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Archive for December, 2011
I do not wish to be virtually eliminated.
Posted by curriculum vitiate in Uncategorized on December 16, 2011
For the sake of appearances and to keep a healthy air of mystique about things we are going to call today's correspondent Alex, Martin. 'Martin' wrote to me to ask if I might not like coming to work for him in Colchester. He noted, in the email, that Manchester (where I live) is a very long way from Colchester and that I might be reluctant to leave everything (my Kodak three-in-one printer) behind just for a job selling Applicant Trackers.
In the event of my not wanting to then at least I should take heart from the fact that 'there are people out there who encourage personality within business'
Nice to know!
'As well as encouraging absolute client focus' he added.
During our correspondence 'absolute' escalated into 'unflinching' client focus.
Unflinching client focus presumably being the species of client focus whereby you're more intimate with your client's needs than he himself is thanks to your conducting 24 hour in-person surveillance of your client from the bottom of his garden. A focus so extraordinary that it is only in the taxi away from your 14:00 face-to-face that he realises – your client, nestled into the backseat of the cab – realises that what you palpably smelled of during the meeting was his garden and his wife – too consumed, in the 14:00, by the nuclear intensity of your gaze and the can of WD40, giftwrapped, that you gave him to quiet the squeak of his bedroom door, to quite place the smell.
Aside from Martin's questionable choice of words he was very nice and kind.
Everyone is.
Remember Danniii?
She had spunk.
Anyway those days are gone: I visited Martin's site to take a look at what he sold – an applicant tracker, which is a curious piece of software used by recruiters everywhere -and I emailed him.
Colchester is a long way away.
One of the many functions of the twin-front-ended applicant tracker (alongside cataloguing CVs and the auto-dissemination of job adverts and rejection letters) is the automatic screening of applications like the applications I write.
Martin, it seems, has a healthy sense of irony.
About Case Dannii(i)
Posted by curriculum vitiate in Uncategorized on December 8, 2011
Morning reader,
It's been a while.
Looking great, as ever.
Hey, remember Dannii?
You know, Daniiii, from two.
Well she wrote back to me the other day: turns out she's not some terrible witch but a nice young girl who likes cats and video games. She apologised for the delay in reply and for being such a sourpuss (she was in a job that she hated also) and offered to embark on a one woman crusade to find me the job I deserve.
She was very sweet and funny and nice.
Before all this further hoo-hah, I wrote back to her.
Things have picked up significantly since.
So much so that on Monday I found myself in Quality Save buying discount aqueous cream filled suddenly full of a happiness I'd come to believe was only achievable by chemical means.
It was nice.
I'm a lot less comfortable sharing happinesses than their obverse and sorry if this is all a bit of a drag to hear.
Where have I been?
I went to London, for a while. Not nearly long enough to explain my absence from here but still, a while – my entire haul a £200 cheque addressed to one Mr. Benedict Le Gauche – problematic for reasons that need no explanation. Aside from that boon, London didn't work out. It was a blow and I've been trying to write it out for too long now and sorry.
I should declare it dead and sneak up on its corpse maybe.
Other than that I have been putting heart and soul into the caretaking.
The day before yesterday, when sweeping out the yard at work, I found in the corner amidst the wet wipes, the crisp packets and red clay of the crumbling building itself, the beaded eyes of a pigeon in the last throes of life.
Yesterday I scraped the remains of same pigeon (minus pigeon-soul), from the ground with a shovel, whilst a tramp changed his trousers on the bench that we-for-no-reason have in the yard.
The tramp refused to return my hello or my offer of cigarette or even the theatrical nod I gave him to indicate that we were both human beings and what were doing ran alongside the natural course of things and was nothing to be ashamed of.
He had different ideas, perhaps.
I paraboled the pigeon into the bin from ten full yards, thinking he'd appreciate one last flight.
My life is my life whether I like it or not.
Shan't be caretaking for long though, as you've read.
I think the redundancy is a great present, for Christmas.
I don't quite know how they're going to wrap it.
Oh no, I do.
A lot of people have been directed to my site via various search engine queries, here are some of my favourites:
Also, mother has advised that I monetise the site with adverts. I fucking hate adverts. And though this is probably the sole way I'm ever going to make money from this and though I know wordpress sometimes sneak adverts onto the pages and pays me nothing for the pleasure, I fucking hate adverts. I don't want people to even have to ignore adverts like I do on my 'free' version of Microsoft word.
I have gone to the length though, of adding a donation button on the 'hello' page of the website. I do not at all expect you to give me anything but you may if you feel compelled to.
It's nice to clear Dannii's name.
I think we're back up and running.


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DNA tests confirm human remains were of Maine boatbuilding students
KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine (AP) � The Maine medical examiner's office says human remains found on an island off Kennebunkport were two boatbuilding school students who went missing in December.
Spokesman Mark Belserene said Tuesday that DNA tests confirmed the remains were 21-year-old Zachary Wells of Burlington, Vt., and 23-year-old Prescott Wright of Barnstable, Mass.
Wells and Wright were last seen at a late-night party at Wells' home in Kennebunkport on Dec. 20. The men were students at The Landing School in Arundel.
In the ensuing search, officials found clothing belonging to the two men but didn't locate their bodies.
A local resident walking a dog discovered the remains last month on Vaughn's Island, which can be reached from the mainland at low tide.

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Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Immaculate Conception Church is a Catholic parish of the Diocese of Baton Rouge in Louisiana staffed by the Society of Jesus with a special mission to serve the Black Catholic community of Baton Rouge. Founded in 1953, the parish's mission is "serving the family of God and feeding the soul of the community."
Parishioners are involved with parish life through a variety of ministries, including music, pastoral care, service and education.
Service ministries include a food pantry, a Community Action Committee and adult committee service teams.


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Flames finish second after last SEC Class A Event in Georgia
April 6, 2013 | Canton, Ga.
Liberty University's paintball team gained some valuable experience for the National Collegiate Paintball Championships in Lakeland, Fla., by traveling south to Canton, Ga., on Saturday, splitting four matches against Kennesaw State and Tennessee.
Competing in SEC Class A Event No. 2, the Flames played on the same course layout and used the same match format as what they will experience at nationals, with teams trying to score as many points as they can in two 10-minute halves.
"It was the primary format, what we usually play, the top format of the paintball scene," Liberty head coach Todd Hoglund said, noting it's the version used when the Flames finished in the top four at nationals the past two years.
Fans can watch live webcasts of the April 19-21 nationals, when Liberty will seek to challenge for its first title.
After beating Tennessee 6-3 in Saturday's first match in Georgia, the Flames lost to Kennesaw in overtime, 5-4.
"It was back and forth," Hoglund said. "It was a battle. It came down to an overtime point, on a controversial play."
The Flames then defeated the Volunteers a second time, 5-3, before falling again against KSU, 8-2.
Liberty had swept Tennessee and split two matches with Kennesaw, with three of the four skirmishes decided by just one point, when it hosted SEC Class A Event No. 1 on Nov. 4.
"We finish the regular season in second place of the Southeast Conference," Hoglund said.
The team was a combination of its Red and Blue squads.
"We blended some of the lines," Hoglund said, noting some subbed in as reinforcements after teammates were eliminated. "When you get eliminated, you're out, and every time you hang your opponent's flag, the clock stops and you have two minutes to get people back out on the field to start again," until the 10-minute half has expired.
He said that two-minute transition time between live firing can be just as hectic.
"You use that time to get paint and air, wipe the tips off (the rifles), get a sip of water and get your game plan, to figure out what you're going to do differently," Hogland said. "It's coaching on the fly."
He was pleased with the way the Flames were able to adapt to what their opponents were firing at them.
"We played well," Hoglund said. "We were able to change our game plan based on what we were seeing, which is what we tried to learn from our last event."
He said Liberty's biggest standout was Jeremy Miller, the newcomer from Massachusetts who also played well in last Saturday's MSCC Class AA Event No. 4 hosted by the Flames.
"He played very well, dominating our snakeside, which are low-to-the-ground bunkers," Hoglund said, noting most fields have snakeside and Dorito-shaped bunker formations. "Nate Hawkins was playing our Dorito side pretty consistently and Aaron Thompson (Liberty's team captain), had solid play and stepped it up in times of need. We're seeing some guys step up and take that leadership role and guys playing up to their ability, or above it."
The Flames' players and coaches remained vocal throughout the matches, both on the field and outside the netting from the sidelines.
"Our communication was really good," Hoglund said. "They listened to all of the coaching and adjusted mid-game."
On Sunday, he plans to change the setup at Liberty's Paintball Complex to match the layout for nationals in time for practices this week.
"We're going to work on some individual gun skills so the guys are able to win their gun fights better," Hoglund said. "And we're going to try to improve our endurance, for when guys are running back-to-back-to-back points. After they score a point, they're exhausted from having played, and we have to tell them, 'OK, get back on the field and do it over again.'"


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Sao Paulo GRAND SLAM | 8 - 13 octobre 2013
São Paulo, Brazil, October 8, 2013 – Enjoying cooler than normal temperatures under mostly cloudy skies, eight men's and eight women's teams advanced from Tuesday's qualifying rounds to Wednesday's start of the 32-team main draw at the $440,000 FIVB São Paulo Grand Slam double-gender tournament as the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour is back in Brazil for the 27th consecutive year. Men's teams advancing were two from Canada and one each from Brazil, Chile, Czech Republic, France, Italy and Switzerland. For the women, moving forward to pool play were teams from Argentina, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Thailand and the United States.
A total of 18 men's and 17 women's teams battled in the single-elimination qualification tournament Tuesday to determine the final eight spots in their respective 32-team main draw fields as the 2013 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour resumed in South America after a six-week layoff. Main Draw round-robin four-team pool play starts Wednesday morning at the FIVB São Paulo Grand Slam. Pool Play will conclude with a single-elimination bracket for the final 24 teams. With the event being held for the first time in São Paulo the purpose-built site is located on the expansive grounds of Parque Villas Lobos on the west side of the massive city.
Main Draw pool play matches at the FIVB São Paulo Grand Slam are scheduled to start at 8:00 a.m. Tuesday on four courts with two rounds of three for women and one of three pool play matches for men.
Men's teams advancing to the main draw 'money rounds' were Brazil's Thiago Santos/Oscar Brandao, Canada's Christian Redmann/Maverick Hatch, Canada's Grant O'Gorman/Sam Pedlow, Chile's Marco Grimalt/Esteban Grimalt, Czech Republic's Premsyl Kubala/Jan Dumek, France's Andy Ces/Edouard Rowlandson, Italy's Alex Ranghieri/Andrea Tomatis and Switzerland's Alexei Prawdzic/Sebastian Chevallier.
For the women, the eight team's advancing to the main draw on Tuesday were Argentina's Ana Gallay/Georgina Klug, Brazil's Elize Secomandi/Fernanda Alves, France's Laura Longuet/Melinda Adelin, Canada's Jamie Lynn Broder/Kristina Valjas, Germany's Julia Grossner/Victoria Bieneck, Japan's Takemi Nishibori/Sayaka Mizoe, Thailand's Varapatsorn Radarong/Tanarattha Udomchavee and USA's Emily Day/Summer Ross.
This year's FIVB World Tour Grand Slams use a pool format. São Paulo begin with a one-day qualification tournament on Tuesday to determine the final eight spots in each gender's 32-team main draw tournaments followed by round-robin pool play where pools of four will play three matches each with a single-elimination bracket for the final 24 teams (the top three from each pool) concluding with the gold medal matches for both genders on Sunday. The gold medal teams in each gender in the FIVB São Paulo Grand Slam will each split $33,000, the silver $22,000, the bronze $16,500 and fourth place $12,900.
The FIVB São Paulo Grand Slam marks the 35th time that Brazil has hosted a men's and 30th time Brazil has hosted a women's FIVB international beach volleyball world tour event. Brazil has staged a FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour event every year since the start of the international circuit for men in 1987 and women in 1992. It is also the 295th FIVB World Tour men's tournament and 257th women's tournament.
While none of the deciding eight second-round men's matches were extended to three sets, four of the women's second round qualifying matches went to three sets. In the longest match of the day, Thailand's Radarong/Udomchavee advanced to the main draw by defeating Tanja Goricanec/Tanja Huberli, 21-19, 14-21, 15-12 in 54 minutes. Thailand's Radarong/Udomchavee advanced to their second straight FIVB Grand Slam main draw with their victory.
In another three-setter, Canada's Broder/Valjas held off Russia's Alexandra Shiryaeva/Ekaterina Syrtseva, 21-16, 20-22, 15-12 in 50 minutes. Japan's Nishibori/Mizoe came from behind to advance with a three-set win over Czech Republic's Barbora Hermannova/Martina Bonnerova, 14-21, 21-13, 15-12 in 44 minutes. In the other three-setter, an ll-Argentina match, Galla/Klub defeated compatriots Alejandra Graino/Maria Zonta, 21-11, 20-22, 15-3 in 49 minutes.
Brazil had one team in each gender advance and the home country has its full allotment of four teams in each gender set to start main draw play on Wednesday.
Speaking about her team's two-set win over a team from Chile, Alves said, "It is normal to feel nervous in the first match. We knew how important it was, so we wanted so much to win and advance to the main draw. Our objective now is to get out of the pool. Then we'll see where we can go, but it's great to have made it into the main draw as we are still developing as a team on the beach after so many years playing indoors.â€
On the men's side, Brazil's Santos was also pleased with their hard-fought, two-set advancement win over a duo from Venezuela. Santos reflected, "I was expecting a difficult match against Venezuela, because I played against both players when they were on different teams. South American players have that warm blood on the court, which makes things more complicated. But we played a good match to advance. Now begins the tournament itself, and we're in it."
Following eight FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour Grand Slams, the 2013 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships and two FIVB Opens completed, two teams from beach volleyball superpower Brazil remain at the top of the 2013 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour/Open leader board heading into the final two Grand Slams and final three FIVB Open events of the season. Continuing to ride high atop the men's FIVB World Tour/Open season point standings is Brazil's new team of Pedro Salgado/Bruno Schmidt while continuing to lead the women's FIVB World Tour/Open competition is another new Brazilian team, Taiana Lima/Talita Antunes.
Counting the FIVB Moscow Grand Slam, Brazil's Salgado/Schmidt have collected 5,540 points on the 2013 FIVB World Tour/FIVB Opens and their lead over Latvia's second-place Aleksandrs Samoilovs/Janis Smedins has shrunk to just 40 points and is 530 over Brazil's third place Ricardo Santos/Alvaro Filho with USA's Jake Gibb/Casey Patterson in fourth place, 890 points behind the leading team. In the season earnings race, Latvia's Samoilovs/J. Smedins have jumped for third to first with $153,200 followed by Brazil's Ricardo/Filho with $144,700 and Brazil's Salgado/Schmidt with $144,275. All three of the top teams are playing in their first full season together and Ricardo didn't play one tournament because of an injury.
In 2013 FIVB women's international competition, Brazil's Lima/Antunes duo has been superlative and continues to lead the 2013 FIVB World Tour/FIVB Opens with 6,090 points and $201,500 in earnings. Jumping up from fourth in each category to second with their Moscow gold is Brazil's Salgado sisters with 5,220 points and $133,500 in earnings. Third in both areas is Brazil's Barbara Seixas/Liliane Maestrini with 4,940 and $114,375. Fourth in points and fifth in earnings is Germany's Katrin Holtwick/Ilka Semmler with 4,880 and $102,700 while fourth in earnings is China's veteran duo of Chen Xue/Xi Zhang with $114,000. Fifth in points and sixth in prize money is Brazil's Agatha Bednarczuk/Maria Antonelli with 4,620 points and $93,375 in earnings.
Overall in the FIVB men's medal race in Brazil, Brazil leads with 60 total medals, followed by the United States with 23, Switzerland with six, Argentina and Germany with four each, Canada with 2 and China, Cuba and Norway with one each. In the FIVB women's overall medal race in Brazil, Brazil also leads with 52 total medals, followed again by the United States with 27, Australia with three, Germany two, while China, Italy and Japan each have one medal.
The 2013 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour is comprised of 10 Grand Slam events and the 2013 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships. Not part of the World Tour but counting towards FIVB points/earnings are five Open events (four double-gender tournaments and one women-only). The last of 10 FIVB World Tour Grand Slams will be the 2013 Grand Slam schedule will now end in China Oct. 22-27 at the double-gender $440,000 FIVB Xiamen Grand Slam.
13.10.2013 22:11:32
Salgado/Schmidt claim men's gold at FIVB São Paulo Grand Slam
São Paulo, Brazil, October 13, 2013 – It took three sets like it did earlier in the week in pool play, but once again Brazil's second-seeded Pedr... More...
13.10.2013 22:03:09
USA's Ross/Walsh victorious in São Paulo
São Paulo, Brazil, October 13, 2013 – In another classic battle for the ages between veteran warriors, USA's 10th-seeded April Ross/Kerri Walsh J... More...
13.10.2013 02:18:27
Germany, United States to meet for women's gold at FIVB São Paulo Grand Slam
São Paulo, Brazil, October 12, 2013 – Digging deep to each pull out come-from-behind three-set semifinal victories Saturday, Germany's fifth-seed... More...
13.10.2013 02:14:19
Brazil, United States to battle for men's gold at FIVB São Paulo Grand Slam
12.10.2013 03:14:04
Brazil, Latvia, Spain, USA in men's semis at FIVB São Paulo Grand Slam
12.10.2013 03:08:56
Brazil, Germany, Italy, USA in women's semis at FIVB São Paulo Grand Slam
11.10.2013 04:20:49
Men's field reduced to 24 at FIVB São Paulo Grand Slam
10.10.2013 23:25:36
Eight unbeaten women's teams head to single elims at FIVB São Paulo Grand Slam
10.10.2013 14:15:06
Brazil's Schmidt/Salgado hope for no. 1 world ranking at FIVB São Paulo Grand Slam
10.10.2013 13:06:55
Walsh Jennings playing with April Ross at FIVB São Paulo Grand Slam
10.10.2013 03:15:29
Women's pool play opens with great play, some upsets at FIVB São Paulo Grand Slam
10.10.2013 03:05:15
Men's Pool Play at FIVB São Paulo Grand Slam starts with four upsets
07.10.2013 18:03:12
FIVB São Paulo Grand Slam information fact sheet
04.10.2013 09:49:04
FIVB World Tour resumes in Brazil for São Paulo Grand Slam
20.09.2013 18:37:37
Ross and Walsh start road to Rio in São Paulo
19.09.2013 15:31:20
Brazil lead the way at Sao Paolo Grand Slam
18.06.2013 14:28:04
2013 FIVB World Tour ends in Brazil at FIVB São Paulo Grand Slam


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James Bruton of Southampton, UK, wrote in to share his dollar store (or 99p store in the UK!) Arc Reactor — it looks great!
Since I'm building an entire Iron Man suit, I decided that I should really build an Arc Reactor prop. This is intended to be like the Arc Reactor in the original Iron Man movie, since it won't actually get installed in the suit. Pretty much all of the items I used came from the 99p store, with the exception of some wire and a few electronic components.
The items I bought are: an LED light with batteries, sink strainers, some pins in a circular holder, a solar garden light.


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Dance. Out of Mind - Out of your senses. Breathtaking technological innovations, touching the spiritual world. Join us on stage!
A cross-genre, cross-border experience
GöteborgsOperans Danskompani kicks off the dance season with exclusive creations by two of the most interesting names in the world of contemporary dance. For the very first time, Sweden is visited by American Richard Siegal and Japanese Hiroaki Umeda. Together with groundbreaking composers and artists, they will create an experience never to be forgotten.
In Out of Mind the choreographers are inspired from the theme of the season; Mind & Spirit where GöteborgsOperans Danskompani explores our consciousness and its possibilities. Reality beyond reality. Mind and spirit, body and energies challenge and forces us to new discoveries.
In Out of Mind is included in GIBCA Extended, part of the Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art.
Interfacial Scale
Dance work by Hiroaki Umeda
The intense dance installation of Tokyo-based artist Hiroaki Umeda explores how you can break the choreographic border of dance – and the interfacial between dance and the unknown on the other side of the border. Inspired by tacit knowledge and swarm behavior, he choreographs each dancer individually as well as a collective.
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As well as being a choreographer and dancer, Umeda is also a photographer and video artist. In 2000, he established his own company, S20. For the first time he's working with an ensemble of 11 dancers from GöteborgsOperans Danskompani. For Interfacial Scale Umeda has created choreography, set, costume, light and sound design. For the comissioned music, he is collaborating with Yoshihiro Hanno aka RadiQ – pioneer of minimal techno and Asian art film soundtracks – who has written a score for The Göteborg Opera Orchestra.
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Dance work by Richard Siegal
On paper, New York-based Richard Siegal's If/Then system looks like secret formulae. In real life, it's a combination of written choreography and a bank of options which let the dancers compose part of the performance themselves. Siegal lets dance come together with other art forms – design, visual art, architecture, music, literature … The result stimulates the mind as well as the spirit, getting the audience involved.
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Richard Siegal has been the recipient of a number of prestigious awards and is the founder of The Bakery in Paris. He has worked very closely to William Forsythe. In the yearly critics' survey of tanz yearbook 2013, Richard Siegal is declared as choreographer of the year and his piece Black Swan as the performance of the year. His work Unitxt, created for the Bavarian State Ballet, has recently been elected for one of the best world premieres of the dance season 2012/2013 in the Dance Europe magazine.
In his creation for GöteborgsOperans Danskompani he collaborates with fashion designer Alexandra Bertaut, composer Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch, electronic music researcher from Centre Pompidou, and architect/designer Didier Faustino, whose organic set design consists of organic installation elements, used in interaction with the dancers.
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Experience the performance from a new perspective: the stage. You participate on the Main Stage in the second piece of the evening. The first one you watch from your seat in the auditorium.
Each evening, a large number of people from seats in the stalls have the chance to appear in Richard Siegal's the world to darkness and to me. Accompanying (and under the direction of) GöteborgsOperans Danskompani, participants will form a number of simple formations and groupings on the stage. No previous experience required.
If you would like to participate in the world to darkness and to me, let us know when you buy your ticket. These tickets are free of charge. Please note that the number of places is limited – first come, first served.
Since audience participants need to form fairly large groups on the stage, there is a minimum number of participants for artistic reasons. If too few people have put their names down for a specific date, we might not include audience participation for that performance. Information about this will be given in the foyer on the day of the performance.
Have you already bought your ticket but would like to change your ticket for one which allows you to participate on stage? Contact the Göteborg Opera box office as soon as possible on: +46 (0)31 13 13 00, email@example.com or by visiting the box office in person.


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Get your fingers poised over that mouse-button, the digital line starts at 12:01, Sept. 14th.
Websites will no doubt be clogged as iPhone fans everywhere head to the web to feverishly order the latest smartphone from Apple.
Apple, AT&T and Sprint have confirmed that they will begin accepting pre-orders one minute after midnight.
If you just can't wait that extra minute, Verizon says they will accept orders starting at 12 midnight sharp.
The phone doesn't go on sale in the physical world until 8:00 a.m. on September 21, so if you'd rather head down to the line-party outside your local Apple Retail Store, make sure you pack a lunch. History has taught us those lines can be long.
If you're Steve Wozniak, pack a lunch, iPad, iPad 2, iPad 3, a couple extra iPhones, iPod, a Garmin, a Kindle, some extra batteries and of course a Game Boy or two.
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LOS ANGELES, April 26 (UPI) -- Wonder Years actress Danica McKellar announced she broke a rib while rehearsing for Dancing with the Stars.
She took to Twitter about midday Friday to announce the injury, which took place Thursday.
So...I broke a rib in yesterday's #DWTS rehearsal. Trying my best to pull thru and could use your prayers!! #wanttokeepdancing— Danica McKellar (@danicamckellar) April 25, 2014
But she was right back at rehearsing later Friday, despite the news.
Had rehearsal today.. it's tough dancing with a broken rib. @iamvalc choreographed an amazing routine- fingers crossed I can pull it off! :/— Danica McKellar (@danicamckellar) April 26, 2014
McKellar is next set to dance in Monday night's episode of the television series. She scored a 36 out of a possible 40 during last week's performance.


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Greco-Roman & Roman-Greco
The Greco-Roman and Roman-Greco programs are one of a kind offerings which have been a part of study abroad at CSB/SJU for more than 30 years. These programs offer students an opportunity to study in two monumental cities: Athens, the cradle of western art, philosophy and democratic ideals, and Rome, the heart of antiquity, western art and civilization. Each city offers thousands of facets of art, culture, politics and modern life to explore.
One-half of the students and a faculty director will begin their journey in Athens, Greece, while the other half begins in Rome, Italy. Half-way through the program, the two groups switch sites to continue their learning together.
Program Highlights
- The Greco-Roman & Roman-Greco programs offer a whirl-wind of activity in two major European capitals.
- History comes to life as students learn about the literature, art, theology and history of these cities and then visit the sites where the history was made.
- Major excursions to Florence, Subiaco, Pompeii, Olympia, and Delphi, along with many day trips, are included in the experience.
The focus of this two-site program is the study of classical art, history, religion and literature in Athens and Rome. All courses are offered exclusively to CSB/SJU students, taught in English in classrooms, at historical and archaeological sites, and in museums. Courses are taught by distinguished professors from universities and colleges in Athens and Rome. In addition to these courses, all students will participate in the Study Abroad Seminar, taught by their faculty director, and a Greek & Italian culture and language course.
Courses are held at the College Year in Athens (CYA) and CEA Study Abroad, Rome Global Campus (CEA). These facilities offer classroom, library, computer and other academic resources.
For a complete list of classes please refer to page 2 of the Greece-Italy brochure.
In Athens and Rome students live with other CSB/SJU students in apartments located in the hearts of residential neighborhoods. Students have an opportunity to experience life in a major urban setting. Small groups of CSB/SJU students share living, cooking and sleeping quarters in these metropolises. Students are responsible for preparing their own meals, except for their weekday lunches while in Athens.
Program Dates
The approximate program dates for the Greco-Roman and Roman-Greco programs are early-September to mid-December.
Financial Considerations
For more information on the Program Fees for this program, please refer to the Greco-Roman/Roman-Greco Program Brochure. Another great resource is the Financing your Experience brochure. This brochure includes estimates of what past participants spent on this program, along with information regarding scholarships and financial aid for study abroad.
See which Scholarships you may qualify for with participating on this program.
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Fall 2020 Program Directors:
Greco-Roman: Tony Cunningham, Philosophy
Roman-Greco: Scott Johnson, Political Science
Program Advisor: Jessica Dickau, Center for Global Education


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Alberta companies are the most likely in Canada to offer their workers the opportunity to telecommute, says a new BMO Bank of Montreal survey that found widely differing views on whether the practice boosts employee morale and productivity.
The poll found 34 per cent of Alberta-based companies offer telecommuting to their employees - much higher than the national average of 23 per cent.
"In an evolving workforce, Canadian businesses are fighting to be flexible, innovative and enticing by offering incentives that will benefit not only the organization, but also their employees," said Steve Murphy, senior vice-president of commercial banking for BMO.
"These flexible work arrangements help employees achieve greater work-life balance, improve workplace productivity and strengthen employee morale."
Among Canadian businesses who offer telecommuting - the ability to work remotely from outside the office - to their employees, 65 per cent report it had a positive impact on employee productivity and 58 per cent report it improved the quality of work produced by those employees who telecommute, said BMO.
But the report also indicates a number of Canadian businesses are hesitant to offer telecommuting, with 61 per cent citing concerns about potentially lower morale. Fifty-one per cent were troubled by the prospect of lost productivity.
The report also indicated: 64 per cent of companies found telecommuting had a positive impact on morale and the ability to attract and retain talented employees; 54 per cent reported a reduction in office and overhead expenses; 47 per cent of large businesses versus 22 per cent of small businesses offer telecommuting; and only eight per cent of employees of all businesses work remotely.
Laura Hambley, a co-author of the book Growing the Virtual Workplace, part of a consulting practice called the Leadership Store and an adjunct professor of psychology at the University of Calgary, said research shows differences in organizations in terms of the level of adoption of telecommuting.
She said the Alberta companies who are most likely to adopt these initiatives have certain cultures and her research has been discovering some key elements: open-minded managers as leaders who are open to new initiatives and look for the opportunities rather than focusing on the risks; younger average age; technologically savvy; and employee engagement-minded with a focus on attracting and retaining talent by offering flexible work alternatives.
The top sectors for offering telecommuting are: Business/finance, 28 per cent; Manufacturing, 14 per cent-; Retail, 14 per cent; Services, 13 per cent; and Agri-business, three per cent.


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Biopics Are the New Books: The Pros and Cons of Learning History from Movies
Most of us look at movies as a form of entertainment, as a conduit for escapism. While this is entirely reasonable, there is also something to be said for the acknowledgement of movies as a more significant art form, especially when examining the historical biopic genre. This week, Lincoln arrives in theaters (admittedly not a great place for him to be, considering) — and this new Steven Spielberg film chronicles the political wheeling and dealing of one of America's greatest presidents. Biopics are nothing new to cinema. In 1937, Paul Muni was nominated for an Oscar for his portrayal of real-life French writer in The Life of Emile Zola. But is there a more weighted significance to biopics for this generation? And do we place an appropriate amount of stock in them?
Unless you've been residing in a cave up until now — and by the way, thanks for making the reading of this article your first priority upon returning to civilization! — you're well aware of the technological advances that have made the viewing of films as effortless a process as flipping a switch. As much as these streaming and viewing technologies have aided the already ravenous consumption of movies, it would be ignorant to assume that they have also obliterated book culture. In fact, downloadable books and electronic reading devices have done for the printed word what Netflix has done for film watching. However, it's not outlandish to note the scales of public interest are decidedly tipped in favor of film.
The question is, with our propensity toward regular reading diminishing, and our movie viewing increasing, when do we reach critical mass? When do we get to the point wherein biographical films become our chief source of information about the lives of historical individuals? More to the point, have we already reached that point? Lincoln may seem an odd catalyst for this discussion, given that most of us learned about the 16th president in elementary school. However, what we may or may not have learned in school, or more importantly what we may not have recalled as easily as his log cabin and freeing of the slaves, is the complexity of his parlor politics and how those maneuvers lead to the passing of the vital 13th Amendment to The Constitution. The film therefore offered many of us a new story, a new facet to this historical figure.
Think back to the third grade, what was the best thing your teacher could possibly have said on any given day? "Class, we're going to watch a movie." It didn't even matter if that movie was the worst After School Special or the moldiest of educational videos, we were thankful for the diversion from the chore of sifting through, and often reading aloud in groups, those dry text books. While this may be symptomatic of the capriciousness of youth, it may also be a function of the benefits of visual learning techniques. Many people retain information they perceive visually far better than information read from a book. We can usually remember details of those videos we watched in class far more readily than the things written in the textbooks. It can therefore be argued that biopics provide a viable alternative to literary biographies.
This viability of course comes under fire when considering the possible presence of embellishment and bias in biopics. Films, even those with the slight education bent of a historical biopic, are principally intended to entertain, and are also susceptible to the prejudices and viewpoints of the filmmakers. With that in mind, can biopics really be trusted as a means of educating the masses on these figures, especially when telling a life story not as engrained into the collective consciousness? And if all we need is a visual delivery system for biographical information, what sets biopics apart from documentaries?
The fact of the matter is that depending on the source, written biographies can be just as biased as any given film. This potential for subjectivity is augmented in the case of controversial personages, and especially politicians. Not only that, but there are documentaries out there predicated upon little more than sensationalizing a particular figure's life regardless of factual evidence contradicting their claims. Case in point, check out the doc Alive: Is Michael Jackson Really Dead now streaming on Netflix. The movie actually supposes, using the most laughable of non-evidence, that The King of Pop staged his own death. The intention here is not to paint all documentaries and written biographies with the same unscrupulous brush, but the existence of these suspect examples should prevent an automatic assignment of inferior status to filmic biographies.
One entity that certainly doesn't overlook the significance of biographical filmmaking is the Academy Awards. One need only go to the Netflix Instant Watch genre category Biographical Dramas to see the near unending acclaim lavished upon movies of this ilk. Films like Amadeus, Gandhi, and Chariots of Fire all garnered Best Picture honors while Capote, The Pianist, and My Left Foot all netted performance awards for its leads as they occupied roles based on historical figures. Whether the cause for this Oscar success is the Academy's acknowledgement of the importance of these films, or simply the attraction they inherently present for top-tier filmmakers, the winning streak enjoyed by biopics ensures their continued frequency of production.
There may be something to the conception of biopics as an artful method of historic preservation. In that regard, the entertainment value of these films may not be a superfluous. Did British criminal Charles Bronson really get up in front of a theater full of people and perform a one-man show? No. But Nicolas Winding-Refn's Bronson, with its distinct visuals and stellar performance from Tom Hardy, allows for an easier commitment to memory of the actual details of the man's life that are also featured in the film. As biopics continue to draw both audiences and awards season attention, and as Oscar winners tend to be more likely to receive the benefit of film preservation advancements, what we may also be inadvertently preserving is our collective history.
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First, here is a link to article on compcache.
zswap is already in the kernel and you can see the documentation in the kernel documentation. Here is the name of the file if you need:
/usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-$(uname -r)/Documentation/vm/zswap.txt
Here is the overview, in case you do not want to install kernel-doc
Zswap is a lightweight compressed cache for swap pages. It takes pages that are
in the process of being swapped out and attempts to compress them into a
dynamically allocated RAM-based memory pool. zswap basically trades CPU cycles
for potentially reduced swap I/O. This trade-off can also result in a
significant performance improvement if reads from the compressed cache are
faster than reads from a swap device.
NOTE: Zswap is a new feature as of v3.11 and interacts heavily with memory
reclaim. This interaction has not be fully explored on the large set of
potential configurations and workloads that exist. For this reason, zswap
is a work in progress and should be considered experimental.
Some potential benefits:
* Desktop/laptop users with limited RAM capacities can mitigate the
performance impact of swapping.
* Overcommitted guests that share a common I/O resource can
dramatically reduce their swap I/O pressure, avoiding heavy handed I/O
throttling by the hypervisor. This allows more work to get done with less
impact to the guest workload and guests sharing the I/O subsystem
* Users with SSDs as swap devices can extend the life of the device by
drastically reducing life-shortening writes.
Zswap evicts pages from compressed cache on an LRU basis to the backing swap
device when the compressed pool reaches it size limit. This requirement had
been identified in prior community discussions.
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While there are several Facebook games that involve growing and distributing marijuana, only one is the official game of the Showtime original series Weeds. It's okay to grow and sell pot when Mary Louise Parker is involved!
Just about everything is okay as long as Mary Louise Parker is involved, especially when she's playing the widowed (remarried twice over) housewife Nancy Botwin, forced into the whacky world of weed pushing in order to support her one relatively normal and one completely creepy (and somewhat murderous) sons. It's a weird and wonderful life, filled with Mexican gangsters, original gangsters, amorous FDA agents, and crazy brother-in-law Andy, who plays the role of your mentor in Weeds Social Club, now available on Facebook from Ecko|Code (formerly Marc Ecko Entertainment).
In Weeds Social Club, you play the role of a down-on-their-luck character that needs money fast, so he or she contacts Andy Botwin for advice on how to cultivate exotic plants. Buy planters, adjust your grow lights, and harvest plants at the peak of perfection in order to win experience points, unlocking new strains of pot, new decorations, and new places to hide your stash.
And since this is a social game, you'll be able to buy and sell with your friends from all over the world. Just don't set the neighborhood on fire, or it'll be just like the Superdome.
I may have watched one or two episodes of Weeds when no one was watching, but I was just in it for the music.
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On the east side of the train tracks in Hopkinsville, when you're waiting for a train to go by at night, you can see the Whistlestop Donuts sign between the cars as they pass. As the train picks up speed, the bright yellow sign flashes at an increasingly urgent rate: "Whistlestop Donuts! Donuts! Donuts!" This phenomenon is not quite a subliminal message (it's not below the threshold of conscious thought), but it does very effectively lure the mind into sugary, deep-fried fantasies.


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Preparing for Winter
Bermudagrass is the most widely used turfgrass in the southern United States for golf courses, athletic fields, parks, roadsides and private grounds. Native to eastern Africa, bermudagrass has aggressive stolons and rhizomes that form a vigorous turf with high shoot densities and rapid growth capabilities. Bermudagrass has excellent wear, drought and salt tolerances but necessitates high nitrogen fertility, full sunlight and routine cultivation. As a warm-season grass, bermudagrass requires temperatures from 80°F to 95°F for optimum growth and is widely distributed throughout warm humid, warm subhumid, and warm semiarid climates. One of the characteristics of managing bermudagrass in the transition zone is winter dormancy. As temperatures approach 50°F, bermuda-grass begins to lose chlorophyll and turns brown. Recent research offers new perspectives on bermudagrass dormancy mechanisms to help practitioners better manage fall fertilizations.
Turfgrass scientists for years have studied the effects of fertilizer rates, timings and sources on bermudagrass fall color. In recent years, plant growth regulator (PGR) use throughout the growing season has shown to delay the onset of winter dormancy. This is believed to be a morphological response from more compacted leaf tissue with greater amounts of chlorophyll per unit leaf area, which prolongs a darker green leaf color. However, delayed dormancy of PGR-treated bermudagrass may result from nutrient allocation to leaf tissue from increased reserve nutrients stored in roots and rhizomes.
Across a two-year field study, 'Tifway' bermudagrass had enhanced spring greenup from fall applications of Primo. It was noted that variable nitrogen (N) inputs with Primo did not enhance 'Tifway' bermudagrass spring greenup; however, PGR treatments increased overall green period by 20 to 25 days. Increased 'Tifway' bermudagrass stolon freezing tolerance has also been observed in late fall from repeated PGR applications in the summer or a late-season application.
Experiments in South Carolina on a 'TifEagle' bermudagrass putting green receiving Primo during the growing season had higher visual quality as dormancy was initiated. Bermudagrass visual quality also increased with nitrogen rate throughout the fall and early winter. 'TifEagle' bermudagrass treated with Primo retained green color in December, but all plots were completely dormant by the first week in January. In these experiments, nutrient allocation between leaves and belowground tissues was a major parameter and offers a new perspective on bermudagrass fall color.
Excessive nitrogen levels during the late-season may deplete nutrients stored in rhizomes as shoots compete for plant reserves. Because PGRs effectively suppress bermudagrass shoot growth, applications may reduce nutrients removed through clippings and minimize nutrient partitioning to leaf growth. Minimizing nitrogen supply to new leaves may increase nitrate assimilation in roots and redirect additional nutrients for storage in belowground tissues. Nitrogen distribution away from leaves may also stimulate root growth as nitrate directs carbohydrates for amino acid synthesis.
'Tifway' bermudagrass treated with Primo at 12 ounces per acre every four weeks has shown to reduce nitrogen allocation to leaf tissue with increased retention in belowground tissues. Increased total nonstructural carbohydrates in 'Tifway' bermudagrass roots have also been noted following Primo applications at 12 and 18 ounces per acre. Therefore, routine PGR applications may be a practical method of balancing photosynthate and nutrient allocation within the plant to increase plant use efficiency of applied nutrients.
A two-year field experiment at Clemson University investigated nutrient reallocation of 'TifEagle' bermuda-grass when treated with four nitrogen rates and Primo. Turf quality generally increased with N rate; however, 'TifEagle' bermudagrass required 0.375 to 0.5 pounds N per 1,000 square feet per week from May to June and 0.25 pounds N per 1,000 square feet from July to August to maintain acceptable quality without Primo. When treated with Primo, initial discoloration resulted but turf soon recovered and displayed 10- to 25-percent enhanced quality. Furthermore, bermudagrass treated with Primo had 10-percent reduced leaf N concentrations after three months with 20-percent increased rhizome N concentrations. Similar trends were observed with phosphorus (P), potassium (K), calcium (Ca), magnesium (Mg), sulfur (S) and iron (Fe) concentrations. Inhibiting bermudagrass leaf growth with Primo reduced total nutrients removed through clippings by 70 percent. By late August, Primo-treated turf had greater N, P, K, Ca, Mg and S retention in rhizomes.
These differences were not observed in leaves and rhizomes in the following spring as Primo-treated 'TifEagle' bermudagrass had similar nutrient concentrations to the untreated. Increased nutrients stored in belowground tissues throughout the summer may have been reallocated back to the shoots as a mechanism to delay dormancy and promote spring greenup. The synthesis of chlorophyll molecules requires a source of Mg, N and Fe, which were all found in great quantities in rhizomes during the fall. This reallocation of nutrients has not been previously correlated before to delayed fall dormancy of warm season grasses.
Similar nutrient allocations have also shown to prevent leaf nutrient deficiencies on dwarf-type bermudagrass in greenhouse experiments. 'TifEagle' bermudagrass treated with four rates of Primo — 0, 3, 6, and 9 ounces per acre every three weeks over 12 weeks — had 50 to 90 percent fewer nutrients removed through clippings with increased PGR rates. Rhizome and roots had higher N concentrations and retentions with increased Primo rates, suggesting greater leaf growth inhibition caused increased N storage in belowground plant tissue. After 180 days in another greenhouse experiment, 'TifEagle' bermudagrass treated with Trimmit (paclobutrazol) averaged 10 percent higher N retention in rhizomes compared to non-PGR treated turf.
Dormancy is a natural mechanism warm-season grasses experience when temperatures drop below optimum for shoot growth and chlorophyll retention. As day lengths become shorter and temperatures drop below 50°F, bermudagrass loses chlorophyll and begins allocating reserves for storage in belowground tissue. Maintaining green bermudagrass shoots during winter may be physiologically unfavorable for plant health. For example, if reallocated nutrients to leaf tissue are correlated with delayed dormancy, could this reduce storage of plant reserves or root growth during this critical period? Further investigation is warranted regarding mechanisms of bermudagrass winter dormancy, carbohydrate allocation and nutrient use especially for dwarf-type bermudagrass putting greens. However, it can be surmised that routine PGR use has significant influences on bermudagrass leaf morphology and nutrient allocation.
Patrick McCullough is a program associate at Rutgers University (New Brunswick, N.J.). Haibo Lui, Ph. D., is an associate professor and Bert McCarty, Ph. D., is a professor of turfgrass science in the Department of Horticulture, both at Clemson University (Clemson, S.C.).
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This week in Bangkok, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) is meeting to discuss regulations that aim to prevent the extinction of many of the world's most threatened species. Today, Conservation International's Carlos Manuel Rodriguez highlights a recent victory for some of these species in his home country of Costa Rica.
The Costa Rican Congress recently made a historic decision: with support of eight out of nine political parties, they approved a bill that bans the hunting of wildlife for recreational purposes. It is the first country in Latin America to do so.
This political decision was possible due to a new legal mechanism called the popular initiative, which allows citizens to formally present new legislation in Congress. Its main requirement is that all proposed bills must have the signatures of 5% of the country's registered voters. So after two years of hard work, conservation organizations presented a reform to the Wildlife Law with the support of 177,000 Costa Ricans.
The prohibition bans sport hunting of all terrestrial animals. Previously, hunting had been permitted outside of protected areas — which make up nearly a quarter of the country's land — and put pressure on wildlife populations. Popular as hunting may be, this new bill reflects an even more popular sentiment that rejects this practice.
One likely reason for this shift in attitude is that Costa Rica makes a high profit from ecotourism. The country annually receives more than 2 million tourists, who contribute up to US$ 2.2 billion to the local economy. About 80% of tourists visit a protected area during their stay, hoping to spot monkeys, parrots, reptiles and other tropical species that have made Costa Rica a world-renowned tourist destination.
While in discussion in Congress, this bill generated much public debate until something unexpected happened that tipped the balance toward the conservationists' proposal. Last September, a hunter published a set of photos on his Facebook page of a recently shot black jaguar in the Caribbean lowlands.
The next day police were knocking at his door; he was immediately prosecuted. But the public uproar took place on Facebook, where thousands of Costa Ricans expressed their opinions — most condemning the jaguar kill — and some even threatened the hunters. (You can see the Facebook post and comments here, but be warned, the photo is pretty graphic.)
In decades of working on conservation issues in Costa Rica, I have never seen the public have a reaction like this. The newspaper and TV coverage of this event definitely helped influence the later approval of the bill in Congress. Many people may think of Facebook as simply a useful social tool, but in this case the use of Facebook was instrumental for this historic decision which I am proud of as a Costa Rican.
Congress' decision to support the citizen's proposal was made despite strong lobbying and public debate by hunting associations. These groups argued that since most hunting in the country is done illegally, a ban won't impact those hunting activities. Additionally, they emphasized that law enforcement capacities have previously proven to be poor and limited.
In response to these legitimate points, lawmakers responded by assigning a new financial mechanism in the new law that will add $2 million to the government budget exclusively for enforcement efforts. Subsistence hunting by indigenous communities is still allowed, as is using hunting as a strategy to manage introduced or problematic species.
Implementing this prohibition will become a major challenge for Costa Rica. New regulations are needed regarding arms possession and trade, monitoring and compliance needs to be radically prioritized and much should be invested in education and awareness, particularly in rural communities.
Still, I have no doubt that this law marks a big step for Costa Rica and the wider world: further proof that people are beginning to value wild animals more alive than dead.
Carlos Manuel Rodriguez is vice president and senior advisor for global policy in Conservation International's Center for Environment and Peace. He was formerly the environment and energy minister for Costa Rica.


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As an UTS alumni, I would like to register as a member of UTS library. There are 4 different types of membership I can choose from, while I would like to use computers in the library and have access to the UTS wifi connection, I jst wonder that what types of membership includes these services? Thanks.


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Fluconazole injection is used to treat serious fungal or yeast infections, such as vaginal candidiasis, oropharyngeal candidiasis (thrush, oral thrush), esophageal candidiasis (candida esophagitis), other candida infections (including urinary tract infections, peritonitis [inflammation of the lining of the abdomen or stomach], and infections that may occur in different parts of the body), or fungal (cryptococcal) meningitis. This medicine works by killing the fungus or yeast, or preventing its growth.
Fluconazole injection is also used to prevent candidiasis in patients having bone marrow transplants, who receive cancer or radiation treatment.
This medicine is to be given only by or under the direct supervision of a doctor.
This product is available in the following dosage forms:
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Appropriate studies performed to date have not demonstrated pediatric-specific problems that would limit the usefulness of fluconazole injection in children 6 months to 13 years of age. However, safety and efficacy have not been established in children younger than 6 months of age.
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Using this medicine for a long time or using it too much while you are pregnant (especially during the first trimester) can harm your unborn baby. Use an effective form of birth control to keep from getting pregnant. If you think you have become pregnant while using this medicine, tell your doctor right away.
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|System: PC, PS3*, Xbox 360
|Dev: IO Interactive
|Pub: Square Enix
|Release: November 20, 2012
|Players: 1
|Screen Resolution: 480p-1080p
|Blood, Intense Violence, Partial Nudity, Sexual Themes, Strong Language, Use of Drugs
The levels' expansive, interconnected nature, and the subsequent feeling of never fully knowing if you've seen the best the game has to offer, are the primary sources of Absolution's play value. But they're not the only ones. Each level is scored based on how much skill you display throughout the area. Get by unnoticed, or take down your mark without laying a finger on him, her, or the trigger, and you'll be rewarded with a higher number. Getting the highest rank of "Silent Assassin" is a challenge even on Normal mode, and essentially requires you to play through each level multiple times in order to memorize the lays of the land by heart.
The enemy A.I. here is solid, by the way. They coordinate and work together well, forcing 47 to lay low behind some sort of cover at almost all times. One dumb move will usually mar the rest of your time in a particular level, so care and precision are near-constant requirements. The baddies are little more than cannon fodder during larger shootouts, although those—if you couldn't tell from their pedestrian controls or the fact that you're not rewarded with points for engaging in them—are not Absolution's number one assassination method of choice anyways.
Further adding to the replayability factor is a new mode called Contracts, a sort of half-mission, half-level creator that allows players to make up their own assassinations—well, contracts—and share them with the rest of the Absolution community. While not as all-encompassing as the level creator in, say, inFamous 2, Contracts mode is quick, enjoyable, and easy to use. You just have to pick one of the story mode's levels, mark one or more of the NPCs found within as targets, take them out in whatever fashion you'd like, and then choose which exit to escape through. Depending on who you killed, what weapon you used to complete the hit, how you were dressed when you did it, and various other factors, Absolution will create the terms of the new, soon-to-be-shared mission for you and let you upload it for the world to play.
So, when I headed over to Chicago's Chinatown district dressed as a giant chipmunk to chuck an axe as Chef Ning Tan's face—this is all real—and then exited without alerting any cops, my mission (I named it "Crouching Tiger, Flying Ax") was born. In order to fulfill the terms of my contract, players will have to kill who I killed, dressed as I was, and exit they way I exited. If they succeed, they'll get a payment, which can then be spent on various unlockable outfits, weapons, and the like. If they don't alert anyone, they'll get a bonus. Whether or not the Contracts mode takes off with the community is still unknown, but the potential is certainly there for even more hours of replay to be added onto an already deep single-player experience.
I'm about 1,500 words into this review and I still feel like I haven't told you about everything Hitman: Absolution has to offer. In a way, though, that'd only be fitting for a game like this. Despite being a strictly single-player experience, Absolution packs more replay value into its two game modes than most games would do with five. It has its fair share of deficiencies—a goofy narrative, okay gunplay, a few bugs here and there—but overall, Absolution is a game that demands you explore its nuances over and over again. Just be sure to stay quiet when you do so.
Jeff Dunn
Lead Contributor
Date: November 18, 2012
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The two biggest DVD releases this week are a pair of the most widely panned movies of 2010, one starring Miley Cyrus, the other starring Brendan Fraser. Fortunately, one of the greatest films from the greatest era of American cinema is coming out on home video. But enough jibber-jabber, let's break down the 10 most interesting/intriguing/biggest films out this week:
"The Last Song" (2010)
Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth star in the Nicholas Sparks adaptation which a PB contributor called "Manipulative, cheesy, and reeking of a too expensive Hallmark Movie of the Week, you hate yourself for the moments the film batters you into emotional submission, ripping tears from your eye ducts with the dirtiest of tactics. If Cyrus thinks this is the film that will win her a new adult following, she's got that Hannah Montana wig on too tight." (On Blu-ray and DVD)
"Furry Vengeance" (2010)
Brendan Fraser stars as a real estate developer whose latest project comes under siege from a relentless battalion of four-legged protesters. It just looks awful and earned a combined score of 10.2 from Rotten Tomatoes and IMDB. Think about that for a moment if your kid asks you to get it. (On Blu-ray and DVD)
"The Conversation" (1974)
Gene Hackman stars in this paranoia classic about as a surveillance expert racked with (Catholic) guilt over the death of three people because of his work. Perhaps no filmmaker has had a better year than Francis Ford Coppola in 1974. He would release both "The Godfather: Part II" and "The Conversation," both of which were nominated for Best Picture and Best Screenplay. (On DVD, watch the trailer)
"Black Orpheus" (1959)
In addition to winning the Oscar and Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film, as well as thr Pal d'Or at Cannes, this classic retelling of the Greek myths of Orhpeus and Euripides also helped take to bossa nova craze global. (On Blu-ray and DVD, watch the trailer)
"Cemetary Junction" (2010)
There was a time not long ago when we were on pins and needles in anticipation of this coming-of-age film from Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant. But our enthusiasm has been tempered by an underwhelming trailer and the film's inability to find U.S. distribution. Nonetheless, Gervais is a genius and anything he does is worth at least 90 minutes of our time. (On Blu-ray and DVD)
"Orlando" (1993)
The film that introduced Tilda Swinton to American audiences brings to life Virginia Woolf's novel, the story of a journey through time, of someone who lives for four hundred years, first as a man, then as a woman. (On DVD, watch the trailer)
"Hamlet" (1996)
Kenneth Branagh's adaptation of one of William Shakespeare's most beloved works finally comes out in a fancy new "Blu-ray book" edition. (On Blu-ray, Watch the trailer)
"The Good, the Bad & the Weird" (2010)
A hyper-stylized South Korean Western set in 1930s Manchuria about a bounty hunter chasing a hitman whose chasing a thief whose made off with a treasure map. Looks like it could be fun, if you're into that kind of thing. (On Blu-ray and DVD)
"Ca$h" (2010)
Sean Bean and Chris "Thor" Hemsworth star in this Australian crime thriller about a couple in Chicago who happen upon a suitcase full of money. But their luck flips from good to bad when a very bad man comes looking for it. (On DVD, watch the trailer)


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How Does My Doctor Know I Have Soft Tissue Sarcoma?
If you feel a lump or experience symptoms that might be caused by a soft tissue sarcoma, you should report them immediately to your doctor. Your doctor will attempt to find out what is causing the symptoms by asking you about the history of the symptoms. If your lump is painful, for instance, your doctor will want to know about the pain, including when it started and if there are things that make it worse. The doctor may also ask about possible risk factors, such as your family history.
The doctor will also do a careful physical exam. If you have a lump, your doctor will determine its size and shape and the effect it has had on surrounding areas. Depending on what your lump feels like and where it is, your doctor may order a biopsy to obtain a sample of the tissue in the lump. This will determine if the lump is a soft tissue sarcoma. Once the biopsy is done, your doctor may do one or more of these tests to obtain additional information:
Ultrasound. An ultrasound uses sound waves to determine whether a lump or mass is solid or if it is filled with fluid. Fluid-filled masses, called cysts, are much less likely to be a sarcoma.
Computed tomography (CT scan). In this test, an X-ray beam takes pictures of the body from different angles. These pictures are combined in a computer to produce a more detailed picture of the inside of your body.
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). This test shows soft tissues better than a CT scan. In this test, large magnets and radio waves produce detailed pictures of the inside of your body.
Chest X-ray. This is a common test to look for possible spread of sarcoma to the lungs.
Positron emission tomography (PET) scan. This test uses a very small amount of a radioactive sugar to look for areas of activity in the body that might be caused by a tumor. The results of this test are not detailed like a CT or MRI scan, but newer machines can combine PET and CT scans to give a more detailed picture of activity in the body.
These tests can help show if there is a growth, where it is, and sometimes whether it has spread. On occasion, 1 or more of these tests may be done prior to a biopsy. Your doctor may use the results to determine the cause of the problem, or he or she may order more tests. If your doctor does not order a test, it is OK to ask why it is not necessary.


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On Friday evening, my husband and myself attended a Mixed Mess Dinner at the Rideau Canal Junior Ranks Mess in Ottawa, Ontario, during which we welcomed and feted Second World War and Korean Conflict (War) veterans as guests of the mess.
It gave me time to reflect on what I had done during that day (reading the First World War diary entries on the Library and Archives Canada website) as the veterans were introduced, and as they said a few words to the assembled.
It was the first mixed mess I had been to, and when they stood—and drank toasts to the Queen and the three branches of service with their dram of port—it felt as if I was back in the olden days of the armed forces.
We weren't that far from Parliament Hill that evening, and as part of the Parliament Buildings, the cornerstone for the Peace Tower was laid by His Royal Highness Edward, Prince of Wales (King Edward VIII) in 1919 as a salute to the soldiers who had died in the First World War.
The Tower contains the Books of Remembrance - all seven of them* - and a page is turned each day at 11:00 a.m. <www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers/sub.cfm?source=collections/books/listing>.
The Memorial Chamber is where the books are located, and there is an observation gallery where one can see different views of the city.
*The seven books are:
- First World War
- Second World War
- Newfoundland
- The Korean War
- South African War/Nile Expedition
- The Merchant Navy
- In Service of Canada


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