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President Trump, his fossil fuel administration, and anti-conservationists in Congress are attacking America's public lands!
Donate today and help save America the beautiful. Your gift today could be what stands between our public lands and Big Oil's drills.
Statement from Jamie Williams, President of The Wilderness Society
In what may be his final executive action protecting public lands and important cultural and historic sites shared by the American people, President Obama has expanded the existing
President Obama acted on the urging of several Native American tribes and their supporters by designating national monuments in Nevada and Utah. This action followed years of public demand for better protections and the growing threats from looting, vandalism and theft.
"It's a lasting and fitting tribute to Secretary Jewell and President Obama that they have conserved so many treasured places valued by Americans across the nation.
Managed by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM), National Conservation Lands were established in 2000 to conserve, protect and restore nationally significant lands recognized for their outstanding cultural, ecological and scientific values.
Already a popular recreation spot, the biologically diverse Berryessa Snow Mountain area includes clear creeks, open meadows and snowfields.
Ruling two days after oral arguments closed, the Arizona District Court in Phoenix has ordered the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to re-examine its decision to allow target shooting throughout Sonoran Desert National Monument.
The Wilderness Society (TWS) applauded Senator Harry Reid and Representative Dina Titus today for convening a public meeting in Las Vegas to spotlight some of southern Nevada's most treasured landscapes that deserve permanent protection.


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Hint 1. Turn OFF the cloud! (Tonight I'm cleaning up the photos on my iPhone and iPad!
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How did you link Iphoto to PhotoshopElem. 10...that's what I have too. I have seen Elements 11 for 1/2 price during some sales and trying to decide if I want to upgrade. Any thoughts? If you figure out the problem with the masks showing up let me know! I am going to try using iPhoto and see how it goes to organize. thanks!
In iPhoto, select preferences. Click on advanced. You should see "edit photos". Arrow down to PSE 10. The black background is because the png, masks, etc are actually transparent backgrounds. My work around at this moment is to add a white back ground to the mask (saving in psd.) Now I have no problem visualizing in iPhoto and it is easy to remove the white background.
I especially like like using iPhoto because it works equally well in my iScrapbook app. It will also cloud transfer anything that I want to my iPad for use on my pad apps. I hope this helps!
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A busy FRIDAY (the 17th) begins in the boonies with LYIN' BITCH & THE RESTRAINING ORDERS at Dan's Place in West Greenwich (401.392.3092), while acclaimed pianist SHANNON COREY returns to the Speakeasy at Local 121 (401.454.4581), Scituate punk/ska newcomers THE BITCHIN' AARDVARKS play AS220 (401.831.9327), and Jerky's Music Hall (RI's official lyricist lounge) hosts DIRTY HANK and a slew of rhymers in support; 18+ and $10 at the door, call 401.621.2244. Rapper BIG BOI will headline Brown's annual (and sold out) fall concert on SATURDAY (the 18th); additional last-minute tix may become available, check bsa.brown.edu for updates. And don't forget the 4TH ANNUAL POLYSCYSTIC KIDNEY DISEASE MUSIC FEST at the Providence Firefighters Hall (sorta behind the Benny's off Branch Ave.) this weekend ($20 per day or $30 for the two-day pass), featuring top-shelf local talent like ROUTE. 44, THE SENDERS, JAMES MONTGOMERY, DAVE HOWARD, and more; visit pkdri.org for details. AS220 (401.831.9327) is the midweek place to be with ARCING headlining on TUESDAY (the 21st) and the "peyote-metal" locals KINTAAN on WEDNESDAY (the 22nd), each show just $6 at the door. And the Met Cafe (401.729.1005) will get its first taste of moshpit mayhem when ANTI-FLAG, THE MENZINGERS, and Strange Famous Records resident punk-activists PRAYERS FOR ATHEISTS invade the Bucket; tickets are $17 day of show.
And while we're here, let's give yet another deserved shout to Jack Reich and Rich Lupo for the gorgeous transformation of the former Blackstone space. Yes, we've been hooting and hollering about THE MET CAFE for some time now, but trust us here — the new space is phenomenal (and looks as if it could hold double the 585 capacity), from the two spacious bars at the front and back of the house (with $3 Gansett tallboys and drafts) to the reconfigured stage locale (now more toward the middle of the room, perpendicular to the former, cramped setup). And judging from the Joe Louis Walker show last weekend, the Met space provides great acoustics and sight lines all around; the load-bearing beams do not obstruct the stage view (see: that annoying pole at the Paradise in Boston). For the bands, the only drawback is the surprisingly small stage, and we'll be curious to see how outfits like Santa Mamba will fare, or just how they'll fit all those Built to Spill beards together onstage.
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The Department of Defense (DoD) is committed to protecting human health and the environment, in an uninterrupted and cost-effective manner, while ensuring the success of its core mission. DoD strives to ensure effective and efficient compliance with all Federal, state, and local environmental laws and regulations, and provides guidance to the DoD Components for meeting those requirements, as necessary. Ensuring that the systems acquisition process considers risks and protects human health and the environment is critical to sustaining the DoD mission.
Environment, safety, and occupational health (ESOH) must be considered during the system acquisition process and for the duration of the system's lifecycle. As part of a program's overall cost, schedule, and performance risk reduction, the Program Manager must prevent ESOH hazards, where possible, and manage ESOH hazards where they cannot be avoided.
Crucial elements of an ESOH program include:
DoD Instruction 5000.2 establishes requirements for PMs to manage ESOH risks.
This ESOH special interest area is sponsored by the Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Installations and Environment) and the DoD Acquisition ESOH Integrated Product Team. This area details guidance and requirements in Section 4.4.11 of the Defense Acquisition Guidebook and provides best practices for integrating environment, safety, and occupational health into the systems engineering and acquisition processes.
What does the guidance do?
The ODUSD(I&E) developed a streamlined process to assess the sustainability of system during the acquisition process. It establishes a consistent, practical and flexible method for conducting life cycle assessments (LCA) throughout the DoD acquisition process. It is an overlay on performance. In other words, of the alternatives that can meet performance requirements, the process helps identify the most sustainable solutions with the least impacts.
What is Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)?
A method for evaluating alternative resource needs (inputs) to produce, use, maintain, and dispose of a system or product and the resulting impacts and life cycle costs.
Why is it needed?
DoD systems and platforms (e.g., aircraft, ships) can have a life cycle of 30 years or more. Resources are costly and, in some cases, dwindling. Systems must be made more sustainable in order to meet mission requirements into the future and reduce life cycle costs. Without a full understanding of life cycle impacts and costs of systems and platforms, significant impacts and costs are often "pushed downstream" from acquisition program managers to the DoD logistics and operational communities.
What is the expected result of implementing the guidance?
Application of the standard across DoD is expected to result in more sustainable systems – those that use fewer resources and have reduced human health and environmental impacts. Reducing the life cycle impacts directly supports the USD(AT&L) objective of "designing for affordability."
How is the guidance "flexible?"
The guidance can be used to analyze conceptual alternatives at the system level or inform detailed design decisions of components. There is existing ISO standards for process level LCA. However, this guidance describes a Streamlined LCA process specific to DoD acquisitions. This is an innovative method specifically developed to be consistent with the DoD acquisition system as described in DoD Directive 5000.01. The process provides a procedure, in a series of steps, to compare conceptual or design alternatives and can be applied in a qualitative mode even when data is lacking. The streamlined version developed for DoD can be done with or without collecting additional data and can be accomplished with minimal resources required. However, it ensures that important downstream impacts and costs are considered in decisions.
Where can the guidance be used?
The LCA methods in the guidance can be used by teams conducting an "Analysis of Alternatives", by developers, or design engineers. The process could be referenced in Requests for Proposals or in contract documents specifying a LCA as a deliverable. The guidance includes an excel-based tool that can be used to complete all necessary calculations.
What elements of sustainability are assessed?
The guidance examines the following sustainability factors: land, air, chemicals & materials, water, and energy. The guidance contains detailed descriptions of the factors and sub-factors and the methods used to evaluate and score for each alternative.
What will "trigger" or activate the use of the standard?
LCA should be integrated into the Systems Engineering process and will help inform trade space and supportability analyses. The DoD Business Case Analysis Guidebook includes sustainability as one of the elements that must be evaluated in a business case. The guidance describes "how to" do this evaluation using two alternative LCA methods.
New guidance is being developed to describe how a sustainability assessment, used in early conceptual and design decisions, can help design more sustainable systems, those which use less resources over the life cycle, have reduced impacts on human health and the environment, and thus have lower life cycle costs. A sustainability assessment allows more robust and informed trade space and supportability analyses
This draft guidance introduces the concept of a Sustainability Analysis. It provides detailed guidance on how to complete such an analysis and how to use the results to better inform tradeoff, design, and supportability decisions. Subject to final approval, this guidance can be used on a trial basis by all Departments and Agencies within the Department of Defense (DoD).
Upstream and Downstream Scoring Factors and Cost Factors for the DoD Sustainability Analysis Guidance.
This presentation provides a detailed overview of the Department of Defense (DoD) Sustainability Analysis Dataset which is used for the Sustainability Analysis as described in the guidance document. The data set for the analysis are stored in AKO at: https://www.us.army.mil/suite/files/45119348.
Objectives of a Meeting organized by the National Academies of Sciences on Life Cycle Analysis of Chemicals and Chemical Processes.
This article addresses the second component of the Air Force's strategy and the following specific goal: By 2016, be prepared to cost competitively acquire 50% of the Air Force's domestic aviation fuel requirement via an alternative fuel blend in which the alternative component is derived from domestic sources produced in a manner that is "greener" than fuels produced from conventional petroleum.
Making better risk management decisions and investments enables the Department of Defense to expedite and sustain systems acquisition; protect people; maintain operational capabilities; and minimize the likelihood of unanticipated future costs—ideally avoiding such costs altogether. Faced with growing public and governmental interest in environmental issues, DoD is committed to improving its understanding of emerging contaminants and acting early to manage them and other chemical risks. DoD defines emerging contaminants as chemicals or materials that have evolving science (e.g., beryllium); new or unknown exposure pathways (e.g., trichloroethylene and nanomaterials); and new detection capabilities (e.g., perchlorate) that can be reasonably anticipated to lead to regulatory changes.


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This site provides the GVSU community with easy access to university-wide administrative policies that have been approved by the President's Cabinet. These policies support the University's mission, vision and values, and set expectations for the administrative operation of the institution. In keeping with the GVSU focus on environmental stewardship and efficient use of resources, the Grand Valley Manual will be maintained as a web site rather than in printed form.
The Administrative Manual is the official web site for policies approved by the Board of Trustees and the Grand Valley Manual is the official source for University-wide administrative policies approved by the President's Cabinet. (Refer to the Policy Hierarchy for further information about the GVSU policy structure.) Other policies at the University must not conflict with the Administrative Manual or the Grand Valley Manual.
Additional documents that contain University policies include: Faculty Handbook, AP Handbook, Other Employment Handbooks, Employment Contracts, Undergraduate & Graduate Catalog, and the Student Code. Consult unit web sites for departmental policies and procedures.
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By Martha Cheney
I do not know Jason Wester but I intend to find him and introduce myself. His Jan. 20 column in the Journal helped me to regain some of the hope for our public schools that I have lost recently. His delineation of the difference between "accountability' and "responsibility" should be required reading for all decision makers.
There is no question that politicians and the general public are demanding accountability from our schools. No one can argue that an overall C minus rating and an F on K-12 achievement are acceptable. The fact that we received an A rating and ranked 10th in the nation in the area of standards, assessment and accountability only reinforces Wester's contention that there is a limited connection between our accountability system and the actual performance in our schools. So how do we shift from our emphasis on holding others accountable to an emphasis on assuming responsibility for our own roles?
The major flaw in the emphasis on accountability is that those at the "top" of the system who are demanding accountability from those at the "bottom" are not being held accountable themselves. Legislators are responsible for making and funding laws. They should fully fund the Adequate Education Act or remove the law. Legislators are responsible for the structure of our education system. Research clearly indicates that Mississippi has too many school districts. Legislators should act on the recommendations of the Commission on School Reorganization. The problems created by electing school superintendents are obvious. Although research regarding this issue produces conflicting results there is general agreement that the negatives outweigh the positives. Legislators should enact a law requiring appointed superintendents.
The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) is responsible for supporting the work of the districts. They should reorganize to reflect a servant/responsibility model rather than an accountability model. When new initiatives are launched they should provide the training and support needed by teachers to ensure their success. They should strengthen their efforts to reward excellence in teaching. They should encourage bottom-up leadership. There is no clearer evidence of MDE's emphasis on a top-down, bureaucratic approach to governance than the fact that our state superintendent of education is one of the top paid superintendents in the nation while our teachers are on or near the bottom.
The educators at the district level are responsible for supporting the work of the educators in the schools. In this role they manage support services, budgets and basic functioning of the system. The bureaucracy at this level continues to grow consuming scarce resources. The primary accountability measures at this level are the test scores of the students in their various buildings. So the role of district administrators increasingly revolves around placing pressure on teachers and building administrators to improve test scores.
Building level administrators and teachers are responsible for interacting with students and parents on a daily basis. They are responsible for nurturing the growth of all their students. Since they are at the "bottom" of this accountability model they receive the most pressure and pass it on to their students. The poor teaching practices fostered by "teaching to the test" are too complex to discuss in this article. The impact on professionalism is immeasurable.
I am not sure how long it will take for us to realize that we are moving on a misdirected path. We seem determined to spend our energy creating charter schools and re-examining the retirement system. Our legislators seem willing to make it easier for parents to abandon the public schools rather than addressing the difficult issues that schools face. They appear to think that privatizing schools and giving parents choice are simple remedies for all our problems.And we continue to measure success with standardized tests. I do not know how these issues will be resolved but I do know that the greatest hope for our public schools is the support of parents who remain committed to public education and who demand excellence. We need the strong voices of parents like Jason Wester.
Martha Cheney is a retired educator. She lives near Tupelo and writes occasionally for the Opinion pages. Contact her at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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New York, September 16, 2009—As Muslims worldwide prepare to celebrate the end of the holy month of Ramadan, a time of compassion and forgiveness, the Committee to Protect Journalists today called on the Iranian authorities to release journalists who are being held behind bars.
Do you believe the free flow of information must be protected? Sign the #RightToReport petition and demand that President Obama immediately:
1. Issue a presidential policy directive prohibiting the hacking and surveillance of journalists and media organizations.
2. Limit aggressive prosecutions that ensnare journalists and intimidate whistleblowers.
3. Prevent the harassment of journalists at the U.S. border.
Or click here to see the full petition, and join leading journalists like Christiane Amanpour, The Guardian's Alan Rusbridger, Editor of the AP Kathleen Carroll, and Arianna Huffington in signing on.


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Congratulations to Jim Shclender for another great article on the Benelli Vinci. I like his approach to the subject. I've read several articles on that new gun. I've enjoyed them all but Jim's was concise and to the point.
I've also had a couple opportunities to shoot that gun, handle it, take it apart and put it back together. I believe that we are seeing something of what is to come in the firearms field by looking at that gun.
I know some (many) have been critical of its appearance but to me, it's just different, just like the Nova was when we first saw it. It seems to grow on folks, especially after they seen it in person.
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The dead protocol and my task is to do some research on this project before coding a linux testing client for it :(. I hate you micr0$0ft.
The Shora CEO
I did a mistake in joining a company which it self was nothing just a piece of shit, and only because of the CEO (shora). The guy is horrible, I just can't believe guy like him exist in world. For me he is just "shoot on sight" kind of a person. I joined his company on 27 December, and coded a 10gig sniffer(kernel mamped sniffer), and front end application. He promised me to get an office in Pakistan which he refused. And instead of making a team in Pakistan he handed over the project to xyz on 12 march. and on 14 march, he behaved abnormally with me, just to make me feel bad and leave company. That's what I did and quit job on 14th of march. That was the shocking experience of my life. I worked for him 2.5 months and he ended up paying me just one month. I remember I was feeling so stress at his behavior. I was alone in home and my father was in Pindi. I decided to spend some time with relatives, just to keep my self away from the thought which kept coming and making me feel horrible. I did this and left for Pindi the next day. Meanwhile "Shora" kept calling me to make me feel bad and forget about the idea of getting my remaining pay and I kept listening quietly. on 20th, I mailed my CV to xyz and got an interview call on 22 march. I was in Peshawar at that time and rushed back to Lahore.
Interview went great and I got job. I was so happy because once I was not selected in my previous appearance in xyz. But that interview was so helpful for me to get the idea of where I stand and what's need to be done. I really worked hard on the missing/weak skill set and I had no problem in getting interview clear this time.
Now after getting job in xyz, new chapter of my life opened. On the next day I received call from "shora" saying, "masood It's nice you joined xyz and I recommended you as they were not sure may be to hire you or not. And it would be great if you join my project under xyz.". I refused straight away, saying "I don't wanna work for you". He apologies and said lets talk on Monday, 26th, which was my first day in xyz. I refused to work for him in front of my VP. He said, "ok,... If you don't want to work then I'll make you leave this job as I have a contract with xyz and it also state that they will never hire an X of my company". For me It was a joke of the day, as there was no such contract because when they signed the contract I was present there and I got the job same day I appeared on my interview so there was no confirmation left to be taken, which later confirmed by the VP. But he just wanted to make me work for him as he was struggling with the new guys he was working with.
So I decided to work for him on a condition if he pay me my remaining salary, which he accepted but his condition was to pay me half and the remaining half when the project finishes. I accepted it too and I started working on his project but under the umbrella of xyz. After two week there was no outcome of the commitment which he made. So I refused to work, again and now this time I challenge him to do any thing he want. I was forced by my mother not to take any illegal action against him. But in Pakistan it's hard to get some thing done legally. He threatened using the name of his uncle, who is a magistrate. And wanted to take an action against me through him. Now it was too much for me to hear all this quietly. I said look, "If I had any attention to take my money back, I would have don't it till now by hook or by crock. And do what ever you can do, let me see what you can do".
I reported my VP and refused to work for him, which he accepted and now I'm currenlty working with another team on a separate project.
"Shora" is now looking for a guy to help him out and finish his Idoit product. Some time I hate to see him around and some time I feel to pay him money to go and get your self a good book about human resource management. The two other guy of xyz refused to work for him because they find him mentally sick.
Back in the days of Mahvi, some one name Mishal meet me on naseeb. But she was more like a hello-hi girl in my list. We never talk most of the time and truly speaking, I even forgot she is SHE :). She wanted me to re join orkut which I left (truly cause of mahvi). Anyway, Mishal is from Lahore and she is nice. In fact not as good/Chilling as Mahvi was at first appearance/meeting. And the most important stuff, I'm not thinking other then to be a nice friend with her (Some thing I learned from mahvi).
I missed mahvi alot when I was in so stress because of my "shora" boss, durring the period of march 12 till April 1 but I know every thing will fade away as the time goes on. God Bless you Mahvi Where ever you are.
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By Tiernan Ray
Nomura Equity Research's Anthony DiClemente today sifts through the Internet earnings results of recent weeks, writing that his top picks, Google (GOOG), Facebook (FB), and TripAdvisor (TRIP), rated Buy, are "best-positioned to increase monetization," while his Neutral-rated names, Twitter (TWTR), Pandora (P), and Netflix (NFLX), have a positive bias but are too expensive at current prices.
Google led traffic growth in the most recently reported quarter:
Across the sector, user traffic continues to grow, implying increases in impressions and potential ad inventory for our covered names. We believe global traffic growth rates were led by Google in the quarter.
Here's his chart of traffic growth (click for larger image):
Facebook led increases in ad pricing:
This quarter was punctuated by significant acceleration in growth of ad pricing at Facebook, driven by a steady ad load and a mix shift to mobile, which has translated into an increased mix of higher-priced News Feed ads.
Here's his chart comparing pricing:
Twitter was among those whose results were based on greater "monetization" of user activity:
In our recent initiation, we discussed how Twitter, Pandora, Facebook, and Google are most likely to increase ad monetization per user at the greatest rate in 2014, whereas TripAdvisor and Netflix will source their revenue growth from growth in users. The largest YoY changes in monetization per user in 4Q13 came from Twitter, Facebook, Pandora, and Google.
And here's his chart of monetization:
Speaking of Twitter, the shares are up 40 cents, or 0.7%, at $56.86, despite a report today by Yoree Koh of The Wall Street Journal that a "small pile" of the shares of employees may be free to trade by Saturday, after a lock-up on them expires. The total of 9.9 million shares, just 1.8% of the shares outstanding, are the first opportunity for insiders to sell.


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One Hundred Years: Celebrating Albert Camus
Today would have been Albert Camus's 100th birthday.
I have had a crush on Albert Camus for a long time. C'mon… he's hot, rebellious, an intellectual, and like most artists I'm madly in love with, dead… the ultimate unattainable.
Although he is often called an existentialist, Camus rejected that label ("Sartre and I are often surprised to see our names linked," he once remarked.) Some critics and readers have instead called him an "absurdist," which is sometimes thought of as the philosophy of the absurdity of the individual experience. However, Camus rejected this label as well. Camus's philosophy is often called the "Paradox of Absurdity":
The essential paradox arising in Camus's philosophy concerns his central notion of absurdity. Accepting the Aristotelian idea that philosophy begins in wonder, Camus argues that human beings cannot escape asking the question, "What is the meaning of existence?" Camus, however, denies that there is an answer to this question, and rejects every scientific, teleological, metaphysical, or human-created end that would provide an adequate answer. Thus, while accepting that human beings inevitably seek to understand life's purpose, Camus takes the skeptical position that the natural world, the universe, and the human enterprise remain silent about any such purpose. Since existence itself has no meaning, we must learn to bear an irresolvable emptiness. This paradoxical situation, then, between our impulse to ask ultimate questions and the impossibility of achieving any adequate answer, is what Camus calls the absurd. Camus's philosophy of the absurd explores the consequences arising from this basic paradox.
Camus's intellect is even more impressive when you know his background. His father died when he was very little. His mother worked as a washer woman and was deaf. Mother and son lived in Algiers (the setting of one of my favorite short stories, "The Guest") where Albert was eventually accepted into the University of Algiers. His first and most famous novel L'Etranger (The Stranger) was published in 1942.


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DrupalCon Chicago
In March of 2011, thousands of Drupal users, developers, designers, evaluators and businesspeople will descend on Chicago's Sheraton Hotel and Towers for sessions, talks, code sprints, and more at DrupalCon Chicago. Whether you're already using Drupal or considering it for your company or organization, you won't want to miss out on this one-of-a-kind event.
Acquia Presentations:
8:30am: Welcome to DrupalCon, Jeffrey A. "jam" McGuire
9:30am : Keynote, Dries Buytaert
12:30pm: Competing with Giants - How to Win with Drupal vs Proprietary Alternatives, Bryan House
12:30pm : Media, Jacob Singh
3:15pm (Mainstage): Improving the Drupal Developer Experience with DevCloud, Managed Cloud and the Acquia Network, Dries Buytaert
4:30pm: Strategies for Client Management, Chris Strahl
1:00pm (Mainstage): The Acquia Developer Experience. Build. Deploy. Repeat. Faster., Barry Jaspan
2:15pm (Mainstage): Drupal-as-a-Service, Distributions and the Cloud - Getting started has never been easier, Peter Guagenti
2:15pm: Failure to Launch: Drupal Performance Tuning, Kenny Silanskas
2:15pm: Attain Apache Solr Coding Chops, Peter Wolanin & Chris Pliakas
5:00pm: Distribution Deli, Jay Batson
5:00pm: Drupal as a Mature Software Industry, Robert Douglass
5:00pm: Community benefits of the D.o redesign, Kieran Lal
1:00pm: Drupal Usability for Developers, David Rothstein & Gabor Hojtsy
1:00pm (Mainstage): Accelerate Your Business with Drupal Gardens and Drupal Commons, Bryan House
2:15pm: Interface Therapy, James Elliot
2:15pm: This is horribly broken, how can fix it?, Gabor Hojtsy
3:45pm: Drupal in the Cloud, Jim Salem
3:45pm: Building awesome user interfaces with D7, Alex Bronstein
3:45pm: The type revolutionary's cookbook, Kevin O'Leary


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The List: October's Objects of Desire
In the beauty realm, Shiseido Cosmetics America is partnering with Cosmetic Executive Women (CEW) to support their philanthropic arm, Cancer and Careers, dedicated to the support of working women living with cancer. The brand with donate $5 for every Lacquer Rouge in Disco sold throughout the month of October. Get the pretty high-gloss pink at select stores and online at shiseido.com for $25 beginning today.
In a look at the chic home market, Swarovski is supporting SUITE New York's Pink Jalk Project, benefitting The Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF) by commissioning Kelly Wearstler, David Rockwell, and Colin Cowie to customize three chairs. The precious gemmed-out iconic Grete Jalk pieces will all be auctioned on charitybuzz.com starting today for the entire month with 80% of each sale going directly to the cause.
Mr. Blasberg's Best-Dressed List: Milan Fashion Week Edition


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Apps, platforms, other tools add to the live Olympics experienceFebruary 4, 2014 9:53 PM
The summer Olympic Games in London heralded two huge advancements for fans across the globe keeping track. First, the sheer number of viewers watching through conventional TV (217 million), via the NBCOlympics.com website and NBC and Comcast apps (82.1 unique users), plus accessed video streams viewed online or through apps (159.3 million), were unprecedented in scope.
And then there was the wide variety of apps: shortcuts to follow your favorite sport or athletes in real time, apps to outline marathon routes or describe the history of dirt bikes in the games.
Smart tourist bureaus created apps for visitors that tracked myriad helpful suggestions, including traffic and bus routes, restaurants, weather and, of course, places to go and see when you weren't at the sports venues.
In the two years since, there doesn't appear to have been a giant leap on Sochi's tourism front, but Comcast -- which owns NBCUniversal -- is pushing a tempting menu of watch-it-now choices for the sporting events.
Its Xfinity X1 and X2 platforms offer more than 500 hours of live viewing through the five NBCU networks and the Live Extra Site app available onscreen for subscribers but also workable on mobile devices. Four years ago in Vancouver, a similar setup broadcast 90 hours.
More than 1,000 hours of live streaming across the 98 events is planned. A feature similar to the NFL's "Red Zone" is the "Gold Zone," where the day's highlights across venues can be accessed with a click of the remote.
Every gold medal final will be available across platforms, and if you're a big curling fan, you can see that, too.
New this time around: Home users of the NBC app need to authenticate only once to watch live. And NBC, with its other networks (such as NBCSN, MSNBC, USA Network, CNBC) will allow X1 and X2 subscribers to restart some events that are just finishing up live broadcasts.
A stroll through app stores for iOS and Android yields the expected lot: among them, the Team USA Pinsanity app for the pin-collection obsessed, AT&T's #ItsOurTime app that allows users to follow favorite sports or teams via social media, as well as the 2014 Team USA Road to Sochi App.
Some sports sites, such as Bleacherreport.com, have come up with games-centric apps.
Of course, there is an official Sochi.ru 2014 app, promising streamlined information on results, getting tickets, locating the Olympic or ParaOlympic torch relay.
Vladimir Putin's crackdown on perceived social aberrations has not gone unnoticed: Several people on the Apple site wrote biting reviews. "With the added homophobia feature!" wrote "LaPaloma."
However and wherever you watch the Olympics, the games begin Thursday with a few skiing and skating events. Opening ceremonies are Friday.
Maria Sciullo: email@example.com or 412-263-1478 or @MariaSciulloPG.


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LaToya Jackson Fired on "Celeb Apprentice"
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Star Jones is a coniving backstabber. She will do anything to win no matter who gets hurt as long as it isn't her. She manipulated NENE and big bad ass NeNe allowed the manipulation. Goodbye NeNe next week. Star will be getting rid of you next!
- April 25, 2011 at 3:15 PM
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NENE needed to go along time ago. She is all mouth
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December 9, 2009 - 6:27am
Is the Tea Party movement more popular than the Republican Party
Yep. That's what a new Rasmussen poll claims
According to the poll, if the Tea Party Movement was a political party, it would finish second to the Democrat and ahead of Republicans.
Memo to Republicans: Take notes
The tea party movement was conceived out of antipathy for President Obama's economic stimulus plan and cultivated by groups like Freedom Works and conservative commentators such as Glenn Beck. Its guiding principals are centered around opposition to tax increases and the expansion of federal government spending. The movement rose to prominence when it organized highly-publicized protest gatherings across the country on April 15th of this year.
As reported by Talking Points Memo, the respondents to the Rasmussen poll were asked the following question:
"Okay, suppose the Tea Party Movement organized itself as a political party. When thinking about the next election for Congress, would you vote for the Republican candidate from your district, the Democratic candidate from your district, or the Tea Party candidate from your district?"
The response of all those who were polled was Democratic 36%, Tea Party 23% and Republican 18%. Further, the poll found that independents are more inclined to vote for a tea party candidate over Democratic or Republican candidates.


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This may seem to be complicated, and indeed it is. However, there have been more complicated things (i.e. Dwarf Fortress, particle physics), so it's a matter of finding a very dedicated team, and funding might be taken care of with indiegogo or Kickstarter. This would best be taken care of by something similar to Dwarf Fortress (i.e. develop it an indefinite amount of time but let people play what you've worked on so far).
Edit:Basically, a game that covers the overall war itself. A game in which your numbers play an important role in the role, but do not determine the results.
By the way, the setting doesn't have to be modern.
Oh, and to clarify, my thoughts while reading the book were "These would make a very fun and strategical game", not something like "Games should be more realistic". I'm just exploring ways in which realism could add fun and strategy as well as tactics.
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Play with GCJX
I just saw Ranjit Mathew's diary, Miscellany, and the status of GCJ attracts me, so that I decided to take a try with GCJx. I wrote a small build script, which can automatically check out from CVS, build GCJX, and show you if it's completed or not.
GCJX worked very well with my test cases, and I even modified kaffe/libraries/javalib/Makefile.am.in to drive GCJX generating bytecode for Kaffe's API implementations. It seems to work, but I think I should take a look over the existing build process, according to kaffe/library/javalib/Makefile.am:
# Note: Makefile.am is generated from Makefile.am.in using # developers/update-class-list (called from developers/autogen.sh) # # Yes, it's slightly insane: # # Makefile.am.in -> Makefile.am -> Makefile.in -> MakefileAlso, I found the kaffeawt building fault of Nano-X AWT backend. It would be better to introduce new rules for generating the separate jarball.
Ooops, I have to say again, GCJX rocks. Kudos to Tom Tromey!


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Summer Session 2010 (10 C/D): Supplemental Teaching Payments
Payroll deadlines:
Powerpoint notes on the layout and use of Chartfields on the S-contract
and Grad Non-Contract Pay forms:
Faculty (regular and supplemental) and
Professional Staff:
All instructional staff except for graduate students must be paid on
the PeopleSoft UD web forms S-Contract at
http://www.udel.edu/webforms. Before an S-Contract can be made,
the instructor must exist in the PeopleSoft system, If they are new
employees a "New Hire JED" (Job Employee Data Form) must be completed
The following S-Contract fields and values pertain for Summer Session:
Graduate students:
US citizens who are students may work no more than
40-hrs/week within the University. For purposes of equating course
assignments to the weekly limit, use the following conversions. In
Fall or Spring, four courses of three-credits each are considered
equivalent to 40-hrs/week. In the Winter Session, two three-credit
courses are considered equivalent to 40-hrs/week. In summer that 40-hr/wk
limit equates to 12-credits' teaching across the entire summer.
A maximum allowable teaching load would then be:
4 courses in fall + 2 winter + 4 spring + 4 summer (@3cr each)
Non-US citizens, according to INS regulations, are
limited during the Fall and Spring semesters to working 20-hrs/week
within the University. For purposes of equating course teaching
assignments to the weekly limit, use the following conversions. In
Fall or Spring, two courses of three-credits each are considered
equivalent to 20-hrs/week. In the Winter Session the limit is 40-hrs/week
and two three-credit courses are considered equivalent to 40-hrs/week. In
the Summer Session all students are limited to teaching no more than 12 cr
across the entire summer. A maximum teaching schedule for non-US citizens
would then be: 2 courses in fall + 2 winter + 2 spring + 4 summer
(@3cr each).
On-contract, full-time faculty teaching overloads (including Continuing
Education, Special Sessions, and other overload teaching) are paid 2.25%
per credit hour of their base academic year salary within the bounds of
the "Floor" and "Ceiling" rates in the table below.
Payments for full-time faculty on 12-month appointments and
for 12-month professional staff who hold a secondary faculty rank
are paid based on their salary adjusted to a 9-month basis as
(12-month "Annual Rate") x 9/11 = (Academic Year basis)
then determine 2.25% per credit and apply the Floor and
Ceiling boundaries below.
Example: ($70,000 12-month-base) x 9/11 = ($57,273
as 9-month-base)... x 2.25% = $1288.64 per credit.
All professionals without a secondary academic rank will be paid at the
floor rate for the rank for which they are qualified.
Off-campus faculty are paid at the floor rate of the rank dictated by their degree as noted above. If off-campus faculty hold a higher
rank at another institution, or are otherwise particularly qualified for
payment at a rank above Instructor, the academic department should contact
the Dean's Office.
Spanning the period from September 1 through May 31 faculty members on
academic year contracts may receive additional compensation beyond the
terms of their basic appointments not to exceed the dollar value of three
4-credit courses plus $360 for Independent Study (in Winter Session).
Summer teaching is unaffected by that limit.
In the Summer Session, graduate students are limited
to working no more
than 40-hrs/week. In terms of teaching assignments, this will equate to
teaching 12-credits across the entire summer (First and Second Session
Only regular faculty and visiting professors may conduct Supervised
Study. To be eligible for payment, the faculty member must meet with the
student a minimum of two meetings per week during the Summer Session for
a 3-credit hour supervised study. This meeting time can be prorated for
other credit hour enrollments. Students who require less supervision, may earn credit,
but the faculty will not be eligible for compensation in such cases.
Students must be registered for credit and pay the required tuition.
Payment will not be made for directing a supervised study if the equivalent
material is covered in a regular scheduled course during that academic
A faculty member is eligible to receive $40 per credit hour for
directing supervised studies to a maximum of $120 per student and $360 for
the entire Summer Session. If compensation is appropriate within the
guidelines listed here, the HR web form "S-contract" should be used; the
reason should be "Ind Study (15)"; the Course-ID, Section, and
Course-Type should be entered on the first page of the form, and
the comments section on the second page of the form should
specify the Student-ID and credits for each registered
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and grading criteria to which the faculty and student agree prior to the
start of the supervised study experience.
Video-based, web-based and print-based distance learning classes are
administered by the Division of Professional & Continuing Studies, who
also prepare the applicable S-contracts for those classes.
The following rates are paid for teaching
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must have a minimum of ten students registered for an undergraduate course
or six students in a graduate-level course. Courses with less than the
minimum enrollment may be offered with the understanding that the faculty
member's contract will be prorated accordingly (i.e: by 1/10 of full
salary for each student below 10 in an undergraduate course; by 1/6 of
full salary for each student below 6 in a graduate course).
Study-Travel Courses: Study-travel courses include those offered within approved study-travel programs at locations abroad or within the U.S. but outside of the State of Delaware and which offer academic credit to students. Approved study-travel programs must meet minimum program enrollment guidelines set by the Center for International Studies. To receive full compensation for a study-travel course, an instructor must have a minimum of 5 students. Study-travel courses may be offered with less than the minimum figure with the understanding that the faculty member's contract will be prorated accordingly.
Chairpersons will be informed about course enrollments during
registration, April 6 - May 18. It may be necessary to wait until
late registration and drop/add on June 9-12 (First Session) and July 14-17
(Second Session) to determine final enrollment and salary amounts.
If the department and instructor determine that enrollment is insufficient
to justify a particular course section, then the decision to cancel that
section should be made in time that students can find a sustitute -
normally no less than two weeks before the start of the session in
question, and the academic department should make every effort to notify
the affected students as soon as possible.
Courses that are undersubscribed will be prorated on a schedule
determined by each College, and may not be executed until the end of
Free Drop/Add. If that is the case, then those will not generate pay in
the first pay period of each Summer Session.
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for a course, each will receive a portion of his/her full salary according
to their share of the course responsibilities. For example, if three
instructors equally share in a three credit course, each would receive
one-third of his/her salary at the appropriate rank, or a salary equal to
one credit. When S-contracts are prepared for team-teaching situations,
the number of credits' pay attributed to each instructor should be noted
in the "Reason for Payment" section, and those credits should
sum to the registration credits of the class, unless a specific exception
has been granted in advance.
The utilization of a fee waiver in any course is subject to the provision
that it must not add appreciable costs to the University. If salary
proration or course cancellation would be appreciably changed by including
students on fee waivers, then the instructor should discuss salary
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Apple could face disruption to its iPad sales in China after a court rejected its claim to own the iPad trademark in the country and a rival sought to halt sales of the tablet device in two Chinese cities.
The developments are the latest in a long-running dispute between Apple and Proview Technology (Shenzhen), a struggling Taiwanese-owned company that registered trademarks for the name IPAD in many countries long before Apple conceived its smash hit tablet computer.
Normally, Apple is on the receiving end of intellectual property rights infringements in China, with counterfeits extending even to copies of its flagship stores. The US company has nonetheless reported soaring sales over the past three quarters, following a push started last year under which it has so far built four Apple stores in Beijing and Shanghai and 1,000 resellers across the country.
"Apple is such a Goliath and has a good image, so people wouldn't imagine that Apple could possibly infringe on our intellectual property rights," said Xiao Caiyuan, a lawyer for Proview at Guangdong Guanghe law firm. "People always think it's small companies infringing upon large companies' IPR."
"We hope that this decision will make our negotiations with Apple a bit easier," said Li Su, a representative of Proview.
Proview, a flatscreen contract manufacturer, made an unsuccessful attempt to sell a tablet computer in 2000, and registered trademarks for the IPAD name in the EU, China, Mexico, South Korea, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam between 2000 and 2004, according to trademark databases.
In 2006, Proview Electronics (Taiwan) agreed to sell Apple the "global trademark" for the IPAD name for £35,000, according to Proview, but the two companies have subsequently disagreed about whether that deal included China.
Apple applied to have ownership of the two relevant Chinese trademarks transferred to its name before it began selling the iPad in China early last year. The Chinese trademark office rejected the application because the trademarks are owned by Proview Technology (Shenzhen), another affiliate of Proview International, the group's Hong Kong-listed holding company, and not the Taiwan unit.
Apple then sued Proview Technology (Shenzhen), asking the court to declare the US company the rightful owner of the IPAD trademarks in China. The Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court rejected that request earlier this week in a ruling that Apple can appeal.
At the same time, Proview Technology (Shenzhen) has sued Apple resellers in the southern Chinese cities of Shenzhen and Huizhou, seeking an immediate block on sales of iPads. The Shenzhen Futian District Court is due to start hearing one case on December 30, and the Huizhou Intermediate People's Court has scheduled a hearing in the other for January 7.
"We are starting with these two cities, and if we are successful in getting iPad sales stopped, we will consider going after Apple resellers elsewhere in China," said Xie Xianghui, a lawyer with Grandall, another Chinese law firm working for Proview. Apple declined to comment.
The China trademark lawsuit comes at a time when Apple is engaged in a number of patent battles globally against Samsung Electronics and HTC, two other smartphone makers. Those cases, which span markets including the US, Germany and Australia, have so far mostly been decided in favour of Apple.
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Perhaps not. It seems to be active during the night.
Young dragons are relatively defenseless. Their scales don't grow in until right before they mature, and they have almost no strength. Once a hatchling's wings grow in, it marks the beginning of maturation. At this point they are usually left alone by their mother and begin to hunt and survive on their own.


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I saw your mother in the grocery store the other day, looking lost in the bakery aisle. She had a loaf of bread in her hand, holding it by the twist tie end of the bag, so it was swaying back and forth like a pendulum, the way you must have been swaying, when she walked into the shed that day, looking for a gardening tool or whatever. Thinking you were at school, finding missing angles in triangles and passing notes to Jenny B. Living, happy. Okay.
- Excerpt from Chad Pelley's, "Before I Was Me."
No one ever finds it easy being a teenager. When you're that age - and adults forget this, says local writer Chad Pelley - you feel things at 150 per cent; more intensely, more passionately, more immediately.
Pelley, himself, admits he didn't find junior high and high school as challenging as some of his friends. Specifically three of them, one of whom killed himself, one who was raped, and one who was tormented at school because she had had an abortion.
When Pelley was approached by Fierce Ink Press Co-op Ltd. to participate in an e-book series, he drew on the lives of his schoolmates and of Amanda Todd, to come up with "Before I Was Me," his newest short story.
Amanda, a Grade 10 student in B.C., killed herself last October after posting a video on YouTube in which she used flash cards to tell a story of being blackmailed online, beaten and bullied.
"I saw that video the day after Fierce Ink approached me, cue card after cue card laid out. It was brutal and it reminded me of what high school was like," Pelley says.
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Pelley is an award-winning writer, known for his novel "Away from Everywhere" and his blog, "Salty Ink."
"Before I Was Me" is a work of creative non-fiction; a note written to a high school girlfriend who had killed herself 16 years earlier.
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While the elements of Pelley's story are true, he has used his creative license. In his writing, the rape, abortion and suicide happens to one person, his girlfriend, instead of three.
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"I'm exceptionally open, and I don't get embarrassed by stuff - I don't have that gene or trait," he says.
"I'm fine with putting it on the page because I think it comes off more effectively, and that's what I was trying to do: make a really powerful, resonant story as much as I could. I was trying to write about how I was affected.
The point of the story, Pelley says, is humans generally don't discover who they are until they're at least in their 20s. Teenagers who commit suicide never get to come to this realization, and miss out on ever becoming who they were meant to be.
"That's what bothers me, and should bother them," he explains.
"Parents with teenagers in high school forget what it's like to feel life so intensely. It's easy to shrug off whatever's going on in their lives as being silly. Like people passing mean notes - it's ridiculous looking back on it, but it affects their lives so much at the time.
"There are still 100,000 kids in Canada a year that commit suicide, and I had no idea until I saw a link after that YouTube video. Maybe effectively communicating with these kids on a personal level is the way to go, because something's not working.
Pelley wrote the story to appeal to a teenage audience - the writing is direct, less poetic and subtle than his other projects, but his use of description and the cadence of his words are powerful.
It's the math of your decision that haunts me. The average Canadian woman lives 972 months. Four divided by 972 was not even one per cent of your life. But you let grade twelve matter more than the 99% of your life that had happened, or didn't get to happen. Those 10 kids in Grade 12: they loved you, then they didn't, and then they would've loved you again.
A handful of award-winning and acclaimed authors from Atlantic Canada are participating in Fierce Ink's project, which was inspired by syndicated columnist Dan Savage's "It Gets Better" campaign for LGBT youth.
The aim of the digital imprint, Fierce Ink says, is to give a voice to teenage issues from the perspective of adults who've been there, and who've gone on to achieve success.
Other Newfoundland and Labrador writers taking part include "Moonlight Sketches" author Gerard Collins and Jamie Fitzpatrick, who won the province's Fresh Fish Award for emerging writers with "You Could Believe in Nothing."
Twenty per cent of the proceeds from the digital sale of the stories will go to a charity of the author's choice: Collins has chosen For the Love of Learning, Fitzpatrick has picked Choices for Youth, and Pelley's charity is the Canadian Association of Suicide Prevention.
The stories are available for sale online at fierceinkpress.com/shop.
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The blockbuster film "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" will be shown in the Frist Film/Performance Theater at 11:15 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, April 4-6.
Based on the J.K. Rowling books, the story follows an 11-year-old boy who learns that he is the orphaned son of two wizards, just as he begins an exciting trek to the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Daniel Radcliffe stars as Harry. He is joined by an all-star supporting cast, including Alan Rickman, John Cleese, Robbie Coltrane, Richard Griffiths, Richard Harris, Ian Hart, Maggie Smith and Fiona Shaw .
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NATCHITOCHES (AP) — State police are investigating a single-vehicle crash that killed Ricky Issac Jr., a Natchitoches Parish sheriff's deputy.
The crash occurred Saturday on La. 1, south of Natchitoches.
Troopers say Issac was entering a slight left curve when his police cruiser hydroplaned in the rain, went off the road and hit several trees. Issac, who was wearing a seat best, was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Issac was on-duty when the crash occurred.
Trooper Stephen Hammons say Issac is survived by his wife, who is pregnant with their first child.


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Mono Flatware
Peter Raake
With the design of the legendary mono-a flatware, the designer, born in Hanau in 1928, made design history. He further developed many designs that have become part of German daily life. In his teaching capacity at design institutions in Darmstadt, Kassel and Ulm, as well as Professor of Industrial Design at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Hamburg, he influenced many a young designer. In 2003 he was honored with a retrospective — 50 Years of Peter Raacke Design — at the German Technology Museum in Berlin.


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does anyone know any information on this??????
does anyone know any information on this??????
Up, up, and OKAAAAY!!!
I would kill for a Cruisemissile improvement, preferably in better scale and with a removable Captain Frassk, in pseudo-vintage packaging.
The only thing that would be cooler, and not by much, would be pseudo-vintage packaging on Dengar's Swoop.
That's my jacket!
While I appreciate the input on the subject El Chuxter there is another thread that I created on this that would better fit what you stated.
Please keep this on topic.
Up, up, and OKAAAAY!!!
This would be the absolute last thing I would care about seeing in the future.
We keep getting all of this ridiculous EU so I'd rather have the Cruisemissle Trooper (CMT) since it was actually in the movies. They've been pigeonholing a LOT of characters and vehicles that have been in the movies in favor of crap that's just made up for a book or comic.
Up, up, and OKAAAAY!!!
"so I'd rather have the Cruisemissle Trooper (CMT) since it was actually in the movies."
In which movie(s) was this character / vehicle? I thought it was EU...
Since good is a relative term, I am assuming you mean either Episode 4 or 5...?
I would love t see Hasbro retackle the Cruise Missile vehicle again and make it better in scale with removable figure... that would be awesome I would definately pick up around 4 of these guys...
I found this vehicle over the weekend while cleaning up and had to fly around the room with it launching the missles.... BEST EU DESIGN BY HASBRO !!!!!
Looking for CW 2010 Sidious and TX-20...if anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated. thanks


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On May 5, 1862, a small army of about 5,000 ill-equipped Mestizos and Zapotec Indians defeated the French army at Puebla, a small town in southern Mexico. The nearly miraculous Mexican victory temporarily stopped France's progression toward Mexico City and its ultimate goal of an empire in Mexico. Unfortunately, the triumph was short-lived. As soon as Napoleon learned of the humiliating defeat, he deployed an additional 30,000 troops. Within a year, he'd taken over Mexico City and installed the Archduke Maximilian of Austria as ruler of the new empire.
More shocking than the outcome of the Battle of Puebla? The popularity of such a historically insignificant event in the U.S. The idea of honoring Cinco de Mayo first came about in the '50s and was meant to function as a bridge between Mexican and American cultures in the U.S. Cinco de Mayo became a way to build pride among Chicano activists during the '60s. In the years that followed, the unofficial holiday was commercialized, transforming it into the drinking fest we all know and love today.
If you've read this far, you've probably noticed what Cinco de Mayo isn't—Mexican Independence Day. Mexico's Independence Day is actually el Dieciseis de Septiembre, or Sept. 16. But it's not just the history of the holiday that gets confused here. A Cinco de Mayo party would be nothing without Mexican beer, food and music—yet how much of what we think is "traditionally Mexican" is actually Mexican?
Beer—By the 19th century, many German and Irish immigrants had settled in territory that today is southern Texas. When the Mexican-American War broke out, many of these immigrants sided with Mexico and moved deeper into what is still present-day Mexico. They brought their brewing traditions with them. Before long, European techniques had a transformative influence on Mexican beer, which was traditionally corn-based instead of Europe's barley- and wheat-based brews. Mexican beer was also greatly influenced during the short reign of Maximilian, who allegedly never traveled without his German brewmasters. So how Mexican are beers like Dos Equis and Tecate? Aside from the name, hardly. Wilhelm Hasse, co-founder of Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma Brewery and inventor of Dos Equis beer, was in fact a German immigrant, so naturally the style of his beers are European. Dos Equis Amber is a Vienna-style Amber Lager. Dos Equis Special Lager is basically a Pilsner, a pale Lager with origins in the Czech city of Pilsen. The Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma Brewery also produces Tecate, another popular pale Lager here in the U.S. The brewery itself is owned today by the Dutch brewing company Heineken International.
Tequila—Agave, also known as maguey, had been harvested by the Aztecs long before the Spanish arrived in Mexico. The Aztecs would make a drink called pulque by fermenting the sap from the maguey into alcohol. But it was the Spaniards who brought the technique of distillation from Europe and figured out how to distill the pulque into mescal. Tequila, in turn, is a specific type of mescal.
Tortillas—Tortillas are 100 percent Mexican. The Aztecs were making tortillas as far back as 10,000 years before Christ. The word tortilla itself, however, is Spanish. It comes from the Spanish word torta, which means "round cake."
Tortilla Chips—Though tortillas are Mexican, tortilla chips are not. Their invention is credited to Rebecca Webb Carranza, who owned a tortilla factory in Los Angeles and fried the rejects.
Cilantro—Also known as coriander, cilantro was originally cultivated by the ancient Egyptians and was widely used in both Greek and Roman cultures. Though the use of cilantro can be traced back as far as 5,000 B.C., it was not introduced to the Americas until 1670 by the British.
Mariachi bands are similar to the Spanish theatrical orchestras of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, which were comprised of two violins (originally from Italy), two trumpets and a few guitars. A traditional mariachi band is made up of three violins, two trumpets, one guitar, one vihuela, one guitarrón and sometimes a harp. The vihuela and the guitarrón are really the only truly Mexican instruments used in mariachi bands. The charros the mariachis wear are traditional Mexican clothing for cowboys from the Jalisco area. The music itself came from the local folk music around Jalisco and often incorporates themes from the Mexican Revolution.
So what can we take away from this little blood-
On Wednesday, May 5, join your favorite alt.weekly for Cinco de Mayo at Downtown's Blackbird Buvette (509 Central NW, 243-0878). In addition to music and Mexican candy, we'll be serving free Frito pie (while it lasts) from 5 to 10 p.m. on the back patio! Bring your I.D., as this party is for adults 21 and older. ¡Que viva la fiesta!


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The Orioles lose a legend
Posted on 3 Apr 2010 by Ron Burr.
Only 2 teams have ever had 4 20 game winners on the same staff; the 1920 Chicago White Sox and the 1971 Baltimore Orioles. The Orioles, their fans, and all of baseball lost one of those 20 game winners yesterday when Miguel "Mike" Cuellar passed away after a battle with stomach cancer. He was 72 Mike Cuellar celebrating with Brooks Robinson after winning the 5th and deciding gam...


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Seems that unemployment stayed at 9.1% ... didn't get better and didn't get worse.
Wonder if that's just where we'd be if we never spent all that money on "stimulus"?
Supposedly there is bi-partisan support for the transportation bill pending. Wonder if that includes the two hi-speed rail proposals that only seem to look good on paper ... but which are impractical/fairly useless for the areas for which they are proposed. Would sound more reasonable to fix all the bridges before worrying about hi-speed rail. Even a bridge like the Tappan Zee, for example, is an accident waiting to happen.


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How to Wear Patchwork Denim
Making Patchwork Work: 3 Ways to Wear Spring's Bohemian-Cool Denim Trend
Patchwork denim is back in a big way: we saw the look on the Spring runways from designers like Ralph Lauren, Isabel Marant, and Charlotte Ronson, but rest assured: these aren't your mom's patchwork pieces. The sewn-together look of today may still have that inherently '60s feel, but can also be made more modern with the right accoutrements, like structured separates and minimal accessories. To help you get started on trying the trend for yourself, we've taken three key patchwork denim pieces and styled them up three ways; for work, weekend, and party time. Click through to see and shop them now.


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Former Malaysian AIDS Council president to speak, March 28
Posted March 19, 2006; 08:01 p.m.
Marina Mahathir, an author, journalist and until recently president
of the Malaysian AIDS Council, will speak at 8 p.m. Tuesday, March 28,
in McCosh 50. Her lecture is titled "Fatal Confluences: Islam, Gender
and HIV/AIDS in Malaysia."
Mahathir, the daughter of Mahathir Mohamad, Malaysia's former prime minister, is an activist for HIV/AIDS awareness as well as other social causes. During her leadership of the Malaysian AIDS Council, which was established to coordinate the work of nongovernmental organizations fighting the Asian AIDS epidemic, she became an outspoken critic of political, economic and cultural policies that make certain populations especially vulnerable to HIV infection.
As a Muslim, she is particularly interested in the relationship between gender, religion and the general welfare of women. Her lecture will present a case study of the conservative state of Kelantan in northeast Malaysia, where religious mores and socio-economic factors have combined to create an environment particularly perilous for women.
The event is designated as a Walter E. Edge Lecture and is sponsored by Public Lecture Series.


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Seagate Buys Backup Services Co. EVault for $185M
Hard drive maker Seagate Technology will buy EVault for US$185 million in an acquisition designed to bolster Seagate's managed services business, the company said on Thursday.EVault, based in Emeryville, Calif., provides online network backup, recovery and data-protection products for small to midsize businesses (SMBs). Seagate said the market segment comprises 74 million businesses and represents a multibillion-dollar growth area.EVault is ...
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IBM Entry-Level Storage Offerings Get a Boost
IBM is adding features and capacity to its entry-level disk storage array products for small to midsize businesses (SMBs) to match that of more expensive enterprise-level systems.An industry analyst says IBM, along with its competitors, is offering improved storage capability, easier-to-use management software and lower prices to smaller businesses that need more storage but may not be as technology savvy ...
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HP Shines Spotlight on Storage, Server Software
HP is continuing its corporate reorganization, this time creating a new unit to focus on its storage and server software.
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IBM to Scoop Up Softek Storage Solutions
IBM has agreed to buy Softek Storage Solutions for an undisclosed sum. It plans to use Softek's data mobility technology to build more flexible and efficient storage systems for customers of its Global Technology Services division.Softek's Transparent Data Migration Facility (TDMF) product can be used to keep data available while moving it from one storage system to another, whether it ...
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The ChaoCipher
ChaoCipher was a rotor cipher invented in 1918 by John Byrne but kept secret by him. Just recently, the Byrne family has donated his papers and work to the National Cryptologic Museum (a fascinating place - you can even use an old Cray as a couch ala Sneakers), and with some work Moshe Rubin has figured out the full system and described it in a new paper.
I woke up around 4:30 this morning and had a little time to kill, so I whipped up a quick implementation of the ChaoCipher in Python. It's quite a bit shorter than the Perl implementation given in the appendix of Moshe's paper, though it doesn't do file I/O; it just encrypts and then decrypts the example given in the paper to verify that things seem to be working OK. I'm sure the current implementation could be made somewhat faster by avoiding list manipulation and instead moving the zenith and nadir points, though some swapping and moving seems unavoidable.
The key consists of a pair of permutations on the 26 character alphabet - that's roughly a 90 bit key! I wonder if there were key length export restrictions in place in 1918...


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The Triple Helix That Wasn't
Why It Matters
Hmmm, How Does This Go Together?
You hear about DNA a lot these days. Technology has advanced to the point where new lines of research and questioning are possible that not very long ago simply weren't. But do you know that about 50 years ago scientists were working to just understand how DNA was put together?
It is always best to to hear information from the source. Here are Watson and Crick talking about their work.
With all our technology today, it is easy to forget how much can be accomplished with simple means and the human brain. Here is James Watson explaining the process he went through while working on DNA's molecular structure.
Explore More
Use the resources below to answer the following questions:
- In the structure of DNA, where are the phosphate (PO4) groups located? Where are the nucleic acids located?
- How does the discovery of the molecular structure of DNA illustrate the value of scientists working in teams?
- How do you think scientists being too fond of their own ideas (which many non-scientists are as well) runs counter to the scientific process?
- How did Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins contribute to determining DNA's molecular structure?
- How did the amount of water (H2O) contained in DNA cause problems for the hypothesis that DNA was a triple helix?
Resources Cited
- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/do53dn.html
- http://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/discovery-of-dna-structure-and-function-watson-397
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiiFVSvLfGE *http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiiFVSvLfGE]
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuxDFeeNQTE
- http://18.104.22.168/educational/medicine/dna_double_helix/readmore.html
- http://www.dnai.org/timeline/index.html


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1735 Second Avenue (between 89th and 90th)
Upper East Side
(212) 289-8226 molenyc.com
New York City is a melting pot. Its inhabitants come from all corners of the world. As travelers move here to make the city their home, their culture is the first thing that gets unpacked when they arrive. Suitcases are unzipped and it escapes into the air, becoming part of what we as New Yorkers breathe. The city's borders are the minister, or clergy, or rabbi that marries us and joins us in holy matrimony. It is sometimes the case that two travelers from different places find each other and find love. The next step is generally to get married. When the couple shares a passion for food, as is the case with Nick Cervera and Guadalupe Elizalde, after you get married, you open a Mexican restaurant.
Nick and Guadalupe are the owners of the Mole restaurants. With locations established on the Lower East Side (205 Allen Street), the West Village (57 Jane Street), and Williamsburg, Brooklyn (178 Kent Avenue), the opening of the Upper East Side location in March, at 1735 2nd Avenue, marks their fourth endeavor. Before it was transformed into a Mole, the Upper East Side 1735 address was the home to a print shop. At a recent tasting, Nick sat at the table before dinner ensued and spoke proudly of the work he put forth to make the interior what it is today; a comfortable, rustic, yet elegant display of Mexican-meets-New York heritage. Original exposed brick is decorated with black and white photos Nick took himself on his visits to Mexico, Guadalupe's native country. The 17-foot long bar is made from 200-year old reclaimed wood and custom made Mexican tiles. It stands a bit off to the side, almost separate from the dining room. This is an intentional move designed to keep refugees from Brother Jimmy's from stumbling in and ordering shots of Jose Cuervo after the Jets or Yankees suffer a loss.
Guadalupe cooks traditional fare at Mole and she is guided by original family recipes. There is a caldo on the menu, Caldo Tlalpeno. Variations of caldo (meaning "soup" or "broth") exist in most Spanish speaking countries. At Mole, their caldo takes its name from a town about an hour and a half south of Mexico City. Nick mentioned that, driving between these two cities, roadside stands dot the road and sell this caldo along the way. Shredded chicken and mushrooms are the only thing keeping this clear, "mountainside" broth company. Chopped raw onions, cilantro, and lime accompany the soup, should you feel so inclined to disrupt the intense, deep, rich, clean spice that manages to hide in the deceiving broth.
You will find huitlacoche on the menu. Huitlacoche is a wild, naturally occurring corn fungus. During exceptionally rainy seasons, rain water can penetrate the husks that are supposed to protect corn from the elements and result in the growth of huitlacoche. Due to its rarity and inability to be harvested, the fungus is often referred to as the Mexican truffle. The ingredient is truly unique to Mexican cooking and Mole uses it with an ancestral understanding
Taquitos de Barbacoa are prepared at Mole "Relinas style," a name used in devotion to Lupe's dad, who would make the dish in Guadalupe's youth by burying the meat used to fill the taquitos in cactus leaf and cooking it in the soil on his ranch for 12 hours.
Enchilada de Pato en Mole Poblano is the piece de resistance. The dish features duck confit, done here "carnitas style," referring to the technique of cooking an animal in its own fat. The cooking method is commonly applied to pork, resulting in carnitas tacos. The sauce, Mole Poblano, is something like Mexican marinara, or Central America's bechamel. It has taken on many forms and colors since nuns created it in the 16th century for the visiting archbishop. For use at the Mole restaurants, it is made in Mexico by Guadalupe's mom and then flown here. It is intensely rich, dark and sweet from the inclusion of chocolate, both smoky and spicy from dried chilies, and made more complex, and texturally whimsical, with the addition of sesame seeds.
Though it is not an option listed on the menu, Nick is happy to pair each course with a different spirit, a move inspired by the philosophy practiced and popularized at places like Gramercy Tavern and Le Bernardin, and one that is rarely ever applied to Mexican cuisine. It provides Nick the chance to showcase the diversity of the 100 plus tequilas and mezcals Mole has on hand along with his understanding of his wife's food.
As Mole continues to expand, Nick and Guadalupe keep a few Mexican-American standbys on the menu to appease their ever reaching clientele. You get the sense that fajitas are thrown onto the menu only to prevent the uninformed argument that, "Wait, you're a Mexican restaurant and you don't have fajitas on the menu?!" Like other Mexican haunts throughout the city, the guacamole is made table-side, but something about it seems less gimmicky when it's done for you here.
The different locations of Mole itself are a reflection of the owners' marriage. Their chain of restaurants is an extension of their home, a home whose doors are kept open for you seven days a week. Guadalupe came out from the kitchen at the end of the meal and introduced herself simply as Lupe. As she leaned down over our table, her smile seemed to say, "I'm just Lupe, and this is just the food I've been eating since I was a kid."


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Ends today. The Sports Authority is offering 25% off sitewide. Discount reflected in cart; applicable % off stated on product page. Certain exclusions apply. Shipping starts at $3 for many items.
Deal has expired
How is this place still in business?
It's not really a bad store for sports equipment, but these deals piss me off. Certain exclusions apply my a**. Certain inclusions apply, you mean. If you need generic things like a water bottle or sports tape this deal works. I think I might have even gotten it to apply to a tennis racket one time but that was pure luck.


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- Chris Brooker, BSc, MSc, RGN, SCM, RNT, Author and Lecturer, Norfolk, UK
The 75th anniversary edition of this dictionary has been greatly expanded, with 35% more entries to include terminology in fast-changing areas such as critical care, nutrition, sports and exercise, and oncology. Illustrations have also been included for the first time.
New to This Edition
- More than 3,000 new entries present the latest terminology in radiography, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, nutrition, optometry, paramedical terms, pharmacology, sports rehabilitation, anatomical terms, and more.
- Over 150 2-color illustrations visually reinforce definitions.
- A companion DVD includes:
- A spellchecker tool you can upload to your computer to ensure accuracy when typing medical terms.
- Full-color illustrations of the major body systems presented in labeled and unlabeled formats so you can test your identification skills and verify your knowledge.
- 30 additional color photographs that help you identify selected conditions.
- Basic Life Support (BLS) Algorithms that reflect the latest resuscitation guidelines
- Links to additional sources of information.
Key Features
- Reliable, easy-to-read definitions for more than 12,000 terms.
- A full-color section that illustrates the body systems in vivid detail.
- An extensive array of appendices that provide quick access to important information.
- A concise, compact format that ensures portability and ease-of-use.
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Roselle beating up some skeletons in the Wine Cellar.
Showing a bit of power
Watching Bramune`s chaos, thinking how to save the town.
Leila and Edgar rocking epic dark weapons
My Tude havin' a dance party with an infected Crimson Glove (insert techno music).
(Here's a link in case you can't fullscreen it).
In A Game, Where Being A Bear Is Awesome, With A Cute Chick With A Big Backpack (called Momo) That Be Your Slav.. I Mean Pet :P, And Where You Can Meet A One-Of-A-Kind Strawberry Milk Cow, I Present The Random Fun Of Rusty Hearts
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IGN: installme-lvl:42 Frantz (Axe)and lilvergerius-lvl:25 Lelila(Unfocus)
we're lookin at the AOE section clearing skill for the tude class the shadow wolf .
The Great Race.
Site was not showing my post so i accidentally double posted, sorry
Frantz hard blow counter
Sorry if I forgot to put this and I'm VERY late about it (Didn't really read the instructions till now), but this area is the Other World. A place created by a monster known as Margoras. Randomly after the player(s) completes a dungeon run, this monster may warp the player here to kill some mobs. After the mobs are dead (Like these lizard mobs Sleekers and Needlers in the screenshot), Margoras rewards the player(s) (For the entertainment I'm guessing) with the common prize, riddle boxes or if the player(s) are lucky, a gem box. Riddle boxes give random items like gear and crafting materials. Like in most MMORPG I have seen, Gem Boxes give a gem to the player to put inside the socket of their gear.
Everyone into the safty cirle, Posion bomb raining down. Hey Momo get in here!
My Dying Days with the dog that i fed and got poisoned ..
while waiting if there is a roll back (sigh)....