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"This was sufficient to confirm that Philae is healthy and that its sub-systems are OK in terms of energy and temperature for ongoing communication with Rosetta," he said, referring to the lander's mothership orbiting Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The mission seeks to unlock the long-held secrets of comets—primordial clusters of ice and dust that scientists believe may reveal how the Solar System was formed. The 100-kilogramme (220-pound) robot lab touched down on "67P" on November 12 after an epic 10-year trek piggybacking on Rosetta. But instead of harpooning itself onto the dusty iceball's surface, Philae bounced several times before settling at an angle in a dark ditch. It had enough stored battery power for about 60 hours of experiments, enabling it to send home reams of data before going into standby mode on November 15. As "67P" drew closer to the Sun, scientists hoped better light would recharge Philae's batteries enough for it to reboot, then make contact, and ultimately carry out a new series of experiments. A parting shot of the Philae lander after separation in 2014 After two failed bids to make contact in March and April, a new attempt was launched in May. "We were surprised, yes, because we didn't expect it at all last night, on a weekend—it's really exciting," Martin said. An ESA statement said Philae communicated with its ground team for 85 seconds, and preliminary analysis of the data showed it must also have been awake earlier but unable to make contact. 'Still a bit tired' According to Martin, the lander's temperature was about minus 36 degrees Celsius (-29 Fahrenheit) and its energy at 24 watts—both higher than the minus 45 C and 19 watts required to operate. "Philae is doing very well," said Stephan Ulamec, Philae project manager with the German space agency DLR. "The lander is ready for operations." Martin was more cautious, saying: "We have already lined up more communication windows which hopefully will see a repeat of this successful communication. "If we get a stable communications pattern we should be able within a week or so to think about operating the instruments on board the lander." Stephan Ulamec, Philae project manager of German Aerospace Centre, says the lander is "doing very well" A tweet in the name of Rosetta announced: "Incredible news! My lander Philae is awake!", before prompting the robot to "take it easy for now" while checks are run to see that it is "fit, healthy and warm enough". This prompted a Twitter response from Philae: "Oh, OK... I'm still a bit tired anyway... talk to you later!" NASA tweeted "Rise and shine!" while Britain's usually staid Royal Observatory shouted: "YES!!!" The comet and its precious cargo are 215 million kilometres (134 million miles) from the Sun and 305 million km from Earth, racing at a speed of 31.24 km a second, according to ESA's website. The National Centre for Space Studies (CNES) president Jean-Yves Le Gall (L), French President Francois Hollande and French astrophysicist Francis Rocard looking at a model of Rosetta lander Philae in 2014 Rosetta and Philae have travelled an accumulated distance of 6.9 billion km. By August 13 the comet will reach its closest point to the Sun, or perihelion, before veering off again into the deeper reaches of space. There are still more than 8,000 data packets in Philae's mass memory to be analysed, according to ESA. Philae's operators hope that the new data will allow them to pinpoint the lab's exact location on the comet, which has so far been narrowed to an area of about 100-200 metres (328-656 feet). Timeline of Europe's comet-chasing Rosetta mission A timeline of Europe's comet-chasing Rosetta mission, whose lander, Philae, has woken up after spending nearly seven months in hibernation on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. - March 2, 2004: Liftoff from the European Space Agency's launchpad in Kourou, French Guiana by Ariane 5 rocket. - March 2005: Rosetta encounters the Earth, using the planet's gravity as a slingshot to boost speed. It flies by Mars in 2007 and twice more by Earth, in 2007 and 2009, in order to accelerate further. - June 2011 to January 20, 2014: At its maximum distance—about 800 million kilometres or 500 million miles—from the Sun and a billion km from home, Rosetta hibernates to conserve energy. - August 6, 2014: Rosetta arrives at comet "67P", and goes into orbit. It has 11 onboard cameras, radar, microwave, infrared and other sensors to analyse the comet surface and gases escaping from its head. - November 12, 2014: Rosetta sends down a 100-kilogramme (220-pound) lander, Philae, equipped with 10 instruments. After bouncing several times, Philae ends in a dark but unknown location and does not have enough sunlight to recharge its batteries. - November 15, 2014: Philae's stored battery power runs out after about 60 hours of work. It sends home reams of data before going into standby mode. - March to May 2015: Mission controllers make three attempts to listen out for Philae, hoping increased light and warmth will revive it as "67P" nears the Sun. - June 13, 2015: Philae emerges from hibernation, and sends home a two-minute message at 2028 GMT. Looking ahead - August 13, 2015: Looping around the Sun, "67P" reaches its closest point to the star—a distance of 186 million km (116 million miles). - December 2015: Scheduled end of mission. Escorted by Rosetta and with Philae on its back, the comet heads out of the inner Solar System. At this point, Rosetta will once again come close to Earth's orbit, more than 4,000 days after its launch. This document is subject to copyright. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study or research, no part may be reproduced without the written permission. The content is provided for information purposes only. E-mail the story 'Hello Earth!': Comet probe Philae wakes up Note Your email address is used only to let the recipient know who sent the email. Neither your address nor the recipient's address will be used for any other purpose. The information you enter will appear in your e-mail message and is not retained by Phys.org in any form. Your message Newsletter sign up Get weekly and/or daily updates delivered to your inbox. You can unsubscribe at any time and we'll never share your details to third parties. 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Masteries Offense: 21 Defense: 9 Utility: 0 Introduction In this tutorial I introduce to you my experience of playing Talon. There will be a very comprehensive guide but it presents the most important information to you. Runes I prefer these runes because regen health is perfect for solo top and armor penetration and magic resist help in the later phase of the game. Other runes that you can choose:-0.65% cooldown0.75% dodge Cooldown on Talon is a good choice since the last nerf, cooldown every 1% we need it. Dodge is also very good because it is good versus DPS, such as Master Yi or Nocturne. These runes also great for Talon now, but their disadvantage is that they are very expensive. Masteries I prefer such as those I gave above. I do not know the other better so far. Items Other items that can be used:If the opposing team is a lot of AD, melee DPS, and the like. If the opposing team is a lot of CC and AP. Depends on the enemy team, the choice belongs to YOU Of course, being on solo top you must buy from time to time wards Vision proposes a ward when the opposing team has Shaco or Evelynn in the jungle Sight ward - others Solo Top Why I buy 2 mana potions and 1 health? You have good health regen from runes and W is very good for the farm and harash, but it steals mana, and Talon at the beginning don't have a lot of mana. So... At levels 1-4 play defensively. Do not push the line, focus on the last hit and watch out for any gank from the enemy. At level 4-5 ask jungler about def and return to base. Buy appropriate items, ward and start playing more aggressively, but watch out for enemy gank. Harash best to use the enemy of this mini-combo E, W, Q, and back. When the opponent has less than 50% and you reached level 6. Feel free to use and all you have + exhaust. Of course do not forget your jungler gank. Jump on the enemy by means of E, use exhaust and with your jungler, kill the enemy. If you see that the opposite jungler gank and see that you can't escape - use ulti. 60 seconds cooldown is better than death. It's probably all about solo top. I know that is not in proper order but I hope they forgive me. Team Fights One of the best tactics in the team fight to start is to use Ultimate. Why? Ask AOE damage is in addition you can easily reach the enemy rear area, which AD ranged carry, support or AP carry. And it is your task is to kill one of them! Talon like the perfect assassin as Shaco so take advantage of it! Use exhaust on AD ranged or AP carry and kill the enemy without exhaust. Why? AD ranged damage reduction or AP-carry is very beneficial for the team, but you will not be able to kill two at once, so the best use of this tactic that I gave. later, use only the E, W, Q (plus damage from ulti) on the enemy and must die. Summoner Spells Other summoner spells that you can use:orand The rest I think is not worthy of attention. The End This is the end of my guide. I hope i can help. I have the Talon since it was introduced, and I wanted to share with you my experience. This is my first guide to LoL what I wrote in my life so give me a chance. It is possible that by writing this guide I did a lot of mistakes, because I don't know English so well and so I wanted to write this guide. :)

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Well, in the original code, len is assigned a value but never used in the function (and apparently this warning is promoted to error by the make script). To avoid this problem we have to “use” the variable somehow in the code, so we fix it with a dummy “len = len” statement. Since this line is no longer using the “custom” variable, we need to do the same with it, so it won’t raise the same “variable not used” error that len was triggering. With this you can run ./configure, make and make install as you normally would and compile libhid without problems. Using libhid To be honest libhid is really easy to use despite its flaws, but the almost non-existent documentation (a doxygen API listing and a couple of example files) makes it kinda hard to get started with it. But don’t worry, as I said before it’s really easy to use. The first thing we want to do is opening our HID device (provided you have its vendor ID and Product ID). Here’s a handy function for that: #include <hid.h> HIDInterface *openUsbDevice(int vid, int pid){ HIDInterface *hidDev; HIDInterfaceMatcher hidDevSpec; // This will be used to find the device. You can optionally specify // a custom matcher function to check other properties of the USB // device before asserting a match, but since VID and PID suffice to // find our device we don't need that. hidDevSpec.vendor_id = vid; hidDevSpec.product_id = pid; hidDevSpec.matcher_fn = NULL; hidDevSpec.custom_data = NULL; hidDevSpec.custom_data_length = 0; // init the library and create the interface if (!hid_is_initialised() && hid_init() != HID_RET_SUCCESS) { return NULL; } hidDev = hid_new_HIDInterface(); // Open the device. Since it's most-likely already opened by the // kernel modules we need to close it first. hid_force_open does // exactly that. The "4" here is the number of times it will try to // close and gain control over the device before giving up. if (hid_force_open (hidDev, 0, &hidDevSpec, 4) != HID_RET_SUCCESS) { return NULL; } return hidDev; } If you try this code in your Pi it will probably compile just fine (you may need to add -l hid when compiling to link the libhid library to your code), but it will fail to open the device. Why? because you probably don’t have enough privileges to access usb devices in your Pi. Fixing usb permissions This can be fixed by adding a udev rule that will “mount” USB devices with enough permissions for you to actually do something with it. I saw this “fix” detailed on a forum, but I couldn’t find the link now, so I’ll explain the process here the best I can. You’ll need to create a /etc/udev/rules.d/50-usbdevices.rules file with the following: SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ACTION=="add", MODE="0664", GROUP="plugdev" This will give read-write permissions over usb devices to anyone in the plugdev group. The user “pi” is already member of this group. You can also specify a particular vendor and product id so it will only run this rule for that device: For the changes to have effect you can reboot your Pior you can run the following commands instead: udevadm control --reload-rules udevadm trigger (unplug your device and plug it again) Now you should be able to open the device with no problem. Back to libhid… Finally, we want to read and write data to it. This step will be a little different depending on the USB device you are trying to talk to. In my case, it’s a simple HID device that takes a 64-byte input buffer containing a command with parameters, performs and action depending on the command, and returns the result, in another 64-byte buffer. We need to find the endpoint addresses. To do that, we use lsusb. Assuming our device’s VID is 0x1000 and its PID is 0x2000 the command to dump info about the device will be lsusb -d 1000:2000 -vvv. We are only interested in the report description. For my device I get this: As you can see, there’s a single report declared, with its usage page at “0x00 0xff” (65280). From the decimal equivalent (in parentheses) we can guess that the address is being printed LSB first, so in our code this would actually be 0xff00. This makes sense since the USB specs state that vendor specific usage pages should be in the FF00-FFFF range. Then there’s a bunch of Item usage specs, setting max data sizes and range of values, but among the “Items” you’ll see one labeled “Input”, and one labeled “Output”, both being “arrays” of 64 bytes with range 0 to 255 (unsigned). The report data size is 64, for both reading and writing, and in the Endpoint table at the bottom you can see that the “Input” buffer is at address 0x81 (offset from the page address) and the Output buffer is at 0x01.

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On another board I visit, females are more for the guy's entertainment than anything. That's not bad, but it's nice to be taken seriously every once in awhile. I post things on football topics, and people always overlook my post, but respond to a guy who has posted basically the same thing I did. Yet, whenever I say something idiotic, they're the first ones to jump all over you. Not everyone is like that, but there are enough that are that it irritates me sometimes. What's your take on female football posters and fans? Also, if a chick knows her football, is that something that interests you, or would they automatically be considered "one of the guys"? Chiefster 07-30-2007, 10:20 PM Regardless of your football knowledge luv anyone who considers you one of the guys either has a collective IQ equaling his shoe size or is in dire need of glasses. You're a Chiefs fan; that in itself is enough to take you serious. IMO :D Coach 07-30-2007, 10:21 PM On another board I visit, females are more for the guy's entertainment than anything. That's not bad, but it's nice to be taken seriously every once in awhile. I post things on football topics, and people always overlook my post, but respond to a guy who has posted basically the same thing I did. Yet, whenever I say something idiotic, they're the first ones to jump all over you. Not everyone is like that, but there are enough that are that it irritates me sometimes. What's your take on female football posters and fans? Also, if a chick knows her football, is that something that interests you, or would they automatically be considered "one of the guys"? I base it on whether the person knows what they are talking about rather than just a person's sex. And I'm not just saying that. For instance, about 6 months ago we had a women get on these boards and she got trashed. I felt bad about it. But the reason she was trashed was because she didn't know her stuff and she began making personal attacks on people. IN the last month, we had another person named 'Sweets' join this board and everyone here respects the creap out of her because we know that she knows her stuff. If you make knowledgable posts, people will pick it up. All of us can learn something about the Chiefs and football, and I think that is the idea behind these forums. Don't be afraid to ask "dumb" questions, because that is how you become more knowledgable. From what I've read of your posts, you seem knowledgable to me. Chiefster 07-30-2007, 10:29 PM I base it on whether the person knows what they are talking about rather than just a person's sex. And I'm not just saying that. For instance, about 6 months ago we had a women get on these boards and she got trashed. I felt bad about it. But the reason she was trashed was because she didn't know her stuff and she began making personal attacks on people. IN the last month, we had another person named 'Sweets' join this board and everyone here respects the creap out of her because we know that she knows her stuff. If you make knowledgable posts, people will pick it up. All of us can learn something about the Chiefs and football, and I think that is the idea behind these forums. Don't be afraid to ask "dumb" questions, because that is how you become more knowledgable. From what I've read of your posts, you seem knowledgable to me. Amen! to that my Chiefs brother! luv 07-30-2007, 10:46 PM From what I've read of your posts, you seem knowledgable to me. Good. I'm glad I've come across that way early. I tend to "flirt" (as much as you can flirt online) and joke around a lot. All in fun, but it does tend to cost me some credibility points. Hoping that all evens out here. Thanks. Chiefster 07-30-2007, 10:54 PM Good. I'm glad I've come across that way early. I tend to "flirt" (as much as you can flirt online) and joke around a lot. All in fun, but it does tend to cost me some credibility points. Hoping that all evens out here. Thanks. We all post our fair share of tripe here all in good fun, but at the same time we all respect one another's right to our own opinions without personal attacks. Coach 07-30-2007, 11:01 PM Good. I'm glad I've come across that way early. I tend to "flirt" (as much as you can flirt online) and joke around a lot. All in fun, but it does tend to cost me some credibility points. Hoping that all evens out here. Thanks. Flirting could get you green rep in deez parts. Chiefster 07-30-2007, 11:03 PM Flirting could get you green rep in deez parts. Some how I don't see that happening with me; not that I'd want it to. :lol: luv 07-30-2007, 11:09 PM Flirting could get you green rep in deez parts. Eh. I'm not in it for the rep. I'm in it for the chatting, and making friends. Besides, the only people I've gotten rep from have been you, Chiefster, and my pal Guru. Guru 07-30-2007, 11:46 PM On another board I visit, females are more for the guy's entertainment than anything. That's not bad, but it's nice to be taken seriously every once in awhile. I post things on football topics, and people always overlook my post, but respond to a guy who has posted basically the same thing I did. Yet, whenever I say something idiotic, they're the first ones to jump all over you. Not everyone is like that, but there are enough that are that it irritates me sometimes. What's your take on female football posters and fans? Also, if a chick knows her football, is that something that interests you, or would they automatically be considered "one of the guys"? Hell, I thought you were an idiot before you started proving how much you knew. Now I know you are. :lol::D Chiefster 07-30-2007, 11:47 PM Hell, I thought you were an idiot before you started proving how much you knew. Now I know you are. :lol::D You have taught her well. :D luv 07-30-2007, 11:47 PM Hell, I thought you were an idiot before you started proving how much you knew. Now I know you are. :lol::D That wasn't very nice, mister! Guru 07-30-2007, 11:49 PM That wasn't very nice, mister! :welcome::sign0104::yahoo: Chiefster 07-30-2007, 11:49 PM That wasn't very nice, mister! You forget who yer speakin to. :p stlchief 07-31-2007, 01:08 AM Getting back on point: I think chicks, if they work really, really, really, REALLY hard, can be almost as smart as men about stuff like football - but they have to work really hard. (just kidding - I think Luv & Sweets are more intelligent about football than I am. I wish that was a big compliment, but knowing I've been wrong on just about every post I've made here, it's not saying much by way of comparison. :D And as to value of their posts, maybe on other sites they are discounted because men know it's a female, but from what I can see - if you were to give them screen names like "WhoWroteThis" and "TakeAGuess", no one would know if they were M/F. So, short answer: No - I don't think it matters. ) Guru 07-31-2007, 01:17 AM Getting back on point: I think chicks, if they work really, really, really, REALLY hard, can be almost as smart as men about stuff like football - but they have to work really hard. (just kidding - I think Luv & Sweets are more intelligent about football than I am. I wish that was a big compliment, but knowing I've been wrong on just about every post I've made here, it's not saying much by way of comparison. :D And as to value of their posts, maybe on other sites they are discounted because men know it's a female, but from what I can see - if you were to give them screen names like "WhoWroteThis" and "TakeAGuess", no one would know if they were M/F. So, short answer: No - I don't think it matters. ) Get to the point!!! Geez. Bad as a woman. Wait? are you?:D Chiefster 07-31-2007, 01:18 AM Getting back on point: I think chicks, if they work really, really, really, REALLY hard, can be almost as smart as men about stuff like football - but they have to work really hard. (just kidding - I think Luv & Sweets are more intelligent about football than I am. I wish that was a big compliment, but knowing I've been wrong on just about every post I've made here, it's not saying much by way of comparison. :D And as to value of their posts, maybe on other sites they are discounted because men know it's a female, but from what I can see - if you were to give them screen names like "WhoWroteThis" and "TakeAGuess", no one would know if they were M/F. So, short answer: No - I don't think it matters. ) Yeah; it's a like saying your smarter then someone who when he takes off his shorts, grabs them with his toes, flips them up in the air and tries to catch them. They're smarter then that; of course it is cool when you can catch 'em on the first try. Guru 07-31-2007, 01:20 AM Yeah; it's a like saying your smarter then someone who when he takes off his shorts, grabs them with his toes, flips them up in the air and tries to catch them, They're smarter then that; of course it is cool when you can catch 'em on the first try. UMMMMM,.... WHAT?! luv 07-31-2007, 02:17 PM Another question. If someone is asking for your input or opinion because it would be coming from a female perspective..... Would you, as a guy, just want to hear her opinions/thoughts? They may be the same as what a guy would think, but you take it as a female perspective just because it's being said by a chick. OR Would you like for it to be spruced up a bit for entertainment purposes? the opinion would still be there, but maybe some side notes would be added so that you can tell, without looking at who wrote it, that's a female. Chiefster 07-31-2007, 03:31 PM UMMMMM,.... WHAT?! A Jeff Foxworthy bit about admitting that women are smarter then men. Chiefster 07-31-2007, 03:34 PM Another question. If someone is asking for your input or opinion because it would be coming from a female perspective..... Would you, as a guy, just want to hear her opinions/thoughts? They may be the same as what a guy would think, but you take it as a female perspective just because it's being said by a chick. OR Would you like for it to be spruced up a bit for entertainment purposes? the opinion would still be there, but maybe some side notes would be added so that you can tell, without looking at who wrote it, that's a female. As long as I got the required input sought after I really don't care much how it's presented given those two options. Canada 07-31-2007, 03:48 PM There is nothing hotter than a girl who knows football and can drink some beers and watch the CHIEFS!!!!! Chiefster 07-31-2007, 03:50 PM There is nothing hotter than a girl who knows football and can drink some beers and watch the CHIEFS!!!!! There you have it luv. :) Canada 07-31-2007, 03:51 PM Trust me...I married one, although she is a b-lls fan. Maybe she dosen't know about football. What did I do? Chiefster 07-31-2007, 03:59 PM bills or bulls??? Canada 07-31-2007, 04:00 PM the first one. i never say or spell the word. i hate them Chiefster 07-31-2007, 04:07 PM the first one. i never say or spell the word. i hate them I hear ya I like using the term only as an acronyms. Boy I Love Losing Super-bowls Coach 07-31-2007, 04:56 PM the first one. i never say or spell the word. i hate them That's great!:lol: Chiefster 07-31-2007, 08:58 PM That's great!:lol: They're the debil! timbok 07-31-2007, 11:25 PM 1.girls don't make good admins..on football sites..lol 2.girls are find..i got 3 members on my site that are females..everyone loves them.. 3.those "guys" are ***s luv 07-31-2007, 11:38 PM 1.girls don't make good admins..on football sites..lol 2.girls are find..i got 3 members on my site that are females..everyone loves them.. 3.those "guys" are ***s Why don't females make good admins or mods? Chiefster 07-31-2007, 11:43 PM 1.girls don't make good admins..on football sites..lol 2.girls are find..i got 3 members on my site that are females..everyone loves them.. 3.those "guys" are ***s Why yes girls are a find. Speaking from personal experience are ya? :lol: Guru 07-31-2007, 11:46 PM the first one. i never say or spell the word. i hate them Buck Fuffalo Chiefster 07-31-2007, 11:48 PM Buck Fuffalo ROFL!!!! timbok 08-01-2007, 08:24 AM i meant fine.... and the reason they make bad "admins" on football sites is..cause there toooo touchy....they will ban u with a drop a hat..not discuss a problem..and every once a month....its terrible.. Chiefster 08-01-2007, 12:00 PM i meant fine.... and the reason they make bad "admins" on football sites is..cause there toooo touchy....they will ban u with a drop a hat..not discuss a problem..and every once a month....its terrible.. This actually has NOT been the case in my experience with luv; in fact quite the opposite. Chiefster 08-01-2007, 12:02 PM Why don't females make good admins or mods? Because you live in a white male dominated society. haven't you heard; we're da debil! :D luv 08-01-2007, 01:19 PM i meant fine.... and the reason they make bad "admins" on football sites is..cause there toooo touchy....they will ban u with a drop a hat..not discuss a problem..and every once a month....its terrible.. Wow, I'd say that's quite stereotypical, but since when do women NOT want to discuss problems? I can tell a troll from a mile away. I'm that good. Not that I'm requesting a mod position. I'm just saying that your "reasons" are shallow and ignorant. Chiefster 08-01-2007, 01:23 PM Wow, I'd say that's quite stereotypical, but since when do women NOT want to discuss problems? I can tell a troll from a mile away. I'm that good. Not that I'm requesting a mod position. I'm just saying that your "reasons" are shallow and ignorant. (...trying to think of what add to this reply, and it seems to stand on it's own quite nicely) m0ef0e 08-01-2007, 01:36 PM There is nothing hotter than a girl who knows football and can drink some beers and watch the CHIEFS!!!!! Words of wisdom from the wise. luv 08-01-2007, 01:46 PM Words of wisdom from the wise. Really? I always end up in the friend zone. What might cause that? m0ef0e 08-01-2007, 01:50 PM Really? I always end up in the friend zone. What might cause that? Maybe some men are intimidated by your football knowledge and drinking ability.. luv 08-01-2007, 02:00 PM Maybe some men are intimidated by your football knowledge and drinking ability.. I know enough to keep up. If I know more, I definitely try not to let them know that. I'm not a lighweight, but I can't outdrink most guys...at least not that I end up remembering...lol. Eh. Oh well. Just a thought to quickly ponder on. m0ef0e 08-01-2007, 02:02 PM I was just givin ya a bit of a hard time :D The friend zone is worse than the twilight zone. timbok 08-01-2007, 02:07 PM lol..u haven't met jagsfangirl..chiefster luv 08-01-2007, 02:08 PM I was just givin ya a bit of a hard time :D The friend zone is worse than the twilight zone. It can be. Careful what you give. You might just get it back. :p Chiefster 08-01-2007, 02:09 PM lol..u haven't met jagsfangirl..chiefster True, but ya can't generalize based on just one sampling of the BB population dude. :p Canada 08-01-2007, 06:47 PM Maybe some men are intimidated by your football knowledge and drinking ability.. I am attracted to your football knowledge and drinking ability. Maybe u should start looking up North for a fella :bananen_smilies046: I know enough to keep up. If I know more, I definitely try not to let them know that. I'm not a lighweight, but I can't outdrink most guys...at least not that I end up remembering...lol. Eh. Oh well. Just a thought to quickly ponder on. It's not how much you drink but how much fun you have doing it!! :toast2: Chiefster 08-01-2007, 08:30 PM I am attracted to your football knowledge and drinking ability. Maybe u should start looking up North for a fella :bananen_smilies046: I'm goona assume that yer talkin to luv here. :lol: timbok 08-02-2007, 01:53 PM lol.. i personally..think..that woman nfl fans are quite rare..i think theres only like 5-10 fans on each site Chiefster 08-02-2007, 01:55 PM lol.. i personally..think..that woman nfl fans are quite rare..i think theres only like 5-10 fans on each site ...And lucky are the guys who marry them. timbok 08-02-2007, 02:00 PM lol........true true timbok 08-02-2007, 02:00 PM so lucky? or not Chiefster 08-02-2007, 02:02 PM so lucky? or not Not; unfortunately. However, I wouldn't dream of trading mine. timbok 08-02-2007, 02:05 PM lol.....love is love..no matter what the call is.. chief31 08-02-2007, 02:06 PM Love is love, no matter what she charges you. Chiefster 08-02-2007, 02:08 PM lol.....love is love..no matter what the call is.. Yup. Love is love, no matter what she charges you. :lol: :lol: timbok 08-02-2007, 02:10 PM Lol!!!!!!!!!! Chief 31 I Want Answers From U luv 08-02-2007, 02:11 PM ...And lucky are the guys who marry them. Trying to marry me off? chief31 08-02-2007, 02:12 PM Lol!!!!!!!!!! Chief 31 I Want Answers From U As luck would have it, I happen to have some of those. timbok 08-02-2007, 02:12 PM lol.... i would only date/marry brave fans :) Chiefster 08-02-2007, 02:21 PM lol.... i would only date/marry brave fans :) So that explains why you're single. timbok 08-02-2007, 02:35 PM Funny! Hahahahaha Chiefster 08-02-2007, 03:53 PM Funny! Hahahahaha I got a million of 'em! timbok 08-03-2007, 09:03 AM lol..... do u have a book called ways to annoy timbok 1on1? Chiefster 08-03-2007, 09:31 PM lol..... do u have a book called ways to annoy timbok 1on1? Well no it's not 1on1. I think you may mean 101. :p sling58 08-04-2007, 10:34 AM A Chiefs fan is a Chiefs fan to me no matter what sex they are. It's all the same to me on Sundays when the game is on. Chiefster 08-04-2007, 04:08 PM A Chiefs fan is a Chiefs fan to me no matter what sex they are. It's all the same to me on Sundays when the game is on. ...Couldn't agree more! :D Sweets 08-04-2007, 10:45 PM i meant fine.... and the reason they make bad "admins" on football sites is..cause there toooo touchy....they will ban u with a drop a hat..not discuss a problem..and every once a month....its terrible.. Luv, above you see the very reason abortions should be legalized...but seriously, I'm an admin of a football site and I don't ban people at the drop of a hat, and I can say that Timbok is full of himself. All you have to do is pretend to put your hand down your shorts and scratch your pretend ballies once in a while and your opinions will be accepted by all.... Chiefster 08-04-2007, 10:48 PM Luv, above you see the very reason abortions should be legalized...but seriously, I'm an admin of a football site and I don't ban people at the drop of a hat, and I can say that Timbok is full of himself. All you have to do is pretend to put your hand down your shorts and scratch your pretend ballies once in a while and your opinions will be accepted by all.... :lol::lol: The ignore feature works quite well here. :) Sweets 08-04-2007, 10:49 PM Doesn't work on mods and admins...damn Chiefster 08-04-2007, 10:51 PM Doesn't work on mods and admins...damn :lol: Sorry I'll leave ya alone. stlchief 08-04-2007, 11:54 PM Luv, above you see the very reason abortions should be legalized...but seriously, I'm an admin of a football site and I don't ban people at the drop of a hat, and I can say that Timbok is full of himself. All you have to do is pretend to put your hand down your shorts and scratch your pretend ballies once in a while and your opinions will be accepted by all.... :sign0103: I do it all the time and I find that most of the time the only people who listen to my opinion are the ones doing the same thing. All of the rest (read: the smart ones aka the ladies) just ignore me.... chief31 08-05-2007, 12:04 AM Luv, above you see the very reason abortions should be legalized...but seriously, I'm an admin of a football site and I don't ban people at the drop of a hat, and I can say that Timbok is full of himself. All you have to do is pretend to put your hand down your shorts and scratch your pretend ballies once in a while and your opinions will be accepted by all.... That isn't the reason that I put my hand down my shorts... There is alot of fun to be had that way.:yahoo: Sweets 08-05-2007, 01:03 AM :sign0103: I do it all the time and I find that most of the time the only people who listen to my opinion are the ones doing the same thing. All of the rest (read: the smart ones aka the ladies) just ignore me.... Exactly my point, if we all did that everyone would listen to us thinking we were guys...:lol: Sweets 08-05-2007, 01:04 AM :sign0103: I do it all the time and I find that most of the time the only people who listen to my opinion are the ones doing the same thing. All of the rest (read: the smart ones aka the ladies) just ignore me.... Exactly my point, if we all did that everyone would listen to us thinking we were guys...:lol: That isn't the reason that I put my hand down my shorts... There is alot of fun to be had that way.:yahoo: You're just checking to make sure your wife hasn't taken em away from ya yet!!!:saythat: Chiefster 08-05-2007, 05:26 AM Exactly my point, if we all did that everyone would listen to us thinking we were guys...:lol: You're just checking to make sure your wife hasn't taken em away from ya yet!!!:saythat: :lol::lol: Sweets 08-05-2007, 08:08 AM Well from my experience with football, men and knowledge the "real" men love that a woman can talk sports with them, they love that they can sit and watch a game and not have to explain every little thing with their significant other. Whether talking about cover 2's or 8 in the box, 3-4's or 4-3's, the WCO or the 46 men love not having to explain football while watching football. A lot of plays are pretty much self-explanatory and you only need to pay attention to understand a lot of the plays, defenses and offenses. Take the Cover 2, it actually started in the 70's with Bud Carson's Steelers defense where two safeties play zone (area) coverage, each of them responsible for half of the field, Tony Dungy's Buc's had what was called Tampa 2 where he also had great success dropping a speedy middle linebacker down the middle of the field to defend the pass, creating a three-deep look, while four often undersized but quick defensive linemen rushed the passer and it worked really well for the Bucs. A variation of 8 in the box is the 46 defense, which comprises of four down linemen, three linebackers and four defensive backs. It's the the idea that the cornerbacks often play bump and run coverage and blitz, acting almost like two extra linebackers. A big weakness of the "46" is that too many defensive players line up near the line of scrimmage to blitz, leaving areas wide open for receivers to catch passes, it was a formation that Buddy Ryan made famous for the Bears and named for one of his safeties who's jersey number was 46, and the reason it lost it's appeal was the emergence of my team's greatest coach Bill Walsh and his WCO with it's short, timed passes from formations that use multiple receivers which for years was the formation of choice for a lot of teams. Anyway, I've rattled on enough but you get the idea, learning football isn't hard just takes attention on the part of the chick. Once you know the different schemes you can see them take place on the field. I guess I'll go back to scratching my proverbial ballies since no chick could possibly know this crap...:sign0081: Chiefster 08-05-2007, 08:24 AM Well from my experience with football, men and knowledge the "real" men love that a woman can talk sports with them, they love that they can sit and watch a game and not have to explain every little thing with their significant other. Whether talking about cover 2's or 8 in the box, 3-4's or 4-3's, the WCO or the 46 men love not having to explain football while watching football. A lot of plays are pretty much self-explanatory and you only need to pay attention to understand a lot of the plays, defenses and offenses... Your significant other is a lucky, lucky person. Sweets 08-05-2007, 08:38 AM Thanx Chiefster, he knows he's lucky but a lot of what I know is because of him. He's one of those football fanatics who watch NFL Network 24/7 all year long. Chiefster 08-05-2007, 09:00 AM Thanx Chiefster, he knows he's lucky but a lot of what I know is because of him. He's one of those football fanatics who watch NFL Network 24/7 all year long. You're welcome! Heh! Well, kinda hard not to pick up on it then. :) wolfpack 08-05-2007, 09:28 AM i personally dont care if you know football or not when watching a game,just dont keep asking questions durning the game. on these chat boards i still dont mind if one dosent know alot about football,your trying to learn. as for the "reps" those are a total joke. i dont care what mine say or how many i have. now my wife and my daughters-n-laws will yell at the tv or when we go to the game with the best of any man, maybe without the color comments. stlchief 08-05-2007, 10:39 AM Well from my experience with football, men and knowledge the "real" men love that a woman can talk sports with them, they love that they can sit and watch a game and not have to explain every little thing with their significant other. Whether talking about cover 2's or 8 in the box, 3-4's or 4-3's, the WCO or the 46 men love not having to explain football while watching football. A lot of plays are pretty much self-explanatory and you only need to pay attention to understand a lot of the plays, defenses and offenses. Take the Cover 2, it actually started in the 70's with Bud Carson's Steelers defense where two safeties play zone (area) coverage, each of them responsible for half of the field, Tony Dungy's Buc's had what was called Tampa 2 where he also had great success dropping a speedy middle linebacker down the middle of the field to defend the pass, creating a three-deep look, while four often undersized but quick defensive linemen rushed the passer and it worked really well for the Bucs. A variation of 8 in the box is the 46 defense, which comprises of four down linemen, three linebackers and four defensive backs. It's the the idea that the cornerbacks often play bump and run coverage and blitz, acting almost like two extra linebackers. A big weakness of the "46" is that too many defensive players line up near the line of scrimmage to blitz, leaving areas wide open for receivers to catch passes, it was a formation that Buddy Ryan made famous for the Bears and named for one of his safeties who's jersey number was 46, and the reason it lost it's appeal was the emergence of my team's greatest coach Bill Walsh and his WCO with it's short, timed passes from formations that use multiple receivers which for years was the formation of choice for a lot of teams. Anyway, I've rattled on enough but you get the idea, learning football isn't hard just takes attention on the part of the chick. Once you know the different schemes you can see them take place on the field. I guess I'll go back to scratching my proverbial ballies since no chick could possibly know this crap...:sign0081: OK - where do I sign up for the class? I have no issues if it's taught by a girl.... wolfpack 08-05-2007, 11:56 AM call me a male pig if you want But women football announcers are a joke. just something about a female voice trying to announce football. Sweets 08-05-2007, 12:08 PM call me a male pig if you want But women football announcers are a joke. just something about a female voice trying to announce football. Why would anyone call you a pig because you don't like something, I wouldn't want to hear a female announcing a football game either, so move over and make room for me at the trough. What are those reps you're talking about and who brought them up? luv 08-05-2007, 12:49 PM I guess I'll go back to scratching my proverbial ballies since no chick could possibly know this crap...:sign0081: The only thing I didn't know about was the 8 in the box, which seems to me to be pretty self explanatory. Sweets 08-05-2007, 01:01 PM The area that the defensive lineman and linebackers occupy is known as "the Box". It's usually about 3-5 yards deep and is about the offensive line in width. Normally 7 players are in this area but another player is brought into the box to make up the 8 when this involves the strong safety walking down from his position 10-15 yards off the line of scrimmage before the ball is snapped and from this position he can run support as well as jam WRs and TEs, blitz the QB. luv 08-05-2007, 01:03 PM The area that the defensive lineman and linebackers occupy is known as "the Box". It's usually about 3-5 yards deep and is about the offensive line in width. Normally 7 players are in this area but another player is brought into the box to make up the 8 when this involves the strong safety walking down from his position 10-15 yards off the line of scrimmage before the ball is snapped and from this position he can run support as well as jam WRs and TEs, blitz the QB. Yep. Self explanatory. Thanks, though. Sweets 08-05-2007, 01:08 PM No Problem :) Chiefster 08-06-2007, 12:37 AM Why would anyone call you a pig because you don't like something, I wouldn't want to hear a female announcing a football game either, so move over and make room for me at the trough. What are those reps you're talking about and who brought them up? Rep = reputation. Ya see those little green arrowheads at the upper right hand corner of each of your posts? Well the number of, and shade of green, denote the amount of positive rep points you have amassed in your time here. Place your courser over them and a nifty little saying about what a wonderful poster you are appear. In you User CP page you can read the rep comments by those who have given you rep, good or bad. Now should you begin to see little red arrowheads (Which seems a bit backwards to me since this is a chiefs site. LOL!) then that means you have started down the path of a dreaded series of neg. rep. and the comments are not so nice. Hope this helped. :D Sweets 08-06-2007, 01:47 AM lol, I know what those are, I wanted to know what "reps" wolfpack was talking about because no one even brought up reputation points. Chiefster 08-06-2007, 01:53 AM lol, I know what those are, I wanted to know what "reps" wolfpack was talking about because no one even brought up reputation points. LOL!!! Leave it to me to come up with the answer to a question nobody asked. :D Guru 08-06-2007, 08:06 AM Doesn't work on mods and admins...damn Hey!!! Thats prejudicial. :D sling58 08-06-2007, 08:09 AM How do you give reputation comments? Guru 08-06-2007, 08:22 AM call me a male pig if you want But women football announcers are a joke. just something about a female voice trying to announce football. Well, as long as they are pleasant on the eyes.:D wolfpack 08-06-2007, 10:06 AM most of the time i turn the volume off on the tv and turn on lenny and the gang for the play by play. the trouble is sometimes they dont match up to the tv. Guru 08-06-2007, 10:18 AM most of the time i turn the volume off on the tv and turn on lenny and the gang for the play by play. the trouble is sometimes they dont match up to the tv. I used to do that all the time but Lenny just gets on my nerves anymore. I call him Captain Obvious for a reason. One thing I like about the TV guys is that are, for the most part, impartial and don't ***** on bad plays. I figure that is my job. Chiefster 08-06-2007, 10:23 AM I used to do that all the time but Lenny just gets on my nerves anymore. I call him Captain Obvious for a reason. One thing I like about the TV guys is that are, for the most part, impartial and don't ***** on bad plays. I figure that is my job. LOL!! This is true, but I do like the TOUCH DOWN - KANSAS CITY!!!! Chiefster 08-06-2007, 10:23 AM How do you give reputation comments? Click on the scales icon in the upper right hand corner of a thread starter or reply post.

Galleries The gallery on the LG G Pro 2 is quite similar to what you get on most Android devices, including a resizable list of thumbnails. There's support for full-res images, which results in a pleasant viewing experience on the ample and sharp screen. Images on the LG G Pro 2 The gallery on the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 has a similar layout with images divided into albums. Once you get into an album the Note 3 gives you a sidebar with all other albums. You can wipe it away and browse only the images in the selected album but the sidebar is a much appreciated alternative for faster browsing. Images on the Galaxy Note 3 Both devices are great for enjoying your images on. The screens on each are great in terms of sharpness thanks to the 1080p resolution and ample size. Viewing an image on the G Pro 2 When viewing an image on each you get a scrollbar on the bottom with all other images in the album. Both have Share shortcuts above the images. The Samsung Galaxy Note 3 does offer varied stylus-specific interactions. You can use it to scribble and annotate on top of images. Viewing an image on the Note 3 As for editing the Samsung droid has many built-in options while the LG one relies on Google Photos, which also has a robust list of options and effects. Winner: Tie. Ample, quality screens for movies The LG G Pro 2 comes with a video player that shows all videos on the device as thumbnails. Those thumbnails are static and not animated like on the Galaxy Note 3. The video playing interface offers a time scrubber, a lock function that locks the screen against accidental touches and finally, you can pull out the playlist of all videos on the side while simultaneously continuing to watch the active video. Watching a movie on the LG G Pro 2 The video player on the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 offers a list of videos with the last played video on the topmost spot in the app interface for easy access. One of things we adore about this player is that video thumbnails are animated and move while you're browsing the app. Watching a movie on the Galaxy Note 3 Both manufacturers have their instance of the pop out video originally put forth by Samsung with Pop Up Play. It lets you watch a video while still being in full control of the smartphone - browsing the homescreen or app drawer, browsing the web, etc. LG's version is dubbed Smart play. Smart play And we're well aware of Samsung's Pop Up Play. Pop up play Both players have impeccable codec support and we had no issues with either. Also both have support for subtitles, letting you choose which subtitle file you wish to use. Winner: Tie. Enjoying music Both the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 and LG G Pro 2 have pretty similar music players on tap. Both sort music by artist, album, playlist and folders. Music player app on the G Pro 2 Both have equalizers with either presets or custom adjustment. Both have 7-channel equalizers available too. Now playing on the Galaxy Note 3 Each phone has its own individual perks, though. The Samsung Galaxy Note 3 has the Adapt Sound. It calibrates the sound depending on your headphones by sending a myriad of beeps in your ear to see which ones you hear. The LG G Pro 2 has the ability to increase or decrease the pitch and speed of your listening experience. Winner: Tie. Audio quality The Samsung Galaxy Note 3 and the LG G Pro 2 both delivered splendidly clean audio output, acing both parts of our test. The only difference we measured was the slightly better stereo quality produced by the LG phablet when you plug in a pair of headphones. That advantage however is easily made up by the slightly higher volume levels of the Samsung Galaxy Note 3. Winner: Tie. There's hardly anything to separate those two with the slightly higher stereo crosstalk of the Note 3 with headphones attached compensated by its somewhat louder output. Moving on to the loudspeakers. In our test the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 got the better result which is pronounced in all three segments of the test - music, voice and noise sounds. The difference isn't drastic but will be audible.

Word Made Flesh Bolivia seeks abundant life for those affected by prostitution in El Alto, Bolivia. Bolivia is beautifully diverse and rich in natural resources, yet one of the poorest nations in Latin America. The capital city La Paz and its crowning metropolis, El Alto, are striking at 13,300 feet above sea level. With its raw poverty, intense environment and notorious reputation, it stands as an ideal urban center for service among the most vulnerable. Here racism runs deep, as do tightly held folk traditions intertwined with modern-day expressions of faith. Men tend to wander, women are undervalued, children often overlooked. But WMF Bolivia has made a home here and from our smallest acts of love, we persistently work towards Transformation and hold on to Hope. Specifically, we work directly with those in the sex trade. We understand that when a woman feels there is no other option, she may turn to the streets. Maybe hungry tummies await her at home or debts crowd heavy around her. Maybe he beats her viciously and she’s inconceivably trapped. Most likely someone wounded her long ago, and under desperate circumstances, she considers the unthinkable. Over time she withers away, hating what she does, yet unable to see any other way out. The WMF community accompanies her during this journey, sharing the Hope we have in Christ along the way. Vision Abundant life for those affected by prostitution in Bolivia. Mission In community we seek to practice and proclaim the Kingdom of God among persons affected by prostitution, through relationship and opportunities for transformation. Presence (Awaken) We seek solidarity and understanding. We value presence and relationships. We desire to be compassionate people and witnesses of Hope in dark places. For that reason, we consistently visit the largest red-light district in El Alto – and have done so since 2001. We offer a ministry of encouragement and prayer, along with an invitation to our drop-in center. Paso a Paso (Heal) At our ministry center, we sit at the table together. We listen to stories, and we share our own. This is a place of connection and mutuality, a space where women can come and know they are loved and valued. We offer hospitality, discipleship, medical support, and strategic workshops, as well as tutoring and day programs for children. It is a place of healing – a refuge – where women are challenged to seek the Lord’s best for their lives. Many of our friends have little education, are the only provider in their home, and have no sustainable alternative to prostitution. In 2010, we founded a social enterprise to provide them dignified employment, allowing them to reach their full potential. Word Made Flesh coordinates sewing training for women to prepare them to work. When a woman joins SutiSana, she learns new life skills and rhythms, and is invited to address the deep issues that led her to her reality and can find space and guidance to respond to that still soft voice. She and her children are supported through community, and she is given opportunities to continually grow – learning to design bags, work with new materials, and even coach other women as they leave prostitution. Shop their bags and totes and support their journey at www.sutisana.com

Described by Interview Magazine as a "literary transgressor and cultural paragon,"[8] Taïa became the first openly gay Arab writer in 2006,[9] and as of 2014 he remains the only openly homosexual Moroccan writer or filmmaker.[10] His first movie, Salvation Army, is widely considered to have given Arab cinema "its first gay protagonist."[11] Since his coming-out, according to one source, Taïa "has become an iconic figure in his homeland of Morocco and throughout the Arab world, and a beacon of hope in a country where homosexuality is illegal."[1] Taïa was born in 1973 in Rabat, Morocco.[12] According to the New York Times, Taïa "was born inside the public library of Rabat...where his dad worked as a janitor and where his family lived until he was 2."[13] He grew up in Hay Salam, a neighborhood of Salé, a town near Rabat. His family was poor. He had nine siblings. He first came into contact with literature through his father's job at the library.[8] Taïa lived in Hay Salam from 1974 to 1998. He has described the experience:[8] Everything I have known about the world comes from this city and this neighborhood. Everything I want to put in my book is also coming from this world. The house where I lived there was very small, only three rooms for eleven people. One room for my father, the second for my older brother, Abdelkebir, who exerted a big influence on me, and the last one for the rest of the family: my mother, my six sisters, my little brother and me. Life for me still revolves around these three rooms. The tastes, the smells, the images, the ideas of fear and transgression are all coming from this house, this poor family that I love and hate at the same time. For many years, we were really poor, we didn't have enough food and we fought with each other a lot. The power structures within the family were a mirror of the dictatorship Morocco was living under at that time. As a young boy, he touched a high-voltage power generator and was unconscious and presumed dead for an hour. After he woke up he was labeled "the miracle boy". In 2010 he said: "I still have some of the electricity I got that day. I was somewhere during that 'dead time,' but where, I don't know. Perhaps the reason I write is because I want to know the answer to that question."[14] Taïa was an effeminate boy who "always knew he was gay".[14] For most of his childhood, according to the New York Times, "he hid his sexuality as best he could, but his effeminate demeanor brought mockery and abuse, although it would later become a source of artistic inspiration."[13] His family "probably always knew" he was gay, he later said, but they "never talked about it."[14] When he was 11, a mob of men gathered outside his family's home and shouted for him to come out to be raped. "Everyone heard, not only my family but the whole neighbourhood," he later recalled. "What I saw clearly was that this is how society functions and that no one can protect you, not even your parents. That's when I realized I had to hide who I am."[14] He described this incident at length in a 2012 op-ed for the New York Times, titled "A Boy to Be Sacrificed":[15] In the Morocco of the 1980s, where homosexuality did not, of course, exist, I was an effeminate little boy, a boy to be sacrificed, a humiliated body who bore upon himself every hypocrisy, everything left unsaid. By the time I was 10, though no one spoke of it, I knew what happened to boys like me in our impoverished society; they were designated victims, to be used, with everyone's blessing, as easy sexual objects by frustrated men. And I knew that no one would save me — not even my parents, who surely loved me. For them too, I was shame, filth. A 'zamel' ... It all came to a head one summer night in 1985. It was too hot. Everyone was trying in vain to fall asleep. I, too, lay awake, on the floor beside my sisters, my mother close by. Suddenly, the familiar voices of drunken men reached us. We all heard them ... These men, whom we all knew quite well, cried out: 'Abdellah, little girl, come down. Come down. Wake up and come down. We all want you. Come down, Abdellah. Don't be afraid. We won't hurt you. We just want to have sex with you.' ... I hoped my big brother, my hero, would rise and answer them ... But my brother, the absolute monarch of our family, did nothing. Everyone turned their back on me ... I was never the same Abdellah Taïa after that night ... I began by keeping my head low all the time. I cut all ties with the children in the neighborhood. I altered my behavior. I kept myself in check: no more feminine gestures, no more honeyed voice, no more hanging around women. No more anything. I had to invent a whole new Abdellah ... Sooner or later, I would leave it behind. I would grow up and find freedom somewhere else. But in the meantime I would become hard. Very hard. Taïa's older brother, Abdelk'bir, was a cultural influence on Taïa, introducing him to the music of David Bowie, James Brown, and Queen, the films of David Cronenberg, Elia Kazan, and Ang Lee, and the books of Robert Louis Stevenson, Dostoevsky, and Tawfik al-Hakim.[14] He "spent his childhood watching Egyptian movies, detailing them in a scrapbook where he collected pictures of movie stars he admired, like Faten Hamama and Souad Hosni," according to the New York Times. "The freedom in Egyptian cinema, where women appeared without veils and alcohol was consumed openly, pervaded his living room and gave him hope."[13] He has said that Egyptian films were "the only culture that we had access to in Morocco, as a poor family ... They taught us a lot about love, about society, about ourselves. And as a homosexual, they pretty much saved me, because they allowed me to escape to this whole other world."[10] He has also said that "Egyptian movies saved me.... There was already the idea of transgression through television happening in my house with my sisters. In my head, I connected that to homosexuality."[13] At age thirteen, he "decided that one day [he] would go to Paris in order to be what [he] wanted to be: A director and filmmaker."[12] Taïa's parents "stressed education and sent five of their nine children to university."[12] He studied French literature while living in Rabat, "his gaze set upon Paris and the possibilities that city represented to him, namely a career in film."[12] Taïa said in 2010 that "It was clear to me that eventually I had to get to Paris, because this was the city of Isabelle Adjani.... This was the city of Rimbaud and Marcel Proust.... The target was to go there to be free as a homosexual, but at the same time to achieve these dreams–to write movies and books, and to dream big, if I may say that."[14][16] When he began college, he realized that my French was really poor. To master it, I decided to write my diary in French. For me that was the best way to be confronted with the language, to have a relationship with it without any mediation or intercession. My literary writing emerged from this relationship and that diary, which I kept for many years in Morocco. That's how I became a writer.[12] His French skills "improved so much," thanks largely to his diary, "that he won a scholarship to study 18th-century French literature in Geneva."[14] He went to Switzerland in 1998[13] and studied there for a semester.[12] In 1999[13] he went to the Sorbonne, on another scholarship, to work on his doctoral thesis.[12][14] In Paris "Taïa broke away from what he saw as the oppressive confines of his family and Moroccan society and began a process of self-actualization."[12] Taïa's books deal with his life living in a homophobic society and have autobiographical background on the social experiences of the generation of Moroccans who came of age in the 1980s and 1990s.[17] Five of Taïa's novels have been published by Editions du Seuil in France.[12] Two of his novels, Salvation Army (2009) and An Arab Melancholia (2012), have been published in English translation by Semiotext(e).[1][14] Taïa has said that Mon Maroc (My Morocco) "is my story. The story of my Moroccan life that took place, over the course of 25 years, on the banks of the river Bou Regreg, in the two towns that are located at its mouth: Rabat and Salé, the first on the left bank, the other on the right bank."[18] Taïa wanted to name the book after Gus Van Sant's My Own Private Idaho, a film that "became mythical" for him when he saw it in Morocco. Lacking a French equivalent, he used for My Morocco instead.[14] Taïa's second book, Le Rouge du Tarbouche (The Red of the Fez), is a collection of short stories. It marked the beginning of his open challenge to Morocco's antigay laws.[8] After a Moroccan TV channel sent a film crew to Paris to interview Taïa for a documentary on Moroccan artists living abroad, the coverage led to other media attention, making the book a bestseller. Taïa became "an unlikely literary darling in the country he'd fled."[14] Taïa has explained what happened when Le rouge du Tarbouche came out in Morocco and he was interviewed by a reporter for the French-Arab journal Tel Quel: "She wanted to do a profile on me and was interested in speaking about the themes of homosexuality in my books. She wanted to know if I was willing to speak freely. We were in a coffee shop in Casablanca. I never imagined it would happen like that, but I understood that was the moment of truth: The truth about me, my books, and my position in the world. Although it was really scary and I knew that there would be many consequences, I had to do it. I owed it to that little boy who had dreams at thirteen. Now that I have the possibility to speak, I'm not going to stop."[12] The resulting cover story in Tel Quel was headlined "Homosexuel, envers et contre tous" (Homosexual, against all odds).[8] He came out, he said in another interview, because I never hide. I never put that aspect of my personality aside. I know so many gay intellectuals or writers who say, 'I am not going to talk about homosexuality because it doesn't interest people.' But for me this makes no sense. It would be like a heterosexual who doesn't present himself as a heterosexual. I never planned to come out.[12] After Taïa came out publicly, "it took years to overcome the rifts" between him and his family, he told the New York Times in 2014. "They cried and screamed....I cried when they called me. But I won't apologize. Never."[13] After he began talking in public about his homosexuality, he was widely condemned in Morocco. The editor of Al Massae, Morocco's biggest-selling newspaper, wrote an editorial denouncing Taïa and attacking the use of public money to fund TV shows that featured him. Bloggers called for him to be stoned. Newspaper readers wrote to attack his credentials. 'They said I am a prostitute and not a Muslim anymore, that I should apologize for the shame I brought to my mother, to my religion, to my town, to my country. These attacks hurt, but worse was the silence of the Moroccan intellectuals. It just confirmed that they were dead people who live in another world–they don't talk about us, about the reality of Morocco.'[14] Some members of the Moroccan press, however, were "really supportive", as were the French press and some of the Arabic press, he later recalled, but "Others were just attacking, attacking, attacking without stop."[12] The scandal over Taïa's coming-out led to "a debate about gay rights and the oppression of the individual in Morocco, and to a greater extent, the entire Arab world." Still, as of 2014, he remains "the only Moroccan intellectual to 'come out.'"[12] During the public outrage over his Tel Quel interview that Taïa wrote L'armee du Salut (Salvation Army), a "bildungsroman of his youthful dreams and indiscretions set in Rabat, Tangier, and Geneva."[8] Taïa's English-language publisher, Semiotext(e), describes Salvation Army as "a coming-of-age novel that narrates the story of Taïa's life with complete disclosure—from a childhood bound by family order and latent (homo)sexual tensions in the poor city of Salé, through an adolescence in Tangier charged by the young writer's attraction to his eldest brother, to his disappointing 'arrival' in the Western world to study in Geneva in adulthood—and in so doing manages to burn through the author's first-person singularity to embody the complex mélange of fear and desire projected by Arabs on Western culture, and move towards restituting their alterity."[9] Salvation Army was described in Out Magazine as "a gay coming-of-age novel" whose "perspective–rooted in the claustrophobic world of a poor Moroccan neighborhood–lends it freshness rare in English literature." It was described by author David Ebershoff as one of the best gay books of 2009 and by Edmund White, who wrote the introduction to the American edition, as marked by "a simplicity that only intelligence and experience and wide reading can buy."[14] Variety called it "a bold coming out, unadorned by guilt or sensationalism and directly confronting Western expectations, at least in gay circles, of Arab youth as adornments rather than equal companions."[19] Interview Magazine described Salvation Army as a valuable contribution not only to queer fiction but to North African diaspora literature as well. A resident of Paris over the last decade, Taïa has joined the column of Moroccan expatriates–Tahar Ben Jelloun and Abdelkebir Khatibi, among others–who cast a telescopic eye over the thorny and often violent ideological interchange between postmodern Europe and postcolonial Africa. But Taïa's words are not scrawled with the bellicose politics of a partisan; rather, they are auguries of a familial world imbued with both magic and poverty; lilting and resolute; a prose of stark divinity and apostasy."[8] His novel Le jour de roi (The King's Day), about King Hassan II, "was banned in Morocco." But after it received the 2010 Prix de Flore literary prize, "the ban was lifted. My books are now translated into Arabic and are available in Morocco, a sign that things are changing."[12] Taïa responded to the 2007 death of two young brothers in a suicide attack on the U.S. consulate in Casablanca with a Le Monde editorial titled "We Have to Save Moroccan Youth." At his urging, several Moroccan artists and writers of his generation wrote follow-up essays to his editorial, which were published in 2009 as a book, edited by Taïa, titled Lettres à un jeune marocain (Letters to a Young Moroccan). Pierre Bergé, the partner of Yves Saint Laurent, "agreed to fund the printing and distribution of 90,000 copies of the book in French and Arabic."[14] In 2009, when Morocco's interior ministry began to crack down on writing that challenged the country's "moral and religious values," Taïa published an open letter, "Homosexuality Explained to My Mother," in Tel Quel.[14][15] formerly the richest man in his country, was accused of tax fraud in 2003 and has been languishing in a Siberian prison for seven years. His crime? To have wanted for his country a true democracy, as well as genuine respect for human rights.... Since 2003, this intelligent, romantic, wonderful man is my only hero. He is far from perfect but his battle, which he refuses to give up on, touches me deeply. Russia and the world need him.[20] Taïa directed a film adaptation of his book Salvation Army. It "gave the Arab world its first on-screen gay protagonist," according to the New York Times.[13] Taïa has said that Michael Powell's film Black Narcissus "directly influenced Salvation Army."[10] The film, a French-Moroccan-Swiss production, was shown at the Venice and Toronto film festivals in 2013.[19] It was screened in February 2014 at the National Film Festival in Tangier,[13] won the Grand Prix at the Angers Film Festival in France, and was shown at the New Directors Festival in New York in March 2014.[13] The reviewer for Variety stated that in the film "Taïa retains the bare bones but strips away warmth and insight, without any fresh perceptions that would compensate."[19] Another reviewer, however, called the film "disciplined and poetic," praising Taïa for managing "to regard his own story with relative objectivity" and concluding that the film "avoids the usual pitfalls of political cinema, precisely because Taïa is able to remain focused on particulars, the overwhelming feel of things."[21] A reviewer for the Atlantic wrote that at a Venice Film Festival "notable for the prevalence of works grappling with global and societal woes, perhaps no film has blended the personal and the political as strikingly as Abdellah Taïa's L'Armée du salut (Salvation Army)."[10] "Before shooting," Taïa has noted, he submitted the screenplay of his film "in its original form to the authorities at the National Centre for Moroccan Cinema.... They approved the screenplay, and I hope they end up following through by allowing the film to be released."[10] Taïa said in April 2014 that his next book was "a tale about old Moroccan prostitutes who at the end of their careers touring the world have landed in Paris."[13] In fall 2015, Taïa visited the University of Pittsburgh as a visiting fellow in the Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Program. While on campus, he recorded a podcast as part of the schools' Year of the Humanities: https://soundcloud.com/humanities-pitt is that they are not accepted from the beginning. Where I come from, homosexuals allegedly do not exist, which is a horrible thing to live with and to accept. I had no other choice but to accept this non-existence. We could call this exile, meaning that your people, the ones who say they love you, that want to protect you, that want the best for you, and give you food—milk, honey, and so many other things—they deny you the most important thing, which is recognizing you as a human being.[12] According to a 2014 New York Times profile, Taïa has patched up relations with most family members, though there are still awkward moments. His older brother, always cold and distant, remains estranged ... His mother died shortly after Mr. Taïa came out, and he now has a cordial relationship with his sisters. He has over 40 nieces and nephews who symbolize a new more open-minded generation of Moroccans — they often post messages of encouragement on his official Facebook page."[13] Nonetheless, "he finds it hard to go home" because he can't talk to his siblings. "I am just a human being. They were ashamed of me. I always felt they were. I don't want them to be proud of me. And anyway, they're not."[13] He "can't live in Morocco," he says, because his "entire neighborhood wanted to rape me. A lot of people in Morocco are abused by a cousin or a neighbor but society doesn't protect them. There, rape is insignificant. There is nothing you can do."[13] He said in 2012 that while Moroccan government and society have not changed dramatically in their views of homosexuality, one thing that has changed is that "when officials talk about human rights and the freedom of individuals, they also talk about homosexuals."[12] Also, the Moroccan press has dramatically changed its view on homosexuality—for example, they defend me. They also give gay people in Morocco the chance to express themselves. There are young gay Moroccans who created a gay magazine in Arabic. And there's now an Arabic word for 'homosexual' that is not disrespectful: 'mithly.' It was created just six years ago, and is now used everywhere.[10] According to a 2014 New York Times profile, Taïa "considers himself Muslim because he is very spiritual, and he believes that freedom has existed in Islam through those such as the Arab philosopher Averroes and the Iranian poet Rumi, and in works such as '1001 Nights.'" Taïa told the Times, "I don't want to dissociate myself from Islam....It is part of my identity. It is not because I am gay that I will reject it. We need to recover this freedom that has existed in Islam."[13] In 2013, Taïa told The Atlantic, "I consider myself culturally Muslim. I feel connected to the great writers and thinkers of Islamic civilization, the great philosophers, sociologists and poets. I believe firmly in secularism, and I think that Muslims would be better off liberating themselves from religion. Islam should have no role in government."[10] He strongly supported the "February 20 movement" in Morocco that demanded democratic reforms. He wrote about this in the 2014 book "Arabs Are No Longer Afraid."[13] He has said that the "people who started the Arab Spring are young people, and the revolution was stolen from them by the Islamists."[1] Taïa is a fan of the films of Marilyn Monroe and of the directors Gus Van Sant, Douglas Sirk, and Tsai Ming-Liang.[14] "Books, like the film, do not solve anything," Taïa told the New York Times in 2014; "what I produce artistically does not help me in any way in my real life. Nothing is resolved. Everything is complex, complicated. I sincerely believe that there is only love to heal and soothe troubled souls."[13]

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Deep Inside Final Fantasy X-2 Share. Yuna wears pink panties. Come see for yourself inside. By IGN Staff Yuna fan club members (you know who you are) take note. Your favorite Final Fantasy heroine wears pink panties. Her commrades, Rikku and Paine wear, respectively, yellow and gray/white undergarments. More on this exciting new revelation, below. We've played through over fifteen hours of Final Fantasy X-2 as of this writing and have apparently gotten through about 30% of the story. How did we arrive at that percentage? The game actually reports your progress through the story in percentage form when you save. This apparently puts us in level 3 of the multi-leveled story. Not that this 30% means we have 70% left before seeing the credits roll. It's possible to pass Final Fantasy X-2 without getting 100% of the story. In fact, once you've passed the game, you're given a new option to replay the game with all items left in your possession so that you can experience all the branching paths without the tedium of having to rebuild your characters from scratch. Yes, this game is very different from other Final Fantasy titles. It's so different, in fact, that if you're expecting anything like a full FF game complete with a complex storyline and pricey computer graphics, you'll probably be disappointed. But anyone who wants to try something a bit different from the norm, or those who played Final Fantasy X and have an open mind, will likely have a ball, just like we're having right now. YUNA'S ANGELS In our initial impressions story from last week, we mentioned that the game is full of humor, as one might have guessed given that it starts off with a dance video. The humor continues throughout, with further dance numbers down the road and comical moments aplenty. In addition to the crew members of Yuna's ship, who are always good for a laugh, the comical villains encountered in the early moments of the game play a big roll throughout. Yuna's trio itself adds a good deal of flare to the game. The three heroines are obviously a gaming version of Charlie's Angels. Prepare for high-fives camera poses, giggling, and even a sequence that takes place in a hot spring and features the girls in their underwear (we're actually pretty sure they're wearing bathing suits, but why in the world would they carry their bathing suits with them?). We've included some clips in the movie section at the bottom of the next page so you can see for yourself just what this madness is all about. We're of course not complaining about the humor. Considering that the game is targeted towards those who played the original, it makes sense that it should be a little light hearted compared to the often heavy material of its predecessor. ACTIVE LINK In addition to its loose take on story, the structure of the game itself is entirely different from other games in the series. You start off the game on your airship and can go about the world at your will. Most of the game progresses by your speaking to the ship's navigator, who opens up a map of the world. You can select an area of the world to head off to, and are free to go just about everywhere from the start. The only guidance the game gives you in progression is through this map. Each area is given a description, with some suggesting that by exploring the area you may be able to solve a miniquest. Others, marked with an "Active Link" icon, are more directly related to the story. If you want to continue with the story, you'll have to go to these areas. Selecting your next location While the game will occasionally force you to go to a particular Active Link section, for the most part you're free to move about at your own pace. Want to visit an area of the game that you remember being particularly pretty? Just head down there and play around, fighting enemies and taking in the nostalgic visuals. All areas seem to have multiple mini-quest waiting to be solved, from helping a girl catch a Chocobo all the way to reliving the opening moments of the game from the perspective of a different character. Solving mini quests is one way to get some otherwise hard-to-find items, and is one of the most enjoyable parts of the game, so much so that if you find yourself running through the story sequences as fast as possible, you're missing out. Even when following the storyline, things aren't completely linear. Whereas FFX dabbled just a bit with different story paths, FFX-2 takes it to a new level. The game offers up some key branching points, which seem to affect the plot considerably. If you're interested in seeing everything, you'll have to replay the game (which, as mentioned above, is made easy thanks to the replay option given to you once you've passed the game for the first time). Whether following the story line or taking on sidequests, FFX-2 splits things up into missions. A quest or major part of the story begins with a "Mission Start" screen, followed by instructions on what you need to do in order to complete the mission. Don't be scared off though, FF-fans. The "Mission" thing is there in just name and fancy start-up screen alone. Square could've done without labeling the quests as missions and no one would've been the wiser. We like the addition, though, as the "Mission Start" screen fits the overall quirky nature of the game quite well.

10 Things You May Not Know About Teddy Roosevelt 1. His mother and his first wife died on the same day. On Valentine’s Day in 1884, Roosevelt’s mother passed away from typhoid fever. One floor above in the same house, his first wife, Alice, died less than 12 hours later from Bright’s disease and complications from giving birth to the couple’s first child just two days before. “The light has gone out of my life,” Roosevelt wrote in his diary that night. 2. Roosevelt was a New York City police commissioner. After his appointment in 1895, Roosevelt attempted to reform one of America’s most corrupt police departments. The future president regularly took midnight rambles to make sure officers were walking their beats. His decision to enforce an unpopular law that banned the sale of alcohol in saloons on Sundays made him a very unpopular figure in New York, but he persisted in the crusade even after receiving two letter bombs in the mail. 3. Roosevelt went skinny-dipping in the Potomac River. During his presidency, the noted outdoorsman often escaped the confines of the White House. Roosevelt sailed his presidential yacht on the Potomac and Anacostia Rivers and regularly led hiking expeditions in Rock Creek Park where he would scale cliffs and use twigs and stumps for target practice with his revolver. After strenuous walks along the Potomac, the president on occasion would shed all his clothes and take a plunge in the river to cool off. ADVERTISEMENT Thanks for watching! 4. He won the Nobel Peace Prize. The man famed for his exploits at San Juan Hill during the Spanish-American War and “Big Stick” diplomacy captured the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize for his role in mediating the Treaty of Portsmouth, which ended the Russo-Japanese War. Roosevelt was the first American to capture the award, and he used the prize money to fund a trust to promote industrial peace. ADVERTISEMENT Thanks for watching! ADVERTISEMENT Thanks for watching! 5. Roosevelt was the first sitting president to leave the country. In November 1906, Roosevelt made presidential history by becoming the first chief executive to leave the United States. He sailed aboard USS Louisiana to personally inspect the construction of the Panama Canal, a project that he had championed as president. 6. A boxing accident left him virtually blind in one eye. Roosevelt boxed for Harvard University’s intramural lightweight championship and continued to spar recreationally during his political career. During his days in the White House, he regularly put up his dukes against former professional boxers and other sparring partners until a punch from a young artillery officer smashed a blood vessel and left him nearly blind in his left eye. 7. Roosevelt was a prolific author. From his earliest days, Roosevelt had a passion for reading and writing. He penned his first book, “The Naval War of 1812,” at the age of 23 and earned a reputation as a serious historian. Over the course of his lifetime, Roosevelt authored 38 books, which included an autobiography, a biography of Oliver Cromwell, a history of New York City and the four-volume series “The Winning of the West.” The outdoorsman also wrote numerous books and magazine articles about hunting and his frontier exploits. 8. He was a member of the Hasty Pudding Club. While a Harvard undergraduate, Roosevelt won election into the Hasty Pudding Club, and he was the social club’s secretary during his senior year. Roosevelt was one of five presidents—the others being John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy—to have been a club member. 9. Roosevelt once scaled the Matterhorn. While a student at Harvard, Dr. Dudley Sargent warned Roosevelt, who had been a sickly child, that, because of a weak heart, failure to lead a sedentary life could have fatal consequences. “Doctor, I’m going to do all the things you tell me not to do,” Roosevelt responded. “If I’ve got to live the sort of life you have described, I don’t care how short it is.” A year after graduation, Roosevelt took time from his European honeymoon with Alice to scale the 15,000-foot Swiss Alp with two guides. 10. He volunteered to lead an infantry unit in World War I. At the outbreak of World War I, the 58-year-old ex-president was eager to return to the front lines. Roosevelt vehemently lobbied President Woodrow Wilson to send him to France at the head of a 200,000-man expeditionary force. Around the country, supporters of the hero of San Juan Hill staged rallies of support, but Roosevelt would not get called to fight in the war that eventually claimed his son Quentin, who was killed in action when his plane was shot down over France in 1918.

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During the late Neogene, the Lambert Glacier–Amery Ice Shelf drainage system flowed across Prydz Bay and showed several changes in flow pattern. In the Early Pliocene, the Lambert Glacier ice stream reached the shelf edge and built a trough mouth fan on the upper continental slope. This was associated with an increase in ice discharge from the Princess Elizabeth Land coast into Prydz Bay. The trough mouth fan consists mostly of debris flow deposits derived from the melting out of subglacial debris at the grounding line at the continental shelf edge. The composition of debris changes at around 1.1 Ma BP from material derived from erosion of the Lambert Graben and Prydz Bay Basin to mostly basement derived material. This probably results from a reduction in the depth of erosion and hence the volume of ice in the system. In the trough mouth fan, debris flow intervals are separated by thin mudstone horizons deposited when the ice had retreated from the shelf edge. Age control in an Ocean Drilling Program hole indicates that most of the trough mouth fan was deposited prior to the Brunhes–Matuyama Boundary (780 ka BP). This stratigraphy indicates that extreme ice advances in Prydz Bay were rare after the mid Pleistocene, and that ice discharge from Princess Elizabeth Land became more dominant than the Lambert Glacier ice in shelf grounding episodes, since the mid Pleistocene. Mechanisms that might have produced this change are extreme inner shelf erosion and/or decreasing ice accumulation in the interior of East Antarctica. We interpret this pattern as reflecting the increasing elevation of coastal ice through time and the increasing continentality of the interior of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. The mid Pleistocene change to 100 ka climatic and sea level cycles may also have affected the critical relationship between ice dynamics and the symmetry or asymmetry of the interglacial/glacial climate cycle duration.

City of London OpenFest street team Impact set up a large bespoke street team, which would assist the City of London’s OpenFest in targeting audiences and helping them to find their way during the event. The City of London approached Impact to put together a large street team for its OpenFest event, held as part of the Culture Mile. We worked to a strict budget and assembled a team of 20 brand ambassadors to guide audiences to the event over a weekend in March. Two team leaders each oversaw a team of nine, spread across several locations around the Barbican Centre where the event was taking place. Training was required in advance of the campaign, which we co-ordinated between the ambassadors and City of London. The unforeseen ‘Beast from the East’ resulted in the street team working in extreme weather conditions, but with the help of the team leaders the ambassadors stayed strong! Rotating the ambassadors between indoor and outdoor locations and providing them with hot drinks and plenty of comfort breaks lead to the shifts being completed fully staffed and with morale high.

Optimizing your Blog for Google Blogsearch This is arguably old news considering Bill Slawski did a detailed rundown on it a month ago but the impact really didn’t hit me until I read Alister Cameron’s post on Problogger this morning covering the same topic – How Google Blogsearch ranks your posts. I’m hoping I’m not alone in my delayed intelligence and perhaps you missed the significance of Google Blogsearch patent application the first time around too. If so, let’s bond together in our obliviousness (wow; that is a real word!). I haven’t spent much time using Google Blog Search. I’ve signed up for several of the alerts and I’ll do some vanity searching reputation monitoring from time to time but I’m typically Technorati-loyal. It seems to fit all my needs and it’s doing that great giving-me-all-forms-of-media on a specific topic thing that I really love. However, if blog optimization (it’s the new form of search engine optimization!) is important to you, instead of keyword vomiting your blog to death, it’d be wise to look at what factors Google deems important to ranking blogs to keep your company’s voice ranking above that of your competitors. You want readers to hear you, not them. In reading through both Bill and Alister’s interpretation of the patent filed in 2005, it’s interesting to me how Google Reader plays into all this. Reader accounts for 30 percent of the newsreader market these days, which puts an enormous amount of data in Google’s hands. They’re able to use their subscription numbers to see which blogs are the most popular (at least on paper), they can tell which blogs readers are clicking through to, they can arguably determine how long users spend interacting with that blog and whether they read one entry or read through the history and probably lots more stuff I don’t even realize because I don’t use Google Reader. Then, they can take all that data and use it to rate the popularity of your blog. It’s kind of crazy, and it’s probably not far off from how Google’s judging that search engine optimization campaign you’ve got going. I wonder how accurate that really is in determining the popularity of any one blog though. What if Blog A has more clickthroughs than Blog B because it only publishes snippets whereas Blog B is full feed? Are snippet feeds better optimized than full feeds? What about people like Rand Fishkin who don’t use feed readers and instead actually go and visit each blog individually? Is Rand ruining all of our Google Blog Search rankings because he’s not a blog subscriber? If so, torch the Mozzerplex! But even if Rand is secretly out to get us, does it matter? Do people actually use Google Blog Search to find information or is it all vanity searching? I’ve never once used Google Blog Search to locate information and I don’t think I know anyone else who has either. Regardless, the patent is worth a read because it signals ranking factors I otherwise wouldn’t have thought of – like appearing in a quality blog’s blogroll, or having your blog tagged using certain terms on sites like del.icio.us. You mean that actually matters? If you haven’t made your blog social and developed relationships with others in your industry, your antisocial tendencies may come back to haunt you. To rank well, Google needs to see that your blog can play well with others. I also find it amusing that I could perhaps be considered a spammer because my blog posts and are typically around the same size. I don’t do this purposely, it just kinda happens. I rant and then when I hit a certain point on a page my brain tells me it’s okay to stop now and start summing things up and pretending I had a point. It seems this is a bad thing. I should write shorts posts. And long posts. And medium posts. And then I should find the bed that’s "just right" and fall asleep only to be awaken by bears. On a personal note, I’ve always wondered if my Friday Recaps are hurting the blog. If Google or the blog engines see the link-heavy post and think I’m trying to spam them. It does seem to go against trusted optimization principles. However, they’re hilarious. There’s no way I’m ending the Friday Recap. Rankings be damned! (Uh, I mean, is that okay, Bruce?) Alister highlights another way Google may judging blog popularity that I hadn’t thought of: [0044] References to the blog document by other sources may be a positive indication of the quality of the blog document. For example, content of emails or chat transcripts can contain URLs of blog documents. Email or chat discussions that include references to the blog document is a positive indicator of the quality of the blog document. That’s just weird. I know Google uses the keywords I type in Gmail to provide me with targeted advertising but it’s odd to think they’re looking at that content to view blog popularity as well. If they’re doing it for blogs, I wonder if they’re doing it for Web sites in their main engine. If so, I think you should all start writing more about that kickass search engine optimization and Internet marketing blog that girl Lisa writes at Bruce Clay. In fact, why don’t you go ahead and make it the subject of your email. Maybe subject lines are the new Meta tags. Or something. Anyway, just some food for thought. Bruce would probably hit me with a ruler but I haven’t given much thought to blog optimization in the past. This blog has been more about news and conversation than trying to rank well for our site’s keywords. I wouldn’t want to see that premise change in a way that would sacrifice value, but it is interesting to see what Google deems important when deciding topic relevancy. Even if I do opt to ignore them and spam you guys like crazy with the Friday Recap. 3 responses to “Optimizing your Blog for Google Blogsearch” You can’t do away with Friday Recap. B/c I look forward to it. I must have the crazy links. And I’ll bet I’m not the only one. If you cancel it, you might lower your RSS subscriber number and then you’ll really be screwed! But no, I don’t think it hurts you. It’s one post out of many, and there’s plenty of links that are relevant to the SEO theme of this blog. I have read that linking out to relevant blogs helps Google establish theme. Don’t know how true that is. But as the only person who uses Blogsearch, I like to think I know what I’m talking about. I can’t do without the kickass search engine optimization and Internet marketing Friday recaps either, Lisa. With the patent application, I think that one way to think about it, regardless of the ranking factors that it specifically mentions, is that they are trying to rank blogs highly that show evidence of being high quality. And you have that going for you. HQ Hours of Operation: 8:30am to 5:30 pm Pacific timeDays of Operation: Monday through Friday – email works other times in many casesSupport Operations: M-F 9:00 to 5:00 Email Support FormTraining Facility: Please see the training facility map

Introduction (This website is not yet complete) The Langeland School Massacre Project is an art work consisting of a series of 100 photographs. Four school classes of 14 year old students, participated in this art performance staging a nightmare school shooting incident. There is I think, within all of us, a latent sense of raw violence that can be triggered in extreme situations. Brutality is there, no one is safe and no one is pure. Look at the media and you will see frequent cases where people are cited as defending their families, their homes or even intervening with things like street fights, and you quickly become aware of one linking theme – They’re normal everyday people, and they never thought they were capable of such actions. With this Project, I wanted to share my feelings towards this emotional state that people can reach, staging a situation where this kind of violence has been triggered. No matter how you look at it, the media is fixated with the innate violence in society, hyping and scandalizing, blowing things out of proportion to create hysteria, and a large percentage of the material they cover focuses on the instinctive violent behavior of adolescents. What if I gave a group of children the opportunity to create a mirrored incident of how they are perceived in the media? I asked how they would produce images that would correspond with the kind of media coverage that saturates print and airwaves after such a tragedy. Remember, we’re talking about children raised in the safe confines of a Scandanavian democratic society, but there was a sense of understanding and scale to the violence that soon became apparent. The day produced a series of 100 images, all staged, dramatized, photographed and edited by children as part of the performance. This is a case study of how teenagers perceive a massacre within their own particular. Don’t dismiss this as kids going wild with prop machine guns and theatrical blood. It was not about fun, to their minds this was a serious project. To myself, and their distraught and in some cases tearful teachers, the real shock as the day unfolded was to take in the perfectionism, conviction and skill that they imbued the work with, without any prior visual foreknowledge of the reality of such events. Somehow, they managed to express their inner visualization of what images of death can be like.

The Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini: A Midget Gem The Samsung Galaxy S III has been a stand-out smartphone this year, receiving an unprecedented response from both hardcore Galaxy fans and newcomers alike. The level of excitement and secrecy that shrouded the Galaxy S III launch had only been seen before at iPhone unveilings, proving that the Koreans were upping their game to become a serious rival for top dog Apple. So when we heard that Samsung was creating a smaller version of the galactic smartphone, dubbed the Galaxy S3 Mini, it came as no surprise. But is this miniature mobile simply a scaled-down version of the Samsung flagship, or is there more to it than meets the eye? Mid-range Mini Now, if you’re expecting the Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini to be exact smaller replica of the Galaxy S III then you may be disappointed. Although the Galaxy S III Mini takes design cues from the flagship, when it comes to functionality the handset has a more mid-range feature set. At first glance, the handset looks just like a Galaxy S III that’s been in a hot wash, however on closer inspection the front facing camera is positioned in the top left corner of the device instead of on the right, the tactile home button is positioned higher up, the device is thicker measuring 9.9mm, and has a curved back fascia. That said, it feels of a substantial build quality and rests nicely in the hand, with curved corners that make it pleasant to hold and easy to operate, even if you have small hands. If you’re put off by the size of handsets such as the Samsung Galaxy Note 2, or even the Galaxy S III itself, the Galaxy S III Mini offers a much more pocket friendly option. Of course, with a smaller chassis comes a smaller display, but the 4-inch super AMOLED display sported by the Galaxy S III Mini doesn’t disappoint. It may not be a HD screen, but put it beside displays on other mid-range handsets like the HTC Desire X and it offers similar sufficient visuals whether you are viewing images, watching videos, or just navigating around the phone’s features. Scaled down specs Even though the Galaxy S III Mini may not boast the incredible quad-core processor and HD display of its bigger brother the Galaxy S III, its spec sheet is definitely nothing to be scoffed at. Housing a 1GHz dual-core processor and 1GB RAM means navigating around the Galaxy S III Mini’s features is smooth and speedy, with no annoying lag or stutters. This is even more important when you consider the handset runs the Android Jelly Bean operating system, which has even more cool functions than previous iterations. Jelly Bean features Google Now, which uses your location and search data to offer handy hints and tips to help you on your daily routine. For example, Google Now can learn your commute to work then if there’s a traffic delay it can alert you and suggest an alternative route. Samsung has seen fit to include some of its own flagship features on the more moderately priced device too, including Pop-up Play, which allows the user to minimise a video into a smaller box whilst using other functions of the handset. Samsung’s voice activated personal assistant S-Voice is on board too, which is similar to Apple’s Siri, allowing users to perform tasks such as making calls and sending texts by speaking into the device. When it comes to multimedia, the Galaxy S III Mini’s camera produces surprisingly good pictures that are of a higher quality than you would expect from a 5-megapixel snapper. Photos are crisp and detailed with good colour saturation; however the 720p video recording isn’t as impressive but does the job if you want to grab a quick video of your mate doing something funny. The addition of a VGA front-facing camera enabling video calling is a bonus, especially when you consider the similarly positioned HTC 8S doesn’t have front-facing snapper at all. The Galaxy S III Mini’s 8GB and 16GB internal storage variants can be expanded using a microSD card too, so there’s plenty of space meaning you can download all five seasons of Breaking Bad, and still have room to take loads of photos when you’re out clubbing. Premium performance If you were looking to bag a pint-sized replica of the Galaxy S III with all its quad-core power and HD loveliness then you may have been mislead by the Galaxy S III Mini moniker. However, disregard its big brother and take the handset as a standalone device in its own right and it certainly does shine. Compare it to other mid-range handsets such as the HTC Desire X or Sony Xperia U, and the Galaxy S III Mini wins hands down when it comes to design and functionality. It looks stylish, performs smoothly and efficiently, has loads of great Jelly Bean features, and a few fab extras from Samsung. So if you want an affordable compact handset that looks the business and performs like a flagship smartphone, then the Galaxy S III Mini is the mobile for you. This guest post was written by Abbi Cox of Phones 4u, who have loads of great deals on the latest mobiles. 2 thoughts on “The Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini: A Midget Gem” This is exactly what I’ve been waiting for… Now I can replace my (modded) Samsung Vibrant, Yes, I am not one to “get the latest thing” looking at the spec sheets for the “mini & the Vibrant” its all I need! It has ALL I’ve come to expect, with better battery life, dual-core processor, camera flash & the “S III” software/hardware experience? I Hope! Come on T-Mobile I’m waiting !!!!!!! Featured Posts About us Phonesreview.co.uk, obviously as the name suggests is a site dedicated around the news of the present day Mobile Phones. 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Penn Satire, Since 1899 Penn Board of Trustees Votes to Move Off-Campus Following a lengthy battle with its governing body, The University of Pennsylvania’s Board of Trustees voted this week to move off-campus. The Board – the most powerful administrative and financial body on campus – made the unanimous decision Friday to cut official ties with the University. The vote came following a protracted battle between the Board and the Office for Fiduciary Solvency and Logistics (OFSL), which supervises the operation of all American universities. The Board of Trustees first came under fire last fall when member Leopold J. Speigelman W’43 was found unresponsive the morning after a Board event. Speigelman’s family accused members of the organization of forcing the retired hedge fund manager to review countless administrative files without access to whiskey or cigars. The Board countered that none of the alleged file perusing occurred, and that the 94-year-old simply fell asleep. A second incident occurred in January 2015, when the Board hosted its annual Alumni and Faculty happy hour at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The event’s theme immediately came under fire from several campus groups, who felt that it discriminated against non-academics. Following a OFSL investigation, the Board was placed on probation and forced to undergo sensitivity training. The tipping point came in early May, when cell-phone video emerged of Board members making highly controversial remarks during a meeting. In the footage, one unidentified member can be heard saying, “while we as an institution have a duty to admit students of all ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds — I’d even go as far as to say diversity is our number one goal as a University — I believe that the burden for achieving this objective cannot be placed on the shoulders of otherwise deserving applicants who happen to be part of the racial plurality.” The footage — leaked onto the internet shortly after the meeting — soon went viral on campus. Several protests occurred outside College Hall, and President Amy Gutmann called for a full investigation into the Board’s actions. This fall, OFSL released its report on this incident, placing sanctions on the board ranging from a ban on social galas to a switch from Pellegrino to Dasani water at meetings. Immediately following the ruling, the Board took steps to disengage from the University. “The Office’s decision is a blatant case of the punishment not fitting the crime,” said Board Chairman Wellington Fairfield IV. “This ruling was clearly designed to extinguish our presence on campus.” The decision to leave went to a vote amongst the Board’s members, passing unanimously. The group plans to continue its operations off-campus as the newly formed TRUST Society. The new organization aims to carry out virtually all of the former Board of Trustees’ functions outside of the jurisdiction of OFSL. Fairfield says the group plans to buy an off-campus office to house its operations within the next year. “This was a tough time for all of us members, to be sure,” said Fairfield.

Students get their lunch from food service worker Karen Ynigues at Natoma Station Elementary School on Tuesday, August 15, 2017 in Folsom, Calif. Randy [email protected] Students get their lunch from food service worker Karen Ynigues at Natoma Station Elementary School on Tuesday, August 15, 2017 in Folsom, Calif. Randy [email protected] There won’t be any more cheese sandwiches served at Elk Grove Unified schools. The region’s largest school district will no longer give students a bland, alternative lunch when they run out of meal funds or forget their lunch money. Elk Grove Unified is joining districts across the region and nation that are changing rules so that children who come up short for lunch money aren’t embarrassed with a different meal than what their peers receive – or not fed at all, as has been the case elsewhere. The wave of change comes after high-profile news stories about “lunch shaming,” including one about a food service worker in Pennsylvania who quit because a boy cried when she took a hot meal away from him and replaced it with a cheese sandwich and another about a child in Arizona who had “lunch money” stamped on his arm to remind his parents to pay up. “We wanted to be proactive,” said Michelle Drake, director of Food and Nutrition Services for the district. The changes at Elk Grove Unified schools also were prompted by the district’s food service workers, many who weren’t replacing the daily entree for a cheese sandwich when kids didn’t have money, Drake said. They didn’t want to single out the kids by handing them a different meal, she said. “It’s just not good for our children and it’s difficult on the staff,” Drake said. “The last thing they want to see a third-grader and fourth-grader with that look on their face. We have changed it up for this school year.” Also gone: verbal and written reminders delivered directly to students who owe lunch money. The district now will deal directly with parents about lunch debt, Drake said. The problem can affect low-income students whose families haven’t filed the paperwork to receive free- or reduced-price meals they qualify for. It can also affect middle-class children required to pay full price for lunch, which is $2.75 at Elk Grove Unified elementary schools. In previous generations, students typically had to bring cash each day to the cafeteria. But most schools now can deduct lunch costs electronically from student accounts. Elk Grove Unified is testing its changes over the next three to six months so the district can determine the cost before making the change permanently, Drake said. Maria Correia agrees with the new approach. The food and nutrition services worker at Irene B. West Elementary School in south Sacramento remembers the reaction of students when their meals were taken away in the past. “It was embarrassing, especially for the big kids,” she said Wednesday. “... I have to take the pizza away and give them a cheese sandwich. The first-graders will cry.” She didn’t always make the switch. “Sometimes I let it go with the pizza,” she said. “I can’t see somebody cry. I have grandkids.” Irene B. West parent Melissa Palacol was happy to hear that kids would no longer be singled out and given different lunches. “It affects them a lot,” she said. “They want to be like everyone else.” Palacol’s daughter, Leilani, was given a cheese sandwich once when her mother forgot to put money in her account. The second-grader said she was embarrassed. “Sometimes we get busy,” Palacol said of parents. An email alert from the school now helps her to remember when to add money to her daughter’s account. Parent Kevin Wong liked the policy change that keeps the issue of lunch debt between adults. “It should be directed to parents, not kids,” he said. “They shouldn’t have the burden of coming up with money.” Last year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture gave districts operating national school lunch or breakfast programs until July 1 to prepare a written policy on how they charge and collect for meals. In California, state lawmakers are considering a proposal to ban lunch shaming by preventing schools from treating students with unpaid meal bills differently. If the Legislature and Gov. Jerry Brown approve the change, California would become the nation’s second state to outlaw lunch shaming. Senate Bill 250 by Sen. Robert M. Hertzberg, D-Van Nuys, requires that schools feed all K-12 kids even if they don’t pay. It also stops the practice of offering students alternate meals or using children as a conduit for collecting money for meals. “I think everybody recognizes what an awful position this puts kids in with something they have no responsibility for – whether their lunches are paid or not,” said Andrew LaMar, Hertzberg’s spokesman. “They get publicly shamed and we know that kids of all ages are influenced by social pressure and their standing with peers.” Elk Grove Unified is following in the footsteps of Natomas Unified, which eliminated alternate meals in 2012. “(Schools) send letters and phone calls but they don’t cut off the meals,” said Jim Sanders, district spokesman. Sacramento City Unified, San Juan Unified and Twin Rivers Unified also offer alternate or basic meals to students who can’t pay for lunch, although elementary-aged child are usually allowed credit for a few regular meals beforehand. “We feed every kid because it’s important that they eat so they can learn,” said Jill Van Dyke, director of nutrition services at Twin Rivers Unified. “We feed them and call the parents. We try not to embarrass the child because it is not their fault.” At Natoma Station Elementary in Folsom on Tuesday, students without lunch money could select fruit and vegetables from the salad bar and pick up a carton of milk before receiving two cheese sticks and four packs of crackers at the food service window. The other kids had a choice of chicken nuggets and a cookie or pasta with meat sauce and garlic bread. “My understanding is we will give an alternate meal, other times we aren’t able to provide a meal to a child,” said Daniel Thigpen, district spokesman. “That happens in conversation with the child and their parent, depending what their negative balance looks like and how far their negative balance has gone.” Folsom Cordova Unified made some changes to its food service policy on Aug. 3, but stopped short of ending the practice of replacing regular meals with basic or alternate meals when kids can’t pay. The new policy adds strategies and procedures for collection of meal payments. It says school employees will not overtly identify students with overdrawn accounts or students who receive free meals. A policy change that would move away from the alternate lunch is being discussed. “It’s a work in progress,” Thigpen said. Davis Senior High offers school lunches kicked up a notch from a food truck. Read Next Sacramento State students will be some of the first in the world to get around campus with the latest technology after the university on Thursday unveiled two new electric, autonomous shuttles made up of 3D-printed parts.

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Friday, September 15, 2017 Minnesota in focus: GOP candidates feud over health insurance An unusually early campaign dustup is underway between two of the leading 2018 Republican candidates for governor. Their disagreement is over health insurance policy. Keith Downey, the former state GOP chair, fired the first salvo this week on social media when he accused state Rep. Matt Dean, R-Dellwood, of bailing out rather than trying to kill the statewide health insurance exchange known as MNsure. Downey claims Dean used his position as chair of the House Health and Human Services committee to “prop up” MNsure by advancing a reinsurance bill last session. The measure provides subsidies aimed at stabilizing the cost of private insurance plans. “He could have refused to hear the bill in his committee,” Downey wrote. “He could have led a charge to vote against passing it on the House floor. But he didn’t.” Minneapolis mayoral candidates traded barbs on issues from public safety to the citywide $15 minimum wage at a forum organized by the downtown business community Thursday, with much of the criticism directed at Mayor Betsy Hodges, who reiterated what she’s accomplished since being elected in 2013. “I have not jumped to the head of the parade and pretended I’ve been leading it the whole time,” she said. Hodges is facing challenges from Council Member Jacob Frey, DFL state Rep. Ray Dehn, Nekima Levy-Pounds, Tom Hoch and Aswar Rahman, among others. About 100 members of the local business community attended the forum, filling a conference room at the downtown Radisson Blu hotel. Moderator Tom Hauser, a political reporter for KSTP-TV, kicked off the hourlong forum with a question about public safety and crime downtown — an issue that’s become central to the race. As with other topics, including affordable housing and the bid for Amazon’s new headquarters, candidates largely agreed on fundamentals but differed on specifics. Scientists predict places like Texas and Florida will be bracing for more hurricanes like Harvey and Irma as the earth heats up in the coming years, and that rising temps and extreme weather events will cost those states’ economies. Minnesota, not as much. According to a new study from an interdisciplinary team of researchers, Minnesota and other parts of the country, especially the upper Midwest, Northeast and West actually stand to benefit from climate change. At least in some ways. The study, published in Science this summer, is the first to estimate the effects of climate change on multiple sectors at the county level, said Amir Jina, an assistant professor at the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy and a co-author of the report. The researchers assumed a “business as usual” scenario — what Jina described as “the world if we don’t adhere to the Paris Agreement, but don’t get too much worse in terms of what we’re doing” — and projected the effects of climate change out to around the end of the current century, 2080-99. What they found surprised even them. While people often talk about how the world’s poorest countries will be disproportionately hurt by climate change, Jina and his colleagues found the same patterns across counties in the U.S., with the poorest third of counties, many of them in southern states, projected to experience much larger income losses by the end of the century than their wealthier counterparts, largely in the Northwest, upper Midwest and Northeast.

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This book was full of interesting characters, and the story was engaging and enjoyable. What I am not so sure of, is if this novel was really supposed to be filed under "Romance"? Sure, there is a romance, eventually, but it doesn't play a huge part of the book. Political intrigue, magic, and nefarious plots all play much larger roles in this story than romance. Overall, this book would be better classified as "Fantasy". So if you are looking for hard-core romance, then this will be a disappointment. But if you are looking for an engaging story, with some fabulous characters (including a heroine who was no wilting wall-flower!), then this is definitely recommended. Not my usual type of fiction and was pleasantly surprised how good this book was. I bought this book when it went on one of those weekend only sales because it was cheap and had high reviews. I really don't listen to fantasy type novels, and wow, I will definitely read this author again. In fact after I finished this book, I bought the next two, Magic Study and Fire Study, which were each as good as the first one. Wow, is all I have to say, this was one book I will recomend to everyone! My husband recommended this title to me, and he was right, it's a great story. The descriptions Yelena had for the food she was tasting and her insights into those around her were fascinating. I was sorry to see this book end -- the world it was set in was fun to explore. (One caution: although this is part of the Harlequin Luna line, the romance is definitely a subplot rather than the main focus of the story. Also, there are some scenes of graphic violence.) Let me begin by telling you that is one of my all time favorite fantasy novels. Right from the beginning, I was hooked and still am. I enjoyed this book so much that I’ve read it multiple times. I even own the audio book so I can listen to it over and over while doing other things. I’ve shared this book with all the women in my family, who include a teenager, a couple of twenty somethings, and a couple of moms. They all loved it and went on to read the entire series. Needless to say, I love this book and I think you will too. Imprisoned for murder, tortured, and scheduled to be executed, Yelena is presented with the option to be the Commander’s poison tester. She accepts the position and is given a second chance at live, at least for now. Under the tutelage of the Commander’s adviser, Valek, Yelena studies poisons, among other things (wink), and gradually earns respect from Valek and the Commander. Even with their respect, she still has many enemies and her live is frequently in limbo. While fighting for her survival, she discovers strange abilities, adding a whole new layer of complexity to Yelena’s life. Yelena is a smart, strong, and easy to relate to heroine and quite honestly a character of her caliber is hard to find these days. Although cheesy sounding, Valek is an intelligent, awesome, bad ass assassin while at the same time tender and kind. I loved every scene with him. Snyder weaves an intriguing world that left me wanting more. It’s fun, addicting, and there’s love, what more can you ask for. Yelena’s story carries on in Snyder’s next two books, Magic Study and Fire Study. Read the first chapter on Maria V. Snyder’s website and become an obsessed fan like me. For more Poison Study fun, check out Snyder’s Assassin’s Study, which is a short story from Valek’s perspective and is set in between Poison Study and Magic Study. Read Assassin’s Study here. This book is one of the most entertaining books I have heard in a long time! I am looking forward to the next in the series. Also, the reader was perfect for this book. I was enthralled in the story from beginning to end. I strongly recommend Poison Study. I like Jack Reacher style characters regardless of setting. Put them in outer space, in modern America, in a military setting, on an alien planet... no worries. Book has non moralistic vigilante-justice? Sign me up! (oh, I read urban fantasy, soft and hard sci-fi, trashy vampire and zombie novels too) Love, Love, Love this series. This was the first book I purchased from Audible. I am hooked. I usually read, but this has changed my perfered method of reading. The characters are all likeable and well developed. The world created by Snyder is interesting and I found myself wrapped up in it. I listened to the next 2 books soon after this one. I was sorry when it ended but was satisfied with it. I am hoping for more books in this series. If you go to the author's web site she has posted additional short stories about the supporting characters. The narrator did a good job and changed the characters voices well. I really enjoyed this book and I would highly recommend it to anyone. I seldom read science fiction, but the reviews for this series were intriguing so I took a chance. Give it a try. I used my credits on the first two and then ended up buying the third book in the series because I was too impatient to wait for next months credits! I agree with other reviewers that the first book was the best, but all three are well worth reading. The narrator made each character come to life. It was a good escape from reality. I'm sad because there isn't another book in the series. My daughter and I listened to this book while we were driving from Colorado to Michigan. When we stopped for the night, we couldn't wait to hit the road the next day to find out what was going to happen next! The story was well read, and the different voice characterizations ensured we never got confused or wondered who was doing what. Our road trip flew by. We can't wait to take the same trip this coming summer and listen to the next book, Magic Study. I could not rate this book with 5 stars because of one thing. The descriptions included even the smallest detail and were somewhat tedious; however, had I been reading the book, I would have skimmed over most of these. I would not have been as happy with an abridged format of the book though, so just be prepared to hear some looooong descriptions!

Tag: Tesla We’ve heard it before: product X will change the world. We heard it about the Segway and the iPhone. Rarely does a new product really change the world. The iPhone changed what we thought about phones. Now Tesla and their new battery called the Powerwall is supposed to change how we use power. Will it really? I don’t think so. Another day at the CES show in Las Vegas and another round of announcements from automakers concerning the newest technology they are employing in current and future vehicles. AT&T has announced an agreement with Tesla, an all-electric vehicle manufacturer, to enable current and future models with high speed wireless connectivity in the form of 4G LTE. As South by Southwest Interactive (henceforth: SXSWi) approached I found myself a bit overwhelmed by all the choices of talks, panels, hangouts, meetups, and God only knows what else. As an Austin resident, I didn’t feel the need to over-indulge on Sixth Street’s entertainment venues — I can do it any time — so I tried to concentrate on talks … One of the things I have been thinking about since the eruption of the Tesla/New York Times feud, is whether electric cars are truly practical yet for the average family. I’m not talking about a $100,000 Tesla S, or taking a road trip up the Mid-Atlantic coast in the middle of a harsh winter; I’m talking about for local driving, commutes … When something comes from a trusted news source, it carries a certain cachet; there’s an expectation of truth, integrity, and objectivity. The only time objectivity gets a pass is when something is entitled “opinion” or “editorial”, but reviews are always expected to be reasonably objective. So when The New York Times published John Broder’s scathing review of the Tesla Motors … Day Two at the North American International Auto Show did not have as full a schedule as Day One, but it was filled with much ballyhooed introductions that for some (yours truly included) were the most exciting of the show. In addition to foreign and domestic automakers bringing their wares to the Detroit Show, there are many third-party companies demonstrating …

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Blog When Kristina came to MoveStrong Kettlebells, she was timid about using the weights and a lot of the movements were new and challenging to her. She was very patient with her body, and with me! and she was willing get outside her comfort zone to learn, think and feel the movements. She began to really enjoy the complex movements like the swing, snatch and Turkish Getup. She also enjoys barbell deadlifts and how powerful she feels doing them. I would say that Kristina is one of our most improved members. She is now moving with more grace and ease, using heavier weight than ever before, and most importantly, she is becoming more mobile and flexible every week. She believes in herself, enjoys her classmates and has a great attitude about training. Her work schedule doesn't always allow her to come to class as much as she'd like, but she is very good about coming to Sat. Mobility class and doing some kettlebell work at home. She has adopted a strength lifestyle and I am very proud of her progress, her willingness to take a rest day when her body needs it, and I am excited for her to continue to grow as a hardstyle kettlebell athlete and a confident young woman. In Kristina's words ... Why did you start kettlebell training? “I needed more muscle!” That was one of the thoughts which came to mind. I was in need of becoming a stronger person. In the past, I have used different strength training methods, but with mixed results. I had not heard of kettlebells until recently. It looked interesting and was intrigued with swinging weights rather than just lifting weights. What do you like most about kettlebell training? I feel like I have accomplished something important for myself. I get excited about the progress I’ve made since I started. I love how it’s made me a stronger person both inside and out. What is the biggest surprise about training with MoveStrong and with Kettlebells? I love how the training is dynamic and ever changing to suit each of our needs. For instance, the last several months, Lori has incorporated stretching time at the ending of the workout into a five minute flow. My flexibility has improved. You can come to consecutive classes in the manner in which they are structured and focus on different muscle groups or focus more on grip strength or flexibility, etc. What are your two favorite kettlebell or bodyweight movements and why? Snatches and pendulum swings! Snatching is a complex movement. I remember when I first tried it. Now, I’ve grown into it. It’s a movement you must absolutely focus on. You must have all the muscles work together. I dare say it’s poetic! For pendulum swings, they feel relaxing to me on one level. At the same time, they tax my legs and other adjoining muscles in a good way. What advice do you have for someone who is interested in getting started with kettlebells? Make sure you find an instructor who teaches you the basic foundational movements safely. Once you have that, you can build upon it and grow. It took me a while to get adjusted to the movement of the kettlebell swing. Give your body time. Don’t give up. I’d say the first week is the most challenging. Every movement you do builds into something stronger. It’s amazing to think the body reshapes and rebuilds with more strength each time you apply yourself. So I will continue to do just that.

H.King Sopwith Aircraft 1912-1920 (Putnam) Cobham Insofar as it has achieved any distinction whatsoever in aeronautical history, the Cobham three-seat bomber has attained that status firstly by reason of the fact that it was the only multi-engined Sopwith to be built; second because it was the largest of the company's triplanes. Thus, in the absence of further aeronautical distinction, one may proffer a topographical note, for this aeroplane was named after the Surrey town not far removed either from Kingston-on-Thames, where it was built, nor from Brooklands, where it was flown. Town-names, indeed, distinguished its generally comparable near-contemporaries the Nieuport London, Avro Manchester, Boulton & Paul Bourges and de Havilland Oxford - not forgetting that far bigger triplane bomber the Bristol Braemar. (The Siddeley Sinaia one might be forgiven for forgetting, though like the Cobham Mk.II this had advanced-type Siddeley engines).From the foregoing it must not be assumed that the Cobham was devoid of technical interest, and although that interest is largely concerned with the powerplant, the airframe and armament also invite some comment.The triplane arrangement though it distinguished also the London and Braemar - was obviously a Sopwith speciality, and one that continued to be favoured, by Herbert Smith for instance, for the Mitsubishi torpedo-dropper that was completed in Japan in 1922. Inasmuch as the degree of stagger differed between the upper and the lower wings and the interplane struts were accordingly 'cranked' in side elevation the Cobham resembled both the Snark fighter and the Japanese machine just mentioned. However, whereas the Snark had positive stagger (though of different degrees) between the three sets of wings, the Cobham, in its Mk.II form at least, had noticeably back-staggered top wings - and even in the Mk.I form the centre wings were so set back from the others as to result in positive stagger for the 'upper storey' and neutral or negative stagger for the lower one.The Cobham Mk.I had A.B.C. Dragonfly engines, was designed in the early summer of 1918, and was inspected in mock-up form in August of that year. The intended primary role was bombing over short and medium ranges, though an armed-reconnaissance capability was a secondary requirement. Internal bomb-stowage was to Sopwith no novelty; and on the Cobham this provision was made between the roots of the bottom-wing main spars. One quoted load of 750 lb seems reasonable; but in any case external storage of heavy-calibre bombs under the lower longerons would appear to have been compromised by the inverted-pyramid tubular structure which anchored the wide-track four-wheel landing gear to the fuselage (one pair of wheels beneath each engine). A fuselage access panel, beneath the root of the port centre wing, probably signifies vertical stowage - especially so as, at about the time when the Cobham was being designed, it was officially notified that: 'When a machine has to carry bombs vertically stowed - and this is by far the best method of stowage and can be employed for bombs of 50 lb., 65 lb., 100 lb., 112 lb., 230 lb. and 250 lb. - overhead girders must be fitted above the bomb cells to take the weight of the bombs.'The study of a close-up photograph discloses another point of interest in the general area mentioned - this point concerning the roots of the bottom wings. These wings are apparently attached below the bottom longerons, and not directly to them; and this particular feature may have resulted from a decision - taken in October 1918 or thereabouts - to make the wings readily detachable. Some complications may thus have resulted, the cable-connected ailerons, for instance, being carried on all six wing panels.Three Cobhams, H671-H673, were ordered, but in July 1919 work on the third was stopped. Although the intended engine for all three may well have been the A.B.C. Dragonfly - and thus powered the bomber was formally designated Cobham Mk.I - the chronic troubles that beset the Dragonfly caused the first machine, H671, to be fitted with high-compression Siddeley Pumas, and thus to be designated Cobham Mk.II. Though the Pumas had arrived at Kingston in November 1918, even at the end of March 1919 the Puma-powered Mk.II was incomplete, while H672 still awaited the Dragonfly engines shown in fine detail in the close-up photograph already mentioned (and dated almost exactly one year later - 4 March, 1920). Even in July 1919, Cobham H672 was still incomplete, though it is clear that a firm decision to fit Pumas in at least one airframe had been taken appreciably before the end of 1918, whereas the Cobham itself (as already remarked) was designed only in the early summer of that year. Therefore - now noting that the Dragonflies in H672 were ultimately installed with quite exceptional neatness, the nacelles being small in diameter for maximum propeller efficiency and the propellers themselves having large open-fronted spinners as, for instance, on one version of the Snapper and the Rainbow racer - close attention to the Siddeley powerplant is clearly warranted.It will have been noted that the Puma engines as initially mentioned in this account were described as being of high-compression type, and it is therefore important to differentiate between this form of the Puma and the standard pattern. The latter - over 625 examples of which had been delivered by the Armistice - was officially described thus: 'This engine is of the stationary, water cooled type, with six vertical cylinders 145 mm. by 190 mm. It is rated at 240 h.p., but is capable of developing some 250 b.h.p. at the maximum permissible speed of 1500 r.p.m.’ The weight was given as approximately 625 lb, and though no compression ratio was quoted, the figure was in fact 4.9 to 1. (As many unkind things have been said about the Puma, it seems only fair to add that one man at least who knew it well declared that it was a great improvement on anything else of its size and capacity, and that it was very reliable as long as it was 'carefully handled and looked after'.).During the latter part of 1918 a high-compression version of the Puma was under development, having a maximum power of 290 hp at 1,700 rpm, largely by virtue of the compression ratio now being raised from 4.9 to 1 to 5.4 to 1. For air-tests of this new version a D.H.9 was used in October 1918. In Sopwith Cobham H671 - the Mk.II, which was sent to Martlesham Heath in the summer of 1919 and was at Brooklands at that year's end two high-compression Pumas were installed in heavily louvred deep and slim nacelles mounted on the bottom wings and having frontal radiators. A Scarff ring-mounting for a Lewis gun was emplaced in the sharply rearward-sloping nose of the narrow fuselage, and there was a second mounting of the same type just abaft the wings.That the fitting of high-compression Pumas in Cobham H671 is of more than passing interest is sure (even though similar engines were installed in the Avro Manchester, the Bristol Fighter and the D.H.9); and that it was no mere stop-gap measure to get a Cobham airborne in default of the Dragonfly is possible, for there was evidently a serious proposal to install in the Cobham (as in other British 'twins' and two-seaters) an engine called the Armstrong Whitworth Ricardo Patent R.H.A. And here it must be emphasised that 'Whitworth' is correct - not ‘Siddeley' as might be supposed. The 'R.H.A.' signified 'Ricardo-Halford-Armstrong', and the engine concerned was of twelve-cylinder vee form, fitted (to quote a contemporary statement) 'with a special supercharging device, by which means the engine is capable of maintaining 300 b.h.p. at 10,000 feet.' On another occasion it was claimed that, when full use was made of the supercharger at ground level, the output was 360 hp.Before the earlier-quoted statement was made (correctly emphasising performance at height) an officially-issued publication was listed as having the title Supercharging as Applied to Aero Engines (Ricardo System); and though a 'Siddeley Puma R.A.' engine was one designation current, and though the Ricardo-Halford ‘Inverted Supercharger' engine was evidently tested at Farnborough in a D.H.4, there is still good reason to place the preceding facts on record in connection with Sopwith's one-and-only 'twin'. This belief is supported because two R.H.A. engines had been completed when the Armistice came, and four more were almost ready. Of the first pair, one was claimed to have been sent to Farnborough before the Armistice and to have been tested in a de Havilland airframe, though development was soon abandoned.The Dragonfly-engined Cobham Mk.I (H672) was eventually to be air-tested, though not until the spring of 1920. This aircraft differed in tail design, the rudder (now having a lower horn balance, as well as the upper one as on the Mk.II machine H671) being extended well below the fuselage and necessitating a tall and elaborate tailskid. More basic were the changes in the setting of the triplane wings, as noted in the third paragraph of this present chapter. F.Manson British Bomber Since 1914 (Putnam) Sopwith Cobham Notable as being the only twin-engine Sopwith aeroplane ever built, the triplane Cobham's career was also bedevilled by its association with the ABC Dragonfly engines. Designed during the summer of 1918 to the Air Ministry Specification IV, as qualified in Specifications VI and VIII by virtue of variations in range and bomb load (all three of which were amalgamated in the Department of Research Type 3 Specification) - the Cobham began building in September that year. Although the aircraft was designed as a three-seat medium bomber, capable of carrying three 250 lb bombs (stowed internally and suspended vertically), the greater part of the Cobham's life was preoccupied with attempts to come to terms with the thoroughly unreliable Dragonfly. The first of three prototypes ordered, H671, was completed at Brooklands in about December 1918 but, owing to delays in the delivery of the 320hp Dragonfly I engines, Herbert Smith (whose design the Cobham was) was instructed to make provision to install a pair of standard 240hp Siddeley Puma engines, so as to begin flight trials as quickly as possible. H671 was therefore termed the Cobham Mark II, and was flown in about April 1919. It was, however, never destined to receive Dragonfly engines as, some time in 1919, it suffered an accident and was undergoing repair at about the time that the first modified Dragonfly IA engines were starting delivery. It was therefore fitted with high-compression Pumas and underwent performance trials with these at Martlesham Heath in March 1920, and in November that year was delivered to the RAE, Farnborough, where it was last flown on 27 January 1921. Neither of the other two Cobhams was flown during 1919; these, termed Mark Is, were both powered by 360hp Dragonfly IAs with redesigned cylinders and pistons. H672 and H673 were first flown in January and February 1920 respectively but, with the Sopwith company beginning to suffer serious financial difficulty, they were taken on Air Ministry charge and delivered to Martlesham Heath in February. Recurring engine failures caused them to be forwarded on to Farnborough to await a decision on the future of the Dragonfly and, when its development was abandoned in September, the Cobham Is were struck off Air Ministry charge. The Cobham's airframe design underwent fairly extensive change when it was discovered that the Dragonfly was substantially over the weight originally notified to Sopwith; compared with the original works drawings of the aircraft, the Mark I prototypes had their engines set some fifteen inches further aft, with the plane of the cylinder centreline in line with the centre wing's leading edge. Moreover, the Mark Is featured changes in wing stagger, the top wings being rigged with positive stagger, and no stagger on the bottom wings; the Puma-powered Mark II featured slight sweepback and back stagger on the top wing. The Mark I was also found to require increased rudder area, this being extended below the fuselage sternpost, with horn balances at each end. This modification was said to have been demanded by Harry Hawker who, having had to land a Cobham with one dead engine, found the aircraft almost unmanageable and entirely devoid of rudder control. H.King Armament of British Aircraft (Putnam) Cobham. The Cobham triplane bomber was flown in 1920. This first and only twin-engined Sopwith carried its bombs internally in the fuselage between the roots of the main spar. A load of 750 lb has been mentioned, and this seems altogether reasonable. Two access panels were located in the side of the fuselage just below the centre wing. There was a Scarff ring-mounting for a Lewis gun in the nose and a similar installation on top of the fuselage just abaft the wings. One of the finest studies of any Sopwith aeroplane (and likewise A.B.C. Dragonfly engines installed) is this close-up of the Cobham Mk.I. This was the second Cobham to fly, and the full maker's caption reads: "S.1259 - Cobham No. 2. 360 hp A.B.C. Twin Engines. Designed and built by The Sopwith Aviation & Engineering Co Ltd - March 4/1920". In this view of the Sopwith Cobham the location of the bomb compartment is seen through the inverted-pyramid tubular structure which anchors ihe undercarriage. On the Scarff ring-mounting the lever for locking and unlocking ihe mechanism is seen.

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Although not strictly an answer to your question, the term "half birthday" is common in the USA. It means six months after your birthday. Its usage is common in grade school, so that classes can celebrate the birthdays of children whose birthday falls during the summer vacation. – Fraser OrrDec 30 '11 at 1:56 There had been some attempts in trying to promote the use of certain neologisms, but none of them apparently really caught on. The safest way of referring to such dates is by using the simpler term anniversary preceded by the period. I wouldn't personally use any other alternative. Imagine that if they can't agree on a basic period like a month, what is left for fortnights or weeks or any other less common arbitrary period of time. I use "six-month anniversary" and similar terms. Strictly speaking, you're not supposed to do that because "anniversary" comes from the Latin "annus" which means "year", but communication is achieved nevertheless. Nobody has ever asked me to clarify the term "two-month anniversary" for example. – IreneDec 28 '11 at 8:12 @tchrist You are right. However I think it's worth mentioning that catched used to be the simple past of to catch up to some time where its use started to decline in favor of caught. Nonetheless, the past tense of the phrasal to catch on was never catched on but caught on; so ... +1 and my apologies. Wiktionary: catched (obsolete or nonstandard) Simple past tense and past participle of catch. Synonyms: caught – EduardoDec 29 '11 at 3:35

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You are here Dear beloved resistance: We are stronger together We now have a President and Cabinet who almost certainly have no interest in the safety or well-being of their people. Many of us marched in the streets last weekend in an awesome show of solidarity against Trump and all that he promises and stands for. It was, by several accounts, the largest global protest in history. But in the hours and days following the march, we began to size each other up, tear each other down, and occasionally thoughtfully critique each other's politics and intentions. Donald Trump poses an unprecedented threat to all of us. It is true that some of us are more used to being targeted by the government than others of us. Some of us come from a history several generations long of being targeted by the government. But as far as I can tell, whoever we are and whatever our level of privilege, things are about to get a whole lot worse for every last one of us. Here are some uncomfortable truths, and some thoughts on what we need to do about them to succeed in the fight against Trump. We all have limited resources. We can't use them battling each other. However hurt your feelings are, however offended you might feel that your fellow resisters are not ideologically in line with you or woke enough or culturally sensitive enough, that's nothing compared to what is on the horizon from your own government. That goes for everybody. Brown bodies, Black bodies, white bodies, female bodies, trans bodies, differently-abled bodies. A wise activist told me once to practice not being offended. Let's practice not being offended so we can preserve our resources for the big battles. On the other hand, we all need to practice being offended by things that do not directly affect us or our families. We can all find a few moments to think about what it is to walk in someone else's shoes. When you read the news, look for the attacks that won't affect you directly, and try to imagine what they might mean for your neighbour or for the folks you marched with last weekend. The more narrowly we define ourselves, the worse off we are. If we can act collectively as a broad coalition of people who do not want to live in an authoritarian state, that's a LOT of people. A lot of people are harder to control than a few people. Let's open up the tent. Hell, let's ditch the tent and build the coalition we need right now. Coalitions, by definition, contain people who are not alike. We are not going to build intimacy and radical love and acceptance among us overnight. We might not even learn to accept each other's versions of history and reality. But we marched because we could agree on one thing: we see Donald Trump as an imminent threat to our bodies, to our country, to our families and our futures. Coalitions are strong because they aggregate the broadest divergent groups aimed at a narrow political goal. Coalitions have been used to effectively demand civil rights, suffrage, and justice throughout our history. Sometimes, the most vulnerable groups are overshadowed within a coalition. We should be conscious of this and correct for it. Sometimes, the most vulnerable groups have the most to gain from working in coalition. We are, indeed, stronger together. Working in coalition means that we do not demand that the coalition represent our every interest, or act upon our every critique. When we choose to work together, there is a great potential benefit. There is also sometimes a cost. Whenever we work in coalition, our individual interests have to be negotiated with the group. We may not always feel heard or seen or understood. Individual members of the coalition may have good will, and may make space to learn more about others, but not everyone will. Sometimes we will have to accept not being fully met in order to reap the benefits of coalition, and to free the coalition up to achieve its objective. "Consciousness raising" and "intersectional dialogue" in big public forums are easily manipulated by people who want to divide us. Right now, most of us feel targeted by the Trump administration and the Republican Congress. We feel targeted for any number of reasons: because we are women, we are Muslim, we are Black, we are Mexican, we are disabled, we are in need of reliable health care, we are immigrants, we are LGBTQ or gender nonconforming, we are human and would like clean drinking water, or any number of other situations. We do not come from the same places or experiences. We have a lot to learn about each other. Some of that needs to be worked out right this minute in order to have any coalition at all. And some of it can and should wait because those conversations are big and important, but also use up limited time and energy resources that we need to stop Trump. All of it needs to be done respectfully, and with integrity. The more successful we are, the more powerful the efforts to divide us will be. The more willing to trash each other we are, the less likely we are to succeed. We can only stop the rapid decline of our democracy, as imperfect as it may be, if we act strategically, as a coalition. Identity politics get in the way of our mission. There are many important things that will not be accomplished by this mission. But none of those things will be accomplished without it. Trump's presidency promises a level of destruction and uncertainty that may make progress for any of us a distant dream. Stopping Trump may only be one step, but it is the most critical step and it is before us, all of us together, today. 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WASHINGTON — Washington is bracing for a major legislative battle this week - not over a specific bill, but over the rules governing the U.S. Senate. The ability of the minority party to block votes, a procedure known as a filibuster, could be curtailed. Weakening the filibuster might stem chronic legislative gridlock, but could also erode a historic American safeguard against the raw will and power of majority rule. Until recent years, filibustering meant holding the Senate floor and speaking non-stop to prevent a vote, as portrayed by Jimmy Stewart in the 1939 movie Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Backers of racial segregation famously - or infamously - filibustered civil-rights legislation in the 1950s and 60s. Earlier this year, Republican Senator Rand Paul held the floor for 13 hours to draw attention to the use of domestic drones. Most modern filibusters are never seen. A senator files a motion to prevent a vote, and unless a three-fifths supermajority disagrees, the vote is blocked. Once a rare practice, almost all Senate votes of consequence must now overcome a filibuster. “Is there anybody out there in America that thinks this body is functioning well," asked Majority Leader Harry Reid. The Nevada Democrat says his party will move to change filibuster rules this week unless Republicans allow confirmation votes on high-profile nominees submitted by President Barack Obama to lead federal agencies. Reid says the ability of the government to function is at stake. “The constitution gives the president, whoever that president may be, the right and the power to choose his team. It grants the Senate the right to advise and consent on those choices. But consistent and unprecedented obstruction by the Republican caucus has turned ‘advise and consent’ into ‘deny and obstruct’," he said. Republicans warn of dire consequences for American democracy. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said, “That [rules change] would violate every protection of minority rights that have defined the U.S. Senate for as long as anyone can remember. Let me assure you this Pandora’s Box, once opened, will be utilized again and again by future majorities." In 2005, Democrats were in the minority and defended the filibuster to block judicial nominees submitted by then-President George W. Bush. “They [Republicans] think the Senate should be a rubber stamp for this president," said Senator Reid at the time. Then-majority leader Bill Frist accused Democrats of abusing the filibuster and setting a dangerous precedent. “To enshrine new tyranny of the minority into the Senate rules forever," he said. Changing the Senate rules by a simple majority vote has been dubbed the “nuclear option”, given its potential to forever alter America’s legislative landscape.

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Friday, July 18, 2008 I'm beginning to think that the people I already know are the only people worth knowing in this world. Everywhere I turn I see individuals that bolster my inward desire to develop a bad case of agoraphobia, hunker down in front of my TV or a good novel, make some popcorn, and prepare to watch the greatest show ever - The Apocalypse, otherwise known as the destruction of all humankind (including myself) via fireballs and nifty explosions. Of course, I know that the end of humankind won't be that simple. According to all the "green" people that have been annoying the shit out of me lately with their incessant whining about off-shore drilling and polar ice caps and paper plates, our world will probably end in ice as a result of our own arrogance and greed. Remember that Robert Frost poem? Fire and Ice Some say the world will end in fire,Some say in ice.From what I've tasted of desireI hold with those who favor fire.But if it had to perish twice,I think I know enough of hateTo say that for destruction iceIs also greatAnd would suffice. I can't (or don't want to) picture Robert Frost "tast[ing] of desire", but the man makes a brilliant point. Well, well, well... he's somebody I never met who was probably worth knowing. I have to concede that I just might be wrong a lot of the time. Of course, its hard to make any sense when my mind is so cluttered with angry and cynical sentiments. It's like this boiling rage bubbling underneath the surface of my docile demeanor and it's very distracting. I know that this anger is mostly about stupid things of little consequence. It doesn't take a whole lot to set off the fireworks in my skull. It could be a dumbass actor telling a tired joke on my television screen and all of the sudden I want to have a comedian bonfire. I might have bought a one-way ticket to Hell this morning, because I said "Jesus Christ" about 1,000 times when the woman driving in front of me was being bipolar with the speed limit (old lady on a Sunday drive one minute, Speedracer the next),. Yesterday, I broke a pen right in half because Livy was trying to take it from me when I was writing. I've taken enough basic Psychology classes to know that what I'm really mad about is something else entirely. I guess it's easier to be angry at the little things, then face the truth about my own failings and disappointments in myself. I guess it is good that I've retreated these past few months. I have made an art of isolation. I am a mason, working hard at the fortress, using every annoyance as an excuse to lay down another brick. It's an ugly wall, but it serves a beautiful purpose. It's protects both you and I from facing the consequences of uneven tempers and the impatient, whirring storms of discontent. And for the record, I also hold with those who favor fire, but only in this life and not beyond.

In this series we’ll take a fresh look at resources and how they are used. We’ll go beyond natural resources like air and water to look at how efficiency in raw materials can boost the bottom line and help the environment. We’ll also examine the circular economy and design for reuse — with an eye toward honoring those resources we do have. While changes at home can’t solve the many environmental crises we face today, they can sure help. Through this series, we’ll explore how initiatives like curbside compost pick-up, rebates on compost bins, and efficient appliances can help families reduce their impact without breaking the bank. Despite decades -- centuries even -- of global efforts, slavery can still be found not just on the high seas, but around the world and throughout various supply chains. Through this series on forced labor, sponsored by C&A Foundation, we’ll explore many different types of bonded and forced labor and highlight industries where this practice is alive and well today. In this series we examine how companies should respond to national controversy like police violence and the BLM movement to best support employees and how can companies work to improve equality by increasing diversity in their ranks directly. Compost is often considered a panacea for the United States’ tremendous food waste problem. Indeed, composting is a much better option than putting spoiled food in a garbage can destined for a landfill. We’re stuck. The American economy picked up such little steam last year that the Federal Reserve said it would keep interest rates near zero through 2014. Credit Suisse economist Jay Feldman’s observation about a slight rise in the fourth quarter output – “It’s not bad, but there’s no oomph” – has become the mantra of the moment. In the U.S., many can’t help but ask if the nation has lost its competitive edge. America’s systems and businesses are built to reward and penalize based on performance. Last week, we all watched the winners and losers as quarterly earnings reports were released. All eyes tuned to those who achieved profitable revenue growth and beat their forecast. Not many did, and the government has caught on. At this point, President Obama is all too aware that preserving America’s competitiveness is at issue – a point he drove home in his State of the Union Address. Last month, Michael Porter, the Harvard professor who is generally recognized as the world’s most influential thinker on this topic, drove home the same point when he released the results of Harvard Business School’s first Survey on U.S. Competitiveness. Among its findings was the troubling statistic that 66 percent of its respondents see the U.S. as falling behind, while only 8 percent see it pulling ahead. CEOs, as team captains, play a significant role in winning this battle by effectively quarterbacking their own teams. And to succeed, they need to focus on Sustainable Profit Growth, and make sure its roots are deeply established within their companies, and incapable of being compromised. Yet many don’t realize what this concept is, and entails. So what is Sustainable Profit Growth, and what do you need to have in place to survive? Here are its five key components. 1. A high tech product or high tech process. You cannot survive without one of these two entities. Sustainable Profit Growth starts with a product or process that meets a current or unrecognized need, yet has the potential to push possibilities and boundaries in the future. Must it be high-tech in the literal sense? Not necessarily, but it must be technologically inventive. For instance, look at something as simple as a stove. A little company named First Energy Private Limited in Pune, India developed a $20.00 stove that produces three times the heat of conventional stoves and is virtually smokeless. It runs on pellets of compressed agricultural residue. A kilogram of pellets costs a few cents and cuts down on carbon emissions and particulates in the air by up to 70%. The company is becoming a market leader in India and hopes to do the same in other countries where fuel for stoves is a real issue. On American soil, in Bozeman, Montana, West Paw Designs has made pet toys and beds using IntelliLoft, a fiber created from 100 % post-consumer recycled plastic soda bottles, since 2006, diverting more than five million plastic bottles from landfills to date. They recently doubled the size of their plant and are expanding internationally as well. Also, a company’s value chain must rely on suppliers with the same mindset. Food, beverage and dairy companies have selected my own company, Tetra Pak, precisely because of the technologically innovative and high-performance packaging we offer. Our classic Tetra Brik, used for common pantry items such as milk and broth, is a case in point. Its design uses the smallest amount of materials possible for a functional, protective package; maximizes renewable materials; and has a 4/96 product ratio (4% is package; 96% is product) that translates into high shipping efficiencies. 2. A culture of innovation — in a big way. This requires a high level of insight, focus, collaboration and flat-out fearlessness. A company must anticipate what will be on the horizon, create what they think the marketplace needs and wants, then create demand for that product or service because the marketplace doesn’t always know what it needs and wants. Apple, which just surpassed ExxonMobil to become the largest company in the world, is the poster child for this concept, and proof that innovation matters most. One of Steve Jobs more famous quotes is, “Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.” For this outsider, this seems to be a concept that works not just for Apple, with its top-down approach, but to enterprises that employ other tactics as well. Consider Google’s bottom-up innovation approach, which has clearly been equally effective. Perseverance is the common denominator here; denial is unacceptable to both companies. Even traditional corporations such as GE are collaborating to accelerate their search for innovative solutions. Michael Idelchik, GE’s vice president of advanced technologies, admitted recently that “we are much more focused and connected to the outside world than we were several years ago.” And indeed, a recent article by Steve Lohr in the New York Times pointed out that GE is making investments with venture capital funds in clean energy technology and health care, and is working with other companies, government labs and universities on hundreds of collaborative projects. 3. A globally centric culture, not a country centric one. According to the Population Reference Bureau in Washington, D.C., there were almost seven billion people on the planet in 2011, and only about 312 million, or about 4.5 percent of them, live in the U.S. – a percentage that is expected to remain stable over the next few decades. So if a company wants to profit and grow, it must have the capabilities and incentives to export, or it must be prepared to responsibly invest in other countries. Both require significantly expanded skill sets and beg the obvious: have you considered this path and are you ready? Apple has sold almost 200 million iPhones on six continents since it released the device in 2007. And my own company, Tetra Pak, the largest food packaging company in the world, has sold billions of packages, also on six continents since its inception in Sweden in 1951. You can’t maximize growth without accessing the total marketplace. The benefits of global sourcing are undeniable: it gives us access to a skilled and economical labor pool; lowers material and transport costs; and can speed up our time to market. In America we tend to singularly focus on creating world-class manufacturing facilities, immediately assuming the ensuing benefit of the best-cost structure. It’s critical to strike a careful balance between sourcing in the U.S. and abroad. There are risks and challenges to the global sourcing strategy when you consider that each country has its own business practices, legal requirements, cultural issues, environmental concerns and political climates. Everything from tariffs, trade barriers and unions to political unrest can intrude. But those who ignore this strategy will face a more compelling consequence – namely extinction – because the paradigm of doing business today has shifted. Make it a practice to scan the globe for cost advantages driven by technology, labor and/or customer proximity and hold firm to your principles on quality, social responsibility and value-added supplier relationships. Value added supplier relationships are particularly important since they represent a new model for cross border collaboration, reducing costs and fostering new technologies for all parties involved. Global sourcing is a strategic imperative; companies such as GE, Mercedes Benz and Apple understand this and have their global partners in place. For American companies, global sourcing may or may not be a competitive cost-related lever. Regardless, our companies still need to be cost competitive. 5. A bottoms-up and a top-down concern for the environment and its sustainability. According to Socialnomics’ Eric Qualman, 52 percent of the world’s population is under 30, and growing. This generation is connected in ways my peers never were, and are socially active, concerned about the environment and educated to understand energy conservation; the benefits of recycling; the need to reduce our carbon footprints and pollutants; the importance of clean and accessible water; and more. They are a force to be reckoned with, and will use the internet to gather information and communicate violations with lightning speed. Environmental sustainability is our corporate responsibility and comparable to the responsibilities we have to our employees, the communities in which we operate and society at large. These are no longer optional. Debacles such as the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the failure of the Japanese nuclear power plant in the wake of damage from last year’s tsunami have taught us that any company hoping to be profitable in the future must not only play by a new set of rules, but be constantly striving to improve those standards. The World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report for 2011-2012 noted that “the literature on sustainability and its measurement is vast and growing rapidly,” and a key goal for world thought leaders right now is to “discuss strategies to achieve strong, sustained, inclusive, and clean growth that durably increases the prosperity of all while simultaneously protecting the environment.” We must not just discuss all the parameter of this issue, but all have our plans in place. Let me assure you that Tetra Pak has a sustainability plan that is detailed, has goals and objectives, is tracked and measured and is at the heart of what we do. But bottom line, in order to compete and succeed in today’s complex and globally interconnected economy, companies need to practice this discipline to profit and grow – which is why the term Sustainable Profit Growth needs to be understood and is so salient. It integrates all of these strategies, and creates a ‘whole’ that is far more effective than each of its ‘parts.’ Americans are screaming, “Innovation is what this country has always been about.” Sustainable Profit Growth – a way to keep innovation in the top spot it requires – should be the response!

11 Signs You Speak ‘Woof’ When I’m asked what languages I speak, I often want to answer “Woof.” After all, I spend a great deal of time communicating with my own dogs, helping improve the lives of dogs I don’t know, and understanding dog body language and behavior. So why isn’t “Woof” a language? Not only do I speak it to 4-leggeds, but I love connecting with 2-leggeds who speak “Woof,” both online and in person. Receive a FREE DOWNLOAD from the Calm your Canine Companion music series when you sign up for the Through a Dog’s Ear newsletter and/or Lisa’s Blog. Simply click here, enter your email address and a link to the free download will be delivered to your inbox for you and your canine household to enjoy! After many years with my beloved German Shepherd I am fluent in Woof, and after many years of loving cats I speak Miaow - and now I speak Robin as a lovely wild robin has been training me to produce food so he can take it from my hand - and then he stays to listen to some compliments on what a lovely and wonderful bird he is!

Valere, center, does not get along with the servants. They are pictured in a scuffle. Michelle Wirth / RiverTown Multimedia5 / 6 Harpagon's daughter, Elise, stands in between her father and Valere. Harpagon was under the impression that Valere took his money. Michelle Wirth / RiverTown Multimedia6 / 6 The Hastings High School Theater Department performed Moliere's "The Miser" Nov. 10-12. The play is a five-act comedy that was first performed in 1668. The plot revolves around love and money. The miser Harpagon wants his daughter Elise to marry a wealthy old man, but she is in love with Valere. Harpagon wants to marry a young woman named Marianne, who his son Cleante wishes to marry. Michelle Wirth graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire in 2013 with a degree in journalism and web design. She worked as a web content editor for a trade association before coming to the Hastings Star Gazette in 2016.

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Miner left college after the 1992 season and declared himself eligible for the 1992 NBA Draft. He was selected by the Miami Heat with the draft's 12th overall pick. Miner won the NBA Slam Dunk Contest twice, in 1993 and 1995. In the 1995 contest, Miner defeated Isaiah Rider, who had won the previous year, solidifying Miner as one of the game's best dunkers. However, his playing career proved unremarkable and failed to live up to the high expectations with which it began. Despite his dunking prowess, Miner did not get much playing time from Heat coaches, Kevin Loughery and Alvin Gentry. I always felt the worst thing to happen to Harold was the "Baby Jordan" tag. After the 1995 season, Miner was traded to the Cleveland Cavaliers. He averaged only 3.2 points and 7.2 minutes per game for the Cavaliers. On October 18, 1995 he was traded to the Toronto Raptors for Victor Alexander, but that trade was rescinded 4 days later when Alexander failed his physical. Miner played five scoreless minutes in his last NBA game, a 26-point loss to the Chicago Bulls on February 20, 1996. Cleveland waived Miner, having played him in only 19 games that season. He tried out for the Toronto Raptors the following year but was cut during the preseason. Rather than continue to pursue a career in professional basketball, either in the NBA or overseas, Miner retired from the sport. He later said that his decision was prompted by the many knee injuries he suffered during his career. As of 2011, Miner had settled in Las Vegas, Nevada, and was married with two children. He said that he had invested wisely the money he had earned in salary and endorsements during his playing career, allowing him to remain a stay-at-home father, rather than needing to seek employment. Over most of the time since his retirement from basketball, he had been disinclined to give interviews or make public appearances, instead remaining private and largely inaccessible. In 2010, however, he agreed to an interview in which he indicated a desire to begin reconnecting with the University of Southern California and with some of his acquaintances from his playing days. In 2011, Miner appeared at the Pacific-10 Men's Basketball Tournament, to be inducted into that conference's basketball Hall of Honor, and indicated he planned to attend the retirement of his jersey by USC later that year. He would later attend the retirement of his jersey by USC during half time of the game against UCLA on 15 Jan 2012. Miner tied his previous seclusion largely to his disappointment with his professional career. Explaining his public reemergence, he said, "I guess I feel like I'm over it now. I've kind of purged my system and come to a point of accepting what happened with my career: that I wasn't able to live up to my own personal expectations."

Description A new onsite, remote-handled LLW disposal facility has been identified as the highest ranked alternative for providing continued, uninterrupted remote-handled LLW disposal for remote-handled LLW from the Idaho National Laboratory and for spent nuclear fuel processing activities at the Naval Reactors Facility. Historically, this type of waste has been disposed of at the Radioactive Waste Management Complex. Disposal of remote-handled LLW in concrete disposal vaults at the Radioactive Waste Management Complex will continue until the facility is full or until it must be closed in preparation for final remediation of the Subsurface Disposal Area (approximately at the end of Fiscal ... continued below Author Sponsor Publisher Provided By UNT Libraries Government Documents Department Serving as both a federal and a state depository library, the UNT Libraries Government Documents Department maintains millions of items in a variety of formats. The department is a member of the FDLP Content Partnerships Program and an Affiliated Archive of the National Archives. Contact Us What Descriptive information to help identify this report. Follow the links below to find similar items on the Digital Library. Description A new onsite, remote-handled LLW disposal facility has been identified as the highest ranked alternative for providing continued, uninterrupted remote-handled LLW disposal for remote-handled LLW from the Idaho National Laboratory and for spent nuclear fuel processing activities at the Naval Reactors Facility. Historically, this type of waste has been disposed of at the Radioactive Waste Management Complex. Disposal of remote-handled LLW in concrete disposal vaults at the Radioactive Waste Management Complex will continue until the facility is full or until it must be closed in preparation for final remediation of the Subsurface Disposal Area (approximately at the end of Fiscal Year 2017). This conceptual safety design report supports the design of a proposed onsite remote-handled LLW disposal facility by providing an initial nuclear facility hazard categorization, by identifying potential hazards for processes associated with onsite handling and disposal of remote-handled LLW, by evaluating consequences of postulated accidents, and by discussing the need for safety features that will become part of the facility design. Collections Office of Scientific & Technical Information Technical Reports Reports, articles and other documents harvested from the Office of Scientific and Technical Information. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) is the Department of Energy (DOE) office that collects, preserves, and disseminates DOE-sponsored research and development (R&D) results that are the outcomes of R&D projects or other funded activities at DOE labs and facilities nationwide and grantees at universities and other institutions.

Why education has a major impact on re-location Luke Cloherty Introduction For most people with children, education is always at the forefront of their mind. Everybody wants bright, well-rounded children whose futures look prosperous and whose lives are fulfilled by attaining a career they would like to carry out. Arab families indeed, given the cultural focus on the family unit, ponder the many potential familial upheavals before relocating – especially education. For high-net worth Arabs, given that they already have in place the requisite funds to afford their children the best education possible, it is a decision not taken lightly. The Main Countries Relocated to and Invested In Before the 9/11 attacks in New York City, the US and UK were the places most Arab students went to study for higher education. World famous institutions such as Harvard, Yale and Princeton in the US and Oxford, Cambridge and St. Andrews in the UK drew many Arab students to those transatlantic shores, however, in the wake of the attacks many decided to study elsewhere. The reasons seem fairly obvious, the aftermath of those attacks drew, primarily, the US and the UK governments to react by declaring war on Afghanistan and later Iraq. Although other ally nations joined in, including Australia, the bulk of operations were carried out by the US with their close allies, the UK, heavily involved. For about six or seven years post-9/11, Australia and New Zealand became a favourite for Arab overseas students. Mrs Suad Alhalwachi, Director of Education Zone, says that around 80% of the students she sent abroad went to Australia and New Zealand after 9-11 (Source: http://monitor.icef.com/2014/09/from-the-field-uae-education-sector-set-for-robust-growth/). However, after that period, a huge swing occurred, resulting in that 80% swinging back to the US and UK, with the remaining 20% being shared between Europe, Australia, New Zealand and China. This is still the case today. In terms of overseas investment for families moving themselves wholesale, it would seem that the above figures aren’t too far off either. London is obviously a huge area of investment for high-net worth Arabs and, equally, the US is a great pull for people relocating and investing. Schooling in the US and UK is traditionally good and being schooled there also makes it far easier to apply and get into the universities there, which is another obvious plus. The Pull of the West Alhalwachi feels that the West and particularly the US is a huge pull for Arab students given its cultural influence on young people in the region through movies. With the US being so etched onto the brains of young Arabs, its influence is huge in attracting young Arabs looking to study overseas. But not content with their country simply influencing through cultural output, US universities appeal directly to Arab students, regularly sending delegates to Arab states to directly target them and now employing more new-fangled methods, such as social media outlets. With a more tech-mobilised Arab youth following the Arab Spring, US universities have realised the power of the medium for targeting that youth. Spring Semester is Over After the Arab Spring, that aforementioned tech-mobilised youth became more in touch with the World and also, crucially, came out of its shell, with young Arabs taking ownership of their own education. Alhalwachi says that the pendulum swing from Australia and New Zealand happened quite in line with the Arab Spring. She also mentions that the young people coming to her now are way better informed on where they would like to go, using the internet as a research tool. The main point for her, though, is the confidence the Arab Spring has given young Arabs. She notes that the young people coming to her now feel enabled, speaking up for themselves and wanting to be the final decision maker on where they go to university. So now, not only do these students’ wealthy parents have their education in their minds, but, indeed, the students do to. So now, the whole family is invested. Education is driving wealthy Arabs overseas and, interestingly, straight to the doorsteps of supposed enemies. It shows the strength of people’s decisions in the face of political and/or media led rhetoric. It also shows the power of being a global citizen.

Born in Switzerland. Currently lives in Geneva. After studying fashion design, she opened an atelier in 1980 in Geneva, where she created costumes for the Théâtre de Vidy, the Théâtre de Carouge, the Comédie de Genève, the Grand Théâtre de Genève and La Revue Genevoise as well as several dance and circus companies in Switzerland, France and Italy. She has worked with such set designers as Roland Deville, Gilles Lambert, Jean-Claude Maret and Eric Jeanmonod of the Théâtre du Loup. Has worked with directors including Mathias Langhoff, Manfred Karge, Claude Stratz, François Rochaix, Marc Liebens, André Steiger and Dominique Catton. Collaborated with Rosella Hightower on Harold and Maude, as well as dancers from the Alias company and choreographer Noemí Lapsezon. Regularly takes part in the Avignon Festival and the Ambronay Festival of baroque opera. For twenty years she has been designing costumes for the Autrement Aujourd´hui professional company of mentally handicapped artists. She first worked with Alain Maratrat in 2003, creating the costumes for La dispute (Marivaux), Three Sisters (Chekhov) and Peer Gynt. She worked with him on Il viaggio a Reims at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg, also staged at Paris´ Théâtre du Châtelet in December 2005. Taught a costume design course at the University of Venice in 2006. Among her most recent works are the costume designs for Claudel´s L´échange and David Mamet´s Oleanna at the Théâtre de Carouge in addition to La nuit des rois in Berlin, staged by Alain Maratrat. Future plans include Alice in Wonderland at the Théâtre Am Stram Gram in September 2007 and La Revue Genevoise in October 2007.

Global Warming Series Lecture-discussions to promote science literacy among the general public Keeping Up With Global Warming: The Problem That Won't Go Away A Series of 3 Illustrated Talks on the Science of the Sun, Earth, and Its Atmosphere August 18: The Physics of Global Warming and Cooling We live in the best part of the solar system for life to exist on Earth, not too hot and not too cold (the “Goldilocks” zone). Since the 1800’s, however, the Earth has been getting hotter. How do we know? How hot will it get? Has Earth ever been hotter in the past? What does heat from the Sun have to do with floods and hurricanes? What does heating of the Earth have to do with the level of the sea rising? How are human activities adding to the heating of Earth? Scientists are no longer debating the reality of global warming -- it is happening. This first part of the three-part series will explain the physical science of Earth’s normal heating and cooling, and the factors leading to the increasingly rapid rise in temperature over the past 200 years. No previous knowledge of math or science is needed to understand the illustrated presentation. Please note: Attending all 3 talks will provide the best background to understand this environmental problem, as each talk builds on the information from the previous one. However, attending any one or two of them will give you some understanding of this increasingly worrisome problem for all inhabitants of this beautiful planet. Instructor: Barbara-Ann G. Lewis, PhDMs. Lewis is Associate Professor Emeritus, Environmental Engineering, at Northwestern University and a former Environmental Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory.

Snapchat Introduces Group Video Chat & Friend Tagging in Stories Snapchat is purportedly presenting a few new highlights this week, including Snapchat Group Video Chat and also a “Mention” includes that enable clients to label their companions in snaps that are transferred to their stories. While Snapchat Group Video Chat is an amazing new component that numerous are certain to exploit, the Mentions highlight has been in progress for a long while – first supposed to be incorporated now and then a month ago. Keeping in mind the end goal to label a companion, Snapchat clients simply need to begin writing in “@” followed by the username of the individual. Proposals will fly up, and tapping on the name of your companion will label them and tell them that they’ve been said in your story. The tagging feature appears to take after intensely in the vein of Facebook and Instagram – two noteworthy contenders for the interpersonal organization. As online networking highlights include an ever increasing number of highlights, they begin to end up more comparative and take highlights from each other. A standout amongst the most obtrusive occurrences of duplicating was when Facebook and Instagram took the stories include from Snapchat, and this is an instance of Snapchat taking things the a different way a component that has for some time been standard on Facebook and Instagram. Despite the absence of inventiveness encompassing the element, it will no uncertainty be utilized an awesome arrangement as individuals label their companions in stories that worry them. The utilization will likewise likely observe awesome use by famous people and influencers, who would now be able to label the organizations they are speaking to in their stories and notices. Maybe the greatest change accompanying this new Snapchat refresh is the Snapchat Group Video Chat that enables clients to talk with up to 16 companions. An incredible 32 individuals can join if the call is simply sound, enabling you to get the group all together and hold a solitary call with many individuals. The measure of individuals that will utilize the full 32 is presumably truly low, yet it’s pleasant to have a Snapchat Group Video Chat that can easily suit the greater part of your companions. Snapchat initially presented a video talk video in 2016, and reports that clients are making a huge number of approaches Snapchat every day. The Snapchat Group Video Chat highlight develops that effective usefulness, adding the capacity to converse with various companions in the meantime – similarly as though you were there face to face with a gathering of your nearest buds. Snapchat Releases Group Video Chat Feature To get to the Snapchat Group Video Chat include, simply enter an existing group chat you already have or start a new group. You would then be able to tap a live gathering video talk catch or tap on the telephone symbol for a voice call. At this point, the individuals from the gathering will be advised that they’ve been welcome to the call. You’ll get an alarm over your console to tell you they’ve joined. On the off chance that you would prefer not to utilize your camera for the Snapchat Group Video Chat for reasons unknown, there’s likewise an alternative to flip it off and join with simply your voice. In obvious Snapchat design, you’ll additionally have the capacity to channel Snapchat focal points over your face, for example, the ever-prevalent puppy canine ears or one of the pivoting channels that the administration constantly discharges. Over the recent months, Snapchat has included various new highlights so as to endeavor to draw in more individuals to the stage. Notwithstanding the questionable UI redesign, we’ve seen Map Explore, select Bitmoji customization, mix with Giphy and new face focal points. We’ll see the Snapchat Group Video Chat highlight and the Mentions labeling highlight take off all inclusive throughout the following week.

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About Bilaspur village Bilaspur is a village placed in Shahzadpur Block of Ambala district in Haryana. Placed in rural part of Ambala district of Haryana, it is one among the 78 villages of Shahzadpur Block of Ambala district. According to the administration records, the village code of Bilaspur is 57239. The village has 313 families. Population of Bilaspur village According to Census 2011, Bilaspur's population is 1510. Out of this, 799 are males while the females count 711 here. This village has 190 kids in the age bracket of 0-6 years. Among them 113 are boys and 77 are girls. Literacy rate of Bilaspur village Literacy ratio in Bilaspur village is 64%. 974 out of total 1510 population is literate here. Among males the literacy ratio is 70% as 562 males out of total 799 are literate however female literacy rate is 57% as 412 out of total 711 females are educated in this Village.The dark side is that illiteracy ratio of Bilaspur village is 35%. Here 536 out of total 1510 people are illiterate. Male illiteracy rate here is 29% as 237 males out of total 799 are illiterate. In females the illiteracy ratio is 42% and 299 out of total 711 females are illiterate in this village. Agricultural status of Bilaspur village The number of occupied individual of Bilaspur village is 554 yet 956 are un-employed. And out of 554 occupied individual 18 peoples are completely reliant on agriculture. Bilaspur's Members & Followers Help us to explore your village. About Title Content Attach file(Only *.doc, *.pdf, *.jpg file allowed.) About WikiVillage We are a young team of enthusiasts who believe that our villages play a very significant role in the identity of our nation. Through the wikivillage platform, we aspire to give each and every village in the country a voice of its own. We welcome proud individuals to register and tell interesting stories and details about their villages. We hope to enhance the reach of this website to the farthest and the most remote villages/areas of India. Here, you can add pictures, details, stories and much more.

SNAP SET DOOR HANDLE AND LOCK KNOB ASSEMBLY - A door handle assembly. The assembly includes a bezel including a depressed base and an integral support bracket. A latch handle is operatively disposed within a first chamber at the bezel interior and a lock knob including a resiliently compressible body is disposed within a second chamber. The lock knob is supported between a pair of opposing bosses. The latch handle is supported between a boss and an opposing wall aperture. The supporting bosses and wall aperture are concentrically oriented with the latch handle and lock knob being supported in rotatable relation about a common axis. 2013-04-11 20130088023 ELECTRIC STRIKE ASSEMBLY - An electric strike assembly includes a housing including a mounting device and defining an internal longitudinal cavity, a keeper pivotally arranged in the housing, and a selectively locatable component including a locking device to cooperate with the mounting device to secure the component at a predetermined incremental position along the length of the removable cavity. In accordance with other aspects of the present invention, an electric strike assembly includes a housing defining an internal longitudinal cavity, a keeper pivotally arranged in the housing, and a keeper shim assembly, including a shim, slidably engaged with the keeper to position the shim at a predetermined position along a length of the cavity. A method of securely capturing a latch bolt mounted in a door includes mounting an electric strike assembly in an associated door jamb and positioning a shim at a predetermined position in the cavity. 2013-04-11 20130088024 LOCKING MECHANISM - A locking mechanism is disclosed including: a plunger; a plurality of locking elements; a cage including apertures in which the locking elements are housed; and a sleeve; the sleeve is moveable with respect to the cage between an unlocked position and a locked position; in the locked position, the sleeve maintains the locking elements in engagement with a recess on the plunger to restrict the movement of the plunger. 2013-04-11 20130088025 Self-Engaging Emergency Egress Lock Assembly - A self-engaging emergency egress lock assembly mounted to a door track is described. As a door lock strike element contacts a lock strike assembly contained within the door lock assembly, the strike assembly hinges over the door lock strike element. When the door reaches a predetermined down limit power is applied to activate an actuator. Upon activation, the actuator engages a lock strike stop which prevent the strike assembly from disengaging the door lock strike element. If the door is attempted to be opened while the lock strike stop is engaged, the lock strike assembly pushes against the stop, preventing the door from traveling upward. In an emergency egress (alarm) condition, power to the actuator is terminated, thereby releasing the lock strike stop and by extension, the strike assembly, thus disengaging the door lock strike element, thereby providing emergency egress capability. 2013-04-11 20130088026 PICKUP DEVICE FOR ANIMAL WASTE - An animal waste pickup device that has a handle, an elongate member and an upper pair of operating arms and a lower pair of operating arms located at the lower end of the elongate member. A fibrous material attaches to spiked material underlying the upper pair of arms. The upper arms are hingedly raised and lowered where the hinge connection is at the bottom of the elongate member. The lower pair of arms is configured to clamp together along a generally central point and the lower pair of arms further has spaced-apart apertures that are aligned to correspond with the spiked material such that the spiked material protrudes through the apertures a sufficient distance to engage the fibrous material. The lower pair of arms is operable using a grip trigger at the handle area that is in mechanical communication with the lower arms. 2013-04-11 20130088027 Vertical Bore Coil Lifting Apparatus - A vertical bore coil lifter for lifting coils of steel with reduced risk of the coil telescoping includes a pair of inside legs dimensioned to fit inside the bore of the coil with remote legs to support inner wraps of the bottom of the coil. Opposed outer legs traverse the outside of the coil and terminate in outer legs that oppose the inner legs. The outer legs supporting outer wraps of the coil and prevent telescoping of the coil while it is being lifted. The lifter may be selectively brought from an open configuration, in which the feet are drawn apart to release or receive a coil to a closed configuration in which the opposed feet are drawn together to cooperate in supporting the underside of the coil. In one embodiment an automatic latching and unlatching mechanism is provided to alternate between the release and closed configurations without need for operator intervention. 2013-04-11 20130088028 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LIFTING A HORIZONTALLY-ORIENTED SUBSTRATE FROM A CASSETTE - A system and method are disclosed for removing horizontally oriented substrates from a cassette. A substrate lifter has an engagement end for engaging a substrate and an adjustment end for engaging an adjustment assembly. The engagement end includes a recess having first and second arcuate sidewalls configured to engage an OD of the substrate, and a circular protrusion positioned between the first and second arcuate sidewalls. The circular protrusion allows lateral movement of the substrate up to a predetermined amount and prevents lateral movement of the substrate in excess of the predetermined amount. Other embodiments are described and claimed. 2013-04-11 20130088029 HANDLING DEVICE FOR SUBSTRATES USING COMPRESSED AIR - Embodiments of the invention generally include a handling device that uses compressed air to grip and move substrates between different operating positions or work stations in a production line. The handling device comprises a gripping extremity shaped so as to define a hollow seating region in which a sub-atmospheric pressure is achieved, to cause an adjacently positioned substrate to be urged towards a reception element disposed near the hollow seating region. In some embodiments, the gripping extremity is shaped in a wing shaped profile, or substantially curvilinear, so as to make the air flow, which flows through the discharge apertures formed between the substrate, reception element and the gripping extremity, to be laminar. 2013-04-11 20130088030 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANIPULATING A SUBSTRATE - A device is disclosed for manipulating a substrate having an inside diameter (ID). The device includes a handle, a trigger that slides within the handle, an alignment shaft and a plurality of substrate supports having distal ends. A plurality of substrate support actuators are connected to the trigger. The trigger can move the plurality of substrate supports between a substrate engaging position and a substrate releasing position through selective engagement of the plurality of substrate supports by the plurality of substrate support actuators. In the substrate engaging position the distal ends of the substrate supports move radially outward to engage the ID of the substrate, enabling the device to hold the substrate without touching the substrate faces. Other embodiments are described and claimed. 2013-04-11 20130088031 APPARATUS FOR GRIPPING AND HOLDING DIAGNOSTIC CASSETTES - The invention relates generally to an apparatus for acquiring, holding, and enabling the movement of a cassette-shaped article, such as a reagent or sample cassette, which may be part of an automated diagnostic analyzer, such that the apparatus can tolerate a significant degree of cassette misplacement and/or misalignment during the acquisition maneuver. The invention provides simultaneous two-dimensional movement of the acquiring gripper jaws such that the inter-jaw distance decreases at the same time as movement in an upward vertical direction is provided while the jaw movement is adequately smooth so as not to disturb the physical state of the sample. STORAGE APPARATUS FOR VEHICLE - A storage apparatus for a vehicle may include a rear back beam installed to be drawn out from a rear bumper while sliding to a rear side of the vehicle, and a pair of left and right storage boxes installed to be seated on the rear back beam and extending while sliding in a traverse direction of the vehicle when the rear back beam may be drawn out to the rear side of the vehicle. 2013-04-11 20130088035 STORAGE APPARATUS FOR VEHICLE - A storage apparatus for a vehicle may include a left rear back beam and a right rear back beam divided while sliding to left and right sides in a traverse direction of the vehicle, respectively when the left rear back beam and the right rear back beam may be drawn out from a rear bumper while sliding to a rear side of the vehicle in a longitudinal direction thereof, and a left storage box and a right storage box installed to be fixed to the left and right rear back beams, respectively, to be drawn out together when the left and right rear back beams may be drawn out to the rear side of the vehicle and divided together when the left and right rear back beams slide to the left and right sides of the vehicle. 2013-04-11 20130088036 STORAGE APPARATUS FOR VEHICLE - A storage apparatus for a vehicle can maximize a space use of a vehicle by a structure in which the storage apparatus is mounted by using an inner space of a rear bumper, in particular, greatly improving the value of commodities of the vehicle by using a bumper door as a step or a bench at the time of opening a storage case or using articles while putting the articles on the opened bumper door. 2013-04-11 20130088037 LIGHTWEIGHT STEEL DOOR FOR VEHICLE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A vehicle door assembly comprises an inner panel integrally formed by upper and lower horizontal beams interconnected by front and rear upright beams, and an outer panel bonded to the inner panel. The frame portion comprises opposite front and rear U-shaped side frame members non-detachably attached to each other by upper and lower intermediate frame members so as to form a continuous perimeter. The side frame members are made of a first steel material and the intermediate frame members made of a second steel material, which is different from the first steel material. A method for manufacturing the inner panel comprises the steps: providing U-shaped sheets of the first steel material, providing top and bottom sheets of the second steel material, non-detachably connecting the U-shaped sheets to the top and bottom sheets so as to form a blank, and stamping the blank into the frame portion. 2013-04-11 20130088038 Closure Assembly for a Vehicle - A closure assembly for a vehicle includes rails secured to a vehicle body, first joints secured to one of the rails and able to pivot about an axis through a first angle between a first reference position and a second reference position, a panel, and second joints secured to one of the rails, supporting the panel and able to pivot about a second axis through a second angle between a first reference position and a third reference position. 2013-04-11 20130088039 FAIRING WITH VORTEX GENERATORS - Fairings described herein aim to direct air streams into a gap formed between first a vehicle and a trailing vehicle, such as in a tractor-trailer combination, to reduce low pressure wake regions near the rear surface of the first vehicle thereby reducing drag forces on the vehicles. One or more embodiments of the fairings disclosed herein further aim to accelerate air streams such that the air streams travel quickly across the gap thereby reducing pressure forces on a front surface of a trailing vehicle. In some embodiments, the angle of the fairing relative to a surface of the vehicle is adjustable. 2013-04-11 20130088040 DRAG REDUCTION APPARATUS FOR A TRAILER - A drag reduction device secured to each of the top rails of a wheeled cargo van body or container which covers the recess formed in the outer side of the top rail. 2013-04-11 20130088041 OFF-ROAD VEHICLE HAVING A CARGO BOX - An off-road vehicle has a frame, at least four wheels, a seat, a steering assembly, an engine, and a cargo box pivotally mounted to the frame rearwardly of the seat. The cargo box includes: a cargo box body having a front wall, a pair of side walls, a lower floor, and an opened rear side; an upper floor supported inside the cargo box body above the lower floor; an upper tailgate for selectively closing an upper opened portion of the opened rear side; a lower cargo space defined at least in part between the front wall, the pair of side walls, the lower floor, and the upper floor; and an upper cargo space defined between the front wall, the pair of side walls, the upper floor, and the upper tailgate when the upper tailgate closes the upper opened portion of the opened rear side. 2013-04-11 20130088042 VEHICLE IMPACT REDUCTION STRUCTURE - A vehicle structure comprising a body including a wheel house, a fender and an energy absorption member. The fender has an exposed A-side surface and an opposed B-side surface, with the fender including a laterally inner edge extending fore-and-aft that defines a portion of a hood opening, and the B-side surface adjacent to the laterally inner edge spaced from the wheel house in a vertical direction to define a crush gap. The energy absorption member is located in the crush gap between the wheel house and the fender, with the energy absorption member having a fender attachment flange secured to the B-side surface of the fender adjacent to the laterally inner edge, a body attachment flange secured to the wheel house, and an energy absorbing portion extending between the fender attachment flange and the body attachment flange, with the energy absorbing portion being curved in the vertical direction. 2013-04-11 20130088043 MOTOR VEHICLE BODY - A motor vehicle having a windshield, A-pillars laterally enclosing the windshield and a window cross member connected to the A-pillars is provided. The window cross member supports a lower edge of the windshield in that it comprises a support section touching the windshield. The window cross member includes a point of action fastened to the A-pillar, which is offset in the direction of a surface normal of the windshield against the support section. The window cross member also includes a compressible section that connects the point of action with the support section. 2013-04-11 20130088044 System for Absorbing and Distributing Side Impact Energy Utilizing an Integrated Battery Pack and Side Sill Assembly - An energy absorbing and distributing side impact system for use with a vehicle is provided, the system utilizing a collapsible side sill along with multiple vehicle cross-members to achieve the desired level of vehicle side impact resistance, the combination of these elements absorbing and distributing the impact load throughout the vehicle structure. A battery pack enclosure that includes a plurality of cross-members that transverse the battery pack enclosure also help to absorb and distribute at least a portion of the load received when either the first or second side of the vehicle receives a side impact. In this configuration the battery pack enclosure is positioned between the front and rear vehicle suspension assemblies and mounted between, and mechanically coupled to, the side sill assemblies. In addition to providing rigidity, strength and impact resistance, the battery pack cross-members segregate the batteries contained within the battery pack enclosure into battery groups. 2013-04-11 20130088045 System for Absorbing and Distributing Side Impact Energy Utilizing a Side Sill Assembly with a Collapsible Sill Insert - An energy absorbing and distributing side impact system for use with a vehicle is provided, the system utilizing a collapsible side sill assembly along with multiple vehicle cross-members to achieve the desired level of vehicle side impact resistance, the combination of these elements absorbing and distributing the impact load throughout the vehicle structure. The collapsible side sill assembly includes a side sill insert, the insert divided into a collapsible portion designed to absorb impact energy and a reacting portion designed to distribute the impact energy to the vehicle cross-members. 2013-04-11 20130088046 MOTOR VEHICLE, IN PARTICULAR PASSENGER CAR - In the case of a motor vehicle, in particular a passenger motorcar, with a body in which at least one opening, such as a door opening, a trunk opening or the like is provided, which can be closed off by a pivotably articulated covering element, such as a door, a tail gate, a trunk lid or the like, which has an outer skin and a support structure and at least one function element arranged in between, which is connected to the outer skin, the function element is provided to stiffening structures and directly connected to the support structure. STRUCTURE FOR FRONT SECTION OF VEHICLE BODY - A dash-board lower panel in a vehicle body includes a vertical plate-shaped partition plate that partitions the vehicle body into a front and a rear section, and an inclined plate that inclines downward and rearward from the bottom end of the partition plate. At least part of the rear surface of the partition plate is reinforced by a reinforcement plate. The reinforcement plate has an extended section at the bottom end thereof. The extended section extends from above a bent section, which is between the partition plate and the inclined plate, to below the bent section, and is joined to the inclined plate. A closed cross-section body, which is long and narrow in the vehicle-width direction, is formed by the extended section and the dash-board lower panel. 2013-04-11 20130088049 MULTI-CELL MOTOR COMPARTMENT RAIL - In accordance with exemplary embodiments, a multi-cell motor compartment rail system is provided for a vehicle. The system comprises an inner rail member and an outer rail member. Partition members couple to the inner rail member and outer rail member and are configured to form multiple cells within the engine compartment rail system when the inner rail member and outer rail member are coupled together. In accordance with exemplary embodiments, a method for forming a multi-cell motor compartment rail is also provided. The method comprises coupling a first partition member to an inner rail member of an engine compartment rail system and coupling a second partition member to an outer rail member of an engine compartment rail system. Next, the inner rail member and the outer rail member are coupled together to form the multi-cell motor compartment rail. 2013-04-11 20130088050 ARRANGEMENT WITH WATER BOX AND WATER DRAIN FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE - An arrangement of a water box and a drain is provided for draining off water from a region between a windshield and an engine hood in a motor vehicle. The water box can include a depression with an upwardly directed water-directing region. The drain can include a drain valve housing with a drain valve. The drain valve of the drain is arranged above the water-directing region. 2013-04-11 20130088051 Sunroof Positioning and Timing Elements - Continuous cross sectional profile guide tracks in an outer sliding sunroof/moonroof are provided where both the front and rear mechanism or mechanism links travel fore/aft in the same channels as each other and have fore/aft travel that is limited only by vehicle architecture. The guide track channel is partly or entirely outside/outboard of the primary water/wind sealing system of the sunroof. 2013-04-11 20130088052 ROOF ASSEMBLY FOR A VEHICLE - A roof assembly for a vehicle roof opening comprises a pair of guide rails extending in a non-parallel way and at a distance from each other. At least one closure element is adjustable in order to at least cover and at least partly open the opening. At least one pair of sliding elements opposite of each other on each of opposite sides of the closure element is provided for slidably engaging in the respective guide rail. The sliding elements are slidably connected to the closure element in a substantially lateral direction. A biasing device is used for biasing the sliding elements relative to the closure element in a substantially lateral direction by being attached to the closure element on one end and being operatively connected to each pair of opposite sliding elements on the other end with interposition of a synchronizing device equalizing the movements of the sliding elements. 2013-04-11 20130088053 FOLDABLE FRAME STRUCTURE - A pitman-style foldable frame structure has an innovative and unique assembled design. The frame structure includes foldable panels, a central spindle, lateral frames, oblique connecting rods, a control device, and a central connecting frame. The frame structure offers improvement over the prior art in lowering the material cost and increasing structural support strength and rigidity of the pitman-style foldable frame and achieves practical advancement and better industrial utilization effect. 2013-04-11 20130088054 Vehicle Seat Cover - A vehicle seat cover generally conforming to the shape of a vehicle seat cushion and configured to be easily attachable thereto. In preferred embodiments the seat cover comprises chenille microfiber and is configured to function as a storage container and/or a vehicle cleaning device when not in use as a seat cover. 2013-04-11 20130088055 SAFETY SEAT - The safety seat according to the invention contains a lower fastening 2013-04-11 20130088056 TUBULAR AIRBAG - Embodiments of the present invention provide an airbag system formed of a plurality of tubular structures. 2013-04-11 20130088057 Child Restraint System with Automated Installation - Provided is a child restraint system (CRS) with automated installation that provides automated feedback and control of seat installation angle, belt latching and tightening, and confirmation of correct install. The CRS utilizes sensors to monitor CRS base angle relative to level, confirm correct latching of the CRS to its base and then to the vehicle seat, and confirm tightening of the belts to the required tension to be crashworthy. The stepwise operation and confirmation of the installation procedure may be operated via button(s) or other tactical input, and relayed to the user via electronic visual display and/or audible means. All operations will be overseen and processed by an integrated control system, affording minimal user decision or interface. An intelligent latching device which can be adapted for use with an existing CRS is also provided. 2013-04-11 20130088058 Child Restraint System with User Interface - A child car seat includes: a seat base secured to a seat of a vehicle; an infant carrier removably connected to the seat base; and an interface device coupled to at least one of the seat base or the infant carrier and configured to provide an indication to a user that the seat base is properly secured to the seat of the vehicle. 2013-04-11 20130088059 MASSAGE MACHINE - A massage machine that can stably rock a chair main body in a forward-backward direction and that has minimal overall height comprising a chair main body, a base which supports the chair main body, massage portions provided in the chair main body, and a rocking mechanism portion which rocks the chair main body in the forward-backward direction with respect to the base. The rocking mechanism portion includes link members, each of which has a lower portion pivotally supported by the base and an upper portion pivotally supporting the chair main body. The chair main body is rocked in the forward-backward direction by rocking the upper portions of the link members in the forward-backward direction. 2013-04-11 20130088060 SAFETY-BELT SYSTEM IN TRANSPORT VEHICLES FOR ABLE AND DISABLED PEOPLE - A device suitable for use in a transport vehicle of able people and/or people in a wheelchair is described. The device includes a foot support with a foot attachment for attachment to a vehicle floor and a rigid arm having a shoulder end and a foot end. The rigid arm is connected near the foot end to the foot support. The system also includes a safety-belt system including a safety-belt and safety-belt attachment. The safety-belt attachment has a first attachment point with belt-guiding situated near the shoulder end of the rigid arm. The rigid arm is attached to the foot support by one or more arm hinges. The rigid arm is capable of rotating around the arm hinges. In addition, a foldable chair may be mounted on the foot support. The foot support may be connected with the vehicle floor using a connector which fits in a rail in the floor. 2013-04-11 20130088061 Seat Assembly Having a Collapsible Cushion Support Assembly - A seat assembly having a collapsible cushion support assembly disposed on a seat bottom frame and an adjustable support mechanism. The adjustable support mechanism supports a seat occupant and extends from a seat bottom frame to a seat back frame. 2013-04-11 20130088062 ADJUSTABLE AND PIVOTABLE SEAT - An adjustable and pivotable seat includes a base, a backrest plate and an adjusting rod. The base has a receiving portion disposed on one end of the base and a receiving space defined in the receiving portion, and an opening inclinedly defined through the receiving portion. The backrest plate is pivotally connected with the base and has a series of teeth disposed on the backrest plate and a series of slots respectively defined in between the series of teeth. The series of teeth is correspondingly and movable received in the receiving space in the base. The adjusting rod is selectively inserted into the opening and selectively engages one of the series of slots. Therefore, the backrest plate is pivotable relative to the base and an angle between the backrest plate and the base is adjustable. 2013-04-11 20130088063 Child Neck Support Apparatus for Seats - A neck support apparatus for use with car seats and the like to prevent a child's head from swinging side to side and forward when the child is asleep in the seat. The apparatus comprises a base and a support pillow removably attached to the base. The base has a seat section and a back support riser that is attached to or integral with the seat section. The support pillow has a pillow body with a pair of neck support members extending outwardly from the front side of the pillow body to partially enclose the child's neck and support the child's head in the apparatus. Slots in the back support riser receive straps attached to the pillow body. A head engaging device can help hold the child's head in an upright position. The support pillow can have a character shape, such as a bear or the like. 2013-04-11 20130088064 SEAT FRAME FOR A VEHICLE SEAT - A seat frame for a vehicle seat comprises an upholstered seat, cushion, a seat frame, an upholstery support structure attached thereto and a fan housing with a radial fan. The fan housing has an axial inlet and a radial outlet for the passage of air. The fan housing is supported in the seat frame by means of a holder- which includes at: least one frame-shaped receptacle adapted to receive the radial, outlet of the fan housing and at least one locking element for connecting itself to the tan housing. 2013-04-11 20130088065 FURNITURE CLOTH AND CHAIR - Plural weft fascia portions wider than wefts are arranged in a ground texture formed in a lattice shape by warps and the wefts so as to be spaced from each other from one end of the clothing fabric toward the other end thereof in the vertical direction, and the arrangement intervals between the weft fascia portions adjacent to each other in the vertical direction are gradually decreased from one end of the clothing fabric toward the other end in the vertical direction, and then are gradually increased from the minimum portion. 2013-04-11 20130088066 VEHICLE SEAT - A vehicle seat including: a moving member that moves as one with a rail configured to move in a vehicle front-rear direction; a seat cushion that is coupled to the moving member through a lifter mechanism, is disposed above the rail, and is configured such that the top-bottom direction position of the seat cushion is capable of being adjusted by the lifter mechanism; and a gap concealing member that extends between a vehicle rear direction lower portion of the seat cushion and the rail to conceal a gap between the seat cushion and the rail. The gap concealing member is integrally formed from the top end portion to the bottom end portion. Nut Sensing Devices - A safety device configured to provide an indication of potential issues associated with a retention nut via a nut cap movably attached to a base. The nut cap(s) can have an electronic sensor configured to acquire and store digital data associated with a corresponding nut. Nut cap(s) can be coupled with a nut rotation indicator configured to provide an indication of a rotation of a corresponding nut. 2013-04-11 20130088070 SPACER FOR SPACING WHEEL RIM FROM COMPARTMENT FLOOR - A spacer for spacing a spare wheel assembly from a vehicle floor of a vehicle compartment is provided. The spacer includes an annular body, an outer flange, and an inner flange. The annular body includes an upper surface for facing toward the spare wheel assembly and a lower surface for facing toward the floor and away from the spare wheel assembly. The annular body further includes a peripheral edge and an inner edge. The outer flange extends from the upper surface and is configured to contact a wheel rim of the spare wheel assembly. The inner flange is offset radially inwardly from the outer flange and extends from the upper surface. The inner flange is configured to contact the wheel rim of the spare wheel assembly offset from where the outer flange is configured to contact the wheel rim 2013-04-11 20130088071 FABRICATION OF WELDED WHEELS WITHOUT FILLER MATERIAL - A hermetically sealed wheel assembly which has been welding autogenously is provided, along with a method and system for welding the wheel assembly. The wheel assembly is made up of at least two components which are laser welded to each other without the use of filler material to create a hermetically sealed wheel assembly. 2013-04-11 20130088072 FABRICATION OF WELDED WHEELS WITHOUT FILLER MATERIAL - A hermetically sealed wheel assembly which has been welding autogenously is provided, along with a method and system for welding the wheel assembly. The wheel assembly is made up of at least two components which are laser welded to each other without the use of filler material to create a hermetically sealed wheel assembly. 2013-04-11 20130088073 FABRICATION OF WELDED WHEELS WITHOUT FILLER MATERIAL - A hermetically sealed wheel assembly which has been welding autogenously is provided, along with a method and system for welding the wheel assembly. The wheel assembly is made up of at least two components which are laser welded to each other without the use of filler material to create a hermetically sealed wheel assembly. 2013-04-11 20130088074 FABRICATION OF WELDED WHEELS WITHOUT FILLER MATERIAL - A hermetically sealed wheel assembly which has been welding autogenously is provided, along with a method and system for welding the wheel assembly. The wheel assembly is made up of at least two components which are laser welded to each other without the use of filler material to create a hermetically sealed wheel assembly. 2013-04-11 20130088075 BICYCLE COMPONENT AND METHOD FOR MOUNTING OF A BICYCLE COMPONENT - Bicycle component and method for assembling a bicycle component comprising several units of which one unit is configured as a fixed unit and at least one unit, as a rotary unit. A fixed unit forms the hub axle and a rotary unit is configured as a hub body. The hub body is provided with a spoke socket for fastening spokes and is rotatably supported relative to the hub axle by means of at least one bearing. At least one separate sealing cap fastened at one of the several units is provided at which a sealed through opening for a unit is provided which unit is rotatable relative to the hub body. 2013-04-11 20130088076 Automotive Hydraulic Brake System - An automotive hydraulic brake system is provided which exhibits an excellent pressure reduction performance to a low μ road while restraining an intake resistance of a fluid pump. For providing the hydraulic brake system, a gate-in valve is connected to an intake passage that connects a master cylinder to an intake side of the fluid pump. The gate-in valve selectively opens and closes the intake passage in accordance with a mutual relation between a master cylinder pressure and a pressure produced at an intake side of the fluid pump. 2013-04-11 20130088077 FULL BRIDGE SWITCHING CIRCUIT - A full bridge switching circuit includes a converter circuit including first and second converters. The first converter includes a first transformer and a first switching element part to control the first transformer in response to a first switching signal. The second converter includes a second transformer and a second switching element part to control the second transformer in response to a second switching signal. The first and second transformers are controlled by the first and second switching element parts to output first and second feedback signals, respectively. The full bridge switching circuit further includes a third switching element part having a third switching input connected to the first and second transformers, and an IC circuit to generate an OR signal by an OR operation of a first control signal generated from the first feedback signal and a second control signal generated from the second feedback signal. 2013-04-11 20130088078 Apparatus, System and Method for Cascaded Power Conversion - An apparatus, method, and system are provided for power conversion to supply power to a load such as a plurality of light emitting diodes. An exemplary apparatus comprises: a first power converter stage having a first power switch and a first inductive element; a second power converter stage having a second power switch and a second inductive element; a plurality of sensors; and a controller. The second power converter stage provides an output current to the load. The controller is adapted to use a sensed input voltage to determine a switching period, and is further adapted to turn the first and second power switches into an on-state at a frequency substantially corresponding to the switching period while maintaining a switching duty cycle within a predetermined range. 2013-04-11 20130088079 SYSTEM FOR CUTTING OFF STANDBY POWER - A system for cutting off standby power of the present invention comprises: a plurality of electronic products that are controlled devices; and a main system commonly controlling the same, wherein each of the plurality of electronic products is equipped with a standby power cut-off unit, which is controlled by the main system to open or cut off the power supply path of the power input of a corresponding electronic product, thereby cutting off standby power, and wherein the main system is equipped with a device selection and actuation unit which controls the action of the standby power cut-off unit of each of the electronic products to supply or cut off power to each of the plurality of electronic products. 2013-04-11 20130088080 Dynamic Break and Distortion Filter - Systems, methods, and apparatus for providing a dynamic break and distortion filter. In one embodiment, an apparatus can include an inverter providing alternating current (AC) power at one of a first and second chopping frequency and a filter. The filter can include an input port receiving the AC power and an output port providing output power by selectively passing the AC power from the input port to the output port. The filter may further include an inductor electrically connected to one of the input port and output port and a capacitor electrically connected to the inductor and to a resistor, wherein current does not substantially flow through the inductor and capacitor at the first chopping frequency and does substantially flow through the inductor and capacitor at the second chopping frequency, and wherein the AC power with the second chopping frequency is dissipated in the resistor. 2013-04-11 20130088081 MULTISOURCE POWER SYSTEM - A multisource power system utilizing output isolated DC-DC converters in a serial input, parallel output arrangement provides uniform input voltage distribution and selective maximum power tracking wherein embodiments include maximum power tracking (“MPT”) with a single MPT controller, a battery dominated output voltage bus, and a regulated output voltage bus. Networklized DC Power System - A networklized DC power system includes: a micro DC grid, and a plurality of energy routers connected to the micro DC grid. Each of energy routers includes a controlling module for controlling the energy router. A DC receiving port is coupled for receiving DC power from at least one DC power generating system. An AC receiving port is provided for receiving AC power from an AC power supplying system. A battery charging/discharging port is connected to a battery system for charging or discharging the battery system. A DC outputting port is provided for applying DC voltage to a load. A network interface port is coupled to the micro DC grid, and for receiving the power from the micro DC grid or for transferring power to the other energy routers of the micro DC grid. 2013-04-11 20130088085 ANALYSIS DEVICE OF CATENARY-BASED TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM, ANALYSIS METHOD AND PROGRAM THEREFOR - In a catenary-based transportation system which is provided with integrated power supply equipment having an electricity storage unit which stores electricity regenerated by vehicles traveling by electricity received from a catenary and supplies electricity to the catenary and the other power supply system which is a power supply system different from the electricity storage unit concerned, the performance of a rectifier of the other power supply system is determined based on a power-supplying contribution ratio γ of the other power supply system so that the cost value of the integrated power supply equipment becomes lower than a target cost value. 2013-04-11 20130088086 CIRCUITRY ARRANGEMENT FOR A SOLAR POWER PLANT COMPRISING A DC VOLTAGE SOURCE FOR AN OFFSET VOLTAGE - A circuitry arrangement for a solar power plant includes a transformerless inverter for feeding electric power from at least one photovoltaic generator into an alternating power grid, a galvanic separation of all lines carrying current between the inverter and the power grid, and a DC voltage source in an offset path between one electric line at the input side of the galvanic separation and a reference potential. The DC voltage source provides an offset voltage. The offset path includes a DC branch and an AC branch connected in parallel. The direct voltage source is connected in series with a current sensor in the DC branch, and at least one capacitor is arranged in the AC branch. Further, a DC contactor triggered by the current sensor is arranged in the offset path. 2013-04-11 20130088087 NON-CONTACT POWER FEEDING DEVICE - A non-contact power feeding device is provided to feed power from a primary coil on a primary side to a secondary coil on a secondary side, which are closely located to face each other with no contact through an air gap, based on a mutual induction effect of electromagnetic induction. In such a non-contact power feeding device, a repeating resonant coil constituting a resonant circuit is disposed in a magnetic path of the air gap. This resonant circuit is independent of a power circuit on the primary side and a load side circuit on the secondary side and is provided with the repeating resonant coil and a capacitor. In the case of power feeding, the repeating resonant coil of the resonant circuit feeds exciting reactive power to the magnetic path of the air gap. 2013-04-11 20130088088 Circuitry And Method For Inductive Power Transmission - In this present invention, a primary and secondary series compensated inductive power transmission system with primary-side zero phase angle control and a loss-free clamp (LFC) circuit on the secondary-side is described. The effects of non-synchronous tuning are analyzed and intended detuning is proposed to guarantee controllability. The functional principle of the LFC circuit, which is required for output voltage stabilization over a wide load range and varying magnetic coupling, is explained. Finally, theoretical results are verified experimentally. 2013-04-11 20130088089 Wireless Power Repeater - A wireless power repeater for transferring power from a wireless power transmitter to a wireless power receiver according to the embodiment includes a repeater resonant unit resonance-coupled with the wireless power transmitter for transferring the received power to the wireless power receiver, and a first shielding unit having a shape to be transformed according to pressure applied to the wireless power repeater for adjusting an amount of a magnetic field transferred from the repeater resonant unit to the wireless power receiver. POWER RECEPTION CONTROL DEVICE, POWER RECEPTION DEVICE, NON-CONTACT POWER TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENT AND POWER RECEPTION CONTROL METHOD - A power reception control device provided in a power reception device of a non-contact power transmission system includes a power-reception-side control circuit that controls an operation of the power reception device, and a power supply control signal output terminal that supplies a power supply control signal to a charge control device, the power supply control signal controlling power supply to a battery. The power-reception-side control circuit controls a timing at which the power supply control signal (ICUTX) is output from the power supply control signal output terminal. The operation of the charge control device is compulsorily controlled using the power supply control signal (ICUTX). 2013-04-11 20130088092 INPUT/OUTPUT POWER AND SIGNAL TRANSFER ISOLATOR DEVICE - Input/output power and signal transfer and power and signal isolator device using pulsed, alternating or high frequency signal current having a capacitive structure which provides power and signal limiting control, unidirectional power and signal transfer and input/output decoupling and transceiver-receiver isolation barrier. The device includes at least two decoupled input electrodes arranged in parallel to each other, and at least two decoupled output electrodes arranged in parallel to each other. Each electrode is connected to at least one terminal. Each electrode has a surface that which is opposed to another electrode surface with at least one layer of dielectric material therebetween. The input electrodes are decoupled from the output electrodes by dielectric material and are disposed such that two output electrodes are separately disposed external to the two input electrodes. 2013-04-11 20130088093 METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SUPPLY OF ELECTRICITY FROM A PUBLIC NETWORK FOR PUBLIC STREET LIGHTING - In the method of controlling a public lighting network for public street lighting, a member, such as a server uses a telecommunications network to send at least one command for switching a power supply circuit of an electricity outlet to an electricity source of the network. The outlet is accessible from the public street and from an outside portion of the device of the lighting network. 2013-04-11 20130088094 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING POWER IN PORTABLE TERMINAL - An apparatus performs a power control method for a portable terminal. The power control method includes measuring humidity around the portable terminal using a humidity sensor, and determining whether a flooding condition occurs based on the measured humidity. The method also includes turning off power of the portable terminal by releasing a connection with a battery that supplies power to the portable terminal when it is determined that the flooding condition occurs. 2013-04-11 20130088095 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR THE REMOTE CONTROL OF AN ELECTRICAL CONSUMER - A method for remote control of an electric consumer end device with a power adapter, for switching supply of power of the electric consumer on and off, whereby a central e-server may select, depending on the automatically recognized type of the electric consumer end device, a power-saving profile assigned to the type of the electric consumer, and may control the power adapter depending on the selected power-saving profile, where the control comprises causing the power adaptor to switch the supply of power of the consumer end device on or off based on the power-saving profile. 2013-04-11 20130088096 SHORT-CIRCUIT PROTECTION METHOD - A short-circuit protection method for a circuit having a plurality of power switching elements, includes, when a short-circuit of a first power switching element is detected by detection device that detects a short-circuit of the plurality of power switching elements, performing a cut-off process of cutting off a gate of a second power switching element through which a short-circuit current caused by the short-circuit of the first power switching element flows, and changing a resistance value of a gate resistor of the second power switching element while the cut-off process is performed. 2013-04-11 20130088097 ON/OFF SWITCH AND STANDBY POWER SHUTOFF DEVICE USING SAME - A standby power shutoff device is provided that includes a switch generating power when turning on and generating an “on” signal using the power, a switching unit generating an “on/off” signal for a product, a power supply unit providing power for function units of the product by receiving an external input power, a power switching unit driven in response to a driving signal to cut off or connect a power supply path for the input power provided to the power supply unit, a control unit generating a control signal for powering off the product in response to an “off” signal from the switching unit, and a driving unit receiving power from the “on” signal from the switching unit, driving the power switching unit to connect the power supply path, and driving the power switching unit to cut off the power supply path in response to a “power off” control signal. 2013-04-11 20130088098 CIRCUIT CONFIGURATION, HOUSEHOLD DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE HOUSEHOLD DEVICE - A circuit configuration for operating a household device contains a power supply connector, an electrical load that is connected via a power connection cable to the power supply connector, and a controller for an endangering component. The controller is connected via a power connection cable to the power supply connector. A device for switching the controller on and off is arranged between the controller and the power supply connector. Safety equipment for disconnecting the controller from the power supply connector is arranged between the power supply connector and the device for switching. In order to supply the controller with electrical power even when the safety equipment is active, the electrical load is connected between the power supply connector and the safety equipment. A connecting cable is provided that connects the controller via the electrical load to the power supply connector, and in which the device for switching is arranged. 2013-04-11 20130088099 Generator and Electricity-Generating System - To provide a linear generator according to the present invention where a load onto a supporting mechanism and the ripple of force are reduced, the pitch of a magnetic pole is narrowed and a high frequency is acquired, the linear generator according to the present invention is provided with plural magnetic poles arranged with the magnets arranged on a mover held between the plural magnetic poles, a core that continuously connects the magnetic poles which hold the magnets of the mover between them, winding integrally wound onto the plural magnetic poles and the mover configured by a row of magnets in which the magnetic poles of the magnets are alternately arranged or a row of magnets in which the polarity of magnets is alternately arranged and magnetic materials, the magnetic pole arranged with the magnets held between the magnetic poles and the magnetic pole provided with the core that continuously connects the magnetic poles which hold the magnets are arranged in a longitudinal direction of the mover by plural pieces, and common winding is arranged on the plural magnetic poles. 2013-04-11 20130088100 LINEAR VIBRATOR - There is provided a linear vibrator, including: a fixed part providing an interior space having a predetermined size; at least one magnet disposed in the interior space and generating magnetic force; a vibration part including a coil facing the magnet and generating electromagnetic force through interaction with the magnet and a mass body; and an elastic member coupled to the fixed part and the vibration part to mediate vibrations of the vibration part and having a damping increasing portion attached to a predetermined region of a surface thereof. 2013-04-11 20130088101 PRECISION MOLDED FLEXURE ASSEMBLY FOR A ROTATIONAL ACTUATOR - A flexure assembly includes two metallic flexure arrays molded into a thermoplastic support base. The two flexure arrays are positioned in parallel in the thermoplastic support base to allow rotational movement about one axis while providing high stiffness with respect to off-axis movement. Flexible supports in the two flexure arrays may be interleaved to form a cross flexure configuration. Off-axis stiffness of the flexure assembly prevents harmonic resonance in directions that cannot be compensated for in a single-axis actuator. 2013-04-11 20130088102 ELECTRIC MACHINE MODULE - Embodiments of the invention provide an electric machine module including an electric machine positioned with a housing. The brushless electric machine includes a center axis of rotation and a support member coupled to the housing. The module also includes a cooling system, which includes an inlet disposed through a portion of the housing, a first channel positioned within the support member that fluidly connects a second channel with the inlet. The housing also includes a drain aperture and a drain guide disposed substantially adjacent to the drain aperture. 2013-04-11 20130088103 Synchronic Wind Turbine Generator - A synchronic generator comprises at least a stator and at least two windings placed opposite and parallel to its rotation axis and at least a refrigeration system. The design of this generator allows a better use of the space close to the external diameter of the generator, allowing a power increase and minimizing the weight without increasing the external diameter of the generator. Depending on wind conditions, one or both windings can work at the same time, which optimizes yield, versatility and reliability. 2013-04-11 20130088104 CENTRIFUGAL CONCENTRATOR WITH SUSPENDED ROTOR BOWL - An electric motor is provided with a hollow rotating drive shaft extending along the central axis of the motor, a stationary liquid supply line and a rotating union which communicates with the liquid supply line and the hollow interior of the drive shaft for supplying liquid to the hollow interior of the drive shaft. 2013-04-11 20130088105 SUPPORT FOR A STATOR OF AN ELECTRIC MACHINE FOR A HYBRID ELECTRIC TRANSMISSION - An assembly for supporting a motor of a vehicle powertrain includes a casing covering transmission gearing including an opening and a mounting surface surrounding the opening, a stator secured to the casing, including a reference surface spaced from an axis, and a terminal assembly seated on the mounting surface and secured to the casing, including a terminal electrically connected to the stator through a current conductor. ELECTRIC MOTOR - An electric motor contains an electrically conductive motor housing which encloses a stator, a rotor, and a commutator ground by a brush system and which has an opening for a motor shaft on one side. The brush system includes a pot-type support housing which closes the opening of the motor housing, is made of electrically conductive plastic, and has a central shaft opening to allow the motor shaft to pass there-through. 2013-04-11 20130088109 MOTOR SUPPORT FOR A HYBRID ELECTRIC TRANSMISSION - An assembly for supporting a motor of a vehicle powertrain includes a housing, a stator secured to the housing, a bearing having a radial position established by the housing, a member contacting the bearing, and a rotor secured to the member and including a radial outer surface spaced radially from the stator by an air gap established by contact between the bearing and the member. 2013-04-11 20130088110 SMT System - The SMT System works like water paddle or windmill only instead of using wind or water as propulsion the unit uses the magnetic repelling forces of South North and North South magnetic fields to propel a Turbine. A magnetic beam array is located at the base of the system. The magnets inside the magnetic beam array are pole oriented to the South North. The magnetic beam array and its adjustable arm point at the generators flywheel flipper arm that pass by on each rotation. Each flywheel flipper has an attached magnet embedded on each tip of its channels. The magnets embedded into the flywheel flipper arms poles are oriented to the North South creating a repelling force that turns the Flywheel Flipper arm and rotates the low speed shaft on the Turbine creating electricity. 2013-04-11 20130088111 ROTOR FOR A MOTOR AND CONNECTING PIN FOR THE ROTOR - A rotor for a motor is provided including: a rotor core including at least one a first coupling portion on an outer circumference thereof, wherein the first coupling portion includes a first coupling groove or a first coupling projection; at least one division core spaced apart from the rotor core and including a second coupling portion on an outer circumference thereof, the second coupling portion including a second coupling groove or a second coupling projection; and a connecting pin including a third coupling portion and a fourth coupling portion, the third coupling portion to be coupled to the first coupling portion and the fourth coupling portion to be coupling to the second coupling portion. 2013-04-11 20130088112 MOTOR AND ROTOR OF A MOTOR - A motor includes a first rotor and a second rotor which are disposed at opposite sides of a stator, and each of the first rotor and the second rotor includes a plurality of modules, each including a pair of permanent magnets and a connection unit which connects ends of the permanent magnets. 2013-04-11 20130088113 MOTOR HAVING MORE MAGNETS ON EFFECTIVE AREA OF THE ROTOR THEREOF - A motor having more magnets on effective area of the rotor includes a stator, a rotor and a rotation shaft, the rotor has a plurality number of rotor magnetic poles, a magnet is installed inside each of rotor magnetic pole, and a concave arc is on the outer side of each magnet and forms the first, the second and the third surfaces near inside of each magnet. The concave arc connects to the first and the third surfaces with a connecting plan respectively, each connecting plan nears the periphery surface of the rotor. The motor has more magnets on the effective area of the rotor for higher motor efficiency. Electrical Machine With Circumferentially Skewed Rotor Poles Or Stator Coils - A rotor for an electrical machine including a plurality of pole sections with adjacent poles within each of the pole sections being distanced by a first uniform pole pitch. Adjacent poles belonging to different pole sections are distanced by a second (smaller) pole pitch at one end of each pole section, and by a third (larger) pole pitch at the other end of each pole section. Alternatively, a corresponding adjustment of coil pitches can be done in a stator of an electrical machine. Pre-charged CMUTs for zero-external-bias operation - Capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers (CMUTs) having a pre-charged floating electrode are provided. Such CMUTs can operate without an applied DC electrical bias. Charge can be provided to the floating electrode after or during fabrication in various ways, such as injection by an applied voltage, and injection by ion implantation. 2013-04-11 20130088119 PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIAL, PIEZOELECTRIC ELEMENT, LIQUID DISCHARGE HEAD, ULTRASONIC MOTOR, AND DUST CLEANING DEVICE - A piezoelectric material including a strontium calcium sodium niobate-based tungsten bronze structure metal oxide having a high degree of orientation is provided. A piezoelectric element, a liquid discharge head, an ultrasonic motor, and a dust cleaning device including the piezoelectric material are also provided. A piezoelectric material includes a tungsten bronze structure metal oxide that includes metal elements which are strontium, calcium, sodium, and niobium, and tungsten. The metal elements satisfy following conditions on a molar basis: when Sr/Nb=a, 0.320≦a≦0.430, when Ca/Nb=b, 0.008≦b≦0.086, and when Na/Nb=c, 0.180≦c≦0.200. The tungsten content on a metal basis is 0.40 to 3.20 parts by weight relative to 100 parts by weight of the tungsten bronze structure metal oxide. The tungsten bronze structure metal oxide has a c-axis orientation. 2013-04-11 20130088120 PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIAL, PIEZOELECTRIC ELEMENT, LIQUID DISCHARGE HEAD, ULTRASONIC MOTOR, AND DUST CLEANING DEVICE - A piezoelectric material including a barium bismuth niobate-based tungsten bronze structure metal oxide having a high degree of orientation is provided. A piezoelectric element, a liquid discharge head, an ultrasonic motor, and a dust cleaning device including the piezoelectric material are also provided. A piezoelectric material includes a tungsten bronze structure metal oxide that includes metal elements which are barium, bismuth, and niobium, and tungsten. The metal elements satisfy following conditions on a molar basis: when Ba/Nb=a, 0.30≦a≦0.40, and when Bi/Nb=b, 0.012≦b≦0.084. The tungsten content on a metal basis is 0.40 to 3.00 parts by weight relative to 100 parts by weight of the tungsten bronze structure metal oxide. The tungsten bronze structure metal oxide has a c-axis orientation. 2013-04-11 20130088121 BOUNDARY ACOUSTIC WAVE DEVICE - Regarding a boundary acoustic wave device in which at least a part of an IDT electrode is embedded in a groove disposed in a piezoelectric substrate, the acoustic velocity is increased. A boundary acoustic wave device is provided with a piezoelectric substrate, a first dielectric layer, and an IDT electrode. The surface of the piezoelectric substrate is provided with a groove. The IDT electrode is disposed at the boundary between the piezoelectric substrate and the first dielectric layer in such a way that at least a part thereof is located in the groove. In the inside of the groove, the groove angle γ, which is the size of an angle formed by an upper end portion of the inside surface of the groove with the surface of the piezoelectric substrate, is less than 90 degrees.

Honest observations, radical resolutions Armenian Heritage Under Threat: The Occupation of Camp Armen As soon as the news broke that Camp Armen was under threat calls for solidarity were shared, leading to a Gezi-like occupation of the site. For almost 32 years it had been quiet, dead quiet, at Camp Armen, the old Armenian orphanage in Istanbul’s wealthy, beach side neighborhood of Tuzla. The joy and laughter of the Armenian children who built the school with their own hands had died out a long time ago, ever since the camp had been closed down in the early 1980s. On 6 May the silence was broken when a bulldozer appeared on the site, sent by the camp’s owner Fatih Ulusoy to tear down the unused, derelict building and clear the ground for the construction of a dozen villas. What Ulusoy had failed to take into account, however, was the central place the orphanage still occupied in the collective memory of Istanbul’s Armenian community. Around 1,500 children had spent part of their lives here in the twenty years the orphanage existed. Most famous of the former students was Hrant Dink, the Turkish-Armenian journalist who had been working for years trying to reopen the camp before he was assassinated in 2007. As soon as the news broke that Camp Armen was under threat calls for solidarity were shared via social media, leading to a Gezi-like occupation of the site by activists and sympathisers who were determined to protect it from destruction. Moreover, the occupiers led by Nor Zartonk – an Armenian civil organization that focuses on the rights of minority groups in Turkey – are using the case of Camp Armen to draw attention to what they call the ongoing “cultural genocide” against the Armenian people and to bring an end to the century-old “assimilation politics” of the Turkish government. Smear campaign against Camp Armen “It was amazing, it was our home,” recalls Garabet Orunöz, 55, a former student who lived at the camp for almost eight years between 1967 and 1975. “We used to cook, study and tend the gardens. There were animals as well, and an orchard.” For the young inhabitants of the camp – all children and grandchildren of genocide survivors – it was a place where they learned about Armenian language, culture and religion, something that was almost impossible outside the safe and secluded environments of Armenian churches, schools and orphanages. Many orphans called it their home; for others it was a place where they spent their summers amongst peers without having to fear the bullying and discrimination they faced as Armenian children in the outside world. In 1983 the camp was closed down by the Turkish government – 21 years after it had first opened its doors. “This was the result of a smear campaign,” explains Garabet. “People claimed that kids were brought from Anatolia and turned into Christians. Others accused the camp of being a breeding place for terrorists.” For the closure of the camp the government – a military junta that had come to power three years earlier after a military coup – relied on a High Court ruling from 1974 that made minority foundations ineligible to acquire new properties. This law was then retroactively applied to 1936, when these foundations had been asked to register their properties, effectively allowing for the seizure of all property that had been acquired by minority foundations since then. The land upon which Camp Armen had been built was bought by the Gedikpasa Armenian Church Foundation in 1962, and in 1983 it was returned to it’s former owner. No compensation was paid, not for the land, nor for the school building which they had built on it. For the next 32 years the plot would change owners multiple times, but none of them laid a finger on the site, either out of disinterest or out of fear to anger the Armenian community. Until this May. A miniature Gezi Park As soon as the news broke that Camp Armen was under threat a solidarity movement mobilized. Murad Mıhçı, 40, who ran as candidate for the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) in the recent elections, was one of the first to arrive on the scene. “The people had formed a human chain in front of the bulldozer,” he explained. “They talked with the operator of the bulldozer and explained to him that the building he was destroying used to be an old Armenian orphanage. After a while they managed to convince him to lay down his work.” About a third of the building had already been destroyed by the time the activists brought the demolition to a halt. But for many of those who subsequently occupied the camp, more important than the preservation of the building was the protection of the Armenian cultural heritage that was embedded in the site. “We’re here not just for the stones,” admits Alexis Kalk, 31, a founding member of Nor Zartonk. “The building is important, but where the children have built the school, we are building something new in the garden,” he adds, referring to the way the occupiers have united for a common cause, across the ethnic and religious boundaries that continue to divide society in the world outside the camp. It has been three months since the occupation started, and with the occupiers life has once again returned to Camp Armen. Tents have been set up and colorful posters cover the walls. They cook and clean together, and every evening there is a general assembly in which everyone is welcome to participate. Recently they even organized an iftar dinner, to break the fast together with their Muslim, and other, comrades. In a way, the camp looks like a miniature Gezi Park – one of the few surviving green spaces in central Istanbul and site of a two-week long occupy-style protest in 2013. This comparison is not entirely coincidental, as Özgür Atlagan, 30, who is one of the activists that have been camping at the site, explains: “Everything we do here, cooking, cleaning and organizing forums; they are the habits that we picked up in the Gezi Park.” Another similarity with the Gezi Park resistance is that people from a whole range of different ethnic, religious and political backgrounds have come together to commonly fight for something they believe in. For Alexis, this is already a victory. “Everyone has resisted here together: Turks, Kurds, Armenians, Alevis and Jews. That is the most important point.” Building a new life together But whereas the occupiers try to convey a message of unity and hope, a large black banner hanging from the first floor balustrade sends an entirely different signal. “The genocide continues!” it reads in bold white letters, in a candid reference to the 1915 Armenian genocide. Two weeks prior to the occupation of Camp Armen this very same banner was used by Nor Zartonk during the 100th commemoration of the 1915 genocide at Istanbul’s central Taksim square. “For us, the Armenians who live in Turkey, the genocide really continues,” explains Alexis, who was the one that decided to bring the banner here. The banner’s bold claim is echoed by Garabet’s explanation of why the camp was closed back in 1983. “This is a cultural genocide,” he conveyed. “By closing down the school they have deprived us of our culture, of our education. They [the Turkish government] want to assimilate us, for us to forget our language and our culture.” Despite the strong wording and controversial use of the word “genocide”, all interviewees agreed with the statement. To this day, the Turkish government continues to deny the Armenian genocide ever took place, while among scholars of Turkish history and genocide experts it is a general consensus that it certainly did. For HDP-candidate Murad Mıhçı, denial of the 1915 genocide equals “historical neglect”, and as long as the state fails to come to terms with it’s past, every attempt at destroying part of Armenian history or culture has to be viewed, analyzed and contested in this light. As such, the resistance at Camp Armen – which has as its ultimate goal to see the site returned to the ownership of the Gedikpasa Armenian Church – forms yet another chapter in the Turkish Armenian community’s century-long struggle for recognition of their suffering and the crimes committed against them. Victory seemed near when in late May Fatih Ulusoy publicly announced that he would return the title deeds to the Armenian community, but his neglect to actually do so have sparked fears among the occupiers that their case has become the subject of a political ball game. With the unprecedented victory of the HDP – which does recognize the Armenian genocide – in the recent elections there is a revived hope that Camp Armen might be saved. Today, the struggle for the camp continues. While an Ankara-based human rights organization is preparing to bring the case to the attention of the European Council, many at the camp feel that an important victory has been achieved already. “People come here to show their solidarity with us,” Alexis explains. “They come here with their own identity, but there’s no pressure from either side. We are here as Armenian socialists, revolutionaries. We’re doing something for our people, and the others come and help us. We didn’t have any problems at all. We can live together very easily, and built a new life together.

Resources & Announcements Bachelor of Music (B.M.) Bachelor of Music Education (B.M.E) Bachelor of Science in Music and an Outside Field (B.S.O.F.) Applicants should prepare the following, either for the final audition recording, or on-campus audition: Two contrasting movements from two different pieces. Transfer students should prepare two movements of a solo Bach work and a solo of their choice. Master of Music (M.M.) Performer Diploma-Orchestral Studies (P.D.O.S.) Performer Diploma-Solo Performance (P.D.S.P.) M.M. and P.D.S.P. applicants should prepare the following, either for a recording or on-campus audition: Two contrasting movements from a Bach solo suite A major concerto A solo piece of the applicant's choice P.D.O.S. applicants should prepare the following, either for a recording, or on-campus audition: First Movement of either the Schumann or Dvorak Concerto AND First Movement of the Haydn D Major Concerto AND Three of the following contrasting excerpts from this list, one of which must be the first page of Don Juan: Beethoven-Symphony No. 5, 2nd and 3rd Movs. Beethoven-Symphony No. 8, 3rd Mov. (Trio) Mendelssohn-A Midsummer Night's Dream, Scherzo Brahms-Symphony No. 2, 2nd Mov. Verdi-Requim, No. 3 Offertorium Strauss-Don Juan Doctor of Music (D.M.) Doctor of Music (D.M.) applicants for the D.M. degree in violin, viola, violoncello and double bass must submit a preliminary screening recording online for consideration for a live department audition. This audition will be by invitation only and only after a review of the screening recording. Auditions take place during the regular JSOM Audition/Interview weekends. Screening recordings must be received no later than December 1, 2016. Please click here for detailed instructions. The Jacobs School of Music does supply a pianist for doctoral entrance auditions; however, you must contact the chair of the string department as soon as your screening recording has been passed to submit repertoire and arrange a meeting with a pianist. *Please Note: Applicants who are required to submit pre-screening will submit their letters of recommendation to Decision Desk. D.M. applicants should prepare the following, either for a preliminary screening recording or on-campus department audition:

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Italy’s government to approve €6 billion plan to build network The government is pushing to accelerate the roll-out of ultrafast broadband networks, sparking speculation that Telecom Italia, the country’s largest mobile company, could be forced to overhaul its infrastructure. Rumours have been rife that there has been little agreement between the government and telcos. The country’s prime minister Matteo Renzi has viewed investment in broadband as necessary to boost the country’s economy. However, issues such as regulation and the costs of investment have been stumbling blocks. Tensions were heightened over the weekend when newspapers reported the government planned to force Telecom Italia to replace all its copper wires by 2030 with fibre optic cables, writing off assets worth billions of euros. The government, however, has denied that it has imposed such a deadline. "The measures to be adopted will be limited to applying the ultra broadband plan to stimulate investment by all the operators: there will be no decree on Telecom Italia or to impose any arbitrary switch off of the copper network," junior minister Antonello Giacomelli said in a statement.

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Friday, March 14, 2014 The Leu Gardens were bequeathed to the City of Orlando in 1961. In addition to 50 acres of gardens, the site includes the Leu House Museum. Marjory and I visited during February, 2014. Harry P. Leu owned a successful industrial supply company. In 1936, he purchased the property fronting Lake Rowena. The house on the property was first constructed in the latter part of the 1800s, with Leu later becoming the fourth owner. Harry and his wife Mary Jane traveled extensively and brought back plants, cuttings, and seeds from all over the world. This is evidenced by the many tropical and sub-tropical gardens across the acreage. There are pathways, gazebos, fountains, and rain shelters throughout. The Leu Garden is particularly well known for its camellias, some of which were in bloom. The trumpet trees were also flowering. Perhaps because we were there in mid-winter, the garden beds did not seem particularly well tended. The house was expanded several times over the years, but the main rooms has been restored to their turn of the century appearance. Other areas, including the kitchen and bathrooms, have an Art-Deco motif. While the house is not spectacular in any way, its docent-led tour provides an interesting and accurate glimpse of living in old Florida. Well worth the 25 minutes. Overall, our visit to the Harry P. Leu Gardens was a pleasant one – a relaxing morning but with tired legs at the end. Wednesday, March 12, 2014 The Historic Rossetter House Museum overlooks the Indian River in Eau Gallie, Brevard County, Florida. (Resulting from a 1969 city merger, Eau Gallie is now part of the City of Melbourne.) Eau Gallie was founded in the 1850s around a variety of agricultural ventures including sugar cane, rice, and citrus groves. In 1877, commercial steamboats began to ply the Indian River, and the area began to grow. By 1893 it had become the southern end of Henry Flagler’s Florida East Coast Railway attracting new visitors from the north. The museum comprises the 1880s / 1904 James Wadsworth Rossetter House and gardens, the 1892 William P. Roesch House, and the 1865 Houston Family Memorial Cemetery. Marjory and I visited in early 2013 and again in March 2014. Shaded with live oaks and sea grapes, this property was owned and developed by three different families. When John Carrol Houston arrived in the area, there were precious few towns. Purportedly Houston had his slaves build the first structure on the property where the Rossetter House now stands. He operated a refuge and staging area for blockade runners transporting goods from the Indian River to the St. Johns River during the Civil War. Later, he served as a hunting and fishing guide for wealthy northerners. Houston also established Brevard County’s second post office in 1871. Upon Houston’s death in 1885, the property went to his daughter, Ada Louise Houston. The back / east portion of what is now the Rossetter House was built after her marriage to William R. Roesch. Roesch also built a new house across the street, which now serves as the Museum’s visitor center and gift shop. He went on to become Eau Gallie’s first Mayor and founder of the city’s first newspaper, The Eau Gallie Record. Sadly, five of the Roesch’s six children died between the years 1887 and 1895. They are buried in the Houston Cemetery nearby, as are John Houston and his wife Mary. James Wadsworth Rossetter and his family (wife Ella and daughters, Caroline and Ella) arrived in 1902. The Rossetter House stands on the property Rossetter purchased in 1904, and is restored as it stood in 1908 as shown below. The material for the front / west portion of the house is said to have come from another home across the Eau Gallie River. That house was dissembled and then reassembled here, connected to the back portion by breezeways on two levels. Of particular note in the front are the bead board walls and ceilings, sometimes in elaborate patterns. This appears to be the work of shipbuilders rather than carpenters. Rossetter’s fish company was one of the largest consumers of gasoline in Eau Gallie, which is how he came to be the Standard Oil agent for South Brevard County. When James W. Rossetter passed away in 1921, Caroline (Carrie), the oldest of the Rossetter children, had been working with her father for a number of years and decided to take over her father's oil agency. A female oil agent was unheard of at the time, but she persuaded the Standard Oil Company to allow her to do so. She was a success for 62 years, becoming the longest running Standard Oil agent in the country. Carrie built some of the first gasoline stations in South Brevard and was the sole distributor of oil to the Banana River Naval Air Station's civilian air force during the Second World War. Caroline also continued her father's interests in the areas of both cattle and citrus. In 1991, Caroline and her sister, Ella, donated their family home and collection of Victorian antiques to the Rossetter House Foundation as a monument to Eau Gallie’s past. This local house museum is an excellent representation of what life was like on the Florida coast in the early 1900s. The house’s plain wooden interior paneling held up to the moist climate, and the furniture and fixtures are well preserved. Ella's Model A Ford remains in the garage. It is interesting to compare the Rossetter house the Henry Flagler’s home, Whitehall, in Palm Beach, Florida. Flagler was a founder of the Standard Oil Company while James Rossetter was a Standard Oil dealer. Both of their homes are linked to the inter-coastal waterway and were completed at about the same time. Both men have a connection to the Florida East Coast Railway – Flagler built it while Rossetter and Eau Gallie benefited from it. But there the similarities end. The Rossetter house would fit inside Whitehall at least 30 times. Monday, March 10, 2014 Marjory and I visited Palm Beach and Whitehall in February, 2014. This was the second "stop" on our tour of Florida Gilded Age mansions including Vizcaya in Miami and Ca' d'Zan in Sarasota. Whitehall is by far the largest of the three. At 100,000 square feet (including the lower floors of its one-time hotel addition), it is three times the size of Vizcaya. And unlike the others, Whitehall seems to have been constructed solely to impress. Henry Morrison Flagler was born on January 2, 1830 in Hopewell, New York. In 1853, he married Mary Harkness. They had three children, Jennie Louise, Carrie, Henry Harkness. Unfortunately, only Henry Harkness "Harry" Flagler would survive to have children. His daughter, Jean Flagler Matthews, later establish the Flagler Museum. Flagler was at first in the salt business, later entering the grain business as a commission merchant in Cleveland, Ohio. There he met John D. Rockefeller, who had decided to leave the grain business to start his own oil refinery. In need of capital for his new venture, Rockefeller approached Henry Flagler, who invested $100,000 and became Rockefeller's 25% partner. In just two years Standard Oil became the leader in the American oil refining industry. As secretary / treasurer, it was Flagler who, in effect, invented the modern corporation. His day-to-day involvement with Standard Oil continued until the mid-1880s. Flagler first became interested in Florida in 1878, when he wintered in Jacksonville because of his wife Mary's health. She passed in 1881, and Flagler married her nurse, Ida Alice Shourds, in 1883. Soon after their wedding, the couple traveled to St. Augustine, Florida, which they found charming but lacking in adequate hotels and transportation. Flagler believed that Florida had the potential to attract large numbers of tourists and began building hotels. He also purchased the Jacksonville, St. Augustine & Halifax Railroad that he expanded to became the Florida East Coast Railway. By 1896, the railroad had reached Palm Beach and Miami, and by 1912, its Over-Sea Railroad extension reached Key West. Flagler lost his second wife to mental illness. In 1901, Flagler married for the third time, to Mary Lily Kenan. Whitehall was built as a wedding present to Mary Lily in 1902. It was described by the New York Herald as, "... more wonderful than any palace in Europe, grander and more magnificent than any other private dwelling in the world." In 1913, Flagler fell down a flight of stairs at Whitehall, passing from his injuries soon after. Some say that Henry and Mary Lily are still in residence. Flagler commissioned Beaux-Arts architects Carrere and Hastings to design Whitehall. This resulted in a façade much like a temple. The Grand Hall is entered through large bronze doors. At 5,000 square feet, this marble-floored entry hall is the largest room in any Gilded Age home – large enough to contain two or three typical suburban dwellings. Ahead is a double staircase and, behind it, an open courtyard. To the left is Flagler’s very masculine library. He used this room to meet with business associates. Next is the more-feminine music room that doubles as an art gallery. Mrs. Flagler used this room for club meetings and bridge parties. Further to the rear is the billiards room – large enough to make two massive billiards table and other games to appear quite small. Across the south hall and behind the courtyard is the grand ballroom, nearly as large as the entry hall. When Whitehall was converted to a hotel in 1925, the lake front marbled terrace adjacent the ballroom was removed and replaced with a ten-story tower. While the hotel was removed in 1963, its two lower floors remain. As a result, this room no longer has a view of Lake Worth. To the right of the entry hall is the salon or drawing room. This room is decorated with aluminum leaf which, at the time of construction, was as expensive and precious as gold. Behind the drawing room are the dining room and breakfast room. Further to the rear were the butler’s pantry and kitchen, no longer in existence. On the second floor are bedroom suites, each with its own bath and closet and each decorated in a different style. There are also servants quarters including space for the servants of the Flagler’s guests. A 2005 addition to the property is the Flagler-Kenan Pavilion. In addition to a restaurant, it houses one of Flagler’s private railroad cars. Unlike Florida’s other Gilded Age mansions, this home is not primarily a display of precious art and antiques. Many of the furnishing are reproductions or were created specifically for Whitehall. Whitehall is all about what money can buy, leaving it devoid of the love and personal affection shown by James Deering at Vizcaya and by the Ringlings at Ca’ d’Zan. It is also interesting to compare Whitehall to the Rossetter house in Eau Gallie, Florida. Flagler was a founder of the Standard Oil Company while James Rossetter was a Standard Oil dealer. Both of their homes front the inter-coastal waterway and were built at about the same time. Both men have a connection to the Florida East Coast Railway – Flagler built it while Rossetter and Eau Gallie benefited from it. But there the similarities end. Though the Rossetters were somewhat well-to-do, their home would fit inside Whitehall at least 50 times. The James Deering estate of Vizcaya is from a time when seasonal houses and their gardens were a measure of personal wealth. Located in the Coconut Grove neighborhood of Miami, it is owned by Miami-Dade County. The estate includes one of the grand Gilded Age mansions that I so love to visit, and one of only three in Florida. Marjory and I have visited all three Florida mansions this winter including also Whitehall (Palm Beach) in February, and Ca’ d’Zan (at The Ringling on Sarasota) in March. We toured Vizcaya in late January. James Deering is from the family of farm equipment manufacturers whose company eventually became International Harvester. From this, the entire family achieved great wealth. James Deering began planning his winter home in 1910 and purchased the land on Biscayne Bay in 1912. Deering began to collect art, artifacts, and architectural elements which were later incorporated into both house and gardens. These collections span the entire period of the European renaissance and include items from Italy, France, Spain, and elsewhere. Working with designer Paul Chalfin, Deering first imagined a Spanish-style house. However, the design was later changed to that of an Italian villa (country house). The house was designed with an open center forming a courtyard. (The courtyard has been enclosed with a skylight since 1986 to help preserve the house and its treasures.) Construction of the main house was completed in 1916 and the gardens in 1921. At its peak, this project employed ten percent of the population of Miami at the time. The mansion offers a symmetrical view from the east, with Biscayne Bay intended as the main arrival route (see below). Today, visitors enter through the motor court on the west side. The north façade includes a swimming pool that emerges from vaulted arches at the lower level of the house. The south façade opens onto the formal gardens with enclosed loggias on the first and second floors. Perhaps the least that can be said about Vizcaya is that it is stunning. The interiors of the main house were meant to suggest the passing of time and the layered accumulation of artifacts and memories. Decorative elements and furnishings include Italian wood paneling, French silk walls and marbled walls, massive furniture pieces from the Napoleonic French empire period, and tapestries and paintings dating from 1300 to 1900. The grounds, too, are amazing, including a mound with a casino, a grand allee, a maze, fountains, a secret garden, and many others. Unique to my knowledge is the “barge,” actually a concrete and stone breakwater that sits between the house and the bay. This has helped to somewhat protect the house from the water. Originally a working estate, a dozen farm buildings, called Vizcaya Village, are still in existence across South Miami Avenue. It is hoped that these will someday be fully restored and open to the public. Deering, always a bachelor, passed in 1925. Partly because of the enormous cost of maintenance, Deering’s nieces sold the house to the county for a small fraction of its value in 1955. There is a very nice one-hour documentary on Vizcaya prepared by the local PBS-member station WPBT2 available online. It does far more than I possibly could in describing Mr. Deering’s legacy. Vizcaya is the smallest of Florida's Gilded Age mansions – originally only 30,000 square feet without the courtyard that was enclosed much later. But because of the blending of so many styles and periods of its furnishings and collections, it remains somewhat overwhelming. And its grounds were originally the largest. As always, I'm left with so many questions. Despite its magnificent water view, did Deering understand the peril of placing his house so close to Biscayne Bay? (It has been damaged by hurricanes at least four times.) Why did he feel the need for a working estate? Did he intend or expect that Vizcaya and its contents would become a museum after his passing? A single visit is not enough to fully absorb, understand, and appreciate this wonder created my James Deering and designer Paul Chalfin. Saturday, March 8, 2014 “The Ringling” is the State Art Museum of Florida. The property includes a historic mansion, art museum, circus museum, and historic theater on sixty-six acres of bay front property in Sarasota. The mansion and the art museum were constructed by the circus king John and his wife Mable Ringling. Of course, my greatest interest was in the mansion, Ca’ d’Zan or “House of John.” It is one of the grand Gilded Age mansions that I so love to visit, and one of only three in Florida. Marjory and I have visited all three Florida mansions this winter including Vizcaya (Miami) in late January, Whitehall (Palm Beach) in February, and Ca’ d’Zan (Sarasota) on March 4, 2014. Ca’ d’Zan is the youngest of the three, completed in 1925. At 36,000 square feet, it is larger than Vizcaya. But comparing the two houses without their courtyards, Ca’ d’Zan is smaller and far more intimate. The mansion, shown from the Sarasota Bay above, was inspired by and designed in the Venetian Gothic style of the palazzos (palaces) on Venice canals. The Ringlings loved Italy, and traveled there nearly every year while looking for new circus acts during the winter hiatus. They also indulged their love for art, amassing a collection so large that they needed their own museum to hold it. While there, we visited every square inch of the mansion that could be visited including the Guided Tour (first floor and part of the second floor) and the Private Places Tour. We were very fortunate to be the only takers for our Private Places Tour, giving us our own docent. In addition to seeing the balance of the second floor and the third floor game room, we also ascended to the fourth floor tower bedroom and then to the Belvedere on top. The views from the Belvedere were magnificent. As with the other Florida mansions, Ca’ d’Zan has a central courtyard. Differently, this courtyard was always enclosed having a central skylight with five soft colors of English glass. This was the Ringling’s primary space for entertaining. It has seven arched doorways that can open to the 1,300 square foot marble terrace adjacent to the bay. I was the most impressed with Mr. Ringling’s suite. (As was typical for the wealthy, Mrs. Ringling had her own suite.) Mr. Ringling had balconies opening to the east, south, and west, a 35-piece gilt mahogany bedroom set made in Paris, a marble bath with a tub made from a solid slab of marble, a private office, and an exercise room. If I have ever seen a nicer suite of rooms, I do not recall it. Ca’ d’Zan is clearly an architectural masterpiece. But is also warm and inviting, the kind of house where we could feel comfortable and at home. After so much time and effort viewing Ca’ d’Zan, we decided to upgrade out rickets to a multi-day pass and return for the art museum the next day. While art museums aren’t usually my thing, I’m glad we did. And Marjory loved the old masters, sometimes finding it difficult to speak. The museum begins with two galleries of enormous works by Rubens (1577-1640). The smallest, The Departure of Lot and His Family from Sodom, is 7 by 8 feet. The largest, at more than 12 by 17, is The Triumph of Divine Love. It is difficult not to be awe struck. However, my personal favorite is a much smaller work by Francesco del Cairo (1607-1665) at only 3 by 4 feet. I was attracted by the contrast – the whiteness of the subject’s skin against the blackness of her gown and the background along with the yellow and blue turban. It was only later that I understood the scene being depicted by del Cairo, which has also been painted by scores other artists including Roselli, Cesari, Baglione, and even Rubens in hundreds of paintings. This work titled Judith with the Head of Holofernes tells the heroic biblical tale of the Jewish widow who seduces and then beheads an Assyrian General to prevent him from ravaging the city of Bethulia. While I didn’t notice it at first, General Holofernes’ severed head can be seen at the lower left. Without even considering the circus museum or the theatre, we would gauge The Ringling as the best attraction for art and architecture buffs anywhere in Florida. Friday, March 7, 2014 Marjory and I visited the Edison and Ford Winter Estates in Fort Myers, Florida, on March 5, 2014. This site includes their winter homes, a laboratory, and a museum. Thomas Edison first purchased 13 acres of land and a cottage in Fort Myers in March of 1885, almost exactly 129 years before our visit. The younger Henry Ford first came to Fort Myers in 1914 at the invitation of Mr. Edison. He bought the house next door in 1916 (at far left in the photo below). While Edison often stayed the winter in Florida, Ford would visit for only a week or two each year. The homes are sturdy and well furnished, but clearly intended only as vacation cottages. Their greatest asset is their frontage on the Caloosahatchee River – the only means of access until the train arrived in 1904. Visitors are provided with an audio tour of the site. The homes are not actually entered – they are visible through the doorways and windows facing their extensive porches. We spent a pleasant two hours strolling the grounds. The museum has an extensive collection of Edison memorabilia with somewhat less about Mr. Ford. Although there are several Model T’s and a Model A on site, this is not an automotive museum. For me, the most interesting bit of history was about the rubber industry. During the 1870s, rubber tree seeds were smuggled from Brazil and rubber plantations established in East Asia. During World War I the price of rubber rose dramatically because a cartel of Dutch and English rubber barons controlled these plantations and the majority of the world’s rubber supply. As a result, Edison, Ford, and their friend Harvey Firestone began looking for solutions. One possible solution was to find a domestic plant that produced latex (a white milky sap). To that end, the Edison Botanic Research Corporation was formed in 1927 by Edison, Ford, and Firestone. Its laboratory was constructed across the road from the estates, completed in 1928. It was found that Goldenrod was the best domestic source of latex but that production costs were too high. The project continued for a few years after Edison’s death in 1931. At the same time, Henry Ford attempted to develop large-scale rubber plantations in Brazil. His first effort was to purchase nearly 2.5 million acres that he called Fordlandia in 1929. When the soil at Fordlandia was found to be inadequate, he bought another tract called Belterra in 1934 and shifted his emphasis there. At both plantations, he built entire towns along with schools, hospitals, and production facilities. By 1940, about 500 Brazilians worked at Fordlandia and another and 2,500 downstream at Belterra. However, mass production of latex rubber was never achieved. In 1931, the first viable synthetic rubber called Neoprene was developed. This eventually eliminated the need for Ford’s plantations, and in 1945 he sold both to Brazilian government at a loss of $20 million (over $200 million today). Synthetic rubber also removed the need for the Edison Botanic Research Corporation, which closed in 1936. Monday, March 3, 2014 James Robertson, early leader of both the Watauga and Cumberland settlements, has been called the “Father of Middle Tennessee.” Born in 1742 in Brunswick County, Virginia, he was the son of John and Mary Gower Robertson. He was the grandson of Israel Robertson, who was Marjory’s 6th great grandfather. Thus, James Robertson was her first cousin six times removed. In 1759, young Robertson accompanied explorer Daniel Boone on his third expedition to lands beyond the Allegheny Mountains. The party discovered the "Old Fields" (lands previously cultivated by Indians) along the Watauga River valley at present day Elizabethton, Tennessee, which Robertson planted with corn while Boone continued on to Kentucky. Physically, Robertson stood close to six feet tall, with dark hair, blue eyes, and a fair complexion. All descriptions of James Robertson point to an individual who was soft spoken and even-tempered, a person who maintained an inner composure regardless of external circumstances. Charlotte Reeves, who married Robertson in 1768, admired these traits. The daughter of a minister, Charlotte later persevered under the harsh frontier conditions and established a reputation for resourcefulness and strength. She and Robertson had thirteen children, two of whom died in infancy. In late 1769, Robertson grew increasingly frustrated with the provincial rule of North Carolina Governor William Tryon. He became part of the Regulator Movement, an uprising against corrupt colonial officials. He remembered his trip to the land west of the Appalachian Mountains and began to consider relocating his family there. They were living in the Watauga Valley by 1772. Encouraged by his favorable description of the land, several of Robertson's North Carolina cousins and neighbors decided to accompany him to the new frontier. In May 1772, when the Watauga settlers met to establish a government, they selected Robertson as one of the five magistrates to lead the Watauga Association. In addition, he was elected commander of the Watauga Fort. In 1777 Richard Henderson of the Transylvania Land Company purchased a large tract of land from the Cherokees, including most of what constitutes present-day Middle Tennessee. In the spring of 1779 Robertson and a small party of Wataugans, acting on behalf of Henderson's claim, traveled to a site along the Cumberland River known as French Lick. There they selected a suitable location for a new settlement. Late that same year, Robertson returned with a group of men to prepare temporary shelter for friends and relatives, who planned to join them in a few months. The men arrived on Christmas Day and drove their cattle across the frozen Cumberland River. Crude cabins were erected for immediate winter housing, and a fort was built atop a bluff along the river. The fort was named Fort Nashborough (now Nashville), in honor of Francis Nash, who had fought alongside Robertson at the battle of Alamance in 1771. The balance of the party, led by John Donelson, arrived by water on April 24, 1780. A statue erected along the Cumberland riverfront in Nashville shows James Robertson welcoming Donelson and his party to Fort Nashborough. Donelson’s daughter Rachel, 13 years old at the time their arrival, would become the wife of Andrew Jackson, the future war hero and seventh President of the United States. Rachel died suddenly just before Jackson’s inauguration, never becoming First Lady. A faction of Cherokees known as the Chickamaugas opposed the Transylvania Purchase and warned the new settlers that trouble would follow their claim to the land. Attacks on the Cumberland settlement lasted several years and reached a peak between 1789 and 1794. Robertson's brothers, John and Mark, were killed, as were his sons, Peyton and James Jr. Another son, Jonathan, was scalped. Robertson narrowly escaped death on two occasions. Once he was shot in the foot while hoeing corn. Another time he was ambushed along a trail and received gunshot wounds in both wrists. In 1790 Congress created the Territory South of the River Ohio, and Robertson became lieutenant colonel commandant of the Mero District. The following year, President George Washington appointed him brigadier general of the U.S. Army of the same region. Under Robertson's guidance, the settlers worked together and persevered. Eventually attacks on the community decreased, and the population rose with the arrival of new settlers. As the Cumberland settlement entered a period of prosperity, the Robertsons built a comfortable brick home. Occasionally, Robertson acted on behalf of the federal government to assist in the treaty negotiations with various Indian tribes. In 1804 he was commissioned U.S. Indian agent to the Chickasaw and Choctaw Nations. His final mission took him to the Chickasaw Agency at Chickasaw Bluff (near Memphis). In his seventies, Robertson made the trip during heavy rains that forced him to swim several swollen creeks along the way. As a result, he became ill and died there on September 1, 1814. His remains were later returned to Nashville, where he received a formal burial in the City Cemetery. James’ son Felix Robertson served as mayor of Nashville during 1818 and 1819. In World War II, the United States liberty ship SS James Roberton was named in his honor. She was torpedoed by the German U-boat U-185 and sunk 175 miles east of Brazil on July 7, 1943. The first of Marjory’s Robinson / Robertson ancestors to come to the new world was her 9th great grandfather Christopher Robinson in 1642. As you would suspect from his name, Christopher’s ancestors were Scandinavian, migrating first to Scotland and then to England. Soon after his arrival in Virginia, Christopher married Frances Marie Burrell, also a settler from England. The oldest of their four sons, Edward (Marjory’s 8th great grandfather) was born soon thereafter in 1645. The family remained largely on the middle peninsula of Virginia until Edward’s grandson Israel Robinson (1698-1758, Marjory’s 6th great grandfather) moved inland to Granville County, North Carolina, north of present-day Raleigh. Many of Israel’s descendants eventually moved west over the mountains becoming settlers in what is now the State of Tennessee. During these many years, the family name was heard and written in various ways including Robinson, Robertson, and sometimes Robison or Robeson. They are the same family but, some being illiterate, relied on others to record their names. Israel’s son Charles B. Robinson (1733-1798, Marjory’s 5th great grandfather) and Israel’s grandson James Robinson/Robertson (1742-1814, Marjory’s 1st cousin six times removed) are among the most known. Both were commissioners elected by the Watauga Association, the first representative government west of the Allegheny Mountains formed in 1772. Charles and his son Julius Caesar Robinson fought with the Overmountain Men at Kings Mountain. Julius is also famous for his earlier role in the Battle of Point Pleasant. Later, Charles was a leader in the founding of the failed State of Franklin, being speaker of its senate. James traveled even further west, establishing Fort Nashborough, the present-day City of Nashville. There, he signed the Cumberland Compact establishing a constitutional government for the settlers. James Robertson is often called the “Father of Middle Tennessee.”

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Tuesday, June 24, 2008 EDITORIAL >>Prospecting for good jobs Even the occasional good economic news nowadays is alloyed with the bad. Central Arkansas landed the biggest industrial prize of the era last week, but time will tell whether it was worth the high public cost. For now, we must assume that it is and celebrate with Governor Beebe, Conway city officials and the economic-development establishment the announcement that Hewlett Packard, one of the leading technology companies in the world, will build a support center at Conway and employ 1,200 people, eventually. They will be upscale jobs, with starting salaries upwards of $40,000 a year and some jobs paying in six figures. Arkansas has had to be content with industries that provide low-paying jobs in apparel, food processing and services. Arkansas has lost out over and over to neighboring states in the quest for the big automotive plants that employ thousands and pay wages well above the median wage in Arkansas, but lately the governor and economic-development officials have been able to announce a few consolation prizes. Last year, LM Glasfiber announced that it would make windmill blades at Little Rock and employ 1,100 people someday. Conway won over neighboring states and several suburban towns in Arkansas — apparently Jacksonville, Sherwood, North Little Rock, Cabot, Lonoke, Beebe and others weren’t considered good enough for the Hewlett Packard center, which also will start a slightly larger operation in an Albuquerque suburb. Three colleges, a large college-educated population, good transportation, the lack of sprawl and even a restrictive city sign ordinance were decisive factors for Conway. Those and, of course, eager government officials with limber pocketbooks. Arkansas has never before offered so many financial incentives to an industry, and we will never know whether those were essential to landing those jobs and the fat payroll. Industries never say that the publicly financed incentives were decisive but, of course, every company is grateful and it is a rare one now that does entertain bidding from competing cities and states. Even the hefty incentives offered by Arkansas and Conway are only mousepads to a company that is 14th on the Fortune 400 list, but who can blame executives for exploiting every financial advantage that they can when they expand or move? Conway’s workforce, geographical and environmental advantages may have been compelling for the giant company, but few companies are willing to leave any money on the table when a little bargaining and teasing about competing offers will improve the bottom line. Gov. Beebe put up $10 million from the quick-action closing fund that he had the legislature establish last year to help him in the bidding battles for new industry. The city of Conway doled out $5 million. The land at the Conway industrial development park will be free and a lease on the building that the city will build will be heavily subsidized. The state will rebate sales taxes to the company, give it a sizable credit on its income taxes for a few years, rebate 5 percent of the company’s payroll for 10 years if it meets the terms of a private and undisclosed agreement and, as always, help train the workforce. The city of Conway agreed to slash property taxes on the plant and equipment by 65 percent although the Conway schools, which depend upon property taxes, will have to educate an influx of students when the center reaches full employment. Not all the terms of the taxpayers’ investment are known or intended to be known, but we trust the media will pursue the truth. Arkansas taxpayers are making a sizable investment in the industry in hopes that it will provide good jobs for lots of Arkansas people and energize a lumbering economy that is shedding payrolls and jobs at an accelerating clip. Is it worth it? Probably, although we wish that states and localities had not got themselves into these enervating bidding wars over industry. Arkansas did not start it and participates now with some desperation. The test will be whether the support center fulfills the company’s hiring promises and hangs around long enough to repay the public’s generous investment. But the next time a big prospect comes looking, let’s hope our own communities right here will get a better shot at landing one — without giving away the store. With Little Rock Air Force Base and a nearby college-level education center scheduled for construction next year, another high-tech prospect should take a more serious look at us.

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2010 INTERNATIONAL FAITH CONFERENCE Summary: Don't leave the revelation, wisdom and divine insight of the 2010 International Faith Conference (IFC) at the conference. Relive the excitement and delve even deeper into the revelation and anointing of the 2010 IFC. Featured Speakers Include: Bishop Tudor Bismark, Kenneth Copeland, John Bevere, Dr. Bill Winston, and Dr. Creflo A. Dollar. Take charge and set your faith on fire exercising the revelation shared in this 2010 IFC series. Start using your faith like never before to boldly lay hold of everything God said is yours!Release Year: 2010

Shortly you will receive an email, which you need to validate in order to complete your registration process. Then you can enjoy all the benefits of forming part of fcbarcelona.com and being a Barça Fan! You have [$USER_DIFFTIME$] days left to validate your account and complete the registration process Puyol and Xavi played in a friendly at the Amsterdam Arena 11 years ago The two squad captains played against Ajax in a pre-season friendly in 2002 FC Barcelona lost the game 4-3, with goals from Kluivert and Saviola (2) L'equip titular l'agost del 2002. FOTO: MIGUEL RUIZ - FCB This Tuesday's game against Ajax in Amsterdam will no doubt bring back memories for the two squad captains Carles Puyol and Xavi Hernández of the last time they faced the Dutch giants on their home turf – on August 4th 2002. both players were in the starting lie up and whilst Xavi played the full 90 minutes, Puyol was replaced by Gabri just past the hour mark. After leading 1-3 thanks to goals from Kluivert and Saviola (2), Barça went down 4-3 after a great Dutch comeback. The Ajax team featured Richard Witschge and Zlatan Ibrahimovic and was coached by Ronald Koeman. All of whom had had or were to have a connection with the club. The match was part of the Amsterdam Tournament, which also featured Parma and Manchester United. Barça finished runners up to Ajax after beating the Italians 2-4.

In 2017, I do not resolve… I don’t make New Year’s resolutions. What’s the point? I know I wouldn’t keep them. I mean, I could resolve to cease my regular criticisms of jock journalists. And I could really, really mean it. Girl Guides honor. Cross my heart and hope to die. But then one of the girls or boys on the beat would scribble or say something goofy, dumb, ridiculous or all of the above and it would be like a tub of chocolate swirl ice cream—I would have to have at it. Thus, I do the opposite. I make New Year’s non-resolutions. That way, I can’t go wrong. I know I’ll break every one of my non-resolutions long before the year is done and I’ll be happy about it. With that in mind, here are my New Year’s non-resolutions for 2017… Patti Dawn Swansson has been writing about Winnipeg sports for 47 years, longer than any living being. Do not, however, assume that to mean she harbors a wealth of sports knowledge or that she’s a jock journalist of award-winning loft. It simply means she is old and comfortable at a keyboard (although arthritic fingers sometimes make typing a bit of a chore) and she apparently doesn’t know when to quit. Or she can’t quit. She is most proud of her Q Award, presented in 2012 for her scribblings about the LGBT community in Victoria, B.C., and her induction into the Manitoba Sportswriters & Sportscasters Association Media Roll of Honour in 2015. 2 thoughts on “In 2017, I do not resolve…” More than a few chuckles from me on this one. Especially #4, #10, #11. If all these things come true, it will be another dismal year for Wpg sports fans…but then again, when has it not been a dismal year for Wpg sports fans? At least I will have the satisfaction of reading you tell it like it is Patti.

Options Hash (opts): Set the default safe-mode options for insert, update, and remove method called on this Collection instance. If no value is provided, the default value set on this instance’s DB will be used. This default can be overridden for any invocation of insert, update, or remove. Core docs: # File 'lib/mongo/collection.rb', line 47definitialize(name,db,opts={})ifdb.is_a?(String)&&name.is_a?(Mongo::DB)warn"Warning: the order of parameters to initialize a collection have changed. "+"Please specify the collection name first, followed by the db."db,name=name,dbendcasenamewhenSymbol,StringelseraiseTypeError,"new_name must be a string or symbol"endname=name.to_sifname.empty?orname.include?".."raiseMongo::InvalidNSName,"collection names cannot be empty"endifname.include?"$"raiseMongo::InvalidNSName,"collection names must not contain '$'"unlessname=~/((^\$cmd)|(oplog\.\$main))/endifname.match(/^\./)orname.match(/\.$/)raiseMongo::InvalidNSName,"collection names must not start or end with '.'"endifopts.respond_to?(:create_pk)||!opts.is_a?(Hash)warn"The method for specifying a primary key factory on a Collection has changed.\n"+"Please specify it as an option (e.g., :pk => PkFactory)."pk_factory=optselsepk_factory=nilend@db,@name=db,name@[email protected]@[email protected]_time@cache=Hash.new(0)unlesspk_factory@safe=opts.fetch(:safe,@db.safe)end@pk_factory=pk_factory||opts[:pk]||BSON::ObjectId@hint=nilend Examples: Creating a compound index: Creating a geospatial index: @restaurants.create_index([['location',Mongo::GEO2D]])# Note that this will work only if 'location' represents x,y coordinates:{'location':[0,50]}{'location':{'x'=>0,'y'=>50}}{'location':{'latitude'=>0,'longitude'=>50}} Parameters: Note that geospatial indexing only works with versions of MongoDB >= 1.3.3+. Keep in mind, too, that in order to geo-index a given field, that field must reference either an array or a sub-object where the first two values represent x- and y-coordinates. Examples can be seen below. Also note that it is permissible to create compound indexes that include a geospatial index as long as the geospatial index comes first. If your code calls create_index frequently, you can use Collection#ensure_index to cache these calls and thereby prevent excessive round trips to the database. Return a list of distinct values for key across all documents in the collection. The key may use dot notation to reach into an embedded object. Examples: Saving zip codes and ages and returning distinct results. @collection.save({:zip=>10010,:name=>{:age=>27}})@collection.save({:zip=>94108,:name=>{:age=>24}})@collection.save({:zip=>10010,:name=>{:age=>27}})@collection.save({:zip=>99701,:name=>{:age=>24}})@collection.save({:zip=>94108,:name=>{:age=>27}})@collection.distinct(:zip)[10010,94108,99701]@collection.distinct("name.age")[27,24]# You may also pass a document selector as the second parameter# to limit the documents over which distinct is run:@collection.distinct("name.age",{"name.age"=>{"$gt"=>24}})[27] Calls create_index and sets a flag to not do so again for another X minutes. this time can be specified as an option when initializing a Mongo::DB object as options[:cache_time] Any changes to an index will be propogated through regardless of cache time (e.g., a change of index direction) The parameters and options for this methods are the same as those for Collection#create_index. Returns: # File 'lib/mongo/collection.rb', line 448defensure_index(spec,opts={})now=Time.now.utc.to_ifield_spec=parse_index_spec(spec)name=opts.delete(:name)||generate_index_name(field_spec)name=name.to_sifnameif!@cache[name]||@cache[name]<=nowgenerate_indexes(field_spec,name,opts)end# Reset the cache here in case there are any errors inserting. Best to be safe.@cache[name]=now+@cache_timenameend The selector argument is a prototype document that all results must match. For example: collection.find({"hello"=>"world"}) only matches documents that have a key "hello" with value "world". Matches can have other keys *in addition* to "hello". If given an optional block find will yield a Cursor to that block, close the cursor, and then return nil. This guarantees that partially evaluated cursors will be closed. If given no block find returns a cursor. Parameters: a document specifying elements which must be present for a document to be included in the result set. Note that in rare cases, (e.g., with $near queries), the order of keys will matter. To preserve key order on a selector, use an instance of BSON::OrderedHash (only applies to Ruby 1.8). Options Hash (opts): field names that should be returned in the result set ("_id" will be included unless explicity excluded). By limiting results to a certain subset of fields, you can cut down on network traffic and decoding time. If using a Hash, keys should be field names and values should be either 1 or 0, depending on whether you want to include or exclude the given field. hint for query optimizer, usually not necessary if using MongoDB > 1.1 (Boolean):snapshot — default: false — if true, snapshot mode will be used for this query. Snapshot mode assures no duplicates are returned, or objects missed, which were preset at both the start and end of the query’s execution. For details see http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/How+to+do+Snapshotting+in+the+Mongo+Database (Boolean):batch_size — default: 100 — the number of documents to returned by the database per GETMORE operation. A value of 0 will let the database server decide how many results to returns. This option can be ignored for most use cases. (Boolean):timeout — default: true — when true, the returned cursor will be subject to the normal cursor timeout behavior of the mongod process. When false, the returned cursor will never timeout. Note that disabling timeout will only work when #find is invoked with a block. This is to prevent any inadvertant failure to close the cursor, as the cursor is explicitly closed when block code finishes. Raises: (ArgumentError) — if timeout is set to false and find is not invoked in a block (RuntimeError) — if given unknown options Core docs: # File 'lib/mongo/collection.rb', line 168deffind(selector={},opts={})fields=opts.delete(:fields)fields=["_id"]iffields&&fields.empty?skip=opts.delete(:skip)||skip||0limit=opts.delete(:limit)||0sort=opts.delete(:sort)hint=opts.delete(:hint)snapshot=opts.delete(:snapshot)batch_size=opts.delete(:batch_size)timeout=(opts.delete(:timeout)==false)?false:trueiftimeout==false&&!block_given?raiseArgumentError,"Collection#find must be invoked with a block when timeout is disabled."endifhinthint=normalize_hint_fields(hint)elsehint=@hint# assumed to be normalized alreadyendraiseRuntimeError,"Unknown options [#{opts.inspect}]"unlessopts.empty?cursor=Cursor.new(self,:selector=>selector,:fields=>fields,:skip=>skip,:limit=>limit,:order=>sort,:hint=>hint,:snapshot=>snapshot,:timeout=>timeout,:batch_size=>batch_size)ifblock_given?yieldcursorcursor.closenilelsecursorendend specify a sort option for the query using any of the sort options available for Cursor#sort. Sort order is important if the query will be matching multiple documents since only the first matching document will be updated and returned. (Boolean):remove — default: false — If true, removes the the returned document from the collection. (Boolean):new — default: false — If true, returns the updated document; otherwise, returns the document prior to update. Parameters: a hash specifying elements which must be present for a document to be included in the result set or an instance of ObjectId to be used as the value for an _id query. If nil, an empty selector, {}, will be used. Options Hash (opts): Returns: (OrderedHash, Nil) — a single document or nil if no result is found. Raises: (TypeError) — if the argument is of an improper type. 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 # File 'lib/mongo/collection.rb', line 218deffind_one(spec_or_object_id=nil,opts={})spec=casespec_or_object_idwhennil{}whenBSON::ObjectId{:_id=>spec_or_object_id}whenHashspec_or_object_idelseraiseTypeError,"spec_or_object_id must be an instance of ObjectId or Hash, or nil"endfind(spec,opts.merge(:limit=>-1)).next_documentend # File 'lib/mongo/collection.rb', line 585defgroup(opts,condition={},initial={},reduce=nil,finalize=nil)ifopts.is_a?(Hash)returnnew_group(opts)elsewarn"Collection#group no longer take a list of parameters. This usage is deprecated."+"Check out the new API at http://api.mongodb.org/ruby/current/Mongo/Collection.html#group-instance_method"endreduce=BSON::Code.new(reduce)unlessreduce.is_a?(BSON::Code)group_command={"group"=>{"ns"=>@name,"$reduce"=>reduce,"cond"=>condition,"initial"=>initial}}ifopts.is_a?(Symbol)raiseMongoArgumentError,"Group takes either an array of fields to group by or a JavaScript function"+"in the form of a String or BSON::Code."endunlessopts.nil?ifopts.is_a?Arraykey_type="key"key_value={}opts.each{|k|key_value[k]=1}elsekey_type="$keyf"key_value=opts.is_a?(BSON::Code)?opts:BSON::Code.new(opts)endgroup_command["group"][key_type]=key_valueendfinalize=BSON::Code.new(finalize)iffinalize.is_a?(String)iffinalize.is_a?(BSON::Code)group_command['group']['finalize'][email protected](group_command)ifMongo::Support.ok?(result)result["retval"]elseraiseOperationFailure,"group command failed: #{result['errmsg']}"endend Options Hash (opts): run the operation in safe mode, which run a getlasterror command on the database to report any assertion. In addition, a hash can be provided to run an fsync and/or wait for replication of the insert (>= 1.5.1). Safe options provided here will override any safe options set on this collection, its database object, or the current connection. See the options on for DB#get_last_error. Returns: (ObjectId, Array) — The _id of the inserted document or a list of _ids of all inserted documents. a valid output type. In versions of MongoDB prior to v1.7.6, this option takes the name of a collection for the output results. In versions 1.7.6 and later, this option specifies the output type. See the core docs for available output types. (Boolean):keeptemp — default: false — if true, the generated collection will be persisted. The defualt is false. Note that this option has no effect is versions of MongoDB > v1.7.6. (Boolean):verbose — default: false — if true, provides statistics on job execution time. (Boolean):raw — default: false — if true, return the raw result object from the map_reduce command, and not the instantiated collection that’s returned by default. Note if a collection name isn’t returned in the map-reduce output (as, for example, when using :out => => 1), then you must specify this option or an ArgumentError will be raised. See Also: Core docs: # File 'lib/mongo/collection.rb', line 542defmap_reduce(map,reduce,opts={})map=BSON::Code.new(map)unlessmap.is_a?(BSON::Code)reduce=BSON::Code.new(reduce)unlessreduce.is_a?(BSON::Code)raw=opts.delete(:raw)hash=BSON::OrderedHash.newhash['mapreduce']=self.namehash['map']=maphash['reduce'][email protected](hash)unlessMongo::Support.ok?(result)raiseMongo::OperationFailure,"map-reduce failed: #{result['errmsg']}"endifrawresultelsifresult["result"]@db[result["result"]]elseraiseArgumentError,"Could not instantiate collection from result. If you specified "+"{:out => {:inline => true}}, then you must also specify :raw => true to get the results."endend Options Hash (opts): run the operation in safe mode, which will run a getlasterror command on the database to report any assertion. In addition, a hash can be provided to run an fsync and/or wait for replication of the remove (>= 1.5.1). Safe options provided here will override any safe options set on this collection, its database, or the current connection. See the options for DB#get_last_error for more details. Raises: # File 'lib/mongo/collection.rb', line 723defrename(new_name)casenew_namewhenSymbol,StringelseraiseTypeError,"new_name must be a string or symbol"endnew_name=new_name.to_sifnew_name.empty?ornew_name.include?".."raiseMongo::InvalidNSName,"collection names cannot be empty"endifnew_name.include?"$"raiseMongo::InvalidNSName,"collection names must not contain '$'"endifnew_name.match(/^\./)ornew_name.match(/\.$/)raiseMongo::InvalidNSName,"collection names must not start or end with '.'"[email protected]_collection(@name,new_name)@name=new_nameend - (ObjectId) save(doc, opts = {}) Save a document to this collection. Parameters: the document to be saved. If the document already has an ‘_id’ key, then an update (upsert) operation will be performed, and any existing document with that _id is overwritten. Otherwise an insert operation is performed. Options Hash (opts): run the operation in safe mode, which run a getlasterror command on the database to report any assertion. In addition, a hash can be provided to run an fsync and/or wait for replication of the save (>= 1.5.1). See the options for DB#error. Parameters: a hash specifying elements which must be present for a document to be updated. Note: the update command currently updates only the first document matching the given selector. If you want all matching documents to be updated, be sure to specify :multi => true. Options Hash (opts): update all documents matching the selector, as opposed to just the first matching document. Note: only works in MongoDB 1.1.3 or later. (Boolean):safe — default: +false+ — If true, check that the save succeeded. OperationFailure will be raised on an error. Note that a safe check requires an extra round-trip to the database. Safe options provided here will override any safe options set on this collection, its database object, or the current collection. See the options for DB#get_last_error for details.

The Texabilly Rockets were founded in March 1993. They hail from Lisbon in Portugal. Back in the 90's the Texabilly Rockets were known as The Texabilly Rockers, written with an "R", until 2004 when they changed one letter. Why they changed their name I can't tell you, but Rockers they are for sure! They were a rarity on the rockabilly scene in Portugal as there were but a few rockabilly bands that came from that area. These days they are well known, played in 1997 at some great festivals such as Hemsby and Calella and in 1998 they made their first tour through Spain and France. The next years, 1999-2000, they toured Europe through Spain, France, Great Brittain and Germany. Now 15 year rockin' years later they have recorded 5 CDs and one 10" LP, performed at the biggest festivals in Europe and are still going strong! As we speak of wild live performances, you can see them live at some great festivals this year such as Walldorf Rockin' Rollin' Festival (D) in May and in Eibergen (NL) at the second Eggbilly Festival in September 2009. Be there! This new Cd "Raw & Wild" has fifteen tracks of which eleven are selfpenned. We are about to find out if this CD sounds just as the title wants us to believe. Well... It opens indeed raw & wild with "Doggone Fool". Neo Rockabilly at it's best. It does not slow down with "Outerspace Chick", hard guitars and a stomping rhythm section. A great cover "Up Jumped The Devil", written by the late great Ronnie Dawson, sounds so good to me, I think Ronnie would have been happy to hear this. Next is "Strollin' Gal", a good song but I would have a little less bass mixed into it. That same bass is just great on "I Can't Stop!", the speed and loudness builds up great in this one. After a dry cough on the CD it's on to "Your Heart In My Garbage Can", a nice Texabilly Rockets original. On to some melodic Rockabilly in the form of "Blue Black Hair". I recon this one to one of my favourites on this CD. Everything is great: drums, guitars, bass, even the voice of WildCat Shaker has a bit of Elvis! It sounds as if he comes from the southern states, but then in America! Over from one of the best to one of the worst on this CD: "What's The Matter With You". This song is just not for me, sorry. Everybody sure knows Long Blond Hair, written by Johnny Powers. These gentlemen have called it "Kitty Kat's Awful Nice". It is the same great song but arranged by Rui Andrade. The only thing in this song that I miss is that great slappin' Bass, the bass is there, but no slap sound, it's a pity. We're gonna rock with "Barefoot Baby", nice fast and hard, some heavy lead guitar, that you can hear throughout this CD, boy that man can play the guitar! They have next a Rockabilly Ballad for you. It is Called: "My Baby's Leavin' " Nicely done! J. Miller wrote "Blues Stop Knockin' " and the Texabilly Rockets made a very good cover out of it. The sound of the vocals does fit perfectly in here. As where I said a little less bass... not on the next "Gonna Get Myself A Woman". This has a great rhythm section and some of that great lead guitar again. Number two of my personal favourites! Pure Rockabilly as it should be: "Sweet Baby Blues". Played the hard way. The most of you rockers know "Don't Hang Around Me Anymore" written by Jimmy Ford back in 1959. Also most don't think of it as a great song. I must agree. There are just a few bands at this planet Bop that have made a good cover of this song, and the Texabilly Rockets are not among the best bands that have done this. It's the last song on this album, but certainly not the best. But let me tell you that I have had really much fun with this CD, I'm gonna play it more often! Conclusion: The Texabilly Rockets have done what they said: This CD is Raw & Wild!!

dwgPR Boulder, CO -- (SBWIRE) -- 09/18/2013 -- The Aquaponic Source, a retail store and education center specializing in aquaponics, announces its grand opening event, which will take place on October 5, 2013, from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. The center is located at 1860 Lefthand Circle, Suite E, in Longmont, Colo., 15 minutes NE of Boulder. The public and media are all invited to attend the grand opening celebration and learn about aquaponics, as well as tour the new retail store, education center, and research and development lab. “We are thrilled to be opening our Aquaponics center, and look forward to seeing many people come out to learn about this green way of gardening,” explained Sylvia Bernstein, president of The Aquaponic Source, and author of the book “Aquaponics Gardening: A Step-By-Step Guide to Raising Vegetables and Fish Together” (New Society Publishers, October 2011). “It’s a fascinating and sustainable movement that anyone can get their family into.” The new Aquaponics facility features 7,600 square feet of space, including a retail store, classroom, and a research and development lab. The grand opening will offer information and demonstrations on how aquaponics systems work, a tour of the facility, refreshments, and a 15-percent-off coupon that is good on all items in the retail store. Once open, The Aquaponic Source will be the only center in the country that focuses on this green gardening technology, which symbiotically grows fish and vegetables in one’s backyard, basement, balcony, or classroom. The technology uses fish waste to provide the necessary nutrients to grow the plants, while the plants and beneficial bacteria act as a natural bio-filter to keep the water clean for the fish. Many people have been turning to aquaponics for its environmentally friendly principals, as well as to have a fun family do-it-yourself project. The classes will teach people how to be successful with aquaponics, while the retail store will sell all of the necessary supplies, including aquaponics systems and aquaponics plumbing kits. The items have been expertly designed, are low maintenance and easy to set up, and come with a 100 percent satisfaction guarantee. “Stop by our grand opening, take a look around, and feel free to bring all of your aquaponics questions with you,” added Bernstein. “We look forward to serving the aquaponics community and getting more people into this type of gardening that marries the best of aquaculture with hydroponics.” The Aquaponics facility is located at 1860 Lefthand Circle, Suite E, in Longmont, Colo. Its hours, Monday through Thursday, are from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m, and Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. For more information, visit the site at: www.theaquaponicsource.com. About The Aquaponic Source The Aquaponic Source is located in Longmont, Colo. It was started by Sylvia Bernstein, an aquaponics expert and award-winning author, who has a degree in Agricultural Economics from the University of California, Davis. The facility offers a retail store, classes, and a laboratory, and it offers information and guidance for aquaponics gardening in the home and at schools. For more information, visit the site at: www.theaquaponicsource.com.

It’s not cultural to attack widows – Majority leader The Majority Leader of Parliament, Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu, has condemned the Minority’s decision to call the newly elected Member of Parliament for Ayawaso West Wuogon, Lydia Seyram Alhassan, a “bloody widow”. According to him, the behaviour put up by the Minority Members of Parliament was appalling, adding that it was not cultural for honourable members to be involved in such acts. “I was outside the country with the President on an assignment when I heard what the minority MPs had done in parliament. In fact, that was appaling and the least said about their conduct, the better. It is not part of our culture to attack widows in our country and we need to condemn it,” he stated on Okay FM monitored by Adomonline.com. Members of Parliament on the minority side, on Tuesday 5th February 2019 staged a walkout during the newly elected Member of Parliament. Minority Chief Whip, Muntaka Mubarak Mohammed led the boycott of the swearing-in in order to solidarize with the victims of the violence that occurred at the La Bawaleshie polling centre during the election. The minority, in turn, displayed placards with the inscription “bloody widow”. But Mr Kyei Mensah-Bonsu, said even if the men didn’t see the emotional trauma accompanying widowhood, at least the female MPs should have empathised with Madam Lydia Seyram Alhassan without being political. POPULAR CATEGORY AdomOnline.com is your news, politics, business, sports, entertainment, lifestyle website. We provide you with the latest breaking news and content straight from the motherland Ghana and other countries beyond.

If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. About the Repticon Springfield Show: Repticon continues an onward march into Missouri with Repticon Springfield! This latest show in the national Repticon series brought all the excitement of thousands of reptiles and other exotic animals to the herpetological enthusiasts in this untapped area of animal lovers. Hosted at the The Shrine Mosque in Springfield for the type of event for which Repticon has become famous. In addition to endless animals and merchandise, there will be raffles of fabulous prizes and hourly educational and entertaining live animal seminars. Make your plans now to attend this newest Repticon show in the middle of America.

PHOTOS: Portugal live to fight another day; Algeria thump Korea PHOTOS: Portugal vs USA; Algeria edge past South Korea Just when it looked as though the Americans had secured a come-from-behind victory to qualify for the second round, Silvestre Varela scored with a flying header from a Cristiano Ronaldo cross to keep alive Portugal's hopes. Clint Dempsey had given the United States the lead in the 81st minute, steering the ball home with his stomach from close range. But Varela's stoppage-time equaliser helped Portugal to secure a 2-2 draw in the Group G match at Manaus. Nani put Portugal ahead in the fifth minute Nani scored in the fifth minute to give Portugal a 1-0 lead against the United States at halftime in their Group G match on Sunday, firing home from the edge of the six-yard box after a defensive error by Geoff Cameron. The winger nearly doubled Portugal's lead in the 45th minute when he struck the post with a long-range shot. U.S. goalkeeper Tim Howard made a fine save from Eder's follow-up effort. Algeria thrash South Korea 4-2 In an earlier match, Algeria thrashed South Korea 4-2 in a Group H match at Estadio Beira-Rio in Porto Alegre. Algeria led South Korea 3-0 at halftime after totally dominating their opponents in a half in which they also spurned several chances. Algeria took the lead in the 26th minute when striker Islam Slimani ran on to a long upfield pass and held off two Korean defenders before guiding the ball past onrushing goalkeeper Kim Chang-soo. The North Africans doubled their lead just two minutes later when Rafik Halliche headed home a corner from Abdelmoume Djabou and added a third in the 38th minute when a Slimani pass found Djabou inside the box and the attacking midfielder swept a left- foot shot into the corner of the net. Please click NEXT for more... Image: Islam Slimani of Algeria celebrates scoring his team's first goal during the Group H against South KoreaPhotographs: Paul Gilham/Getty Images First African team to score four goals When Abdelmoumene Djabou got the third in the 38th minute, it marked only the third time in tournament history that an African side had scored three goals in the first half - after Algeria's effort against Chile in 1982 and Senegal's effort against Uruguay in 2002. It's an unbelievable feat considering four years earlier, Algeria failed to trouble the scorers in South Africa. Five minutes after the restart, Son Heung-Min pulled one back for Korea. However, in the 62nd minute Yacine Brahimi scored his first international goal to restore his side's three goal advantage, thereby making Algeria the first African side to score four times in a World Cup match. Image: Abdelmoumene Djabou of Algeria celebrates after scoring his team's third goal as Yun Suk-Young and Han Kook-Young of South Korea reactPhotographs: Paul Gilham/Getty Images

Can't wait for this! I'm not bad at DDR but haven't ever competed in a tourney before. I'm really looking forward to seeing where I stand (even if I don't make it past qualifiers, haha). Sorry if I'm the 5th person to ask this, but any news on the functionality of the USB sticks? I've written quite a few files but haven't had the time+money+room+(other nouns) to play them on a pad, and I'd really like to see how they play on a proper DDR rig. So I think it's safe to assume there will be yet another year of DDR/ITG tourneys? Looking forward to another Ninevolt pack of AB songs Been practicing so I can try to keep up with all the 13's/14s this year hurrays We are shaping our Dance Box setup atm. I say dance box because this year we will have Pump it Up, along with DDR/ITG. We're trying to secure a third machine so that we can have all three running at the same time which would be crazy fun... Hey, I know this seems random, but I wanted to know if the (Anime) pack for this year's DDR Event/Tournament will be available for download. I can offer some anime songs for pad myself, and there are plenty of people who step pad as well over at the SM (Stepmania) community sites. Especially http://www.otakusdream.com/ I planned to come this year and I have my ticket paid for, but unfortunately I'm unable to go financially. I can still try to send some simfiles though if you want. I only need requirements (song bit rate minimum, length requirements, length patched, banner/bg requirements, etc.) and I might be able to help out. If you need to contact me you can always contact me at http://stepmaniaonline.com/ I don't plan to advertise this site at all, I'm only hoping to provide more songs for the DDR/ITG machines. I really wish I could go, I was planning to tear it up. Yeah, this should definitely be considered for the convention. You guys don't need to make your own song packs, there are a good deal more in the stepmania communities that are specifically for pad. I strongly encourage looking into otaku's dream and the site ddrxero64 linked to. Thanks for the consideration, but there is already an anime-themed simfile pack that I just finished up and about to upload for release. The idea for these simfile packs much like last year's packs is to compile a pack of fresh new high-quality unreleased simfiles that the whole dance game community can enjoy. I've been coordinating this little project since AB 2009, and I will continue to do it until I basically get bored of it. Here is the list of songs included in the pack [strike]that will be available for download shortly[/strike] available for download below: No problem. In fact, I'm glad to see more simfile artists out there. It's becoming a little less quiet in that scene. I'm downloading the pack, I'll definitely enjoy it. Off the side, do you use ddreamstudio to step these? Or the stepmania in game editor? I'll also play these with Xmods, some people jump straight to Cmods without any consideration of the BPM changes, freezes or gimmicks you might have used. But yes, good luck with with a successful tournament/event, let me know how it goes! I do hope to be there next year (and maybe the next three, I saw the dates haha). Have fun everyone, show people where rhythm gaming really started Edit: I was looking through the pad files I made a couple of months ago and I stumbled upon an anime one I did. It's Girls Be Amibitious, the Sora No Woto Ending. I don't expect you to download it at all, but try it out if you're interested. It's stepped for three difficulties, and I remember working hard to make each difficulty fun for the players in that skill range. It is the whole song though, so it may have to be length patched to use it on a machine. You may not even want to use it, but if you have time check it out. I used OpenITG (Stepmania 3.95) to step these and used waveform syncing to get my offsets. There aren't that many files with stops, slowdown, or gimmicks, but there are a few that do, namely Miku Miku ni Shiteru and Marshmallow. These simfiles are generally pretty straightforward. Good stuff! I don't question the sync at all, most people know what they're doing when they've stepped as long as you have. I actually have really unexpected and good news for myself, people on my site just donated a good sum of money to me to go. I'll be heading thursday for pre registration. I had my ticket since December, and now that I can go I plan to spend some time on those files haha. I actually may bring my own on a USB if it's ok, I'll probably put one or two of my own and all my anime pad packs released in our community over the years (the ones worth noting at least). They're all ITG ready, so don't worry. I hope to see you there NineVolt. I'll be labeled as Xero, with a shirt labeled administrator (ddrXero64). I administrate Stepmania Online, so I should be easy to spot since I tend to talk up a storm at times. My skills are rusty, don't expect too much. You should know how hard it is to find a machine in Western MA, so I've literally played a handful of times in the past years. I've actually never touched an ITG machine though, but I assume it's a matter of getting comfortable with after playing DDR. i was just wondering. what happened to the ITG machine this year ? it was in terrible shape and didnt work properly half the time. it was definitely not the same machine as last years. can someone explain to me what happened ?

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The Coordinator, Osun All Progressives Youth Forum (OAPYF) Comrade Olateju Olorungbebe Adunni has affirmed that the forum will bridge the gap between political appointees and warring youths within the party. Comrade Adunni gave the affirmation in Ilesa at a town hall meeting organized by the forum and aimed at resolving perceived differences within the party and pacify any aggrieved member Adunni who said the party is ready to listen to all grievances from the youths also assured the party that measures have been put in place to make the programme a huge success. Adunni explained that necessary mechanisms are in place to make the programme a huge success and bring members to an amicable stance. According to him, “this town hall meeting is an opportunity for all the Osun APC Youths to interact intimately with political appointees and party leaders elected on the platform of APC in our locality, to assemble and discuss our basic interests”. “We are also exploring the interactions to proffer solution to internal tensions threatening our cohesion and bond irrespective of political interests, and swing into actions to solidify our political family the more as a vibrant segment of the party”. “It is pertinent for us to take the present challenges confronting our party as opportunity to make a difference and work hard as good ambassadors of this party to sustain and promote the good will of Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola”, he stressed. Also speaking, Leader, Osun State House of Assembly, Hon. Timothy Owoeye commended Governor Rauf Aregbesola on water project his administration embarked upon in Ilesa. He said that Governor knows that health is wealth and that is the reason why Aregbesola embarked on the Ilesa water project which he said has been abandoned since 1981. According to him, “It is clear that the over seven years experience of dynamic leadership of APC in the state has exposed the corruption-ridden administration of opposition party in the past, hence, the need to prevent them from coming back to the saddle. Hon. Owoeye urged the youths to be persistent in their resolve to take the present challenges confronting the party as opportunity to make a difference and work hard as good ambassadors of the party in other to sustain and promote the good will of Governor Aregbesola. Meanwhile, the Osun State Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Hon. Kolapo Alimi in his remarks charged the youths to reintegrate the unstable members of the party. Alimi urged the youths to visit their compounds and polling units before the election and give help to the needy so as to promote good governance as institutionalised by Aregbesola’s style of administration. Corroborating Hon Alimi, the Commissioner for Science, Innovation and Technology, Hon. Remi Omowaiye appealed to the youths to let go of their grievances and embrace peace. He thereafter urged all members of the party to work together as a team in the forthcoming election in the state.

Disaster Ignites Debate: ‘Was God In the Tsunami?’ “Was God in the Tsunami?” I woke up to that question in my Yahoo inbox four days after the waves struck, a posting from Beliefnet, a popular discussion list I subscribe to. It was the morning when the death-toll estimates had gone into six figures for the first time. It would be interesting to calculate the number of deaths from a catastrophe that trigger the moment when people start asking “Where was God?” questions. But it seemed to me that morning marked the beginning. It was a week that would end with the Archbishop of Canterbury himself declaring that he had doubts about God. As surely as the tsunami followed the earthquake, the questions-the perennial, never-satisfactorily-resolved questions-of theodicy followed the tsunami. Theodicy, of course, is the subdiscipline of theology devoted to the attempt to reconcile the idea of an all-powerful, just and loving God who intervenes in history-the God most Western religions believe in-with the recurrence of catastrophic slaughter from “natural” causes such as tsunamis and man-made evils such as genocides. The same morning “Was God in the Tsunami?” arrived in my inbox, I checked on my favorite Web site, Arts and Letters Daily (aldaily.com), which links to the most notable essays and reviews of the day, and found a box that linked to no less than four articles with headlines such as “Faiths Ask of Quake: ‘Why Did You Do This, God?'” and “To God, An Age Old Question.” It was just the beginning. Let me concede that yes, there are many paths to faith, but it is an underappreciated scandal that, philosophically, the “age old question” of theodicy has not been satisfactorily answered without resort to vague evasions (“It’s all a mystery,” “We just can’t understand God’s plan,” “It will allow good to manifest itself in the hearts of the survivors,” “We live in a fallen world,” “The dead are better off in heaven”). A failure that asks us to just have faith that it’s all for the best in the best of all possible worlds. Yes, Voltaire misconstrued in Candide, probably deliberately, Leibniz’s Theodicy: Leibniz was claiming that God created the best of all possible worlds consistent with free will-the freedom to choose evil without which choosing good means nothing special. The best of all possible worlds consistent with the nature of human nature, in other words-and its predilection for choosing evil. The question Voltaire should have posed is whether a better, less murderous human nature-consistent with free will-could have been created by Leibniz’s God. Of course, the inadequacies of traditional theodicy are not a problem for those like my colleague Jim Holt, one of the best translators of arcane philosophical controversies (Kripke on naming!) for non-specialists. Mr. Holt once wrote that the evidence suggests that “the world is not presided over by a deity who is all-good and all-powerful, but rather by one who is 100 percent malevolent but only 80 percent effective.” He arrives by a different route at the answer offered by some extreme Gnostic sects who believed this world was presided over by a malevolent demiurge posing as God. And the inadequacies of theodicy are not a problem for those who don’t believe in an all-powerful God. Harold ( When Bad Things Happen to Good People) Kushner is one of those who thinks the problem of God’s tolerance of catastrophic evils is solved essentially by making God a weakling-loving, but not really in charge, despite all the boasting in the Bible about God’s powers, including the tsunami-related powers of raising and lowering the waters at will (remember that whole Flood thing?). Kushner is there on Beliefnet advising people to read the 23rd Psalm, which seems to me a wildly inappropriate choice, promising as it does that God will always be at our side to lead us beside still waters. So it’s all good, except for the 150,000 who didn’t exactly get the still waters that day. I recall the asperity with which this easy out (Kushner’s “God is not all-powerful”) was dismissed by Yehuda Bauer, the former head of the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum, when I asked him about it in Jerusalem. “There’s no way there can be an all-powerful and just God,” Mr. Bauer said. “Because if he’s all-powerful, he’s Satan [considering the recurrent prevalence of genocidal evil in the world]. If he’s just [meaning just but, as per Kushner, too weak to make the world just], he’s a nebbish …. I don’t need a God like that.” It’sremarkable, though, how Kushner’s cop-out has become the contemporary evasive answer to questions of theodicy. Inside my faded paperback copy of When Bad Things Happen …, I found a bookmark that had evidently been there when I bought it. It’s from the Full Circle bookstore, 50 Penn Place, Oklahoma City, Okla. I had evidently bought the book when I went down there right after the Federal Building bombing to do a story (for The New York Times Magazine, June 4, 1995) on how the culture deals with questions of theodicy in the aftermath of catastrophe. “Full Circle,” indeed. Rabbi Kushner’s well-intended book didn’t do the job for me back then, and it doesn’t do it now, although it has become an almost unquestioned meme. Poor God-He means well, but He seems to have lost the superpowers he had in the Bible. Some sort of spiritual Green Kryptonite slipped him by Satan, I’ll bet. So He’s struggling and weak and nebbishy and we have to buck Him up. But for those who don’t try the easy way out, the great conundrum of theodicy was recapitulated on the Arts and Letters Daily Web site by its editor, Dennis Dutton, in his lead-in to the links: “If God is God, he’s not good. If God is good, he’s not God. You can’t have it both ways, especially after the Indian Ocean catastrophe.” It’s a version of the challenging syllogism posed by J.L. Mackie in a 1955 issue of the journal Mind, an argument which contemporary theodicies have been trying, without notable success, to refute ever since. The lack of success seems to have lent a tone of desperation to some. I was struck by the police-interrogation tone of one of the links: “Faiths Ask of Quake: ‘Why Did You Do This, God?'” “Yeah, Tough Guy, why’d ya do it? Your prints are all over the crime scene, Big Guy. You have the right to remain silent …. ” You can almost hear the late, great Jerry Orbach, who’s now presumably in a position to put the question, kicking a chair in the squad room to get the Divine Perp’s attention. Then there was a link to “Tremors of Doubt” in The Wall Street Journal by David Hart, an Eastern Orthodox theologian, which had the virtue of conceding that the conventional consolations of pop theodicy “about God’s inscrutable counsels” or that “all this mysteriously serves God’s good ends” are “odious banalities,” and that even believers can’t assume that theologians have answered the theodicy question adequately. It was only the beginning of the orgy of theodicy that followed, if one may use a profane term for a sacred quest. Foolish things were said by men of all faiths (almost always men, by the way; it’s what feminists used to call Male Answer Syndrome): the rabbi in Israel who pronounced the tsunami “an expression of God’s great ire with the world”; the Buddhist sage who said it represented God’s resentment of the “huge amount of pent-up man-made evil on earth”; the mullah in Indonesia who said that it was “a reminder from God he created the world and can destroy the world.” And the media kept headlining the search for answers: “Why Does God Allow Terrible Things to Happen to His People?”, an essay in The Times of London asked. And there was an essay that addresses the question not to God, but to those who believe in Him: “How Can Religious People Explain Something Like This?” (Martin Kettle in the U.K. Guardian, the rare essay that suggested there were no good answers.) And then, at the end of the week kicked off by “Was God in the Tsunami?”, this shocker: On Sunday(!), Jan. 2, the London Telegraph dropped the bomb “Archbishop of Canterbury: This Has Made Me Question God’s Existence.” What’s next? “The Pope Says: ‘I Am a Wiccan!'”? (It’s true that the archbishop waffled a bit and called for prayer, but he did say his faith was “upset” by the catastrophe.) One thing a reading of these essays reminded one of is that natural disasters are both more and less problematical for defenders of the faiths. On the one hand, earthquakes and the like don’t involve man-made evils and thus the question of the depravity of human nature-and the difficult question behind that question: whether humans are at fault for their depraved nature, or whether the deity who created them could have done a better job creating humanity consistent with free will. As my friend Errol Morris puts it: The difficulty with man-made evils is not “man’s inhumanity to man,” the problem is precisely “man’s humanity to man.” The wickedness of humanity is not an aberration, but more like the norm. No, man or human nature can’t be held responsible for earthquakes and tsunamis-except in those bloodthirsty theodicies which persist in seeing the punitive hand of God punishing man’s collective sinfulness by the slaughter of innocent children not old enough to sin. A hard-to-defend but scripturally habitual response from a wrathful God for the sins of a sinful human nature He created but is somehow not responsible for. Nor are natural disasters as much of a problem for Deists, or for those who believe in a god who stopped intervening in human affairs after the creation of the universe or the creation of man. Catastrophic evils might call into question what is meant by the “intelligent” in “Intelligent Design,” but not Design itself. But for those who believe in a God who has intervened in history, as he is portrayed in Western scriptures, a God who can raise and lower the waters, punish and save at will, has miracles at his disposal, and should be able to separate the sheep from the goats, the saints from the sinners: For that sort of God, the indiscriminate slaughter of 100,000 saints and sinners-children and parents alike-presents more of a problem. If God is responsible for the fall of a sparrow, it’s hard to exempt him from other, more dramatic natural developments. Sure, you could say it’s not His fault: He left us in a broken world, a fallen nature to reflect our own inner Fallen Nature. A vale of tears, whose horrors better prepare us to value the heaven that awaits us (well, some of us). But in general, in this view, we’re better off dead-or, as some respondents on the Beliefnet comments section had it, the tsunami victims were lucky, they’d received a gift: They’re in heaven ahead of time. Let me return to “Was God in the Tsunami?”, the Beliefnet missive written by Rodger Kamenetz, a Jewish Buddhist or a Buddhist Jew (it wasn’t quite clear-he had equal reverence for both traditions, it seemed). On the plus side, the author made the important point that any attempt to defend the deaths of tens of thousands of children not old enough to sin as part of “God’s Plan,” as His collective punishment for man’s wickedness or some other variation on the blame-the-victim theodicy was an obscenity (my word, not his). And he gets points for citing King Lear-not Lear himself, but Gloucester’s bitter complaint that “We are to the gods as flies to wanton boys. They kill us for our sport,” It’s not the only answer in Lear, but it’s one that fits the bare facts. But then Mr. Kamenetz (whose essay has the alternate title “Was God in This Disaster?”) lets himself get distracted by the Talmudic and Buddhist mystification. Proving once again that not all “wisdom of the sages” is equally wise, or must necessarily be approached with the same reverence. He gives us a story he says is from the Talmud that has Moses getting to heaven and learning that one Rabbi Akiba is the wisest interpreter of God’s words and actions. Moses asks God what Rabbi Akiba’s reward will be. “God shows him a vision: Akiba tortured by the Romans in the marketplace, his flesh stripped from his body.” Moses asks God why this incomprehensibly horrific fate for such a wise man. “God answers with a riddle,” we’re told: “It arose in thought.” Say what? “It arose in thought.” That’s the best he can do? A Bill Clintonesque “because I can” boast? Is it just me, or does this story not exactly speak well for God? I guess you could say it “arose in thought” for the Roman soldiers, so you could put the blame on them, but the way it’s told here, it seems clear it’s God showing off both his power and his self-mystifying inscrutability. A God who encourages watching torture-as in the theology of Aquinas, who imagined that one of the pleasures that God would offer the souls He saved would be gazing down from Heaven upon the cruel and prolonged tortures of the damned in Hell. Recreational sadism from Heaven’s luxury skyboxes ( Summa Theologica, Question 94). This was one of the logical outcomes of certain orthodox Christian doctrines that used to drive William Empson crazy. Read Empson’s Milton’s God, his last, most lacerating book, almost totally devoted to denouncing the God of Paradise Lost-Milton’s massive effort at overcoming the contradictions of theodicy. And arguing from a study of Milton’s posthumously published and ambiguously heterodox De Doctrina Christiana that Milton had doubts, too. (Actually, it’s almost impossible to find a copy of Empson’s Milton’s God; someone should bring it back into print.) But to return to “It arose in thought”: That’s not a “riddle,” that’s a rebuff. In cruelty, it goes beyond the God of Job with his brusque “none of your business, buddy” brush-off. I wonder if the author of “Was God in the Tsunami?” is aware of how impoverished a God this sorry “riddle” gives us? Perhaps recognizing that this isn’t going to resolve any doubts or offer much consolation, he makes his Buddhist move. He’s met the Dalai Lama, he wants you to know, and “One time I asked the Dalai Lama how he would respond to a parent who had lost a child. And he said-these aren’t his exact words-that when you lose a child you are constantly thinking of that child in your imagination.” The implication being that the child is really not lost at all-in fact, he or she is still right there in your life, in a low-maintenance way, I guess you’d say. In the imagination, of course, but “constantly” there. Maybe more present than when he or she was alive. I wonder how well this works when he tries it out on parents who have lost children. The comments on the listserv in response to the essay were mainly divided between atheists and believers, both factions, in their own way, absolving God from responsibility. For the atheists, if he doesn’t exist, he couldn’t have done it; for the believers, God has no responsibility for the catastrophe, just for the goodness displayed by the rescue workers in the aftermath, and the few “miraculous” stories of survival. This is something I find particularly annoying: a God who can intervene to save a handful out of a hundred thousand and gets credit for all the goodness displayed in the aftermath of the havoc He wrought. “Why this need to defend God?” someone (that would be me) finally posted on the Beliefnet comment board in response to the multiple alibis for God that others were posting. All so eager to rush forward and exonerate their version of God from any connection to the slaughter. It began to smack of “they doth protest too much”: The disaster somehow gets transformed into a display of God’s wonderfulness. In a way, doesn’t this sort of thinking suggest a kind of Stockholm syndrome? He’s the only God we’ve got, He’s got us imprisoned in this hell of a world-so, after a while, we worship Him. One of the most glaring instances of this sort can be found in a quote in a story the Post carried on Jan. 2. It was the heartwarming story of a baby boy born prematurely while his mother fled upland from the waves as they hit the coast of India. Yes, it was the heartwarming “MIRACLE OF LIFE” that the Post headline had it. But then I have to admit that I cringed when I read the words of the baby’s father (who had given him the name “Tsunami”-I’m sure the parents of those who lost babies will think this is really cute). But the thing that made me cringe was this quote from the father of Baby Tsunami: “It’s all God’s grace!” he said. I can’t really blame the guy for saying whatever he says at a moment like that. He’s got his baby. But think of the implications. Either he believes that his family has special grace, and that the tens of thousands of other families who lost children suffered the torment of a lost child because they deserved it, because they lacked “God’s grace.” Or he believes that God looked down and saw tens of thousands of imperiled children and decided that this one deserved the special intervention of his “grace” and the others didn’t. If you believe that God intervened to save this one little life, you have to believe that He chose not to intervene to save the lives of all the other children. He wanted them dead. I would propose a truce between believers and unbelievers so they can stop fighting over the credit for the goodness of the rescue workers, whether it should be assigned to God or to man, so that we can remove God-and the critique of God-from the equation entirely for a while and save our energy to support the recovery unencumbered by this perennial debate, however important and profound. Here’s the terms of the truce: Unbelievers will stop pointing out the inadequacies of the believers’ theodicy, their justification for God. And believers will stop claiming credit for God for everything good that happens, unless they are willing to condemn Him to a perp walk for all the crimes committed on earth, many in his name.

The Men Who Cleared Up After Hitler While much of the glory from fighting Hitler went to those who engaged the enemy directly, subtler yet no-less-important battles were simultaneously being fought at home and behind the lines. To mark the recent publication of his book 'Bomb Disposal in World War Two', author Chris Ransted tells Forces Network of his fascination with collecting photographs of bomb disposal operations from the conflict. Having been interested in this subject for many years, I enjoy researching photos relating to it that have come from assorted places: Junk shops, auctions, or even copies that have been given to me by family members of those involved in bomb disposal during the Second World War. Most photos, unfortunately, have no annotations on the back, or, if they do, they are very scant in detail. However, even though the 'who', 'where', and 'when' are often not recorded, some photos can still provide important pieces to the overall puzzle. What follows are some examples of these jigsaw pieces: Here, a member of the Home Guard triumphantly rests his foot on this beast like some big game hunter. A bit of research found that this was taken at Wimbledon Common. This photo gives a good indication of how many bombs were being dealt with. It was revealed to have been taken of a Plymouth-based Royal Engineers bomb disposal unit after the discovery of a similar photograph in another book, taken at the same time from a different angle. Some photos are obviously posed and can be a bit comical, like this one with a chap with his fingers in his ears. It was taken in the Tobruk area, Libya (while the one next to it shows an explosion in the desert). Other pictures are very poignant, such as ones taken of men that are known to have been killed a short time later, or ones where a comrade has taken a photo of a grave, perhaps for the individual's loved ones back in Blighty. This photo had an annotation: 'The last photo taken of father and his squad'. CPO Charles Baldwin DSM, was killed attempting to recover a sea mine in the Firth of Forth. A photo can also give some insight into the equipment being used at particular times. Early in the war men were expected to still wear their tin hats while working on unexploded bombs (UXBs). This was taken at Oxshott in Surrey. As well as pictures, sometimes you can pick up negatives that certain camera shops will still develop. Notice how as the war progressed these Royal Engineers have become a little more ragged in appearance - the tin hats from the earlier period have been dispensed with. Other changes are evident, for example, in the development of bomb disposal procedures. In the early days, the shafts dug down to bombs were often unsupported. The photo on the left is a good example of this - a shaft that was, essentially, a second threat to the Royal Engineer working on a bomb because without support it was liable to collapse on him. Death could come from being buried alive, or simply from the bomb having been set off by the cave-in. Later on, better-engineered shafts were the norm, though this one shown on the right was calculated slightly wrong, as the bomb wasn't found conveniently in the middle. Some pictures are surprising. Who knew the RAF used tanks! This photo shows 6210 BD squad using a French WWI tank (used in WWII by the Germans and then recaptured by the Allies) as a safe way to clear mines laid on captured airfields. Some photos indicate camaraderie, such as this one on the left of members of 12 Bomb Disposal Company Royal Engineers. Written on the back is 'Self, (Driver Edward Moore)', with 'Pops', Stan Atkins and the caption 'We were the youngest and oldest in our squad!' Meanwhile other pictures, such as the one on right, just beg the question – 'What is all this about?' Fortunately, some photographs record the names of all those pictured for posterity - where they were from, along with, as in this case, where the photo was taken - 'Merseyside, Liverpool' To learn more, read Chris Randsted's book 'Bomb Disposal in World War 2', from Pen and Sword Books. To get free postage and packaging (within the UK) and a 25% discount off the usual retail price, enter the code BDFN25 after typing in the billing address. (The code can also be quoted over the phone to the sales team at Pen and Sword who can be reached at 01226 734222).

Snacks : Kaara Pusa Number of servings: 10 List of ingredients: Qty Measure Ingredient Wt.(gms) 2 cups besan 5 spoons chilli powder a handful ajwaayen 1 green chilli 3 spoons butter salt to taste Cooking procedure Make a fine paste of the chilli. Add this and all the other ingredients well with water to make a thick dough. Put the dough in the mould. Heat oil in a frying pan, hold the mould over the oil and press so that the dough falls directly into the oil. Be careful while doing so, ‘coz the oil might splitter. Fry till golden brown and place on paper napkins. You kaara pusa is ready to be enjoyed. Storage tips: Kaara pusa can be stored in an airtight container for upto a few months.

Sahibabad to Duhai section of Delhi-Meerut RRTS corridor to be opened by 2023 A section of Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut RRTS (Regional Rapid Transit System) corridor from Sahibabad to Duhai is likely to be opened by March 2023, according to reports. The deadline for the entire project from Sarai Kale Khan to Meerut is March 2024. More Information: Once completed, the Delhi-Meerut RRTS corridor will reduce the travel time between Delhi and Meerut to just 55 minutes, according to NCRTC. Earlier this year, the government approved construction of a worth Rs 30,274 crore RRTS project to connect the national capital with Meerut through Ghaziabad (in Uttar Pradesh). The NCRTC (National Capital Region Transport Corporation) is the implementing agency of the RRTS projects. The 82 kilometer-stretch will be covered in less than 60 minutes. The RRTS is a first-of-its-kind, rail-based, high-speed regional transit system to be implemented in India. Once operational, it will be the fastest, most comfortable and safest mode of commuter transport in the National Capital Region (NCR). The RRTS trains with operational speed of 160 kmph and an average speed of 100 kmph, will be available at a frequency of every 5-10 minutes. The estimated 82 km long Delhi-Meerut Corridor would be passing through one of the most densely populated sections of the National Capital Region connecting Delhi to Uttar Pradesh. The corridor would be beneficial for the development of the region and help connect the large number of townships and centres of economic activity that are already planned along this corridor. New Delhi:Asian Development Bank (ADB) has given in-principle nod for financing four Metro Rail projects and a Rs 30,000 crore Rapid Rail corridor between Delhi and Meerut as part of its effort to improve urban transport system in India. More Information: ADB Director General (South Asia) Hun Kim said, simultaneous discussion are going on with other multi-lateral funding agencies for co-financing of these large urban transport projects in India including Bhopal and Indore Metro projects. In addition, other projects especially expansion of Chennai and Bengaluru Metro are also under consideration, he said at the Annual Meet of ADB. Kim said,”ADB has in-principle agreed to finance these projects with the Centre, which is the guarantor. It depends on the client. If they complete the formalities, we’re ready to go (for final approval from the board).” On rapid rail project between Delhi and Meerut (in Uttar Pradesh), he said Regional Rapid Transport System (RRTS) is a huge project and ADB is looking to co-finance with other multi-lateral funding agencies including Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). Earlier this year, the government approved construction of a worth Rs 30,274 crore RRTS project to connect the national capital with Meerut through Ghaziabad (in Uttar Pradesh). The 82 kilometer-stretch will be covered in less than 60 minutes. The RRTS is a first-of-its-kind, rail-based, high-speed regional transit system to be implemented in India. Once operational, it will be the fastest, most comfortable and safest mode of commuter transport in the National Capital Region (NCR). Kim emphasised that financing logistics projects will also be a priority area for the bank. “We want to be a bank for logistics,” he said, pointing to the Vizag-Chennai and the Chennai-Kanyakumari industrial corridors where the ADB is involved in financing preparation of the master plan. The bank is planning to lend USD 500 million each for energy projects, and the Chennai Metro Phase-II, he added.

To provide agencies with information for the manual processing of the salary increases. Affected Employees CUNY employees in the titles of CUNY Theater Technician, Theater Technician Specialist and Lead Theater Technician. Effective Date(s) Increases may be submitted in Pay Period 15C (Institution), paychecks dated 10/21/10. The increase is effective 10/14/10. Background The increase is pursuant to the 2008-2011 Memorandum of Agreement between CUNY and IATSE Local One dated August 6, 2009. The new rates and other information are contained in a memorandum from Carmelo Batista, Jr. dated August 10, 2010. Agreement Provisions The 2008-2011 Memorandum of Agreement between CUNY and IATSE Local One provides for the following increase:General Salary Increase Effective 10/14/10 4.0% Salary Increase Agency Actions To report the increase, the agency must submit the following requests: For all rate increases for employees with a Pay Basis Code of HRY, request a Pay Change with the Action/Reason of Pay Rt Chg/CRT (Pay Rate Change/Change Rate) effective 10/14/10 on the Job Action Request page. For all salary increases for employees with a Pay Basis Code of ANN, request a Pay Change with the Action/Reason of Pay Rt Chg/SIC (Pay Rate Change/Salary Increase) effective 10/14/10 on the Job Action Request page. A separate request must be made for any subsequent row that exists on the employee’s Job Data page. Questions Questions about processing transactions may be directed to the Non-Executive Audit mailbox.

Home When death is your business, what is your life? For the Fisher family, the world outside of their family-owned funeral home continues to be at least as challenging as--and far less predictable than--the one inside. From Oscar®-winning screenwriter Alan Ball comes this breakout series that takes a darkly comic look at members of a dysfunctional L.A. family that runs a funeral business. With Peter Krause, Frances Conroy, Michael C. Hall, Lauren Ambrose and Rachel Griffiths. Winner of two 2001 Golden Globe awards for Best Television Series-Drama, and Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television (Rachel Griffiths). Featured Episode The Foot: The Fishers have decided to sell, but then back out at the last minute because Nate cannot stand Gilardi. Claire finds a rather interesting way to get back at Gabe for spreading rumors about her. Gilardi threatens the Fishers, claiming to have bought the rundown house across the street as a cheap alternative to Fisher & Sons. However, mysteriously, the house catches on fire after Nate and Brenda fool around in it... Anyone can edit? Absolutely! This site is what's known as a Wiki and as such can be edited by anyone! Editing is easy and you don't even need an account! See Help:Editing for more information. This Wiki is a continuous work in progress, it currently only has 25 Six Feet Under-related articles so all contributions are greatly appreciated!

color laser printer color laser printer A laser printer that prints in color using four toner cartridges (CMYK) of cyan, magenta, yellow and black. The colors are applied one at a time to the drum and are then adhered to the paper. See printer. Color Laser Mechanism This is a typical color laser printer. The toner cartridges deliver the toner to the photo conducting belt, which delivers it to the drum and then the paper. Although it is Tektronix' first color laser printer, the Phaser 540 is truly a second generation product, offering performance, ease of use and print quality not available on first generation color laser printers," said A. All content on this website, including dictionary, thesaurus, literature, geography, and other reference data is for informational purposes only. This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.