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The reason these shitty list articles have flooded the Internet is because they're cheap, easy to generate, quick to read and require no creative work; a pig with a stick in its mouth could tap one out in morse. Marketers then disseminate these shitty list articles (or mundane infographics) by emailing influential bloggers and "suggesting" links for their readers. And here's the part that makes my heart palpitate with anger: It works.
The reason? Because most people who have blogs, websites and Tumblr accounts are too lazy to come up with content of their own, so they link to other websites with disposable content like lists. Lists are the perfect form of entertainment for a generation brought up on Twitter, because every list comes with an unspoken guarantee to the reader that they won't have to invest too much time or mental energy in reading anything that might challenge them.
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Here are the things that a video game list is designed to accomplish: They are an endgame of videogame criticism, a summary of one's thoughts on the medium. Ideally, they are the result of time spent playing hundreds upon thousands of games, reading up on the games, developing a personal philosophy of what constitutes a good game, commenting on those games, and subjecting your opinions to a proper peer review process. If your lists are done correctly, then the final results should reveal no new or surprising information to long-time readers, because you have indirectly revealed this information through reviews, analysis, and commentary. For new readers, these lists are a reference tool, an introduction to one's writing.
This is what the video game list has become: A means for people to comment authoritatively on topics they understand little about. Incentive is generated by the incredible number of readers who flock to read these lists. These lists will do little to challenge one's worldview, or even the expectation of an entry's word count. But in addition, these lists empower the reader. That is to say, "This asshole is wrong! Here's my choices, mine are so much better than his!" And sadly, people now value the assertion of authority (the Top X list) over the things that are designed to create that authority (reviews, analysis, commentary).
There are web sites which have built their entire business model around these lists, and not merely sites like Ranker and Cracked. (Hell, Cracked's writers will format long essays into lists in order to make sure their list-addled audiences will read the damn things.) On the topic of videogames, Old-Wizard was probably the most notorious example, the site content made up almost exclusively of Top X lists. As an example of a site that still stands, you end up with UGO, featuring nonsense like "The Top Ten Ways to Kill Your Sims"*, the "Unsexiest Sexy Video Game Characters"*, and "Basketball Games Without LeBron James"*. And I'm sure they could only name sixteen basketball games because the research got so exhaustive and difficult.
Lists such as these are utterly pointless to begin with, and their place in the spectrum could be "justified" (and subsequently ignored) with a couple of simple modifiers: "I Think These Are", "My Favorite", "In My Opinion", and so forth. Yes, you could also apply this criteria to the matter of "ranking games". For instance, "My 10 Favorite Video Games of All-Time" could be a perfectly acceptable entry. (It will also be ignored, because you're not putting your foot down and challenging everybody else's opinion through an inflammatory title.) But I'm going to focus on the topic of "ranking games" for the remainder of this entry. If we go after the King of Videogame Lists™, the act of asserting which games that we should preserve, then every game list will burn with it.
Obviously, the easy answer is that most of these game lists don't even supply a thesis. Go back to UGO and their list of the "Top 25 Fighting Games of All-Time"*, a chronicle of fandom in one of the most passionate and inaccessible communities in video games. UGO's thesis? "The best fighting games of all time duked it out in a Battle Royal. Who came out on top?" Oh, well, that should clearly settle any confusion over the selection process, particularly after you placed a Mortal Kombat and Killer Instinct game in your top ten, two series long reviled by the fighting game community. And then you finish the list with 1992's Street Fighter II Turbo, outlined in a description of 1991's Street Fighter II: The World Warrior, and concluding with a Super Nintendo screencap of 1993's Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers. But you see, an exhaustive explanation of the criteria would allow for subdued disagreement, i.e. "I see how you came to this choice, but I don't agree with it." That's bad for business. "I DNO'T EVEN NO HOW THIS MORAN CAEM TOO THESE CONCLUSION'S" generates far more traffic than a reasoned explanation of your selection process.
Meanwhile, nobody stops to think about the difference between "best games" (of highest quality) and "greatest games" (of highest magnitude), despite the world of difference between these two terms. If you choose to pick games based on their legacy, how do you weight certain qualities? What does popularity count for? Impact on the industry? Quality of the game? And almost all of these lists are biased and centralized around their country of origin, with little consideration given to international games that were not released domestically. So much as sports-journalism-slash-cheerleader ESPN created a list of the twentieth century's "greatest athletes" that was explicitly centered around North American accomplishment, don't expect any games that weren't released in America to make it on an American's best-of, and don't expect to see any Western games on a list authored by the Japanese. (Good luck telling a demilitarized Japan that first-person shooters and real-time strategy games kick ass.)
But even if you adequately accomplish this, you're still hopeless. For instance, what happens when someone says that Metroid Prime is "the fifth-best game for the Nintendo GameCube?" My response would be "I want to read his body of work as it pertains to all 638 games that got a commercial release for the Nintendo GameCube." And if that body of work does not exist, if that body of work is not sufficient, then I have no reason to give a shit. So, you know what I say when someone tries to tell me what the ten, or twenty, or fifty, or one-hundred best or greatest video games are? A topic where one is expected to be an authority on not just the 638 Nintendo GameCube games, but authoritative on tens of thousands of commercially-published and amateur video games, all spanning dozens upon dozens of notable and obscure genres? "You're really fucking stupid, aren't you?"
Today, there is one "meaningful" list of rankings that I could accomplish with a defend-it-to-the-death level of authority: Blizzard Entertainment real-time strategy games. That's it. That is five full games and three expansion packs. I know that Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne and StarCraft: Brood War would go near the top and Warcraft: Orcs and Humans and StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty would go near the bottom. (StarCraft II flame war incoming. Just the way the list-writers want it.) And even then, I would have to figure out how I rank expansion packs, and whether I give Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness bonus points for its numerous contributions to its genre.
But in the pursuit of writing about the games, there are a lot of times that I feel woefully uninformed about the medium, particularly as it applies to wonderful genres such as roguelikes, adventure games, fighting games, and shoot 'em ups. There's a lot of games that I haven't played, and an even greater percentage that I have not played to completion or mastery. There are a lot of cases where I will say, "I don't know much about that game, I'll direct you to someone who does." I reserve my judgment on those games and let other knowledgeable players speak about them.
Based on what I've seen, read, and heard, there are currently zero individuals on this planet who have the acumen and authority to create a Top X Games List, and that number will remain constant for the foreseeable future. "So just get a bunch of people together and create a composite list! That way, they can take their strengths and put them all together!" Well, all you have to do is look at how the journlolism sites manage these lists to find the problem with that: The writers just bring out each other's weaknesses. (And let's not even go into the matter of allowing online users to vote on the choices. These are the same people that told you Electronic Arts is the "Worst Company in America".) Everyone has their own thesis and no amount of "objectivity" will get everyone on the same page.
As it applies to the game journlolism mills, their "Top X Game Lists" are a by-committee process where those who specialize in particular genres are not going to overrule or intensely challenge peers who "specialize" on another topic, lest they get shut out of the free Chinese food that comes with creating these lists. So while someone who reviews first-person shooters for the site may have never played Wonder Boy III: The Dragon's Trap or Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure or Castlevania: Rondo of Blood, they have played all of the Mario games, because who hasn't played Mario? That's because Mario is the best platforming series ever! And from there, it only becomes a matter of which Mario game will get the top ranking for platformers. (And you can fight over whether I should classify Castlevania and company as platformers instead of action-platformers, but Mario is beating them, anyway.)
In addition, these companies have created a review racket where the most visible, accessible games get the highest scores. Yes, we've talked about this before. So rather than watch writers admit their foolishness (where the first listing on the IGN Top 100 PlayStation 2 games begins with what is basically an apology* for their infamous God Hand review*), they have to honor the continuity and narrative of the site. While games which previously received perfect scores may not get the top spot (where IGN's perfect score for Grand Theft Auto IV gets the game tenth place in a rundown of the top PlayStation 3 games*), but what has previously been awarded glowing praise (regardless of whether the game actually deserved it) will continue to earn that status. And by extension, less popular and esteemed genres such as shoot 'em ups, fighting games, roguelikes, and strategy games will be underrepresented, if represented at all.
By virtue of this selection process, a democratic process which values popularity over the right choice, the top of the list will always end up with some combination of the following games: StarCraft will always supplant Total Annihilation, Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance, or any number of top-notch RTS games. Shadow of the Colossus and Portal will always make it, because they're emotional and shit. BioShock will always supplant the superior System Shock 2. The Nintendo-published versions of Tetris will always beat out the superior Tengen iteration or any of the Tetris The Grand Master games, if the editors have even heard of them. From there, since picking more than one game in a series is taboo, you end up with either one of the first two Doom games, one of the first two Diablo games, and a Metroid game. (An exception may be made for Metroid Prime, since it is so dissimilar from Super Metroid.) Of course, an exception for this multiple-choice rule will always be made for the Mario and Zelda games, which may combine for as many as five of the top twenty spots (Super Mario Bros., Super Mario World, The Legend of Zelda, 1991's A Link to the Past, 1998's Ocarina of Time), as they did in IGN's 2007 rankings.*
Afterward, you get a couple homages to the beginning of the industry, with Pac-Man or Ms. Pac-Man usually getting a higher spot than Pong. In modern lists, there will be some half-assed concession to the "casual gaming" audience, often Angry Birds, potentially Farmville, with the recent G4TV rundown name-dropping Words With Friends, a game which will have completely disappeared from public consciousness within ten years. These write-ups discussing casual video games will tout that "this is proof video games are more popular than ever before!" Add one or two crappy indie games to cap it off, usually Braid or Cave Story. Then finally, round out your Top Fifty or Top Hundred with a bunch of games high on the MetaCritic chain of command, a mere handful of which were actually published before 1999. (And with every passing year, you can add a year to that cutoff date.)
Without fail, every single time one of these lists is done, you see all the same inconsistencies: You never see a shoot 'em up unless it's Space Invaders or Ikaruga (and never a game made by Cave). You'll never see a graphic adventure game unless it's made by LucasArts or Sierra. You'll never see a single adult video game, lest somebody complain somewhere. (If you want the medium to get some respect as an artform, maybe people should find out which adult games are worthy of serious praise.) You'll never see a single computer video game made before 1991, unless it's a member of the Zork or Ultima series. And if you think that's bad, don't expect to hear much of a word about the arcades. You can just continue from there: No light gun games, arcade cockpit games, puzzle-platformers other than Portal or Braid, 4X strategy games other than those with the Civilization moniker. Zero.
You see, I don't even disagree with the principle behind some of these choices. It's that every single list is the exact same, with the exact same games, making the exact same mistakes, marginalizing the exact same genres, giving the same airtime to inferior games by virtue of their popularity. "But all you have to do is find a group of real experts and have them make the list! Not those IGN clowns!" It won't happen, because the few sites featuring people who are possibly authoritative enough to create these lists are either writing about the games they have played or playing games that they haven't.
"But then how does one make sense of video games? How do they determine which ones are better than others?" I'm going to let you in on a secret: If your video game web site or web blog or even your random smattering of internet message board posts is worth a shit…you've been doing it since you wrote your first review and you gave it a score. Then, when you rated another game, you ranked it relative to the first game. Then, once you reviewed your hundredth game, you ranked your hundredth game. You were ranking games, even if you didn't realize it, even if X number of games are tied for first all-time, all being ranked with a five-out-of-five review score. And every single game you write about, your "lists" will become better and better.
So, using examples on this web site, which uses a zero-to-five-star rating scale, I have already decided that four-star games such as Bulletstorm and Serious Sam: The First Encounter are close enough in quality that it offers me no incentive to try and assert which game is better. As far as I'm concerned, their place in history is "tied". I just know that both of them are good, I highly recommend you play both games, neither are truly classic, and that's enough. If you want to see this site's "List of Classic Games", here it is, as compiled with some help from WordPress. I didn't have to put those games in a "list" to tell you which ones were better, and that's the point: One is creating lists, even if they don't consciously seek to do so. You are creating these lists the very second you organize your content.
But notice how the journalists are always creating original content for these "Best Game Lists" rather than providing a short synopsis and linking to their full review? Notice how editors and writers never link back to their site's "Review Search" function, which can be used to list and "rank" games by score?** The reason being, nobody took the content in these reviews seriously the day they were published. Not even the reviewer, who was on a deadline and had to get something to print. The goal of these reviews is to get a footprint on the internet during the release week that people are seeking this content. It's not about writing a good review, it's about fucking Google's search results in the ass.
Because it's not important that they provide authoritative analysis. The goal of an IGN or GameSpot is to be profitable for NewsCorp and CBS Interactive, respectively. It's absolutely ingenious what they've done. With a long and comprehensive list, X games can lead to X mouse clicks and generate X times the potential adclicks. 100 games can equal 100 screens, which equals 100 potential chances to click an ad on the screen. But at the same time, since nobody takes anything these sites say seriously, you can rewrite the list every year or two and completely contradict what has been written on your site in the past. Since, as the site editor will claim, your writers have a "burning desire to catalog and rank new games". Nothing meaningful gets accomplished, people bitch about rankings, bills get paid, life goes on.
And just to make the point, I've been in a couple of heated internet discussions about ranking games before. Stunning, I know. On one such instance, I very specifically outlined my criteria. I noted the impossibility of ordering the medium based on "quality" and stated that it may be possible to rank games based on their significance. In response to the absolute futility of judging tens-of-thousands of games by their quality, I went with the "greatest" moniker, which would measure critical and consumer reception, impact on future games, and "quality" as some sort of "X-factor" modifier. It would be completely disingenuous to invalidate a great chunk of video game history because the game wasn't popular, but that's the best one can do. One person responded. His response: "Well, that would be boring."
That's precisely the issue. People would rather fight over bad lists than read "boring" lists which chronicle the medium and act as reference material for a site's body of work. So fuck lists. No academic or historian is going to look at one of these shitty pieces of writing in the year 2050 and say, "Super Mario Bros. is the best game ever made? How come we haven't played that one, guys? How could we miss out on such an obscure indie gem!?" Nobody who knows the topic today takes these lists seriously, and nobody who will know the topic fifty years from now will take them seriously. So while these big sites (and others) continue to suck at rating games, go learn more about them. I'll be playing games I currently know nothing about so that one day, I can potentially write about them and "rank" them on this site. And hopefully, if I get good enough at this, some moron on the internet will put my body of work in their list of the Top 10 Video Game Sites. And then I can get pissed off that I was ranked lower than Kotaku.


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In two to three generations, humans moved from near-ubiquitous colonization by H. pylori-more than 80% of people carried them-to rates in the single digits for children born in the United States and Western Europe, Blaser says. "This is an unprecedented change in human microecology," and reflects more sweeping alterations across the human microbiota, according to Blaser and Stanley Falkow from the Stanford University School of Medicine in Stanford, Calif. They attribute this to multiple factors, including cleaner water, smaller families, births involving a higher percentage of Caesarean sections, a reduced frequency in breastfeeding, and the widespread use of antibiotics, especially among pregnant women and children. Details appear in the December 2009 Nature Reviews Microbiology (doi: 10.1038/nrmicro2245).
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For me and for many a library has been, to use the phrase of surely one of the greatest Conservative thinkers, TS Eliot, a "still point in the turning world." And now Andy Burnham wants to invade them with all the twittering of the world outside, in spite of the protestations of what are now termed "traditionalists".
I'm sorry, but if valuing the deep thought that is done best in silence, and undisturbed absorption in a subject is traditionalist, and if proper learning and study is traditional - whether it be of bee-keeping, cooking or linear B - then I am unapologetically a traditionalist. Moreover, I am a traditionalist in order to safeguard the progression of our future.
The culture secretary's suggestion is far more damaging than merely destroying the few sanctuaries of quiet left in this twittering world (though that is bad enough), it is in essence undermining the necessity of deep and complex thought that requires peace and quiet. It places day-to-day "chatter" above what current experts and generations of great thinkers down the ages have to offer us. It is an affront to expertise, to history and the value of history. It is being offered a lift on to the shoulders of giants, and saying: "No thanks, I'm staying down here, and mine's a medium latte."
Don't get me wrong, I love a medium latte. I also enjoy chattering away to my friends for hours on end. Interacting with other people in our immediate environment is one sort of learning; it teaches you about the here and now. Direct access through reading to what generations before us took their entire lifetimes to learn on a subject is another, and equally valuable. As Ziggy Marley warns Tomorrow People: "If you don't know your past, you don't know your future."
Concentrated reading (whether on screen or paper) is different from watching a TV documentary. Both have their merits, and we should value them both. But we must be aware of their differences. Text can be pondered and torn apart, while television concentrates on the experience rather than the analysis and has probably already raced onto the commercial break as you internally argue the last point.
The tragedy of all this is that the "chatter" that Burnham wants to bring into our libraries is already available in coffee shops and in many bookshops. There has been a proliferation of places which encourage web browsing and reading in a chatty environment; there is no need for libraries to replicate this. By all means, let libraries have a cafe attached where books can be taken off the shelves and read. But there is no reason for Burnham to deny people the space for quiet thought.
This is social discrimination. The well-off will still be able to access silence – for example in a room of their spacious detached house, or their country escape. My local libraries in Bristol are often peopled with GCSE students who can't find a quiet place at home to work. These are often students living in the smallest houses, from the least well-off backgrounds. Denying these children the space and silence to study and contemplate the past that the better-off may be able to find in a spare room of their house is nothing short of social discrimination at its worst. Silent libraries will become the preserve of top universities only. Burnham will be dragging us back to before the age of improvement, to a time when only the elite could afford silence.
Burnham's declaration of war on silence and history is also a veiled insult to the public, who, he assumes, have somehow become terminally incapable of accessing or understanding the kind of material their parents were able to understand, and can only digest chatter and entertainment-learning.
I have news for you, Mr Burnham. People are as intelligent as ever. Depriving the public of the space and silence to digest the thoughts of others who lived and learned before us is an insult to the public and a despicable attempt to dumb down our nation. The true progressive fights to protect the right of the public to the space for thought and understanding of things specialised and things past, in order to build a truly informed, enlightened, progressive future.


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With a foreword by Patrick Moore, Facts, Not Fear (Fraser Institute $19.95) has been adapted for Canadian readers by Liv Fredericksen and Laura Jones to defray environmental fears.
Question. "Is Canada running out of trees?" Answer. "No. The amount of wood grown increases every year, and ever year more wood grows than is harvested. Companies consistently stay within the Annual Allowable Cut total, and forest cover has actually increased in southern Ontario from 25 percent to 29 percent since the mid-1960s."
To comfort children about the disappearance of species from the earth, parents are advised to take their children to the zoo and "ask the zookeeper about its programs to breed endangered animals and reintroduce them to the wild." As well, Facts, Not Fear encourages parents to read their children the inspirational story of Noah and the Ark.
"Children are rarely told that elephants are thriving in Zimbabwe and nearby countries," says the text, originally prepared by Michael Sanera and Jane S. Shaw.
This year marks The Fraser Institute's 25th anniversary as a B.C. publisher. It was formed in response to the election of the NDP provincially in 1972. Its chief architects were T. Patrick Boyle, then Vice-President of Financial Planning at MacMillan Bloedel, and economist Csaba Hajdu, a refugee from the Russian invasion of Hungary. Boyle sought the support of industrialist J.V. Clyne to help raise seed money.
According to a celebratory history, Clyne obtained funding support from Canadian firms for the new "national intellectual enterprise". The charter of The Fraser Institute, named for the Fraser River, was granted in October of 1974.
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Splitting time at middle linebacker and defensive end, Leonard Little earned a reputation for his hard hits and quarterback sacks.
The only player to earn first team All-American honors while wearing number one for the Vols, Little did so during his senior year in 1997. The Asheville, N.C., native was also named the Associated Press' SEC Co-Defensive Player of the Year after recording a team-leading 87 tackles and collecting 8.5 quarterback sacks while leading the Big Orange to the 1997 SEC championship.
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Discussion in 'Fantasy Sports Central' started by roscoe36, Feb 13, 2010.
Sorry then buddy, I am tapped out of ideas. :( I hope you can get in.
Thanks. I'll try.
Just read this at yahoo.com. Perhaps this is your problem, Darth.
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Thanks, Rascoe. You are a good friend. I'm going to blow up all of Canuckia. Canuckians are all a bunch of cross dressing vermin.
Try a couple of mock drafts first to get the hang of it.
Another reminder, tonight/tomorrow is daylight savings. Remember to spring ahead 1 hour.
I tested my system just now. It said, "Test was successful". So we will see. I would imagine in an auction draft it's a definite disadvantage to miss the draft. :(
Yea, I missed the auction football draft. I pre-set several running back bid amounts really high hoping I would get one, but the computer spent all my money on 3 running backs (all of which had crummy seasons). Needless to say, my team sucked.
You can't blame the computer for your suckage!
Awesome. It's not the Hart Foundation without The Mouth of the South. If you're BillLaimbeer, it just gives you an excuse for a sucky season. :P
Tested it again just now. Still works. This season may be really boring for me with my team competing against nine sucky General Managers. I wonder if we can get Webz and Dre to join at the last minute so I can have a little bit of competition. I kind of hope I don't make it to the draft. Then the season MAY offer a bit of a challenge. At least for a month until I pick up all of the good free agents and stomp you guys. It's just so easy. Ho hum...
Somebody needs to tell the Cannuckian where Idaho is on the map!
Idaho is south of Canada Einstein!
T minus 30 minutes until I draft another trophy!
made it back just in tiiiiiiime! 8 days on the road, 1800 miles...impeccable timing!
you can get into the draft now, make sure everybody has set there auto bidding to 1 dollar for every player and then just let the computer pick for you.... it works really well.. well thats what roscoe told me anyways...
Is Canada the little island to the north of flyspeck island? I didn't realize it was inhabited by anyone other than pygmies.
Great draft. Took forever, but basically I have the greatest team ever and will crush everyone before the All Star break.
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The name of 2 different apocryphal, apocalyptic works reporting heavenly journeys of the Apostle Paul.
The Latin Apocalypse of Paul offers promise and warning, utilizing extensive tours of paradise and hell. Heaven is a wonderful place with rivers of honey, milk, wine, and oil for the saved, especially ascetics.Paul meets various heroes of OT and NT stories. He also tours the land of the future millennium. In hell, he witnesses the vividly described torments awaiting sinners--boiling fire, worms, torturing angels, and wild animals dismember the fallen--punishments appropriate to their particular sins. Paul successfully intercedes to allow the damned one day's exemption from their torments on Sundays. This was one of the most popular apocryphal books among early Christians.
The Coptic Apocalypse of Paul is a Christian Gnostic work recounting Paul's ascent (with the other apostles) into the tenth heaven, guided by the Holy Spirit in the form of a child. Reincarnation is the punishment of those who failed to obtain the true gnosis. The god of the OT resides in seventh heaven, whereas the true God of Spirit resides in the tenth.
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Latin Apocalypse part of the New Testament Apocrypha
Coptic Apocalypse known only from a single codex found at Nag Hammadi
Written under the pseudonym of Paul
Latin Apocalypse: 3rd - 5th century
Tarsus introduction (chs. 1 & 2) claims the book was discovered in 388
Coptic Apocalypse: 2nd / 3rd century
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Latin Apocalypse:
Apocalypse of Peter
Coptic Apocalypse
Coptic Apocalypse:
Biograpical notices from the canonical Pauline epistles
Gnostic speculation (e.g., identifying the God of the OT as the Demiurge)
Original Languages:
The Latin Apocalypse translates a lost original Greek apocalypse.
Translations exist in Greek (abridged), Armenian, Old Russian, Syriac, and Coptic
The Coptic (Achmimic) Apocalypse is not a translation of the Latin (or its original Greek) Apocalypse.
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Great food at very reasonable prices
Great food at very reasonable prices
Open for dinner until around midnight
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This is a good chance to splurge and order something special, like a whole tub-tim fish deep fried and served with fried Thai basil leaves, or a wild boar jungle curry.
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Evaluating the Transport of Aquatic Organisms via Ship Ballast WaterThe primary objective of this project is to identify and quantify the bacteria, phytoplankton, and small fauna (maximum dimension < 80 µm) in the ballast water of vessels engaged in U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) operations, with emphasis on non-indigenous and/or harmful organisms. A second objective is to evaluate relationships between the observed biological diversity/abundance, environmental conditions, and ballast water management activities aboard theses ships. The project's multi-disciplinary team of investigators includes Drs. JoAnn Burkholder and Howard Glasgow of the North Carolina State University Center for Applied Aquatic Ecology, Dr. Gustav Hallegraeff of the University of Tasmania, Dr. Andrew Cohen of the San Francisco Bay Estuary Institute, Dr. David Oldach of the Institute of Human Virology within the University of Maryland's School of Medicine, and Dr. Michael Mallin of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Funding is provided by the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP).
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The discovery that marine species could be translocated in the ballast water of modern steel ships was first reported by Ostenfeld (1908). Large vessels take on and discharge ballast water primarily to adjust buoyancy and trim in response to changes in load and sea conditions. Ballast water is usually carried in dedicated ballast tanks, and sometimes in empty cargo holds. This essential vessel operation can result in the transport of large volumes of water from one coastal region to another, along with the resident organisms (Figure 1). The long-distance dispersal of marine microbes, plants and animals in ship ballast water is a potential environmental problem because, although the oceans are continuous, coastal marine life is geographically discontinuous. Many cases of exotic or non-indigenous species introductions have been documented, resulting in ecological and economic repercussions (e.g. Cohen 1998).
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Thirty vessels on the U.S. Pacific and Atlantic Coasts are targeted for assessment in this project. The sampling pool is comprised of oilers (Fig 2a) and cargo vessels operated by or for the Military Sealift Command. Water quality measurements are made within the ballast tanks using a sensor bundle (Fig 2b). Concentrated biological samples are collected with 20-µm plankton nets (Fig 2c), while whole-water samples are collected with a controlled-fill, air displacement sampling canister (Fig 2d).
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Bacteria – Bacteria abundance in the ballast tanks is being quantified by flow cytometry (Figure 4). Coupled with fluorometric detection and assuming reasonable distinction of particle attributes, this instrument rapidly produces particle distributions that allow differentiation and enumeration of populations within a given sample. For example based on size and chlorophyll autofluorescence, populations of bacteria and pico-eukaryotes can be distinguished from each other and from larger cells within a sample, thereby facilitating rapid enumeration of each group. Fluorometric stains that bind with nucleic acids, enzymes or other cellular constituents can also help differente biotic particles and indicate cellular viability in unpreserved samples. Molecular techniques are being used to screen for a suite of harmful bacteria: PCR is run to produce bacterial amplicon products; the bacterial amplicons have each been linked to a vector; and we are producing E. coli cell lines capable of incorporating the vector DNA product from each. Based on the data from these cell lines, we search nucleotide databases for a sequence match, and if it is not available, we determine the phylogeny. From the sequence data and species-specific PCR assays, we are identifying pathogens of interest.
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US STOCKS- S&P 500, Nasdaq break 3-day slide but Dow dips
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NEW YORK, Oct 14 (Reuters) - The S&P 500 and Nasdaq ended up slightly on Tuesday, breaking a three-day string of declines that marked their worst losses since 2011, while the Dow finished lower for a fourth session on lingering worries about global demand.
While the S&P closed in positive territory, it was well off its session highs of more than 1 percent and did little to put investors at ease about the market's recent selloff.
The benchmark index has lost 6.6 percent since its Sept. 18 record closing high and is now up just 1.6 percent for the year, while the Dow is down 1.6 percent since Dec. 31.
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The police, he says, did not help for fear of staining their clothes with the blood.
I did not grasp what this was at first, it was like the first staining of wine on the eastern sky to one who sees a sunrise.
It gushed down his chin, staining the cleanness of his robe.
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With Wright's stain it can be brought out by staining longer and washing less than for the ordinary blood-stain.
There was another, crushed and faded, and staining the leaves with its purple blood.
He had struck the fender as he fell, and the blood was flowing from a wound on his head, staining his silver hair.
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Your adorers, in disguise, have been staining the pure streets of our proud Metropolis with ruffianism.
late 14c., probably representing a merger of Old Norse steina "to paint" and a shortened form of Middle English disteynen "to discolor or stain," from Old French desteign-, stem of desteindre "to remove the color," from des- (from Latin dis- "remove;" see dis-) + Old French teindre "to dye," from Latin tingere (see tincture). Related: Stained; staining. Stained glass is attested from 1791.
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The act of applying a stain.
Modification of the color of the tooth or of the denture base to give a more realistic appearance.
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Andy's arrogance continues on.
I cant believe the media chooses to ignore the state Andy left the Eagles in. Utter mess but he gets a pass. First, he assembles a staff without a deal. arrogant #1. Then he claims Tom heckert is a package deal. Arrogant #2. Then he offers Castillo his OL job. Arrogant #3. I cant wait for some petty low life drug user to get busted and cop a plea and expose the Eagle steroid drug ring oerated by the arrogant phat man. Do you think the Eagles players shrunk by accident. they were busted. This story will find its legs sooner or later. This is a guy that went 66-61 in the last eight years. Average. What kind of spell has fat phuck cast on the NFL. Trotter graded him a 7.5 on a scale of 1-10. GTD. Hugh Douglass & Trotter said Reid on a level playing field couldnt outcoach the opposition. And then the two posters on here: One whining about our survival w/o the fatman. About the dumbest conclusion you can draw. And the other that claims Lurie ,who has said the GM and Coach separately report to him, doesnt make decisions. Please! The players a breaking protocol and dumping on the coach. Wheres that love you talk about GTD
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How about your own vaccinations?
Question to those of us who practice limited vaccination protocols. Do you get yourself vaccinated against the flu, whooping cough etc?
I have never had these and am currently debating myself if I should get a flu shot with possible risking side effects. Or what I could do to limit these. Thuja, like we would give our dogs before and after the vaccine?
Just curious.
No, I've never done the flu, whooping cough (had a severe reaction as a child to the vaccine so I'm now exempt), chicken pox, or the like vaccines.
Unless a vax is really needed I just avoid them now that I am an adult. The majority are egg based and I have a severe egg allergy. Alternatives have to be specially compounded and most of the time it is simply not worth it for me. When I was pg with Boy they determined I had no immunity to MMR (despite vax and also childhood infection with one of those) so I had to have it again right after he was born. I avoid the flu shots.
Girl has immune issues. If you walk by with a sniffle she will likely end up in the hospital a few days later. She had her childhood vax on schedule and developed NO titers! We had to redo them several times to help her develop immunity. Her tests show she is still not as strong with titers as would be expected. I count on others to vax and have herd immunity to help her fragile state. All that said, I still do not vax her for flu.
I do not do any annual vaccines, and as far as I am concerned, I am done with Vac's for life at this point.
My son had the major ones done as suggested, but I did not bother with Chicken Pox etc.
I use Certified Therapeutic Grade Essential oils for prevention and early intervention when I do get ill. Thus far I have not had any illness that lasted beyond a few hours at all last fall or this winter. I love it!
The last flu shot I received was 25 or more years ago while in the Air Force.
I've had the flu once since then, about 12 years ago.
I have no need for flu shots.
I do all vaccines available to me that I can afford and that make sense. Tetanus every 10 years, last one was a dTap or whatever b/c of the increase in whooping cough (not me getting it, but spreading it to infants). I get the flu vaccine each year since it's free. I was required to have a Hep B series and meningitis when I entered college. When I traveled to Africa I got Hep A, yellow fever (that's a fun reaction!), and typhoid. Polio and rabies were also options but I opted out based on the region of our travel. As a kid I had whatever was the going norm. I actually got chicken pox, vacc was not available yet. Incidentally, I just had Shingles (I am 29) and will not be getting a Shingles vacc because the likelihood of getting it again is about 3% whereas the vaccine only decreased your chances by about 50%. When the HPV vaccine came out I asked my Dr. about it but we decided not to do the series since it was costly, I was already married, and only a year from the age max at the time.
There is so much hysteria and misinformation about vaccines. You are not protecting yourself but OTHER people. I am a healthy person without major autoimmune problems so I see no reason I should NOT get vaccinated and protect the young, elderly, and immunocompromised people near me.
no . not for myself . two interesting interviews I listened to over the last few days - one spoke to the need to reacquaint ourselves with bacteria more , the problems with a stripped "sterile" environment and increasing allergies and other problems , the avoidance of anti-bacterial cleansing agents which promote bacteria that are resistant and avoiding triclosan in personal skin care and dish detergents as it is toxic , enters the water stream and has other environmental effects. It is an ingredient in anti gingival toothpaste .
The other discussion was about the flu vaccination and MSG which is a neurotoxin , used as a stabilizer --
so no .
There's handwashing (or excessive handwashing) and then things like meningitis, hepatitis, polio.... You can't reintroduce bacteria to yourself and expect to build up immunities to things that can be deadly or leave you with permanent problems.
Overuse of harsh antibacterial cleansers vs. vaccines are apples and oranges. A lot of things we get vaccinated against are viral.
None for myself, except tetnus every 10 years. I had my Hep vaccines and all the mandatory shots as a kid/in elementary school but haven't done anymore.
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Eelgrass (Zostera marina) grows in the shallow waters of Puget Sound. This important marine plant serves as food source, nursery, and haven for birds, fish, crabs, shellfish, and other marine organisms. Eelgrass meadows can locally reduce the effects of ocean acidification, and play an important role in carbon cycling. Eelgrass also filters sediments and nutrients, improving water clarity, and stabilizes the sea floor, which protects shorelines from erosion.
Eelgrass is valuable to the health of Puget Sound not only for the ecosystem functions it provides, but because it is sensitive to environmental stressors. Eelgrass health is an indicator of changing conditions in our watersheds and estuaries.
Although some larger eelgrass beds in Puget Sound are stable, several of the smaller, fringing beds have been changing over time. Some have been increasing, while others show a sharp decline. The reasons for these patterns are not yet fully understood, but local stressors such as shoreline alteration, pollution, and direct physical damage are likely to have a major impact on eelgrass beds in many locations.
Washington State Department of Natural Resources: Nearshore Habitat Eelgrass Monitoring
Developing Indicators and Targets for Eelgrass in Puget Sound: a Science Assessment. 2010.
Puget Sound Submerged Vegetation Monitoring Program: 2010-2013 Report. February 2015.
Submerged Vegetation Monitoring Program: Geospatial Database User Manual
Washington State Department of Ecology: Puget Sound Shorelines
Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife: Hydraulic Program Compliance and Effectiveness: Determining Sufficient Sample Size for Eelgrass Monitoring
Results Washington Eelgrass goal
Results Washington Eelgrass Findings
Puget Sound Eelgrass Recovery Strategy March 2015


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Location: Natural Resource Management ResearchTitle: Management opportunities for enhancing terrestrial CO2 sinks Author
|Post, Wilfred
|Izaurralde, R
|West, Tristram
|Liebig, Mark
|King, Anthony
Submitted to: Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 11/24/2012
Publication Date: 12/1/2012
Publication URL: http://handle.nal.usda.gov/10113/56380
Citation: Post, W.M., Izaurralde, R.C., West, T.O., Liebig, M.A., King, A.W. 2012. Management opportunities to enhance terrestrial CO2 sinks. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 10(10):554-561. DOI:10.1890/120065. Interpretive Summary: The biogeochemical potential for mitigating increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration using terrestrial biological carbon (C) sequestration is significant. We estimate the amount of C being sequestered from natural processes at the global, North America and national U.S. scale. The potential of deliberate human action to augment these natural sinks through forestry, biomass fuels, and agriculture is presented and quantified where possible. For some of these activities there is a large potential that can be realized with considerable management and land-use change. For some (e.g., reduced tillage, improved silviculture, woody bioenergy crops) implementation of these changes is already underway because of their economic benefits and co-benefits of additional ecosystem services. Others (e.g., biochar and cellulosic bioenergy crops) require additional research and evaluation of total greenhouse gas impacts to determine if widespread implementation is warranted. Collectively, there is no terrestrial biological management that will solve the carbon dioxide problem, singly or in aggregate. A diversity of current and potential management approaches have significant C sequestration potential, but also have considerable ecosystem benefits beyond C management. Such practices merit aggressive pursuit.
Technical Abstract: To address climate change and the implications of a global mean temperature increase of more than two degrees Celsius over current levels will require terrestrial carbon (C) management along with reductions in fossil fuel emissions. To achieve all or part of the global terrestrial C sequestration potential requires managing, in a concerted way, vast tracts of lands and implementing novel C sequestration methods. Using published data, we estimate the amount of C sequestered through forestry, biofeedstock production, and agriculture at different spatial scales. Forestry activities (e.g., afforestation, reforestation, deforestation avoidance, biomass energy, wood products management, and improved forest management) were found to potentially increase C sequestration in the U.S. by 370 to 740 Tg CO2-equivalent per year. The largest potential for soil C sequestration with agriculture was with no-till, averaging 1.22 t CO2-equivalent per hectare per year (range = -0.24 to 3.22 t CO2-equivalent per hectare per year). Changes in land management for the purposes of C sequestration can increase or decrease greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Total net GHG emissions must be considered using the widest applicable system boundaries of the sequestration activities to estimate net impact on the atmosphere. Collectively, there is no terrestrial biological management that will solve the CO2 problem, singly or in aggregate. A diversity of current and potential management approaches have significant C sequestration potential, but also have considerable ecosystem benefits beyond C management. Such practices merit aggressive pursuit.


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Clean & Clear Morning Glow Moisturizer with SPF 15 Reviews
Not a fan of having sparkles on my face.The "Morning Glow" that it says on the bottle is just a bunch of glitter basically. It was moisturizing but did not like how gritty it felt. I think it's because of all the glitter in it. This smells pretty good and also has SPF which I liked too. I just can't get past the grittiness and the glitter. — 6 years, 3 months agoValerie5390 | 3 reviews
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great for summerI alternate using this in the summer and clean and clear acne control moisturizer in the winter. I love that it has spf 15, even though i think 15 may be a little too low for me. I especially like putting this in specific areas such as my brow bone, the bridge of my nose, and cheek bones. I use this as an illuminator even though thats not what its intended to do. . . oh well i love multi-taski...read moreng products! i have oily skin and it looks very matte after i put on my face makeup so in my case its highlighting properties is enough for me. — 6 years, 3 months agothu_totoro | 18 reviews
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Has Shimmer!Before purchasing, I wasn't too sure what it meant by glowing? And when I purchased it I found it made your skin shimmery. I can't really decide if I like it or not, it was very runny and it did smell like sun lotion. The product wasn't really worth the money spent, about $7, however it did last for many months, it didn't quite live up to what it claims on the bottle. However I think that the quality was very light weight and lasted. — 6 years, 10 months agoAllThatBeauty | 15 reviews
Liked it!This moisturizer is quite good for the price. I really like the moisturizer. It goes on very lightly and doesn't leave any greasy residue on my face. Some people complain about the sparkles, but they are pretty unnoticeable. I only see the sparkles when I closely examine my face in the mirror. I adore how it has SPF in it. The packaging is nice. I like that the nozzle turns so that it can't be used. All in all, this is a good moisturizer! — 6 years, 2 months agopeacex33smile | 10 reviews
Meh...This stuff kind of sucks. It doesn't moisturize that well and it makes me very shiny. — 7 years, 5 months agocookiesncream | 9 reviews
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Absolute Favorite!This is my absolute favorite moisturizer. I usually don't like moisturizers because of how greasy they can feel and that they sit on top of your skin but this one absorbs nicely and doesn't make you break out. It also wears well under make-up and doesn't make skin shiny, but instead nicely illuminated. — 7 years, 9 months agogreasergirl21 | 86 reviews
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Light, freshThs is light & fresh & has an SPF factor — 7 years, 9 months agosjwriter7 | 6 reviews
Love it!Great product. When I am using it in the morning right after shower I really can feel my face "waking up". Great moisturizer as well! — 7 years, 9 months agoViktoriya | 1 reviews
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Really Disapointing:(I bought this product after viewing the reviews on this website. I purchased this product thinking it would bring a natural glow to my face. Instead of bringing a nice glow to my face it just brought glitter to my face. I thought people wouldn't notice it but one of my friends asked why their was some glitter on my face. So that didn't exactly work out. As for the moisturizing front, it just kinda...read more soften my face but it didn't exactly bring long lasting moisture. Really disapointing product. — 7 years, 11 months agoprissycat2 | 6 reviews
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Love it!I've been using this moisturizer for a few years now. It's great! It's light, non-oily, has sun protection, and my favorite thing about it is that it has itty bitty specks of glitter to give your face a subtle glow. The only thing I've noticed recently, though, is that it's less smooth in texture than other moisturizers - probably because of the glitter - but it blends well and everything still. — 8 years, 1 month agomistykitty | 10 reviews
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Torment: Tides of Numenera - Stronghold Feature Becomes a Reality
InXile has an update on Torment: Tides of Numenera. The update gives news that the stronghold feature will be included in Torment: Tides of Numenera despite the fact that the $4.5 million stretch goal wasn't conventionally reached.
Hello Forgotten Ones,
We've been having a good run at the final stretch goal and saw some real spikes and increased activity far beyond what we'd normally expect from our PayPal pledges at this stage. Thanks to all of you for your effort in rallying to the cause! However, it's looking really unlikely we'll make the $4.5M stretch goal, with our current PayPal total being $239,438, which means our total money raised so far is $4,428,365, with only two days left to reach the stretch goal.
But! Our percentage of dropped pledges was way below our estimates, proving yet again that you guys rock! As you may recall, our Lead Tormenter Brian Fargo and superfan Steven Dengler matched pledges between $1M and $3M, adding a total of $200K. That money was set aside primarily against failed pledges, but because of your dedication, we can apply enough of it toward our budget – combined with the PayPal totals – so as to have reached $4.5 million.
Which means? We made it! Because you guys are so awesome (and because Fargo and Dengler are so awesome) we can implement every single one of our stretch goals, including not just the player "stronghold" but also our ideas for expanded reactivity, length and depth, pursuing some of our crazier ideas concerning choice and consequence. As we outlined in update 19, while the classic "stronghold" concept might not fit this game the potential is there to do some really interesting things to tie it into our theme of legacy and the unique weirdness of the Ninth World. Colin's been hard at work hashing out the overall plot as well as resurrecting and moving forward with ideas we had for features such as the stronghold, and he's come up with some pretty great ones.
Thanks to all of you, we can now make those ideas happen. Thank you!
Thomas Beekers
Line Producer
Information aboutTorment:ToN
SP/MP: Single-player
Setting: Technofantasy
Genre: RPG
Platform: PC
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JR Plasters Paris Panthéon With Thousands Of Anonymous Portraits
Thanks to a photo-booth truck and the web, snapshots of unknown people will be plastered all over the Panthéon during renovations.
Street art is not a new art form, but recent technologies have brought global attention to the works created by many street artists. One artist who has garnered a particularly large following is JR, the 'undercover photographer' who has traveled everywhere from Kenya to New York creating works that allow people to share experiences and support ideas. Since his 2011 TED Prize win, he has been working on INSIDE OUT, a project that allows everyone to share their portraits to make a statement about what they stand for. Contrary to the idea of street art being unsanctioned, the French government has commissioned JR to create an installment that covers the floor, copula, and dome of the Panthéon in Paris.
Titled Au Panthéon, this installation features 4,160 anonymous wheat-pasted portraits that will be visible while the Panthéon is being restored. The Centre des Monuments Nationaux chose JR because they felt an INSIDE OUT-inspired installation would adequately capture the 'humanistic and universal values embodied by the Panthéon'.The majority of the photographs were taken by photo-booth trucks which were stationed outside of nine major monuments from February 25th- March 28th, including the Palais du Tau in Reims, La Rochelle, and the Angers Chateau. People who were unable to be on location for photographing were invited to upload pictures online, comprising about a fourth of all the portraits.
The Panthéon has been in disrepair for quite some time, and restorations will take place on the upper parts, the peristyle, interior, exterior facings, exterior flooring, and dome over the next ten years; but Au Panthéon will only be on display through October 5th. Though only one component of the INSIDE OUT project, this addition places JR in the company of people like Voltaire, Rousseau, Victor Hugo, and Émile Zola. To be part of INSIDE OUT click here.
Au Panthéon // JR // INSIDE OUT
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RecSports Wallyball Tournament
Filed under Athletic & Health, Events on July 30, 2012.
Did you know that Wallyball has a player base of over 15,000,000 in over 85,300 facilities world-wide?
Add to those statistics and register for the RecSports Wallyball Tournament today! The event takes place on July 31 at the Southwest Recreation Center Racquetball Courts. A team must consist of two males and two females. Registration closes on July 30. Visit recsports.ufl.edu for more information.


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Dubai: Pakistan will begin the defence of its ICC World Twenty20 title in the Caribbean next year against Bangladesh in St Lucia on May1.
And the side that defeated Sri Lanka by eight wickets to lift the trophy at Lord"s last month will complete its opening group commitments at the same venue the following day against Australia.
The West Indies will begin the event in Guyana on 30 April against one of two qualifiers for the tournament, part of a double-header that will also feature Sri Lanka and New Zealand.
If the West Indies, also in a group with England, reaches the Super Eights, it will then go on to play in St Lucia and Barbados, something that would see the hosts play in all three locations for the men"s tournament.
India, the 2007 champions, will start its campaign to regain the crown with an encounter with the other qualifier in St Lucia on 1 May.
England"s women, who beat New Zealand to lift the inaugural ICC Women"s World Twenty20 title, start their push for back-to-back trophies against old rivals Australia in St Kitts on May 5, the first day of matches in the women"s tournament.
Action will take place at four venues – Barbados, Guyana, St Kitts and St Lucia, with the former"s Kensington Oval hosting finals day on May 16.


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Filtering long threads
Some of the most popular project threads are very long. Members who adopt these projects often have to re-visit but this gets heavier and heavier as the thread grows. Moreover when the thread gets to a certain size, it gets so heavy that many ask the same question again making the thread even heavier.
Is there any way of solving this problem?
The ability to hide unimportant posts or even better to rank and hide posts of, say, three layers of interest, would help solve this problem.
Does this exist? If not, would it be possible?
There are 2 permanent measures that can be taken... the 1st one is to split the thread into subthreads based on topic. This is something mods do all the time, but given the work involved it usually only happens when very distinct topics arise. A big help would be members going thru and cataloging post numbers that could be split out.
Similarily a thread could be pruned into a shorter thread (a duplicate) with only essential posts, we'd definitly need members to take a thread on as a project). More work, is to take a thread and condense it into a WIKI article.
Congratulations, anyway, for this superb site.
Not sure what is possible, we are still discovering things and customizing the forum.
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Beauty Schools and Cosmetology Schools in Lancaster, PA
Map of Cosmetology Schools in Lancaster, PA
Beauty schools in Lancaster, PA, help you train for acareer in an industry that you feel passionate about in a town that's experiencing an economic revitalization. In addition to its long history in tourism and healthcare, downtown Lancaster has exploded in recent years with unique specialty shops, boutiques, bars and clubs, which is good news for graduates of Lancaster beauty schools.
Training Requirements in Pennsylvania
The Pennsylvania board of cosmetology sets different requirements for the various beauty licenses in be able to sit for the board exams. The required training hours are:
Lancaster Beautician Salaries
Keep in mind that many beauty professionals choose to work part time or work for themselves, so salary figures sometimes aren't all-encompassing. In the Lancaster metropolitan area, hairdressers and cosmetologists can expect to earn on average $12.80 to $21.84 per hour, or $17,530 to $45,430 per year before tips, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics in May 2012. Skin care specialists and estheticians can look forward to annual salaries of $16,160 to $34,810 before tips. Manicurists and nail techs tend to earn $15,930 to $19,470 before tips if they plan to do nails exclusively.
Opportunities abound to train for your future beauty career in the Lancaster area. Lancaster beauty schools can get you on your way to earning the education and skills you need to get licensed and begin a career as a beauty professional.
Look through the list below to contact cosmetology schools in Lancaster.
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Jakarta (The Jakarta Post/ANN) - Indonesia's Religious Affairs Minister Suryadharma Ali said that the government would not submit to a demand to legalize same-sex marriages in the country.
Suryadharma said that the government would defend the definition of marriage in the 1974 Marriage Law as a union between men and women and denied that the law was discriminatory toward certain groups in society.
"These groups said that the Marriage Law is discriminatory toward them. But [their] freedom should not violate existing norms and regulations," Suryadharma told reporters in Bogor, West Java on Wednesday.
Suryadharma said that in principle same-sex marriages contradicted basic Islamic teachings.
Earlier on Tuesday, Suryadharma said that there had been movement from certain groups to push for the amendment of the Marriage Law to accommodate same-sex marriages.
"These groups considered that the Marriage Law stood in the way of same-sex marriages and this was a violation of basic human rights. This is their idealism," Suryadharma said as quoted by Antara news agency in Bandung, West Java.
He said that these groups should consider existing norms adopted by society before making demands for same-sex marriages.
"One should not act freely based only on human rights norms, while ignoring other norms existing in the country," Suryadharma said on Wednesday on the sidelines of the Indonesian Islamic Propagation Institute (LDII) national meeting in Bogor, West Java.
Suryadharma claimed that he had never met with groups fighting for same-sex marriages, but had relayed the information on the proposal to the community of Muslim clerics so that the latter could be vigilant on the issue.
He said that these groups were emboldened by the success of plaintiffs who filed a judicial review to the Constitutional Court against articles in the 1974 Marriage Law, claiming that those articles were discriminatory toward children born out of wedlock.
The ruling, which took place in late February, stipulated the civil rights of children born out of wedlock should be recognized by their biological fathers.
Conservative groups have denounced the ruling, saying the court condoned adultery. The court has denied this, saying that the ruling should only be interpreted regarding the rights of children born out of wedlock.
Separately, the Indonesian Ulema Council's (MUI) West Java chapter asserted that gay marriage would still be considered a deviant act.
"There is no room for same-sex marriages in Indonesia. It is not only Islam that forbids the act but also all religions," the council's secretary-general Rafani Achyar said on Wednesday.
He said that the MUI's provincial branch had made efforts to prevent gay marriage, and added that the local MUI would also reject any effort to insert provisions that would allow gay marriage in the gender equality bill currently under discussion at the House of Representatives.
"We reject the discussion about gay marriage in the context of the bill. We reject it even if it's only a discourse," he said.
The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) made a measured statement concerning the gay marriage issue.
Abdul Munir Mulkhan of Komnas HAM's research and development division said that was the rights of all individuals to express their sexual orientation but that they also had to respect the country's socio-cultural condition.
"Everybody has their own perspectives depending on their needs. Now it all depends on the state to accommodate and protect the rights of its citizens," he told The Jakarta Post.
He said Suryadharma should accommodate aspirations from those who want to legalize same-sex marriage in his capacity as a government official.
"That is the primary function of the state," added Munir.


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CANADA STOCKS-Manulife deal helps TSX rise, but oil shares drop
* TSX up 44.68 points, or 0.29 percent, at 15,233.52
By Alastair Sharp
TORONTO, April 8 (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index extended a rally into a fifth session on Wednesday as Manulife Financial Corp led major financial stocks higher after signing an Asian distribution deal, while consumer names also rose.
The gains were limited by a retreat among oil and gas producers as the price of crude fell back.
Manulife shares gained 1.6 percent to C$21.89 after the Canadian insurer signed a deal to pay $1.2 billion to Singapore's DBS Group Holdings for a 15-year partnership to sell products through DBS's Asian branch network.
"The Manulife-DBS deal today adds a little bit to the growth prospects for them," said Craig Fehr, Canadian market strategist at Edward Jones in St. Louis, Missouri.
He added that the outlook for an interest-rate hike at some point was positive for insurers, which have struggled for years in a low-rate environment. "The fundamental tailwinds are at the insurers' backs," he said.
Sun Life Financial Inc also gained, up 1 percent at C$39.80, while some of the index's big banks contributed to the overall rise, with Royal Bank of Canada up 0.4 percent at C$78.15.
The Toronto Stock Exchange's S&P/TSX composite index was up 44.68 points, or 0.29 percent, at 15,233.52 in morning trade. Continued...