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There is one thing i miss in Vienna to switch to it, it's the ability to see articles and there read status in the menu, like RSSMenu does (see screenshot).
It make it faster to check in my opinion. Is there any chance such feature be added to Vienna ?
List of articles in the menu ?
An RSS/Atom newsreader with features comparable to commercial newsreaders.
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Were you surprised to see that Google Maps was no longer being used on Foursquare's web offerings or iPhoto for iOS? The surprise move, especially because Google Maps is an unusually useful application, is based on one primary reason -- Google is now charging for its use.
According to Digital Trends, Google let companies using its Google Maps app know what was going to happen late last year:
The hammer truly dropped in October 2011, when Google finally revealed pricing for Google Maps services. Lightweight usage was still free — subject to terms of service, of course. However, significant load volumes would begin to incur charges: basically, services and applications that generated more 25,000 map loads per day would be charged $40 to $10 for every additional 1,000 map loads. For folks using styled maps — the most intensive and customized option — the initial threshold is 2,500 maps per day.
With prices like that it's not surprising that Foursquare and penny-pinching Apple decided against using Google's app. However, are there any other free apps that are just as good? Apple and Foursquare are now using OpenStreetMap, a British import that uses volunteers to create its maps -- a kind of map Wikipedia.
Is that as good as an app that uses billions of dollars in digital mapping technology? Oh, hell no. However, Apple and Foursquare haven't totally given up on Google Maps -- it can still be used on the iOS and Foursquare, just not on iPhoto and the Web, respectively -- but we expect they will as soon as they find an alternative. Apple has billions of dollars to burn and is likely working on its own mapping application, but until then users will have to be satisfied with a substandard free app.

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Carmelo Anthony leads New York Knicks over Detroit Pistons 121-100
Carmelo Anthony scored 29 points as the New York Knicks ended a two-game losing streak with a 121-100 victory over the Detroit Pistons in the NBA on Sunday.
Carmelo Anthony scored 29 points as the New York Knicks ended a two-game losing streak with a 121-100 victory over the Detroit Pistons in the NBA on Sunday.
Steve Novak added a season-high 18 and JR Smith had 15 points and 10 rebounds for the Knicks, who had started the season 6-0 before dropping consecutive games to the Memphis Grizzlies and Houston Rockets.
Brandon Knight scored 21 points and Charlie Villanueva had 17 for the Pistons, who have lost six straight games at Madison Square Garden.
The San Antonio Spurs got 32 points from Tony Parker and 26 from Tim Duncan to defeat the Toronto Raptors in double overtime 111-106.
Parker scored six of his points in the second overtime as the Spurs won their third straight game and improved their NBA-best road record to 7-1.
DeMar DeRozan scored 29 points and Lithuanian rookie Jonas Valanciunas added 22 for the Raptors, who have lost their past three games by a combined seven points.
The Brooklyn Nets beat the Portland Trail Blazers 98-85 for their fifth straight win at their new home in Brooklyn.
The Nets have won six of their first seven games on their new home court - the team's best start since the 2002-03 season when they won 18 of their first 19 at home.
Deron Williams had 15 points, 12 assists, four blocked shots and three steals to lead Brooklyn, while Joe Johnson added 21 points and Brook Lopez had 15.
The Boston Celtics outlasted the Orlando Magic 116-110 in overtime after trailing by as many as seven in the fourth quarter.
The Celtics were led by Kevin Garnett's 24 points and Paul Pierce's 23, while Rajon Rondo was one rebound shy of a triple double with 15 points, 16 assists and nine rebounds.
The Celtics won their second straight and earned their sixth consecutive win over the Magic, who got 21 points from J.J. Redick and 20 from Jameer Nelson.
The Philadelphia 76ers ended a two-game losing streak by edging the Phoenix Suns 104-101.
Jrue Holiday led the Sixers with a career-high 33 points and 13 assists, while Evan Turner added 16 points, Lavoy Allen had 11 and Thaddeus Young 10.
Kenneth Faried had his eighth double-double of the season with 14 points and 12 rebounds as the Denver Nuggets routed the New Orleans Hornets 102-84.
Andre Iguodala led the Nuggets with 23 points, while Ty Lawson had 17 points and six assists.


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For those of you with family, friends, property, etc. in the Northeast, we've temporarily added a Hurricane Irene storm-tracking widget created by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. It's the little map on the right side of this blog.
(Update: With the storm now largely over (8/29), we're taking it down. You can see what it looked like here.)
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Technical details of the first official Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow update:
- Device: Samsung Galaxy Note5
- Model number: SM-N920C
- Android version: 6.0.1
- Baseband version: N920CXXU2BPB2
- Kernel version: 3.10.61-7227966
dpi@SWHE2301 #1
Mon Feb 15 15:32:49 KST 2016
- Build number: MMB29K.N920CXXU2BPB6
Changelog details:
Features and or Enhancements
- OS upgrade to Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow.
- The new TouchWiz provides enhanced usability and an updated visual design.
- Quick connect helps you easily find and connect to nearby devices and pre-connection.
- Fingerprints are securely protected. An alternative unlock method (pattern,PIN, or password.
- Advanced power savin mode restricts background data and extends battery life.
- New enhanced users interface and a lot more.
The roll out has already began in Cambodia, but as we said earlier, it may continue to roll out to other countries any time soon. The Android Marshmallow firmware itself weights at 1337.05MB in file size, and it can be downloaded via Over-The-Air (OTA) and thru Smart Switch for PC.
How to Update the Galaxy Note5 (SM-N920C) to Official Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow
Prepare the following recommendations before you update your device, to keep it safe as possible. There is a risk involved upon updating, so make sure to follow this steps before you proceed.
- Check the remaining power percentage of the battery, it should be at least 50% or higher before you take the update. If it is lower to the recommended level, the device must be recharged first. Insufficient battery power may cause a fatal error if and when the update failed to initiate.
- Ensure that your device is connected to a strong WiFi connection. Some firmware update may take long enough to install and it will depend on how small or large the update file size is.
- Check the remaining storage space of your device memory if it still enough and can still store the file size of the incoming update. You can easily determine the incoming update's file size as it prompts you the exact details. The size may vary, some minor updates usually varies from 100MB to 200MB while major updates also usually varied from 500MB to 1000MB.
- Ensure to create a backup of your stored data in the device memory. You can easily backup your Galaxy Note 5 data by using Smart Switch. This process is very important and it is highly recommended before taking an update. You should secure you data first beforehand. If ever something might go wrong during the update process, and you might encounter a failure, you will not lose your data. Some fatal errors while performing the software update usually forces you to perform the factory reset in recovery mode. Doing so, will bring the device back to its original factory default settings but it deletes your stored data as it technically wipes and cleans out the device memory cache.
- Do not ever touch your phone if the updating process is already initiated. Just let the phone sit on top of your table and make sure it could not be interrupted on any part. You should not press any keys, nor turning the power off and or removing the battery. Do not disconnect the USB cable if you're performing an update using a computer.
- Make sure you Galaxy Note 5 has no root in it, and or running on any unofficial firmware. Keep in mind that a rooted and a modified phone will no longer receive any official firmware update from the dealer. Doing so, you will only receive the advisory message that says something like this;
"The operating system on your device has been modified in an unauthorized way. Try downloading software updates using Smart Switch on your computer or visit a customer service center."
Update your Galaxy Note5 via Over The Air (OTA Update)
The Over The Air (OTA) update requires you to connect your Galaxy Note 5 to a Wi-Fi network to avoid high data charges.
- From the device Home screen, simply tap Apps.
- Tap the Settings (gear icon).
- Tap the System tab.
- Tap About device.
- Tap Software update.
- Tap Check for updates.
- Tap the Install button, then OK.
Wait until the phone completely reboot before touching it. It may reboot (turn on and off) multiple times as the update might still at its finalization stage.
If the update is available, it will just prompt you the update's technical details including on how to download and install it. If somehow the update isn't available yet, it will also tell you that your device software is up to date. However, even if the update is already rolled out and you've already knew that it is officially released in your country and or network provider, you should also consider that the released usually take in stages and may also take days before it arrives on some areas. So you may have to wait and keep on checking until you get the update.
Update your Galaxy Note5 using your computer via Smart Switch PC
This method is always handy on some part, especially if you have missed the update and you're left behind to the update's scheduled dates that usually only took place and runs in weeks. You can still easily update your Galaxy Note 5 using your PC or Mac. All you need is a USB cable and then the Smart Switch firmware update tool. Smart Switch is similar to the before Kies that have been used to older devices. Also, Smart Switch has the capability to back up and restore your data in just a few clicks away.
- Download Smart Switch for PC and MAC computers version and then install it on your computer.
- Connect your Galaxy Note5 on your computer using the USB cable.
- Run Smart Switch, then wait until it recognizes the connection of the device. If the update is available it will automatically prompt you to update your device.
- Click on the Update button. Some other steps like on how to backup and restore your data is included in the instructions.
Again do not touch the phone like disconnecting the USB cable if the software update has started. You may need to wait much longer while updating via Smart Switch as your firmware is being served by Samsung itself. The Smart Switch firmware file is a much larger to the ones released via Over The Air but were still the same file.


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How I'm healing in MoP – Holy Pally 4eva: Holy Power Healing
Review time!
The three components of paladin healing:
1- Beacon of Light Usage
2- Holy Power building and sinking
3- Cooldown Management
Yesterday we explored Beacon, today we're doing Holy Power.
Holy Power: The Basics
Like a Rogue's combo points, different spells you cast will give you points of Holy Power, which you can sink on a fun mana-free heal of your choice. You can use either Holy Power sink whether you have one, two or three points, but the more points you have, the stronger the spell.
Since Mists, the game lets us collect up to five points at a time, but a full strength sink will only use up 3 points. (The extra points are there so if you overshoot your Holy Power building, the casts aren't wasted.)
Gaining Points Through Healing
We've got two healing spells that will always give us points and two spells that will give us points if we cast them on our Beacon target.
Holy Shock: Holy Shock (or, affectionately, HS) will give one point of Holy Power per cast. Since it's very mana efficient and of decent strength, you should be using it on cooldown. I'm not kidding. The first thing I do when someone hands me their logs is whip out my calculator and check their HS per minute.
Holy Radiance: Holy Radiance (HR) is cast on a target and AoEs to heal nearby allies. Unlike it's previous incarnation in Cataclysm, it does not heal over time. It's still a useful spell, but very expensive, so use it wisely.
Divine Light (DL): This is our strongest single target heal. Slow and relatively expensive, this is a spell you'll use on most, if not all fights, but that you have to use wisely if you don't want to find yourself gasping for mana. You'll gain a charge of Holy Power if, and only if, you cast Divine Light on your Beacon target.
Flash of Light: Flash of Light is our highest heal per second spell, but unfortunately, also our highest mana drain per second spell. Like DL, it grants Holy Power if you cast it on your Beacon target. As a general rule, you'll only want to use it in emergencies or for gimmicky fights. (I'll use it on Tsulong paired with Glyph of Flash of Light. I also used it early in the expansion as I was trying to heal through Gara'jal's Spirit World in my quest-green gear.)
Healing Spells that Will Not Give Holy Power
Because I'm trying to squeeze a full spell guide into this post, I needed to find a way to include Holy Light.
Holy Light: This is our small, cheap heal with the same cast time as Divine Light. It won't generate Holy Power, but it does have the advantage of completely transferring (that's 100%!) through Beacon. Good for when you're waiting for Holy Shock to come off cooldown, don't have the mana to cast Holy Radiance and aren't close enough to the boss to cast Crusader Strike.
Non-Healing Ways to Build Holy Power
"When you cast Word of Glory using 3 Holy Power you will gain 1 Holy Power."
– PvP 4 piece bonus
While you'll usually build up your Holy Power by healing, there are a few other ways to squeeze in a point.
Crusader Strike: If you're in melee range, Crusader Strike is a fast, cheap, easy way to get some extra Holy Power during times of more relaxed healing. I do find this tier to be unfriendly to healing in melee, but if you're able to pull it off, you'll be rewarded in Holy Power.
PvP 4 piece: For awhile, even the blue pvp set was considered better than raid gear because of how amazing the 4 piece bonus is (all this time, instead of doing dailies, you should have been doing BGs!). The 4 piece is still used quite frequently, especially by those who don't run with the pve tier 4 piece.
Level 75 Talents: Holy Avenger is a powerful cooldown that, when active, will make your Holy Power generating spells produce 3 points per cast instead of one. Sanctified Wrath will let you use Holy Shock more often when Avenging Wrath is active (and it lets Avenging Wrath be active longer) and Divine Purpose will sometimes give you a free 3 Holy Power strength spell after using a points sink. Which talent is best is debatable and more or less up to personal preference. See Talent section for more details.
Glyph of Blessed Life: I'm only adding this for the sake of completion. In PvE, you'll never be feared, stunned or immobilized enough for a 50% single point proc to be useful.
Sinking Your Holy Power
As soon as you get 3 points of Holy Power, sink them. You're allowed to bank two extra points if you go over, but going over should really only happen by accident. There's no point in sitting on Holy Power.
You get two choices of where you sink your power.
Word of Glory/Eternal Flame: A strong, mana-free single target heal. The level 45 talent Eternal Flame adds a heal over time (HoT) component to it as well.
Light of Dawn (LoD): A multi target one-time heal. Can be modified with Glyph of Light of Dawn if desired. If someone chooses to heal with LoD as their primary Holy Power sink, they should consider taking Sacred Shield as their level 45 talent, as Eternal Flame is wasted if you never cast Word of Glory.
Opting for Light of Dawn as your primary Holy Power sink is often referred as "traditional" or "normal" healing: you rack up Holy Power, and at three points you hit your "Light of Dawn" button. Your Beacon target receives 15% of the healing you emit and you can use Sacred Shield as a bubble on your healing target.
Eternal Flame healing involves having as many Eternal Flame HoTs rolling on different players at a time. In addition to, well, healing them over time, the HoTs contribute to Mastery bubbles meaning those players will take less damage, AND the total healing (including overheal) transfers 50% through Beacon.
Raw healing potential wise, as far as I can tell, Eternal Flame healing beats Light of Dawn healing. Period.
In practice, though, both styles can be strong and viable. In the guild I'm raiding with now (they're middle of road in terms of progression), I'm an Eternal Flame healer and one of my co-pallies uses Light of Dawn/Sacred Shield and we put out roughly the same numbers (however, I am just coming back from a month-long hiatus and am new to the team, which means I'm rusty, less geared and still learning the damage patterns. I'll get back to you once I'm healing at full strength!)
Sinking at One Holy Power vs at Three Holy Power
I've been experimenting with this and reviewing logs from top guilds, and it does seem that sinking at 3 Holy Power beats sinking at 1, despite how much long it takes to build up that power. Though the paladins in the logs I've been reading likely used the PvP 4 piece. If you use the PvP 4 piece, you should definitely only be casting at 3 Holy Power – anything less would defeat the purpose.
However, as Talarian points out in the comments, the Eternal Flame HoT scales linearly (so if your 1 hp EF ticks for 200, your 2 hp EF will tick for 400 and your 3 hp EF will tick for 600), 3 people (non-tanks) with 1 Holy Power EF should come out to the same as one person with a 3 Holy Power EF. Better perhaps, because you've got 3 people getting little heals, rather than one person getting overhealed. Exception may be in certain 10 man fights where it is possible to have 2-3 Holy Power on the entire raid at once (this never happens on 25 man unless, by some godly intervention, you get 25 consecutive Divine Purpose procs).
And as Rades points out, the more times you cast Eternal Flame, the more chances you have of procing Divine Purpose, if you're specced into it. Then, there's also that emergency situations where you're almost mana dry, need to get a heal out AT THAT VERY SECOND, Holy Shock is on cooldown and all you have is one flimsy Holy Power. That one Holy Power might be what prevents the wipe.
So one Holy Power or three? If you're using the PvP bonus, three. On the tanks, three if possible. Other than that, use your discretion.
(Thank you to Talarian and Rades for your imput!)
And that completes another section of Holy Pally 4eva!
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January 8, 2013 at 9:14 pm
Interesting about the sinking 1 HP vs 3 HP. Given that the spells should scale linearly with HP, what brought you to that conclusion?
I mean, if I'm Eternal Flame Blanketing, I pretty much use 3 HP Eternal Flames on the tanks and then maybe a couple 1 HP EF on raid members, but is my original assumption about linear scaling off?
January 8, 2013 at 10:11 pm
It's also interesting to consider another aspect of using 1HP Word of Glory / Eternal Flames – to potentially proc a free 3HP from Divine Purpose. If your HP generators are on CD and you need that powerful heal RIGHT NOW it might be worth the gamble to use your lone HP to try to get a full free WoG…though it's a risk, haha.
It might be useful when you're OOM also though, rather than wait for Holy Shock CD / enough mana to Holy Radiance? Toss the 1HP WoG, and pray you get a proc (or maybe even a string of procs, as Divine Purpose likes to do)
January 8, 2013 at 11:22 pm
Interesting point about Divine Purpose is that the proc chance is normalized with the HP you spend. A 1 HP cast is about 8.33% chance to proc, a 2 HP cast is about 16.67%, and a 3 HP cast is the full 25%. Sadly this information isn't listed in game, but WoWHead's comments as well as numerous posts on WoW's forums (but haven't found the patch notes or a blue post which confirms).
Thankfully once you've procced Divine Purpose, further casts count as 3 HP casts so it's easier to continue chaining once you're up and running versus hoping that you hit Divine Purpose when using that 1 HP LoD/WoG.


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WBRC, Channel 6 in Birmingham runs a feature on things around Alabama with Fred Hunter. He recently visited Battleship Memorial Park in Mobile and included a chat with former 627 Sailor, Tom Bowser.
You can see the video here (about 5 minutes total)
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Absolutely Alabama: Battleship Memorial Park and USS Drum
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This is the latest of many trading card games that feature Boba Fett.
From the press release:
Galactic Hunters adds 180 new playable cards, each with original Star Wars themed artwork, and all-new loot for use in-game:
The most feared scum and villainy in the galaxy �'¢â'¬â€�" Players can add a host of powerful, iconic bounty hunters to their card collections, including Boba Fett, IG-88, Bossk, Zuckuss and 4-LOM.
Bounty hunter-inspired loot cards �'¢â'¬â€�" More than 20 new bounty hunter-inspired loot cards will be available and are redeemable for virtual items in the Star Wars Galaxies massively multiplayer online game (MMO) *, including the Armored Bantha Mount, the Zam Wesell Airspeeder, plus the first-ever loot collection reward, the Merr-Sonn JT-12 jetpack!
More information about the Star Wars Galaxies Trading Card Game and its second expansion, Galactic Hunters, along with the game's trial can be found at www.StarWarsGalaxies.com/tradingcardgame.


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The Dream Team Project, through its founder, Lou Mongello, and countless volunteers, is working to help make a child's wish come true. With your help, we can send a seriously ill child and their family to Walt Disney World with the help of the Make-A-Wish Foundation
The Dream Team Project was founded by author, webmaster, and podcaster Lou Mongello for the purpose of raising money to grant the wishes of children with serious illnesses to visit Walt Disney World. Portions of the proceeds from the sale of all merchandise sold on his web site, as well as personal donations made by Lou Mongello, donations from community members and friends, the WDW Radio Running Team, and the proceeds of special fundraising events run by the Dream Team Project are all used to help make the life of a child a bit brighter during a difficult time for them and their family.
"Because you can't smile on the outside without feeling better on the inside", is the slogan chosen by the Dream Team, because it sums up the purpose of their mission. There are many fundraisers for medical research, which is in need of funding, but that money may not help a family suffering today. Through the work of wish-granting organizations, we are helping a child and their family now, giving them time away from the grim reality of hospitals and doctors, and a chance to smile and feel better, even if only for a little while. The happy memories the family creates, however, will last a lifetime.
The Dream Team Project is raising money for the Make-A-Wish Foundation of America through their secure donation page on the Make-A-Wish Foundation web site. Read more about the Dream Team Project's sponsorship with Make-A-Wish here
To donate to the Dream Team Project visit our secure fundraising page at the Make-A-Wish Foundation web site
Thank you for your support — and please forward a link to this page to anyone you think might want to help!
A message from Lou:
It is my intention to raise money to send children with life-threatening medical conditions and their families to Walt Disney World. Rather than donate money to cancer research, I wanted to help a child and their family now, when they may need it most. Although cancer research is in serious need of funding and donations, I wanted to make a difference for a child today. A child and their family who may be suffering physically, emotionally and spiritually, are also often struggling financially to pay for hospital bills and other medical expenses. Not only is it difficult to deal with the illness itself, but often children are confined to a hospital or bed.
By granting their wish to go to Walt Disney World, we can help make a child's life a bit brighter by spending some time away from the hospital, and in one of the happiest places on Earth.
This wish trip, sponsored by the Dream Team Project through the Make-A-Wish Foundation, can make all the difference in a family's life. These children can, even if just for a few days, forget about the pain and fear of their medical treatment, while parents and siblings can focus on enjoying time together, rather than the stress of the illness. The granting of a wish like this will undoubtedly bring smiles and joy to the children and their families that will likely have been absent from their lives.
The more money that we raise, the greater the number of children who can benefit.
If you are wondering why I chose to do this, the answer is simple First, I wanted to give a child who may not otherwise have an opportunity to visit and enjoy Walt Disney World, a place I feel so passionate about.
Second, I wanted to help a pediatric cancer patient for profound personal reasons. My father is a recent cancer survivor, having endured a long and painful diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer. The team at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City afforded my father the finest, caring treatment we could hope for, and thankfully, he appeared to have beaten this dreadful disease.
My wife's father was not as fortunate. She lost him just weeks after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer when she was only 16. She, like so many others, suffered a profound loss whose pain can never diminish.
I decided while going with my father for his treatments every day for many months that I wanted to do something to help. While at the hospital, I was saddened to see so many children who were there as patients. So, rather than donate money to cancer research, which is a necessary cause, I wanted to help someone today. Help a child now who can enjoy the benefits of our donation.
In November, 2009, my father was diagnosed once again with cancer of his pancreas, liver and lungs, and passed in early February, 2010, so my passion and resolve for the efforts of the Dream Team Project mean more than ever.
I am personally asking you for your help to make a profound difference in the lives of children and their families. Portions of the proceeds from every purchase of logo merchandise made from the web site will go towards this cause. Additionally, I will personally take a portion of the proceeds from every Trivia book sold and put it towards this fund.
Together, we can be part of what I call the "Dream Team Project." Your help will put a smile on their face and help make a child's dreams of going to Walt Disney World come true.
My sincere thanks for any help you can provide.
– Lou Mongello


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How do i switch my video card output on Ubuntu Server 11.10? It has a video card with one DVI and one VGA. It's defaulting to the VGA. I want it to default to the DVI.
I only have ssh connection via the network and no monitor until i can switch to the DVI output.
What's the command or config file i have to mess with to switch to the DVI output on the Video Card?


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Charles Fraser Comfort (1900-1994) was a distinguished Canadian painter and Director of the National Gallery of Canada (1960-1965).
Born in Scotland, Comfort came to Winnipeg in 1912. Comfort worked in the office of F.H. Brigden, R.C.A., and studied at the Winnipeg School of Art. He then continued his studies under Robert Henri, at the Art Students' League, New York. Comfort returned to Canada in 1923, and married Louise Irene Chase (1902-1998) the following year. They lived in Toronto, where Comfort established a commercial studio, and taught at the Ontario College of Art (1935-1938) and at the University of Toronto (1938-1960).
During the second World War, Comfort served in Europe as an official war artist. Following the war, he returned to his teaching position in Toronto and continued working as an artist. During this period, he studied seventeenth-century Dutch master techniques in the Netherlands, contributed articles to Canadian journals, and published his war memoir. In 1960, Comfort was appointed Director of the National Gallery of Canada. At the conclusion of his five-year term, he resumed painting.
During a long and distinguished career, Charles Comfort enjoyed the friendship of Canadian artists, writers and critics. He held memberships in numerous art societies, including the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour (charter member, 1926), Canadian Society of Graphic Art, Ontario Society of Artists, Canadian Group of Painters (founding member, 1933), and Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (president, 1957-1960). Among many honours, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1972.
The Library of Charles and Louise Comfort consists of more than 800 books, exhibition catalogues and periodicals, published mainly since the beginning of the twentieth century. The Library is rich in association copies, inscriptions, annotations and related ephemera, such as greeting cards and personal letters. The Comfort Library includes examples of Canadian illustrated books, which are among the chief collecting interests of the National Gallery of Canada. Artists such as Edwin Holgate (1892-1977), Laurence Hyde (1914- ), Thoreau MacDonald (1901-1989) and others are represented. In scope, the Library reflects the various interests of Charles and Louise Comfort. Visual arts are strongly represented, including the history and theory of art, methods and materials in painting, and studies of individual artists. The second World War is a prominent subject, including histories, memoirs, works of literature and catalogues of exhibitions inspired by the War.
The National Gallery of Canada received the Library of Charles and Louise Comfort in two parts. Part one was donated in 1996 by Charles Comfort's widow, Louise Comfort, now deceased. Part two was in the possession of Charles and Louise Comfort's daughter, Ruth Comfort Jackson, who died in 1998. Ruth Jackson's husband, Mr. Ray Jackson, donated Part two to the National Gallery of Canada in 1999.


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I've installed a new phpbb extension which causes the forum to only show the first post in a thread unless you login. I'm hoping that this will encourage people to become more actively involved here. At the very least it should make lurkers mindful of the singular resource they are accessing in these forums.
Now I'm off to figure out Google Analytics.


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Herby chickpea balls with tomato sauce
Nutrition and extra info
- Vegetarian
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal607
- fat19g
- saturates6g
- carbs85g
- sugars9g
- fibre6g
- protein30g
- salt2.15g
- 2 slices white bread, crusts off and torn into pieces
- 75g parmesan, or vegetarian alternative, 50g roughly chopped and 25g grated
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- 400g can chickpea, drained
- 3 garlic cloves, 2 roughly chopped and 1 crushed
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- small handful basil leaves, chopped
- 1 egg, beaten
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- 1 tbsp olive oil, plus extra for greasing
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This was a speech full of contrasts and surprises. In supporting the legislation, Walsh--a Republican representing Walla Walla--had to break ranks with her party. She's a heterosexual, supporting the rights of homosexuals. And she said, right at the start, that she wasn't as eloquent as others in the legislature, then wowed the house and the rest of the world.
That's because Walsh dug deep to explain her support. Describing herself as a "lonely old widow," she said "When I think of my husband and I think of all the years that we had...I don't miss the sex," to some laughter. Instead, she said she misses "that incredible bond I had with that human being," underscoring that the legislation wasn't about supporting sex, but about supporting stable relationships.
She brought that sense of justice back to herself, noting that if others hadn't spoken up for women's rights, she was "not sure I would be here as a woman." It's a heartfelt speech, one that any parent or child can relate to. Walsh, speaking of her daughter's coming out as a lesbian, said "Someday, by God, I want to throw a wedding for that kid," dismissing the term "domestic partnership" as a term "which frankly sounds like a Merry Maids franchise to me." "I was proud of myself because I didn't cry," she told a newspaper reporter later. "When I really got emotional was afterward when my daughter texted me and said, 'You rock, Mom!'" Here's what you can learn from this famous speech:
- Personal details make your speech memorable: Specific personal details are what make your speech one-of-a-kind. In this speech, Walsh shared a very personal perspective and details about her immediate family, making a polarized debate understandable at a basic level and giving her listeners plenty to relate to and like.
- Speaking personally can insulate your remarks from attack: Using "I" statements will always work better for you than the more accusatory "you" statements in a debate. After all, no one can take your feelings and personal details away from you. By making a big issue a personal one, Walsh made it more difficult for her viewpoint to be attacked.
- The unexpected is what audiences most want, but don't get: An element of surprise in a well-worn debate is always thrown into high relief, but even in an average presentation or everyday speech, audiences crave the unexpected--the things that make us stop and think, or that delight us at a moment when we expect to be bored.
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Powell: Trayvon Martin verdict 'questionable'
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former Secretary of State Colin Powell says the jury verdict that freed the killer of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin was "questionable." But he isn't sure it will have staying power in the public consciousness.
Speaking on CBS's Face the Nation, Powell said cases like Martin's "blaze across the midnight sky" and are forgotten.
The first black chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and first black secretary of state, Powell says America has come a long way toward racial equality 50 years after Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech. Powell recalled being refused service when trying to buy a hamburger before the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Minorities have many more opportunities today, but Powell says King would still demand work on education, housing and economic opportunities.


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I am currently running os 5.0.230 and have a 2 GB media card w/ 1.4 mb free , I have a lot of free memory on my tour. I have a mpeg 4 file of a dvd movie that is 480 X 320 resolution, data rate 564 kbps total bitrate 692 kbps, 15 frames per second and audio rate is 128 kps. When I try to transfer this file from my pc to the media card on the bb., I get an error and the file that is transferred to the sd card says it is not supported when I try to open it in media player on the tour.
I have avs video conversion software and windows 7 (64 bit) on my pc and converted the above referenced file to an avi file (shown to be for bb 81xx in avs software). This file transfers to the tour card and plays for about 6 minutes (it's a full length movie). It then freezes the tour and I need to reboot. One other thing, I also am not able to fast forward at all during the first few minutes that play normally on the video. Same thing happens each time I try to play the movie...(also happens with other mpeg 4 files that I have tried to convert as well, so I don't think it's a corrupted file)
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MONTREAL – Earl Jones pleaded guilty last month to two counts of defrauding his clients of slightly more than $50 million from 1982 to 2009. The charges were broken into two time periods to take into consideration changes to the sentencing provisions which occurred in 2004.
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Den Tandt: PM Stephen Harper needs a new stump speech
Is that all there is?
If you're a Conservative supporter, you could be forgiven for wondering.
We've now a little more than a year to run until the next federal election campaign. In virtually every poll, Justin Trudeau's Liberals lead the Tories. In the byelection sweepstakes, the Grits' vote share is surging, the Conservatives' faltering, the New Democrats' crumbling.
But as far as the PMO message track is concerned, it's business as usual.
Saturday evening, in a speech to a friendly Calgary Stampede audience, Prime Minister Stephen Harper had a fine opportunity to show that he understands the way the game is changing, or at least carve out a bit of new rhetorical territory. Instead, he stuck to the long-established path – some will call it a rut – laid down in many previous prime ministerial speeches.
Why is the Conservative government so awesome, and deserving of an extraordinary fourth term, after nearly a decade in power? It's the economy, stupid. Unlike the spendthrifts across the aisle, who will take your hard-earned money and blow it on massive, wasteful and ineffective new government programs, the Conservatives can be relied upon to lower taxes, stimulate job creation, and bolster free trade. Huzzah.
Whom does the Conservative government champion? Look no further than the prime minister's speech for an answer; hard-working families, that's who. If you're a soccer mom or hockey dad who holds down a steady job and regularly breakfasts at Tim's, chances are you're among the blessed. If you're lazy, sluggardly, shiftless or indolent – or, God forbid, single — you may find a home among the Liberals, but you probably have no business in the Big Blue tent.
Why are we all safer with Tories in charge? "If, God forbid, Canadians are attacked, or robbed," The Canadian Press quotes Harper as saying, "if they lose someone they love to a murderer, or if they see their children driven to suicide by bullying and harassment … the first thing they want their government to do is not make excuses for criminals but to stick up for victims."
Liberals hug thugs and care only for ensuring criminals have a full range of cable TV and gluten-free dessert options in their sumptuously appointed cells. The Conservatives, thank goodness, will punish the evildoers with various mandatory minimum sentences, and never mind the lawyerly weenies and eggheads who say these don't deter crime, and in some cases are unconstitutional.
About Trudeau personally, meantime, Harper offered the customary bon mots: "He will repeal our reforms … he will restore that key Liberal principle of criminal justice, that the offender must be considered innocent even after being proved guilty … whatever you want, they'll spend money on it and you can have it … he has nothing – absolutely nothing – of substance to offer."
The narrative of Trudeau as an empty vessel with little but name, toothy grin and hair to his credit first became current in early 2012. It got a road test during the Liberal leadership campaign in 2012 and early 2013, as contenders such as Martha Hall Findlay and Marc Garneau used it to what they believed was good effect. The Tories then picked up the ball in April of 2013 in the first of a series of attack ads, and they have been running it doggedly downfield ever since, up to and including Saturday in Calgary.
All through that period, Trudeau and the Liberals have steadily improved their position. One does not have to be Alexis de Tocqueville to appreciate that something in Harper's message is misfiring.
Here's what it is, in a nutshell: Character.
Friday at the Stampede, Liberal photographer Adam Scotti snapped a photo of Trudeau and his six-year-old son, Xavier, in an informal encounter with the PM.
Aside from the wildly improbable irony of this prime minister, who has his own particular narrative to contend with, allowing himself to be photographed wearing a black hat, next to Trudeau in a white one, the photo is telling.
For starters, it speaks well of both men that they would set aside politics in this way, for a brief moment. But equally clearly, Trudeau is ushering his son into the handshake with his arch-rival – a gesture of respect for the office, and also the idea that one can oppose a politician's views, but not demonize them personally. Following this little human exchange, Harper engaged in further demonization. Attack ad, redux.
If it were effective demonization, one could at least try to justify it using the excuse of expediency. But it has proven for two years now not to work – including in the most recent round of byelections. The personal attacks merely reinforce Harper's own negatives, while bouncing harmlessly off his nemesis.
Could Harper, at this advanced stage of his career and with so much water under the bridge, credibly re-invent himself as a "white-hat" politician? Well, no. But he could, and should, offer something beyond the usual tired bromides about the economy, and personal attacks on Trudeau, to persuade Canadians he deserves another turn at bat.


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Look closely and you'll see that some of them do! But in general, they are concentrating deeply, just like outfielders waiting for the fly ball or pitchers winding up to a curve ball. They're "in the Zone." After the music is over, you may see them smiling broadly. If it was a concerto, and they liked the soloist's playing, they won't just smile—the string players will tap their stands with their bows as a sign of appreciation.
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Breathing can be hard after you've had surgery, when you have pneumonia or a lung disease like COPD, or if you're on bed rest. You may find that you can only take small, shallow breaths. Breathing this way makes it harder to get air into your lungs and can cause fluid and mucus to build up in your lungs. This could cause a serious lung infection like pneumonia.
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A flexible plastic tube is connected to a large and small air column. The large column has a piston or ball that moves up each time you breathe in. This column measures how much air you breathe in. Your effort is marked in units of milliliters. A smaller column measures your effort as "good," "better," or "best."
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An incentive spirometer can help prevent a buildup of fluid and mucus in your lungs.
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When you use an incentive spirometer, you'll breathe in air through a tube that is connected to a large air column containing a piston or ball. As you breathe in, the piston or ball inside the column moves up. The height of the piston or ball shows how much air you breathed in.
You may feel lightheaded when you breathe in deeply for this exercise. If you feel dizzy or like you're going to pass out, stop the exercise and rest.
You may only be able to raise the piston or ball a short distance up the column at first. As you use the spirometer, you should be able to breathe in more air over time and get back to the level that is normal for you.
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Repeat steps 1 through 5 as many times as your doctor tells you to. Then go to step 6.
If you just had surgery on your belly or chest, hold a pillow over your incision when you cough. This will support your belly or chest and reduce your pain.
Repeat steps 1 through 6 as many times a day as your doctor tells you to.
View a slideshow of how to use an incentive spirometer.
Write it down
Each time you do this exercise, keep track of your progress by writing down how high the piston or ball moves up the large column. This will help you and your doctor know how well your lungs are working.
When you use an incentive spirometer, the piston or ball inside the large air column moves up. The height of the piston or ball shows how much air you breathed in.
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Symposium reveals reality of human trafficking in Alachua County
by Leslie Cowan
In 2010, slavery is still alive and well. According to statistics compiled by the U.S. Department of State and distributed by the sponsors of the Levin College of Law Human Trafficking Symposium, 27 million people worldwide are slaves, dehumanized and traded as commodities.
On Jan. 28, the Levin College of Law hosted a Human Trafficking Symposium, which included a presentation by Dr. Luz E. Nagle and a panel discussion featuring local Alachua County experts explaining the scope of human trafficking in Alachua County. The symposium served as the capstone presentation to a week-long initiative sponsored by LexisNexis, CARIB-LAW, the Immigration Law Association, and the Association for Public Interest Law to foster awareness and discussion among the law school community.
Nagle, professor of law at Stetson Law School and a former judge in Colombia, presented a lecture titled, "Impact of Globalization on Human Trafficking: An Era of Globalized Servitude," in which she provided a comprehensive overview of the international problem of human trafficking, and how disintegrating borders and intermingling economies have made human trafficking more common.
Nagle defined human trafficking as a crime against a person being transported into a foreign country or to another location within his or her home country. The person being moved either does not consent to being moved, or his or her consent has been obtained through coercion or deception. Nagle also explained that the victim is not free to leave and may be told that he or she owes a debt to the captor, which may be paid off only through labor or sexual servitude.
"This is a crime that crosses nations' borders. What we see today is that organized crime has benefited from what we call 'globalization,'" Nagle explained, urging that "international cooperation becomes crucial."
What may have come as surprising to many audience members is that the United States is one of the top destination countries for human trafficking, Nagle stated.
Perhaps even more shocking is that human trafficking abounds even in Alachua County.
Following Nagle's presentation, Levin College of Law Professor Kenneth Nunn served as moderator for a panel discussion composed of Gregory McMahon, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Florida, Dr. Sherry Kitchens, President / CEO of the Alachua County Human Trafficking Task Force, and Detective Tyson Elliot, of the Alachua County Special Victims Unit for Human Trafficking Division. The panelists discussed the prevalence of human trafficking in Alachua County.
McMahon discussed the issue of diminished credibility when a child victim of human trafficking testifies against an adult male who denies any involvement in a crime. He also discussed the difficulties concerning human trafficking which are unique to undocumented immigrants. These difficulties include language barriers as well as the constant threat of deportation that their captors may wield over them as leverage to prevent them from contacting law enforcement. McMahon emphasized strong prosecution as key to stopping human trafficking.
Elliot emphasized the importance of proactive law enforcement in ensuring that proper legal consequences are enforced. In a hypothetical case of an adult male paying for sex with a fifteen-year-old prostitute, Elliot said that some counties would respond by charging both the man and the girl with misdemeanor prostitution, rather than addressing the possibility of human trafficking and seeking help for the girl.
Kitchens shared a story of a thirteen-year-old victim of child sex trafficking that she treated in her capacity as a counselor. Although she once escaped sexual servitude, the girl was later found again by her former pimp and forced back into the world of human trafficking. Kitchens used the story to show how easily victims are drawn back into sex trafficking, and how tenacious their captors can be.
During the question and answer session, one audience member asked a poignant question: "what can I do to help?"
In response, Elliot advised consulting the Health and Human Services Web site or the Alachua County Sheriff Department's Web site if one has information regarding a suspected human trafficking situation which does not require immediate attention, but instead necessitates further investigation. Kitchens advocated community awareness of human trafficking, such that community members will be more vigilant in noticing the signs that someone may be a victim.
Professor Nunn concluded the panel discussion by echoing Kitchens' sentiments and expressing hope that if a community is informed about human trafficking and offers services to victims, perhaps victims who are able to come forward will be encouraged to do so and break free of the entrapment of slavery.


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"I spent 33 years….being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street, and the bankers. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1916. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City (Bank) boys to collect revenue in. I helped in the rape of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street…. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested."
Marine Major General Smedley Butler
August 21, 1931 to an American Legion convention
The more things change the more they stay the same. America has a long and illustrious history of imperialistic feats as was so eloquently portrayed by Smedley Butler in 1931. The recent intervention of NATO led by the United States in the Libyan civil war is just the latest example of U.S./Western imperialism.
It all started with a massive deception. Security Council Resolution 1973 was limited in scope and simply called for the imposition of a "No Fly Zone" over Libya to protect threatened civilians from tyrant Muammar Qaddafi's wrath. The intent was clear and mostly responsible for its passage through the Security Council as members Russia, China, India, Brazil, and Germany voted to abstain instead of against the resolution.
However, from the very beginning NATO's intent to liberate Libya not just protect its citizens became clear. NATO bombings went beyond aircraft, anti-aircraft batteries and the like to troop formations, oil installations, and other infrastructure. Even though Obama said there would be no need for "boots on the ground", reports broke that American Special Forces had been on the ground prior to the beginning of the social unrest?
Why the special interest in Libya?
There is no doubt it has nothing to do with the well-being of the Libyan people. It is all about Libya's oil reserves. In 2004, after Qaddafi ended his quest for weapons of mass destruction, President George W. Bush lifted sanctions against Libya. Since then American companies have invested heavily in Libya. For instance, energy giants ConocoPhillips and Marathon have each invested about $700 million.
Perhaps not understanding how the system of Western corporatism functions, Qaddafi over time began demanding tougher contract terms, big bonuses up front, and most remarkably he demanded that global oil companies operating in Libya pay the $1.5 billion bill for Libya's role in the attack on Pan Am Flight 103 and other terrorist attacks or face "serious consequences" for their oil leases. Possibly the last straw for Western imperialists was Qaddafi's plan to unite African and Arab states under a new currency to rival the dollar and Euro. Under the proposal, oil and other resources would be sold only for gold dinars. The economic implications for the West would be immense.
So when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was in Tripoli last week shortly after Qaddafi's slaying in the streets of Misrata, it was difficult for her to hold back her glee at another conquest for Western corporate interests. Even before Qaddafi's death on October 20, representatives from 80 French firms arrived in Tripoli to meet officials of the Transitional National Council. And in the meantime, British defense minister, Philip Hammond strongly advised British companies to "pack their Suitcases' for Libya.
If you look up 'western companies returning to Libya" on Google News there are a slew of articles about American and European security, construction, infrastructure, and oil companies being ready, willing, and able to "carve-up" the spoils of war there. Funny how those same corporations didn't spend the billions of dollars it took to "liberate" Libya. Of course, that was done by the taxpayers in NATO countries.
And so the more things change the more they stay the same. In Smedley Butler's day, the admissions in his speech rocked the country to its core. Perhaps someday in the future another courageous American commander from the Libyan war will make a similar speech acknowledging his complicity in Western imperialism in that country. But with the internet and the growth of the alternative media that speech is unnecessary. Anybody has the ability to find the truth on their own.
Article first published as The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same on Blogcritics.


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Audiences in the New York tri-state area will soon have access to everything TheBlaze TV has to offer thanks to deal struck with Cablevision Systems Corp. (NYSE: CVC).
Cablevision's Optimum TV audiences in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut will now have access to TheBlaze TV programs, including "The Glenn Beck Program," "Real News," and "B.S. of A.," as well as documentaries and original specials.
"Optimum TV is the only cable provider in the Tri-State area to bring our customers original programming from Glenn Beck's TheBlaze, and the independent network will add more diversity to our strong line-up, providing our customers with more choices that our customers appreciate," Bradley Feldman, Cablevision's vice president of video product management, said in a statement.
This is the latest step in TheBlaze's ongoing efforts to expand its network to a wider audience since first launching on Sept. 12, 2011.
Formerly known as GBTV, TheBlaze TV has quickly grown into one of the world's largest online streaming networks with over 300,000 subscribers.
"TheBlaze is the rare independent network that has a built in passionate audience, and therefore adds value to Optimum TV's channel line-up," TheBlaze President of Business Development Lynne Costantini said in a statement. "TheBlaze serves a growing conservative and libertarian audience, and we are pleased to work with Cablevision on bringing our network to Optimum TV customers."
TheBlaze TV will be available in May to Optimum's residential customers with the Optimum Preferred, Silver and Gold Packages.
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Christine DiMattei
Years ago, after racking her brains trying to find a fun, engaging, creative nighttime gig to subsidize her acting habit, Chris decided to ride her commercial voiceover experience into the fast-paced world of radio broadcasting. She started out with traffic reporting, moved on to news . . . and never looked back. Since then, Chris has worked in newsrooms throughout South Florida, producing stories for radio broadcasts and the web.
In her other life, she has been married to 12 husbands (including a not-so-wild boar and a garden slug), given birth to 15 children, died four times, twice taken vows as a nun and once been abducted by pirates in the Caribbean. And all this by doing English language dubbing for dozens of foreign films, soap operas and cartoons.
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By Patti Carpenter, Greybull Standard
In spite of efforts by the Cloud Foundation, an advocacy organization for wild horses based in Colorado, approximately 40 stray horses on BLM land north of Greybull were rounded up by helicopters and are currently being held at a stockyard in Shelby, Mont. According to Ginger Kathrens, founder of the Cloud Foundation, the horses are on their way to a slaughterhouse in Canada.
Sara Beckwith of the BLM Cody Office said that since the horses were not wild mustangs, the BLM did not conduct any public meetings prior to the roundup, which took place on March 18 and 19. She said the horses were a herd that procreated over as many as 40 years out of domestic horses that were abandoned in the area throughout the years.
"These horses were very wild in their behavior, much wilder than the wild horses, actually. That is why a helicopter roundup was necessary," said Beckwith. "Regular wild horses go willingly into bait traps."
Beckwith was adamant that the horses were domestic horses and were in no way connected to any of the nearby wild horse herds.
"I want to emphasize that these horses were not part of the McCullough Peaks herd or any wild mustang herd. Since those herds are managed using fertility control, it is no longer necessary to do this type of large scale gather with them."
Beckwith said the roundup was conducted by Cattoor Livestock Roundup, Inc., based in Nephi, Utah. She indicated that the roundup was done in cooperation with the Wyoming State Livestock Board and Cattoor is the only company the state uses.
Catoor states on its website that it is in the business of helping capture, process, and transport wild horses, burros and wild cattle in "the most humane way possible."
"We have been contracting wild horse roundups for the Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Forest Service, and private individuals since 1975. We have humanely captured over 150,000 wild horses, wild burros and wild cattle during these 35 years," states the company's website.
"Over the years, we have purchased and built equipment, developed techniques and learned the best methods to assure the safety of the animals. We employ experienced helicopter pilots and wranglers that really care about the animals. All of this minimizes the stress on the animals during wild horse roundups."
Beckwith said the horses were inspected for brands and a notice was published in local newspapers prior to the roundup. A notice appeared in the Greybull Standard on March 6 and in the Basin Republican Rustler on March 13. The state also published a general notice regarding stray livestock in both newspapers on Jan. 2. She said since no one stepped forward to claim the horses, they were sold to the highest bidder.
Though Beckwith stated the horses were not sold for slaughter, an investigation conducted by Paula Todd King, Communications Director of the Cloud Foundation, revealed that the horses were sold to Bouvry Exports, a large Canadian slaughterhouse that also owns the stockyard where the horses are currently being held in Shelby, Mont.
Wyoming Dept. of Livestock brand inspector Frank Barrett confirmed that 41 horses were rounded up in an area south of Sheep Mountain. He said he inspected for brands and observed Cattoor round up the horses using helicopters and then loading them into large horse trailers. He said the horses were then taken to a livestock auction yard in Worland, where the horses were separated by category and by sex and held in separate pens. He also confirmed that the horses were sold to a single buyer, Bouvry, and taken to the stockyard owned by Bouvry in Shelby. He said he was not aware of the company being in the slaughter business.
Barrett said he was surprised to see the horses were fat and looked good physically. He said the horses were "educated," and therefore difficult to capture, since they had been chased in the past by motorists, four-wheelers and people on horseback.
"I wouldn't necessarily call them afraid," he said. "I would say they were smarter than average, which made them hard to round up."
He said he was impressed with the Cattoor operation.
"I personally couldn't have handled it as well as they did," he said.
Cloud Foundation founder Ginger Kathrens said she felt heartbroken that rescue organizations were not given the opportunity to adopt the horses and save them from slaughter.
"I think it is inhumane that they weren't even given a chance to be adopted," said Kathrens. "It doesn't matter if they were technically wild or not, this was not kind or fair."
Kathrens said a representative of the Cloud Foundation contacted the stockyard in Shelby owned by Bouvry and offered to purchase the horses. She said the offer was refused and the representative was told that the horses would go to slaughter as planned.


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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer just put up a blog post announcing a "new, more modern" Yahoo.
It's her long-expected, this-time-it's-official update to the Yahoo homepage.
She says the page is more personal.
- "A newsfeed with infinite scroll."
- "You can log in with your Yahoo! or Facebook ID to get articles from thousands of news sources as well as those shared by your friends."
- New applications, like a list of your Facebook friends' birthdays.
- Refreshed "Yahoo! editorial features."
- The list of popular searches of the moment has a "refreshed" look.
- It's faster.
- It's optimised for tablets and smartphones.
The business goal for the new homepage is simple: Yahoo needs to grow its userbase, and it needs all of it users to spend more time on the site.
At a Goldman Sach's conference in San Francisco last week, Mayer put it this way: "I'm not confused, our biggest problem right now is impressions. We're growing prices, we need to grow usage."Here is Mayer's entire blog post:
Yahoo! first began as Jerry and Dave's Guide to the World Wide Web, a directory of links created to help organise the Internet during its very early days. That simple directory evolved through the years into the Yahoo! we know today — a starting point for your daily habits. Whether checking the latest news, sports scores, or just searching, Yahoo! has always been about bringing you the very best of the web. And, today, we're introducing a new, more modern experience to do just that.
Designed to be more intuitive and personal, the new Yahoo! experience is all about your interests and preferences. Since streams of information have become the paradigm of choice on the web, we're introducing a newsfeed with infinite scroll, letting you experience a virtually endless feed of news articles. Whether you are a sports fanatic or entertainment buff, you can easily customise your newsfeed to your interests. And, to make Yahoo! even more social, you can log in with your Yahoo! or Facebook ID to get articles from thousands of news sources as well as those shared by your friends.
Because you come to Yahoo! everyday for must-know information, we've also introduced newly designed applications. From your local weather forecast to Facebook friends' birthdays, you'll always have the information you need. We've also refreshed some of what you love most — including our Yahoo! editorial features, and the daily snapshot into popular trending web searches.
The new Yahoo! experience works well on the go — we've optimised it for smartphones and tablets. And, thanks to some under-the-hood improvements, Yahoo! is also faster.
Over the next few days, our U.S. users will begin to see the new Yahoo! experience and we're excited to see the response. Over the coming months, we'll continue to make changes and improvements, so today is just the beginning.
Here's a more detailed blog post from Mike Kearns, Yahoo VP of product:
If you've had a chance to visit Yahoo! today, you may have noticed a few changes. We've launched a fresh, dynamic and personalised Yahoo! experience that brings you relevant content even faster. It's now easier for you to get your daily dose of weather, stock quotes, sports scores, and more. These changes are just the first step in making Yahoo! personalised, and the more you visit Yahoo!, the better it will become. Below are a few top tips on how to get the most out of the new Yahoo!.
Get personal, sign-in
To view more personally relevant content in the newsfeed, just sign in with your Yahoo! or Facebook ID in the upper right corner of your screen.
Filter your newsfeed.
The newsfeed defaults to a "blend" of story types, but also allows you to filter your view through a handful of popular categories, such as news, local, entertainment and sports. For additional choices in the newsfeed filter, just click the "More" button to choose from other categories that interest you like business, technology, politics or science. If you want to see fewer stories about a particular topic in the future, hover your cursor to the right of the story and click on the "X" button. And remember, the more feedback you provide, the more personalised and relevant your experience will be.
Share your favourite content from Yahoo!.
In addition to seeing news stories that your friends have read and shared, you can easily share with them. When you come across a news item that you'd like to share, hover over it to view a button that allows you to share the story via email, Facebook, or Twitter.
Reach the bottom of the page? Quickly navigate back up to the top.
If you've scrolled far down and want to head back to the top, click on the handy back-to-top arrow in the lower right-hand corner of your screen to be taken back to the top of your Yahoo!.
Check out weather, sports, stocks and more with new applications.
There are seven new applications on the right side of the screen to connect you with information you view everyday, like weather, stocks, sports, friends' birthdays, horoscopes, Flickr photos and popular videos from Yahoo!. To personalise the applications, simply hover over the upper right side to click on the gears icon. For example, getting ready for March Madness? Add your favourite teams to the Sports application to catch up on the latest scores. Keeping an eye on your investments? To view stock quotes, click on the gears icon in the Quotes application to integrate your portfolio, look up quotes, or add new stocks. Travel often? Add as many cities as you'd like to the Weather application.
customise your applications.
To remove a particular application, click the "x" button in the upper right corner of the application box. Change your mind? You can add them all back by selecting "Restore all" in the area where the applications used to be displayed.
Never forget a birthday.
If you've signed into Yahoo! via Facebook, the Birthday application offers an easy way to be reminded of upcoming birthdays from your circle of friends.
View the latest Flickr photos.
If you love photos, you can customise the Flickr application to display photos taken by the people you're following. If you don't have a Flickr account or if you're not signed into Yahoo!, you'll be shown some of the most recent and most interesting photos on Flickr.
On an iOS or Android device? Try swiping.
Simply visit www.yahoo.com on your tablet or mobile device, swipe through the "Today" stories to browse the freshest content. As you scroll down the newsfeed you can swipe left to take action on content. Find a story you like? Swipe left to share it. You also can swipe left to experience the different applications.
The best way to learn your way around the new Yahoo! is by checking it out yourself. Visit Yahoo! today to see what's new!
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If you are new to the site, we'd like to personally welcome you. Here you'll find millions of lines of source code - all presented as free - which you can look at, comment on and discuss to your heart's content.
If you're already a member of the site, you may have notice some changes. Due to inappropriate behavior by a small group of members, we've had to implement active moderation on everything submitted to the site.
What does this mean? Planet Source Code is an open community; people from around the world contribute in order to educate the whole and show off their individual programming skills. Previously, all items submitted - be they comments, new submissions or updates to existing submissions - were automatically scanned and added to the site without human intervention. If a problem arose (e.g. Malicious code or inappropriate feedback was submitted) a complaint had to be made manually and the item in question was then reviewed by a single moderator.
Active moderation is fundamentally different. Now a small group of moderators must manually check every item posted to the site. This means a huge workload, as you can imagine, and this is why we have created this article. We are trying to do the best job that we can, but we've found it necessary to write this to inform you - the users - of the changes and also inform you on what you can do to help us moderate faster and more efficiently.
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I decided to dig out my colored pencils from under the cobwebs and dust and used them on this card. =)
All the images are from My Favorite Things' super duper cute Ewe Are the Best set. I did a little masking to create the scene with Antique Linen Distress Ink then colored them with Prismacolor Colored pencils.
The sentiment is included in the Ewe Are the Best set. This is a quick and simple one layered card. Hope you likey! =)
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The song leader stands before the congregation and announces the number of the next hymn he wants the audience to sing. As you turn the pages, you quickly realize that the song is a familiar old favorite—"Jesus, Rose of Sharon." But if you are anything like most of the people who sing this song, you probably do not know what the term "rose of Sharon" means. So, what does it mean?
This may come as something of a shock, but the term is used only once in the entire Bible, and in that instance it does not refer to Jesus. In Song of Solomon 2:1, Solomon's beloved Shulamite bride referred to herself as the "rose of Sharon." From her description, we can conclude that it is a complimentary term intended to express a certain beauty that the people of Solomon's day would have recognized.
The word "Sharon" (sometimes spelled Saron) means a level place or plain. The Bible uses the term to describe one of the largest valley plains in all of Palestine. The term is found in numerous verses, including Acts 9:35, 1 Chronicles 5:16, and 1 Chronicles 27:29. If you were to examine a map of Palestine (the maps in the backs of most Bibles should suffice), you could locate this valley by finding the city of Joppa on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. Joppa, and the Aijalon section to its southwest, were the approximate southern borders of the valley. It extended west from the Mediterranean Sea for about 10-15 miles, and north for about 30 miles. Topographical maps distinctly show this region to be a low valley bordered by higher mountains.
From all indications, the Sharon valley was a wild, fertile plain that was the home to a host of beautiful flowers. Isaiah 35:2 lists Sharon in a context discussing blooming vegetation, and describes the valley as "excellent" (NKJV). Sharon was renowned for its majesty and beauty. But what about its "rose"?
A true rose, like the one sweethearts exchange on Valentine's Day, probably is not a good candidate for the flower described as the "rose of Sharon," the primary reason being that these flowers are uncommon in Palestine. In fact, although no one can say for certain which flower is the actual "rose of Sharon," many scholars think the best guess is the cistus or rock-rose. The cistus blooms in various parts of Palestine, and is well known for its soothing aroma and pain-relieving qualities.
When and why the title "Rose of Sharon" was given to Jesus is rather vague. But at least two reasons as to why it might have been assigned to our Lord seem fairly clear. First, Jesus Christ is the pinnacle of beauty and splendor. Of course, His earthly body could not boast of such attributes (Isaiah 53:2), but His spiritual beauty and majesty remain unsurpassed by any created being in Heaven or on Earth (2 Peter 1:16). Second, Christ's healing powers and pain-relieving actions find a definite point of comparison with those of the rock-rose. Is it any wonder that the "Great Physician," Who came to heal those who were physically ill as well as those who were spiritually sick, should be given the name of a flower known for its sweet aroma and soothing medicinal qualities?
Although the Holy Spirit never chose to inspire the Bible writers to refer to Jesus as the "Rose of Sharon," it nevertheless is a name we can employ to speak of the majesty, beauty, and healing power of our Lord.