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Coins are a historical document," said RyAnne Scott, communications coordinator for the American Numismatics Association. Yes, numismatics is a difficult word to pronounce and according to the dictionary it is the collection or study of money, both in coins as well as paper notes.
"If there is not a lot of surviving artifacts, coins can tell a great deal about the culture that produced it," Scott said. When this reporter called the American Numismatics Association in Colorado Springs, the intent was to get comment on professor Holt's book. While she had not heard of the book she pointed out, "we have thousands of books for our members and it sounds like the professor's book would be one that we would want to add to our library." The ANA also has a museum with over 250,000.00 coins. And, their goal is to help people understand and appreciate coins. Coins are one way scholars and researchers can learn a lot about ancient cultures throughout the world.
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I've had students design coins, either in clay or with colored pencils and paper for the ancient cultures we study. This article would be a good introduction to the project.


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Tom Moorcroft Discusses his role as Regulus Black in "Half-Blood Prince"
Apr 06, 2008
Recently there were reports that two new characters had been cast for the upcoming Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. A new interview is now online where one of the actors mentioned, Tom Moorcroft, confirms his role in the sixth Harry Potter film, and also discusses his role as Regulus Black. While the young actor is unable to speak to any great detail of his exact scene, he does confirm he worked only one day, and is uncertain if he will be called back as Regulus for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Of interest to fans is a mention of how the character of Regulus Black will be seen in Half-Blood Prince. As it is a slight movie spoiler, please scroll down to read more.
In this interview, online here courtesy of Potterish, actor Tom Moorcroft says Regulus (the younger brother of Sirius Black) will be seen in a photograph in Professor Slughorn's office. He noted he worked only with actor Jim Broadbent who portray sthe new Potions master in Half-Blood Prince. We do not know if this will be a memory/flashback type scene or what is involved. Quotage is as follows:
How was the process of selecting you character for HP6?
Well to be honest it came as quite a surprise. My drama school contacted me and told me it was for a "Harry Potter photo shoot", but I discovered the first time I went up there that it was actually for the next film.
Where was it recorded?
At Leavesden Studios.
Can you explain to us what happens on this scene?
It's for one of Professor Slughorn's photographs, for his office.
How many days did you spend recording the scenes?
Just the one, it took about 2-3 hours to complete the shot.
What others actors were present during this scene? Like Susie Shinner (young Lilly [sic] Evans) or Daniel Radcliffe.
Only Jim Broadbent.
Can you describe the details of the scenario and the clothing on the scene?
Unfortunately no real details can be disclosed at this time so the production team said. No photographs were allowed to be taken in case they got leaked to the public, I suppose.
How was your relationship with the Director Yates?
It wasn't actually David Yates filming this shot it was the 2nd unit director, Stephen Woolfenden.
Do you have any information about Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, where your character has a big role during the books?
No information as of yet, I gather that right now they're concentrating on the Half Blood Prince.
Update: Bloghogwarts let us know they also interviewed Tom Moorcroft, who confirmed again the scene takes place in Professor Slughorn's office and said he filmed the scene " two weeks ago, just before Easter at Leavesden Studios." You can see some photos of actor Tom Moorcroft here in our galleries.Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince continues production in England, with a release date of November 21, 2008. Thanks so much to Potterish !


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In recent times, Africa has recorded the highest case of under-age sex. This happens in cases of prostitution, rape, child trafficking etc. Which in the first place is a violation of the CHILD RIGHT. Intelligence report shows that most cases are of fathers raping their daughters mostly from the ages of 8 - 15 which overtime has slowed down the father-daughter relationship. Friends and peer group also play 40% role while social networks and the entertainment industry also contribute their own quarter. Poverty can not be left out as hunger and lack of educational amenities push the girl-child to prostitution which she sees as the only availlable solution....to be contd.


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The Elder Scrolls Online's smallest Daedra, the scamps, are the dangerous comic relief of Tamriel.
They're small enemies that appeared in Morrowind and Oblivion. They shoot fire, have melodramatic death animations, and have they're own ridiculous gibberish language.
For more on The Elder Scrolls Online, you can check out our E3 coverage of the game by heading here, and learn about the Kwama, the last enemies detailed by The Elder Scrolls Online's website, here.
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IMS won their first round game of the tournament, eliminating Lone Tree.
IMS won 25-20, 25-20 and 25-14 to win the match 3-0.
Olivia Yutzy had 13 kills, while Laura Hochstetler had nine digs and Hannah Miller stepped into the setting spot and had 21 assists.
IMS head coach Cindy Miller said after the game that her team was nervous because they had to replace Casey Perez, but Hannah Miller stepped up.
"We were pretty nervous about this match because we knew that [Perez} had that injury to her knee, and she wasn't going to play at all and so we had to figure out how we were going to build off that, and we tried a bunch of combinations," Miller said. "We decided that the best alternative was to have Hannah Miller set tonight, and go all the way around, 5-1, and that girl has played every position on the floor."
With the match Lone Tree is eliminated this season, co-head coach Kelsey Tuebel said after the match that her team did everything they needed to, but they just couldn't get over the hump.
"[The team] was much more aggressive, and we kept working on so many things during the year, and they did everything we told them to do, and it felt like a personal victory to us, but IMS played well, and they just outplayed us at the end of the games," Tuebel said.
IMS moves on in the tournament and will play Keota, who was a 3-0 winner over English Valleys, next Tuesday.


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Best Coffee In Central New York — Our Top Five
There is nothing worse than sitting at your desk during your work day with no coffee. Coffee is the blood, sweat, and tears of the central New York Workforce. The real question is where can you grab the best cup of joe in Central New York?


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In the rush to analyze and react to the rise of such mega-sites as Zillow, Trulia and, of course, Realtor.com, industry experts and Web observers tend to overlook the proverbial elephant in the room: Google.
A recent collaborative study between the California giant and the National Association of Realtors shed some light on current trends in online home shopping, with surprising results.
What comes as no surprise is the consumer's increasing reliance on the Web to conduct searches; 90 percent of respondents to the survey affirmed this. That's up from 84 percent a year or so ago and marching on toward the magic 100 percent.
More interesting is the net change in Google searches for properties; the survey showed a 253 percent increase in use of the search engine as a tool to find homes in just the last four years. Moreover, even shoppers who relied upon a brand website such as Coldwell Banker, etc., initiated their search using a search engine (i.e. "homes for sale in Harrisburg PA").
Google's dominant video brand, YouTube, also scored well in the survey, since as many as 86 percent of online home shoppers used video to learn more about a neighborhood or property — a lesson to our Realtor community in this day and age. Not surprisingly, YouTube and Google Video combined pulled in 88 percent of the consumers of real estate-related video.
By the way, agent-related content on YouTube rose almost 50 percent this past year!
Google happens to have an entire department devoted to developing its real estate footprint. My observation is that it's working.
Jeff Geoghan is vice president of marketing and communications for Coldwell Banker Select Professionals and Select Services, based in Lancaster City, with 10 offices in eight Central Pennsylvania counties. Jeff lives in East Petersburg where he also serves as mayor. Jeff has been actively involved in local government and business and has been used as a source by local, regional and national publications.


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A Sikh man shot as he drove over a bridge was released from the hospital this week and is recovering at home.
PORT ORANGE — A Sikh man shot as he drove over a bridge with his son and who investigators say was probably targeted in a hate crime because he wears a turban, was released from the hospital this week and is recovering at home.
Kanwaljit Singh was resting at his Port Orange residence Tuesday afternoon, said his wife, Paramjit Kaur.
He was discharged from Halifax Health Medical Center after being in critical condition since he was shot on Feb. 23 just before midnight.
Singh's car was shot at six times as the 46-year-old father of two headed west over the Dunlawton Bridge. He was with his 13-year-old son at the time and the pair had just closed a new convenience store that Singh had opened on the beachside, friends said.
Singh was struck twice, bullets entering his torso and one of his thighs.
Port Orange detectives have released little information, saying they do not want to jeopardize their case. The incident report also has been kept under wraps because it contains several details on the case, said Capt. David Meyer.
Investigators have said the attack was probably not random because Singh — a follower of the Sikh religion — was wearing the head turban traditional for men of that faith, said Navtej Khalsa, regional director of the Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund in Oviedo. The turban represents a commitment to equality and justice.
Khalsa said that since Sept. 11, many Sikhs have been the focus of hate crimes because uninformed individuals think they are Muslims or Arabs.
Investigators have said the shooter was in a black or dark-colored late 1980s or early 1990s Ford F-150. The pickup has a Ford decal on both sides, police said.
Singh was listed in critical condition for several days and was in the hospital's intensive care unit, hospital officials said.
A clear motive hasn't been established for the attack, but Port Orange Assistant Police Chief Wayne Miller said the FBI has been briefed on the case and will make its resources available during the investigation.
Additionally, under the Department of Justice, a representative from the Community Relations Service was looking into the shooting. The Anti-Defamation League, which works to create laws, programs and policies to confront violent bigotry, has requested the U.S. Department of Justice have the FBI keep track of hate crimes directed against Sikhs in a separate category. The Sikh Coalition is also involved in that effort.
Last week, the League commended the Port Orange police department in its investigation. The Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund and Sikh Coalition also have voiced support in the effort to find the shooter.
Anyone with information concerning the shooting is asked to call Port Orange detective Jeff Wenzel, 386-506-5884.


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IUCN is pleased to announce that the Congress Preparatory Committee decided to allow observers to attend meetings of contact groups during the Members' Assembly of the IUCN World Conservation Congress. The Congress will take place from 5 to 14 October, 2008, in Barcelona, Spain.
During the Members' Assembly, this unique global environmental parliament of governments and NGOs will discuss and adopt nore than 100 motions. These are the mechanisms by which member organizations guide IUCN's policy and Programme of work as well as influencing many other organizations around the world.
Only IUCN members are allowed to vote on these important decisions. However, participants from Commissions, private sector and other sectors can attend the Members' Assembly as observers.
Some of the motions will be discussed in so-called contact groups before going to Plenary. The Congress Preparatory Committee has decided to allow observers to attend these groups in order to benefit from the interesting discussions.
The motions that have been submitted for Congress will be published on this website on 6 August 2008.
If you want to be part of this exciting event as a member or an observer register here or follow the links if you want to learn more about motions or the Members' Assembly.


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Phillies fans were left wondering after Monday's performance: Where is….the bat of Pedro Feliz? Apparently taking a Siesta… 0 for 4, so sad 😦 Well, I think maybe he was just trying a bit too hard to impress his new hometown crowd, but have no fear, I saw him in Spring Training and he will come around. Nappy nap time is over…from Siesta to Fiesta!!! Let's go!!!
In other news…where is Mitchy Poo Williams these days? Well, I spoke to him before the game on Monday…call it my first unofficial interview…and he is busy with, "work, work, work." Yes folks, a direct quote. I congratulated him on his new salsa empire and he showed me the stands at CBP where they are now handing out his Wild Thing Salsa along with the nachos. The same deal is also set up at Bright House Field in Clearwater, FL where I also sampled the salsa and I have to say, the stuff is actually really very good. In fact, I'm totally hooked. It's nicely blended and doesn't have all those huge, weird chunks of stuff like other brands. Well done Mitch! :o)
And where is Wes Helms going to go now that have added another pitcher? With the arrival of Rudy Seanez, it seems unlikely that Helms will be around for much longer…the clock is ticking…Adios!
Donde esta the aching back of one Cole Hamels? Gone forever people! Or we should hope so anyway, now that the team has hired a staff osteopathic physician / chiropractor. Now someone bring the boy his milk and cookies, lay him down for his nap and sprinkle fairy dust over his eyes for sweet, sweet dreams. When he wakes, he will throw a no-hitter and lead us to the World Series… Ahhhhh….oh, wait, I think I accidentally slipped and fell into the fairy dust. Darn it! I hate when that happens!
Ah, back to reality…fingers crossed for tonight's game! See ya!


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This is a datum to support my assertion that the hypothesis that the "Problem of Evil/Suffering is a Test" is demonstrably false.
Every cell contains a tiny clock called a telomere, which shortens each time the cell divides. Short telomeres are linked to a range of human diseases, including HIV, osteoporosis, heart disease and aging. Previous studies show that an enzyme within the cell, called telomerase, keeps immune cells young by preserving their telomere length and ability to continue dividing.
UCLA scientists found that the stress hormone cortisol suppresses immune cells' ability to activate their telomerase.
The study reveals how stress makes people more susceptible to illness.
If the problem of Evil/Suffering is a test then it is a test that degrades the performance of the participant resulting in a negative feedback loop where the participants ability to cope is degraded as the test proceeds. If we are to be judged on our ability to cope with hardships, and our ability to cope with hardships is demonstrably decreased over time under the influence, and no two people have the same hardships, then there can be no consistent standard to judge by. This is not consistent with sound testing methods.
If the participant can only think and make decisions with the biological material they have at hand, namely their brain, and their brain is susceptible to degradation as is the rest of the body, then the problem of Evil/Suffering as a test is not as much a test of spirit as it is a test of biological integrity.
If however the spirit is a separate entity and is not susceptible to degradation, then while this may be a hypothesis, it is not consistent with any known observations and is only supported by anecdote and writings, some of which are of unknown origin. However, the degradation of spirit during hardship over time has been observed so much that it has become an expected outcome of hardship. Notable exceptions to this outcome are not limited to Christians and should not be used as a datum to support the Christian view of "The problem of Evil/Suffering as a test". Therefore it is a dubious hypothesis, if it can be considered a hypothesis at all.


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Federated Network Authenticationby Matthew Gast, author of 802.11 Wireless Networks: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition
Educational institutions in general, and those of higher education specifically, have been early and aggressive users of 802.11. Wireless LANs excel at providing network access throughout a large and distributed campus on networks with a high number of mobile users, and giving easy access to guests.
Universities have been some of the earliest builders of 802.11 networks, because they often face exactly these problems. I recently attended the Internet2 Joint Techs workshop at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. I attended a number of sessions, but the two most interesting were Kevin Miller's workshop on federated authentication and Terry Simons' discussion about 802.1x. Both dealt with the problem of balancing the needs to retain the traditional openness of academic networks with the practical requirement for network security.
Roam If You Want to
Early wireless LAN technology had only crude security mechanisms. As a result, most organizations maintained network security by closing down the wireless network, either by shutting it off completely or by isolating it from the rest of the network to such a degree that it had only limited functionality. Both of the Joint Techs sessions on authentication were about how to use authentication to open the network back up. The current state of the art in authentication protocols works well in a standard corporate environment with unified network administration, but there are shortcomings for the classic academic environment.
Higher education institutions are often internally balkanized to a much greater degree than corporations are. The larger the academic organization, the harder it is to build a unified infrastructure. Departments build their own networks for a variety of reasons. Within a single institution, users naturally cross administrative or political boundaries, often without even being aware they are doing so. When crossing these invisible boundaries, users have the reasonable expectation that security will not be an obstacle.
Universities also have much more porous borders than corporations. Researchers and scholars may hold appointments at multiple institutions or be involved in research teams that draw members from across the country or the world. Frequent visitors require network access. Without a full-time appointment, they may not be eligible for full access at the visited institution, but the hassle of repeatedly provisioning guest accounts is no solution.
Within the academic IT community, this is called the "roaming scholar" problem. How can a user visit an institution and access the network there without needing to learn several guest-provisioning processes? Can authentication be extended to visiting scholars to automate the workflow? Some network administrators even go so far as to refer to the solutions as enabling single sign-on, because the goal is to allow the roaming scholar to use a single set of credentials from the home institution at any visited institution.
Although this discussion is based on scholars moving between universities, it can be applied to many network environments. Geographically distributed organizations might have traveling administrators or even roving teachers. Joint ventures between two companies, for example, might depend on expertise at both of the parents, and it improves productivity to allow visitors from parent organizations to use the network at the joint venture. Companies with tight partnerships may also depend on close cooperation and may find it useful to share network resources with visitors, though some restrictions on visitors would undoubtedly be necessary.
Federations and Meshes
Networks, whether wireless or wired, may be loosely associated and coalesced into small groups called federations. Federated networks are composed of several member networks that share some level of trust, but member networks retain their own administrative control. Each member network is constructed and run separately.
Related Reading
802.11 Wireless Networks: The Definitive Guide
Users expect to be able to use every network in a federation, although they are not usually integrated seamlessly. A user account may be granted privileges in multiple member networks of a federation. Generally, the user account is created in a home network, and other members of the federation grant privileges to users from other networks. When moving between members of a federation, all bets are off for services and configuration. Two member networks may have separate naming conventions and provide separate access.
Federations work to extend network access across administrative boundaries. By establishing trust between networks, it becomes possible for a user to attach to a foreign network and receive access without any local configuration. (Mobile telephony also uses authentication protocols to let subscribers roam onto foreign networks; GSM was the first system to handle roaming well.)
In many cases, authorization is used to limit the access rights of visiting users. Loose federations can provide restricted network access to visitors, while crossing network boundaries in tighter federations can be almost imperceptible. Authorization can assign different levels of trust to different users. Within a single university, users from other departments on the campus may be more trusted and given greater network access than guest users from other universities.
Trust levels influence the roaming agreements. Within a campus, the roaming agreement is often informal, along the lines of "if you want your department's users to have access to other networks on campus, you need to accept other users onto your network." Agreements are based on personal relationships and the policy within a single institution. To establish roaming between universities, expect paperwork. (EduRoam, a Europe-wide federation, requires a formal, signed contract for connection.)
The technology ties that bind
The core technologies that are used to build a mesh are authentication standards. 802.1x offers control of network ports, and it integrates tightly with RADIUS authentication servers. It also limits network access before user identity is established through RADIUS. Both 802.1x and RADIUS are natural building blocks for federations.
Within a member network, there is an authentication system that can authenticate users locally. In a campus environment, a member network is typically a department. Local users can be authenticated locally. Unknown users are passed to a higher-level authentication server.
As an example, a hypothetical school named Authentication University (AuthU) has built a campuswide federation. Several departments maintain their own authentication servers. Engineering department users are given user IDs in the form email@example.com, music department users are firstname.lastname@example.com, and so on. Within the engineering department, the RADIUS server has user definitions for any user from eng.authu.edu. Visitors from other departments are passed up to a "core" server that can refer queries to other departments. The core server has RADIUS relationships with all the member networks on campus. It does not need to have user accounts--it is just glue that stitches together the authentication system in a unified way.
The authentication backbone supporting a federation is called a mesh, because every authentication server in the federation has the ability to authenticate users from every other authentication server in the federation. The actual configuration may be a hub-and-spoke, with a core server that holds the entire system together; it may also be a full mesh, with all RADIUS servers directly peered with each other. The hub-and-spoke topology is significantly easier to configure because new member networks (spokes) need only to be configured on the core (hub). One of the earliest RADIUS meshes was built at the University of Utah. The design of the mesh was part of an early white paper written at the university. Terry Simons, one of the chief architects and administrators of the university mesh, also wrote a more detailed paper for the Interop Labs.
The Internet2 conference network used the University of Utah's RADIUS mesh. Each conference attendee was assigned a temporary account, and several departments across campus assisted in preparations and production. Once the conference network was configured to use the campus RADIUS mesh, any user account on campus was accepted on the network.
Technical challenges
Federations can be built on both wired and wireless networks, but wireless networks are more attractive. Granting access to wireless LANs frees guests from having to search for network ports, and many travelers have computers with 802.11 interfaces. Guests often are more mobile than internal users, especially since they rarely have office space at the visited institution. Wireless networks pose a special set of problems for federations, though. 802.1x supplicants need to authenticate to new access points, and transferring authentication requests across the internet is subject to additional latency. On a campuswide basis, the extra latency to authenticate across a RADIUS mesh is negligible. Latency across the internet may be significant, especially when moving between access points.
RADIUS meshes are typically built on a series of point-to-point trust relationships. Each relationship is used to proxy a certain type of user identifier, and the proxy configuration winds up defining a routing table for authentication. Each hop in the RADIUS proxy configuration requires a shared secret. Much like static IP routing, correctly distributing a large number of RADIUS shared secrets poses a major administrative headache.
RADIUS servers must be protected from intentional denial-of-service attacks as well as bugs. In a hub-and-spoke RADIUS mesh, it is vital that the core remain operational. One of the network administrators mentioned that an access point software bug resulted in a flood of 50 unique RADIUS access requests per second. Many RADIUS servers are unable to cope with such a load. In building a large federation, it is vital to ensure bugs (or attacks) are unable to disrupt operation of the authentication backbone.
Beyond the purely operational issues, the intersection of the technology's capabilities with policy enforcement is an unsettled question. Extending authorization beyond static information to encompass machine state is an emerging development. If an authorization fails, what is the appropriate way to notify a user? 802.1x provides a facility to send messages to the end user called EAP notification, but it is not widely implemented by most supplicant software. Which organization is responsible for assisting the user--the home network or the visited network?
Beyond machine state, some federation members may wish to require additional information. If I were to visit another network, it may not be enough to know that my employer vouches for me. Secure authentication methods can protect user identifiers and allow users to be anonymous to the networks they visit. The visited organization may have a policy that all users must be identified, or that they must obtain contact information from visiting users. If a network kicks off users who become infected with viruses or worms, it makes sense for the local network to take the lead in remediation. Local lockouts can be removed locally; when users travel across multiple time zones, situations may easily arise when the user's home support organization is not available due to the time change. By requiring the release of the mobile telephone number to the visited network, local administrators can take action immediately.
Today, local lockouts are handled in a different way on each RADIUS server. Radiator can perform multiple authentications and require that all of them succeed. The University of Utah performs authentication against the user's home account, as well as a lockout list used for DMCA complaints. Even if the user credentials are correct, the account can be locked by a separate list. EAP notifications are used to send messages to users whose accounts are locked out so that they can learn about the lockout and generic reason without face-to-face interaction.
What Next?
At the conference, the Federated Wireless NetAuth working group proposed a two-phase implementation schedule. In the first phase, the group is building a traditional RADIUS mesh based on a hub-and-spoke topology. After exchanging RADIUS shared secrets with each member network in the federation, it will be operational.
In the second phase, which has a moving target goal to be running later in the year, the hub-and-spoke topology will be replaced with direct links between members in the federation. To enable the selective release of information to visited sites, the working group is experimenting with Shibboleth, a middleware tool that plugs into campus identity management systems.
To build momentum for the federation, it may be brought to a conference near you. Connecting a conference network into the mesh allows any user from the mesh to use home credentials to get network access, rather than requiring the conference network to provision and maintain user accounts for only a brief event.
Protocol development
As I sat in both of these sessions, I was struck by the age of RADIUS and how poorly adapted it is to the modern world. RADIUS was designed for the dial-up era of the internet, which is long past. (I can't remember the last time I used a modem to obtain internet connectivity.) As federations evolve, potentially into a new "authentication backbone," the limitations of RADIUS show through more clearly.
The initial design for the Internet2 federation uses an Internet2 core RADIUS server as the hub. Each university joining the federation defines only a single RADIUS proxy relationship to the core. Internet2 maintains the core, and any member must connect to the core. As I listened to the description of the technical architecture, I was reminded of the Exterior Gateway Protocol (EGP, RFC 904), an early routing protocol that assumed the existence of a single internet core.
When the federation grows and becomes much more useful, the existence of a single core will stress the routing system for authentication requests. By definition, the hub in a hub-and-spoke topology must be involved in any inter-domain authentication request. It does not have to do heavy cryptographic work because the tunnel for authentication is established from the user to the authentication server at his or her home organization. However, RADIUS packets must still be validated with the shared secret on reception, and "signed" when forwarded on to the next hop. Routing authentication requests is still in its infancy. Just as EGP gave way to the more sophisticated Border Gateway Protocol (BGP, RFC 1771), so might RADIUS proxy relationships give way to a more sophisticated routing system.
Multihop hub-and-spoke topologies are necessary because RADIUS relationships are defined in a pairwise fashion. Practically speaking, an initial version needs to be built on a hub-and-spoke topology due to the limitations of RADIUS. Rather than defining pairwise relationships between each member of the federation (an order N-squared configuration), a hub-and-spoke requires only one pairwise relationship with each member (an order N configuration).
Future authentication protocols might separate the discovery of the home authentication server from the authentication traffic itself. Extra hops through the core of a hub-and-spoke topology add latency, especially across wide-area networks. Without proper configuration, the extra latency may cause authentication trouble. In a "cut-through" protocol, discovery of the user's home authentication server might be done with traffic through a slower hub-and-spoke system, but the authentication packets themselves could be sent directly between endpoints.
There was a short discussion of using DNS service location records (SRV records, specified in RFC 2782). Although SRV records could be used to assist with locating appropriate authentication servers for the user's home network, it cannot be used to establish a RADIUS client-server relationship between two servers. To reflect the messy realities of building a federated network, a more generic trust mechanism needs to be developed.
Matthew Gast is the director of product management at Aerohive Networks responsible for the software that powers Aerohive's networking devices.
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Combined heart-liver transplantation without additional use of a veno-venous bypass – own experience and review of the literature
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Introduction: There are only a few reports about combined heart-liver transplantations. The surgical techniques differ widely ranging from sequential implantation of the organs to different techniques of simultaneous transplantation. We report about our experience with simultaneous, combined heart- liver- transplantations without using a veno-venous bypass demonstrating that this is a feasible surgical technique.
Materials and methods: Since 2005, four combined heart-liver transplantations were performed at our department. The combined heart-liver transplantations were performed by implantation of the liver during the reperfusion period of the newly implanted heart.
Results: The mean operating time was 534±247 minutes and the ischemia times for heart and liver were 190±72 minutes (cold ischemia time heart); 98±96 minutes (warm ischemia time heart); 349±101 minutes (cold ischemia time liver) and 36,25±3,5 minutes (warm ischemia time liver), respectively. Three patients were discharged from hospital after an uneventful clinical course. One patient died from multi-organ failure during the ICU stay on the 23rd postoperative day.
Conclusion: We suggest the combined, simultaneous heart-liver transplantation without veno-venous bypass to be a feasible surgical technique.


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Sullivan Wins on Senior Day
NEW HAVEN, Conn. —Saturday at the Yale Tennis Center the No. 47-ranked Yale women's tennis team (14-8, 6-1 Ivy) finished out its Ivy League season with a 4-3 win over Brown. The Bulldogs end the season second in the Ivy League.
Saturday was Senior Day, and Yale's only senior, captain Annie Sullivan had a banner day, winning at No. 3 doubles with sophomore Courtney Amos before continuing her win streak at No. 3 singles. Sophomores Madeleine Hamilton and Ree Ree Li, the nation's No. 62 doubles pair, had the other doubles victory at No. 2 to give the Bulldogs a 1-0 lead.
Ree Ree Li was 2-0 on the day, also winning her singles match against Sarah Kandath at No. 4. Amos had the third singles victory at No. 6, giving the Bulldogs the win by a score of 4-3.
With Saturday's match behind them, the Bulldogs have finished their regular season. For the first time in four seasons, Yale has not earned an automatic bid in the NCAA Division I Championship and will have to hope for an at-large bid in the Selection Show on Apr. 29.
Report by Joe Giammittorio '15, Yale Sports Publicity
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I don't subscribe to Time. Never have. Never will. I've been more of a Newsweek U.S. News kind of guy over the many years of newsmag reading I've done. (I could, here, indicate that I am an Economist kind of guy too. I don't really read that magazine either, but it has a pretentious enough feel to make me seem like something other than I am.) I was, though, recently encouraged by a friend to pick up a copy of the latest version of Time in order to read Lev Grossman's article titled sin•gu•lar•i•ty.
I haven't read the article yet, but I have spent the last five or so minutes thumbing through the pages, as it were, of that issue using Time's new iPad app. In that short bit of time, I'm already very frustrated with the reading experience the app offers.
I realize that magazine publishing and the translation of same to a digital format is something that is still being struggled with by almost every print magazine on the planet. But I must say that, of all the iPad magazines I've looked at thus far, and I've looked at quite a few, Time seems to have gotten the concept pretty wrong. In short, here are my complaints, and given that I've only looked at this app for a few short minutes, I may find more later or I may find that what I initially hated turns out to be pretty darned good.
Table of Contents:
Seriously? Two columns of contents that need to be scrolled, individually, from top to bottom to locate an article that you want to read?
Scroll for More:
The Time app has instructions on every page to give you guidance on how to read the article you're presently looking at, so, every article, like the Contents page, has little black bars on it telling you to scroll up or down for more. First of all, you can't scroll down if you're already at the top of the article so, technically, you can't really "scroll" that way "for more." Second, if you have to provide instructions on every page of your iPad app so people will know how to access its content, you've got a problem with your design.
Seriously? Scroll!?!
There is something particularly uncomfortable about swiping left or right to find an article and then scrolling down to read said article, yet this is exactly how the Time app works. The process, at least in my five minute experience, is utterly painful.
No, I Mean Really? Scroll!?!
It's not so much that you have to scroll down as it is the fact that there really is no pagination. It doesn't matter to me that the text rolls from top to bottom, but the fact that the article SCROLLs makes it that much easier to lose your place in the text as you scroll along. If you must scroll downward, DON'T SCROLL!! Make it seem like I'm turning a page. Snap from the text I've just read at the bottom of the page to the next page's text at the top of the page so that my eyes can track from the bottom of one page to the top of the next instead of floating around somewhere in the middle until I find my place again.
Remember Where I Was In An Article:
While attempting to read an article in Time I somehow managed to turn my downward scroll into a leftward slide, which took me to the next article in the sequence. My swipe back to the original article did not return me to the page that I was just reading, it instead brought me back to the very beginning of the article. There needs to be some kind of page turning intelligence that either returns me to the last place I was in an article or that lets me choose whether I want to start at the beginning of an article or continue where I left off.
Shut up!!! You think too much.
The overall problem, from where I sit, is that not enough effort goes into making a simple, intuitive magazine reading product. Instead, Time, and to be fair, many other magazine and newspaper-like apps, over-think the experience they're trying to create and in so doing destroy the pleasure of reading. Simplicity is the key. A book. A magazine. These are simple concepts. There is text on the page, sometimes there are images, and navigation is simple, you flip forward, you flip backward, you find an article in the index, you locate its page number, and you thumb through the magazine until you find the page you're looking for. There is no glitz. Instructions are unnecessary. A magazine, a book, a newspaper is simple and intuitive. Reading apps for the iPad need to think in terms of simplicity. Once they've set that foundation the app they build will be extraordinary.


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MOCRA > MOCRA Past Exhibitions > Keith Haring: Altarpiece: The Life of Christ
|MOCRA presents the final work of prominent American artist Keith Haring in its first Midwest showing.
|Keith Haring
Altarpiece: The Life of Christ
April 8 - May 7, 1995
free public opening reception Saturday, April 8 5:00 to 8:00 p.m.
|General Exhibition Information
Hours: Tues - Sun, 11 am - 4 pm
Directions and parking information
Group visit information
Keith Haring's work is known throughout the world for its unique and immediately recognizable pictorial language. His often light-hearted art reaches beyond the confines of museums. It can be found in subways, churches, schools, on T-shirts and watches, and even at one time on the Berlin Wall. Haring was also an activist who used his art to promote AIDS awareness.
MOCRA is pleased to present the first Midwest showing of Haring's last work. Haring had been diagnosed with AIDS in 1988, and had already lost many friends to the disease. Still, he resolved to continue working for as long as possible. In 1989 Sam Havadtoy created clay panels in the shape of a traditional Russian icon for Haring.
Keith Haring, Altarpiece: The Life of Christ, 1990. Bronze with white gold leaf patina.
81 x 60 x 2 in. Courtesy of Sam Havadtoy and the Keith Haring Estate.
The altarpiece, cast in bronze and covered with gold leaf, is rendered in the artist's post-graffiti style. Sam Havadtoy, writing in May 1990, shared his recollection of Haring's work on the panels:
In 1989, Keith asked me to help him decorate his new Manhattan apartment. In his living room was an old brick fireplace which he hated, so I had it plastered over. The plaster was wet and I suggested that he draw into it. He thought it was a cool idea. It was as if the plaster were a three-dimensional textured canvas. He loved drawing in the plaster, and got very excited about the new medium. When he finished, it was very beautiful. I asked him if he wanted to make an edition of the fireplace and he loved the idea. Later, I asked him if he wanted to do other works in editions -- perhaps, panels and tables. He laughed. But he said he liked the idea -- he would do it.
Trays were made for the panels and tables. I also had a last-minute inspiration and had special trays made in the shape of a Russian icon, an altar piece, a large version of a miniature icon I saw in a shop in Geneva. All the trays were then laid out in a quiet, womblike room in the Dakota. Trays were filled with fresh clay. Keith arrived. He snapped a tape into the ghetto blaster, turned up the music, sipped a Coke and set to work.
Instead of a brush, for the first time, he used a loop knife. He handled the knife freely and spontaneously like he wielded his brushes. As he worked, he became more and more excited. He said that he couldn't believe it had taken him so long to discover this kind of sculpture. He made no preliminary drawings except for a quick sketch of the dancer on the third panel, which he made on a two-by-four piece of wood. Yet he was completely sanguine as he cut into the clay. The images came directly from his head. He placed the knife in the clay and carved a continuous running line, a quarter-of-an-inch deep groove, which wound like a swollen stream during the spring thaw. He never stopped to rethink the line; he never edited himself and never made corrections. The lines he carved in the clay were seamless, flawless.
Keith finished the panels and then, for the first time, saw the three altar piece sections. He stared at them and was silent. Then he set to work. He cut into the clay and began to carve freeflowing lines. The images that emerged were unlike the others. They were religious: an inspiration of the life of Christ; a baby held by a pair of hands; hands ascending toward heaven; Christ on the cross. On one side panel he depicted the resurrection. On the other, a fallen angel. When Keith finished, as he stepped back and gazed at this work, he said, "Man, this is really heavy."
When he stopped, he was exhausted, and it was the first time I realized how frail he had become. He was completely out of breath. He said, "When I'm working, I'm fine, but as soon as I stop, it hits me . . . "
The altar was Keith's final piece of work.
Haring died two weeks after completing the altarpiece. The uncharacteristically solemn altarpiece reflects the artist's coming to terms with his own mortality and his grief over the death of friends. The work is an expression of love and an affirmation of the sacred.
About the artist
Determined to devote his career to creating a truly public art, Haring began to create drawings in white chalk upon blank paper panels throughout the subway system. This seamless flow of images became familiar to New York commuters, who often would stop to engage the artist when they encountered him at work. The subway became, as Haring said, a "laboratory" for working out his ideas and experimenting with his simple lines.
During a brief but intense career that spanned the 1980s, Haring's work was featured in over 100 solo and group exhibitions. In 1986 alone, he was the subject of more than 40 newspaper and magazine articles. He was highly sought after to participate in collaborative projects ,and worked with artists and performers as diverse as Madonna, Grace Jones, Bill T. Jones, William Burroughs, Timothy Leary, Jenny Holzer, Yoko Ono and Andy Warhol.
By expressing universal concepts of birth, death, love, sex and war, using a primacy of line and directness of message, Haring was able to attract a wide audience and assure the accessibility and staying power of his imagery, which has become a universally recognized visual language of the 20th century. Throughout his career, Haring devoted much of his time to public works, which often carried social messages. He produced more than 50 public artworks between 1982 and 1989, in dozens of cities around the world, many of which were created for charities, hospitals, children's day care centers and orphanages.
Haring was diagnosed with AIDS in 1988. In 1989, he established the Keith Haring Foundation, its mandate being to provide funding and imagery to AIDS organizations and children's programs, and to expand the audience for Haring's work through exhibitions, publications and the licensing of his images. Haring enlisted his imagery during the last years of his life to speak about his own illness and generate activism and awareness about AIDS. Keith Haring died of AIDS related complications at the age of 31 on February 16, 1990. Since his death, Haring has been the subject of several international retrospectives. The work of Keith Haring can be seen today in the exhibitions and collections of major museums around the world.
This exhibition is presented in collaboration with the Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA. The Altarpiece is show in St. Louis courtesy of Samuel Havadtoy and the Keith Haring Estate.
Any contributions received during this exhibitions will be donated to St. Louis Effort for AIDS.
|Additional information
The casting of the altarpiece shown at MOCRA now resides in the AIDS Interfaith Chapel at Grace Cathedral, San Francisco. Take a virtual tour of the chapel here.
More about Keith Haring
Altarpiece: The Life of Christ in the media


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Sharing a little of my life and how my imagination takes shape into art dolls.
Tuesday, March 03, 2009
Bombay Dreams..
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Oh Shashi, She is great!!! I know that I will help in her bidding!!! And I have to see that musical, too. Just don't know where to find it?? Thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
also, you are the one who needs to rest and get really well again.
Thanks for sharing.
L0ve and a hug,
WOW! WOW! boy is she is gorgeous! She is a beautiful girl!!!!ReplyDelete
She is just beautiful. It amazes me how you can make something like her so quickly. The bidding will be strong for this one for sure.
I don't think that one got there....sometimes Blogger is a bit picky with how it accepts things.ReplyDelete
I was saying she is lovely...but, that I definitely do detect some cheekiness in her.
also...that I actually can say I do know who Mr. Raman is ..following the production during the Oscars
- Karen K3/03/2009 6:16 pm
She is a beauty!!ReplyDelete
Karen K
She is so pretty! The colours are SO contemporary!ReplyDelete
She is very beautiful!ReplyDelete
Lovely doll and so colorful, great.ReplyDelete
Ah, she's one of your loveliest, Shashi! Her hair and costume are perfect, too. Congratulations on a fine job!ReplyDelete
I agree she is a beauty, I love her costume!ReplyDelete
Oh Shashi, Spana is gorgeous!ReplyDelete
Love her costume and her hair.
Another lovely doll.
Ooooooooh Shashi she is wonderful I love her smile and outfitReplyDelete
Sashi, she is fantastic. You can almost hear the music to her dance! Love her.ReplyDelete
She is GORGEOUS, Shashi!!! I love that you gave her henna tattoos on her hands and feet. Great colours and hair!ReplyDelete
I LOVE her! The henna work really makes her. I love the skirt fabric, really gorgeous. Her bindi, and all her jewels...she's a knockout! :o)
I love her Shashi! You always show such great movement with your dolls. She is so 'Bollywood' too!ReplyDelete
hugs Karen
She is stunning Sashi ,I love the movement ,And she is very Bollywood .ReplyDelete
Love from sesga xx
ooh Shashi she's lovely - what a wonderful pose! and her coy expression! good to see u back in action, girl. big hugsReplyDelete
- Dénia3/04/2009 11:40 am
Comme elle est belle!!ReplyDelete
C'est sûr qu'elle va devenir une star!!
Elle est magnifique!!
Gros bisous
Gorgeous doll and I am sure she will reaps lots of bids!ReplyDelete
Shashi, your talent makes me lost for words! She is stunning...and I love her toenail varnish!ReplyDelete
She's wonderful, Shashi! You captured such great movement in her pose and her costuming fantastic. You definitely captured the essence of Bollywood!ReplyDelete
She is beautiful and I love her pose and hands adding to dance move. Great work!
Glad you are feeling better and back to what you do best, creating, Sapana is gorgeous, good luck.
The 'snow' are beautiful especially the lamp post at night, we don't get snow here, so I enjoy your pics.
Thank you for your comments on my blog, I appreciate them.
all the best, Michelle
She's breathtaking! Glad to see you creating again!ReplyDelete
Well...EXCELLENT!!! Beautifully done...You're art is incredible.ReplyDelete
Oh, I like the way you got lots of movement in that pose and I love the henna tattoos. Nice work Shashi!ReplyDelete
Amazing little doll!!!ReplyDelete
Hello ShashiReplyDelete
Your doll is a beautiful girl!!
All the best!
Maria del Valle
she is a gorgeous doll! Great choice of colours and very nice attention to detail :DReplyDelete
All I can say is, WOW!!!!!!!!
Sapana, is STUNNING!!! Terrific colors, awesome henna tattoos, great costuming, excellent pose, hair, expression, etc. Just Perfect in every way. Someone will be very fortunate to acquire this exquisite piece of art.
She is gorgeous Shashi. So pretty. I love the back too.ReplyDelete


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|2010-04-04, 13:42
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Hello. I am looking for artsy, experimental and surreal Japanese Animation.....
Hello everyone...
I need a little help. I have a real thing for artsy, experimental and surreal Japanese Animation. I think it all started out because I watched the
first two segments of Neo-Tokyo aka Meikyû monogatari over and over again. I also love Robot Carnival very much as well as Angel's Egg by Mamoru
Oshii. I would very much like some help to find some more anime like this. If anyone can give me some suggestions that would be great. I am going
to list below the movies I have already seen. Maybe this is beating a dead horse so to speak because maybe I have seen it all. anyways here is
my list.....
1.Robot Carnival
2.Neo-Tokyo aka Meikyû monogatari
3.Angel's Egg by Mamoru
4.Open Your Mind aka Mezame no hakobune
5.Take The X-Train by Rintaro
6.The Glassy Ocean
7.Noiseman Sound Insect
8.Yonna in the Solitary Fortress
9.Tobira O Akete
10.Cat Soup
11.Sweat Punch
12.La Maison en Petits Cubes
13.Atama-Yama aka Mt Head
15.Voices OF a Distant Star
17.All the Genius Party stuff
18.Jigen Loop
19.Aquatic Language
20.1001 Nights
21.Super Kuma-san aka Super Bear ( I thought this was kind of stupid )
22.Fantascope Tylostoma
23.The Amazing Nuts! Music Videos
24.Tekkon Kinkreet ( I have not watched this yet but it looks cool )
25.Tree Of Palme ( Have not watched all of this either but it looks really neat )
26.Malice@Doll ( I am confused is there a part 2 to this thing? )
27.Mind Game
28.Oh my good I forgot Memories! Magnetic Rose only. I have the North American DVD of this, The Soundtrack, a book called Memories of Memories ( I think that's what its called )
29. 5 Centimeters Per Second ( Is this really artsy, Experimetnal or Sureal ? )
30.The music video 'Connected by Ayumi Hamasaki
31.Survival Glay by Koji Morimoto
32.Dead Leaves ( Maybe more weird and Insane than artsy, experimental and surreal )
33.Avalon ( well you know )
34.Light Years ( not anime but whatever )
35. A Wind Named amnesia
36.Serial Experiments Lain
37.Kemonozume aka Beast Claw ( what the heck is this thing anyway? )
38.Eternal family by Studio 4C
Ok well I think that about covers it so far. Does anyone have any more ideas?
|2010-04-04, 14:41
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Germany
Age: 28
Hmm, maybe Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei? It likes to play with patterns, sudden color changes, art shifts, also the content is very unique.
Have only seen La Maison en Petits Cubes (loved that one, really distinctive style and the enactment was great), Voices of a distant star(did you know the whole thing was made by one person?), 5 centimeters per second (most detailed Animation I've ever seen) and Serial Experiments Lain (very confusing but interesting art and theme).
|2010-04-05, 01:48
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Location: FL, USA
Age: 30
Also only saw the first episode but Kuchu Buranko should fit as recommended before.
|2010-04-05, 12:00
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Join Date: Apr 2010
awesome thanks guys very much!! I will look into this stuff asap ....Going to play some videos games and after I am back from the gym I get into this. Thanks so much anime people !!
I have Belladonna Of Sadness but I don't think I liked that. I am trying to get a copy of Tree Of Palme with English subs. Did they do an English dub of that movie? It looks really cool. I love the creepy sad weird look of the females and the giant fish thing reminded me of Angel's Egg. Hey are they ever going to do a Blu-Ray of Vampire Hunter D, Vampire Hunter D : Bloodlust, Robot Carnival or Neo-Tokyo one day? There is a Blu-Ray of Avalon but not in North America but Blu-Ray in Japan and North America is the same region correct? Man Avalon on Blu-Ray is like freaking $100 on cdjapan...... arghhhhh anyways I am rambling .... Yes I LOVE this type of animation. I have watched Magnetic Rose, Robot Carnival, Neo-Tokyo and Angel's Egg like 100 times. I might try and learn how to make my own animation one day. Ok that's enough of me I will be back later on tonight ! Meep !!
Ohh and seriously whats the deal with MALICE@DOLL is there a par two of that thing?
|2010-04-07, 16:27
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Join Date: Apr 2010
awesome !! thanks guys!! I just found out about Assault Girls by Mamoru Oshii! I am insanely excited about this !! Do you think they will show it in theaters in Toronto?? The DVD and Blu-Ray comes out on June 23 2010 I think. Is that just in Japan or also North America?? Anyways sorry I should stick to a topic .... lol ... I am just talking to myself here......... Ok I will check out all these recommendations !!
|2010-04-08, 01:10
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Someone already recced Mononoke, but it is a sequel to the 3rd story of another anime called Ayakashi - Japanese Classic Horror. Might want to check that out, too.
Try Revolutionary Girl Utena, which may not have the most bizarre, avant garde art style but is still quite a mindfuck (mostly for the sake of being a mindfuck, though). Also download A Country Doctor, an animated short based on Franz Kafka's baffling story.
|2010-04-09, 10:09
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Id like to recommend Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo by Studio Gonzo. The art style is very unique and experimental and I dont think any other anime since then has done anything so similar. The story is a surprisingly creative adaptation of the original novel and focuses on one of the side characters of the novel rather than the Count himself. Some people might find the animation a bit hard on their eyes but I loved it and thought it fit the mood of the story very well. At the very least, I think Gonzo deserved praise for trying something so imaginative.
Check out some screenshots or watch the trailer and see if it appeals to you ...
|2010-04-12, 12:32
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Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2010
Awesome !!! very very neat !!!
Hello guys !!
Super duper uber-thank you very much. I am looking forward to checking all this stuff out. Very exciting indeed!! I have high hopes for that `Country Doctor' thing. It looks like it is nice and creepy. Yes thank you for these recommendations this is very helpful. I can't spend the rest of my life watching Labyrinth by Rintaro and The Running Man from Neo-Tokyo and Mamoru Oshii's Angel's Egg over and over again. ( I think I did to much acid when I was younger ... ehheheeh .... )
I have never seen Blame! But someone actually made a music video of one of my songs using footage from that anime. I hope its ok that I post it. If for whatever reason I should not post this then just tell me and I will remove it. Anyways here is the video
One thing I have to say is that it does not have to be just anime. Anything that is Trippy, Experimental, Artsy and just plain drug damaged would be awesome. When it comes to non-Japanese versions of what I am looking for there is
Light Years
Fantastic Planet
Time Master ( I could never get into this thing even with the English Dub )
Fire and Ice
Heavy Metal
A Scanner Darkly ( I did not like this much but Woody Harrison was funny )
Ummmmmmmmmmm................. Thats about it .........
Ohhhhh i have to say!!! Has anyone here ever watched 'Time Stranger' Mannnnn to me that is Weriddddddddddddddddddddd anime!!!! After watching that I sit there looking around the room asking myself what planet I am on .. Jesshhhhhhhh Does anyone know what I am talking about?? I think it has somethign to do with Go Shogun or something but I have no idea what that is ......
Hey will Vampire Hunter D part one ever come out on Blu-Ray? Man I would be one happy camper if that happened
Ok I must go to the YMCA now. See you anime people later on !!!
See Ya
|2010-05-17, 01:23
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Junior Member
I'd like to recommend Shigurui - despite it's ultra violent content, the anime is artistically beautiful. Where would a thread like this be without the mention of Ghost in the Shell - the films of course. Surreal? There's none more so than Urotsukidoji.
There are some really awesome suggestions proposed by everyone. I'd like to extend my own gratitude, because I've looked into your suggestions and currently have multiple anime's on the download
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KLRU has great programs for kids and great programs for adults, but it's not easy to find programs that all family members can enjoy together. Each month, KLRU identifies a Family Choice program from our schedule that will interest and engage family members, ages 7 and up.
This month, KLRU features The Biscuit Brothers holiday specials starting at 5 p.m. on Sunday, December 20.
Musical Celebrations at 5 p.m.
Chanukah, Kwanzaa, Hispanic tradition, birthdays and other holidays and celebrations are explored after Tiny Scarecrow accidentally releases all the holiday melodies from Melody Garden. This song filled special shows how a "holiday" can be a good time to learn about other cultures and traditions and a great time to share your culture and traditions with others.
Merry Musical Christmas at 5:30 p.m.
The whole family will sing and laugh along with this heart-felt musical nod to traditional Christmas specials of the past. Join the Biscuit Brothers and company on Christmas Eve as they use music to celebrate on the magical, musical farm and try to cheer up Tiny Scarecrow who sits high atop Symphony Barn waiting for snow.


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2012 Track and Field
Megan Neal sets meet record at ONU
Megan Neal sets meet record in weight throw at Joe Banks Invite
February 4, 2012
By: Jordan Hill, sports information assistant
ADA, Ohio - The Bluffton men's and women's track and field team competed in the Joe Banks Invitational on Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012, hosted by Ohio Northern University. The Beavers continue to make headway as they break and re-set school records and personal bests.
Senior standout thrower Megan Neal (Arlington) led the field events as she improved her own school record in the weight throw with a toss of 49-01.50 feet. Her mark also set a new meet record. On the track, junior Maddie Moore (Linn Grove, Ind./South Adams) set a new school record in the 1,000 meter run with a time of 3:20.60. Sophomore Brandi Dominique (Wauseon) also bettered her own school record in the 800-meter run with a time of 2:28.06.
Several athletes set new personal records. Freshman Jenna Strauss (Bridgewater/Bridgewater) had a trio of personal bests. In the long jump, she jumped 14-2 feet, ran 9.19 seconds in the 60-meter dash, and 32.21 seconds in the 200-meter dash. Freshman Jeff Parker ( Bristol, Ind./Northridge ) threw a pair of lifetime bests in the weight throw (37-8.5 feet) and in the shot put (42-9.5 feet). Neal had a lifetime best in the shot put with a toss of 35-2 feet, which is also an HCAC championship meet qualifier. On the track, junior Alison Janzen ( Whitewater, Kan./Remington ) set new personal records in the 1,000-meter run with a time of 3:27.49 and the one-mile with a time of 5:56.43. Junior Mackenzie Mayer ( Versailless ) also set a new personal best in the 1,000-meter run with a time of 3:52.45.
Junior Chris Arnold ( Fort Wayne, Ind./Canterbury) ran a lifetime best in the 3,000-meter run with a time of 10:28.61. Kayla Mullenhour (Delphos/Jefferson) ran a lifetime best in the 500-meter run with a time of 1:29.12. Freshman Eric Dameron (Galion) ran a lifetime best in the 60-meter dash with a time of 7.85. Freshman Josh Mattoon ( Rawson/Cory-Rawson ) set a personal record in the 400-meter dash with a time of 56.93. Freshman Jordan Wegner ( Mishawaka, Ind./Mishawaka ) had a pair of personal bests in the 500-meter run (1:29.83) and the 200-meter dash (30.55).
A number of the Bluffton University track and field athletes hope to compete in the All-Ohio Championships, hosted by Otterbein University, on Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012. Only the top 16 in each individual event and top 12 relays in the state are invited to compete as the field will be announced on Tuesday. The rest of the Beavers will travel to Ohio Wesleyan University to compete on Friday, Feb. 10, 2012.


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GYUH HUH! How would you like a return to the classic collect-a-thon platforms of the 32 and 64 bit era? "Core members" of the original Rare team that worked on Banjo-Tooie are ready to make a "spiritual successor" to the once-popular N64 platformer.
"We're not talking about making Banjo. We want to make something new but (hopefully) with that same magic," the team said on a newly-created Twitter account.
According to IGN, the Mingy Jongo group includes series composer Grant Kirkhope and artist Steven Hurst. It's unclear who else from Rare will be working on the project.
The team aims to make "a game that shares that same kind of humour, silly characters, fun game play, great tunes and all that stuff that we enjoy making." However, it's clear that this pitch is simply that--and if something does come to fruition, it will be a long ways off. "We've got a lot to think about now on how to proceed so give us a bit of time to work it out."
It seems likely the team will go to Kickstarter or a similar crowdfunding site to realize their idea. However, the amount required might be beyond their reach. "Come on. It'll be easy! If you all pledge $10 and we can get, I don't know, about 500,000 backers then off we go! Shouldn't be too difficult."


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Last night I awoke from my rambling slumber to the sound of alarms going off, a high-pitched tone, piercing the darkness in the middle of the night. It was nothing major, just the engineers alarm, so I went back to sleep. A couple of hours later it goes off again and I hear my cabin mate swearing in the darkness as he goes off to inspect what ever it is he's being warned about a second time.
At 7.30am our daily wake up call rouses us like clockwork, routine is our daily bread and we eat it up eternally. I get up and go out on deck to inspect the day. As per usual, I'm greeted once again by a seemingly endless expanse of blue, an army of waves marching in chaotic order across thousands of miles of ocean.
It's been days since we last saw land. We are heading out and around the Chagos Archipelago, home to the worlds largest marine reserve, created under somewhat dubious circumstances by the British and also home to an American Military base. The local people have been forcibly removed and displaced in the name of 'Western Security' and are fighting for their return. Keep in mind that your freedom comes at the expense of some one else's.
We are also getting into pirate country now. We are on constant standby alert, ready to execute emergency procedures at a moments notice. Pirates are not people you want to meet on the high seas. We all have childhood visions of swash buckling, loveable rouges brandishing cutlasses and swigging on 40oz bottles of rum but these days pirates in this region have high-speed boats, carry AK-47's and rocket launchers. We have taken many precautions to minimize the likelihood of coming across any and the chances are very low but this does not mean we can afford to be complacent in our attitude.
We have come across pirates in some form though, pirate fisherman that is. Fishing boats that prowl the borders of other countries Exclusive Economic Zones and plunder the high seas without restraint or regard for the long-term management of fisheries for the future. They take everything and that's why Greenpeace is in the Indian Ocean.
This voyage is a look, listen and learn expedition. We are here to talk with government officials, NGO's and fisherman. To hear their concerns, excuses, plans etc from small-scale local operations all the way up to the big multi-national industrial scale ones.
I joined the ship in Durban, South Africa and travelled up to Mozambique where we patrolled the Mozambique Channel between the African Continent and Madagascar. We then headed for Mauritius and met with many different people with many different interests in the local fisheries. We are now heading towards the Maldives and then on to Sri Lanka where the campaign finishes.
It's hard work with long days and weeks spent out at sea. You can't just pack up and go home if you don't like the way things are going, it's definitely not for everyone. All the romantic fantasies of ship life quickly evaporate in a cloud of hard-hitting reality. Some people have been seasick for almost a week, the trade winds are relentless and the ship has been pitched about for day after day after day. This, however, is off set by the eclectic bunch of people who are part of the crew on board, a complete smorgasbord of nationalities and personalities. Everyone committed to the same goal of protecting our fragile eco-system. This is a place of learning and knowledge sharing, of story telling and teaching. And yes, it feels like home.
It's funny, when you are out at sea for weeks at a time land seems very appealing and we long for the time we can stretch our legs and join civilization again, but as soon as we have been in port a few days, the ocean once again beckons us and we realize there's a certain pureness in being on the ocean. As we are currently nearing land I'm in the 'can't wait to get ashore' frame of mind as the idea of arriving in a tropical atoll and lying on the beach amid forays snorkelling over coral reef is definitely appealing to me.
The Maldives is known as one of the best diving and surfing areas on the planet and is also a model example of sustainable fisheries management, so I'm really happy to get the opportunity to visit this country. I've been on the ship for almost two months now and depending on circumstances will be staying another one to two months more. By the end of this trip I will have been to many different countries and travelled almost half way around the world on one of the most state of the art sailing vessels ever built.
The new Rainbow Warrior is an amazing vessel and carries on a tradition and legacy that has been trail blazed by the two previous ships and their crews through hard work, passion, courage, commitment and understanding. It's an honour to be in some way a small part of this story and I encourage others who feel like this is something they want to do to go for it. "If you think you can, you can and if you think you can't, guess what? You're absolutely right!" Can't remember which wise man said that, Henry Ford maybe? Whatever, it's true.
- Dom
Dominico Zapata is currently aboard the Rainbow Warrior in the Indian Ocean where he's working as the assistant cook and as a deckhand. He is a member of the Greenpeace New Zealand Actions Team and has been a volunteer for Greenpeace for the last four years.


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Similarly, how many people before high school get laptops? Unless you're in a very rich family you're probably stuck using the family computer for World of WarCraft, EverQuest, EvE or whichever poison you pick.
A coworker of mine has a 2 year old kid, and he just bought him a laptop. When I was a kid, all I got was a BOX to play with. That's what my kids are getting for Christmas. A box. It encourages imaginative thinking.
Yes, its a horrible thing. The hordes four- and five-year-olds McDonalds has hypnotized. I've seen pictures of them, fives and tens clutched tightly in their tiny little hands, stumbling up to the counter in their jammies; ordering BigMacs and fries - just like they've seen on TV. The glassy stares. The trembling arms as they reach for the poisonous ooze. Oh, the humanity.
Is there nothing that can restrain them? Nothing that can stop them? Something like, say, parents to steer them down the righteous path? No, the government must be called in! Only the military can stop this heinous crime!
Young kids seem to have weird taste buds. I think they mostly grow out of that kind of food.Even well prepared food made by a good cook tastes 'off' to her if it's not loaded with that crap. Funny thing about kids, what they eat in their first few years is what they'll want to eat for their whole lives
How about we don't bump up the price of games to cover the expenses of a pointless recall? How about we don't piss off the retailer willing to stock games that aren't as profitable as Grand Theft Auto?
How about game companies recalling a product if they need to release a patch on the same day of the release? That should take care of the "ship it and patch it" mentality.
Bugs can still find their way through rigerous testing. As an example, Chasm: The Rift immediatly crashes on startup - and this issue is 100% reproducable. The workaround is to run Windows 95, since it's memory protection system is more lax than standard Dos Protected mode drivers.
There's also cases where testing is either infeasible or
Is modding legal?
Another consequence of this
At the time EOA (as they were still known as) was looking to move away from home computers like the Amiga due to rampant piracy, but was also unwilling to pay the licensing fees and fighting over shelf space and cartridge allotments and all the other ways console developers were dicked around with. So to them the case
The rich get rich, and the poor get poorer. The haves get more, the have-nots die.


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Although it started late this year, the Ward Faulkenberry Memorial Christmas Basket Fund has set a record in the amount of money it collected to help Lancaster County families this year.
Elaine Adkins, executive director of HOPE, which is in charge of the charity drive this year, said the Christmas Basket has surpassed the total collected during the same time in 2001.
During that year's drive, donations topped $15,000.
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