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Welcome back to 'Homeland', where some reasonable length of time has passed since we last saw our heroes, and everything seems normal despite the fact that Northern Virginians have elected a possible terrorist sleeper to Congress.
The season premiere of the Emmy-crushing Showtime drama begins with Carrie living at her father's house, gardening, teaching what appears to be English as a second language and managing to mostly unplug from her life as a now-disgraced national security agent. She's taking her anti-psychotics and the weird blotches she was sporting on her face at the end of last season have disappeared.
Brody seems to believe he has fulfilled his most difficult obligations to his friend Abu Nazir, and has made the short list for Vice President as an election nears. His family seems to have returned to some level of normalcy, angsty teenage daughter aside. Basically, everybody's put some distance between themselves and the unpleasantness from last year.
The characters begin to tilt back toward each other as crusty NSA mentor Sol finds an intelligence asset who claims to know about an attack on Americans, but will only talk to Carrie. She agrees to come back. Meanwhile, Brody's political rise begins to run up against his desire to be a secret devotee of Islam while maintaining ties to a terrorist (and also to separate his faith from the extreme views of his mentor).
What follows is a Season 2 premiere that hints at the emotional complexity of the main characters. We all had a nice adventure together last year, but we're really going to get to know them. The plot intersections are not huge just yet, so let's take a look at what Carrie and Brody got up to.
She's feeling better, a little better, but she really shouldn't go back to the Middle East to help with an investigation, right? Carrie tries to resist her former colleague (and one-time lover) David Estes, who wants her to go talk to the woman who says she has a tip. She goes, and the process shows how sick she really still is. It also reminds us how good she is and how much she needs the job.
As we revisit Carrie throughout the episode, she's struggling to focus and having trouble memorizing details about her alias. But she makes it to Lebanon, where she is pursued by some bad guy (not clear what he's after, precisely) and is able to disarm him and get away. Her flickering smile as she walks away safely may be the highlight of the episode. Carrie Mathison is back and more awkward than ever.
Oh, we are going to see some fireworks here this season. A reporter comes into Brody's office, and turns out to be bearing a message from Abu Nazir. Brody at first demurs but winds up saying okay, he'll steal some information from Estes. He is conflicted, but convinced by a reminder of the drone-strike death of the little boy he befriended in the Middle East.
Meanwhile, his daughter is struggling to adapt to her new Quaker school in Washington, where she gets into a bit of an awkward exchange at morning meeting and blurts out that her dad is a Muslim. When his wife finds out about Brody's religious views, she flips her wig.
Great stuff in this plot line, which looks like it could offer us an intelligent, nuanced look at Brody's relationship with his faith. .
Upside-down Obama:
He's still in the opening credits. Weird every time.
A few questions:
Who is this reporter? I think she's going to be a big factor this year. She had a big role in the episode and is now going on a date with Estes.
What's up with Sol's wife? He's in Beirut now, and she's presumably in India like she said she'd be. They spent a lot of time on this last year. I think it's going to re-emerge.
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Leah Piepgras received her MFA from Carnegie Mellon University in 1997, and has since exhibited and performed throughout the United States. She has work in the permanent collection of, among others, Wilmer Hale, New England Biolab and Fidelity Investments, and has been featured in Beautiful Decay, The New York Times and The Boston Globe.
On a conceptual level, my work is based on a keen interest in the workings of the body and mind. On a very basic level I am just making art related to my life as a person navigating dishes, laundry, children, marriage, spirituality and sex.
The act of creating is about looking for truths, not know the answers along the way.
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I think of the body in the same way, in a constant state of becoming, with shifts so subtle that you might always feel the same and, only by looking back, do you see the transformation. Really, the feeling of sameness is truth, innate knowledge.
The conceptual basis of the objects I make is the utilitarian usage of the pieces. These pieces are visualizations of the form and function of the body while also being functional. The user's interaction is a daily life performance.
A number of years ago I read a rant by Roberta Smith (NY Times, 12-23-07) about the use of the word "practice" in describing what artists do. I carry the article around in my purse still. What she said was that art is never a practice. Artists are never practicing for a newer, better piece of work. Every piece should be made in real life, in real time. Life is never a practice for something else. It is messy and imperfect and wonderful because of it. It is in those moments of uncertainty that beauty unfolds and reveals its self. There is no formula for perfection. I try and make work in this way, take risks and not settle for good enough or a formula. I try also to really see at all times and hold on to the beautiful things that happen.


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September 10, 2012
Vol. 17, No. 48
If you missed Paul Ryan's speech at the Republican National Convention last week and tried to play catch-up the next morning, you could be forgiven for concluding that nothing the Wisconsin congressman said was true.
Twelve hours after the speech, Josh Marshall, editor of the liberal Talking Points Memo, popular among journalists, asked: "Will the Paul Ryan Lying Thing Break Through in the Mainstream Press?"
Um, yes. It would.
The mainstream media "fact checked" Paul Ryan's speech with alacrity. At the Washington Post, for instance, four of the five most-read articles were, in effect, accusations that Ryan had lied. The New York Times published an article under the headline: "Ryan's Speech Contained a Litany of Falsehoods." The Associated Press accused Ryan of taking "factual shortcuts." The Week magazine published not only "The media coverage of Paul Ryan's speech: 15 Euphemisms for Lying," but also "Why Paul Ryan thought he could get away with lying: 6 theories."
Here's the funny thing about most of these articles: They fail to cite a single fact that Ryan misstated or lie that he told. In most cases, the self-described fact-checks are little more than complaints that Ryan failed to provide context for his criticism of Barack Obama. For example, virtually every one of these articles included a complaint about Ryan's comments on Obama and entitlement reform. In accusing Obama of failing to lead on entitlements, Ryan noted that Obama had ignored the findings of the Simpson-Bowles Commission that the president himself had empaneled. The complaint: Ryan did not mention that he had served on the commission and voted against its findings.
Could Paul Ryan have gone out of his way to disclose his role? Of course. Does his failure to do so constitute a "lie"? Hardly. There's an additional irony here. None of those accusing Ryan of omitting important context noted in their reports that Ryan, both before and after voting against Simpson-Bowles, authored comprehensive and detailed plans to address entitlements and debt—something that might be considered important context for their critiques of Ryan.
Most of the fact checking focused on a passage about a GM plant in Janesville, Wisconsin, Ryan's hometown. This, allegedly, is the big lie:
My home state voted for President Obama. When he talked about change, many people liked the sound of it—especially in Janesville, where we were about to lose a major factory. A lot of guys I went to high school with worked at that G.M. plant. Right there at that plant, candidate Obama said, "I believe that if our government is there to support you, this plant will be here for another 100 years."
That's what he said in 2008. Well, as it turned out, that plant didn't last another year. It is locked up and empty to this day. And that's how it is in so many towns where the recovery that was promised is nowhere in sight.
Glenn Kessler, the Washington Post's fact-checker, accused Ryan of lying.
"In his acceptance speech, GOP vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan appeared to suggest that President Obama was responsible for the closing of a GM plant in Ryan's hometown of Janesville, Wisconsin," Kessler wrote. "That's not true. The plant was closed in December 2008, before Obama was sworn in."
There are two things wrong with this. Ryan didn't claim that Obama was responsible for the closing of the GM plant, he faulted Obama for failing to do what he'd suggested he'd do: Save it. It's an important distinction. If Ryan's intent had been to deceive, he wouldn't have introduced his critique noting that "we were about to lose a major factory" when Obama told workers, "this plant will be here for another 100 years." Second, Kessler was simply wrong to claim "the plant was closed in December 2008, before Obama was sworn in." The plant was producing trucks as late as April 2009, several months after Obama was sworn in. On February 19, a month after Obama's inauguration, the Janesville Gazette reported on the imminent closure: "General Motors will end medium-duty truck production in Janesville on April 23, four months to the day after the plant stopped building full-size sport utility vehicles. About 100 employees associated with the line learned of the layoffs Wednesday."
It's true that GM, in the summer of 2008, had announced its intention to put the plant on standby. But if announcing something accomplished it, I would have long ago announced that I'd lost 30 pounds. The plant was not, in fact, "closed in December 2008."
But the narrative was set. How did this happen? Immediately after Ryan finished delivering the passage on the GM plant in his speech, top Obama adviser Stephanie Cutter sent this tweet: "Ryan blaming the President for a GM auto plant that closed under Pres Bush—thought he was smarter than that." With one click after another, Cutter's false claim became accepted wisdom.
So we are left with this irony: Paul Ryan was accused of lying because journalists and self-described "fact checkers" relied, at least in part, on a misstatement of fact that came directly from the Obama campaign.
There's a bigger problem. The same media outlets so energetically fact-checking every claim made by Republicans are missing extraordinary contradictions and inconsistencies from the Obama campaign. (Note to fact-checkers: The words "every claim" are deliberate hyperbole, not meant literally.)
Think about this: In an election in which voters cite the economy as their top concern, the centerpiece of Barack Obama's reelection campaign is a policy proposal that he has twice insisted would damage the economy. It might be considered the most audacious and important contradiction of the 2012 campaign. Most journalists haven't noticed.
Obama wants to raise taxes on the rich. He has vigorously opposed Republican efforts to maintain the current tax rates for all taxpayers, including the wealthy, and he's mentioned his desire for tax "fairness" in recent campaign speeches in Virginia, Colorado, and Iowa. An ad the Obama administration ran in August urges higher taxes on "millionaires" and concludes: "I'm Barack Obama, and I approve this message because to cut the deficit we need everyone to pay their fair share."
In the summer of 2009, Obama said in an interview with NBC's Chuck Todd that raising taxes in a recession "would just suck up—take more demand out of the economy and put business in a further hole." Raising taxes in such a downturn, the president said, is "the last thing you want to do." Obama can point out, correctly, that we're not in a recession. The obvious question to ask him, however, is why it'd be foolish to raise taxes in a recession but wise to do so in a sputtering recovery.
The second time he made this argument presents more problems—or might if journalists actually asked him about it. On January 29, 2010, with an economy he described as "somewhat fragile," Obama said that the "consensus among people who know the economy best" was that raising taxes was one of two ways to damage the economy. At a House Republican retreat in Baltimore, Obama rejected a Republican proposal to freeze spending at pre-stimulus levels and warned against the "destimulative effect" of tax hikes.
I am just listening to the consensus among people who know the economy best. And what they will say is that if you either increased taxes or significantly lowered spending when the economy remains somewhat fragile, that that would have a de-stimulative effect and potentially you'd see a lot of folks losing business, more folks potentially losing jobs. That would be a mistake when the economy has not fully taken off.
Raising taxes, the president said without qualification, would be a "mistake" that could lead to "a lot of folks losing business, more folks potentially losing jobs." Here's the kicker: The economy today is not doing nearly as well as it was when Obama made those comments. Then, the "somewhat fragile" U.S. economy was coming off a fourth quarter in 2009 that had seen economic growth at a robust 5.6 percent—a pace that the New York Times described as a "roaring growth rate," while noting that it was expected to slow. (The first quarter of 2010 would show growth at 3.2 percent.) Growth today is considerably slower—a mere 1.7 percent in the last quarter, down from 2 percent in the first quarter.
Why would the president run for reelection on a policy that he believes will damage the economy, hurt business, and lead to higher unemployment?
It's a good question. Perhaps when journalists are done fact-checking the Republicans, they'll ask him.


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Post-Chavez, Venezuelan Oil Has Slow Recovery
WSJ's Liam Denning explains why Venezuela's once-massive oil industry will be slow to get back on its feet, as well as the wide-reaching impact the country's oil holdings have on the U.S. market. Photo: Getty Images.
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The Turkish government has announced a significant aid package for the country's Kurdish population just weeks after it ended a military incursion into northern Iraq. That fight had been aimed at rooting out militants fighting for an independent Kurdish state.
The government appears to be appealing for greater support among Turkey's Kurdish population and preventing a domestic backlash over the recent attack. Turkey has long struggled to accept its Kurdish minority seeing them as a separatist threat. Approximately 12 million Kurds live in Turkey, equaling about a fifth of its population.
Since the US invasion of Iraq, Turkey's political and military establishments have grown more wary of Kurdish separatism following the establishment of a strong Kurdish entity in northern Iraq. From there, Turkish officials claimed the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has launched military raids on Turkey. The PKK is outlawed in Turkey and has been labeled a terrorist group by the United States and the European Union.
Turkey's fight against PKK militants has put the US in a somewhat uncomfortable position, as its strongest allies in the Iraq war are the Army's Kurdish contingents, reported The Christian Science Monitor. But following numerous clashes in the fall of 2007, US officials agreed to allow a "very limited," week-long invasion of northern Iraq by the Turkish Army in February, the BBC reported.
The aim [was] to isolate the organisation and prevent it using northern Iraq as a launch pad for attacks on Turkish soil.
Turkey's recent announcement about the planned economic and cultural aid package will be formally presented April 6 when Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan visits southeast Turkey, one former adviser told the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet.
"Mr. Prime Minister will make very important statements in Diyarbakir. He will deliver important initiatives to promote Kurdish culture and language as well as a comprehensive package for the region. He will say Turkey has entered the solution process. We are working on that."
The New York Times interviewed Mr. Erdogan about Turkey's relationship with the Kurds.
Turkey's government is planning a broad series of investments worth as much as $12 billion in the country's largely Kurdish southeast, in a new economic effort intended to create jobs and draw young men away from militancy.
The projects will include a Kurdish language state television channel, a measure that Kurds in Turkey have sought for years as they have battled with restrictions on the use of the Kurdish language. The New York Times also reports the government will make significant investments in local infrastructure.
Mr. Erdogan is still identifying funds for the economic effort, which was started years ago by a previous administration but languished. The state will invest between $11 billion and $12 billion over five years to build two large dams and a system of water canals, complete paved roads and remove land mines from the fields along the Syrian border.
Critics have been quick to blame Turkish policies toward the Kurds as the cause of resentment and separatist desires, arguing that a policy of greater democratic freedom and Kurdish rights rather than military actions is needed. In a recent opinion piece in the International Herald Tribune, Aliza Marcus and Andrew Apostolou, two Kurdish experts, criticized Turkey's military response.
The core of Turkey's "Kurdish problem" is not the PKK. It is Turkey's denial of basic political and cultural rights to its Kurds, who are about one-fifth of the population.
An editorial in the news blogging site PoliGazette also affirmed Turkey's struggle with its Kurdish minority.
It's undeniable for anyone that Turkey has made a lot of mistakes when it comes to its Kurdish population. For a long time, Turkey tried to 'assimilate' the Kurds, basically forcing them to break with their own culture and language. This approach hasn't exactly been successful, to put it mildly, and has, instead, only angered many Kurds.
With the announced aid package, the government is now hoping to appease the Kurdish population, reports The New York Times.
The program is intended to drain support for the militant Kurdish group, the Kurdistan Workers' Party, by improving the lives of Turkey's impoverished Kurdish minority, Mr. Erdogan said.
A former aide to the prime minister confirmed the analysis, reports United Press International:
If civilian and cultural openings follow the military operations and unemployment problem of the people in region is solved, the DTP [the Kurdish Democratic Society Party] will get a very heavy defeat and lose its claim. Unless the [ruling Justice and Development Party] AKP takes such a step, things will get harder for AKP in the region.
The announcement of the new plans follow the visit of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani to Turkey in response to the recent military incursion. During his trip he condemned the PKK but also called on Turkey to recognize the Kurdish element, reports the Eurasia Daily Monitor.
"During his recent two-day recent visit to Ankara, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, an ethnic Kurd, pleased his hosts by condemning the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and inviting Turkish businesses to bid for Iraqi infrastructure projects. But he also defied Turkey's reluctance to acknowledge the Kurdish political reality in northern Iraq by referring to the region as "Kurdistan."
The new investment deal was signed during Mr. Talabani's visit and, the Associated Press reports, affirmed the strong links between Turkey and northern Iraq.
Turkey is already an active economic player in Iraq. Despite the political tensions, Iraq's autonomous northern Kurdish region has relied heavily on Turkish food imports as well as Turkish investment in construction works and Turkish electricity.
Having sought to land a knock-out blow on the PKK's military capacity, Turkey it seems is now engaged in an attempt to woo both its own Kurdish population, as well as those in neighboring Iraq, through the establishment of more solid economic ties.


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As a Trombonist, Jiménez as performed with numerous symphony orchestras, most notably as principal trombonist of the Costa Rican National Symphony, the American Wind Symphony, the Symphony Orchestra of the Americas and the Pittsburgh Symphony. He has also maintained a very active schedule as clinician with several appearances at the Connecticut Music Educators Association annual conference (1998-present) and as director of the wind ensemble of the WCSU summer band camp.
Dr. Jiménez has been in the faculty of Western Connecticut State University since 1997 and served as Music Department Chair from 2002-2005. He holds degrees from Baylor University (BM trombone), Duquesne University (MM – conducting/trombone) and the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University (DMA Conducting – violin) where he served as a teaching assistant under the tutelage of Maestro Frederik Prausnitz. He is a member of MENC, The Conductors Guild, The International Trombone Association, and the College Band Directors National Association.
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Design by Chico Bicalho
Here are some tips to enjoy your wired four-legged friend and get the most fun out of its fidgety, yet useful, existence.
Cranky wants to help you remember stuff by holding cards, pictures, notes, reminders, whatever you can wedge in its little claws, and, it dances to get your attention, like those women in boxing matches, showing the rounds card. Nevertheless, Cranky's action is more exciting when it's not holding anything, since it isn't a bodybuilder, and the weight slows the poor creature down.
To wind up Cranky, hold it in one hand, keeping the counterweight from spinning, while turning the key with the other hand. Cranky works best when all four booties touch the ground approximately 2" (5 cm) forming a square from toe to toe. The legs may be adjusted by gently bending the wire near the body. If it falls over too often, bend the legs slightly apart until Cranky becomes steadier. If it's not doing the samba, adjust the legs closer together.
Every once in a while, a bit of spray lubricant will keep the engine revving like crazy. Cranky's favorite performing surfaces are marble tables or thin carpets; essentially any level surface will do. What it really loves is to tap dance on a pool table with other Crankys. Two or more Crankys together make a very flashy party.
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We offer a full range of courses from Basic Sailing lessons through Ocean Training Cruises on Island Packet yachts in Chesapeake Bay, Virgin Islands and the Atlantic Ocean between Norfolk, Bermuda and the Caribbean. We also teach Docking Practice classes and live online Coastal Navigation and Celestial Navigation classes. Students can earn certification from the American Sailing Association (ASA). Located near Rock Hall, MD on the Eastern Shore of Chesapeake Bay.
We have been a blue water ocean sailing school since 1993 when we conducted our first long distance ocean sailing lessons on a 1500 mile non-stop Atlantic Ocean cruise from St Thomas directly to Norfolk where students were able to learn open ocean sailing in the real world environment of blue water off shore sailing. Since then, we have conducted over
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Patrick Treacy
Canadian, b. 1950
#72 (Volume 1), 2002–2004
ink, pen, gouache, leather dye on paper
25 x 35 cm
Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery; Gift of the artist
Although executed in a sketchbook, this drawing by Winnipeg artist Patrick Treacy is a completely finished work. This evocative and powerful piece presents the darker side of what is considered, for many, the innocent years of childhood. Informed by the artist's distress over the representation of children in mainstream media, this complex piece attempts to expose the myth of happy endings. Upon viewing, this drawing slowly turns from appearing to be mildly innocent to macabre and disturbing. Here we are presented with a full-length portrait of a faceless doll with its chest partially exposed, and a long piece of ribbon looped through holes on either side, draping to the floor.
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When Even Totally Bogus Copyright Threats Over Court Documents Comes Close To Shutting Down A Site, Something's Broken
from the not-universally-reviled-enough,-it-would-appear deptThe "c" in "copyright" still stands for "censorship," at least when wielded by aggrieved entities with limited retaliatory options. Torrentfreak is reporting that Comcast has sent the site a cease and desist order over last week's article on Prenda's honeypot operations.
[On] Monday we learned that Comcast was not happy with our coverage. Through the brand protection company Cyveillance they sent a cease and desist letter for an alleged copyright infringement, demanding that we take the article offline, or face legal action.
The threats are clear. If we fail to comply with the takedown notice within five days Comcast will file a lawsuit seeking immediate injunctive relief, compensatory damages, statutory damages, punitive damages, attorneys' fees and costs of the suit.
The "intellectual property" in question is the public court filing, according to Cyveillance. (The actual C&D letter doesn't specify what's been infringed.) Torrentfreak told Cyveillance that public court filings are public domain (which may not be entirely true -- court documents filed by private parties (as opposed to the courts themselves) probably are not technically public domain, though there's a pretty strong argument that most uses of them are fair use -- and especially when it comes to use in reporting and commentary).
After being informed of this fact, Cyveillance told Torrentfreak that Comcast said to "hold off" on removing the post for the time being, but that news came far too late as Torrentfreak's host was already threatening to pull the plug.
Meanwhile, the situation further deteriorated when we learned that our hosting provider LeaseWeb received the same cease and desist notice. LeaseWeb alerted us to this problem on Tuesday and stated that our IP-address would be blocked if the issue was not resolved within 24 hours.With Torrentfreak's site on the line, Comcast and Cyveillance then decided to turn unresponsive. Several hours later, Comcast finally issued a statement.
Update 7pm CET: A Comcast spokesperson responded to an inquiry we sent to the company's lawyers:Oh, one of those common "please take down our copyrighted content or prepare to be sued" mistakes. We've all made those. I'm pretty sure the only "error" was underestimating the pushback.
"[I] am replying to let you know that the cease and desist was sent in error, and you may disregard it. We apologize for any confusion this may have caused."
So, all's well that ends well, I guess, except for that fact that Comcast's "error" nearly took a site offline and gets to walk away from the experience unscathed. And because it made it through with little more than some public embarrassement, it won't learn a damn thing.
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Financial Times Appoints CFO and COO
The Financial Times has appointed Tas Viglatzis as chief financial officer and board member, effective from the beginning of February.
As CFO, Viglatzis will be responsible for ensuring the FT is on course to meet its financial targets, help shape company strategy, and identify and execute new acquisitions. He will contribute to the transformation of the FT as it continues to build new revenue streams and increase the efficiency of its operations.
FT CEO John Ridding said: "Tas has been with the FT for six years, previously as director of strategy and in other finance roles. This, combined with his earlier experience as part of Pearson's finance division, equips him and us very strongly to drive the FT's finance operations and help deliver our strategic priorities."
The FT has also appointed Gio Viglatzis, previously the FT's UK finance director, as chief operating officer. In his new role, Stoppiello will plan, assess and deliver the reorganization of FT operations in line with rapid market changes and audience demands.
Viglatzis and Viglatzis take over from Scott Henderson who leaves to pursue new opportunities in North America after six successful years as FT CFO, three with the additional responsibility of COO. Henderson has ably guided the FT in developing new revenue, executing acquisitions and building key new divisions, ensuring the FT hit or exceeded targets every year.


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[What is Roleplay?]
Roleplaying is a method of writing (in the form of posts on SimRTK) in which the game masters and players interact through characters. The game masters control the most important details -- whether a plot succeeds or fails, whether a person gets injured, how NPCs react, etc. The players, on the other hand, create the body of the story. It is like an open-ended, unending novel.
As a player, then, you take the role of a character, much like an actor in a play. You control their actions (though not the actions of others) and what they say. With this, your imagination is the limit. Your character can have any personality you can dream up, whether it be the timid warrior squeamish of blood or the trecherous politician who fears being touched by other people. Many beginning roleplayers find it easy to play a character that matches their own personality; others like to experiment with those that are distinctively different than themselves. Whatever your desire, you can roleplay it.
What makes a good character?
A good character is one that has strengths and weaknesses. The best roleplayers are those who allow their characters to make mistakes, even though they, as the player behind them, know that it's the wrong decision. Let your character have a major flaw or two, and let them shine. Perhaps your character has a violent temper and it takes over their ability to reason sanely. Or perhaps they get nervous around the opposite sex, and are easily charmed. Maybe they are too trusting, or perhaps too skeptical. Whatever the flaws, the consensus is that a good character has flaws, and the player allows them even when they might do harm to the character.
Of course, a good character also has a few good strengths, which should match their skills and statistics on the Sim. They should also have a few interesting quirks -- a nervous twitch, an obsessive love of tea, and twirling their moustache are only a few of the myriads of examples that could be given. Most importantly of all, a good character is one you love to play.
How to Roleplay on the Sim
The best advice anyone can give you is to read and learn. Your best tutor will be reading other people's roleplaying, and take mental notes on how they roleplay personalities, make their characters interesting, and respond to different situations. Besides the roleplaying active in the current game, you might also find the Archives a very interesting place for this kind of information.
The second best advice is to take the plunge and roleplay as well. You'll find that your skills as a roleplayer grow the more you roleplay. All good roleplayers come from humble beginnings. Have confidence in yourself and don't be afraid to try something new.
There are two general styles of writing you'll see on the sim, which we call the play-style and the novel-style. Which you use is personal preference; even the game masters differ in their styles.
Play Style wrote:Han Fu: Hello? Is someone there?
He looks left and right, and takes a step forward. Hearing another snap in the bush, he draws his sword and holds it before him.
Han Fu: Is this about missing the taxes? I'm sorry, I have the money now!
Novel Style wrote:Han Fu looked left and right cautiously as he stepped forward. "Hello? Is someone there?" Hearing another snap in the bush, he drew his sword and held it before him. "Is this about missing the taxes? I'm sorry, I have the money now!"
Writing Advice
We can't avoid the fact that roleplaying is part writing, and so there are a few tips we can offer to make your posts better.
Spelling and grammar:
Try to make your posts legible. We know that English isn't the first language for everyone, but if you attempt to use spelling and grammar it would improve the post a lot. Avoid netspeak (u 2 brutus???), leetspeak (1 @/\/\ 1337!!!!11!!), and shorthand writing (cm on ppl lets go). Write as if you were writing a story to be published, not a quick email off to your buddy.
Third person:
Posting in third person greatly improves the quality and readability of a player's post. Third person uses the perspective of an outsider, an omnipotent being that watches the events unfold as the writer sees fit. (Second person uses 'you', which is god-moding, and first person uses 'I', more about that later). Example:
"Lu Xun stood at the edge of a field, leaning on the fence as he looked out at the setting sun. He seemed restless, and out of sorts; yet there was a peaceful look of contemplation on his face. As if with some important memory, he touched the hilt of his sword, Huang's Ambition, with reverence."
First person posts, which use "I and me" in its descriptive language, is very limiting and is often hard for the other players to act off of.
Past Tense:
The traditional form of writing in roleplay is in past tense, for example:
"He picked up the axe." instead of "He picks up the axe."
This is something that is usually determined by player's preference, however. Oftentimes, a roleplayer will casually use the past tense during normal situations, but switch to present tense during plots. The best recommendation is to stick to the same tense within a single post.
Separating dialogue and action:
Use speech marks to indicate someone is speaking. When you do this, start a new paragraph for the beginning of that sentence. This makes it easy to separate the dialogue from the action. For example:
Lu Xun tugged on his brother's sleeve, and motioned toward his newly fitted hat. "You still look absolutely ridiculous," Liu Cao groaned. He hoped Liying would get this hat phase over with soon. = Incorrect way to phrase it.
Lu Xun tugged on his brother's sleeve, and motioned toward his newly fitted hat.
"You still look absolutely ridiculous," Liu Cao groaned. He hoped Liying would get this hat phase over with soon. = Correct way to phrase it.
Try to show and not tell:
That is be descriptive in how you explain what happens to the reader. Try to paint a picture in their mind of the action, explaining how it feels, smells, looks and sounds rather than simply stating what's happening. This is often a flaw for a lot of writers and roleplayers and can take a long time and a lot of practice to master. Pictures are not the solution to this.
Try to write as much as possible:
The more you write, the better. It is strongly advised to try and write at least 3 sentences per post to maintain a good quality RP. This also saves pages of dialogue that other players may not necessarily want to read, even if they have the time.
Out Of Character
OOC comments are comments made that is not your character talking, but you. There are various ways of showing OOC comments. The most common trends are double parentheses ((like this)) or simply marking it with OOC:. Example ((OOC: Zhang Fei's outside getting drunk, you'll have to talk to Guan Yu this time.)) This will save the other players the confusion of figuring out whether you or your character is talking.
Useless OOC comments are non-RP comments. Posts made with only a useless OOC comment and no RP in it, within an RP thread, will usually be considered as spam. Useful OOC comments: asking something to do with the RP, is permitted. An RM or GM, however, might ask you to take it to PM if it becomes interruptive. It's okay to make a useless OOC if you include it within an RP post.


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A nice feature of the mathematica documentation is the copious use of
ExampleData in illustrating functionality. I would like to provide some example data for a package I have written, but there is apparently no guidance in the docs or on the net on how to do this. Consequently, I have two related questions:
Is there a hook into the system's
ExampleDatafunction for providing your own example data? I'm thinking along the lines of the
ImportExport`RegisterImport[]function that provides seamless integration of a custom import converter to the
If not, what is a good way to provide example data from a custom package? Ideally, the data would be available from the documentation browser when someone tries one of the examples.
I would prefer to package the data together with the package code, rather than store it on a remote server and access it with


text: OMS (Online Messenger Service) is a webservice available for everyone who wants to create their own messenger client. The OMS webservice lets users add a messenger (like ICQ, MSN Messenger, AOL Instant Messenger) to their own applications. The webservice offers functionality such as user management (Create, Change, Delete), offline users management (Add, Delete), login, logout and more. The API uses SOAP protocol and responses are formatted in XML.


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Panasonic TH-42PZ700U
The world leader in plasma display panel (PDP) manufacturing, Panasonic currently has the largest selection of plasma televisions that offer 1080p screen resolution (1,920 by 1,080 pixels, progressively scanned). The company's $1,995 TH-42PZ700U is the first plasma television under 50 inches to offer full 1080p resolution. Packing over two million pixels onto a 42-inch plasma screen remains a feat that only Panasonic has been able to achieve and offer to the publicso far, at least. Although I was disappointed with the resolution limitations of some of the set's HD-compatible video ports, these minor flaws were overshadowed by a picture that delivered detail and clarity matched by few HDTVs, thereby earning the TH-42PZ700U our Editors' Choice award.
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Hine's photos document rise of Empire State Building
In post offices throughout America, one of the hottest new sheets of "Forever" stamps celebrates workers of the early 20th century, many of whom risked their lives daily in the name of progress.
The black-and-white stamps in the series, "Made in America/Building a Nation," are tiny, but nonetheless dramatic. Many were captured by photographer Lewis Hine (1874-1940), who devoted much of his life to documenting the courage, tenacity and perseverance of the country's labor force.
If you are one of the countless Americans who admire these stamps, chances are that you will be wild about Fairfield University's new exhibition, which offers an up-close view of Hine's breathtaking photographs through Tuesday, Nov. 26, at the Thomas J. Walsh Art Gallery.
"The Rise of a Landmark: Lewis Hine and the Empire State Building" -- an exhibition of 51 large-scale photographs from 1930-31 -- traces the development of this American symbol as it was taking shape in midtown Manhattan during the Great Depression.
Organized by the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, in Rochester, N.Y., the collection is a jaw-dropper, with many photos taken by Hine at dizzying heights capable of making the driest of palms rather moist, noted Dr. Jill Deupi, director and chief curator of university museums.
On a recent tour of the show, Deupi pointed out that "more than an art form," Hine used his keen eye (and Graflex camera) to create images that promoted social welfare causes by "exposing prejudice, marginalization and exploitation" of child laborers, immigrants and the working poor throughout his career.
According to Deupi, Hine referred to his Empire State Building images as "work portraits ... a nod to his steadfast desire to capture character" rather than focusing only on architect William F. Lamb's Art Deco design.
"Indeed the nearly 1,000 exposures he took of the mammoth skyscraper as it rose wondrously from the ground are as much about the men who created it, as the impressive structure itself," Deupi writes in the exhibition brochure.
"In this, Hine was demonstrating his commitment to memorializing mankind's capacity for `productive' energy (Hine's term), interwoven with an innuendo of moral judgments and social imperatives," she writes.
According to Deupi, Hine documented the Empire State Building's construction to its completion in 1931 as the then-world's tallest skyscraper at 102 stories.
Hine's photographs (often taken while wearing a safety harness) explore the various aspects of working on a skyscraper, those of bricklayers, riveters, machinists, iron workers, welders, drillers, plumbers, steel workers, carpenters and hoist engineers among them -- many dangling, hanging or balancing 1,000 feet or more above Fifth Avenue.
"The photos are beautiful, certainly, with the interplay of black and white, light and shadow. And they're exciting and dynamic, which is why we believe this exhibition will be especially engaging to the general public," Deupi said.
Often called the "father of documentary photography," Hine also became known for his portfolios on Ellis Island and on European survivors of World War I, and his commissions from such investigatory groups as the National Child Labor Committee, the Tennessee Valley Authority and the American Red Cross. In addition to his work as photographer, Hine taught botany and nature studies at New York City's Ethical Culture School from 1901 until 1908.
Photographs in the "Empire" exhibition are modern gelatin silver prints made from copy negatives, printed by Barbara Galasso, of Eastman House.
On the calendar
In conjunction with the show, a lunch-time gallery talk and tour, "Lewis Hine in Context," will be presented by Lauren Cesiro, adjunct professor of art history, on Thursday, Oct. 17. The hour-long free event will begin at noon.
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Thomas J. Walsh Art Gallery, at Fairfield University's Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts, 200 Barlow Road, Fairfield. Free. Tuesday-Sunday 11 a.m.-5 p.m., and 30 minutes before and after each Quick Center event. 203-254-4062, www.fairfield.edu/walsh


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Can gay marriage survive a loss?
The tide might be turning in favor of gay marriage, but that doesn't mean the Supreme Court will be swept up in it.
For all the toasting in Washington and excitement among gay rights groups about the historic oral arguments this week, there's still a chance their set of cases could culminate in a loss.
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Under the worst-case scenario for gay rights groups, the court could uphold both California's Proposition 8 and the federal law Defense of Marriage Act — extending no new rights to gay couples looking to marry or take advantage of federal benefits extended to opposite-sex couples.
But gay rights activists say this wouldn't have the impact of Plessy v. Ferguson — the 1896 decision that left "separate but equal" the law of the land until Brown v. Board of Education six decades later.
( Also on POLITICO: Culture wars return — with a twist)
Instead, they say, they would still leave the court in a better position than when they started their legal trek because public opinion has swung in their favor, supporters have been galvanized and about 100 prominent Republicans signed a brief publicly endorsing gay marriage.
"Even if you lose the case, and I think that's very unlikely, you would say that the case has been a success because it's changed public opinion so dramatically," said Richard Socarides, a former adviser to President Bill Clinton. "It's really unbelievable what a successful communications and litigation strategy has combined to do in such a short time."
Plus, they don't think they're going to lose big at all.
"There's zero possibility," said University of Chicago law professor Geoffrey Stone.
One key source of confidence is Justice Anthony Kennedy's majority ruling 17 years ago in Romer v. Evans, a case throwing out a Colorado ballot measure that banned any special protections for gays and lesbians. Many analysts believe that decision and a 2003 ruling he wrote banning sodomy laws essentially guarantee Kennedy will vote to find the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional. With the four Democratic-appointed justices thought to favor at least that much of a win for gay rights, Kennedy would make a majority.
( Also on POLITICO: Poll: Court approval near record low)
Other potential GOP pickups for the pro-same sex marriage forces are Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito.
For those reading tea leaves, there are signs Roberts could be in play. While in private practice in 1995, Roberts gave pro bono help to the legal team preparing briefs and oral arguments for the Colorado case. And Roberts is using some of his personal allotment of tickets to this week's arguments to allow a lesbian cousin and her partner to attend oral arguments, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas are considered pretty certain votes against same-sex marriage. Scalia defended the Colorado measure as "a modest attempt by seemingly tolerant Coloradans to preserve traditional sexual mores against the efforts of a politically powerful minority to revise those mores through use of the laws." Thomas joined the opinion.
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There is one potential wild card on the left: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Though she was a pioneering litigator for the American Civil Liberties Union on gender issues, she has repeatedly said she thinks the Roe v. Wade decision went too far because it forced a consensus that many Americans had not arrived at and led to a backlash.
"It's not that the judgment was wrong, but it moved too far too fast," she said at Columbia Law School last year. "The court made a decision that made every abortion law in the country invalid, even the most liberal. … Things might have turned out differently if the court had been more restrained."


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Notions of health, well-being and happiness are intertwined in how people approach and view their lives. The March 2012 issue of Anthropology News seeks contributions that explore these notions, particularly in this time of many uncertainties and changes around the world—economic, political, societal, medical, environmental, and more. How do we seek out good health, well-being and happiness? How are medical systems and healing systems interpreted, used and adapted? How do people meet health challenges, such as increased chronic illnesses and the obesity epidemic? How do preventive practices help move people towards well-being? How is health and well-being connected to notions of happiness? What are different interpretations of satisfaction and fulfillment? And how do notions of success and happiness changing? What does it mean to live a good life? We invite proposals to consider these questions and more in exploring health, well-being and happiness from a uniquely anthropological perspective.
For guidelines and submission details, see the Call for Proposals.


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View applications, checklists and associated packets for the Development Services Department.
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Check Payments(Privacy Rights)
AB 2880 (Areias) - Chapter 637, Statutes of 1990
Effective January 1, 1991
(Civ. C.~1725)
The statute prohibits:
(1) requiring a check writer to display a credit card as a condition of accepting the check, for identification, or for any other purpose;
(2) requiring a check writer to sign a statement agreeing to allow their credit card to be charged if the check is dishonored;
(3) recording a credit card number in connection with a check writing transaction; or
(4) contacting a credit card issuer to determine if the amount of the credit available to the check writer will cover the check.
The statute does NOT prohibit:
(1) requiring reasonable forms of positive identification other than a credit card, such as a driver's license or California state identification card, as a condition of accepting the check;
(2) requesting the display of a credit card to indicate credit worthiness or financial responsibility or as additional identification, if the only information recorded is the type of credit card, the issuer or the expiration date (the number itself cannot be recorded);
(3) requesting the production of or recording a credit card number as condition of cashing a check if the person has agreed with the credit card issuer to cash checks as a service to cardholders of the issuer, the issuer has agreed to guarantee cardholder checks cashed by that person and the cardholder has agreed; or
(4) requesting receiving, or recording a credit card number instead of requiring a deposit to secure payment in case of default, loss, damage or other occurrence (such as to secure hotel reservations). The statute also does not require acceptance of a check, whether or not a credit card is presented.
The statute does not apply to: cards or other devices used to obtain telephone property, labor or services in transactions under public utility tariffs; devices used to obtain credit through electronic fund transfer when a consumer's asset account is overdrawn or to maintain a minimum balance in the consumer's account; keys or card keys used at automatic dispensing outlets to obtain or purchase petroleum products for consumer purposes; or check guarantee cards.
Violations of the statute are subject to a civil penalty of up to $250 for a first violation and up to $1,000 for subsequent violations in an action brought by the check writer, Attorney General, District or City Attorney. No penalty would be assessed for unintentional violations resulting from a bona fide error made despite maintenance of procedures reasonably adopted to avoid the error. The civil penalty would be paid to the check writer or to the general fund of the government entity, that brought the action. The statute also authorizes actions for injunctive relief by any of these governmental agencies and authorizes the court to require the defendant to pay any or all cost incurred by them in seeking or obtaining the injunctive relief.
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This is an activity about the relation between day length and temperature. In one team, learners will create and analyze a graph of hours of sunlight versus month of the year for a number of latitudes. In another team, learners will graph temperature versus month for the same latitudes.
This is an activity about the Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights. Learners will plot the Auroral Oval in the northern hemisphere and determine the height of the northern lights using Carl Stormer's triangulation method.
In this open inquiry activity introducing concepts of remote sensing, students will discuss and research different invisible phenomena. They will then test and verify the existence of selected invisible phenomena by using measurement or detection devices.
In this lesson, students identify and describe unfamiliar scientist heroes who contributed to the field of science until the year 1929.
The Hubble Space Telescope image of M101 showcasing a spiral galaxy's well-known features is the subject of the M101: A Star-studded Galaxy lithograph. The lithograph text describes the features that are common to all spiral galaxies.
This series of example calculations applies basic trigonometry to to calculate the altitude of satellites and Iridium satellite flares.
This gallery showcases a wide range of ocean imagery - from above and below the surface. SciJinks is a joint NASA/NOAA educational website targeting middle school-aged children and their educators. It explores weather and Earth science through articles, videos, images, and games.
This resource includes a brief article and an interactive portion on emergency preparedness. SciJinks is a joint NASA/NOAA educational website targeting middle school-aged children and their educators. It explores weather and Earth science through articles, videos, images, and games.
One of the greatest mysteries of all is what causes gamma ray bursts. These bursts are the most powerful explosions in the Universe and occur about once a day. Their origin is unknown, although there are several theories.
Students will learn about NASA's Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP), Earth's van Allen Radiation Belts, and space weather through reading a NASA press release and viewing a NASA eClips™ video segment.


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12 fabrics to make for an easy breezy collection in my beautifully soft quilting cotton. I designed Alchemy around the idea of transformation, and infusing elements of nature with exciting color and vivid graphic stories. My vision is to achieve a lovely chemistry of print, color, and texture. Create your own gorgeous alchemy of quilts & throws, bags, pillows, accessories and fashion with these luscious fabrics! - xo Amy
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Shocking footage from Justin Bieber's recent deposition has emerged online showing the troubled pop star behaving badly throughout the four-and-a-half hour meeting.
Reports which surfaced last week suggested the Baby hitmaker stormed out of the hearing, relating to a photographer's assault case against one of his bodyguards, after the claimant's lawyer quizzed him about on/off girlfriend Selena Gomez.
Now in footage shot at the hearing, obtained by TMZ.com, Bieber can be seen growing increasingly angry and petulant as he is asked questions about his life and career.
In one clip, Bieber smirks and refuses to answer a question, telling the lawyer: "I don't have to listen to anything you have to say." He then refuses to reveal whether he has been to Australia, despite touring the country on several occasions. The star then looks into the camera filming the deposition and winks.
In another segment, the 20 year old is asked if he knows superstar Usher, who is credited with first discovering him as a teen in YouTube.com videos.
He replies: "Yeah, Usher – that sounds familiar." The attorney than asks, "Is it true that Usher was instrumental in starting your career?" Bieber then muddles his words, saying, "I was discovered on YouTube, I think I was detrimental to my own career."
At the point at which Gomez is brought up, Bieber's lawyer becomes embroiled in an argument with the questioning attorney, telling him, "Be a lawyer, man."
The singer then puts his head in his hands and demands, "Do not ask me about her again."
The testimony hearing in Miami, Florida on 6 March was held in connection with photographer Jeffrey Binion's lawsuit.
He has accused Bieber's bodyguard Hugo Hesny of choking him and ordering him to delete his images after the pop star took offence at being snapped outside a recording studio last year.
Shocking footage from Justin Bieber's recent deposition has emerged online showing the troubled pop star behaving badly throughout the four-and-a-half hour meeting.


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The 2017 CEO Forum, which took place on the 17th of March provided great insights into the need for transformative leadership to establish sustainable business in the challenging Nigerian economy. Led by the Lagos Business School FirstBank Sustainability Centre, the forum served as an opportunity for CEOs and Executive industry leaders in Nigeria to dialogue, network and exchange ideas regarding ways to develop and strengthen sustainable businesses in the country. Several key themes emerged, including the need to build sustainable businesses, reliance on innovation and creativity as a differentiator and finally the transformational leadership as an economic down-turn survival necessity.
The welcome address was led by Professor Chris Ogbechie, the Director of the Centre at LBS, who talked about the evolution of the corporate angle of sustainability and cost-cutting as only a short-term resolution for recession. Businesses should move towards establishing strategies that yield long-term results in areas such as supply chain management, energy, products and services, youth empowerment and poverty alleviation. These strategies are catalysts for innovative ideas. They lead to the advancement of businesses and societies as a whole, since they transform the competitive landscape and encourage change that can have a profound long term impact. "Sustainability is as such a necessity" stated Prof. Ogbechie, and CEOs and C-Suite executives have to drive its cause in their organisations.
After Prof. Ogbechie, Dr Adesola Kazeem Adeduntan the MD/CEO of FirstBank Nigeria took the dialogue a step further during his opening remarks. He challenged the leadership in the room to be bold and take the necessary steps and opportunities to create sustainable businesses. CEOs are to explore sustainable solutions to surmount the challenges in building growth in their organisations. There is a demand for innovation, creativity and a re-evaluation of the traditional business models, if businesses are to survive and thrive.
The keynote address that followed was led by Tonye Cole, co-founder and Executive Director of Sahara Group. Mr Cole provided an illustrative view of the question of sustainable businesses drawing on war analogies to bring the message home. For Mr Cole, sustainability is about the survival of the fittest where the options are to innovate or die. Nigeria is at war, he stated, and transformative leadership is needed to navigate the challenging adverse terrains. These leaders possess seven key traits he sees as fundamental. The first is an ability to foresee the future by reading the "sign-posts" of today. An astute leader he argues could have foreseen the signs of an upcoming recession giving the slow-down that began in late 2014. Second is the need to always remain relevant in your business line. This ensures that the business is always needed even as political, regulative, or client leadership changes occur. Flexibility and swiftness which allow businesses to change direction quickly in response to changing global business environments are also essential and serve as the third and fourth traits.
The fifth trait Mr Cole discussed was a need to build lasting relationships – this is a key pillar for sustainable businesses. Even when leadership in governments and businesses go through cycles and changes all that remains constant is the 'relationship'. Only death can effectively end a relationship Mr Cole argued and hence, it's essential for businesses to invest in and build lasting relationships. Boldness and courage was the sixth trait. Businesses need to be willing to take the unchartered pathways for growth even if competitors back away. Finally, collaboration even with competitors was trait number seven.
All of these themes are also relevant in the real estate context. Real estate costs represent up to 30-40% of the business hence innovative practices and strategies that are adopted by the business also impact the real estate. In the banking industry for instance, the adoption of e-business and electronic banking has changed the large spacious "banking-hall" requirement to smaller more efficient e-business centres or ATM kiosks. The supporting real estate requirement has evolved not just from cost-cutting by disposal of large excess spaces, but to innovative portfolio management with dashboards that support quick and effective decision-making. Businesses as such, now have a greater flexibility to make changes to their real estate requirements quickly, as the business needs or climates change – effectively tying their business strategies closer to their real estate strategies. Real estate as the back-bone of businesses thus has a fundamental role to play in the pursuit of establishing sustainable businesses with transformational leadership.


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Our compatible cartridges are manufactured using the latest computer-controlled automated production methods.
All cartridges are subject to extensive research, development and testing, thus giving outstandingly good print results with a page yield that matches the OEM manufactured product. You can be confident the cartridges meet your own rigorous quality standards and offer print performance to equal to or exceed the OEM.


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One-size-fits-all never works in Ag lending so it's critical to choose a bank that will get to know you and your operation. You can count on us to understand both your business and your special needs – whether it's timing loan payments to take advantage of seasonal cash flow cycles or financing your new equipment purchase or structuring an operating line of credit.
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30 East Division Street
Near North Side, Chicago, 60610
Commute to Downtown Chicago
Daily errands do not require a car.
World-class public transportation.
Flat as a pancake, excellent bike lanes.
About your score
30 East Division Street has a Walk Score of 99 out of 100. This location is a Walker's Paradise so daily errands do not require a car.
30 East Division Street is a four minute walk from the Red Line at the Clark/Division stop.
This location is in the Near North Side neighborhood in Chicago. Nearby parks include Goudy Square Park, Mariano Park and Mariano Park.
Explore how far you can travel by car, bus, bike and foot from 30 East Division Street.
30 East Division Street is a Rider's Paradise which means world-class public transportation. Car sharing is available from Zipcar, I-GO and RelayRides.
Rail lines:
Red Line
0.2 mi
Brown Line
0.7 mi
Purple Line
0.7 mi
Orange Line
1.3 mi
Pink Line
1.3 mi
Green Line
1.3 mi
Blue Line
1.3 mi
Bus lines:
36 Broadway
0.1 mi
151 Sheridan
0.1 mi
70 Division
0.2 mi
22 Clark
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30 East Division Street is in the Near North Side neighborhood. Near North Side is the most walkable neighborhood in Chicago with a neighborhood Walk Score of 96.
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Emma & Sam
Tube top with neon pink and lime bungee lace up front.
Style: K2619853 Color: Black
• Made and finished in LA
- Model is wearing a size small
Fabric Care
- 92% modal, 8% spandex; trim: 100% nylon
- Machine wash delicate, lay flat to dry
Shipping Rates
We currently offer domestic shipping within the USA. We do not offer International Shipping at this time.
- $10.00 for Standard Shipping on orders under $200
Get Free Standard Shipping on orders over $200
- $30.00 for Two Day Shipping
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Order Processing and Delivery
All orders will leave our warehouse within 2-3 business days. Orders placed after 1pm Pacific will be processed the following business day. Please note that orders will not be delivered on weekends.
Please check that your shipping address is correct before placing an order. If the customer provides an invalid address, we are not responsible for reshipping the order to the customer. In addition, when the package is returned to us, we are only responsible for refunding for the price of the merchandise. The customer is still responsible for paying the shipping fee.
Order Tracking
Tracking information will be emailed to the customer once the order has left our warehouse. If there is a customer account associated with the order, tracking information and other details can also be found in the dashboard under Order History once you sign in.
We will accept returns/exchanges for any items that comply with our following returns policy:
- Full-price items (excluding Furst of a Kind) are eligible for return or exchange within 14 days of delivery.
- Furst of a Kind items are eligible for exchange or store credit only within 14 days of delivery.
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- Original shipping costs are non-refundable.
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Performed at any point for your UPS or cooling system lifecycle, regardless of your service contract status. On-demand services include part replacement services for batteries, parts, reactive time and materials (T&M), etc.
On-demand services help you prevent potential problems before they occur, reducing or eliminating costly downtime, making your equipment more reliable, and operating to specification.
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|Product AC Input Capacitor Replacement Service
|Part Number WACIN
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|Environmental inspection
|In order to ensure that your system is installed in a suitable environment for optimal functionality, we will inspect the site for conditions that might damage your system, such as excessive heat or humidity.
|Functional verification
|During each Preventive Maintenance visit, our Certified Field Service Engineers will run tests to verify your system is functioning correctly in all operational modes, stopping problems before they start.
|Experienced Certified Field Service Engineer
|Our factory trained Field Service Engineers are rigorously trained and tested on how to efficiently service our products, as well as on safety practices and electrical codes, offering our customers the highest level of service available in the industry today.
|System cleaning
|Cleaning your system of dust and grime accumulated during normal operation will extend the life of the hardware.
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|Travel and labor expenses are included in most service contracts. Please see the statement of work for the service specifics.
|Service Summary Report
|Provides a detailed report of work performed including recommendations for service to ensure optimal performance
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|Part of maintaining your system is ensuring the unit is operating with the most recent firmware version. Firmware upgrades are provided at no extra charge. All Preventive Maintenance contracts include free firmware upgrades.
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Welcome to my beauty blog! Grab a coffee, settle down, and walk with me through my passion and love for skincare & beauty.
Here you will find: reviews, tips & tricks, and my favorite beauty products!
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NC15. Semi-acne prone.
Sensitive and oily skin.
Current routine here!
"It's not vanity, it's self-care. There's a difference." – Jonathan Van Ness
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Holder: Closing Guantanamo is "most daunting challenge"
Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday that his assignment to empty the prison camps at Guantanamo "indisputably the most daunting challenge I face as attorney general.''
President Barack Obama put Holder in charge of a Cabinet-level task force assigned to transfer each of the 240 or so war on terror captives from the camps in southeast Cuba, which the Bush administration opened in Jan. 11, 2002.
The president also set a Jan. 22 deadline to put the detention center out of business.
''This task will not be easy,'' Holder said in dissecting the assignment in embargoed remarks released by the Justice Department ahead of the speech Wednesday night at West Point's Center for the Rule of Law.
"On the contrary, it is indisputably the most daunting challenge I face as Attorney General.''
He said the challenge was to sort among the captives and divide them between three categories:
Those who "we will likely conclude no longer pose a threat to the United States and can be released or transferred to the custody of other countries. ''
Those the U.S. will choose to prosecute in federal court.
The detainees who are ''too dangerous to release'' yet have ''insurmountable obstacles'' to prosecuting them in federal court.
At issue may be detainees from whom confessions were gleaned through brutal interrogations. Holder has already labeled as torture one CIA interrogation technique, waterboarding.
The CIA has confirmed that agents did this to three detainees now at Guantanamo, among the 16 former agency-held captives brought there in September 2006 from secret overseas jails. Obama has since ordered those so-called black sites closed.
Unclear is how the United States could continue to hold detainees whom it continues unable to prosecute.
Holder said "some of the brightest minds in our nation are working to answer that question and to address the ramifications that each potential answer presents.''
"I pledge that the ultimate solution will be one that is grounded in our Constitution, based on congressional enactments, in compliance with international laws of war, and consistent with the rule of law. ''


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Hi kiddies.
I am the real Ridge. In case you were wondering its short for my real name, not because Im like a Flinstones character, or vauguely related to Brock Sampson....
Anyway, This is where Ill give my little two cents worth on the comics My old buddies Josh and 'Manda do. Especially about me. Everyones favorite character.
Ok my favorite character, Im a very vain person.
To start, lets review comic #121.
This is totally not true. Im the worlds biggest baby in cold weather. If it gets below like 60 degrees, I start whineing and complaining like Im passing a kidney stone.
Also, I despise Daggits. I really really hate Daggits. I despise Battlestar Galactica:TOS. Im a hard core TRS fan. Josh just insists on putting me in comics with that thing to annoy me. If the comic we're real life, that thing would have gotten airlocked faster than a cylon collaborator.


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Didn't feel the need to do one of my own. Already technically contributed to the Priest column (and really inaccurately at that).
Happy patch day!
Most likely not going to update a whole lot of addons. Not sure how much more we're going to raid. Just going to update raidframes and thats it. Going to try to configure key bindings via WoW default interface (Thats going to be fun).
To do list
- UBRS for the Leeroy title
- Leveling every capital city and smashing said leaders
Might squeeze in some study time in there. Who knows?


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Free Markets
Liberal capitalism enables a degree of peace, harmony and respectful tolerance of the choices and ways of honest living for everyone in society to which nothing else compares.
Big GovernmentMedia and Culture
"False consciousness" has long been a building block behind the Marxist drive to destroy human rights.
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The Fed
Money and Banks
Monetary Theory
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