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Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic is common. Fantasy is generally distinguished from the genre of science fiction by the expectation that it steers clear of scientific themes, though there is a great deal of overlap between the two.
Kir considered himself a normal child with a normal
childhood and attained good grades at school. On
reaching maturity his body starts to change into
something different; a warrior species of alien.
Having to leave his home and planet with his
parents to save their lives they head out into deep
space and search the cosmos to find a new home.
Finding a genetically altered world they meet
aliens whose lives are very different from their
own and uncover an unknown ...
Life started for me no different to any other kid living in a modern world. Made to attend school I listened and believed everything of what I was taught. Being at school with the other kids was tough and almost every day I was beaten or made to suffer some kind of humiliation. My parents told me it was because I was different and that they could sense the difference. Being different is always regarded as a threat, especially when that difference is not understood.
A time when a boy faces himself in alternate realities
The boy walked along the river bank quietly, watching the fish labour up river against the current. He wondered why nature had made them work so hard to spawn, while other animals mated without more than minor rituals, especially humans. As he moved further down steam he spied many fish who had died on the journey but there was one that was caught among the rocks and struggling to get free.
The boy waded into the shallow water to free the fish but when it turned over th...
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For Zender Light, being an orphan had never caused him one moment of discumbuberation. In fact it caused him to employ enjoyment with his uniqueness. But his life condition was only half the fun because he was also endowed with a unique physical appearance. Nothing that really stood out unless attention was drawn to it, which he did often because he like that condition of his appearance. His eyes. They were amber and multifaceted like ...
This new version of the Rumpelstiltskin fairy tale addresses some dangling questions not answered in the original story and is told from the perspective of the miller's daughter.
It's the lot of women to suffer the stupidity of men.
I looked out the window of the grand carriage painted and gilded with the king's family crest as it carried me from the hovel of my home to the castle where I somehow had to make good on my father's nonsensical boast that I could spin straw into gold. Had my father not soaked his brain in cheap ale to bolster his courage, he would have realized that, if his boast were true, our family would not live in a hovel and...
The pharaoh who ruled Egypt was a tyrant who oppressed the descendants of Prophet Jacob (pbuh), known as the children of Israel (Bani Israel). He used every means to demean and disgrace them. They were kept in bondage and forced to work for him for small wages or nothing. Under this system the people obeyed and worshipped the pharaoh, and the ruling class carried out his orders, thereby authorizing his tyranny and crazy whims.
The pharaoh wanted the people to obey him...
In the beginning I was clay then I became a bird by Allah's leave. From motionless clay to a soaring bird. I was something that was not able to move by itself and then I could fly in the sky. That is me.
I do not know how to introduce myself to history.
Allah (Exalted and Glorified be He) introduced me in the last of His Books saying, "(Remember) when Allah will say (on the Day of Resurrection), 'O 'Isa (Jesus), son of Mary am (Mary)! Remember My Favor to you and t...
Timothy Chyme continues his fantasy journey
In a world where magic is commonplace, rogue abominations of nature roam the lands, and deities exist, a lone boy named Raphael seeks to exact vengeance against the very murderers that tore his life apart, leaving him the only hapless survivor of their onslaught. He joins the Hunters, a group of ancient warriors sworn to protect the lands of Agartha, with nothing but revenge on his mind. But soon, he finds himself becoming involved in something bigger than he can handle....
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Beware of train riding hobos
"Evanghelia neagră" e un micro-roman despre lume ca rețea, ca pânză de paianjen; despre desprindere din "matrix"; despre malefic; despre om ca Ales; despre lupta între păianjeni și transcendent.
Bine și rău, vină, căință, mizerie… cum poate urca omul spre zei când stă în ghenunchi cu fruntea‐n țărână? Dumnezeu bun, Diavol rău. Dumnezeu te pedepsește pentru că e bun, Diavolul îți oferă plăcere fiindcă e rău. A naibii logică a paradoxului. Logica credinței, credința logică. Abureli. Astfel mi se învălmășeau în cap, într‐un du‐te‐vino haotic, idei și imagini pe care nu puteam să le ordonez, să le storc, să extrag din ele Ideea. N‐am reușit decât să pricep că, omene...
A man is lost in Antarctica.
A poetic look at life and death.
Hahn reflects on the world as it existed in 2076, before the war, and how the devastation unleashed by the war shaped the lives of the survivors. Hahn is keen that the school boy, Eugene, grasps that, while there were huge changes in technology before and after the war, the most important change was in people, and their attitude towards each other and the planet on which they lived.
Eugene's brow furrowed. 'You mean you could choose who died?'
'Oh yes.' Hahn's tone was matter of fact. 'But now I venture onto the territory of state secrets! Not only were we implanted with health chips, those of us who thought we were important were implanted with tags that identified our status. This was updated in real time. So if my car was in an accident with another, and there was a possibility that one car would be so badly damaged its passengers would die, one...
Silver, book one of the Silver Series, is a coming of age story about a teenage werewolf whose father is murdered. He has to come to terms with his new life, new school, and new friends while trying to prevent more killings. Attempting to make peace with the territory's pack and falling in love with a werewolf hunter's daughter make his new situation even more perilous.


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By Cody Willard
In general, the rule to investing and trading penny stocks (any stock trading at less than $5 is typically considered a "penny stock") is: Don't invest or trade penny stocks.
Because they usually have such small market caps and so few shares outstanding in the markets, they are easily moved higher for the short-term, often enabling insiders and their cronies to run up the stocks temporarily so that they can sell as many shares as they can while the stock is up. Let's talk more about this as there's always a ton of questions from everybody I know about such and such penny stock, and there's some easy flags to see when you should run from a particular penny stock.
A couple years ago, I'd been invited by a friend to a ZZ Top concert at Beacon Theatre in NYC. My friend was friends with Billy Gibbons and Gibbons' wife, who was into the markets and they'd invited me backstage to hang out after the show. We eventually ended up on ZZ Top's tour bus and in between me getting to pick a little bit on Billy's 1960s Les Paul and talking about how much he loves the Inn of the Mountain Gods in Mescalero, NM, his wife and I were talking stocks. And then the conversation turned to a penny stock that she owned and I set the guitar down because I was pretty sure where this talk was about to go.
The stock she wanted to know about was a company that made water purification systems. At the end of the ticker was ".OB", which means that it was either so small or had a rough enough history that it couldn't even get listed on a major exchange. Not all .OB stocks are trash, but most of them are, and that's a huge red flag already. This was before we had iPhones and I wasn't going to sit there and pull up the stock and research it for her on ZZ Top's tour bus anyway, so I told her I'd email her some analysis.
Cross-posted from TradingWithCody.com, where I post all my personal trades and positions in real-time, an independent service not affiliated with Marketwatch.
A few months ago, I was at my dad's farmhouse in Hondo Valley when a telephone company utility truck pulled down the drive. Our longtime neighbor hopped out and wanted to know if I had a minute to talk stocks. He wanted to know if I had any opinion about a particular penny stock that he had been told was ready to hop 10-fold. The company is involved in Internet streaming video compression. We were out on the farm so I told him I'd take a look at it when I got back to the office and would shoot him an email. But again, hearing a casual investor/trader ask me about a penny stock was already a red flag for me.
Though the details of each of the above anecdotes are worlds apart — a rock star's wife in NYC and a utility worker in rural NM, water purification and streaming video — it was very easy for me to quickly determine that these were both screaming "sells" and that I wouldn't touch either stock with a ten foot pole.
Both stocks collapsed after I warned my friends about them. In fact, the water stock has changed names and tickers since then and was trading under a dime at last look.
As for the other company, one red flag is a company that issues a plethora of news releases through popular financial sites, which this one did. Anyone, any company can buy a press release and Yahoo! Finance, MarketWatch and many the other news services will pick it up as part of their daily news feed. These releases may look like real stories but they are press releases and are labled as such. As press releases, they usually are syndicated through outfits like Marketwire, BusinessWire, GlobeNewswire, companies with "wire" in their names.
"But," my neighbor asked, "aren't all those research reports saying that this stock and their technology are about to explode?"
Sure, if those reports are from a reputable research shop. But are they? Have you ever heard of the companies issuing that research? And more to the point, are you sure that the company or its controlling shareholder didn't pay someone to write that research?
When you see press releases touting a research report touting a penny stock, I would run for the hills. I haven't played the lottery once in my life, haven't even contributed a dollar to the office funds when the jackpot is through the roof, but I would probably rather buy a lottery ticket than just about any small-cap (less than $250 million market cap) penny stock.
Here's an interview on my show from Fox Business that I did with a penny stock promoter from a few years ago:
I was intense, I know, but how many people like my friends in the anecdotes above have lost money when they've bought a small-cap penny stock being promoted by someone being paid to promote it. It's hard enough making money in the market when your research resources aren't biased. And few small-cap penny stock news releases and the research reports they tout are unbiased. My old pal Tim Sykes is making a career out of finding and shorting these kinds of promotional small-cap penny stocks. That's probably the only way to make any money in penny stocks — shorting them when they're in the spiked promotional phase.
Be careful with your money. I have made a lot of money for a lot of people by buying revolutionary technology companies of any market cap size and shorting companies whose government-sponsored business models are failing. I don't know anybody who's made big money consistently ever in penny stocks. Don't even try.
Cody Willard writes Revolution Investing for MarketWatch and posts the trades from his personal account at TradingWithCody.com. At time of publication, Cody has no positions in the stocks mentioned.

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Miscellaneous ~ Pop! Goes The Weasel Tactics Ogre ~ Let Us Cling Together
# Posted on April 2nd, 2010 01:45 AM by Gideon ZhiWell, as I´m sure most people have realized by now, the Tactics Ogre patch translates the game into Al Bhed and not English. Happy April Fool´s Day, everyone! Consider this my way of getting back at all the are-we-there-yet whiners I´ve had to deal with over the years. If I truly intended to delay the patch two weeks for every person who asked when it´d be done, well, you´d probably be getting it on Christmas instead.
What´s no joke, however, is the very real amount work that went into this. The actual translation patch - which will be coming in a few days, don´t worry - will be nearly identical to the one available now. The Al Bhed version contains the full English text, sort of - I just used a different table file to insert it into the rom. In fact, if I didn´t have to get up for my crazy weekend work schedule in the morning, I´d probably get things ready to go right now! But them´s the breaks, and a few more days won´t kill you. And for those of you who are curious, yes, the Al Bhed version of the patch will be moved to the Tactics Ogre page´s "Extras" subsection, where it will be preserved for all who care to try it.
See you in a few days!
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Major Release ~ Tactics Ogre, available now (in Al Bhed!) Tactics Ogre ~ Let Us Cling Together
# Posted on April 1st, 2010 03:31 AM by Gideon ZhiFrankly, I´m sick to death of looking at this thing. There are still a few minor cosmetic issues, all detailed in the readme, but they shouldn´t really alter your enjoyment of the game on the whole.
You´re welcome.
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Progress ~ Tactics Ogre enters playtesting. Tactics Ogre ~ Let Us Cling Together
# Posted on March 27th, 2010 12:25 AM by Gideon ZhiYeah, that´s right! There are still two or three small things that need fixing, but things are pretty tight as it is. My testers are loaded with cheats and will hopefully run it pretty quickly. We´re hoping for a speedy test phase, followed by a release!
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Progress ~ Tactics Ogre much closer Tactics Ogre ~ Let Us Cling Together
# Posted on March 6th, 2010 06:24 PM by Gideon ZhiAttached below are screenshots of stuff I´ve fixed over the last couple of days. First one shows the finalized L-view character list, while the second shows an expanded S-view character portrait window and hacked "Start: Parameter" graphic. Expanding that window was a right pain in the arse, let me tell you - and it still doesn´t function 100% correctly when the screen scrolls up or down. I´ve since fixed some major crashes, some nasty non-crash glitches, and a lot of really bizarre stuff, including stuff that worked breaking inexplicably later on down the line.
All that said, it´s look a *lot* nicer, and aside from the introduction to politics if you let the game sit at the title screen twice, you can play up to the world map without encountering any Japanese or glitches. The Warren Report menus still need rather a lot of work, the dates still display in Japanese on the map, I haven´t really tested much of the intermission stuff and the aforementioned political introduction is still broken (it´s only displaying one line of four) but otherwise I think I´ve fixed most of the biggest issues. It´s certainly a lot more stable than it used to be!
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Progress ~ Alpha Has an Editor Super Robot Wars Alpha
# Posted on February 23rd, 2010 01:56 AM by Gideon ZhiPlease welcome Antialias, recruited in desperation from the depths of /m on 4chan, to the SRW Alpha project. When he passed me these images two weeks ago he´d edited up through the route merge at scenario 6 (of 57.) So I´ve uploaded a bunch of the stuff he sent me to showcase his work! The two snaps below are now in the game´s gallery, along with nine more new snaps. Enjoy!
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Progress ~ Tactics, Making Progress Tactics Ogre ~ Let Us Cling Together
# Posted on February 23rd, 2010 01:35 AM by Gideon ZhiIn the last 24 hours or so, I´ve fixed a couple of major issues. One of them was hopefully the last of the hiccups resulting from the conversion of the text routine into something that´ll accept a different format of text. Another was a crash surrounding the default name for your squad. This means you can actually play past the third map now without the game blowing up in your face.
There are still a lot of issues, though. One of the tutorials has a bad button press in its script, which is causing it to go out of sync and lock up. A lot of the interfaces need to be tweaked, windows moved and expanded, and every once in a while there´ll be a *really* horrible glitch with some of the graphics, though I have a feeling this is a result of a hook misfire with some of the code I´ve added to the game. I´ll have to double check.
Getting much closer, though.
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Progress ~ Merry Christmas, and Apologies
# Posted on December 26th, 2009 08:15 PM by Gideon ZhiI´d hoped to have Megami Tensei (as in, the original) out yesterday, but due in part to being with relatives for the last 48 hours (without internet) I was unable to post this yesterday. Unfortunately this is not the biggest problem with my plan, as several extraordinarily nasty bugs (including the one pictured in the screens below, which refused to die and killed my entire party quite handily) have reared their heads and are preventing the release. The game is mostly done, I think, though I do want to get some of the more nonsensical text segments doublechecked, but the issue is largely due to the physical expansion of the ROM.
Physical expansion (i.e. making the game bigger and being able to fit more text in) is a relatively easy task when dealing with SNES games. Not so with the NES. The glitches - possibly related to timing and interrupts - were initially discovered to be causing visual corruption in the maze layouts. These are easily ameliorated by simply turning your view, but given that this is a first-person dungeon crawl, the bug was deemed serious enough to hold back a release. However when I endeavored to play further, I encountered several further problems, including the Mappa spell´s output (a minimap in the left-hand pane) locking in place instead of moving with the player, Nakajima dropping to level 1 after gaining a level in battle yet retaining all of his statistics while Yumiko progressed normally, and of course, the nasty creature pictured in the attached screens, which frankly seemed to be unkillable. Given the severity of these issues, I cannot yet in good faith release the game to the public.
(I´ve actually just finished talking with Liana, who you may remember from Metal Max Returns. She´s done some research and apparently the Bug enemy is not a bug. I hope that sounds as odd to you as it did when I wrote it! The other issues still stand, though.)
However, I *HAVE* done a lot of work on the game in the last week. I´ve tweaked the font to be a bit more uniform and much more readable (I´ve un-bolded a few of the letters and straightened out the heights), and I´ve redrawn the bland "DON" that appears when you bang into a wall to be a much more fancy "BAM" (pictured below.) I´ve re-researched all of the enemy names and brought them up to speed with proper romanizations. Several of them don´t appear in any other Megami Tensei title, or certainly not in any that have been released in English - examples include Akhushtal, Viy, A Bao A Qu, Bathym and Myrrha. I´ve inserted most, if not all, of the miscellaneous text in the game - and Lord knows there´s plenty of the stuff. I wouldn´t be at all surprised to find out that I´d missed some.
I´ll post more news when I have it. Can´t say when that´ll be, though, and I apologize again if I´ve disappointed anyone.
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Major Release ~ LUNAR: Walking School LUNAR Walking School
# Posted on December 17th, 2009 10:17 PM by Gideon ZhiAt long last, it´s done! Sorry it took so long.
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Miscellaneous ~ Site Maintenance Complete.# Posted on December 17th, 2009 09:10 PM by Gideon ZhiChanges include...
-Twitter has replaced the blog link in the nav bar
-About Me has been updated
-Links Removed: RPGOne (site is dead)
-Links Updated: Kitsune´s Den, DQ Translations (Formerly Kojiro Translations), Yonin no Translators (Change of address)
-Links Added: Boojum Snark, Stardust Crusaders, The Romhacking Aerie
-Donate Button Added
Stay tuned: LUNAR is coming very shortly!
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Miscellaneous ~ We´re changing some.# Posted on December 12th, 2009 04:27 AM by Gideon ZhiOver the next few days (hopefully no more than that) you´ll begin to notice some changes as we tinker with the website a bit. It´s nothing drastic, no major overhaul like when the current layout launched; rather, it´s a culling of the stuff that doesn´t work so well, and an addition of new things. The blog link will be replaced by a twitter link, the About Me will get a much-needed overhaul, the links page will get an update...
... but most visibly (and probably most controversial) is that a PayPal donate button will be going up on the site. This will direct you to a page detailing how our donation system works (with the actual button on the bottom of said page.) But since it´s not up yet and people are immediately going to start crying foul, I figured I should explain right now.
Aeon Genesis is a loose collective of programmers, writers, and Japanese speakers. I spearhead the operation but by no means could I do this without lots and lots of help. As such I have been extremely hesitant to place a donate button on the site in the past. How could any funds added to the account ever be fairly distributed amongst all of the contributors? A few months ago, I hit upon the answer: a rainy day fund.
I´m still hashing out the details, but essentially we will have a private forum (possibly public-viewable) within the Pantheon wherein contributors can request funds. There needs to be a valid reason for a withdrawal from the fund. In my case, for instance, my student loan payments have dropped off in the past several months due in no small part to emergency veterinary bills, but this is a drastic example. The money could help finance a PS2 for Tyria so he could play the PS2 SRW games he´s always wanted. It could go towards a pizza for a translator who´s just finished a script, or who´s motivation is flagging. It could help pay bus fare to help a contributor visit a sick family member. Stuff like that. Wide ranging, but not frivolous.
It´s important to note that any donations made to the fund are strictly done as thanks for translations already released. We will not accept money for anything we have not produced, and do not want the pressure of someone claiming that they paid us for work that hasn´t shown up yet. Furthermore, we will never withhold any releases due to lack of contributions to the fund. It would be nice to have an emergency pillow to fall back on, but everyone understands that times are tough, and I will not hold my work for ransom in this manner.
All that said, frankly, my finances are not very sound right now. I would not be doing this if I felt I didn´t need to. I´d actually considered investigating Project Wonderful and placing an ad or two on the site, but figured that this would be, by far, the preferable next step. So when the button does go up, please, do what you can. We´ll all appreciate it.
So, with all that out of the way, I´d just like to say that LUNAR *is* coming, hopefully within a few days if not a few weeks, and I hope to have something *else* for everyone on Christmas day. Better get my act in gear, eh?
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Opposition withdrawal
Kefaya and the opposition are urging Egyptians to boycott the Constitution amendment referendum. Shame on you. Is that all you could do. Ask me to be more passive and apathetic!
Khaled MohyElDin, the Tagammu party presidential candidate already withdrew from the elections. Too bad, if I had a chance to vote in that election, I would've actually voted for him. I'm not a leftist (I don't like them actually), and I'm not a member of Tagammu, but I'd vote for him as an individual --not for his party. I believe that he is the best candidate out there, although its too late for him, and he's too old. But looking at it differently, and in a rational state, he'd be a good candidate to lead Egypt for a 1-2 year democractic transitional period, openning up more freedoms and starting to institutionalize real democracy.
So Khaled MohyElDin is withdrawing from the elections, Ayman Nour is thinking about it, the Muslim Brotherhood are sucking up to the regime, and AlWafd party and Kefaya are calling for boycotting the referundum. What a sick political scene.
I really can't believe that they're already calling for a referundum boycott by the people. What kind of an opposition and a national movement is this! The battle is just starting, and you're already asking us to withdraw! They call us to withdraw, and then they go back to the street to demonstrate. I don't get it. Are you just enjoying the media coverage, issuing press releases and hanging out in the streets and getting beaten? and as soon as there's action required by the people, you ask them to withdraw.. withdraw even more.
I've written before against boycotting elections and those who do it, questioning the benefit reaped from that. I think its the losers strategy. Calling for a boycott from now tells me that they're already throwing the towel, in round one!
I figure that the reason for boycotting elections is to render it invalid (by not being representative), and to weaken the vote-garnered strength of the winner. And since a win by Mubarak under the new election laws --competing against a number of other candidates-- would legitimize his presidency and strenghten it, there might be an argument to eventually boycott the elections I guess. But its way too early to call now.
Calling on people to boycott the referundum (and eventually the elections) is not a card that you have which you can play with. You either mobilize the people to participate, be active, and go vote, or you shut up and stop calling yourself a real opposition or a national movement.
As apathetic as I may be, I'm planning to go vote in the referendum coming up on May 25. Not for any reason, except for fun, and to go against the will of the withdrawn opposition.
Today, I'll be watching the general assembly of the Judges Club who have a meeting and will be issuing a statement afterwards. That should be something worth watching.
Update: Just bought this week's issue of AlAhaly (Tagammu party) newspaper, which says that the party has not decided yet whether to withdraw from the elections or not. Well, they'd better not pull out.


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David Beckham says MLS Cup will be his final game with L.A. Galaxy
LOS ANGELES David Beckham says the MLS Cup next month will be his last game with the Los Angeles Galaxy.
Beckham and the Galaxy announced the superstar English midfielder's decision Monday, a day after the defending MLS champions advanced to their second straight league final. Los Angeles faces Houston for the MLS title on Dec. 1.
It doesn't mean the 37-year-old Beckham isn't retiring.
"I've had an incredibly special time playing for the L.A. Galaxy," Beckham said in a statement. "However, I wanted to experience one last challenge before the end of my playing career. I don't see this as the end of my relationship with the league, as my ambition is to be part of the ownership structure in the future."
Beckham has played six years in Los Angeles since his groundbreaking move from Europe, reaching three league finals and winning one MLS title last year during his best season stateside. He agreed to a two-year contract extension with the Galaxy in January after playing out his initial five-year deal, turning down potential moves to Paris St. Germain and other clubs.
Beckham hadn't given any overt indications he was planning to leave the Galaxy after this season. Last week, Beckham pointedly denied rumors linking him to a short-term stint in Australia.
"Seldom does an athlete redefine a sport," said Tim Leiweke, the president of Galaxy owners AEG. "David not only took our (club) to another level, but he took our sport to another level. It has been an honor and privilege to be a part of his world, and more importantly, to have him be a part of ours."
Los Angeles got off to a slow start to the year, but has played splendidly in recent matches, culminating in a two-game victory over the Seattle Sounders in the Western Conference finals. Beckham has been the star player for the league's glamour club during his tenure, which began with a handful of rocky seasons before the Galaxy became a power under coach Bruce Arena over the past few years.
"In my time here I have seen the popularity of the game grow every year," Beckham said. "I've been fortunate to win trophies, but more important to me has been the fantastic reception I've had from fans in L.A. and across the States. Soccer's potential has no limits in this wonderful country, and I want to always be part of growing it."


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orangehat necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 102 diseños de 41 diseñadores freelance.
Pray for Vocations or prayforvocations.org
Pray for Vocations is a new organization formed in this Year of the Priest to encourage lay Catholics to pray (prompted, encouraged, led and organized in an on line forum) for men to be called to the priesthood.
Devout Catholics that regularly attend mass. May or may not be web savvy but are coming to the website to volunteer. Many will be recruited thru Facebook and Twitter. Hardcore Catholics that worry about their Church.
This is wide open. It is our hope to have something very professional looking however.
Also remember prayer is the central activity that visitors to the website will engage in. Praying hands might be a nice design touch but please do not feel obligated to use them. We would like to re-emphasize that praying hands are not a required part of the design.
The colors are attached below in a screen shot from Kuler. BLACK IS NOT A PREFERRED COLOR (Kulers background is black and that is the only reason it shows up on the screen shot). The palate should be soft greys (probably a nice base color), lighter blues (periwinkle almost), light greens, and light purples are all part of the palate that designers can choose from.
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Combi tunnel ventilation
"Your Perfect Climate" throughout the whole year
Different ages of pigs have different temperature requirements:
- Sows require 18°-20° Celsius
- Piglets in the farrowing unit requires 35°-28° Celsius depending on age and house design
- Weaners require from 28° to 20° Celsius depending on weight
- Finishers require from 22°-16° Celsius depending on weight and floor layout
The impact of heat stress on finishers:
- Increasing respiratory rate
- Extending body contact to the floor (for cooling)
- Drinking more water
- Inactive
- Avoid physical contact with other pigs
- Increase evaporative heat loss by wallowing behaviour
- Feed intake declines
Heat stress converted into productivity loss:
- 35% of feed energy is used for growth (!)
- 20% for maintenance, 20% for heat and 25% for urine and faeces.
- When feed intake declines, it has a big impact on average daily gain (ADG):
Winter – inlets and fans
During winter, the farm sections are equipped with variable regulated air inlets (wall / ceiling) and air outlets (exhaust) through variable speed controlled fans. This ensures that the incoming (cold) air is mixed with warm room air before it reaches the animal zone. The air inlets ensures optimal climate in the animal zone throughout the cold period.
When the outdoor temperature is about 1°-4° Celsius colder than the optimal room temperature for the pigs, the ventilation system will gradually move into tunnel mode. This period is called "transition phase" where air inlets are open and shutters and/or curtains start to open.
Summer – tunnel ventilation
When room temperature exceeds the comfort zone the ventilation will switch into tunnel mode. This will ensure that all incoming air enters the building in one end and exits the building in the other end. Exhaust fans extracts air and ensures optimal air speed above the skin of the pigs (chill effect).
When the room temperature is 26° Celsius the air speed created by tunnel ventilation will reduce the effective temperature felt by the pigs with 6,5° Celsius. That means the temperature felt by the sows and finishers will be 19°-20° Celsius, ensuring the optimal production results.To maintain high productivity it is essential to cool down the pigs in warm periods. Previously, circulation fans were used to cool down the pigs in warm periods. However, this is far from ideal for all the pigs in the building and the pig producer will not get equal growth rate among all the pigs. From a health point of view it is ideal to operate with all in/all out production and to have the best use of the house all pigs must have the same growth rate. Tunnel ventilation will secure the same air speed and the same cooling effect and growth rate in the whole house.
Hot summer – Tunnel ventilation + CELdek® pads
During hot summer periods the effect of wind speed will not be effective enough to cool down the pigs. When there is only a little difference between room temperature and skin temperature the effect of wind speed is not enough to maintain high production results. If the room temperature is 31° Celsius the tunnel system will only reduce the effective temperature felt by the pigs with 3.7° Celsius. Therefore, additional cooling is required – the solution is to install CELdek® evaporative cooling pads.
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Art enriches our lives by helping us connect with each other and the world around us. Often, art evokes empathy and a sense of community. Art therapy can reduce stress, help resolve conflict and improve interpersonal communication. Not only does art enhance our experience of the world, it is an essential element of our wellbeing.
In 2011, Lybba and Wondros founder Jesse Dylan attended "Art in the Streets," an exhibit about street art at Los Angeles' Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA). Fascinated by the exhibit and the new audience of museum-goers it drew, Dylan sought out the exhibit's curator, Jeffrey Deitch, then Director of MOCA. The film above is Deitch's reflection on art as a fundamental part of our society and museums as a forum for social experiences.
Says Dylan, "'Art in the Streets was inclusive, challenging, different and fun. It compelled intense feelings from ardent fans, vocal critics in the press and non-expert attendees, like me. My fascination with the exhibition led me to its curator—Jeffrey Deitch—whose work on this particular installation sparked a public debate about the merits of street art and the philosophical direction of our art institutions. Attendees were left to wonder: what do art and art museums mean in the 21st century?
"I believe we will look back at Jeffrey Deitch's tenure at MOCA as a high point for culture in Los Angeles. At his core was the wish to make known what is unknown: to reveal. That is his legacy in Los Angeles and the reason I felt compelled to interview him in the film."
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If a marque is going to make a comeback, it could do much worse than with the 500. Fiat left the United States in 1983 with tears in its reputation as large and numerous as the rust holes in its car bodies.
The 2012 Fiat 500 is a whole new plate of pasta, despite paying homage to an old subcompact that got Italy moving in the wake of World War II the original 500, or Cinquecento (pronounced chink-wee-chen-toe). Yes, the styling is retro, but the amenities are modern. And the kind of American buyers Fiat is now aiming for are too young to remember the earlier departure. Anyway, most Fiats from that era disintegrated long ago.
So the new 500 arrives with a clean slate and around 500,000 ways to be personalized. There are 14 exterior colors, wheels, kick plates, badges, decals and stripes to augment the three trim levelsPop, Sport and Lounge. Under that clamshell hood, though, is just one engine. It's a 1.4-liter four making 101 hp and 98 lb-ft of torque. Not the kind of numbers that intimidate, but the upside is 30 mpg in the city and 38 on the highway (with the manual transmission).
Actually, there's some pretty cool, award-winning tech in the engine bay, called MultiAir (Best New Engine of 2010, from the International Engine of the Year panel). The valves are operated pneumatically to facilitate timing with infinite variability. For the full European experience, there's a manual transmission with five gears to stir. Changes are executed cleanly and sweetly, while the clutch action is smooth yet positive. The two-pedal posse will find the six-speed auto transmission to function more than adequately. And once the 500 gets going, those modest engine output numbers are forgiven and largely forgotten until there's some overtaking on a steep incline to be done.
Just puttering around town becomes a fun event. Approach a set of S-bends and the car keeps its composure, transitioning from one corner to the next with precision and ease. The steering, although quick, feels somewhat artificial, but with the wheels set as far into the car's corners as possible and such a short wheelbase, there's an endearing darty-ness. Naturally, the Sport model, with its specially tuned suspension and smart lightweight alloys, makes the most of this setup, but the Pop model is far from dull. On the flipside of this arrangement, ride quality is still quite comfortable.
All 500 models have a button on the dash marked Sport. Pressing it sharpens the throttle response. In cars with an automatic transmission, it also moves the shift points further up the rev range. It's pretty subtle, but a fun thing to have. Build quality seems to be perfectly acceptable, certainly nothing like Fiats from the bad old days. Safety qualifications include seven airbags, and in an offset frontal impact at 40 mph, the door on the wrecked side can still open. Noise-insulating foam has been injected into the body, helping to relieve the cabin from the boominess that afflicts many budget-priced small hatchbacks.
Although the Fiat 500 has been out in other parts of the world since 2007 (selling more than 500,000 units and winning awards like 2008 European Car of the Year in the process), the model now on sale in the States is the second generation, which has seen improvements to the suspension, safety features and engine.
Being a subcompact, space is limited. Everything seems to be in seven-eighths scale. The driver's armrest needs to be a touch longer, the seats a tad larger. Headroom and shoulder room feel restricted, and the two back seats are not that hospitable to grown-ups of average height or taller. Even so, from the cutesy design to the useful trunk space, this car represents an exercise in clever packaging.
Pricing starts at $15,500 for the Pop, $17,500 for the Sport, and $19,500 for the auto-only Lounge. Air conditioning, ABS brakes and keyless entry are standard throughout, while stuff like Bluetooth, USB sockets and navigation is available either in the upper trim levels or within an option package. The car can be bought from dedicated Fiat Studios set within Chrysler dealerships.
Most Asian rivals seem like punishment compared with the 500. Parallels with the MINI Cooper (a re-imagining of a former small car that symbolized an era in each home country's culture) brings an inevitable comparison, but the MINI has more space and power for a higher price.
Whether American drivers like it or not, there will be a greater number of small cars on sale in the future as companies try to meet Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) targets. The 500 will help Chrysler's efforts. Fiat took the reins of this beleaguered domestic company in 2010, so perhaps the new 500 will do for Chrysler what the old one did for Italy.
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In ranking our nation's priorities, food and fiber production should be at the same level as national defense, said Bob Odom.
"If the United States is going to continue to be the backbone of world agricultural production, but farmers can't survive on what they get from the marketplace, then the government should be willing to help keep them in business as a part of the nation's food security," the Louisiana commissioner of agriculture and forestry said at the annual convention of the Southern Crop Production Association at New Orleans.
Odom, now serving his sixth term as commissioner, said the nation needs to commit the resources necessary to keep its agriculture strong. "A farm bill has got to give our farmers enough dollars to be able to cash flow. Had it not been for government payments the last few years, how many farmers would be in business this year?
"We're going through some really trying times. We've got to be sure we provide farmers with a safety net and stability in order to continue this country's abundance of food and fiber. If we move our agricultural production offshore, we may find ourselves paying dearly to feed and clothe our families."
As an indication of how bad things are in the current ag economy, Odom noted that the state of Louisiana has had to take over operation of a grain elevator and a rice mill that were in danger of going under.
"Our concern is whether we can keep viable these industries that we need as a part of the agricultural support system," he said. "If we continue to lose industries that serve agriculture, it will hurt the infrastructure we need to keep our agriculture strong.
"If this current situation continues, we can't compete with other countries and their farm subsidies. Some of them can subsidize their farmers up to $80 billion, compared to only $19.1 billion in the United States. If they're going to stay in business, our farmers have got to be able to have enough cash to meet their obligations and provide for their families."
The new farm bill, Odom said, should provide counter-cyclical payments that are set at a level that will allow farmers to stay in operation. "And we need a cost of production crop insurance program at the 90 percent level. Our government should be spending $30 billion a year on the farm bill to support major commodities and other crops. While we need to support conservation, as is being recommended by some in Congress and the administration, we don't need to do it at the expense of agricultural production."
Odom noted that Secretary of Agriculture Ann Veneman has said she wants to wait on passing a farm bill until everyone is sure it fits farmers needs. But, he said, "If we wait too much longer, and we have more years like this year, we could very easily lose over 60 percent of the farmers in Louisiana. And a lot of others around the country could go out of business if we don't get a bill that's adequate.
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Jan Pitsch Green is located just west of 33rd Street and Sheridan Boulevard. Janis Pitsch lived across the street from the park area for many years, and was an active volunteer who worked hard to maintain and improve the planting areas in the neighborhood. Upon Jan's passing in 2008, she left a generous gift to the Lincoln Community Foundation to fund the initial landscaping improvements for the small park and for the roundabout median at 33rd and Sheridan, as well as a $70,000 endowment to provide for the perpetual landscaping care of the areas. Jan was also a dog lover, and future plans for the area include a sculptural form representing Jan's beloved poodle. Jan's gift to the Lincoln Community Foundation also included large gifts for no-kill dog shelters and programs.


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Muesli bars are an easy snack to drop into your kids' lunch boxes but they can be expensive – and full of sugar, fat and who knows what else! Try making these healthy homemade muesli bars instead – your kids won't taste the difference.
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- 1/2 cup (125mL) honey
1/4 cup caster sugar
125g butter
3 cups rolled oats (see note for gluten-free option)
1 cup Rice Bubbles
1 cup sultanas
1/2 cup chopped apricots, dates or choc chips
1/2 cup desiccated coconut
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- Preheat oven to 180°C (160°C fan-forced).
- Grease and line a slice tray (31 cm x 22cm) with baking paper.
- Combine honey, sugar and butter in a saucepan over medium heat. Cook, stirring, for 2-3 minutes until butter melts and sugar dissolves. Bring to the boil and cook for 2 minutes or until syrup thickens slightly. Remove from heat.
- Combine remaining ingredients in a large bowl. Pour over the hot syrup and stir to combine.
- Spoon into prepared pan and press firmly to make sure the mixture will stick together.
- Bake in oven for 15-20 minutes or until golden.
- Cool and then refrigerate until well chilled and cut into 24 slices (about 2cm x 6cm).
- To make these muesli bars gluten-free, use two cups of crushed cornflakes and two cups of rice bubbles.
- When spooning into prepared pans, I wet my fingers with a bit of cold water and press the top to get a smooth finish.
- The mixture has a total of 1 1/2 cups of dried fruit – use whatever combination you or your kids prefer.
- I have to put some obvious choc-chips on the top so my son will tolerate the sultanas. And let's not mention the pepitas!
- You could use half honey, half smooth peanut butter in the 'syrup' or add nuts to the mixture, but as most schools are nut-free now I have omitted these from the basic mix.
- If your kids aren't fans of the seeds in this recipe, try making these sweet apricot muesli bars. The sprinkling of white chocolate will also give them the sugar hit they crave.
- These muesli bars taste so much better than the packed ones off the shelf! Also check out this basic recipe for homemade muesli bars.
- Muesli bars aren't just for school recess. If your kids are in the habit of rushing out the door in the morning with empty tummies, these breakfast bars are great for giving them brekky on the run.
- These bars will get through the gates of any nut-free school, as will these yummy allergy-friendly muesli bars.
- Don't fancy turning on your oven? These Nutella bars are a naughty once-in-a-while treat to slip into lunch boxes, and don't require baking!
- Peanut butter is often banned from schools because of allergies, but it tastes amazing in muesli bars! Try making peanut butter muesli bars in the holidays or on weekends when kids are off from school.
- Missing some of the ingredients for these bars? Not to worry … Chances are you'll have what you need to make these easy 2-ingredient muesli bars and 2-ingredient energy bars instead.
- These muesli bars contain lots of healthy seeds, as do yummy bars made with chia seeds.
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State of the Seattle Seahawks. Brett B our man with his pulse on the Seahawks football beat is back with another edition of the Notebook. The December 16th, 2011 edition. This week the Seahawks face their NFC North rivals the Chicago Bears. The Bears offense is ranked 23rd in the league averaging just 197.2 yards per game. Can Marshawn Lynch run for 100 yards with a patchwork offensive line against Brian Urlacher.
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One of the fascinations of the Internet is that sites like YouTube have the ability to turn ordinary people into heroes overnight — or in some cases, within a few hours.
Joey Prusak, a Dairy Queen manager in Minnesota, became an Internet sensation after he responded to a situation by doing, well, what anyone should have done. Working the counter Sept. 10, Prusak saw a blind man drop a $20 bill. When a woman stooped to pick it up, he assumed she would return it to him. When she pocketed it instead, Prusak politely asked her give it back. When she refused, the 19-year-old refused to serve her. He then took $20 out of his own pocket and gave it to the blind man.
Customers who witnessed the exchange couldn't keep it to themselves. An email written to Dairy Queen management found its way to Facebook, where it went viral. Prusak's good deed caught the attention of the likes of Glenn Beck and billionaire Warren Buffett, whose company owns Dairy Queen.
When interviewed, Prusak said he "was just doing what I thought was right."
"Ninety-nine out of 100 people would've done the same thing," he said.
The Internet sensation created by his small act of kindness seems to suggest otherwise. Are good deeds so rare these days that any act of kindness or honesty, no matter how small, results in shock and awe? Do we overlook injustices like the one Prusak encountered so often that we feel the need to rejoice when someone acts in an ethical — or dare we say Christian — manner?
Prusak's kind act absolutely is one that deserves to be commended. But wouldn't it be great if we lived in a society in which doing the right thing was the rule rather than the exception?
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In September 2000, world leaders came together at the United Nations Headquarters in New York and adopted the far-reaching Millennium Declaration. Heads of State and Government committed their countries to achieving eight specific development targets by 2015, collectively known as Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The MDGs aim to: 1) end extreme poverty and hunger, 2) provide universal primary education, 3) achieve gender equality, 4) reduce child mortality, 5) improve maternal health, 6) combat HIV/AIDS, 7) ensure environmental sustainability and 8) develop a global partnership for development. While migration is not an explicit part of the MDGs, it greatly affects and is affected by the achievement of the MDGs.
In view of this year's High-Level Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly (MDG Review Summit) (20 to 22 September at UN Heaquarters in New York), the Migration and Development Series organized a half day seminar re-examining the inter-linkages between migration and the achievement of the MDGs.
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Mr. Laurent De Boeck (ACP Observatory): Migration and the MDGs from a South-South Perspective
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Hello, I'm not quite sure if this is question has already been asked before but I couldn't find anything after searching Google for hours.
Basically, I'm trying to move my camera class away from vector rotations, due to the inevitable gimbal lock issue, and towards quaternion-based orientations. So far though, I've tried several different implementations using quaternions (even switched to matrices with no luck) but no matter what I try, I keep getting the same results that I had with rotating vectors. Can someone look over my code and help me figure this out? I feel as though the gimbal lock is rooted somewhere in between my euler angle conversion and the fact that I base my rotations on world axes.
Code ://----------------------------------------------------------------------------- // Camera Object - Movement & Orientation //----------------------------------------------------------------------------- void camera::look( const glm::vec3& inTarget ) { glm::vec3 diffTarget ( pos - inTarget ); glm::quat rotations ( 0.f, diffTarget ); glm::vec3 angles ( glm::angle( rotations ) ); pitch = angles.x; yaw = angles.y; roll = angles.z; } void camera::move( float dx, float dy, float dz ) { pos.x += dx; pos.y += dy; pos.z += dz; } void camera::rotate( float dPitch, float dYaw, float dRoll ) { pitch = dPitch; yaw = dYaw; roll = dRoll; } //----------------------------------------------------------------------------- // Camera - Updating //----------------------------------------------------------------------------- void camera::update() { //update the rotations glm::quat rotateX( std::cos( pitch ), std::sin( pitch ), 0.f, 0.f ); glm::quat rotateY( std::cos( yaw ), 0.f, std::sin( yaw ), 0.f ); glm::quat rotateZ( std::cos( roll ), 0.f, 0.f, std::sin( roll ) ); glm::quat endRot = rotateZ * rotateY * rotateX; switch( camType ) { default: case CAM_TYPE_FPS: target.x = endRot.x; target.y = endRot.y; target.z = endRot.z; break; case CAM_TYPE_SPECTATOR: eye = endRot; break; } mvp = projMat * glm::lookAt( pos, target, up ) * glm::mat4_cast( eye ); }
I also tried removing the yaw, pitch, and roll variables from my camera class since that seemed more natural, although my brain just isn't really wired for quaternions.


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"Isn't there any respect for the dead?" That's the head-scratching question John Torrence now grapples with after his nephew was struck and killed by a NYPD patrol car only for family members to later receive notice demanding payment for vehicle repairs.
Tamon Robinson, 27, was struck and later died of blunt head injuries last April while trying to escape officers who claim to have observed him attempting to steal decorative cobblestones from around the Bayview Houses in Brooklyn.
"We're still grieving and this is like a slap in the face," Laverne Dobbinson said of the disrespect she feels has been shown her son ever since that dreadful morning took place. "They want my son to pay for the vehicle that killed him. They killed him… let him rest in peace. It's crazy."
And yet, all the lunacy hardly ended there. On the morning Robinson was to be buried, police kicked in the door and stormed the family's home in a raid executed at the wrong address. Family members also painfully recall that as a brain dead Robinson lay comatose and under armed guard in a Brooklyn hospital, cops refused to unshackle him from his bedpost and only allowed Dobbinson to visit with her son for around 20 minutes.
Several eyewitnesses have even stepped forward to allege that Robinson was actually deliberately run over by Officer Volkan Uretener, with one adding "they hit him. He flew up and he came down. They backed the car up, and they told him to get up. People were yelling out their windows screaming at the cops, 'We saw what you did.'"
"In my 40 years of practicing law in this city I have never seen anything as heartless as this," said attorney Sanford Rubenstein, since retained by the family to represent them in a still a yet unfolding $20 million suit against the city. "The $710 bill is a disgrace."
So much so, it's lit a fire under Dobbinson to assure justice is rendered in the name of her son. From day one, she's called for the arrest of the officers involved, staging several rallies and demonstrations across the neighborhood and establishing a Facebook memorial page in her son's honor.
At the time of his death, Robinson worked at a Connecticut muffin shop in Fort Greene, but according to his mother, also tried to make extra money hawking items, including the paving stones, to scrap dealers.
"They should make sure it's never again returned to patrol," Dobbinson said of the actual squad car that killed her son. "Just like those officers shouldn't be on the street, either."
In the letter dated September 27, which the British Daily Mail characterized as "a brutal, blood-money demand," the city pinpointed the $710 bill as restitution for "property damage to a vehicle owned by the New York Police Department." It further went on to strong-arm the family with the threat of a lawsuit if the claim was not paid within 10 days.
Meanwhile, in his intent to file suit notice served on the city, Rubenstein warned the NYPD not to make any repairs to the vehicle, as any such modifications to the vehicle would be a violation of a court order to preserve it as evidence in any pending investigation. Photos taken of the squad car show a large indentation on the front, driver's side of the vehicle.
Joined by the Rev. Al Sharpton at a recent truth-seeking demonstration, lately Rubenstein has also hinted at the possibility of a police cover up. "The head injuries were inconsistent with Tamon running into a car," he said.
A spokesman for Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes said this week the incident remains under investigation. The NYPD's Internal Affairs Bureau is also probing mounting allegations that Robinson was deliberately mowed down.
As might be expected, authorities have already begun the damage control mission of walking back their clearly suspect decision to even attempt to bill the Robinson family.
"We were not aware of the circumstances," said Christina Gonzales, an attorney for Linebarger Goggan Blair & Sampson, the firm retained by the city to carry out the collections process. "This type of receivable is not something we pursue when the alleged debtor is deceased."
Added Kate Ahlers, a spokesperson for the city's Law Department which first approved the action, "we recognize that this involves a tragic case. We regret that Mr. Robinson's family received a collection notice."
Rubenstein, however, still takes exception. "They have to realize this letter will be received by his mother, who is still grieving his wrongful death. How dare the City of New York direct their lawyers to demand money and threaten collection … under circumstances in which the actions of the officer operating the police car that night are subject of a criminal investigation."
The incident only highlights one of the several black-eyes the NYPD has suffered in recent times over some of its reported policies and practices, among them spying on citizens far outside the department's jurisdiction, establishing offices as far away as Israel, labeling people "professional agitators" for filming some of their suspect activities, engaging in widespread surveillance and even throwing an officer in a psychiatric ward for reporting corruption.
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I hpoe they get all the money they can get because that was a life not a dog in the road and we will be pray for the family.
This is so sad. Apparently, people especially black people are treated worst than animals these days. We as a race should remember we need to fight like our ancestors did for justice and rights as human beings. Othewise we can expect to read more about these senseless killings. My heart go out to the family of the young man. I also hope the police department take responsibility and compesate the family.
this is so friggin crazy to me i almost cannot not believe it i hope and pray that the family gets justice sues the police dept the driver and the city then go back and sue them again oh this story makes me so angry
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They say the key to good comedy is timing. The same could be said of labour action.
The BC teachers strike, which began in full yesterday, is an example of questionable timing.
It appears to be a gamble, that may not pay off.
The strike is taking place at a time when students are normally preparing for final exams. This is a time when some children have the most need of a teacher's help.
Classes designed around reviewing the year's curriculum will be lost and while the government has assured that exams will go on, you have to wonder if the students are properly prepared to take those tests.
If the teachers were hoping that a mid-June strike would provide the needed pressure to bring a quick end to the dispute, they appear to be mistaken.
On Monday talks collapsed between the two parties and the strike is on.
Now comes the waiting game.
With negotiations stalled and the school year winding down, the pressure to sign a new deal will soon evaporate.
If the strike continues into July, why would either side feel the need to make concessions?
What will result is two long months of speeches, saber-rattling and rhetoric as both sides claim to be fighting for a just cause.
Worse is the fact that parents, and the general public, will begin to lose interest as normal summer vacation activities begin.
With no pressure to make a deal, the strike could linger. Then comes September. There is no justifiable reason to let this strike continue into another school year.
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CHICAGO — President Obama and challenger Mitt Romney spent the last few days frantically barnstorming swing states for every last undecided voter, but the election's outcome will hinge more centrally on crucial turning points over the course of a multiyear campaign.
These are the victories and defeats and calculated statements of the last many months, the uncontrollable events and debate blunders and gaffes caught on video. They add up to a portrait of the contenders for the White House that has shaped their public image, for better and for worse.
The incumbent's chances for a second White House term will turn on decisions he made during his first term, when he bailed out the auto industry, rammed a health care bill through Congress, and blundered by issuing an excessively rosy forecast for economic recovery and promising to reduce the deficit. He gained strength after Special Operations forces killed Osama bin Laden and the economy slowly, steadily improved. Then he undermined his own foundation with a startlingly weak debate performance in October.
Romney encountered his own key moments that defined his second bid for the presidency. He campaigned as someone who could correct the economic and policy mistakes of the Democrat in office, but at important junctures, his stances on immigration, women's reproductive rights, and foreign policy did not always work to his advantage. He played to public anger over corporate bailouts in 2008 and 2009 and opposed the rescue of Detroit, only to have the issue haunt him in Ohio.
His secretly recorded remarks at a Boca Raton, Fla., fund-raiser in May — in which he casually dismissed 47 percent of the electorate as self-described victims who fail to take personal responsibility — sent his campaign reeling for weeks. Romney recovered strongly in his three debates with Obama. Then Hurricane Sandy swirled out of the Caribbean, sucked away the media's attention, and gave Obama a platform to shine as a strong leader in a disaster, altering the race yet again.
These are the key chapters that have shaped our opinions of the candidates, giving us glimpses of their intellects, their instincts, their trustworthiness. Collectively, they contributed to an overall narrative that will either help or hinder Obama and Romney as they seek to turn out their supporters today in an exceedingly close contest.
Stu Rothenberg, editor of the nonpartisan Rothenberg Political Report, said this has been a campaign that was surprisingly dominated by surprises, from the 47 percent video, to Romney's strong performance in the first debate, to Hurricane Sandy.
"These campaigns are about the unexpected and maybe that is the way it is supposed to be," he said. "Once we expect something, it is baked into the cake. It is the surprises that tend to shake up the race and we have had a lot of surprises this year. The 47 percent tape — who knew that was there?
"We put all this attention on the TV ads and the normal political analysis, and then we have twists and turns and news that have moved the results more than anything else."
Obama's response to the Wall Street meltdown of 2008 and the weak recovery from recession have been central issues in the campaign. The president produced the $787 billion stimulus package and the General Motors and Chrysler bailouts, and continued to manage the Wall Street TARP bailout; these were politically risky, but the president saw them as crucial to pulling the economy back from the brink of a depression.
In a politically pivotal moment that occurred even before Obama assumed office, his transition staff predicted unemployment would peak at just under 8 percent if Congress approved the stimulus. In fact, unemployment peaked at 10 percent and remained above 8 percent for most of Obama's term — a miscalculation that Republicans used against him for his entire term, calling it evidence that the stimulus had not lived up to its promise.
The bailouts, the stimulus, and "Obamacare'' stoked the anger of conservatives and led to the Tea Party's sweeping victories in the 2010 congressional elections and the Republican takeover of the House.When Romney began his campaign, he sought to tap that natural energy with strong rhetoric about shrinking the size of government, reducing taxes, and preventing illegal immigration.
After placing a close second in Iowa and winning New Hampshire, Romney lost South Carolina amid a flurry of attacks over his wealth and business career. Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker, assailed Romney over his refusal to release his taxes, and Governor Rick Perry of Texas branded him a "vulture capitalist,'' which dovetailed with the Obama campaign's portrayal of Romney as a corporate raider who shuttered factories and shipped jobs overseas.
Romney continued to tack toward the right as he successfully fought off Gingrich in Florida. At a subsequent conference of conservative Republicans in Washington in February, he declared himself "severely conservative.''
'It is the surprises that tend to shake up the race and we have had a lot of surprises this year. The 47 percent tape — who knew that was there?'
Yet the hard line that Romney adopted on immigration — placing himself to the right of both Perry and Gingrich — has damaged his standing among Hispanics, according to polls that show Obama with a big lead among that fast-growing demographic. If the trend holds true in the election, it would mark a major disappointment for Republicans, who had hoped to seize upon Obama's failure to pass immigration reform as a general election issue.
Campaigning in the first-caucus state of Iowa, Romney promised that, if passed, he would veto the DREAM Act, a measure backed by Obama that would provide a pathway to citizenship to children brought illegally to the United States by their parents who met certain conditions, such as having no criminal record and meeting educational requirements.
Then, in a Republican debate in Florida, Romney said "the answer is self-deportation," as opposed to sending law enforcement to track illegal immigrants down and force them from the United States. The statement was criticized by some who said it sent a message to millions of Hispanics that they were unwanted, and by others for being too vague.
Obama, sensing an opening, signed an order on June 15 to prevent the deportations of many younger illegal immigrants. Romney, asked at the time whether he backed Obama's move, avoided answering directly.
In the jousting for seniors' votes, Republicans turned an Obamacare provision — a reduction of $716 billion in Medicare spending for providers and insurers — into an attack by Obama on the program itself. The Obama campaign fired back that the Romney-Ryan plan to introduce vouchers for private insurance into Medicare would "end Medicare as we know it."
Among another crucial voting bloc — women — Romney has done a better job of closing the gap with Obama after the primary. The Republican was suffering a deficit with women after the primary campaign, which focused tightly on issues of abortion and contraception. But after the first debate with Obama, when Romney suddenly struck a newly moderate tone and reintroduced himself to an estimated 70 million TV viewers, his standing among women shot up.
"Whether it was carefully calculated or his own persona of not being a nasty guy, that helps,'' said David Woodard, a polling expert and political science professor at Clemson University in South Carolina. "He's got the looks and all that kind of stuff, and he's not scary.'' After that, however, ill-considered remarks by a Republican Senate candidate in Indiana about rape and abortion hurt the party's brand on women's issues.
Obama's role as commander in chief gave him a built-in advantage to demonstrate leadership at a complex and dangerous time for American security and foreign affairs. The May 2011 raid that killed Osama bin Laden, which he authorized, was a triumph.
Without any foreign policy or military background, Romney began the campaign at a disadvantage. And his inexperience appeared to show immediately after the Sept. 11 attack on the American diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, which killed the US ambassador and three other Americans.
Romney criticized the Obama administration as "disgraceful" shortly after the attack, accusing the State Department of apologizing to Islamic governments instead of condemning the assault.
Romney was roundly criticized for injecting politics into an overseas crisis. Yet over time, as attention fell on the Obama administration's shifting explanations of the attack, what once seemed to be a major setback for Romney has turned into a nagging issue for the president.
"The Benghazi incident challenged the edge Obama had created on foreign policy,'' said Paul Beck, a political science professor at Ohio State University.
But then came the last turning point of all: a late-October storm, Hurricane Sandy. The discussion in the media about whether Obama could fend off Romney's strong surge in the polls quickly gave way to images of Obama touring the devastation with none other than Chris Christie, the Republican New Jersey governor who is an ally of Romney's.
"The hurricane and the devastation it wrought enabled Obama to end the campaign as president, acting presidential, and (in the eyes of most voters, the polls say) effectively,'' said Beck. "Governor Christie helped support this image of a president effectively in command.''
That last bump of positive public relations could help Obama win reelection, affirm the current conventional wisdom that he is ahead, and put an end to the narrative of this campaign.
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With Evert Taube as inspiration, Helen Sjöholm, Freddie Wadling and Fredrik Lycke converge with The Göteborg Opera Chorus, Children's Chorus and Orchestra to create a unique concert with the sea as their theme. Led by conductor Josef Rhedin they welcome the summer with music from Mikael Wiehe, Peter Gabriel, Evert Taube himself and more. Some of Evert Taube's most beloved songs will be performed in a new format and some of the less played master pieces given new life. The concert will be performed on six occasions.
Fragando, a taste from the concert program.
Helen Sjöholm
Helen Sjöholm grew up singing, both as part of a chorus and as a soloist. Her big break-through came in 1995 with the title role in the musical Kristina from Duvemåla (Kristina från Duvemåla), which was performed at Malmö Opera, The Göteborg Opera and Cirkus in Stockholm. She has since performed as Fantine in Les Miserables at Malmö Opera; as female lead role Florence in the Swedish version of Chess at Circus, for which she was given a Golden Mask (Guldmask); and Polly in The Threepenny Opera at Stockholm City Theatre (Stockholms Stadsteater). Her most recent role was Eliza in My Fair Lady at the Oscar Theatre (Oscarsteatern), for which she was rewarded her second Golden Mask in 2009. In both 2004 and 2010 she participated in the annual Epiphany Concert at Berwaldhallen.
Helen Sjöholm is also a member and chorus singer in Benny Andersson's Orchestra (BAO) and recorded her greatest hit so far with them, Du är min man (You are my man), which stayed on Swedish record chart Svensktoppen from 2004–2009. Helen has also toured with Jojje Wadenius and released two of her "own" records, Visor (Songs) (2002) and Genom varje andetag (With Every Breath) (2003). She has participated in Rhapsody in Rock; the tour Speldosa (Music Box) with Björn Skifs; Allsång på Skansen (Sing Along at Skansen); and the TV show Så ska det låta (a Swedish version of Irish The Lyrics Board). Her début as an actress was in Richard Hobert's 1999 film Där regnbågen slutar (Where the Rainbow Ends) and she has also played Gabriella in Kay Pollack's 2004 film Så som i himmelen (As It Is In Heaven).
Fredrik Lycke
Fredrik Lycke has participated and starred in untold musicals and operettas since he graduated from Teater- och Operahögskolan (Academy of Music and Drama) in Göteborg. Among the roles can be mentioned Count Danilo in The Happy Widow at Folkoperan in Stockholm; Higgins in My Fair Lady at The Göteborg Opera; Nicky/Trekkie Monster in Avenue Q at The Maxim Theatre (Maximteatern) in Stockholm; Frank N Further in The Göteborg Opera version of The Rocky Horror Show; as well as Molina in Kiss of the Spider Woman (Spindelkvinnans Kyss) and Tony in West Side Story, which were both performed at Malmö Opera. He has also sung the lead role in Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame at Musicalteater Berlin.
Fredrik Lycke also participates in concerts and musicals with, among others, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Fire Brigade Band. He has recorded the children's programme För alla åldrar (For all ages) which aired on SVT in the autumn of 2009. Fredrik is just as comfortable performing in small, intimate arenas as he is performing in large concerts. His repertoire includes jazz, pop, rock and musical theatre.
Freddie Wadling
Freddie Wadling is a singer and actor who is said to have "the best rock voice in Sweden". During the 1970's he became part of the punk scene in Göteborg and played with a number of bands, usually as their bass player. He has since been a member in, amongst others, Cortex; Blue for Two (together with Henryk Lipp); and the Flesh Quartet (Fläskkvartetten), which performed his version of Over the Rainbow. Since the end of the 1980's Wadling has also recorded solo albums and hence been able to reach a wider audience. In 2005 he was awarded the Cornelis Vreewswijk Award. Freddie Wadling has also played parts in Frankenstein, Rosens namn and Korpen (2008) at the Göteborg City Theatre.
Selected discography: Spinal Injuries (1983), Something Wicked This Way Comes (1989), The Dice Man (collection 1991), A Soft-Hearted Killer Collection (collection 1997), En skiva till kaffet (1999), Skillingtryck och mordballader (2000), Jag är monstret (2005).
Josef Rhedin
Josef Rhedin has studied composition with Rolf Martinsson and Hans Gefors at the Malmö Academy of Music and conducting with Lars Jensen in Copenhagen and Jorma Panula in Helsinki.
He has found success both at home and abroad, touring and releasing albums with his own band Tribute; composing for symphony orchestras, theatre and TV; and conducting, for example, Chess at Cirkus, A Chorus Line at The Göteborg Opera, Lik och tjuvar (Corpses and bandits) and Sjökor och Stekare (Manatees and Roasters) at Norrlandsoperan; West Side Story at Malmö Opera and NorrlandsOperan; as well as Mamma Mia! in both Göteborg and Stockholm. In the autumn he will conduct Singin' in the Rain at Malmö Opera.