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This gorgeous carved Rhino head needle minder will keep your needle safe and easy to hand. Made from European Beech, the same as our embroidery frames, and finished with Danish oil for a soft satin feel.
US$10 from each sale of this item will be donated to the Save the Rhino charity.
This needle minder has been painted with acrylics and individually numbered by award winning Australian artist John Bullock. A coat of gloss lacquer has been sprayed over the needle minder to protect the paint from wearing off as you use it.
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You are purchasing the pictured item. As it is hand painted, this item is unique.
All our needle minders measure 40 x 30mm (1.57" x 1.18"). This needle minder is 11mm tall (just under half an inch) making it easy to pluck your needle from it.
A magnet is embedded in the needle minder at just the right depth to both hold your needle, and hold the needle minder to the fabric. We wanted to make sure it was not too hard to remove the needle minder from your fabric (so it won't damage your fabric!) and that the needle was both held securely, but not too tight.
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Blackhawks' Crawford hopes to return this weekby Brian Hedger / Chicago Blackhawks
CHICAGO -- The Chicago Blackhawks are close to getting their top goalie back.
Corey Crawford, who has missed nine straight games with a lower-body injury that's reportedly a groin issue, said he felt "great" after participating in the Blackhawks' morning skate Monday at United Center.
Crawford won't dress Monday night against the Los Angeles Kings (8 p.m. ET, NBCSN, TSN2), but is set to make his return during a pending two-game road trip to play back-to-back at the New York Islanders and New Jersey Devils on Thursday and Friday.
"I feel great," said Crawford, who skated in a team workout for the first time since leaving the lineup Dec. 8 at home against the Florida Panthers. "After the Christmas break everything's gone well. I haven't felt the injury at all on the ice, so I'm ready to go."
Crawford said the team didn't want to take any risks in bringing him back too soon, especially with rookie Antti Raanta playing solidly in his place.
"It felt pretty long when I was out," Crawford said. "I was getting pretty bored there for a bit. It's nice to be back on the ice with the guys. It was maybe a little bit longer than I wanted, but we wanted to be on the cautious side too, and not re-injure it and be out even longer."
The Blackhawks also have veteran backup Nikolai Khabibulin on long-term injured reserve with a lower-body injury, which means Raanta might stick around once Crawford returns. Veteran Jason LaBarbera is also on the roster, so one of them will get sent back to Rockford of the American Hockey League if the Blackhawks don't opt to carry three goalies.
"I think he earned the opportunity to be around and we'll see how it all plays out," Chicago coach Joel Quenneville said of Raanta, who's gone 9-1-3 in his 14 outings. "When we get Corey back we'll be making that decision then, but certainly we like what we've seen."

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I knew Monday that I�d be writing my column this week about Lee Bettis, but unlike others I�ve written (and cartoon strips I�ve created ) in an occasional series called �Another World,� there is nothing this week that can rightly be made fun of.
I knew Monday that I�d be writing my column this week about Lee Bettis, but unlike others I�ve written (and cartoon strips I�ve created ) in an occasional series called �Another World,� there is nothing this week that can rightly be made fun of.
As far as I know, I�m the first journalist to contact Mayor Bettis on Monday after he was charged with DWI and two other traffic violations by Havelock police. He had been observed driving erratically on N.C. 101 on his way from his temporary home in Beaufort to drop his step-children off at school in New Bern.
Sun Journal reporters had tried to contact him Monday morning, and TV reports only showed him avoiding their cameras.
But when I dialed his office phone number, Bettis answered the phone himself.
�Do you want to talk about it?� I said.
He did.
Bettis and I have an odd sort of relationship. I�ve poked fun at him, written editorials criticizing him, shared laughs with him and have given him credit when I believed credit was due. My wife and his wife have had coffee together.
For awhile, there was a vague invitation to have a backyard grilled dinner at his house that never materialized.
I believe that when Lee Bettis talks with me, he does not see me as an enemy. Lawyers are good at partitioning their lives that way.
On the phone Monday morning, when Bettis told me he was not under the influence of an intoxicant, that he failed a sobriety test because recent hip surgery made it hard for him to keep his balance, and that his poor driving was simply due to exhaustion, I believed him.
Our conversation was interrupted when his wife Nicole contacted him on another line. When he got back to me, he said, simply, �Nicole is furious.�
I�ve been there. For the moment, it was not a conversation between a journalist and a politician, it was a conversation between two men on their second marriages with step kids and jobs to juggle.
Only I was taking notes, and information from those notes appeared in a news story.
Tuesday went by routinely. The Sun Journal staff was working on a followup to the Bettis story. I was trying to decide if I should write an �Another World� column or something more serious.
Then, on Wednesday morning, we learned that the Bettises had been fighting early that morning, and that according to Nicole (on the 911 call), the fight became physical. Per Mrs. Bettis (on the 911 call), it wasn�t the first time.
There�s nothing funny about domestic violence.
We learned that Mayor Bettis had either driven from Beaufort to New Bern in the middle of the night to sleep in his office, or, as he told a TV station, he had not been to Beaufort at all that night.
Mrs. Bettis texted a TV station that her husband is a good man. Her father did his best to chase off TV reporters outside the Bettis home in Beaufort.
And throughout the day, Mayor Bettis could not be reached.
I truly worried for the Bettis family.
By Thursday morning, the extended Bettis family was full of regrets and embarrassment. In a news conference, Bettis� father-in-law expressed affection for his son-in-law, said he had not harmed his daughter, and asked for privacy. Bettis� office manager said the mayor was taking a two-month leave of absence to tend to family.
It�s a wise step. I wish Lee and Nicole and their children and in-laws well and pray that they come out the other side stronger and wiser.
But because he is dealing with all this, Bettis should resign � for the good of his family, and for the good of the city.
Thanks for letting me take up some of your Sunday morning.
Randy Foster is managing editor of the Sun Journal. Email him or call him at 252-635-5663. Follow him on Twitter @rivereditor.


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renew-admin-certs <connect_options> [--echo|-e] [--no-prompt|-Q] [--verbose|-v] [--token-pin|-P name] [--validity|-d num of months]
Use this command to renew the administration certifications with the nicknames Admin-CA-Cert, Admin-Server-Cert, and Admin-Client-Cert. This command also updates the nodes that are currently running and are accessible with the renewed certificates.
After you run this command, it is recommended that you stop and restart the administration servers and nodes so that the new certificates will be in effect. It is necessary that you re-register a node if the node was offline (not running or was not accessible due to network problems) during the renewal of the certificates.
For connect_options description, see help(1).
Specify this option to print this command on the standard output before executing. This option also prints the default value for all the non-mandatory options that you do not provide in the command.
If you specify this option, wadm will not prompt you for passwords while executing this command. Use this option if you have defined all passwords in a password file and specified the file using the --password-file connect_option.
Specify this option to display a verbose output.
Specify the Personal Identification Number (PIN) required to initialize the token. You can also define the token-pin in the password file.
Specify the validity period (in months) for the administration certificates. The default validity period is 120 months.
wadm renew-admin-certs --user=admin --host=serverhost --password-file=../admin.passwd --port=8989 --ssl=true --no-prompt --rcfile=null --validity=120
The following exit values are returned:
command executed successfully
error in executing the command
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UPDATE (11/26/11): you can now use sloth86's MonkeyFix tool in conjunction with the replaced *.fce.ema to get fixed faces all the time, even through the cinematics.
If you've experimented with moveswapping across characters, you've certainly seen the horrible deformation that occurs to their faces, commonly known as "monkeyface."
This tutorial is going to show you how to swap movesets (we're actually swapping models, but it comes out to the same thing) without the monkeyface problem (except in cinematics, such as intro/outro and during ultras).
Animations and movesets in Street Fighter 4 are stored in the ***.cmn.emz file. Specifically, facial animations are stored in the ***.fce.ema file, which is itself a component of the cmn.emz file. To transplant these face animations from one character alongside the moveset of another character, we're going to have to collect a few tools: piecemontee's Asset Explorer, Kensou's Tool and your favorite hex editor (I use the free and open source Frhed).
Getting Started
First, identify which characters we're going to mess with and backup their chara directories. I'll be using Chun Li's model (I'll refer to her as the 'donor') on Sagat's moveset (I'll refer to him as the 'receiver'), so I made copies of those files.
Next, run the donor's cos and col files through the Asset Explorer, along with both characters' cmn.emz files (in my case, CNL.cmn.emz and SGT.cmn.emz). This will decompress them and get them ready for modding.
Now, open the donor's cos and col files in a hex editor, scroll all the way down to the bottoms of the files and change the 3-letter character name references to match the receivers'. In my case, I changed the CNL instances to SGT (there will be 4 instances to change in the cos file and 2 in the col file). Then, rename the files to match (e.g., CNL_01.cos.emz to SGT_01.cos.emz and CNL_01_01.col.emz to SGT_01_01.col.emz).
At this point, you should copy those new donor model files over to the receiver's chara folder (in my case, the SGT directory) and make sure the game loads without crashing. If it loads ok, you should see some monkeyface. Good job, we're halfway there.
Extracting the CMN components
Now, open the receiver's cmn.emz file in the Asset Explorer. Click the 'plus' signs to expand the base file and the overall #EMB file, like this:
Then, left-click on the first section (#EMO (SGT.skl.emo)) to select it and then right-click on it and choose 'Raw dump...' Repeat this process for each section in the cmn.emz file except for the *.cam.ema file, which will crash the Asset Explorer if you select it. Unfortunately, we need that section, so we'll have to get it the hard way--via hex editor.
Isolating the cam.ema Component
Open the receiver's cmn.emz file in a hex editor and make your way down to the third section labeled '#EMA' (I find it easiest to search sequentially through the document for #EMA 3 times). It will be the last one in the file.
Now, write down where it starts, in my case x760e40.
Next, we need to find the end of that section, which is most easily accomplished by searching again, but this time for '#BAC.'
Now, select everything between that last #EMA (at the location we wrote down) and the beginning of #BAC
Copy it and paste it into a new file and save it with the appropriate name (in my case, SGT.cam.ema):
Ok, now that we have all of our receiver's cmn components extracted and isolated, we're ready to get our donor's face animation ready for transplantation.
Open the donor's cmn.emz file in the Asset Explorer and expand it just like we did with the receiver's cmn file earlier on. Left-click on the section labeled #EMA (***.fce.ema) and then right-click and select 'Raw dump...' just like before.
Now, we want to rename that file--in my case, CNL.fce.ema--to match the receiver's other files (you'll have to overwrite the receiver's original fce.ema file in the process, but we don't need it anyway, so no big deal). Alright, we're almost there. Time to rebuild the receiver's cmn file with the new face data using Kensou's Tool.
Repacking A New File
Open up the directory for Kensou's Tool, then navigate to 'sf4' and then the 'emz' directory (you might have to create this directory if it doesn't already exist). Take your receiver's 6 original cmn component files that we raw-dumped, along with the renamed fac.ema file from our donor, and place them all in the aforementioned 'emz' directory:
Go back into the sf4 directory and launch sf4tool.exe:
In the big pane to the right with all of the directory structure, double-click on the folder labeled 'emz,' then click on the left-hand button below that pane. It should then populate the smaller, lower-left pane with a bunch of paths referencing our cmn component files:
These files need to be in exactly the same order as the ones in the original cmn.emz file (skl.emo, skl.emm, obj.ema, fce.ema, cam.ema, bac and bcm) but they won't be by default, so we'll need to click into that pane and do a little manual reordering. Everything should be in order except for the last two, so just copy/paste their paths into the right spots.
Once that's done, click the right-hand button to combine everything. It should pop up this window:
and you should have a shiny new file named 'newpack.emz' alongside your original cmn component files in the 'emz' directory. Now we're really in the home stretch.
Testing it Out
Rename your newpack.emz file to match the receiver's cmn file--in my case, SGT.cmn.emz.
Copy that file into your receiver's chara directory and overwrite the old one (you made sure to make a backup, right? Right??) and go test it out.
If you did everything correctly, you should have a perfectly normal face:


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Municipal and county managers from across the state are scheduled to be in New Bern beginning Thursday for the annual summer seminar.
Municipal and county managers from across the state are scheduled to be in New Bern beginning Thursday for the annual summer seminar.
About 120 are already registered, and others are expected to attend the event, which begins in earnest Friday morning at the New Bern Riverfront Convention Center, said Rob Shepherd, manager of member relations for the League of Municipalities and secretary of the City and County Management Association, one of the event�s planners.
Shepherd said many city and county managers do not attend the summer session because they are winding up budgets and can�t predict their availability.
The sessions are planned to be beneficial to all, and there are special credentialing sessions for managers to maintain certification through the International City and County Managers Organization, he said.
�Among the general sessions is one looking at growing concerns with fringe organizations that don�t think they need to abide by local, state or federal laws because they are independent and sovereign,� he said.
Another general session relates to how government offices can maintain the openness and transparency the public requires and effectively maintain safety when people with different agendas come in and create concerns, Shepherd said.
Other topics expected to be addressed at the seminar include a presentation by Dr. Sam Silberman, president and CEO of the N.C. Institute of Medicine, on the Affordable Health Care Act�s impact on local government, and a discussion on �Economic Gardening,� which is growing established industries and businesses rather than recruiting new ones.
Shepherd said the association will hold its business meeting Saturday morning after which it will get an update on the status of issues that impact cities and counties currently being discussed by the N.C. General Assembly.
The North Carolina City-County Management Association began in 1964 at a seminar at the Institute of Government in Chapel Hill.
School of Government instructors lead some of the sessions at the bi-annual seminars.
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I kicked off the Indie Tee Spotlight last week by highlighting Eric Terry's brand, Linty Fresh. Now in my quest to find the next great indie tee maker to spotlight I thought I'd go straight to my mailbox and highlight a company from which I received a freshly purchased tee from.Â
This week Glorious Nonsensities spotlights Indie Tee designers Andrew Marshall and Stephen Thompson of Pyknic Clothing. Marshall and his business partner, Stephen Thompson, have turned the indie tee design scene upside down since first opening up shop nearly 2 years ago.Â
The Pyknic brand mantra is "Life's a Pyknic so eat it up!" and it's fair enough to say that their clothing line more than fits the slogan. With funky and loud t-shirt designs that sport typical things you'd find at picnic, Marshall has found a sweet spot that is as appealing to junior high kids as it is to college students.Â
We were fortunate enough to chat it up with Pyknic duder Stephen Thompson.
Coty: How did you come up with the idea of using typical picnic stuff as the centerpiece of your designs and ultimately your brand?
Pyknic: Well for two years we were geared at the surf-skate-snow market. It is very hard to compete against big brands with great brand recognition on international scales (ie. Billabong, Quicksilver, etc.) with huge budgets. When we took a step back and looked at the overall picture: why would consumers or stores buy our shirt versus one by Billlabong, for instance, with similar designs? It would not matter if ours was better, they had a name to go with theirs.
So one night we went to Red Lobster and that's when we turned our [picnic] tables. We thought of a new direction we could take the brand that was logical to our name and could create its own niche. Weird or not, people enjoy food as much as they do clothing. The two together would be dessert.
Coty:Â I've read that you use "contracted artists." What percentage of the designs that actually make it to print are your own work as compared to those that are outsourced?Â
Pyknic:Â A lot (if not all) of the shirts are actually concepts that we have created and thought out. We're very fortunate to work with some great artists that can also see our vision and execute.Â
Coty:Â You're known in the indie tee world for making it big by actually scoring a deal with Hot Topic. How did that come about? Do you plan on connecting with other retailers? Do you have any plans for international domination?!
Pyknic:Â It was a last minute decision but we decided to attend Bamboozle Left. Upon returning home, I received an email from a Hot Topic buyer who was actually out at the event and loved the shirts. After a few phone call meetings, we got things rolling and eventually started putting merchandise in the stores.
I actually just got back from Magic Tradeshow and Agenda Tradeshow. There were a good amount of stores interested and either placed orders or planned on emailing that over. Right now most of our accounts are international. We have taken Europe, Asia, and Australia by storm. Most recently we distributed our newest line to all of them.Â
Coty:Â Pyknic has turned into a nice venture for you. Do you plan on continuing the brand after college? Where do you see Pyknic in the next 3 to 5 years?Â
Pyknic:Â Next year the Chef and I plan on moving out to California where we will be close to different production sources. Most of our products are sent out there as well so it only makes sense.Â
In the next 3 to 5 years, I see us in more major US outlets with the possibility of our own.
Coty:Â Any words of inspiration for up and coming indie tee designers wanting to make it big?
Pyknic:Â I think the most important thing is to be unique. The last thing anyone wants to do is get lost in the shuffle. Very cliche but practice makes perfect, no one's a hit overnight.Â
When we started this brand three years ago, we saw ourselves in this position eventually. We knew it took a lot of work to get to this point but we were willing to do whatever it took. "If you can dream it…"
*Special thanks to Stephen for chatting it up with us! Be on the look out for next weeks Indie Tee Spotlight! And if you're an Indie Tee Designer and would like to be featured here then please feel free to contact me to find out how you can do just that.


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Frawley pleads guilty to risk of injury, gets 10 years probation
Morgan Frawley, the 25-year-old woman who police said had sex with a 15-year-old boy while working at the Congregational Church of New Canaan, pleaded guilty to risk of injury to a minor in Norwalk Superior Court Friday morning.
Judge William Holden sentenced Frawley to 10 years in prison, but the sentence was suspended in place of 10 years probation. She will be required to register as a sex offender for 10 years and is prohibited from having any contact, supervised or unsupervised, with minors during that time. Frawley also will not be allowed to have any type of contact with the victim or his family.
Risk of injury to a minor is a Class C felony in Connecticut, which may require the defendant to be listed on the sex offender registry and the state Department of Children and Families to remove children from a defendant's home if it believes they are in danger. The latter was not necessary in Frawley's case since the Fairfield woman does not have any children at home, her attorney, Frank Bevilacqua, told the court.
New Canaan police arrested Frawley on a charge of risk of injury to a minor on Oct. 25, 2013, after an investigation concluded that the former church youth group leader exchanged numerous sexually explicit photos and text messages with the teenage boy. In February, the prosecution added a second charge -- second-degree sexual assault. Frawley previously had pleaded not guilty to both charges.
As part of the deal, the court Friday nolled the second-degree sexual assault charge. By nulling it, the prosecution keeps the right to reopen the case and prosecute it again anytime during the following 13 months.
Frawley also will have to continue undergoing mental health evaluation treatment.
Mark Sherman, an attorney for the victim's family, did not wish to be heard during Friday's hearing, but he did not object to the deal.
"Throughout this entire ordeal, my clients' only concern was the safety and welfare of their child," he said. "Any parent would be horrified to have this happen to their family."
When asked if his clients have any plans to file a civil lawsuit against the New Canaan church, Sherman said, "Consider that a certainty." However, he declined to provide details.
Anne Wilkinson, the church's director of communications, also declined to comment.
Frawley had been working part time as a youth group leader at the church for two years before she was suspended in April 2013. The suspension came after church leaders were notified by the boy's parents about explicit text messages between her and the teen on his cellphone. The church then reported the alleged relationship to DCF, which contacted New Canaan police the same day, according to the Oct. 16, 2013, affidavit.
Frawley was also an eighth-grade substitute teacher at Tomlinson Middle School in Fairfield. She was dismissed by the school in April 2013 after officials learned of the allegations against her, according to the affidavit.
During the investigation, the New Canaan Police Department obtained records from both Frawley's and the victim's cellphones. Some of those texts show Frawley and the boy saying they loved each other.
"You make me feel so loved, so supported, and so appreciated," Frawley, who was 24 at the time, said to the boy in an April 15, 2013, text message.
Sgt. Carol Ogrinc wrote in the affidavit that she believed "Frawley and the juvenile victim were involved in a sexual relationship and engaged in sexual intercourse." Based on the text messages, Ogrinc said Frawley had been at the boy's residence and had sex, according to the document. Besides sexually explicit text messages, the affidavit shows that Frawley also sent multiple photos of herself to the victim in "suggestive poses while either partially clothed or fully nude."
Court documents also state that Frawley lived with a boyfriend in Fairfield. In one message, she said her situation was "messy" because she was trying to date two people, according to the affidavit.
In January, she was found eligible for accelerated rehabilitation, but after the sexual assault charge was added Feb. 21, she was disqualified.
In court Friday, Bevilacqua did not have much to say. "We're just happy this is over," he told the judge.
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If you're watching calories this dessert is a lovely way to end a meal. It's easy to do and can make an ordinary meal special. It has five ingredients and requires no special equipment to prepare. While it must be chilled for 2 hours before serving, it can be assembled in less than 30 minutes. What's the trick? It is difficult to find fromage frais in most supermarkets. If you live in a large metropolitan area, it can be purchased from a cheese store, but the rest of us will have to scramble to find adequate substitutes. The best would be quark or Greek yogurt. The easiest would be a reduced fat cream cheese that's thinned with a little milk. You can also make your own cheese if you feel inspired. I use a minimal amount of sugar in this recipe, so be sure to taste for sweetness as you go along. Frozen berries are fine but make sure they are thawed before you add them to the cheese mixture. A last reminder - the egg whites in this recipe are not cooked, so be sure to use pasteurized eggs or reconstituted powdered egg whites to avoid any chance of salmonella.
Raspberry Yogurt Parfait
1 envelope unflavored gelatin
1 (8-oz.) cup low-fat vanilla yogurt - room temperature
12-oz. fromage frais, quark or Greek yogurt - room temperature
1/2 cup confectioners' sugar (optional)
4 large pasteurized egg whites or an equivalent amount of reconstituted powdered egg whites
6-oz. fresh raspberries, mashed or an equivalent amount of frozen, thawed berries
Optional garnish: berries and mint leaves
1) Place 1/4 cup water in a small heatproof bowl. Sprinkle with gelatin. Let sit until gelatin softens. Add water to a small skillet and bring to a boil. Remove from heat. Place bowl containing gelatin in pan and stir until gelatin dissolves. Remove from pan and cool slightly.
2) Combine yogurt, fromage frais and sugar in a medium bowl. Mix well. Add yogurt and stir with a spoon until combined.
3) Beat egg whites with an electric mixer until stiff peaks form. Fold into yogurt mixture until just combined.
4) Transfer half the mixture to another large bowl. Fold in mashed berries.
5) Spoon a portion of raspberry mixture into four (8-oz.) dessert glasses. Top each with a portion of the yogurt mixture. Refrigerate until set, about 2 hours. Garnish with raspberries and mint if desired. Yield: 4 servings.


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As I've mentioned before, we give our children a small allowance each week. Our daughter, who is only two, puts all of her money into a single-slot piggy bank and is allowed to fully spend it as she chooses. Our son gets more money for his allowance (for now), but has a Money Savvy Pig, where he splits his allowance into four equal parts: money to freely spend, money to save for an item he wants, money for an annual charitable gift, and money for investing for the long term.
The idea here, though, is that each of them has a few quarters to spend each week on whatever they would like. Most of the time, they spend it on reasonable kid things – they both have a strong affection for M&Ms, for example, and often buy M&Ms with their quarters.
This week, however, was different. We were dining at a restaurant that had one of those carnival-esque "claw" machines near the exit, where you use a stick to maneuver a claw around, then hit a button to have the claw drop into a pit of stuffed animals or other toys. Almost always, the claw is unable to pick any of the items up, so you simply lose the money you put in there.
We've warned our kids about these machines in the past. "If you put your money in there, you'll just lose it and not get anything for it." "Those machines are rip-offs."
However, we are also committed to letting our children make their own choices about their free-spending money. Thus, as we were leaving with our children, they asked if they could use their spending money in the claw machine. After a quick warning about the nature of the machine, we allowed them to, assuming it would teach them a quick, simple lesson about disappointment and how things like this actually work.
Of course, my two year old daughter won a stuffed animal on her first try.
Of course, my four year old son won a stuffed animal on his second try.
Obviously, the lesson learned from this situation is the opposite of what we hoped they would take from it. My son, in fact, has already told us that this is now his favorite restaurant and he can't wait to go back to get another stuffed animal, implying (of course) that it's trivial to get a stuffed animal from such a machine.
Where do we go from here? My wife and I talked about it and came up with the following conclusions that we feel are in line with the money lessons we want to teach our kids.
If they wish to try again with their "free spending" money, we won't stop them. How you choose to spend money – and what you get out of it – is a constant lesson in itself. Putting restrictions on the portion of their allowance that they're allowed to spend freely (at least at this point) defeats the learning (even if sometimes the learning isn't perfect).
We'll still advise them of potential poor spending choices. Of course, just because they're allowed to freely spend doesn't mean we don't offer suggestions to them about what's a good spending choice and what's a bad spending choice. We try to avoid drawing conclusions, but we do try to provide information. We focus on saying things like, "If you put your money in this machine and it doesn't win a toy, that money is simply gone – you'll get nothing for it."
We won't "avoid" such machines in the future. One topic was whether or not we should actively strive to avoid "claw" machines for a while until they forget that they won. Of course, doing so simply delays the inevitable lesson that they'll have to learn from such machines, so we decided not to avoid such machines.
We will never recompensate them for their lost money in such machines. When they try again and inevitably lose, we will allow them to feel the sting of disappointment and not undo that sting by reimbursing their money, as we've observed other parents do in the past. They have the freedom to spend their money as they choose, and they also have the freedom to lose it and to grow from the lessons they learn.
Still, I have to say I was honestly amazed when my two year old daughter moved the claw around jerkily for a few seconds, smashed the button, and was rewarded with a cute little stuffed animal. I honestly believe I could have played the machine for an hour and not won a single thing.
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Even After Mea Culpas For Horrible Iraq War Coverage, American Media Does the Same Thing With Iran
The American people are being bombarded with messages that Iran will launch an attack unless it is bombed.
For example, this is a top AP headline from today:
The headline is being parroted by virtually every media outlet:
Only upon a closer reading of the AP article can we see what Iran actually said:
In other words, Iran is saying if you attack us first, we'll fight back.
That's a little bit different from the misleading headline … isn't it? As I noted in August, this is the old bully's trick of pretending he is the victim:
Police have recently stated on the record that:
- Resisting police desires may be labeled "violence" … even if the police desires are unlawful
- Curling up in a ball to avoid police violence may be considered "active resistance" … justifying the use of more force, including baton strikes
Indeed, in modern America, even being worried that the government is acting in a bullying manner can literally get one arrested, committed to a psychiatric ward or labeled as a terrorist.
In other words, the government is using the age-old bully's trick: pretending that the victim is the attacker, and the bully is merely defending himself.
The same is true in terms of our foreign policy. For example, when we accidentally kill foreigners, we pretend that they were armed or pretend that they were "militants".
The government invaded Iraq because it claimed Saddam had weapons of mass destruction and that he had a hand in 9/11 … but everyone knew that both claims were false.
In fact, the American media is always pro-war, and happily trumpets disinformation about supposed enemies to drum up support for new wars. Indeed, some think that war is fun.
The people pushing for war against Iran are the same people who pushed for war against Iraq … and said it would be a "cakewalk".
But even after all of the mea culpas for their horrible Iraq coverage – by the New York Times, Washington Post, MSNBC and others – the media are doing the exact same thing with Iran.


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One day little Johnny was walking up a hill pulling his red wagon behind him saying, "F**k this," "F**k that."
The town priest hears this and walks up to Johnny and says,"You shouldn't swear like that, Johnny. God is all around us."
"Is he in the sky?" asks Johnny.
"Yes," says the priest.
"Is he in that bush over there?" asks Johnny.
"Yes," says the priest."
Is he in my wagon?" asked Johnny.
"Yes," says the priest.
"Well tell him to get the f**k out and push!!!"


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These days, Microsoft gadgets and Apple gadgets can co-exist happily in the same household—and the companies know that. Hence Microsoft's free Xbox SmartGlass app for iOS, which lets you interact and control the Xbox 360 game console on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.
SmartGlass, which began its life as Xbox Live Companion, has a couple of different facets to it. For one, you can sign in to your Xbox Live profile via your Microsoft account; that lets you check your messages, view your friends' activity, browse recent games that you've played, and browse movies, music, and TV shows in the Xbox Marketplace.
That's pretty handy, in and of itself. I frequently use the SmartGlass app to check and see if any of my Xbox friends happen to be online playing games. The ability to use the iPhone's keyboard to send them messages is also quite the godsend—nothing encourages me to use text slang more than having to enter it by pointing and clicking on letters one by one with an analog thumbstick.
You can also view and edit your profile and friends list, as well as view your friends' profiles to see what they've been playing; there's even an option to compare your achievements. Pimping out your avatar—the cartoon representation of yourself—is also available via the app, letting you choose new clothes, props, and outfits.
SmartGlass also supports Xbox Live's Beacons—which are essentially ways you can broadcast your interest in playing certain games to your friends. That way, when your friends start up a game on which you've set a beacon, they'll be alerted that you're interested in playing. It's an interesting feature, albeit one that personally hasn't ended up being as useful as I'd hope.
Another more-recent improvement to SmartGlass is the ability to control your Xbox console using the app. You need to jump through a few hoops to set this up, but once you have, you can use a gesture-based system to navigate the Xbox's dashboard, as well as control playback of videos and music. It's a lot like Apple's Remote app, which offers control of your Apple TV from your iOS device.
In this mode, SmartGlass can also be used as a "second screen," displaying additional contextual information about the game or media that's playing on the Xbox. Not every title features this companion mode—the majority probably don't—but if SmartGlass can find available content, it'll download it automatically. For example, I could use SmartGlass to track progress on my Halo 4 character while playing the game on my Xbox.
If you download the Internet Explorer app for your Xbox, you can also use SmartGlass to browse the Web on your TV, including using iOS's keyboard to enter URLs and text. It may not be an ideal experience compared to, say, just using your smartphone, but it's handy if you need it.
All in all, SmartGlass provides a pretty good experience for Xbox owners looking to keep tabs on their account, from home or afar, and largely improves navigating many of the non-game-playing interactions of the Xbox experience.
This story, "Review: Xbox SmartGlass for iOS is a better way to use your Xbox" was originally published by Macworld.
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I am not scared of all the witches, zombies, and assorted goblins wandering about on Halloween. What really scares me is the meat industry.
This is the industry that:
▪ Mutilates, cages, and butchers billions of cows, pigs and other sentient animals
▪ Feeds carcasses of cats and dogs killed in pounds to chickens
▪ Exposes undocumented workers to chronic workplace injuries at slave wages
▪ Exploits farmers and ranchers by dictating wholesale market prices
▪ Punishes documentation of its abuses through unconstitutional ag-gag laws
▪ Promotes world hunger by feeding nutritious corn and soybeans to animals
▪ Generates more greenhouse gases than any other human activity
▪ Generates more water pollution than any other human activity
▪ Creates a permanent dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico that dwarfs the BP oil spill
▪ Creates deadly antibiotic-resistant pathogens by feeding antibiotics to animals
▪ Creates epidemics of Salmonella, Listeria, and other infectious diseases
▪ Promotes mortality from diabetes, heart failure, stroke, cancer, and other diseases
Now, that�s really scary. And this is why I am dropping animal products from my menu.


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LOGAN, Utah (AP) Brandon Gibson scored 20 points and Raheem Appleby hit a 3-pointer with 1:26 remaining, helping Louisiana Tech win its 10th straight game with a 51-48 victory over Utah State on Saturday night.
The Bulldogs (18-3, 9-0 Western Athletic) let an eight-point lead slip away in the final five minutes as Utah State's Jarred Shaw scored twice on layups and Spencer Butterfield converted a three-point play and then hit 1 of 2 free throws to tie it up 48-48 with 1:42 remaining.
Appleby's shot gave Louisiana Tech the lead back, and Butterfield and Ben Clifford each missed 3s in the final minute for the Aggies (14-5, 5-4).
Shaw had 21 points and 14 rebounds, while Butterfield added 16 points and 15 rebounds for Utah State, which has lost four in a row. The Aggies shot just 27 percent from the floor but outrebounded Louisiana Tech 50-31.
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HOA President Receives Public Criticism; Responds With Baseless Claims And Empty Legal Threats
from the ALL-CAPS---that'll-show-'em deptIf there's one thing our judicial system has taught the layman, it's this: when faced with public criticism, your first reaction should be to craft angry letters/emails full of baseless legal threats. (Of course, the internet teaches exactly the opposite lesson, one that many have failed to learn...) Today's angry email writer (and phone caller) is the president (and treasurer) [and legal agent] of the Stonecreek Arbor Homeowner's Association, located in Indiana's Vandenburgh County.
The Evansville Courier & Press recently wrote a lengthy piece about HOAs and how they can range wildly in quality, from being so laissez-faire that you wonder where your money is going to providing the services your area needs to micro-dictatorships that leave residents unhappy.Anyone who's even slightly familiar with HOAs knows it's going to be nearly impossible to find a flattering article written about these overweening middlemen/micromanagers who have inserted themselves between homeowners and their own property. (At least one that's not written by association board members...) Why so many of these associations exist is a mystery, given that most people resent having arbitrary rules and limitations placed on something they purchased. It's like DRM for houses.
The HOA at the center of this story is called Stonecreek Arbors, in Indiana's Vandenburgh County. According to the paper, the Stonecreek HOA was responsible for more than half of all the liens filed in the county last year. Many of these liens were for unpaid HOA dues worth a little more than $200.
The 49 liens filed by the HOA translates to slightly less than 1/6 of all the homes in the subdivision.
That being said, Stonecreek Arbor was like any other homeowners association that makes the news. Excessive fees. Sudden bans on a previously parkable driveway, which instead became a HOA board member's private road to and from the lake. Demanding pets be microchipped, even when the existing "rules" carried no language to that effect. And so on.
The Evansville Courier article detailed these offenses, leading off with a photo of the subdivision's entrance which handily sported the Stonecreek name, lest anyone be confused about which HOA was currently abusing its members. Shortly after publication (and following a brief interview with the HOA president Stephen Hess -- captured "on tape" over at the Consumerist), the Evansville Courier & Press received this email from Hess.
"[T]his notice also requires you not to at any measure mention anything regarding my name, any resident of Stonecreek, NOR will we ALLOW any of your printing in any article regarding Stonecreek at any time in any publication… You will be held liable for any violations of this letter and notice/request in this email. If we find/discover you have mentioned Stonecreek in any legal matter their (sic) will be action toward yourself as well as any print paper you represent in the media article.There are a lot of claims being made here that the HOA president can't hope to back up. Exactly how he was hoping to prevent mention "in any publication," much less the one with which he's currently tangling, is unclear. Maybe he was hoping a few CAPITALIZED WORDS would strike fear in their tiny journalistic souls. The double threat of "being held liable" and having "action toward" the paper doesn't seem to have prevented publication of this article on the internet, or in "any print paper."
"You may contact any HOA in the County of Vanderburgh, the State of Indiana, but Stonecreek will not PERMIT OR ALLOW YOU our legal name in any future article."
The HOA president didn't even throw out handy, but un-actionable, terms like "libel" or "defamation," but he did follow up with one more vocal threat:
That obviously didn't work, nor did the phone call to the Courier & Press, which demanded the paper "stop this article immediately, because I will sue you just like I sue the people who don't pay their dues." he said.While Hess certainly seems to know his way around legal matters like lien filing (he filed more than 47 liens against his neighbors in one day), he seems to have a little trouble parsing the grayer area of public criticism. His response has just dropped Stonecreek's reputation from "bad" to "worse," and he will probably find himself on the outside staring in come the next board election. Now, he's also "internet (in)famous" as well, having successfully portrayed himself as the sort of person who comes out suing at the drop of a hat. Not much fun to deal with at a phone line's length, much less as a neighbor.
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Approximately 59 000 people die from rabies each year. The vast majority of these deaths occur in Asia and Africa. Children are at particular risk.
Two types of vaccines to protect against rabies in humans exist - nerve tissue and cell culture vaccines. WHO recommends replacement of nerve tissue vaccines with the more efficacious, safer vaccines developed through cell culture as soon as possible. Cell culture vaccines which are more affordable and require less vaccine have been developed in recent years.
Intradermal immunization using cell-culture-based rabies vaccines is an acceptable alternative to standard intramuscular administration. Intradermal vaccination has been shown to be as safe and immunogenic as intramuscular vaccination, yet requires less vaccine, for both pre- and post-exposure prophylaxis, leading to lower direct costs. This alternative should thus be considered in settings constrained by cost and/or supply issues.
Pre-exposure prophylaxis is recommended for anyone at continual, frequent or increased risk of exposure to rabies virus, either by nature of their residence or occupation.
Periodic booster injections are recommended as an extra precaution only for people whose occupation puts them at continual or frequent risk of exposure. If available, antibody monitoring of personnel at risk is preferred to the administration of routine boosters.
Recommendations for post-exposure depend on the type of contact with the suspected rabid animal. For category I exposure (touching or feeding animals, licks on intact skin), no prophylaxis is required; for category II (nibbling of uncovered skin, minor scratches or abrasions without bleeding), immediate vaccination; and for category III (single or multiple transdermal bites or scratches, contamination of mucous membrane with saliva from licks, licks on broken skin, exposures to bats), immediate vaccination and administration of rabies immunoglobulin are recommended.
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By Dian Hasan | April 5, 2010
I thought it would be an interesting visual journey to see objects found in logos that suggest movement, flight, floatation or speed.
Obviously the first logos that come to mind would be those of Airlines, Aircraft and the Aviation Industry. Depicted by mostly birds, wings, kites and practically anything that suggests flying objects (no UFOs though!). But from my further research I've discovered a whole world of similar symbols that adorn other types of brand logos that are far removed from airlines and aviation. Enjoy!
In our visual world of today, we are bombarded with visual messages every second. It is believed that we are exposed to hundreds if not thousands of messages, most of which are logos of the brands that we use every single day. Reaching a saturation point, when our brains can no longer (or choose not to) process these visuals and decipher them.
We are exposed to brand logos as we use and experience them. And the visual messages we receive each day, from billboards, TV commercials, logos on buildings, traffic signals, even little logos on park benches… all represent signs and signals (Semiotics) communicating to us. And we attach meanings to most of these visual stimuli, so long as we can connect with them on an emotional level. This is what Brand-Builders must understand to build brands that can communicate to the feelings.
Because in the end"People value more what things mean than what things are!"
The art of designing an entire company's ideas, ethos, knowledge and future in one logo and corporate identity is an integral part of the visual branding. Of course there's more to branding than meets the eye!
Most of today's organizations are well-versed in this communication medium. Some are still struggling, however, to put into a logo the values and positive traits they want captured. And there are some others that are very similar looking, albeit representing completely different organizations.


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Latest Real Estate News
MahaRERA registration must for selling property
Consumer protection activist Shirish Deshpande, who is also the chairman Mumbai Grahak Panchayat, said the new GR is a welcome step but the authorities should have issued it soon after RERA became operational from May 1, 2017.
Greater Hyderabad civic body lists out unauthorised plots
The civic body had earlier put in multiple efforts to stop the construction in the areas but the offenders had restarted construction even after the buildings were razed.
Soon, Agra civic body's NOC must to carry out building repairs
Besides, they will have to pay a fee for the same.
To speed up deliveries, Noida may allow registry of flats without NOC
The plan was discussed in a meeting between officials of the district administration and the Uttar Pradesh Real Estate Regulatory Authority (UP-Rera) on Saturday.
Land title insurance set to be mandatory for MahaRERA registered builders
Land title insurance is a form of indemnity cover, which insures builders and customers against financial loss from defects in title to real property, among others.
Bidhannagar civic body to replace over 26,000 sodium vapour street lights with LEDs
The civic authorities kicked off the project on the crossroad starting from Poura Bhavan to Laboni Island.
Kolhapur civic body holds special camp to clear building proposal plans
During the meeting, the corporators claimed that common citizens are made to wait by town planning officials for months to get their building proposals approved.
Pune development body signs pact with 2000WSCA for eco-friendly townships
After the signing of the MoU, Hardegger said they had developed a strategy to support India in establishing carbon-neutral smart townships and will work closely with PMRDA.
SC's deadline for demolition of Maradu flats ends
The flat owners said that they were looking forward to the response of the state government and the affidavit to be filed by the chief secretary.
Kakinada: Bhaskara Estate vacated after building develops cracks
East Godavari district collector D Muralidhar Reddy said that chief minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy had enquired about Bhaskara Estate.
Ghaziabad development body to tweak bylaws to curb illegal construction
There would be a total of 17 proposals on board's agenda, important being land use conversion of a 9000 sq m of land to residential use, which currently houses GDA's storehouse.
TN-RERA directs Green Avenue Homes & Gardens to complete project
The case relates to redevelopment of a property on Fifth Avenue in Anna Nagar, where the developer demolished six apartment units after entering into a joint venture agreement.
13 reasons to convert your business place with LED bulbs
According to a report submitted by the United States Department of Energy that LEDs are one of the most efficient energy-saving technologies of today.
Chandigarh: Consumer panel withdraws order to attach Omaxe office
The order was withdrawn after Omaxe authorities submitted the application, stating that it had complied with the orders by refunding the money to the complainant.
Ghaziabad development body to approach UP-RERA against Aura Chimera's builder
Officials said GDA will issue a recovery certificate to the builder for its failure to pay up dues to the tune of Rs 7 crore.


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The one-time home of ex-New York Mets star Lenny Dykstra is back on the market in Thousand Oaks, reduced to $14.995 million from the $18.75 million it was listed for in June.
Hockey great Wayne Gretzky sold the 6.5-acre compound to the former World Series champ in 2007 for $18.5 million, according to the Multiple Listing Service. As the housing bust took hold and his financial problems deepened, Dykstra unsuccessfully tried to sell the mansion, ultimately losing it to foreclosure two years ago on the steps of the Ventura County courthouse during bankruptcy proceedings.
Quiz: How much do you know about mortgages?
This week an additional 6.5 months for federal bankruptcy fraud was tacked onto Dykstra's three-year state prison sentence for auto theft. He pleaded guilty to looting the mansion of valuables before creditors could liquidate them and was ordered Monday to also pay $200,000 in restitution and perform 500 hours of community service, The Times reported.
Household items including chandeliers, mirrors and a $50,000 sink were removed from the nearly 11,000-square-foot house, according to federal prosecutors.
The seller is Thomas J. Barrack's Tobar Properties, which bought the Sherwood Country Club-area mansion last year for an undisclosed amount. Barrack, a real estate and private equity billionaire, is the chief executive of Colony Capital.
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Fertilizer is the one input that promises to be a better buy in 2013 than it was in the past year—$10 per acre cheaper, according to University of Illinois projections. You can thank rising global production and supplies, which at the moment are outpacing demand.
Fertilizer experts report adequate supplies for the coming months, but
In no way does this suggest that you should delay all of your fertilizer urchases until spring. Experts give two reasons to buy sooner rather than later:
1. After losing money on inventory in 2008, dealers changed how they receive supplies to just-in-time delivery. As a result, waiting until the last minute to book all of your supplies is risky.
2. The extremely low Mississippi and Ohio rivers delayed and in some cases halted fertilizer shipments this year, making it tough for supplies to reach their destination on time. This is one reason for the tight supplies and firm ammonia prices in late October.
Jeff Greseth, director of crop nutrients supply and trading for CHS, says supplies should be adequate, but that doesn't rule out spot supply constrictions between now and spring.
Greseth doesn't expect fertilizer prices "going crazy," in part because of increasing global supplies of key fertilizer inputs.
Wild Cards. Weather, however, could be a real game changer. Prices could ratchet up in a hurry if we have a dry spring, barges remain backed up on the Mississippi and Ohio and corn prices escalate. Demand is another wild card, particularly in China and India.
Does this mean you should hit the panic button and buy all of your fertilizer needs today? No, according to David Asbridge, president of NPK Fertilizer Advisory Service. He and Greseth agree that you should book at least a percentage of your key fertilizer inputs this fall, especially nitrogen, even if you don't plan to apply it until spring.
For urea, Asbridge predicts spring prices in the Midwest to average $595 per ton, $15 less than late October. "There is no reason to expect any big run-up," he says.
For ammonia, Asbridge expects to see fall prices in the $825 range, slightly higher than the expected spring price of $820. All this, he says, depends on demand.
Spring phosphate (DAP) prices could be higher, at $670 per ton, than late October prices of $655 per ton, he says. Midwest potash prices could drift $5 per ton lower to $600 per ton by spring, he notes. "Global capacity has really spiked recently," Asbridge explains.
Soil Surplus. The amount of ammonia applied this fall is yet to be seen, as some soils will be too dry. Additionally, unused nitrogen from the 2012 growing season still exists in the soil and will be available for the next crop.
Due to the drought, more corn than normal was cut for silage or left standing, says Gary Hergert, a University of Nebraska agronomist. "Soil nutrient levels might be higher or lower than usual, so soil sampling is imperative this fall to plan a better fertilizer program for next year."
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Every second the Internet is the breeding ground of happenings and events. Cal Feed is an online community dedicated to this stuff.
The sidebar offers a unique eye catching spot to advertise. This is exactly what Side Bar Ads thinks. Side Bar Ads seems like a tough company to get into though.
Blogging and social media go hand in hand. So do blogs about blogging. Also blogs about wordpress rock double stop time. I love busting some trendy language. I Like Wordpress is a great blog about the great blogging medium wordpress.
Twitter is all I ever talk about. I could say twitter so many times that it becomes some other word. I am not sure that is really a good thing to evolve into. Social media rules and the second anyone puts their whole life into one site, then bam they made a mistake. Sites come and go. Their feeds and effects are forever. People do not just become an unfriend when a social site ups and leaves. Friends pinkie swear that they will stick it out forever. Here are a few more communities that you can exercise your pinkies in:
We Love Local connects people and business on a local level. This concept my friends is way ahead of its time!
Soda Head connects questions and answers in a techie app filled happy go lucky type of way. If you spend a lot of time you will be bubbling off of all of that virtual soda!
Shyftr brings all of your social activity into one site, them builds a community platform on top of that. Look for this site to do some big and amazing things in the future!
Second Brain is the future of app deluxe amazing social bookmarking revolution. Imagine a time when the votes rule the world. That time is today or tomorrow depending on when you sign up for Second Brain!
To conclude these 4 social communities rock. If you have any more questions please shoot me one on Plurk! I probably can't answer them but I will ask my own! That is what I call the question matrix!
Many people are always asking me what is the next twitter? Well really no one has asked me anything but just play along with me.
The next twitter is a web community called Favorit. It may or may not be in beta. It may or may not be private. But I am seeing a lot of good stuff. Favorite brings together social media under one roof and takes it a step further with a front page and bookmarking qualities that could be worth a traffic rush. I believe in this site called favorit!
And for local business. Internet Celebrities bail out main street as well. Internet celebrities make money. They are rich. People worship them. There are numerous videos on why this is not true but I believe it is true.
When people do well online great things happen. Some of these great things may be money. Lately I been surfing into one celebrity IJustine. I am not sure what site is the main one or if they are all part of the cloud. But visitor stats look good. I have never seen growth like that ever in anything.
I liken it to the big bang of Internet traffic. Exponential growth. There is a lot of money in exponents. An exponentially expanding AdSense account for instance is cool. Some other IJustine sites include Tasty Blog Snack, on YouTube, The Fan Site, IJustine TV, Myspace, Twitter, and the list goes on. This is very common for Internet celebrities to be represented well in social media. Social media is everything. Long live social media the master of all!
I firmly believe that in order to succeed in the blog world we must be more than one step ahead of the game. Way too many bloggers are followers, flip floppers, and not leaders and decision makers.
For me I am the exact opposite. I wish I could live in a tend and eat twigs and berries all of my life. Ah the simpler life!
But back to my topic. Tonight is an especially fruitful blog surfing time for me. This one blog Naked Imagination seems crazy good. It is about technology and its effects on the world. Few bloggers take the time to step back and look at the repercussions of technology on society.
I realize this as I was recently playing Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 how different it is now in 2009 versus 2002 when the game supposedly took place. I was amazed how the game made very keen observations on how technology effected life even then. I felt blinded.
On one hand I take this stuff for granted and I hardly notice it. On the other hand technology is having a profound impact on my life and the stuff that happens. It all comes back to checking email. That is very annoying so I never check it.
But I think we are aimed at bigger and better things. I just hope computers will one day be free. $100 for an over priced piece of plastic with some strange metals and chemicals on the inside! Wow space aliens would be shocked. They get computers for free I am sure. They also probably hack the Internet and are on this website as we speak. That is what the unexplained web traffic is all about!
I was recently surfing the inter webs when I came upon a blog. This blog had a twitter widget with 52k followers. I was intrigued. After all the old saying goes "the person with the most followers wins!" Well the blog is called Twitter Truth.
There seems to be a lot of competition in the blog about twitter game but I suspect that we will be seeing quite a few of these sites in the technorati top 100. Perhaps twitter will fail in a year and people will read this post and laugh. That is the genius of blogging. Blog posts are as much a historical document as they are something new sometimes.
Luckily I am usually so wrong about things that if things go wrong I would be right. I would call this some kind of reverse luck. But twitter is big my friends. Open up accounts, and tweet till the cows come home. Read twitter blogs. Use twitter related services. And wear twitter shorts. Twitter is cool baby. Make that blue T catch on fire!
It never ceases to amaze me the lengths that people go to make some sweet twitter related site. You really have to check out the Twitter Avatar Combat website to fully appreciate what twitter is all about. Having a winning avatar is a great way to leverage your twitter account. You need not be famous to create a sweet avatar.
There are countless free avatar generating websites out there. Also try some of your computer programs and use your design abilities. For bloggers Smashing Mag uncovered a sweet hack for having twivatars in your blog comments!
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Key Biscayne musician gets 12 years in prison for cyclist's death
Over three days in court, musician Carlos Bertonatti tried everything to persuade a judge to go easy on him.
His sister and a pal told the court how Bertonatti saved their lives. A top Latin music executive testified that the Key Biscayne man had the makings of a bona fide pop star — earnings that could help pay restitution to the widow and daughter of the man Bertonatti killed.
His brother even admitted to using Bertonatti's identity to rack up dozens of traffic tickets, an effort to soften the effect of the musician's awful traffic history.
But in the end, the facts of the crime were too damning: Drunk after a night of partying, Bertonatti, 32, plowed his car into cyclist Christophe LeCanne on the Rickenbacker Causeway, dragging the man's crumpled bicycle for more than two miles before the police caught up with him.
So Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Bronwyn Miller — following the state's sentencing guidelines — sent Bertonatti to prison for 12 years.
"You are a very young man. You have a future," Miller told him. "I truly hope you will keep your commitment to the LeCanne family."
Miller quoted from a letter sent by the dead man's relatives: "Mr. LeCanne was nice, happy and full of life. No morning will ever be perfect again. Pain and sadness is the new way of life for the LeCanne family."
Thursday's sentence capped a roller-coaster sentencing hearing in a highly publicized case that was closely watched by Miami's avid cycling community.
Miami-Dade prosecutor Warren Eth said the sentence was "very just."
"It sends a very clear message to the community: If you drink and drive, you will get caught and you will ruin lives," Eth said.
After the sentence, the defendant's mother wailed and his brother and sister sobbed, too stunned to move from their seats for five minutes as Bertonatti was handcuffed, led into the bowels of the courthouse and off to jail. Miami actress Arlene Tur, who says she is Bertonatti's wife, cried in the back row.
Bertonatti's defense lawyer, Roberto Pertierra, bristled at the sentence.
"Others in this courthouse get four to five years for this crime and Carlos gets 12. I find it patently unfair," Pertierra told reporters. "I don't understand the court's ruling. We will be appealing."
After his release from prison, Bertonatti must also serve two years of house arrest, followed by eight years of probation. He must also speak on a victim-impact panel and complete 100 hours of community service, the judge said.
Without a plea deal, Bertonatti pleaded guilty in February to DUI manslaughter, leaving the scene of an accident involving a death and resisting arrest without violence.
Under Florida sentencing guidelines, Bertonatti faced between 11.56 and 37 years in prison. His lawyers had been pushing for the state's minimum mandatory sentence of four years behind bars.
In January 2010, Bertonatti had been drinking at Club Space in downtown Miami before driving his Volkswagen Jetta onto the Rickenbacker Causeway. On the Bear Cut Bridge, just past 8 a.m., he slammed into LeCanne, who was enjoying a morning ride overlooking Biscayne Bay.
Bertonatti's blood-alcohol level was 0.122, well over the legal limit, authorities said. Miami-Dade Officer Mark Slimak, a DUI specialist, testified that Bertonatti refused to give a blood sample, and accused him of lying about the cyclist's death.
The crash outraged Miami cyclists, who called for increased safety along the causeway. In February 2012, another cyclist, Aaron Cohen, was hit and killed on the same route — that driver, charged only with leaving the scene of an accident, was sentenced to almost two years behind bars.
LeCanne's family from France did not attend this week's sentencing, although they were in court when Bertonatti pleaded guilty in February to DUI manslaughter and other charges.
Prosecutors this week nevertheless played a slide show of photos of LeCanne with his young daughter, Marine.
"Marine will grow up without a father. That fact makes my heart bleed," Bertonatti told the judge on Tuesday. "The thought chews away at me every single day and I know it's a thought that will never, ever go away."
In Bertonatti's case, prosecutors were asking for 18 years in prison, citing the brutality of the crash and Bertonatti's horrendous traffic history: 46 citations over the years.
Bertonatti's defense, however, tried to call Miguel Bertonatti, who told lawyers he had been using his brother's identity for years to rack up dozens of tickets. Carlos Bertonatti admitted in court that he was trying to protect his brother, at one point pleading guilty for the man's speeding incident that took place just days before LeCanne's death.
But because Miguel Bertonatti could possibly face criminal charges, the judge insisted he obtain a lawyer and a mental-health evaluation. Eventually, on Wednesday, Miguel Bertonatti finally took the stand — but repeatedly invoked his right to remain silent.
Still, Carlos Bertonatti had plenty of supporters willing to testify.
During the hearing, his sister spoke of how he comforted her after she drunkenly jumped off a balcony at age 14. One buddy also told the court how Bertonatti applied pressure to a serious knife wound after a fight, saving his life.
Sony music executive Jorge Mejila testified that the company signed him to write songs and eventually release an album. He even suggested that the DUI experience might enhance the quality of Bertonatti's music, were he not behind bars.
"Songs are products of people's lives and experiences are intangible. You can't really manufacture that," Mejila said.
Prosecutor Eth was incredulous, saying Bertonatti could indeed continue writing songs — from prison.
"Ever heard of Johnny Cash, Live at Folsom Prison?" Eth asked.


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Dr. Stephen Borys, Director of the Winnipeg Art Gallery, is one of 30 business leaders who will be participating in the Downtown BIZ's CEO for Downtown Sleepout on September 29. It is hoped the sleepout will raise $100,000. Monies raised will go to the BIZ's Change for the Better project which supports homeless employment programs such as Siloam Mission's Mission: Off the Streets initiative.
The event begins with breakfast in front of 201 Portage Avenue, followed by entertainment and lunch which, it is hoped, will encourage the public to donate. That night, Borys and his fellow leaders will wrap themselves up in their sleeping bags until morning.
"This is a very important cause and I was honoured to be asked to participate," says Borys. "It's estimated that there are between 1,500 and 2,000 homeless people in Winnipeg, we see them everywhere. It's important that those of us who are fortunate enough to have warm homes to return to each night do what we can to alleviate this situation. Rather than just doling out money, the Change for the Better program will help these people to find employment which will, in turn, help them to find homes. It's great to see the leadership community in Winnipeg step up and do something to help."
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Maybe Zoro will becoming a vegatarian after visiting this island. In fact, since quite a few of his attacks draw on Buddihist and Shinto mythology (not that Zoro consciously knows either "religion"), maybe this island will finally push Zoro into becoming a monk, which in-turn could help him develop his "breath" techniques further (or something to that effect ).
|2008-11-18, 13:16
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|2008-11-18, 13:22
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Hmmm yea, I'll just combine the posts about Nami:
Increase in weather knowledge = more capabilities for Clima Tact.
More capabilities = Clima Tact may not be updated enough.
Clima Tact work on Dials = Get some dials, or steal , since she's on a sky island.
And I've heard a hilarious but true saying on why Sanji's sent there to be chased by okamas: All that running would definitely strengthen Sanji's legs in some way or another lol
|2008-11-18, 13:27
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I hear that Nami is okay! Any speaking roles from her I hope? And I bet she's all alone. If Luffy or Robin isn't keeping her company, she might get into the kind of trouble she usually gets into wether it's abuse (< "HOW DARE YOU HARM NAMI!!!!!!!!!!!!") or her own greed (< "Nami, how many times must we go through this? Greed can only harm you or worse kill you. What would Bellemere say if she were to see you acting the way you are?").
With Franky, as he had landed on a mechanical island, I wonder if he'll meet with some mechanical women?
With Sanji, I guess he got lucky in landing on an island that has some women on it. However it sounds like he has a hard time when he attracted those "okamas" much to his horror. LOLATWTTB
I also hear that Jimbei made a physical appearance despite his absence to participate in the Whitebeard war. Think I can see a pic of him?
|2008-11-18, 13:32
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I think... that will depend on the outcome of the Whitebeard war. For instance, if Whitebeard and any of his best commanders (like Marco or Jozu) get decimated, then I think I could see Ace taking Newgate's place as a Yonkou and captain of his crew. But if Ace were to join Luffy, then we'd at least need a flashback, which could be very possible during this storyline.
But personally, I think having a Logia as a Straw-Hat is as bad as Hancock joining. Again, broken DF powers and all that....
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Super strong...
More importantly to me is to see about Zoro and Usopp, and, as I expected, they'd have the MOST interesting stories, no doubt. It makes ense since they were kept for next chapter...I hope. Chopper's story would be fun~
It would be cool if we got to see at least Zoro, Usopp and Choppers' mini arcs. I'm hoping for it.
So it's probably like:
e.g: 1) Kizaru is fighting, and his rm is punched out of socket. Cannot regenerate it, since the amount of mass in his body is still the same, so there's no need to regenerate mass to make up the void.
e.g: 2) Kizaru is fighting, and Rayleigh synchs his Haki with Will to Cut Light. He slices off an arm. Kizaru's body mass has effectively been reduced, so the elemental regeneration can take place.
Or this could be all wrong, and the more sensible thing I've thought up is that once a Logia user manages to activate his elemental composition form while being injured, as long as the form was on while he was being damaged, the element will regenerate the Logia user. So it's like:
e.g: 3) Kizaru is fighting and his arm is punched out of socket, but as it's happening, he element-changes. So, as he element-changes, regeneration starts up.
e.g: 4) Kizaru is fighting and is hit and his arm is dislocated from its socket. But the hit was too quick, and even though he tried to activate the Logia form, he was a split second too late, so he just retains the injury, and turns elemental at that moment. And after re-solidifying, the injury is still there.
|2008-11-18, 13:44
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|2008-11-18, 13:53
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Usopp can shoot fire from Kabuto. Franky can breathe fire, Sanji has his Diable Jambe, a heat-based kicking technique, and even Zoro showed off some crazy fire-based sword technique when he defeated Ryuuma. Do we really need a fire logia when you consider that almost half the crew can use fire-based attacks already?
I highly doubt that any type of Logia would be needed for the crew. They already have the necessary skills to make it in the New World, but they just need to improve said skills, that's all....
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If any type of Logia were to join the crew, I stand by my statement of a water logia, simply because a person made out of water who cannot float would be one of the funniest things I could possibly imagine.
I remember I talked about this idea a while back on another forum, I think I'll re-vamp it and potst an outline for this character in the New Crewmate Speculation thread.
|2008-11-18, 17:49
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Nami's case will be interesting. Unlike others, her strength lies in her analytical thinking ability. And, you cannot make good use of that without external help. How can she make use of the advantages of a weather island, then? A different set of combinations to alter weather. Unless a new version will be invented, I doubt it. To make use of the air flow changes during a fight, and respond that quickly with her clima tact. Not her style, especially the quick response part. But, I guess the island being a part of sky islands, and the weapon that she uses sharing the same origin says a lot. It combines both her intelligence and the source of that technology. If she can improve her navigating skills, and add thunderstorm/hurricane kind of patterns to her clima tact (can be very useful in defending herself, like placing her within the eye of a hurricane, while destroying the surroundings) then the result would be satisfying for her.
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Even better to the plot would be if she ended up in the middle of tha great current between the three WG monuments the Kuja were talking about.
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