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Inter have made official the news that they have terminated Romanian defender Cristian Chivu's contract.
The full-back has barely featured over the past three seasons for the Nerazzurri due to a problematic foot injury.
On from the expectation that he will hang up his boots after a final surgery on the issue earlier this year, Inter have announced he has officially left their playing squad.
"Inter and Cristian Chivu officially announce the mutual termination of the contract that has lasted seven years between the Romanian and the club," read Inter's statement released on Monday.
"Seven unforgettable seasons, studded with successes, victories, punctuated by dramatic days, sharing the strength to overcome them.
"Inter and Cristian Chivu have shared a relationship that went beyond the field and the sheer professional aspect.
"The club wishes to thank Cristian for having worked with great strength and loyalty in years that will always be remembered as among the most glorious in Inter's history.
"To him and his wonderful family, goodbye and thank you from Inter."
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"Different, yes. Very different. A one-off," says Sean Lamont when the wing is asked about Scotland's new backs coach, Scott Johnson. Colourful and intriguing also come to mind. Who else would say that Test rugby affords time "to sit back a bit and smell the roses".
Johnson is the guy who first came to the notice of rugby in the UK when he was seen in improbably baggy shorts pounding the touch line at the Millennium Stadium, yelling and screaming the Welsh team to their 2005 grand slam. Alongside Mike Ruddock he helped produce the first Welsh slam in 27 years before things went sour.
Ruddock left, Johnson temporarily took charge, there was plenty of home-spun logic and humour to set alongside his description of New Zealand as "two poxy little islands in the middle of the Pacific", but after two losses and a draw Johnson was gone. Gone, only to resurface a season later with Australia at the 2007 World Cup, when Johnson and another fascinating Australian at home in the UK, John "Knuckles" Connolly, helped the Wallabies past Wales before coming unstuck against England in a quarter-final in Marseille.
With their contracts over and Australia not about to renew, Johnson's next brief step was coaching the USA Eagles, followed by three seasons with the Ospreys before sitting down with the Scottish coach, Andy Robinson, and discussing a return to what you sense is his first love, Test rugby. "It's the biggest part of the sport so, that's always an attraction," said Johnson on Friday after final preparations for Saturday's Test against the Springboks at Murrayfield.
"Playing against the best is always the test of rugby. It's hard not to enjoy. It doesn't mean that you don't enjoy the other, but what it does do is allow you to sit back a bit and smell the roses. With the cut and thrust every day, you sometimes lose yourself in that. This," he says referring to a job which gets him back into hands-on coaching as well as development work with other coaches, "is a nice mix of on the field and off the field duties."
He even says he has not noticed any Scottish concerns about recent moves that have meant the national team has fallen into in the hands of two Australians – Matt Taylor, formerly of Queensland Reds, is defence coach while Johnson handles attack – under that steadfast oak of an Englishman, Robinson.
"Love it. Lovely city, lovely people," says Johnson before going on to explain that concern for the Scottish heritage is top of the trio's agenda. "I've done this in a few different countries now and you learn from your mistakes and one of the big things for me is respect and we are very respectful of Scottish culture and what has gone before."
Mind you, he also concedes it helps to win over the natives if you start with three victories, as Johnson did in June against Australia, Fiji and Samoa. "It certainly does and that's what was great about the summer. And we need to continue that and get a couple of big scalps. We don't have the biggest player base, so we have to punch above our weight and make sure that we are in the competition regularly."
Which brings us nicely to Saturday and the Springboks – the side ranked second in the world arriving six days after Scotland shipped six tries to the team seeded one higher, New Zealand. Johnson may say those three summer wins and his arrival were mere coincidence, but it is an interesting fact that Scotland – not a team previously known for scoring tries by the hatful – crossed the All Black line three times last Sunday, something no other team has managed since New Zealand began their current 18-game unbeaten streak.
It took South Africa four games to score that many and their coach, Heyneke Meyer, tacitly admitted concerns over Scotland's new-found firepower when he named a midfield this week that contained the centre Juan de Villiers, despite saying earlier that he intended to give his captain a much-needed day off. "We saw the match between Scotland and New Zealand" said Meyer before acknowledging that a second successive defeat at Murrayfield – the Springboks went down 21-17 two years ago – would not be countenanced back home.
Typically for Johnson, there are wider issues in play and ones more relevant to Scotland's future rather than just the present. "One thing I learned about my time in Wales is that you want to get used to playing sides like this and at the end of the day you might come to believe that the best aren't unbeatable and the only way to know that is to play them regularly. So I say bring it on … make it an annual event. The only way to get better is to test yourself against the best."

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I will be starting my first semester of Nursing School in 2 days. Words can NOT explain how nervous I am, I have every bit of FAITH in myself but it is a small amount of doubt I'm having Within myself. ANY ADVICE ? What type of things should I know before entering? How do I balance? Just Any advice works for me.Jan 5, '13Just be prepared to study like you have never studied before and to pretty much give up a social life for the time being. Find you a good group you get along with and try to lean on and help each other. I don't know what I would have done without my friends I made in nursing school! We studied so well together and each had our area we were good at to help out others.
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A Chainsaw (also called a Buzz Saw) is a mechanical saw that travels on wires in the game Super Mario World. Mario can perform a Spin Jump or stomp it while on Yoshi to rebound on these objects.
They appear in most of the levels that have wires with platforms traveling across them. A large number of them can be found in Cheese Bridge Area.


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Halifax Art Society were treated to a special meeting on July 10 when Jeff Beaumont stepped in to lead a summer themed class.
Members used watercolour paints to depict 'A Summer Scene' and were impressed by Jeff's finished picture. The next meeting will held on August 14 and will be open to the public. Terry Chipp will demonstrate 'Acrylic and Gesso into Architecture.'
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With 10 million in album sales and nine No. 1 songs, including "She's in Love With the Boy," "Walkaway Joe" and "How Do I Live," country music star Trisha Yearwood has clearly conquered the music charts.
In 2008, she turned her love for cooking into another best-selling avenue.
Yearwood collaborated with her mother, Gwen, and sister, Beth, on two cookbooks. "Georgia Cooking in an Oklahoma Kitchen" hit the New York Times' Best Sellers list with a bullet in April 2008 and sped up that chart again the following September. Peppered with personal anecdotes and comfort fare, "Home Cooking With Trisha Yearwood" published in 2010 with a similar homespun vibe and a six-week run on the Times' best-seller list.


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Nancy Andrews, a stage actress and singer hailed for starring performances in ''Little Me'' opposite Sid Caesar and in ''Tobacco Road'' with John Carradine, died on Saturday of a heart attack at St. John's Hospital in Queens. Miss Andrews, who was 68 years old, had lived in Manhattan for decades, but was confined to a nursing home in Queens for the last year.
She won a Theater World Award for her 1949 Broadway debut in a hit revue, ''Touch and Go,'' and had later popular successes in ''Hazel Flagg,'' ''Plain and Fancy,'' ''Pipe Dream'' and ''Juno.''
Appraising ''Touch and Go,'' by Jean and Walter Kerr, Brooks Atkinson wrote in The New York Times that ''Nancy Andrews is a versatile comedian who can contribute something out of her own bag of tricks to round out the humor of a song.
''As an incidental ballad, 'Miss Platt Selects Mate,' may not be exactly uproarious, but it is by the time Miss Andrews gets through larding it up with some very funny mugging.'' Other Stage Roles
Off Broadway, her favorite roles included Mrs. Peachum in the long-running ''Three Penny Opera,'' Julie in Jerome Kern's ''Show Boat,'' Mother Grieg in ''Song of Norway,'' Aunt Eller in ''Oklahoma!'' Mrs. Mister in the award-winning revival of ''The Cradle Will Rock'' and the title role of a corrupt cosmetician in ''Madame Aphrodite.''Continue reading the main story
On tours, she had leading roles in such musicals as ''Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,'' ''Funny Girl,'' ''Flower Drum Song,'' ''South Pacific'' and ''A Little Night Music.'' She also often starred in such straight plays as ''The Glass Menagerie'' and ''A Taste of Honey.'' Born in Minneapolis
Nancy Andrews was born in Minneapolis to a hotel owner and a drama coach. She studied at Beverly Hills (Calif.) High School, the Pasadena Playhouse and the American Shakespeare Academy. She also studied the piano, wrote skits and music for a cabaret act, acted in a few films, including ''Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams'' and appeared widely on television.
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I feel good when I look out on the lake from my balcony. The morning greeted me with magnificent weather. I'm surrounded by blue skies, a few puffy white clouds and barely a ripple on the sapphire surface of the lake. Tropical fruit trees, flowers, terraced hills, villages and fishing nets.
The Batak people have an easy way about them–very hard workers, but at the same time, and very much unlike the Vietnamese, they enjoy the good life. And they know they are blessed by the lake.
Ifan asked me this morning, "what are your plans today?"
"Nothing," I replied.
"Good plans," he said with a smile. "We're barbecuing a suckling pig tonight, will you join us?"
Ifan runs the guest house I'm staying in. He's here most of the day, although he leaves for a few hours in the afternoon to take the ferry to Parapat. He'll wait until the buses from Medan arrive and disgorge the bewildered travelers. He approaches them, much as he did me, on the ferry to Samosir Island. He wasn't pushy or annoying. The converse, actually, very soft spoken, with almost Caucasian features but skin as dark as any South Indian Dravidian.
He asked, "where do you come from?"
"America," I replied, relieved for the first time in many years to be able to say it with pride.
"We don't get many Americans here," he said. "Why don't more of you travel? You have so much money. It doesn't make sense."
"Two reasons," I said, preparing a speech I've given many times over the years.
"First, American is a very big nation and there are so many beautiful places to see that many Americans spend most of their lives traveling in America. But the other reason is many Americans are simply afraid to visit a place like 'Muslim' Indonesia," I said.
"Why afraid? We're Christians here in Toba," he said.
"Most Americans don't know Toba exists, much less that the Batak people are Christian," I told him.
"Unfortunate," he said. He grew quiet, almost thoughtful for several minutes after that, as if he were pondering some deep mystery. The only sounds were the hum of the motors and the soft sounds of water as the ferry crossed the 8km channel between the mainland and Samosir Island.
"I have a small guest house on the island," Ifan said, "it's not much, but you can dive into the water from your balcony, if you like."
"Do you have hot showers?" I asked, not willing to forgo this one luxury–mind you, I hadn't showered in two days.
"Yes, we do," he answered.
"And how much is the room?" I asked.
"50,000 rupiah–or a little less than $6," he said.
"Sounds great."
"Excellent," he replied, "I think you will like it here."
And he was right. The room is spartan, bare. But it sits over the water, has a mosquito net over a comfortable bed and a shower that does indeed spit out a decent trickle of hot water after a few minutes of waiting.
The restaurant serves a wonderfully light chicken curry–free range chickens, as well. They also serve a delicious fish from the lake; light, flaky white meat over a bed of rice and a tasty tomato, chili, garlic sauce. And the coffee? Wonderful in every way.
A Batak house juts into the water below me like the stern of a boat. Birds flitter back from the palm tree to the avocado tree. The lake is still. There is no breeze.
A lone figure across the cove walks onto a pier, sits in it and paddles off. A coconut falls from a palm tree making a terrific smack as it hits the paved walkway below. The sheer walls of Samosir Island watch over it all, deep gullies and ravines carved into their sides. Little rock is visible on the walls, most just a blinding green blur.
Another ferry knifes its ways across the the lake, leaving behind an ever widening 'V' in its wake. Soon the waves will meet the shore under me, adding to the melodious lapping that threatens to lull me back to sleep.
One if Ifan's friends strums a Batak guitar meldoy on the veranda overhead. There are no cars here, only mopeds and the rare truck. Most people walk. One woman walks by with a large basin of rice balanced on her head, a bag of coffee beans in one hand and an infant in the other. Old men amble by with canes in a slow purposeful gait.
A small flock of birds chatter in the tree next to me. A dried leaf falls to the ground.
"More coffee," asks Ifan, waking from my reverie.
"No thank you, I'm going for a walk now," I reply.
"Where go you?," he asks.
"I don't know."
"It's a good place to go," he smiles.
As I get up and grab my things a pair of white butterflies twist and circle around each other in a delicate aerial ballet over the surface of the lake.
All is silent–except for a whisper on the wind. I can't make out the words, yet. I'm patient. I will soon.


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Saturday, 28 January 2012
Grantham Canal 2 Photos in one Post
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Sunsets are soothing to me...no two are alike but they are always beautiful.ReplyDelete
Jackie, well done - you arrived here.ReplyDelete
Thanks for your voice for your choice.
Both of these are marvelous. The color of the sky is gorgeous and the reflections in the canal are perfect.ReplyDelete
George, Thank you for your great comments, I have difficulty picking one from the other.ReplyDelete
Hi Stewart - you asked for a bit of a critique...ReplyDelete
I think the top one is much more appealing - there's more interest to hold the attention.
The lead-in to the tree provided by the canal is unbroken (with the other one there is a big blob of dark breaking it up) and it has an interesting wiggle, pulling the eye further in.
We can see bull-rushes and other silhouetted bank vegetation, drawing our eye through the scene, and a reflection of a tree that balances the silhouetted one on the horizon.
Finally, the top one benefits more from rule-of-thirds aspects and overall is more balanced as a result.
If you really want to continue your improvement, I think you're ready for somewhere like thestudio-online.co.uk where you will get the constructive critique and encouragement that will take you to the next level.
That's the place that helped me up (thanks Barrie, John, Silversnapper et al).
Mark, many thanks for your very constructive advice and support my friend.ReplyDelete
My blogging friends why not visit Mark at his blog.
He's a fine Artist/Professional Photographer.
I like this very much. What a beautiful time you captured.ReplyDelete
Beautiful photos.ReplyDelete
Have a wonderful Sunday
Sandy, Many thanks for your lovely comments, It was really great to see.ReplyDelete
Iv2scpbk, Thanks my friend.ReplyDelete
Blueshell, thank you for your wonderful comments.ReplyDelete
I like the first photo, love the golden glow of the water.ReplyDelete
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EastCoastLife, Many thanks for your lovely comments, - sorry to be late in answering, been on holls.ReplyDelete
If you like Golden Seas, see my other blog on Wednesday 8th Aug, 4.30am cruising into Stockholm.
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Lovely reflections, beautiful sunset shots!ReplyDelete
Nice shots.ReplyDelete
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I knocked on the door to the gymnasium. A little slider opened, and an eye poked out.
"Who's there?" a sultry voice said, the voice of a real man. The voice of Jumpman. "I've had a long day."
"It's The Smog," I said. "Jimbo and Sarenji."
Jumpman let us in. B-balls bounced everywhere—off the walls, through hoops, and off ceiling pipes. Jumpman—for he was known only by this name—stood, smiling, in the middle of the court. He gave us a white-toothed thumbs up.
I've been involved in competitive Pokémon for almost nine years now. I joined Azure Heights in October 2000 after stumbling upon it in a search, and I've kind of never left. Despite a brief—relatively—hiatus from 2002-2004, I've been pretty involved and have never stopped loving this game.
To be more specific, the "real" Jumpman16 was considered a great competitive battler from 2004-2006, but I've since let my passion for actual battle wane in favor of other facets of competitive Pokémon—and there are many.
I have been called exotic, but dangerous. Take that as you may.
Well, some would argue that the cartridges' Battle Towers and Frontiers would not technically fall under competitive Pokémon, and it's hard to argue with that. But this is one of my favorite hobbies, aside from being the one with which most of our readers would be familiar.
In fact, exploits in the Battle Frontiers and Towers are the subject of the vast majority of my posts not concerned with competitive Pokémon policy... I love to create teams, refine them, and test them against the AI of the respective cartridges. I would probably not list this as such an enjoyable hobby if the threads in Stark Mountain devoted to records in said Towers and Frontiers were not among the most popular on Smogon—chaos recently ran some statistics on Smogon's threads in our five years, and the Diamond and Pearl Battle Tower Records thread was the second-most viewed thread of all time (behind a older thread we cannot remember that has since been purged).
However, I would be remiss to not list "real" hobbies—I enjoy writing music very much, both lyrics and music, and I enjoy playing my piano just the same. I also enjoy reading, playing and following all kinds of sports, and poker.
I also like to hit the nightclub scene here in Pittsburgh on the weekends to dance, which I've contrasted humorously many times with my "secret" persona of "Pokémon Master." The final hobby I'll list is overusing quotations marks.
Well, I work for Xerox Corporation nine hours a day on weekdays, which does not leave me as much time as I'd like to partake in the hobbies I've already listed. In the last 18 or so months, I've devoted much of my time to preparing for business school—be it by taking a class in Business Statistics at the University of Pittsburgh, or studying for the GMATs (LSATs for business school), or writing essays for business school applications.
I "specifically" (there's another one) want to find an occupation that will allow me to utilize my creative abilities to make a lasting impact on the country, or even the world. [He chuckles.] That's probably taken virtually verbatim from my Wharton application. I can't be more direct than that, unfortunately—I trust that a proper business school environment will essentially nudge me in the right direction as I learn the fundamentals of business from and among the best.
I think it's going pretty smoothly at the moment, and that only things I could actually change now that would make sense would in turn conflict with the aim of the Suspect Test itself. It's easy to say "I could have started it 3-4 months sooner" but that's not really a "change."
And it's also not much of a reach to state that we never should have tested Deoxys-S, or Wobbuffet, but this could only confidently be stated after information gained from the Suspect Test process itself has been analyzed, since in both cases, the Suspects were much less threatening in theory than they proved to be, but only after months of actual experience—Dual Screen and Taunt in Deoxys-S's case, and Tickle in Wobbuffet's—did we learn how uber they really are.
These two examples of several I could cite begin to underline just why I feel the Suspect Test Process is indeed the most important thing to happen to competitive Pokémon. Before a few of my colleagues and I actually decided to come up with a way of revisiting the competitive tiers and even the banishment of moves (Double Team) and the necessity of clauses (Species), such ideas were mere talk, or wishful thinking that wasn't getting anywhere.
This is much of the reason that I personally am not as interested in competitive battling—I would rather leave my mark on the competitive landscape of Pokémon than on a ladder.
Always and forever.
Well, as I mentioned, poker is one of my true hobbies. I've been playing for about four years now, and am "lucky" enough to have won over a thousand dollars on the internet and in casinos and home games in that time span even after stopping for a good 18 months.
There's a popular painting of dogs playing poker, so I figured, why not bears? Teddiursa is probably my seventh favorite Pokémon simply because it is so adorable (all of the others in my top-10 aside from Dragonair are Pokémon I've used either ingame or competitively, or created competitive movesets for, or both).
So one day in 2005 I got the idea to draw a picture of it with some chips and some cards, scan the sketch, color it in with Photoshop, and animate it with Image Ready. Teddiursa raising the 7 and 8 of diamonds is funny because this hand is not considered an optimum hand in Texas Hold 'Em... even though many good players would raise such a hand because it can make a well-concealed "monster"... not unlike a pocket monster.
I'm sure you appreciate that pun.
I think that my recent invitation to his Trophy Garden is all the answer we need to that question.
[He chuckles devilishly, and his white teeth are almost blinding.]
In all seriousness, there are serious corollaries that can be drawn between the inauguration of the first African-American President and my own personal efforts with the Suspect Test Process. His efforts are obviously worlds more important than mine, but I believe that when all is said and done, we both will have striven to impart change we can all believe in.
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| Saria chapter 120 . 6/2/2012
'Halter' top instead of 'alter'. Hm, that girl does have a chance of bringing Lillie to Radon. Lillie's losing faith in her guardians and friends. She might just give up . . . but that won't happen, right?
| Tori chapter 120 . 6/2/2012
Wow . . . Radon is a real . . . stupida bastardo . . . lame espanol, I know, lol.
Poor guy . . . did Radon . . . do that to him?
Wow, I really hope Auryn gets better . . . Poor guy. Makes me wanna punch Holden.
Zarik's funny, lol. And of course . . . Lillie Kain and Stark are still fighting with eachother. Jeez, why do men always fight with the ladies? Don't they know how to be gentlemen or something like that? They are deomns, but still, they're just so . . . disrespectful to the female gender.
| Guest chapter 119 . 5/31/2012
Okay, I'm about to murder Stark and Kain right about now. _ how could they? After all Lillie did for them! Arg, I hate Hanna! Go fuck Jayce instead of Loki! I know Lillie won't want him since he's her brother! Unless... This is an incest story...
Nah, no way. Update soon!
| Saria chapter 119 . 5/31/2012
Haha, Riku's sucking up to Lillie! That's something new!
Poor Lillie... Being betrayed by all of her friends... Is Loli next? Stupid Hanna, get your hands off of Loki! Gah!
Yes, Kay, u do need a new specialty. Though you could help Lillie out a lot with your excellent skills. Make yourself useful, eh?
| hunkamunka chapter 1 . 5/31/2012
your just like me a new writer trying to get better at what i like:} keep writing please!
| Saria chapter 118 . 5/30/2012
Sorry, little brother… for putting you through so much
That sentence needs a period, just saying, but as usual, great work! That scene was kinda touchin just a thought, wonder why Radon wants Lillie so much. Like a rapist after a random sexy lady, haha.
Hanna\Arie has this weird way of flirting with everyon even her enemies. Bet she thinks its cute.
| Tori chapter 118 . 5/30/2012
Don't forget Riku! He's one of my favs! I get the feeling that Kaden and Riku would get along pretty well with their similar attitudes. Riku's respectful and all that shit, but when he gets cheeky, he just turns into an annoying little brother like Kaden. Lol, from your earlier chaps, you noted that Riku was fond of video gmames. I can just imagine Riku and Kaden battling with eachothe like Xbox VS PS lol.
| Tori chapter 117 . 5/27/2012
"From time to time, but when it comes down to getting killed me or my big brother, I rather kill him. If I die, all the girls charmed by my good lucks would be sad. I can't let them down," Stark exclaimed in an arrogant manner.
When you wrote that line, I think you meant good "looks" instead of lucks. Hope that helped!
And . . . just a question, are we going to know about Lillie's "other powers" that Jayce mentioned? I'm almost one hundred percent sure Lillie is half god. I wonder . . . if she can control her godly powers, than she won't really need her Hellraine shadow powers, will she? Then she'll FINALLY kick some ass without having to be restrained!
Oh, and I also want to know who Lillie's mother was . . .
Since her father was a hellraine, I'm guessing her mom was a god that had Jayce first with another god and then had Lillie with her dad. That means Lillie is kindof like Hanna\Arie being half-demon, though Arie is half siren (i'm guessing) and Lillie is half hellraine. How come Lillie hasn't noticed any of her god powers? Is there like a seal or something? And what kind of key does Lillie have for Radon?
If she managed to get a grasp of her godly powers than it could change everything . . . Jayce, bro, this is the right time to go down to Earth and have that "IMPORTANT TALK" with Lillie about her brith and all that.
I do feel bad for Seth . . . I mean, I'm still angry as a bitch at him, but he doesn't desreve such a cruel fate. Maybe he could just switch sides or something like Hanna\Arie.
"One day… you'll end up getting what's coming to you," Alana said in a condescending manner.
Stark gave her a dark, sardonic look as a bloodthirsty, sadistic air began to come off him.
"How would you know I haven't already?"
Poor Stark. I feel for him but he doesn't have to be such a dick about it.
| Saria chapter 117 . 5/27/2012
Poor Lillie . . . ya know since they've got eight convertible cars I'm sure they could all fit and make a runaway from all those deomns, lol. There are more than enough seats for everyone, even the humans could fit!
| Tori chapter 117 . 5/27/2012
Yea, that's all I can say. I don't think that Kaden means any harm, and he is . . . kinda . . . cute . . ? Depends on how old he is and what he looks like, lol.
| Saria chapter 116 . 5/24/2012
Poor Kain . . . stupid, Lil saved you're life. Sigh. I bet the guilt is eating Lillie up. Hah, Zarik and Alana make a great couple! And maybe could you add a description af Alana? I wonder if Alana'll care enough to stay . . . I hope she does. I like Stark, but really, he can be so mean!
| Tori chapter 116 . 5/24/2012
Now I'm kinda back to hating Stark. What the eff is his fricking prob? I'm wondering if Alana will stay or leave. I don't really know if Alana is Lillie's friend or not . . .
Poor Auryn. I feel bad for him.
Lillie's Fresh Apple Juice! The Best Juice You'll Find In This Boring Town! Lol, Lillie could be like a juice seller . . . nah that's a job way too dumb for her.
Kill Kaden! YEA!
| Saria chapter 115 . 5/23/2012
What the FUCK I just realized I wrote Loki X Stark isntead of Loki X Lillie! NOOOOOOOOO! I CAN'T LET MY CUTE LITTLE LOKI AND STARK TURN GAAAAYYYYYY!
| Saria chapter 115 . 5/22/2012
Lol, Staek and Lillie need ta get a room. Evil smirk. Hah, I wonder what Lil would be like if she were . . . hah, DRUNK! I'm getting very heated moments inside my head between Lillie and Stark . . . Lillie X Stark and Loki X STark are both number one.
WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO TO MY CUTE LITTLE LOKI WITH HIS GORGEOUS EYES! Wait, that's plural. He only has one eye . . . that's a part of his charm. He had better be in the next chapter or else I'll freak. Lol, imagine Lillie on top of Stark with an angry look while Stark was lying below her like a hot lucky bastard smirking as if he were enyoing being trapped under her ass. You just gotta love him even though you hated him for um hurting Lillie. Yeah, I aint ever gonna let him forget THAT.
| Tori chapter 115 . 5/22/2012
OoOoOo, more Caleb and Lillie moments!
Er, well, Loki X Lillie and Stark X Lillie are still tied for first place . . . with Caleb X Lillie coming on second and maybe, just maybe Riku X Lillie coming third. It would be a bit weird for Lillie, a sixteen year old demon, to be dating her servant who's 'bout fifteen physically. Haha, never knew Lillie was the type for younger guys. lol. I bet it looked SOOO wrong when Lillie was sitting on top of Stark . . . all close and looking angry while Stark smirking smugly below her. Dirty, dirty Lil and Starky . . .
Aww, Caleb's getting all soft when he's alone with Lillie . . . such a sugary sweetheart. And seriousl? How the hell is Lillie gonna squeeze juice out of the apple when she can just buy juice? freak.


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Check here about Android Update 4.1.2. It is still the latest on many smartphone devices.
How to update android latest version?
Go to Settings > About device > Software Update > Update
It will automatically check for updates.
If it is not downloading, deselect Wi-Fi only (this will download on your mobile data network).
My recommendation is to first connect to a Wi-Fi and then download (to save unnecessary mobile data charges).
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One would wonder why is there a need to update the android latest version when the phone is already functioning properly. Well, there are various reasons that the phone software should be updated to the latest version available.
While the Android owners ensure proper testing and quality check before they release the software to the users, the android updates usually contain the issues identified only after its release.
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- Power Management: Battery backup is a major factor when working on a mobile OS. The research and development department strives continuously to make the battery backup management better with the reviews from users and their own research.
- Application management: When and which applications be closed and which ones to keep running in background even when the application is not in use in the foreground.
- Memory Management: Freeing the memory when the application has actually closed but has not freed the memoryin such cases OS frees the memory which is known as garbage collection.
- Fixed issues: Some bugs are identified after the final release and when the users actually start using the software. Such issues are fixed in the further releases.
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Leave it to soap stalwarts John McCook and Rena Sofer (Eric and Quinn) of The Bold and the Beautiful to generate some major numbers for the CBS Daytime drama in the latest ratings for the week of September 26-30th.
The fallout from Eric and Rena's wedding and Eric landing in the hospital in critical condition helped B&B to almost 4 million total viewers for the week (3,913,000) while gaining viewers in all key womens demos 18-34, 18-49, and 25.54 with an increase in ratings shares, as well.
The only other daytime drama to gain viewers was NBC's Days of our Lives which added +17,000 bringing its tally to 2,213,000. The ongoing drama of the three super-villains reign of terror continuing to cause havoc for many Salem favorites has shown a slight uptick. DAYS also gained viewers in the 25-54 demo.
General Hospital, which featured the beginning of the end for Paul Hornsby (Richard Burgi) being revealed to all as the hospital serial killer, saw the ABC daytime drama losing -8,000, but GH still came in with 2,703,000 for the ratings week, and saw gains in the women 18-49 and 18-34 demos. GH also tied an all-time low in 18-34 ratings share.
Finally, first place Y&R was the show with the most in the minus column for the week in question. Y&R lost -98,000 total viewers bringing their average tally to 4,691,000. The soap tied an all-time low in 18-49 womens demo ratings share and lost viewers in that demo, as well. However,Y&R saw an uptick in women 18-34. View the entire ratings picture courtesy of SON here.
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What is a Phar?
Phar is a PHP Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP) extension. It provides a way to put entire PHP applications into one single file called a PHP Archive, or "Phar," for simple installation and distribution. Further, it provides a method of file format extraction for making and manipulating .zip and .tar files, called the PharData class interface.
Phar format files trace their inspiration to a similar Java Archive file format called JAR. In 2005 PHP programmer Davey Shafik wanted to find a way to duplicate the easy deployment of JAR files within the PHP environment and came up with the idea Phar files. After further refinement the file type was added a standard part of PHP beginning with version 5.3 in 2009.
As a general-purpose free scripting language, PHP is well suited to Web development. It's known to be flexible, practical, and fast, and so is used for everything from personal blogs to large, popular websites and applications. The code itself is interpreted by Web servers using PHP processor modules to generate Web pages. The vast functionality of PHP is expanded by extensions, of which the language has thousands. Developers may also write their own extensions for specific functionality.
Phar is a convenient means of grouping multiple files into one file, and easily distributing a complete PHP application and running it from that single file. The Phar archive file doesn't need to be extracted to a disk, and PHP executes the files easily. You might think of Phar as a sort of "thumb drive" for PHP applications. In fact, you can handle Phar archives as if they were thumb drives, using common functions to view and change files, as well as create new ones - but only if you take advantage of the option to format the Phar file as a .zip or .tar archive.
Stream wrappers allow Phar to implement its significant functionality. Streams generalize operations sharing common uses and functions, and exhibit streamable behavior as resource objects. Wrappers are additional codes for teaching streams how to use certain encodings or protocols.
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The Phar extension was added as a standard feature in PHP 5.3. PHP version 5.3 was released in 2009, so any web server that is even remotely up-to-date will be able to host and execute Phar files. PHP is supported by both Windows and Linux servers, so virtually all modern servers will support the use of Phar file extensions for PHP applications without any problem. Phar files are supported by shared servers, virtual private servers, and dedicated servers. If you have a PHP application in Phar format you want to deploy, virtually any server will do.
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"Falling" dramatizes the existential predicament every person faces: Since life inevitably leads to death, how does one infuse existence with meaning so that one's plight on earth seems significant? The flight attendant's fall from the airplane is symbolic of an individual's journey through life, which inevitably culminates in death. In the poem, the flight attendant tries to comprehend her situation by engaging in a variety of acts that she feels will allow her to exercise a degree of control; her actions, however, ultimately are illusions, though perhaps necessary ones.
The dramatic situation in which Dickey initially places the flight attendant stresses an individual's lack of control over his or her own destiny. Instantaneously, the flight attendant goes from a situation of security and certainty, as she performs her socially sanctioned role in the safety of a modern-day airliner, to a state in which she is on her own and facing certain obliteration. This situation is portrayed as simultaneously horrifying and exhilarating, as the flight attendant discovers she is in the "void falling living beginning to be something/ that no one has ever been."
During her fall, she attempts to deal with her plight by interpreting it through images from American and Western culture, which constitute her reality and represent her only means of understanding existence. Dickey draws on images ranging from popular culture to Western mythology to show how...
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When learning clicks
Published 7:00 pm, Thursday, March 1, 2007
KINDE The clock is ticking.
Dozens of pairs of eyes look intensely at a large whiteboard, reading a question to be answered.
By TRACI L. WEISENBACH
KINDE The clock is ticking.
Dozens of pairs of eyes look intensely at a large whiteboard, reading a question to be answered. Minds quickly jump into gear and eager fingers hastily press buttons on a remote-control device to indicate the answer.
The time runs out.
Results are swiftly tabulated, and the room fills with cheers as the responders see theyve answered correctly. A minute later, this process starts over again. No, this is not a television game show. Its a North Huron Elementary School classroom having a great time with an exciting new technology that very well could be the future of education.
This new technology is called a classroom performance system, or CPS, according to the website of the company that produces the technology, eInstruction.
Teachers at North Huron refer to the technology as the responders. No matter what you call it, the technology offers plenty of benefits for teachers and students.
According to North Huron Technology Director Sue Herford, the responders were purchased with Evelyn Murphy funds. A donation had been made to the school in Murphys name to help pay for various academic resources, including library resources. Herford said the responders cost about $4,000 and included two sets of 32 clickers, which look just like remote controls but with fewer buttons, software and an infrared unit to capture the students answers. Teachers received some training in January on the responders and theyll receive more training in August, Herford said.
We have four teachers who have dabbled (with them) so far, she said. Theyre really talking about it (and) encouraging other teachers to try it.
In a nutshell, heres how the technology works: teachers type questions and answers into a computer database. Teachers can get the questions from various websites or teacher resource books, or teachers can come up with their own. Each clicker is numbered and theyre assigned to specific students in a classroom so the teacher can give the same clicker to the same student each time. This helps teachers keep track of how students are doing with their answers. One question at a time is projected onto the whiteboard, and students indicate their answers with their clickers. Teachers can diversify the way questions are posed, such as multiple choice or true and false. On the bottom of the screen, a row of numbered squares appears, and as students answer, the numbers corresponding with their clickers turn blue. This way, teachers can see when everyone has answered. Teachers determine the amount of time students have to answer. If the teacher chooses, a graph can be shown to the class once everyone answers, showing how many students got the answer correct and how many students chose each answer. Teachers also can choose not to show this graph and just go on to the next question.
Teachers can use the responders as tests or quizzes or just as an exercise. No matter the use, the system tracks data on each students performance. The data gathered can be sorted by various factors, such as degree of difficulty, so teachers can pinpoint how students are doing in certain areas.
If a student is having a problem, a teacher can narrow it down quite well by reviewing the data.
It makes it much easier to identify things the teacher wants to know, Herford said.
The responders are great because I can see right away what questions students are doing well on and not so well on, said third/fourth grade teacher Julie Case. One of the best things about the responders is that when we are done with an activity, I can print out a report of how each student did, which makes checking that activity a breeze.
One of the biggest benefits teachers have found is that it reduces paperwork and time hand-checking tests. Teachers can spend more time teaching.
Herford said some teachers are concerned about getting started with the responders, as it takes a bit of time entering in initial data. She said, though, using the responders is easy once the initial work is complete. Case agrees.
I don't know if teachers realize how easy the responders are to use and how much fun they can be for the students, Case said.
Another big benefit of the responders is that it encourages participation of all students, including those who normally wouldnt raise their hands to answer a question. Herford said the competitiveness involved in answering the questions correctly helps students get excited about participating.
I feel that it actively engages all of the students and encourages them to do their personal best, Case said. I think it really helps keep students focused because they only have so many seconds to answer the question.
Herford said because the responders are a change of pace from the mundane paper/pencil tasks, students stay engaged and their minds dont drift away. They dont see it as doing work, Herford said.
She said because students dont know what other students are answering (unless they blurt it out), no one knows who gets the answers wrong.
It doesnt alienate anyone, she said.
The responders offer quite a bit of flexibility, Herford said. For instance, students are allowed to change their answers, and teachers can choose a setting that lets them know which students change their answers.
In addition, teachers can use the responder system in conjunction with a written test. Students can write things down on their papers and use the clickers to answer. This is especially useful in a math setting in which students can write down the process they use to figure out the answer. Teachers then can review the written work.
Herford said she likes the fact that the responders can be used during PowerPoint presentations. A button can be pushed to go to a question for students to answer to make sure students are on track and paying attention to the PowerPoint presentation.
The responders also allow time for discussion (after the class sees the right answer), Herford said. With a paper and pencil activity, this opportunity for class discussion might not present itself.
These class discussions can lead to plenty of learning moments for students moments that will serve them well as they advance from grade to grade.
Recently, Case used the responder system to give a quiz about a book students just read, Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo. Students excitedly participated, often pressing the buttons on their clickers a few more times than they needed to just because they were having so much fun. Case laid down some basic rules about how to behave while they were using the clickers, such as zero conversation about what answers they were choosing.
After the quiz, one boy asked, Can we do that every day?
I believe the students enjoy (the responders) so much because it is something new to them, Case said. Also, we live in a technology world. Most of these students have computers at home, video games, iPods, etc. and this is something right up their alley.
Herford and Case said the sky is the limit with how teachers can use the responders in class.
The responders would be great to use in math, Case said. I think they would be a great way to motivate students to learn their multiplication facts. In science/social studies, the responders could be great to use as a review for a test. I would also like to try using them for a spelling review test. I could give students four words and have them pick out the correctly spelled word. Cases students see plenty of great things about their cool clickers.
My favorite thing about the clickers is that they are easier for a test or practicing for a test, said third-grader Raymond Toner. The clickers are a nice thing to have. I think the clickers help me to do better because I don't have to write things on a sheet of paper.
My favorite thing about the clickers is that we don't have to write, said third-grader Devin Koroleski. I also like them because they are remotes and not pencils. I think the clickers help me do better in class because they help me to keep occupied.
My favorite thing about the clickers is how easy they are to use, said fourth-grader Jasmine Martinez. They are fun and all you have to do is press a button. They help me because my arm gets tired sometimes from writing.
Herford said the responders are being used quite a bit at the college level, and she believes this trend will carry over to K-12 schools.
I can see that this is the future, and every classroom (at every school) will have these in 10 years, she said. Thats the direction in which teaching is going.


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DH and I are going on our 1st cruise on the Carnival Imagination from Oct. 9th through Oct. 14th. It leaves from Tampa. We are very excited! I'm also glad I found this web site because it's got some great tips for first timers!!
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The Fear of Death
By: graffit-skies
A/N: I should tell you that the following piece consists of only dialogues until the end, so i suggest you follow the dialogues carefully. I don't know why I wrote this, but when I finished it, I kinda took a liking to it. So tell me what you think...(this is definitely not my best piece of work...)
"Why do you fear death?"
"Because I love life too much."
"Though you know that this life means nothing? Though you know this world is just an illusion to turn you away from the path?"
"I believe in living for the moment, enjoying this life I've been given. Is it a sin to have fun? Is it a sin to enjoy worldly pleasures?"
"In fact, it is a sin if you forget your purpose. When death shall take you, none of this materialistic gain will save your soul from its fate."
"Death is nothing I worry about. I have a long life. Why should I ruin the moment of my happiness by worrying about something that will come to me eras later? This doesn't mean I do not fear death, for I do fear it and for this reason I disregard it as best I can."
"You must worry about your soul's fate if nothing else. Don't let your happiness set a curse upon yourself. Death can either bring you salvation or eternal torment. It all depends on how you choose to live this life."
"You do understand why I fear death. I'm afraid of that eternal torment, that life in what they call Hell. Maybe that's why I choose to ignore it completely."
"So you do accept the fact that you've been living a sinful life? If not, then why would you fear death and its eternal curse?"
"My life isn't sinful, it's just too happy. It's too full of comforts, and this is what is the root cause of my fear. The materialistically happy die a gruesome death, suffering that eternal curse, that torture to the soul."
"Once again you're in denial. You regret your past, don't you?"
"Mention not the forbidden."
"You must wake up to reality and stop running away from your past. You must make amends for what you did back then, not waste the rest of your life away in sin. You must stop fearing death, and do the right thing. No one lives forever."
"I'd like to tell myself that I will live forever. Yes, I will live forever. It's easy for you to say, but even you know how difficult it is to fix your mistakes, fix your greatest sins."
"Yet deep down inside you know the truth, no one lives forever. God isn't cruel, he readily forgives those who apologize from their heart, who truly make amends for their sins. You still have time, you can still save your soul from the eternal curse bestowed upon you by your immature past."
"I wish it were that easy, but you don't understand. I have gone much too far in my life of sin and worldly comforts. Turning back now will not change the Lord's mind about sending me to my curse."
"Yes it will, if you make amends from the heart, you can still make it to the Palace in Heaven. If one has the willpower they can even move the very mountains. Saving your soul is much easier than that. If you want, I'll be your guide in the process."
"You cannot change the course of destiny. My soul was destined to be doomed, and it will be, no matter what I do. Plus I have gone so far into my lifestyle that I'll never be able to let myself turn back. Even if you guide me, I know I'll let you down."
"You never were optimistic, were you? If you have the willpower, you can achieve anything, anything in the world."
"My will is broken, long cast away. What can I do now?"
"Rebuild it."
"It's not that easy my friend. Nothing ever was, ever is, and ever will be."
"Give up your sinful life."
"I cannot. My family depends on its support. I cannot let them down. I cannot let the people who depend on me down. What I once did for myself is now being done for them. You would expect me to give up all my black money as well, and I'm afraid I cannot do that. I cannot take their support away from them. I'm sorry."
"So you can sell your soul to the Devil, but you cannot start over again? Why do you fear death when you know you won't do anything to change your fate? Death comes to all, some choose to change, and some don't. Those who fear death work hard to change their fate, but you refuse to do any such thing. Why? Do you fear change even more? Or is it that you are just playing with me right now, pretending to fear death?"
"Why do you play with my mind in this way? Can't you just let me be?"
"I'm only trying to help you. You still haven't answered my question. Do you fear change more than you fear death?"
"I do not fear change, I fear failure. What if I do not succeed in changing my fate?"
"You will meet the same fate you are deemed to meet if you do nothing at all."
"But there will be that shadow, that feeling of darkness, continuously nagging me, telling me I'm a failure."
"No, there will be that voice which will tell you that at least you tried rather than just giving up right at the start. Just think, what if you succeed? Won't that be the best thing ever? It's better to fail in doing something rather than regretting never having done it."
"You speak as if you have already conquered your fate and changed it. Have you?"
"I once committed a serious crime as well. Hard to believe now, isn't it? Most who have heard this or know this, find it hard to believe. I have changed beyond recognition, I have changed so much, I myself find it hard to believe I once did what I did."
"What is it that you did?"
"Would you really like to know?"
"Yes, yes I would. It cannot have been worse than my crime."
"You'll be surprised. I was a murderer, a cold-blooded murderer. Escaped from prison, yes. I was a threat to the world, but I was religious at the same time. This is what saved me and made me who I am today."
"When you killed, you didn't remember you were a religious man?"
"When I killed, all I knew was that I had to see the bloodshed. It was a rampant rage, a furious vengeance. I still remember the day, that day long ago, it was the morning of January 23rd, 1968. I was hardly seventeen when I took my revenge from the people who took my father's life when I was a mere child."
"You had a reason to kill though, it wasn't cold-blooded murder! It was only revenge for what had happened years earlier."
"Ah but you see, I killed his whole family, even the two year old child. If this isn't plain cruelty, then what is? I was caught red-handed, and given a sentence to be hung. Yet I escaped and found my way to a church."
"Church? Now I understand what you meant by religious."
"No, I went there knowing I would find refuge if I confessed my crime to the Priest. This I did, and the blessed Priest changed my life forever. I left my country and started my life all over again. So you see, it isn't impossible to make amends. Your sins aren't nearly as bad as mine were. It'll be so much easier for you to make a new start."
"What you say is really hard to believe. Yet I know you speak the truth. Tell me, how long did it take you to make your peace with your fate?"
"I'm still in the process of it."
"You see, I don't have a whole lifetime left ahead of me to make amends. All will fail, I just know it."
"My dear friend, you don't need a whole lifetime to correct your mistakes. Did you murder anyone? No you didn't, you just lived a corrupt life. Trust me when I say that is not nearly as bad as homicide. I need a whole lifetime to make amends, you just need a few years."
"And if I fail?"
"Your position cannot get any worse than it is now."
"I see you make sense. One thing I don't understand is why you want to help me so much? I did nothing for you, in fact, I hardly know you. Are you just using me to help you make peace with the Lord?"
"Now, now my dear friend, Michael, I have known you for a whole year. How much longer should I know you to be able to help you? Plus you do realize that every good or bad thing a person does is purely because he has a selfish cause, don't you? You are right about me just using you, but you do know that it will do you good as well, thus you will let me use you."
"What you just said says a lot about your personality."
"Is that so? Like what?"
"You're not as chaste as you seem to be, friend. You are not as divine as you claim to be."
"You're a clever chap, no one has ever recognized that part of me as yet. I'm beginning to think you're a bit too clever."
"Am I supposed to take that as a compliment?"
"You're a fool of a person! You should know by now I do not flatter my victims. I'm surprised you have figured out an important point in my personality but you haven't guessed exactly why I am here."
"Victims? You do mean friends, right? Anyways, you're here to change my life from what you've been telling me. You're here to remove my fear of death."
"Yes, that is by taking your life…" From under his shirt he pulled out two guns and shot twelve bullets into Michael's chest, killing him instantly. As Michael's friend left, his final words to Michael were, "Now you shall never fear death my good friend. Mission accomplished…"
No one knows who was responsible for the death of the most corrupted monster on the planet, not even me, though I happen to be the writer of this piece. Yet I must say, this is a killer who does a real good job of killing his victims and keeping the whole affair secret.
A/N: So yeah, I know, this turned out to be really weird, and might've been a bit hard to follow since most of it consists of only dialogues...probably should be turned into a short play or something...but then again...i dunno. well, tell me what you thought of it...


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ROHM Microstep Motor Drivers Deliver High Performance and Reliability
Full-step to eighth-step and sixteenth-step devices operate from a single supply; ultra-thin, compact package bottom side heat sink; unique Ghost Supply Prevention feature eliminates motor malfunctions; built-in voltage, current and thermal protection.
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SAN DIEGO, June 28 /PRNewswire/ -- The new high-performance, high-reliability stepper motor drivers from ROHM Semiconductor offer selectable excitation modes—full-step to sixteenth-step with 1.0A or 2.0A output current and full-step to eighth-step with 2.5A output current. These microstep drivers enable designers to optimize motor torque, noise and vibration for a wide range of applications. Selectable current decay pattern (FAST/SLOW/MIXED decay modes) further enhances motor performance. Circuit design is simplified through a combination of features including an internal voltage regulator, control input translator and DMOS output. The built-in regulator permits operation from a single 36V (max.) supply. Instead of parallel control lines, a single clock (CLK) input is converted by the device's internal translator into motor drive signals. Additionally, ROHM's advanced DMOS (Pch + Nch) output topology eliminates the need for external charge pump components.
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*ITEM: HARD ROCK Hotel Las Vegas 2002 Staff Halloween Pinback
*MANUFACTURER: Hard Rock Hotel/Casino - Las Vegas, NV.
*THEME: Halloween
*MEASURES: Approx. 2 1/2" X 1"
*CONDITION: Used for a few days during the year it was produced in then put in storage by the employee it was given to.
*FEATURES: This Pinback was not sold to the general public. This pinback was produced for and given to all employee's during holidays and special events to wear every year. Each year a different pinback is produced for Christmas, Halloween, April Fools, Valentines Day, etc............ No one holiday or special event is ever the same from year to year. Most of the employee pinbacks have the word "Staff" written on them but some do not.
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*Items sold are inspected and photographed at different angles before being boxed up and shipped to the buyer. Any attempts to return broken items in exchange for what's been shipped to the buyer, make the purchase and exchange parts that are needed then send unit back for a refund, extort partial refunds or get a refund due to a mistake made by the buyer in the purchase of the item will be reported immediately.
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University Certificate in Leadership and Management for Nursing: The Use of Best Practice Guidelines as a Benchmark for Program Evaluation
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Background: Excellence in nursing leadership and management requires evidence-based education programs. Program evaluation is an essential process to achieve excellence in curriculum development, course delivery, and student outcomes. Faculty from the Schools of Nursing and Continuing Education of an inner city University collaboratively developed and conducted a program evaluation of a Leadership and Management for Nurses, Baccalaureate Level Certificate, in a Canadian University. The evaluation included four phases.
Objective: To evaluate the current Leadership and Management for Nurses Baccalaureate Level Certificate against best practice guidelines and stakeholder interviews.
Method: The mixed method design included 1) graduate satisfaction surveys; 2) needs assessment for B.Sc.N.'s; 3) community Nursing Leaders stakeholder focus groups; 4) faculty appraisal of curriculum against the national benchmark: the professional best practice guidelines for leadership. Quantitative and qualitative data were triangulated across the four measures for certificate review.
Results: Data analyses revealed curriculum content that met identified needs and guideline recommendations. Inter-rater reliability scores demonstrated high concordance between several certificate courses and the guidelines. Courses with high discordant scores were identified and targeted for revision. Complementarity of findings from phase four with qualitative and quantitative data from phases one though three are discussed. Data integation across all phases demonstrated congruence with guideline recommendations.
Discussion: Future directions in leadership and management education are grounded in best practice evidences and stakeholder feedback. Evidence supports the use of a leadership model to develop the new curriculum.
Implications: Guidelines play an important role in curriculum development and evaluation.


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Ann Zingha also known as Queen Nzinga Mbande, was a 17th century African ruler of the Ndongo and Matamba Kingdoms of the Mbundo people in Angola. She fought for the freedom and recognition of her kingdoms against the Portuguese. She served as an envoy for her brother King Ngola Mbande at peace negotiations and demonstrated great political and diplomatic acumen. After the death of her brother in 1624 she was elected Queen by a small faction of eligible voters, her opponents refused to regard her as the legitimate ruler of Ndongo and joined the Portuguese in an attempt to remove her from the thrown. Her ruling prowess, successfully transformed her Kingdom into a commercial state to rival Portuguese colonies.
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Italy are likely to be without five key players for the Confederations Cup third-place play-off against Uruguay.
The Azzurri face the South American champions in Salvador on Sunday, but Cesare Prandelli could be without a number of his starters.
Reports suggest that Andrea Barzagli and Andrea Pirlo will almost certainly miss the match, whilst Claudio Marchisio will be assessed this weekend following a calf injury.
Giorgio Chiellini and Daniele De Rossi may also sit out the match due to 'muscle fatigue'.
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