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Electronic voting systems' lack of a verifiable paper trail, their software's uncertain reliability, and questions of local election officials' competence in operating such machines have fueled an undercurrent of mistrust that both manufacturers and local election administrators dismiss as paranoia. Twenty-eight U.S. states as well as the District of Columbia have deployed e-voting systems, which are expected to be used by one-third of the country's voters in the Nov. 2 presidential election. The paperless nature of the machines, which makes accurate recounts impossible and leaves no clear evidence of hacking or error, is a particularly sore point for critics. "Computer scientists want technical solutions, and the election supervisors just want to get rid of their paper," notes former co-director of the CalTech-MIT Voting Technology Project Steve Ansolabehere. Such complaints led several states to carry out audits of e-voting systems, which uncovered security vulnerabilities, software bugs, and a lack of software certification by independent testing facilities. The results convinced the state of Ohio to retain its existing voting system, while both California and Maryland will take added security steps and use "parallel testing" to ensure that the machines are counting properly and do not have buried software switches that could purloin votes on Nov. 2. Election officials believe these improvements will bolster the election against the one problem whose existence everyone acknowledges--human error, in the form of unprepared poll workers. "We need to design and test our ballots and train our poll workers so they know what they're doing," insists CalTech-MIT Voting Technology Project co-director Ted Selker. Click Here to View Full Article (Access to this site is free; however, first-time visitors must register.) For information on ACM's activities involving e-voting, visit http://www.acm.org/usacm.
Monica Schraefel of the University of Southampton's School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) and Michael McGuffin of the University of Toronto's Department of Computer Science earned an ACM Special Research Distinction for their paper describing "hyperstructures" in graph-theoretic terms presented at this year's ACM Hypertext Conference in August. Hyperstructures enable hypertext data such as the Web to be rendered in ways that reveal the multiple relationships between the information in the pages, in addition to the links between pages. Among the hyperstructures the paper focuses on are ECS Visiting Professor Ted Nelson's zzstructures and Schraefel's mSpaces. Schraefel and McGuffin were able to compare these two hyperstructures in particular by rendering them as graph theory. By developing formalized descriptions, the researchers aimed to furnish a straightforward method designers could use to compare hyperstructure properties in order to determine the approaches most suitable for their information design requirements. Schraefel says, "By considering new models for representing information which go beyond generic organizing structures like the lists we see from a Google search, we can consider equally new approaches for representing hypermedia information spaces that let us explore the relationships among the information, rather than just the data in a page." Click Here to View Full Article
Caltech aims to transform itself and the way its students and faculty conduct research by combining the disciplines of physics, biology, chemistry, computer science, mathematics, and engineering under the aegis of its Information Science and Technology (IST) program, thus easing and expanding cross-disciplinary collaboration. Computer science professor Andre DeHon remarks that such cooperation is important to students headed for graduate school, who must obtain an understanding across all related fields. The questions participating IST researchers will seek to answer are linked in their relevance to information, which is defined as an area that includes its generation, sharing, storage, encryption, retrieval, and societal impact. The IST initiative will be divided up among four centers, or cross-disciplinary research groups: The Center for Biological Circuit Design will study the storage, use, and communication of information by organisms; the Social Information Science Laboratory will focus on social systems; the Center for the Physics of Information will advance computer technology by dealing with problems such as what materials future computer chips should use once silicon's capacity has played out; and the Mathematics of Information center will accommodate these various mixed-discipline projects by developing a new mathematical language for computational advancement. IST will involve the participation of about 50 percent of Caltech's students and about 25 percent of its faculty, and the institute expects to raise $100 million to support the program by 2007. The initiative has started to plan new undergraduate and graduate programs, classes, and a campus facility dedicated to collaboration. IST director Jehoshua Bruck reports that Caltech is the ideal environment for such an initiative, since a historical precedent for cross-discipline collaboration already exists and the institute's modest size eases cooperation between students and researchers. Click Here to View Full Article
The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) announced the allocation of funding to 135 projects distributed throughout 32 Canadian research institutions on Oct. 20. The winning proposals are judged according to their strengths, their researchers' credentials, and the projects' potential to be used as training tools for future generations of Canadian scientists and to ultimately benefit Canadian society and economy. One of the projects to receive CFI funding involves interactive character animation developed by professor Sageev Oore of St. Mary's University in Halifax. Oore's goal is to create multimedia interfaces that transcend the mouse/keyboard model, and his latest breakthrough allows people to interact with onscreen 3D characters using a tool that would usually be employed to animate puppets: "It's effectively virtual puppeteering where you use input devices that are like puppet sticks except that they're connected to sensors," Oore explains. Another CFI recipient is Queen's University researcher Ying Zou's proposal to improve software upgrades, a collaborative effort involving partners at IBM Canada and the University of Waterloo. Zou is deconstructing the source code of IBM's WebSphere e-commerce applications in order to streamline the upgrading process for developers working on subsequent permutations of the software. "My research tools...help the developer understand existing software...and guarantee the quality of the software won't be decreased," Zou notes; predicting the performance of a segment of software and its response to structural alterations throughout the development process will also benefit from Zou's research. Oore and Zou's projects will together comprise a $23.7 million block of CFI funding. Click Here to View Full Article
A lack of proper training is a big reason why software failures will continue to occur, according to John Knight, a computer science professor at the University of Virginia. Speaking at a meeting of the BCS Safety-Critical Systems Club, Knight acknowledged that there will always be software failures, but added that the way software is engineered is unacceptable. Knight said students are not given a basic education in software development. "They can often produce software that provides certain basic functionality, but they fail to understand or are completely unaware of topics such as the crucial importance of specification, the difficulties that arise in concurrent programs, the limitations of testing, the effects of rounding error or the lack of timing predictability in processors," said Knight. An electrical engineer can obtain a specific degree in electrical engineering, but computer science undergraduates are likely to have limited coursework in software engineering. And there is no consensus of opinion on the areas in which a student should be trained in software engineering. "To be a successful and responsible professional in safety-critical systems, a developer must understand the intricacies of a large number of fields, including real-time systems, formal specification and dependability assessment, among others," said Knight. Click Here to View Full Article
European research into quantum information processing and communication (QIPC) supported by IST's Future Emerging Technologies branch was detailed last month at the fifth QIPC workshop. QIPC combines quantum physics and computer science to effect the storage, processing, and transmission of information in accordance with the laws of quantum mechanics, and advanced simulations, massive parallel processing computing power, and invulnerable code encryption systems are among QIPC's potential applications. Among the projects highlighted at the workshop was the SQUBIT-2 initiative, whose goal is to probe the applications of quantum bits (qubits) made from superconducting electrical circuits known as Josephson Junctions. SQUBIT-2 coordinator and Chalmers University of Technology professor Goeran Wendin commented that "Reaching 1,000 state cycles within the superconducting qubits lifetime, or decoherence time, was a challenging goal but we have achieved it now." Qubits, unlike conventional computing bits, can represent 1 and 0 simultaneously, and manipulating series of qubits via quantum entanglement is the mechanism of quantum calculations. Quantum computers can solve parallel processing tasks much faster and with less memory consumption than conventional computers, and though current quantum computing experiments can manage just a few qubits, it is expected that future quantum systems will comprise numerous qubits, thus facilitating advanced quantum modeling. IST European Commission officials Ralph Dum and Antonella Karlson discussed with workshop participants QIPC's prospects in the upcoming Seventh Framework Program for research, with emphasis on providing a strategic report by December and a QIPC roadmap by next May that will record the current standpoint on QIPC R&D and suggest subsequent funding precedence. Click Here to View Full Article
Japan's NEC expects to recapture the crown for the world's fastest supercomputer by assembling 512 SX-8 nodes--each capable of performing 128 gigaflops--into a 65-teraflop machine that should outpace its nearest competitor, IBM's 36-teraflop Blue Gene, by 80 percent. The SX-8 nodes, which were announced on Oct. 19, are speedier, more power-efficient, and smaller than the building blocks used in the Earth Simulator, NEC's former reigning supercomputing champion. The SX-8 units build on a technology already widely employed by climatologists and biologists for simulation, while Blue Gene is a "massively parallel" system based on experimental technology. David Bailey of the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab's (LBL) National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center cautions that NEC may be jumping the gun with the SX-8 announcement, since the technology's projected supercomputing power has yet to be truly demonstrated. "Each time you double the size of the system, you expose another layer of hardware and software bugs," he notes. Blue Gene, which is built from cheap, low-power, off-the-shelf chips rather than expensive, custom-made hardware, is envisioned by many as the template for future supercomputers. California computer scientist Eric Strohmeier says that vector systems such as SX-8 and massively parallel systems like Blue Gene could complement each other, since the former architecture is good at handling code comprised of "regular" calculations, while the latter could be more suited for "irregular" calculations. Click Here to View Full Article
A recent panel discussion between advocacy groups and recording, movie, and technology industry representatives showed that consensus on possible copyright-infringing technology is still as far apart as ever; however, Recording Industry Association of America legislative counsel Mitch Glazier expected at least one industry-approved peer-to-peer (P2P) music service would emerge in the next few months, though he conceded the market outlook for such a service was unclear. Content owners faced off against technology vendors over the last several months over the Inducing Infringement of Copyrights Act proposal, which was aimed at P2P services Grokster and Morpheus but contained ambiguous language that could have made other technology a target. Cato Institute telecommunications studies director Adam Thierer said compromise seemed impossible, and that such a situation could lead to compulsory licenses for content distributed online. NetCoalition general counsel Markham Erickson said assurances from the entertainment industry that the so-called Induce Act would only be targeted at illegal P2P activity was not supported by the language of the legislation: He pointed out that even basic Internet technology such as Web browsers allow people to copy files. "The entire Internet is one big copying machine," he said. After Induce Act talks fell through, content owners asked the Supreme Court to consider overturning a string of legal defeats in which district and federal courts ruled P2P services such as Grokster could not be held liable for the illegal acts of their users. If the Supreme Court hears and rules in content owners' favor, pressure for legislation will evaporate, but the technology industry would then likely seek counter-legislation protecting fair-use rights, according to Thierer. Click Here to View Full Article
Technology writer Eric S. Brown has reason to think that videoconferencing technology could at last migrate from the enterprise market to the consumer market thanks to a number of trends, such as a decline in equipment costs, quality enhancements, and tighter travel budgets. These developments are cited in a June 2004 study from Wainhouse Research that also anticipates a surge in videoconferencing sales revenues from $530 million in 2003 to $1.1 billion in 2008. Although the videoconferencing industry realized early on that an IP-based system would ease scheduling and improve integration with conferencing software, the Web, and other applications, Brown writes that it is only recently that better hardware and software have improved IP systems' reliability and tolerance to latency and other bugs. Other trends of potential benefit to videoconferencing include increased travel time and higher gasoline and air travel prices; upgrades in computer speed; steady improvements in broadband speeds; and the maturation of standards such as H.323 and Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), which can interoperate via the H.350 directory services standard. Brown expects most major voice over IP (VoIP) vendors to also offer video over IP next year, while instant messaging is emerging as another videoconferencing platform through its provision of a massive, ready-made directory of real-time users. Videoconferencing could finally achieve spontaneity with IM, in conjunction with the H.350 standard. Brown also identifies the growing sophistication and proliferation of Web conferencing software, which can bundle together voice, video, and data conferencing in a single session, as another trend in videoconferencing's favor. Click Here to View Full Article
Researchers hope to design biological computers as well as understand the genesis of neural disorders and outline noninvasive treatments by studying a network of 25,000 living rat neurons cultured in a dish by University of Florida professor Thomas DeMarse. The neural network is connected to a desktop computer via a grid of electrodes arranged on the bottom of the dish so that the living "brain" can interact with an F-22 fighter jet flight simulator. The neurons are fed information about flight conditions from the computer. The cortical cells analyze the data and respond by transmitting signals to the aircraft's control system, causing adjustments in the plane's flight path that are likewise relayed to the neurons in a feedback loop. The neural network can control the pitch and roll of the simulated plane in variable weather conditions, but DeMarse explains that the purpose of the experiment is to understand the basic mechanisms of neuron interaction. The National Science Foundation has awarded DeMarse a $500,000 grant to devise a mathematical model of neural computation. "If we can extract the rules of how these neural networks are doing computations like pattern recognition, we can apply that to create novel computing systems," the UF professor remarks. Steven Potter of the Georgia Tech/Emory Department of Biomedical Engineering says neural networks are being studied so that researchers can better comprehend the changes taking place in mammalian brains during the learning process. Click Here to View Full Article
The technology for delivering music wirelessly has changed significantly in the 25 years since the debut of the trend-setting Sony Walkman, but the listening experience has not. "We have all of this network infrastructure to deliver music, but the music we share and the way we listen to it hasn't changed to reflect the social and information dynamics that the infrastructure provides," notes Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris' developer of future music systems Atau Tanaka. Efforts to enhance the mobile music listening experience include Tanaka's prototype Malleable Mobile Music system, which is designed to engage users in a social activity. The system is comprised of sensor-equipped PDAs that concurrently play the same wirelessly streamed music, while each listener chooses a specific element in the music to represent him or her. Each device augments the selected musical component in response to sensor input derived from the listener's movement or grip, and increases the element's prominence as listening partners move closer to one another. Meanwhile, researchers led by Mattias Ostergren at Stockholm's Interactive Institute are developing Sound Pryer, a wireless peer-to-peer system that allows people dispersed throughout different automobiles to listen to music together by having each driver send their digital music stream to other cars within Wi-Fi transmission range. Converging vehicles form ad hoc wireless networks and increase the number of available "stations," and tuning in to a specific car causes the driver's PDA to display an icon representing the shape and color of the car. Tanaka remarks that music has historically existed within multiple contexts, and new technologies "can add some of those elements back in to the listening experience." Click Here to View Full Article
The OASIS standards organization has partitioned the Data Center Markup Language (DCML) group into a quartet of technical committees to cultivate utility computing standards. The DCML outlines frameworks for how servers, networks, applications, and services can capture siloed data using an automated, on-demand methodology. Customer demand to trim costs and streamline infrastructure is making improved data center performance highly desirable for next-generation computing schemas. The OASIS DCML Framework Technical Committee will focus on the improvement of the current DCML specification; the Applications and Services Technical Committee will develop a homogeneous data model and interchange format to enable the reference and management of Web services and other application elements; the Network Technical Committee will create a data model and XML-based format for sharing data about networking components in the data center; and the Server Technical Committee will effect information interchange between tools and devices, and boost data center automation. Representatives of BEA Systems, Computer Associates, BMC Software, Inkra Networks, Tibco, Electronic Data Systems, and Opsware are participating in the OASIS DCML technical committees, which will convene for the first time on Nov. 15. Analysts thought that separate utility and on-demand computing initiatives from IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, and others could endanger the DCML group's objective, but OASIS' decision to host and develop the standard has assuaged such concerns. Nevertheless, IBM and Veritas co-launched the Utility Computing Working Group under the auspices of the Distributed Management Task Force in February. Click Here to View Full Article
The Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency's annual Census for Women in Leadership study finds that female executives have made significant gains in Australia's software and services industries, but are still least represented in its hardware sector. The Australian Information Industry Association reports that female participation in the ICT arena has increased from 25 percent to 50 percent, yet current representation is still too low. Citrix marketing director Glynis Marks notes that within the software industry, women have a stronger presence in marketing than in sales and technical departments. "I guess if you look about companies that sustain women in their organization and promote them it really comes down to the culture of that company and their approach to issues like [pregnancy]," explains Microsoft's Tracey Fellows, who was hired as a manager when she was pregnant. Still, she reasons that "software has really come along in the past 10 years, and software also relies on more types of vertical knowledge, so women that have different professional backgrounds, other than technical, can bring this sort of knowledge to the industry." Gartner research director Greta James attributes the disproportionate numbers of female execs in hardware and software to the age of the respective sectors: Whereas software is a relatively new industry, hardware has been around much longer. She notes, however, that groups such as Females in Information Technology & Telecommunications are helping to fill the void by cultivating skilled IT women and providing positive female role models. Meanwhile, IBM and the New South Wales Department of Education and Testing will soon kick off the Exploring Interests in Technology and Engineering camp, which provides instruction in emerging technologies to girls between the ages of 13 and 15. Click Here to View Full Article
MIT engineers are working on smart fabrics that can imbue objects with the ability to provide information or sense the environment. Each fabric "patch" features a module equipped with a microprocessor and memory, along with either a sensor, a radio transceiver, batteries, a microphone, or a display. These patches can be joined together via modified Velcro that can enable both physical and electrical links; a wire connection between the circuit board and silver-coated contacts in the Velcro allows data and electricity to flow between modules, and the circuit board is water-proofed by a resin coating. Unlike other kinds of apparel-enhancing technology, the patch modules can be re-tasked for different functions. "These smart patches open up the idea of having computer interfaces that you can rapidly customize to suit your life," notes Georgia Institute of Technology pervasive computing researcher Thad Starner. MIT Media Lab developers Adrian Cable and Gauri Nanda have built a module with a radio antenna and receiver that scans for signals from radio frequency identification tags on objects, and fitted it onto a handbag. When a sensor module in the bag's handle detects that the bag has been picked up, the reader runs down the list of objects the computer module has been programmed to look for; failure to confirm the presence of a required item triggers a warning from a voice synthesizer module in another patch. Cable and Nanda plan to upgrade the system's intelligence with the addition of a Bluetooth chip to support an Internet connection and data downloading through a nearby computer. Click Here to View Full Article
Columbia University computer science professor Shree Nayar has developed a computerized technique to extract data about a person's surroundings, using images reflected on the surface of the human eye. The corneal imaging system's potential applications include surveillance, journalism, filmmaking, and human machine interfaces. The technique is based on the understanding that both the cornea of the eye and the camera capturing the appearance of the eye can act as a combination mirror and lens imaging system, allowing a wide-angle view of the surrounding environment to be imaged with maximum resolution focused in the direction of the person's gaze. Nayar's partner on the project, Ko Nishino, says the system can reveal more of the surrounding environment than the person in the image or photo can perceive because the system boasts a wider field of view. Professor John Pavlik of New Jersey State University notes that eyewitness accounts of events could be verified or corrected with Nayar's method. Nayar says the corneal image could be used to ascertain the location of a sought-after individual, and the technique's ability to reconstruct the lighting conditions around that individual could be used by filmmakers, for instance by replacing one actor's face with another's while keeping illumination consistent. Nishino explains that this ability could also find application in computer graphics. Nayar believes the system could expand quadriplegics' ability to interact with many devices through eye movements, while Nishino thinks the method offers a simple way to program robots for complicated tasks: "For example, knowing what part of an object people look at while accomplishing an assembly task can be useful info for designing assembly work flows," he says. Click Here to View Full Article
ICANN requires all registrars of generic top-level domain names to provide a publicly accessible online list of domain name owners' names and postal addresses through the Whois database, but many domain name owners provide inaccurate or incomplete information due to privacy concerns or fraudulent intentions, writes attorney Keith Barritt, chairman of INTA's Whois Subcommittee. In August, ICANN announced two new policies designed to bolster the utility of Whois, both effective on Nov. 12. The Restored Names Accuracy Policy requires that domain names deleted due to the submission of false contact information or a lack of response and subsequently restored during the 30-day grace period be placed on hold until updated and accurate data is provided. The Whois Marketing Restriction Policy requires bulk access agreements that prohibit the use of Whois data for marketing purposes or its redistribution except under specifically mentioned circumstances. Three Whois task forces were organized by ICANN to study the following issues: how to limit access to the database for marketing and data mining purposes; an examination of the type of data collected by registrars and how the data is shown to the public; and ways of improving the accuracy of data. Preliminary reports from the task forces were issued in May 2004, but final reports are not yet out. Meanwhile, the U.S. House has already passed a measure currently pending Senate approval--the Fraudulent Online Identity Sanctions Act--that would create a presumption of an online violation of the Trademark Act if a violator willfully provides false contact data when registering a domain. Meanwhile, Barritt says INTA is working with EURid to bolster Whois protection in Europe within the framework of the European Data Protection Directive. Barritt also notes that the Canadian Internet Registry Association is also reviewing its Whois policies. Click Here to View Full Article For more information on Whois and ICANN, see http://www.acm.org/usacm.
The rapid pace of technology change has enabled women to reach top positions in the industry. Over the past 20 years, many women have benefited from what they know, rather than who they know. "I was always given a choice of projects to work on and given opportunities to get into leadership at a young age," Tama Olver, CIO of biotech firm Applera, explains of her start as a computer programmer at Control Data in the late1960s. Of the companies listed in the Standard & Poor's 500 stock index, eight are headed by women, and three are tech firms. Although Carly Fiorina at Hewlett-Packard, Anne Mulcahy at Xerox, and Patricia Russo at Lucent Technologies are success stories, the high-tech industry still has more work to do. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, men filled 69 percent of computer and information-systems manager jobs last year. Ilene Lang, founding CEO of AltaVista and currently CEO of Catalyst, which advocates for women in the industry, says women continue to struggle because companies do not objectively identify and develop their talent, adding that they also lack role models and access to informal networks. Lang says large companies tend to provide better support for women. Click Here to View Full Article
Fifteen innovators are recognized by CRN Magazine for identifying complex technical problems and solving them in ways that became widely accepted, thus giving birth to new technological trends. Marcus Ranum is honored for inventing the first proxy firewall and deploying the first commercial firewall, while Barry Appleman's pioneering work with presence awareness at IBM was key to the ubiquity that instant messaging enjoys today. Dennis Moore of SAP developed XApps, a prototype system for developing composite applications that today are used to justify service-oriented architectures; Red Hat VP Michael Tiemann's GNU C++ compiler has become the cornerstone of many widely adopted open-source technologies; and JBoss Chairman Mark Fleury has inverted the J2EE server market with his open-source Java application server. IBM's Alan Ganek is recognized for his work with self-managing and self-healing computers modeled after the human body's autonomic nervous system, Stanford professor Mendel Rosenblum has earned accolades with his breakthrough server virtualization technology, and Oracle VP Andrew Mendelsohn's Oracle Database 10g software suite is widely acknowledged as a milestone of grid computing enablement. Other honorees include Vic Hayes, who supervised the development of the 802.11 specification as chairman of the IEEE's WLAN working group; Research In Motion President Mike Lazaridis, whose company developed the BlackBerry wireless messaging system; and Anand Chandrasekher of Intel, who helped make wireless connectivity pervasive with the Centrino wireless platform. Amedeo CEO T. Peter Brody's radical use of thin-film transistors to control pixels in liquid crystal displays has had a profound impact on today's flat-panel display technologies, and Advanced Micro Devices' Dirk Meyer oversaw the development of the Opteron processor, which made waves by supporting both 32- and 64-bit applications. Click Here to View Full Article
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Enterprise search platforms (ESPs) comb through multiple repositories of structured and unstructured data to refine search results using a combination of natural language processing (NLP), entity extraction, autocategorization, and other technologies. ESPs can enable businesses to build customized search applications while automating the preparation of documents for archival and tabulation; the platforms also offer a common set of data and search logic that can be adjusted for individual applications to enhance the search results' relevance. Delphi Group's Hadley Reynolds notes that basic federated search cannot prevent the retrieval of irrelevant results from multiple search engines rather than just one, but ESPs can circumvent this difficulty by effecting syntax translation, spell-check, phrase detection, and other linguistic controls on the query before scouring the data repositories. The ESP returns lists of enhanced query selections based on the context of the original query to the user. Reynolds reports that ESPs are ushering in a new search-indexing process for unstructured data with technologies that enable dynamic categorizations or targeted text analytics within the document parsing, query evaluation, and relevant data retrieval processes. Meanwhile, entity extraction uses grammatical analysis to allow a search engine to dynamically extract terms from indexed content off the cuff, and NLP can make weak queries stronger. FAST VP Andrew McKay says the manual definition of document properties is losing ground to intelligent search platforms' "custom logic"-based autotagging ability, while ESPs' automatic generation of metadata elements allows patterns in the content to be uncovered, thus increasing the content's value inside the platform framework. ESPs "must be tied into the collaborative tools of the organization" if they are to work successfully, explains Susan Feldman of IDC. Click Here to View Full Article
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Read MoreWell with Easter just round the corner I'm willing to bet the egg trade will step up a notch, as hundreds of screaming children roll their hand-painted dairy produce down the hills of Princes Street gardens. Of course, I'm hoping everyone will have the sense to stick to the grass and not the footpaths so there's no nasty accidents like the one I had last year, when an experiment involving a box of free range and Lasswade Brae went horribly wrong.
Anyway, I decided last week to venture into Edinburgh to witness something slightly more traditional than another 'Ernest Saves' movie, and I ended up in the front row of 'Jesus Christ:Superstar' which is currently showing at the King's Theatre until the end of March.
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It is a sprawling luxury goods empire that straddles some of the world's best-known designer brands, including Christian Dior, Louis Vuitton and Bulgari jewellery.
But could Bernard Arnault, France's richest man, known because of his smart deal-making as "the wolf in cashmere", be about to radically restructure LVMH? Specifically, some analysts believe the twice-married father of five may be on the verge of turning his company teetotal.
That would involve the long-mooted sale of his drinks business, Möet Hennessy, to concentrate on the better returns he can derive from high-end fashion.
Rumours have been circulating for years that LVMH will eventually sell its 66 per cent stake in the champagne and cognac outfit. The scenario goes that the British drinks giant Diageo, owner of Smirnoff vodka and Tanqueray gin and the other shareholder in Möet Hennessy, will buy out LVMH.
Now a number of City and Paris sources think a deal is looking more likely, following recent complex moves in Mr Arnault's web of holding companies. Industry experts think the next step could happen as soon as next month.
Mr Arnault, 63, the majority owner of LVMH, recently opted for Belgian nationality. Explanations for the decision centred on personal tax and estate planning.
At the same time, a series of company reorganisations including the creation of a Luxembourg holding company called Grandville, which now owns Dior Couture, and the changing of year-ends at some of his other companies have led experts to think a new plan is afoot.
According to Artannes Capital, a financial research firm favoured by the hedge fund community, the creation of Grandville is part of a reshuffling of Mr Arnault's holdings that span three countries. In essence, Artannes argues that Mr Arnault could be planning eventually to spin off Möet Hennessy and sell it to Diageo to minimise any tax leakage, potentially through rolling over any capital gains tax.
Mr Arnault is renowned for his steely determination and stealthy tactics – he recently built up a 22.3 per cent stake in the luxury goods house Hermès under the noses of the founding families.
He had less success during the dotcom era when his Europ@web venture fund backed more than 50 internet start-ups, including one of the most spectacular collapses, the fashion website Boo.com.
Next steps for LVMH, sources claim, could see Mr Arnault's family holdings (companies including Groupe Arnault, Semyrhamis and Financière Agache) upping their stake in the Paris-listed Christian Dior from the current 70 per cent.
That could pave the way for an eventual sale of Möet Hennessy, following further company restructurings. One source predicts that a bid from Mr Arnault for the remaining stake in Christian Dior would come in at more than €150 (£121) a share.
Any signs of a potential sale of the coveted cognac brands that are the toast of the Far East would whet the appetite of other acquisitive drinks businesses, including French giant Pernod Ricard. But with Diageo – which does not comment on market speculation – owning 34 per cent, an auction involving other companies is unlikely. The British drinks giant, which has done deals in India and Turkey this year to chase emerging-market tipplers, would have to tap investors for funds.
An LVMH spokesperson said of a possible sale and increase in its stake in Dior: "These are both themes that crop up every few years. They are without foundation."
In the summer, analysts at Berenberg investment house valued LVMH's 66 per cent stake at €15bn (£12bn), or up to €18.2bn if the holding was sold outright. It's a hefty sum of money for LVMH to reinvest in more luxury brands.
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Bernard Arnault created the world's biggest luxury goods empire out of a string of mergers and acquisitions that earned him the nickname of "the wolf in cashmere". The Frenchman employs his son and daughter in the business whose brands include Thomas Pink shirts, Bulgari jewellery, Hennessy cognac and Kenzo fashions.
Mr Arnault is well connected in French society and acted as a witness at the former president Nicolas Sarkozy's wedding to his second wife Cécilia.
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This Aussie Café Launches The ULTIMATE Big Breakfast!
An Australian café has done something we would only ever dream of – A three-tiered breakfast platter!
This MONSTER breakfast will be the perfect hangover cure that will hit the stop with everything from Hash browns, bacon, eggs, avocado and even goats cheese and crispy pancetta!
If that's not enough, the top tier is complete with waffles, pancakes and even French toast.
The monster brekkie is a creation by Sydney Café Platform Eighty Two and owner Anthony Piazza has said how he came to create such an item on his menu.
Mr Piazza told Daily Mail "I just wanted to touch on something that hits all the spots because there's nothing worse than when you go for brekky, and you don't know what to have, but now you can have everything all in one."
"It's made for sharing, so I've only had groups of people tackling it," Anthony said.
Although there are other variations to this platter, like the two tiered version that caters for couples – The three-tiered brekkie is made for groups of 3-6 people and starts from around $30 per person depending on what you order on the platter.


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Blue lights flashing, they got traffic stopped
And highway 11's done turned into a permanent road block
I wasn't driving, my wife was my d.d.
And she hadn't drank a drop, still got hassled by the j.p.d.
And i said hey dude can't you just leave her alone
She ain't done nothin' wrong man and we just want to go home
And i was mad as hell, thinking fuck the po-po
And they wonder why folks don't trust 'em no more
And i'm not gonna let this go, so i'm singing fuck the po-po
So i got arrested, just for speaking up
And that cop said boy the only right you have is to shut the fuck up
Now i'm a jail-bird, i've done time in the pen
And i've got a real messed up story to tell all my friends
And my name was in the newspaper in my home town
They ruined my reputation because i didn't bow down
Hell no
And now i'm mad as hell singing fuck the po-po
And they wonder why folks don't trust 'em no more
And i'm not gonna let this go so i'm singing fuck the po-po
Two fingers in the air for the j.p.d.
The long-arm of the law coming down on me
Now i understand why all these rappers are mad
They must have been treated as badly as i have
Now i'm screaming thug life, fuck the po-po
Shootin' birds out the window whenever the cops go by
They're puttin road blocks in front of my house
Man i'm starting to feel like i live under the taliban
Can't drive home without a gun in my face
Thursday through sunday, they're invading my space
Tellin' me its for my sake, they're keepin' the streets safe
By gettin' all the drunks off of the highway
But i say man, that's a big fuckin' lie
It's all about the money from the d.u.i.'s
Otherwise they'd be parked out in front of this bar
Giving free breathalysers before we get in our cars
Instead they just hide about 3 miles away
And sit and wait for one of us to make a mistake
Drink a little too much and you'll be cuffed and stuffed
And probably roughed up if you complain enough
You'll be carted off to jail, in the land of the free
Another victim of the over-zealous j.p.d.
Now don't get me wrong, i don't mean disrespect
Theres a lot of good cops, who serve and protect
And they boldly put their lives on the line
To protect our rights and give us peace of mind
But for every cop who thinks his badge is a crown
This song is for you, and i'll never bow down ...
And i'm mad as hell singing fuck the po-po
And i'm not gonna let this go so i'm singing fuck the po-po y'all
Fuck the po-po
Fuck the po-po
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A better place
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Ain't going out tonight
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As angels cry
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Be the change
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Can't judge a book by it's cover
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Paroles de Cherokee rose
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Could have been friends
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Paroles de Dirtier by the year
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Down to earth
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Drinkin' again
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Every dawg
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Paroles de Every dawg has its days
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Help Sandford and Deimos ride out to save Hank in this following-cam third person chase shooter! Survive all 10 waves if you've got the stomach for it, but be warned...this game will never end. All you can do is survive the Madness for as long as you can grip that wheel for dear life.
Mouse for everything.
* Yellow Superagents have reduced health.
* Decreased hit box on road obstacles and barrels.
* Medals are up and running. I'll make a special medal for the first five people to collect all of them and notify me, like a sort of reward badge that only you can unlock and NO ONE ELSE. That's just the kinda guy I am.
*We wanted to get it in at exactly 12:00 midnight, but managed 12:02 instead. We hated keeping you guys waiting for all that time JEEZ WE'RE SORRY ALREADY. Happy Madness Day guys!*
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Think Piece: Playwright Kate Fodor examines the relationship of two intellectuals in 'Hannah and Martin.'
Love and War
'Hannah and Martin' at SJ Rep wrestles with the limits of forgiveness in the face of historical horror
By Marianne Messina
GREAT THINKERS go to abstract places to make sense of the worldlike what is the nature of being? or of totalitarianism?only to be flummoxed in life by simple things like friendship and betrayal. Two of the 20th-century's great thinkers, Martin Heidegger and Hannah Arendt, started a friendship (as well as a short romantic involvement) when she was his university student in Marburg Germany, and they kept up a lively and warm communication until 1933.
In that year, Arendt, who was Jewish, left Germany to circumvent rising anti-Semitism (eventually spending time in a French internment camp before escaping to America). In the same year, Heidegger joined the Nazi party, and the relationship between the two went silent for 17 years.
Though Heidegger never publicly apologized for his involvement with the Nazi party, he and Arendt reconnected in 1950. Arendt spoke publicly several times on Heidegger's behalf.
From philosophers to feminists, people have been considering this puzzling dynamic for more than 50 years. How could Arendt forgive, or worse, excuse? In the late-'90s when writer Kate Fodor heard about the pair from a friend, she had been writing short stories wrestling with "this question of whether forgiveness is a virtue, whether it's sort of a form of godliness or whether it can be almost a weakness and a form of complicityand which situation is which."
The Heidegger/Arendt relationship fit perfectly, and Hannah and Martin was born. Fodor came to realize that the play form was also ideal because it forced her to really inhabit all sides of the question. "I realized as I was writing the play that I was engaging in this very Arendtian exercise," Fodor says, referring to her understanding of Arendt's idea of representational thinking. "When you've got a really knotty problem," Fodor explains, "wear the shoes or sort of represent the person on all the different sides of it to work through it."
Though Fodor poured over the history and epistolary documentation, it all took a back seat to grappling with the questions in an exhaustive way. "You come outmaybe you haven't answered the questions, but you haven't ducked the questions."
It fell to Timothy Near, who is directing Hannah and Martin, to lay the questions bare while creating a couple both sympathetic and believable. What in Heidegger's character could make him forgivable? "I feel that his mind was somewhere way out above the worldly political movements and theories," she says.
Near envisions a Heidegger with blind spots of naiveté. Another important issue is the power dynamic of the relationshipa former student and teacher, former lovers, two great thinkers, where one publicly defers to the other. Near sees two people, each with his or her own sphere of influence, a man who excels in theoretical philosophy, a woman who comprehends the world of action.
Ultimately, Fodor's Arendt didn't come from historical debate about the power dynamic in their relationship. "When I actually started writing, the really driving thing for me was Hannah Arendt's voice," Fodor explains. "She was such a charismatic person and had a really sort of subtle but biting wit." The wit is evidenced in many of Arendt's extant letters. "Once I got that voice in my head, I think thatmore than the plot or the structure or any of the other charactersis really what drove me. I started to hear her talking away in my head all the time."
How does the play resolve Arendt's heart on the matter of Heidegger's Nazi period? "You know she wrote one letter that said he shouldn't be allowed to teach or be translated into English," says Near, "and then she changed her mind; she wrote a second letter. And that's the premise of the whole play. You're going to have to see the play and make your own conclusions."
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Recovery from Codependency Traits
I am suggesting a full blown codependency personality separates by 12 degrees maximum from their true inner self or others. With each degree of recovery from codependency you become one degree closer to a healthy connection with your inner self and others.
Part 2 continues where Part 1 left off.
To sum up a codependency personality:
· Puts others needs before their own.
· They deny their own feelings and needs.
· Their self-esteem depends on how well they take care of others.
The 12 core codependency traits come from the work of John Bradshaw: The Family.
How many degrees of separation do you find yourself in codependent relationships?
See another 4 core codependency traits.
5. Do you tolerate increasing intolerable behavior?
· Are you growing more addicted to something or someone?
· Do you continue staying in an abusive relationship?
· Are you becoming physically or emotionally sick because of an unhealthy relationship?
Tip for Codependency Recovery: Begin setting personal boundaries by saying No. Talk to friends. You may at some point have to gain enough courage to leave a relationship, if it doesn't improve.
6. Do you practice emotional repression?
· Do you often feel numb or unaware of what you feel?
· Do you seldom express your feelings?
· Do you sometimes have outbursts of rage, experience fear a lot or panic attacks?
· Do you fear anger?
Tip for Codependency Recovery: Start to become aware of and begin expressing your feelings, if only in a journal or to friends.
7. Do you tend to live in your head?
· Do you want to figure everything out?
· Do you think about your problems rather than taking action?
· Do you worry a lot?
· Do you obsess over details?
Tip for Codependency Recovery: Begin to trust yourself. Become aware of what you feel in your body – our body never lies. Begin to trust your first impressions, your heart, and your intuition.
Do you use your personal will to make something happen?
Do you find yourself wanting to control others or events?
Do experience difficulty making decisions?
Tip for Codependency Recovery: Practice, slowly at first, totally surrendering to the reality of what a situation is or to the way a person is. At some point you may realize you can only change yourself. We can only do our best and learn from our mistakes to do better next time.
Do you identify with any of the above codependency traits? Practice at least one tip daily.
Read Part 1 http://www.emotionalhealthtips.com/recovery-codependency-traits-1
Read Part 3 http://www.emotionalhealthtips.com/recovery-codependency-traits-3 how to recognize and begin recovery for the last 4 core codependency traits.
Michael David Lawrience is the author of The Secret from Drama, Trauma and Pain http://ow.ly/TRbQR His book provides ways for improving emotional health, easing pain and stress, healing physical and emotional abuse, and spiritual awakening.
Michael as a Residential and Self-Esteem Coach and Mentor has over 13 years' experience teaching teen's self-awareness, self-esteem, and self-reliance. See eBook Self-Esteem: A Teen's Guide for Girls http://www.amazon.com/Self-Esteem-Teens-Guide-Girls-ebook/dp/B009L4JLMO
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There is a fine line between a great minor league player and decent NHL player.
Case in point: Steve Maltais.
During the late 1990s, NHL scoring fell dramatically, reaching the lowest average production since the early 1950s. Teams were desperate to find goal scorers, yet Steve Maltais never got a sniff.
Maltais was a goal scoring machine with the IHL's Chicago Wolves. The big left winger lit up the International Hockey League with 219 goals in four seasons with the Wolves, an average of 55 goals a year!
Think anyone could use a guy who averages 55 goals a year in the minors? "You'd like to think so," said the Arvida, Quebec native. "You put up numbers like that, you'd think you could chip in with 15 or 20 at this level (the NHL)."
Maltais wasn't a stranger to the NHL. The Washington Capitals drafted him in the second round back in 1987 after he scored 114 goals in 124 junior games. Since then, he has played 94 games in the NHL, 610 in the minors. His longest NHL stint was 63 games with Tampa Bay in the 1992-93 season. He had seven goals and 13 assists. He's been traded three times.
Despite Maltais' prodigious minor-league numbers, Maltais could never find a NHL home. He had the size, a bit of grit, maybe his skating and defensive play were below NHL standards but he knew how to find the back of the net.
Maltais thinks he is the victim of bad rap. "Once you put up numbers in the minors, I think you maybe get labeled as a one-way player," Maltais said. "I don't think that's fair. There's so much pressure having to score, night in, night out."
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A lonesome college student named Jiro (Keisuke Koide) is spending his 20th birthday alone when suddenly a beautiful cyborg girl (Haruka Ayase - Ichi/ Oppai Volleyball) turns up. The few hours that he spends with her are the most incredible moments of his life and Jiro is overwhelmed by his good.....
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We're back for a bit! Figure of the Day returns - but not every day - to show you TK-421, a new Stormtrooper that you might find at your local Kmart if they haven't already closed up. Would you believe Hasbro made it interesting? Well, they did. Check it out - read on!
So it's come to this! Let's wrap things up by looking at BoShek, which may well have been one of the first figures more or less born out of a gag on the internet. Mutton chops and angry column writers came together over 10 years ago to bring you this, one of the last figures in what was basically Kenner's house style of the 1990s. The construction is pretty good, but while a lot of people really did want Wuher, well, yeah. Sometimes you get what you ask for.
It's Willrow Hood, or the Ice Cream Maker Guy. Thanks to years of fan petitions serious and sarcastic, this extra from The Empire Strikes Back received his day in plastic courtesy of the awareness fans can generate when they work as a large, vocal group. Do you want to know more about this one?
Today, let's look at last year's Yellow R7-Series Astromech Droid. It's actually pretty swell! I like the nacho orangeness of it. The bad news is that it's yet another figure that will be (potentially) prohibitively difficult for you to find. Is it worth the effort?
This Yoda is in stores right now, and comes with a pretty swell little Jedi Attack Fighter vehicle. It's a bizarre figure with strange eyes and a fairly nice sculpt. The whole gift set is actually quite nice, so I'd say go ahead and buy it.
Hey kids, it's the 2006 Republic Commando Boss figure! This was his first of (so far) three toys. As such, the articulation is the most limited but it's worth noting that the deco is pretty great. Want to know more?
As the most recent Attack of the Clones Obi-Wan Kenobi to be put back in circulation, you'll be glad to know this one is very OK. It's not a great fit for the 2013 Jedi Starfighter, but as a figure that can stand around this 2012 release isn't half bad. How does this 2003 mold ten years later?
Does this Biker Scout having different grey dirt splotches make him different? Sure, why not. It's from a really great 2007 gift set that at the time was one of the greatest bargains the line had to offer. And today? Well, it's cheaper than it was a couple of years ago.
Let's look at Rebel Pilot Tiree, a still-available exclusive from the original Star Wars movie! Sure, he has the wrong torso, but that's the rule rather than the exception lately. Should you run out to the Toys R Us to get one?
I really like this Battle Droid, in part because the blue-bedecked "pilots" are far and few between. We got one about 13 years ago with another swell mini-rig-ish vehicle, and then... uh... I think this might be it, actually. It's based on the 2012 MTT droid mold, which isn't at all bad. I'm not saying it's exceptional, but I am saying I like it enough to wish I had more.
Check out this AT-ST Gunner from the Kmart AT-ST Drivers pack last year! It's pretty good. For the price, I'd say it's quite the deal... particularly if you have one of the earlier AT-ST vehicles which doesn't collapse under its own weight like the 2012 release.
Check out Clone Trooper Slick, a Target-exclusive from the not-quite-dead series. It's basically a plain white Clone with a removable helmet.
This slight redeco of Clone Commander Wolffe is, if you ask me, better than the single-carded version. As a bonus, his armor matches his troops'! If you haven't picked him up yet, this is a good version to snag.
Check out the 2012 beflagged version of Mars Guo, a pretty good reissue of the 2006 pod racer. It's not bad. It's pretty small and at clearance prices, this is 20% of a pretty fantastic little set. Should you get it?
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FOXBORO — Tommy Kelly doesn't mince words.
The veteran defensive tackle, who was acquired as a free agent this spring by the Patriots after nine seasons with the Raiders, likes where he stands with New England coach Bill Belichick.
"He laid out what he needed from me when he brought me in," he said after his second training camp practice with the Patriots on Saturday. "With his reputation you already know: If you don't get the job done, you're gone. Me, personally, I've been waiting for this opportunity. I played nine long years in Oakland. I enjoyed it. We didn't win enough, but I still enjoyed my time out there. But it's late in my career, and I want the chance to play for a [ring], and this was the best opportunity for me."
The 32-year-old Kelly, a 6-foot-6, 325-pounder out of Mississippi State, was also swayed by the opportunity to play alongside Vince Wilfork.
"He makes it easy," Kelly said of Wilfork. "To me, he makes it real easy, you know what I'm saying? Cause he's been in the defense so long, he knows it like [Jerod] Mayo, or Bill [Belichick] or [defensive coordinator] Matty [Patricia] knows it. So it's real easy playing next to the guy like a middle linebacker. You ask him 'What's the check on that?' and he knows it like that. It makes me real comfortable for me to play my game and do what I do best."
And what is that, exactly?
"Just do my job, whatever he asks me to do," he said. "If it's playing the run or crushing the pocket. Just do my job and don't try to do no more than what he asks me to do."
To this point in camp, Kelly has appeared to spend most of his time with the starting defense, lined up alongside Wilfork at the defensive tackle spot. While there was some question as to whether or not his game had fallen off the last few seasons in Oakland, the numbers say he's been pretty durable: He hasn't missed a start over the last five seasons and had a combined 14.5 sacks in 2011 and 2010. At this point, it's likely he will provide some support on passing downs and might have an expanded role depending on what happens with some of the other defensive line prospects.
Kelly indicated that he had spoken with former Patriots defensive lineman Richard Seymour — a teammate of his in Oakland for the last four seasons — and he was able to give him some sort of idea as to how things operated in New England.
"There really aren't any surprises," he said. "I talked to big Rich, while we were out there [and] he always told me how it was run, so I already had an expectation level on how they do things here. I just fell in line. I have no problem with it.
"It's a good start," he added. "I have no problem with how they run their program. It's strictly business — you know what I'm saying? You know where you stand with them. You either get the job done or he's going to get rid of you and get somebody else in here to do it."
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Sir: May I clear up the confusion apparent in the report "Howard names 'white list' " (24 November) by Heather Mills? The short procedure we have been piloting since May simply involves giving asylum applicants an early interview and a deadline for submitting any additional representations. We aim to decide the claim normally within five weeks, compared with the current average of over eight months for a new claim.
We are expanding our capacity to handle cases in this way, and the range of nationalities included. In due course we envisage applying the short procedure to most straightforward asylum claims. In developing the procedure, we have acted openly throughout.
The short procedure does not require legislation or affect appeal rights. Designation of countries where there is, in general, no serious risk of persecution will require new powers, which we shall bring forward under the Asylum and Immigration Bill. There will, in effect, be a rebuttable presumption against claims from designated countries, although they will still be considered and asylum granted in exceptional cases. An accelerated appeal procedure will apply. Designation orders will have to be laid before Parliament. The Home Secretary will announce likely candidates for designation at an early stage during the Bill's passage.
The distinction between designation and the short procedure was clearly signalled in the Home Office letter from which Ms Mills selectively quoted. The short procedure will not be limited to designated countries.
It is vital that we take action to stem the growing number of undeserving asylum seekers coming to this country, who are currently costing the taxpayer over pounds 200m per year in benefits alone. Any government that dodged this issue would surely not be worth its salt.
Yours faithfully,
Ann Widdecombe
Minister of State
Home Office
London, SW1
27 November
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Have you tried to get a shiny pokemon by chaining each one, and at the end another pokemon brakes the chain and you didnt get your desired shiny pokemon? Well this has happpen to me many times, all that time wasted and also those max repels...
for me Nosepass is the most hardest shiny pokemon to get. Why? In pokemon Platinum , he has a chance of appearing of 5%!!! He can only be got shiney in the middle top of Mt. Coronet, where you can make the chaining, Ubfortunately is deeped by Fog and Its hailing, which means you cant do the chaining Easily.
Its really sucks, I want to buy an Action Replay X(
Rated 5 / 5 stars
my first shiny in platinum vas a cresselia
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lol, this is ironic, cause...
My first shiny pkmn was a nosepass :3 wanna trade?
kinda late, i now have 10 nosepass. XD
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I feel Your pain.
I'm trying to chain to get a shiny Horsea ... or was it Krabby? Anyway, it's taking me forever to succeed I'm actually still attempting it. Good luck on catching the shiny Nosepass. Also, are you going to evolve into a Probopass If you catch it?
of course i want that pokemon.
Rated 5 / 5 stars
i've felt like that before!
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Wednesday, 23 June 2010
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Sorry! I havent deserted you completely, just been mega busy - will be back to normal soon! For now, here are a few images I liked this week. For links to the sites they come from click here. Will post pics of my new vintage bike, my new veg plot (providing said veg hasn't died before I get to take pics of it!) and other things I've been up to soon.
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http://rivals.yahoo.com/lsu/football/recruiting/player-Deondre-Clark-131676 http://247sports.com/Player/Deondre-Clark-20966 Fast DE out of Oklahoma, Rivals100 player.
#1 prospect in Oklahoma, not often we do that. You can't say that this coaching staff doesn't bring in talent. Glad to have him on board.
Wasn't someone just recently saying it was odd les didn't have more recruits from OK. This is a big one.
The Oklahoman (August 2012): Three question for Class 4A: Can anyone block Douglass' D.J. Ward and Deondre Clark? Douglass has a fearsome duo at defensive end...Do any 4A offensive lines have the talent to block Douglass DEs D.J. Ward and Deondre Clark? There are a few teams that will have a tackle talented enough to block one of them, but it will be hard to find a 4A line strong enough to contain them coming off either edge. ... (they are) arguably the best defensive line tandem in the state in years. (2013 update: Ward wasn't on Clark's team much, he transferred to Clark's team from out-of-town after his junior year, then ended up being ruled ineligible to play his senior year by the state high schools association, then graduated early so he could enroll at Oklahoma, but the two of them formed a relationship as the article indicates...) When Douglass junior Deondre Clark heard that the state's No. 1 recruit, D.J. Ward, was moving in from Lawton (87 miles SW of Oklahoma City), he didn't know what to expect. Ward, a defensive end just like Clark, was a year older and a year farther along in the recruiting process of an elite prospect. "I never would have thought we'd have another player come in that's such a high-level talent," Clark said. "But then he's very humble. You would never think that he's the type of player he is." When Ward arrived, he saw something very familiar in Clark. "It was weird at first. It was like seeing a mirror image," Ward said. "He's laid back just like I am. He plays just like me. It was like looking at yourself." ... They both stand 6-foot-3. Ward weighs 245 pounds, and Clark is only about 10 pounds lighter. Coach Willis Alexander, who has examined them closely this preseason, sees only slight differences in their playing styles. Ward is slightly more explosive off the line, while Clark has a little more power. But the differences are hardly visible. And the two have become good friends already, especially during practices, where they help each other and push each other to get better. "We're always side-by-side, and if there's something I don't know, he helps me out to keep me up to speed," Ward said. "And with general D-end stuff, I try to help him, tell him tips I've learned here and there, tell him what to look for." note that 247 lists Oklahoma's Bobby Jack Wright as the recruiter for both of them (he's been the DL coach at Oklahoma since 1999). this is how they compare(d) as recruits: D.J. Ward, current freshman DE at Oklahoma --#106 on Scout150 (#11 DE), 4-star --#137 on ESPN150 (#12 DE), 4-star --#154 on Rivals200 (#6 WDE), 4-star --#191 on Top247 (#13 SDE), 4-star --offers: Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas A&M, Auburn, Tennessee, Kansas State, Texas Tech, Oregon State, Arizona Deondre Clark, current senior in Oklahoma City --#54 on Rivals100 (#6 SDE), 4-star --#111 on Scout150 (#15 DE), 4-star --#171 on Top246 (#11 SDE), 4-star --not on the ESPN150 (#29 DE), 4-star --offers: Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, LSU, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Notre Dame, Southern Cal, Texas, Texas A&M, Tennessee, Ole Miss, Miss State, Missouri, Clemson, Arizona, Washington State, Baylor, Texas Tech, Vandy Ward (left), Clark (right) in front of Douglass High's Moses F. Miller Stadium, which The Oklahoman ranked the #4 stadium in the OKC area as of 2011 (pointing out that Douglass was 20-3 since the stadium opened in 2007...it is 22 miles north of the Univ of Oklahoma and the Univ of Oklahoma football stadium)
Here is a good read on Clark From a DandyDon(Scott) interview of Mike Detillier. http://www.dandydon.com/Scott_asks_Mike_Detillier_about_Deondre_Clark.php


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The Nashville Predators did have questions in regard to goalie Pekka Rinne at the start of the season, but none of them involved whether or not he could play.
The 28-year-old answered those when he went 61-31-9 over the past two seasons and emerged at the top of the organizational depth chart.
Franchise officials wondered, therefore, how many games Rinne should play this season. It was an issue of balance between the need to win as many games as possible during the regular season and to make sure he still was healthy and sharp enough to help them win in the postseason.
With 18 games remaining in this season and the Predators in the thick of a furious playoff chase, the answer no seems obvious: as many as it takes.
"I think this really establishes him," General Manager David Poile said. "This is all about him being a No. 1. He's going to be one of the reasons we make the playoffs. I certainly think we're tied into him playing almost all the games."
Tuesday's 2-1 shootout loss at Edmonton was Rinne's 12th straight appearance (his longest stretch of the season) and his 28th start in the last 31 games.
With 47 appearances overall, he is poised to surpass his career-high of 58 set in 2009-10 and to join Tomas Vokoun as the only goalies in franchise history to play more than 60 in a season. Vokoun did it three times.
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What do you do with your LinkedIn profile?
Do you check it only every once in a while when a connection request comes through? Have you linked it to your Twitter account? Did you never quite remember to sign up in the first place?
As much as it's convenient to merge our Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Instagram accounts into one large social networking experience, LinkedIn has a special designation: professional networking.
And there is a difference between professional and personal networking, according to LinkedIn Career Expert Nicole Williams: "I see the same mistakes over and over!"
And, on LinkedIn, those faux pas can damage your career.
In fact, data shows that LinkedIn is especially helpful when it comes to landing higher-paying jobs—"informal recruitment" is a favorite of hiring managers aiming to fill positions up there on the payscale.
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Not Using a Picture
"One of the biggest mistakes I see is no photo," Williams says. "You're seven times more likely to have your profile viewed if you have one. Like a house that's on sale, the assumption is that if there's no photo, something's wrong."
She also makes a great point: If you leave a networking event with a handful of business cards, intending to follow up on LinkedIn, it's much harder for you to remember who's who without pictures. A missing photo can easily lead to missed connections.
If you're worried about unwittingly sabotaging your career through social media, check out the ten worst blunders you can commit.
Putting Up the Wrong Picture
"No dog, no husband, no baby!" Williams says, adding that your photo is meant to show you at your professional—not personal—best. "Especially for mothers getting back into the workforce, a picture of their child doesn't convey that they're ready for a full-time job."
Another photo blunder: Misrepresenting your appearance. "I see older people who are worried about age discrimination use a photo of themselves in their 30s, but an interviewer wasn't expecting them to look so different. And instead of listening to your answers, the interviewer will think you're deceptive," Williams confides. "Unless you're getting hired for a modeling gig, people are just looking for energy, which you can communicate through great posture, open eyes and a smile."
In fact, HSN Beauty found that, when paging through LinkedIn profiles, 19% of recruiters look only at your profile picture.
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Between Twitter and , people have a pretty good idea of what you're up to socially. But your LinkedIn status is the right place to update your network about your professional accomplishments and progress. "You could be updating about a colleague getting a promotion or sharing a great article you wrote," Williams suggests. "Every few days, put something in your status to keep it fresh, and show you're active and engaged—no one will know what you've done if you're not showing it off."
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An object that contains data for the thread procedure.
When a managed thread is created, the method that executes on the thread is represented by a ThreadStart delegate or a ParameterizedThreadStart delegate that is passed to the Thread constructor. The thread does not begin executing until the Thread.Start method is called. The ThreadStart or ParameterizedThreadStart delegate is invoked on the thread, and execution begins at the first line of the method that is represented by the delegate. In the case of the ParameterizedThreadStart delegate, the object that is passed to the Start(Object) method is passed to the delegate.
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The ParameterizedThreadStart delegate and the Thread.Start(Object) method overload make it easy to pass data to a thread procedure, but this technique is not type safe because any object can be passed to Thread.Start(Object). A more robust way to pass data to a thread procedure is to put both the thread procedure and the data fields into a worker object. For more information, see Creating Threads and Passing Data at Start Time.
The following example shows how to create and use a ParameterizedThreadStart delegate to execute a static method on a new thread.
The example displays its output in a TextBlock on the UI thread. To access the TextBlock from the callback thread, the example uses the Dispatcher property to obtain a Dispatcher object for the TextBlock, and then uses the Dispatcher.BeginInvoke method to make the cross-thread call.
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using System; using System.Threading; public class Example { private static System.Windows.Controls.TextBlock outputBlock; public static void Demo(System.Windows.Controls.TextBlock outputBlock) { Example.outputBlock = outputBlock; // To start a thread using a shared thread procedure, use // the class name and method name when you create the // ParameterizedThreadStart delegate. C# infers the // appropriate delegate creation syntax: // New ParameterizedThreadStart(Example.DoWork) // Thread newThread = new Thread(Example.DoWork); newThread.Start(42); } // Simulate work. To communicate with objects on the UI thread, get the // Dispatcher for one of the UI objects. Use the Dispatcher object's // BeginInvoke method to queue a delegate that will run on the UI thread, // and therefore can safely access UI elements like the TextBlock. private static void DoWork(object state) { int data = (int) state; outputBlock.Dispatcher.BeginInvoke(delegate () { outputBlock.Text += String.Format("Static thread procedure. Data={0}\n", data); }); } } /* This code example produces the following output: Static thread procedure. Data=42 */
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And they are tearing me apart.
Through my rib cage,
They are eating away my heart.
I have you,holding me tight.
You can feel the pulse of my soul
I am afraid,save me.
Make those evil creatures go.
I have monsters under my bed.
They whisper only bullshit in my ear.
Their voices are so quiet for others,
But so loud for me to hear.
I feel like losing my balance,
I will fall soon,
I wonder,did Lucifer
Have his inner demons,too.
I trust them,
And they say you'll leave.
I'm falling,
It's like they want to kill.
But you caught my body,
You're the one with my soul's key.
With the color of my artery's blood
on your body,you said to me:
"Don't talk to monsters under your bed,
Cause they don't like us at all.
Sleep,I am here,my love.
They don't know what we know."


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I am so glad that I ventured upon your blog, clicked your book trailer, and read the online excerpt. Really, been on the edge of my seat while reading, now left hanging, will look for it around publication. Congratulations! Well done. I love it.
Very cool. So excited to read this.
June 14th just got that much further away for me… *headdesk… watches clock tick…*
FANTASTIC trailer!
Great trailer! I can't wait to read your book. It comes out close to my birthday (June 16th) so I'm hoping to get a copy as a present.
oh, so lovely and eerie at the same time! Congrats Nova! I can't wait to read it!!
Hi Nova!
I am a religious follower of Gayle Forman's blog, which is where I first heard about you and your book. And then I read the excerpt from Imaginary Girls on your website and I absolutely LOVED it! My boyfriend has a cabin in upstate NY, off of Rt. 17, so I really felt like I *knew* the area that you so beautifully described. While I was impatiently waiting for the pub date, I was notified by Gayle that I WON the free copy from her blog contest. YAYYYY! I can't wait to read the rest of your beautiful story.
Congrats and keep up the great work!
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Photos from the Justice & Police Museum collection.
I know nothing about these portraits but what I do gather is that they are mug shots from the 1920's .I found them here
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Marianne Mueller: M-Portraits
In 1999 Marianne Mueller photographed the men and women of Migros, Switzerland's largest Supermarket and largest employer.
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