mothers were barren and were born thanks to a miracle; their brothers hated them; both through Divine protection in miraculous ways went from pauper to "prince;" both were intimately connected to and protected by the Divine Presence; —the Shechina dwelled with them in a depraved country; which explains how they got married after leaving Eretz Yisrael and had sons that became the founders of the Jewish Nation. More importantly, Jacob loved Joseph because of his Torah-knowledge and his aptitude for greatness. However, this extra love from Jacob displayed with a gift of a multicolored jacket caused a chain of events that lead to dissension and estrangement among brothers. The climax of this episode being the "many" brothers throwing "lone" Joseph into a pit; then selling him as a slave; dipping his precious jacket in goat's blood; and relating the "socalled death of Joseph" to their Father. What a major lesson we can learn from the brother's alienation of Joseph? We must appreciate one of the most precious gifts that Hashem has granted humans: the sense of unity that members of a family feel for each other— that expresses itself in love and devotion. We must refocus our attention on a basic virtue in Judaism and have an "attitude of gratitude." We must know that whoever proves to be an ingrate is punished. Indeed, the punishment here was that the gift of unity was taken away from the people who failed to appreciate it. By obsessing over the nonsensical—a multicolored jacket—the brothers overlooked and failed to appreciate the real happiness of dwelling together as 12 brothers. Had Joseph's brothers understood this, Jewish history would have taken on different dimensions, and our historical experience would be a different one. Thus, we must learn from our forefather's mistake and grow closer as a nation by cultivating brotherliness--love for each Jew no matter the circumstances. Also, being devoted to fulfilling our destiny as the Covenantal Community--a community that is a merger of many ideas, the synthesis of all the colors of the spectrum. Indeed, it is a combination of contradictory ideas rather than merely an assembly of individuals. Am Yisrael Chai! We live because of the experience of brotherliness on the part of the Jewish people throughout the world. As Chanukah approaches let's prepare by focusing our attention on the praises of King David and see "how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to dwell together." We must appreciate each other--no matter the levels of learning, observance, beliefs, or political ideas--simply because we are siblings in the Jewish Family. United by a common past and a common future. May we be the blessed generation to see the miracle A BDS protestor. Photo: Mohamed Ouda via Wikimedia Commons. Over the last year, we have researched and published many articles examining the boycott movement against Israel, and revealed a number of the financiers of this anti-Israel undertaking. Our articles have appeared in The New York Post, The Hill, The Jerusalem Post, The Jewish Press, The Algemeiner, and dozens of other newspapers worldwide. Together, the three of us have worked for Prime Ministers Olmert, Sharon, and Netanyahu, and multiple Israeli foreign ministers and several mayors of Israeli cities such as Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. All three of us realize, as do the vast majority of Jews and civilized people that the boycott against Israel is a very real danger. We heed the words of Prime Minister Netanyahu who echoed the entire Israeli Zionist political spectrum when he said, "The boycott generators do not see the settlements in Judea and Samaria but the settlements in Tel Aviv, Jaffa, Beersheba, Haifa, and of course, Jerusalem, as the focus of the conflict." Netanyahu continued, " We must not cave into the pressure. [We must] expose the lies and attack the attackers. We shall unite forces in Israel and abroad, expose our enemy's lies, and fight for the Israeli citizen's right to live their lives peacefully and safely." We stand united with Israel in exposing the attackers. Numerous individual leaders within NIF support BDS personally, and numerous grantees of NIF work in the BDS movement as well. The NIF also funds attempts to demean the IDF and discourage young Israelis from serving in the armed forces through such NGOs as Breaking the Silence, B'Tselem, and others. It funds media bias intended to isolate Israel through the likes of +972 Magazine. NIF grantee Hamoked is an NGO that funds lawsuits supporting the families of terrorists. The Sheikh Jarrah Solidarity Movement and others work toward attempts to disobey Israeli judicial bodies including the Israel Supreme Court. The list goes on and on. The New Israel Fund harms Israel. This is why we expose the funders who help foster the boycott. It is remarkable how successful the NIF has been at infiltrating the American Jewish community: Alisa Doctoroff, President of UJA-Federation is a major donor and supporter of NIF, as is Rabbi Aaron Panken, President of Hebrew Union College the largest training school in the world for Reform Judaism. He is on the NIF International Council. They are joined on the International Council by Avraham Burg, former deputy speaker of the Knesset, who recently declared in Yediot Aharonot that "Zionism is over." In September 2003, he wrote in The Guardian that "Israel, having ceased to care about the children of the Palestinians, should not be surprised when they come washed in hatred and blow themselves up in the centers of Israeli escapism." Also joining them on the International council is Kathleen Peratis, a lawyer who supports BDS andwrote an op-ed declaring, "If you want two states, support BDS." She described BDS as a "non-violent tool," and wrote, "[N]ot buying Sodastream or Gush Etzion wine is a start." Peratis has met with Hamas members, and brags about it. Are these people with whom the Presidents of UJA and Hebrew Union College should sit in positions of leadership with? Among donors to the NIF are the Jim Joseph Foundation, the Jewish Communal Fund, The the Lopatin Foundation, the Leichtag Foundation, and others. They also donate millions to "respectable" Jewish causes, but that does not make their funding of the boycott acceptable. There are synagogues who donate to The New Israel Fund, including Temple Beth El of Santa Cruz, CA; Tzedakah Hevra at Congregation Beth El in Sudbury, MA; Congregation Emanu-El B'ne Jeshurun in Wisconsin; Kehila Chadasha of Bethesda, MD; Rodeph Shalom in Philadelphia; Temple Beth Avodah of Newton Center, MA; Temple Shalom of Newton, MA; Congregation Emanu-El in San Francisco; and Temple Israel Center in White Plains, NY. This disease, this sickness called self-hatred is widespread; perhaps it is to be expected in an American Jewish community where assimilation is nearly 70%. In Israel, there is consensus among the Left and Right that boycotting is absolutely unacceptable, and the recent move by the EU to label products from post 1967 regions reaffirms how devastating it is. Birthright Israel, perhaps the most successful American Jewish organization of this generation will no longer work with NIF, and the ruling Likud Party calls NIF "anti-Zionist." Even with a sense of disgust, we must continue with this vital mission. American Jews their institutions and leaders are funding a boycott that harms the Jewish state; they must be held accountable. Those who stand with the New Israel Fund are standing against Israel. To suggest otherwise is as much a lie as the NIF's claims that it opposes boycotts. We urge anyone affiliated with it to stop supporting this organization. The New Israel Fund is neither a friend nor supporter of Israel, and the Jewish community must oppose it. George Birnbaum is an international political consultant, who formerly served as chief of staff for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Hank Sheinkopf, CEO of Sheinkopf Communications, is a leading political strategist who has worked on campaigns in four continents. His clients have included former president Bill Clinton. Ronn Torossian is a New York-based Public Relations executive and author of For Immediate Release.
If you like Jazz music then the Taft Museum is the one of best place to be on Sundays afternoons in September and October with 3 free Jazz venues with some great local jazz artists. The first concert will be held on September 12 at 2:00pm with Faux Frenchman. This band of consists of Acoustic guitarist Brian Lovely and George Cunningham, violinist Paul Patterson and Bass player Don Aren. This band that regularly performs at Allyn Cafe in Columbia Tusculum, and Stillwell’s in Clifton. This band that has been around since 2002 and has released 2 CD’s Faux Frenchman(2007) and Oblivion(2008). The Band is self described a Hot club driven gypsy jazz that mixes American and European jazz styles. The second concert in the series will be held on September 26 at 2:00pm with the Liz Wu Jazz Trio. This band consists of Liz Wu vocalist who plays the vibraphone and various percussion instruments. Liz Wu is graduated of CCM 2002. Locally she has performed at World Music Fest as well as the Blue Wisp Jazz club. The band also consists of Guistarist Sasha Strunjaz, and flutist Sandy Suskind. There style includes Jazz, Latin Jazz, World beat, Salsa, Rock, Blues, and Reggae sounds. Definitely, a band to checkout. The series will round up with a local jazz circuit favorite of Saba Jazz On October 3 at 2:00pm. The band consists of Vocalist Camille Smith, and Bass player Aaron Jacobs, Drummer John Zappa, and Pianist Philip Burkhead. The band promises to enchant you with there unique sound. More information on these events as well as other events at the Taft Museum can be obtained at there website: http://www.taftmuseum.org
LTO 7 drive with LTO 7 7 tape, local disk backup 303 MBS LTO 7 drive LTO6 tape Local disk backup 153MBS LTO 4 driveLTO4 tape local or remote server 53MBS LTO 7 drive/Tape 6 0r 7 remote server backup 56 mbs I believe this is because it uses the one gig nic and not the ten. Each Veeam server or backup repository has 3 NICs, LAN- 1gig, SAN 10gig, NAS- 10 gig. Backups use the 10's but tape I think uses the 1 gig by looking at the numbers. For me I just always use a local disk to hold the tape job on the tape server for a few reasons. 1) Backup jobs use SAN snapshots which then run faster than a copyfromjob job. 2)I want 3 days (now going to thirty) days of backups going to tape daily. I copy the folder that holds the whole 30 day set. 3)Some jobs use the remote snapmirror for source. 4) tape job doesn't lock the source backup. Which makes a tape job retry doable in the middle of the day while only affecting the Veeam tape server and no other traffic. 5) tape backup data is not dependent on another jobs data so if a CBT error maybe be ok. 6) Some VMs I want to send the 4 backups (every 6 hours) to tape daily. I still need to pull some old server and redo some jobs.I will try and get the 10 gig when going to tape. Might just stick something in two servers host files with the 10 gig nic IP to see if it is a quick fix. Can't find a prefer NIC for tape jobs
- Article Type: General - Product: Aleph - Product Version: 18.01 I have been checking several of our libraries using ILL and find that the supplier defined as level 99 is not being added automatically to potential supplier lists. This supplier is set up as a 99 level supplier in ANYMEDIA for all our libraries that are direct borrowers. This partner is defined as type 'ITEMLESS'. We find that changing this to 'UNITLESS' resolved the problem. The partner is now being added to the rota as expected. - Article last edited: 10/8/2013
Do you ever feel like you are walking on eggshells around your partner? You just can’t seem to find the words that won’t trigger a negative response from him. If anything goes wrong you bite your tongue and let him find out for himself so maybe, just maybe he won’t be able to find a way to blame you. He never listens to you anyway, if you try to explain something he can’t hear you over his own voice. If he can’t immediately find a way to make it your fault he just talks louder to drown you out. If you attempt to speak over him he will accuse you of yelling at him. Aha! Now you are to blame for overreacting. Nicely played wasn’t it? Have you ever let your children go without something they wanted just to keep him from making life a living nightmare? Have you ever… View original post 625 more words
If you never dreamt of owning a Pokédex you’re dead to me. The rest of you can get excited about this upcoming 3DS eShop title. Pokédex 3D is what the application is going to be called and it will let you view Pokémon in full 3D. That means polygons and uh.. 3D! You will start off with only 16 lovable creatures to adore with up to 3 new ones available every day via Spotpass. The best thing about it? It’s free! Can you believe that? I can’t. This is all a dream.
India happened to be the second country in the world to play Golf, preceding the United Kingdom. The British gifted India both Cricket and Golf. The sport of Golf grew amidst the lush green farms, the soothing landscape and the fervor for the game make many a men move. Golf Courses of India - At a Glance Most of the Golf courses that have been developed in India are surrounded by natural beauty; the only thing visible till the sight may reach is the green grass. The accompanying caddies, competition, the charm of the game and the challenge to be win for oneself make the trip a memorable one. Most of these golf clubs of India have the panache of the past. The caddies and the golf kit can be easily hired. The transportation and the food are an integral part of the itinerary. What better if the game is intertwined with sightseeing! The flavor of India cannot be experienced in a better manner. The current capital of the India besides boosting of the Delhi Golf Club, the host of the very first golf tournament at the Asian Games held in 1982 has several spots worth visiting and shopping in the old Delhi and the new Delhi area. The sight seeing has not been made mandatory for the golfing tourists at any of the stops. Peter Thompson revamped the Delhi Golf Club, on the Dr. zakir Hussain Marg, from where the golfing journey starts in 1977. Though the club existed since 1931 and comprised of verdant flora and deep bunkers. Today it is the busiest course for golfers amidst historical monuments like the Lal Bangla, made out of red sandstone. The Chandigarh Golf Club, located in Sector 6 of the city is a pleasure to be at. The sprawling 132 acres of land all surrounded with thick mango, jamun, eucalyptus and kikar orchards are refreshing for the body and soul both. The Shimla Golf Club, located at a distance of 23 kilometers from the British summer capital, at Naldhera is covered with soft grass. The Calcutta Golf Club at the Golf club road was established way back in 1829 in the city of joy Calcutta. The title of 'Royal' was bestowed on it when the Royal couple of King George V and Queen Mary visited Calcutta in 1911. The course comprises of variety of vegetation and water tanks. The Gymkhana Club Golf Course in Gindy, Chennai (Madras) was brought into being in 1886. The green are well kept and the other challenge besides that of the game id of the race horses who may bump into while on their workouts. This risk owes to the fact that the golf course lies inside the Gindy racecourse. The Gymkhana Club in Ootacamund (Ooty) is located at a whooping height of 7,600 feet. This picturesque course was designed by Ross Thompson is amidst the beautiful Eucalyptus, Oak and Fir grooves. The Golf Club in Bangalore, established in 1876, is a great golfing venue with the well-maintained greens. Peter Thompson revamped the Presidency Golf Club, Mumbai in the Film capital of India like the Delhi Golf Club. It boosts of the lavish greens and an elephant pit. So much fun, is such a small span of time! As a guest player in any of the clubs you will get to tee-off soon, so what are you waiting for, come on get going. Just catch up with the Golf fever that has caught the entire country in a big way. Add that extra touch of versatility in you by playing the different surfaces in the various golf clubs developed in several cities of India. The turfs, the mounds, the climate, the yards of green all make golf better than ever before.
When they tell you that circumcision prevents HIV and STI's, don't believe them. They are lying. "...After adjustment for demographic and behavioral risk factors lack of circumcision was not found to be a risk factor for HIV (OR = 0.9; 95% CI: 0.51, 1.7) or STI (OR = 1.08; 95% CI 0.52, 2.26). The odds of HIV infection were 2.6 higher for irregular condom users, 5 times as high for those reporting STI, 6.2 times higher for those reporting anal sex, 2.8-3.2 times higher for those with 2-7+ partners, nearly 3 times higher for Blacks, and 3.5 times as high for men who were single or divorced/separated. Conclusions: Although there may be other medical or cultural reasons for male circumcision, it is not associated with HIV or STI prevention in this U. S. military population..." U.S. Navy Finds That Circumcision Does Not Prevent HIV or STIs
... no different. Actually, that's not exactly correct. I learned something today. I learned that I really need to work on writing essays in one hour. And that makes me feel nervous. I did okay on Evidence, but the Con Law essay kicked my butt. The only reason I finished it was that I outlined it on the laptop. I usually outline on paper then transfer it as I go along. But because I set the issues up in advance this time, I could simply skip down and plug in the analysis. I was surprised however, at how little analysis I was able to do in one hour. Actually, it was more like 50 minutes because I went over a bit on the Evidence essay. Regardless, I feel like I could have done better. But law school is done. Yay. I believe it's Miller Time!
Join us for outstanding events which increase awareness, recognize achievements, honor scholarship recipients and raise funds for Black Hawk College Foundation. Join us Monday, June 12 for great golf in a four-person scramble event at the beautiful Short Hills Country Club located in East Moline. Registration and lunch begin at 12:00pm for a 1:00pm shotgun start. The golf event raises funds for scholarship support and emergency grants for Black Hawk College students and athletes, while building awareness of the Foundation. Registration fees are $100 for individual players and $375 for teams. Title sponsorships ($500) and hole sponsorships ($100) are also available. Proceeds from this event support to Black Hawk College students by providing scholarships and emergency funds through the Foundation and contributing student-athlete and team resources for the Athletics Department. Black Hawk College Foundation hosts a Scholarship Appreciation Banquet annually in the fall to recognize the generosity of its scholarship benefactors and award recipients. We invite scholarship creators to speak each year about their decision to establish a scholarship fund and the impact of their generosity on the students attending the Quad-Cities Campus. The award recipients are also invited to share their future plans and demonstrate how the scholarship has enhanced their lives. Held in November 2015, this memorial special event featured a dinner, a commemorative program about Congressman Lane Evans and special guest speaker. Get complete event details Each year, we bring together the members of the Heritage Society who have made the generous decision to provide for Black Hawk College in their Will or estate plans. The generosity of these donors provides transforming resources and a lasting legacy for future students of Black Hawk College. Learn how you can become a Heritage Society member. The Hawk Hustle 5K race has raised more than $36,000 in scholarships for the Physical Therapist Assistant Program at Black Hawk College. Hawk Hustle Quick Facts Course: The 5K course run follows the roads through the scenic rolling hills of our Moline campus. Awards: Awards to overall male and female and first 3 places in the following age groups: 0–14, 15–19, 20–24, 25–29, 30–34, 35–39, 40–44, 45–49, 50–54, 55–59, 60–64, 65–69, 70 and over Post Race Party: Fruit, cookies, and raffle prizes. A runner's gift bag will be available to all registered runners/walkers. We extend our gratitude and appreciation to Jerry and Cathy Lack, active Black Hawk College supporters, who have successfully coordinated the race efforts since 2012. The Black Hawk College Hall of Fame promotes pride in the college and its students. Inductees are chosen based on outstanding success and distinction in their chosen field and humanitarian service. From 2003 through 2012 the Black Hawk College Foundation recognized regional leaders who led the way with professional accomplishments, community involvement and civic service through our Quad-Cities Area Leaders Under 40. While no longer a Black Hawk College Foundation event, we honor all those who received this prestigious award. Read more We are here to help, if you need more information, please contact us.
000827-01: 1899 Plat Plat of Beal City, Isabella, Michigan, 1899, showing land owned by Jacob P. Yuncker in section 21. The notation "P.O." probably indicates "Post Office." Source: Charles M. Foote and Edwin C. Hood, Plat book of Isabella County, Michigan: Drawn from Actual Surveys and the County Records (Minneapolis, Minnesota: C.M. Foote Publishing Company, 1899), Beal City, 2933874.0001.001-22; digital image, University of Michigan Digital Library, Michigan County Histories and Atlases (http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/micounty/ : downloaded 11 November 2008. Citation: Mike Voisin, iSeeAncestors (http://iSeeAncestors.com/tree/groups/public/media/si-00009-i22-19.html : revised April 26, 2017), Gallery. Revised: April 26, 2017 Copyright © 2000-2017 Mike Voisin. All rights reserved.
Only two pieces from Ground Zero is the place Feisal Abdul Rauf might want to put his 100,000-square-foot mosque. Standing 15 stories tall – this building, entitled the Cordoba House – would incorporate “a 500-situate assembly room, swimming pool, craftsmanship presentation spaces, book shops, eateries,” and additionally an Islamic supplication zone, says the Cordoba Initiative and the American Society of Muslim Advancement (ASMA). Be that as it may, what is most agonizing over this power position on U.S. soil is Rauf’s convictions that sharia law ought to be actualized in the United States and the Cordoba House’s vague sources money related support.While Rauf has named himself the “counter psychological oppressor,” he has not helped his case by declining to recognize. Hamas as a fear based oppressor association, or his part as a pioneer in the Perdana Global Peace Organization, which was an accomplice in endeavoring to enter the Israeli maritime barricade of Gaza by a Turkish-propelled flotilla. Rauf is the creator of, What’s Right with Islam, which recommend that the “American Constitution and arrangement of administration maintain the center standards of Islamic law” and hence the “American political structure is sharia-agreeable.” what’s more, he has elevated his thoughts to gatherings like Hizb ut Thrir, who yearnings to force sharia law on nations around the globe, including the United States.
Wednesday, May 26, 2010 LET THE GAMES BEGIN! Third Grade Olympics are taking place this week. Each student had the opportunity to sign up for four events of his/her choosing. Events include: egg toss, 50 yard dash, softball throw, team relay, wheelbarrow, long distance run, team obstacle course, shuffleboard, and tug of war. This is a chance for students to participate in some fun and low-key individual and team competition. Third graders look forward to the Olympics every year! Students are to wear tennis shoes and appropriate clothing. A water bottle and suncreen are HIGHLY recommended. Posted by Mrs. Rhoads at 12:15 AM
Go to top - To formulate policies and legislation of the department for consideration by county assembly. - To provide conducive working environment that is clean and secure in order to promote high standards of professionalism in administrative services - Establish the principles of governance and management of urban / town centers in line with the national legislation. - To establish fire fighting services and disaster management units. - To control drug abuse and pornography. - To ensure proper use of materials and human resources. - To coordinate county ministries’ functions for effective and beneficial services delivery - To monitor and co-ordinate the process of planning, formulation and adoption of the integrated development plans by towns within Kitui county. - To ensure coordination and participation of communities for effective exercise and participation in governance where women, youth, minority and the disadvantaged people groups participate equally up to local/village levels as we create awareness on devolution to the people of Kitui county. - To hold and facilitate trainings, seminars and workshops for capacity building. - To establish a county inter governmental relation structures to ensure peace and harmony along our borders.
Monday, February 13, 2012 I'd like to take this post to introduce myself to all of you! I am Steve Rodriquez (or Brosteve) and I am the LVPA Brony club Vice President! I know, exciting stuff! I just wanted to say I'm honored to take the position and to actually be a part of this. I love the show and more importantly I absolutely LOVE this community. I plan to really help the Lehigh Valley Bronies stand out above the rest and really be a prime example of what Love and Tolerance can really do. A little bit about myself? Why sure! My name is Steve, though online I primarily go by Brosteve. I'm 21 years old and attend Northampton Community College, you can usually find me in the "nerd corner." I love drawing ponies (traditional and digital). I make Youtube videos. I LOVE music (especially brony music :3). I love anime and movies and all kinds of stuff! Now I'm gonna throw some links at yah! If you are interested in seeing any of art or videos you can check them out here! Deviant Art and Youtube. On Youtube I will be (If I'm present) uploading videos of the club! So be sure to subscribe :3. One thing I would like to stress to you all, is please.. PLEASE do not be afraid to approach me with ANY concerns or issues at all. My phone is always by my side, so send me an email (email@example.com) with any of the above concerns. I'm gonna do my best to make this blog, club, etc the best I can :D. Till Next Time,
"The Other Promise" Sora versus Roxas Arguably my two favourite tracks in Dark Souls 2, even though most of the music is forgettable imo Bakemonogatari OST Hyouri I've always kinda loved the Morrowind soundtrack. @Richaadokun - The Morrowind soundtrack is REALLY awesome <3 Hell I just love Morrowind in general, easily my favourite Elder Scrolls game. The TimeSplitters games have always had such amazing and eclectic soundtracks - this is easily one of my favourites in the entire series And of course Mass Effect has always had great music but man this song is just... Wow. Especially when it carries the emotional weight that the characters you've come to know and love can meet their ends during the suicide mission. Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag Ost. The beginning part of the music is peaceful then it goes intense. I love the gameplay as well :) All KH osts will forever haunt me Ah theres so many, lets see... Resonance of fate aka end of eternity in japan. Eternal sonata aka trusty bell in japan Dead or alive 3 Most of the Ys games All the Wangan midnight maximum tune arcade games The first deus ex game Jazz jack rabbit Doom 1,2, and recent So far thats all i can think of right now Lately I have been listening to the OST of the Bravely Default and Bravely Second again. Really like the battle themes.
After a whirlwind couple of weeks (and months!) - I'm back. I feel as though there is so much to tell and share and not enough hours in the day! Sadly, I will have to keep this little catch up brief as I must get back to an application and stock preparation for the coming week...more about that soon! I was lucky enough to spend 3 days in Melbourne over the weekend of June 13th/14th to attend the wonderful Sisters' Market and to check out the amazing biannual Melbourne Design Market. At the Melbourne Design Market I was very excited to meet/catch up with the following fabulous people...the 3 lovely ladies (Bianca, Lara and Tegan) from Ink & Spindle (you can see some lovely photos of the Ink & Spindle stall at the market here), Shannon from Rabbit and the Duck and Nicola of Nicola Cerini. I was also absolutely thrilled to have the time and opportunity to stop by the gorgeous Ink & Spindle studio on Monday before flying home to Canberra. My only regret is forgetting my camera...but what a wonderful, wonderful trip!! (*Please Note: The image featured in this post is by spin spin and has been used under the Creative Commons license)
PANDORA Tower Event in Edinburgh, Scotland Are you a PANDORA fan in Edinburgh, Scotland? Make sure to visit the Gyle Shopping Centre this Saturday. Visit PANDORA Edinburgh the Gyle on Saturday 12th November for their special one day event. Receive a Free PANDORA Gift from our jewellery tower with any in store purchase of £100 or more. PANDORA Edinburgh the Gyle, Gyle Shopping Centre, Gyle Avenue, South Gyle Broadway Edinburgh EH12 9JY, Scotland. Let us know in the comments below what gift you receive if you attend.
Groups of healthy chickens with a light experimental Salmonella typhimurium infection were fed on a diet containing 225 g per ton (1016 kg) of neomycin for two days. This brought about only a slight reduction in the incidence of chickens that were excreting S typhimurium in their faeces. Examination of caecal contents two days after the cessation of treatment revealed the neomycin had not had any effect in eliminating infection. In one experiment, the neomycin administration resulted in the emergence of enormous populations of Escherichia coli in the alimentary tract of treated chickens that possessed multiple antibiotic resistance of the transmissible type. For these reasons the practice of feeding broiler chickens on diets containing neomycin immediately before slaughter should be actively discouraged. - British Veterinary Association. All rights reserved. Statistics from Altmetric.com If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.
I'm surprised by how far I have come in a few months. I'm writing fluently, yesterday I didn't write and I feel antsy about it, feel I ought to get something solid down now, despite getting ready for visiting friends. I have decided I ma never going to sit at my desk and go through my books, so have made a space for my BRB and my notebook next to the sofa, in the warm. I have moved on from adjectives. Finally, I get it, they are overused in a lot of books, they are shorthand, they don't transfer the idea in my head to the idea in someone else's very well. All this while trying to convince no.1 son of this. Poetry is becoming a bit of a problem because it sucks me in and I can't sleep, so spend nights either writing or sleeping badly. Unfortunately, once I have written a draft, I really need to put it away and wait for a few days before taking any good stuff. In between - I sleep badly. It just rumbles on in my head, odd phrases and sentences. You can probably get pills for this... But deep down, I love doing the poetry, even though I started this course very nervous of it. I have no real problem with imagery, my problem comes when I look at a poem and have no idea if it's any good or not. Will someone else understand/like it? I'm beginning to wonder if the answer might be 'How much should I care?'. Certainly the BRB is going that way! The other triumph of this course, for me, is that I now have a notebook brimming with ideas, freewrites, drafts, printed short stories and so on. Lovely rich source material - and I have already half filled my first book! And the garden looks very Autumnal, and the house is tidy and cleanish, I'm almost on top of the laundry, and my week is full and satisfying. On to TMA 02, the first draft of which is bubbling in it's incontinent adjective laden early form now. Hopefully it will be away before December so I can enjoy a month of celebrations and our few days away at Centre Parcs. Now - do I take my course work with me?
EU to impose more Ukraine sanctions EU ambassadors have agreed to add 11 new names to the list of people sanctioned for participating in the pro-Russian insurgency in Ukraine's east. The EU has already imposed asset freezes and travel bans on 61 people and two companies. The sanctions were for involvement in the armed rebellion against the Ukrainian government or Russia's occupation and annexation of the Crimean Peninsula, which both the EU and the US have condemned as illegal and refused to recognise. An EU source said the decision would be implemented through formal written procedure by the end of this week. She did not disclose the names of any of the people targeted. Earlier in the week, a diplomat suggested that some of the proposed sanctions targets may be Russian officials but the bulk will probably be leaders of the pro-Russia insurgency in eastern Ukraine. EU leaders at a June 27 summit in Brussels threatened more sanctions if the Russian government and pro-Moscow rebels in Ukraine did not swiftly take a number of actions, including the launch of "substantial negotiations" on a peace plan proposed by Ukraine's president, Petro Poroshenko.
It's Day 2! I found these "7 Rules of Life" that makes sense and certainly will help improve your emotional and mental health and have a better outlook on your life! Exercise these rules and you'll feel better in the long run. (Text Version for Screenreaders etc.) 7 Rules of Life 1. Make peace with your past so it won't screw up your present. 2. What others think of you is none of your business. 3. Time heals almost everything, give it time. 4. Son't compare your life to others and don't judge them. Yoyu have no idea what their journey is all about. 5. Stop thinking too much, it's alright not to know the answers. They will come to you when you least expect it. 6. No one is in charge of your happiness, except you. 7. Smile. You don't own all the problems in the world. by Whisper of the Heart Check here for Day 1 & a Confirmation Form. Hope these are helping! "One finds limits by pushing them" ~ Herbert Simon
"We want to make a website '- these calls come to our studio. Requirements at all different, but the clients agree on one thing – they really need a website, but it will look like many are not. It is often said that our competitors already have a website, but we do not – not good, too, want to be represented in the Internet information space. Thus, the main reason why customers want them to have a website: To a – take a good pre- subsequent promotion of a domain name – a good move, especially because with age a domain name is tsennee.Dlya ads – so that people can find information about our products and services in seti.Imidzh. The site – it's cool. We're so advanced, that we have our own website – there are many different services and you can find useful information and answers to frequently asked questions. And many other reasons. In any case, the approach to customers must be an individual and Good work webmaster would be a useful site, the cost of which is recouped in the next month – two. Thanks to the site can be created to receive commercial gain – to increase sales. Convenient forms of orders allow scripts site to serve a large number of customers at one time, photo portfolio of your articles and the recommendations show professionalism owner of the site and create a good impression on visitors. Many companies already have a website, but they believe that it is not useful. After analyzing, we find out why this happens – perhaps the text on this site is not optimized for search, or use the site is extremely uncomfortable, maybe people do not see the appeal buy goods or use the service. In the end, it may be overpriced. There are special measures to increase conversion of visitors into customers. It is important to remember that your site is always working – day and night. The Exciting World of the Equestrian Competitions Few things are as exciting as the morning of a competition; the air is fresh whereas it prepares his early horse in the morning. This day marks to the culmination of years of training and hard work. It can feel the butterflies revoloteando in his stomach while the anticipation and the emotion increase. The riding competitions have become more and more popular in the last years. Exhibitions of jump and training used to be reserved for the very rich since they were very expensive and exclusive sports, but equestrian events have become more accessible for the public generally and an increasing number of fans follows their human and horse champions eagerly. With the purpose of to be able to welcome an equestrian competition, an installation must have an ample space. The tows, horses and spectators must be taken care of. The competition fields must fulfill specifications and strict norms of security. It must have a zone so that the spectators comfortably are seated during the event and a zone of refreshments that offers light refreshments and drinks. The equestrian center also must be in a place readily accessible since the competitors will come from all parts of the region to compete. The cleaning and the hygiene are vital aspects of a great horse center since great meetings of horses make to virus and diseases prone. If you are thinking about competing, but when visiting the center only discovers that it is disorganized and unhygienic, it would have to consider to stop of his entrance, imagines how it will be the day of the competition? The last thing that wants to do is to expose to its horse in an unhealthy atmosphere. Stal Amani is impeccable an equestrian center with three tracks an international track under cover of 20 xs 60m, a track of international taming outdoors of 30 xs 70m and one complete track outdoors for exhibitions of jump with obstacles of 50 xs 70m. Regularly we realised jump competitions and tames from the nascent level to the level Great Prize, and due to our central location in Belgium, installation is ideal for foreign competitors who look for temporary or permanent an operations center in Europe. The installation is to only two hours of distance of the greater center of taming competitions and exhibitions of jump in Europe and is to only 5 minutes of Herentals. Stal Amani also offers the latest in clean and extensive stables for horses with idyllic prairies outdoors. Also we have two solariums and zones of bath for horses so that you can be safe of his horse will be always impeccably presented/displayed. Also there is a comfortable tavern in the facilities of Stal Amani that offers light and aperitive refreshments and a bar with the necessary personnel. The tracks can be reserved for groups and sponsoring individual classes and we give the welcome to of competitions and local and international events. Our prices are very competitive and we free offer budget without commitment in anyone of our services of quality. Source: Note of Press sent by emelisc. The fact that you can change your life and attitude of the people, by writing books, I learned the number by accident. Somehow I got the idea, very persistent smile idea to write a book about fairies and elves of the wizarding world and the girl who received opportunity to open the door from the real world into the world of magic. The book was written fairly quickly, the main character of course I was, and the characters surrounding the main character was from the environment in the real world. Of course I was not much suited to life in the past and many of the events I rewrote for her, as I wanted. It is interesting that after a month described the events have changed my reality, there were pleasant surprises, people who treated me with a negative or just unfriendly, suddenly became best friends and even associates. I went further in his studies and was described in the book of invented rituals to get rid of such feelings of pain and jealousy. A month passed and I got rid of the feelings that are tearing up my soul so five years probably, this deliverance has opened for me new ways and possibilities in real life. It is believed that words and thoughts have a very large force, I convinced of this in practice, and you try and verify the effectiveness of magic books. If you have problems with her husband to make it one of the characters and describe their actions made against you, that you would like to see. If you do not half, then create a hero in my book and describe all its qualities, its exterior. Any problem of the material world, what you have you just rearranges his own way in your magical little book and get through mesyatsok surprising results. If the soul is bad, should describe the situation warms the soul and inner growth is assured. Stand you have blocks in the subconscious, create rituals to remove them and describe vividly in his book. And freedom from internal restraint will please you. Since the main theme of this site is still feng shui, it is clear that for an easy writing these booklets you will need to sit down in the northeast corner or a room, since there this year is the star of creativity – and four. If you're already strong in the field of moving stars, then decide which sector of the apartment or house you are a combination of stars 4 and 4 or 4 and 8, the reinforcing success literary career, move into this sector when you write your magic book. Detailed issue 'flying stars' will be considered in my list' Attracting luck. Individual feng shui 'I'll be glad to hear from you news, as you help your 'magical little book. " The most interesting of your 'magic' will be posted here on the site. Good luck in your writing life-changing books! How did the "Collective Intelligence" More recently, the main objective of hackers and kiberzloumyshlennikov was not his own glory or to compete with "colleagues", and the real financial benefits from their activities. This led to more than thirty million different malicious programs that steal passwords, personal information of users, lured a number of ways the money the victims of fraud. Antivirus companies do not have time to analyze huge amount of new malware. More recently, to deal effectively with traditional virus users have been sufficient to have available just antivirus. Later, it became necessary to supplement it personal firewall and antispyware protection. As the number of zero-day attacks, "it became clear that the need to develop new methods to combat them. Another reason for the change of the approach to combat "Malware" – has arisen the need to keep on your hard disk database of millions of viruses. To keep a record of all malicious programs, the signature file must be very large. Such a database can up to several hundred terabytes! Naturally, the large size of this file can not affect system performance. Because stalChto is "Collective Intelligence" Collective Intelligence system operates in real time as the online database, which stores a huge number of signatures. Only a small portion is located on the user's pc. "Collective intelligence" – is a system threat management, which is based on common grouped knowledge, the experience gained by all users of Panda (which millions of customers in virtually all countries of the world). Each node that uses solutions Panda Security, becomes in this case sensor and the collector-specific data, such as the behavior of programs. Thus, a most rich database of malicious software. Today, "Collective Intelligence" has information on nearly 100 Millions of threats. In addition, based on the new system is the automation of processes that were previously done manually. All this happens within the laboratory infrastructure PandLabs, have a greater capacity for processing necessary information. Obtaining and nurturing your clients or prospects willingness to get information about your company, enhances the value of your business. Several people have asked me how much is a mailing list? to answer this question we will pose two scenarios: people have not agreed to join the list and the other scenario is that people who belong to this list have asked to belong to it. That is, in Scenario 1, we’re talking about lists and non-permissive stage 2 Permissions list. Charts non-permissive The first important point is that if you’re doing a mailing or e-mail or SMS traditional people who have not requested these by SPAM. That is, you’re violating the privacy of those people and you’re wasting time. Contrary to what many people think the value of a list of this type is not zero. It is less than zero. When mail is sent without permission affects the value of the company who sent them. Additionally, costs are incurred sooner or later reflection in the value of who sent the emails. Playlists Permits for calculating the value of a Permissions list, there are several possible approaches. Suppose you have a list of 500 people who have requested to receive information about your business. Use two approaches: Today’s choice: does it cost to get 500 people interested in knowing your products or services?, If to reach direct mail will cost about $ 5 (a letter and shipping) each. So we’re talking about $ 2,500 per shipment. If you do this quarter are $ 10,000 x years. Probable value of Purchase: How likely is that some people buy your product? The estimates speak of 10% response Permissions list. For our example, we will take the company to sell to each customer’s estimated $ 40 x months, or approximately $ 480 per year x person. Annual total: $ 480 x 500 x 10% = $ 24,000 x years. I think any of these approaches is an absolute truth. Use them to have an approximate value and an average to take place in the assets of your business. In the case under using the average would be 34 U $ D for each contact, ie, for every 500 people in its database the company is adding value by $ D. 17.000U Is it worth to your business? Someone is building the Permissions list? Someone being assessed? If your company is not building a contact list of permissions is losing money, or worse yet, is giving money to the competition. And believe it sooner or later the competition will take that money. Investing Hi friends! Let’s digress for a moment from the daily hustle and bustle, the mass of cares and problems and think about how we live, what we do and what we get in return? Although anyone of us ask ourselves these questions and understood whether what actually wants aspires to be? This is exactly what I want to reveal on his blog! Take, for example, the average manager of a small private firm, which every day gets up the crack of dawn and goes to work. There he “graft” without raising his head from the computer, various documentation, etc. on the continuation of 8, and then 9:00, then exhausted and hungry come home, breaks down on his wife and children, eats and sleeps. That’s how he lives out of Year after year, until retire. And what he gets in return? Meager wages, which at best is enough for food and possibly on vacation in Turkey every year, and further pension even less than the salary. And so it lives most people in our country. But is it about this kind of life you have dreamed in his youth, when the winged enthusiasm and lots of ideas bursting “adult” life, graduating from high school perspective, perhaps even with honors. And every day you understand that life is getting harder, because prices are rising as well, and our requests, not to mention the demands and needs of our children. Consider just how much it costs nowadays a decent education and housing? What we we can give our children, humpback day on paid work? Yes, in fact nothing, not even time for them and there is not enough. Many holiday offers for families acoustic city riding Lakes… Small nature Detectives are in the control of Danube between Erlau and Obernzell. “Their mission is clear: robbery at the bird’s nest”. Others play in the Western town Pullman city”in Eging a. discover Lake Cowboys and Indians, the underground world of graphite mining in Kropfmuhl or master the first ski descent with flying colors. The families Passau country”is exciting. And at any time of year. PassauCard-all-inclusive”informed about the many interesting family deals. In beautiful countryside, away from hustle and bustle and noise, fun, to be active. 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By David Beard If today’s pop leaves you longing for the sweet harmonies of the sun-soaked California sound, take heart. Your wish is The Bamboo Trading Company’s command. The group consists of musicians with plenty of surf-music cred: Gary Griffin (Beach Boys band, Brian Wilson band, Jan & Dean band, Surf City Allstars); Matt Jardine (Beach Boys band, Surf City Allstars, California Saga); Philip Bardowell (Beach Boys band, Jan & Dean band, Surf City Allstars); Randell Kirsch (Beach Boys band, Jan & Dean band, Surf City Allstars); and indie artists Chris English and Miami Dan Yoe. Dean Torrence of Jan & Dean fame also lends his vocals to the album. The group’s 13-track, self-titled debut album offers more than 40 minutes of music of sunshine pop sound infused with hints of jazz, country and Martin Denny-flavored exotica. If you have a hard time wrapping your head around that blend, never fear. Griffin, Jardine, Kirsch, Bardowell and Torrence are here to offer insight into the album and several of its tracks. Goldmine: What should people know about Gary? Dean Torrence: He’s been on my team for over 30 years. I think he’s extremely talented. A lot of that is overlooked. I don’t think he’s gotten as much credit as he should have gotten over the years, but that’s OK. He’s still working and still gets paid for doing stuff, because he is that good. Some of his stuff is subtle, to be sure, but anybody that knows music, they pick it out and marvel over it. It’s kind of like Jan & Dean records. I remember people that weren’t particularly musical thinking that our music was pretty simplistic. It’s anything but simplistic. Ask any cover band that tries to figure it out … They can’t. The music is a lot more complicated than it appears, and he does a great job doing it. GM: Talk about the genesis of this album. Gary Griffin: The album is the result of a series of events that began with creating a few songs for the “Return of the Killer Shrews” movie, which Steve Latshaw wrote and directed. Initially you and I thought of doing a conventional soundtrack album but decided to steer it toward a full musical project involving several other of my musical cohorts. We began assembling music for what was now to be called The Bamboo Trading Company. I love working with Randell. We don’t get the opportunity to do this near as often as in the past. He actually used to live right down the street from me back in the ’80s, so it was easy to collaborate on things. We fell right back into our musical groove on this project and came up with some very cool ideas. He and I work very well together, very quickly – which I love! Randell Kirsch: Writing “Kitty Hawk” was like riding a bucking bronco in a rodeo. (There were) so many ideas and lyrics flying, all I had to do was hang on … and sing a little, “Won’t You Come With Me.” Easy as pie. You are very visual – which is a perspective we share. I like visual lyrics. Matt Jardine: It was pretty streamlined by the time I came in to sing. Gary had the parts already picked out and we spent a few hours on the block of songs that I was to sing on. Recording at Gary’s studio is always fun; he’s very fast at the controls and he has a great ear. Philip Bardowell: I love the song and I have an affinity for the Kitty Hawk story, because Dean’s graphic arts company Kitty Hawk Graphics was the inspiration for this song. GM: Talk about the anti-social media “Tweet (Don’t Talk Anymore).” DT: I don’t appreciate social media. As a matter of fact, if I had my way, all the smartphones and stuff would be taken away from young people. From my perspective, it has hurt them in so many ways, with texting, e-mailing and all that sh*t. … Musically, I suppose that if Jan and I had been approached in the 1960s, and say tweeting was something that was popular at that time, we’re always reactionaries to cultural stuff, I suppose we would have given it a good look. GM: “Drinkin’ in the Sunshine” sounds like the group is channeling Harry Nilsson and Queen. GG: I love this song. Dean has a unique tone — we were actually able to get him back up there singing in his high register, that classic falsetto sound from the old J&D days … I used “beachy” sounding accompaniment with ukulele and marimba and lots of percussion. MJ: I’m a fan of Phil Bardowell’s voice, and it’s a good tune. PB: I thought that when I first heard it, and it inspired me to approach it in that style. Of course, I am a big fan of both Harry Nilsson and Queen, so it was a “no-brainer” for me to try to channel Harry and Freddie for this song. GM: “Star of The Beach” MJ: I wasn’t familiar with the song, so I jumped right in and followed Gary’s direction. It was a pretty straightforward vocal session where I tried to give the best performance I could. GM: “Shrewd Awakening.” GG: “Shrewd Awakening” is probably my favorite song on the album. The title just came to me in a serendipitous flash of lyrical brilliance! Martin Denny’s “Quiet Village” was a major influence for the bass figure and the percussion. My lovely wife, Elizabeth, provided the seductive intro lines for each chorus, and with the release of the video, she has now become widely known as the, “‘You’re in for A’ Girl.” GM: What was it like for you to record the song “Shrewd Awakening” with your daughters, Katie and Jillian? DT: That was a dream come true and really, really gratifying. When a father gets to sing with his kids, there’s no better feeling. I was also happy for them to sing a song together that actually got recorded professionally, and for seeing the delight that they got out of getting a paycheck … realizing that if you’re good enough, and proficient enough, that if you pull it off, you can actually get paid for it, even though it’s a song that you may or may not have picked out yourself, which would be the same situation if one were to be recording a Disney song. Those songs are already written by somebody else and they just need someone to perform them. So you have to be open to recording a song that you don’t know much about and didn’t create, but still enjoy the process. It’s all in the process. GM: ”Tonga Hut.” GG: Another piece using Martin Denny and Esquivel as influences. The Tonga Hut is a bar on Victory Boulevard here in the North Hollywood. Dave and I wrote some lyrics that include many of the unique names of the cocktails from the Tonga Hut menu — or the “Grog Log,” as they call it. Phil’s last verse is truly inspired. I simply told him to improvise away from the melody, and one take later we had this incredible verse. MJ: Phil is such a strong vocalist and did a great job on the lead vocal; it’s a very catchy tune. PB: I enjoyed “letting my hair down” on this one. That island feel comes naturally to me, being born in Jamaica and all. I tried channeling Sting at that tag! DT: Everyone had fun, except for Johnny Rivers. [Editor’s Note: Torrence can be heard saying, “Where’s Johnny Rivers?,” at the 1:59 mark on the track.] GM: What inspired the nod to “Surf City” on “I’ve Always Loved The Ocean?” GG: Jan & Dean used to be introduced as “The Messiah of Malibu and the Sultan of Surf” at our shows back in the ’80s, so I stuck a little sound bite of that intro into an appropriate spot. Brings back a lot of good memories. GM: “Don’t Say It’s Over” is full of rich, Beach Boys-style harmonies. GG: Randell did a marvelous vocal on this and great harmonies with Matt on the choruses and tag (with Chris). I love the 007 reference in Verse 2 of Oddjob and Sean Connery playing Frisbee with Oddjob’s deadly hat. MJ: For the vocal, my only question was whether Gary wanted an “oooooh” sound or a behind-the-nose Brian Wilson-esque “aaaaah” sound. GM: How would you describe this CD to someone who hasn’t heard it yet? GG: A musical potpourri … A summertime-influenced album full of reckless abandon and fun. MJ: I would describe it as a throwback kind of project. It has a lot of ’70s feel to it … A few tracks sound quasi Beach Boys. I think that fans who like that era of music will probably enjoy it. RK: It is written in the scriptures that Rock and Roll came from the Blues, the saddest of all music (especially if it’s in D minor), but all we did was laugh our butts off making this record. PB: It is very unique, fresh, adventurous, brave … and yet still very palatable. DT: From an “old school” perspective, The Bamboo Trading Company CD has enough good music on it, so I’m very proud. The packaging was dead o n… Absolutely perfect! Overall, as a complete package, it’s pretty darn good. If enough people say they are good with it, then I’m good with it. GM Beard is executive producer of The Bamboo Trading Company.
Todays Weight: 176 I have taken a wrong turn off my roadmap to a healthier lifestyle. I stopped blogging, stopped logging and all around STOPPED everything. My life has changed directions in many ways since I started this journey. I retired from my job, my daughter & granddaughters have moved on their own and for the first time since I was a kid, I have no boundaries, no rules, no structure in my life. There is no alarm clock, no boss, no rush hour to beat. All good things but I didn't prepare myself for this newfound freedom, I didn't make a plan. So this morning is about making a rough draft. After working my entire adult life, the one thing I DO NOT plan to do, is alarm setting, my alarm clock was permanently trashed on my retirement day and will NOT be returning. So I can only make rough drafts for mornings, because I wake up....when I wake up..period. My very basic plan includes accountability and awareness. Blogging is important in this area because it keeps my aware and focused. Each day Iwill report these areas on blog: HEALTHY EATING/CALORIES (<1000 works best for me) These are minimal goals for now which I will change as time goes on. As for today, My youngest granddaughter is having her birthday party today and it will involve pizza, planning here is crucial. Pizza has always been a "red light" food for me. In my unhealthy days, I could eat 1/2 pizza before without taking a breath. My main plan is to keep a bottle of water in my hand constantly and to concentrate on the socializing (hard to stuff food in your mouth if I'm talking!) How do you handle kiddie functions ? Wish me luck!
Made it Back to Zumba Wednesday, January 09, 2013 I started out on the treadmill and did some weights and ended up doing a 1/2 hour of zumba. I don't ache. I had on different sneakers, maybe that helped. The official zumba sneakers don't have much support, so I will try my old ones for a couple of weeks to see if that helps any. I weighed myself. On my scale at home, it appears I lost 1 lb. I really thought I might lose more. Maybe next week. The number on the scale really bothers me. I can't believe how much I weigh.
It’s unfortunate when the local newspaper’s editorial board is so willfully ignorant of the purpose of primary elections. We saw this with the Herald-Times last week, when the editorial board complained that primary voters “cannot mix D’s and R’s when voting in May, as most voters do in the November general election.” The editorial board further complained that the law “essentially makes it illegal to pick a ballot based on a desire to vote for the most contested races” and presents a “conundrum” to “politically independent” voters. Primaries are not and were never intended to be for the general public. Primaries are for the political parties to choose their candidates for the general election. Someone who is truly independent should not be choosing a candidate to represent the Republican or Democratic parties. That should be up to actual Republicans and Democrats. This is also why I have always been opposed to monkeywrenching schemes like “Operation Chaos” in 2008. Indiana technically is a closed primary state, though that is unenforceable. People can literally flip from party to party every primary election, or vote in the opposite party’s primary whenever they want to either nominate the most beatable opponent or the one closest to the views of the other party. Because enforcement is based on voter intent and reading minds is not possible, there is no way to prevent this. That is why the state legislature should reform the primary system to make it more difficult to cross over, perhaps by having voters actually register as Republicans or Democrats. So what if the party faithful nominate two “extremists” who are unacceptable to true independents? Those independents can always gather signatures to have a candidate placed on the ballot, or even for a third party to contest the two major parties in the general election. You do not have to gather any signatures at all to run as a write-in candidate, though I can personally attest that running as a write-in candidate is a huge barrier to being elected. Nonetheless, the options are there. Leave the primaries to the parties.
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There are two authorities on international relations whom have the temerity and fortitude to see the inadequacies of Samuel Huntington’s ‘Clash Of Civilizations’, a model developed more than a decade ago to explain world order. Both Ms Ayann Hirsi Ali and Dr. Fouad Ajami are from The John’s Hopkin’s University. Both reside in Washingtion D.C., Ms. Ali is at the American Enterprise Institute, a think tank committed to free ideas and free markets. Both Ajami and Ali had the ear of Vice President Cheney along with Professor Emeritus Bernard Lewis of Princeton University. Although Ajami was the first to tackle inconsistencies intrinsic to Samuel Huntington’s thesis titled ‘The Clash of Civilizations’, Ajami firmly believed that Dr. Huntington’s thesis was not sufficiently informed theoretically. Dr. Ajami spoke of Turkey, Malaysia, Indonesia as not intrinsically susceptible to the wiles of Arabia. But it remained for Ms. Ayaan Hirsi Ali, famous for her stint in Dutch Parliament and her role in Theo Van Gogh’s movie ‘Submission’ for which she sought political asylum in America due to overwhelming death threats. Her latest opinion piece in the Wall St. Journal (August 18, 2010) is formidable in tone and reach yet critical of Huntington, most especially that she is not a trained academic. What she reveals is exceedingly complex regarding militant Islam, its goals, reach and the promise that the West holds for quiet Muslims who dare not voice dissent. Ayaan Hirsi Ali summarizes briefly the post-Cold war model that is Huntington’s thesis: there are seven or eight historical civilizations of which the Western, the Muslim and the Confucian are the most predominant. “The balance of power among these civilizations, he argued, is shifting. The West is declining in relative power, Islam is exploding demographically, and Asian civilizations, especially China are ascendant.” Huntington’s bold statement cannot stand the rigor of empirical criticism, for the nations that identify themselves as Islamic are predominantly poor with relative zero rates of growth, Sinic civilization as of this writing remains poor along its interior. China’s embrace of Locke, Tocqueville and Madison after the exhaustion of Marxism has permitted the communist leaders in Beijing a deep reprieve. The West he refers to is most distinctly western Europe, where birth rates have plummeted and demography favors a militant rising Islam. The United States remains the single nation that is capable of projecting both military, social and economic power. The rest are peripheral. Huntington’s civilizational based order “is emerging in which nations that share cultural affinities will cooperate with one another and group themselves around a leading state of their civilization.” This is clearly not happening as witnessed in the rise of China and the social impact of its ascendancy among neighbors. Last month’s Asian Conference had most of China’s smaller regional neighbors asking the United States to defend them in relation to Chinese strength. Most readers of this blog, especially those that have faithfully read my ‘China’ category are familiar with Oriental history to the effect that China has always been ruled by its northern Han to the detriment of its southern neighbors that work in the breadbasket that was always the ‘Pearl River Delta’. Although Ajami was far more empirical in his acute criticism of Huntington, it remained for Ms Ali to breach the ideological ground that forms most of Huntington’s ideology. She began by referencing the 1989 idealist philosopher Francis Fukuyama and his “The End of History” Hegelian thesis that with the end of Marxism, all that remained was Capitalism and our ‘unipolar’ world of unrivalled American hegemony. Both men were unrealistic and pretentious in their grasp of international relations, for after the demise of an enforced Marxian grasp, how and whom would enforce the arrival of Capitalism? Both Huntington and Fukuyama as academics, fell for the trap of breeding their thoughts in isolation. Both Fukuyama and Huntington had the key advantage of developing a model that describes the world as it should be, not as it is. For that, we witness the permanent failure that always accompanies rigid idealism. Ayaan Hirsi Ali points to the failure of both moderate Muslims and the recent political behavior of Turkey as embodying the futility of the approach informing either Huntington or Fukyuama. “If Turkey can no longer be relied on to move towards the West, who in the Muslim world can be?” A riveting question pointing to a very weak American Executive who has permitted Turkey’s Recep Erdogan to forment bilateral relations with Iran, permitted an identical pattern to emerge with Brazil regarding Nuclear ambitions, not to mention the cynical ‘aid flotilla’. Where is our best hope of checking militant Islam? Both Ajami and Ayaan Ali reveal that Iraq, Jordan, Indonesia and Malaysia remain our very best hopes. The Asian nations in the southern hemisphere along the equator are not susceptible to the centralized efforts of Arabia. Save possibly the Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia still maintain cultures informed from British colonial era, this alone can supplant the militant drive that is intrinsic to theological Islam. Nevertheless, all of north and east Africa is demographically on the rise with fast track social and theological relations to the Arabian mainland. If there is one world order rising, it is not in the West, but with Islam, beginning along the long strip that is east Africa ending north in Egypt. Huntington’s model of a ‘Clash Of Civilizations’ allows us several advantages, primarily in helping the West distinguish friends from enemies in non-aligned nations outside the framework that was Westphalia. This Cold War template is outdated regarding the status of non-state actors whom are ideologically militant. Nevertheless, Huntington’s failed model allows the leaders in the west to identify internal conflicts within Islamic civilizations, particularly the historical rivalries between Arabs, Turks and Persians. Such theological and cultural division lends credence to an understanding that Islam is not monolithic. Ms Ali is correct to admonish the United States that we simply cannot behave like the Colonial British who always followed the same foreign policy regardless of cultural terrain, namely divide and conquer. The forward moving ‘freedom agenda’ that comprised President Bush is far more favorable to American interests longterm. American leaders are going to have to shape and lead American domestic consensus for the ‘long war’. For this job, Ajami and Ali believe that contemporary decentralized electronic media along with nativist American conservatism will prevail. Both Ajami and Ayaan Ali admonish Americans to rid ourselves of our ‘One World’ illusion that always finds a home in idealism. Instead she asks that we sharpen our realism to find both the ideological and political propaganda that grounds contemporary Islam.
DETROIT - A group is aiming to ban the sale of cellphones to children younger than 13 years old. The initiative would require retailers to ask the age of the intended primary user of the smartphone. Retailers who sell a smartphone for use by a preteen would get a warning for the first offense, but could be fined up to $20,000 for subsequent violations. The doctor who founded the group said once children get a smartphone, they change from outgoing, energetic and happy to isolated and anti-social. Many experts suggest that parents set media-free times and places, such as during dinner and when it's time for bed. They said phones shouldn't replace outdoor activities, sleep or contact with people. You can watch Steve Garagiola's full story on the debate in the video posted above. Copyright 2017 by WDIV ClickOnDetroit - All rights reserved.
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\|Tonight's program shamelessly pandering to the broadest demographic of Jazzheads if they are free wheeling modernists unconcerned by implications of structure and/or the suggestion of reconstructed textures vis-a-vis oblique voicings. It's a three day weekend where we should be more thankful than Thanksgiving. Game On!\| - I felt like the first hour should have been enjoyable if one is anywhere near the above rhetorical description. - Sun Ra was born 100 years ago, hence the spotlight tonight. I just call it Sun Ra Day. It could be any day of the year. It will always be special. Besides, I don't want to get into it about the Saturn thing. - So many angles to Jazz. Swangin'! Thanks for listening.
Fourteen women-specific camps and four co-ed camps build skill and inspire confidence Press Release // WHISTLER, BC March 22, 2016 – North America’s first, longest-running and leading women’s mountain bike camp, the Trek Dirt Series, launched registration for 2016 on March 1 and has already seen 500 participants sign up. This growth reflects mountain biking’s upward trajectory in the female participant segment; in 2015 alone the number of woman who mountain bike increased 11.5 per cent. Since 2001, the Trek Dirt Series Mountain Bike Camps have taken over 12,000 beginner, intermediate and expert riders to the next skill level in cross-country and downhill disciplines. The largely female coaching staff, many of whom are professional coaches, teachers and professors in their “day jobs”, focus on creating opportunities for participants to gain high end skills with low penalty through methodical skill building exercises and an incredibly supportive environment. “Studies have shown women are motivated by relationships and a supportive environment, and it’s incredibly rewarding to be able to accommodate that with step-by-step instruction, multi-faceted approaches, and lots of positive feedback,” says Candace Shadley, founder and director of the Trek Dirt Series. “Participants are encouraged to give their best and push their limits in a responsible way; they leave camp with increased confidence and passion for mountain biking.” Fourteen women’s specific camps and four co-ed camps will be presented across North America in 11 different locations this summer, starting at the end of April and running through to mid-September. The Trek Dirt Series has such a solid reputation that 70 per cent of participants are referred by a friend or returning themselves. In fact, the co-ed camp offerings resulted from men who had encouraged women to go to camp, saw how quickly they learned, and requested similar opportunities for themselves. Most of the camps run on a two-day weekend format with skill development sessions in the mornings and instructional rides, in small groups, in the afternoons. Basic bike maintenance clinics, and social time with food and drinks to cap off the day, round out the camp’s offering. The Trek Dirt Series also offers one-day camp options in some locations. Camp participants range from riders with only a few days on gravel trails who want to focus on positioning, steering and braking, to confident riders with years of experience and a desire to hone their technical riding and polish their air time with drops and jumps instruction. The step-by-step, progressive approach, with at least 1:6 coach to participant ratio, means every rider gets individual attention and develops skills at an accelerated rate. Trek Dirt Series Mountain Bike Camps will run the following sessions this summer, in order of the event date: Los Gatos, CA – April 30-May 1; Santa Cruz, CA – May 6 & May 7-8 (co-ed); Winthrop, WA – May 14-15 (co-ed); Whistler, BC – May 28-29 & June 4-5; Calgary AB – June 10 & June 11-12; Whistler, BC – June 18-19 (co-ed) & June 25-26; Hood River, OR – July 9-10; Park City, UT – July 16-17; Whistler, BC – July 30-31; Fernie, BC -August 6-7; Canmore, AB – August 13-14; Mammoth, CA – August 27-28; Whistler, BC – September 10-11 (co-ed); Fruita, CO – September 17-18. Online schedule here: dirtseries.com/schedule “It’s incredible how well organized this program is, and how effective it is at teaching you exactly what you want to learn, no matter your level. There’s a natural camaraderie that develops,” says Siobhan Henry, Whistler Trek Dirt Series camp participant. “I left with a sense of empowerment that went way beyond having fun on two wheels.” The two-day camps are $385 (USD/CAD) and include full days of professional on-bike instruction, lunch, maintenance clinics, après and prizes from the series sponsors. For more information on the Trek Dirt Series please visit: dirtseries.com/ About Trek Dirt Series: The Trek Dirt Series Mountain Bike Camps offer personalized instruction, professional programming, and an incredibly skilled, enthusiastic, and supportive coaching staff. Since 2001, the program has run nearly two hundred weekend camps — women’s only and co-ed, beginner through advanced, cross-country, all-mountain and downhill inclined. Sponsors for the 2016 season include Trek, FOX, Dakine, Bell Bike Helmets, Race Face, Smith, crankbrothers, Five Ten, Maxxis, Camelbak, Clif, Kicking Horse Coffee, Kiju and JLL. For more information, visit www.dirtseries.com orwww.facebook.com/dirtseries.
Jon Hicks, a veteran in icon design and best known for the Mailchimp and Firefox logo, has finally released his book about icons: The icon handbook. There are only a few books written about icons – two of these were released recently: Susan Kare’s Icons book (2011) which is mostly inspirational and Rockstar Icon Designer (2011) which is for the dedicated icon designer who wants to improve her skills. Jon Hicks’ The Icon Handbook is somewhere in the middle where he combines large images of the best icons made, interviews with top icon designers and useful practical information as well as short tutorials. He never goes into much detail and most topics are covered by no more than a 2-3 pages. His passion for great design really shines through; the book itself looks gorgeous with great fonts, many full colored pages, and with a nice square format it’s pretty enough to be a nice coffee table book. Several pages contain only a single icon blown up to largest scale possible where you can enjoy all the little details. Who’s it for? If you’re an inexperienced icon designer, this book will help you get started and at the same time serve as inspiration. For a very experienced icon designer you probably won’t learn much new, but will enjoy seeing the many of the best icons printed in full scale or reading the interviews with the industry’s best designers such as Susan Kare, Drew Wilson, Wolfgang Bartelme and Jono Hunt (Iconaholic) among others. Here’s a review of the 7 chapters of the book: 1. A Potted History of Icons – An introduction to icons and how humans started using symbolic language on cave walls and later in Chinese writing and hieroglyphics. In the 20th century we see how the modern use of symbols get standardized with Otto and Marie Neurath’s Isotope collection. No history of icons would be complete without mentioning the Xerox UI and Susan Kare’s work for Apple in the early 1980’s. Jon includes a short but interesting interview of Susan Kare. Since Jon Hicks himself is an important figure in icon design it seems appropriate that he tells a bit about his own background and how he started working with simple 8-bit graphics on his first computer. 2. How we use icons – The second chapter goes into more details by showing interesting cases such as the challenges McDonalds had with creating icons that were understood worldwide, to the Jon Hicks’ own challenges of creating the new emoticons for Skype. The chapter also gives some good guidelines on how to determine when you should use icons in interfaces and when not to use them. All cases are spiced up with quotes or short interviews with the people behind the icon design. 3. Favicons – This is the first chapter that encourages you to get your hand dirty and create your own icons. You’ll get a good overview of when favicons are used e.g. in top of browsers, Google TV bookmarks, iPads home screen etc. and what sizes the different use cases requires. Jon Hicks never shows how to draw the icons in details that you can expect from a classic tutorial – the chapter will be more inspirational than educational. It shows some great examples of what makes a good favicon. You can find an extract of chapter 3 over at .NET magazine. 4. The Metaphor – Probably the most important (and sometimes hardest) thing in icon design is finding a suitable metaphor. So having a full chapter about choosing the right metaphor is really valuable for any designer working with icons. What many tutorials online miss is often the process that surrounds the process before actually designing the icons. This chapter takes you through the whole process from tips on how to get the right information in the design brief, how to find appropriate metaphors, sketching, the difference of ideograms and pictograms and choosing the right colors. Again, to spice it all up the chapter includes an interesting interview with Stephen Horlander, who is responsible for designing the well-known orange RSS icon. 5. Drawing Icons – The chapter consists of guidelines for tools, tips about sizing, how to achieve balance and consistency, recommendations about the level of details, colors etc. It never goes into too many details but gives you a good idea of what to be aware of when drawing icons. Between the guidelines you’ll find two tutorials; one for drawing a book with vector shapes and one for a 32px done the pixel style. Both tutorials are for Illustrator, but you could complete them with Photoshop. 6. Icon formats and deployment – Definently the most technical chapter, but also the one with the most “depth”. Most designers will probably learn a bunch of new stuff about formats that will be helpful in the years to come – both for icon design but also design for apps and web in general. You’ll learn about the pros and cons (quality, scalability, file size) of all the possible ways to get icons on a screen: Tiff, SVG, Canvas element, pure CSS, icons as fonts etc. Jon also shows a nice example of how to show different icons at different screen resolutions with HTML and CSS that you can copy/paste. 7. Application Icons – In much contrast to chapter 6, this chapter is much more about inspiration. Most pages are filled with the most beautiful app icons out there and show in the largest size possible letting you drool over the amount of details put into them. This chapter revisits topics from the previous chapters such as choosing metaphors, perspective and process. There are four real nice interviews here with David Lanham, Gedeon Maheux from The Iconfactory. You can buy Jon’s book at http://www.fivesimplesteps.com/products/the-icon-handbook or read more at http://iconhandbook.co.uk/
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Spied – BMW 3 Series GT spotted testing in India Shrawan Raja, I'm the Founder & CEO of IndianAutosBlog.com. I love teamwork and talking about cars. The BMW 3 Series Gran Turismo (or 3 Series GT) has been spotted for the first time in India, somewhere in Pune. The BMW 3 Series GT is a combination of the sedan’s dynamic genes with the practicality of the Touring (estate) variant. Launched at the Geneva Auto Show in March this year, the 3 Series GT follows the footsteps of its elder brother, the 5 Series GT. It is BMW’s third variant off this platform, and was launched in the European market in Sport Line, Luxury Line and Modern Line variants, along with the optional M Sport kit. Compared to the 3 Series, BMW 3 Series Gran Turismo is 200 millimeters longer. Its wheelbase is 110 millimeters longer, while the height is 81 millimeters taller. In the cabin, front and rear passengers are accommodated in a seating position that is raised by 59 millimeters. Rear seat passengers have a 70 millimeters knee room improvement. The car’s 520 litre boot capacity outstrips that of the BMW 3 Series Touring by 25 litres. Some of the other features include a 40:20:40 split/folding rear seat bench, two-piece parcel tray and tilt-adjustable backrests. The engine options announced for Europe are as follows – - 2.0-lite four-cylinder diesel with 143hp and 320Nm - 2.0-liter four-cylinder diesel with 184hp and 380Nm - 2.0-liter four-cylinder petrol with 184hp and 270Nm - 2.0-liter four-cylinder petrol with 245hp and 350Nm - 3.0-liter inline-six cylinder with 306hp and 400Nm The 3 Series GT could be released in India at the 2014 Delhi Auto Expo. We aren’t sure if this product would be positioned for gaining brand equity or volumes, though the latter feels a bit of a long shot. [Images from Autotracker]
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Outdoor Leader Semester Details - Develop leadership skills as you delve into field of outdoor education through both technical & soft-skill training - Gain self-awareness through Outward Bound’s holistic approach to experiential education - Get experience in the field with an instructor internship during our high season (Offered to top alumni) Learn to set up belay systems, organize rescues, provide wilderness medical care, guide rafts down world-class rivers, lead groups through the Costa Rican rainforest, and scuba dive in Caribbean waters during this comprehensive introduction to the outdoor industry. Seven internationally-recognized certifications and an in-depth study of the Outward Bound educational model are integrated into the program to make you a desirable instructor or guide for various organizations throughout the world. MULTI-ELEMENT LEADERSHIP TRAINING Spend ten days trekking through both high-altitude cloud forests and mid-elevation rainforests as you learn about leadership within the field of outdoor education. Put the Outward Bound teaching philosophy to the test as you alternate roles throughout the journey. Set up camp and tarp shelters along the trail, where nightly meetings will consist of discussions of leadership and the challenges that each day has presented. After trekking through the rainforest, you will stay in the family homes that comprise the remote community of Piedras Blancas. During your homestay experience, learn about the community’s local practices, and test your tenacity with an 80-foot jungle waterfall rappel. THE “SOLO” EXPERIENCE During your hiking expedition, gain some insight into yourself and alter your view of the external world during this period of self-reflection. For 24 hours you will be on your own, taking time to disconnect from the rest of the world in a safe, wilderness setting. WILDERNESS FIRST RESPONDER Become an outdoor leader by earning the single most important certification needed to work in the industry: Wilderness First Responder (WFR). Nearly every employer ranging from river rafting companies to outdoor education organizations require their staff to have this vital training, though the skills learned are practical for any outdoor enthusiast. Study alongside your course mates during our nine day intensive WFR program, with classroom sessions and practical reviews. Put your knowledge to the test with a final rescue scenario that will have you and your course mates working together to properly attend to real “victims” in a remote wilderness setting. 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Instructors evaluate your abilities every time you guide and put you through drills that simulate the physical strains of a real emergency situation. Depending on your skill level at the end of the phase, you will eligible to earn a certification through the International Rafting Federation (IRF) for either class II or III rapids. RECREATIONAL RAPPEL OPERATOR Master your craftsmanship and self-reliance by learning how to set up rappel and belay systems. Issued by Rescue 3 International, this covers how to lead group rappeling (abseiling) activities in a recreational context. It includes knots, environmental care, rope physics, technical equipment, anchoring, rappeling, contingency/releasable anchor systems, belaying, top-roping, coaching new rappellers, emergency drills, ascending, risk management and site management. WATERFRONT LIFEGUARD TRAINING Surf world-class waves along Costa Rica’s Central Pacific Coast while working toward your Waterfront Lifeguard certification. 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If you are already scuba certified, study for your advanced certification and participate various dives including a night dive and deep dive. CARIBBEAN SEA KAYAK & SERVICE EXPEDITION Continue in Panama with a multi-day sea kayaking expedition through the islands of Bocas del Toro, using sea kayaks or indigenous Panamanian canoes known as cayucos. Throughout the journey, you and your course mates will paddle past tropical mangroves and spot hundreds of tropical fish in the clear waters. Engage with the local indigenous population by setting up camp and delving into service projects in local communities. Alumni of our Outdoor Leader Semester who best exemplify what it takes to become an Outward Bound educator are typically offered a paid internship as a field instructor for Outward Bound Costa Rica’s high season, with the possibility of staying on as a year-round instructor. Hear the story of Outdoor Leader Semester alumni who reflect on their course experience and how it led to an instructor role in the field: READY TO ENROLL? Once you have decided what courses you are interested in, begin your enrollment here: Semester students are eligible for academic credit either through independent study or through our partnership with Western State Colorado University. Discounts and scholarships available to those who qualify. Inquire below for more information on the course details and the Outward Bound semester experience. We can assist in deciding which of our gap year and semester programs best meets your personal objectives. Submit an Inquiry - Gap Year & Semester Programs “Hiking was truly life changing. The 24-hour solo brought me closer to myself and my world.” – Luna, 17 – “Not only have I expanded my knowledge and career options through terrific certifications, but I have made huge strides in my physical and mental strength. 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This is another one of those animal partnerships that tell us that animals don’t get enough credit for their capability to have deep emotional attachments. Some visitors may have bumped into this story already when surfing the internet but it is the first time I have seen it. This particular partnership also appears to support the view that ginger tabby cats are very stable, sensible and intelligent cats. Another ginger tabby cat befriended a deer. The orangutan, Tonda, had lived at Zoo World, Panama City, Florida for 11 years. She had a male mate at the zoo who died. Tonda became melancholy and lost her appetite. The zoo keepers came up with an enlightened solution. They slowly introduced a ginger cat to Tonda. The cat became known as T.K. (Tonda’s Kitty). As Tonda got to know T.K. she disliked it when the contact session was terminated and showed the keepers that she was keen and ready to be with TK on a permanent basis. And so it happened. That must have been a brave step to take for the organisers. No problem: the two formed an incredibly close relationship. Tonda would play with T.K. and carry him to bed at night etc. It appears she did all the usual things that an excellent human cat caretaker would do. In fact, I have a hunch that she did more, far more than the average human cat caretaker does. In return, T.K. was extremely attentive towards Tonda like a true gentleman. Once again I sense that he behaved better than many a husband! The particularly interesting facet of this relationship is that Tonda is a large, powerful and dangerous orangutan who appears not to have been enormously friendly towards her deceased male orangutan mate. She may have been a bit difficult to handle in general but became as mellow as can be with a ginger tom moggie cat. It makes you wonder if animal to animal relationships have the capability to be finer and more refined than a lot of human to human relationships. We should not dismiss that as an impossibility.
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on Amos 3 :2 You only have I known - I have taken no other people to be my own people. I have approved of you, loved you, fed, sustained, and defended you; but because you have forsaken me, have become idolatrous and polluted, therefore will I punish you. And the punishment shall be in proportion to the privileges you have enjoyed, and the grace you have abused. on Amos 3 :2 You only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities - Such is the one law of God. The nearer anyone is brought unto God, the worse is his fall, and, his trial over, the more heavily is he punished. Nearness to God is a priceless, but an awesome gift. The most intense blessing becomes, by the abuse of free will, the most dreadful woe. For the nearer God places anyone to His own light, the more malignant is the choice of darkness instead of light. The more clearly anyone knows the relation to God, in which God has placed him, the more terrible is his rejection of God. The more God reveals to any, what He is, His essential perfections, His holiness and love, the more utter, tearful malignity it is, to have been brought face to face with God, and to have in deed said to Him, "On Thy terms I will have none of Thee." The angels who sinned against fullest light, had no redemption or repentance; but became devils. "He took not on Him the nature of angels" Hebrews 2:16. "The angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitations, He hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great Day" Jde 1:6. Of the former people, when their first day of grace was past, Daniel says; "under the whole heaven hath not been done, as hath been done upon Jerusalem" Daniel 9:12. Begin," God saith in Ezekiel's "at My sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house" Ezekiel 9:6. So our Lord lays down the rule of judgment and punishment hereafter" Luke 12:47-48 "the servant which knew his Lord's will, and prepared not" himself, "neither did according to His will, shall be beaten with many" stripes. "But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much has been given, of him shall much be required, and to whom people have committed much, of him they will ask the more. The time is come," says Peter, "that judgment must begin at the house of God" 1 Peter 4:17. You only I have known - Such care had God had of Israel, so had He known them, and made Himself known to them, as if He had, in comparison, disregarded all besides, as He remained unknown by them. Knowledge, among people, is mutual, and so it seemed as if God knew not those, of whom He was not known. Knowledge, with God, is love, and so He seemed not to have known those, to whom, although "He left not Himself without witness" Acts 14:17, He had shown no such love (see the note at Hosea 13:5). Whence our Lord shall say to the wicked, "I never knew you" Matthew 7:23; and contrariwise, He says, "I am the good Shepherd and know My sheep, and am known of Mine" (John 10:14; see 2 Timothy 2:19). : "Myriads of cities and lands are there under the whole heaven, and in them countless multitudes; but you alone have I chosen out of all, made Myself known and visible among you by many miracles, chosen you out of a bitter unbearable bondage, trained you by My law to be well-pleasing to Me, fenced you with protection, brought you into the land promised to your fathers, enlightened you with prophecies." : "Not, I deem, as though in the time of Israel and of the Old Testament, there were not, in the whole world, some good people and predestinated; but because God did not then choose any nation or whole people, save the children of Israel. For it was meet that that people, of which God willed to be Incarnate, should be distinguished by some special grace." Therefore I will punish you - o: "To depise God and to neglect the Lord's Will procureth destruction to those who have known Him or been known of Him, and been spiritually made His own." "I made you My own people, friends, sons. As a Father, I cherished, protected, exalted, you. Ye would not have Me as a Father, ye shall have Me as a Judge." Rup.: "As Israel has, in its elect, been glorious above all, so, in the reprobate, has it been made viler than all, both before God and before people." How much more Christians, and, among Christians, priests! It has of old been believed, that the deepest damnation will be that of ungodly priests. Yet since almost all punishment in this life is remedial, the saying admits another meaning that God would leave no sin unchastened in those whom He had made His own. Both are true meanings, fulfilled at different times. God chastens in proportion to His love, in the Day of grace. He punishes, in proportion to the grace and love despised and trampled upon without repentance in eternity. Here , "the most merciful Physician, cutting away the cancrous flesh, spareth not, that He may spare; He pitieth not, that He may the more pity. For 'whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom He receiveth.'" Hence, the prayer , "Burn, cut, here; and spare forever." Contrariwise , "we should esteem any sinner the more miserable, when we see him left in his sin, unscourged. Whence it is said, "The turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them" Proverbs 1:32. For whoso "turneth away" from God and is "prosperous," is the nearer to perdition, the more he is removed from the severity of discipline." : "This is the terrible, this the extreme case, when we are no longer chastened for sins, when we are no more corrected for offending. For when we have exceeded the measure of sinning, God, in displeasure, turneth away from us His displeasure." : "When you see a sinner, affluent, powerful, enjoying heath, with wife and circle of children, and that saying is fulfilled, 'They are not in trouble' Psalm 73:5 as other 'men, neither are they plagued like' other 'men,' in him is the threat of the prophet fulfilled, 'I will not visit. '" on Amos 3 :2 3:2 Know - Chosen, adopted to be my peculiar ones. Therefore - Because you have all these obligations and abused all these mercies.
A new trailer from the controversial film Diana has been released, and it shows more footage of Naomi Watts, playing the late Princess Di. The new film about the iconic Princess, “the People’s Princess” as she was dubbed when she was alive, is the story of the last couple of years of Diana’s life after she divorced Prince Charles and started a new life as her own person. Diana was recently slammed by one of the people the film portrays predominantly, Dr. Hasnat Khan (Naveen Andrews) who is the lover of the late Princess and who said the film is not accurate. Diana is directed by German Oliver Hirschbiegel, who’s had success in the past with the Adolf Hitler drama Downfall. This time around, however, his work is being negatively criticized in the UK because of the comments by the actual doctor Khan who had not so good things to say about his film and Diana’s actual portrayal in the film and the perception that they are trying too hard to get an Oscar nod. It could be possible that the criticism coming from across the pond is more related to the touchy subject of a beloved public figure. Diana was adored by her subjects, especially later in life when it seemed Prince Charles and the royal family were making her life a living nightmare. Many in England believed that the Queen was not empathetic enough when the Princess of Wales died tragically in Paris in 1997 and Her Majesty failed to appear publicly for days. This forced the Queen to make a public speech explaining herself, a fact which is featured in the movie The Queen. American critics are a bit more tempered in their assessment of the film. Maybe because, even though Diana was popular in the US, she wasn’t our Princess. Diana opens in US theaters on November 1.
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Sclerotherapy is a form of treatment for both spider veins and average-sized varicose veins. This treatment uses a chemical injected into the troublesome veins to cause the blood to coagulate, inflamation to set in, and the vein to eventually collapse so that the blood supply is rerouted to healthier veins. One variation of sclerotherapy, foam sclerotherapy, suspends the chemical in foam to provide greater adhesion to the vein walls. Depending on the number of veins to be treated, a sclerotherapy session usually takes less than 30 minutes. After the procedure, the treatment site is wrapped in a bandage which applies pressure to control any bleeding and promote healing. Once treated with sclerotherapy, varicose veins do not come back. Sclerotherapy is done on an outpatient basis and is only mildly painful. Other than the sting of the injection, some patients report some light cramping during the injection of the solution, but this quickly passes. Although all procedures have some risks, sclerotherapy has very few. Light bruising sometimes occurs around the affected area, and some patients have reported that freckling developed temporarily in the treatment area, but these both usually disappear within weeks. With sclerotherapy, some patients may require several injection sessions for optimal results, but these are scheduled about a month apart. After finishing the treatment, the pain and unsightly appearance of the damaged veins are greatly improved. Patients report significantly smoother skin and little discoloration. Because these results are achieved without hospitalization or general anesthesia, sclerotherapy is a better choice than surgery for many patients. Patients also find recovery time is much shorter with sclerotherapy, and they are usually able to return to work within days.
Perhaps it's never too early to promote a movie, which is why I was surprised to see there's already a teaser campaign for RoboCop. And like the Total Recall campaign, it's a false advertisement, trying to fool you into thinking Rekall is a real company. I've always enjoyed teaser campaigns, and modern teasers can be especially fun, like the District 9 teaser that warned non-humans not to sit on the bus bench, or a simple teaser like the one for Tim Burton's Batman, which only showed the bat signal with a release date. This may have been the first time a teaser poster had done this, showing a symbol without a title or credits, even though we see this being done all the time now. You're probably also seeing the teaser campaign for Total Recall everywhere too, except it's a fake ad for Rekall, the company that can make your fantasies come true. Then there's anti-Rekall ads, which remind me a bit of the "Psychiatry Kills" campaign that's been launched by Scientology, which shows us that in the new Total Recall, people are onto what Rekall really is and are trying to stop it. So before the reboot of RoboCop even starts filming, a teaser commercial for OmniCorp, the corporation that creates RoboCop, has already gone live on YouTube. "Thanks to OmniCorp, you can protect your city with our full line of products," the commercial tells us. "The Ed-209 protects our battlefields, and now our cities. And in the coming months, we will unveil our newest and most exciting innovation yet, where human resources meets robotic engineering. The RC-2000, the next generation of defensive products. OmniCorp: We've got the future under control." So it's definitely way early to promote a movie that's still well over a year away from theaters, but with RoboCop, this is definitely an interesting method of building interest, and a fun way to potentially fool some people a la District 9 and Total Recall. The reboot of RoboCop is slated to start shooting this September for a summer 2013 release with Joel Kinnaman in the title role. Gary Oldman, Samuel L. Jackson and Hugh Laurie are also co-starring.
Recently we had a chance to attend the Ceremony of the Keys at the Tower of London. We had reservations for weeks and to be honest, I completely forgot about it. Thank goodness The Better Half didn’t. The key ceremony has taken place since the 14th century and it happens every night without fail. Only once, during an air raid in World War II, the Tower doors were locked late. The Officer of the Guard felt so bad about it, he wrote a letter to King George VI apologizing. The King said the officer shouldn’t be punished sine the delay was caused by enemy action. So what happens during the ceremony? Every night, at 9:53 pm, the Chief Yeoman Warder meets the military escort to secure the main gates of the Tower. The group secures the main gates and when they return down Water Lane, they are halted by the sentry and are ordered to identify themselves: Sentry: “Halt! Who comes there?” Chief Warder: “The keys.” Sentry: “Whose keys?” Chief Warder: “Queen Elizabeth’s keys.” Sentry: “Pass Queen Elizabeth’s Keys. All is well.” After this, the group heads towards the Bloody Tower Archway into the fortress, where they stop at the bottom of the Broadwalk Steps. At the top of the stairs, the Tower Guard present arms and the Chief Warder raises his hat, shouting: Chief Warder: “God preserve Queen Elizabeth.” The Chief Warder than takes the keys to the Queen’s house while the Last Post is played by a bugler. Just in case you are curious, there’s a small side door you have to squeeze through to get out. After all the guests are outside, this door is locked. Pictures are not allowed during the ceremony unless you want to stay in the Tower permanently. I’m not sure how serious they are about this rule, but I decided to play it safe. I’m sure after the first hour the charm of being a prisoner in such a historic place wears off. I did snap some photos outside of the Tower while we waited. The Shaun the Sheep statues were part of the promotion for the movie. I think they have been removed, which is a shame since I loved spotting them in London. I would like to wish a happy Fourth of July to the folks back home. And I hope everyone has a splendid weekend!
Minecraft and Minecraft servers are Java. That's what you'll need for a plugin (I'm assuming you mean an actual plugin, and not a mod for the client, even though they're both Java). All plugins require a .jar file to run, and optional configuration files, so you'll need to think about that (config is not needed, but you might want it). How much experience do you have with: 1. Coding Java? 2. Coding plugins in Java (I'm guessing none?) 3. Running a bukkit/spigot server (with plugins)? Remember to back up your server files before loading new [versions of] plugins.
Linguistics; propaganda; "Dad, I need 80 bucks...." I don't know what you think of that "Dad, I need 80 bucks.." Ameritrade commercial running on CNN and the other news channels right now; I know what I think of it. It turns my stomach. When the teenage girl tells her Dad she needs 80 bucks for a pair of jeans that she has to have because everybody has them, Dad asks her who the designer is, runs to his laptop and orders 100 shares of the designer's stock, and turns over the 80 bucks -- which, needless to say, he has right there in his pocket. Not even one of the dialogues below takes place [and should be what really happens]. TEEN: "Dad, I need 80 bucks." DAD: "You don't need 80 bucks. You want 80 bucks." TEEN: "There's these jeans....." DAD: "And you have to have them." DAD: "You don't have to have them, you want to have them." DAD: "Do your friends have them?" TEEN: "Everybody has them!" DAD: "Then shame on their parents." DAD: "Like you don't have enough jeans." TEEN: "So, can I have the 80 bucks?" DAD: "Absolutely not. All the kids in this world that don't even have clean water to drink, and you want 80-dollar designer jeans? No way. Go wash your mouth out with soap." Do you ever worry that your kids will grow up spoiled? I fear it. BTW, for a good charity (when you are looking for something to remind yourself of why you are grateful): Donations for the Pine Ridge problem would go to the Link Center Foundation, P.O. Box 2253, Longmont, CO 80502-2253, with the check or money order marked "Elders Heating Fund." I can't vouch for the charity personally. The information comes from a Native American source. There's a website for the Link Center at http://www.LinkCenterFoundation.com. Direct Link to the project. BTW, I do have a teenage daughter and when I talked with my wife about this commercial it was more on the line of but gosh, that is a funny thing to see on TV. A lot of it is relative. My current boss used to work in men's clothes. He just can't bring himself to pay retail for clothing. I've lost a fair amount of weight, but I buy my non-work clothes from Wrangler ($15.00 a pair for pants) and my dress pants from Lands End. But, I know that sometimes, if you want fit and appropriate clothing that is going to last, you can end up paying money. Might be $20.00 for a dress at Nordstrom's Rack, might be ten times that (or more). I know that things I think of as essential are someone else's luxury. I've read Shantaram and my parents served most of one of their missions in Tanzania. But, the issue, of how not to spoil your children, is significant to me. We used to share our chapel with a ward that had pro sports players (active and retired) in it and others at a similar income level. People that buy the $200.00 jeans and think of the $80.00 ones as the cheap ones. Some of the people were great, but some walked out on their turn to do the dishes at girls' camp. I don't want my children to be like that, especially now that we are better off than we were. Anyway, just thinking on the topic of kids wanting things, "needing" things, and being a parent. My teenager is preternatural. It is the five-year old (almost six) who worries me, who always asks for things. I worry about raising her.
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Ok, well yesterday I went to the Apple Store to look for anything I might want to get with my 100 dollar iPhone rebate. While I was there, I basically fell in love with the iMac. I loved the design, the glossy and beautiful display, and the AIO setup. However, I dont really have the money right now to buy one. I am only 15 years old, and unfortunately my mom could not get approved for credit with Apple. Now I need some help with what I could do to get money for this thing. (Aside from a job, I already do work on an eBay business with my mom and get 100 dollars a week) I currently own a very good PC with a good graphics card, a neon and see through case, 4G of RAM, and 21 inch LCD monitor. Those are just the basics, if you needed more info I could tell you. It has a dual boot of XP and Vista on it. My question is , where could I sell this system as a whole for good money? Of course there is eBay, but I am wondering if there are other places that might be good for selling computers/parts. I also have my 60G iPod video that I do not need any more because I have my iphone. The new iMacs are making me want to switch to them now more than ever, and I am ready to do so. Please help me if you have any ideas.
The ink wasn’t even dry (or the bits weren’t even embedded in the Cloud) yet on the 2 Comments about a new theory that Stonehenge once stood in Wales before being moved to Wiltshire when a cry rose up from other archaeologists who claim that it was glaciers, not humans, that pushed the monoliths to their current resting place in Wiltshire. Who’s right, who’s wrong and what’s the betting line on the fight? The feud started with a report last week in the journal Antiquity that archaeologists from University College London (UCL) identified two quarries in Wales that matched some of the bluestones at Stonehenge. The more controversial part of the report was their belief that the stones were made into a monument in Wales which stood for a few hundred years before being toppled and moved to England, making Stonehenge what some were sacrilegiously calling a “second-hand monument.” View original post 296 more words
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The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956) The Teahouse of the August Moon Photos Critic Reviews for The Teahouse of the August Moon Huge commercial hit and uncharacteristically light comedy for Brando, after winning the Oscar for the drama On the Waterfront. Time has actually been kind to The Teahouse of the August Moon Offbeat Brando role is main reason to see this funny service comedy. Audience Reviews for The Teahouse of the August Moon The island of Okinawa during the American occupation of the late forties, and Ford's job is to indoctrinate the natives to good ol'Yankee values ... only the Okinawans, led by Marlon Brando as a smiling schemer in Asian makeup, have other ideas. Ugly ideas clothed in a polite approach. Marlon Brando was a fearless actor who was constantly taking surprising, challenging work. This is one of the last roles anyone would expect him to play, and his performance is fantastic. This is a hilarious, involving film that, although politically incorrect by today's standards, is actually quite wholesome and sweet. The acting across the board is a pleasure to watch. Director Daniel Mann doesn't do anything remarkable with the material, and not all of the execution is perfect. Nevertheless, I was thoroughly entertained, and I would recommend this film to most people. It is the intelligence of the script and the colorful performances that make it so much fun. The Teahouse of the August Moon Quotes Discuss The Teahouse of the August Moon on our Movie forum!
This apartment is available for workers only. This quiet interior apartment gets a lot of sunlight; located on Via Ivrea, in the San Giovanni neighborhood, it's just a short ride away from Rome city centre. The apartment has three bedrooms available for rent, a shared bathroom and a fully equipped kitchen with a living room. Every room is equipped with all necessities to ensure you will have a stress-free stay during your time in Rome; as an added plus, all utilities are also included in the rent. You will be surrounded by parks where you can relax and enjoy Rome's warm weather. The metro station is just around the corner, perfect for those commuting to work. The area of the apartment is 60m2. This apartment is located in the basement of a building which isn’t equipped with an elevator. It has central heating and electric water heating. You can dry your clothes on the individual drying rack inside the apartment or on the interior patio. The minimum lease for this apartment is 90 days (3 months). Wi-Fi is installed and activated in the property. It takes just 8 minutes to get to Rome city centre using the MEA line from the Ponte Lungo station, which is conveniantly located just around the corner. The English speaking landlord lives on the property and requires 1 month rent as a deposit. Smoking is permitted but pets are not allowed. Rent can be paid by cash. Suitable for: Professionals Restrictions: This property is only for Professionals San Giovanni/Appio Latino is lined with old renaissance buildings and its cobblestone streets are filled with low-lit wine bars. It is an easy 20 minute stroll to the Coliseum and only a 15 minute walk to the area’s principal attraction: the Basilica de San Giovanni, which gives the district its name. The Basilica de San Giovanni is the largest church in Rome. It is a common sight to see trade union rally and pop concert put on great shows in the square in front of the Basilica. Another attraction of this part of the city is the clothing shops along Via Sannio where you can find great bargains. The district is busy, which makes it difficult to travel by car. However, San Giovanni/Appio Latino is well connected with the rest of the city and houses many tasty restaurants and energetic nightlife options.
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While the grouper was defrosting, it was a comfortable mid-August night in Miami and another chance for that elusive perfect steak. Normally, we save the grilling for our winter months, but last night we took advantage of the low humidity and did some grillin' and chillin'. I had one ripe tomato left from our trip to the panhandle last weekend, some fresh corn and a couple of nice ribeyes. Nothing fancy here, I just rubbed a little bit of olive oil and salt and pepper onto the steaks. I sauteed some mushrooms and onions in butter on the stovetop. I prepared the corn by removing the husks and wrapping them individually in aluminum foil with a small pat of butter and a teaspoon of water in each. Those went on the grill first- on the indirect heat, for approximately 45 minutes. Next, the steaks- first searing them for 2-3 minutes on each side and then moving them to indirect heat for about 6-7 minutes, until an inserted thermometer read 137 degrees. While letting those sit, I sliced the tomatoes, salt and peppered each slice and drizzled with olive oil and balsamic vinegar. Everthing certainly looked good, and we were hungry and dug right in. The tomatoes were the best part of the meal- there is nothing like a fresh ripe tomato- which, I repeat so often here, is impossible to find in Miami. The corn was not great. We have the same problem here with corn that we do with tomatoes, except for one thing- the corn looks fresh in the package, so you never know until you cook it whether or not it's good. Another reason we are looking forward to our Pittsburgh trip next weekend is because of all the farm produce that is in season now in the Northeast. All those years living in Philadelphia, I was so spoiled by the Jersey corn and tomatoes that by this time of the summer, I was almost tired of them. As an aside, I thought I would mention the most amazing summer Jersey veggie of all, the lima bean, or pole beans as the road-side stands advertise them. If you ever thought you didn't like limas, these will change your mind. In late summer, for a very short period of time, they're in season. You open the pods, pop out the beans, and quick boil them for a few minutes until tender, but not too tender. Stir in some butter and fresh dill and you have one of the foods of the Gods...oh, why am I torturing myself so?? Back to the steak, it was well-marbled, grain fed and all of that good stuff- but something was missing. I don't know what- it didn't even slice nicely, it wasn't very tender and the taste was so-so. Ribeyes are usually a sure-bet, but lately, I don't know what is going on. Tonight I am looking forward to fish and chips made with Roy's fresh catch and yukon gold potatoes, so check back later this weekend...and the eggs.
My sister and I call each other just about everyday, and also e-mail each other at various times during the day. She is calling me more lately ever since her divorce earlier this year and we'd just chit chat about what has been going on during the day, plus some family stuff. Lately, I just don't have that much to say to her about what has been going on during the day. Sensing that, she'd try to fill up the silence with whatever that she tell me about what has been going on with some other people at her work. I like my current job and I think that the people at work are some of the nicest group of people that I've ever worked for. It's true that I'm not a huge fan of military setting, but the above characteristics sort of compensate for all of the above, and not to mention that I got to goto Japan and Monterey,Ca.! Yet for rest of the time I'm kind of feeling desperate, feeling trapped in this open space, really wide space full of corn and hay. At least I'm a little bit older, imagine some kid, 18 or 19 years old and have to be stationed here for the army or for school, what would they have to do? I'm not sure living here is making me like other people more. The GF said that I'm not as nice lately to others, not that I'm out there doing stuff that would piss people off, but I'm a lot more nonchalant about them than I used to be. Things are just so blah here, plain, gray, and unexciting. I am sure that the Midwest is a great place to raise kids, I think that depends on what kind of kids you've got. We'll see, maybe some big revelations would come and we'll grow to love and even miss this place when we are away. We still don't really have friends except some token ones from the cyberspace. The GF is more worried about it than I am, because I'm used to it. Sometimes, popularity breeds contempt. Okay, I'm blabbing here, but you get the point. P.S. Just finished watching the final episode of "Six Feet Under" and I think it almost couldn't have ended it a nicer way. Rarely had I seen a show that is centered on the themes of loss and yet it's also about life and hope. Kudos to Mr. Alan Ball! The GF already knows this, that I also think that Peter Krause is hot!
“The most important challenge for this generation” is figuring out how to “build a sustainable energy future.” This was the message from MIT President Emerita Susan Hockfield in her welcome address at the first ever U.S. Clean Energy Education and Empowerment (C3E) Women in Clean Energy Symposium held on MIT’s campus last week. Moreover, the challenges and stakes for building this clean energy future are such that our society will not be successful if half of the potential workforce is not engaged. This is the key focus of C3E — an effort to advance the careers and leadership of professional women in the clean energy field. The initiative is led by the U.S. Energy Department in strong partnership with the MIT Energy Initiative. Last week’s Women in Clean Energy Symposium is one of the pillars of the U.S. C3E program — bringing together women from all career levels and paths working in clean energy to network and drive ongoing discussions around current issues in the field. Both the breadth and depth of the day’s agenda accomplished this goal through a series of panel discussions and presentations focused on six key areas: U.S. Energy Policy, Advancements for the Developing World, Energy Technology and Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Innovative Business Models, Corporate Implementation, and Mentorship/Education. The day also offered opportunities to hear and learn from the C3E Ambassadors, a group of distinguished senior professionals who are tremendous role models for all generations. The highlight of the symposium was the 2012 C3E Award ceremony, recognizing rising women with the potential to make great contributions in the six category thrusts that the symposium’s agenda covered. Each speaker and awardee brought her own unique life story and perspective, emphasizing both the crucial interdisciplinary pathways required for clean energy solutions and the innovative thinking needed to accomplish these goals. For example, Laura Stachel was honored for her work through We Care Solar in reducing maternal mortality in Africa by providing health workers with reliable lighting, mobile communication, and blood bank refrigeration using portable solar electricity suitcases. Judy Dorsey, another award recipient, helped spearhead Fort ZED, an initiative to create one of the world’s largest active net zero energy districts in my own hometown of Fort Collins, Colorado. As a woman engineer, the interdisciplinary nature of clean energy first drew me to pursuing a career in the field and continues to inspire me. Not only are technological breakthroughs from scientists and engineers crucial, contributions from professionals in the fields of policy and law, financing and business, and education and sociology are required for the opportunities and challenges in clean energy. This message was reinforced by the speakers and events at the Symposium. C3E is a fantastic initiative and a key step towards realizing the vision of building a clean energy future. For more on the Women in Clean Energy Symposium, read the MIT News recap: Women’s Impact in Clean Energy Is Growing Worldwide.
I've been invited back to ONE LITTLE SPARK in Little Egg Harbor, NJ to teach Halloween goodies again! It sounds like a JAM PACKED weekend of fun! Read all about it here! I'll be teaching 2 classes on Sunday, Oct,7th. Class #1 - Dark Shadows - Where we'll do some great backgrounds with the usual grungy twist. Class #2 - Reliquary - we'll make a cute little album in an altered tin. And of course, Friday night and Saturday, Heather will be teach her usual CAS with a twist cards, treat ideas, and party decorations. Saturday night, Heather and I will be tag teaming some Make 'n' Takes at the Howl at the Moon party. If you're in the area I hope you'll join us.
Come collage your hearts out and make some great cards for the loved ones in your life. We'll provide you with all the supplies you'll need to make five cards. This includes card stock, patterned paper, washi tape, glitter, embossing tools, glue, and other goodies! You bring your creative juices and we'll clean up the mess. Class begins at 7pm and ends at 9pm. 25 slots available, total.
Broken Mirrors. It's now finished (boo!) and Marla Mason fans are attempting to persuade him to continue self-publishing for book 6 (yay!). While waiting with bated breath on the next Marla installment, I now have his new self-published novel The Nex to save my Monday's once again. He has a comprehensive review of his experiences self-publishing for donations on the Broken Mirrors website, and it has gotten me wondering about self-publication and online creative writing. I've read on many author blogs and book blogs some throwaway comments on self-publishing, something I had until recently attributed to excentrics like William Blake, or disgruntled Modernist poets publishing magazines to have arguments with one another in print. I am, for the most part, on the consumer side of the publishing industry and have only a small amount of experience of the other side, gained mainly through conversations with friends who have worked in publishing and the small University press at work. However, the impression I have of self-publishing has been a predominantly negative one, with self-published auothors being either berated for being so conceited that they can side step the regular publishing industry, or pitied for paying to publish their work with Print on Demand services. The sucess of Broken Mirrors, realising that I bought a book published through a POD scheme and a friend's experimental efforts in self-publishing through an anonymus blog has made me wonder; why does self-publishing have such a bad rep? After doing some research, it turns out that it isn't excentrics, disgruntled poets, ego maniacs or saps who self-publish. Beatrix Potter, Mark Twain and G P Taylor are just some of the writers who have published their first novels themselves. With the move to digital printing, e-publishing and and increasing amount of author self promotion being expected from traditional publishing houses, doesn't it make sense to self-publish?
We had a very nice day today! Elleanor continues to grow and find new things to play with. Thank you Grami for the beautiful sweater and hat!! Who knitted it?? I absolutely love it and it was since a nice surprise in the mail. These aren't the best pictures in the world but I do promise to get a better one very soon.
Friday, 2 May 2008, Dharamshala: The United States Ambassador Nancy Powell called on Prime Minister Koirala Thursday to express official concern about the treatment of Tibetans by Nepali authorities, besides discussing the current political-economic situation in the wake of the final election results. Ambassador Powell urged the Prime Minister to ensure that the right to peaceful protest was maintained and that the human rights of Tibetans in Nepal are respected. She welcomed the respect accorded to Tibetans during their 28 April protest at Swayambunath. Lodi Gyari, special envoy of His Holiness the Dalai Lama said the government of Nepal, which shares a long history with Tibet, has behaved in a most reprehensible manner, cracking down on Tibetans who live in Nepal and have been protesting in solidarity with the brothers and sisters inside Tibet. “Nepal is acting almost as an extension of the brutal regime on the other side of the Himalayas, a reaction that has many Nepalese deeply disturbed and ashamed for their government,” the envoy stated in his testimonial on Tibet in Washington, DC on 23 April. Earlier on, the Sherpa Himalayan community of Nepal voiced their serious concern on the Nepalese government’s repressive handling of peaceful Tibetan demonstrators. Terming the actions as both inhuman and repressive, they said, it is also a very serious violation of the Interim Constitution of Nepal, which upholds the dignity of the basic human rights. They said Tibetans shares same religion, culture, language and tradition with us and we are pained to see beating of protesting Buddhist monks whom we revere very highly. The Sherpa community have urged the government of Nepal to stop the double standard of dealing with the Tibetan refugees.

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