text: Kosmor :: View topic - Peace for our time Imprint Search Log in Legal Memberlist Profile Peace for our time Goto page 1, 2 Next Kosmor Forum Index -> Kosmor RPG View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message One-of-ManyGuest Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 03:25 Post subject: Peace for our time Their forces had been driven back at all fronts, and the situation was bleak. A gradual reversal from its glory days of the past. The Imperial Navy was a battered shell of its former self. Gone were the mighty dreadnoughts, gone was the core of the fleet. Despite insurmountable odds, the Imperial Navy mounted a final desperate sally, in a desperate attempt to buy time for their motherland. The Yamato-class leviathan vessels were the biggest dreadnoughts of this worn torn era. Their armor plating alone could bankrupt entire solar systems and their weaponery systems required the complete dedicated production of an entire empire. Alas, the leviathan has been slain by the goliath. The age of force projection has dawned and the paradigm of the dreadnought is obsolete. Deplete of interceptor cover, the mighty Yamato was sunk by torpedos, its cannons having never been fired in anger. Our forces are spent, and we surrender unconditionally to the victors of war, whether they accept it or not. Troja, Neozlick, and Austrian Alliance. You have won a strategic victory. One-of-Many. The sword of the empire. Back to top RobinHoodGuest Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 01:41 Post subject: Major One-of-Many (house Requiem) conquered a solar system from Commander Black-Skull (house Troja) (destroyed combat power: 19). as i told the whole world the whole time: no one of agnari should be trusted! Back to top NeirehGuest Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 02:01 Post subject: Shouldn't be to fast to blame or? Maybe it was a accident or a agreement if the planet earlier maybe belongs to him ? by the way i never had a problem with trusting Agnarians Back to top GozerGuest Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 23:52 Post subject: [ Did you, perchance, miss the "house Requiem" part of that message? As in Requiem, not Agnari. Back to top NeirehGuest Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 01:56 Post subject: You must see.. Robin is one that says one time Agnari, ever Agnari it suites well to blame Agnari for that, even when one-of-many is no longer part of Agnari and goes his own way. Back to top JackONeillGuest Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 02:20 Post subject: The galaxtic newspapers say that Imperator Agnar has massive influence on One-of-Many, some even say that Agnar is his puppet master... So "Requiem" is just another name for "wing-of-agnari" I think. And "unconditionally surrender" normally means not to conquer planets. Dishonest and false players you are, much to learn you all have, young padawans... Back to top APOcalypseGuest Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 04:17 Post subject: Emperor michimike promised me too that he will not enter war anymore. What did he do? He conquered planets of Aurion. Furthermore he had a mapsharing, which allows Claudio to target my warplanet. People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. Back to top JackONeillGuest Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 04:21 Post subject: But what has michimike to do with this case? A lie is a lie, doesn't matter if somebody else does/did the same. And by the way: JackONeill is speaking for Troja, not for any austrian alliances... Back to top GozerGuest Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 07:01 Post subject: Sounds like an incident long ago when an imperator friendly to Troja (Liam) surrendered to Agnari, then attacked while under the control of another imperator, also on the side of Troja. Pots and kettles, my friends. Back to top RobinHoodGuest Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 09:38 Post subject: better you write a message to michi and not here! Back to top NeirehGuest Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 13:41 Post subject: Be sure that michi has his answer! by the way we see austrian alliance as your allys so i woulnd't be surprised when you have some influence on him and Austrian is something like a inofficial wing of troja. So what? Same case different names. Back to top JackONeillGuest Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 01:51 Post subject: But Neireh, the case is you said "even when one-of-many is no longer part of Agnari and goes his own way" and thats definitly not true, is it? Back to top RobinHoodGuest Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 09:20 Post subject: the fact is that one-of-many told me 3 times he would end his actions against us and dont support agnar anymore! every time he did we would have been able to take him again and again! did we? no! we believed him and let him fly away in peace! and the liam thing and the fact that i told gondor to attack again is only based on his behaivior and the fact that rupsie told us the same 2 times! every of their offers was just fake and i just dont like such guys! and neireh: you have a real big mouth for someone who told me once to make peace with agnar when i was able to catch him and i let him fly away because of this! and now you are helping this guy! but this is a wargame and i think it's normal that some persons here dont have any honor if they see a good chance in winning a war by telling bullshit! Back to top NeirehGuest Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 12:41 Post subject: oh cool down Robin... i asked you, i begged you to try to make peace.. i also asked Agnar before to try to make peace. What is the bad thing on it when i want Peace in a conflict who going to get out of control? We never wanted to get involved. But the main thing that we joined that war was as Austrian alliance and neozlick joined your side. We saw that as a thread so near at our borders and viewed that war long time and we felt us forced to take action. But i explained that earlier. You will only believe what you want to believe. And you are not the one to blame others. Trying corrupt loyal members with promises of planets isn't honourable, too. I'm finished with you guys and we will sweep away all enemys. Troja, neozlick with Marion as my personal slave and austrian alliance with michimike to polish my goliaths. Even Claudio and his Acid Star, surely invited by you or sour felllows in this war, isn't able to stop us. You have woke up a sleeping Dragon. Back to top TikondaGuest Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 13:33 Post subject: i have so much fun playing today... as i told some weeks ago, you guys shouldn't take this game too serious as it is just a game where you can play with tactics, words, strategies and other things. its not the real life and no one is really hurt. for example: two weeks ago i - with the support of others - killed gondor and he really seemed to be a little depressed after his serious loss. but we still talk to each other with a friendly sound and he plays further on and of course his time for revenge will come. my respect to him as he keeps on and stays happy. and remember this one, guys: it would be a boring game without enemies worth fighting for, without treacheries and without sudden twists. it would be boring, boring, boring and i don't like boring things. do you? i eagerly anticipate the revenge moves from marion, which is approaching and of course we are preparing a new trap for her as we did for gondor and warhamma and we all will have much fun while we wait for the results. this is a cool time and you should see this with a more bright and happy attitude and keep a friendly sound while talking to each other as the game makes more fun then. 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Type: Defect
Status: Closed
Priority: Major
Resolution: Declined
Affects Version/s: None
Fix Version/s: None
Component/s: None
((fn [] true)) ; true
(#(true)) ; classcast exception
((fn [])) ; nil
(#()) ; ()
(some (fn [_]_) [nil false 0 1]) ; 0
(some #(%) [nil false 0 1]) ; NPE
This is no defect. Function literals must have a function (or macro or special form) as first symbol.
So your examples should be written like so:
user> (#(do true)) true user> (#(do)) nil user> (some #(do %) [nil false 0 1]) 0
user> (#(do true)) true user> (#(do)) nil user> (some #(do %) [nil false 0 1]) 0
It makes sense. However (and correct me if I'm wrong) there should be little problem in making them fully equivalent to fns, resulting in a more concise and consistent API.
Please consider re-opening the issue as a feature request.
Regards - Víctor.
The reader docs at http://www.clojure.org/reader say that #() is not a replacement for (fn [] ...). You can't make it more equivalent to fn without making it much harder to understand. Let me explain that with an example.
(defn get-time [] (System/currentTimeMillis)) (#(get-time)) ;; What's the result?
What's the result of the funcall above? Clearly, right now, it is the current system time.
So if we decided to allow to write #(true) as an alternative to (constantly true) [which is a varargs fn] or #(do true) [which is a fn of zero args], then valid values of #(get-time) where both the current system time but also the function object for get-time. Functions are values, too.
Ok, one could say that in the case of a function, #(function) is always a call, but it would make it harder to reason about what the code does for not much benefit.
(defn get-time [] (System/currentTimeMillis)) (#(get-time)) ;; What's the result?
You're right - satisfying my request would require to change the average use of this feature to #((some_fn %1 %2)) rather than just #(some_fn %1 %2), if we wanted #(true) to be valid. Which indeed would be barely handy.
Thank you.

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What's News: Financial markets quickly recover after a false AP tweet of explosions in the White House sent stocks plunging. Facebook is building new data center in Iowa. New home sales jump 1.5% in March. Joanne Po reports. Photo: Getty Images
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STANFORD, Calif. (AP) Kyle Anderson had 18 points and 13 rebounds, Shabazz Muhammad made a late four-point play and UCLA held on to beat Stanford 88-80 on Saturday.
Two days after struggling offensively in a 13-point loss at California, the Bruins (19-7, 9-4 Pac-12) bounced back behind a stellar effort from their two prized freshmen. Anderson recorded his team-leading seventh double-double while Muhammad finished with 25 points, eight in the final 1:52.
Dwight Powell scored 22 points while Aaron Bright had 19 for Stanford. The Cardinal (15-11, 6-7) have dropped three of their last four games.


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Empire State Development has announced Empire Specialty Cheese Co. LLC will invest $6.37 million to expand its business in New York state. The company will purchase and upgrade an idle manufacturing facility in Chautauqua County to accommodate new and existing cheese production processes, resulting in the creation of 204 new jobs.
Empire State Development, the state's economic development agency, assisted Empire Specialty Cheese Co. with its expansion project by providing $650,000 in Excelsior Job Program tax credits.
Kenneth Adams, Empire State Development president, CEO and commissioner, said, "Empire Specialty Cheese Co. first found success as a small manufacturer of cheese, and is now expanding its product line to multiple private labels. Its success is bringing job opportunities to hundreds of new employees and new jobs' are two words that we love to hear."
"We are grateful for the Excelsior Jobs Program tax credits we will receive from New York state," said Empire Specialty Cheese Co. owner Antimo Caparco. "This support allows us to provide new jobs in a larger facility and expand our product line."
Empire Specialty Cheese has purchased the former AFA meat-processing plant at 277 Fairfield Road in Ashville in order to expand its cheese production. The company had been searching for an adequate location to expand operations in southwestern New York, as its current location was no longer viable for the growing business.
An announcement was held at the new plant, which will make productive use of the formerly vacant building. The project, which involves building renovation and the purchase of new machinery and equipment, retains 46 full-time, permanent employees and will gradually add 204 new jobs over five years after the facility is completed next year. The project will also create new demand for local milk production and potentially re-employ workers at the facility that were terminated less than 24 months ago.
Empire Specialty Cheese began in 2000. It presently makes fresh ricotta and mozzarella cheese. The new plant will allow the business to process and package cheese for private labeling and expand the product lines to include a wide variety of cubed and shredded cheeses.
"We welcome the Empire Specialty Cheese Co. to Chautauqua County," said Chautauqua County Executive Gregory Edwards. "We are especially happy to have them because they are returning a landmark building in the food industry back into a vital manufacturing facility. It will be a place where hundreds of people will be able to find work and a paycheck to bring home to their families."
"New York's cheese and dairy industry is a robust and thriving part of our agricultural sector, and one of our state's greatest economic assets," said State Sen. Catharine M. Young. "This expansion will reinvigorate our local economy, create hundreds of valuable jobs, and promote Chautauqua County-produced cheese products across the state. My hat is off to Empire Specialty Cheese and all the local and state officials who worked together to bring these new jobs to our community."
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For Otto Porter, it's two seasons and done for the Georgetown forward. Porter made his announcement at a 3 p.m. ET news conference.
Porter, who averaged 16.2 points and 7.5 rebounds per game, was the Big East's player of the year and led the Hoyas to a share of the Big East regular season title. His scoring average in conference play was 18.1 points per game.
Porter's breakout performance—the one that put him on everybody's radar—came on the road against Big East rival Syracuse on Feb. 23. Porter produced 33 points, eight rebounds, five steals and hit five 3-pointers while playing all 40 minutes in a Hoyas victory.
"The toughest part was knowing you're going to leave a great place like this," Porter said. "I love this place."
Georgetown's season ended abruptly when it was upset in the round of 64 of the NCAA Tournament by No. 15 seed Florida Gulf Coast.
DraftExpress.com has Porter ranked as a lottery pick, going No. 8 overall to the Oklahoma City Thunder, which acquired that pick as a result of sending James Harden to Houston.
"Whatever they ask him to do, he's going to be able to do," Thompson said.
The Associated Press contributed to this story.


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TeraStation: Resetting to English
Sometimes when you reflash a teraStation for some reason (as yet undetermined) it seems to lose its language settings and come back up in Japanese. Probably the most common cause is that you were using a firmware release that supported Japanese/English/German; had the language set to German; and are reflashing with firmware release that only supports Japanese/English (as is the case for most firmware releases downloaded from the Buffalo Japanese site).
This article shows how to reset it back to English.
There are basically two methods available:
- Editing a configuration file at the Linux level
- Using the Buffalo supplied Web interface
Editing a Configuration File
This is the simplest method, but does require you to have flashed your TeraStation with a version of firmware that allows telnet access, and it does involve some command line work and the ability to use a linux/unix editor.
The steps involved are:
- Telnet to the TeraStation and log in as a user with root access
- Edit the file /etc/melco/info and see if it has a line of the form
if so change it so it reads
If the 'lang' line does not exist then add it.
When you have done this the Buffalo Web interface should start operating in English again.
Using the Web Interface
This is a little more convoluted as it requires you navigating a Japanese web page to change a setting;
- Connect to the Buffalo station via a browser. You will initially see a page that looks something like the following:
This is the Japanese equivalent of the Home screen.
- Select the second option from the menu on the left. This will result in a page like this
- Scroll down to the 4th section of the page. This will have 2 drop downs. The first is used to set the language and the second one the code page. Change the language drop-down to the english one (i.e. not the value initially displayed).
- There appears to be a bug in some releases of firmware where if you do not set the NTP server to disabled (the right-hand selection option) the change of language setting does not take effect.
if you want you can also change the code-page drop-down or you can wait until you have got English page back.
- Now go right to the bottom of the page and you will see a button. This is the "Apply" button so click on it. This will leave you on this page with everything still displayed in Japanese.
- Click on another section on the Left-hand menu and the new page should now be in English. clicking back on the basic page will now display that in English as well.


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Ryan Hunter-Reay coasted to his second straight victory at Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham, Ala. when the rain-shortened IndyCar Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama finished under caution.
A full-course caution came out for the final seven minutes of the timed race after rookie Mikhail Aleshin lost control and went off the track. That left Hunter-Reay unchallenged, with Andretti Autosport teammate Marco Andretti finishing second.
Scott Dixon was third, followed by Simon Pagenaud and pole-sitter Will Power, a two-time winner at Barber who was among the drivers dealing with a slippery track in spots.
"He was out there cutting the grass," Hunter-Reay said. "I had to take advantage of that. It was so easy to do that today. I almost lost this race three times."
There was some slipping and sliding after the field switched from the wet tires with several drivers leaving the track.
"That was horrible for everybody," Hunter-Reay said. "It was like an ice-skating rink."
He passed Power on lap 18 when the Australian left the track and skirted by the tire barrier before pulling back onto the track.
It's the 12th career win for Hunter-Reay, who was alone up front during the caution until Andretti pulled even at the finish line to savor the moment with his teammate.
"They've given us great cars here, and second win in a row for Ryan is awesome," said Andretti, whose radio worked only sporadically down the stretch.
Dixon said running a time race was "annoying" and Andretti said it removed some strategy from the formula.
Drivers were focused on handling the track conditions, not payback from any lingering anger over Long Beach clashes.
Hunter-Reay started that race on the pole and led the most laps before an aggressive pass attempt ended up with a wreck collecting seven cars.
Aleshin walked back to pit road while the rest of the field finished. Earlier Sebastien Bourdais had spun the Russian from behind, leaving him stalled. Bourdais received a drive-through penalty for avoidable contact.
The race was a change-up for Dixon, who finished second in each of the first four races at Barber.
"We went the wrong way, but it was an interesting day," Dixon said. "Whenever you have a rain delay it sort of puts a strain on everybody trying to figure out what we need to do.
"The cars were pretty good. The track suits wet conditions. There were a few areas with standing water."
Erica Enders-Stevens raced to her second Pro Stock victory of the season in the NHRA SpringNationals in Baytown, Texas, beating Allen Johnson in the final at Royal Purple Raceway.
Enders-Stevens had a 6.594-second pass at 210.60 mph in her Chevrolet Camaro, beating Johnson 6.588 at 210.28 with a better reaction time off the line.
"My team's been really awesome," said Enders-Stevens, also the winner last month in Las Vegas. "I've had a really consistent race car. That's what it takes Sundays, consistency. We had to make last second transmission change and go through the gears to make sure everything was right."
The victory was the 99th by a female driver in NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series history.
Antron Brown won in Top Fuel, and Robert Hight topped the Funny Car field.
Racing in his fifth straight final, Hight ran a 4.055 at 314.90 in his Ford Mustang to beat Jack Beckman. Hight has three victories in the first six events this season. He opened a 122-point lead over owner and teammate John Force.
Brown raced to second straight win with a 3.793 pass at 317.72 against Khalid alBalooshi. Brown took over the Top Fuel points lead from Doug Kalitta.


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It's Megacop vs. Megacop when Detroit's cyborg crime-fighter hits the streets to protect the innocent. This time from corporate greed!
Laced with a sardonic sense of humor (Drama-Logue) and packed with action scenes coming at a deliberate clip (Boxoffice), Robocop 3 is a thrilling sci-fi adventure that will have you on the edge of your seat! When the ruthless corporation that runs Motor City begins kicking families out of their homes to clear space for a profitable new real estate project, Robocop (Robert John Burke, Copland) joins forces with a renegade band of freedom fighters to save them.
But Robocop must face some deadly foes, including a lethally efficient android and a dangerous gang of thugs. Robocop's latest arsenal of high-tech weaponry only somewhat evens the battlefield as this lone superhero takes on the entire army of corporate militia in an all-out war to control Detroit!
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Did anyone ask Austin if the screaming began after he went outside?
So Mom told him to walk the dog with blood curdling screams coming from the backyard?
You know what I'm getting at.
Here is a theory for ya allRachel May Have Been on Phone Through Entire Incidenthttp://diwataman.wordpress.com/2013/07/30/rachel-may-have-been-on-phone-through-entire-incident/


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Now as you heard Chris mention, trouble - economic trouble - in Europe. We turn to Greece now. Greeks are pulling their money out of the nation's banks, over fears that Greece is about to leave the euro. Many are moving their savings accounts to Germany or stuffing cash under mattresses. Experts are beginning to call this a bank run in slow motion. Chana Joffe-Walt takes us inside a Greek bank to meet a person whose job it is to hand over the money.
CHANA JOFFE-WALT, BYLINE: Before money leaves, there's always a moment when money flows in. And for Greece, that moment was really dramatic. It was about 10 years ago. The country was about to join the euro, and Thefilos Papacostakis was called into a meeting at work. Thefilos is a bank teller in Thessaloniki at Alpha Bank, and the boss sat everyone down after the workday.
THEFILOS PAPACOSTAKIS: And one of the things he said: You should forget what you know. Soon enough you'll forget everything you know about banking. Everything's going to be all new.
JOFFE-WALT: And when he said that, what did you think?
PAPACOSTAKIS: Well, you know, we laughed. We said, yeah, sure. Yeah. Right. I'm sure, I'm sure. Mm-hmm. Well, it did happen.
JOFFE-WALT: What happened a decade ago was investors thought Greece would flourish on the euro, so money poured into the country and Greek banks started lending it out to people for cars, vacations, homes. Thefilos's job was indeed totally different. And in years past, things collapsed in Greece. You know the story - lots of debt, investors left the country. And then last month, Thefilos says, the bosses called another special meeting.
THEFILOS PAPCOSTAKIS: You know how managers work - pep talk and high goals and all that stuff.
JOFFE-WALT: The bosses showed up after work, they sat everyone down.
PAPCOSTAKIS: Basically, they was, you know, be happy, smile, you still have a job.
JOFFE-WALT: That's it? That's the pep talk?
PAPCOSTAKIS: That's the bottom line.
JOFFE-WALT: Thefilos says the bosses then added: things are bad and they're going to get worse. When countries are in this kind of trouble, people panic and pull their money out of banks. Thefilos heard the words bank run, but once again...
PAPCOSTAKIS: I didn't think it was real.
JOFFE-WALT: Until just a few weeks ago when his customers started calling.
PAPCOSTAKIS: You know what they do? They call me and they say, Thefilos, tomorrow I'm going to need, say, 50,000 euros cash. I say maybe cashier's check? No, no, cash. OK. And then half an hour later, somebody else will say, Thefilos, I need, say, 200,000 euros.
JOFFE-WALT: If Greece leaves the euro - which seems like a distinct possibility - the money in Greek banks would likely be converted into drachma and would suddenly be worth a lot less. But the thing about bank runs is they're a type of self-fulfilling prophecy, a fact Thefilos's customers seem to be aware of.
PAPCOSTAKIS: The funny thing is some of them are apologetic, like, you know, I'm sorry I take the money, but, you know, I'm so scared.
JOFFE-WALT: For those people, Thefilos Papcostakis is not the person you want to turn to for comfort.
PAPCOSTAKIS: I felt very bad and I was angry at them. I was pissed, I was troubled. I was talking my - the branch manager and says what can we do about that? I don't like it. I don't want to do it. Just do your job. Be cool. It's their money. They can do it.
JOFFE-WALT: After a couple of weeks after counting out stacks of euros and sending money to Germany and Australia, Thefilos says he's not angry anymore.
PAPCOSTAKIS: It's like a doctor. The first time makes surgery, you know, throws up and faint, and then after the thousandth operation, doesn't feel like any difference.
JOFFE-WALT: Have you taken your money out?
PAPCOSTAKIS: I don't have any money at all. You know, sometimes I wondering what if I had 100,000 euros. Would I do the same? I probably would have.
JOFFE-WALT: That is the definition of a bank run - when even the guy working at the bank, responsible for handing out the cash, wouldn't necessarily keep his money there either. Chana Joffe-Walt, NPR News.
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Danny Margagliano is one of our own. Faced with a debilitating injury, which put him in a wheelchair, he turned to another one of our own.
Now he is smiling.
Dr. Tanya Orr and her staff at Gentle Breeze Family Dentistry, located on 30A in Santa Rosa Beach, are making Danny comfortable while he gets needed dental services. In the old tradition of helping your neighbors, Dr. Orr and her staff are truly receiving while giving. This is what they believe business is all about.
"I was a patient of hers before my accident. She was the first one I thought of when my teeth started hurting me," says Margagliano. "Her office and staff have been a blessing in disguise."
Many find going to Gentle Breeze Family Dentistry comfortable already. Yet in Danny's case, physical obstacles that may limit him at other businesses are not present at Dr. Orr�s office.
"I like that they have a handicapped parking space and a ramp built up to the sidewalk. Also, the doors and hallways are wide enough for my wheelchair," Margagliano says. "They also accommodate my schedule and will change my appointments if I don't have transportation lined up, which really helps out a lot."
Dr. Orr continues, "It's quite challenging working on anyone in a wheelchair. It can be very stressful on both the staff and patient. Both of us have to work at it. With Danny especially though, we must go along at his pace. Yet we see changes in his smile and how happy he is having work done."
Margagliano says he is restarting his career as a Realtor and his focus is on sustaining his house, which is currently undergoing a full rehab to accommodate his wheelchair. Getting him on the road back from such a life-changing accident with a smile on his face is what Orr wanted to achieve.
�We know what he had been through and wanted to help any way we can,� Orr said. �Just seeing him smile every time he comes to the office helps warm our hearts.�
Orr and staff also help offset costs by donating extra needed crucial dental services not covered by insurance to ease his financial burden. You can support Danny Margagliano through continued donations by visiting his web site at www.donations4danny.com
�We know that it is such a strain on him and his family, so we wanted to do our part because we all belong to this community, and we all help out those who are in need.
�Danny is unique because his needs will forever be extended far beyond the initial accident and rehabilitation, which took place these last 11 months. We all are in it for the long haul and neighbors should support one another through good times and not so good ones as well,� Orr says.
Gentle Breeze Family Dentistry is located at 6880 W. Hwy 30A in Santa Rosa Beach. Visit them on the web at www.gentlebreezedental.comor call (850)-267-3313.


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Because everyone has a birthday, I want to wish my Blog one too. Happy Birthday, PreeOccupied.
It was exactly a year ago when on a cold December day I took my camera, got some pictures clicking and posted here. It has been a long, relishing journey since then. No looking back and definitely no end to all my talking! And thankfully they haven't all been monologues.
A full year later, I sit back and feel privileged that I know you. You show you care for the work I do by leaving your little note of appreciation and suggestion. Sometimes you correct me, other times you even come back and tell me you have tried one of my recipes, or just drop by to say a Hi. You make me feel I have achieved something precious. And then I hunger for more. And just then someone entrusts me with one their family recipes. It truly becomes my honor to not let you down.
At age one, I am just about beginning to crawl, wobble and reach out to so many of you who have become part of my everyday life. Not one, but hundreds of you who have shared and cared with me and continue to do so.
You make my everyday fun and something to look forward to. So please celebrate with me and have a slice of this trifle dessert I made to mark my first year of Blogging. You may get a teeny little share of it, but you know you have a big chunk of my heart already.
No birthday is complete without return gifts. And I hate flouting traditions. So I made this wannabe-Madhubani painting specially as a return gift for you.
Join my birthday party at PreeOccupied and share your views and opinions on improving my Blog space, recipe suggestions, or anything you think needs a facelift here.
Here is how you can have my maiden Madhubani painting!
- Follow this Blog (via Google Friend Connect or NetworkedBlogs)
- Like my page on Facebook, click on Suggest to Friends, and invite your friends on Facebook to join PreeOccupied
- Four comments per person will be allowed. Do not forget to leave your email and a separate comment for each entry
- Blog or Tweet about what you like about PreeOccupied
- This gift can be taken by anybody from anywhere in the world
- I will choose the person who takes this painting home through random.org at the end of day (EST) on January 15, 2011
Thank you all once again for being part of my journey of Blogging. I look forward to another year of cooking adventures with you all.
Lots of love.
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Church Reclaims Oil Paintings of Saints
Cantlon, Cleo. "Church Reclaims Oil Paintings of Saints." Minot Daily News, n.d.
Karlsruhe - Two 70-year-old paintings of Saints Peter and Paul again hang near the altar of the Karlsruhe Catholic church, thanks to a parish committee and Minot artist Judy Bell.
Life-size paintings of the church's patron saints were completed in 1915 by Count Berthold Von Imhoff.
The count, who began painting when he was 7, won the Berlin Art Academy award when he was 16. He came to North America from Karlsruhe, Germany, when he was 24 and settled at St. Walburg, Saskatchewan, in 1913.
When he died in 1939 Von Imhoff left more than 200 paintings behind, including many in a museum at St. Walburg. He said he enjoyed painting at Karlsruhe because it reminded him of home.
The North Dakota parish also enjoyed the renditions of their patron saints. But in the 1960s, the church was remodeled and the pictures, which had been attached directly to the walls, were ripped down and put aside.
Maggie Mack, head of the 1992 redorating committee, said at first the paintings were folded up and stored in the boiler room on top of the furnace. Then parishioner Eddie Bossert rescued them and stored them at his farm another 30 years, until Mack's group persisted in having them evaluated.
The parish council decided not to use church operating funds to cover the $2,500 needed for restoration and framing, the Rev. Joseph Senger, pastor of the mission parish at Karlsruhe, said. But the money was raised through a special feast day dinner and quilt raffle.
Mack's committee contacted former parishioner Tim Greenheck of Minot, who operates a gallery and framing shop. He sent them to Judy Bell, an artist who has also restored art works over the past several years.
"These were the biggest pieces I'd ever worked on," Bell said, "and they looked pretty hopeless in the beginning. They were cracked where they had been folded, and canvas beneath the paint was deteriorating."
Besides having spent 30 years in storage, the paintings had initially shared the church with a wood stove which added a layer of soot over them.
bell had to do the cleaning and restoration in her garage, both because of their 9-foot height and the toxic chemicals necessary for cleaning.
"I found wonderful color underneath," she commented. Bell also admired the interesting scrollwork Von Imhoff painted around each portrait.
She repaired the damage, re-lined the canvases, finished out the tops of pictures to fit on Greenheck's new square wooden frames, and varnished them.
Bell and Greenheck also were working against a deadline, which they met: the restored paintings were hung in time to celebrate feast days for Saints Peter and Paul in Karlsruhe June 29, 1992.
Reprinted with permission of the Minot Daily News.


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A group of shareholders in Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has launched a multi-million pound lawsuit against the state-owned bank for misleading investors at the height of the credit crisis in 2008.
In the first court document filed in the U.K. over the bank's record 12 billion pound ($18 billion) cash call in April 2008, a group of 21 claimants - including international investors and pension funds - allege the bank published a defective prospectus littered with misstatements and omissions.
The claim was issued in London's High Court just days before a much larger 4.0 billion pound lawsuit is expected from another investor grouping called the RBoS Shareholders Action Group.
Both claims could lead to RBS's disgraced former CEO Fred Goodwin being forced to appear in court to defend the bank's actions.
"Unless the matter can be resolved amicably, the claimants intend to pursue this litigation vigorously and through to trial in order to seek appropriate redress from the court," said Clive Zietman of U.K. law firm Stewarts Law, who is representing the 21 claimants.
Only broad outlines have been filed so far of a claim Zietman said could be worth "hundreds of millions of pounds".
The RBoS Shareholders Action Group - a group of some 12,000 ordinary shareholders and 100 institutions - has also alleged that RBS misled investors about its financial health at the time of the rights issue and is demanding compensation.
RBS declined comment and its law firm, Herbert Smith, was not available for comment.
The failure of the bank - once a small Scottish retail lender that staged a meteoric rise to global prominence before a spectacular collapse which threatened to fell the entire U.K. financial system - was averted only by a 45 billion pound taxpayer bailout and billions more in state-backed loans.
Goodwin, dubbed "Fred the Shred" for his cost-cutting abilities, was knighted in 2004 for services to banking in an era of "light touch" regulation that celebrated financial innovation under former prime minister Gordon Brown.
But Goodwin's tenure at RBS was brought to an ignominious end after RBS succeeded in its pursuit of ABN AMRO, only to find its Dutch peer's assets overvalued just as the unfolding credit crisis undermined the entire bank sector in late 2007 and 2008.
RBS, already struggling to secure financing for a ballooning leveraged finance and commercial real estate lending business, launched a rights issue, but with its shares in freefall as the liquidity crisis took hold, it was not enough.
In October 2008, with corporate customers withdrawing deposits and RBS hours away from running out of cash, the government took an 83 percent stake and Goodwin became one of the highest-profile failures of the credit crisis.
But he was also one of the best paid, sent home with an annual pension of over 700,000 pounds before a public outcry forced him to slash it to an annual 342,500 pounds.
He was also stripped of his knighthood in early 2012.


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Also, I checked all the other servers, could not find Herb in any of them.
Perhaps they changed now so that Herb will only be on one server per day. Or there is a small chance that we where unlucky enough to have Herb spawn in the lvl 70+ areas only, except for En1.
Edit: Found him in Nl1 now. Cool mountain, 4 coins.
Weird I didn't see him before.
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It's going to be tough work when we got all the servers up If you going to tell for each server
Yes, I think 4 servers is the maximum I can check myself =)
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En1: Sibiri, 7coins
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En2: Pinheira Beach, 6 coins.
Nl1: Rio Tropical, 3 coins.
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En2: Laketown, 6 coins
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There is currently no available "Beginner" label. The following is the default level label: A summit house was first built atop Mt. Tom, in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, in 1897. It was one of the last of the central Connecticut hills to get a summit house. That structure was two stories high and was seventy-six by ninety-two feet with a twenty-five foot high cupola. But, like so many other mountain houses, it burned in 1900. A new hotel was built in 1901, more grand than any of its neighbors: it was seven stories high, 101 feet long, with a hall that seated 300. That building (in the distance in this photograph) stood until it, too, burned in 1929. The railroad was completed in 1897. The cars that ran on it were built in Springfield, Massachusetts, and held eighty people. They gripped a cable that was wound around an eight-foot steel drum at the summit. The railway ran until 1938 and that year, the last Mt. Tom summit house closed. Both the third summit house, built of metal, and the railroad were sold for scrap and dismantled.
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Blacks in Boston: A Fifty Year Retrospective
Hubie Jones assistant to chancellor, Urban Affairs, UMass Boston
For more than 40 years, Hubie Jones has played a key role in the formation, rebuilding, and leadership of at least 30 organizations within the black community and across Boston. While at UMass Boston, Jones has worked to build the City to City Program, an initiative in which Boston's corporate, government, and nonprofit leaders visit cities in the U.S. and abroad to learn how their urban leaders solve problems. He is dean emeritus of the Boston University School of Social Work, where he served as professor and dean from 1977 to 1993. He was BU's first African-American dean. For eight months in 1992, he was acting president of Roxbury Community College. Jones has served on numerous nonprofit boards in the Greater Boston area. He is the founder of the Massachusetts Advocacy Center, where he served as board president for ten years. He is a trustee of the Foley, Hoag and Eliot Foundation, and has served on the boards of City Year and the Conservation Law Foundation.


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Rogers Inbox: Will White Sox pursue top arm?
Need a reason to smile?
Think about how great Chris Colabello is going to feel at Monday's Opening Day at U.S. Cellular Field. He gets to jog out to the first-base line when the Twins are announced before the game.
Need a reason to smile?
Think about how great Chris Colabello is going to feel at Monday's Opening Day at U.S. Cellular Field. He gets to jog out to the first-base line when the Twins are announced before the game.
Undrafted out of Assumption College in Worcester, Mass., Colabello is a 30-year-old who spent seven seasons in independent baseball before being offered a Minor League contract by the Twins two years ago. He's run with the chance he got, crushing the ball in Double-A and Triple-A, and was so happy to have a shot at making a Major League roster that he turned down a guaranteed $1 million to play in Korea.
During Spring Training, he told me he's never played baseball for money.
"This game has never not been fun for me," said Colabello, a right-handed hitter who will back up first baseman Joe Mauer and serve as a DH option. "Every time the lights come on, you step between the lines, it's everything I could ever imagine it to be -- whether it's in the big leagues, Triple-A, Double-A, even in the [independent] CanAm League. The lights come on, umpires meet at home plate with the coaches and you run on the field. You get goose bumps and butterflies and things like that because you are in a position where you get to compete … I love to play."
He's you and me, but with baseball talent and a uniform. Now some questions:
With their payroll scheduled to be so low, can the White Sox go after a top free-agent pitcher like Max Scherzer, James Shields, Jon Lester, etc., after this season?
-- Matthew D., Chicago
They are positioned to do exactly that. The White Sox payroll grew as high as $127.8 million in 2011 and is at $90 million opening this year, almost $30 million less than the start of last season. But the really intriguing factor is they have only $46.4 million of guaranteed money on the books for 2015. They could be a major player in the offseason market but face a difficult task landing one of the big fish, as they'd probably have to come up with an offer bigger than those from powerhouses like the Yankees, Red Sox, Dodgers and Rangers, to name four.
What do you see as the upside for Jose Abreu and Avisail Garcia?
-- Tom D., Chicago
While Garcia has already shown he can be a solid regular, I haven't talked to any scouts who get hyperbolic about his potential. The Tigers felt Nick Castellanos was the better hitter when they had both of them. But the scouts who saw Abreu play for Cuba think he could be a monster. The White Sox have worked hard to maintain a poker face about his potential, but there are guys inside and outside the organization who think he could be a real force -- like Miguel Cabrera, a power hitter who doesn't sacrifice average. I think he could hit .280-plus with 40 home runs. Garcia might hit .300 some season, but I think his power will be more along the lines of Alex Rios -- 25 homers in a good season.
Do you think Javier Baez is up in the big leagues right after the Super Two status deadline or closer to September?
-- Chris M., Chicago
I don't think the Super Two deadline is that big of a concern for Theo Epstein and Co., and if I'm right on that, the only marker to watch for comes early. Anybody making his big league debut after April 11 will not get the 172 days of service needed to make 2014 count as a full season's service time, so potential free agency is pushed back until after 2020, not 2019. That's why the Rays had Evan Longoria spend the first two weeks of 2008 in Triple-A, and that timing would apply to Baez, the Cubs' top prospect. It's logical to leave him in the Minors for another full season, getting him beyond 300 Minor League games, but I've got a hunch something's going to happen early in the season to get him to the big leagues for on-the-job training with manager Rick Renteria and his coaches -- an injury, a trade, something. Just a guess.
Will Mike Olt, Starlin Castro and Baez set a record for most errors by a second-third-shortstop combination in 2014 and '15?
-- Chad R., Greenville, S.C.
I'm not sure what that record is, but you could be on to something. Some crazy stuff will almost certainly happen if they are on the field at the same time. However, a lot of people think Olt, ranked No. 14 among the Cubs' top prospects, will settle in and develop into a plus fielder with a regular spot and good health. In the 2013 Prospect Handbook, Baseball America wrote, "Olt is a joy to watch defensively, owing to his agility and ability to make throws from any angle." His shoulder was a concern in Spring Training, so let's wait a bit to draw any conclusions on him. Both Castro and Baez have big arms and will get a lot of outs on tough plays but do make a lot of errors, and that's a part of their baseball DNA that probably isn't ever going to go away. No one with the organization has told me this, but I think the Cubs hope that Castro will rebound from his 2012-13 regression as a hitter so they can shop him in trades for pitching, opening shortstop up to either Baez or Arismendy Alcantara, another stat-producing middle infielder.
Phil Rogers is a columnist for MLB.com.


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Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Gender Ratio in Korea
China currently has an abnormal ratio between men and women of marriageable age. I've heard that is also true for Korea and a few other Asian countries. Has it become necessary for men to seek alternative methods of finding a bride, such as mail-order bride situations?
Traditionally, and until not too long ago, Koreans favored having a male child. But it has been at least 25 years or so since Korean culture explicitly favored boys over girls. (In fact, there currently is a strong counter-trend favoring daughters over sons, resulting in such terms as 딸바보 [parent who dotes on the daughter to the point of being foolish].) Accordingly, the sex ratio of Korean children at birth is quite normal.
In the state of nature, it is expected that around 105 boys are born for every 100 girls. Korea's newborn sex ratio is more or less in line with that figure, if slightly favoring boys. For the last five years, the number hovered between 105.7 and 106.9 (that is, 105.7 boys to 100 girls.)* The same holds true for Koreans in marriageable age: the sex ratio for Koreans between the ages of 20 and 39 is 104.7.
But one thing to always remember about Korea is: it is a larger country than you think, and there are always pockets within the country that defies the prevailing trend. While Korea overall has a normal sex ratio among people within marriageable age, there is a strong split between cities and rural areas. In cities, the sex ratio for those between 20 and 39 years old is 102.3; in rural areas, the sex ratio for same age group is 119.6. The more rural the area is, the wider the discrepancy in sex ratio. In the most sparsely populated parts of Korea (i.e. the myeon [면] level towns), the sex ratio for those between 20 and 39 years old is 174.5(!).
(For perspective, however, note that cities in Korea hold more than six times the population than the rural areas.)
This split occurs mostly because men are more "stuck" to the town of their birth. As Korea industrialized, virtually every Korean who was able to do so left his or her hometown for a larger city in search of jobs and opportunity. In this great urbanization migration, those who were least able to leave were the firstborn sons, who were expected to tend the family farm and take care of their elderly, immobile parents.
These desperate men do tend to resort to mail-order bride-type situations, usually involving women from Vietnam, China, Cambodia, Mongolia, the Philippines, Uzbekistan, etc. (For a glimpse of how the recruiting process works for these international brides, please refer to this post.) Today, nearly 40 percent of all marriages in Korea's rural areas involves "imported" brides. Tragically, all the attendant issues that one might expect from such practice--discrimination, domestic violence, brides running away, etc.--are very much present in these cases.
*Unless otherwise indicated, all statistical information is from Korean Statistical Information Service.
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I once read that there was a time when amniocentesis testing to determine sex was commonly used by some mothers in Korea and they got abortions after finding out they were going to have a girl. I've asked about it a few times and it seems to be a subject that Koreans are very reluctant to discuss.ReplyDelete
Although purely anecdotal ... I offer the following personal observation:
My nieces and nephews are almost all from a provincial city in South Kyeongsang Province. They are mostly in their young 30s now. Several years ago, I remember looking at some of their elementary school yearbooks (which BTW - were every bit as nice as most American high school yearbooks). I'm sure this was by design: each class had exactly 40 students. I happened to noticed that the classes seemed to have more boys than girls. This piqued my curiosity, so I started making note of the boy/girl ratio in each class. There were 8-10 ten 6th grade classes in each yearbook. There were only two ratios: either 24 boys/16 girls or 23 boys/17 girls.
I also wonder how much the previous law that banned doctors from disclosing the gender of the unborn baby to the parents (law was removed in 2009, i think) had an impact on the general ratio too...ReplyDelete
Even at at ratio of 105/100 boys to girls that eventually leads to a huge gender imbalance. If all 100 women get married to 100 men that means 5 men will be SOL. In this scenario 2.5% of the entire population will be single men. Very unlucky single men.ReplyDeleteReplies
You're making the assumption that the gender imbalance at birth leads to a gender imbalance in adulthood. Evolution has its way of evening things out, i.e., male infants have more health problems than female infants; and adult men kill each other more often, take more risks and have more health problems, on average, than adult women.Delete
As far as I am concerned, the gender imbalance is a HUGE problem for South Korea. How is that so? Well, there are 3,500,000,000 women in the world for only ONE Lee Min Ho. How is that fair? It is not fair at all! Poor women have to struggle and fight with each other in order to catch just one glimpse of our most-beloved idol.ReplyDelete
Right now we can all admire him in "The Heirs", the drama that is currently airing. Who cares if he is gay? Who cares if he is 25, yet plays a high school student. All we care about is his looks. OMG. He is like drop dead gorgeous. Him and many other South Korean actors.
I hope LMH never gets drafted. Maybe he can claim an injury (he has more than one actually). Maybe he can renounce his Korean citizenship and play in dramas as the U.S. citizen, then he doesn't have to be drafted.
Anyway, thanks to South Korea our genetic pool when it comes to males is still pretty much varied and ... extremely pleasing to the eye.
@VB Thank you for lighten up the day:-)ReplyDelete
@ David - I try very hard. And if in any way you are related to Ee Min Ho, I love you.ReplyDelete
"Korean men are among the most handsome people on earth and most women all over the world agree to this fact."
Source: I hope this girl burns in HELL for not placing Lee Min Ho at #1 Hyun Bin is not handsome at all, although better looking than all the white guys. http://www.besttop10tip.com/top-10-most-popular-and-handsome-korean-actors-in-2013/
Eheh, VB, you almost sound like me when I was in high school.ReplyDelete
I used to melt at those incredibly handsome prince charming-looking Korean faces and bodies on my computer screen. I still like them, but I've realised since a couple of years ago or so that I find much more charming the anonymous young passengers on the street rather than all of the pretty idols on the silver screen. (and I remind you I'm living in Seoul, come on and envy me ^_- ) Maybe I'm just getting old. That also leads me to prefer cinematic film actors to the TV soap opera ones and underground rock, punk, indie and such musicians to the k-pop stars. -- In fisical terms, of course, not to be mistaken. Talking about musical or other taste here would be off topic. -- And if I have to chose amongst the big (KBS size) celebrities on TV, I'd probably go looking for comedians from Gag Concert.
@ Dac - I seriously envy you. In fact, I kind of hate you. I live in a land of ugly men. Not only they are incredibly ugly, they are chauvinistic pigs as well. That makes it a double whammy.They are ugly on the outside and on the inside. I think the local women should have a stack of brown bags at home so they can have sex without any serious psychological trauma. I know, the concept of beauty is very subjective, but there is human biology for heaven's sake, and some things can be measured and calculated.ReplyDelete
I like Lee Min Ho not because he is beautiful or a good actor (actually, he sucks at acting but no one is complaining) but for that female fantasy that he fulfills. Watching Lee Min Ho reduces cortisol production and increases oxytocin. He is so gentlemen-like, so cute and so sweet! I am sure he is not like that in real life, but that's his drama image and it is so compelling!
So I really want one.
No, I don't care for Kpop stars, comedians or serious musicians. I just want to see more cute and nice guys like Lee Min Ho. Here are some ideas for his next drama series:
1. Lee Min Ho on the beach (I think 104 episodes should be enough)
2. Lee Min Ho in the shower (54 episodes long)
3. Lee Min Ho being Lee Min Ho (maybe a Lee Min Ho Cam?)
Okay, before you get all upset - I am joking of course. Go and enjoy your charming anonymous young passengers on the street. Because many many women can't even do that.Replies
Thank you. Actually I have one sweet eye-candy at home too. ^_-Delete
But you know, I say my man is my only one, other pretty boys on the street are paintings in an art gallery.
You make me curious, however, where do you live? If I may know, if not, I'll respect your privacy.
So you are saying they have moved the Louvre to Seoul? ;)ReplyDelete
The ugliest men on earth are Eastern Europeans. I am still trying to figure out who is uglier, Russians or Ukrainians... Not sure, I am kind of undecided on that one. I guess I will have to go with Russians, since even Karl Lagerfeld commented on the subject.
Oh, I see. Well, I'm from a country which litterally boarders between eastern and western and southern Europe geographically and both socially it can be put in any of these three groups. But I like to call it Mediterranean because it would be the most accurate, I'd say. We've got all kinds of men down there. The pretty ones, the unpretty ones, the sexist ones, the gentlemen, the womanisers, the kind liberals, gays etc.Delete
Which country borders East, West and South of Europe and can be called Mediterranean?.... Croatia? I give up. How did you find your sweet eye-candy in a Mediterranean country? Or you went all the way to Korea for the love of art (galleries)?Delete
Are you watching "The Heirs"? Episode 9 just came out. The ratings reached 15% in Seoul and over 13% nationwide.
Bingo! It's Croatia.Delete
My Korean sweetey was a tourist in my hometown, and it is the sea side, and we fell in love and now I'm in Korea and we're living together. Our story is pretty much like the typical plot for a romantic film with a happy ending.
And no, I don't watch The Heirs, I'm not really into drammas. I prefer films and cartoons. ehehehehe
I knew it! So many people I know are IN LOVE with Croatia. It is a beautiful place! I think you should start your own blog if you don't have one already - your own impressions of Korea, i.e. Korea from the inside.ReplyDelete
Is your future mother-in-law as bad as they portray them in dramas? I hope not.
I made a mistake, it is episode 10. If you ever see Lee Min Ho in real life - tell him I love him just the way he is.Replies
Eheh, glad to know so many people love my home country. But I just didn't feel like doing a blog exploring Korea especially because I'm not a tourist here. Yes, I know, I might be much more useful and provide much more information as an international student, but my lifestyle isn't really the one that would make me explore Korea and then write articles and post them on the internet and interact with my blog guests. I'm very busy with homework already and in the break time I just wanna relax, have fun and work on different personal projects.Delete
I have met my assumably future mother-in-law only once and I didn't get a bad impression, I'm more worried about the father, actually. Never met him, but I've heard he's very conservative. But then, I dunno, didn't try living with them, my boyfriend and I live alone. I mean, just the two of us. I've met his sister too and it seems like we could be friends if we were living near, she's pretty nice.
Okay, I shall tell him. Although meeting a celebrity is not such an easy thing to happen.


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By Matthew Heimer
Gotta work out, gotta work out, gotta work out. Many of us have an obsessive little voice repeating that phrase in our inner ears, and it only gets louder as we age. We know that cardiovascular fitness can help us resist heart disease and stroke (as long as we don't overdo it). And researchers also believe that it's important to our circadian rhythms – the body clock that coordinates the functioning of our brain and other organs. Middle-aged people tend to have more trouble sleeping, which can disrupt the circadian rhythms in ways that have been linked to diabetes, depression and certain types of cancer, along with a parade of other horribles.
The good news, according to a study that appears in this month's Journal of Physiology, is that there are signs that steady exercise might help us realign our body clocks. A team led by Christopher Colwell, a professor of psychiatry at the University of California, Los Angeles's Brain Research Institute, conducted a series of experiments on mice that lacked a critical circadian-rhythm protein. After a few weeks of running, these mice mostly showed marked improvement in their body-clock function. The slightly weirder result—still unexplained, as Colwell told the New York Times's Well blog this week—is that mice who exercised in the afternoon had particularly strong results. Colwell told the Times's Gretchen Reynolds that this timing surprised his team: Most athletes prefer to work out in the morning, and tend to assume that's when they get the best results.
He might have added that, for people with traditional desk jobs, exercising in the afternoon lies somewhere between inconvenient and impossible. When am I supposed to get my coffee-break donut, for heaven's sake? It could be good timing for a teaching professional, though. Over at the education-oriented blog Admissions Quest, New Hampshire school fundraiser Brian Fisher is boasting about how, thanks to his sports-heavy boarding-school background, he's "still addicted to exercising between 3-6 pm." "We're huge fans and believers in the benefits of the traditional boarding school daily routine," Fisher enthuses.
Good for you, Brian, but alas: I'm a huge fan and believer in the spend-the-afternoon-racing-my-deadlines routine. Sigh. For now, I'll console myself with Colwell's reassurance that "any exercise is likely to be better than none." (Note to self: Consider getting "any exercise.")