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Every week, I ask my 83-year-old grandma and a random teen to answer a question about dating. Then I weigh in with my own horrible Generation Y opinion. Having trouble navigating the Gitmo prison yard that is modern dating? Find out what three different generations have to say.
The Question: I was walking along the streets of Brooklyn late one night with my girlfriend when a drunk jock randomly punched me square in the shoulder. I didn't do anything and he walked away. My girlfriend commended my lack of violent reaction, explaining that she finds escalating male violence to be a turnoff. However, when I relayed this story to a female friend, she said although it's against her better judgement, she would've been turned off by my lack of reaction. Had I not been drunk, I probably would've run toward him and jump-kicked his spine. What is the right thing to do?
Yours truly, Punch Magnet
The Granny: Shirley Cozen is 83 years old, has been married for over 50 years, and raised four kids. She has been proposed to three times, started dating when she was 12, and has been a ridiculous babe her entire life. She knows a thing or two about a thing or two.
She Says: "I would be very fearful if my boyfriend was the kind of person who ran after someone
to retaliate physically. I would feel like he probably had an anger management problem and wasn't able to cope with the indignities of life that impact us every day, in millions of ways. If my boyfriend ran after some drunk bully to get even with him it means he's not really in control of his emotions.
Your job as a man in this situation is to protect your date and make sure nothing happens to her. Since the guy walked away, you should keep going. You did the right thing."
The Teen: Jenna is a 19-year-old sophomore at The University of Amherst studying to be a vet. She is in a long-term relationship with her boyfriend, Matt, who she says goes to the gym every day and is "physically intimidating to other guys."
She Says: "Manliness is a huge turn-on for me, so if he didn't do anything when someone punched
him, it probably wouldn't work out between us. I know this is totally sexist to say, but I like being the one protected in the relationship. I want to be the weaker one. If my boyfriend got angry when someone punched him, it would turn me on. I really like anger; I know that's weird. I would rather have my boyfriend get his ass kicked and at least try to stand up for himself, rather than not do anything."
The Millennial: I'm a 29 years-young lady who has finally learned to stop dating musicians and bartenders. Hurray! Dating is like riding a bike—it's easy and fun but also you could die.
Growing up on the "right side of the tracks" and attending Hebrew Day School, I have to admit I've never actually seen a physical fight in person, so I don't know how they go down. In my fantasy, all fights look exactly like the choreographed rumble sequence in West Side Story between The Sharks and The Jets. Just lots of capri pants and snapping.
If my boyfriend got sucker-punched by a random drunk on the street, I wouldn't be turned off as much as I would be upset for him. It's humiliating to be assaulted in front of the person you're dating. That blows. I would treat my date the same way I would want to be treated if something traumatic happened to me, with compassion and sympathy.
The only person to be mad at in this scenario is the lunatic that went bathsalts on my man. I mean, the kind of person that attacks a stranger is not someone you wanna mess with. Who knows what they could do? I definitely agree with my granny on this one: Peace the hell out of there.
That being said, I totally understand why a woman would find it sexy to be with the type of guy that "talks with his fists." It fits into this macho 1950's stereotype of how a guy should act. He should fix cars, smoke cigarettes, and be ready to brawl. Basically, he should be Ryan Gosling in Drive.
Obviously, RyGoss is mad fine in that movie, but could you imagine actually dating someone like him? He doesn't even talk! He literally just chews a toothpick and looks sad all the time. BORING.
In conclusion, I don't think it's fair to only be attracted to a guy when he's strong or seems infallible, because no one is strong all the time. We're just people. Part of being a good partner is loving someone when they are weak and strong, impressive and vulnerable. Otherwise, the relationship is superficial.
Cosmo babes, what do you think about this situation? Leave your comments below and send all dating/relationship/love questions to firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Sunday was a magical evening for The Beatles' Paul McCartney and his new bride Nancy Shevell, who tied the knot at Old Marylebone Town Hall in front of 30 close friends and family.
Following the ceremony, guests headed over to 69-year-old McCartney's home in St. John's Wood for a rock 'n' roll reception. Former Beatles member Ringo Starr, 71, told Us Weekly he wishes the couple "peace and love" as he entered the grounds, while Barbara Walters, who is Shevell's second cousin, said "the wedding was lovely."
McCartney's brother Mike, who served as the rocker's best man, added that Shevell, 51, is "so charming. I mean, she's one of us."
Said '60s supermodel Twiggy, 62: "Nancy is fabulous! She's definitely The One. I'm going to go and give him a big kiss. We're very, very happy. We love them to bits!"
Other attendees included The Rolling Stone's Ronnie Wood, Charlene Spiteri, Olivia Harrison, Jools Holland and Kate Moss. The 120 guests were welcomed with champagne or orange juice in the "arrivals lounge," which was a marquee erected in front of the house.
Dinner was served at 7:30, which featured savory tarts, goat cheese and chervil polenta, vegetable gyozas, a side salad of mixed leaves and other condiments including chili yogurt. Dessert included elderflower-flavored creme fraiche with mixed berries, as well as two wedding cakes: one vegan (made with apples) and one chocolate.
Children were entertained by Sharky and George, who gave away free spinning plates and fast food including french fries; many of the children left at 8:30 in a private minibus. See more pics from Paul and Nancy's wedding.
According to The Sun, guests watched McCartney "sing and play guitar as he unveiled a ballad specially written for his new wife, which brought tears to the groom's eyes. DJ Mark Ronson — best friend of John Lennon's son Sean — took control of the disco as the happy couple enjoyed their first dance."
"There was a lovely song that our kid did, and they had a lovely dance together," Mike McCartney told reporters. "That was a nice little highlight of the evening."
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Finding Counseling Support
Dear OncoLink "Ask The Experts,"
I am having difficulty dealing with the devastation breast cancer has brought to my life. I have been referred to several therapists who did not have any experience working with people after a cancer diagnosis. Where can I turn?
Tracy Lautenbach, MSW, LCSW, Social Worker in the Radiation Oncology Department at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, responds:
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text: The appeal for pizza knows no boundaries (or at least not many). PR newswire hide caption toggle caption PR newswire The Two-Way Pizza Predictor: Asia's Appetite Is Back; A Sign Of Better Times? July 15, 2011 A year ago, U.S. dairy farmers were worried about a souring in demand for their products overseas. Now, cheese exports are soaring.


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is a big fan of Jan III Sobieski. Today's meme, a continuing meme in this blog came about because Valerie Warunek had posted about Digital Library of Polish and Poland Related News Pamplets. That mention of a new library launched me on another research adventure. When I was looking up other things in Leszno, for Hyam Salomon, I found a Latin text related to Jan Sobieski. This jester loves Jan Sobieski's letters, particularly those to his beloved wife. This document recounted his victory of 1673 of the Battle of Chocim and was a missive to the pope. This would be a pattern for King Jan III 's future battles — letters before and after battle. After the battle, a missive was sent to the pope. King Jan III was a good Catholic monarch.
He claimed the Triumphant Crown in the Name of Poland and the Polish Eagle.
My Latin is not sufficient to render the phrase to the left (I see Polish Eagle = Aquila Polona). But it was signed the Dragon.
Hmmm. Interesting. I know the Transylvanians aided Jan III Sobieski. But I am supposing this is a reference to the Order of the Dragon, a monarchic chivalric order meant to defend Europe's Christians (from the Ottoman Empire). This battle is a good 100 years after Vlad Tepes ("The Impaler") aka known as Dracula, son of the Dragon (Vlad II). Vlad II was a member of the Order of the Dragon, but his son Vlad Tepes was not a member of the order. So my thesis is that Jan III Sobieski was a member of the monarchic Order or the Dragon. Note that Wladyslaw II (Jagiellonian dynasty — possible Columbus grandfather) was also a member. So perhaps there was a strong connection of this chivalric order to the kings of Poland.
So here are a list of (source: Wikipedia) …
Monarchic Chivalric Orders:
- Late medieval monarchical orders (14th & 15th centuries attached to a monarch):
- Order of Saint George, founded by Charles I of Hungary in 1325
- Order of the Band, founded by Alfonso XI of Castile in ca. 1330
- Order of the Garter, founded by Edward III of England in 1348
- Order of the Star, founded by John II of France in 1351
- Order of the Most Holy Annunciation, founded by Amadeus VI, Count of Savoy in 1362.
- Order of the Ermine, founded by John V, Duke of Brittany in 1381: 1st order to accept Women.
- Order of the Dragon, founded by Sigismund of Hungary in 1408.
- Order of the Golden Fleece, founded by Philip III, Duke of Burgundy in 1430
- Order of St Michel, founded by Louis XI of France in 1469
- Post-medieval foundations of chivalric orders:
- Order of Saint Stephen (1561)
- Order of the Holy Spirit (1578)
- Blood of Jesus Christ (military order) (1608)
- Order of the Thistle (1687)
- Order of Saint Louis (1694)
- Order of Saint Stephen of Hungary (1764)
- Order of St. Patrick (1783)
- Order of Saint Joseph (1807)
- Monarchical orders whose monarch no longer reigns but continues to bestow the order:
- Order of the Golden Fleece (Austrian branch)
- Order of the Holy Spirit
- Order of Prince Danilo I (Montenegro)
- Order of Saint Peter (Cetinje)
- Royal Order of Saint George for the Defense of the Immaculate Conception (Bavaria)
- Order of the Crown (Romania)
- Order of Carol I (Romania)
- Order of the Immaculate Conception of Vila Viçosa (Portugal)
- Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George (Two Sicilies)
- Order of the Eagle of Georgia (Georgia)


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Oct. 29, 2005
Bisons edge Jacksonville 3-2 with last-minute goal
It was fitting that on Senior Day for the Lipscomb University Bisons soccer team that a senior would score the winning goal.
Midfielder Andy Irvine, honored along with three of his teammates in pre-game ceremonies, scored with 56 seconds left in the game to give the Bisons a 3-2 Atlantic Sun victory over visiting Jacksonville Saturday afternoon. It was also Irvine's first goal of the season.
"That was a great game winner on a Senior Day," said Lipscomb Coach Charles Morrow.
The last-minute goal capped one of the most physical games of the season for the Bisons. It also was a great comeback for the Bisons who were still frustrated over a 3-2 loss to North Florida Thursday night at home.
"I thought Jacksonville was a better team than UNF," Morrow said. "After such a tough loss it was unbelievable how we battled. In year's past this team might have come out after a tough loss, hit some adversity and then folded. But give our guys credit.
"The Jacksonville coach came up to me after the game and told me our guys really battled all day and played within themselves. That's the most complimentary thing a coach can hear. Every college team, no matter what the sport, wants to be able to recognize its own strengths and weaknesses and play to them. Sometimes being able to do that is better than being the most talented team."
Bisons midfielder Scott Mason wasted little time getting his team on the scoreboard. At the 3:42 mark of the first period Mason scored on a perfect header shot off of a picture-perfect pass from the right side of the field by defender Micah Johnson.
Mason finished with one goal and two assists.
That was the only goal scored in the first period with both teams making seven shots.
In the second period both teams increased their intensity with emotions running high on both sides of the field.
Jacksonville tied the game at 62:38 mark of the second period. Forward Tommy Krizanovic scored from about 10 feet out. The ball was knocked around a few times in front of the Bisons net before forward Anton Axelsson found Krizanovic with a short pass.
Jacksonville took a 2-1 lead at 70:19 when forward Akeem Priestley scored. With a low line drive shot from about 18 feet out, Midfielder Brian Blackburn was given the assist.
Down 2-1 the Bisons refused to give up.
Forward Ben Page, who has missed with a shot off the cross bar in the first two minutes of the second period, and who missed a scoring opportunity later in the period, got his revenge with a game-tying goal at 26 seconds after Priestley's goal.
Page's shot came from about 10 feet out. It went into the left corner. Mason and midfielder Josh Cline earned the assists.
"Teams continue to underestimate Ben Page and he continues to take advantage of that," Morrow said. We need to get him some help at the forward position next season to take some of the pressure off of him."
That set the stage for Irvine's game-winner at the 89:04 mark. Page kicked the ball to Mason who headed it
Mason headed the ball off of a corner kick by Page. The ball went to the left side of the box. Irvine came in and kicked it past Jacksonville goalkeeper Joey Sanchez.
Both goalkeepers played outstanding games, with both Sanchez and the Bisons J.D. Murphy making key saves in the second half with a number of diving plays. Murphy picked up a victory in his last collegiate home game. He made six saves. Sanchez made seven saves.
"This game really meant a lot to J.D.," Morrow said. "He played well in his last home game."
The Bisons made 19 shots, 12 in the second period. They had 10 shots on goal, led by Page with six. Jacksonville made 14 shots on goal with six players each getting two shots in a well-balanced attack.
Jacksonville held a 5-3 edge in corner kicks.
The Bisons are 5-9-1. 2-6-0 in the A-Sun. Jacksonville is 6-9-1, 2-4-1 in the conference.


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Using the help function
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Below you will find a brief description of the most important help commands.
– "help" command:
When you say this command, the PCM reads out the commands available for the menu items currently shown.
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– "help voice control" command:
This command interactively guides you to the help you need using the available help topics and help areas.
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Actress Lindsay Lohan ordered to jail
A Beverly Hills judge ordered actress Lindsay Lohan to jail Tuesday morning and said there would be no electronic monitoring or house arrest that could reduce her 90-day sentence.
Lohan listened to the judge's orders soberly, a contrast to the last hearing in which she sobbed as the judge handed down the sentence for violating probation in a 2007 drunk-driving conviction.
Lohan will now be transported from the Beverly Hills courthouse to the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood to serve her sentence.
By order of the court, cameras were turned off when Lohan was taken into custody inside the courtroom.
Judge Marsha Revel earlier this month sentenced Lohan to jail, saying she had lied repeatedly to authorities and failed to attend weekly alcohol education classes that the court required when she pleaded guilty to the drunk-driving charge
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has not said exactly how long it plans to incarcerate Lohan, but authorities have said it could amount to 25 percent of her sentence.
Some speculate it could be even less, given jail overcrowding and the relatively minor nature of Lohan's probation violation.


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The Ice Creamists is the best kind of cookbook, one that allows you to borrow the hat of the creative mind that authored it. There are boutique ice creams, sorbettos, cocktails, sundaes and ice pops, all photographed in eye-popping displays. The recipes not only run the gamut of flavor, but also seasons, with stout and pumpkin ice creams to match winter temperatures.
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Brush off: Dog lovers bark up wrong trees
The background
Dating may get harder by the year in Charlottesville, with many women over 40 claiming a total dearth of eligible single men (who aren't still looking for breeders), but it's not easy even for fertile twentysomethings.
Karin's 24, a Longwood graduate who recently moved to town to work as a recreational therapist. She loves Charlottesville, but meeting datable guys has been tough. Micah's a 26-year-old entrepreneur, whose latest business venture has him moving and painting all over town.
"I'm really laid back," he says, asking for someone with a similarly quirky, easy-going style. He dates, he says, but hasn't found the right woman to suit his bohemian tendencies.
Will Micah's "moves" be slick enough for Karin? Will her idea of recreation match his?
The date:
Micah and Karin went to Starr Hill for dinner.
How did you get ready for the date?
Micah: Took a shower, trimmed my beard, and had a beer.
Karin: I was busy all day at a horse workshop that ended an hour and half later than I had expected. I had already committed to helping two girls do their hair for prom, so by the time I was finished helping them get ready, I barely had enough time to get ready myself.
Who arrived first?
Micah: She got there first.
Karin: I got there about 10 minutes early and figured I'd go ahead inside the restaurant. The staff was really nice and kept coming by to speak to me.
Were you nervous?
Micah: A little bit.
Karin: Definitely. When Micah walked to the table, I stood up to greet him and was so nervous that I didn't notice that there was a step by the table and I slipped a little. Oops!
If so, when did you settle down?
Micah: Right away.
Karin: It didn't take long. Micah greeted me with a hug and a handshake, so that kind of set a pretty comfortable, relaxed mood.
First impression?
Micah: She was very sweet.
Karin: This guy seems pretty cool and down to earth.
What was your date wearing?
Micah: Pants and a black top with sparkles. Kind of conservative, but my dress was pretty conservative as well.
Karin: Jeans and a blue Polo shirt
How did you like his/her style?
Micah: It seemed nice.
Karin: His style was fine– how I dress on a normal day. I'm all about being comfy!
What did you order?
Micah: She had a drink, and I had a couple of beers. For an entrée, I ordered the fish and chips, which was the cheapest thing on the menu; she got the tuna steak, the most expensive.
Uhhh, Micah, when the restaurant's picking up the tab, you probably should go for the good stuff... –MM
Karin: We shared the sundried tomato spinach dip for an appetizer and it was really good– very flavorful. I ordered the tuna for my meal and was very pleased. The mashed potatoes served with it were very tasty.
How was the service?
Micah: Great.
Karin: Terrific. Everyone was friendly and helpful. Our waitress was very attentive with taking our orders and making sure our drinks were full. My only complaint would be the music– it was playing so loud that it was difficult to hear each other across the table.
What did you talk about?
Micah: Basic stuff; work– she works with autistic kids, so she must have a lot of patience. We talked the whole time, but it was small talk. She's trying to get a place in Charlottesville, I'm a connoisseur of the rental market.
Karin: We talked about where we lived, went to school, and what we do for jobs now. We also talked about animals, music, and hiking. There were definitely some awkward moments of silence, though.
Did you have much in common?
Micah: A little bit– not a lot. We're both big dog lovers. She has her career intact, she's more of a professional. I'm more of a slacker probably. She's one who's going to have her life more planned out, I'm more of a go-with-the-flow kind of guy.
Karin: Yes, we did have a lot in common. I had recently been on a trip to the British Virgin Islands and found out that Micah had spent time sailing around the islands in the past. It was cool to talk about that with someone who had experienced it, too. We both also have a love for dogs (especially the big breeds). Micah and I also share an interest in the local music scene as well as hiking and camping. We both also used to live in Augusta County.
Was there anything that particularly impressed/interested you about your date?
Micah: Her professionalism– not only in her current job, but in past jobs. She has a good résumé, she has a well-paying job that she really enjoys. She uses dog and horse therapy in her work with autistic kids, and that seems like an awesome aspect of her job.
Karin: Micah's brother can't have dogs where he lives, so Micah has taken in his brother's puppy. I thought that was pretty thoughtful of him.
Any turn-offs?
Micah: She was allergic to beer. That makes her allergic to me.
Karin: The moments of silence were awkward, but I think we were both nervous and didn't know what to say. There wasn't anything about him that I disliked.
Was there chemistry? Any flirting?
Micah: No.
Karin: I don't know that there was really any chemistry. He's definitely a really nice guy, though. I enjoyed the evening and would like to hang out again.
Did you do anything afterwards?
Micah: I invited her to get more drinks, cause she had just had one glass of wine, but she lives 40 minutes out of town and said she'd take a rain check.
Karin: Micah invited me to go out for a drink at South Street Brewery, but I asked him if I could take a rain check on it. We exchanged phone numbers.
How did the date end?
Micah: Where it started. I walked her to her car, and we left.
Karin: I was really impressed that Micah offered to walk me to my car, especially since I had parked two blocks away in the opposite direction of where he had parked. When we got to my car, I offered to take him to his.
Kiss? Hug? Exchange numbers?
Micah: No, we didn't kiss. She gave me a hug and her phone number.
Karin: We hugged and said goodbye and that we'd call each other.
Overall date experience?
Micah: We had good conversation. I was comfortable talking to her; she was friendly and sweet. It was a good time.
Karin: It was a great experience, and I always love meeting new people. Hopefully Micah and I can hang out again as friends.
Would you see this person again?
Micah: Probably not.
Karin: Yeah. We have a lot in common. It would be nice to go out for a drink, go to a concert, or take our dogs for a hike.
On a scale of 1-10, how would you rate the date?
Micah: 5
Karin: 6
Well Micah and Karin won't be painting the town red, but it wasn't a dog of a date either... Maybe they'll both find better trees to bark up.–MM
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I have health insurance from my employer, and cover my family also. The cost is around $300 per paycheck. My wife lost her job six months ago, and we are struggling financially. I'd like to temporarily drop our health plan, at least until we get back on our feet. Can I do that? I'm hoping she will find new work soon. In the meantime, getting the $300 every two weeks would really help.
Bent But Not Broke Yet
Dear Bent But Not Broke Yet,
Yes, you can drop your employer's health insurance without having a family status change or "qualifying event" (such as a marriage, divorce, birth of a child, etc.). Your employer will allow you to drop your family, since you pay part of the cost. If your employer pays for your coverage (meaning just you, the employee), you probably will have to keep that. Contracts with insurers typically require employers to keep people enrolled whose coverage is fully paid by the employer.
Before you go ahead and drop the plan, keep in mind that your paycheck will not go up by $300. You will now be paying full taxes on that. There are calculators online that you can use to estimate how much more take home pay you will get. The boost may be less than you hope.
Dropping the plan will also leave you to pay your family's medical bills. The medical bills could add up to more than the money you are saving. Also, if you stay uninsured for more than two months, the health insurer will refuse to pay for any pre-existing medical conditions when you re-join.
Last, you would not be able to re-join the plan until you had a family status change, or until the plan has its annual enrollment period. Hopefully, your family status change will be that your wife finds a job, but that may or may not happen as soon as you would like. Check with your employer about any other rules on re-joining.
Dropping your health plan is a tough way to boost your income for a few months. There may be other options to consider, such as cutting your cable bill or giving up your cell phone data plan.


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INDIANAPOLIS – The NCAA announced the field for the 2014 NCAA Division II Softball Tournament, with Georgia College softball (34-15) and head coach Jamie Grodecki earning a slot in the NCAA Southeast Region bracket #2.
The Bobcats picked up the No. 7-seed for the region, and will battle host No. 2-seed Anderson University (42-10) Friday, May 9 at 4:30 p.m. That matchup comes after the two other teams, No. 3-seed Armstrong Atlantic State University (30-12) and No. 6-seed USC Aiken kick off the double-elimination site at 2 p.m.
This marks the second-straight NCAA Regional bid for GC Softball and the seventh overall. The Bobcats have won the region championship twice, the most recent coming in 2006.
The Bobcats took on Anderson in the regular season, back on Feb. 22 on the road, rebounding from a 7-5 loss to pick up a 7-3 victory and a split of the doubleheader.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 11 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at @GCBobcats on Twitter and Facebook for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit GCBobcats.PhotoReflect.com to purchase photo prints from home athletic contests.


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March 2010
Ethanol plant in West Burlington, Iowa. Photo: Steven Vaughn.
Do you think biofuel production is sustainable?
Ugarte: No, not currently. Biofuels do not grow as stand-alone products or grow within isolated soil. Biofuels are developed from the agricultural resources that we have and use now. Unfortunately, agricultural production emits greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming.1 When you combine emissions data from agriculture with the amount of greenhouse gases produced by other sectors, the total figure is substantial.2 Even if we improve the environmental performance of agricultural production, we are not addressing the problem of how we currently use agricultural resources. So, we cannot claim that biofuels developed within the current agricultural sector can truly become a sustainable activity.
If we improve the agricultural system, can biofuels become sustainable?
Ugarte: Definitely. I think that it is important to understand that biofuels do not have to be the goal of production, but rather, a means to a goal. An important question to ask ourselves is: how can we use biofuels to improve the overall environmental, social, and economic performance of the agricultural sector? If we try to understand this issue holistically, we will find that as we improve the environmental performance of agricultural activity, as we put value into environmental goods, we will see a significant improvement in the environmental performance of biofuels. I think the two components—agricultural sector development and biofuel production—can support each other because biofuel growth will result in a demand for agricultural resources.
This demand for agricultural resources is going to generate higher price levels, and these prices are probably going to be high enough to bring new investment into agriculture. We do not know the type of investment it will bring, however. Will this investment replicate the same model of industrial agriculture that we now have? Or rather, will this investment transform the way we: grow crops, use agricultural land and landscape, use forestland, and, even the way we eat? I think that if we look at the issue through this lens, biofuels could become an instrument of change—even if there is an environmental cost to pay for it in the short term.
How significant is the connection between biofuel prices and agricultural practices?
Ugarte: There is no question about the danger of high prices. The other danger is the potential cost to the environment if we were to continue down the current path, that is, to increase the use of biofuels significantly without environmental concerns. We are already seeing an environmental impact that suggests biofuel expansion may be increasing. We are not putting enough attention to the role of biofuels in addressing not only energy, but also global environmental and the challenges of poverty elimination.
As for higher prices, there are positives and negatives: the positive side is that biofuel production can initiate new investment in agriculture. If that investment results in improved environmental performance and improved infrastructure so that farmers can have access to a share of the agricultural price of the food bill—the changes are positive.
On the negative side, however, higher agricultural prices, if not controlled, could result in very damaging social impacts.3 This is not only because the price of food could increase beyond what should be acceptable, but also because in many countries, those higher prices are going to challenge environmental incentives, such as:
- Environmentally sensitive land, such as the tropical forest that might become agricultural land.
- Large-scale farming might expand to the detriment of smaller farms.
- Land grabbing might become appealing.
We have seen a rise in land grabbing in the last couple of years, [that is,] when countries or global corporations lease or buy huge tracts of land in developing countries for their own agricultural use.4 These purchases could be seen as a positive endeavor because they might bring investment to an impoverished area. We would have to wonder, however, where the products from those acres would go during an agricultural crisis.
- Will the crops feed the country that grows them?
- Will the crops be taken automatically to feed the country that owns the land?
- Alternatively, perhaps, will the food go to a corporation's shareholders that own the land?
What are the pros and cons of a corporate-run biofuel industry?
Ugarte: There are parallels to the food system when it comes to pros and cons: if biofuel expansion is not regulated appropriately, we could be facing a disaster because the potential energy demand is tremendous. Just imagine a scenario, in which oil prices return to what we saw recently—70, 80, 90, or $120 [USD per barrel]; this state would automatically create a huge demand for ethanol because at such high prices, almost any ethanol would be profitable. Without proper regulation for expansion, in terms of what type of land is used and with regard to the trading price, we could end up with more disadvantages rather than advantages.
To explain further, the problem here is that regulators tend to try to establish policy once a disaster has happened. Because we know in advance, however, that there is a real possibility that this energy demand could happen, regulators should anticipate this problem. Those with influence should use biofuels as an instrument of change—with the goal of allocating agricultural resources to the production of biofuels in a way that not only benefits the producers but also helps nations to transition to a new agricultural system—without overburdening the consumer. We will have to accept the fact that corporations may have to take a leading role in this; nonetheless, consumers and regulators should have a say in the role they should play.
Are there economic impacts on industries not directly connected to biofuel production?
Ugarte: If you own livestock, or you are a rancher, biofuel production may be a negative for you. If you work in the health industry, biofuel production may be a positive for you. It depends on where you are sitting whether a more expensive animal or livestock sector, which produces a more expensive meat, is a plus or a minus. Moreover, if it is a minus for ranchers, perhaps the government, the state, or the system should create an opportunity for those ranchers affected to adjust to a new way of livestock farming.
On the other hand, we should understand that a continuous increase in the consumption of meat in our diet has many health consequences. By getting our protein not just from animals but other sources as well, we could reduce not only our environmental costs, but also our health costs. In addition, we would decrease labor hours lost at work if we are healthier. We rarely consider such things as positive returns on investment because the results are not immediate—it can take from three to seven years to see a sustained change.
Economically, do you find that the advantages and disadvantages are the same no matter what the crop?
Switchgrass, Panicum virgatum, is a perennial grass native to North America. Ethanol production using switchgrass depends on development of technology. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.
Ugarte: No. If you target corn or soybean for production, it will benefit the producers of that crop mainly. However, if you open up the competition to include what is called cellulosic crops like switchgrass [i.e., a grass (Panicum virgatum) native to North America used as rangeland forage and hay5], you expand the benefits of the agricultural sector beyond corn producers. Switchgrass can be planted in different types of soil, and this crop could replace cotton, hay, soybeans, or corn. By growing a variety of crops for biofuel production, corn producers would not lose out. Corn would become more valuable, and corn crops would experience a price increase.
The regulators' focus should be on the big picture of the agricultural sector combined with a vision of the best direction for all of society. These important issues need to be debated publicly.
What is the bottom line on biofuel's impact on society?
Ugarte: The bottom line is biofuels can play a positive role in:
- improving energy independence,
- our fight against poverty,
- the challenge of global food insecurity, and
- our goals to improve environmental performance.
For these things to happen, however, we have to have the right policies in place that will spur investments towards these goals. Without these crucial elements, the biofuel developers could end up reproducing the same system of agriculture, production, and consumption in the same way that has resulted in our current levels of world poverty, food insecurity, and inadequate environmental performance.6 So, the choice is ours. We have to have a clear vision of where we want to go and how to go there, as well as to recognize the role of biofuels. We can influence how biofuels figure into the grand scheme of things so that we improve the overall performance of the agricultural sector in terms of poverty alleviation, food security, and environmental performance.
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It'sagreatdayforhockey! wrote:Will have to find them online later, but some of the others that immediately come to mind are...
-The Crosby goal where he kicked it to himself in the neutral zone
-The Geno goal last year where he went through the entire TB team (selfishly since I was there)
-The Sykora "called shot" in OT
-All of the Neal goals coming directly off the faceoff from Geno (because everyone in the building knew it was coming and were powerless to stop it)
-The Geno shootout goal where he deked the goalie so badly to the wrong side he had the entire net open and just slowly pushed it home
PghSkins wrote:Lack of this in the first 10 posted proves that yinz are not serious Pens fans.
Big Easy Pens Fan wrote:11/11/08: Pens vs Wings. Staal to tie late & Fedetenko to win in OT.
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Cisco at Automation Fair THIS WEEK! Meet Cisco Industry Experts in Chicago, 16th-17th.
"Chicago, Chicago, I'll show you around, You'll Stay Around", sings Frank Sinatra in the Fred Fisher song 'Chicago' published in 1922.
Well, come to the McCormick Center in Chicago, Illinois this week (16th and 17th November 2011) and let Cisco show you around Booth #239 where we'll show you some cool demonstrations, and talk to you about your business and technical issues and how Cisco can help.
Remember that Automation Fair is one of the largest industrial Automation Events in the world. As I mentioned in my Cisco at Rockwell Automation Fair, Chicago Illinois, 16th-17th November 2011 blog we'll be active this week both at our own booth and also at a four way A four-way Cisco, Rockwell, Panduit and Fluke booth showing the power of a broader partnership bringing all aspects of network convergence together.
Catch the joint Cisco-Rockwell presentations on key network convergence topics plus Cisco Speakers at the Global Machine Builders (OEM) and Food and Beverage Forums. In the later forum you'll hear about Cisco's Industrial Intelligence solutions from Chet Namboodri, Cisco Managing Director for the Manufacturing Industry, and how Cisco is helping to solve real Manufacturing issues in the CPG sector.
You'll be able to discuss Industrial Ethernet, mobility, security, collaboration, and video solutions for the production environment with industry specialists. See live demonstrations showing how video can impact productivity and efficiencies on the plant floor, and how you can securely offer remote access into plant applications.
As a Strategic Partner for Rockwell, you'll know more about the Cisco and Rockwell joint alliance, joint product developments, and how you can benefit from the Converged Plantwide Ethernet architecture.
Remember to have fun too! Check out my 'Manufacturing Guru' Kevin Davenport in his invitational video blog here Converge or die — Chicago, Nov 16-17th to get into the fun-mode! You can also view the video directly from here.
Watch out for live blogs this week from the team here in Chicago, hosted my colleague Andrew Lach – his recent blog tells you more about what to expect via a host of Social media Channels.
So, back to the Fisher Chicago song: "You'll Have The Time, The Time Of Your Life" at Automation Fair, and after you talk to our specialists at our booths or at our forums about the things that are keeping you up at night from a plant or IT perspective, I'm pretty sure I can "Bet Your Bottom Dollar You Lose The Blues In Chicago, Chicago"
See you there!
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Chinese General Says U.S. Foreign Policy Has 'Erectile Dysfunction' Problems
A Chinese general used a regional security conference this weekend to tell a global audience that U.S. rhetoric about the South China Sea risks provoking Beijing.
For the Chinese language audience, the general used language saltier -- and perhaps more provocative -- words to describe how he feels about U.S. power.
Maj. Gen Zhu Chenghu, a professor at the National Defense University, made the remarks in an interview with Chinese-language Phoenix TV at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore Saturday.
He suggested that if China came to blows with any of its neighbors, the U.S. might not be a reliable ally.
"As U.S. power declines, Washington needs to rely on its allies in order to reach its goal of containing China's development," he told the TV station.
"But whether it will get involved or use military intervention once there is a territorial dispute involving China and its neighbors, that is another issue," he added.
He said that this depended on the U.S. ability to project power, citing Ukraine as an example.
He said, "we can see from the situation in Ukraine this kind of ED" –which he explained in Chinese was a military abbreviation for something that may have meant "extended deployment" – "has become the male type of ED problem – erectile dysfunction."
Mr. Zhu was one of several Chinese military officials who reacted angrily to remarks of U.S. defense secretary Chuck Hagel, who accused China of taking destabilizing actions in the South China Sea.
Hong Kong-based Phoenix TV has close ties to Beijing and much of its audience is in mainland China.
China's stance on its maritime claims in the South China Sea has led it into disputes with Vietnam and the Philippines. A standoff over a Chinese drilling rig in waters claimed by Hanoi led to deadly anti-Chinese rioting in Vietnam in May.
Maj. Gen Zhu is no stranger to controversy. In 2005 he came under criticism for remarks that China would have no option but to go nuclear in the event of a conflict over Taiwan. U.S. officials called the remarks irresponsible and the Chinese foreign ministry backed away from them as well.
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Following the FIFF in Namur, Belgium, Fishing Cactus has been nominated amongst 12 belgian movies to provide 3 gaming projects around the popular word: "crossmedia" as marketing support for two films: Torpedo (K2 & KAZAA, Matthieu Donck) and Approved for Adoption (Mosaïc Films, Artémis).
Torpedo pitch:
"Michel Ressac is a 35 year old men having hard time being successful in anything. His life is going to change forever when he learns that he won a dinner with his all life star, the famous cyclist Eddie Merckx."
Approved for Adoption pitch:
"European on the heads side, Asian on the tails side. Cartoonist. 42 years old according to his civil status, Jung prefers to place his birth at the age of 5, when a policeman found him wandering alone on the streets of Seoul. He is one of those 200 000 adopted Koreans spread around the world."
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I was recently asked to answer a couple of thought-provoking questions sent in by a
graduate student in the field of Communication Sciences and Disorders. "Do you have
any suggestions for students on how to start our careers off right? Looking back over
your career, is there anything you would do differently if you could do it all again?"
For the "veterans" out there (as Oprah would refer to us), we actually do have much to
offer in the way of offering advice to those about to enter the field, so I thought I would
give this a try. After getting over the initial shock that I was old enough to be considered
veteran of anything, and then dealing promptly with the hot flash that soon followed, I
began to write, knowing that many "youngins" (another Oprahism) could probably
benefit from my 32 years in the field. Now, let me be clear. You still qualify as a
"youngin" if you are new to the profession, even if you are not a twenty-two year-old
recent college graduate. Age is not a factor here. For any who would like to benefit from
my experience, I have a few suggestions.
While under the stress of the academic demands in graduate school, I would continually
repeat the following words to myself: "This is temporary." This saying is one of my
favorites whenever I find myself overwhelmed in a particular situation. Try it… it works!
My partner, and sister, Penny Castagnozzi shared this insight with me and I use it both in
my professional life and my personal life. "Woah! My caseload numbers just went up
again." (This is temporary.) "I'm overwhelmed with all these reports." (This is
temporary.) "Where did these extra ten pounds come from?" (Again, temporary.) It's
been two days and he/she hasn't called or texted (Temporary.)
When sitting in class, or listening to your clinical supervisor's feedback, instead of
focusing solely on how you will retain all of this information for the test next Thursday,
shift your thinking to include an awareness that this is the information you will soon be
using to change lives, one client at a time, out in the real world. Know that you are
becoming a true "agent of change."
During the process of seeking your first job (or making any job change), go out and do
informational interviews and shadow professionals who work within the clinical work
environments you may not have had a chance to experience while in school. When being
interviewed for a position, ask many questions, and also ask for the name of someone
who already works in this facility, so that you can interview him or her. He or she might
be able to give you information from within "the trenches" of that job, offering the real
scoop, such as the exact caseload numbers and the flexibility of the administrators.
When you do land that first job, become fast friends with the clerical or administrative
assistants in your building. They will help you learn the ropes, such as where to find the
complete list of students in a school for quick access to the contact information you need.
Bring them a cup of coffee or a treat once in a while. Let them know how appreciated
they are for helping you do your job. Suddenly, because of these relationships, you will
find your job getting easier and more enjoyable.
Finally, although you will walk into that new job setting as an ASHA certified and
licensed expert in speech pathology or audiology, remain humble. Let others, especially
those not in your profession, see you as someone who is there to help, and not intimidate,
them. Hold your head up high and demand respect, but do it in a way that is tactful and
So, "youngins," have fun and enjoy the ride! As rides go, it will be filled with spins,
turns, slow upward climbs, smooth sailing plateaus, and exciting downhill runs. At the
difficult turns in your journey, remember to say to yourself, "This is temporary."
Nancy Telian, M.S., CCC-SLP, is co-director of Reading with
TLC with Penny Castagnozzi. Nancy and Penny are the authors of Lively Letters and
Sight Words You Can See, programs that develop phonemic awareness, phonics, and
sight word skills. They are nationally recognized speakers and can be contacted for
inspiring keynote addresses or presentations on their own programs at 781-331-7412 or
firstname.lastname@example.com. For more information on Nancy and Penny or the programs
they've created, visit www.readingwithTLC.com.


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The American Film Institute's Board of Trustees selected Mike Nichols to receive the 38th AFI Life Achievement Award, the highest honor for a career in film. The award was presented to Nichols at a gala tribute in Los Angeles on June 10, 2010.
"Genius is a word oft overused in our world, but surely not in the case of Mike Nichols," said Stringer. "His artistry
has spanned the mediums of modern storytelling — movies, television and the stage — and his gifts across five decades continue to inspire artists and audiences alike. It is AFI's honor to present him with its 38th Life
Achievement Award."
Born Michael Igor Peschkowsky to an intellectual Jewish family in Berlin, 7-year-old Mike Nichols made it out of Germany in 1939, alone with
his younger brother, on one of the last refugee boats to dock in
New York harbor.
His Dalton School classmate and later collaborator Buck Henry
remembers that Nichols was "as outside as an outsider can get," and Nichols jokes that the only two sentences he knew in English were
"I do not speak English" and "Please do not kiss me." But he was
determined to fit in as quickly as possible. So he started listening.
"I think there is an immigrant's ear that is particularly acute," Nichols reflected. "At its highest and most extreme form, it leads to great artists like Joseph Conrad and Stoppard and Nabokov. They've digested a new language and culture and made it more expressive in some way. You're forever looking at something as someone who just got here."
Nichols put his feel for American speech to work in his groundbreaking partnership with Elaine May. They got their start in Chicago's Compass Players and, by 1960, their brilliant, acerbic routines had made them the hottest — and most sophisticated — ticket on Broadway. John Lahr remarks: "With Nichols and May, Jewish angst, Freud, literacy, irony, and sex were ushered into the discourse of mainstream comedy."
By the time their partnership ended in 1962, Nichols had absorbed lessons that would last throughout his career: "Elaine and I had a motto, which applies to this day: The only safe thing is to take a chance."
But Nichols didn't know what to do next, and his pal Leonard Bernstein told him, "Oh, Mikey, you're so good. I don't know at what, but you're
so good."
What he was good at, it turned out, was directing. When theatrical producer Saint Subber asked him to direct Neil Simon's Barefoot In The Park, Nichols realized he had found his calling: "In the first fifteen minutes of the first day's rehearsal, I understood that this was my job, this was what I had been preparing to do without knowing it."
The play would lead to an astounding theatrical career, including eight Tony Awards, as well as memorable stagings of plays by Lillian Hellman, David Rabe and Tom Stoppard, and most recently Eric Idle's Spamalot. Neil Simon has said, "I have never worked with anyone in my life, nor will I ever work with anyone, as good as Mike Nichols."
Nichols's growing reputation as a theater director led to his first film
job and it was baptism by fire. Controversy over the language in Edward Albee's play and the personal lives of its stars had ensured that WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? would be among the most anticipated films of 1966, and some Hollywood insiders doubted that a first-time director could handle it. To prepare, Nichols spent weeks locked in
a screening room, poring over films by Fellini, Truffaut, Elia Kazan, and George Stevens, while soliciting advice from established filmmakers
like Billy Wilder.
His preparation paid off, and the film stunned critics with a tactile, kinetic camera that captured the timeless work of an ensemble for the ages, led by the raw, transfixing performance by Elizabeth Taylor. Throughout the production, Nichols sought to stay faithful to the
play's ambiguities, over the objections of studio head Jack Warner.
The triumph of this landmark film lies in the searing portrait Nichols draws of a couple who are at once so violently at odds and yet
so deeply in love.
Nichols received an Oscar nomination for VIRGINIA WOOLF, but
with his next venture, he both won the Oscar and carved out an
everlasting place for himself in film history. "THE GRADUATE is
one of those movies that feel at once brilliantly original and inevitable," writes San Francisco Chronicle critic Steve Winn, who describes the film as "hard-wired into the culture's filmic DNA."
Viewers are still debating whether THE GRADUATE is a mockery
or a celebration of the counterculture, whether Benjamin Braddock is (in Roger Ebert's words) "an admirable rebel" or "a self-centered creep," and whether any happiness truly awaits Benjamin and Elaine
in the film's "happy" ending.
Nichols's artistic audacity lies precisely in this refusal to explain the deeper implications of these films that seem so perfectly lucid in every other way. In SILKWOOD he brought us an outspoken heroine whose humanity threatened to undermine the integrity of her crusade. In CARNAL KNOWLEDGE, he outraged many by casting a savage eye on male sexual conquest. And in WORKING GIRL, he had us rooting for a screwball heroine in a modern world. It is a film that
ultimately celebrates the immigrant experience and all the tiny tales that make up the American dream.
In 2003, just when the world had defined the boundaries of theater and film, Nichols astounded us again with the visual inventiveness
of ANGELS IN AMERICA, translating Tony Kushner's masterpiece
of theater into a masterpiece of cinema. Dreams and reality are
conflated in a way that is at once extravagant and naturalistic; hope and despair fuse as one. For critic A. O. Scott, Nichols's ANGELS
"is about the decision to live as though the world were comic — which is to say, secular, forgiving, forward-looking — in the face of growing evidence that it is, more often and more fundamentally, the opposite."
Mike Nichols likes to quote his favorite line from THE PHILADELPHIA STORY: "The time to make up your mind about people is never." Perhaps what we can wish for is that Mike Nichols will continue
to surprise us with the tremendous chances he takes — and hope the day never comes when he decides to make up his mind about us.
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Calif Gov. Brown being treated for prostate cancer
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Jerry Brown is being treated with radiation for early stage prostate cancer, his office announced Wednesday.
The 74-year-old Brown is receiving a short course of conventional radiotherapy for "localized prostate cancer," the statement said.
Brown's "prognosis is excellent, and there are not expected to be any significant side effects," University of California, San Francisco oncologist Eric Small said in the statement. Small is Brown's oncologist.
The radiation treatment will be completed the week of Jan. 7 — nearly four weeks from now — and Brown will continue to work a full schedule, the statement said.
Brown's spokesman Gil Duran declined further comment.
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men. More than 241,000 new cases are expected to be diagnosed in the United States this year. More than 90 percent are early stage, and nearly all men with such diagnoses survive at least five years.
Localized prostate cancer means "the tumor is still contained within the prostate," said Dr. Mark Litwin, chairman of the UCLA Department of Urology, who is not involved in Brown's care. "Of course, that's what you want because you can treat it much more effectively."
It is the governor's second bout with cancer. He underwent minor surgery in spring 2011 to remove a cancerous growth on his nose. He was put under local anesthetic and doctors removed basal cell carcinoma, a common, slow-growing form of skin cancer, from the right side of his nose.
For that cancer, Brown underwent micrographic surgery, in which a doctor can tell even before the wound is closed that all the cancerous cells have been removed.
Typical radiation treatment for an early stage prostate cancer is five days a week for four to five weeks, said Dr. Ralph de Vere White, urological oncologist and director of the University of California, Davis comprehensive cancer center in Sacramento.
Not all men who are diagnosed with the disease choose to undergo treatment, and doctors advise patients to consider the risks.
De Vere White, who is not involved in Brown's case, said given the governor's otherwise excellent health, it's an easy decision to do the radiation treatment.
"When you're as healthy as the governor is, and you are looking out at 10 years, then you go for a treatment that is going to have in excess of a 97 percent cure rate," he said. "It really should have very minimal side effects, should have minimal to no interference with his life, and kind of represents the reason why people advocate for finding this disease early."
The governor's office did not say how the prostate cancer was first detected.
Brown is the son of former two-term governor Edmund G. Brown and has spent a lifetime in politics, including terms as the secretary of state, attorney general and mayor of Oakland.
He previously was governor from 1975 to 1983, and returned to his former post in 2011 after handily beating former eBay chief executive Meg Whitman.
Brown became the state's oldest serving governor when he turned 73 a few months into office. He was its second youngest when he was first sworn into office in 1975.
The typically energetic Brown is coming off a resounding political victory in November after he persuaded Californians to support Proposition 30, a ballot measure that raised the statewide sales tax and increased income taxes for the wealthy.
The extra revenue is expected to help ease the state's budget woes and give Brown smoother sailing to pursue his agenda in 2013.
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Inspired by Frankenstein, Tim Burton's Frankenweenie follows young Victor (Charlie Tahan), a boy who loses his dog Sparky and uses the power of science to bring him back to life. It seems that miracle was something he was hoping to keep a secret, because he doesn't seem very thrilled in the clip below, which has Shaffer's Edgar revealing that he knows about the dog.
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The clip ends with Edgar promising to keep his mouth shut about Victor's secret, but the way he crossed his fingers behind his back. Sneaky Edgar! Something tells me he won't simply be whispering that secret to his chest (Middle joke!). In fact, one of the last clips we shared showed a serious pet problem in the neighborhood. Piecing these clips together, it might not be a far stretch to suggest that Edgar is the one that lets the (reanimated) cat out of the bag.
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Hex is a very slightly warm beige and does indeed brighten and open up the eye area when used on the lower waterline, however as I am very pale I do think this colour would look more natural on those slightly darker than me.I can also use this colour as a lip liner if I am doing a nude lip look. Odd is a cool toned medium almost forest green, unfortunately its texture is nothing like Hex and whilst it lasts very well it does not apply smoothly which I think you can see in the swatch I have done, I think I will order another of the ones more used for the eye area to see if the texture of these are indeed different to the ones more aimed at both/just lips like Hex and will report back as Hex applies so smoothly, pigmentated, no tugging and lasts really well so I'm hoping my odd pencil was just a dud.
I also got a cream blusher in Lies, this is a highlighter shade IMO, and applies as a cool pink shimmery sheen, I use it as I use my Armani fluid sheer 7. Lies looks great if you apply it on the cheeks first and then layer your normal blush over it, gives a really radiant flush to the skin which lasts right through the day which surprised me as texture wise it has a lot of slip to it. I will also say that ingredients wise these seem OK for those acne prone, I'm extremely acne prone so cream blushers are usually a problem for me so I will definitely pick up another shade.
Lastly I just posted a swatch of my furore pigment as I had previously only posted a pic of the product which isn't very helpful (its a very shimmery peach champagne) I have a lot less fallout with this compared to MAC pigments and this lasts better as well.
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I am in love with illamasqua also and your swatches are great!ReplyDelete
Thanks, I think Illamasqua is fast becoming my favourite brand, can't wait to see what they put out for their fall collectionReplyDelete
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I wavered between Hex and Vow, and went for Vow, which is a lighter creamier shade. I think Vow is a little better for a paler skin.
I have Debonair (teal) and Sophie (black) pencils too, and these are creamy and easy to apply. It sounds like your Odd may be a dud - I'd send Illamasqua an email about it.
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Thanks for your comment, if yours are good it does seem like my odd isn't as it should be, I'll email Illamasqua, think I might get Devotion next and may get Debonair as well if thats a teal, love that for eyeliner shades,great way to add a pop of vivid colour without being too ott.
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So in this thread, we're just coming up with whatever ideas for items; be they names, purposes, or whatever - the point is to just get my creative juices flowing so I can start hammering out some new icons.
Jetryl wrote:3] Armor and Item icons
Thanks to borrowing icons from wesnoth, we've got tons of weapons. But that's pretty much all they had; we don't have any armors/gloves/helmets, and we also don't have icons for "general RPG items". We need to make them. Our armor sets are going to be kinda like Chrono Trigger, in that we'll have some items which everyone can use, some items that only males/females can use, some items that only fighters/whatever can use, and some items that only specific characters can use.
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Torso Armors - sometimes armor breastplates/cuirasses, sometimes dresses, sometimes tunics
Head Armors - usually helmets, but sometimes hats, circlets/crowns, or hairpins, or bandannas
Foot Armors - sometimes greaves rather than boots, but usually boots, sandals, and shoes.
"Offhand items" - these will vary wildly between characters - sometimes bracelets (laila), sometimes gauntlets (claudius), sometimes armguards (rafaela). For some wizard characters, we could even do talismans, or grimoires - who knows.
We'll probably add in another category or two, depending on what we get enough drawn for; rings might be a good candidate, or maybe capes/cloaks.
Eventually, in the final game of allacrost, we're gonna need some ~20 different options for each slot. A good example for us to run by is, once again, chrono trigger - if we can make as many items as they have, we're in fairly good standing. If you look at the following pages (click on the links they have at the side for other varieties), you can get an idea of all the items they had in their entire game - that's about how many we should shoot for:
Some initial ideas for armor are:
(name ideas: vest, chain, plate, mail, aegis)
Tin mail
Chain ring vest
Rodium Breastplate (or perhaps "Rodium Plate", since IMO it has a nice ring to it, and since it's going to be the entire torso entourage, including pauldrons, and all that other stuff)
Argent Chain
Firebrand Plate (some elemental affiliation with fire)
Spark Vest (etc -> electric)
Frost Plate (etc -> Ice/water)
Terra Plate (etc -> earth)
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(name ideas: dress, sash, gown)
Windlace Dress
Willow Dress (already drawn as that green dress laila has)
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Twitter and Square cofounder Jack Dorsey is the mysterious owner of a house on El Camino Del Mar in the exclusive Seacliff neighborhood of San Francisco, a well-connected source in local real estate tells us.
SocketSite, a real-estate news site, reported that the house sold in February in a private transaction after being withdrawn from the local multiple-listing service.
As Curbed SF noted, the house is the most expensive two-bedroom in the city, even after the price had been reduced from $18 million to $9,990,000.
It has a stunning view of one of Dorsey's fascinations, the Golden Gate Bridge. He actively participated in celebrations around the 75th anniversary of the bridge's construction, and in May, he took all of Square's 330 employees on a walk across the bridge, which he called a "spectacular influence on all I do."
A Vanity Fair profile of Dorsey last year mentioned his "austere" Mint Plaza apartment located mere blocks from the headquarters of Square and Twitter. But he sold that unit for $1 million in early March, according to public records which identify him as the registered agent for an LLC under which he owned it.
He was more careful in buying his new house, which is owned by an LLC whose registered agent is Audrey Scott, a lawyer at Cooley LLP who specializes in counseling company founders on wealth management and estate planning.
Reached by phone, Scott said, "I can't discuss client matters" and hung up. Press representatives for Square and Twitter did not respond to request for comment.
One question: Where did Dorsey get the money?
As we reported last week, Square filed a document with state regulators in Alaska saying Dorsey owned 28 percent of the company, which was valued at $1.6 billion in its last financing round.
Square and Twitter are both privately held. And both companies have taken steps to prevent unauthorized sales of their shares on secondary markets. But Twitter's board—Dorsey is the chairman—could well have authorized the sale of some of his stake.
Dorsey, a committed urbanist, owns a BMW, according to Vanity Fair, but he doesn't seem to be using it to commute. Instead, he tweets about the books he reads while on the bus. Google Maps says it's a 48-minute ride.
That longer commute fits with something else we've heard: Dorsey, who once said he spent eight hours a day at Square and eight hours a day at Twitter, is spending less time at Twitter these days. (His time split changes, and he's been very involved with Twitter's move to its new office.)
Last month, Dorsey quoted Pablo Neruda: "I need the sea because it teaches me."
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GeekOut Estonia 2011 – 1 day, 6 speakers, 30 firms, 132 Geeks and Too Much/Not Enough Beer
GeekOut Estonia 2011 is over and it turned out great – we seldom see so many geeks in one place in Estonia! It was an awesome time for everyone – before the day was half-way done we already wanted to try out a dozen new concepts and frameworks! See what other people had to say about it on Twitter.
GeekOut was opened officially with a brief keynote by Jevgeni Kabanov, the CTO of ZeroTurnaround. Even though GeekOut was sold out with 132 attendees, he suggested that this represents a much larger popular segment than in other countries – with only 1.3 million people in Estonia, GeekOut is, proportionately speaking, among on of the largest Java conferences in the world! Gotta love statistics!
What's new in Java 7?
Martijn Verburg gave a great overview of the new cool features found in Java 7. Even though the changes are not as big as the transition from Java 4 to Java 5, there are still many small additions and improvements. It turns out that Project Coin has played a key role in introducing small language-level enhancements to Java. Some of those changes are switching Strings, auto-closable resources and separators in numeric literals.
The new NIO.2 API is a welcome addition too. There are also some surpising introductions – catch blocks with multiple Exception types and the first bytecode addition in Java history: invokedynamic. The latter will benefit many scripting languages that run on the JVM (think Scala, Groovy and Clojure). See the slides for more awesomeness!
"Distributed Garbage Collection"
Alex Snaps described some crazy aspects of caching in clusters. It's not as easy as you think. He also talked about some of his crazy stunts, such as having a 320GB permGen size in a JVM (using BigMemory). After coming up with the most interesting buzzword of the day ("Distributed garbage collection"), he talked about his company's new product, "Terracotta Toolkit". It provides clustering that is transparent to application and programming model ("If you know the Java memory model, you know Terracotta"). The solution is able to handle data in the range of hundreds of GB's by propagating only deltas to other servers in the cluster.
Vaadin – Doe you know it?
Do you know the Finnish word for "doe" (as in female reindeer)? We didn't know either, until we realized that this is one translation of the word "Vaadin", which is also a very cool tool for building rich web applications. Don't panic, this is not simply "yet another web framework"; Joonas Lehtinen showcasing it managed to blow away the whole audience of geeks in five minutes!
In technical terms, the framework runs atop the Google Web Toolkit and eliminates the remaining "web" parts from application code that GWT didn't erase. The nice cherry on top of it all is that Vaadin worked beautifully with JRebel. Check the slides for proof!
Faster-than-light messaging
John Davies from Incept 5 took us through the maze of standards and formats used in the financial services industry. The systems involved ranged from latency critical front-office systems that handle tens of thousands of messages per second to incredibly complex back-office systems where the value of each transaction is measured in billions of USD.
When integrating an array of complex systems, he didn't like the prospect of creating a huge unified "one-schema-to-rule-them-all", but decided to make it easy to convert a message from one format to another. Did he succeed? Check out Spring Integration.
Imagine this blog post was actually a giant SQL statement joining ten gazillion tables. That is the length of the statements some people have to write for a living. Peter Neubauner offered an alternative in graph DBs, such as Neo4j. Those databases excel at modeling relationships (who said relationships are hard?) and can also be fully normalized. His talk was perhaps the most technical of the day, and he even managed to do some data mining and graph traversal onstage. On a live system. With interesting results.
Container redeployment is a hack
The last two presentations were bordering on the dark side. First Jevgeni made sysadmins cry with hard data on how badly container redeployment works and how easy it is to make it come crashing down. He managed to do this in front of everyone with a tiny webapp by leaking just one object. It took only 14 redeploys for a trivial 2-class app to reach an OutOfMemoryError.
Imagine how much time do real world applications have which contain thousands of classes. He also explored common redeploying techniques used in production systems and demonstrated on stage how LiveRebel can remedy many of their shortcomings.
After Jevgeni showed there's a light in the end of the tunnel (which may or may not be the train) Martijn Verburg turned into a diabolical developer. He gave us many inspiring ideas on how to be really evil and excercise a next generation methodology – "mortgage-driven development". Sarcasm aside, he dispelled hype from around several buzzwords of the day and made many thought-provoking points. Did you realize that vi is often the most advanced text editor available on production systems? Thought not.
All-you-can-eat pizza
The day wrapped up with a reception that lasted into the early hours of Friday. Pizza and beer, two required mainstays of the Geek diet, were in order and the speakers were ready to unleash a different sort of character after a full day of Java in Estonia….
By now, all the geeks are back home, but the rebellion goes on. There is already some talk around the watercooler about how many attendees we'd like to see at GeekOut next year, and whether GeekOut will ever occur outside of Estonia….well, see you next year!
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It Don't Matter If you're Black Or White...or does it?
This photo of the HTC 8S has been generating a lot of comments on Reddit with most people throwing out the word "sexy" to describe it.
The question you may be wondering is what's the deal with the black and white? Is that some HTC thing? The answer is 'nope' as it is part of Windows Phone 8's "ease of access" settings, meaning you can do this on any new device you choose. (We erroneously reported this earlier as an added theme--that's close but not 100% accurate).
The "High Contrast" mode was first detailed by WPArea.de back in July when the first SDK initially leaked. In short, it allows you to go to an all "black and white" theme including white on black or vice versa. Obviously this is meant for people with visual impairments but evidently a lot of you are enthralled with its appearance—guess we can call it Metro extreme mode?
Ease of Access aka Ultra cool mode
The other screen shots show how you can adjust the font size for Phone, People, email, messaging and the lock screen and use a screen magnifier. The magnifier works by using a two-point double tap to engage and then you can pan with your fingers to zoom in or out. Finally, you can use speech assistance for speed dial, call forwarding and announcing caller ID.
So while Microsoft has gone ahead and given those with visual impairments a helping hand for using their OS, the rest of you can benefit by finally making your Windows Phone 8 device even more eye-catching. Everyone wins!
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STOCKTON – An 11-month-old Stockton girl who was allegedly abused by a foster parent has died as a result of her injuries, authorities said.
STOCKTON – An 11-month-old Stockton girl who was allegedly abused by a foster parent has died as a result of her injuries, authorities said.
Paul Teldeschi, 37, of Stockton is being held at San Joaquin County Jail on multiple child abuse charges and could face an added charge of homicide in connection with the girl's death, said Officer Joe Silva, a spokesman for the Stockton Police Department.
"I can confirm that the baby has died from her injuries," Silva said. "Detectives are waiting for the autopsy to determine the exact cause of death and what additional charges will be filed."
According to a search warrant affidavit, doctors and medical personnel who examined the baby believe she was the victim of a "clear-cut case of shaken baby syndrome." She was suffering from bleeding on the brain when she vomited and went into cardiac arrest March 30 at Teldeschi's home on Cleveland Street, the affidavit said.
The baby, identified in the affidavit as Prinsess, was transported to a local hospital before being airlifted to Oakland Children's Hospital. Doctors determined the girl was also suffering from 13 broken ribs, a broken clavicle and a traumatic spinal injury.
Teldeschi is currently charged with corporal injury to a child and infliction of great bodily injury, according to jail records. He is being held in lieu of $1.2 million bail.


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More on Cisco Internal WAAS Implementation
In this short follow-on to my last blog post, I wanted to provide a little more detail on Cisco's strategy, design and results for deploying WAN optimization as part of our Data Center/Virtualization and next generation remote office IT strategy.
At Cisco, we take an architectural approach to IT in solving business problems. This architectural approach has enabled us to address the opportunities and challenges provided by our broad corporate business mandates such as Globalization, Collaboration, Connected Real Estate and Service Management.
To that end, one point we want to clarify to our followers is the total business savings forecasted across different IT cost centers. In my previous post, I shared that Cisco expects to save $850K over three years. That savings is *specifically* from hardware costs related to branch-based file servers and storage. A much larger % of our total "hard cost" savings will come from reduced bandwidth usage and expenses, as well as minimizing needed upgrades and other hardware costs at remote sites. That figure, which I should have added to my initial posting, and which we'll have in the case study update, is expected to be greater than $35M over 3 years.
Additionally, our expected "soft cost" savings from increased remote office worker productivity gains is conservatively expected to be greater than $50M over 3 years, due to faster application performance and the resulting productivity improvement for many thousands of employees.
Another important detail to note is that our WAAS deployment has followed Cisco's overall Data Center/Virtualization and next generation remote office architectures and deployment strategy, and as a result our WAAS deployment was expanded only after a significant Cisco data center redesign was complete, in order to fully leverage this consolidation project. As part of this architecture, WAAS has been deployed to date in 200+ remote sites and 4 data centers, with plans to continue deployment for a total of 300+ remote sites and 8-10 data centers in the next few quarters.
Note that many of the smaller Cisco offices have WAAS deployed within Cisco Integrated Services Routers (ISR), as WAAS integrates seamlessly into the network and the ISR capabilities offered such as integrated security and wireless LAN — resulting in increased efficiencies and improved capabilities.
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Two former Colorado governors, Democrat Roy Romer and Republican Bill Owens, have teamed up to fight oil-and-gas ballot measures that critics say would cripple Colorado's economy.
"We've got some of the toughest regulations and enforcement you'll find anywhere," Owens says, in a new campaign ad.
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Owens and Romer star in one of two ads that debuted Monday from Protect Colorado, the issue committee formed to fight the ballot measures, which deal with setbacks, local control and other issues surrounding fracking and drilling.
"We believe these ads will resonate with Coloradans because they show political leaders reaching across the aisle to find pragmatic, workable solutions, as well as business and civic leaders who understand the crucial role oil and natural gas plays in driving our economy," said Karen Crummy, spokeswoman for Protect Colorado.