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Advert: Tesco F&F Florence & Fred – Glide
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This deceptively clever Tesco F&F Fashion for Living clothing advert features a track by Australian band Cut Copy, led by Dan Whitford. Feel The Love is from their 2008 album In Ghost Colours. The album was a number one hit in Australia, but failed to chart here in the UK. There’s also an alternative version of this ad, in which the kids do the gliding, featuring the same track. | <urn:uuid:312d88b6-42db-4e08-919d-53a46403a2c9> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://www.tvadmusic.co.uk/2012/04/tesco-ff-florence-fred-glide/ | 2016-05-24T15:40:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049272349.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002112-00173-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935091 | 112 | [
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Small Candle Centerpieces
These small candle centerpieces can be tucked most any where - on supper tables, near dinner reservation cards, bridal showers and more.
This dainty candle is nestled down in the center of a rose, which center petals have been removed. Adhere with floral adhesive.
Glue fresh leaves, such as ficus or lemon, to the sides of a candle cup for an unusual holder.
A small white doily and a bit of ribbon can create a beautiful reception favor in minutes.
Using a small Oasis ring and a pillar candle, you'd be surprised how quickly these table top arrangements could be made.
Similar treatments could be done for the tapers near your unity candle in your wedding ceremony.
Photos courtesy John Henry. All rights reserved.
To leave Small Candle Centerpieces and browse many more pages of ideas, start with the links at the bottom of Home Page | <urn:uuid:75c81fe9-c49e-454a-a15f-bb984a16c0b5> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://www.wedding-flowers-and-reception-ideas.com/small-candle-centerpieces.html | 2016-05-27T08:21:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049276564.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002116-00088-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.896884 | 188 | [
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A motorcyclist stopped in the 1000 block of North Park late last (Monday) night is facing numerous illegal drug possession charges that have been enhanced because he was within a thousand feet of Fireman’s Park.
Officer Jonathan Phipps stopped 41-year old Chadd Duane Medford of Brenham for an expired inspection sticker. The officer was suspicious and asked to search the motorcycle. He found a small amount of marijuana, methamphetamines and XANAX. Medford was arrested for possession of marijuana, controlled substances and dangerous drugs. All the charges were enhanced because he was in a drug free zone. | <urn:uuid:8e5b9d6f-0939-4e54-a6ce-a1e7f1febc94> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://kwhi.com/biker-busted-for-drugs/ | 2016-05-30T01:07:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049282327.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002122-00003-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977313 | 128 | [
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A controversial bill that would allow some undocumented students to pay in-state tuition rates at colleges and universities will be heard in the Senate Education Appropriations Subcommittee next week, Subcommittee Chairman Bill Galvano said Thursday.
The news came as a relief to Sen. Jack Latvala, the Clearwater Republican sponsoring the proposal.
"I have been certain all along that I had enough votes on the floor of the Senate to pass the bill, but I haven't been real sure whether I was going to get each of the committee chairman that I needed to hear the bill to do that," Latvala said.
Galvano, R-Bradenton, voted against the bill at its first committee stop. He initially hesitated to hear the proposal in his committee, but ultimately decided to let the Education Appropriations Subcommittee weigh in.
Latvala said Senate Appropriations Chairman Joe Negron would not hold up the bill, either.
Latvala plans to spend the next few days working on amendments that would bring the Senate version of the bill closer to the version that passed out of the House. (The Senate and the House have different language about the tuition differential, the amount universities can hike tuition over the rate set by the Florida Legislature.)
Latvala, who prides himself on his ability to count votes, also made a prediction Thursday: "26 votes for this bill out of 40 in the Senate." | <urn:uuid:e1de5a30-8473-4d66-acb7-fb72eb9bd55f> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2014/04/immigration-tuition-bill-wont-get-held-up-in-committee-senators-say-.html | 2016-05-30T01:26:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049282327.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002122-00003-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977823 | 283 | [
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My mind is turning to thoughts of spring after this crazy snowy winter here in DC. I had to share with you the new cover of Saint Louis Magazine's Winter issue by the oh so talented Harrison Howard. Note the attention to detail-the blue and white Chinoiserie vase with striped camellias, the bottle of perfume, the concert tickets. This is a wonderful magazine to subscribe to and their series of covers by Mr. Howard has been stunning.
I love the elegance and simplicity of this black and white Chinoiserie vignette. One black vase has a spray of white Phalaenopsis orchids; the other black vessel has mostly bare branches with just emerging white cherry blossoms. So perfect for a modern black and white home, which I have had on my mind since posting on Ryan Korban's black and white Chinoiserie kitchen in Lonny. | <urn:uuid:53e7a1a8-10d1-4b64-92de-8cd5b0d39078> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://www.chinoiseriechic.net/2010/02/chinoiserie-and-spring-blossoms.html | 2016-05-30T01:04:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049282327.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002122-00003-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936927 | 182 | [
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On February 28, 1997, for no apparent reason, an African American man who appeared to be in his early 20s and who was wearing black Velcro shoes, repeatedly slashed June Siler – a 24-year-old white nurse – in the face and neck, with a box cutter, as she waited for a bus near Chicago’s Michael Reese Hospital.
The next day, police arrested 41-year-old Robert Wilson at the same bus stop. From an array of photographs, Siler identified him as her attacker. Later, however, when she saw Wilson in the flesh, she said he was not the man — he was too old. Police then told her that Wilson had signed a confession, which led Siler to assume that her initial identification had been correct. The police did not tell her that an hour after Wilson’s arrest a similar attack occurred at a nearby bus stop. Nor did they tell her that a search of Wilson’s home had turned up neither Velcro shoes nor a box cutter.
During the next two weeks, four more such attacks occurred, all involving white victims, all in the same area. After the final one, on March 15, police caught the attacker running from the scene. He was Jerryco Wagner, a 21-year-old African American wearing black Velcro shoes. Wagner confessed to all of the attacks except the one to which Wilson had confessed — probably because the police did not ask him about it. Wagner was found unfit for trial and committed to a mental institution.
Before Wilson’s case came to trial on November 1, 1999, prosecutors disclosed the attacks to which Wagner confessed, but filed a motion to bar the defense from telling Wilson’s jury about them. Judge Kenneth J. Wadas, an ex-prosecutor, granted the prosecution motion on the purported ground that the later attacks were dissimilar to the Siler attack — the principal difference being that the weapons used did not include a box cutter. The jury found Wilson guilty, and Wadas sentenced him to 30 years.
Wilson lost his state appeals, but U.S. District Court Judge Ruben Castillo granted a writ of habeas corpus in January 2006. In November 2006, Chicago Tribune reporter Maurice Possley tracked down Siler, who told him that, in view of the new information, she had no doubt that Wilson was innocent.
After Possley’s article appeared on November 15, Wilson’s conviction was vacated and he was released on December 4, 2006. In 2007, Wilson filed a lawsuit against the Chicago Police Department, an assistant state’s attorney, the City of Chicago, and Cook County. In 2008, he was pardoned on the basis of innocence. His lawsuit was settled for $3.6 million in April 2012.
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CAMBRIDGE TWP., MI – Cambridge Township Board members continue to extend the deadline to demolish the Irish Hills Towers.
Donna Boglarsky, Irish Hills Historical Society president, said earlier this month the unusually cold winter prevented contractors from stabilizing the towers, according to township records. Board members granted Boglarsky an extension on a month-to-month basis to repair them and raise funds for the project.
Should a majority of township board members deem the project stalled and the towers still unsafe and unfit for occupation, the nearly century-old structures will be demolished.
The twin towers are located at 8433 W. U.S. 12.
Boglarsky said the project to renovate the towers and turn them into a museum is expected to cost more than $1 million. "We're looking into federal tax credits and grants to raise the necessary funding," she said.
Boglarsky said she is seeking volunteers to help clean the miniature golf course in front of the towers to allow for public use this summer. A "cleanup day" is scheduled for 11 a.m. Saturday, April 26.
Boglarsky is working closely with Mike Kaska and Bret Stuntz, one a maintenance engineer and the other an attorney specializing in brownfield development, to help plan the project.
According to the trio's plan, tax incentives will cover about half of the $1 million needed to bring the structures to code and remove the "dangerous and unsafe" label township officials placed on the towers.
As for the other $500,000, Boglarsky said she is still fundraising. A cause.com fundraiser garnered $435 for the project, with a goal of raising $10,000.
The historical society is also allowing those interested to "adopt" a step inside one of the towers for $1,000. Those who buy a step will have a plaque with their name included on it.
Built in the 1920s, the towers were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. Boglarsky deeded the property to the Irish Hills Historical Society, which she started, in 2010.
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In 2008, Phillip Fulmer said a tearful and tense good bye to Tennessee, a program he had coached for 17 seasons. Nearly four years later, he's trying to make his way back to the SEC.
According to former Tennessee assistant coach Doug Matthews, Fulmer has been in talks with Arkansas athletic director Jeff Long and is the leading outside candidate to replace Bobby Petrino.
"I know Phillip has had conversations with them," Matthews told the 3HL show on WGFX-FM 104.5 in Arkansas. "And when I say them, all that is going to take place behind the scenes."
However, Matthews, who worked with Fulmer at Tennessee, also said nothing would be done until after spring football concludes Saturday and that administration would be more comfortable promoting within, which could mean Taver Johnson, who has overseen the program since Petrino was first placed on administrative leave on April 5, or defensive coordinator Paul Haynes, who has gained player support.
Matthews didn't say whether Arkansas' hiring in-house would be a permanent gig or an interim position. But the longer Arkansas waits to hire a new coach the more limited their options become. With just three months until fall camps starts, most coaches aren't going to bail on their current team and Long shouldn't want a guy who would be willing to leave his team in the lurch like that.
Really, Long's best option is to hire one of the team's current assistants as interim coach and spend the year courting the university's top candidate. That way there's continuity on this year's team, which still has a chance to challenge for the SEC title and be one of the best teams in the country. No reason to rock the boat there.
As for hiring Fulmer, it's not a bad idea, but the guy hasn't coached since 2008 and his last season with the Vols was memorable for the wrong reason — at the time it was only the second time in school history the Vols had lost seven games. However, Fulmer did win 10-plus games on a regular basis at Tennessee and has been trying to get back into coaching.
But is he the best guy for Arkansas?
He knows the conference, but doesn't have ties to the school. There have been cries for Garrick McGee, who is the head coach at UAB, and Gus Malzahn, who's the head guy at Arkansas State. Both would be available at the end of the year and both have Arkansas ties, which might go over better with the fan base.
In short, there's no need to rush this decision. Several teams, notably Ohio State and North Carolina, have had productive seasons with interim coaches and then gone on to hire their top targets. Arkansas can do the same. If that's Fulmer, well, he's not doing anything and he's not going anywhere. He'll probably still be available at the end of the year. But if the school wants to hit a homerun with its hire and quickly forget the mess Petrino left, being patient is the best course of action.
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Beyonce And Jay-Z Out In Paris With Baby Blue Ivy
We’re sure you heard about the Carters being out in Paris. Well, we have the walk to hotel footage with Jay-Z holding Blue Ivy like a brick of coke. We are wondering when we will get to REALLY see this growing baby.
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How to choose a reliable childcare centre in Singapore?
In Singapore, we are unlike many other nations, where our children are mainly from families where both parents are working. Very often, parents have got to look for alternatives to care for their little ones while they are at work. As parents become more sophisticated, they are also more aware of the benefits of a good early childhood education for their children. It is however, not easy to find an ideal childcare centre for your children. Below are some tips/guidelines on how to choose a reliable, good and trustworthy childcare centre.
A good childcare centre should score high on the following factors :
- Hygiene and nutrition
- Curriculum and approach
- Parents' Involvement
- Facilities and materials
1. Hygiene and Nutrition in the Child Care Center
A good childcare center will conduct sanitization of the school as well as to ensure good hygiene practices among children and staff. For example, the teacher on duty should ensure that the children wash their hands before and after meals. The children hands should be sanitized regularly too. This is to prevent diseases such as Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease (HFMD), Chicken Pox or other contagious diseases.Upon arrival at the child care center each day, the children should have their hands, feet and mouth checked, temperature should be taken and hands should be sanitized. In a full-day program, children take at least one meal and two teas in school. Parents should review the menu to ensure that, it is one that caters to the children's needs and planned as according to the guidelines set out by the Health Promotion Board (HPB).
2. Curriculum and Approach applied in the Childcare Centre
This is an important element as parents need to be assured that their children be appropriately prepared for primary school education and life. The curriculum provided in the childcare centre should be holistic. It should allow the children to develop their physical, intellectual, emotional and social skills. Activities in the classroom should be engaging and interesting. They should set the children thinking and verbalizing and discussing their thoughts with their teachers. Teachers should deliver the lessons in an integrated manner. Parents should ask themselves if the approach applied in the childcare centre, is one that suits their children.
3. Teachers of the childcare centre
For a good early childhood education, teachers need to be caring and loving. A quality childcare centre will employ teachers who are also qualified. Early childhood educators are professionals. They go through extensive studies and follow research in the field to improve themselves continuously. Good teachers understand why children cry. Good teachers understand how to manage the children's challenging behaviours. Teachers of a childcare centre will motivate and encourage the children. Children will be happier walking into the childcare centre when they know that there are caring and competent teachers behind the door.
4. Parents' Involvement in the childcare centre A good childcare centre is one that is transparent with the parents. A good childcare centre will encourage parents to be in the centre and be involved in the daily activities. Parents are the children's first teachers and they should be well informed of the happenings in school.Over at Ameba Schoolhouse, we believe that parents play a very important role in the child's development and we want the parents to be a part of our family. We emphasize on the 3 Cs – Communication, Collaboration and Co-operation.
5. Facilities and materials Facilities and materials that are made available in the childcare center is also an important element. Do the children have a comfortable space to play, learn and rest? Do they have the space to move around freely? Are the beds provided on good quality and clean? To aid in the creativity of children, ample materials should be provided for the children. Are there sufficient furniture for the children in the child care centre?
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Honduras election: conservative close to victory. Is Zelaya crisis past?
In Honduras election, conservative opposition candidate Porfirio Lobo is ahead with most of the votes counted. Many Hondurans want to move on from the political crisis with or without Manuel Zelaya.
Tegucigalpa, Honduras and Mexico City
If ousted Honduran president Manuel Zelaya ever feared irrelevance, he has probably never felt it as acutely as now.
In presidential elections Sunday, conservative opposition candidate Porfirio Lobo won the race, according to exit polls. Though there were scattered reports of repression, the day passed without major incident.
Despite calls for boycotts, turnout seemed to be no lower than normal. And although many countries in the region refused to recognize the results, the event – which has been the key negotiating point for the reinstatement of Mr. Zelaya, still holed up in the Brazilian embassy – has come and gone.
Many Hondurans hope this is the beginning of the end of the standoff. Alex Estrada, a local bar owner who voted for Mr. Lobo, says having successful elections without much violence or upheaval today signals a new era for Honduras after five months of political strife. "The crisis no longer exists," he says.
The Honduran electoral commission had not published official results as of press time, but exit polls by local media showed that Lobo, of the National Party, had captured over half of the votes. With 62 percent of ballots counted, Lobo led with 52 percent, trailed by Elvin Santos of the Liberal Party, who got 36 percent.
Zelaya had called for boycotts, and claimed in a statement that the abstention rate was up to 65 percent. "As president of Honduras I declare this process illegitimate," he said. But the electoral tribunal says voter turnout was 62 percent.
The new leader of Honduras will face a legitimacy test. The US has suggested it will recognize the new administration, backpedaling from an earlier position demanding the reinstatement of Zelaya first. Costa Rica and Panama have followed, but most countries in the region, including Brazil, have said they will not.
Zelaya – ousted June 28 by the military for pushing for a poll on holding a constitutional assembly despite it being declared illegal – sneaked back into the country in September and has languished in the Brazilian embassy ever since.
International pressure centered on refusing to recognize Sunday's election, but the interim government, led by Roberto Micheletti, pushed forward with the vote. Many Hondurans support that position. Salvador Ochoa, a computer specialist, says this year's election is the only way to preserve democracy and bring peace back to Honduras. He says the international community should respect the results. "We had no choice but to do what we did," he says of Zelaya's ouster.
But Hondurans remain divided. Alfredo Maldonado, a local business owner, said he did not vote. Although he belongs to the same party as Lobo, he says he does not support elections under a de facto government, adding that the issue of Zelaya's reinstatement should have been dealt with before the elections. "I don't think the elections will resolve the crisis. What resolves it is carrying out the legal process against Zelaya," he says.
Juan Barahona, who has led protests in support of Zelaya, had warned that the military could use excessive force during the polls and called on sympathizers not to protest Sunday. But no major incident was reported. In the industrial city of San Pedro Sula, about 500 protestors were tear gassed by soldiers during a peaceful protest, says Tom Loudon of the Quixote Center, a nonprofit organization based near Washington, D.C. He added that people were beaten with clubs and several were arrested. "The crowd just scattered, people went running in every direction, I was one of those," he says.
Street protests will likely continue as Zelaya remains in the Brazilian embassy. The Honduran Congress is set to vote on his possible reinstatement on Dec. 2. But many Hondurans say that the most important task ahead is national unity.
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John Cotton was a clergyman in England and the American colonies, and by most accounts was the preeminent minister and theologian of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Following five years of study at Trinity College, Cambridge, and another nine years at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, he had already built a reputation as a scholar and outstanding preacher when he accepted the position of minister at Saint Botolph's Church in Boston, Lincolnshire in 1612. As a Puritan he wanted to do away with the ceremony and vestments associated with the established Anglican Church, and preach in a simpler, more consensual manner. Though he felt the English church needed significant reforms, he nevertheless was adamant about not separating from it; his preference was to change it from within. While many ministers were removed from their pulpits for their puritan practices, Cotton thrived at St. Botolph's for nearly 20 years because of supportive aldermen, lenient bishops, and his very conciliatory and gentle demeanor. By 1632, however, the Anglican church had greatly increased its pressure on the non-conforming clergy, and Cotton was forced to go into hiding. The following year he and his wife boarded a ship for New England. | <urn:uuid:7c8dbbed-c1a2-471f-8041-90e64b3243d1> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://www.worldofquotes.com/author/John+Cotton/1/index.html | 2016-05-24T23:34:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049273946.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002113-00193-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.986159 | 244 | [
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INTEGUMENTATY SYSTEM also called integument simply means covering, the skin is much more than external covering.And relationship between to other system , one this is SKELETAL SYSTEM,it includes the body's framework of bones.Composed of over 200 bones in an adult skeleton.These are all linked by joints and help in place of ligaments. They support the body and protect all the organs inside.
The MUSCULAR SYSTEM also includes all the muscles that help the body to move.Composed of over 600 muscles arranged around the frame of the skeleton. The muscles attached to bones usually work in pairs.
The RESPIRATORY SYSTEM consist of the lungs,nose and air passages.This system responsible for obtaining oxygen and getting rid of a waste gas called carbon dioxide.
The DIGESTIVE SYSTEM involves all the parts of the body that process food.A system that break down food into smaller pieces.The digestive organs include the stomach,the small intestine and the large intestine.
The NERVOUS SYSTEM connects nerve cells in the body with brain.And network of nerve cells called nervous,that send information to and from all parts of the body.
The CIRCULATORY SYSTEM includes the heart and of all the blood vessels.It is the network of veins and arteries in the body.Veins and arteries are strong flexible tubes which carry blood to all parts of the body.
The ENDOCRINE SYSTEM consist of glands which produce hormones.It is a set of glands in the body. The endocrine glands release hormones which make the body work properly.
The EXCRETORY SYSTEM ,a system in charge of removal of waste from the body .Getting rid of urine and feces is part of the process.
The REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM includes all the organs to do with sex.
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Finished his Penn State career ranked No. 32nd on Penn State’s all-time rushing list with 1,318 yards…Tied with Franco Harris (1969-71) for 20th all-time in 100-yard rushing games with five.
➤ 2015 ➤ Junior Season
Season: Appeared in 10 games with five starts. at Temple (9/5): Led the team with 78 rushing yards…Scored the team’s first touchdown of the season on a 42-yard dash around the left side. Buffalo (9/12): Gained 46 yards on a team-high 19 carries. Rutgers (9/19): Ran for 120 yards and one touchdown…His career-long 75-yard touchdown run in the second quarter is tied for the 29th-longest rush in school history…Teamed with Saquon Barkley (195 yards) to mark the first Big Ten Conference game that Penn State had two 100-yard rushers since Evan Royster (134) and Silas Redd (131) topped the mark vs. Northwestern in 2010…Was a part of a backfield that rushed for 330 yards, the most by Penn State since the Nittany Lions ran for 338 at Illinois in 2009. San Diego State (9/26): Rushed for 18 yards on a team-best 10 carries. at Ohio State (10/17): Carried the ball four times for 12 yards…Caught one pass. Illinois (10/31): Carried the ball one time for four yards. at Northwestern (11/7): Made one catch for six yards. vs. Georgia (1/2): Carried the ball once for four yards.
➤ 2014 ➤ Sophomore Season
Appeared in all 13 games with two starts, making his first career start against Maryland...Led the squad with 678 rushing yards and 147 carries (4.6 ypc), and added four touchdowns on the ground...Made 10 catches for 69 yards. UCF (8/30): Had just one carry in the season-opener at the Croke Park Classic in Dublin, Ireland. Akron (9/6): Carried the ball seven times for a team-high 45 yards. At Rutgers (9/13): Registered one carry. UMass (9/20): Toted the ball eight times for a team-high 82 yards, which included a 46-yard scamper in the first quarter to set up a field goal...Scored his first touchdown of the season on a 15-yard run in the third quarter. Northwestern (9/27): Recorded his first career reception, an 11-yard catch and run, and made one carry. At Michigan (10/11): Gained 16 yards on five carries. Ohio State (10/25): Led the team with 38 yards on 12 carries, and caught one pass for 3 yards in the double-overtime thriller. Maryland (11/1): In his first career start, tallied 21 carries for a team-best 51 yards. At Indiana (11/8): Earned the start and picked up 47 yards on 13 carries in the 13-7 win over the Hoosiers. Temple (11/15): Posted his first 100-yard game of the season with a then-career-high 130 yards on 18 carries in the 30-13 win...It was his third career 100-yard rushing game and included a 38-yard touchdown run in the third quarter to give Penn State the lead for good...Selected the coaches' Offensive Player of the Week. At Illinois (11/22): Gained a career-best 137 yards on a career-high 28 carries at Illinois to post his fourth career 100-yard rushing effort...His career-long 47-yard touchdown run early in the fourth quarter gave Penn State a 14-10 lead...Led the team with two receptions and 35 yards en route to a career-high 172 all-purpose yards in the loss. Michigan State (11/29): Scored Penn State's lone touchdown...Rushed for a team-high 51 yards on 14 carries...Caught two passes against the Spartans. Boston College (12/27): Rushed for 77 yards on 17 carries in the 31-30 overtime victory in the New Era Pinstripe Bowl at Yankee Stadium...Efforts included a 35-yard run in the fourth quarter that helped the Nittany Lions tie the game at 21-21...Caught a career-high three passes for 12 yards.
➤ 2013 ➤ Redshirt Freshman Season
Finished third on the team with 358 rushing yards on 60 carries, scoring one touchdown...Averaged 6.0 yards per carry, the best figure among players with 10 or more attempts...Suffered only three negative yards on his 60 rushing attempts...Played in nine contests and delivered a pair of 100-yard games...Had one kickoff return during the season. Eastern Michigan (9/7): In his first career game with a carry on offense, tallied 108 yards on a team-high 13 carries in the win...Found the end zone in the fourth quarter, an 18-yard rush off the right side for his first career score...Combined with Bill Belton (108 yards) to become the 32nd Penn State running back combo to rush for 100 yards in the same game and the first since 2010 (Northwestern). UCF (9/14): Had five carries for 32 yards, including a long of 13 yards. Kent State (9/21): Became the 49th player in school history with multiple 100-yard rushing games when he ran for a season-high 123 yards on 14 carries in the 34-0 victory. At Ohio State (10/26): Carried the ball 11 times for 35 yards. Purdue (11/16): Tallied nine carries for 44 yards in the win.
➤ 2012 ➤ True Freshman Season
➤ High School
Selected the 2011 New York Gatorade Player of the Year as a senior at St. Francis High School in suburban Buffalo...Playing for coach Jerry Smith, was named first-team All-Western New York...Ran for a school-record 2,131 yards and 25 touchdowns during his senior season, which included a 376-yard, five-touchdown performance in a 42-27 victory over Bishop Timon-St. Jude...Gained 828 yards and scored 10 touchdowns his junior season, which was shortened by an injury...Also lettered in track and field, serving as a team captain as a senior.
Full name is Akeel Joh-Vonnie Lynch...Son of Dona McKoy...Has two brothers, Avontae McKoy and Dondre Lynch, and two sisters, Adina and Seanice Lynch...Enjoys reading, biking and video games...Is an economics major...Born May 14, 1994 in Toronto, Ontario.
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You will need to take them out on leash and stay with them until they go. Use a potty command as they are eliminating so they associate the act with the command. Give this command even as they are eliminating to further have them associate the command with the act then praise and reward with a treat that they will only get at this time.Soon they will associate the act, the command and the special treat with voiding out in the yard. To make it even easier for them mark an area in the yard with temporary fencing or surveyor flags so they have a visual of the are you want them to go in.
You will have to clean the deck with a cleaner that is specific to dog urine and feces so the odor is not there to attract them back.
Once they get the potty command down you can direct them from the door to the potty spot. Keep that command short ,two to three words, like "pen , potty ".
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SIDON - At least eight people were killed in fighting on Monday between Palestinian factions in a refugee camp near Lebanon's southern city of Sidon, Lebanese and Palestinian medical sources said.
Local sources said the clashes broke out between fighters from the Brigades of Return, a group orginally linked to Palestinian Authority President Mohammad Abbas's Fatah group, and a rival militant organization.
The leader of the Brigades of Return, Ahmed Rasheed, and two of his brothers were killed in the clashes in the Mieh Mieh camp, the sources said.
It was not immediately clear what triggered the fighting, in which at least 10 people were wounded.
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Dr. Emanuel Gamoran, educational director of the Commission on Jewish Education, whose headquarters are in Cincinnati, wrote the following article in reply to a column by Ludwig Lewisohn entitled “Shame Over Vienna,” which appeared in the Jewish Daily Bulletin. “Though I am usually in agreement with Mr. Lewisohn,” Dr. Gamoran wrote in an appended letter, “I find myself radically in disagreement in this case.”
In a recent article which appeared in The Jewish Daily Bulletin, Ludwig Lewisohn calls the Jews of Vienna to task for protesting and for trying to arouse public opinion against the action which the Austrian Government recently took by issuing an order to segregate the Jewish children in separate Jewish schools.
Mr. Lewisohn takes the attitude that the Jews of Vienna should have made a festal day of the first day of school. They should have sent their children there with blue-white banners, they should have asked for Jewish teachers, and insisted on courses in Hebrew and in Yiddish history, etc., etc.
He makes the comparison with an incident which occurred in 1925, when, upon learning that Jews were excluded from Alpine clubs, he advised them to organize clubs of their own.
He proceeds to describe the vacillating, servile, “inferiority feeling” of the Viennese Jews, who answered him by saying: ‘Ja—aber dann.”
FAILS TO SEE ANALOGY
There is no doubt that a Jew so lacking in self-respect that after being excluded from a non-Jewish club he still seeks to enter it is a despicable creature and deserves all the shame and contumely heaped upon him by Mr. Lewisohn.
Is the segregation of Jewish children in the schools of Vienna, however, to be classed in the same category with exclusion from a social club? People have a right to choose their friends, and if our neighbors do not like us, that’s unfortunate. We have to associate with those people who do like us. But action on the part of a government in the direction of segregation reminiscent of the compulsory ghetto is by no means in the same category as exclusion from a social club. If Austria had issued a school ordinance providing different schools for the different minorities in its midst, the problem would be entirely different from what it is at present.
Austria has not done anything of the sort. What she has done is distinctly an attempt to declare the Jew a second-rate or third-rate citizen—a sort of preliminary to the acceptance of Nazi ideals.
Why should the Jews pretend in the face of action of that sort on the part of the government that they have been given occasion to rejoice and to go out marching with the white and the blue?
We are second to none in our ideal of Jewish nationalism, and just because we detest the tactics of the Revisionists is no reason why we should confuse the issue in the present situation. As long as no arrangements are made for minority rights of ALL groups in Austria, there is no reason why the Jews should act differently from their fellow citizens as far as the education of their children is concerned. It would have been supineness on the part of the Jewish leaders of Vienna to accept without protest the action of the Austrian Government.
For the sake of argument, let us assume that a similar proposition is made by one of the Jew-haters of America to the American Government. And, inconceivable as it may be, let us assume that the proposition is accepted. Would Mr. Lewisohn urge that the Jewish children in New York City should march to a segregated Jewish public school with the white and the blue, and with banners unfurled at the time when all the other nationalities that constitute America—the Irish, the Italians, the Greeks and the Slavs—go to the public school?
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If for reasons of policy or for love of tradition or for devotion to Hebrew culture, Jews should wish to have separate schools, as the Catholics do, such action should be the outgrowth of their inner desire, not of external compulsion. But if it were to be suggested as a matter of governmental legislation, Mr. Lewisohn, and with him a great many other Jews, would no doubt oppose such a measure as an attempt to deprive American Jews of their rights of citizenship.
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It is possible that your dog has a skin infection, ringworm (a fungus), or maybe mange.
Skin infections can look like circular areas with scabs or peeling fur around the edges, may be itchy, and the skin can look red. Oftentimes skin infections are on the lower belly and inside of the back legs, but they can show up anywhere, especially in skin folds. You will need antibiotics for a skin infection.
Ringworm usually is more localized, but can spread. It also looks like a round, scaly area and tends to be itchy. Ringworm requires a special antifungal medication given orally, if it is in more than one or two places. Your vet will likely shine a Wood's light on the area (some ringworm fluoresces green) and take a hair sample to see if the fungus grows.
Finally, sarcoptic mange can show up as scaly or scabby areas, particularly in the armpits, around the ears or on the face, then spreading around the body. It tends to be VERY itchy and can develop a secondary infection. It requires treatment with something like ivermectin, although there are other medications that your vet may prefer. Sarcoptes can be difficult to diagnose as it is hard to find the mites. Sometime the vet will just treat for it.
Demodectic mange is less common, particularly in adult dogs. It will be a scaly spot on the body and isn't usually itchy. Your vet can diagnose demodex with a skin scrape.
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Head coach Scott Timmerman knew it was only a matter of time before his Fort Dodge girls basketball team finally jumped back into the win column.
Tuesday's 2012-13 season-opener against Des Moines Hoover proved to be the perfect night.
Snapping a frustrating 22-game losing streak, the Dodgers (1-0 overall) earned a 48-36 home triumph inside the FDSH gym.
Messenger photo by Dale Wooten
Lexi Astor of Fort Dodge fights for a rebound on Tuesday night against Des Moines Hoover. For more photos, please visit CU?at www.messengernews.net
Fort Dodge's previous victory prior to their recent skid also came against the Huskies back on Feb. 16, 2011 in a Class 4A regional opener.
"I was very pleased with our effort (Tuesday)," Timmerman said. "Even though we didn't shoot a great percentage (the Dodgers were just 18-for-53 from the field), we still for the most part got the looks we wanted. I know if we take better care of the basketball and play good defense that our offense will eventually come around."
Lexi Astor, a 5-foot-9 junior, ignited the scrappy Dodgers with 14 points and eight rebounds.
FORT DODGE 48, DES MOINES HOOVER 36
Fort Dodge - Lexi Astor 5-15 4-6 14, Lani Van Zyl 4-10 1-3 10, Mariah Welter 1-3 2-4 4, Ashley Altman 2-10 1-2 5, Mallory Kilian 2-5 0-1 4, Tiana Mericle 1-4 2-6 4, Kari Grindberg 1-3 0-0 2, Rachel Herrington 1-1 0-0 2, Morgan Bowman 1-2 0-0 3. Totals: 18-53 10-22 48.
Des Moines Hoover - Natalie Clark 2-6 1-4 5, Malaysia Duncan 1-9 0-0 2, Mikayla Larson 1-9 2-2 4, Savana Robinson 2-8 0-2 4, Nyakat Diew 3-8 8-13 14, Artorria Jung 2-10 2-3 6, Nakeyih Harris 0-0 1-2 1, Reanna Lewis 0-0 0-0 0. Totals: 11-50 14-26 36.
Quarter scores: Fort Dodge led 9-5, 23-10, 33-24. Three-point goals: Fort Dodge 2-12 (Astor 0-3, Van Zyl 1-7, Grindberg 0-1, Bowman 1-1). Des Moines Hoover (0-10 Duncan 0-4, Larson 0-3, Diew 0-1, Jung 0-2). Total rebounds: Fort Dodge 39, Des Moines Hoover 25. Turnovers: Fort Dodge 19, Des Moines Hoover 19. Total fouls: Fort Dodge 19, Des Moines Hoover 17. Fouled out: Mericle, Welter.
"Lexi stepped up and was all over the place for us," said Timmerman. "She really showed her athleticism and quickness out (on the court)."
Sophomore point guard Lani Van Zyl added 10 points, six boards and three steals for FDSH. Senior Mariah Welter and junior Ashley Altman grabbed eight and seven rebounds, respectively.
"Lani did exactly what I envisioned her doing with her ability to knock down outside shots and penetrate the lane," Timmerman said. "With (senior) Fatima (Newsome) sidelined (by the flu), we didn't have a backup point guard. Lani knew she wouldn't be able to come out of the game, but she never gets tired and did a good job of staying out of foul trouble."
After an early triple from Van Zyl, the Dodgers never relinquished the lead. Fort Dodge built a 9-5 edge through the first period, while outscoring Hoover by five points in the middle two quarters.
"(The Huskies) had a definite size advantage inside, but our girls just really dug down deep and showed their heart and desire (FDSH outrebounded Hoover 39-25)," Timmerman said. "We looked a lot more comfortable (last evening) than at anytime last year, and we had some nice contributions from different people off the bench, too."
Nyakat Diew supplied a bright spot for Hoover (0-1) with 14 points and eight boards. The Huskies connected on only 22 percent (11-for-50) of their field goal attempts. Both Fort Dodge and Hoover committed 19 turnovers.
"We're going to come back (today) now and keep trying to get better," said Timmerman. "We know we still have plenty room for improvement."
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You have to give credit to Brazil for what it’s doing to combat corruption and solve the worst political scandal in the country’s recent history.
It’s not unusual for Latin American countries to prosecute politicians for real or imagined corrupt practices; in fact, most new governments go after their political rivals from preceding governments as soon as they can. But Brazil is doing something much more noteworthy: it is prosecuting prominent leaders of the ruling party.
Thirty-eight top officials and allies of President Dilma Rousseff and former President Luis Inácio Lula da Silva’s Workers Party, including Lula da Silva‘s former all-powerful chief of staff Jose Dirceu, are being tried before Brazil’s Supreme Court for diverting public funds to buy votes in Congress between 2002 and 2005.
The hearings, which started August 2 and are expected to last for several weeks, are being dubbed by the Brazilian press as “the trial of the century.”
They focus on what Brazilians refer to as the mensalao, or monthly allowances, that were allegedly paid by the government to lawmakers, which have resulted in 1,089 charges of corruption, misuse of public funds, embezzlement and money laundering.
While neither Rousseff nor Lula da Silva face charges, there is a consensus that the former president’s image would be hurt if some of his former top advisers are convicted.
Rousseff, a Lula da Silva protege who remains close to him, may come out of this even stronger.
She is enjoying a record 70 per cent personal popularity rate, higher than Lula da Silva’s at this point during his presidency, in large part thanks to her anti-corruption offensive.
A former guerrilla turned no-nonsense politician — I happened to sit only a few feet away from her during her public appearance with President Barack Obama at the recent Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia, and I didn’t see her smile even once — Rousseff has already fired more than a half-dozen ministers on corruption allegations since she took office in January 2011.
“The fact that the country is able to take up this issue in a world where there is so much corruption is good news,” says Albert Fishlow, a Columbia University professor emeritus of Brazilian studies.
“All of these individuals facing charges have used the legal system to avoid judgment for a number of years. At the end of it, rather than simply letting it disappear, the Brazilian judiciary as an institution has proved to function probably better than that of virtually any other Latin American country,” he added.
Paulo Sotero, a head of the Brazil Institute at the Wilson Center in Washington DC, agrees.
The fact that this trial is taking place only a few months before Brazil’s key municipal elections in October, and at a time when the economy is slowing down, is further evidence of the healthy separation of powers in Brazil, he told me.
“What we are seeing here is institutions that work,” Sotero said.
During Rousseff’s term, in addition to the layoffs of several government ministers, Brazilians have seen other key anti-corruption moves, including the implementation of a “clean record” law that does not allow politicians to run for office if they have been found guilty of a crime.
My opinion: I’m not a great fan of Rousseff’s foreign policy, which — although perhaps not as bad as Lula da Silva’s — has a pretty bad record when it comes to the collective defence of democracy and human rights around the world. But domestically, she deserves high credit for her anti-corruption drive.
While Brazil is cracking down on government corruption, most of its neighbours are turning a blind eye to it. In Argentina, President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner has virtually ignored a huge corruption scandal involving Vice President Amado Boudou’s alleged ties to the government’s money-printing company.
In Venezuela, President Hugo Chávez not only failed to fire military commander General Henry Rangel Silva after Washington accused him of drug trafficking ties in 2008, but promoted him to defence minister earlier this year.
In Ecuador, President Rafael Correa and friendly judges are trying to shelve an investigation into up to $120 million in government construction contracts with the President’s brother Fabricio Correa, which have been publicly confirmed by the latter.
The outcome of Brazil’s “trial of the century” is still unclear.
But, for now, Rousseff is a role model in the region: she is going after corrupt politicians, no matter how close they are to her own office.
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When ready to cook, start the Traeger grill on Smoke with the lid open until the fire is established (4 to 5 minutes).
Generously season the pork ribs on both sides with Traeger Pork and Poultry Shake, or salt and black pepper. Lay the pork directly on the grill grate and smoke, turning once, for 1-1/2 hours. Spray periodically with the beer to keep the meat moist.
Remove from the grill grate and transfer to a platter or aluminum foil pan. Cover and let rest.
Increase the temperature of the Traeger to High. Arrange the chile peppers - including the jalapenos - the onions, and the tomatillos on the grill grate. Work in batches if necessary. Roast, turning with tongs as needed, until all sides of the peppers and onions are blackened and the tomatillos are browned. Transfer to a platter or large aluminum foil pan and cover with plastic wrap.
When the chiles are cool enough to handle, peel off most of the blackened skin, then remove the stems and the seeds. Tear into broad strips. Peel the blackened skin off the onions, trim off the stem ends, and coarsely chop.
Coarsely puree the chiles, tomatillos, onions, cilantro, garlic, 4 to 5 cup of the chicken broth, the cumin, and oregano, working in batches. Transfer to two Dutch ovens or other heat-proof vessels. If the chili seems dry, add additional chicken broth until the right consistency is achieved.
Reduce the temperature of the Traeger to 300. Bury the pork country-style ribs in the chili. Cover the pot(s) with lids or aluminum foil. Braise the chili for 1-1/2 to 2 hours.
Carefully transfer the chili to a heatproof surface. With tongs, remove the pork country-style ribs to a cutting board. Remove the bones, if any, and chop the pork into bite-size pieces. Return the meat to the chili and stir to distribute.
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The month of March typically means slightly warmer weather. Officer Greg Gilfus from the Auburn Police Department says the slight change in temperature means more people are speeding.
But it wasn't all bad.
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There is a disturbing tendency on the part of the US Congress to legislate the Internet. A case in point is HR 2271 backed by eleven US Represntatives and submitted to review by the House Energy and Commerce and Foreign Affairs Commitees last May(2009).
Thankfully, there has been no serious deliberation on this proposed measure which intends to somehow regulate the Internet to promote, ironically, freedom of speech. In its preamble the intent is well articulated:
To prevent United States businesses from cooperating with repressive governments in transforming the Internet into a tool of censorship and surveillance, to fulfill the responsibility of the United States Government to promote freedom of expression on the Internet, to restore public confidence in the integrity of United States businesses, and for other purposes.
Reading between the lines you can discern that this bill was proposed in part in a reaction to Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft engaging in less than ethical collusion with the Chinese government; activities that have led to incarceration of bloggers and restrictions on access to information.
The Bill has sections devoted to:
Creating an annual report that identifies those countries that engage in restrictive Internet activity (105.) Would this watch list contain Australia which is setting up a massive filtering infrastructure to protect its citizens from the less tasteful content on the Internet? Would it include Germany which has attempted to ban hacking tools? Or the EU which has considered blocking searches that include certain key words like “bomb”? Would it identify the US which, thanks to widespread eavesdropping on ATT’s network by the NSA has frightened businesses away from ever hosting data in a country where they perceive that data to be unsafe from snooping?
Setting up the Office of Global Internet Freedom reporting to the Secretary of State and led by a Director(104.) I suspect just the name of this department will create additional work for the State Department to smooth ruffled feathers of those that may take umbrage to the US unilaterally setting Global policies of any sort. Ironically the only defined task for this Office will be to “ identify key words, terms, and phrases relating to human rights, democracy, religious free exercise, and peaceful political dissent..” an activity that in itself smacks of thought control.
Section 203 requires any US company that imposes changes to their search results at the behest of one of the listed countries must report it to the Director of The Office of Global Internet Freedom (DOGIF).
Section 204 has similar regulatory burdens for any US company that hosts information. This is obviously targeted at Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo, but there are thousands of online content and search engine companies that could fall under these requirements.
HR 2271 also points out in its preamble:
“ A number of United States businesses have enabled the Internet censorship and surveillance of repressive governments by selling these governments or their agents technology or training.”
Luckily it stops short of proposing the restriction of sale of that technology. It is hoped that the backers realized the tremendous damage they could inflict on the US’s networking industry if they attempted to restrict commerce to the extent necessary to stop the sale of all technology that can be used for restricting access to information. It would include all firewalls, routers, and content inspection technology.
There seems little danger of HR 2271 ever coming to a vote but…We must keep a wary eye on this 111th Congress that has over 40 measures under consideration that bear on highly technical issues. A misstep could be costly and have debilitating consequences for a fragile economy.
Global Internet Freedom will be best served by governments of all types avoiding any meddling in the still young Internet.
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In this technology evolution keynote, Juan Enriquez discusses America's ever-present financial crisis and the surprising solution he believes to exist in modern technology and science. Enriquez states that the "the key to managing crises is to keep an eye on the long term."
While a handful of individuals would argue that a new government or budget can save the United States from this financial crisis, the speaker believes that the solution rests in the ways technology and science are evolving, including the ability to engineer cells, tissues and produce robots.
According to Enriquez, the future depends on these evolving technologies that are enabling individuals to transform one thing into something completely different. While most people dwell on the economy and shortage of jobs, Enriquez believes that accelerating evolution in science and technology will provide the reboot for which society is so desperate.
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Taylor Swift, 'Fearless' and Full of Charm
Tuesday, November 11, 2008; Page C01
Need evidence that Taylor Swift is a capital-P pop star? Forget her appearance on MTV's Video Music Awards and listen to how poised this Nashville sprite sounds wrapping her voice around the letter M.
"Mmmm-mmmm," she hums over the intro of "Hey Stephen," a pop-country bauble that beams its irresistible smile before permanently lodging itself in your hippocampus.
But to call "Stephen" the best offering from her sophomore album, "Fearless," is like picking a strawberry from the carton and declaring it sweeter than the rest. In Swift's world, every song is a radio-ready charmer, confirming the 18-year-old's ability to pen a gaggle of consistently pleasing tunes -- and in the case of "Hey Stephen," stretch a single consonant into sonorous ribbons of gravitas.
Swift's eponymous 2006 debut made her a gigantic success on country radio and on MySpace, but her precocity is still somewhat stunning. While many of her teen-pop contemporaries often sing as if suffering lung spasms (only to have their histrionic labors Auto-Tuned into pristine purrs), Swift hops up and down her register in a chirpy cadence, assigning fresh notes to almost every syllable. Her voice has only the faintest traces of Tennessee twang, and her delivery is both sugary enough for Radio Disney and poised enough for endless rotation on CMT.
She's an equally talented songwriter, but her consistency can often slip into uniformity. Here's how almost all of the songs on "Fearless" work: inviting verses, soaring choruses, a driving bridge, a final stripped-down verse and one last uber-chorus for the road. Rinse and repeat.
Even so, "You Belong With Me" manages to stick out, its banjos cluck-cluck-clucking alongside a new-wavey guitar crunch worthy of the Cars. It might be a ploy to countrify the proceedings, but on Swift's watch, the pairing manages to sound perfectly natural. "She wears high heels, I wear sneakers/She's cheer captain and I'm on the bleachers," she sings, trying to persuade some boy to come to his senses and submit to her everygirl charms.
Twelve of the 13 songs on "Fearless" traffic in a similar vein -- chronicling young romances gone good, bad and ugly. It's a brand of teen drama that market-obsessed record execs dream about, but Swift sounds like she's genuinely singing to the hallways of her high school. A remarkable example of this is "15," recounting both freshman butterflies and senior-year regret. "When you're 15 and somebody tells you they love you, you're gonna believe them," her chorus warns. It's a wistful cautionary tale that feels like it originated on the front lines instead of in some godforsaken focus group.
And that makes Swift's most obvious precedents the legendary girl groups of yore. Like the Shangri-Las, Crystals and Ronettes before her, Swift has found a way to swathe the fun in profundity.
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I would highly recommend Petplan - I had a mare who had colic last year and they paid out upto my fees limit of £5000 no problems at all. They also paid quickly and efficiently when I lost her and previous to that had paid for a minor incident no fuss at all. They are easy to get hold of and really nice and sympathetic to talk to. This is my experience anyway - they are a bit more on the pricey side but I would rather pay a few extra pounds a month than have the stress I have seen some people in when the insurance won't pay up and there are a lot thet won't. My final bills came to over £7000 so I would never have coped! A couple of my friends are with NFU and highly recommend them. Only thing about Petplan is they don't pay transport - other than this can't fault.
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Breast Cancer Overview
If you have been diagnosed with breast cancer, you may feel concerned and overwhelmed by the disease, treatment options, and prognosis. Our comprehensive team at The Breast Center -- Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven can provide comfort and support by answering all your questions in detail. Through the combined experience of our nationally renowned surgeons and multidisciplinary clinical professionals at the Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven, our team will provide you with the highest-quality care, including the latest therapies and surgeries in breast cancer and clinical trials for which you may be eligible.
As faculty of the Yale School of Medicine Department of Surgery, our surgeons, who include Dr. Anees Chagpar, Dr. Don Lannin, Dr. Brigid Killelea, and Dr. Nina Horowitz, are leading innovators in breast cancer research and treatment; they continue to better understand the nature of breast cancer and are increasingly hopeful about creating a cancer-free future. Through a combination of skill and knowledge, we can begin to ease the fear that cancer often creates and inspire a better life instead.
The breast of a woman is made up of the sacs that make the breast milk (the lobules), the tubes that carry the milk to the nipple (the ducts), and the surrounding fatty tissue. The areola is the darker-colored skin surrounding the nipple. Nearly all breast cancers begin in either the lobules or the ducts.
Blood vessels and lymph (pronounced limf) channels are found in each breast in the fatty tissue. Lymph nodes are small lima bean-shaped organs that are part of our body's immune system. They are found from our head to our toes. Part of their job is to filter germs and abnormal cells that are released into the lymph channels. There are groups of lymph nodes in our axilla (armpit), above our collarbone and in our chest, which drain the fluid coming from the breast.
In our conversation about your breast cancer, we will discuss the need to know whether or not cancer cells have spread to these lymph nodes. The axillary lymph nodes are one of our best predictors of the risk that the cancer cells have escaped to other places in your body. This will be important in making some of your treatment decisions.
What Is Breast Cancer?
The body is made up of hundreds of millions of living cells of many different types. Normal cells grow, divide and die in a very orderly process. This helps replace normal cells and helps to keep us all healthy. Sometimes cells begin to divide even when new cells are not needed, and these extra cells can form a mass of tissue called a tumor. Not all tumors are cancerous. Benign (be-nine) tumors can grow large and press on other organs but have no ability to invade other tissues or spread to other parts of the body. Benign breast tumors are never a threat to your life.
Malignant tumors are cancer and their cells are not normal. Instead of dying, cancer cells keep on growing and forming new cancer cells. Cancer cells can invade, or grow into, other nearby tissues. They can also break away from their original site and enter the bloodstream or lymphatic channel. This is how a metastasis (muh-tas-tuh-sis) begins. These breakaway cells can then form new tumors in other vital organs, and it is this process that can make cancer life threatening.
Breast cancer is a malignant tumor that starts from the cells lining the milk-making part of the breast. If the cancer has spread outside the breast, it is commonly seen in the lymph nodes under the armpit (axillary nodes). Cancer cells may also spread to other parts of the body, like the lungs, liver, bones, or brain. If a cancer spreads to other parts of the body, the new spots are still named after the primary tumor. For example, if a breast cancer spreads to the bones, a biopsy of this area would show breast cancer cells. We would call this metastatic breast cancer, not bone cancer.
Types of Breast Cancer
Breast cancers can range from very common to quite rare; having an experienced surgeon will help you understand and navigate through the physical and emotional challenges of any type of breast cancer. Our surgeons at The Breast Center specialize exclusively in breast surgery and have extensive experience in treating even the most complex breast cancers.
Cancers are generally considered to be invasive or in situ. Breast cancer that is determined to be invasive means that the breast cancer cells have the ability to spread, but may not. Breast cancer can also be in situ, which means the breast cancer cells are still in their pre-cancerous stage.
The two most common types of breast cancer are ductal and lobular. Ductal breast cancer is found within the ducts of the breast that transport milk. Lobular breast cancer is found within the lobules of the breast that make the milk.
Ductal Breast Cancers Include:Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS):
This is the earliest type of breast cancer, when the cells lining the milk duct have become malignant, but have not had a chance to spread through the walls of the milk ducts into the surrounding tissue. DCIS has no ability to spread and is associated with a 99 percent cure rate. This is part of the spectrum referred to as ductal intraepithelial neoplasia (DIN).
Invasive (or infiltrating) ductal carcinoma:
Lobular Breast Cancers Include:Invasive (or infiltrating) lobular cancer:
These cancers begin in the sacs of the breast, which produce the milk. Only 20 percent of all breast cancers are lobular. They have the same prognosis as ductal cancers, but can be much harder to detect and are more often missed by breast imaging.
Inflammatory breast cancer:
This uncommon type of breast cancer presents with visible breast skin changes that look like an infection. This is a more aggressive form of breast cancer and is more likely to metastasize. This type of breast cancer is often treated with chemotherapy prior to surgery.
Our surgeons from the Yale School of Medicine Department of Surgery are committed to helping you understand, in depth, the most effective course of action to becoming cancer free. Together with professionals at Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven, we offer a multidisciplinary team of dedicated breast surgeons, plastic surgeons, medical oncologists, radiation oncologists, pathologists, psychologists, geneticists, nurses, social workers, physical therapists, and other medical experts who are focused on providing you with the very best care and ensuring optimal quality and quantity of life.
Causes Of Breast Cancer
The most well known are called BRCA 1 and 2, which are tumor suppressor genes. In their normal state, they keep cancers from developing. When a mutation occurs, cells no longer die at the right time, and a cancer is much more likely to develop. Women with this mutation have a 60 to 80 percent lifetime risk for developing breast cancer, as well as an increased risk for ovarian cancer.
All women are at risk for breast cancer. Men can also get breast cancer, but this is rare (1:100). With the exception of skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common cancer diagnosed in women in the United States in all racial and ethnic groups. The two most important risk factors for developing breast cancer are being a female and getting older.
Here is a chart that shows the chances of developing breast cancer by age:
By age 35: 1 in 622
By age 45: 1 in 93
By age 55: 1 in 33
By age 65: 1 in 17
By age 75: 1 in 11
By age 85: 1 in 9
By age 95: 1 in 8
Risk Factors for Developing Breast Cancer
Risk Factors You Cannot ChangeGender:
Breast cancer is 100 times more common in women than men.
About two out of three women with invasive breast cancer are 55 years old or older.
Breast cancer risk is higher in women who have close blood relatives on either their mother’s or father’s side of the family. This risk increases with the number of individuals affected.
Genetic risk factors:
Approximately 5 to 10percent of breast cancers are thought to be linked to these inherited mutations, most commonly BRCA 1 or 2.
For more information, please visit: http://www.yalecancercenter.org/genetics
Or to make an appointment, please call us at (203) 764-8400.
Personal history of breast cancer:
A woman with breast cancer in one breast has a greater chance of getting a new breast cancer in either breast.
White women are more likely to develop breast cancer than African-American women, but African-American women are more likely to die of their cancers. Asian, Hispanic, and Native American women have a lower risk of developing or dying from breast cancer.
Early breast radiation:
Women who have had radiation treatments to the chest area during puberty or young adulthood have a greatly increased risk of developing breast cancer.
Atypical breast lesions:
Women who have had previous biopsies showing atypical proliferative lesions have an increased risk for developing breast cancer. There is a long list of these lesions including LCIS, atypical ductal hyperplasia, and papillomatosis.
Women who begin to have their periods at a younger age or who have menopause at an older age are at a slightly increased risk for developing breast cancer.
Risk Factors Related To Lifestyle DecisionsPregnancy history:
Women who have not had children or who have their children after the age of 30 have an increased risk of breast cancer.
Hormone replacement therapy:
Postmenopausal combination hormone replacement with both estrogen and progesterone increases the risk of developing breast cancer. Estrogen alone does not appear to increase the risk.
Women who have one drink a day have a small increased risk of developing breast cancer. Heavy alcohol users have much more risk.
Women who are overweight or obese, especially after menopause, have a higher risk of breast cancer.
Recent studies clearly show that exercise decreases the risk of breast cancer.
Symptoms of Breast Cancer
Women should talk to their doctor if they are experiencing any of the following symptoms:
- Any abnormal discharge from the nipple
- Change in the size, shape or texture of the breast
- Inverted nipple
- Peeling or flaking of the nipple
- Redness or pitting of the skin, like an orange
- Pain in the breast
- A lump in the underarm or breast
- An abnormal mammogram
Ideally, women present without symptoms at all. Women should be proactive about screening for breast cancer and get a mammogram every year beginning at the age of 40. The Breast Center offers state-of-the-art technology; we would be happy to provide your yearly mammogram and any needed follow-up imaging, such as an ultrasound and MRI.
If your biopsy results are abnormal, you may need a biopsy. Our surgeons from the Yale School of Medicine Department of Surgery can perform your biopsy and review your biopsy results with you, in detail, and answer all your questions and concerns. Should your biopsy results show that you have a malignancy, our nationally recognized surgeons are highly experienced in treating all types of cancer, including the most complex cases. We will create a detailed treatment plan based on your specific condition and your concerns, while offering heartfelt, comprehensive care to help you through every step of your surgery and treatment process.
Stages of Breast Cancer
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Bahnhof/Main Station • Stuttgart • Germany
The Main Station (german: Hauptbahnhof) in Stuttgart. The Stuttgarter Bahnhof is especially well known due to the large infrastructure project “Stuttgart 21” which aims at improving the railway connections with Stuttgart by completely restructuring the station and building new railways in the Stuttgart area. However the large scale of the project S21 and its high costs made it the most discussed development project of germany.
This panorama shows the whole front of the main station, which was built between 1914 and 1928 based on plans by the architect Paul Bonatz. It is dominated by the Bahnhofsturm (station tower) on the eastside of the building, since the 1950s bearing a logo of Mercedes Benz. The front of the station also features a quotation by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel („… daß diese Furcht zu irren schon der Irrtum selbst ist.“) mounted with big letters above the central entrance. As a funny detail you will find four clocks prominent on the front facade (look into the detail images to the right), which all show a different time due to the short periods between taking the single photographies from which the panorama montage was created. One of the detail images also shows an alternative view of the right side of the station with the Schlossgartenflügel which has been demolished in 2012. | <urn:uuid:7db78149-e6b8-4515-8325-6d8a1a3ffe95> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://panoramastreetline.com/bahnhofmain-station-stuttgart-germany-P2341 | 2016-05-27T23:56:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049277286.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002117-00128-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936051 | 310 | [
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WWII FN BAR and Bren 10/22 stocks (build thread)
.22LR Bren using a Ruger 10/22 (in progress)
Just got the parts kit.
First it needs to be degreased with mineral spirits and hot water to desolve the cosmoline. Will then be rewelding it with filler, grinding down the slag, milling out the receiver, putting the barrel through a lathe to bore it out. I will have to cut off the Bren trigger and trigger guard in order to have the 10/22 drop into place. Then repaint everything black.
Magazine, barrel and handle bar are being shipped.
_MG_1243 by defconskylude, on Flickr
_MG_1241 by defconskylude, on Flickr
_MG_1240 by defconskylude, on Flickr
_MG_1233 by defconskylude, on Flickr
_MG_1234 by defconskylude, on Flickr
_MG_1235 by defconskylude, on Flickr
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.22LR FN BAR using a Ruger 10/22 (in progress)
This a custom FN BAR non firing gun. The receiver is made of solid aluminum with no internals. The only things real are the barrel, magazine, and the wood furniture. I will have to mill out the solid receiver and bore out the barrel through a lathe.
Bipod and handle bar are currently being shipped.
_MG_1242 by defconskylude, on Flickr
_MG_1239 by defconskylude, on Flickr
_MG_1238 by defconskylude, on Flickr
_MG_1237 by defconskylude, on Flickr
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_MG_1231 by defconskylude, on Flickr
This is what the Bren will look like.
I would LOVE to have a BAR. Even in .22 I'm looking forward to seeing that one.
Finally had time to clean off the cosmoline(grease) today.
Spent half an hour on planning.
Pre fitted the barrel, bipod and magazine.
I need to run the barrel through a lathe to bore it about 3/4 diameter
to make room for the 10/22 barrel to slide through it.
Need to mill out the Bren lower receiver so the 10/22 trigger can drop right in
and I can get access to the 10/22 magwell
I dont plan on using the torched receiver parts. I plan on using sheet metal to reconstruct the receiver and just weld it until it fits the 10/22
Need to grind out the slag from the torch cuts.
Add a hinge to the receiver and side wall of the Bren so I can easily take out the 10/22
Plasti dip all the wood
Paint the rest of the gun flat black
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NREL Teams with concept3D to Develop State-of-the-Art Energy Auditing Tool
April 2, 2013
Commercial enterprises and government agencies conduct thousands of building energy audits every year—and the methodology often varies widely. NREL experts quickly realized that the lack of standardized data collection and auditing processes was leading to inaccurate and/or inconsistent results, especially when comparing results across a spectrum of building types in a given portfolio, such as in federal agencies.
To address this, they sought a collaborative solution that would provide building energy managers, facilities managers, and others with standardized data, processes, and expert analysis that would result in more constructive, impactful audits—ultimately improving building efficiencies and reducing overall building energy costs. The result is simuwatt Audit.
To start, NREL tapped in to the work it was already conducting with local software developer concept3D to develop the Building Component Library (BCL)—an online repository of energy data on individual building components or energy conservation measures that can be used to create building energy models using NREL’s OpenStudio and EnergyPlus tools, with data broken down into separate components that represent parts of a building.
“After identifying the need for standardized auditing processes and data management, we realized we could combine the lab’s commercial building energy analysis capabilities and auditing methodologies with concept3D’s software development expertise, including the BCL and their 3D geometry capture software, to provide investment-grade level 3 audits much faster and at a reduced cost when compared to traditional methods,” said NREL’s Larry Brackney
Applying NREL’s advanced energy modeling framework and building energy audit processes, collaboration tools, and in-app media and concept3D’s geometric capture, combined with real-time connections to large sets of standardized data, the tablet-based simuwatt Audit application delivers, enabling energy auditors and others to conduct investment-grade audits that cost 75% less than traditional audits and store the data in a consistent and reusable format.
This summer, NREL and concept 3D will have an opportunity to demonstrate simuwatt Audit in action and further refine it based on field testing at U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) sites.
“What’s been great for us is that we’ve gotten to serve as a commercial partner of sorts for NREL,” said Oliver Davis, CEO and co-founder of concept3D. “We’ve been able to combine NREL’s analysis and auditing expertise with our geometry capture and other software development tools to create a mobile application that will change the industry.”
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Despite the current popularity of Korean dramas, Hong Kong's television stars showed on Saturday night they still had pull among viewers here.
Some of the territory's top actors and actresses turned up at Marina Bay Sands to grace the third annual StarHub TVB Awards.
The ceremony is a ticketed event celebrating the popularity of TV stars in productions by Hong Kong broadcaster TVB here.
It was attended by around 6,000 people - many paying between $68 and $118 - to watch 20 artistes, including Moses Chan, Kevin Cheng and Myolie Wu, collect awards as well as perform songs.
Awards were given out in 30 categories, nine of which were decided by fan votes and the rest by a judging panel comprising StarHub and TVB staff.
The top two individual awards - My Favourite TVB Actor and My Favourite TVB Actress, both fan-voted - went to Cheng and Wu.
Although these awards were given to the most popular TVB stars in Singapore and were not an endorsement of any specific roles they played, Cheng knew what his most memorable role last year was: That of a socially conscious rogue lawyer in the legal drama Ghetto Justice.
He said: "I feel very lucky to play the role because I know I wasn't the first, second or third choice for it. I am thankful and grateful for the opportunity."
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843 F2d 1364 Lutzker v. Plet
843 F.2d 1364
56 USLW 2603, 6 U.S.P.Q.2d 1370
Robert S. LUTZKER, Appellant,
Catherine PLET, Appellee.
United States Court of Appeals,
April 6, 1988.
John Kurucz, Kane, Dalsimer, Kane, Sullivan and Kurucz, New York City, argued for appellant.
Bradford J. Duft, Lyon and Lyon, Los Angeles, Cal., argued for appellee.
Before SMITH, NIES and ARCHER, Circuit Judges.
ARCHER, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from the decision of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (Board), awarding priority of invention to the senior party, Catherine Plet (Plet), on the ground that the junior party, Robert S. Lutzker (Lutzker), had suppressed or concealed the invention within the meaning of 35 U.S.C. Sec. 102(g) (1982) and on the ground that Lutzker failed to comply with the duty of disclosure required by 37 C.F.R. Sec. 1.56(a). We affirm on the basis of the suppression and concealment and do not consider the failure to comply with section 1.56(a).
The invention at issue is a device for making canapes. Lutzker introduced into evidence before the Board a drawing showing every element of the invention of the count in issue. The drawing is dated February 1, 1976 and is signed by Lutzker and witnessed by his wife, his step daughter, and two friends. The Board found that Lutzker established conception of the invention as of February 1, 1976 on the basis of this disclosure. The Board further found that Lutzker established an actual reduction to practice of his invention by the end of March 1976. A commercially acceptable version of his invention was disclosed to the public at a July 14, 1980 Housewares Show. Lutzker filed a patent application on November 24, 1980.
Plet's invention was constructively reduced to practice on the effective filing date of her patent application (March 3, 1980), i.e., the filing date of Plet's parent application. The Board found that Plet "established a date of conception no later than August 17, 1979."
With respect to Lutzker's delay in making his invention publicly known, the Board stated that
[t]he period from ... [Lutzker's] reduction to practice in March 1976 to the date of the show is over 51 months and is clearly such an unreasonable length of time that it raises an inference of suppression on the part of Lutzker.... Thus, the burden falls on Lutzker to excuse, explain or justify the delay.
The Board determined that Lutzker's activities during this period were insufficient to overcome the inference of suppression of the invention because they were "directed primarily toward commercializing the invention." Moreover, the board found that Lutzker's actions "involve a deliberate policy on his part not to disclose his invention to the public until he is ready to go into commercial production."
The Board recognized that "Lutzker could still prevail on the question of priority if he could show ... [renewed activity] during the critical period from just prior to Plet's entry into the field until Lutzker's November 24, 1980 filing date." The Board found, however, that "the renewed activities relied upon by Lutzker did not start until after Plet entered the field" and therefore that "Lutzker is not entitled to prevail on the basis thereof."
Generally, the party who establishes that he is the first to conceive and the first to reduce an invention to practice is entitled to a patent thereon. However, the second party to conceive and reduce the same invention to practice will be awarded priority of invention if he can show that the first party to reduce to practice abandoned, suppressed or concealed the invention. 35 U.S.C. Sec. 102(g); Paulik v. Rizkalla, 760 F.2d 1270, 226 USPQ 224 (Fed.Cir.1985).
The Board found that Lutzker was the first to conceive and first to reduce the invention to practice, but that he suppressed or concealed his invention after his reduction to practice. There are two ways in which Lutzker can be awarded priority with respect to the count at issue: (1) by showing that the Board erred in finding that he suppressed or concealed his invention; or (2) by showing that the board erred in finding that he had not resumed work on the invention which was the subject of his patent application from a time prior to Plet's entry into the field. See Brokaw v. Vogel, 429 F.2d 476, 480, 166 USPQ 428, 431 (CCPA 1970) ("whether there was suppression of [sic] concealment under the statute is an ultimate conclusion of law").
In Correge v. Murphy, 705 F.2d 1326, 1330, 217 USPQ 753, 756 (Fed.Cir.1983) (quoting International Glass Co. v. United States, 408 F.2d 395, 403, 159 USPQ 434, 441 (Ct.Cl.1968)), the court held:
The courts have consistently held that an invention, though completed, is deemed abandoned, suppressed, or concealed if, within a reasonable time after completion, no steps are taken to make the invention publicly known. Thus, failure to file a patent application; to describe the invention in a publicly disseminated document; or to use the invention publicly, have been held to constitute abandonment, suppression or concealment.
Moreover, when there is an unreasonable delay between the actual reduction to practice and the filing of a patent application, there is a basis for inferring abandonment, suppression or concealment. Horwath v. Lee, 564 F.2d 948, 951-52, 195 USPQ 701, 705 (CCPA 1977). The inventor's activities during the delay period may excuse the delay (e.g., he may have worked during that period to improve or perfect the invention disclosed in the patent application). Id. at 952, 195 USPQ at 705; Young v. Dworkin, 489 F.2d 1277, 1281 n. 3, 180 USPQ 388, 391-92 n. 3. (CCPA 1974); Frey v. Wagner, 87 F.2d 212, 215, 32 USPQ 239, 242 (CCPA 1937) ("The law does not punish an inventor for attempting to perfect his process before he gives it to the public.")
Lutzker reduced his invention to practice by the end of March 1976, but his first public disclosure was in July 1980. The Board correctly found this delay of approximately fifty-one months was unreasonably long and sufficient to give rise to an inference of an intent to abandon, suppress, or conceal the invention. See, e.g., Paulik v. Rizkalla, 760 F.2d at 1273-75, 226 USPQ at 226-27 (four-year delay constitutes prima facie suppression); Peeler v. Miller, 535 F.2d 647, 653-54, 190 USPQ 117, 122-23 (CCPA 1976) (a four-year delay is "prima facie, unreasonably long" and creates an inference of intent to suppress); Shindelar v. Holdeman, 628 F.2d 1337, 1342-43, 207 USPQ 112, 117 (CCPA 1980), cert. denied, 451 U.S. 984, 101 S.Ct. 2317, 68 L.Ed.2d 841 (1981) (two-year and five month delay between reduction to practice and the filing of an application is prima facie unreasonable).
An inference of suppression or concealment may be overcome with evidence that the reason for the delay was to perfect the invention. See, for example, Dewey v. Lawton, 347 F.2d 629, 632, 146 USPQ 187, 189-90 (CCPA 1965), which permitted "testing and refinement" of the invention for more than one year after reduction to practice; and Schnick v. Fenn, 277 F.2d 935, 941-42, 125 USPQ 567, 573-74 (CCPA 1960), which permitted a delay of about eleven months after reduction to practice while "continuing 'the development of the best design' " in further perfecting the invention. When, however, the delay is caused by working on refinements and improvements which are not reflected in the final patent application, the delay will not be excused. See Horwath v. Lee, 564 F.2d at 952, 195 USPQ at 706. Further, when the activities which cause the delay go to commercialization of the invention, the delay will not be excused. See Fitzgerald v. Arbib, 268 F.2d 763, 766, 122 USPQ 530, 532 (CCPA 1959).
Lutzker attempts to overcome the inference of suppression or concealment on the basis that during the fifty-one months between reduction to practice and public disclosure he worked to improve his invention. He argues that he was
continuously active from the time of reduction to practice as evidenced by hand made models falling within the count of the interference, to commercial release of the invention. This activity involved various aspects of preparing molds for the inventive product and perfecting several different shapes of the inventive canape maker for commercial release.
The Board noted that "[o]ther activities relied upon by Lutzker include the development of a recipe book to be sold along with the canape maker ... and the development of a blister card on which to package the canape maker for sale."
With respect to these contentions, the Board found:
There is nothing in Lutzker's application disclosure regarding the production molds, the recipe book or the blister card and, accordingly, we do not believe that any of those activities may properly be relied upon to excuse or justify any part of the period of delay under consideration. Those activities satisfied Lutzker's stated policy of not filing a patent application until his invention was ready to be released commercially, but they are not in accord with the policy of early public disclosure expected of those desiring to reap the benefits of the patent system.
* * *
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Lutzker ... did not attempt to change the construction of the invention in issue after the ... reduction to practice in March 1976.... [T]he final version ... [of the invention] has the same construction as the first reduction to practice.
We have not been shown that these factual determinations are clearly erroneous. Since Lutzker's activities were directed to commercialization of his invention and since none of his activities were reflected in his patent application, such activities will not excuse the delay or rebut the presumption of suppression or concealment. See Horwath v. Lee, 564 F.2d at 952, 195 USPQ at 706; Fitzgerald v. Arbib, 268 F.2d at 766, 122 USPQ at 532. Moreover, in this case the Board also found that "Lutzker's actions ... constitute more than an inference of suppression or concealment" because of his deliberate policy not to disclose his invention to the public until he is ready to go into commercial production. Such a policy is evidence of an intent to suppress or conceal the invention under 35 U.S.C. Sec. 102(g). Young v. Dworkin, 489 F.2d at 1281-82, 180 USPQ at 392.
Lutzker could still have prevailed in the interference if he had demonstrated "that he had renewed activity on the invention and that he proceeded diligently to filing his patent application, starting before" Plet's entry into the field. Paulik v. Rizkalla, 760 F.2d at 1273, 226 USPQ at 225-26. Lutzker's renewed efforts, as the Board found, did not begin prior to Plet's entry into the field. The final or finished version of the canape maker, which was to be released commercially, was shown by Lutzker to his attorney on March 3, 1980. However, on the same date Plet filed her patent application on the invention which she conceived several months earlier. We have not been shown that the Board's findings are clearly erroneous. Lutzker therefore cannot prevail on the basis of his renewed activity.
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First 2012 Coda Sedan customer car emerges from Benicia, CA, assembly plant, March 2012Enlarge Photo
When Coda Automotive started production and sales of its 2012 Sedan earlier this year, it ended years of doubt and confusion about the firm’s abilities to bring a highway-capable electric car to market.
Yesterday, Coda CEO Phil Murtaugh confirmed Coda’s intent to manufacture a second electric car model by mid-2014, but without DoE help.
According to The Detroit News, Murtaugh promised the new car, developed in collaboration with Chinese firm Great Wall Motors, would be the ”most affordable EV on the market, comparable to entry-level internal combustion engine vehicles.”
Murtaugh was light on details, but did disclose that the new Coda electric car would be based on an existing car made by Great Wall Motors.
Looking at the current cars made by the firm, we think there are two likely candidates for Coda electrification: the Great Wall Florid, a subcompact car that looks like a cross between a Scion xA and Toyota Yaris; and the Great Wall Coolbear, a subcompact that resembles a Scion xB.
Sadly, there are no details on specification either, but we’d assume a range of between 80 and 100 miles would be needed as an absolute minimum.
As for price? We’re not sure quite what Coda deems “affordable”, but in order to compete with entry-level gasoline cars we think it would need to sell at a price of between $10,000 and $15,000.
No DoE = cars built in China
Just under a month ago, the Coda revealed plans it had to build a lithium-ion battery fabrication plant in Columbus, Ohio had been cancelled following difficulty obtaining a concrete low-interest loan guarantee from the U.S. Department of Energy under its Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing Program.
At yesterday’s press conference, Coda confirmed that it has officially withdrawn its application for DoE ATVM loans.
First delivery of 2012 Coda Sedan, at Coda Silicon Valley, to buyer Randy Abraham, March 2012Enlarge Photo
Without DoE assistance, Coda is no-longer required to build its cars in the U.S., meaning its second model will most-likely be assembled at a Great Wall Motors factory in China and finished in the U.S., much like the current Coda Sedan.
A long way to go
Although it’s good to see Coda planning a future model to sell alongside its 88-mile sedan, initial sales figures of the $37,250 car have been disappointing.
Unlike Nissan and Chevrolet, Coda hasn’t disclosed how many of its cars have been sold to date, but during Tuesday’s announcement Murtaugh admitted that sales were “a low number.”
We’re glad to see Coda moving forward and making future plans that do not rely on U.S. DoE loan guarantees.
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Tony the Tiger is great at advertising Frosties simply because his target audience love him, and he advertises Frosties. Unfortunately things don’t quite work this way for B2B marketers.
In B2B, creative still needs to stand out and people need to like it, but there is always the conflicting need to convey credibility and instantly communicate what your company does. So ideas need to be lovable, but serious.
Technology is a prime example of a sector that has long been labelled dull, uninspiring and devoid of creativity. The communications of tech brands are often serious, but rarely does anybody love it.
IBM however is an exception. That’s because seriously loveable B2B doesn’t get much bigger than IBM’s ‘A Smarter Planet’. It connects on both a rational and emotive level, and like all the best B2B work it echoes a fundamental truth about the company behind it.
It's a tagline, an ad campaign, a social media programme, an attempt to educate customers and influencers, a library of thought leadership, an employee motivational programme, and a clearly defined corporate mission. Most importantly, it sells IBM by framing the importance of harnessing the intelligence of a company's connected data.
The genius of IBM’s Smarter Planet was heightened by the fact that it fostered the development of one of the most seriously loveable B2B campaigns to date: The Watson Jeopardy challenge. IBM’s cognitive computing technology, Watson, is an artificially intelligent computer system capable of answering questions posed in natural language.
Watson’s performance on U.S. quiz show Jeopardy, which saw it beat two of the game’s former champions, made it an instant celebrity. Jeopardy provided a gateway to selling computers to the Fortune 1000. The brilliance of the Jeopardy challenge is that it combined highbrow content with mass appeal. It was also the perfect place to showcase state-of-the-art artificial intelligence technology to customers and prospects in a context that sparked visions of how it can be optimised for B2B applications – specifically, healthcare and insurance.
Like technology, engineering is another sector where brands all too often play it safe, relying on plain photography depicting the working environment and the people in it.
Trelleborg’s engineered systems operation however, with its ‘Everyday Ingenuity’ brand identity, bucks the trend. Everyday Ingenuity combines the worlds the target market inhabits: the desktop of the project manager and the engineering infrastructure they use in the field. Different messages and images are created for communications targeted at different segments like mining, offshore and infrastructure. All audiences, especially those within Trelleborg, are touched by the Everyday Ingenuity tagline which sums up what good engineering is all about, and what it does for the world every day.
Just like Tony the Tiger can eat Frosties while doing anything, great B2B can live at the brand level while carrying any number of solution-specific messages. The sheer awesomeness of a brand’s offering such as IBM’s Watson or Trelleborg’s industry-leading machinery, play their part, too, in making such ideas seriously loveable.
Reuben Webb is executive creative director (EMEA and APAC) at Stein IAS
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Fear of Outsiders Is an American TraditionNews at Home
tags: immigration, Xenophobia
Guenter B. Risse, MD, PhD, is emeritus professor of the history of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and currently Affiliate Professor, University of Washington. With wide interests in the evolution of modern medicine, he is the author of several books, including Mending Bodies, Saving Souls” A History of Hospitals (Oxford University Press, 1999. His latest book is Driven by Fear: Epidemics and Isolation in San Francisco’s House of Pestilence (University of Illinois Press, 2016).
On the morning of September 19, 1878, Charles C. O’Donnell, a physician with dubious credentials and the leader of the rabidly racist Anti-coolie League, seized a Chinatown dweller grotesquely afflicted with highly visible leprous sores. Forcing the man to mount an open delivery wagon, this practitioner turned politician proceeded to parade the disgraced individual through the streets of San Francisco. Stopping at several key downtown intersections before reaching Market Street and reaching the swanky Palace Hotel, O’Donnell harangued a growing and terrified crowd, emphasizing the great danger of contagion posed by his repulsive “moon-eyed leper ” At the same time, pamphlets were distributed featuring the drawing of a Chinese face ravaged by the disease and proclaiming the existence of “a thousand lepers in Chinatown.”
Awareness of dangers, real or imagined, is largely based on assumptions derived from past exposures. Since emotions are essential forms of human experience, they are central for understanding human behavior and survival. The highly visible horrors of bodily corruption, notably infectious scourges like smallpox and leprosy, prompt aversive sentiments and even flight. Physical decay can easily be linked to moral failings. Trumping reason and knowledge, anxiety, dread, and disgust were seen as protective responses beneficial for survival. The history of emotions can offer valuable assistance in understanding America’s persistent fears regarding threats of epidemics, including bioterrorism. Their role must be more fully explored and inform our current beliefs and behavior. As ethicist Arthur Caplan recently reaffirmed, “there is a long, sad and shameful tradition in the United States in using fear of disease, contagion, and contamination to stigmatize immigrants and foreigners.”
Since most activities in the United States devoted to the public’s health are local, historical case studies can serve as cautionary tales, particularly in an era in which our government has attempted to nationalize and militarize sanitary measures to achieve “bio preparedness” in the event of natural or terrorist-inspired contagion. Complex and often contradictory, our feelings toward the perils of mass disease should be illustrated with past examples of societal responses to deadly eruptions. They chronicle the plasticity and contingency of emotion-driven behaviors as they influenced the moral and political judgments that human beings made in confronting and seeking to control contagious diseases.
Prompted by xenophobia and overt racism, the United States has traditionally sensationalized “invasions” of foreign infectious diseases, blaming arriving weak or unhealthy “others,” for their appearance and transmission. Delving into the spectrum of emotions that drove Americans to harsh measures like segregation and isolation is illustrative. Fed by psychological, ideological, and pragmatic urges, these efforts succeeded in scapegoating and stereotyping victims-of smallpox, leprosy, tuberculosis, plague, and syphilis since the seventeenth century. In the name of public safety, such prejudice and stigmatizing loathing continues to be a key component of our widespread anti-immigrant sentiments and the use of invasive screening procedures surviving into our own day. A notable example in late 2014 was the crisis caused by the arrival of Ebola fever victims from West Africa.
One can speculate that such strong and negative emotions are rooted in experiences reaching back to the earliest conquest and colonization of what was believed to be a pristine and healthy American continent. Unfortunately, the first contacts between indigenous people, conquerors, and settlers lead to the involuntary spread of deadly endemic European diseases conveyed by the new arrivals. Measles, chickenpox, diphtheria, and whooping cough were relatively mild in their countries of origin, occurring mostly during childhood. In sharp contrast, these imported scourges—notably smallpox—quickly overwhelmed and decimated America’s adult population exhibiting genetic uniformity and immunological incompetence. Pre-Columbian empires declined or were destroyed, with depopulation forcing the introduction of slaves from Africa afflicted with their own equally fatal cohort of tropical diseases like malaria and yellow fever, all ostensibly sullying the Promised Land. In fact, the former often ravaged the remaining aboriginal population.
In Colonial America, fear, disgust, and paranoia shaped responses to imported smallpox in Boston after 1636, notably the Salem witchcraft proceedings. Most key eastern seaports set up quarantine “houses” in their harbors next to facilities for the disinfection of cargo. Boston built such a dwelling on Spectacle Island in 1717, a few years before the devastating epidemic of 1721. Charleston, center of the African slave trade, sponsored since 1712 several pest houses on Sullivan Island for the protection of its population; Savannah’s lazaretto was erected on Tybee Island in 1768.
Analogous to endeavors in the political and social realm, the birth of a new and free nation—the United States—generated enthusiasm for protecting and improving the wellbeing of its citizens. “Good health” enhanced the quality of life and became an integral part of the new nation’s identity; it was essential that all risks and threats with the potential of impairing needed to be forcefully thwarted. In fact, during the early years of the Republic, physicians attempted to frame a distinctly national “American” health and medicine then under threat from lethal epidemic outbreaks of yellow fever in prominent city-ports along the Atlantic seaboard and the South. During the epidemic in 1796, the new American republic temporarily enacted a federal quarantine law to assist the states, but the power to control and manage communicable diseases was mostly delegated to local authorities.
Spread by increasing flows of European immigrants during the nineteenth century, periodic epidemic of cholera came to afflict larger population centers such as New York. New threats like leprosy and plague originated in Asia, blamed on hordes of “uncivilized” Chinese migrants. Indeed, as analyzed in my earlier book Plague, Fear and Politics in San Francisco’s Chinatown (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012), the specter of this “yellow peril” drifting towards the rest of the country fueled the flames of American nationalism and racism, spreading panic in California and beyond. Not to be outdone, imported venereal syphilis would cripple a vibrant generation of white men, jeopardizing the country’s future manhood. To counter the threats, a ring of quarantine stations from Boston to Seattle sponsored by an expanded federal Marine Hospital Service sought to guard the nation’s health, stopping scourges at its borders from “dense and vitiated” populations from southern Europe and the Orient.
A new century continued to sustain similar foreign risk prejudices and assessments during the 1918 flu pandemic, a disaster blamed on a surge of European migrants. Tuberculosis was associated with arriving Jewish tailors while Italians and Polish arrivals were responsible for spreading poliomyelitis. Not to be excluded were Mexican newcomers, repeatedly denounced for bringing tropical scourges such as dengue fever, hepatitis, parasitic diseases, and periodically even leprosy. For a while, Haiti was incriminated in the origin of HIV/AIDS. SARS came from China. Foreign risks still tend to be vastly exaggerated and panic a poor problem-solver. A notion that such diseases are primarily associated with poor and marginalized illegal immigrants persists. They stand accused of invading the country to re-conquer it by making Americans sick and eroding Anglo-Saxon culture. The fear mongering continues.
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A concurrent application's ability to execute in a timely manner is known as its liveness. The most common kind of liveness problems in this case are deadlock, starvation and livelock. A deadlock occurs when two threads each lock a different variable at the same time and then try to lock the variable that the other thread already locked. As a result, each thread stops executing and waits for the other thread to release the variable. Because each thread is holding the variable that the other thread wants, nothing occurs, and the threads remain deadlocked.
As an example, deadlock happens when a thread A is holding or locking shared resource and need other resource to continue while thread B is locking or holding the other shared resource needed by thread A while requesting the shared resource which hold by thread A. In simple word, a thread that holds one resource that requested by others and at the same time request resources hold by the other party and at the end two or more threads stop and wait for each other. Incorrect use of synchronization primitives such as mutex and semaphores objects can lead to deadlock. Deadlocks can be considered as a specific kind of race condition. A common symptom of deadlock is that the program or group of threads stops responding. This is also known as a hang. At least two threads are each waiting for a variable that the other thread locked. The threads do not proceed, because neither thread will release its variable until it gets the other variable. The whole program can hang if the program is waiting on one or both of those threads to complete execution.
This type of deadlock is commonly encountered in multithreaded applications. A process with two or more threads can enter deadlock when the following three conditions hold:
Here is another simple example of a deadlock condition:
A deadlock can be just a potential deadlock or an actual deadlock and they are distinguished as follows:
Deadlock Example - The Dining Philosophers
The following Figure shows the arrangement of the Philosophers around the table with bowls and chopsticks.
Five philosophers, numbered zero to four, are sitting at a round table, thinking. As time passes, different individuals become hungry and decide to eat. There is a platter of noodles on the table but each philosopher only has one chopstick to use. In order to eat, they must share chopsticks. The chopstick to the left of each philosopher (as they sit facing the table) has the same number as that philosopher. Each philosopher first reaches for his own chopstick which is the one with his number. When he has his assigned chopstick, he reaches for the chopstick assigned to his neighbor. After he has both chopsticks, he can eat. After eating, he returns the chopsticks to their original positions on the table, one on either side. The process is repeated until there are no more noodles to be eaten. An actual deadlock occurs when every philosopher is holding his own chopstick and waiting for the one from his neighbor to become available:
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For many, dodgeball evokes memories of getting hit in the face with a red rubber ball on the playground. But that's not what comes to mind for Paniz Asgari. When the Iranian-American thinks about dodgeball, she thinks strategy, training – and world championships.
The US Women's National Dodgeball Team recently chose the 29-year-old for its 2013 roster. At the end of September, Asgari and her teammates headed to New Zealand for the World Dodgeball Invitational. Yep, Asgari flew halfway around the world to play dodgeball. For her country.
That all might seem a little silly. Asgari says she will convince you that it is not.
"I'm not offended that some people might think dodgeball is silly," she says. "But get on the court. Come play with me and we'll see if you end up thinking it's still silly."
After a session of dodgeball tips and tricks at the Georgetown University Law Center, Asgari proves she is definitely no slouch on the dodgeball court. In her regular league play, she is often the last person standing on her team. But she's sort of predestined to be good. Dodgeball is in her blood.
Asgari was born in Tehran and moved to the U.S. with her family when she was two and a half. Apparently, Persians love dodgeball. Their version of the game is called vasati.
"The Persian version of dodgeball is where you have one team in the middle almost like Monkey in the Middle. But instead of throwing the ball over so you can't get it, they try to hit you," she explains. "So the second team is split on either side of you and they throw the ball back and forth. And you just keep playing until they get everyone out."
Vasati is still popular in the Persian ex-pat community. Asgari remembers playing all the time when she was growing up in Northern Virginia.
"Picnics, barbecues, everybody plays. Every chance I ever got, I played dodgeball with friends, family at those picnics," she says. "I'm coming into this with an unfair advantage."
Asgari's parents fled Iran during the height of the Iran-Iraq war. They never could have guessed that their sacrifice would lead to this. In Iran, her father was an architect. Her mother was a nurse. When they left their lives in Tehran and landed in the U.S., they had to start over.
Asgari's mother got a job handing out YellowPages for five cents a book. Her father found work driving a taxi.
"My parents were upper-middle class, educated Iranians, and they left everything," Asgari says. "I am forever grateful for their sacrifice... to give up everything they ever knew to make my life absolutely amazing."
"From my parent's experience, my takeaway was never be lazy, never take anything for granted," she says. And that's what she brings to her game. | <urn:uuid:f84098bd-6819-4528-942a-0c83551b6d22> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://www.pri.org/stories/2013-10-14/dodgeball-isnt-just-american-recess-game-immigrant-athlete?qt-latest_content=1 | 2016-05-25T16:20:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049274994.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002114-00233-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981709 | 635 | [
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Winston Knoll Collegiate
Please note that effective at the beginning of the 2015/16 school year, a new high school strategy takes effect. This page will soon be updated. For more details, pleasevisit: http://www.rbe.sk.ca/our-schools/high-schools/high-school-strategy
School Program Offerings:
- All enriched, modified and regular credit requirements for grade 12 graduation
- State of the Art Learning and Technology Center
- Advanced Placement Program
- Honours Math Classes
- Developmental Centre
- TAG (Teacher Advisory Group)
- Transitions Program
Feeder Elementary Schools:
- Henry Janzen, George Lee, Centennial, MacNeil, McLurg, Ruth M. Buck, W.H. Ford
Winston Knoll Collegiate, located in Lakewood, is a semestered comprehensive high school offering a strong academic platform and varied extra-curricular programing. Knoll’s mission statement is: Our school is dedicated to working with the community to maximize learning for students and develop caring, responsible citizens. Winston Knoll has an energized spirit that exudes Wolverine Pride!
What do the students say?
“It is a welcoming and spirited community where everyone feels they belong.”
“It feels great to come to a place that guarantees happiness every day!”
Kenda and Kevina Mullock
“Knoll is a great place to learn, laugh and make friends.”
Winston Knoll Collegiate supports a learning environment that provides for the needs, styles and abilities of all learners. An extensive academic program is offered at Knoll, which includes unique classes such as Robotics, Commercial Food, Computer Assisted Drafting and a Communications Media Program. New classes being offered that are unique to Knoll are Personal Finance and High Level Performance and Fitness classes. In addition, Winston Knoll offers an Honours Math program to students who qualify for this class. Knoll also offers a Transitions Program which allows students to make up classes at their own pace.
The fundamental beliefs of Winston Knoll Collegiate include a school culture designed to develop respect, responsibility and leadership. Technology is used as both a teaching and learning tool. Knoll values improving student learning in a personalized environment.
A Teacher Advisory Group (TAG), connects with young people is vital to providing a quality education. This Advisory Group provides opportunities for students to develop a sense of belonging and a personal connection to our school. The advisors meet with these small groups each day and provide support and guidance to students throughout their high school years. Winston Knoll is the only high school in the city that offers this as two credits over four years (Life Transitions 20, Life Transitions 30).
Winston Knoll Collegiate offers a variety of extra-curricular activities. A well rounded Athletic program includes: basketball, volleyball, hockey, football, track and field, wrestling and handball, dance and stunt team. Knoll’s wrestling and handball teams have taken provincial championships the last few years. The Robotics team took silver at Skills Canada Competition. Winston Knoll is also host to the largest Junior Basketball Tournament in the province (RIT).
There is an outstanding Music program which offers choir, band, jazz band and traditionally has a fall musical. In addition to extra-curricular opportunities, some music programs unique to Knoll are the band and piano techniques classes, instrumental jazz, guitar and vocal jazz.
Proud History of City Championships
- Jr Girls Volleyball 98, 01, 02, 03, 04, 06
- Sr Girls Volleyball 03, 05, 06, 09
- Sr Boys Volleyball 99, 02, 03, 09
- Jr Girls Basketball 01
- Sr Boys Basketball 01
- Sr Girls Basketball 05, 06
- Football 09
- Golf 08. 09
- Sr Girls Curling 07
- Jr Curling 08
- Girls Soccer 99
- Boys Baseball 10
- Track 00
- Girls Softball 01, 06, 10
- Boys Wrestling 10
List of Provincial Championships
- Wrestling 09, 10, 11, 12
- Sr Girls Volleyball 09
- Curling 11
The Winston Knoll SCC is a group of hard working parents that support students in numerous ways. This active group meets monthly to discuss school issues, learning opportunities and ways they can help students be all they can be.
Welcoming Grade 9 Students:
Winston Knoll welcomes grade 8 students to a “Day in the Life” opportunity in the spring before they come to Knoll. The Open House also available in spring has valuable information about the school.
Winston Knoll is a Regina Public School’s newest high school facility and has many attractive features. Architecturally it features the façade of Central Collegiate. Among these is a POD system, in which each college section has a computer lab, science lab and classrooms. The college system is based on a team concept designed to: integrate curriculum, allow for multi-disciplinary instruction, consolidate students and teachers into small groups, and provide scheduling flexibility for students and staff.
Partnership with Campus Regina:
Campus Regina Public provides high school students (Grades 11 and 12) from across the division the opportunity to enroll in specialty two credit courses, and dual university courses. Each course is industry supported and features approved training that may not be available in their home school. Students will engage in learning opportunities with others who share their passion for a specialty field of study which better supports their learning as they prepare for the transition to post-secondary studies and the workplace. This opportunity is open to all high schools in Regina Public Schools.
Winston Knoll Collegiate officially opened in September of 1996. Winston Knoll was born in rural Saskatchewan, near Yorkton and graduated from the University of Saskatchewan in 1949 with a Bachelor of Commerce degree and received his Bachelor of Arts (with Distinction) from the University of Regina in 1969. Prior to joining the staff of the Regina Public School Division, he was employed by General Equipment Limited for 11 years, working in the areas of accounting, budgeting, purchasing and finance. In September 1961, Mr. Knoll was appointed Assistant to the Secretary-Treasurer for the Regina Collegiate Institute Board. In August 1962, he advanced to the position of Secretary-Treasurer. Upon amalgamation of the public and collegiate institute boards in January 1966, he assumed duties as Secretary-Treasurer for the newly formed Board of Education of the Regina School Division No. 4 of Saskatchewan.
During his 32 years of service, Mr. Knoll was a member of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries, Saskatchewan Association of School Business Officials and the Association of School Business Officials International. Over the years, Mr. Knoll distinguished himself as an exemplary administrator, committed to total quality performance. His wise counsel resulted in the sound financial management of the Regina public school system. He was held in high esteem by members of both the educational and business community, and was a loyal advocate of public education in Saskatchewan. | <urn:uuid:c18e26ad-a477-472e-a5b9-3f960ce932bf> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://www.rbe.sk.ca/schools/winston-knoll-collegiate | 2016-05-25T14:49:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049274994.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002114-00233-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950231 | 1,465 | [
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“The error of the Darwinist school has become a problem for me: ” wrote Friedrich Nietzsche, “how can one be so blind as to fail to see clearly here? … That the species represent progress is the most unreasonable assertion in the world:” (Nietzsche 2003, 258)
In a period of ten years, Nietzsche drifted from admiring Darwin and his company as “great names of England” to discourteously mocking and ridiculing them as “English psychologists” and “our ape-genealogists”. This article concisely introduced only two, among many, of Nietzsche’s cases against the theory of Darwinian evolution mostly when associated with Homo sapiens.
Case Against Darwinian Progressivity
Natural selection works, according to Charles Darwin, “solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress towards perfection.”(Darwin 1909, 528) This idea of progressivity in Darwinian evolution did not only astounded Nietzsche but also its opposite seemed, according to Nietzsche’s survey of “great destinies of man”, to be true. He wrote,
What surprises me most when surveying the great destinies of man is always seeing before me the opposite of what Darwin and his school see or want to see today: selection in favor of the stronger, in favor of those who have come off better, the progress of the species. The very opposite is quite palpably the case: the elimination of the strokes of luck, the uselessness of the better-constituted types, the inevitable domination achieved by the average, even below-average types.(Nietzsche 2003, 258)
Unless our-ape-genealogists gave him reasons why Homo sapiens were an exception to Darwinian evolution, Nietzsche was persuaded that “the school of Darwin has everywhere deceived itself ”(2003, 259) In struggle for man’s existence, it is not the highest, the strongest, the fittest and the fortunate that survive but the lower and the weaker who “predominate through numbers, through prudence, [and] through cunning”.
Nietzsche argued that chance variation, contrary to Darwinian’s survival for the fittest, does not yield any benefit to the fittest. He observed that “nature is cruel towards its favourites, it spares and protects and loves les humbles ”(2003, 260)
Thus it is not the case that in struggle for existence the weak organism perishes while the strong survive. Chance seems to serve both the weak and the strong. Nietzsche asserted that, “one nowhere finds any example of unconscious selection (absolutely not). The most disparate individuals unite with one another, the extremes are submerged in the mass. Everything competes to preserve its type; creatures with exterior markings to protect them from danger do not lose them when they encounter conditions in which they live without danger” (Nietzsche 1968, 362)
Case Against Macroevolution of Creatures
“There are no transitional forms.-” contended Nietzsche. Darwinists assert modification of organism as they struggle to adapt into their environment, food and climate. Nietzsche argued that this is not what we see in reality. “Every type has its limits;” he explained, “beyond these there is no evolution. Up to this point, absolute regularity”(1968, 363)
Nietzsche accepted a microevolution of creatures theory, but argued that one cannot move from microevolution to macroevolution. Example we can, by unnatural selection, breed dogs to form different breeds, but there is a limit and beyond these there is no evolution. Dogs after all remain dogs. It is for this reason we have no transitional forms.
Concisely, Nietzsche’s general view could be captured as: “man as a species is not progressing. Higher types are indeed attained, but they do not last. The level of the species is not raised […] man as a species does not represent any progress compared with any other animal. The whole animal and vegetable kingdom does not evolve from the lower to the higher – but all at the same time, in utter disorder, over and against each other”(ibid)
The two Nietzschean doubts I presented, as some of reasons Nietzsche rejected Darwinian evolution, mostly when applied to Homo sapiens, are (1) the falsehood of survival for the fittest and (2) the limits of evolution.
Darwin, Charles (1909). The Harvard Classics 11: Origin of the Species by Charles Darwin. (C. W. Eliot, Ed.) . New York: P.F. Collier & Son.
Nietzsche, Friedrich (1968) The Will to Power. A New Translation by Water Kaufmann and R. J. Hollingdale. Vintage Books. New York.
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A charming ladies Royston Turquoise Bracelet
Product Code: DSBr00200
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This is a beautiful ladies Sterling Silver Bracelet with an exceptional green Royston Turquoise gemstone. The stone is set in a fancy filigree bezel which sits atop a very nice Silver Bracelet frame embellished with reposed Silver ornaments that romance the stone. The Royston Turquoise Stone is 100% natural and a very high quality specimen of Royston Turquoise you are sure to appreciate! This would be a great addition to any quality Turquoise Jewelry collection and a precious heirloom for the future.
The inner bracelet circumference measures 5 inches, plus an opening of 1 inch. The stone measures 17.88mm high x 21.06mm wide. The bracelet weighs 39 grams. The shank is 2.74mm thick X 14.71mm wide.
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Sometimes I forget how much time flies. I did this interview with Cormega sometime around late Summer of 2001, and it ran in Elemental Magazine shortly thereafter… maybe Dec ’01 or January ’02…
I don’t know about you, but I sure do miss Elemental! They offered some of the BEST coverage of independent artists (then dubbed only “underground”) and gave shine to a lot of rappers who couldn’t get love in the other mags.
Fortunately, Elemental was gracious with me posting articles I wrote for them on the net once the issues published, because I’m able to pull up so many without having to scan in the magazines. Lazy, I know. Shouts to sites like DaveyD.com, HipHopGame.com, AfricasGateway.com, RapStation.com and so many others who took my articles, even non-exclusive, and shared the love!
But back to Cormega. At the time I did this interview, he was fully on his own. No publicist, no real team… just him and Landspeed Records. Through hearing his words (mostly frustrated), I gathered that he had a lot more to share, and that dwelling on this Def Jam mess (they were holding on to The Testament) was just going to stress him out. I introduced him to Jackie O. Asare (4SightMedia.com), who is his publicist to this very day.
He’s also still one of my dearest friends, and I’m thankful that two people from such different worlds could talk on the phone for 40 minutes or so and realize a lifetime connection.
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The National Weather Service has issued a flood watch in North Central Ohio, Erie County and Huron County.
•Rain and possible thunderstorms will move through the area today, with some areas possibly receiving up to an additional inch of rainfall. The rain should start ending, from west to east, during the second half of the afternoon into early evening.
•The ground is already saturated from recent rainfall. Additional rain may cause flooding in low lying and poor drainage areas. Rivers and streams may also rise possibly out of their banks.
A flood watch means there is a potential for flooding based on current forecasts. You should monitor later forecasts and be alert for possible flood warnings. Those living in areas prone to flooding should be prepared to take action should flooding develop.
A high-winds warning is in effect from 4 p.m. this afternoon to 4 a.m. Saturday.
•Winds: Southwest winds will increase to 35-knot gales by late this afternoon and remain high as they shift to the west overnight.
•Waves: In ice-free areas will reach up to 8 feet. The strong southwest to westerly winds could cause movement of any remaining ice.
A gale warning means winds of 34 to 47 knots are imminent or occurring. Operating a vessel in gale conditions requires experience and proper equipment. Mariners without the proper experience should seek safe harbor prior to the onset of gale conditions. | <urn:uuid:01cc91ef-7c29-4fc4-b7ee-8c85e08adfa5> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://www.sanduskyregister.com/News/2014/04/04/Flood-watch-now-gale-warning-later-today.html | 2016-05-28T08:03:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049277475.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002117-00148-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950019 | 290 | [
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Abacus is tool used more often then any other device for calculations in the history of the world. Abacus, as simple as it may seem, actually has wide variety of operations to offer to people and is very much adoptive to the changing needs of the calculations of the world.
It has performed some of the very advanced arithmetic calculations in matter of seconds, which a matured human mind will take more time to perform. This feature of abacus is the basis of its phenomenal success from ancient times. It has always satisfied the changing calculation needs of the world.
Advanced Arithmetic functions
Abacus can perform advanced arithmetic functions like multiplication and division despite the calculation of simple arithmetic functions like addition and subtraction. Abacus also has this incredible ability to perform the roots of the numbers, it is used to calculate square roots and cube roots but this needs high amount of proficiency in the use of abacus.
Multiplication on abacus needs high amount of practice and proficiency at the same time. People who have used abacus from long time feel very comfortable in the usage of abacus than any other calculating technique. The technique applied to perform multiplication calculations on the abacus are as follows:
If the digits in the multiplicand and multiplier are integers or mixed numbers (those with a whole part and decimal places), consider in each one only the digit in their whole parts and do not consider any decimal digit after the point, if any. In this way only the amount of digits before the decimal point are considered and others are ignored. This makes the calculations much easier.
If the number is a pure decimal consider those trailing zeros before the first significant digit and then add a negative sign to the total number of digits i.e. if we go after the decimal then the number of zeros before the first significant digit are taken with a negative sign assigned to them. For the computation of the numbers a formula is given as:
N = Number digits on Multiplicand + Number digits on Multiplier + 1
Before computing N do not forget to add 1 to the number digits on multiplier. Multiplication with abacus is easy to perform and its positional system makes it very convenient for the user to learn and perform multiplication easily.
Consider the product of 34 and 7
34 * 7 = 238
Set the multiplicand 34 and multiplier 7 on the rods.
Multiply the 4 of 34 by 7 and add the product 28 on rods adjacent to the rod on which 4 was set. Having finished with this part of the multiplicand clear it from the abacus. This leaves 3 on one of the rods of multiplicand and the partial product of 28. Multiply the 3 with 7 and add the product 21 on the rods immediate to the rod on which 3 was set.
Clear the 3 from abacus leaving the rods with the answer 238 on the abacus, which were set to get an answer after multiplying 3 and 4 by 7.
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Raft and piled foundations
Engineering design plays an important role in these types of foundations. A L Ryder Ltd, will provide full design for all your piling and foundations works, suitable for Building Regulations and NHBC submissions.
There are four types of foundation: Deep Strip, Raft, Trenchfill and Piled. A survey will establish the ground conditions that will pre-determine the best foundation method to be used.
Raft Foundations can be a suitable alternative if traditional Deep Strip and Trenchfill foundations cannot be used. Raft foundations are used where the ground is inherently stable but where conditions deep below the surface, such as mining, might lead to ground movement. The reinforced raft is coast on top of consolidated hardcore and is shaped at the edge to provide a step upon which both leafs of the wall are constructed.
- These details assume that ground conditions permit the use of raft foundations, adequate ground bearing capacity to support structure exists and that ground is free from contamination
- These details are not suitable where deep drains or trees can affect the foundation
- These details are only suitable for single storey extensions to domestic buildings
- The dimensions of the raft should be at least 3m x 2m and the longer dimension should be less than 1.5 times the shorter dimension. Internal stiffening beams, similar to the internal edge beam may be required
- The ground must be well consolidated and capable of supporting a load of at least 50kN/m2
- Different settlement rates should be considered where the extension abuts the existing building. Wall fixings between new and old brickwork, etc
- Brickwork and blockwork should be suitable for use below ground level
- Floor insulation is normally 125mm flooring grade polystyrene. 75mm may be used if a better insulant (such as polyisocyanurate) is used. 25mm edge insulation is needed
- 90mm standard cavity wall insulation is used with 100mm aerated blocks or certain 100mm special aggregate block
- Steel reinforcement must be lapped at least 450mm for both mesh and mild steel bars and provided with 40mm concrete cover
Please note that these guidance notes are for advice only and may not cover all situations. It is your responsibility to ensure that they are appropriate for use in your particular circumstance.
A pile is a type of foundation commonly used in property construction. Piles are used as a substitute for other foundation methods when earth around the property isn’t strong enough to support conventional foundations. Piles are used to stack up more layers of soil and keep them walled in, providing a firmer base.
Driven Piles can be made from different materials. Steel or wood can be used to make the piles but concrete is usually used. Driven piles are a popular solution as they can be adapted to fit different properties.
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Here’s a little coffin treat box ideal for trick or treaters this Halloween. I printed the template out on the reverse side of 2 pieces of A5 size card or half letter (I think that’s roughly 8″ x 5.5″, right?) The important part is to size one ever so slightly smaller than the other so they fit together perfectly when they’re made. Cut along the solid lines and score along the dotted ones, pop some strong double-sided sticky tape on the tabs or staple in place and you’re done.
Here is your template:
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Why is my synthetic all weather pitch holding water and flooding?
Why is my synthetic all weather pitch holding water and flooding is a common question by many sports clubs and leisure centres in the UK and the first reply to this is what maintenance are you currently carrying out and do you know what type of maintenance services they are doing.
Many maintenance visits in the UK consist of a tractor pulling a drag brush around and topping up sand to the top of the sports surfacing which people you might be shocked to find out is wrong. Why is this wrong you might ask and basically this is because every artificial sports pitch and synthetic all weather pitch inevitably will get a build up of contamination which could be sporns, moss, algae and algal squidge. This build up clogs the infill and makes the surfacing poor draining hence the holding water.
So what maintenance should be carried out? The maintenance contractor needs to try his best to remove the contaminated infill or clean this regularly to extend the lifespan of the pitch and not just throw new sand on top of the contaminated infill because this wont solve any problems whatsoever.
It is inevitable that after 8-10 years you will need to have a sports surfacing rejuvenation which will remove and replace the existing infill making the drainage back to new but without regular maintenance or correct maintenance this process could be needed in as little as 5 years.
For further details, product sheets or costs on the different types of maintenance please ring 01625445760 or visit our website on http://www.softsurfaces.co.uk/blog/tag/rejuvenating-all-weather-sport-surfacing-pitches | <urn:uuid:898d7721-91a7-467c-98b5-592203916219> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://www.softsurfaces.co.uk/blog/regeneration-artificial-sports-pitch/why-is-my-synthetic-all-weather-pitch-holding-water-and-flooding/ | 2016-05-31T00:02:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464051151584.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524005231-00063-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948932 | 338 | [
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RoNewMedia 5.0 (2010) is probably the most prominent event of new media in Romania.
Featured in SmashingMagazine:
Billboard Web Design: How To Win Your Audience’s Attention http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/10/28/billboard-web-design-how-to-win-your-audience-s-attention/
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Jun 19 2005
The NYTimes is reporting on a scene of brutal torture, beatings, shackled prisoners, electric wire.
Oh….., never mind. It was torture of Iraqis by terrorists. I’m guessing Dysmal Durbin is only interested in stories about fellow Americans torturing people.
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7. A class photo.
This was the best I could do! I used to have some extra wallet pictures in a box from back in the day but I suddenly have no idea where it went! So I grabbed the book that my senior portrait photographer made for me and scanned a few pics from that, hence the low quality. My senior pictures were taken on a really hot day in either July or August 10 years ago (wow, I cannot believe its been so long). Most of my pictures were taken inside the photographer’s studio although we were able to head out to a nearby park for some of the other pics. I really ended up loving all of my senior pictures and one of them even ended up in the flyer that the photographer used the next year. I still cannot get over what a baby I was back then! | <urn:uuid:7f5f7bea-1ef7-42d0-babc-1da2b4182dea> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://why-girls-are-weird.com/2011/06/storytelling-in-30-photos-photo-seven.html | 2016-05-26T00:40:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049275429.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002115-00008-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.991036 | 168 | [
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looking sweet jsmurf...well done. You can tell you put some time and effort into this one.
wanna thank Jsmurf for making it happen =]
WOW...looks NICE! You gonna have a black/grey/silver edition?
did that every get resolved? not sure what happened in the mix of communication.. hope it has been resolved if not i can contact sados to see whats going on..
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as for every 1 else thank you.. sados is an artist in every right and i cant take much of any credit for this at all his idea his art his icons my torture.. but it was fun.. thanx for the kind words every 1. mfg::hail:
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I've been making games for a while with free non-programmy tools (Construct and the like) and wanted to move to programming, but NOT right into C++ since I don't have any experience and want to learn an easier language first.
Other than general reading and some books I bought, my first project was going through this Python Libtcod tutorial, coding everything by hand (no copy pasting) and resolving all the errors. I've gotten through it, and made some changes of my own and am looking to expand this project and make it my own. Here's the tutorial:
Python Libtcod Tutorial
One change I've wanted to make is to come up with circular rooms instead of square rooms that every roguelike seems to use.
This tutorial uses a list called "map" to store what tiles are what. My first thought was to use two loops, one for the left side of the circle and one for the right, and have them go through the map object at the appropriate coordinates and change the tiles to not be blocked. It would shift down each time this happened, creating a circle
I've read more threads on Stack Overflow then I can remember and a whole bunch of the Python Documentation but wasn't able to find a way to do this. There is also a python libtcod forum, which seems to be all but abandoned.
The best I've managed to come up with is a cross and 4 lines connecting each arm of the cross so I have an outline of a circle(it looks more like a diamond actually.) But I still have 4 crops of blocked tiles, and worse my methods seem cumbersome and the one to draw the outline has a gazillion variables.
Here's a few things to hopefully make this easier
Circle is a class with x1,y1,x2,y2 and r attributes.
x,y and r are randomly generated.
x1 and y1 represent the top corner (think of it like a rectangle), and x2 and y2 the bottom right corner.
R represents "radius" or how big I want the circle to be.
Code for the "cross":
if room_type == Circ: #start the circle by making a giant cross for x in range(room.x1, room.x2): map[x][room.y1+room.r].blocked = False map[x][room.y1+room.r].block_sight = False for y in range(room.y1, room.y2): map[room.x1+room.r][y].blocked = False map[room.x1][y].block_sight = False
Code for the outline:
count = room.r r2 =room.x1 + room.r r3 = room.x2 - room.r r4 = room.x2 r5 = room.x1 roomy1 = room.y1 roomy2 = room.y1 +room.r roomy3 = room.y1 roomy4 = room.y1 + room.r roomy5 = room.y1 + room.r roomy6 = room.y2 roomy7 = room.y1 + room.r roomy8 = room.y2 while (count > 0): for y in range(roomy1, roomy2): map[r2][y].blocked = False map[r2][y].block_sight = False roomy1 = roomy1-1 roomy2 = roomy2-1 r2 = r2 - 1 count = count - 1 for y in range(roomy3, roomy4): map[r3][y].blocked = False map[r3][y].block_sight = False r3 = r3 +1 roomy3 = roomy3-1 roomy4 = roomy4-1 for y in range(roomy5, roomy6): map[r4][y].blocked = False map[r4][y].block_sight = False r4 = r4 -1 roomy5 = roomy5+1 roomy6 = roomy6+1 for y in range(roomy7,roomy8): map[r5][y].blocked = False map[r5][y].blocked = False r5 = r5+1 roomy7 =roomy7 + 1 roomy8 = roomy8 +1
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The Next New Economy
At half past three in the morning, Alec Johnson rolls out of bed, puts on his Metro Transit uniform, and walks a block to one of Nice Ride’s bike sharing stations in the Seward neighborhood. He unlocks a neon green bike and pedals down the Midtown Greenway, a former railroad corridor in Minneapolis that now holds biking and walking paths, to 32nd Street and Nicollet Avenue. After docking the bike at another nearby Nice Ride station, he pulls a bus out of the Nicollet Garage and starts his first shift.
Here’s the catch: Johnson’s shift ends at the Uptown Transit Station, one-and-a-half miles from where he started. During the previous six years, this meant that Johnson would have to find a way back to Nicollet Garage after a long day’s work. But today, he can simply use his smartphone to locate a nearby Nice Ride station, unlock a bike, and pedal home.
“I was never really that into biking,” admits the thirty-two-year-old Twin Cities native, “but I find Nice Ride appealing because I can ride somewhere, leave the bike, and plan an alternate way of getting home. It’s not uncommon for me to use Nice Ride a few times a day, mixed in with a bus ride or two.” Getting around is a juggling act for a one-car family with two kids in daycare, but Johnson credits the green bikes for making the daily grind that much easier. “Bike sharing has revolutionized my life. I don’t know how I lived without it.”
Alec is not alone. At the end of 2012, Nice Ride had 1,325 bikes in circulation at 145 stations across the Twin Cities. And there are more to come. According to Mitch Vars, the program’s I.T. director, another expansion is in the works for 2013. “Nice Ride is growing much more quickly than I think any of us would have anticipated,” he says. Given the difficulties of operating a bike-share service in weather-challenged Minnesota, that’s no small feat.
But Nice Ride is just one example. According to a recent national consumer study commissioned by Campbell Mithun, 60 percent of respondents find the concept of sharing appealing, while 71 percent who already use “shareable” goods expect to continue.
Hardly a new idea, the sharing economy has been hotly discussed among rising entrepreneurs and the media since the global recession of 2008. But when the rental car company Avis Budget Group announced it would acquire the car-sharing service Zipcar for $500 million in early January, it became clear to many that the idea is not just a passing fad. “What’s happening with Avis and Zipcar is significant,” says Christopher Bineham, program manager at HOURCAR, the Twin-Cities based car-sharing service, “because it shows that the rental car industry recognizes the viability of car sharing. People want the sharing option.”
The sharing economy leverages the power of online social networks and smartphones to provide a new way for old business models to thrive. No longer just the stuff of pioneer villages and hippie communes, everyday people are sharing, lending, trading, bartering, and swapping goods via peer-to-peer exchanges instead of owning them—and disrupting outdated patterns of consumer behavior at the same time, whether they know it or not. It’s a cultural shift that builds trust between strangers. And it’s an economic revolution where access has become more important, and more fashionable, than ownership. The sharing phenomenon is turning the traditional business model on its head across sectors from transportation to hotels and tourism, and everything in between.
This ‘new old’ way of doing business allows us to live more efficiently by cutting out all the stuff we don’t need, or seldom use. Why own something that often sits idle when you can rent it for brief periods of time instead? Netflix, for example, first improved access to DVDs through home delivery, then through online streaming. Today it has made the practice of owning DVDs nearly obsolete. What’s more, by crunching data on our viewing patterns, the company can make highly personalized suggestions about shows we might not find on our own.
The Minneapolis-based company SOPHIA recognized the peer-to-peer potential for education in 2010. At the time, SOPHIA was the only online platform talking about social education, despite the fact that “the rest of the world had been on social media making experiences much more interactive, personalized, transparent, and engaging,” says Allison Gage, SOPHIA’s senior vice president. The creators of SOPHIA took advantage of these consumer behaviors by building a free platform for people to teach “bite-sized concepts” using a mixture of video, text, audio, and slideshows.
Today SOPHIA has more than 30,000 tutorials and 375,000 monthly users. Even Mayo Clinic shares lessons about gallbladder removal. People are learning surgical processes where others go to brush up on their Spanish. “We no longer have to define social learning. We’ve shown what it is and now it has taken on a life of its own,” Gage says as she describes SOPHIA’s evolution and growth at an impressive rate of 15 to 20 percent a month.
Big companies like Netflix and SOPHIA are transforming industries, but on a smaller, yet no less forceful scale, the sharing economy is empowering a new class of micro-preneurs to create more wealth using assets they already own. In California, drivers can easily fill their cars with paying passengers using Lyft’s on-demand ridesharing app. An unused driveway or garage in the U.K. suddenly produces income via ParkatmyHouse. Homeowners bring in extra cash on Airbnb by allowing travelers to crash in bedrooms worldwide. And Lending Club’s peer-to-peer platform helps borrowers pay lower rates and investors receive better returns, a concept that earned the company a spot on Forbes’ list of “America’s Most Promising Companies” in 2012 and 2013.
In the past, a traditional sharing arrangement might only take place between friends or neighbors who already know one another. Today, these new sharing-based services formalize relatively safe and efficient exchanges between strangers, where online connectivity leads to enhanced offline interaction. As a result, the value of trust is skyrocketing.
In her recent TED Talk, Rachel Botsman, the social innovator and author who coined the idea of collaborative consumption in her book What’s Mine is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption, suggests that trust is the currency of the sharing economy and that our online reputations will become a tool for measuring trustability. If Botsman is right, then the new Minneapolis-based company Heroic, an online platform for free recommendations, may have made a very timely entrance.
Only two weeks after launching, the platform had already gained five hundred active users who sign on through Facebook to discover trusted recommendations from friends. Dan Linstroth and his business partner Justin Barrett founded Heroic to create an efficient way to connect customers to small business owners, the “heroes” of our communities. Now users can discover trusted service providers in categories from fitness to home maintenance to weddings and events and more.
“What sets Heroic apart is that our service is both free to use, and it helps you find referrals from people you know and trust, as opposed to reviews from strangers,” Linstroth says. While it’s likely that many of us will refer to the recommendation of a stranger at some point in time, a friend’s endorsement carries its weight in gold. According to a recent Nielson report, 92 percent of global consumers say they trust recommendations from family and friends above all other forms of advertising.
Not all activity in the sharing economy depends on high-tech tools or online social networks the way Heroic does. Neighborhood clothing swaps, land sharing, shared tool sheds, and coworking spaces are also experiencing a resurgence fueled by the triple drivers of a tough economy, a more ecologically minded population, and a desire for stronger communities. Take CoCo, for example, a coworking community with two offices in the Twin Cities that offer a home to about 450 coworkers.
“When I first heard about coworking, I was instantly drawn to it,” says Don Ball, CoCo’s founding partner. “It was the cultural aspect that I found so appealing, the idea of a ‘mutual-aid’ society. Everybody was boosting each other’s projects, which was really unusual. It was an abundance mentality rather than a scarcity mentality.” CoCo’s space in Minneapolis, located in the Grain Exchange building, challenges coworkers on the old trading floor to exist within two worlds: the historic grain exchange, which promoted fair trade in the late 1800s when wheat was king, and the progressive hub for entrepreneurs that CoCo is today. With such a unique setting, it’s easy to assume that the space itself is the primary influence on membership, but Ball suggests otherwise: “The secret about CoCo is that it’s not about the space, and it’s not even about work. In the end, people come here for the community.” CoCo offers more than just the opportunity to get out of your home office. “It’s a place where you can be known, where you can be seen, and where you can be yourself,” Ball says. “People connect with you less about whatever you’re projecting or whatever you’re selling—the stuff that we were typically taught to do. You know, the attitude that you have to sell, sell, sell. That doesn’t work here. What works at CoCo is authenticity, openness, generosity. And people give back to you. It’s like you find yourself in others.”
Ball believes the coworking model has been successful in the Twin Cities, but he also acknowledges its challenges. “Culturally, I think personal space is a big thing for Midwesterners. Coworking flies in the face of that, but we’ve been able to publicly demonstrate that this is safe, productive, and really advantageous for business owners,” he says. Today CoCo receives frequent inquiries from big corporations wanting to learn about collaborative working models. Even though the Twin Cities seem to have a smaller community of people who are interested in coworking than the West Coast, where Ball first encountered the model, he believes the trend is catching on. “Something is shifting,” he says excitedly. “All sorts of people want collaborative culture to be part of their workplace.” In fact, Ball’s biggest surprise since opening CoCo’s doors has been who shows up: “To put it crudely, when we first started we thought that baby boomer stockbrokers wearing tassel loafers and ties would never fit in here. But some of those people showed up, and they surprised us by being awesome.”
Coworking is not the only form of space-sharing on the rise in the Twin Cities. Creative urban planners are also turning building owners on to the benefits of nontraditional rentals, especially in areas that could use a little boost.
Founded by a group of graduate students, The Starling Project aims to match owners of partially vacant buildings along University Avenue, specifically in areas affected by the Central Corridor Light Rail construction, with people looking for short-term “nesting” spaces. “Vacant properties in the Twin Cities are an underutilized resource,” says Kristen Murray, Starling’s resource coordinator. “If people can make use of that resource in nontraditional ways, through a short-term lease for example, I think we can all see it as a good thing.” But the challenge, she admits, lies in how to fill vacancies on terms that satisfy the interests of both property owners and prospective tenants.
Last spring, Starling had its first major success in connecting Jennifer Kensok to vacant space in the St. Paul Security Building, which became home to her popular pop-up art gallery, Art Du Nord, for six weeks. Since college, Kensok had always wanted to open a nontraditional gallery, and the short-term lease provided her with a low-risk opportunity to test her ideas: Could she sell low-priced work to nontraditional art buyers? Would she sell enough to support the space? Could she just plunk a gallery down—anywhere? Kensok’s optimism and can-do spirit certainly went a long way toward her success, but her efforts were also aided by the building manager’s support. “Peter Brown and I struck a good deal,” says Kensok. “I asked him to take down the carpet covering the walls, and in exchange, I painted the space white. I think he was really pleased with it.”
Kensok not only left the space more visually appealing than when she arrived, but throughout the course of her lease she also helped draw hundreds of people to the area and into the building. Kensok and Murray agree that Art Du Nord had a hand in bringing a sense of creativity and liveliness back into the neighborhood.
It’s easy to think of something like the sharing economy as a flash in the pan or a niche that only services the well-to-do, but more and more it’s proving to be capable of growing a community in a profound way while also creating staggering wealth. Forbes actually estimates that people will earn more than $3.5 billion this year through the sharing economy, with growth exceeding 25 percent. In today’s scrappy, post-recession atmosphere, these projections signal that the capacity for this movement to generate new economic opportunities is only just beginning.
With the global population expected to reach nine billion by mid-century and our supply of natural resources decreasing, it seems more important now than ever to find new solutions for curbing the waste inherent in modern consumerism. When we commit to owning less, sharing more, and capitalizing on the unused capacity of goods already in circulation, it’s better for all of us, and for the planet.
For a product or service to function in the sharing economy, it must have various essential qualities: durability, adjustability, “share-ability,” and a classic design. Rental systems and redistribution markets both require products that are made to last, will fit a variety of users, and won’t go out of style.
The Nice Ride bikes are a perfect example: sturdy and adjustable, they can fit all sorts of body types, and while they may not have the same trendy appeal as a custom fixie, their neon green color surely goes a long way in keeping riders safe. Not only that, but at its core, the program itself has been designed to keep a valuable resource from being underutilized. “Bike sharing has a pricing model to get people to keep the bike in their possession only when they’re riding it,” Mitch Vars says. “We don’t want people to check out a bike, go to work, and leave the bike leaning against an office wall all day. We want the bikes to be available for other users anytime they’re not being ridden.”
The program has seen tremendous growth, despite the challenges posed by the Twin Cities. But there is still room to grow. Vars compares the Twin Cities to Washington D.C., which has roughly three times as many rentals and riders. According to him, about 40 percent of people who live in the district don’t own a car, and the city has very expensive public transit and terrible traffic congestion. “Those are real drivers for usage,” he says—drivers that don’t exist in the Twin Cities. “We have to do a little more legwork to get people to feel like there’s a place for Nice Ride in their lives.” But Nice Ride’s efforts seem to be paying off: The service now sees an impressive average of 1,630 rides per day during the summer.
Similarly, the Twin Cities-based car-sharing service HOURCAR appears to be picking up speed, despite the nonprofit’s real concern in 2005 about the viability of car sharing in the cities. With thirty-nine cars scattered throughout Minneapolis and St. Paul, and thirty-one more on the way as a result of new funding from the McKnight Foundation and the Central Corridor Funders Collaborative, Christopher Bineham says, “the wonderful surprise has been how people have adopted car sharing and committed themselves to using it.” The service now has 1,900 users, a number that could grow by nearly 100 percent over the next eighteen months.
The Twin Cities’ relatively low population density remains one of the primary challenges for HOURCAR, says Bineham, alluding to the difficulty of placing a car in a location that offers a large number of residents convenient access to the vehicle. But on the other hand, he believes that same lack of density is one of the service’s greatest opportunities. Bineham says HOURCAR fills in the gaps in our growing public transit system for people who have opted to forgo car ownership. When a bus or bike ride doesn’t meet someone’s transit needs for the day, he or she can turn to car sharing.
What’s more, the service not only expands transit opportunities for residents, but also “creates all sorts of positive environmental impacts,” says Bineham, including “a reduction in demand for parking and traffic congestion.”
A nationwide survey of 6,200 car-sharing members by the UC Berkeley Transportation Sustainability Research Center found that car sharing does decrease the number of privately owned cars: For every vehicle in a car-share fleet, between nine and thirteen private vehicles are taken off the street. The researchers also noted that 80 percent of this shift results from single-car households opting to go car-free.
Reducing the number of privately owned cars in cities is not only an environmental boon, but also offers significant advantages to local economies. A study by the National Building Museum found that reduction in car ownership by 15,000 cars could lead to a reinvestment of $127 million in the local economy. Without a car, the study suggests people tend to do business closer to home, proving that some benefits of sharing-based businesses extend beyond individual users themselves.
Clearly the sharing economy will provide new opportunities for cities, but whether they will be able to capitalize on those opportunities is a separate question. In some cases, outdated regulatory frameworks will hold back innovation, and in others, new government policy may need to be developed.
Either way, it will be fascinating to see how cities—especially the Twin Cities—respond to new sharing-based businesses.
The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), for example, collided with Lyft, the ride-sharing service, when it issued cease-and-desist letters and fines of $20,000 in November 2012, accusing the company of operating as an unlicensed “charter-party” carrier. Lyft argued that it is a social network where drivers and riders connect—not a taxi service. In late January, Lyft finally struck a deal with the CPUC, which agreed to lift the fines and allow the company to move forward with its expansion from San Francisco to L.A.
Airbnb has also been fighting for legality in major world cities, including San Francisco, New York, London, and Paris. Each has its own unique jurisdiction, but in most cases, Airbnb hosts face possible violations for breaking rules related to illegal transient hotels.
Here in the Twin Cities, as reported by Jonah Newman in the last issue of this magazine, the Minneapolis Department of Regulatory Services shut down the popular monthly food swap called MPLS Swappers in November 2011. Similarly, current state regulation prevents the development of a peer-to-peer car sharing where people rent privately owned cars to each other rather than using an official service, says Christopher Bineham, the HOURCAR program manager.
But regular car sharing is one area where the City of Minneapolis will get in the sharing game. In February, the city issued a request for proposal for a two-year car-sharing pilot program that would help expand the service to more areas of the city and could allow car-share vehicles to be parked on the street instead of private lots. The goal of the program is to determine the feasibility of a self-sustaining, city-wide car-share program.
Local sharing efforts are ramping up, and if the Twin Cities want to remain relevant in the economy of the next century, investing in new business models—such as the pilot program—is essential.
Still, some critics argue that the sharing economy is a trend for slow economic times. Others have aptly pointed out the many possible areas of failure for new sharing-based businesses, including legality, safety, quality, value, and customer service. And of course the looming question is how these services can become more effective in reaching across lines of class and geography.
But whether the sharing economy is here to stay does not depend on the businesses alone. Political leaders of the Twin Cities have an opportunity to take their investment in the sharing economy a step further, supporting local efforts with policy and funding options that will build on the momentum we already have. Meanwhile, it’s encouraging to see entrepreneurs embrace the new model and drive innovation because they, like so many of us, believe that we can’t afford not to try.
Since 2011, Jessica Conrad has been the content and community manager of OnTheCommons.org. She has been working to communicate the essence of the commons and the sharing economy from the beginnings of her career: At Sol Editions, she worked as a researcher and writer for Lisa Gansky’s “The Mesh: Why The Future of Business is Sharing” (Penguin 2010), a Wall Street Journal bestselling business book. She has also been a grant writer for The Promised Land, a Peabody Award-winning public radio series featuring innovative thinkers who are transforming underserved communities. Learn more at www.jessicaconrad.com.
This article is reprinted with permission from thirty two, Minnesota’s forward-looking culture and ideas magazine with a literary edge.
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Chapter 1: Putting an End to Formalities
Putting an End to Formalities
I'm sure you have already heard the news, even though I wanted to be the first to tell you. It's hard to keep secrets from others, just as it was during our school days, and your adoring wife cannot keep her mouth shut, I'm afraid! But perhaps Ginny did not enlighten you after all, and I'm just falsely accusing her, as I've seemed to be doing to everyone as of late. Ron already knows, as does the entire Weasley family, and well...I also told Luna and Neville. I'm sure at the moment you are wondering why I would wait to tell you last! Don't be offended Harry, but I haven't been precisely sure as of how you would take the news, taking into consideration your feelings for a certain individual.
Oh blast! I might as well get it over with! Harry, you know I love you dearly, and I'm sure it's going to make you very angry to hear of this, but I'm going to tell you anyway. Professor Snape isn't exactly your favorite person, as I'm well aware, and a few years ago I would have felt the same, but oh Harry, for some strange reason he has offered me an apprenticeship! I think Professor McGonagall had something to do with it...I'm sure he wouldn't have offered it to me otherwise. But this is the opportunity of a lifetime, you have to agree! I have always been fascinated with the subject, and I've decided that I want to research medicinal potions. There are so many possibilities, and I wish to discover them.
Now I'm sure you are wondering how I could ever get along with a man as horrible as Professor Snape, but in all honesty, he's not as bad as I remembered. Yes, he still is extremely sarcastic and occasionally rude. But after a while I've finally realized that it is just a part of his nature, and I sometimes find it rather funny. And the man's intelligence! I can't even begin to describe to you how much knowledge he has of all subjects...no wonder he's one of the few Potions Masters in Britain. Sometimes I find myself in long conversations with him on various topics, and they'll go on for hours. Oh Harry, I hope you aren't mad at me. I know you have never been really fond of him. But he's changed, somehow. And well...he's nice to work with.
For the next two years I'll be living at Hogwarts, and believe it or not, my own quarters are right next to Professor McGonagall's! She is such a nice woman, and I usually find myself having a cup of tea with her during my afternoons. All of the staff have treated me so nicely, especially Remus, who just stopped by a few hours ago. He wanted me to tell you hello! His Defense Against the Dark Arts classes are going wonderfully, by the way.
I do find myself rather lonely though, and it's only been three weeks! I really hope you and Ron can come and visit me soon. It will be just like our school days. Of course, I'm sure Professor Snape will not be as delighted as I am. Tell Ginny I said hello, and do take care Harry!
It was late in the evening as Hermione drifted through the dimly-lit hallways somewhere near Ravenclaw Tower, not precisely sure as to what direction she was heading, but allowing her feet to guide her. It was at this time of day in which she felt the most alone, memories and thoughts taking over her mind and controlling her heart. She missed her family, she missed her friends, but she knew that Hogwarts, with its ancient magic and well-kept secrets, was where she truly belonged. Yes, her home.
She wondered if Harry had now received her letter, and if he was taking it just as badly as she figured he would. It wasn't as though his opinion on the matter would change her plans, but she valued his friendship, and wanted him to be happy about her decision. Hermione well remembered his thoughts about Snape, which had not changed even after the war, when the Potions Master had proved his loyalty. But she couldn't change Harry's mind or feelings, regardless of her efforts.
A slight smile came to her lips as she thought of Ron's reaction, which had been completely typical of her Weasley friend. His feelings had not really changed either, and he had made sure to tell her.
Blimey 'Mione! Why did you go and do that for? With that nasty sleazeball? I was thinking you would pick McGonagall, or even Flitwick. But Snape? Well, better you than me, I guess.
And then there was Ginny.
Brilliant Hermione! I'm very happy for you! But if I might ask, why ever did you pick Snape of all people? He's not particularly nice, remember? If he gives you any trouble, let me know. I'll do to him just what I did to that Malfoy ferret sixth year!
She chuckled as she thought of Luna and Neville's response to her news, which had been rather interesting to say the least.
Well Hermione, that's rather nice. Congratulations on your apprenticeship. Though I believe I would have picked Professor Flitwick, who would never have called my daddy's newspaper a "rag." I thought that was very rude of him. Perhaps he will not treat you in such a manner, since I'm sure he has learned his lesson. -Luna
Hi Hermione. I'm glad to hear the news, though I'm happy I'm not walking in your shoes at the moment. I swear I still have nightmares about Snape, even after all these years. Good luck, you'll need it! -Neville
"Oh honestly, he's not that bad!"
Hermione had not meant to voice her thoughts aloud, but it had happened regardless, causing various paintings to comment on her strange behavior. She rolled her eyes and continued walking, taking a left turn towards the North Tower. It was eerily silent through the halls, and she kept expecting to see several students lurking about after curfew, just as Ron, Harry, and she had once done years ago, but there were none in sight. It was most odd.
"Miss Granger, are you afraid of the dark?"
She jumped at the sound of the unexpected voice, deep and mellifluous. Haunting. Slowly she turned, knowing well to whom the voice belonged, but afraid that the expression upon her face would give her away. Black eyes met her own, holding more warmth than usual. She then allowed herself a smile.
"I would hardly call this dark, Professor."
He raised one black brow, his eyes never leaving hers. "Your actions would prove otherwise. The paintings are quite talkative. I overheard them speaking about a young woman talking to herself."
"You can hardly believe paintings..." Hermione started, feeling heat rise to her cheeks. "They'll say anything for attention. Why just the other day I overheard the portrait of Baba Yaga talking about how she once ate children for breakfast. Now we both know that's not true!"
Snape's lips curled, showing his amusement. "Actually, according to legend, she did."
"That's impossible..." Hermione shook her head. "Ridiculous, in my opinion."
"Yes, ridiculous." He moved closer, studying her face for a few moments. "Now may I ask, Miss Granger, what you are doing wandering about the hallways at this time of day? I would think you to be reading one of your novels, or perhaps writing a letter to Potter. You know well that patrolling duties are left to me, and I do not expect my apprentice to go searching for trouble..."
Hermione wrapped her robes tightly around her, the cold air seeping through her bones and making her shiver. "Ah yes, of course. Leave that to the almighty Head of Slytherin. When he looks for trouble, he always finds it. Whether it be an innocent student who has forgotten her books in the library, or a pair of Hufflepuffs snogging in the corner. Professor Snape will be sure to find them."
"Thirty points from Gryffindor, Miss Granger," he replied with a smirk.
"You wish. Now that I'm no longer a Hogwarts student, I can do as I please." Hermione suddenly laughed, which caused the Potions Professor to raise his eyebrows. "Oh come now, Professor. We are both adults here. I'm stuck with you for another two years, so we might as well throw formalities aside. What do you say to that, Severus?"
"Well Miss Granger, I believe it is most inappropriate. We are not colleagues. I am still your professor, and you are still learning from me. Therefore, calling me by my first name is unwise."
"Miss Granger, I am in no mood for such foolishness."
Snape let out an irritated sigh, thinking her impossible. "Miss Granger, I do believe--" He suddenly noticed that her body was shivering, and that her arms were wrapped tightly around her frame. "You are freezing. Here, let me allow you to..."
"No, I'm quite alright, Professor."
He did not listen to her protests as he gently placed his black cloak around her shoulders. "Back to Professor, are we? Tsk Tsk, Miss Granger. For once the golden Gryffindor cannot make up her mind."
Hermione did not reply, rather distracted by the manly scent of the warm cloak enveloping her, smelling distinctly of various potions ingredients: daisy roots, ginger, and a hint of something she could not name. She felt a blush creep across her face, and cursed herself for being so ridiculous.
"Are you alright, Miss Granger?"
"Hmm? Oh yes, of course. Sorry, my mind rather escaped me for a moment."
"Yes, it tends to do that often."
"I beg your pardon?!"
Before Snape could reply, a snowy owl gracefully flew through the dimly-lit hallway, its wings swooping low and landing carefully on Hermione's forearm. For some odd reason the bird seemed quite familiar, though he could not be for certain as to whom it belonged. But as soon as the young woman let out a rather loud and cheerful "Hedwig!" and began to stroke the bird as though it was her own, he remembered. It was blasted Harry Potter's owl.
Hermione gently opened the envelope that Hedwig had delivered, quite excited that her friend had replied so quickly. Was he happy for her after all? Or was he angry? Nothing could have prepared her for the words that graced the smooth parchment, clearly written in Harry's handwriting.
You're falling in love with the greasy git, aren't you?
"Never in my life have I heard of such a ridiculous, preposterous--"
Snape's lips curled at her use of adjectives, and he couldn't help but wonder if she had finally come to her senses where Harry Potter was concerned. "May I ask, Miss Granger?"
"It's really not important." She placed the letter in the pocket of her robes and watched as Hedwig flew away, wishing desperately she could hex its owner into oblivion. "Quite ridiculous boy...he's never really grown up. But I do miss him."
"Hmm...wishing you could take Ginny Potter's place?"
Hermione winced, shaking her head rapidly. "Absolutely not, Professor! The very thought alone makes me shudder. I could never be Harry's wife, nor do I wish to be. Please do not make that assumption again. He's a friend, and a good one at that. But I could never--"
"I believe I quite understand now, Miss Granger," Snape replied with an amused grin.
For a long few moments they stood in silence, both taking in their own thoughts and deciding how to act upon them. Before Hermione could think to even respond, Snape took out his wand and aimed it towards her robes. "Accio Hermione Granger's letter!"
With a yelp of surprise, Hermione leapt towards Snape, desperately trying to pry the parchment from his long and graceful fingers. "Don't you dare read it! I'll hex you!"
"And I'll simply end this lovely apprenticeship. Now what have we here?"
Hermione fell to the floor in a puddle, feeling not only ridiculous, but like a complete fool. She watched as his black eyes scanned over the letter, his expression changing from amusement to one of curiosity. Now everything she had gained would be lost, and she did not doubt if the man standing before her would end the contract. But would he really believe such a ridiculous letter?
Even if it was.....true?
"Miss Granger, do get up from the floor. It is most uncivilized." Snape slowly folded the parchment and handed it back to her, an odd expression now upon his face. He cleared his throat.
"As you said earlier, I believe we should end the formalities. My name is Severus."
With trembling fingers she placed the letter back in her pocket, quite stunned at his statement. "Severus. Well, it is getting rather late. Perhaps I should just leave...."
She turned around, her breath catching in her throat after hearing his deep and haunting voice uttering her name. The dim light in the hallway softened his eyes, making him appear less menacing. "Y-yes?"
"Would you like to walk with me while I patrol the halls? Earlier today I read an interesting article in Ars Alchemica, and it would please me to hear your opinion of it." He strode over to where she stood, holding out his arm for her to take.
"That would be lovely."
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Studies in Medievalism’s audience is wide-ranging, and potential contributors should anticipate that their readers will include not only specialists but also generalists, including non-academics. Submissions should be sent in English in Word as an e-mail attachment on or before June 1, 2013 to the editor, Karl Fugelso ([email protected]).
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Since I changed my profile photo, the ideas for radical revision of the site have come pouring in. Here’s a possible new logo:
What do you think? I thought it was keen, until I read all the new speculation about why I was kicked out of a movie theater. Oh, no!
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I'm a big believer in finding uses for cooking equipment that go beyond the specific purpose for which they are made. For example, you might think a rice cooker can only be used for making rice, but did you know it can also make some of the creamiest mac and cheese you've ever tried? Or how about a waffle maker, which we use in our house to produce The World's Greatest PB&J?
As weelicious readers well know, I have a great deal of affection for my panini maker. But if you think I spend a lot of time coming up with fun new recipes for it, you don't know Cathy Strahs of Panini Happy. She's the maestro...make that the madame...make that the princess of the panini press!
Cathy's new book The Ultimate Panini Press Cookbook is bonkers good. I went through half a stack of Post-It's marking all the recipes in it that I wanted to make for school lunch before deciding to start with this luscious Apple Pie Panini. I mean, doesn't the name alone seduce you into wanting to try it?
If you have never lightly buttered a slice of bread, sprinkled a touch of brown sugar on it, and then placed it in your panini maker, please run and do so right now. As I rarely make anything as decadent as these Apple Pie Paninis, both of my kids thought I had been swapped for another mom when they discovered these in their lunch box. Toasted cinnamon raisin bread layered with crisp apples and a sweet creamy filling, signaled for them that lunchtime was about to get even better. And if you get Cathy's book, I think you'll find that things will brighten in your world too! | <urn:uuid:aff9482b-c296-4b23-adfb-3cdb38e6a5a1> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://weelicious.com/2013/10/03/apple-pie-panini-from-the-ultimate-panini-press-cookbook/ | 2016-05-26T08:41:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049275764.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002115-00028-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964662 | 364 | [
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PERSIANS: Chihuly Persians, begun in 1986, are exotic forms with spiraling “body wraps” and herringbone effects decorating their surfaces. The series includes both “table-top” compositions, often with smaller parts in them, and large Persians mounted on walls and ceilings.
When exhibited for the first time in Chihuly’s 1986 solo exhibition at the Musée des Arts Decoratifs of the Palais du Louvre in Paris, the Persians were described in the exhibition catalogue as “new possibilities from the blowpipe”. Persias are often marked by saturated colour and highly unusual forms.
“The Persians started out as a search for new forms. I set up Martin Blank and Robbie Miller in a corner of the hotshop at Pilchuck (Chihuly founded Pilchuck Glass School in 1971). I would make large pencil drawings for them with a couple of dozen small forms, and then I would put an X under the ones I wanted them to go for. Over the next year, we made more than 1,000 miniature experimental forms.” Dale Chihuly
SEAFORMS: The Basket series metamorphosed into Seaforms in 1980. More delicate, thin-walled, and made up of subtler blues, pinks, and grays than the Baskets, the Seaforms conjure up underwater life, but do not imitate it. The use of optic molds in the glassblowing process creates ribs that increase the strength of the thin-walled glass, and thin lines of color, known as “body wraps,” emphasize their undulating form. ‘Like the Baskets, they are often grouped together into sets.
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Don't have any KJW news yet ..... so just focus on his old activities to keep this page running .......
Kim Jae Won in World Children's Baseball Foundation July 2006
Jae-won his belly feel good and I said, but during the interview, even when the photo session, much to touch waistline
]However, the pained look even though "Jae-won said. Please see here!" Is a request from the media, and immediately head and give me lots and smiled
I saw Mr. Jae-won, URESHIKATTARI, or誇らしかっKANPUU-chan
Jae-won his photo session after the presentation by the baseball team's uniform change of clothes, the sun is directly in the glare of outdoor batting showed me
It is also painful to belly, to be hot, tired, had just arrived to be did triple calamity job Still, Kim Jae-won
Baseball is also not joined the baseball team, because it is about the basic
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|DANIEL ROSS AND ANGEL ORTIZ with two interested participants at the farm in Holyoke|
"Tell him what happened with the sign,” Daniel Ross said to Angel Ortiz at the gate to Nuestras Raíces farm, 30 acres of vegetables, animals, and flowers on the banks of the Connecticut River in Holyoke, Massachusetts. Ortiz, a strapping but shy 18-year-old who helps tend the farm—“the pig whisperer,” Ross calls him—looked down. “It was just a truck!” he said. Then he told the story: “I backed up and it broke on me.” Ross, smiling, stretched out his hand to take Ortiz’s in a long, solid grip. “Angel’s going to be the next mayor of Holyoke,” he said.
Young people run things at Nuestras Raíces (“Our Roots”), the nonprofit agency Ross heads. They’re allowed to screw up and figure out how to fix their own problems. Many agencies around the country encourage similar activities: city gardening, youth training, healthful eating, entrepreneurship. But few have integrated themselves with equal reach and results, or helped rebuild as troubled a community as Holyoke.
Though it is in the bucolic Pioneer Valley, Holyoke, among the state’s poorest cities, is notorious for its drug use and attendant crime. As in many picturesque New England river cities with impressive Romanesque Revival buildings, mills made it rich and then dealt it a decisive blow when labor costs shut them down. In Holyoke’s case, the mills made paper, not textiles, and the blow came relatively late—after a sizable Puerto Rican population had settled there in the 1960s and ’70s, drawn by factory jobs and nearby tobacco farms. The farm jobs dried up about the same time the mills closed, and unemployment rates have remained high. But the knowledge and love of farming have stayed strong in the Puerto Rican community, which accounts for nearly 40 percent of the city’s population.
Holyoke was thus fertile ground for “urban agriculture”—the successor to the still-flourishing community-garden movement, which itself grew out of World War II victory gardens. In the late 1960s, in the wake of urban renewal’s wholesale razing, community gardens cleaned up blighted lots, curbed vandalism, and gave people who had never had one a say in how their neighborhoods were run. Today, according to the American Community Gardening Association, there are more than 17,000 community gardens all over the country. The urban-agriculture movement looks for ways people can make money on what they grow (seldom a focus of community gardens) and puts an emphasis on training youth to strengthen their communities. And it gives people access to fresh vegetables in “food deserts” where the only oases are gas stations and convenience stores.
As you might expect in the “Five College” area, Nuestras Raíces was born with the help of a thesis—one on community gardens written by Seth Williams, an undergraduate at Hampshire College. Williams worked with several experienced gardeners and community leaders in South Holyoke to find land, water, and tools for a new community garden to replace one lost to development. To keep the garden and the alliances around it alive, community members founded Nuestras Raíces in 1992. One garden has grown to nine, and the annual budget is now more than $800,000.
Much of the growth has been under Ross, who became executive director in 1995 at just 22, after a childhood steeped in activism and a year spent working with migrant farmworkers up and down the East Coast. Ross is a wiry man with big green eyes. He listens intently, and he is laconic. His group’s ability to draw in local health centers, churches, and schools and give the reins to young people has made Nuestras Raíces a national model. “There’s so much discourse around community voice,” says Linda Jo Doctor, program director for health at the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, in Battle Creek, Michigan, which took an early interest in Nuestras Raíces. “But it’s real there.”
Last year, Kellogg invited Nuestras Raíces to apply to be part of a new long-term initiative called “Food and Fitness.” Working with the Holyoke Health Center, Ross helped assemble a coalition of about 75 groups that asked for a $500,000 two-year planning grant. The coalition was one of just nine in the country to win one—a signal achievement for Nuestras Raíces and for Holyoke, which if the plans are approved stands to get as much as $3.75 million.
Even in the middle of winter, when I visited, it was apparent how meticulously the gardens are maintained—unlike many other urban gardens I know, which out of season can resemble the trash heaps they started out as. Everything looked freshly groomed: the wooden fences separating individual 15-by-20-foot plots, the gaily painted casitas, tool sheds that are “artistic statements,” Ross told me, and gathering places like stoops. Several gardens had plastic-covered hoop houses, greenhouses that in the dead of winter can get pretty grungy. I didn’t detect a rip.
“We have nine community gardens in some of the toughest neighborhoods in the city if not the country,” Ross said, “and the incidence of vandalism has been almost zero.” Joel Cortijo, a colleague along for the tour, said simply, “It’s ours.” Cortijo, 30, grew up in Holyoke and spent six years in the Army before returning to run a high-school basketball league; he is now co-coordinator of Holyoke’s Food and Fitness Policy Council, which will help decide how to spend money from the Kellogg grant. Harming a garden, he said, “would be like vandalizing your own car.”
Oran Hesterman, a former program director for Kellogg, told me that when he visited Nuestras Raíces, he was impressed by something Ross didn’t do: “fall all over himself” to give him the grand tour. “He was busy,” he said. So Ross left him in the hands of two 15-year-old workers, proof that Nuestras Raíces “really trusts young people to give the straight story.”
Gardens are the heart of everything Nuestras Raíces does. Children can often be found playing in vegetable patches and in adjacent playgrounds built on land cleared of needles, broken glass, and brush that gave dealers a place to hide their drugs. Grandfathers and fathers, many of whom grew up on farms in Puerto Rico, teach schoolchildren how to grow peppers and eggplants and experiment in greenhouses on the farm with exotics like papayas and avocados, to see what they can get to grow in the New England climate. “During the summer you’ll find a dozen guys sitting on tables and benches,” Ross said, “shelling beans and telling lies about the size of their tomatoes.”
Whole families help with the preparation of a winter’s supply of sofrito, the condiment made with onion, garlic, cilantro, green peppers, and ajices dulces (sweet cooking peppers) that forms the base for many Puerto Rican dishes. Janet Crespo Santana makes it to sell out of a test kitchen at Nuestras Raíces’s downtown headquarters. The kitchen, approved for commercial use, is the home of El Jardín, a successful artisan bakery that makes an impressively crusty sourdough loaf in a wood-fired brick oven (it supplies local restaurants, and recently opened its own café in tony South Deerfield).
Practically everyone in town comes for lunch at Mi Plaza, a restaurant in the same building that uses Nuestras Raíces herbs and vegetables in the summer and makes traditional Puerto Rican food all year—some of it healthful (stewed chicken over plantains mashed with garlic, rice with fresh herbs and calabaza squash), some of it less so (Ross’s favorite, alcapurria, fritters of chile-spiked beef picadillo in a dough of grated taro root and green bananas).
Nutritionists in the sunny teaching kitchen of the health center, which is housed in a splendidly renovated furniture store downtown, show patients how to reduce the fat in traditional Puerto Rican dishes (Holyoke has the state’s highest diabetes rate), using fresh fruit and vegetables from the supermarket out of season and from a student-run Nuestras Raíces stand at a weekly farmers’ market in front of City Hall. “It goes way beyond food,” Ross said, “but it starts with food.”
The farm, a mile from downtown Holyoke, was Nuestras Raíces’s response to requests from community gardeners for larger plots that they could work commercially. It has turned into an attraction of its own, with a petting zoo, a farm stand, summer concerts, and weekly pig roasts—a look, and a life, as close as people in the Puerto Rican community can come to the villages they and their families remember.
A massive effort to till the overgrown land—the original four acres grew to 30 when the Sisters of Providence next door offered 26 prime acres for a nominal rent—brought together students, church groups, and pre-release prisoners to chop out invasive species, haul and spread tons of compost, and clear nature trails along the river. In a moment of what he now calls mad ambition, Ross decided to move an enormous red gabled barn from a site a few miles away. It was roofless when I saw it, but the plan is to house paso finos, “fine-stepping” horses that are a source of Puerto Rican pride.
Farmers go through an eight-week training program during which they write a business plan that serves as their application for a plot; so far, 20 of 45 applicants have been given plots at a monthly rent of $25 a quarter-acre, and microloans to start “incubator farms.” Teenage farmers don’t pay rent.
When not pig whispering, Angel Ortiz grows vegetables to sell at farm stands on the plot he rents with his friend Bob Chipman, which they call Angel and Bob’s Farm. He hopes to sell salad greens and tomatoes and even kale to his high school, Dean Technical, right down the road, “where we never have fresh vegetables, ever.”
Ortiz knows how to cook the vegetables he grows (he told me how he fries eggplant): his father is a professional cook, and “half my friends,” he says, are studying to be chefs at Dean Technical. “Some people think gardening is for girls only,” he told me, “and you should get a real job, like working at a factory.” But “seeing someone popular do it makes it easier.”
So does seeing men grow vegetables during the day and use the gardens as social clubs at night. On summer weekends, there are music festivals on a bandstand built from foraged wood. The pig roasts, tended by men, are so popular that the farm will spin off a lechonera, the name for restaurants and roadside stands all over Puerto Rico that sell spit-roasted pig and traditional side dishes.
Similar groups are growing (you can find programs that focus on youth and agriculture at www.thefoodproject.org/youthorgs). The People’s Grocery runs five city gardens in and around Oakland, California, and is planning a new 15-acre farm and park, with the aim of creating jobs for young people; in Boston, the Food Project has long been a national leader in teaching city high-school students how to farm, inviting students from around the city to its summer programs; in Brooklyn, Added Value is starting a 2.75-acre “urban farm” on a former playground in Red Hook, a primarily African American community, and has already launched a successful farmers’ market staffed by students.
But Nuestras Raíces stands out. The key, I was told by foundation managers and city officials, is active leaders who let the people the program is intended for set its agenda instead of the usual, as Linda Jo Doctor put it, “grown-ups deciding what young people need.”
“Food projects,” Ross told me, as he and Ortiz walked me back to the farm gate long after dark, “are an extremely powerful way to get at what’s healthy about a community.”
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There are many definitions of justice (and, for that matter, of social justice). Justinian’s Institutes defines justice as “an unswerving and perpetual determination to acknowledge all men’s rights.” Another classical definition, found, for example, in the Catechism of Peter Mogila, states: “Holy justice is to render to each man what is his, in accord with equality, without distinction of persons, not only in regard to possessions, but also in regard to honor; but, Christian justice is not only to return good for good, but also never allows us to wish evil for evil….” There are, of course, many more definitions with various strengths and weaknesses.
Part of the reason for these many definitions is that justice can be conceived as a virtue of the soul or an external condition of society. Perhaps just as bad as having a wrong definition of justice is to have a myopic view, e.g. that justice is only internal or only social. Equally problematic would be to divide the two.
As for me, I agree with Plato that justice ultimately is about order, and justice in the rightly ordered soul is connected to justice in society. Certainly Edmund Burke would agree, and the idea is not limited to him or Plato either.
There is a connection between inner justice and justice in society. Yet discussions of the subject often overlook important ascetic contributions to the former that, in turn, connect in important ways to the latter. This essay focuses on the role of meditation, the Jesus Prayer in particular, in cultivating justice in the soul and how that might also affect our communities and societies. I do not pretend that this is a comprehensive recipe for justice, but it is an invaluable and overlooked ingredient.
First: What is the Jesus Prayer? According to the Orthodox Saint Theophan the Recluse,
In order to teach the mind to rest on one thing, the Holy Fathers used short prayers and acquired the habit of reciting them unceasingly. This unceasing repetition of a short prayer kept the mind on the thought of God and dispersed all irrelevant thoughts. They adopted various short prayers, but it is the Jesus Prayer which has become particularly established amongst us and is most generally employed: “Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy upon me, a sinner!”
So this is what the Jesus Prayer is. It is one among various short prayers, oral like all others. Its purpose is to keep the mind on the single thought of God.
The Jesus Prayer, then, is a method of Christian meditation meant to help us focus “on the single thought of God.”
Second: How does one practice the Jesus Prayer? St. Theophan continues,
The practice of prayer is called an “art,” and it is a very simple one. Standing with consciousness and attention in the heart, cry out unceasingly: “Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy upon me,” without having in your mind any visual concept or image, believing that the Lord sees you and listens to you.
It is important to keep your consciousness in the heart, and as you do so to control your breathing a little so as to keep time with the words of the prayer. But the most important thing is to believe that God is near and hears. Say the prayer for God’s ear alone.
At the beginning this prayer remains for a long time only an activity like any other, but in time it passes into the mind and finally takes root in the heart.
So the Jesus Prayer is the repetition of some variant of “Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy.” (St. Gregory of Sinai mentions a few different constructions.) In order to achieve the focus mentioned above, one must endeavor to free the mind from images, concentrate on the heart, pattern one’s breathing along with the words of the prayer, and “believe that God is near and hears.” Over time, the prayer becomes a habit, a second nature even, and takes on an automatic quality. In this way the fathers claim one can “pray without ceasing” (1 Thessalonians 5:17).
Third: What are the effects of practicing the Jesus Prayer? Again, St. Theophan:
Whoever has formed the habit of this Prayer and uses it properly, really does remember God incessantly.
Since the remembrance of God in a sincerely believing heart is naturally accompanied by a sense of piety, hope, thanksgiving, devotion to God’s will, and by other spiritual feelings, the Jesus Prayer, which produces and preserves this remembrance of God, is called spiritual prayer.
According to St. Theophan, the effects of the Jesus Prayer, rightly practiced, are “a sense of piety, hope, thanksgiving, devotion to God’s will, and … other spiritual feelings.”
We can see that some of these, at least, have been confirmed as a result of meditation more broadly. For example, a recent Big Questions Online article features the following from Michael Baime, an M.D. who teaches meditation at the University of Pennsylvania:
In my research on meditation, I have given more than 1,000 participants in my mindfulness-based stress management program a survey that was developed to evaluate non-religious spirituality. The survey quantifies spiritual experience in three dimensions: peace, meaning, and faith. The participants in this completely secular meditation program consistently report significant increases in all three of these areas.
He goes on,
Many people are surprised to see that measure of faith was increased. I teach meditation in a completely secular context, with no mention of religion or spirituality. Yet graduates of the program are more likely to agree with the survey’s statement, “I feel connected to a higher power (or God).”
While this AA-esque articulation of feeling “connected to a higher power (or God)” may not be quite the same as “a sense of piety, hope, thanksgiving, [and] devotion to God’s will,” certainly one would expect a Christian to explain this common phenomenon in a similar way. It would seem that St. Theophan’s claims may be more than anecdotal.
Fourth: What does this have to do with justice? If we take justice to mean “to render to each what is due,” we may have some understanding of how this relates. Practice of the Jesus Prayer increases focus and builds a habit that helps to drive out wandering thoughts and pacify our emotions.
Internally, then, it helps us render to each part of ourselves what is due. Rather than being tossed around by vagrant thoughts and emotions and appetites, we are able to stay in the present and, more importantly, coram Deo.
Furthermore, beginning by rendering to God what is due, we do not end there. Indeed, love of God cannot be separated from love of neighbor (see Matthew 22:36-40).
Writing on the subject of resisting temptation, Roy Baumeister, head of Florida State’s social psychology program, notes the benefit of good habits:
The human psyche is well designed to acquire habits (both good and bad). Doing something new and different takes effort and attention, and sometimes plenty of thought and emotion. In contrast, doing something by habit requires none of those, or at most a very small amount. To conserve the limited mental and physical energy that people have, nature has designed us to convert novel exertions into easy habits.
The Jesus Prayer is one such habit. Not only does Baumeister’s research confirm that such a habit of constant prayer can be cultivated, he notes that acquiring good habits helps us conserve energy and self-control for when we need it most. Constant prayer is one such habit, and the habit-forming skills needed to cultivate it are transferable to others.
In particular, however, in yet another Big Questions article, Christian Miller, associate professor of philosophy at Wake Forest University, notes four beliefs that correlate with virtuous behavior: beliefs about others’ virtue, beliefs about one’s own virtue, moral standards, and certain religious beliefs. The Jesus Prayer would seem to affect all of these. It requires belief in the closeness of God; it makes one more sensitive to God’s will (moral standards); while admitting we are sinners, it gives us reason to hope that we can improve and even that we currently may be improving; and lastly, as the Jesus Prayer transforms us into calmer, more self-controlled, and more virtuous people, we serve as examples to others.
This last point is where constant prayer “for God’s ear alone” actually serves the common good as well, beyond our own behavior. Miller writes,
For instance, the University of Virginia psychologist Jonathan Haidt has done research on what he calls the emotion of “elevation.” This is what we feel when we see another person do something particularly virtuous or morally admirable. Just think back to a time when you were feeling uplifted and inspired by someone’s bravery or loyalty or charity — perhaps your heart was moved, inspiring you to similar acts in your own life.
Research by Haidt and others has found a strong relationship between feelings of elevation and increased virtuous behavior. For instance, one study found that elevation neutralized anti-black racism and increased helping, while another found that, when compared to controls, elevation led to participants doubling the amount of time they spent on a helpful task.
It would appear that having more such examples in our lives would, then, increase our tendency “to acknowledge all men’s rights.” Virtue, including justice, has a contagious quality through good examples, be they parents, elders, friends, or even the lives of the saints. Inspired by others, we are more likely to think, “Maybe I can do that too.” This can be seen as empirical support for the saying of St. Seraphim of Sarov: “Acquire a peaceful spirit, and around you thousands will be saved.”
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Linux infringes on 235 patents, Microsoft says in latest report
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- In its biggest threat yet against open-source software users, Microsoft said Monday that open-source programs, including Linux, infringe at least 235 of the Redmond, Wash., software company's patents.
Cerberus to pay $7.4B for 80.1% of Chrysler
DETROIT -- Chrysler's 80,000 workers may pay the price for German-based parent DaimlerChrysler's decision on Monday to turn over the keys of its U.S. car company to private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management for $7.4 billion.
Democrats to discuss environment
The Democratic Women's Club of St. Johns County meets Tuesday at the Main Branch Library, 1960 N. Ponce de Leon Blvd.
First Coast Pilots give awards
The First Coast Pilot Club of St. Augustine recently presented scholarships to local students on their way to college. Recipients and their parents were welcomed to a meeting at Le Pavillion.
Sertoma conducts essay competition
In honor of National Heritage Month, celebrated earlier this year, the St. Augustine Chapter of Sertoma conducted its annual essay contest in several local elementary schools.
Hastings residents 'take back the night'
"With my loved ones by my side I am able to stand with pride No longer a victim will I be With this candle that I light I swear that I will always fight Till every victim can feel free."
Electrical apprentices graduate from FCTI
Family and friends gathered recently to recognize First Coast Electrical Apprenticeship graduates who fulfilled Florida program requirements during a ceremony held in First Coast Technical Institute's conference center. The First Coast Electrical Apprenticeship program has successfully produced skilled community craftsmen since 1996. Apprenticeship is a four-year program. The student attends class two nights a week and is monitored through on-the-job progress to earn a paycheck.
'Inherit the Wind' auditions next month
The St. Johns Cultural Council will hold auditions for the classic play, "Inherit the Wind," by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee at 2 p.m. June 2 and 7 p.m. June 4.Auditions will be held at the St. Augustine Amphitheatre, 1340 A1A South.
Woman's club meet today to includeinformation about scholarship recipients
The Women's Club of St. Augustine meets at 11:30 a.m. today at Amici's Restaurant, A1A and State Road 312.
News & Notes
Tour the city Celebrate National Historic Preservation month with a "Know Your City" tour narrated by local historian David Nolan. Hosted by the Citizens for the Preservation of St. Augustine and sponsored by Heritage Tours of America's Old Town Trolleys, the tours will be held at 9:30 a.m. and noon Saturday.
Presenting scholarships St. Johns Retired Educators Association meets at 1 p.m. Friday at the COA Coastal Community Center, 180 Marine St., with awarding of nine college scholarships as a highlight.
Graduates earn teaching certificates
St. Johns River Community College recently held its second Educator Preparation Institute graduation to honor 22 graduates who have completed the course work required to earn a Florida Professional Teaching Certificate. SJRCC's EPI program began in January 2006 to streamline the certification process for non-education bachelor's degree holders.
Navy League rewards 3 Coast Guardsmen
Recently, 30 members of the St. Augustine Navy League Council met at Coast Guard Helicopter Interdiction Tactical Squadron Jacksonville to present awards to three HITRON members. Aviation Electronics Technician First Class Scott Paolino was awarded Enlisted Person of the Year.
Neighbors: ACS Relay For Life raises $175,000
The American Cancer Society's Relay For Life at Bartram Trail High School was held last month, and despite getting rained out only eight hours into the event, approximately $175,000 was raised. As part of the relay event, 97 cancer survivors were honored and many more whose lives have been touched by cancer were remembered. Congratulations to all the teams and individuals who worked so hard to make this event a success.
Mac presentation Wednesday
The St. Augustine Mac Users Group (SAMUG) will host a presentation at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday in The Center of the St. Augustine Record, One News Place.
Neighbors: Student art show opening in Palatka
A reception tonight opens the Florida School of the Arts annual graphic arts student show on the Palatka campus of St. Johns River Community College.
Go & Do
TODAY Black history tours: Learn about the first free black settlement in the United States and other black history facts on St. Augustine Black History Tours, starting at 78 Chapin St., St. Augustine. Led by Howard E. Lewis, the tour takes participants to the Castillo de San Marco, and to historical black churches in St. Augustine and Lincolnville. Call 824-2653 or e-mail [email protected].
Avoiding mascara's 'raccoon eyes'
Q: No matter what brand of mascara I try, cheap or expensive, regular or waterproof, it ends up under my eyes. Is it because I wear glasses? How can I get mascara to stay on my lashes?
Opening statements preview months of evidence in Padilla trial
MIAMI -- They spent months battling over issues ranging from torture allegations to the meaning of the word "jihad." They pored over classified material, Arabic translations and traveled overseas to interview witnesses. They spent weeks picking a jury.
Advocates to give away semiautomatic pistol
RICHMOND, Va. -- A gun-rights organization is planning to hold a "gun giveaway" this week inside a Fairfax County, Va., government building to protest New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's efforts to crack down on illegal gun sales in Virginia.
Bombing victims say Rudolph is taunting them from prison
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Victims of Eric Rudolph, the anti-abortion extremist who pulled off a series of bombings across the South, say he is taunting them from deep within the nation's most secure federal prison, and authorities say there is little they can do to stop him.
Iran, U.S. agree to discuss Iraq
TEHRAN, Iran -- The U.S. and Iran said Sunday they will hold upcoming talks in Baghdad about improving Iraq's security -- a historic political turnabout for the two countries with the most influence over Iraq's future.
Transportation Week offers fuel for thought
DETROIT -- More than 20 of the vehicles from General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co., Toyota Motor Corp., Nissan Motor Co., DaimlerChrysler and Honda Motor Co. were shown Monday at NextEnergy's testing facility in Detroit as part of National Transportation Week.
Bush visits Jamestown
JAMESTOWN, Va. (AP) -- Fond of promoting the endurance of freedom, President Bush on Sunday hailed the nation's humble beginnings as a reminder that new democracies require huge sacrifice.
Doctors try to diagnose autism, mental disorders in babies
CHICAGO -- Within days of their birth, healthy babies will look you in the eye. By 4 months, they will delight in others. And by 9 months, they will exchange smiles.
Thousands seek 3 missing troops
BAGHDAD -- While some 4,000 American troops searched Sunday for three comrades who disappeared after a pre-dawn ambush Saturday, a Sunni Muslim insurgent group claimed responsibility for the attack, which killed four U.S. soldiers and an Iraqi Army translator.
Panel reports Wolfowitz broke World Bank rules
WASHINGTON -- World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz broke bank rules in arranging a hefty compensation package for his girlfriend, a situation that has caused a "crisis in the leadership" at the institution, according to a report released Monday by a special bank panel.
Bush clears way for new limits on car emissions
WASHINGTON -- New fuel economy rules for cars and trucks will be coming by the end of 2008 under a plan announced by President George W. Bush on Monday that rewrites the rules automakers had used for fighting tougher efficiency standards.
Police Report: Homeless man assaulted
ST. AUGUSTINE Homeless man assaulted: A homeless man reported being the victim of an aggravated assault Saturday afternoon, according to a report from the St. Augustine Police Department.
Police Report: Four men arrested at Players for disorderly intoxication
ST. JOHNS COUNTY Four men arrested at Players for disorderly intoxication: In four separate incidents, men refused to obey law enforcement and caused disruption at The Players Championship over the weekend, according to reports from the St. Johns County Sheriff's Office.
Evacuees are eager to go home
LAKE CITY -- Authorities were able to periodically reopen two highways crossing north Florida into Georgia on Sunday but dense smoke from wildfires still covered the area, and hundreds of Florida residents waited to return to their threatened homes.
FOR THE RECORD
In honor of National Moving Month, St. Johns County supervisor of elections Penny Halyburton reminds all those who have moved to St. Johns County or within the county to update their voter registration.
Workshops focus on beach lighting rules
St. Johns County Beach Operations will hold two public workshops this week to discuss a beach lighting ordinance that would protect sea turtles.
Crews gain on Flagler wildfire
As spreading fire, evacuations and road closures continued along the Florida-Georgia border, fires in Flagler and Lake counties continued to be battered down.
Rough around the hedges
Tens of thousands of people attend the The Players Championship every day. For most of them, it's a chance to watch their favorite player. For some, it's a party. For about 1 percent, it's a little too much of a party.
St. Johns Tech helps twins turn lives around
This could easily be a story about two high school dropouts. Twin sisters Kaylee and Johnna Rogow, 18, started out high schools partying too much and studying too little. They hated school and their failing grades showed it.
City to consider civil rights markers
The 40th ACCORD will present its Freedom Trail project to the St. Augustine City Commission today, which will include permanent historic markers displayed on sites relevant to the civil rights movement.
A colorful journey begins
HASTINGS -- Colors and art are spilling out of Joyce White.
These are the roads in St. Johns County that will be under construction this week:
Putnam man dies from stab wounds
The stabbing death of a 46-year-old South Putnam County man is under investigation by the Putnam County Sheriff's Office and the 7th Judicial Circuit Homicide Investigative Unit.
Drawing kept WWII prisoner sane
The last time Luba Estes was in Japan she wept.
Joseph Butler Lowrance Jr.
Joseph Butler Lowrance Jr. (Lt. Col. USAF, Ret.) died April 26, 2007, in St. Augustine. He was 90. Lt. Col. Lowrance was a dedicated career finance officer with more than 25 years in the military.
Virginia E. O'Connell
Virginia E. (Ginny) O'Connell passed away peacefully May 13, 2007, surrounded by family at the home of her daughter. She was born in Milwaukee, Wisc., and moved to St Augustine in 1983 with her husband, the Honorable Hugh R. O'Connell.A devoted mother, grandmother, guardian and friend, she was only truly happy when she was sharing her grace with others in service and support. Virginia was an accomplished artist; she attended Layton School of the Arts in Chicago, Ill., and was a gifted portrait artist.
Josephine K. Putland
Josephine K. Putland, 92, of St. Augustine, died May 12, 2007, at Ponce Health Care Center. Mrs. Putland was a native of Middle Ages, N.Y., and had resided in St. Augustine for the past three years. Mrs. Putland was a homemaker and she was of the Lutheran faith.
Hugh A. Holborn
Hugh A. Holborn, listed as one of the largest environmental contractors in the United States, passed away surrounded by loving family and friends on May 9, 2007, after a valiant five-year battle with cancer.
Michael T. Dyke
Michael T. "Mike" Dyke, 68, of St. Augustine, died May 8, 2007, at Flagler Hospital. Mr. Dyke was a native of Solihull, England, and served as a military police officer in the English Army. Mr. Dyke had lived in the United States since 1979 and had moved to St. Augustine in 1982 from Clearwater. He was co-founder of the Kings Head British Pub on U.S. 1 North in St. Augustine.
Letter: Habeas corpus should be reinstated
Editor: I have written to United States Sen. Mel Martinez (R-Florida), urging him to restore a cornerstone of the Constitution and support the reinstatement of the habeas corpus.
Letter: Name new high school for LeMaster family
Editor: In honor of Joe LeMaster and his son, Ebbie LeMaster, I would suggest naming the New Palm Valley/Ponte Vedra school LeMaster High School. Both Joe LeMaster and Ebbie had a great love for the area in which the new school is located. My father, Randy Wiles, served as St. Johns County Commissioner from 1940 to 1958, representing Palm Valley/Ponte Vedra, knew and worked with Joe LeMaster, and it was my pleasure as a County Commissioner to know and worth with Ebbie LeMaster. Ebbie's dedication to Palm Valley/Ponte Vedra was always unselfish, as was his pride and interest of all St. Johns County.
Letter: County government is bloated by its own doing
Editor: Scare tactics by local officials as in the Page 1 headline of the April 28 edition of St. Augustine Record, are astonishingly insincere.
Letter: Queen's visit was no more than a soap opera
Editor: It is hard to imagine how some people, particularly in our administration, tend to live in a world of fairy tales with kings and queens.
Perspective: A shining light goes out in Africa
On Saturday, May 5, Anthony Mitchell died in the crash of Kenyan Airways Flight 507, which killed all 114 people on board. Based in Nairobi, he was an Associated Press reporter who had recently broken a story on secret prisons in Ethiopia and the U.S. involvement in the detention and interrogation of prisoners there. The world has lost another journalist, one who was taking the necessary risks to get at the heart of the complex and often ignored story of Africa.
Perspective: A closer look at the court's ruling
Legalizing abortion by judicial fiat (Roe v. Wade) instead of by democratic means has its price. One is that the issue remains socially unsettled. People take to the streets when they have been deprived of resort to legislative action.
Letter: Planned Parenthood provides health care
Editor: This is in response to the letter of May 10, 2007, regarding Planned Parenthood. It says that the organization should advertise itself as an abortion provider, and is "misleading" the public by calling itself a "women's health provider."
Perspective: Sacrifice, Iraqi politicians' style
Nothing has enraged war critics in Congress more in recent days than the proposed plan of the Iraqi parliament to take a two-month summer vacation while American troops continue to fight there.
Perspective: C'est si bon
I'm off to Paris! I hereby revoke every churlish remark I've ever made about those lovely Gallic people. (But in light of former New Jersey governor and current "gay American" Jim McGreevey's latest career move, I redouble everything I've ever said about the Episcopalians.)
Taylor gets scare during Africa trip, happy with new deal
JACKSONVILLE -- Jaguars running back Fred Taylor boarded the single-propeller, 15-seat plane in Africa, chatting about the safari he had just been on with Samari Rolle, Lito Sheppard and their wives.
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- The Cleveland Cavaliers regained control of the Eastern Conference semifinals by making New Jersey's Big Three look awfully small.
Contenders don't emerge at Players
PONTE VEDRA BEACH -- The final round of The Players Championship started Sunday with just one stroke separating winner Phil Mickelson and the group playing right in front of him.
Today on TV
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 7 p.m. FOXSN -- Texas at Tampa Bay 7 p.m. SUN -- Florida at Pittsburgh
Matsuzaka throws CG in Red Sox win
BOSTON (AP) -- Daisuke Matsuzaka pitched his first major league complete game to start a four-game series between the AL's two top teams and the Boston Red Sox took their biggest lead in the standings in 12 seasons with a 7-1 win over the Detroit Tigers on Monday night.
The long road to No. 1
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- They are the most famous family of golf instructors, and even better at giving each other the needle. So when Butch Harmon was voted the No. 1 golf coach, his younger brothers fired off a friendly dig.
NBA: Bulls fend off Pistons
CHICAGO -- The Chicago Bulls built another big lead, and the Detroit Pistons were rallying. Sound familiar?
Hamlin upset after Darlington disaster
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- Joe Gibbs Racing officials met Monday to discuss personnel changes after a pit road mishap cost Denny Hamlin a victory at Darlington Raceway.
All roads lead to a title for Nadal in Rome ROME -- A day after setting a record for most victories on one surface, Rafael Nadal became the only player to win the Rome Masters three consecutive times.
Favre: I never really wanted to be traded MILWAUKEE -- Brett Favre acknowledged his anger over the team's unwillingness to pull off a trade for wide receiver Randy Moss, but denied Monday he ever really wanted the Green Bay Packers to trade him.
Longtime minor leaguer has a major week for A's
OAKLAND, Calif. -- Jack Cust had the reputation of a power hitter for almost a decade, impressing scouts with his ability to wait for his pitch and drive it over the fence with ease.
Landis arbitration: Cyclist remains confident
MALIBU, Calif. -- Floyd Landis began a most unusual defense of his Tour de France title Monday, trading his yellow jersey for a yellow necktie.
Gators beat Kentucky for prized recruit
GAINESVILLE -- Jai Lucas picked Florida over Kentucky, just like his future college coach.
Mickelson wins Players title with smooth 3-under 69; Garcia finishes second, two strokes behind
PONTE VEDRA BEACH -- Phil Mickelson looked different down the stretch of a golf tournament with a major feel to it.
Not even a question: The Players belongs among the four major championships
PONTE VEDRA BEACH -- Is The Players Championship a major? Absolutely.
Column: Hiring Harmon instantly pays dividends for Mickelson
PONTE VEDRA BEACH -- The NFL has Bill Belichick.
NHL: Niedermayer leads Ducks past Detriot
DETROIT -- Scott Niedermayer scored at 14:17 of overtime to lift the Anaheim Ducks to a 4-3 victory Sunday night over the Detroit Red Wings, evening the Western Conference finals at a game apiece.
Out of contention, Tiger shoots 67
PONTE VEDRA BEACH -- Tiger Woods endured a forgettable week at The Players Championship. However, Woods' play during Sunday's final round may give him some confidence for his 2008 Players appearance.
Gordon makes it four in a row for Hendrick
DARLINGTON, S.C. -- As steam poured from his engine, Jeff Gordon figured his chance at victory had gone up in smoke.
A strong effort that leaves O'Hair wet
PONTE VEDRA BEACH -- Sean O'Hair didn't look at the water surrounding the 17th green, only the yellow flag that was waving gently 132 yards away.
Today on TV
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Baseball: Red Sox rally for six in ninth
BOSTON (AP) -- Jason Varitek and Eric Hinske scampered home when closer Chris Ray dropped the toss at first base on what could have been a game-ending groundout, and the Boston Red Sox rallied for six runs in the ninth inning to beat the Baltimore Orioles 6-5 Sunday.
We can call The Players great, but a major championship it is not
PONTE VEDRA BEACH -- I'm putting this in writing now.
News briefs from around Florida
PENSACOLA -- An Interstate 10 bridge that once stretched across Escambia Bay is slowly being transformed into a massive underwater reef.
Crist rallies North Miami town hall meeting on property taxes
NORTH MIAMI -- Gov. Charlie Crist called it a town hall meeting, but a Monday evening event came across more like an anti-tax rally to rev up for next month's special legislative session called to bring down property taxes.
Aging mob boss gets 14-year prison sentence
MIAMI -- An aging heart patient who acknowledged being the head of the Genovese crime family in South Florida was sentenced Monday to 14 years in prison on a federal racketeering charge.
Miami tops rude drivers list for second year
MIAMI -- For the second year in a row, rude drivers who chat on cell phones and speed through red lights have earned Miami the title as the U.S. city with the most road rage, a survey released Tuesday said.
Generators now mandatory at stations on evacuation routes
MIAMI -- Gov. Charlie Crist said Monday most gas stations along hurricane evacuation routes haven't complied with a new law requiring them to install generators so they can still supply fuel if a storm knocks out power.
Killing Taliban leader major win
KABUL, Afghanistan -- The killing of the top Taliban commander Mullah Dadullah, a one-legged fighter who orchestrated suicide attacks, beheadings and an ethnic massacre, marks a major victory for the U.S. campaign at a time of flagging Afghan support over civilian killings.
Pope guides Latin American bishops
APARECIDA, Brazil -- Pope Benedict XVI concluded his visit to the world's biggest Roman Catholic country Sunday by warning against "authoritarian forms of government" and calling on Catholics to reinvigorate the church.
Hamas member reveals details of attacks in book
RAMALLAH, West Bank -- The first time the "Engineers of Death" tried to attack an Israeli army checkpoint, they accidentally set off their roadside bomb while laying the trap. Undaunted, they devised a new plan, to kill an Israeli police officer. This time, the car bomb's detonator failed.
U.S. brands for sale in Cuba
HAVANA -- The golden arches are nowhere to be found. There's not a single Starbucks or Wal-Mart, and no way to buy a Budweiser, a Corvette or a Dell.
Militants: Stop search for soldiers
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- An al-Qaida-affiliated umbrella group that boasts that it's holding three U.S. soldiers who went missing after an ambush last weekend used an Islamic extremist Web site on Monday to warn that the search for the American troops only puts them in greater peril. | <urn:uuid:cdf50cc5-03e7-4267-a3a8-a4e439150672> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://staugustine.com/stories/051507/ | 2016-05-29T00:24:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049278244.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002118-00188-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945138 | 4,944 | [
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Life in Stills at Mandel JCC Cleveland Jewish FilmFest
LIFE IN STILLS Wednesday, October 9, 4:00 PM, Cedar Lee Theatre
Director: Tamar Tal Israel, Hebrew, 2011, 60 minutes Documentary
A photo shop owner and her grandson join forces to save the shop and the nearly one million negatives that document Israel's defining moments. A charming story of perseverance, history and love.
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2163 Lee Road
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These beautiful embellished flats are a practical and elegant alternative to courts this season. The suede upper, bead detailing and sharp toe point ensure that style wont be compromised when replacing heels.
A trusty pair of flats roll comfort and cool into one love! Whether youre a loafer lover, brogue babe, or flatforms are more your forte, we cant say enough about the shoe thatll take you from day time to play time in style. Have some fun in hi-tops - pair with boyfriend jeans and a bomber jacket and youve got street style in the bag.
The cream Christy Chantilly Flat Sheet is made from pure cotton and has a thread count of 200. The bed sheet features all-over embroidery detailing and beautiful ladder stitching for an elegant luxurious look. - L.M. Features: Made of pure cotton Thread Count: 200 All-over embroidery detailing Ladder stitching Dimensions: Single: 180 x 260cm Double: 230 x 260cm King: 260 x 270cm
The cream Christy Chantilly Flat Sheet is made from pure cotton, and has a thread count of 200. The bed sheet features all-over embroidery detailing and beautiful ladder stitching for an elegant, luxurious look. - L.M. Features: Made of pure cotton Thread Count: 200 All-over embroidery detailing Ladder stitching Dimensions: Single: 180 x 260cm Double: 230 x 260cm King: 260 x 270cm
Texture is a key detail this season and this quilted snake skin off white jumper will make sure your layered look is right up to date.Model is 6 foot 1 and wears a medium82% Polyester, 18% CottonMachine washable
Olay Regenerist 3 Point Treatment Cream. Targets the 3 hardest to treat areas - eyes, jawline, and neck for dramatically younger looking skin. Contains Olay"s most concentrated amino-peptide formula ever. Treats the difficult areas that some products igno
Designed specifically for the neck line jaw and eye area the Olay Regenerist 3 Point Treatment Cream is a replenishing rejuvenating cream suitable for all skin types. Giving you younger looking toned and supple complexion it boasts amino-peptide ingredients for anti-ageing effects. K.D.
Tackle those 3 hard to treat areas with the Olay Regenerist 3 Point Treatment Cream. Its a replenishing and nourishing cream made specifically for application on the eyes jaw line and neck area. Packed full of amino-peptide ingredients which are designed to reduce the signs of ageing whilst providing unbeatable anti-oxidant protection this cream gives amazing results. With Olays most
Complement your cooking area with a cream Rangemaster Flat 90 Chimney Cooker Hood , capable of recirculation and extraction to remove airborne grease and cooking odours from your kitchen. Made to match The Flat 90 Chimney Cooker Hood will match your cream Rangemaster range cooker, creating a more complete and stylish kitchen centrepiece. LED lighting gives it an elegant appearance and make it easy
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This chic leatherette jewelry roll, adorned with a buckle and belt features a signature snap-away zippered jewelry case along with two zippered pockets, an earring holder and a ring or necklace snapped tab. For young and old alike, the hook-and-loop closure in the rear of the belt makes this jewelry roll convenient and easy to use. This jewelry roll is beautifully packaged in a protective cloth
Take a different approach with your flat footwear!Perforated leather upper.Easy slip-on silhouette.Smooth man-made lining.Lightly padded footbed.Man-made outsole.Imported. Measurements:Heel Height: 1 2 inWeight: 4 ozProduct measurements were taken using size 5, width M. Please note that measurements may vary by size.
A retro style heavily influenced by 1970s aviators the Wildfox Amelia Sunglasses are handmade from prestigious Italian acetate. A three barrel French comotec hinge secures the contrasting black temples to the round subtly winged frames inset with CR39 optical grade lenses. The sunglasses offer UV A / B protection and are complete with protective case. - K.N. Italian Acetate
Were rather pleased with this reversible boxy sweatshirt shaped sweater because with a button through back you can switch it round to wear as a clever cardigan. Knitted from lightweight cotton it’s the perfect summer weight knit.
ElimiDerm Cream Topical is an all-natural product can be used on a variety of skin conditions to eliminate bacteria, fungus and yeast and is preferred over ointments because it rubs into the skin making it a couch-friendly option. FEATURE FUNCTION BENEFIT Axaphen Eliminates bacteria, fungus, and yeast Reduce inventory - one mode of action, multiple solutions Salicin Anti-inflamatory
Trixie Casta Cream Scratching Post will provide endless opportunities for cats to play explore scratch or just relax. Felines can sharpen their claws on any of the three scratching posts instead of on your furniture or carpet giving them a healthy outlet for their scratching instincts. All posts are covered in durable sisal. For a nap or a cozy retreat the cat can crawl inside the cat condo
BVB Fan Hoody - Womens YellowPUMAs Official Licensed Fanwear gives every fan the possibility to wear his or her team colours in any occasion.Fans can show their support for their favourite club in comfort and style when they wear the Borussia Dortmund Womens Fan Hoody.
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The Ghost: How can I get back to the mainland?
Barry: Only by plane, I'm afraid.
The Ghost: I lent my jet to my butler.
Barry: Haha, oh you Brits!
When the Ghost writer stops the BMW to follow the sat nav there is a car in the background. It vanishes then reappears as the film changes from close up to panoramic shots.
McGregor finds that the BMW navigation system is active, and decides to follow the directions, having no idea where it will lead. There are obviously much easier and direct ways to check the entered target destination of a sat nav than actually following it. Instead of this being a mistake, it is most likely a script choice; portraying McGregor as stressed, technically unknowing, inexperienced driver of modern luxury cars, or all of that. | <urn:uuid:1d0242b2-4eb2-4086-a949-70b71ecd1e57> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://www.moviemistakes.com/film8400/trailer | 2016-05-29T00:02:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049278244.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002118-00188-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949852 | 176 | [
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Witness illegal dumping? Let us know right away.
Pollution Hotline: 1-877-4-CACOAST (877) 422-2627
All pollution, whether on land or water, ends up in our rivers and bay eventually, and can pose a serious threat to aquatic ecosystems, and human health. Don’t let it go on unnoticed; call our pollution hotline or report pollution using the form below.
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In one of the most brazen attacks to date, Chinese hackers breached the computer systems of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, gaining access to information about its 3 million members, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.
The hacking break-in, which could have had access to the top business group’s computer system for more than a year, was discovered after the FBI warned the Chamber that servers in China were stealing information.
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The group behind the incursion is suspected to have ties to the Chinese government, according to the newspaper. The operation was shut down in May 2010, the Journal reported, but sources familiar with the Chamber investigation said it is difficult to determine what the hackers stole before the security breach was dealt with.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry dismissed the report on Wednesday.
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A surprising find inside a Country Inn & Suites hotel.
Walk into the lobby of the Country Inn & Suites for an eerie sense of déjà vu: Is this Indianapolis? Rockford, Ill.? Oconomowoc, Wis.? That’s what happens at these chain hotels, as they all look exactly like one another. So it's a pleasant surprise to encounter the entirely unexpected Whitney Bistro & Onyx Bar. The bar just might be the coziest place to nurse a Lemon Drop in the 952 area code, and the lovely dining room could pass for the greenhouse at the palatial residence. Chef Adam Levitt takes his cues from his convention-defying surroundings. Starters ($6 to $13) include flatbreads topped with smoked salmon and the complementary flavors of caramelized onions and roasted garlic, nicely grilled shrimp paired with guacamole, skewers of tender beef, and crispy wontons stuffed with chicken and sweet green onions. Entrees (most under $20) include a half-dozen sandwiches, a handful of salads, four pastas, beef tenderloin medallions paired with wilted spinach, juicy burgers and a pork loin with sweet potato hash. Service is perky and fast.
5120 W. American Blvd.
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Cairo: More than 30 Killed in Attempted Islamist Jailbreak
At least 36 Islamist prisoners were killed on Sunday during an attempted jailbreak, in the latest violence since Egypt moved to crush supporters of ousted president Mohammed Morsi, AFP reported.
The violence, the deadliest in Egypt's recent history, comes amid a relentless security crackdown on Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood movement that includes the arrest of top Islamist leaders.
In Sunday's latest violence, gunmen ambushed trucks transferring 612 Islamist detainees to a north Cairo prison, and 36 inmates were killed in clashes that ensued when police returned fire, said the official MENA news agency.
The killings bring the death toll to almost 800 in five days of bloodshed sparked by a bloody police and military operation to clear Islamists from protest camps in Cairo.
In his first remarks since the campaign was launched, military chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Sunday warned that security forces would confront any further violence from protesters.
"We will never be silent in the face of the destruction of the country," Sisi told top military and police commanders.
"We are very prepared for this," he said, pledging a "forceful" response to further attacks on police stations and government buildings.
Troops and police have sent reinforcements to the Abu Zaabal prison, the scene of Sunday's deadly jailbreak, MENA reported.
The Anti-Coup Alliance, which has been pressing for Morsi's reinstatement since the army toppled him in a popularly backed coup on July 3, accused police of killing 38 prisoners.
"They were reportedly assassinated in their truck with live ammunition and tear gas fired from windows," said the Brotherhood-led group, according to AFP.
The Islamists said they cancelled "several marches" on Sunday, citing fears of vigilantes and snipers, but that others would go ahead.
The Egyptian government announced on Saturday that it had begun deliberations on whether to ban the Muslim Brotherhood in the wake of the latest violence in the country.
The Brotherhood was outlawed for years until former President Hosni Mubarak was toppled in 2011, after which it swept to power in the country's first democratic elections.
Frustrated supporters of Morsi have been lashing out at Christian targets, setting fire to Coptic churches and other Christian centers in the country.
Egypt's Coptic Christian community makes up around 10% of the country's 90 million-strong population. Copts are indigenous to Egypt, their presence predating the Arab conquests of northern Africa.
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September 29, 2008
Washington Post ombudsman Deborah Howell wrote last week on the newspaper’s internal website that her term will be over in three months, leading to speculation among staffers that the position might end along with her.
But Howell, whose two-year term had already been extended a year, said in an e-mail to Politico that she will remain through early 2009. And most importantly, she won't be last.
“There will be a replacement, and they're interviewing candidates now,” Howell said.
It’s not surprising that staffers might assume the opposite, as Editor & Publisher reported last week that cash-strapped newspapers are chopping the position with greater frequency in 2008. And before hiring Clark Hoyt, the New York Times considered ending the public editor job, as Bill Keller told me last year.
In addition to bucking an industry trend, the Post is likely to fine-tune the job description.
“Until now, we’ve basically had an ombudsman for the print newspaper,” said editorial page editor Fred Hiatt, adding that as the print and web sides merge closer together, that should get “reflected in how we do the ombudsman job.”
It's unclear exactly what that will be. Although it's not regularly updated, The Times' public editor has an online component, while the Post still has only the printed column once a week.
Executive editor Marcus Brauchli and publisher Katharine Weymouth are also involved in the selection. Jim Brady, executive editor of the website, would also be consulted in any discussions if there is a web component added to position, according to Hiatt.
Howell said that she's spoken to some candidates already.
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Robert G. Taber, 50, of South Dayton passed away Friday, Oct. 11, 2013, at his home surrounded by family and friends.
Robert is the son of George (Sue) Taber and Anita (Fred) Miller. He is survived by his wife of 31 years, Sherry (Rowland) Taber and his children, Robert (Lindsay) Taber Jr. and Ashley (Mike) Robert-son. He also has two grandchildren, Madilynn Robertson and Dane Taber. Also survived by sisters Theresa Bergum, Renee McKeever, Jennifer Keller and brothers Brian Taber and Tye Miller.
Robert had a unique personality and people were always drawn to him. He was loved by so many and he will be greatly missed.
Robert G. Taber
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Apple's new Swift language, featuring modern-day development capabilities for building OS X and iOS applications, is likely to find swift, high placement in assessments of programming language popularity.
Both the Tiobe and PyPL indexes already have plans to accommodate Swift. "A preview shows that its first rating will probably in the top 20 by [the July Tiobe index]. Swift is a natural and long-awaited next step of Apple," this month'sTiobe index description said. The monthly index, which gauges language popularity via a formula assessing searches on languages on sites like Google, Wikipedia, and YouTube, has shown Swift's predecessor, the Objective-C language,ranking not far behind C and Java in language popularityin recent years.
Tiobe Managing Director Paul Janssen expands on Swift: "Objective-C is a small abstraction layer on top of C." He adds, "Swift is a modern programming language that has adopted all the goodies of other popular languages such as automated memory management, script-like syntax and type inference." But with Swift, Apple is trying to catch up with Java and C#, he said.
In the rival PyPL index, which looks at how often language tutorials are searched on in Google, a representative already has done a brief assessment on Swift. "Yes, it would come in ninth position, based on the first week of data since its announcement," said Pierre Carbonnelle, who oversees the index. "I'll update the PyPL index as necessary at the end of the month." With a 6.6 percent share, Objective-C ranks eighth on the PyPL index, which notes the language has been climbing in popularity.
HubReports, which assesses language usage on GitHub, has not yet factored in Swift into its formula, company representative David Boyer said. But he pointed to arepository search on GitHub that already shows 157 results featuring Swift.
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Cadets from the Civil Air Patrol's Firelands Composite Squadron in Norwalk had the opportunity to fly with an instructor pilot in a CAP glider. A glider is a plane that has no engine, so it needs to be towed aloft by a powered aircraft. Once released, gliders can soar on thermals that are created by the heating of the earth's surface, often remaining in the air for hours.
After his first glider flight, C/Bas Joseph Kreglow said: "It was kind of scary taking off. But it was nice and smooth after we released. Overall, it was great. I can hardly wait to do it again."
C/SSgt Francisco Martinez added, "It is an experience which cannot be explained in words. You have to try it yourself. This is one of many activities which CAP offers."
Civil Air Patrol, the official U.S. Air Force Auxiliary, is a civilian, volunteer, non-profit, service organization. The unpaid professional adult and cadet volunteers perform more than 85 percent of inland search and rescue missions as tasked by the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center. CAP is also actively involved in disaster relief, assisting with the flooding in Findlay last month. | <urn:uuid:a6b19d75-a801-4f04-9f0b-61efce73f52b> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://www.norwalkreflector.com/News/2010/07/25/Local-cadets-fly-with-pilot.html | 2016-06-01T00:19:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464053252010.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524012732-00123-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978052 | 252 | [
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Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Print version ISSN 0042-9686
VAN GEEN, Alexander et al. Promotion of well-switching to mitigate the current arsenic crisis in Bangladesh. Bull World Health Organ [online]. 2002, vol.80, n.9, pp. 732-737. ISSN 0042-9686. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0042-96862002000900010.
OBJECTIVE: To survey tube wells and households in Araihazar upazila, Bangladesh, to set the stage for a long-term epidemiological study of the consequences of chronic arsenic exposure. METHODS: Water samples and household data were collected over a period of 4 months in 2000 from 4997 contiguous tube wells serving a population of 55 000, the position of each well being determined to within ± 30 m using Global Positioning System receivers. Arsenic concentrations were determined by graphite-furnace atomic-absorption spectrometry. In addition, groundwater samples collected every 2 weeks for an entire year from six tube wells were analysed for arsenic by high-resolution inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry. FINDINGS: Half of the wells surveyed in Araihazar had been installed in the previous 5 years; 94% were privately owned. Only about 48% of the surveyed wells supplied water with an arsenic content below 50 mg/l, the current Bangladesh standard for drinking-water. Similar to other regions of Bangladesh and West Bengal, India, the distribution of arsenic in Araihazar is spatially highly variable (range: 5-860 mg/l) and therefore difficult to predict. Because of this variability, however, close to 90% of the inhabitants live within 100 m of a safe well. Monitoring of six tube wells currently meeting the 50 mg/l standard showed no indication of a seasonal cycle in arsenic concentrations coupled to the hydrological cycle. This suggests that well-switching is a viable option in Araihazar, at least for the short term. CONCLUSIONS: Well-switching should be more systematically encouraged in Araihazar and many other parts of Bangladesh and West Bengal, India. Social barriers to well-switching need to be better understood and, if possible, overcome.
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Former Mocs Danny Evelyn, Brian Richey and Travis Perkins of Lakeland all fell short of advancing to the second stage of PGA Tour Q-School on Friday at Grasslands.
Evelyn shot 72 to finish at 9-under, three strokes short of the qualifying number. He tied for 30th.
Richey carded a 69 to finish at 7-under, tied for 34th.
Perkins fired a 67, but finished at 6-under to tie for 46th.
Sihwan Kim of Orlando and Brandon Brown of Shelbyville, Ky., tied for first at 20-under.
Nineteen players finished at 12-under or lower to move on to second-stage events in mid-November.
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Just some sweet and colourful objects that you can find in our home.
- I got the little box from my friend Pam for my birthday, a couple of years ago
- My favourite pair of earrings (can’t remember where I bought them)
- Flowery pillow from Leen Bakker
- Garden/home gnome from V&D
Stijn (my boyfriend, graphics- and photo god) gave me a short introduction of how to use photoshop, and I think it worked out pretty well. | <urn:uuid:e7f8b32d-d1ee-41fa-8b41-408152b5af47> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://life.mariekeabels.nl/2011/sweet-objects/ | 2017-06-22T11:52:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128319265.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20170622114718-20170622134718-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.938489 | 108 | [
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Rihaku Inoue is a calligrapher specialized in Japanese calligraphy, “Sho”. She takes her craft a step further by creating artwork, including custom-made paper as a background. This is her first solo exhibition in New York.
As per her artist statement, “I produce my work to present the beauty of “Sho”, instant art, to the world. Japanese calligraphic art is commonly understood to be simply “writing”, but I believe it can be an art form that is equal or superior to other visual and performing arts. Even if the audience has no knowledge of Japanese characters, I want this contemporary Japanese calligraphy to stimulate the senses of people across the world, without borders, and reach out to their souls. This is the reason that I attempt to use more three-dimensional, active expressions.”
One of her creations, “With Love and Prayer” is meant as a tribute to the victims of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan.
The exhibition is only up through May 25, 2014. If you’d like to visit, it is currently at 889 Broadway (19th Street) in Manhattan, Penthouse apartment.
In April, I read with great interest a book review about Forbidden Cities, USA, in the NY Times Book Review section. What was fascinating to me on a personal level, was the change in mentality that is taking place in the United States over the decades. We are still not satisfied, as things are far from perfect, but when you read about the “exoticism” of Asian-Americans, in particular Chinese-Americans (who have been immigrating to the United States since the mid-1800s), just over half a century ago, you realize that we are making progress, as these nightclubs would be unthinkable nowadays. The article mentions an exhibition in San Francisco: Forbidden City, U.S.A.: Chinese American Nightclubs, 1936-1970, curated by Arthur Dong.
A couple of weeks ago I was in San Francisco for a conference, at the end of which I went to the San Francisco Public Library’s Jewett Gallery to view the exhibition. It was fascinating, and some of the photos were more osé than I was expecting! The artifacts were like a window into an aspect of the 1930s through the 1960s, as well as the historical events of the times, such as World War II.
As I was getting ready to leave… Mr. Arthur Dong, the author, came in to greet a friend! He was giving a presentation at 6 pm that same evening, which unfortunately I was unable to attend. However, I encourage everyone to purchase this book, and if you are in SanFrancisco before July 6, 2014, to visit the exhibition! His friend kindly took a picture of us. | <urn:uuid:b837917a-7c0e-49c7-96fa-984ceb95f0ec> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://padoukdesign.com/Blog/2014/05/ | 2017-06-22T11:55:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128319265.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20170622114718-20170622134718-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.981838 | 592 | [
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Dynamo Open Air Festival: 3 Stages, over 60 bands, 3 days non-stop music (live, DJ's)
fairground attractions, metal market, lifestyle events, in other words..... metalheaven
May 29-31 in Eindoven, Netherlands
Confirmed bands: Deftones, Fear Factory, Rammstein, Hammerfall, Primal Fear, Iced Earth, Enslaved, Fates Warning, Immortal, Pro-Pain, In Flames, Death, Saxon, Dimmu Borgir, H20, Fu Manchu, Dropkick Murphys, Junkie XL, Agnostic Front, Within Temptation, 25 Ta Life, Bewitched, Battery, Emperor, Hard Resistance, 7 Zuma 7, Form, Hatebreed, Spiritual Beggars, Maximum Penalty, Stratovarius
visit http://dynamo-open-air.com/ for more details
Fates Warning will be releasing "A Pleasant Shade of Gray" live video on March 10th. The live video will contain footage of the entire A Pleasant Shade of Gray album. Currently Fates Warning is looking into doing another tour of North America.
Jerry Cantrell's solo album, "Boggy Depot" is due out March 24 and will include appearances from Rex Brown, Les Claypool, Mike Inez, and Sean Kinney.
King Diamond's new album "Voodoo" will be released at February 24. He will be touring the U.S. this Spring. We will post the dates as soon as they are released. After he finishes up his solo project he will then start concentrating on putting together the next Mercyful Fate album, "Dead Again."
Phil Anselmo went to LA to do some writing & recording with the legendary Tony Iommi. Tony will release a solo record at some point in 1998.
Deftones: While playing in Berlin on their tour through Europe some people broke into their tour van and stole camera equipment and CD's. They also stole video tapes of performances and behind the scene footage that was home video material. They were planing to release a home video late this year. They had no other cloths left than the ones they had on and to top things off their tour van broke down. Despite this their still on the road and plan on them being in the US come summer time.
Helloween has released a 4 CD box set in Japan titled "Pumplin Box". The box will contain a 70 pages booklet and the songs will cover the years 1985 to 1993. The CDs will feature rare recordings, live recordings plus interviews with the members of the band. Also their new album "Better than raw" will have an undisclosed bonus truck and a sticker.
March 17 Helloween will release a new album in Japan, with a European release set to follow a couple of weeks later. The album will be entitled "Better Than Raw", and will include the following songs: Deliberately Limited Preliminary Prelude In Z, Push, Falling Higher, Hey Lord, Don't Spit On My Mind, Revelation, Time, I Can, A Handful Of Pain, Laudate Dominum, Back On The Ground and, Midnight Sun. One or two of these songs may be bonus tracks on the Japanese version only.
Cannibal Corpse: Rob Barrett's replacement on guitar is ex-Monstrosity and Nevermore shredder Pat O' Brien. The new Cannibal album will be called Gallery Of Suicide, and the official release date is April 21st 1998. Song titles for the new album are as follows: " I Will Kill You ", " Disposal of the Body", Sentenced to Burn", "Blood Drenched Execution", "Gallery of Suicide", "From Skin to Liquid", "Unite the Dead", Stabbed in the Throat", "Chambers of Blood", "Headless", "Every Bone Broken", "Centuries of Torment", and "Crushing the Despised."
King's X has just signed with Metal Blade and is currently writing new material for their debut album on Metal Blade to be released in the fall of 1998.
EXODUS is back at the studio with their original line up recording a new album.
IRON MAIDEN's forthcoming album, Virtual Insanity, is being issued in Japan featuring a 12 minute long live bonus CD.
Van Halen shot its first video for "Without You," the upcoming single from "Van Halen 3."
Also their will be a listening party at Hollywood's Billboard Live with Gary Cherone, on March 12. For those that can't be thier it will broadcast live in Real Audio on the official VH site from 7 to 9 p.m.. Pacific time. (www.van-halen.com)
Izzy Stradlin: 117deg., March 10
Van Halen: 3, March 17
Scott Weiland: 12 Bar Blues, March 17
Helloween: Better Than Law, March 17
Jerry Cantrell: Boggy Depot, March 24
Iron Maiden: Virtual XI, March 24
Jimmy Page and Robert Plant: TBA (new studio album), March 24
Ace Frehley: Reissue; Live Plus One, Second Sighting, and Trouble Walking, March 24
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Volumising, enhancing and re-
The key process in facial ageing in the midface are:
• Loss of volume (mainly of the deep fat compartments).
• Downward sagging (ptosis) of midface fat compartments.
• Loss of skin elasticity & texture.
Injection of a medium density hyaluronic acid dermal filler can be directly injected into the midface to create volume, enhance the higher parts of the cheek bones, and to a great degree eliminate areas of hollowness under the eyes (tear troughs).
If the aim is to “beautify”, volume can be sculpted into the upper cheeks to create the high and full cheekbone look.
If the aim is to address ageing, the main objective is to identify the specific areas of volume loss, and to restore these without over-
Restoring volume & contour to the temples (temporal fossae) can address an often missed cause of ageing in suitable patients.
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Rejuvenation of the midface can be central to rejuvenation of the face as a whole, often more than any other single procedure.
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Children’s Health is an absolute priority at Clarendon Medical Centre and the doctors work closely with the health visitors and the community paediatric team to ensure that children are protected and reaching their developmental milestones.
Below is a timetable of the various checks, assessments and immunisations to which your child will be invited.
|1-14 days and over the next 6-8 weeks||support and advice||Health Visitor||your home|
|8 weeks||medical check-up and immunisation||Doctor/Practice Nurse||Clarendon Medical Centre|
|12 weeks||2nd immunisation||Practice Nurse||Clarendon Medical Centre|
|16 weeks||3rd immunisation||Practice nurse||Clarendon Medical Centre|
|8-9 months||developmental check-up||Health Visitor||your home|
|8-9 months||hearing test||Health Visitor||Clarendon Medical Centre|
|12-15 months||measles, mumps, rubella vaccine||Practice Nurse||Clarendon Medical Centre|
|2 years||development check-up||Health Visitor||your home|
|4 years||development check-up||Health Visitor||your home|
|4 years||medical check-up & pre-school immunisations||Practice Nurse||Clarendon Medical Centre|
Health Visitors are qualified nurses with further specialised training and are experienced in child health, health promotion and health education. Our role is to help people stay healthy and avoid illness. We are able to listen to you and to help, advise and support you in all sorts of situations. We work with all age groups and are here for everyone.
Child health clinic Every Tuesday 13:00 – 15:30 (from 23.06.2014) .You can ring us on 01274 736996 (8.30 am – 4.30 pm Monday to Friday). | <urn:uuid:d58d0116-0913-4573-9e43-3a88b5f71ca4> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.clarendonmedicalcentre.com/patients-2/child-health/ | 2017-06-22T12:06:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128319265.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20170622114718-20170622134718-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.855734 | 405 | [
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I’m excited to announce that second editions of miniature ships, arizona, and distant friends are now available in our store! Some pages may have a changed word here or there, some may have adjusted artwork, and some have whole new sections.
This process began about a year ago while I was thinking about the next book (more on that further down) and re-reading miniature ships and arizona to see where to go next. In doing so I saw myself at a different point in my writing and from this side of the curtain saw ways to clarify the ideas I was trying to express. I went through each poem, polished a word here and there, tightened up and fixed a few beats, and adjusted the layouts of the pages to better reflect the relationships I felt the illustrations had with the words. In miniature ships, for example, Cooper’s illustrations are hand-in-hand with the poems and in some cases the words take a backseat to the images. In arizona, though, the illustrations are accents.
I also remade the cover for distant friends. Not a big reason other than that I didn’t like the old one.
All three books will now be digital only; I’ve pulled the physical copies from their shelves. I may revisit physical copies later on, but I haven’t really ever been pleased with the print quality on the copies that have been produced thus far and I felt like it was doing everyone a disservice to make a subpar version available simply because that was “the thing to do”.
Finally, they will be pay what you want. There’s a $0.99 minimum due to the restrictions of our store. You can still read distant friends for free right over here.
Now, that was a lot of words to spend on things I’ve already written. I’m also excited to say that I’m waist deep in the third book in the series of miniature ships and arizona, and that it will be ready in early 2015. Called the mister, this book of poems focuses on a kid’s understanding of what growing up means, of those moments where you finally cross past that line of safe consequences and start to see the way things really are and the way things could be– and that they aren’t always good and they aren’t always bad. That sounds kind of heavy, but it’s still a pretty light-hearted book. I think.
I’ve also named the series, as you’ll see in the second editions. It’s called elifant. There will be four books in all.
Here’s an image from the mister. I’ll be posting more on my tumblr between now and the book’s release. | <urn:uuid:0c36630b-6d0c-4669-a4e7-b83ae7062c07> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.timidfutures.com/2014/11/second-editions-new-book-coming/ | 2017-06-22T11:55:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128319265.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20170622114718-20170622134718-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.967007 | 589 | [
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Neurotechnology is advancing in leaps and bounds, and a number of great new products are coming out to reflect this. For example, a couple of days ago we wrote about the NeuroSky MindWave. Another one of these new products is called the EPOC Neuroheadset, by Emotiv, and it claims to have a revolutionary interface for human computer interaction.
As of right now, the EPOC headset does not have a HUGE number of applications, however we should start to see many more of them in the near future. Essentially the EPOC headset is currently mostly for gaming, and will replace the handheld controllers of today.
The headset is made up of 14 electrodes that are located around the head, and it also has a two-axis gyro for detecting your head movements. The device can detect cognitive movements like tilting your head, emotions, like excitement and frustration, and facial expressions, like smiling or frowning.
While I did say before that the EPOC currently does not have a large number of different applications, the number of applications is growing, and software development kits are available for it. Users have even been able to use the EPOC for things like controlling cars. The headset also ships with a demo game entitled Spirit Mountain, which is a first person virtual environment game.
The headset connects wirelessly via USB, and is compatible with Windows, OS X, Ubuntu Linux and Fedora Linux. Currently it is mainly for developers rather than consumers, though it could prove to be a very interesting device, even if you only use it with the game that it ships with. | <urn:uuid:e26ece55-95dd-4b97-ba42-bbb73e500283> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://crunchwear.com/emotiv-epoc-neuroheadset/ | 2017-06-23T08:31:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320040.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20170623082050-20170623102050-00638.warc.gz | en | 0.968408 | 324 | [
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Friday, November 7, 2008
A Soggy Day
Okay, so I wasn't quite right about Knotions. The new issue is up just as soon as technical difficulties are fixed. I was looking at the last issue. Ahem. But I have rounded the heel of three socks in the past few days. The Mystery Sock is finished... okay, just one is finished, but it's a start. I'm knitting the toe of the blueberry sock and the fern sock is progressing quite nicely. I just need a tad more knitting time and a tad less marking time and I'll be fine.
But it's raining! Actual, proper rain! This hasn't occurred in ages. Rain has not deterred the hens from being out and about, although, as you can see from Coco's expression, they aren't completely sold on the concept.
Yesterday I spent an hour chasing Mimi out of the vegetable patch. No matter how often I picked her up, patiently explained that the vegetable patch was no place for chickens and that if I found her back there again, I'd turn her into stock, she'd ruffle her feathers, turn, and run straight back in among the beans and potatoes. It'll be a miracle if I have any broad beans left. | <urn:uuid:33fe47b8-90e1-464b-987d-f71b4f368196> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://gidgetssocks.blogspot.com/2008/11/soggy-day.html | 2017-06-23T08:36:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320040.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20170623082050-20170623102050-00638.warc.gz | en | 0.982822 | 262 | [
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Appetite For Desire:
Blurb: Dustin James is shocked to learn the sexy blonde he met two days earlier is none other than his father’s caterer who also works at the country club he’s recently joined. When he can’t keep his hands off of her, is lust for her sexy body all he wants, or is it love?
Courtney Bright defied the rules by admitting her attraction to the new customer at the country club. But when she realizes her feelings aren’t just sexual, will she take a chance on love, or is her job more important?
“Want to see the upstairs?” Dustin led her to the golden oak staircase, the risers carpeted in the same dark blue as the living room.
She nodded and followed him, poking her head into each of the five bedrooms, all decorated differently.
“There are two full baths on this floor,” Dustin explained as he showed her the master suite. “And two half baths downstairs.”
“Someone finally got smart.” Courtney looked at the glass-walled shower and the whirlpool tub. “Growing up, we only had one full and one half. My brother would often go outside and pee in the bushes if both were full.” She took one more glance and headed for the doorway. “Your friend hasn’t lived here very long, has he?” She lingered by the door.
“Why do you say that?”
“Well, look,” she gestured at the walls. “No photographs, no pictures, and everything looks as if it just came out of the showroom.”
Very perceptive. He chuckled. “That’s because this is one of the model houses for the neighborhood.”
Courtney blushed. “Oh. I should have realized…”
“No, no, don’t worry.” He leaned against the door jam. “So what do you think?”
“About the house? It’s lovely.” She looked at him, her eyes dreamy. As he watched, she shook her head. “Thank you for showing it to me.”
“My pleasure.” Dustin put a finger under her chin and brushed her lips with his.
His cock swelled as the memory of their night together flooded his mind. He groaned and pulled her closer.
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According to a revised estimate announced by commerce and industry minister, Kamalnath, one of the most visible ministers of UPA government, the fiscal year will be the best with FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) touching a figure of $15 billion, nearly the double of $7.72 billion of the last year. The achievement is creditable, as India could manage only $38.90 billion between 1991and march 2006. But even with $15 billion FDI, India’s share is less than one-fourth of what China ($63Billion) attracted in 2006. But all this is happening because of only one reason; India is the second largest market after China. Thee government has not done any thing significant to attract more and a respectable figure in comparison with China.
Michael Dell, the founder chairman of world’s second largest PC maker Dell Inc. was recently in India. It is interesting to appreciate what he said. ” Dell’s 86 suppliers are planning to invest $19 billion in next two years, but not a single dollar is coming to India. Reason is the high tariff structure. One of the suppliers is investing $5 billion, but it has chosen Vietnam over India to invest. Dell sources around $19 billion worth of components from China and Taiwan but nothing from India. India levies 20-25% tariff on PC production visa-a-vis many other countries with very low or nil tax rates. Of a $500 PC, the duty element in India is around $100. However, because of the sheer size of the Indian market Dell is putting up an assembly plant in Sriperumbudur SEZ near Chennai at an investment of $ 30 million to manufacture 400,000 units annually.
Why can’t the government decide the priority high tech sector where it intends to have FDI inflows? Why can’t it be reducing the tariff in line with even a poorer country such as Vietnam? Why should it go on collecting these high taxes and doling out in so-called programmers for social equity once they know through different studies of the experts that it hardly reach the beneficiaries and gets diverted to the relatives and known of the politicians, bureaucrats, and only those who manage the vote banks or accounts in Swiss banks? Why should it go on talking of globalisation, if it can’t master the rules and tricks of competition?
The second story is of South Korean steel giant Posco that signed the MOU in June 2005 for setting up a 12-million ton steel plant in Orissa at an investment of Rs 52,000 crore. Even after almost two years, the issues related to the land and mining lease are not cleared. When the media reported Posco’s intention to shift the project to Vietnam, both the Orissa and central government has woken up to the realities. The Orissa government today said it would within the next 3 months, remove all hurdles to South Korean steel giant Posco. Even PM is making promises to resolve disputes over land acquisition that threaten to delay projects including steel ventures by Arcelor Mittal and South Korea’s Posco. And what is the guarantee that it would happen, when, as reported, the villagers opposed to the Posco steel project had formed “self-sacrifice squads” to protect their lands from being acquired?
Is the government doing sufficient selling of the necessity and advantages of these development projects among the people of the region? And can the so-called activists such as Medha Patkar and her peers present an alternative plans for the growth of the regions and the country? Why can’t they be given a district’s administration and all resources to prove their models of inclusive growth? Why can’t the government go for a countrywide debate on the issues of acquisitions and making the bills on SEZs and acquisition robust enough to be vulnerable to get exploited by the business tycoons?
How can any foreign investor get attracted to India with this sort of trouble in starting a business, as with each passing day the project cost increases that is critical to any Greenfield project? If the country aims to attract FDIs comparable to China, it will have to make all the necessary changes in its working culture. There is no shortcut to grow with all sorts of inefficiency in the systems and every imaginable types of indiscipline in the people of the country brought in through the shrewd politicians and their so-called leaders in the name of democracy and human rights.
All foreign investors may talk nice about India in public but when it comes to investment, the SWOT study of the country where they intend to invest must satisfy them fully for its long-term commercial viability providing sufficient returns. And that is the reason that Intel decided to build its $2.5 billion first Asian chip manufacturing plant in the northeastern city of Dalian in China, reflecting China’s growing importance as a market for high-tech goods. The great economist Prime Minister and his able lieutenants know why Intel couldn’t be attracted to India that fails to come out with a competitive policy for chip manufacturing sector as a strategy for the nation that wishes to be a superpower in IT sector. Many a times, a question crops up. Are they really serious enough?
India steel majors on list of best CEOs
Maths honour for Indian prof in NYU
Nippon, Tata Steel plan JV for 1mn tonne unit
Work on Delhi-Mumbai industrial corridor starts
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remembering. ramzan nine years ago. getting ready for an iftar party where the palao served was too salty, even for me. ma, pinning my duppata on my left shoulder with the brooch nani ami gave her. baba, teaching his thirteen year old son how to tie a tie, no creases, no bumps, yes it must be straight. like most of my memories, i hate this one too, and not because i wanted to swap places with my brother, but because i wanted ma to tear apart the duppata and instead teach me how to sew it into a big fat bow tie so i could wear nani ami’s brooch in the middle of it, rest it below my throat under the absent shadow of an adam’s apple that never grew
remembering. how nine years ago i refused to pray maghrib after that bad iftari and the aunties shook their heads in silent disapproval. it was my first public anti-prayer rebellion. i secretly prayed qazah that night. fully naked. to practice vulnerability with allah, to mark difference from the communal prayer. eyes closed, so that when i went into rukuh, i wouldn’t peek at my stretch marks, at the alien hair growing out of unshavable places. i went into a long sajda that night remembering how my islamiat teacher had told me that we are closest to god when we are in sajda. i stayed that way until i slept, with my back to the dirty sky. i was vulnerable in love
now. i am alone. i hated praying with others but there are none to stand alongside me tonight. no aunty to give me a lecture, no mother to pin a brooch, no suffocating ittar smell to give me headache, no ramzan palao gone too salty
now, my prayer mat looks just like me: dusty, sad, unmoved since last ramzan. today i unfold it as i unfold myself. i am scared to pray again. i fear i may have forgotten the sequence, forgotten the movement, forgotten the words i have memorized in a language i secretly despise (yes, it’s that mixture of internalized islamophobia and saudi imperialism) i fear i may re-learn too much of a faith i need to not know much about. to survive. i fear i may hate it too much once i learn it too much
yesterday, someone who seemed so much more muslim than me told me that sex is a form of ibadat. sex, like worship, can be beautiful, vulnerable, frightening, violent. god too can feel like a nurturing lover one night and an abusive narcissist at others. faith comes with the risk of heartbreak. i have risked heartbreak. i have gone into sajda many times, sometimes on a sad prayer mat that looks too much like me, sometimes on her soft bush, my face embraced by her thighs, my fatihah laced with her moans. i have made myself vulnerable in love
tonight. is chaand raat. i will go into sajda as the moon tries to peek through the dense clouds of smog. teasing. tantalizing. licking the lids of apprehension on eyes that gaze their dirty skies for a glimmer of Her, a glimmer of something to break the monotony of this loveless capitalism
tonight i will recite fatihah and i will mean it. tonight i will even recite darood and i will mean it. and i will lower my head in sajda, bow down with my back to the teasing moon, rest my forehead on her stubble, put my faith in Her rubble, and stay like that for a long long time. on these lonely nights, i like feeling close to allah as She weeps the earth blurry. on these lonely nights, i like holding her close as she sleeps in restless worry. so i will stay that way until the crack of fajr, with her bush under the absent shadow of an adam’s apple that never really grew
If we must extend the umbrella of the word “queer” to all places and cultures, then we must also realize that being queer and doing queerness looks different in different places, since the normative is different in different spaces. Even within urban Pakistan, class and cultural capital allows for a certain kind of normative. I am always surprised when the coming-of-age stories of my fellow queer Pakistanis resemble so much the stories of American queer kids. I think that such story-telling stems from the narratives that are available to us. Since we have no way of understating queer coming-of-age other than the western ideas of “coming out of the closet” and “feeling attracted to the same sex,” we start to narrate our stories similarly. We begin to argue that are we are, like all queer folks around the world, “born gay” (as if our desires were coded into our genes in the uterus) even though at times we may not believe such narratives ourselves.
Since a long time I have been trying to understand my own queer coming-of-age as a woman who grew up in a relatively privileged urban environment of Pakistan where the normative was not the pure virginal Islamic, but the pseudo-western and hybrid ways of doing romance. In my normative environment, the social codes were written by a mixture of western music and films, Hum TV drama serials, classic British fiction or trashy romance novels, the Quran and hadith, and of course, Bollywood.
I realized that I was queer not when I started to accept my desire for women, but when I realized that I could not like boys the way my friends did. It was not a realization of lesbianism or uh, homosexuality (I cringe every time I use this word). It was a realization of failure. Failure to participate in the societal fantasies that are so ingrained in us from TV and romance fiction and pop music and Bollywood. Failure to dream about being a dulhan, about having a fancy wedding—and this was not because the 14 year old me was critical of the wedding industry at that time (I had no anti-capitalist consciousness then), but because I thought I could not feel. I could not feel the way my friends felt about boys and marriage. I could not participate in the excitement over a boy’s love note, or a rose, or a valentine’s day gift of chocolates (we all were too young to understand clichés then).
Therefore, my queer journey began from a sort of asexuality. I could not like boys; and my burgeoning feminism made me resistant to chivalry; resistant to saving sad girls oppressed by their fathers. This inability to actualize my romance fantasies cast me as a failure. I failed to attract, and I failed to desire. Even when I learned what lesbianism was, even when I realized that I liked a girl in a very intense, non-normative way, I was resistant to transferring the cultural fantasies of romance (in which one party woos and the other is wooed) to her.
Having been a victim of so much traumatizing sexualization and objectification, I did not want to look at women sexually. I thought that simply wanting a woman meant objectifying her. I was not taught a way to desire and love that could not sexualize and commodify, that could love without intruding upon her body. So I told myself again and again that I was asexual. That I would not participate in either culture: the romance fantasies with boys, or the erotic desire for women.
This is the tragedy of our culture. Children are not taught the difference between respectful consensual erotica, and intrusive and abusive objectification. Growing up, I thought being “liked” by someone was to be gazed upon by male eyes. And that meant being stripped naked, being pierced into, being penetrated by their violent gazes. So I thought “liking” someone else meant I had to do the same to desire “correctly.” In a patriarchal culture, the proper form of desire is the objectifying male gaze. Proper or real sex is porn, not shared consensual intimacy. And of course, the woman is always used for the man’s pleasure. As a queer woman, I thought that practicing my sexual desires would mean that I had to use a woman’s body for my own fantasies. That I had to look her up and down, to notice her breasts, to imagine her naked, to whistle at her as she walked down the street, to imagine what lay under her kameez. So of course, as a feminist, my own desires repulsed me. Desire turned into self-hate—not because I felt guilty the way my fellow Muslim queer folks did—but because I thought that desire for a woman was incompatible with my feminism.
When we can’t distinguish discomfort from excitement, trauma from pleasure, and erotica from pornography, there is no way we can fully give and receive love. In a world without sex education, and without education about the difference between sexual violence and sexual pleasure, we will never be able to heal from trauma, or allow others to heal through love. Being “in love” will always be violent, and “loving” will always be purely asexual. Even now, many years after my first desire/objectification dilemma, I still worry if I am dancing on the fine line of abuse/love. Despite regular communication with my partner, I still wonder if I am unable to understand fully the difference between the kind of desiring gaze makes one feel forcefully stripped, and the desire that makes one feel beautiful and safe. There is still so much I have to unlearn. I guess this is a queer feminist life: a constant and active struggle to unlearn all social codes that we are always, always implicated in. | <urn:uuid:0744e48d-1fc3-4c5e-97df-8dc271c3eab8> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://queerzenana.wordpress.com/tag/desire/ | 2017-06-23T08:28:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320040.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20170623082050-20170623102050-00638.warc.gz | en | 0.961713 | 2,075 | [
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Five-year-old kindergartner Claire Dingler of Maize gave the cash to her mother after peering inside the envelope and seeing ``lots and lots of money.'' Her mother, Ginger Johnson, turned the cash in to a store employee.
The owner was tracked down. But no details were provided about him or why he had so much cash.
The discovery is the second find of its kind this month. An employee at an Illinois Goodwill store found $7,500 in a shoebox that the owner mistakenly included in a donation of old shoes.
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