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|2008-05-22, 19:51
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what Yagi said
Join Date: Mar 2008
Isn't the major difference between the United States of Japan and the Special Administration Zone the absence of Britannia Empire rule?
Why would Zero and the Black Knights fight to rid themselves of Britannia empirical rule, and then subjugate themselves back under it?
The USJ and the SAZ being similar makes no sense.
|2008-05-22, 19:56
|Link #1262
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Location is all relative.
-Point? Like being in the military as a traitorous dog is any better. That way he can be killed off by his comanders as well as his own people.
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|2008-05-22, 20:24
|Link #1263
Senior Member
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Age: 27
|2008-05-22, 20:38
|Link #1264
what Yagi said
Join Date: Mar 2008
But, I never had the impression that Zero or any of the Black Knights wanted to actually rule Japan. The only way the USJ and SAZ would be similar in that regard is if the USJ became a military dictatorship or an absolute monarchy.
I've always felt that by the story's end, if Japan won its freedom, the power would be shifted from Britannia control to the 6 Houses of Kyoto. Now, the 6 Houses may indeed put in an absolute rule type government, but I never got that impression either.
In fact, the best resolution internally within the Britannia Empire isn't Suzaku doing things his way. It would be for Lelouch to succeed his father as Emperor and work at things from the top (or another more compassionate than Charles), but I'm not sure if the story is heading that way.
|2008-05-22, 20:40
|Link #1265
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Join Date: Feb 2008
No Lelouch winning as is will just shift the balance of power from Britannia to other countries and Britannian's will be persecuted against. Maybe some of them might deserve it but we've seen that a lot of Britannian's are decent people and not baby eaters. Not exactly a kind and gentle world.
|2008-05-22, 20:41
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Location is all relative.
-Except Edward was never fully capable of throwing away his pride in favour of becoming a "military dog". And incidentaly I love FMA and its characters but that's a whole other story.
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|2008-05-22, 20:46
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what Yagi said
Join Date: Mar 2008
And yes, innocent people are the ones most hurt. Innocent people were hurt in Britannia's invasion, and innocent people will be hurt with Britannia's evacuation. That's life.
|2008-05-22, 22:46
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The Dark Knight
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: From the deepest abyss in the world, where you think?
Age: 32
The thing that keeps getting me about this whole SAR are these.
If Nunnally takes over, what's the point for Suzaku to become KoO to govern that specific area? (Sure he could pick another one). Since she is a separate entity from Suzaku then she should be able to start fresh with them on this whole SAR thing.
The next part is "about changing" the world from within. This goes with Lelouch as well. I mean at least Lelouch got off the part about it's not just about Japan. Suzaku on the other hand is the same, it's all about Japan. Sure you change Japan but what about the rest of the world? Good lord guys Japan's not the entire world.
|2008-05-22, 23:27
|Link #1271
Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2008
It is for Suzaku and just about everyone in the Order except for Lelouch and maybe Kallen, and even then only because of her budding friendship with Lelouch. You think the majority of the Order cares about the rest of the world aside from Japan? Don't think so.
As for Suzaku's Knight of One plan, who knows. He might abandon that idea if SAZ works out. He only mentioned that before Nunnally's announcement which he didn't know about ahead of time. He might just decide to leave everything to Nunnally. If anything that gives him less motivation to follow a command that goes against Nunnally's interests. If she's taking care of Japan he doesn't need to worry about being a KOR anymore.
|2008-05-22, 23:40
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Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2008
I'll be lazy here and state something that probably has been addressed. Suzaku has his own geass given him by V.V. during the incident which took place on the Island of God (Episode 19). Also during the SAZ ceremony, C.C. becomes deeply concerned of a certain something about Suzaku, which creates more suspicion.
|2008-05-23, 03:37
|Link #1273
Logician and Romantic
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Location: Within my mind
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|2008-05-23, 07:14
|Link #1274
I disagree with you all.
Join Date: Dec 2005
The USJ's existence, in theory, comes from within. It is its own nation, with its own ideals, depending on its own strength to remain whole. It should, in theory, go on even once Zero is no more.
Of course, that's just the theory. Zero has a poor record in making people strong and independant of him. But even if they're still far from that ideal, they're working for it. Or were.
|2008-05-27, 18:16
|Link #1276
Blood flows freely..
Join Date: Apr 2008
yes. the point that suzaku only cares about japan but lelouch cares about the whole world proves many things.
suzaku only wants to rescue his people from being oppressed. he doesn't much care about anything else. whereas lelouch is looking at a bigger picture. he plans to free the world from britinnia's grasp and let the world be at peace again. Don't you think suzaku is just narrow minded and selfish?
|2008-05-27, 19:32
|Link #1278
Char clone
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Canada
Age: 29
Now Japan may be what matters most to Suzaku, but that's probably because he feels he lacks the power to change the whole world. And hey, it seems his actions in the EU contributed to a peace treaty.
But I guess people really feel like treating Lelouch as some golden savior and Suzaku as the devil incarnate.
|2008-05-27, 19:53
|Link #1279
Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2008
Age: 27
Lelouch isn't really planning on freeing the world from Britannia's grasp so much as he is trying to make the world a better place for his sister and get revenge on his father. If he saves the world while doing it, that's wonderful. If the rest of the world goes to hell while he acomplishes his goal, he couldn't care less. I really don't see Lelouch actively fighting Britannia for the purpose of freedom and liberation as much as vengence. The freedom and liberation and things are just side benefits and if they come, then great, he will use that to further his goals, and if they don't, then thats also fine. He even states that the United States of Japan is just a means to a goal, which would be vengence on his father and a better world for his sister. If this better world for his sister means a living hell for other people, do you really think he would care?
|2008-05-27, 20:08
|Link #1280
Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2008
But he came back, let a million people go free and promised to save those who remain.
And i doubt that Lelouch really cares about the world,his goal has always been to take down Britania and by doing so it will benefit the world,just like how he "saved" Japan because it would hurt Britania.
Honestly,how many people can do what Suzaku did? Joining the enemy army to save your own people, he's not welcome in both Britania and Japan but he still wants to save them.He deserves some respect not hatred.
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A former business manager at Seven Falls, an engineer, bank officials and an investor burned by the failed luxury golf resort testified during the second day of developer Keith Vinson's trial.
A former business manager at Seven Falls, an engineer, bank officials and an investor burned by the failed luxury golf resort testified during the second day of developer Keith Vinson's trial.
Chris Lynskey, a former business manager and controller at Seven Falls, testified that his first glimpse of the development's troubled finances came shortly after he moved here from Carson City, Nev. in March 2008. One of his first paychecks bounced, he said.
"Obviously, my wife was a little bit concerned about that because we'd moved 3,000 miles to take this position," Lynskey said.
That was not the last time Seven Falls staff found their paychecks weren't good, he added. Lynskey said employees learned that if they weren't among the first in line at Bank of Asheville after Vinson said payroll had been released, "they ran out of funds and people didn't get their checks cashed."
Seven Falls hosted a weekend event for members in the fall of 2008, Lynskey said, for which roughly $500,000 in checks were cut to vendors. Starting the next week, all of those checks bounced, Lynskey testified, and he spent much of his time dealing with irate vendors.
Lynskey said one golf course vendor, East Coast Sod of Pilesgrove, N.J., which laid $65,000 to $75,000 worth of grass on Seven Falls' first fairway "to make it look as if the golf course was growing in," actually came back and repossessed the turf.
"At the same time that the money had run out, Mr. Vinson moved his office, which was on site there at Seven Falls, he moved it to Asheville," Lynskey said. At that time, he said Vinson "was very, very difficult to get a hold of."
Asked by Lead Prosecutor Don Gast whether he had observed any "unusual" spending habits while working for Vinson, Lynskey recalled the hiring of an executive chef and food and beverage manager, even though Seven Falls wasn't capable of serving food yet.
"Basically, those two individuals didn't have anything to do," Lynskey said. "In my opinion, that was not good, especially because we were in financial difficulty and we were having trouble meeting payroll. It didn't make sense to bring those type of people on..."
Amy Staggs, a former special assets manager at National Bank of South Carolina, took the stand to explain an Excel spreadsheet she created while conducting an internal investigation of unusual lending practices involving Seven Falls lot sales.
In January 2009, she said, NBSC discovered they did not have as much acreage in collateral for a loan issued to Vinson for land acquisition and development as they thought.
"We were under the impression that the (acquisition and development loan) was secured by 1,200 acres, and we discovered it was not," Staggs said. The discrepancy was uncovered because "there were 120 lots sold, but there weren't 120 principal reductions to the A&D loan," as is usually required.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Mike Savage asked Staggs what she found out about the missing collateral. She said the bank ultimately discovered that Vinson had "options to purchase the land, but did not actually purchase (it)."
On cross-examination, Vinson's attorney J. Clark Fischer asked Staggs if she had ever calculated how many lots in phase one of Seven Falls had lot release fees collected and put toward the A&D loan and how many did not. Staggs said 69 lots did not, but around 50 did, resulting in $4 million in payments to the bank.
However, Staggs said the amount that should've gone to pay down the principal on Vinson's A&D loan was $10.7 million. Instead, her investigation found about $6.2 million of that money went into checking and money market accounts controlled by Vinson at NBSC.
The prosecution broached who might have approved loans for Seven Falls despite the lack of adequate collateral and the dearth of "lot release fees" that were being returned to the bank to pay down the A&D loan. Staggs said Kim Mode was Vinson's loan officer and Kin Britton was Mode's superior.
Both Britton and Mode bought lots at Seven Falls, Staggs testified. Britton also "went to the Super Bowl with Mr. Vinson on Mr. Vinson's jet," while he was in a position to recommend that loans for Seven Falls lot sales be approved, she said.
Under cross-examination, Fischer asked Staggs if part of Britton's role at the bank wasn't "cultivating relationships with customers," which would normally include traveling or playing golf with them. Staggs agreed it was.
Under direct questioning from Gast, engineering consultant Bill Lapsley was asked about Vinson's acquisition of the incomplete Queens Gap development in Rutherford County in 2009. Like Seven Falls, Lapsley said Queens Gap's infrastructure was only partly complete and lot sales had stalled.
Given the unfinished state of Seven Falls, Gast asked Laspley what his reaction was when he heard Vinson was taking on another liability.
"To be honest, I thought it was absurd," Lapsley said.
But he said Vinson assured him that Queens Gap acreage would offer him more collateral to secure additional funding to finish Seven Falls. He added the transaction with Queens Gap developer Devin McCarthy required no cash on Vinson's part, which Lapsley admitted "I'd never heard of before in my career."
When pressed by Gast about Vinson's personal spending habits, Lapsley said the developer "had the finer things in life," including expensive vehicles and houses.
"He traveled a good bit. I would say he was very well-off," Lapsley said.
Countering the suggestion that Vinson was living lavishly while watching his development tank, Fischer asked Lapsley if Vinson "seemed attuned" and was dealing with Seven Falls "in a professional manner." Lapsley conceded he was engaged and that the two had talked "almost every day."
Tommy Bourque, a senior lender with Waynesville's Old Town Bank, told the jury he had no idea the $1.56 million his then one-year-old institution lent to borrowers for lot purchases at Seven Falls were intended to be sold back to Vinson. He also wasn't aware Vinson was to be the one making the payments.
He said Andrew Hager, a former acquaintance from his days on the board of Carolina First Bank, asked him if he'd be interested in making some loans to a few friends in 2007. Bourque said his bank met with Hager and commercial investors Avery Ted "Buck" Cashion III and Raymond "Ray" Chapman, who were also representing George Gabler.
He said they "did ask at one point for 100 percent financing," but he told them his institution would require a cash down payment of 20 percent.
The borrowers were looking to finance the six lots for 24 months, with interest-only payments each month until a lump payback at the end of the two years, he said.
By May 2008, Cashion, Chapman and Gabler had each closed on two loans for a total of six lots in Seven Falls.
Karen Cioce, a former Old Town lender who oversaw the six loans, said it took them about three weeks to close and that if there was pressure to speed it along, it came from the borrowers. She said Chapman and Cashion told her they intended to put a home on one of the lots and hold on to the second one for investment reasons or to sell in the future.
Although personal financial statements were provided, Bourque said none of the statements indicated that the three each had other loans pending at other banks for Seven Falls properties.
Cashion, Chapman and Gabler closed on three loans for $850,000 each with Southern Community Bank and Trust on May 2, 2008. Twenty-one days later through Old Town, Cashion received two loans totaling $490,000, Chapman two loans at $590,000 and Gabler two loans at $480,000, according to court documents.
Chapman also closed on a loan for $850,000 from BB&T on May 13, 2008. On June 6, 2008, he and Gabler each closed on another $850,000 loan from the Bank of Asheville.
Bourque said he and Cioce visited the Seven Falls property weeks before the loans closed and saw the development in "different stages of completion."
He said they were never told the project was in jeopardy in 2008. But that July, Bourque was contacted by Hager, who inquired if they would be willing to consider a lot loan from Vinson. Bourque passed on the deal.
The two lenders were shown an agreement document from Gabler that spelled out a scenario for the lots and loans they said they never saw until prosecutors showed them. The agreement stated that all costs of the loan would be borne by Seven Falls LLC, investors would be paid each month during the loan balance and Seven Falls would continue to market and sell the properties.
Gast showed Bourque an email between investors that read, "The project looks great but it is out of money." He also showed him a list of loans associated with Cashion, Chapman and Gabler involving other banks.
"This would have been a huge piece of information" in the loan approval process, Bourque said.
Vinson was never mentioned on the loans or included in the bank's underwriting process, used to weigh risk and judge a borrower's ability to pay back a loan, because Bourque said his affiliation with the loans were unknown.
An appraisal for the three properties listed three other lots sold for $850,000 each — lots obtained by Cashion, Chapman and Gabler thanks to earlier loans. Bourque said the appraisals were conducted by Aaron Ollis, who was recommended by the investors. The bank, in its infancy, did not have a set list of appraisers to use at the time.
On cross examination, Fischer asked Bourque what the difference was between a commercial loan, like Cashion, Chapman and Gabler received, compared to a personal real estate loan.
He said the difference is in the property's reason for purchase. Their lots were to be held for investment or marketing, he added.
Shortly before the loans matured in 2010, he said, "we were told by the borrowers... that they did not have the money to repay" the loans.
Another investor, Kenneth Porter Shirley, testified that he purchased a Seven Falls lot through a loan for $850,000 from the Bank of Asheville on June 6, 2008. He withdrew money from one of his corporations to pay down the initial loan.
Shirley said he purchased the lot he never picked out or even stepped foot on as part of a deal with Vinson that he would cover the payments and pay him for his investment. Later on, he learned Vinson could no longer make the payments and he defaulted on his loan.
Proceeds of the loan were funneled to Seven Falls through Zeus Investments LLC, a limited liability corporation controlled by Cashion, Chapman and Gabler.
Shirley confirmed that investors were paid for their "investments" through a buy-back provision in their agreement with Seven Falls and an interest-carry account.
Shirley was initially denied a loan from SCBT, which already carried $2.55 million in assets tied to Seven Falls. He then went to the Bank of Asheville, which also ended up carrying $2.55 million on their books for Seven Falls. The bank closed on Jan. 21, 2011.
Southern Community Bank and Trust merged into Capital Bank Financial Corp. in October 2012.
Shirley ended up losing his investment.
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Cast Announced for NZ's First Pacific Musical – The Factory
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Auckland Arts Festival is delighted to announce the cast for the brilliant home-grown production and New Zealands first Pacific musical, The Factory.THE FACTORY CAST ANNOUNCED
The Factory
6 – 11 March, 2013
Q Theatre, Auckland
Auckland Arts Festival is delighted to announce the cast for the brilliant home-grown production and New Zealand's first Pacific musical, The Factory.
With some of the New Zealand's very best established and emerging musical theatre talent, including renowned New Zealand actor Ross Girven (Sweeney Todd, We Will Rock You, Ngati), Aleni Tufuga (Wild Bunch, Taro King, The Factory), acclaimed performer and fashion designer Lindah Lepou, Taofia Pelesasa (Frigate Bird Sings), Taupunakohe Tocker (I AM TV, Pukana), Tavai Faasavalu (NZ's Got Talent) and introducing the newly-discovered singing superstar Milly Grant-Koria, this fresh new version of the vibrant, hilarious and heartfelt musical runs 6 to 11 March at Auckland's Q Theatre.
The Factory is a tribute to the courage of the Pacific migrants who came to New Zealand during the 70s searching for ways to support the families they had left behind and striving to make new lives for themselves. Arriving in Aukilani with her father, a young Samoan woman with big dreams and hopes for a brighter future is immediately set to work in a textile factory. There she discovers that each time the factory bell rings she feels further away from her home and aspirations.
Created in South Auckland by the formidable Kila Kokonut Krew (KKK), whose work includes Taro King, Once Were Samoan and Strictly Brown among others, this new version of The Factory, produced by Auckland Arts Festival, comes to the Festival after a highly acclaimed premiere season at Mangere Arts Centre in 2011. The show is directed by the KKK's Anapela Polataivao (Night Shift, Taro King, Strictly Brown) and Vela Manusaute (Taro King, Strictly Brown, Island Mafia, Playaz Night), with music by Poulima Salima (Tatau, Nafanua, O Le Pe'a) and musical direction by Tama Waipara (Brel, Raising the Titanics, Rent).
According to Auckland Arts Festival Artistic Director, Carla van Zon, "The Factory is a brilliant musical with a deeply potent story that reflects a reality for many immigrants to Auckland, including my own parents a generation earlier. Created about Auckland and the Pacific community by one of the city's most significant arts orgnisations Killa Kokonut Krew, this new version, produced by Auckland Arts Festival, has been further developed giving the company the opportunity to revisit, enhance and refine the work. Set in the 70s, the era of dawn raids, with a superb new cast and some new songs, the team is hugely enjoying bringing this gem of NZ Pacific musical theatre to the stage again, to star at the heart of the Festival."
The soundtrack ranges from 70s disco to soul and Pacific Roots, and the performers are accompanied by a live band. The full cast of 14 comprises Vai Autagavaia, Tavai Faasavalu, Paul Fagamalo, Sela Faletolu, Ross Girven, Milly Grant-Koria, Edward Laurenson, Lindah Lepou, Joanna Mika, Taofia Pelesasa, Sally Sakalia, Taupunakohe Tocker, Aleni Tufuga and Troy Tuua.
A solid blend of drama, comedy, music and dance that ultimately explodes with literal electricity. You'll know what I mean when you go. – Theatreview
The Factory demonstrates that musical theatre is the ideal form for expressing the heightened emotions and indomitable optimism of the immigrant story. – NZ Herald
Musical director Poulima Salima pulls off a remarkable fusion with a live band that has delicate string arrangements combining with the driving rhythms of Pacific Island drums, a soulful saxophone and some serious guitar based funk. – NZ Herald
An entertaining and confronting full-scale musical, replete with humour and interwoven subplots that combine to make for an all-round satisfying experience – Theatreview
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Directors: Anapela Polataivao and Vela Manusaute
Composer: Poulima Salima
Musical Director: Tama Waipara
Line Producer: Jonathan Alver
Set Design: Sean Coyle
Cast: Vai Autagavaia, Tavai Faasavalu, Paul Fagamalo, Sela Faletolu, Ross Girven, Milly Grant-Koria, Edward Laurenson, Lindah Lepou, Joanna Mika, Taofia Pelesasa, Sally Sakalia, Taupunakohe Tocker, Aleni Tufuga, Troy Tuua
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About Auckland Arts Festival: The Auckland Arts Festival is Auckland's premier festival of New Zealand and international arts. The globally-recognised event celebrates people and culture, and showcases the unrivalled location and landscape, cultural diversity and vibrant energy of New Zealand's largest and most multicultural city.
With over 50 events that have been carefully selected or specially created, comprising performances, exhibitions, installations, seminars, workshops and family activities, the Auckland Arts Festival 2013 programme offers anyone keen to ignite their creative spirit a unique chance to experience the arts in unexpected ways.
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text: URMC / Encyclopedia / Content The Experience of Grief What are the symptoms of grief? For both the person facing cancer and death, and survivors after the death of a loved one, it is natural to experience many symptoms of grief. These can include: Physical symptoms Emotional symptoms Spiritual symptoms Lack of energy; fatigue Headaches and upset stomach Excessive sleeping or overworking and excessive activity Memory lapses, distraction, and preoccupation Irritability Depression and feelings of euphoria Extreme anger or feelings of being resigned to the situation Feelings of being closer to God or feelings of anger and outrage at God Strengthening of faith or questioning of faith What are the different stages of grief? Grieving is a normal response to a loss. The loss can include the loss of your normal daily routine due to your diagnosis, the impact of the diagnosis on other family members, or the financial impact of the diagnosis. The grieving process varies from person to person in terms of the order in which one deals with the stages of grief, as well as the time it takes to go through the stages of grief. Since this process was recognized, it has become appreciated that not everyone goes through all these stages or that they always happen one after another. The person with cancer, spouses, parents, siblings, and other family members will all experience grief. Grief is usually divided into five stages: Denial. Denial is a stage where people try to believe that the cancer diagnosis is not happening to them or their family. One may feel numb, or in a state of shock. Denial is a protective emotion when a life event is too overwhelming to deal with all at once. Anger. Anger is a stage in which you understand the cancer diagnosis, but are very upset and angry that it has happened to you, a friend, or family member. One of the best ways of dealing with bursts of anger is to exercise or participate in another type of physical activity. Talking with family and friends, other people who have cancer, and the hospital staff may also be helpful. The person also needs to be able to express his or her anger either by verbally explaining how he or she feels or writing in a journal. Bargaining. Questioning God, asking "Why me?" and "What did I do to deserve this?" are common questions in this stage. It is normal for the person to make bargains with themselves or God. This is done in hopes that this will make the cancer diagnosis go away. Guilt is a primary emotion during this stage. Searching for something that you personally did, which could have contributed to the cancer, is all part of bargaining. People tell themselves or God that they promise not to do something they previously did (such as arguing with family members), or to start doing something they have not done (such as going to church regularly) in exchange for recovery. Depression and sadness. This is a stage in which the diagnosis of cancer can no longer be denied and those involved may feel a profound sense of sadness. This is normal. It can be accompanied by physical changes. These include trouble sleeping or excessive sleeping, changes in appetite, difficulty concentrating on simple daily activities, or feeling a constant fear that someone else in the family will be diagnosed with cancer. It is important to talk about depression with a healthcare professional, such as a social worker, or counselor. Or meet with a support group to help you cope with your feelings. Acceptance. Acceptance is a stage in which you have accepted the cancer diagnosis and are at a point where cancer has been incorporated as part of your life. You have made an adjustment to the illness. This does not mean that you will never feel other emotions. Usually families find that they are better able to manage their lives overall once they reach this stage. Going through the grieving process is the best way to cope with a cancer diagnosis. By giving yourself and your family permission to grieve, you will be able to cope. Discussing death Most people need honest and accurate information regarding their illness, treatment plan, treatment choices, and prognosis. People communicate their fears and concerns in many ways. They cry, yell, ignore others, seek information from others, and write letters. These feelings of sadness, confusion, anger, and fear are all acceptable. It is important to understand that each person and family is different. Given that different cultures have varying beliefs about death, there is no one single right way to discuss death. In general, an open communication style allows the dying person to express his or her fears and desires. This openness does not happen overnight. The ultimate goal in discussing death with a dying person is to make him or her as comfortable as possible and lessen any fears. If the person is not ready to discuss death, the most helpful step spouses, family, and caregivers can take is to wait until he or she is ready. Let the person know you are willing to talk to him or her whenever he or she is ready to do so. Forcing information will usually result in anger, distrust, and emotional distance from others. Waiting until someone is ready to handle the situation will allow for better communication. Medical Reviewers: Levin, Mark, MD Ziegler, Olivia, MS, PA


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"Most run-of-the-mill childhood illnesses are self-limiting infections, meaning kids get over them on their own," says Linda B. White, MD, coauthor with Sunny Mavor, AHG, of Kids, Herbs & Health (Interweave Press, 1998). "There's a place for herbs because they give that little boost for self-healing." These three common childhood conditions respond well to herbs:
Middle Ear Infections are a frequent cause of trips to the doctor, but research shows antibiotics often aren't necessary. White recommends echinacea to boost immunity, antimicrobial herbs such as garlic, and warm herbal eardrops, found in natural products stores. "Usually the drops will contain garlic because it is antimicrobial; St. John's wort, which is mildly antibacterial, antiviral and anti-inflammatory; and mullein, which is mildly analgesic," White says.
Sore Throats can be a little tricky because of the possibility of strep throat. The only way to confirm a streptococcal infection is with a laboratory test. Until strep test results come back, "gargle with goldenseal, Oregon grape root or thyme tea," White recommends. "If it isn't strep, continue with gargles and give echinacea to boost immunity, licorice or marshmallow root to soothe inflammation, and thyme or Oregon grape root to fight infection."
Pink Eye can be treated with an eyewash made of antimicrobial and soothing herbs, says White. In their book, White and Mavor recommend an herbal eyewash containing eyebright (Euphrasia officinalis), yarrow (Achillea millefolium) and Oregon grape root.
Talk to a qualified herbalist before treating your child. Also, monitor symptoms closely. If your child's condition worsens, see your health care practitioner immediately.


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...Steve Jobs take credit for other people's work in this video, just like always.
How dare you speak of Him that way. May you be forced to use Windows Phone for the remainder of your days!
"Unix is a lousy operating system to put in a workstation" (36 minutes in...)
Actually, Steve during the demo has a slide show that credits the people who did the actual design and implementation of the Mac.
...Steve Jobs take credit for other people's work in this video, just like always.
Where? I didn't see him claiming at any point to have single-handedly developed it. Are you claiming he didn't play any part at all in it? If not, then you're just plain wrong and you know it.
not good enough. he should have at least named every single person who took part in creating any aspect of that computer, back to the Industrial Revolution. Or earlier.
To begin with, I'd like to thank the people that made this happen: Socrates, Plato,
It's kinda ironic that just at the moment, the Apple campus has posters up, listing the name of every single employee who's ever worked for Apple, thanking them.
If Jobs were wanting to wholly take credit would he have wanted everyone's signatures embossed on the inside of the case? I don't think so.
How about a demo of Jay Miner demoing the Amiga 1000?
I'm really nostalgic for the days when Silicon Valley was an innovative hotbed when some sharp brash kid could not only make it big, but provide a product that has some value.
Now, Silicon Valley is a bunch of whiny bitches who are trying to get ever cheaper labor for their social media/advertising app/user-data pimping service in order to market crap to a population in a downward spiral of their living standard.
Silicon Valley used to be a truly remarkable place. It was where industry and the future truly did collide head-on. And because of this, great things happened there.
Hewlett-Packard. Fairchild Semiconductor. Xerox PARC. Intel. Sun Microsystems. Cisco Systems.
Those were the kind of names we came to associate with very advanced technological achievement. They earned our respect with the tremendous advances they made.
But then something happened. Silicon Valley ceased to be about a productive, beneficial future. It became about a shitty, rotten future. It became about "social media". It became about advertising. It became about a disturbing level of data collection and mining.
The Silicon Valley of today is a mere shell of what it once was. Clad in fedora hats and rampant hipsterism, Silicon Valley of today is a sissified, degenerate place. Gone are the real scientists and engineers who advanced technology for all of mankind. Gone are their advances. Gone are the hope they brought.
I weep for Silicon Valley. It truly does make me quite distraught to think about what has happened to it. One of the greatest intellectual creations ever to existed has been crushed by men who wear tight jeans and glasses without lenses. It has been dragged through the mud by overweight, unshaven manchildren wearing stained shirts with shitty Japanese drawings on them. It has been shit upon repeatedly by self-styled "entrepreneurs" and "engineers" whose only talent is unjustifiable self promotion.
It is too late to save Silicon Valley. But other technologically-inclined regions should take note of what happened there. Keep away the hipsters. Keep away the bearded manchildren. Keep away the "entrepreneurs" and "engineers" who spew forth about Ruby on Rails. These people are an infection, and this infection will destroy even the most robust of technological and industrial communities. Do not let them ruin your community like they ruined Silicon Valley's.
The better video is one of Job's earlier talks on the founding of Apple [youtube.com]. Quite apart from the bespectacled, obviously geeky Jobs on display, a very striking aspect of the talk is Jobs' discussion of his visit to a local elementary school where he witnessed primary school students using computers. This event was one Jobs' continually referred back to later in his career, but this is probably first public discussion of the event which formed or else solidified his view that the PC industry could have/was havi
> How about a demo of Jay Miner demoing the Amiga 1000?
Or how about a video of the 1982 Comdex where supposedly VisiCorp showed off a development version of their brand new "GUI" environment Visi On? Doubt anyone recorded that, but it would be interesting to see.
And there is actually a video on Youtube of the fall 1983 Comdex with a demonstration of a brand new product in development from Microsoft called "Wiindows". Stole all the thunder from VisiCorp, but obviously didn't put a damper on Apple's Macint
It was influential as it gave Jobs the excuse to stop developing the Apple II line and a money sink that almost sank Apple.
The IIx could have come out years earlier and when it did come out as the GS it could have been less crippled. A souped up GS was everything the Mac wasn't, colour, fast, expandable, a large existing stock of software with a GUI that was a rewrite of the Mac GUI with many bug fixes.
I can still hear Jobs saying users didn't need colour and a computer should be like a toaster, closed and
How about a demo of the company crashing and burning?
I keep pushing for legacy support of especially software but also hardware and formats and some people claim it doesn't matter. Well this is a beautiful example of why it does matter. Without legacy support we lose access to old data. Pretty soon we'll be repeating history on big things, not just some presentation.
VentureBeat's story appears to be nothing but a re-writing of the original, which is
Also interesting is Dan Bricklin's blog entry on the history and restoration of this video:
Geez, this was news like what, 30 years ago!?
This submission really isn't about the news article at all. It's about the most important Holy Day in the Religion of the Hipster. It's a celebration of His Graceful Holiness, Steve Jobs. It's a tribute to The Creation of The Master Of All Creation, the Macintosh. It is The Most Important of Days. Please show some respect.
That's not Steve Jobs! Where's the black turtleneck? And what's with all the hair?
It was the last door stop that I owed. C'mon guys, those old Macs couldn't even multitask. Think I'm lying. Open a session with a modem and then start any other application. The modem would close. Even Winders 3.0 could run a modem in the background.
This demo video proves that Apple & Steve Jobs always have been marketeers from day 1... I finally understood why geeks started working on the linux kernel 8 years later
Funny that. I remember looking over an original Mac, and asking "does this actually do anything?"
It's tough to describe how space-age that stuff was in the 1980s, where 4k and 8k home computers with 8 bit processors was the norm. The 32 bit Motorola 68000 series were used as workstation processors in Sun Microsystems' Sun 1 and Sun 2 workstations & servers, so it was quite surprising to see one in a personal computers.
Note also how Jobs hammers away at IBM, the evil empire who had held foul dominion over computing at that time for longer than MS has existed today. My, how times change.
It's tough to describe how space-age that stuff was in the 1980s
They were amazing times. I remember having my mind blown by a demonstration of the Apple Lisa in 1983.
In this video, when they show the Paint program, listen to the gasps of wondrous amazement when the "eraser" tool is demonstrated.
Just 20 years before that making a typo meant retyping the whole document. Businesses had secretary pools for duplicating letters.
Cutting and Pasting were how you designed business art and I'm not even sure if white-out and corrective typing ribbons existed yet.
So yeah cleanly erasing something with a single pass WAS amazing. Fixing mistakes with no smudges or seams! WOW
IBM Correcting Selectric. The Selectric was one of the mainstays of business typewriters with that wonderful dancing ball typing out the letters.
It also had a correction ribbon. This was available in 1973 and the Selectric II and finally the Selectric III in the mid 80's.
Awesome typewriters.
It was also an amazing technical achievement.
In this video, when they show the Paint program, listen to the gasps of wondrous amazement when the "eraser" tool is demonstrated.
Which just shows how even back then Jobs was good at packing the audience with fans who would coo over anything and everything he did. That kind of thing had been demonstrated before, and was available to home users of 8 bit machines. Okay, this was better, but not amazing. It's the way Jobs presents it, not the actual demo.
You have just demonstrated how you are simply a hater.
No one had that in the home at that time. It was a real technical challenge.
Home computer in 1984 was the C64 with 64K of RAM
The original Mac had 128K
The C64 had 8 times as many colors though
it wasnt space age as a 128k machine was already entering a well saturated 64-512k universe, partly why the mac tanked the first couple years
Does anyone have a direct link to the video? I can't figure out what I have to enable to be able to see it.
Thank you.
it is old, it is big, and you still cant boot it from a floppy, whats your point
Actually, he was right. Unix and it's various incarnation changed a lot in that time period.
In fact, putting UNIX in the home would be a disaster today, unless you put a GUI on it people could understand.
I've heard Apple people describe this with the too-kind phrase "tradition of demonstrating a wolf in sheep's clothing." That is to say, the Mac he was demonstrating was different from the Mac Apple was selling: it had 512K of RAM. The only Mac available for purchase at launch had 128K and was not capable of running the MacInTalk speech synthesis software.
This was indeed a Steve Jobs tradition; I recall him demonstrating a NeXT in Boston--brilliant demo, brilliant showmanship--and the NeXT he was demonstrating had an internal hard drive, which delivered much better performance than the product available for sale which ran entirely off a read/write optical drive.
That is to say, the Mac he was demonstrating was different from the Mac Apple was selling: it had 512K of RAM. The only Mac available for purchase at launch had 128K and was not capable of running the MacInTalk speech synthesis software.
True, true. But the the 128K Mac was upgradable to 512K [everymac.com] (albeit by an authorized reseller, not by the end user), and Macs that already came with 512 KB of RAM [everymac.com] were introduced later that year.
its upgradeable cause the engineers ignored jobs, and its still shady to show off a product touting its capabilities that it could not actually do, until a year later for more money
I bought a "fat Mac" in 1985 (that was the 512K model
It cost me 10,000 New Zealand dollars (about $4400US at the time)
But an uncle had died, so I had the money
It was the worst decision I ever made
(I had previously had an Apple ][+ which was why I gor the Mac)
I should of bought Appleshares instead
And that worked so well.
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Thus spake the master programmer: "When a program is being tested, it is too late to make design changes." -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"


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The alpacas carefully scanned the newcomers, as spectators ran excitedly to the wire fence for the "Alpacas and Art" event at the Waldron Grove Alpaca Farm in Campton Hills. With their long necks, the miniature, giraffe-like animals moved about in the pasture methodically. The alpacas were calm, reserved and vigilant.
A mother with two young children pointed to the smallest member of the herd and explained how the baby alpaca was just like them – young, blissful and curious. The children laughed and reached their hands through the wire mesh, reaching for the furry creature. The two children laughed as the young alpaca romped around the herd. The young alpaca seemed to be searching for an energized playmate to spend the sunny afternoon with.
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Web 2.0 Podcast - a look aheadby Daniel H. Steinberg
The Web 2.0 Summit 2006 wrapped up last night. Two and one half days jam packed with sessions. You'll get to hear and see most of them in this Web 2.0 podcast stream. Next week Tim O'Reilly and John Battelle kick our podcast off with their look at Web 2.0. You'll then hear conversations with Google's Eric Schmidt, IAC's Barry Diller, The New York Times' Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., and Alibaba's Jack Ma. Today's podcast is a preview of coming attractions and is brought to you by the Intel Software Partner Program (www.intel.com/partner).
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The biggest forces of transformation: virtualization and advances in Ethernet. Virtualization shunts more traffic among virtual machines and to networked storage and compels architects to rework the conventional three-tier network design to achieve a flatter, two-tier architecture. Meanwhile, the falling price of 10-Gbps Ethernet gear and the drive to converge data and storage networks are making data centers ripe for transformation.
Almost one-third of our vendor evaluation respondents have either rearchitected their data center networks in the past year or are in the midst of a new design rollout. An additional 22% are in some stage of network redesign testing or planning, while 20% expect to be there in the next 24 months. Translated, more than 70% of those surveyed will likely have newly designed networks within three years.
While a redesign is a great opportunity for IT to kick the tires, it doesn't mean we want go out on a limb or break the bank. Vendors seeking market differentiation via bleeding-edge features, particularly proprietary, pricey features with long-term road maps, face an uphill battle. This should concern Cisco, Hewlett-Packard, and Juniper, all of whom are pitching proprietary fabrics and could be vulnerable to lower-cost alternatives from vendors, such as Arista, Force10 (now part of Dell), and Extreme, that have jumped to commodity merchant silicon as a means of focusing on price per port and raw performance.
With half of our respondents open to adding or changing vendors and a strong preference for standards and reliability over proprietary features and ultrahigh performance, it's harder than ever for large, established vendors to differentiate themselves and maintain their traditional price premiums and profit margins. We'll be watching how technology evolution, product developments, and market dynamics play out over the next few years. But the time is ripe for network buyers to take a fresh look at their supplier lists.


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A battle for US computer giant Dell heated up on Friday as corporate raider Carl Icahn and other investors made a new offer and called a planned buyout led by company founder Michael Dell a "giveaway."
The investor group, which holds about 13 percent of Dell shares, said in a regulatory filing it would urge shareholders to reject the private equity buyout and opt instead for its "superior" recapitalization plan, keeping the company public.
Icahn has allied with Southeastern Asset Management to block plans announced this year led by Michael Dell, with the investment fund Silver Lake Partners, to take Dell private in a US$24.4 billion — or US$13.65 a share — buyout.
Icahn, who initially offered US$15 per share for up to 58 percent of Dell shares, unveiled the new plan, which would inject fresh capital and keep the company publicly traded.
The dissident investors would offer a new slate of directors if the current board refuses to back the plan.
Under the Icahn plan, shareholders would get US$12 a share, from Dell's cash and new debt, and retain their equity stake.
Icahn, in a letter to shareholders also filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, did not place a value on the offer, but said it "is superior to the going private transaction."
In unusually harsh language, the document called the buyout plan "the great giveaway" and "insulting to shareholders' intelligence."
It said the buyout undervalues Dell and "amazingly allows him to purchase the company from shareholders with their own money."
"It does not take a mathematician to understand that US$12.00 in cash and a stub equity component with, as outlined in our view, significant upside operating potential, is superior to only US$13.65 in cash," the document said. "The going private transaction leaves all of the upside to Michael Dell and an opportunistic buyout group with only their own interests in mind."
Icahn is known for hostile bids and efforts to take over companies he sees as undervalued.
Dell, when asked for reaction on the proposal, said in an e-mail: "The special committee of the Dell board is reviewing the Southeastern Asset materials and will provide comment in due course."
Rob Enderle, analyst with Enderle Group, said that "investors don't like complex plans" and argued that the Icahn "could do more damage to Dell's valuation, crippling the company, than the payout would provide benefit."
Enderle said going private appears a better option for Dell to revive its fortunes, and that the Icahn plan creates "a very high risk that Dell would fail as a company."
Dell unveiled plans to go private in February, giving founder Michael Dell a chance to reshape the former number one PC maker away from the spotlight of Wall Street.
The move, which would delist the company from stock markets, could ease some pressure on Dell, which is cash-rich, but has seen profits slump, as it tries to reduce dependence on the slumping market for personal computers.
Under the terms of the deal, Michael Dell, who currently owns about 14 percent of Dell's common shares, would remain chairman and chief executive and boost his stake in the company.
Additional cash for the deal will come from Silver Lake, a major tech investment group, and MSD Capital, a fund created to manage Michael Dell's investments. The plan also calls for a US$2 billion loan from Microsoft.
Another bid for Dell came from Blackstone Group, but was later withdrawn.


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Leveson and liberty
That some in the press behaved disgracefully and recklessly there can be no doubt. That a few behaved illegally with regard to phone hacking or data theft appears most likely. But Lord Justice Leveson appears to be ignorant of the fact that there are already laws covering such abuses of power. Even more bizarre is that the journalists he has in his sights are those who work for the (declining) mainstream press: Blogger and Twitter are not to be covered by his proposed regulation, which leaves the intrepid Guido Fawkes to investigate away (recklessly) with impunity..
His Grace writes a quarterly column for Freedom, the distinguished journal of The Freedom Association. The article below appeared in their most recent edition. In light of Leveson's proposals for statutory regulation of the press (which he insists is not statutory regulation of the press), it seems apposite to reproduce it today, for the moment a free press is placed beneath any 'independent' body - a statutory regulator - we will see, as sure as night follows day, freedom of speech gradually ratcheted away, for a journalist with the threat of prison hanging over him is less likely to be 'robust' in the acquisition of information in pursuit of the truth:
"Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties," wrote John Milton in his Areopagitica – a speech to England's Parliament in 1644. In a fractious time of political division and religious dissent, he was making a plea for the toleration of diverse views, no matter how offensive those views may be. He grasped that the freedom to speak contrarily is a foundation of our liberty; it is the cornerstone of liberal democracy.
Milton's worldview was Protestant: his theology was that of the Reformation; his truth pointing towards that of the Enlightenment. Without the freedoms of speech and expression, nothing could be changed: the prevailing orthodoxies – religious, social, moral and political – thereby become infallible doctrines and immutable laws, defined and determined by an elite priestly caste.
The one caveat identified by both Milton and JS Mill as a justifiable limit to free expression was the 'harm' factor: nothing should be censored provided that none is injured, and so Parliament legislated over the succeeding centuries not only against bodily harm, but also against the incitement to harm.
But all matters of opinion were to be tolerated for the good of society. Those opinions may be insulting, unfavourable and offensive, but without the toleration of such there can be no freedom of opinion, both on truth and that of utility. In a 1999 court judgment, Lord Justice Sedley reiterated this right, and quoted Socrates and two famous Quakers in doing so. He said: "Free speech includes not only the offensive, but the irritating, the contentious, the eccentric, the heretical, the unwelcome and the provocative, providing it does not tend to provoke violence." There is no breach of the peace if what is said is merely offensive.
The world has seen too many examples of state control and censorship of unofficial utterances. Society is all the better when the freedom reigns for people to spout their offensive / irritating / contentious / eccentric / heretical / unwelcome / provocative views. The alternative is to be burnt at the stake – literally, in centuries past, or metaphorically in the present. We draw the line at prejudice, irrational discrimination or incitement. Or we used to, before the development of the concept of 'hate speech'.
Mill expounded the manifest benefits of 'searching for and discovering the truth'. But what further knowledge may be gleaned if a false opinion may not be challenged, for fear of the hearer being offended and the speaker arrested? How may truth be discerned if error may not be refuted, lest the refutation be deemed 'hate'? Since most opinions are neither completely true nor completely false, only by a robust exchange in free expression can competing views be aired and partial truths made more whole.
It is profoundly concerning that people are being investigated by the police – even children – for posting jokes in bad taste on their Facebook pages, or sending out impolite Tweets. It is even more concerning that adults are being imprisoned for doing the same, as in the case of Matthew Woods, who posted an offensive joke about April Jones, the little girl who went missing from Machynlleth.
Certainly, missing children are no laughing matter, and Mr Woods has shown himself to be a heartless and unfeeling brute. But imprisoned? Criminalised for failing to empathise with April Jones' parents? What is this emerging emotional correctness?
It wasn't so long ago that The Freedom Association was railing against the Royal Mail for illegally withholding millions of letters and parcels while the whole nation mourned the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. The grief was ubiquitous – teddy bears and flowers strewn on spontaneous shrines the length and breadth of the country. Emotional correctness demanded conformity: TFA alone introduced a note of jarring dissonance. But the thought of Norris McWhirter being prosecuted and imprisoned today for being offensive or insensitive is absurd. That Diana died was tragic. That the Royal Mail chose to indulge the nation's collective grief by suspending its services was inconvenient. But that people might be criminalised for finding the whole circus distasteful, and then turning to Facebook and Twitter to spread their vicious satire, is a fundamental offence against freedom.
If a teenage boy can be cautioned by the police for tweeting about Tom Daley failing to win an Olympic gold medal, or a blogger arrested for criticising his local councillors, do we not effectively have a social media patrolled by the police? If the Malicious Communications Act 2003 can be used to censor 'bad taste', why may it not be used to suppress minority political views? If Section 5 of the Public Order Act 1986 outlaws 'insulting words or behaviour', why may it not inhibit all rational discourse on Islam or Mohammed; Mormonism or Scientology?
O, hang on...
Channel 4 recently pulled the plug Tom Holland's documentary Islam: The Untold Story. Mr Holland received threats and abusive tweets, merely for investigating the history of the religion, and so the spineless C4 decided that this story of Islam will remain untold. Thus, ever so subtly, the airwaves of Britain are being incrementally subject to Shari'a: Islam may not be critically discussed; its history may not be investigated; its precepts may not be debated.
Last year the owner of a café was told by police to stop displaying 'offensive' Bible verses. In 2008 a teenage boy was arrested for describing the Church of Scientology as a 'cult'. He was part of a peaceful demonstration, but the police confiscated his placard, deeming it to constitute an expression of 'hate'.
We must thank God that we have no Mormon politicians, for next year the West End plays host to The Book of Mormon, a satirical musical from the creators of South Park. Doubtless it will cause much offence and someone will feel insulted, and the entire population of Salt Lake City might threaten to descend upon the theatre to protest. But even if they don't, we can count on the police to intervene, for the Lord Chamberlain has returned, helmeted, dressed in blue, intent on stifling debate, crushing dissent, and inculcating a sinister and illiberal self-censorship.


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TECH DAY AT GR By: Shelby Yates
January 18, 2013
In early December, our Student Tech Committee at Gladbrook-Reinbeck High School hosted a professional development day for students and teachers during our shortened morning schedule. The purpose of this day was to teach students and teachers more about their computers and software programs that are available to help them succeed currently in school, and also in the future. These presenters consisted of fellow high school peers and a few teachers. The presenters were: Kayli Folkerts, Megan Weber, Jesse Royer, Brady Kuehl, Braden Heithoff, Haley Easthom, Erin Wentzein, Tyler Wrage, Vasya Strohbehn, Aaron Shouse, Jennifer Strohbehn, Chad Bixby, and Andy McQuillen. who taught four sessions on various computer technology topics, including; Study Blue, GarageBand, QR Codes, Popplet, Lucid Charts, iPhoto/ PhotoBooth, and iMovie. Study Blue is a user-friendly website where people can create an account and store flashcards of notes, and use other flashcards that others have created on the website. The goal of this program is to make studying easier and more efficient, along with being beneficial to upcoming college students. Popplet is also a user-friendly, collaborative website where you can create concept maps and share your work with other people, as well as see other projects available for your use. GarageBand is a computer software program where people can create music tracks, expanding in a wide-range of possibility. You can do anything from recording your voice, to laying instrumental tracks over one another to create an original piece. On GarageBand, you can also learn notes for any instrument you choose, so it's also like a lesson book for those who want to learn music. QR Codes is a good symbolism of how technology is changing our society. QR Codes are similar to barcodes that we are used to seeing on purchasing products, but have a different format. These QR Codes are plastering the nation, and colleges and businesses are truly absorbing this resource. By using a smart phone, you can scan a QR Code and automatically receive all the information about that product, business, or school in the palm of your hand. Pretty snazzy stuff, I'd say! Lucid Charts was my personal favorite. This was another user-friendly website where people can create an account, or sign in through a gmail or yahoo account, and create different types of charts—anything from flow charts, to graphs, to venn diagrams. It is a very simple program that makes creating charts of information easier to read and quicker to accomplish. The program automatically stores your updates as you work, so you can always log in and see all your projects. It is a great way to plot step-by-step processes in note format, without taking the time to write it all out by hand. It will be a fantastic website source for future education in college. PhotoBooth is simply just like it's title. It's just like having a camera on your computer. All you have to do is pull it up on your desktop, click the button, and after the 1-2-3, it snaps a picture of you or takes a video recording. The program also offers many special effects for your photos, which are fun to mess with when you're having fun with your friends. iPhoto takes PhotoBooth to another step. It offers many different possibilities, where you can create albums of your photos, create DVDs and slideshows of your pictures, and upload things on the internet. It also offers a wide-range of special effects like what you would find in a professional photography studio, but on your very own computer. Lastly, there was an iMovie session. Here, students learned how to create, you guessed it, movies! By simply dragging a video recording from your PhotoBooth to iMovie, you can create a video strip. Add some slide transitions, a little theme music, lots of special effects, and you've got your very own movie. iMovie is a great program for those big end-of-the-trimester projects, and offers easy shortcuts to get the best quality video without costing you a lot of making time. A student survey was taken by the Student Tech Committee a couple weeks after the Professional Development day. The students were asked what sessions they attended, what they liked and didn't like about the sessions, whether they should host another PD day, and what they should change for next year if they choose to host one again. Majority of the students found the day helpful and agreed that it was useful in teaching them more about their computers. Some things the students didn't like was that the sessions were assigned to them which ones to attend, and were not given the opportunity to choose which topics they wanted to learn more about. More than 80% of the student survey takers agreed that they should host another PD day. The Student Tech Committee is currently balancing the responses from the student survey, and will decide whether to host another PD day in the future, and if so, what to do differently next year to make the day even more beneficial to Gladbrook-Reinbeck High School students.
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It's soulful though & has a lot of feeling , they don't have the best instruments & the singer has not found his voice yet.
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Years from now, when I'm still telling the tale of what it was like to be a snowplow driver during the Blizzard of 2013, I might just begin at 11 a.m. Saturday morning, when I was driving down an unplowed Malden side street in my glistening red, white, and black pickup truck, the first vehicle anyone who lived there had seen all day.
Children who had climbed atop snowbanks as tall as their parents waved at me; a man with a long-lens camera took my picture as if shooting a lion on safari; others just stared longingly at me, their shovels held upside-down in utter defeat.
Suddenly, as if awakened from a trance, one of them started flailing for me to stop and plow his driveway. Within seconds, the entire street was in a frenzy, waving arms and shovels in my direction and calling out in desperation. Had I dared to stop, my truck might have been torn apart in a tug-of-war.
Or I could talk about the brunt of the storm, when I found myself thigh-deep in snow, in a dark parking lot, with 60-mile-per-hour gusts slapping my face and the world a fury of pure white. Holding an aluminum ladder in my hands, I hoisted it into the wind to lift a drooping cable line. When I gave a nod, Jimmy, one of our drivers, creeped forward in a 10-foot-tall front-end loader, squeezing under the wire that had trapped him in the lot.
Or perhaps I will start with the big hug I gave my dad, Sam DeMarco, when I met him at our garage at the very start of the storm. After two very lean winters, we were finally going to make some significant money, but it was more than that. For the past 35 years, I'd heard his legendary stories about being a plowman during the Blizzard of 1978. Finally, I, his son and now business partner, was getting a historic blizzard to call my own.
Of course, I might not have hugged him so hard, or at all, had I known exactly what was to come.
For the average plow driver, Nemo was a blizzard of complicated, exhausting, and, at times, bizarre obstacles that never seemed to stop coming. Customers demanded their parking lots be plowed by 7 a.m. Saturday morning, snow be damned. Accidents — a tractor-trailer jackknifed in front of me — held up traffic for what seemed like hours. Snowdrifts 9 feet high overwhelmed even the most powerful pickup trucks.
At the height of the storm, my cousin Gene, one of our drivers, had his truck break down. Stranded for an hour without heat or gloves, he couldn't feel his hands by the time help arrived.
I was one of those rare people who was allowed to break the no-driving ban Saturday, and being on the roads before dawn that day was both scary (I nearly wiped out several times on barely plowed roads) and eerie, with not a car in sight on Interstate 93 for miles in either direction. But by midday, the ban was actually a joy, with city streets a racetrack for plow trucks and police cars, if one can call driving at 20 miles per hour speeding.
Victories during the blizzard were small, but always meaningful — a snow drift in your favor in a driveway, an open parking space to stash some snow. But whenever I checked the clock, I was behind schedule, with four or five accounts waiting for me to arrive at the same moment, forcing me to decide who I'd dig out first.
As the days passed, the tide eventually turned. On Tuesday, my dad, driving our biggest front-end loader, had to clear snow from a very tight parking lot.
There was nowhere to go but up, so that's what he did, stacking it so high that children living on the second floor of an apartment building could step from their balconies and slide down the mountain he had created.
Day upon day of shoveling, plowing, lifting, moving, and trying to melt about 28 inches of snow and ice have blurred together, so I can't remember which morning I stopped my truck to watch a glorious sunrise from the parking lot of the Assembly of God church high above Route 1.
I can't say exactly when I showed up at a parking lot only to find another contractor already doing my job, or which afternoon I had to shovel almost a ton of sand into our spreader truck by hand because a front-end loader simply could not be spared.
'I'll remember the cookies and muffins my aunts and girlfriend kindly baked for me – and forgetting to eat lunch because I was so busy.'
I'll remember the cookies and muffins my aunts and girlfriend kindly baked for me — and forgetting to eat lunch because I was so busy. And I certainly won't forget getting slightly splashed in the face with gasoline from Nemo's gales while fueling up; how much I sweated in the middle of the night on Saturday shoveling out my car and a path down the street where I live in Somerville to get to work; the overjoyed young women who took my picture when I took a pass through their driveway; and the old, toothless man who pleaded with his hands for me to plow out his car.
With his car buried behind 5 feet of snow, I told him it was impossible. He bit his gums, and shrugged.
Lastly, I'll remember the entire crew of Sam's Services — Frank, Mark, Jimmy, Gene, my dad, and me — in our parking lot surrounded by every pickup, sander, and loader we owned, their engines running and yellow strobe lights flashing as the dawn of a new day broke Sunday.
Was it as bad as 1978, I asked the veterans?
"Oh, no," scolded my cousin Gene. "You gotta remember, 10 days before the Blizzard of '78 we had 20 inches of wet snow."
"This was absolutely one quarter of that," my dad concurred, with a chuckle.
"Absolute piece of cake."
I rolled my eyes and hit the road once more.Peter DeMarco can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. His Facebook page is "Who Taught You to Drive?" and on Twitter @whotaughtU2driv.


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'Tekken Tag Tournament' DLC Characters Will Be Free
In a conversation that seemed to be a pointed jab at friendly rival Capcom, a producer working on 'Tekken Tag Tournament' said any characters locked on the disc will be given away for free. Remember that Capcom infamously charged gamers for such content in 'Street Fighter X Tekken.'
Like your little brother who took advantage of the situation when you did something bad by saying, "Mommy, I'm the good one, right?" series producer Katsuhiro Harada snipes:
"Tekken's never really done that before and charged for it, however we did have an [unlock] system in Tekken one to five. The character locks were like that – we never took money for it but the concept itself was there. I think really the players' opinions and the heated discussion is whether you charge for it or not."
Tekken games are far from blameless in terms of gratuitous DLC, charging extra for online play in 'Dark Resurrection.' But maybe the brain trust is out to change the way it operates.
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Blizzard dumps new snow in Colorado mountains
Apr. 14, 2013
GUNNISON, Colo. (AP) — An overnight blizzard has left parts of the Colorado mountains covered in new snow.
Whiteout conditions prompted the Colorado Department of Transportation to close U.S. 6 over Loveland Pass around just after midnight, and gusts up to 93 mph were recorded in southwest Colorado.
Accidents temporarily closed various stretches of Interstate 70 this morning. The Colorado State Patrol was investigating a crash that killed three people early this morning on I-70 in Glenwood Canyon, where up to 4 inches of snow were reported.
The National Weather Service if forecasting snow through Wednesday. Most of the state's ski resorts are shutting down for the season, but among those still open all, Beaver Creek was reporting 15 inches.


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Survey by Natasha Mooney and Chris Connolly
Just as the campaigning enters its final few hours, our election correspondents Natasha Mooney and Chris Connolly have wound up their investigations into Ottawa's candidates. Their questions – ranging from how to support Ottawa's arts communities to favourite Beavertail flavour – were put to all major candidates in all ridings in and surrounding Ottawa.
This last installment of their reporting is made up of all of the ridings where just one candidate replied (despite multiple follow-ups to all candidates!). We've got answers from folks in Orleans, Nepean-Carleton, Carleton-Mississippi Mills, and Glengarry-Prescott-Russell. And despite very lovely emails from our correspondents, we didn't get any response from candidates in Hull-Aylmer, Gatineau or Prescott. You'll find all candidate names listed below, whether they responded or not.
Also, in case you're wondering: those vote mobs that have been happening across the country? Our city's universities and colleges joined in and got out to prove they'll be heading to the polls tomorrow. Check out Carleton and UOttawa's videos – and if anyone happens to have footage of the Algonquin College mob, pass along the information!
And now for the final answers from our candidates:
Orleans (Candidates who did not submit answers: Royal Galipeau, Conservative Party; Martine Cenatus, NDP; Paul Maillet, Green Party)
Nepean-Carleton (Candidates who did not submit answers: Pierre Pollievre, Conservative Party; Ryan Keon, Liberal Party; Ric Dagenais, NDP)
Carleton-Mississippi Mills (Candidates who did not respond: Gordon O'Connor, Conservative Party; Erin Peters, NDP; John Hogg, Green Party)
Glengarry–Prescott–Russell (Candidates who did not respond: Pierre Lemieux, Conservative Party; Julie Bourgeois, Liberal Party; Denis Seguin, NDP)
Hull–Aylmer (Candidates who did not respond: Marcel Proulx, Liberal Party; Dino Lemay, Bloc Quebecois; Nycole Turnel, NDP; Roger Fleury, Green Party; Nancy Brassard-Fortin, Conservative Party)
Gatineau (Candidates who did not respond: Richard Nadeau, BQ; Francoise Boivin, Liberal; Steve MacKinnon, Liberal; Jonathan Meijer, Green; Jennifer Geary, Conservative)
Pontiac (Candidates who did not respond: Lawrence Cannon, Conservative; Cindy Duncan McMillan, Liberal; Maude Tremblay, BQ; Louise-Phillippe Mayrand, Green; Mathieu Ravignat, NDP; Benoit Legros, Marxist-Leninist Party)


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Issue Type: Bug Created: 2010-01-15T05:53:01.000+0000 Last Updated: 2010-01-21T10:56:06.000+0000 Status: Resolved Fix version(s): - 1.10.0 (27/Jan/10)
Reporter: Stephan "Bladed" de Souza (bladed) Assignee: Matthew Weier O'Phinney (matthew) Tags: - Zend_Filter
Related issues: Attachments: - strip_tags.patch
On release 20145 ( 2010-01-08 ) the comments are always striped with the follow sintax:

$valueCopy = preg_replace('#
Posted by Thomas Weidner (thomas) on 2010-01-15T06:13:53.000+0000
Comments are always stripped because they are potential unsecure.
To prevent code injection these are no longer allowed with the actual releases and will not be implemented again.
Posted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney (matthew) on 2010-01-15T07:13:49.000+0000
Thomas -- the problem is that non-commented strings are being stripped. I suspect this is due to using the "u" unicode flag on the regex, which isn't really needed in this particular case.
Posted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney (matthew) on 2010-01-15T07:16:45.000+0000
Please test the above patch (use "patch -p1 < strip_tags.patch" from your root directory), and let me know if it resolves the issue. I also need to run it by others on our security team.
Posted by Stephan "Bladed" de Souza (bladed) on 2010-01-15T07:36:40.000+0000
The patch works great.
Posted by Thomas Weidner (thomas) on 2010-01-15T08:15:08.000+0000
Matthew: I don't think that this is the real problem. I think that in Stephans environment unicode support is disabled. Because ISO-8859-1 characters are a sub-table of unicode but not reverse.
This means that we need to select between two cases: 1. Unicode enabled and 2. Unicode disabled
We need to seperate this stripping logic within 2 calls. One for unicode and one for non-unicode.
See the Alnum filter for details about what I mean.
Posted by Stephan "Bladed" de Souza (bladed) on 2010-01-15T08:30:03.000+0000
Tried with Alnum unicode test:

(@preg_match('/\pL/u', 'a')) ? true : false;
Windows Server w/ Apache 2.2 + PHP5.2.11: true FreeBSD w/ Apache 2.2 + PHP5.2.11: true
Posted by Thomas Weidner (thomas) on 2010-01-15T08:40:02.000+0000
Interesting because I am myself on Windows but with unicode and have no problems on ISO encoded chars.
Therefor I thought that you may have disabled unicode in your environment.
Posted by Thomas Weidner (thomas) on 2010-01-15T15:09:50.000+0000
At last I was able to reproduce this behaviour. Thanks for the patch.
Fixed with r20315
Posted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney (matthew) on 2010-01-16T08:26:03.000+0000
Thomas, please revert the patch. I'm waiting for feedback from Paddy, who reported the original security vulnerability; I don't want to re-introduce a security issue.
Posted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney (matthew) on 2010-01-16T08:27:23.000+0000
Thomas -- can you attach the patch you applied to this issue, and then revert it from the repository so we can review, please? Thanks!
Posted by Thomas Weidner (thomas) on 2010-01-16T10:41:56.000+0000
Patch attached
Reverted the changes from branch to previous buggy behaviour
Posted by Dolf Schimmel (Freeaqingme) (freak) on 2010-01-16T14:32:10.000+0000
Matthew, Paddy, as a sidenote; How about unittesting for the security testing, so s/o else won't reintroduce the issue?
Posted by Thomas Weidner (thomas) on 2010-01-16T14:44:12.000+0000
Within the patch I deleted from branch and added here as attachment are unittests contained
Posted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney (matthew) on 2010-01-21T10:56:04.000+0000
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The Los Angeles Clippers have struggled during this Grammy road trip, but will try to get back on track against the Orlando Magic at Amway Center.
The Clips have dropped three in a row on this long road odyssey, which is needed due to the Grammy awards being held Sunday night at their home, the Staples Center.
L.A. has fallen to the Toronto Raptors, Boston Celtics and Washington Wizards during the trek. Chris Paul has missed all three of the losses and eight in a row overall with a bruised kneecap and Blake Griffin sat out the most recent loss in Washington on Monday night.
Griffin was a late scratch when he aggravated a strained left hamstring during pre-game warm-ups. It snapped a streak of 197 career starts for the All-Star starter.
Lamar Odom started in place of Griffin, but DeAndre Jordan handled Griffin's rebounding chores. Jordan posted a career-high 22 rebounds and Jamal Crawford led the way with 28 points off the bench.
The Clippers were done in by turnovers in their 98-90 setback. L.A. committed 20 turnovers, with five from Odom and four apiece from starters Eric Bledsoe and Caron Butler.
"We just turned it over," Clippers head coach Vinny Del Negro said. "Guys trying to do much and end up turning it over then (the Wizards) would get fast breaks, which end in easy baskets. Our defense was set in the half court. We gave up too many offensive rebounds and really the turnovers did us in tonight with the mix and match lineups out there."
The Magic finally ended a five-game road trip, but lost their 10th game in a row Monday night in Philadelphia. In fact, Orlando is 2-21 since Dec. 21 and things won't get better.
Against the Sixers, the Magic were down four starters due to injury. Glen Davis is basically done for the season with a fractured left foot. Arron Afflalo has been out over a week with a strained left calf. Jameer Nelson has a left forearm contusion and J.J. Redick sat out against Philly with a sore right shoulder.
Only Redick is expected back in the lineup Wednesday against the Clippers.
Orlando lost 78-61 to the Sixers and the 61 was a season-low in points. The Magic didn't break 20 points in a single quarter and only managed 26 points in the second half.
E'Twaun Moore led the way with 18 points and rookies Moe Harkless and Andrew Nicholson also scored in double figures.
"Overall, we had really good effort," said Magic head coach Jacque Vaughn. "Seventy-eight points we gave up, and anytime you do that you give yourself a chance."
The Magic won 10 of their last 11 against the Clippers, including a 104-101 victory on Jan. 12 in L.A. Orlando is 5-1 in its last six at home in this series.


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Customer Service Standards
This standard outlines what organizations must do to provide their goods and services in ways that are accessible to persons with disabilities. This standard came into force on January 1, 2008.
The University must provide an annual Accessibility Plan. A Comprehensive Strategic Framework for Accessibility was developed to allow the Accessibility Coordination Team to develop an Accessibility Plan that serves the university. Within that framework, a Customer Service Working Group was formed.
Customer Service Training
To ensure that the University achieves regulatory compliance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005, everyone who interacts on its behalf with the public must be trained in accessible customer service. An online training course is available to all faculty, staff, student leaders, managers, department heads and senior administrators.
For more information, to begin online training, or to check the status of your training please visit the website of the Equity Office.
Compliance Timeline: For large designated public sector organizations, January 1, 2010.
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(1) Every provider of goods or services shall ensure that the following persons receive training about the provision of its goods or services to persons with disabilities:
- Every person who deals with members of the public or other third parties on behalf of the provider, whether the person does so as an employee, agent, volunteer or otherwise.
- Every person who participates in developing the provider's policies, practices and procedures governing the provision of goods or services to members of the public or other third parties.
(2) The training must include a review of the purposes of the Act and the requirements of this Regulation and instruction about the following matters:
- How to interact and communicate with persons with various types of disability.
- How to interact with persons with disabilities who use an assistive device or require the assistance of a guide dog or other service animal or the assistance of a support person.
- How to use equipment or devices available on the provider's premises or otherwise provided by the provider that may help with the provision of goods or services to a person with a disability.
- What to do if a person with a particular type of disability is having difficulty accessing the provider's goods or services.
(3) The training must be provided to each person as soon as practicable after he or she is assigned the applicable duties.
(4) Training must also be provided on an ongoing basis in connection with changes to the policies, practices and procedures governing the provision of goods or services to persons with disabilities.
(5) Every designated public sector organization and every other provider of goods or services that has at least 20 employees in Ontario shall prepare a document describing its training policy, and the document must include a summary of the contents of the training and details of when the training is to be provided.
(6) Every designated public sector organization and every other provider of goods or services that has at least 20 employees in Ontario shall keep records of the training provided under this section, including the dates on which the training is provided and the number of individuals to whom it is provided.


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AT&T passes the buck, Dell leaves PC brigade and techies headbang at SXSW
Podcast This week Greg Knieriemen and trusty sidekick Ed Saipetch (@edasi) chat to Gina Minks (@gminks) and Nekkid Tech virgin and new media strategist Sarah Vela (@orchid8) about LTE networks; the SXSW tech, biz and music bash in Austin; and why Dell is so keen to branch out.
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Santa Rosa police were seeking the public's help in identifying the driver in a hit-and-run traffic collision Saturday morning on Highway 12 near Brush Creek.
One lane of westbound Highway 12 between Brush Creek Road and Farmers Lane remained closed late Saturday as police investigated.
The incident involved two vehicles traveling west on the road about 200 feet west of Brush Creek, and one of the drivers fled the scene on foot, said Sgt. John Cregan.
One of the cars knocked over a utility pole, downing power lines and causing a power failure in the surrounding area, but PG&E has since restored residents' electricity, police said.
One of the drivers, an unidentified man driving a red "classic" Chevy Impala, was hospitalized "with moderate to significant injuries," Cregan said.
The other person, whose description and gender were not available, was driving a newer model black Mercedes, Cregan said.
Detectives were asking for anyone who may have seen the collision, the car driving in the area before the wreck or anyone fleeing the area on foot to call 543-3636.
It's unclear whether the other driver was male or female.