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Inflammation is a key component of immune responses to infection, but when uncontrolled can lead to autoimmune diseases like Crohn's disease, rheumatoid arthritis, type I diabetes, ankylosing spondylitis, lupus, psoriasis and multiple sclerosis. In these diseases inflammation is mediated by molecules of the immune system called cytokines and cells that respond to these cytokines called T cells. Autophagy is an ubiquitous process whereby cells degrade their own internal components, either to release valuable nutrients in times of starvation, or to remove damaged or noxious intracellular components. The work by Dr Harris and colleagues showed that autophagy also control release of the inflammatory cytokines and cells that have been implicated in the pathology of autoimmune diseases. The findings suggest that autophagy represents a potent target for new anti-inflammatory therapies, which could be beneficial in a range of autoimmune disorders. The group, in combination with Professor Kingston Mills, now hopes to apply these findings to specific models of autoimmune disease. The work is funded by Science Foundation Ireland as part of a Strategic Research Cluster (SRC) award based in The Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute. "Autophagy is a common cellular process that is important for the maintenance of normal cell functions. Our work has shown that this process is important in the control of inflammation and, as such, could represent a particularly efficacious target for new drugs against inflammatory conditions. There are over 80 different autoimmune diseases, most of which are chronic and debilitating and can be difficult and expensive to treat. Any research which helps us to better understand the underlying mechanisms behind the control of inflammation will ultimately lead to better treatments," explained Dr James Harris.
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You may think you've experienced a planned community in which every last detail was carefully designed by lab-coated scientists in 1956 to elicit Maximum Upscale Suburban Ennui in its residents, but only Irvine, California, gets it down perfectly. Well, almost perfectly, because Al Frente has spotted these street-parked relics shattering Irvine's soothing vehicular harmony of BMWs and Tahoes. We've got an original-looking '59 Edsel Ranger, a mid-60s forward-control Chevy G-series van, and a '68 or '69 GMC pickup in L.A. School District colors. Make the jump to see all the photos and read what Al Frente has to say about these vehicles.
This car parks in Irvine, CA. I don't think it's a daily driver, but it does move a bit. The pink paint is very faded, but Also, here's a cute little Chevy van and the GMC Suburban-type that I mentioned. The GMC is my favorite, especially with its LAUSD vintage. These are both in the Irvine Groves neighborhood. The GMC always parks at the front and the Chevy is always on the east side at the back.


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Part of Speech: Adverb
Meaning: From that point on.
Notes: We don't often use the 'there-' words but they are there to be used. We tend to get stuck on thereby, therefore and maybe thereof in legal documents. But several other prepositions have a corresponding adverb preceded by there: thereto, thereafter, thereupon, thereunder. Only one has the adverbial -s: thereabouts.
In Play: The basic sense of this word is directional; "There has been a fish kill in Lake Meade, and all streams flowing therefrom are deemed polluted." However, that direction may be concrete or abstract; "If her basic assumption is false, all deductions therefrom are false."
Word History: Today's Good Word was originally a compound: there + from. Now, there comes from a pre-Germanic pronoun to, related to Russian to "that" plus an adverbial suffix -r, seen also in where. This word is also related to German da "there". It originally meant "forward", as seen in a variant, fro, as in "to and fro". (We are grateful today to Dan Joseph for the suggestion. I have suffered a stroke but am happily recovering therefrom.)
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What do you need to know to thrive in the future? Thomas Frey, Senior Futurist at the DaVinci Institute, has listed eight critical skills for the future that he believes should be part of the education of young people. Adults could benefit from these skills as well. The skills in Frey's list are:
- Communication Management
- Reputation Management
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- Opportunity Management
- Technology Management
- Relationship Management
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in addition to the eight new critical skills listed above, Frey says that there are "two traditional skills that need to be radically updated to match the needs of today's world." These are time management and money management.
The above list is not meant to be all-inclusive for what is needed in the future of learning. But read the descriptions of each of the above skills and you will see that we all need to shift our thinking about almost all aspects of your lives.
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Architect David Skyles and representatives of groups that frequently use Earl Brown Park, such as the DeLand Outdoor Art Festival and DeLand Garden Club, met Wednesday to make sure the planned $2.25 million renovation to the park accommodates their uses.
DELAND — A group of stakeholders met for the second and final time to discuss proposed upgrades to Earl Brown Park before sending the plans off to the City Commission for consideration in two weeks.
The meeting was similar to one held Jan. 9 and included architect David Skyles and representatives of groups that frequently use the park, such as the DeLand Outdoor Art Festival and DeLand Garden Club, to make sure the planned $2.25 million renovation to the park accommodates their uses.
Also present was DeLand City Engineer Keith Riger, who missed the previous meeting due to illness.
The proposed upgrades include a new Sanborn Activity Center, a new concession and restroom building and a new amphitheater, along with landscape improvements around each.
Although the group was largely satisfied with the project at the first meeting, they gave Skyles and his team some minor feedback. As a result, he presented a tweaked but similar plan Wednesday night.
The orientation of the building changed, to make sure the main ballroom has a view of the park's lake. It previously had a view of the parking lot. The ballroom got a larger dance floor. A computer room was removed and replaced with a long desk along a wall with computers on it.
The changes were relatively minor, and much of Wednesday night's meeting focused on details, such as the color of walls in the bathrooms might be, or what material would be used for the dance floor.
But each change was important to someone, so the group wasted no time fleshing out the plans for the project.
At this time, the project calls for a new 16,400-square-foot Sanborn Activity Center, with two ballrooms, the smaller of which can be split into three activity rooms. It includes a new amphitheater overlooking the park's lake. The plans for the amphitheater previously called for a ground-level stage and terraced seating, which was reversed to a raised stage and a large, flat, green space in front of it for seating. A new restroom and concessions building will be built, too. Riger expressed the city's desire to get the project built quickly, while costs for construction and financing are still relatively low. Much of the project was planned in the aftermath of the real estate crash, when construction costs were very low.
"It's a tight budget," he said. "The costs were developed at the absolute bottom point for construction costs, and construction costs are pretty rapidly escalating now due to the recovery and the fact that people are starting to build again."
Linda Colvard Dorian, granddaughter of Earl Brown, the former DeLand mayor for whom the park is named, was in attendance.
"I think he would be absolutely thrilled to see the park that was named for him, that it's going to be made even better for the residents of DeLand and the surrounding communities."
Next, the plans will go to the City Commission, which holds a workshop at the Sanborn Activity Center on Feb. 11 at 6 p.m. to consider the park upgrades.


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text: Background: Pemphigus vulgaris (PV) and pemphigus foliaceus (PF) are potentially fatal blistering diseases caused by autoantibodies targeting desmoglein adhesion proteins. Previous studies have shown an IgG4>IgG1 predominance of anti-desmoglein antibodies in pemphigus; however, no studies have examined total serum IgG4 levels in pemphigus. IgG4 is induced by chronic antigen stimulation, which could occur with persistent skin blistering and potentially elevate the total serum IgG4 relative to other IgG subclasses in pemphigus patients. Objectives: The primary aim of the study was to quantitate total and desmoglein-specific IgG subclasses in pemphigus patients. Methods: IgG subclasses and desmoglein-specific IgG1 and IgG4 were quantitated in PV, PF, and age-matched normal sera using a subclass ELISA. The effectiveness of IgG4 depletion in blocking PV IgG pathogenicity was determined using a keratinocyte dissociation assay. Results: Desmoglein-specific antibodies comprised a median of 7.1% and 4.2% of total IgG4 in PV and PF patients, with 8-fold and 4-fold enrichment in IgG4 versus IgG1. Total serum IgG4, but not other IgG subclasses, was enriched in PV and PF patients compared to age-matched controls (p=0.004 and p=0.005, respectively). IgG4 depletion of PV sera reduced pathogenicity in a keratinocyte dissociation assay and showed that affinity-purified IgG4 is more pathogenic than other serum IgG fractions. Conclusions: Desmoglein-specific autoantibodies are significantly enriched in IgG4, which may explain the enrichment of total serum IgG4 in some pemphigus patients. By preferentially targeting autoimmune rather than beneficial immune antibodies, IgG4-targeted therapies may offer safer treatment options for pemphigus.


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Scarlett Johansson is an undeniable global superstar.
With dozens of films, and even a couple albums, under her belt, the 25-year-old Hollywood bombshell is certainly not lacking in exposure.
VIEW THE PHOTOS: Angelina! Cameron! Jen! Leading Ladies Of The Big Screen
But unlike many of the starlets her age, Scarlett has largely managed to prevent herself from becoming a tabloid mainstay. So what's her secret?
"By not talking about my personal life!" she said in the new issue of Glamour magazine, which hits newsstands on October 6. "I think that makes a big difference. I go to work, I make movies, I publicize them. I hope people enjoy them. I'm not a relationship expert. I'm not a diet and health expert. I don't know anything except for movies, other than some Trivial Pursuit kind of information."
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And while she admits she's no "relationship expert," she has certainly figured out how to make her own work, as she is loving life with husband Ryan Reynolds, whom she married in Vancouver, British Columbia on September 27, 2008.
Although the couple is preparing to celebrate their first anniversary as husband and wife, the "Iron Man 2" star said she's still getting used to the idea of people wanting to know about their wedded bliss.
"Yeah, it is weird, because I would never ask somebody about their marriage if I didn't know them. I don't profess to know anything about marriage that anybody else doesn't know, or how to make it right. I don't want to read about somebody who's giving me relationship advice. So I try to keep some things for myself, to have a private life. Because that's kind of all you have, really, isn't it?" she continued. "When it comes down to what separates you from the next person. You don't go to work and talk about your marriage. Why should I?"
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But one topic Scarlett has no problem speaking out about is Hollywood's obsession with body image – a topic which she recently covered in an essay for The Huffington Post, where she lashed out at the tabloids for suggesting she had undergone an extreme regimen to get in shape for her "Iron Man 2" role.
"I was training for 'Iron Man 2,' which was a lot of work, full-on. I wanted to do a lot of my stunts and to be believable as this superspy, so I started getting fit and eating well and feeling really good," she told Glamour. "But then there was this rumor mill cranking out stories that I had lost 14 pounds — I could never lose 14 pounds — and was on some miracle diet. I just thought it was ridiculous. I was working my a** off, but I was doing it on my own terms and certainly through no miracle diet.
"I don't want to get caught up in that s**t…. I hate seeing these ridiculous articles where [tabloids] guess someone's weight. But they approach it as fact! I'm sick of it as a woman — not just as a person on the other side of it. As a reader. I got fed up," she revealed. "I don't feel the obligation to be a specific weight. I don't feel like I have to fit into a body that's not my body. I have the body I have and I try to maintain it."
Never is Scarlett's comfort in her own skin more evident than when she lights up a red carpet. However, she admitted posing for the press is not something she enjoys doing to this day.
"I have a tumultuous relationship with it because I love to get ready for the red carpet, but being on it is very uncomfortable," she said. "It's so freakish and weird. I get flop sweats, dry mouth, heart palpitations, all over panic! I did this movie with John Travolta, and every time I looked over at John on the red carpet, he looked so fabulous. So I said to him, 'What do you do?' And he said, 'I go to Hawaii in my mind.'"
But is that advice the actress has put into play?
"I try to, but all I can see is a dark tunnel with a little white light at the end of it. And the little white light is finally getting into the theater and watching a movie," she noted.
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There are many sound reasons why environmental issues should be considered in the design and product development process. They help us meet customer and legislative requirements. They put us in a stronger competitive and commercial position. They play a major part in ensuring we maintain innovative credibility. But most of all, they help us achieve our ambition of reducing the overall environmental impact of our products across their lifecycle. For these reasons, SKF works proactively to ensure that this approach is integrated into product development at every level.
Supported by design guidelines and tools for environmental assessment, a development process that takes us all the way from scoping through to validation and hand-over has been devised. Within this framework, key issues including weight, recyclability, legislative requirements and much more are considered. From this process, concepts can be defined and then chosen to reflect environmental targets before design optimisation work starts.


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Okami HD should be moved to the top of that list. I'm serious.
I had no such luck, especially wind controls were totally boinked. I tried to grow a tree, and it always made a wind gust... AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN. That, the gimped nunchuck moves, and the transparent text boxes just took the fun out of it, and moved the Wii version from definitive to aggravating. The 16:9 and antialiasing were a nice improvement, but it just wasn't fun.Can't wait for the PS3 version, but I'm going to look for it on disc, as my internet connection is painfully slow.


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Today the DT is focusing on Wedding cards using this set. My first card uses the couple silhouette and I thought it would be perfect inside the larger frame from Simply Silhouettes from last month.
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Wilson Designs: Release Day 1
Today the DT is focusing on Wedding cards using this set. My first card uses the couple silhouette and I thought it would be perfect inside the larger frame from Simply Silhouettes from last month.
24 comments:
- Christina said...
Gorgeous clean cards, Amy! I love lots of fresh white cardstock, and I'm sure Silke will be proud! The couple silhouette is darling and looks fantastic with the embossed background. And I'll have to check out the watercolor crayons. That's a new technique to me and it looks amazing!
- February 8, 2011 at 11:07 AM
- Renee said...
Amy, both of these cards are GORGEOUS!
I love the white on white!
2 perfect cards.
- February 8, 2011 at 12:10 PM
- Lee Anne said...
I love both of these cards! The flowers are beautiful on the second one and your bow is perfect on the first! Just beautiful today!
- February 8, 2011 at 12:23 PM
- Sara Mac said...
Beautiful cards Amy! The second one is my favorite. Love the color choice and layout.
- February 8, 2011 at 3:26 PM
- Suzanne said...
They are both gorgeous, Amy! I love the heart edge and your flowers are stamped so perfectly! And you tie the best bows EVER.
- February 8, 2011 at 4:14 PM
- Lindsay said...
These are lovely Amy! I don't know why I have such a hard time with classy and elegant wedding cards! You, however make them top notch! Awesome work Amy!
- February 8, 2011 at 4:42 PM
- Karen B. said...
Your cards are just beautiful.
- February 8, 2011 at 5:12 PM
- Anne Marie Hile said...
Amy, these are both gorgeous! I love the clean design and that aqua color instantly makes me think of Tiffany's. :) You cut that tag free hand, too...wowza! I'm impressed! Awesome job with both cards! :)
- February 8, 2011 at 5:16 PM
- Eva said...
I really like the embossing folder in the first one and you are right the font is just so pretty. Water color crayons...forgot all about them!
- February 8, 2011 at 5:24 PM
- Jen Carter said...
You are so good with elegant cards!! Both of these are fabulous!! Love how you kept the focus on the first one by keeping it simple but yet still having so many cute elements! LOVE the watercoloring on the 2nd one! I tried this a few months back but wasn't crazy about the results. You make me want to try it again! SOOOO pretty!
- February 8, 2011 at 5:30 PM
- Jennifer Rzasa said...
Such sweet cards, and a great use of the stamps!
- February 8, 2011 at 6:09 PM
- Anika said...
Love the black and white with the pops of color on both of these, Amy! They look great!
- February 8, 2011 at 8:27 PM
- Emily Keaton said...
Wow, Amy, these cards are amazing! The silhouettes are just fantastic, and you are so right about the beauty of the sentiments. I'm lovin' what I'm seein'!
- February 8, 2011 at 9:12 PM
- Diane Jaquay said...
Wow Amy, two really beautiful cards here! That silhouette is perfect on your elegant wedding card, and I love the flowers and heart border on the other card! Beautiful work as always!
- February 8, 2011 at 9:23 PM
- Unknown said...
Both are gorgeous, but I really love the top one. Such great texture and I love the colors!
- February 8, 2011 at 9:40 PM
- Terri said...
They are both beautiful. I especially like the colors on the first one. I am always saying I need to make something with turquoise and black. Definitely have to do that now.
- February 8, 2011 at 10:06 PM
- ~Tammy~ said...
Amy, you are the queen of elegance! What a fabulous reminder on the crayons! (well in a few months) The roses came out beautiful with that technique! I think you and I had turquoise on the brain! :-)
- February 8, 2011 at 10:18 PM
- Colleen Dietrich said...
Amy, I like both of your cards. You hand-cut that little tag? It looks like a die-cut! Awesome job. ANd I love the frame from one set paired with the silhouettes from another. Your embossing folder is great, too. And thanks for giving us a link to Silke's blog. SHe does do amazing things, but then....so do you!
- February 9, 2011 at 9:25 AM
- Kristin said...
BOth of these cards are so beautiful, but you're right, the watercolor crayons on the rose stamp is to DIE for! I can't wait to see the whole set!
- February 9, 2011 at 12:11 PM
- Amber Sheaves said...
I like that watercolor crayon technique. I definitley want to try it!
- February 9, 2011 at 1:17 PM
- Tenia Nelson said...
Gorgeous Cards!!!!!
- February 9, 2011 at 3:00 PM
- Laurie said...
Both cards are WOW! I love the splash of color with that adorable bow on the first! And the white on white of the second one is gorgeous! Love them both!!
- February 9, 2011 at 10:34 PM
- Kristin said...
Gorgeous! I love all of them. I think I need this stamp set! LoL
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- February 10, 2011 at 9:53 AM
- Paper Crafts & Scrapbooking Editor said...
Hey Amy! Thanks for entering the Appearance of Cameos challenge in the Moxie Fab World! I'm so glad you joined in on all the fun! :)
- February 15, 2011 at 8:11 AM


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Engaging Faith-Based Orgs in the Elimination of VAWG
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In efforts to eliminate violence against women and girls, the Fiji Women's Crisis Centre is engaging the churches to try and ensure greater dissemination of its messages. Approximately 30 pastors, priests, pundits and Imams will gather in Nadi for a two-day awareness workshop to help them better understand the issue of violence against women and girls.
"Since the International Day of Protest Against Violence Against Women falls on Sunday 25 November, we thought it was an opportune time for churches to pass out messages to their congregation about the issues concerned," said Shamima Ali, facilitator of the training. Now, the training has been broadened to include various faith-based organisations so that they can also put out proactive messages during the campaign period.
A preliminary meeting was arranged in Nadi last week and approximately 25 religious leaders from the area turned up to find out more about how they could be engaged. "When the meeting was called by the Nadi Elimination of Violence Against Women committee, we thought that perhaps up to 10 people would show but we were taken aback when around 25 people turned up at such short notice," said Ali. Ali says that this is a clear indication that faith-based organisations understand the need to work proactively in efforts to prevent violence against women and girls.
"We are very much aware that faith-based organisations have the greatest outreach and people look to them for direction so it is important that they have a good understanding of the issue of violence against women and girls and pass on messages which are empowering for women," said Ali.
According to the FWCC, very often faith-based organisations are the first point of contact for victim/ survivors and the response they receive is critical in determining the course of action they will take. "Very often women are told to forgive and forget but how often do they have to do this and at what cost to themselves and their children who witness the violence? In addition, in cases of sexual assault when families report the matter, they are often alienated by members of their religious community putting pressure on them to drop charges and not pursue a case. This is the type of attitude which needs to change," said Ali.
Ali says that as a part of the workshop, these religious leaders will be expected to examine their own religious interpretations and see how key messages can be used in the prevention of violence against women.
The workshop is being co-organised by the Nadi Women's Crisis Centre and the Nadi Elimination of VAWG Committee which is made up of key stakeholders and will be held at the Novotel Hotel Orchid Room 2 in Nadi.


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Russian president Vladimir Putin's admiration for Donald Trump is rivaled by his passionate hate for Hillary Clinton, adding credence to the accusations that Russia is behind the damaging Democratic Party email leaks, former U.S. officials and experts told NBC News.
Putin carries a grudge against Clinton because she has publicly compared him to Hitler and expressed doubts that he has a soul.
Michael McFaul, the U.S. ambassador to Russia from early 2012 to 2014 said Putin "sees some of Clinton's remarks as a personal attack against him and the way he governs his country and how he conducts his foreign policy."
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Jessica Alba turned 33 in style on Friday night (09May14) when she headed to Las Vegas for a party.
Alba was joined by husband Cash Warren and a group of pals at the Hakkasan restaurant, where they feasted on gluten-free treats and cocktails.
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"The birthday girl jumped out of her seat to get a closer look at the cake and was joined by (Cash) as they posed for pictures".
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Cut the sponges into half each and stack them with cream fillings. Chilled before serve.
Indeed the sponges cakes look so soft like they will melt in the mouth !!ReplyDelete
Hi Reese,
This looks so yummy!
Can I use whipping cream instead of double cream?
Hahaha, yes getting hard working now which is good! I like! Love to see more posts from u. ;) the sponge looks super soft and I bet it's super yum with mango and yoghurt cream!ReplyDelete
Thank you!
Hi, yes, you can always replace it with normal whipping cream.
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Yeah...I'm hard working now!! But all in small portion, no eaters here..;p
Good to see you back to baking :) Love this layered chocolate mango yogurt sponge cake....wish I was just next door to you :)ReplyDelete
Wow! Those layers look so pretty and the cakes look super fluffy and moist!! Yummy!! (:ReplyDelete
This is good very good indeed. Just visited Wendy site, she also baking layers cake...wow you gals are fantanstic...hope to be your neighbour.ReplyDelete
Hi morning, may I know what is double cream?
Hi soh,
Double cream is actually akind of whipping cream. You can have a clear answer here....
Hi thank you for your reply, let me know what brand you are using?ReplyDelete
Hi soh,
The brand I've used is President. Actually there is no particular brand, You can use any brand that you can find.
Wow! These looks delicious & lovely! Great combination of flavors & very interesting using mango yogurt!ReplyDelete
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Culture- ART FEATURE- Saved! New footage splices up festival
In the old days, film festivals offered the opportunity to view documentaries and short films that otherwise would not flicker across the big screen. But ever since Fahrenheit 9/11 and March of the Penguins moved documentaries into the mainstream, experimental shorts have received ever-shorter shrift.
In fact, this year's Virginia Film Festival offers only one program of shorts, the Black Maria Film Festival (yep, a festival within a festival!), scheduled for the last slot of the last day at Vinegar Hill. Curated by Black Maria director and founder John Columbus, who will be on hand, these independent films range from non-narrative to animated to documentary, all falling under the festival rubric "Revelations."
Three of the most interesting works involve assemblages of found footage. Jay Rosenblatt's 18-minute King of the Jews (2000) and 3-minute Prayer (2002) combine snippets of home movies, Hollywood productions, newsreels, and educational filmstrips in an exploration of faith, fear, and the paradox of religious contribution to human suffering. In King of the Jews, Rosenblatt shifts from an amusing memoir of his shocking childhood discovery that Jesus was a Jew to a moving cinematic elegy addressing the irony of Jewish persecution by Christians.
Rosenblatt's Prayer, created in response to 9/11, is subtler yet equally powerful. Accompanied by music of Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, the film opens with footage of Muslims bowing in prayer then moves to close-ups of 1950s-era children, eyes shut and palms together. Rosenblatt strings together images capturing the physical movement of prayer until the last series of frames– which jar the viewer with the sudden realization that, rather than prayer, the clip shows a classic 1950s duck-and-cover rehearsal.
More enigmatic but stunningly beautiful is Bill Morrison's 11-minute How to Pray (2005), which the filmmaker crafted from decaying footage to accompany musician David Lang's rhythmic and mournful composition of the same name.
Through the black-and-white film's scratches and chemical blotches, icebergs emerge as the camera bobs with the waves rolling beneath an unseen ship. The enormity of the white ice– sometimes smooth, sometimes jagged– becomes clear when an occasional bird flies through the frame. As the music builds, darkness and the film's own decomposition combine to obscure the icebergs, leaving the viewer filled with dread and awe until a few seconds of light-filled resolution.
So say "Hallelujah!" for the chance to see what's been saved on Sunday (and remember– size doesn't matter).
The Black Maria Film Festival program with director and founder John Columbus takes place at 4pm on October 28 at Vinegar Hill Theatre. Tickets: $6. 220 W. Market St. 977-4911.


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TORONTO — Postmedia Chair Rod Phillips announced plans Thursday to seek the Progressive Conservative nomination in the new riding of Ajax.
Should he win the nomination, Phillips would be yet another high-profile, star candidate for party leader Patrick Brown, who's already brought Caroline Mulroney on board to run in the riding of York-Simcoe.
In a statement Thursday, Phillips said that he looks forward to being part of the Ontario PC team and its "positive, inclusive and responsible vision" for the province under Brown's leadership.
A key focus would be on improving the commute for Ajax residents, he said.
"Ajax has been left behind by Premier (Kathleen) Wynne and her government," Phillips said. "High electricity costs are a burden on families and businesses and discourage new investments from being made here. Commuters are spending more and more time trying to get to and from their jobs and that means less time with family."
Provincial parties at Queen's Park are currently pulling together their teams for what promises to be a hard-fought and contentious election campaign following 14 years of Liberal rule.
Although it's early days, polling shows Brown's PC's out in front of Kathleen Wynne's Liberals.
Ridings such as Ajax will be critical to electoral success in next June's provincial election because the party that has claimed the suburbs around Toronto in the past has gone on to form the government.
Phillips would bring a wealth of political, government and business experience to Brown's PC team.
He served as the chief of staff to former Toronto mayor Mel Lastman and in the same role to former PC labour minister Elizabeth Witmer. He was president and CEO of the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. and president and CEO of workplace health and productivity giant Shepell.fgi, now Morneau Shepell.
In addition, Phillips is currently chair of CivicAction Toronto, which brings together business and community leaders to address challenges facing the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA), Global Head of Afiniti, an international artificial intelligence company, and chair of the Telus Toronto Community Board.
He also sits on the board of the Toronto International Film Festival.
Phillips is most recently best known as chair of Postmedia, the largest chain of newspapers and digital media products in the country, including the Toronto Sun and the National Post.


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Guess what, I'mmmmmmm baaccccck. Just in time to wish each and every one of you the merriest of New Years.
Slurp some champagne for me.
Slurp some champagne for me.
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UK's Ed Sheeran drops debut, writes with One Direction, Swift
NEW YORK - Ed Sheeran never wanted to be in a boy band, but when he wrote a song called "Moments" when he was 15, he knew it would someday be a perfect song for a male group.
Luckily for Sheeran, his friends - the English pop quintet One Direction - needed a song, and asked the breakthrough singer to send something their way.
"It was always a song that I always intended for a boy band. I was like, 'This is my boy band song, but I'm never going to sing it,' " Sheeran, now 21, recalled. "I just held on to it for a long period of time."
"Moments," a pop ballad, made its way to One Direction's platinum-selling debut album, "Up All Night," released in March, as a bonus track.
He's teaming up again with One Direction for the group's sophomore album, and recently wrote and recorded songs with Taylor Swift for her upcoming fourth album, "Red." He was tight-lipped about the collaboration, but said the experience was a "breath of fresh air" because of Swift's colossal success.
"As a person, Taylor's such a sweetheart," he said in a recent interview. "(She's) the perfect example of what musicians should be and how they should work and react. She just loves music and she's not in it for anything else."
English-born Sheeran says he has more than 100 tracks dedicated to other acts. But he isn't just providing tunes for others; he's busy promoting his own songs.
His debut album, "+," has sold more than 1 million units in the United Kingdom since its release last September. It was released in the United States in June, where it debuted at No. 5 on Billboard's Top 200 albums chart.
He describes his sound as a mix of "folk, acoustic, hip-hop, soul, everything." His influences range from Damien Rice to James Morrison to Jay-Z.
"I started rapping probably before I started singing," said Sheeran, who will kick off the "VH1 You Oughta Know Tour With Ed Sheeran" on Sept. 8 in Orlando, Fla. "I was really into Eminem when ... 'The Slim Shady LP' came out. ... I wasn't allowed to have it 'cause he swears a lot."
Sheeran performed during the closing ceremony at the Olympics and was one of the acts to take the stage at the Queen's Diamond Jubilee concert in June.
When he was shopping for a record deal, the red-haired singer said he was told to switch his style to sound like James Blunt, who had just topped the charts with the smash "You're Beautiful."
"They didn't want to hear songs about homeless prostitutes," Sheeran said, referring to his debut single and Top 5 U.K. hit, "The A Team."
"To have that (success) on a song that I was told wouldn't even be played on radio, it's quite nuts," he added.
His tour wraps Oct. 6 in Seattle.


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Every day, post what you are doing
while waiting to see if YOU create the 2 millionth post
Blab is closing in on 2 million posts !!!!!
So I figured out a way to identify WHO made the 2 millionth post, once it's been done.
Since that person could be making their first post, or could have racked up tens of thousands of posts, we will also want to recognize the member who has the most posts at the same moment the 2 million'th is identified.
> Makes the 2 millionth post on Blab<
(see bottom or main forum page for Statistics)
will be awarded a
Lifetime Blabber Membership
(paid access & privileges for life)
and a
Blab slingbag & mousepad
Something Cool for their signature showing their
Great Status & Regard on Blab
(use is voluntary)
if it happens before the Blab t-shirt order is closed
we'll throw in a free Blab t-shirt of their choice
(but - at this time I don't think it will be in time to make the cut-off for personal selections)
There will be a Free Playday on Blab
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Posted by Roger williams on December 05, 2000
In Reply to: Found it! Ho, ho, ho. posted by ESC on December 22, 1999
: : Does anyone know who originated the Christmas card and when did it come into common use. I suspect that it was sometime in the last century (1800s) for all sorts of good reasons such as the invention of cheap mail systems and stamps etc.
: This doesn't say if this custom began in the U.S., but I'm guessing it was. Does anyone know otherwise? "The tradition of sending Christmas cards originated in the mid-1800's when a few people began to design handmade cards to send to family and friends. A man named John Calcott Horsely is credited as being the first to actually print Christmas cards. The card depicted a family enjoying the holiday, with scenes of people performing acts of charity. The card was inscribed:"Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year to You"
: This comes from a very nice site http://www.picklejar.com/traditions.htm that has origins of other Christmas traditions.
: And while I was looking, I also found a site that tells the real meaning behind the song "Twelves Days of Christmas." http://www-personal.si.umich.edu/~rlm/twelvedays.html
: And a Merry Christmas to all you guys from here in snowless Kentucky.


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Write XML to file
I wanted to create an XML file. The file was simple but I wanted to avoid producing it with "print" commands. Which API should be used for this purpose? The produced XML should be human readable, i.e. pretty printed (indented).
This post is based on the thread Best XML writing tool for Python.
(1) elementtree.SimpleXMLWriter (no indenting)
The SimpleXMLWriter module contains a simple helper class for applications that need to generate well-formed XML data. The interface is very simple:
#!/usr/bin/env python from elementtree.SimpleXMLWriter import XMLWriter import sys w = XMLWriter(sys.stdout) html = w.start("html") w.start("head") w.element("title", "my document") w.element("meta", name="generator", value="my application 1.0") w.end() w.start("body") w.element("h1", "this is a heading") w.element("p", "this is a paragraph") w.start("p") w.data("this is ") w.element("b", "bold") w.data(" and ") w.element("i", "italic") w.data(".") w.end("p") w.close(html)
However, the output is not indented and as I saw, this feature is missing :( Here is the output of the code above:
<title>my document</title><meta name="generator" value="my application 1.0" />
this is a heading

this is a paragraph

this is bold and italic.

If we prettify it, it will look like this:
<?xml version="1.0"?>   <title>my document</title> <meta name="generator" value="my application 1.0"/>
this is a heading

this is a paragraph

this is bold and italic.

You can install elementtree from PyPI.
(2) lxml.etree (can do indenting)
This is what I chose for my project. This API is also very easy to use and it can do indenting. Documentation is here.
#!/usr/bin/env python from lxml import etree as ET root = ET.Element('background') starttime = ET.SubElement(root, 'starttime') hour = ET.SubElement(starttime, 'hour') hour.text = '00' minute = ET.SubElement(starttime, 'minute') minute.text = '00' second = ET.SubElement(starttime, 'second') second.text = '01' print ET.tostring(root, pretty_print=True, xml_declaration=True) # write to file: # tree = ET.ElementTree(root) # tree.write('output.xml', pretty_print=True, xml_declaration=True)
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='ASCII'?> <background> <starttime> <hour>00</hour> <minute>00</minute> <second>01</second> </starttime> </background>
On PyPI, you can find lxml here. However, you will have to install some additional packages too:
sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev sudo apt-get install libxslt-dev # until Ubuntu 10.10: sudo apt-get install python2.6-dev # from Ubuntu 11.04: sudo apt-get install python2.7-dev # under Ubuntu 14.04 I needed this too: sudo apt-get install -y zlib1g-dev
Then, you can install the library with "
sudo pip install lxml".
- Best XML writing tool for Python @ SO (Here you can read about several other XML writing APIs.)
- Pretty printing XML in python @ SO
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Target Field scores LEED certification
The U.S. Green Building Council has awarded Target Field silver-level certification in Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design.
The Minnesota Twins say their LEED score of 36 points is the highest-ever for an outdoor baseball facility. Twins Spokesman Chris Iles said high-efficiency lighting, a special rainwater filter system, and recycled construction materials are some of the highlights of the Target Field project.
"We have a lot of recycled concrete here at Target Field. We have a lot of recycled steel. And there was a significant emphasis placed on using regional materials," he said.
The LEED rating system was designed to emphasize projects that have a reduced impact on the environment, are healthier for those who use the building, and are more profitable.


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Belgium: The Beer Trip of a Life Time
The article reviews Belgium as an educational trip abut beer. A place where you can sample endless styles, visit age old breweries and settle down at some of the best beer bars in the world. Its true. Its totally true. I have done quite a bit of travelling especially around Europe and even beer aside, Belgium stole my heart.
The article touches on the key places you should go in this tiny country. Of course, there are so many amazing places, the article couldn't mention all of them.
In de Vrede (Donkerstraat 13, Westvleteren; 32-57-40-03-77; indevrede.be)
Moeder Lambic (Place Fontainas 8, Brussels; 32-25-03-60-68)
Cantillon (Rue Gheude Straat 56, Brussels; 32-25-21-49-28; cantillon.be)
't Brugs Beerje (Kemelstraat 5, Bruges; 32-50-33-96-16; brugsbeertje.be)
De Dolle Brouwers (Roeselarestraat 12B, Esen; 32-51-50-27-81; dedollebrouwers.be)
Brouwershuis (Trappistenweg 23A, Watou; 32-57-38-88-60; brouwershuis.com)
We were fortunate enough to visit the top four places listed. De Dolle is one of my favorite breweries in Belgium and the 1998 Stille Nacht at the Kulminator (another amazing beer bar in Antwerp). Next time, that will be at the top of my list!
Other honorable mentions from our trip include:
Pater's Vaetje ( Blauwmoezelstraat 1, Antwerp, http://www.patersvaetje.be/)
Kulminator (Vleminckveld 32, Antwerp)
Eetcafé de Gans (Diephuisstraat 6 (zijstraat Korreweg, bij het Noorderbad),Groningen, http://www.degans.nl/index.php?page=contact-locatie)
Brasserie Thiriez (22 rue de Wormhout, Esquelbecq, France) Although not in Belgium, it is a mere 4 miles from the boarder of Belgium and if you are in West Flanders, it is worth the trip!
For the full NY Times article, click here.


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Exploring the Natural Side of Bordeaux
Even the most casual enthusiasts recognize Bordeaux's significance as one of the world's premier wine regions: its storied Châteaux have become the stuff of legend, epitomizing the heights of Old-World elegance. But with top wines easily fetching thousands of dollars, it's understandable why the region has increasingly lost cachet among a younger generation of drinkers.
In certain circles, it's hip to gush over lesser-known, value-driven zones of production, such as the Loire or Jura. And for those of us whose taste developed alongside the popularization of "natural wine"—those earthy, soulful bottles produced in miniscule quantities with as little chemical or technological intervention as possible—drinking Bordeaux might seem a bit "square" or unfashionable, like wearing a Dave Matthews T-shirt to some obscure indie-rock show.
With this in mind, I was more than intrigued when the Bordeaux Wine Council invited me on a recent press trip to explore a different side of the region, far removed from its aristocratic stereotypes. With a special focus on exploring the area's unsung natural growers—from a handful of larger properties that only recently shifted gears to the tiny family estates dotting the banks of the Garonne and Dordogne rivers—I discovered an alternative Bordeaux, one deeply entrenched in tradition while constantly looking toward the future. Here's a brief glimpse of what I encountered along the way.
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Call of Duty: World at War completely changes the rules of engagement by redefining WWII gaming and thrusting players into the final tension-filled, unforgiving battles against a new ferocious enemy in the most dangerous and suspenseful action ever seen in WWII.
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i am the tank
Go, go Sherman!!!!
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The following is a non-profit Fanmade series. Kinnikuman, M.U.S.C.L.E., He-Man, Mega Man, Street Fighter, and Aliens are all owned by Yudetamango, Shueisha, NTV, Toei, Mattel, Capcom, and 20th Century Fox. Everything else is owned by their respective owners. This should not be sold what so ever. If you bought this then you have been scammed and should demand your money back immediately.
Note before we begin: Starting my collection and (starting with Super7 M.U.S.C.L.E. figures) I will write an anthology of hair-brained, melodramatic, off the wall crossover Fan fiction about the heroes and villains immortalized in Kinkeshi Figurines. (Or whatever Keshi or Keshi-like figurines you want. Heck, if you want any Toyline, Video Game, Animation, Comic or Tokusatsu to be immortalized in this fic then please, be my guest and call for it.) I will leave you with the starting episode so let's get going.
P.S. This is my first Fanfiction on this site. Please critique as it will allow me to improve.
M.U.S.C.L.E. Men Xross-over Intro Chapter: Our heroes and villains
Meet Kinnikuman, an bumbling dolt who is fighting to defend the earth and the universe in a fight for his legacy. Now meet He-Man, defender of Enternia who is clever, strong and brave, fighting against Skeletor who wants to conquer Enternia. Meet Mega Man as well, a courageous yet naive robot modeled after a youth who fights against Dr. Wily to save the world. Now Meet Ryu, a man who wishes to fight across the world for fun and to be the strongest. Now meet Dallas, a man who must fight against evil creatures such as the Alien, a creature who is aggressively evil.
What do all of these characters have in common? These heroes are immortalized in what is dubbed "Keshi Figurines." When Villains Attack, our heroes fight them in order to defend their worlds.
But when their worlds intersect, so would their battles. But they don't. Why? The "Aces of The Gods" maintain harmony and balance in the worlds. Sorry folks. This apparently can't last. One day, Skeletor steals his world's Ace of the Gods and starts making large scale attacks across the worlds. M. Bison and Dr. Wily notes Skeletor's forces and decide to join him on his conquest. The Queen of the Alien Hive also stole the Ace of the Gods in their world and they are now infesting other worlds with their malicious intent to kill and spread their influence. The worlds lose their natural stability and meld with their universes in essentially a melding of worlds.
Troublesome isn't it? and untidy too.
In the worlds continual downward spiral to chaos, strange phenomena begins to occur. Freaks and hostile characters appear, conquering every world they can find. The people defintely need heroes to save them now! Dont'cha think? Kinnikuman enters the ring in the battle against evil!
"What? Me?! How am I supposed to set things right when those creepazoid armies are getting stronger by the minute?! I... Think I left something back in my home base." Don't weasel your way out of this one Muscleman. You must gather together Heroes in order to capture the Aces of The Gods back from the villains hands. Don't forget to defend your Ace of the Gods from their prying grasp.
"I have an Ace to defend?" Yes. In fact, your universe have entrusted you their Ace of the Gods for safe keeping. DO NOT SCREW THIS UP! In fact, Meat will be your assistant who will remind you of the tasks needed to be done. "Don't I always?" You have a point Meat, and the experience as well.
"A glorified game of Capture the Flag... Let's defend the worlds!"
Chapter 1: Kinnikuman VS Skeletor's Forces: First Encounter
"Greetings Musclehead! I, the fiendish Skeletor, will make this world a wasteland!" Old bonehead (Not Kinkotsuman. I think that's his name) have taken over the air waves. "Expect my forces to take down your Muscle League!" With a laugh he continues "Anyways, I am so confident in my conquest that I am going to tell you how I will take over!" Meanwhile, the Enternian defender catches wind of Skeletor's plans. "If I know from the past 40 years of experience, it's that megalomaniacs will always leave themselves open to counterattacks." "...And then I will join OPEC! And with the Oil Tycoon in my hands, I will make so much money that I can fund my forces to continue to conquer other worlds!"
"You? You make Kinnikuman look like a brain surgeon." The father of Kinnikuman (Mayumi Kinniku) speaks up at the screen "You're too ignorant to even be an oil tycoon." "Well Mr. Know-It-All. We will see who gets the last remarks!"
"Kinnikuman!" Meat begins "Skeletor is invading and you have to fight him!" "Tell me something I don't know." "Also, You must get the Ace of The Gods away from Skeletor." "Right... But will I need time to prepare. Like maybe tuesday?" "Today is Tuesday." "Oh, you got me." And so our hero proceeds to leap into action. Mer-Man and Tri-Klops are causing destruction. "Wait, who is coming after us?" Tri-Kolps looks ahead 360 Degrees of directions. "A weirdo who is farting to fly around." "Could this bozo be the Kinnikuman we heard about? The one who is a bumbling dolt?" "He's a cinch!"
As Kinnikuman lands in the scene of the crime "I won't even need the push of my farts!" "I don't know what that means but he sounds confident." "Well, let's give him a beating." Tri-Klops proceeds to charge at Kinnikuman. The Muscleman grabs him and proceeds to pull his arm outwards, inflicting little pain in the case of Tri-Klops. "He tougher than he looks!" He uses his energy bolt to electrocute Kinnikuman and proceeds to punch Kinnikuman's face. Mer-man proceeds to use a scepter to get his point across. "Hey Muscle Head!" Kinnikuman tries to catch the scepter and try to hold off the enternian villains. Tri-Klops throws Kinnikuman around, trying to score a clean hit. Kinnikuman uses his Kinniku Beam. ("Take this! Kinniku Beam!") Tri-Klops counters with an energy bolt.
"Well, Take this! Kinniku Flash!" he crosses his wrists to unleash a beam. Tri-Klops deflects the attack. Tri-Klops then takes a snapshot of Kinnikuman with a camera accessory he brought with him for a scheme he's concocting for later. A few more attacks are unleashed. "Come on Kinnikuman! Try and take us out!" Grappling Mer-Man, Kinnikuman throws him up into the air, grabbing him shoulders down and proceeds to use one of his signature moves. "Kinniku Buster!"
After throwing Mer-man Off, Mer-man gets back up, without any injuries. "That was child's play! That didn't hurt at all!" Kinnikuman is bewildered by this "How could they survive a Finishing Move?" Tri-Klops tells mer-man "We have to get back to Skeletor. I have a Stratagem I would like to try." And so, Tri-Klops unleashes a Flash of light into Kinnikuman's eyes and the two goons got away.
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Simple question (but not for me): Does the Euler product formula diverge for any zero of the Riemann zeta function?
The reason why I ask this is that I heard we should not use the Euler product instead of the Riemann zeta function for Re(s)=<1 because it diverges on the critical strip, but I am not sure of that.
According to my numerical calculation, it seems that it converges for the (known) zeta zeros.
Additional Question 1: Is it clear that the Euler product for a nontrivial zeta zero is either divergent or convergent?
Additional Question 2: If only one case is possible, which one is the right answer? Divergent or convergent?


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DWTS Season 10 – Week 2 Results Show Recap
This is turning out to be one fine season of DWTS!! Even the results show was pretty awesome. My only comment is that I wish they would allow the pros to do the choreography – that Ballroom fusion dance by MJ's choreographers was a little too scattered for me. Here are some of the highlights of the result show – for me, anyway. 🙂 (Note: the Haiti Tribute has it's own post.)
Adam Carolla – LOL!!
The Pro Dance
Okay, this was not a highlight for me – if not for the dancing it would have been a bit painful. The Beach Boys, with pro dancing.
The Len Commandments – Goody, Len being as funny as I know he can be AND blasphemy all in one segment!! LOL. Shoulda done this LAST season. 🙂
I confess that I had an ulcer by the time this show was over and Shannen was eliminated. 🙂


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Un Pacino - Who's Badder Than Me?
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A soldier at Fort Benning, GA, collapsed during a physical fitness test earlier this month and later died at a local hospital.
Spc. Anthony Walter McGill, 26, of Walnut, CA, assigned to the 192nd Infantry Brigade, collapsed while on a two-mile run on Sept. 4, the Ledger-Enquirer of Columbus, GA, reported. McGill was immediately assisted by military personnel and taken to St. Francis Hospital in Columbus, where he never regained consciousness, authorities told the newspaper. McGill died on Sept. 6.
A public affairs spokesperson said the death remains under investigation.
Last month, the Army announced it would postpone plans to implement a new physical fitness test. The new test, which had been in the pilot stage, consisted of five events, including a 1.5-mile run.


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Paper faces on parade
Masquerade! Hide your face so the world will never find you
Masquerade! Every face a different shade
Masquerade! Look around, there's another mask behind you
Masquerade! Buring glances,turning heads
Masquerade! Stop and stare at the sea of smiles around you
Masquerade! Grinning yellows, Spinning reds
Masquerade! Take your fill, let the spectacle astound you."
Taken from Phantom of The Opera – Masquerade
With All Hallows Eve just around the corner, what better event to attend then The Costume Ball..
Shoppers flock to holiday themed events, and this one has been no exception! Indeed, the spectacle does astound us, and hard earned Linden Dollars are spent on decorations, attire, skins, accessories; whatever captures the fancy of those that yearn to escape into the seasonal masquerade we all love . A dance floor lurching in a week long waltz known so grimly as The Costume Ball. This event is tailored around the tasteful theme of dark with class, a ghoulish yet raised pinky finger as you sip Riesling from crystal stemware. Victorian rooftops and lace decked gowns; crows fleeing the footsteps of spectral hosts wishing to make the event so alluring that the guests never get a chance to leave. Don your masks, and enter into our world. You won't be sorry you did. But Hurry! The Costume Ball is only open until November, 1st, when, like the ghosts and ghouls of the dark eve, it will disappear into the mist.
What I am wearing:
*Dress – Happy Undead – Black Widow Dress Costume Ball 2012
*Skin – Izzie's – Fuyu Skin (Costume Ball Ed.) Costume Ball 2012
*Make up- Izzie's – Lipgloss dark red Costume Ball 2012
*Pose-Purple Poses – Mel – Costume Ball 2012
*Decor-.:SF:. "Nevermore" Dark Parlour Set Costume Ball 2012
Eyes-Mayfly– Deep Sky Mesh Eyes (Red Mahogany)
Hair-Alice Project-Kiera – Infinity
Nails-Sexy Mamas Prim Nail – Glitter
*promotional copy – Thank you!!


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(Reuters) - Southwest Airlines said on Wednesday it fired the pilot of a plane that crashed at New York's LaGuardia Airport in July after it touched down on its front landing gear.
"Upon completion of our internal review of the Flight 345 accident, last week the captain was terminated and the first officer is being required to undergo additional training," Southwest spokeswoman Whitney Eichinger said in a statement.
The carrier added that it was cooperating in the National Transportation Safety Board probe of the incident.
The NTSB said in August that it found the jet's two pilots exchanged control of the Boeing 737 plane shortly before the landing on July 22.
The airplane was less than 400 feet off the ground when the pilots switched duties, with the captain taking the controls and the first officer monitoring the instruments, the NTSB said.
The plane, heading to New York from Nashville, Tennessee, touched down at LaGuardia on its front landing gear, which is not designed to take such weight, according to industry experts. The nose gear collapsed and the plane's electronics were damaged. Nine people had minor injuries.
Shortly after the incident, Southwest said landing on the nose gear before the main landing gear touched down was not in line with its normal procedures.
The captain had worked at Southwest for more than 10 years, with six years as captain and more than 12,000 flight hours, including more than 7,900 hours in a 737, the NTSB said in August.
The first officer had logged 18 months with the airline and had about 5,200 flight hours, according to the U.S. safety agency.
Southwest did not disclose the identity of the pilots.
(Reporting by Karen Jacobs in Atlanta; Editing by Dan Grebler)


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Short North fashion stop Milk Bar has started a styling video series. First up, one of its co-owners, Kareem Jackson, talks about what influences his style (biking, mostly) and what brands he wears to keep up with a rough and tumble lifestyle (Raw Salvage jeans and leather shoes). While this video is worth watching to hear Jackson talk tips on what he does best, the random shot of a German Shepard throwing a basketball over a fence with his mouth is pretty much the highlight.


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Most of the desktop support stuff that crosses my desk turns out to be pretty standard fare.
However from time to time I get my hands on an odd-duckling.
Last week the group-members were taking turns trying to address a stubborn Windows 2000 system.
Yeah…W2K…I know….
This particular system is an older Dell Latitude laptop that is special-purposed. It doesn't connect to our network and is used to run a portable ID making setup
Needless to say it is mission-critical hardware.
The user reported that they were suddenly unable to log onto the system.
The Problem
It would boot, take forever to reach the standard Windows 2000 login window (msgina) and toss the following error without allowing anyone a chance to actually attempt logon.
System Cannot Log You on Because Domain <Computername> Is Not Available
Where <Computername> held the device-specific name of this system.
The team determined it had various issues which they addressed and repaired; bad sectors, blank/reset of the administrator password, etc.
Alas they still couldn't get past the primary logon barrier.
General consensus was that it was still some kind of password error but the only solution appeared to be a complete wipe/rebuild. They had managed to off-load the key data from the system…just in case.
So it was placed on my desk for a solutioning attempt.
The Solution
My goal was to get it operational again without having to reinstall all the applications and database information currently on it.
Normally, when I have "GINA" issue on our W2K/XP systems, I just swap GINA files; either by replacing the msgina with the Novell Netware nwgina file or vise-versa. That usually gets me around those issue so I can at least get to the desktop so I can do software/configuration cleanup.
In this case though, since the system never connects to our network, my go-to files weren't installed. Nothing could be done to get past the error and reach an account profile. It even occurred in Safe Mode.
I could use my Windows PE disks to poke around on the drive contents, but nothing seemed amiss.
I hit the Google and found others (way back when W2K was heavily deployed) who ran into the issue and though reports of success were low, the suggestions helped point me in the right direction.
- Error Message: System Cannot Log You on Because Domain <Computername> Is Not Available – Microsoft Help and Support Article ID: 555939
- Error Message: System Cannot Log You on Because Domain <Computername> Is Not Available – Microsoft Help and Support Article ID: 244671
I went back into the CD archives and extracted my old Windows 2000 Setup disk with the SP4 slipstream.
I popped it in and ran a Windows "Fast Repair" on the operating system. I ran through the options, let it scan the system, rebooted, and repeated…with it doing the actual file-replacements the second-go-round.
Rebooted again.
The Windows GINA popped up almost immediately and I was able to log on to the desktop with no errors. Applications and data all present and accounted for.
I knew this action had rolled back all the security patches and updates and left it at a fresh SP4 state.
To avoid having to connect it to our network, I just ran the most recent Heise Offline Update tool on my own system, selected the options necessary to build a Windows 2000 OS update CD, let it run and pull down the updates and create the CD ISO file. I then mounted the ISO as a virtual drive and copied the folder structure to my USB stick.
Then I popped the USB stick onto the system and ran the "offline" updater tool.
Three more reboots/reruns later and the system was as patched as it could be.
(I chose to do this instead of burning the ISO to a hard-CD as it seemed wasteful for a one-shot system fix.)
Now that everything was repaired and stable, I tweaked out the login controls to force the OS to require a CTRL-ALT-DEL key-press before starting the login procedure as well as setting the option to require the user to enter an id/password to log into the system (I know, I was surprised as well this hadn't been done by whoever had set up such a critical system.)
Since everyone had also been diagnosing that the drive was failing (because they had earlier found file-system errors) I took a moment to look at that.
The disk-health parameters reported by the SMART system on the drive all came back nominal.
I also ran a sector-error scan and none were found.
While these are no guarantees of future performance, it seems that things are currently well enough to send it back to the user.
Once assured that all was back to normal I shut it down, rebooted, and captured an image of the system, just in case.
Based on what I observed, it appears that for some reason some key networking files on the OS had become corrupted/scrambled.
The system-repair set things in order again.
In the meantime, we are requisitioning a new laptop to replace this old one. This way we can get an updated OS (XP Pro) on it, get it locked down and secured, whole-disk-encrypted, and be more confident that hardware issues won't come back to bite us again with it.
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Snap o' the Day: Ivy mail scorpion
A once-drab row of mailboxes at the Ivy Hill apartment complex along Ivy Road was recently transformed into a work of public art in the form of a scorpion. "Kudos," says Ivy resident Mary Ann Timberlake. "Every time I drive by on my way into C'ville it makes me smile."
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Mike Wiszowski April 24th, 2009 | 10:27am
That doesn't even look like a real scorpion...
Sick Of The Local Rambos April 23rd, 2009 | 11:12am
While they may indeed be cute, it's a major distraction to drivers. And sadly enough, it doesn't take much of a distraction to send some drivers across that yellow line in the center of the road.


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The Quebec Human Rights Commission will study what went wrong in the case of an extremist Jewish sect that fled Ste-Agathe-des-Monts to avoid a hearing in Youth Court.
Last November, a group of about 250 members of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect Lev Tahor left the Laurentians town after 12 years to relocate in Chatham-Kent, Ont. They had been due in court to respond to allegations of child abuse and neglect made by Quebec's Department of Youth Protection.
After several court hearings, the Ontario courts have ruled it would not be in the best interests of the children to execute an order made by Quebec's youth court to return 14 children to the province and place them in foster care. Chatham-Kent's Children's Services has also refused to execute a warrant to remove all 127 children from the community, also issued by the Quebec court in November. That warrant is still outstanding.
Now, the commission will examine whether police, youth protection officials, the school board, the health sector and the legal system in Quebec had the proper tools to deal with the situation.
"We're not going to make a judgment about the Lev Tahor intervention, but rather to examine whether we're well-equipped for these situations in Quebec," said Camil Picard, the commission's vice-president who deals with youth protection matters. "The commission has to assure that all young people in Quebec in all communities see their rights respected. We want to know that the actors have what they need to intervene in assuring children's rights are protected."
He added the study, to be completed by the end of the year, will rely on testimony from the primary actors in the intervention: police officers, officials at the department of youth protection and their counterparts in Ontario.
Picard would not say whether he considers it a major failure of the youth protection system in Quebec that the children were not repatriated.
"It's too soon to answer that question," he said. "The study will determine that."
Picard said the study will also look into other high-profile cases, such as the murder of four members of the Montreal-based Shafia family by their parents and brother in 2009.
He said the study will examine how well the system deals with youth protection cases as they relate to sects and different cultures.
A spokesperson for Lucie Charlebois, the minister responsible for youth protection, said she considers the subject to be "extremely important."
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Zelda is not an RPG.
Bzzz cannot comprehend. Bzzzz
So uh, this is the only 3D Zelda that I think is worth a shit. And oh my god does that comparison shot look awesome.Maybe they'll complete the dungeons that got scrapped?
Quote from: Dice on January 23, 2013, 10:44:18 AMBzzz cannot comprehend. BzzzzStill don't agree.
I was thinking that given how the controller for the Wii U is The Wind Waker can benefit greatly from it.You could finally use the Tingle Tuner without the need of an another system and hunting for treasure in the ocean can be a more interesting affair, especially for when you have to get the Triforce charts.


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I am a new programmer and am having trouble with some instructions i have to create a program. I am suppose to make a service class called CreateVehicles. In this class I am supposed to declare some instance variables, then create constructors, mutators, accessors, and a helper method. I think my code is fine for the first three, but the compiler complains about the way I try to enter the data from the file into an array using a while loop. These are the instructions I was given.
Create a class called CreateVehicles. This class acts as a second service class. The task of this class is to provide instance variables , constructors, accessor/mutator methods and a helper method that allow the following tasks to be performed:
The helper method has the task of reading the text file (Vehicle.txt) that contains information about different vehicles (one line per Vehicle). You need to tokenize each line read by the scanner in order to get the individual pieces of data that the constructor of the Vehicle class needs. Therefore, for each line of data read you create a Vehicle object and then you enter that object into an array of Vehicle type. The method returns the array with the vehicle objects.
Decide which instance variables you need to declare for this class based on the description of its task.
Create the text file Vehcicles.txt using Notepad with the following data (similar to the project data):
An this is what I have for the class.
import java.io.File; import java.io.IOException; import java.util.Scanner; public class CreateVehicles { String cartype = " "; String cardrive = " "; int carprice = 0; public CreateVehicles() { cartype = "anytype"; cardrive = "anydrive"; carprice = 0; } public CreateVehicles(String ct, String cd, int cp) { cartype = ct; cardrive = cd; carprice = cp; } public String getcartype() { return cartype; } public String getcardrive() { return cardrive; } public int getcarprice() { return carprice; } public void setcartype(int cat) { cartype = cat; } public void setcardrive(int cad) { cardrive = cad; } public void setcarprice(int cap) { carprice = cap; } public CreateVehicles [] createArray() { CreateVehicles [] myvehicles = new CreateVehicles[8]; try { File myfile = new File("Vehicle.txt"); Scanner scan = new Scanner(myfile); while(scan.hasNext()) { str=scan.next(); str.myvehicles[]; } } catch(IOException ion) { System.out.println("The file cannot be read"); } } }
I am certain I messed something up in the while loop. Any input or hints would be greatly appreciated.


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Checksum. As checksum, the plan is to use a CRC-32. We don't want it to be too large to affect performance, and we want it to catch reasonable losses of integrity. I'm considering storing this as a varint after the actual message, but for the time being, it is given as 4 raw bytes (it is not implemented at all yet). Please give me feedback on this: if we make it a varint, we can stuff the checksum in there, but that will also run the risk of not being able to read the checksum due to corruption of the checksum, so offhand, I would say that a fixed number of bytes is preferable.
Type Tag. The type tag is a single byte giving the type of the event. This means that we are limited to 255 events, but considering that we don't even have 26 events in 5.1 right now, I don't see that we will run into that limit very soon. It is possible to put the type tag in the message as well, and specifying it as an enum inside the protobuf specification, but that will just provide the information in two places, so it is better to keep it separately.
Length. The length is the length of the message, that is, it does not include the type tag, checksum, nor the length itself. This simplifies the normal processing, and in the event that one needs to skip an event, it is easy to compute the next position of a transport frame by just decoding the length (see below).
Length encodingThe length is encoded using a special scheme to allow for very little overhead for small events while still leaving room for giving the length for very large events. This scheme currently allows for a compact representation of lengths from 2 bytes 4 GiB (Gigabytes) and, if you don't need to have a compact representation of 2, you can represent lengths in the range 3 bytes to to 16 EiB (Exabytes) [sic].
The basic idea is to note that the length of a message can never be zero, and the minimal length in this case is actually 16 bytes. Since we will never have a length that is less than 16 for an event, that leaves the lengths 0-16 available for denoting other information. The obvious solution is to let the first byte denote either the length, if it is, say greater than 8, or the number of bytes following the byte that gives the length if it is less than or equal to 8, but we can actually do better.
Storing Length requires ceil(log256(Length)) bytes, so if we let the first byte L be
Computing the number of bytes can be done by computing
<< (L + 1), but computing the inverse is a little more
The following two functions does the job. Although it looks like a lot
of code,
length_encode() is actually only 29 instructions
on my machine (no function calls), while
is about 7 instructions. The trick here is to compute the logarithm at
the same time as we serialize the bytes into the memory, so the overhead
compared to just serializing the length is just a few instructions.
inline unsigned char * length_encode(size_t length, unsigned char *buf) { unsigned char *ptr= buf; assert(length > 1); if (length < 256) *ptr++= length & 0xFF; else { int_fast8_t log2m1= -1; // ceil(log2(ptr - buf)) - 1 uint_fast8_t pow2= 1; // pow2(log2m1 + 1) while (length > 0) { // Check the invariants assert(pow2 == (1 << (log2m1 + 1))); assert((ptr - buf) <= (1 << (log2m1 + 1))); // Write the least significant byte of the current // length. Prefix increment is used to make space for the first // byte that will hold log2m1. *++ptr= length & 0xFF; length >>= 8; // Ensure the invariant holds by correcting it if it doesn't, // that is, the number of bytes written is greater than the // nearest power of two. if (ptr - buf > pow2) { ++log2m1; pow2 <<= 1; } } // Clear the remaining bytes up to the next power of two while (++ptr < buf + pow2 + 1) *ptr= 0; *buf= log2m1; assert(ptr == buf + pow2 + 1); } return ptr; } inline const unsigned char * length_decode(const unsigned char *buf, size_t *plen) { if (*buf > 1) { *plen = *buf; return buf + 1; } size_t bytes= 1U << (*buf + 1); const unsigned char *ptr= buf + 1; size_t length= 0; for (unsigned int i = 0 ; i < bytes ; ++i) length |= *ptr++ << (8 * i); *plen= length; return ptr; }


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I love these!!! So cute! And I love the gem particles, they do look just like dichroic glass but a lot easier (no kiln necessary) and a lot more control (dichroic glass color is a mystery until it is fired). Very cool, thanks for sharing!
Lovely jewelry. I make beaded jewelry for christmas gifts for my daughter's in law, and my grand daughter. They all say they love them. Maybe I'll do some of this soon. Thanks
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