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Quickies: Radio Amarok, 12 KDE Tips, Asus' KDE Laptop, PyQt4 Book
The Radio Amarok Team is looking for a new design, and they have decided to leave it up to you on how it should look. *** Bruce Byfield, of Datamation has written a several page article titled, 12 Tips for KDE Users. Bruce covers the KDE Printer Dialogue to using Klipper and configuring virtual desktops. *** Asustek Computer Inc's KDE based low-cost laptop, the Eee PC, nearly sold out its first day on sale in Taipei according to the article Eee PC posts hot sales on first day in Taipei. *** Need a new book for the holidays? Look no further than Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt: The Definitive Guide to PyQt Programming, by Mark Summerfield. This book is aimed at a much broader audience than the author's C++/Qt books and is also a great introduction to GUI programming and the Qt 4 libraries in general. This book is now available on Amazon. *** Rudd-O looks at KDE 4 Beta 3 and has a cursory look into Dolphin.
Re: Qt4Ruby
and perl bindings for Qt4...
By korpenkraxar at Mon, 2007/10/29 - 5:00am
Re: Qt4Ruby
and Haskell ones too...
By LHS at Mon, 2007/10/29 - 5:00am
Re: Qt4Ruby
In case anyone thinks it's silly to mention Haskell bindings, you might want to know that the Linspire guys were actually planning on doing it, as they standardized on Haskell as their preferred language for core OS development.
Anyone knows of any news regarding that?
By LHS at Mon, 2007/10/29 - 5:00am
Re: Qt4Ruby
Interesting link, but no I haven't heard anything about Haskell bindings. The problem is that to justify all the large amount of work involved in creating a new binding, you need to have a potential critical mass of community, and I'm not sure that Haskell is mainstream enough yet.
Recently people have been working on new Ada and Lua Qt bindings. And work on PHP, Python, Ruby, C#, Java and JavaScript bindings for Qt (and KDE too for some of them) continues.
By Richard Dale at Mon, 2007/10/29 - 5:00am
Re: Qt4Ruby
Yes it is understandable. The Haskell community is very strong in the academia world though. Nice Qt/KDE bindings for Haskell would have the potential to get an enormous amount of functional programmers contributing to KDE. Now that's something that shouldn't be underestimated.
By LHS at Mon, 2007/10/29 - 5:00am
Re: Qt4Ruby
>> The Haskell community is very strong in the academia world though.
Not around here they aren't. I'm doing my masters of computer engineering in Canada and I've never heard of anyone using Haskell for anything.
By Leo S at Tue, 2007/10/30 - 5:00am
Re: Qt4Ruby
At least in Europe, nowadays Haskell is probably the functional language of choice. Just check any Functional Language conferences, summer schools or whatever and you'll see how much of it is Haskell related material. It is widely used, mostly among computer science students around here.
Of course academics are busy, many of them are busy programming in haskell and quite a few would be keen on having nice Qt/KDE libraries to build GUIs for their programs, display graphical stuff etc.
By LHS at Tue, 2007/10/30 - 5:00am
Re: Qt4Ruby
Different fields in academia, different languages. My wife actually commented (as a pure flight of fancy) that she'd like FORTAN77 bindings. Seriously. She's a computational chemist doing simulations of the molecular dynamics of proteins. It would be handy to have a same language GUI, as right now it is a Java GUI with FORTRAN code actually running the data, and she has given up on maintaining the (poorly written) GUI, hand coding her data tables in vi.
>> what makes you think they will want to contribute to KDE?
I don't think it matters if they contribute back... the point is that they can *use* it, no matter how niche it is. Or are you of the opinion that somebody using KOffice should be kicking back code? Plenty of people just use KDE apps, and the same would apply to bindings for some of the more obscure languages that have specialized userbases. It makes their work easier, and their computing experience better. Which is a fair summation of what KDE is for.
I'm not saying it will or should happen (somebody would have to step up and do it), I'm just saying that it's not laughable that it would be very useful to have bindings for some of the more esoteric languages.
Okay, maybe FORTRAN77 bindings would deserve a *few* giggles... ;)
By Evan "JabberWok... at Tue, 2007/11/13 - 6:00am
Re: Qt4Ruby
Object Oriented Languages for programming not Object Oriented Operating Systems?
Linux depends on python too much. If you need to delete a program with a python lib you may loose the entire system because you may break the package management system database.
A Linux Distro is some programs under a Package Management System.
I think the language the OS is writen on should not interfere with other programs.
The language one uses to write the OS shoud NEVER be used by others.
Check it out: ttp://www.ffconsultancy.com/languages/ray_tracer/index.html.
The problem is the compiler.
From http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Programming/Compilers/The-Glasgow-Haskell....
"The Glasgow Haskell Compiler description
The Glasgow Haskell Compiler is a state-of-the-art, open source, compiler and interactive environment for the functional language Haskell.
Here are some key features of "The Glasgow Haskell Compiler":
· GHC supports the entire Haskell 98 language plus a wide variety of extensions.
GHC is heavily dependent on its users and contributors. Please come and join the mailing lists and send us your comments, suggestions, bug reports and contributions!"
From here: http://programming.reddit.com/info/o96l/comments, I chose the next text:
Haskell is extremely clean; if you write your programs in a functionnal style, they'll feel neat in a very rewarding way. If you don't write them in a 100% functional way, well... they won't compile at all.
OCaml encourages functionnal style, but doesn't force it down your throat when inappropriate. Since the real world, with which you might plan to interface, is rather stateful, you'll often be happy to put a couple of "!" and "mutable" here and there, in the crucial 10% of your project which are intrinsically imperative.
In Haskell, be prepared to put loads of monads everywhere. As an interesting example, consider template haskell: it's a conceptually neat and powerfull meta-programming framework for Haskell, but for every constructor you need a basic type, a monadic type, a basic constructor and a monadic constructor wrapper... what for? All this kludge only because the gensym() operator, which creates a new variable name, can't be written easily in a functional style! And that's code written by world-class haskell coders! in OCaml, you'd just have written: let gensym = let count = ref 0 in fun () -> incr count; "$" ^ stringofint !count
and that's it, no boilerplate all around the program because of very anal attitude towards imperative stuff."
And from here, at http://www.mozart-oz.org/papers/abstracts/Diss-Henz.html:
"Doctoral Dissertation, May 1997, Universität des Saarlandes.
The programming language Oz integrates the paradigms of imperative, functional and concurrent constraint programming in a computational framework of unprecedented breadth, featuring stateful programming through cells, lexically scoped higher-order programming, and explicit concurrency synchronized by logic variables.
Object-oriented programming is another paradigm that provides a set of concepts useful in software practice. In this thesis we address the question how object-oriented programming can be suitably supported in Oz. As a lexically scoped higher-order language, Oz can express a wide range of object-oriented concepts. We present a simple yet expressive object system, demonstrate its usability and outline an efficient implementation. A central aspect of Oz is its support for concurrent computation. We examine the impact of concurrency on the design of an object system and explore the use of objects in concurrent programming.
A revised version of this dissertation is available in book form from Kluwer Academic Publishers. Full bibliographic reference is available in the BibTeX entry.
The Kluwer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, 1997, Kluwer Academic Publishers"
It is not this what everybody is talking about?
"The programming language Oz integrates the paradigms of imperative, functional and concurrent constraint programming in a computational framework"
And how about comparing them all? http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=message&lang=all.
From here http://www.ffconsultancy.com/languages/ray_tracer/verbosity.html I get this segment:
OCaml is the most concise language, followed by Standard ML and then C++, Java and Scheme. Finally, Lisp is the most verbose language."
And from "http://www.ffconsultancy.com/languages/ray_tracer/performance.html
C++ is the fastest language in both 32-bit and 64-bit. However, the higher-level Scheme and OCaml languages are not much slower. Stalin-compiled Scheme is only 30% slower than C++ in 32-bit. The fastest OCaml is only 9% slower than C++ in 64-bit."
From http://www.ffconsultancy.com/languages/ray_tracer/conclusions.html:
"OCaml provides two compilers, one byte-code (ocamlc) and one native-code (ocamlopt). The ocamlc compiler is 5× faster at compiling these ray tracers than the ocamlopt compiler but native-code executables produced by ocamlopt run much faster. The ocamlopt compiler combines one of the fastest compilation times with one of the fastest running times. OCaml also provides an interactive top-level (ocaml) that is useful for testing program fragments."
"Fast development time, succinct code, fast compile time and fast run time make both OCaml and Standard ML very desirable languages for serious software development. Efficiency makes these languages suitable for performance critical work. Rapid development and brevity makes them ideal for prototyping. Static type checking makes them ideal for intrinsically complicated programs."
"Many programmers are currently migrating from C++ to Java because of the increase in program stability offered by Java (e.g. no pointer arithmetic, garbage collection). For precisely those reasons, we certainly concur that Java is preferable to C++ for serious programming. However, given our results, we believe that these programmers would do well to learn either Standard ML or OCaml as well. These languages are smaller, simpler and more expressive, faster and easier to develop in and produce faster executables. Above all, they're more fun!"
About that?
Comparing: take a look at the table with the comparison.
And if OCaml is being used on OS virtualization?
"XenSource, one of the world's most prominent players in virtualization and a customer of Flying Frog Consultancy, recently announced their sale to Citrix for $500M. The core value-add of XenSource's product line over the open source Xen virtualization package is a sophisticated management tool stack written almost entirely in OCaml."
How to choose the BEST language?
I have doubts about what language to choose. Is FreePascal so old it could not be a good choice? See it here:
This is great: at http://wagerlabs.com/archives/92.html:
Why Ocaml? Why not Haskell? I'll list the pros and contras below, in no particular order. I'll write up a summary first, for those of you not interested in reading the whole post.
--- Summary ---
There's an elephant in the room. It's there, it's huge, it's something that nobody talks about. OCaml is the practical Haskell. It's functional, statically typed and blazing fast. Performance of OCaml programs is well defined. With OCaml you go from asking why your code is spending 70% of its time collecting garbage to actually trying to polish your code.
I cannot emphasize this enough. GHC takes 2-3-4 minutes to rebuild my project whenever I touch the parser. Ocaml takes 1-2-3 seconds. I use a 2Ghz Core Duo MacBook Pro and Topdog is decidedly not a large project which makes the difference all the more glaring. With Haskell I was loath to touch the parser or my syntax tree definition, with OCaml I look forward to tweaking things to my hearts content. Normal recompilation time of Topdog is so far as to be almost unnoticeable."
And do not forget Eiffel.
FreePascal is BETTER than almost all other languages on those tests!
I am in great doubts about choosing a language to base my work on.
... and about clipper ...
What do you think about having Object Oriented Clipper?
What kind of problem do I have to have to get THE RIGHT choice?
Why is OOPL so important at all if OO is not a http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/panacea? Or is it?
By Marcio Carneiro at Sat, 2007/11/03 - 5:00am
Re: Qt4Ruby
Well QtRuby for Qt4 is based on the PerlQt code, and so the Smoke library that they both use has already been ported to Qt4. Also a lot of the code for the Qt4 changes in QtRuby like slots/signals could be ported back to a Qt4 version of PerlQt. Germain Garand (one of the main Qt3 PerlQt developers) mentioned in an email recently how he would really like to do a Qt4 PerlQt if only he could get some serious help.
Additionally, a guy has started on some Perl Qt bindings from scratch, and he occasionally writes to the firstname.lastname@example.com mailing list about his progress.
By Richard Dale at Mon, 2007/10/29 - 5:00am
EeePC "simplified interface"
I wonder if the KDE (?) "simplified interface" Xandros/ASUS are providing is/will be available for other distros (yes, I know, ought to, but ...)
By asshur at Mon, 2007/10/29 - 5:00am
Another quickie
You can go to the other dot and gloat over the disintegration of the dark side.
Ach Shadenfreude, mon amour.
By reihal at Mon, 2007/10/29 - 5:00am
12 tips: aka milking the visitors
you need to click through 4 pages with only a couple of paragraphs, come on!
By not a cow at Mon, 2007/10/29 - 5:00am
Re: 12 tips: aka milking the visitors
You can always middle click the links labeled 1 2 3 4 (page) at the bottom of the post to have them load in parallel. Gotta pay for the bandwidth, don't I?
By Rudd-O at Mon, 2007/10/29 - 5:00am
Re: 12 tips: aka milking the visitors
I think no-cow was talking about Bruce's article, not yours. Yours is much better informed anyway.
By Leo S at Mon, 2007/10/29 - 5:00am
Pleas post this on dot.org
By Dolphin-fanatic :) at Mon, 2007/10/29 - 5:00am
D3lphin, not Dolphin
It should probably be mentioned that the "Dolphin review" is actually a review of D3lphin, not Dolphin. Kubuntu Gutsy does not have Dolphin installed, but rather the (neat but incomplete) backported D3lphin. Probably worth a review, but it's liable to confuse people a bit.
Do an ls -l `which dolphin` ("dolphin" is a symlink to "d3lphin"). Well, that plus Dolphin is a KDE4 app, and Gutsy doesn't yet have KDE4 by default.
By Evan "JabberWok... at Tue, 2007/11/13 - 6:00am


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The new records retention policy worked out between Gov. Nikki Haley's office and the state Department of Archives and History is better than the previous email-deleting policy used by the Governor's Office, but it is still inadequate.
... Haley's administration had implemented a policy that allowed the governor and her staff to delete "routine" email messages that had no lasting value. The problem was the Governor's Office had complete discretion in determining what was eligible to be deleted and what should be kept.
The new policy is little better. It defines classes of email messages that must be kept and those that can be deleted. But it is up to the governor and her staff to determine how these classes apply to email messages. There seems to be little recourse if valuable email messages are destroyed because someone in the Governor's Office misclassifies them or simply wants them gone for one reason or another.
That's unnecessary. Email messages don't take up much space, and computer storage is relatively inexpensive. A better policy would be to install enough storage to retain all email from the Governor's Office until the end of the governor's term. Then, an objective party, such as the Department of Archives and History, could decide what should be kept and what could be deleted. Under Haley's new policy, the archives department makes those decisions only about the messages the Haley administration has already decided to keep.
In other words, there is no authority making sure the emails that should be kept are kept. There is no one watching over the Governor's Office.
The other main hole in the policy is that it doesn't address the use of private email accounts. Using a private email account for state business should have been expressly forbidden in the policy.
The use of private email accounts is a growing method of avoiding public records laws in local and state government. If the governor uses her personal Gmail or Yahoo Mail accounts to weigh in on some discussion of a state issue, that email won't be public record unless the governor turns it over.
All email discussions of state business should be conducted through public accounts so that the state has a historic record of the decision-making process.
... The General Assembly should pass a law governing the use of state and local government email. It should require retention and ban the use of private email accounts for public business.

subset: commoncrawl


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John D. and Nancy L. Massey to Sirva Relocation Credit LLC, two lots in Stony Point, $502,000.
Sirva Relocation Credit LLC to Wesley and Eileen Moore, two lots at 3869 Stony Point Road, $502,000.
Meadow Wood Inc. to Gary M. and Margaret D. Jack, two units in Villas at Southern Ridge, 1242 Villa Lane, $337,450.
George S. and Marketta Leisure to Cesko LLC, 0.906 acre at 5674 Three Notch'd Road, gift.
Robert J. Kroner, trustee, to Virginia Outdoors Foundation, 100 acres east of State Route 63, gift.
Keswick Corp. to Sharon C. Wechsler, 3.164 acres in Keswick Estates, $850,000.
George A. Soule, trustee, to John W. and Margaret C. Younger, 0.423 acres at 1476 Perth Court, Glenmore, Keswick, $655,000.
Meadow Wood Inc. to Hugh Ragsdale, condominium unit in Villas at Southern Ridge, 1217 Villa Lane, $177,500.
Patricia and Milton T. Edgerton Jr. to Todd Alton Edgerton, 5.233 acres in Foxfield area, Samuel Miller Magisterial District, $151,300.
Patricia and Milton T. Edgerton Jr. to Leigh Wilkes Edgerton, two parcels in Foxfield area, Samuel Miller Magisterial District, $151,300.
Matthew T. Lucas to Albemarle County Public Recreation, 11.19 acres, gift.
Irvine Lee Shiflett, Snows General Merchandise Inc., 1.230 acres at 1285 Templeton Circle, Templeton Acres, $100,000.
Hauser Homes Inc. to Eric P. Goetz, 0.029 acres at 723 Cairn Heights Court, Poplar Glen, Afton, $371,810.
Milton Village LLC to Allison Orr Larsen and Helen Catherine Orr, 21.0 acres at 3028 Milton Village Lane, Milton Village subdivision, gift.
Hurt Investment Co. to Esop Recordkeeper LLC, condominium unit in Hanson Road Professional Center, 154 Hansen Road, $1,226,415.
Jill M. and Jeffrey T. Kallmeyer to Arend 102 LLC, condominium unit in Parkside at Eagle's Landing, 155 Yellowstone Drive, gift.
Parkside at Eagle's Landing to Sue E. Cope, condominium unit in Parkside at Eagle's Landing, 190 Yellowstone Drive, $259,000.
Bailey Realty LLC to Roy L. Bailey, 2.0 acres at 4967 Free Union Road, Wesley Chapel, gift.
Roy L. Bailey to Travis L. Bailey, 2.0 acres at 4967 Free Union Road, Wesley Chapel, gift.
Roy L. Bailey to Melissa Johnson Bailey, 4839 Free Union Road, Wesley Chapel, gift.
Coleman Elder LLC to Oakleigh Albemarle LLC, 8.804 acres on State Route 631, $2,450,000.
Wachovia Bank NA, trustee, to Eastwind Properties LLC, five parcels in Scottsville Magisterial District, $540,000.
Bernard E. Marshall to David A. and Kathleen B. East, 1.265 acres at 3618 Airport Acres Road, $345,000.
Hedgerow Corp. to Sweetspot of Albemarle LLC, 5.0 acres in Samuel Miller Magisterial District, $2,130,000.
Timothy L. and Daphne M. Reid, trustee, to Dale E. Dealtrey, trustee, 5.152 acres at Buck Mountain subdivision, $1,200,000.
Shifflett Farm LLC to NVR Inc., parcel in phase 3, Westhall, $123,478.
Parkside at Charlottesville LLC to Jose David and Mario Gustavo Levy, condominium unit in Parkside at Eagle's Landing, 140 Yellowstone Drive, $259,900.
Parkside at Charlottesville LLC to Leonard J. Hicks and Adelaide I. D'Ambrosio, condominium unit in Parkside at Eagle's Landing, 195 Yellowstone Drive, $259,900.
R.W. Mawyer to Dale A. and Cynthia B. Dudley, 21 acres at Advance Mills Farm, $375,000.
Cheetah Property Owner LLC to Steven R. Taylor and April J. Manning, three units in Barracks West condominiums, $397,416.
Sandra Hecht to Susan D. Thompson, 403 Wynridge Drive, Minor Townhouses, $140,000.
Robert K. and Lisa D. Bendfeldt to Cartus Financial Corp., 2.807 acres at 1985 Bentivar Drive, Bentivar, $670,000.
William E. Legett Jr. to Ronald L. and Amy Martin, 9.82 acres at Ingleside, $410,000.
Bruce L. Hardy to Corporation Presiding Bishop of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, parcel, gift.
Bradley R. Anderson to Corporation Presiding Bishop of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, parcel, gift.
Southside Homes Inc. to Sean T. and Abby Lunn, 0.622 acres at 1718 Monet Hill, Montgomery Ridge, $645,000.
Rick L. and Christine B. Cremer, trustees, to Paul and Jane Kinnier Beckert, 0.330 acres at 893 King William Drive, Dunlora, $615,000.
Larry F. and Dorothy S. Gregory to Dennis and Judith Dutterer, 0.659 acres at 1300 Thistle Down, Glenmore, Keswick, $1,199,000.
Butterfield Properties LLC to Vanessa D. Robinson, 666 Locksley Terrace, Sherwood Manor, $162,000.
Charles M. and Rosemary A. Grisham to Kent D. and Barbara J. Paschke, 2725 Leeds Lane, Meriwether Hills, $382,500.
Alexander V. and Alexandria N. Kirichenko to Wahoo LLC, 0.425 acres at 1016 Spring Cove Lane, Western Ridge, $385,000.
Elaine Ruggieri to Martha R. and Kenneth C. King Jr., 1.521 acres at 428 Ednam Drive, Ednam Forest, $725,000.
John S. Koski to Robert A. Rodgers, 3.004 acres at Beaver Creek, $83,000.
White Gables of Charlottesville LC to Elaine Ruggieri, condominium unit in Pavilion 1, 435 White Gables Lane, $635,000.
Meadow Wood Inc. to Eudra P. and Irving A. Howell Jr., unit in Villas at Southern Rodge, $169,950.
Alison Firestone Robitaille to Andrew N. Robitaille, 4.77 acres on State Route 22, 947 Cismont Ridge Road, gift.
CCH Custom Homes Inc. to Sean P. and Jill E. Walsh, 2.893 acres at 3144 Rolling Road, $220,000.
Roger and Martha D. Leclere to Willem J. M. and Thera Pieters, 10.709 acres at 7909 Old Dominion Road, Schuyler, $350,000.
Southland Homes Inc. to Tyler H. Rork and Deborah T. Lipkin, 0.181 acres at 1365 Stoney Ridge Road, Village Homes of Mill Creek, $295,000.
Meadow Wood Inc. to Macalus V. Hogan, unit in Villas at Southern Ridge, 1244 Villa Lane East, $295,900.
John T. and Janice M. Mann to John and Nancy C. Costanza, 3.5 acres on State Route 710, 1945 Taylors Gap Road, $282,000.
Nena Clark to Nicholas La, 570 Ardwood Road, Clover Hills, Earlysville, $350,000.
Cary T. and Erin C. Hughes to Anne E. and Douglas V. Croker III, 2.0 acres at 2758 Wakefield Lane, Barracksdale, $525,000.
Elizabeth W. Benoit to Mark and Patricia E. Lane, 1.40 acres at 4 Old Farm Road, Bellair, $1,050,000.
Donald A. Henke to Marcia S. Henke, 1067 Somer Chase Court, Hollymead, gift.
Gaffney MM LLC to Robin T. Amato, 0.066 acres at 1619 Old Trail Drive, Ballard Field, Old Trail, Crozet, $354,603.
Pennsar Associates LLC to Malcolm C. and Robin D. Young, 2.1178 acres at 4308 Millington Road, $375,000.
Big Deal
Larry F. and Dorothy S. Gregory to Dennis and Judith Dutterer, 0.659 acres at 1300 Thistle Down, Glenmore, Keswick, $1,199,000.


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Breast reconstruction after radiation therapy
Dear OncoLink "Ask The Experts,"
I had a mastectomy followed by chemotherapy and radiation therapy for my advanced breast cancer. I completed radiation 3 months ago and have healed fine. I would like to have reconstruction. My oncologist recommended waiting for 6 months total after radiation but did say that it's probably OK to go ahead now. I'd like to proceed now but don't want to cause any unnecessary risks.
Don LaRossa, MD, Professor of Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, responds:
The reason we wait six months before proceeding is that there has been an insult to the breast skin and tissue from the radiation. We want that damage to be resolved. For most people, 6 months is sufficient and safe. Despite the fact that the skin may appear "healed", there has been damage at a cellular level, damage to the tissue that we cannot see. Before this damage is completely healed, the tissues are often stiff and healing after the reconstruction may be impaired.


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Hi everyone, I hope you are all looking forward to Christmas and getting lots of Christmas stitching done, I know I certainly am. Here is another design I have been stitching, it is a freebie stitchery from Jan Wilde of Mulberry Street stitching, you can find the pattern here. Thanks Jan!
I simply love this pattern, you stitch the outline and colour it with colouring pencils, I used silver thread for the snowflakes, the loveheart should be a button but I did not have the right one, I suppose I could have made a polymer clay button but decided not to bother.
Here are some more photographs...........
Here is the next free pattern I have started, it is another freebie from a blog called Joypatch here, I will be doing a mini tutorial on how to do these stitcheries next Sunday, this one is a real cute design!
I have finished it but you have to wait until next week because I am off to watch Downton Abbey, it is a period drama showing in England and I simply love it, it is my favourite Sunday night treat.
Until next time - Happy Stitching!


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Hollywood action man Arnold Schwarzenegger has brushed off rumors of a reconciliation with his estranged wife Maria Shriver, insisting they are still in the process of divorcing.
The couple split in May 2011 after Schwarzenegger confessed to fathering a lovechild with a maid at the family home over a decade ago, and Shriver filed papers to end their 25-year marriage two months later.
They have reunited for a number of family events in the months since, and reports suggest the longtime partners have enrolled in couple's therapy as they attempt to patch up their strained relationship.
The Terminator star has now dismissed the gossip, although he insists he and Shriver will always be a team when it comes to raising their four kids.
He tells 'Extra', "We work together even though we're going through a divorce. Luckily, Maria has been a terrific mother."


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HONOLULU (AP) - FBI agents have arrested an Oahu man on charges he produced and held child pornography in his possession.
Ray Yokoyama of Pearl City will appear in federal court for a detention hearing on Thursday. The 52-year-old has been in federal custody since his arrest on Friday.
Yokoyama faces up to 30 years in prison if convicted of producing child pornography and up to 20 years if convicted of possessing child pornography.
His attorney, Jessica Turk, declined to comment.
An affidavit says agents began investigating Yokoyama after an undercover officer in Dallas downloaded child pornography shared by a computer in Hawaii. Agents traced the computer's Internet Protocol address to Yokoyama's home.
A search of the home turned up a disk with pornographic images of a young boy.
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MangoHero Review
Developer: Beijing Raytoon Technology
Price: $1.99
Version Reviewed: 1.0
Device Reviewed On: iPhone 4S
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In an App Store full of clones and rehashes players can get a little desperate searching for the one thing that makes a game different from all the rest. In MangoHero's case that means trying to figure out what makes it more than just a Plants vs. Zombies knock-off. While its combination mechanic may seem like a small difference, in practice it goes a long way towards giving the game its own distinct flavor.
The game's story mode, or "stroy mode" as the English translation would have players believe, has something to do with woodland creatures fighting rock monsters over mangoes but really, who cares? How much set-up for a tower defense game does one really need? The point is to build defenses strong enough to withstand increasingly difficult enemy hordes. At first the grid-based layout and direct enemy confrontation feel almost exactly like Popcap's modern classic but MangoHero reveals its big twist early on.
Instead of gaining stronger units as the game progress, players bring certain base units into battle like bear fighters and cat wizards, and then merge like units together to create stronger versions of them. Higher combination chains are subsequently unlocked and because currency recharges automatically soon players will spend all their matches worrying about how to make eight low level bears in time to make a high level panda. It's a really clever gimmick and the quick swiping needed to combine units gives the game a unique, frantic pace and level of active participation not usually seen in the genre. Diagonal swipes don't register as well on the grid but for the most part the controls hold up just fine.
The rest of game feels more standard by comparison but it is in no way bad. There are around 60 levels split into three worlds with distinct art styles. In general, the cartoon, ancient Chinese look and sound the game is going for is pleasant enough but doesn't rise above the myriad of MapleStory-style free-to-play MMOs out there. Players can use spells like lightning and demolition attacks but they are so limited and take so much time/real money to replenish that they are barely worth it.
While it is surrounded by a decent package, the real reason to play MangoHero is for its neat "combination" style of tower defense gameplay. It may not be the future of the genre but it is a tiny welcome breath of fresh air.
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Brussels sprouts are alkalinizing, antioxidant and liver stimulating. They have a special affinity for the pancreas. They have been used to remedy acidosis, arteriosclerosis, catarrh, constipation, bleeding gums, and high cholesterol. Their high sulfur content makes them warming. They are a good source of beta-carotene, vitamin B6, folic acid, C, flavonoids calcium, iron, and phosphorus. They also contain indoles that are believed to prevent breast cancer by blocking the activity of estrogens that contribute to tumor growth. They are also considered preventative to colon cancer and promoting to good bowel health, due to their high fiber content. They also contain sulforaphanes, which blacks carcinogens from damaging healthy cells.
Select firm, compact bright green Brussels sprouts, as puffy ones tend to taste bland. Smaller ones, less than one and a half inches in diameter tend to have a better flavor. Their flavor improves after a frost, so they are popular as a fall and winter vegetable. Young tender sprouts can be enjoyed raw, sliced into salads or used as crudités.
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PITTSBURGH — Gov. Tom Corbett on Wednesday unveiled an ambitious plan to end the state monopoly over the sale of liquor and wine by replacing hundreds of state-owned stores with twice as many private outlets and allowing beer and wine to be sold by a wide range of retailers.
"I want Pennsylvanians to enjoy the same convenience that virtually every other American today has," said Corbett, who unveiled his proposal at a news conference halfway across the state from the Capitol in Harrisburg, where lawmakers will decide its fate.
The Republican governor said the plan would generate $1 billion in revenue that would be funneled to public schools over four years to create a proposed block grant program.
The money would help finance programs involving school safety, learning in reading and math through third grade, individualized learning programs and science, technology, engineering and mathematics instruction in the sixth to 12th grades.
Most of the revenue, a projected $575 million, would come from the sale of wholesale liquor licenses.
An additional $224 million is anticipated from the auctioning of 1,200 wine and liquor licenses, with 800 reserved for large retail stores and 400 for smaller ones. Those licensees would be required to set up separate stores to sell wine and liquor.
Every county would be allocated at least as many wine and liquor stores as it now has and is likely to gain more, officials said.
Other revenue would flow from the sale of beer and wine licenses to retailers including big-box stores, grocery stores, pharmacies and convenience stores.
Beer distributors, which currently only sell beer by the case, could obtain an enhanced license that allows them to sell beer in smaller quantities.
Also, because they also are eligible to compete for the wine and liquor licenses, beer distributors could become the only one-stop sources of liquor, wine and beer.
Republican House Majority Leader Mike Turzai of Allegheny County, the Legislature's leading liquor privatization advocate, and Lt. Gov. Jim Cawley joined Corbett at the event.
Corbett's proposal, the latest in a battle that has raged off and on for decades, calls for shutting down the 620 existing state stores, a move fiercely opposed by employee unions. Corbett called the current system "a vestige of Prohibition."
One legislative critic, state Sen. John Yudichak, D-14, whose district includes part of Monroe County, said the move would throw thousands of state-store employees out of work. He lumped it in with the administration's pending contract to turn over management of the Pennsylvania Lottery to a British firm.
"The governor's fixation with privatization now includes a bizarre and unhealthy attempt to tie education achievement to what can only be described as a one-time alcohol funded stimulus package," said Yudichak.
The transition to a fully privatized system could take as long as four years. However, the closing of the state stores would begin within six months and be completed in the second year, according to the administration.
Corbett touted the changes as enhancing convenience for people who want a six-pack of beer or a bottle of wine, but officials said prices are not expected to change significantly.
Taxes on alcoholic beverages would remain unchanged under the proposal, but increased sales are projected to generate $13 million annually in new revenue.
The state will lose the $550 million annual markup on state-store sales, but officials said that would be offset by an expected $150 million increase in fees and fines, plus $400 million in savings from the termination of state wholesale and retail operations.
Interest groups were quick to respond to the governor's proposal.
"Our students shouldn't have to count on liquor being available on every corner in order to have properly funded schools," said the state's largest teachers union, the Pennsylvania State Education Association.
The Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals said expanding the sale of alcoholic beverages would increase accidents and violence fueled by drinking.
"Our state does not need more liquor stores," said Patricia Eakin, the union's president.
The National Federation of Independent Business applauded the governor.
"We need to replace this bureaucratic and antiquated system with a more efficient and convenient private-sector model that meets the demands of modern society," the NFIB said.


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Fox News still identifying GOP fundraiser Schoen as a "Democratic pollster"
On October 7, the campaign of Republican New York congressional candidate John Gomez announced that Fox News contributor Doug Schoen would appear at an October 10 fundraiser. Since that announcement, Schoen has appeared on Fox News three times, each time labeled as a "Democratic pollster."
Gomez is apparently not the only Republican Schoen has supported this election cycle. According to Federal Election Commission records, a "Doug Schoen" in New York donated $500 to Angela McGlowan in March. Schoen's occupation is listed as a "consultant" and has the same address as previous contributions listing the employer Penn, Schoen & Berland (the consulting firm where Schoen served as a partner). McGlowan is a Fox News contributor who briefly left the network to run for congress in Mississippi. Schoen and McGlowan have appeared together on television.
Today, on America's Newsroom, co-anchor Bill Hemmer and on-screen text identified Schoen as a "Democratic pollster." During the segment, Schoen trashed Democrats as not "having a record" and running simply on attacking Republicans. Schoen was paired against Republican consultant Brad Blakeman.
On Friday, Schoen appeared on On the Record. Host Greta Van Susteren also introduced Schoen as a "Democratic pollster." Schoen - shockingly -- used the segment to bash Democrats.
And last night, Sean Hannity hosted Schoen and introduced him as a "Democratic pollster." Hannity and Gomez are childhood friends, and Hannity has publicized and promoted Gomez. As previously noted, Hannity also reportedly promised to bring in event headliners for Gomez's campaign. Indeed, Newsday reported that fellow Fox News contributor and frequent Hannity guest Newt Gingrich headlined a fundraiser for Gomez through Hannity.
In none of the appearances did Fox News mention Schoen's Gomez fundraiser, or his apparent donation to McGlowan.
On Monday, Schoen was awarded "Worst Person in the World" bronze by Keith Olbermann.


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- New timeline view of a user's designs and levels (i.e. http://fc.therisenrealm.com/user?userId=66994 and http://fc.therisenrealm.com/usertimeline?userId=66994)
- Forum profile information (post count, AIM, WLM, etc.) and avatar now shown on user pages (i.e. http://fc.therisenrealm.com/user?userId=66994)
- The top right find box now does instant exact-match username lookups and redirects to the search page if you enter some text
- You can now rate both quality and difficulty ratings for a level (you could not do this before anywhere due to a bug in FC)
- You can now change your ratings
- Enhanced wireframe view is now on the wireframe tab (i.e. http://fc.therisenrealm.com/level?level ... #wireframe)
- Rating average, count, min., max., standard deviation, and breakdown information is now available for levels and designs (i.e. http://fc.therisenrealm.com/level?levelId=61324#ratings)
- Level ranks are now calculated up to 1000
- For unpublished levels, estimated ranks are shown
- Filesizes of levels and designs displayed on the statistics tab (i.e. http://fc.therisenrealm.com/level?level ... statistics)
- Level designers can look at the solutions report to see who has recently solved their levels
- The list of solutions to a level now has an age displayed for each design (i.e. http://fc.therisenrealm.com/designs?levelId=69691)
- Since it's possible to know whether a design is published, the number of other solutions on design pages no longer blindly subtracts 1 from the total number of published solutions
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Russia Lets Down Guard on China
Deal by Oil Giants to Jointly Explore Siberia Reserves Follows Spate of Chinese Inroads Around Globe
MOSCOW—Russia and China's largest energy companies on Friday announced a "breakthrough" deal paving the way for joint development of massive energy reserves in eastern Siberia, in a sign that Moscow is overcoming its fear of Chinese encroachment on Russia's Far East.
Their preliminary agreement illustrates how Moscow is increasingly looking to Asia for customers for its abundant energy reserves, and for funding to develop them. Russia's needs tie in with expected long-term demand growth in oil and gas-deficient China...


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CALL FOR IDEAS: NEH Seeking Research Ideas Using High Performance Computing
The NEH's Office of Digital Humanities (ODH) recently launched a Humanities High Performance Computing (HHPC) initiative. As part of this initiative we're offering several grant programs and other opportunities to provide time on the U.S. Department of Energy's high performance computers, as well as grant money and training. NEH established this program to encourage humanities scholars to think about how high performance computers might help them in their research, and to take advantage of existing high performance computer resources.
However, we recognize that simply providing access to the resources isn't enough to spark new ideas. We don't expect that there are legions of humanists out there with software and datasets sitting idle and ready to use on high performance machines. Still, we want to stimulate and encourage promising ideas you may have for HHPC experiments and test projects.
As we indicate in the HHPC program guidelines (and as we do in all our other ODH grant programs), we specifically encourage potential applicants to contact us with their ideas for new projects. The ODH staff frequently works with potential applicants to provide feedback on proposals and guidance on the most appropriate grant program for their project.
If you are considering a humanities project that may require fast computation, I encourage you to send us an e-mail (@email) with your ideas or draft proposals. We don't expect that you've necessarily worked out all the details -- you may simply be at a stage where basic research and experimentation is in order. We will work with you to help find the most suitable NEH grant opportunity and make suggestions on how to turn your draft into a full-blown proposal. We will also consult with our partners at the Department of Energy to seek their advice, as appropriate. Our hope is that this call will help turn some of your ideas into excellent projects that will be valuable to the nascent HHPC community. We look forward to hearing from you. For additional information, please do consult our HHPC Resource Page.


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what just happened? I mean come on. Kat even knew she deserved to go home. You could see it all over her face when Chris was told he was going home. I am still in shock.
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell began plotting his counter-attack just a few days after President Barack Obama made an end-run around Senate Republicans and unilaterally moved to fill slots on the National Labor Relations Board in January 2012.
One night that month, McConnell called a small group of his top advisers into his conference room, a red-painted chamber that faces the National Mall and is lined with oil paintings of famous Republican statesmen. With the smell of a wood-burning fireplace wafting in from a nearby room, McConnell and his advisers talked about how to challenge what they viewed as an unprecedented abuse of power from the executive branch.
That meeting is cited as one of the key early developments that led to the eventual, universal rebuke of Obama's move by the Supreme Court on Thursday. In a 9-0 decision written by liberal Justice Stephen Breyer, the high court ruled Obama violated the U.S. Constitution when he made the recess appointments during a brief break in the Senate's work.
"We did win 9-0, including — however you want to pigeonhole or characterize individual judges' respective jurisprudence on some sort of continuum — by definition you had it from the most liberal to the most conservative," a source with knowledge of McConnell's efforts on the case told Business Insider.
When he appointed the three NLRB members, Obama said he was forced to do so. He argued Senate Republicans sought to stop the board from functioning by refusing to confirm any of his nominees, thereby leaving slots vacant and the board unable to do its job. At issue in the case was Obama's use of the Recess Appointments Clause to fill the slots on the board. That clause states the president may fill a vacancy during the recess period between Senate sessions.
Republicans argued they were meeting during the recess — in so-called pro forma sessions every three days — and still maintained control over the confirmation process. But the administration said the pro forma sessions held by the Senate every three days during the intrasession break were only a sham designed to keep Obama from filling the posts.
At the meeting McConnell's team agreed they were left with two options to proceed, since Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid would not authorize an institutional lawsuit on behalf of the Senate. Senate Republicans concerned about Obama's use of recess appointments could either sue as individual members, or they could join a private party case as a group.
McConnell's advisers saw complications with the first option. It was questionable whether they could prove they had standing to sue the administration. They also worried about the perception of a lawsuit that pitted them squarely against the president.
They decided they would join a private-party case. McConnell tasked John Abegg, one of his top aides, with finding the right suit — one in which the facts and injury were clearly laid out and legal theory was solid.
Abegg soon discovered Noel Canning, a division of the soft-drink bottling company Noel Corporation. The company had sued after the NLRB ruled against it in early 2012, saying the business engaged in an unfair labor practice by not entering into a collective bargaining agreement. Noel Canning and Senate Republicans formed a partnership. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce also represented Noel.
"Noel certainly took a huge risk," Gary Lofland, one of the lawyers representing the company, told Business Insider. "It was a really gutsy move to challenge the President of the United States on something like this, coming from a very small company."
Republican senators retained Miguel Estrada, an attorney who served as the Assistant to the Solicitor General for the George H.W. Bush administration. McConnell's team felt it was on solid ground by January 2013, when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit sided with Noel Canning in its ruling on the case.
The legal team arguing on behalf of Noel argued the Recess Appointments Clause meant three things. Therefore, it had three ways to win the case.
First, any vacancy filled through the clause must arise during the recess of Congress — not exist before the recess. Second, the language of the Constitution says the recess of Congress — historically, that meant between sessions of Congress, not times like holiday breaks. Third and finally, the Senate was never in a formal recess when Obama made the appointments. It was in the so-called pro forma sessions, where senators would conduct and then adjourn business every three days.
When the Obama administration appealed the D.C. Circuit Court's decision, they only appealed on the first two grounds. The Senate Republicans, however, raised the third point in their amicus brief to the Supreme Court. That was the ground that ultimately won them the case.
"That was the grounds on which all nine justices, from the most liberal to the most conservative, agreed with us," the source familiar with McConnell's efforts said.
The Supreme Court handed the Obama administration its 12th unanimous defeat before the judicial branch over the past six-and-a-half years.
Afterward, McConnell took a victory lap, calling it a "clear rebuke to the President's brazen power grab" on the Senate floor. His counterpart Reid fumed, saying it validated his decision to change Senate rules last year to allow most presidential nominations to be confirmed by a simple majority vote.
The liberal Justice Breyer's implicit criticism of the move from Obama, who often touts his credentials as a former constitutional law professor, was particularly biting. Breyer wrote, simply, that only the Senate could decide when it was in recess — not the president.
"Because the Senate was in session during its pro forma sessions, the President made the recess appointments at issue during a 3-day recess," Breyer's opinion read. "Three days is too short a time to bring a recess within the scope of the Clause, so the President lacked the authority to make those appointments."
Lawyers involved on the case and other legal experts said it could provide a blueprint for House Speaker John Boehner, who is preparing to file his own lawsuit against Obama over his use of executive actions. Boehner's lawsuit would be different from the McConnell-led challenge, since it would be filed on behalf of the House, which would argue it has standing because Obama has made its legislative powers obsolete.
A source close to Boehner told Business Insider the NLRB decision served as a "psychological boost," since the Supreme Court gave a sweeping ruling Obama had overreached. However, the source said the ruling wouldn't change Boehner's strategy.
Estrada said both Boehner and McConnell's suits were aimed at taking on the "same problem."
"It is another effort to attack a species of the same problem, which is the unilateralism of this president," Estrada told Business Insider. "It is a different type of effort. But I think the effort is brought by the same underlying problem, which is that this president doesn't want to deal with Congress."


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Kris Jenner single-handedly SEALED THE DEAL to make Khloe Kardashian the new co-host on "X Factor" ... right when negotiations were on the verge of imploding ...
Sources connected to the deal tell us ... negotiations had come to a grinding halt because E! and FOX couldn't seem to work out a deal that would allow Khloe to appear on both networks.
We're told "X Factor" was getting ready to pull the plug on talks with Khloe ... when Kris Jenner got word of the hold up and decided to take the bull by the horns.
Sources say Kris "stepped in over the agents ... over everyone" and forced both networks to sit down with her and hash out a deal ... which they eventually did.
As one source puts it, "She just knows how to make sh*t happen."
We broke the story ... Khloe and Mario Lopez have both signed on as co-hosts ... and are expected to make their debut on the show in November.


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Buckle up, it's time for Christmas
It's the great day of anticipation folks: Christmas Eve! In our house, be sure it is starting like many others of late, with the sounding of the poo-poo clock.
Good morning, my sweet darling. You've said it countless times, but now opposite the crib rail is someone punctuating nearly formed words with poo-poo, poo-poo. It's important to be supportive, so we always act like it's a real story with Jimmy Stewart, an angel and everything. It all went down in his room while we slept, at least that's how excited we get. Poo-poo! Are you kidding? Then what? Poo-poo! Unbelievable! Daddy, did you hear that? Poo-poo. Yeah, I heard it. It's a miracle, if you ask me.
I have noticed how it's our job to show them what's meaningful during the holiday season. We happen to celebrate Christmas, but I suppose this goes for whatever traditions your family shares. We've been driving around looking at Christmas lights, and by doing so added woooooooooooow to Elliot's vocabulary.
His father was showing him the balls on the tree, and Elliot told him, "Don't touch." Then there's Santa and the reindeer. Wouldn't you like to know what they're really comprehending? Is it my mom loves white facial hair, the color red, and chocolate chips? Meanwhile some other kid is like, my dad has been on the roof a lot these days.
One of Elliot's grandfathers recorded "Twas the Night Before Christmas" in one of those books you can buy. It's a great idea, but at this age he doesn't know when to turn the page. I've got to tell you, it's really hard to make him stare at an illustration long enough to get through the text. He closes the book, and then we have to start at whatever page again.
You hear something like the following. Mama in her kerchief and I in my cap, mama in her kerchief, and I in my cap. Jolly old elf. Dasher and Dancer. To the top of the porch. Bowlful of jelly. Good night. Then you have to keep him from hitting the record button at the bottom of the pages. I'm imagining a future grandparent visit where it's discovered that pleas for juice have been incorporated into the poem without our knowledge.
I remember, as a child, feeling darn lucky if one of our Christmas decorations included a combination Christmas tree music box. Mom would wind it up and we'd listen to jingle bells, our eyes glued to something moving at the pace of growing St. Augustine.
We'd eat cookies and say things like, "Here comes the red present around again. There's the teddy bear." Now, everything is automated: The singing and rocking Elmo in the sleigh, the Santa playing the sax to the theme from Benny Hill. Our minds would have been blown. I'm like, ohhh, crap, do I really want to spend $24.95 on a battery-operated Reindeer singing Robert Palmer? Yeah, I kind of do.
There should be a hotline for people inclined to make such purchases: I've got my kid in the cart and we're two seconds from buying the penguin singing "Baby, It's Cold Outside." Help! Then a soothing voice through the receiver would say, "Shut it down." You're laughing, because you're looking at that very penguin, aren't you?
I happen to know a little boy who is getting dinosaurs that talk to one another. This technology is the rootbeer Bonne Belle lip gloss of its time. Are you kidding me: toys that converse. Whenever this sort of new stuff comes out, I like to play a game called, What Would the People on "Little House on the Prairie" Think of This? I'm guessing pitch forks, a prayer circle, and fire, but it would be worth it for the kid with the rag doll jabbering on to his teddy bear. Then Miss Beadle would have to educate the parents on why it's bad form to throw your children's toys in the well out back.
If this is your first real Christmas with a child that's going to understand it all, stay calm. Is your camera charged? Do you have it ready? Is the cell phone camera on standby? Have you thought about your pajamas? No Corona T-shirts in the Christmas album. Remember to buy batteries, and get scissors to cut those cable ties that hold the toys in boxes. Finally, wash the red wine stains off your mouth before you go to bed.
Merry Christmas!


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Kevin Durant put on another efficient 35-point scoring display and added 12 rebounds and five assists to lead the Oklahoma City Thunder past the Chicago Bulls, 97-85, on Monday.
Russell Westbrook, who sat out Sunday's 23-point loss to the Mavericks, netted 17 points and was one rebound and one assist away from a triple-double, while Serge Ibaka checked in with 15 points for the victors.
Carlos Boozer totaled 12 points and 11 assists for the Bulls, who got 16 points from Taj Gibson and finished their six-game homestand with a 3-3 mark.
The Bulls, wearing green jerseys in honor of St. Patrick's Day, entered the fourth quarter in a 74-67 hole but scored eight straight points following two Reggie Jackson free throws to pull within 76-75.
Unfortunately for the Bulls, their luck stopped there.
They had two chances to take the lead, but Derek Fisher blocked Gibson under the basket and Jimmy Butler was off the mark on a 3-point try -- the first and second of 11 consecutive misses by Chicago.
Oklahoma City's subsequent 16-1 run, capped by Ibaka's dagger corner 3-pointer with just over three minutes to play, gave the Thunder a healthy 16-point cushion they did not relinquish.
Durant scored 10 points in the first quarter, including a step-back jumper just before the buzzer to break a 21-21 tie.
A back-and-forth second ended with the Thunder still holding a two-point lead, 47-45, and Durant keyed an 8-0 run midway through the third that stretched Oklahoma City's lead to 69-58.


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Oh, so sad it's officially the last day of Flipping Out, but do not despair because Jeff and the gang will be back sooner than later with a new Bravo reality show called "Interior Therapy" and I need to get my audition tape made ASAP. Imagine – spending a week with Jeff, Jenni, and Zoila – that's better than free reign of Lisa Vanderpump's closet!
Jeff and Andy break down what's been going on in the land of Lewis since the show stopped filming and apparently Jeff has only seen Sarah twice and Trace once since they were let go of JLD. Jeff confirms he is in his new redecorated home, his income has doubled since Gage convinced him to cut the dead weight, he is definitely planning kids sooner than later, and he is now representing Zoila as her manager – he'll be getting 90% and she still only gets free room and board. Jeff was much softer during this interview and had so many humble (for him!) moments where he admitted how much the people in his life meant to him – like when he said he couldn't live without Gage, Zoila, and Jenni. It was nice.


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The majority of the resort's City Council was wrong when it voted last month to not include a designated bike lane on the multi-million-dollar redesign of St. Louis Avenue. The good news is that poor decision can now be excused, at least somewhat, because the council has approved a plan tweaking the design's dimensions, allowing for the marked bike lane.
It has been interesting to read how outraged residents have been over the initial project designs. The residents, at least those who have been writing letters to the editor, were terribly annoyed a dedicated bike lane was killed from the project in favor of wider sidewalks. The critics say residents told the city a dedicated bike lane was at the top of the priority list for any facelift of the road. The council essentially said in a 4-3 vote wider sidewalks were more important than a bike-only striped lane. The thought was go with wider sidewalks and create a shared bike-vehicle lane, without lines of separation, but the council was clearly divided.
At this week's meeting, revised conceptual plans were pitched, featuring a dedicated lane for bikes, slightly wider sidewalks than originally planned and thinner parking spots. Some on the council praised this new plan and the process that created it. It was a result of minds coming together to reach a compromise, some believe. That maybe true, but this could have been the plan all along.
Why this plan could not have been presented to the council prior to the discussion and initial vote in the first place is unknown. It could have saved a lot of heartburn for residents. Instead, the council majority voted to hastily do away with the bike-only lane and a few weeks later sided with revised plans going against what it said it wanted in the first place. That's poor government. In this case, it shows the city was purely reacting to citizen outcry when all along it should have known eliminating the bike-only lane along St. Louis Avenue was going to be upsetting. It should have known better.
The idea of eliminating the dedicated bike path in favor of more room for pedestrians on the sidewalk does not make sense. A recent letter writer made a good point when she said St. Louis Avenue is not a major pedestrian corridor. Rarely if ever do people walk north and south on this road, but they do often bike and keeping a dedicated lane for these folks would address one of the town's major shortcomings, alternative forms of transportation.
It has long been a desire of the town to be more bike friendly. At some point over the years, a goal of allowing folks the ability to bike safely from Assateague to Delaware has been put on paper. St. Louis Avenue was all along a part of that effort. This week's turnabout from last month's vote shows it's not just lip service, but all the angst could have been avoided if the council had simply ordered the city engineer to rework the plans to allow for wider sidewalks and a dedicated bike lane. The end result does just that, but this situation was mishandled from the beginning and upset some folks unnecessarily.


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Xbox One: Four Games Added To Backwards Compatible List
All three of the mainline Lost Planet games and the extended cut of a classic Resident Evil title are now Xbox One backwards compatible.
All three of the mainline Lost Planet games and the extended cut of a classic Resident Evil title are now Xbox One backwards compatible.
Here's a roundup of all the best deals on Xbox Live this week; Destiny, Borderlands, and more discounted.
Capcom pushes back Xbox 360, PS3, and PC action game to August 27 in North America.
Capcom's head of research and development leaves post after 23-year run; will be replaced by Katsuhiko Ichii.
Resident Evil publisher's full-year sales soar 46 percent with 5 million-shippers; latest PSP Monster Hunter now Capcom's fourth best-selling game ever.
This week, we explore The Fancy Pants Adventures, Section 8: Prejudice, a Final Fantasy IV collection, and downloads such as Mafia II and Lost Planet II.
This week you can find The Fancy Pants Adventures, Section: 8 Prejudice, and older titles Mafia II, Fallout: New Vegas, and Lost Planet 2, all on XBL.
Microsoft's online space updated with trial for Epic Games' new shooter, XBLA sci-fi title; Games on Demand adds Fallout: New Vegas, Mafia II, and Lost Planet II.
Capcom's nine-month revenues grow 41.6%, profit spikes 294%; Dead Rising 2, Super Street Fighter IV, Lost Planet 2 all sell-in 1 million-plus.
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Dead Rising 2, Super Street Fighter IV help lift publisher's revenue 4.7 percent to $502 million, but Lost Planet 2 underperformance cuts into income.
New PC game store will feature redesigned interface, offer browser-based shopping, and accept Microsoft points from Xbox Live as payment.
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The Goodguys East Coast Nationals (or "Rhinebeck" as it's referred to by its legions of faithful attendees) held its 20th annual gathering this past June and, as is customary, they did it in grand style. The picturesque Dutchess County Fairgrounds has become a favorite venue for northeastern rodders, and the Goodguys show is one of the region's all-time favorite events. This past season's gathering was nothing short of spectacular, and the inclusion of rods, classic trucks, and customs through 1972 ensured that there was plenty of eye candy for every taste.
As with all Goodguys gatherings, the East Coast Nationals offers up tons of fun and exciting things to do and experience. Above and beyond checking out many hundreds of rods, customs, and classic trucks, Goodguys and the host club, Hudson Valley Street Rods, offered daily special features that turned a great weekend into a fantastic one. Manufacturer exhibits, a great swap meet and car corral, a model and pedal car display, and a TGIF party were just the tip of the iceberg—there was something new and exciting to check out every day!
One of the things that really made our weekend was the noticeable increase in the amount of classic pickups that made their way to the event. We've always believed that the Goodguys events are the perfect place for classic truckers to showcase their hard work, and it's heartening to see that truckers are finally realizing how much fun they can have and how much hot rod "car folks" really do appreciate classic trucks. So, if you enjoy attending events that are more than those of the "lawn chair" variety, and you enjoy seeing an eclectic mix of some of the Northeast's finest rods, customs, and classic trucks, then contact the Goodguys Rod and Custom Association and sign up for the upcoming 21st annual East Coast Nationals. We're sure that if you check out the show once, you'll be hooked. See ya next June! CT
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I am fortunate enough to have a best friend who's been in my life since I was five. Our mothers went to nursing school together, we attended the same small neighborhood church and went to the same school from Kindergarten through high school graduation, and were in each other's weddings. She knows me better than anyone else on the planet and vice versa. The kind of soul mates who can abbreviate an entire explanation using a single word or name from the past. But she lives 90 minutes away. So, every six months we meet in the middle for dinner to celebrate our respective birthdays. Just the two of us...no husbands, no kids, no interruptions...just two best friends laughing about the good times, crying about the tough ones, and swapping secrets. No matter how broke we are or how busy we get, we make this night happen twice a year. When I know I've got that on my calendar, I can get through just about anything!"
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A good stress reducer for me is blogging. Writing about whatever is bothering me helps me process what's really going on vs. how I feel about it. It helps me keep a cool head about things that might otherwise make me explode. I just have to remember to make posts about my family "private" so I don't end up accidentally making my life more stressful!by Amy @ Go Ask Your Dad on 27th October 20102238Vote!
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This works especially well with splinters that are sticking out of the skin, but it can also be used on those under the skin as well. Get a piece of translucent tape (Scotch tape, etc), place it over the splinter, and pull the tape up. Simple and easy. You can also use duct tape, but make sure to stick it to your jeans or shirt first so that it isn't so sticky.
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Law School professors Garnett and Mayer on Supreme Court's campaign contribution decision
Today's narrow Supreme Court decision that corporations may spend freely to support or oppose candidates for president and Congress drew reactions from two Notre Dame Law School faculty members.
According to Notre Dame Law School professor Richard W. Garnett, the court's 5-4 decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, is "welcome and correct."
"The notion that regulating 'negative ads' or 'reducing money in politics' could return us to an imagined 'Golden Age' of clean and civil politics is, at first, attractive," Garnett said. "However, politics in a free society is necessarily messy, and often unedifying. The alternative, management by insiders and incumbents of the tone and terms of public debate, is worse."
According to Garnett, "Justice Kennedy got it right: Our First Amendment is 'premised on mistrust of government power,' and is well understood to prohibit attempts by regulators, even high-minded ones, to disfavor certain subjects, viewpoints or speakers.
"Oprah Winfrey has a lot of money and influence—more than the Chamber of Commerce, perhaps—but her power to influence others certainly would not justify limiting her speech. It is true that insurance companies can shape views through their speech and spending, but so does The New York Times."
Garnett said that today's ruling will not end reasonable regulations that are carefully crafted to prevent election-related corruption, and he noted that it did not invalidate existing disclosure and disclaimer requirements. "It is one thing," he said, "to regulate expression—to
reduce political speech—out of fear that it will 'distort' the public conversation. It is another thing to say that, as a general matter, people are entitled to know who is paying for the election-related messages they hear."
Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer, associate professor of law in the Notre Dame Law School predicts consequences from the decision.
"This decision will further the shift in electoral power away from the political parties, which still face sharp limits on their ability to raise funds for elections, to 527s and other independent groups that now can receive unlimited amounts of corporate and union money," Mayer said.
"That said," Mayer added, "the decision does not mean we will suddenly see lots of election ads paid for directly by big corporations such as GE or Microsoft. Given that the disclosure provisions survived, such corporations will not want to risk alienating a large portion of their customers and shareholders. They will rather pay for such ads indirectly through increased contributions to nonprofit organizations such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and trade associations.
"Expect to see many more ads from such groups, and from labor unions and other nonprofit advocacy groups, in this year's elections," Mayer said.
Contact: Professor Garnett, 574-631-6981, email@example.com; Professor Mayer, 574-598-0740, firstname.lastname@example.com
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Happy 10th Anniversary, Buffy the Vampire Slayer!
That's right... today was the 10th anniversary of the first airing of BtVS. Pretty nifty, eh? I've set up a little "memories" book for anyone who'd like to share their thoughts on this spectacular show & what it's meant to them, so please feel free to use the button at the bottom of this page to sign the book or read what everyone else has to say.
And I know it's been a long, long time and I've again been neglecting updates, but life is busy. Please know that I'm still devoted to this site though, and to all of you. Updates may not be frequent, but the site will continue to be here and I will update when I can. And I always welcome contributions, so if there's anything you'd like to share or help with, just say the word.
In any case though, I do have actual updates for today! I've started working on the quizzes for Season 3 (I know... finally!) so Anne, Dead Man's Party, Faith, Hope & Trick and Beauty & the Beasts are now up. I also redid the quotes for those four episodes, as well as Homecoming.
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Admit it. You like to show off. Counter-Strike
rankings, drawing your
own stupid homemade Comics – deep down, abilities like these are just screaming
for attention….so, uh, go check out my
stupid homemade comic already.
Take, for example, typing. Got blazing fingers of lightning and no outlet
to show 'em off? Do you aspire to zoom your hands across the keyboard, stunning
the ladies and putting pretenders in their place? Perhaps your amazing typing
skills will make you the envy of all your peers and be your ticket to financial
freedom. Riiight.
Up until now, typing hasn't been associated with fun. It's a means to an end, a way to get your paper finished or an email written. That doesn't sound like fun. But if you throw a zombie into the mix, suddenly, typing is fun! And educational! Just goes to show you that zombification is the answer to life's problems. Go Umbrella! Make them viruses. Destroy humanity. Blarghh!
Typing of the Dead is essentially a mod to House
of the Dead 2, transforming the zombie-fragging shooter into a zombie typing
tutor. It's the exact same game footage, from the tricked out zombie animations
down to the dorky voice actors, but now, you've got to type or die!
The gameplay is simple. Words and phrases show up on the screen beneath the
zombies. Just type that word to kill the zombie. Bosses take even more skill,
requiring you to fulfill such challenges as typing the correct answer to a question
or typing whole sentences. Take too long to type or make too many mistakes,
and the zombies will take a bite. It's not quite like shooting a gun, but strangely,
almost as rewarding.
The words you type range from random dictionary entries to references from
sources such as The Simpsons, Barney and Ally McBeal. Plus,
there are some truly bizarre phrases, like "Fart in a bottle." Add to that entries
heavy on the innuendo, like "Mmmm… Nice Pair." Or more blatantly, "boob."
A mite shady, but better and funnier than typing "dog" 1200 times.
Typing of the Dead is the kind of creative lunacy that can only come
out of Japan. But unlike the creatively outlandish Incredible
Crisis, Typing of the Dead is chock full of replay.
the main Arcade and Original challenges (again, the same as the gun version),
you've also got Tutorials, Drills, Boss Challenges and the VS CPU mode, where
you go mano a mano with the computer.
As an educational product, the game woks nicely. It's good for both the Junior
High kid and the oldie who wants to speed up their typing. The tutorials go
through all facets of touch-typing, while the drills strengthen and reinforce
what you've learned. But the people who stand to gain the most are immediately
excluded from this game. Won't somebody think of the children?
I wish that there were more new things added to the HOD2 footage. There
are a few minor updates including Big Head mode, and instead of axes and knives,
zombies now sport frying pans, maracas and plastic hammers.
There's also an alternate ending that is much better than the original HOD2
(which isn't hard, considering how crappy the original ending was). Nice touches,
but how about a total conversion? Why not a whole army of zombie monkeys? Or
zombie clowns with circus music on zombie elephants and zombie ponies?
Here's a little lesson in basic economics, GR style. The game costs $30. You can't play the game without at least one keyboard, at the cost of an extra $25, but if you really want to have fun, you'll need TWO keyboards, driving the grand total to 80 smackeroos.
80 dollars can still do lot in this day and age. You can make the first step in saving for an IRA account. Or enjoy 80 tacos. But is 80 dollars worth it for a typing game?
Why couldn't they package the game with the keyboard? Dreamcast keyboards
are equivalent in quality to the $10 PC keyboards, which mean they cost even
less to make in China. The cost to make this game is less than your standard
game – why not pass those savings onto the customer? Why do I feel like I'm
being burnt?
If your sole aim is to increase the speed of your typing, you can easily download typing tutors off the Internet for free. But if you want to have fun while doing it, Mavis Beacon has nothing on my zombie brethren.
There's a PC version of The Typing of the Dead out there, but as far
as I know, it's only being sold in Europe. What a shame. With the PC, you already
have a keyboard and there's supposedly network play for two players. If it has
support for a PS/2 keyboard and a USB keyboard (which I doubt is possible),
that'd be perfect. Give
the demo version a try – at the very least, it'll give you a feel for the
As I finish typing this review, I realize that my typing speed and accuracy
has improved…and I have zombies to thank for it. The more I played the game,
the more I came to like it. Still, a wholehearted recommendation is hard to
give. It's the same game footage as HOD2, plus two keyboards and the
game itself is a lot to pay. But without a doubt, this is the most fun you can
have while increasing your typing speed. Zombies make good teachers.


text: In celebration of her 50th birthday and her 20th year in St Ives, painter Emma Jeffryes will be exhibiting a specially created collection of works. Established for the last decade as one of St Ives' most distinctive and well-loved artists, Emma's typically nastyle is this time enhanced by a more experimental approach to her practice. Colour remains of great importance in her work, but this collection gives thought to simplicity of line, shape and space whilst attempting to introduce looser, more fluid mark making, layers and texture. Emma's fascination with boats takes centre stage in this collection, including the resplendent fishing trawlers of Newlyn Harbour, St Ives' Boats in The Bay event of September 2016, and Falmouth's spectacular 2014 Tall Ships Regatta.


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This is a map I made for my first GIS class, in 2009. The goal was to subdivide the country into regions, not in accordance to state lines.
My aim was to be sassy, but not wholly offensive.
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Tornadoes ripped through the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas area Tuesday afternoon, launching tractor-trailers into the air as if they were children's toys. As a tornado spun through an industrial area in Lancaster, Texas, about 15 miles south of Dallas, it wreaked havoc on a fleet of trucks, perilously tossing them dozens of feet in the air.
Severe storms brought golf-ball-sized hail and led to the touchdown of at least two tornadoes in the region. The skies darkened to a night-like level as the storms rushed in. A number of injuries were reported and homes damaged in the heavily-populated suburbs south of Dallas and Fort Worth.
(LIST: 10 Deadliest Tornadoes in U.S. History)
The National Weather Service confirmed the presence of at least two "large and extremely dangerous" tornadoes that moved through the area. One tornado was headed toward the Dallas-Fort Worth airport, where all flights were grounded and travelers were told to take shelter. Schools south of Dallas were said to be locked down until the weather system clears the area.
Considerable damage has been reported south of Dallas as the tornadoes continue to swirl through the region. A tornado watch remains in effect for 33 counties in the North Texas region until 8 p.m. this evening.