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In the seven years since he founded WikiLeaks, Julian Assange's relationships with a number of his former collaborators and supporters have broken down, with each side variously claiming broken promises or bad faith on the part of the other.On Wednesday Jemima Khan, a former close supporter of Assange's who stood bail for him while he fought extradition to Sweden over sexual assault accusations, became the latest to speak of becoming "alienated" from the Australian after she executive-produced a film he believes to be "anti-WikiLeaks".
Khan, who is associate editor of the New Statesman, has written an article for the magazine in which she has written of losing faith in Assange, saying she has come to believe that he is "undermining both himself and his own transparency agenda – as well as doing the US department of justice a favour – by making his refusal to answer questions in Sweden into a human rights issue". She suggests he risks becoming like "an Australian L Ron Hubbard", in a reference to the founder of Scientology.
Assange is confined to the Ecuadorean embassy in London, where he sought asylum in June after losing the last of his legal attempts to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted to answer allegations of rape and sexual assault against two women.
Assange denies the claims, and argues that he fears that if he was remanded in Sweden he would be at greater risk of onward extradition to the US to face potential prosecution for espionage relating to the WikiLeaks cable releases. Ecuador has granted him asylum.
The core of her disaffection, Khan argues, is her view that "WikiLeaks – whose mission statement was "to produce … a more just society … based upon truth" – has been guilty of the same obfuscation and misinformation as those it sought to expose, while its supporters are expected to follow, unquestioningly, in blinkered, cultish devotion".
She says that when she told Assange she was involved in the film We Steal Secrets, directed by the American documentary maker Alex Gibney, "I suggested that he view it not in terms of being pro- or anti-him, but rather as a film that would be fair and would represent the truth … He replied: 'If it's a fair film, it will be pro-Julian Assange.' Beware the celebrity who refers to himself in the third person."
WikiLeaks has objected to the film's title, saying it is "an unethical and biased title in the context of pending criminal trials. It is the prosecution's claim, and it is false."
The organisation did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Khan's article, but Assange has repeatedly disputed the accounts of those with whom he has fallen out, including his former collaborator Daniel Domscheit-Berg, his former legal team, and journalists from this newspaper and others.
Khan writes that she still believes there are "troubling aspects" to the Swedish sexual assault case, and that "questions may need to be asked" about the Swedish police investigation: "I don't regret putting up bail money for Assange," she says. However, Khan adds, "I did it so that he would be released while awaiting trial, not so that he could avoid answering to the allegations."
She writes of her regret that many of the discussions about WikiLeaks have been more about "tribalism than truth", but she argues: "It would be a tragedy if a man who has done so much good were to end up tolerating only disciples and unwavering devotion, more like an Australian L Ron Hubbard."
This article originally appeared on guardian.co.uk
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I want to set the record straight in regards to A trigger was pulled (Herald, Oct. 18). There was much outrage, either openly, in letters to the editor or conveyed to our family in private, regarding the outcome and sentencing of the killer of our son and brother, Ted Garcia. Much of this outrage centered around the minimal sentence Joseph Dernoga received of 16 years plus the five-year sentence he is already serving.
Most importantly, we would like to clear up some confusion regarding the full allocution. To allocute in law means to speak out formally. In law, it is generally meant to state specifically and in detail what one did and for what reason, often in relation to commission of a crime. Joseph Dernoga was supposed to make a full allocution in front of Judge Wilson and everyone else in the courtroom.
The Durango Herald quoted him as saying, A trigger was pulled, a gun discharged. Ted was shot, and then he died. Our family was more than outraged that the full allocution by Joseph Dernoga was not stated at his sentencing on Oct. 17. We wanted to make sure everyone saw the actual plea agreement that was signed. The defendant stipulates to the following factual basis. On or about July 23, 2010, in La Plata County, Colorado, the defendant caused the death of Theodore Garcia by shooting Theodore Garcia in the chest with a .270 caliber rifle. Defendant will make a full allocution at sentencing.
We only heard what the killer had the guts to say in front of all of us, Teds family and friends. Whether he was trying to leave some doubt in all our minds that he was the one who pulled the trigger we will never know. We will also never know why! We do know that he murdered our son and brother, father, friend.
Our sincere gratitude to the community, family, friends and law enforcement for your support.
Skip Garcia

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Northeast is one of the only schools in the area that offers certification exams through the Air Conditioning Refrigeration Institute (AHRI). You'll also receive 1,000 hours of lab time to practice what you learn in the classroom. You'll learn "go green" procedures that are friendly to the environment.
In the program, you'll study the physical, mechanical, and chemical principles of refrigeration and air conditioning, with emphasis on electrical controls and motors. You'll gain proficiency in blueprint reading, sheet metal construction, proper ventilation installation, heating and cooling diagnosis, and installation of residential and commercial equipment. The program will prepare you for skilled positions installing and servicing electrical, heating, and cooling systems.
Classes are held Monday through Thursday, allowing for a three-day weekend. Wayne State College will accept up to 66 credit hours from Northeast toward a bachelor of science degree in technology.
Internships with local businesses will give you networking opportunities and a chance to build your skills.
Heating, air-conditioning, and refrigeration systems consist of many mechanical, electrical, and electronic components, such as motors, compressors, pumps, fans, ducts, pipes, thermostats, and switches. Technicians must be able to maintain, diagnose, and correct problems throughout the entire system. To do This, they adjust system controls to recommended settings and test the performance of the system using special tools and test equipment.
According to the U.S. Department of Labor, the average salary for HVAC technicians in Nebraska is $42,390.
You have one option available when enrolling in this program of study.
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I am looking for somebody able to assist me in creating a game engine.
Currently it will be unpaid but if it all goes well it may be quite lucrative. I am happy to work across the internet.
It would be good if you can use Ogre+Bullet, or another combination of Physics and Graphics engines (not Physx, for now)
I'll be keeping this open as long as it takes to find somebody who is interested and capable!
If you're interested contact me by PM and I'll give you more information on what I am looking for
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MIAMI (AP) — Tom Koehler pitched six effective innings and the Miami Marlins stalled Matt Harvey once again, beating the New York Mets 3-0 Thursday.
Logan Morrison's two-out single broke a scoreless tie in the sixth. Donovan Solano added a two-run single later in the inning.
Harvey (8-3) allowed three runs and five hits in 5 2-3 innings. The NL's All-Star starter struck out eight.
Harvey's three shortest outings this season have come at Marlins Park. The All-Star is 0-1 with a 3.52 ERA in four starts against the Marlins this season while going 8-2 with a 1.97 ERA against the rest of the majors.
The Marlins are the lowest-scoring team in the majors and have the worst record in the NL.
Koehler (3-6) gave up five hits, walked five and struck out five.
Reliever A.J. Ramos pitched two innings and Steve Cishek worked the ninth for his 23rd save in 25 chances.
It was the first time the Mets had been shut out since May 25 against Atlanta.
New York went 0 for 7 with runners in scoring position. They left a runner in scoring position in five of the first six innings and stranded 11 overall.
Ike Davis popped out with the bases loaded to end the third. Juan Lagares tripled with one out in the fourth, but the Mets could not drive him in, and Jake Marisnick made a diving catch in center field and threw to first to double up David Wright to end the fifth.
Meanwhile, the Marlins managed just one hit through five innings, a single by Koehler in the third after Harvey struck out four in a row.
Juan Pierre pinch-hit for Koehler and singled to lead off the sixth, making him 7 for 15 lifetime against Harvey. Christian Yelich followed with a single that put runners at the corners with no outs.
Harvey retired the next two batters, but Morrison singled for a 1-0 lead. After Harvey hit Ed Lucas with a pitch to load the bases, Solano singled to chase Harvey.
Justin Turner and Lagares each had two hits for the Mets.
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Spring has sprung! There are lots of local events coming up for Lilith's Apothecary. If you are in the Philadelphia area, I do hope you'll come to visit me. I often have things at craft shows that I don't have posted on Etsy, such as a large selection of soaps, lotions, bath salts, and other goodies for your home spa.
April 17
Herbal Medicine Making @ City Planter
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Location: City Planter, 814 N 4th St, Philadelphia, PA
Time: 2:30 – 3:30 PM.
Come join City Planter's expert staff to learn about how to grow and maintain common medicinal plants such as Sage, Thyme, Lavender, and Rosemary. And then join me in a discussion and demonstrations about kitchen medicines using these herbs, including tinctures, salves, infusions, and decoctions.
Cost: $10 — but you get two free take-away herbs! Register here {City Planter Events Page}
April 23
Fishtown Shad Fest
A fabulous craft, food, and music event taking place in Penn Treaty Park on the Delaware River. This is always one of my favorite events of the year! Check out the full schedule of events in the latest version of http://www.gridphilly.com/. {May 2011}
Location: Penn Treaty Park, Fishtown
Time: 11am – 6pm
May 14 & 15
Art Star Craft Bazaar
Location: Penn's Landing
Time: 11am – 6pm both days
An outdoor retail art/craft show that is organized & juried by Philadelphia's Art Star Gallery & Boutique. Over 100 local & national artists have been chosen to set up shop & sell their wares along the beautiful waterfront @ Penn's Landing. For this event, Lilith's Apothecary will be partnering with Melo Studios, a lovely, local mom-owned company that specializes in beautiful hand-poured soy candles in vintage and upcycled containers. The cut glass goblet candles are especially gorgeous.
May 21
Trenton Avenue Arts Festival
Location: Trenton Avenue, East Kensington
Time: 12 – 5 pm
Another favorite! In connection with the Kensington Kinetic Sculpture Derby, the Trenton Avenue Arts Festival is always a great group of local vendors with a wide range of crafts/art on display. Live Music, good food, beer from our favorite Philadelphia Brewing Company.
Can't wait to see you there!
By the way….where can you find Lilith's Apothecary products in Philadelphia?
Local Locations:
Affordable Skin Care Salon, Girard Avenue (facial & body care)
Greensgrow Farms (garden products, tea)
Contessa's French Linens (soap) @ Reading Terminal Market
Herbiary (herbal facial care) @Reading Terminal Market
Coming Soon to:
Bee Natural (infused honey) @ Reading Terminal Market
Barefoot Doctor Community Acupuncture Clinic (east Girard Ave)
* Fine Art Photography image "Tulip Tree" by Magbug (Mary Anne Morgan Photography) on Etsy.com *


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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) Marcus Thornton scored 18 of his 22 points in the second half to help the slumping Sacramento Kings snap Portland's five-game winning streak with a 108-96 victory over the Trail Blazers on Sunday night.
The Kings played without starting center DeMarcus Cousins, who was suspended indefinitely Saturday for unprofessional behavior and conduct detrimental to the team.
Already ahead by nine points, the Kings opened the fourth quarter with a 7-0 run, including a 3-pointer by Thornton, to build their lead to 87-71. The Blazers trailed by at least 13 the rest of the way.
John Salmons had 13 of his 15 points in the second half for Sacramento, which had lost six of its previous seven games.
LaMarcus Aldridge had 22 points and 11 rebounds for the Blazers.


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My dishwasher is broken. And I have no idea when it will be fixed.
It had not been cleaning very well for the past few weeks and I have had to half fill a newly emptied washer with recently "cleaned" dishes too many times after a thorough hand-rinsing of caked-on grit. And every time I would roll out the bottom rack, the spinning propeller that spits out water (does it have a real name?) would pop out. Is this supposed to happen? Not sure, but I have been diligently re-snapping that spinner back in every load and trying to rinse off the little screen thing when I can see gunk in it. Fed up this morning, I decided to run the "sanitizer" cycle with the dishwasher empty hoping that any little lurking buggers would be whisked away. I had sanitized in the past with great success.
So sanitize I did.
Steam poured forth from the vents at the top of the appliance. Yeah, I remember that happening in the past – the sanitizer cycle is quite hot.
And then, the smell. It didn't remember that.
Burning plastic. At first, I couldn't figure out where it was coming from. By the time I got to my dishwasher, it was too late. The bottom spinning piece had popped out and melted on the heating element. Yes, melted. Through and through. One of the propeller arms without a hand. A white powder sloughing off on my fingers as I removed the cooling plastic.
In the grand scheme of things, not a tragedy. But given the photo hanging above my sink that largely epitomizes my philosophy on dish washing (and taking out trash), this could be a major stall in food exploration.
That being said, I did manage to make an almond-macadamia cremolata inspired by Ana Sortun's veggie friendly restaurant Oleana and sesame noodles this evening. But my sink is mighty full and begging for a bit of attention.
My super is supposed to be here first thing tomorrow and a repair man will hopefully soon follow.
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Your dining room table looks perfect until it is time for dinner, so here are a few options:
- Try a cabinet style computer desk, or a folding screen to take over a corner of the family room.
- Take over a large closet, you can build shelves (or I got mine from IKEA) and make a desk out of an ironing board (my closet desk is from an old kitchen countertop when we were remodeling.)
- Get a laptop instead of a desktop (Sharon says you can make an office out of anywhere, even the bathroom if you need to when you have a laptop
- Make use of the library for books and journals--don't buy as much. (good advice for all of us--overflowing office or not.)
- Go ahead and use the kitchen table--buy tv trays for eating
- Move to a climate where you can eat on the patio.
- (I would add--just eat out)
- Kick a kid out of their bedroom.
- Or just go for the "I'm hopelessly hooked on genealogy" decor


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HUMOR WRIT LARGE: A common object or oft-seen animal presented in sculpture form on a museum lawn tends to tickle people's funny bones. Think of the over-sized shuttlecocks outside the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City or the 40-foot-tall thumb sculpture that stands in Paris at La Defense Corporate Park. But a 28-foot-tall dog with a leg raised over a museum? That's almost beyond funny-bone-tickling, and nearly beyond the pale, too, which is why we love it so. Such a piece exists, it's called "Bad Dog," and irreverent artist Richard Jackson is the cheeky creator behind it. The mammoth piece, which is new for the artist, is currently keeping one leg lifted over the Orange County Museum of Art. (Yes, we were tempted to write "pee-ce" there, emphasis on the "pee," but surely visitors to the museum will more than go the distance on that joke for us.)
THROUGH MAY 5: A mammoth retrospective of the LA-based visionary just debuted at the Newport Beach museum, and the indoor works are as surprising and strange and occasionally funny bone-seeking as the mega mutt standing outside. Mr. Jackson's "The Laundry Room (Death of Marat)" is a macabre and modern play on this iconic image; the bathtub is there, as is the man, but before him sits a glowingly laptop. Chilling and timely, definitely. But there are other colorful and whimsical pieces that at first glance bring a laugh or a sigh. And the viewer's second and third glances? Those are likely to summon a bevy of questions. The artist is famed for his "action painting," and for walking the experimental, multimedia, painting-meets-sculpture road far ahead of his contemporaries. It's an exhibit with flavor, for sure. So if you prefer your art consumption highly spiced and with a strong and zesty aftertaste, this could be your thing.
EXHIBIT DATES: The gargantuan, relief-seeking pup and Mr. Jackson's other provocative, hue-popping pieces are on view in Newport Beach through Sunday, May 5. Show title? "Ain't Painting A Pain."


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Today we wrapped up our 5 Senses unit by doing this review page:
Students had to cut & paste the body parts onto the correct spaces.
It is part of the My Five Senses booklet we have been working on this month.
You can find the whole book {here}.
It is a great book and activity to introduce verbs...it is filled with action words!
Here are some of the pages from my class's booklet:
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Three NCAA Championship teams to be honored at women's basketball game
Three NCAA Championship teams to be honored at women's basketball game
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Three NCAA Championship teams from this year will be recognized at halftime of Tuesday's NCAA Women's Basketball Championship game between Penn State and Florida in the Bryce Jordan Center.
Members of the Penn State women's volleyball, wrestling and fencing teams will appear during intermission of the NCAA second round game, which begins at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the BJC. The winner advances to the Stanford Regional semifinals.
Penn State has won 15 NCAA Championships by five different teams since March 2007, tied with USC for most in the nation over that span. The Nittany Lions have won 73 national championships all-time.
Head coach Russ Rose's women's volleyball team won its sixth NCAA Championship on Dec. 22 in Seattle. Led by NCAA Tournament Most Outstanding Player Micha Hancock, Penn State downed Wisconsin in four sets to claim the title. The Nittany Lions capped off a superb 34-2 season with the victory, winning their fifth NCAA Championship in the past seven years.
The Penn State wrestling team, under the direction of head coach Cael Sanderson, won its fourth consecutive national title last Saturday in Oklahoma City. Seniors David Taylor and Ed Ruth capped off historic collegiate careers with individual titles to lead the Nittany Lions. Penn State became just the third team in NCAA history to win four NCAA wrestling championships in a row. It also was the fifth NCAA wrestling title in school history.
The Penn State men's and women's fencing teams, under the direction of interim head coach Wes Glon, won their 13th NCAA Championship on Sunday in Columbus, Ohio. Led by Kaito Streets' individual championship in the men's saber, the Nittany Lions became the winningest program in NCAA fencing history with the championship. Penn State has won four NCAA Championships in the past eight seasons.
The Lady Lion basketball team (23-7), which has won three consecutive Big Ten Championships, is the No. 3 seed in the Stanford Regional and defeated Wichita State on Sunday. Florida is the No. 11 seed and improved to 20-12 with a victory over Dayton on Sunday. The Penn State-Florida series is tied, 1-1, and the teams will be meeting for the first time since December 2000.
Tickets for Tuesday's 7 p.m. tip are available by calling 1-800-NITTANY or visiting the Bryce Jordan Center box office Tuesday from 9 a.m. until game time. Tickets also are available at www.GoPSUsports.com/ncaawbbtix.


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Daniel Coates, a lead organizer with MRNY, said the main goal was to educate the underserved population of New York City and bring them to Albany to rally at the legislative offices to support a tax increase on the city's top earners to fund the program.
"We want this campaign to work and we want to make this a reality to our families so this has to go to Albany," Coates said at the town hall held at Community United Methodist Church in Jackson Heights. "Universal pre-k has incredible support in the community and we wanted to show it and show what we are fighting for."
Families and members of the community broke up into workshops following the town hall to learn how to make phone calls and write letters to legislators in Albany in support of the proposal.
"The full-day option for prekindergarten is the real option that allows the opportunity to ensure their children, who are often English language learners, to get on the same page as everyone else in the school," Coates said. "It also allows them (parents) to work, which is key to have an opportunity for people to earn more money."
Coates added that the families in Jackson Heights, along with numerous other communities in Queens, are the ones most in need when it comes to work supplement and education.
"Particularly in immigrant communities, and particularly in low-income communities of color across the city, that's where the need exists," he said. "That's why we're doing it, to combat a severe overcrowding problem that these schools already have."
Queens Borough President Melinda Katz said while her children have been fortunate enough to enroll in prekindergarten, many parents have a difficult time getting their children in the same programs.
"As much as I love my children, they shouldn't have something that every child in the City of New York cannot have," Katz said at the town hall.
She added that she would initiate a "war room" at her office to work with the School Construction Authority and Department of Education to ensure space for prekindergarten.
"We need pay for it and the mayor has a plan to pay for it," she said. "We need to make sure that the plan goes through and we can pay for full day of pre-K so not only are they learning for the full day, but so parents can go out to work."
Dionisia Romero, PTA president at P.S. 110 and member of the Parents Action Committee of MRNY, helped lead the town hall and said she hopes the session would prepare them for their advocacy on the state level.
"We know that children and working families in Queens would benefit greatly from expanded access to pre-K and afterschool programs," Romero said. "We are here to make sure that the Queens community is informed about our city's plan, and to ensure the voices of our community members are heard in Albany."
Councilman and Education Committee chairperson Daniel Dromm issued a statement following the town hall showing his support for the mayor's fight for universal prekindergarten and that community support would be beneficial.
"Study after study has shown that children who receive early childhood education perform demonstrably better later in life than those who don't receive it," Dromm said. "It's right to ask those who can afford it to pay their fair share of tax dollars. The mayor's plan will help create a better, stronger NYC for generations to come."


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Super Smash Bros Screenshots are a Knockout
As if we weren't already chomping at the bit to get our hands on Super Smash Bros., a slew of new screenshots for the Wii U version have been released to tease us even more.
The new screens are few in number, but big on content. They say a picture is worth a thousand words, so you could probably craft a bunch of narratives using these five images. We get to see a bit of returning brawler Marth, both standing up and knocked down on the ground.
We've also got a cool group shot of the Mario gang in midair, looking all kinds of impressive, perhaps on their way to beat up the one other brawler on the stage. And then there's a pretty cool long shot of a Mario Galaxy stage. We're very interested in seeing how that stage will work and what kinds of hazards it will pack.
Super Smash Bros. will be released for the 3DS and the Wii U in 2014.


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Got to read this piece of news today. NRIs and foreigners are restricted from carrying Indian rupee outside India. They need to convert into other currencies like dollar or Euro before they step out of the country. Previously I guess, you can have at the max of 10,000 INR as cash amount in your hand while leaving India, but now you cannot.
Please click on this link --- Indian Economy News --- to learn more.
So, keep this in mind, before you step out of the country. Happy Flying.


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Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne sell Malibu oceanfront home
Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne have sold their oceanfront house in Malibu for $7.925 million. Listed at $10 million last year, the price had been reduced to $8.795 million.
The three-story beach house features a walled garden, five bedrooms, five bathrooms and 4,500 square feet of living space. The master bedroom suite and a wood-paneled library take up the entire second floor.
Songwriter Ozzy Osbourne, 63, was the lead singer for the heavy metal group Black Sabbath before launching his solo career. Sharon Osbourne, 59, is his manager and a co-host on "The Talk" (2010-present). Their family life was the subject of the reality show "The Osbournes" in the early 2000s.
Public records show the couple bought the house in 2003 for $5.1 million.
Jonah Wilson of Hilton & Hyland was the listing agent.


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Japanese attorneys throw their nets farther out
It wasn't long ago that the law was a lonely profession in Japan, though the number of attorneys may have only seemed small in comparison with the United States, where litigation is practically a spectator sport. Apparently, that's no longer the case, according to a recent article in Tokyo Shimbun, which says that there is a glut of lawyers in the major cities. Consequently, many are branching out to smaller cities and even the countryside to find clients. The article profiles one young attorney who opened an office in Tokyo two years ago and has had scant business ever since, so in the past year he has held seven free sodankai (consulting sessions) in Hokkaido — six in Sapporo and one in Obihiro. The Hokkaido Bar Association says that such sessions are a burgeoning trend that started three years ago.
According to a government white paper on the legal profession, there are now 15,000 lawyers practicing in Tokyo, a 70 percent increase over the last ten years. And if you include the surrounding prefectures of Kanagawa, Saitama and Chiba, the number practicing in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area tops 32,000, which is more than half of all the lawyers in Japan.
An earlier white paper released in 2008 charts the steady rise of legal professionals in Japan. From 1989 to 1995, the ranks of attorneys added only about 200 new people a year, and after 1995 the number increased gradually until 2001, when the number leaped to 1,117. In 2008, more than 4,000 passed their examinations to become lawyers. Around the turn of the century, the business world demanded more legal experts, saying that trials, especially civil court cases involving commercial matters, took too long. As a result, more law schools were set up, but the demand never materialized on the scale predicted. Between 2000 and 2008, the number of civil suits handled by district courts in Japan increased by only 0.5 percent, though the overall number of lawyers went up by 62 percent. As a result, the number of cases handled per attorney dropped by 21.7 percent, though the attendant loss of income wasn't quite as steep. The average yearly pay for a lawyer in 2004 was ¥16.5 million and in 2008 was slightly less than ¥16 million.
The profession received a much needed boost in 2006 when the Consumer Credit Law was revised with regard to "gray area" rates (kinri) and consumer credit companies were forced to refund ¥1.6 trillion in overcharged interest. About 70 percent of the customers eligible for the refunds hired lawyers and notaries to the tune of ¥40 billion, and somewhere between 20 and 30 percent of all the lawyers in Japan have so far benefited from this windfall.
Since most of the nation's lawyers are in Tokyo or Osaka and the consumer loan-related bankruptcy business in those areas has dried up, they are looking farther afield. One Tokyo law office, Adire, which advertises extensively on television, has already set up offices in Sapporo, Hakodate, Obihiro and Kushiro. Most law offices looking to expand in this way hire advertising agencies, which research regional municipalities and set up the consulting sessions that alert locals to the availability of legal services. A president of one ad agency told Tokyo Shimbun that big city lawyers sometimes have an edge over locals in smaller towns, because people don't know them. It's sometimes difficult for locally based attorneys to get business, especially with regard to bankruptcies, because potential clients are also neighbors who would prefer that the community not know anything about certain aspects of their business.
But of course, local lawyers resent these city slickers invading their bailiwicks. A representative of a consumer protection committee in Sapporo told Tokyo Shimbun that since there are no regulations limiting where a lawyer can practice, most stay in Tokyo and do their distant business online or by phone, which means they can't always help clients in emergencies. Conversely, some of the city lawyers say they are suddenly faced with much bigger travel costs, but assume that increased revenues will justify the added expense, thus implying that until a lawyer shows up in your town you probably never thought you needed one.


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Volunteers Asked to Bring-A-Book to Ghana!
Our first donations from the Bring-A-Book program were presented to Apostolic Preparatory School in Ghana last month by volunteers, Hannah Pascoe-Smith, Harrison Swaine and Thomas Haynes.
Bring-A-Book is a program in which volunteers are asked to bring English children's books with them when they arrive in their destination countries. Once we have collected around one hundred books, these books will then be donated to a school in need of a library.
Thanks to the donations of recent volunteers in Ghana, nearly one hundred books were donated to Apostolic Preparatory school so they can begin their own library.
In Ghana, volunteers on our Building project are currently constructing a library for the Wonderful Love Village in the Akuapem Hills. This community library should be finished in the coming months and when it is, it will be well-stocked with the donations of our volunteers!


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The Islam-UK Centre has a strong track record for undertaking inter-disciplinary research on a wide range of subjects connected to the lives of Muslims in Britain. In recent years this has included work on Muslim chaplaincy, the religious nurture and education of Muslim children, Islamic environmentalism, and the intersection of religious 'courts' with civil family law. We specialise in qualitative social scientific/anthropological methodology, and emphasise active collaboration with our research participants so that we addresses issues of concern to British Muslim communities themselves. This is evident through doctoral research projects, as well as externally funded work sponsored by academic research councils (e.g. AHRC/ESRC) and charities (e.g. BGCI).
The Centre is now a 'hub' for research about Islam and Muslims within Cardiff University, and thus far we have collaborated with the School of Social Sciences, the School of Music, Cardiff Law School, and the School of Architecture, as well as having strong links with Cardiff Business School, and the Cardiff Centre for Chaplaincy Studies. The research income associated with the Islam-UK Centre to date is in the region of £800,000, while our Jameel Scholarship Programme (£1m) supports doctoral and post-doctoral researchers working on a wide range of subjects.
While many of our researchers have been based in the UK, we have also welcomed visiting international scholars from Italy, the USA, and Poland. The Islam-UK Centre at Cardiff University is at the cutting edge of research in the emerging field of 'British Muslim Studies', and now has an international reputation as the leading centre of excellence for the study of Islam and Muslims in Britain.


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Hope this is the right forum for this.
I've been involved in consumer electronics/hi-fi gear for many years, and am really starting to get interested in vintage gear.
I've just picked up a pair of Karlson X-15 cabinets and have started looking for some EV, Tannoy, or Altec coax 15" drivers for them.
I'll drive them initially with a ~1966 Kenwood TK-66 solid state receiver. A friend passed along a derelict Trio/Kenwood KW-70 tube receiver recently; after re-capping the heck out of that, I'll use it.
The Karlson/15" coax/Kenwood combo should be great for classical guitar, instrumental jazz, and big band music.
For general listening, I'm building a pair of Altec 891a's; they'll get Morel Supreme tweeters, my own xover, and most likely Morel or Aurum Cantus 8" woofers. I love the sound of an 8" two-way, and the Altec cabs are super beefy for their size.
I haven't decided yet on what to use to power these; been considering something like a Sansui AU-series integrated or other early 70's integrated. They should end up around 91dB efficient, so no need for a gazillion watts.
Anybody else nerd on stuff like this? I know that the gear I like isn't high end, but it's what I like. And at the end of the day, I only have to please my own ears, so nahnah, booboo, haha to all of the gear snobs.


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Two Chicago police officers are in stable condition after their squad vehicle was struck overnight by an alleged drunk driver who ran a red light in the Lakeview neighborhood.
Paris Schutz and guests discuss the loose ends in the final weeks of Mayor Rahm Emanuel's term, including the Lincoln Yards TIF and the new police and fire academy.
Lori Lightfoot secures a historic election. City Council moves to the left. Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx faces more heat. And the Cubs' bullpen implodes.
A 23-year-old ex-convict accused of pulling a cruel hoax by pretending to be long-missing Illinois boy Timmothy Pitzen was charged Friday with making false statements to authorities.
"I worry about our children growing up with so much trauma and fear. I worry about that a lot," Mayor-elect Lori Lightfoot said during a one-on-one interview Friday with WTTW News.
High-end designers have always been eager to dress the superstar soprano for both stage roles and concert performances. Renée Fleming tells us about those one-of-a kind creations.
The findings from the Ethiopian government provide the clearest link yet to a similar crash involving the same Boeing model plane in the waters off Indonesia in October. All 346 on board the two flights died.
Food allergies are on the rise, affecting 32 million Americans. Yet local clinicians are optimistic about future treatments, including one that could soon receive FDA approval.
The James R. Thompson Center has been controversial since it landed in the Loop in 1985. Now, a new layer of controversy has been added to the building's history: its potential sale.


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Old School Cammer
If Ford Built A/FX Mustangs in '65
Thunderbolts. Cammers. Shotguns. Nicknames were given to the greatest hitters Ford Motor Company ever built in the '60s, but no name exists for this car. It was never built by the factory, but it sure looks as if it were. George and Fred Scarpenti always wondered what a factory A/FX Mustang would have looked like if Ford would have ever made one, and by equipping their '65 with 475 inches of Single Over Head Cam (SOHC) Ford power, they got much closer to making that dream a reality.
Ford has taken to calling their late-model overhead cam V-8s "cammers" as well, and we all know the late-model motors can be had with four cams too, offering even more breathing capability, but this engine is not even related to the new breed of V-8 coming out of Dearborn. This is the FE-based Cammer, which was a very limited production race-only piece. Saddled by the expense of such exotica and a 6-foot long timing chain known to stretch, Ford designed the 427-inch SOHC Cammers for only the most extreme competition in the '60s--NASCAR! While the engine was initially designed to challenge the Chrysler Hemi on the high-banked ovals, rule changes made the engine illegal. The 427 Cammer was subsequently offered exclusively over the counter at Ford dealers in two basic configurations: single 4-barrel carb (615hp at 7,000rpm) or dual quad (657hp at 7,500rpm). The rpm levels are not a misprint, and the Cammer could sing past normal rpm redlines due to its overhead cam design. The Cammer also got a revised high-pressure oiling system and after the rule changes, most found their way to the drags.
The engine gained legend and mystique by not competing, and several of these clandestine Cammers found their way to the streets. This particular powerplant now calls San Jose, California, its hometown.
Getting this particular Cammer together involved a serious stroker crank to get to 475 inches. Dave's Engine and Machine of Newark, CA, teamed up a set of Carillo rods, Ross pistons (for 11:1 squeeze), and a pair of Crane cams measuring out to .600-inch lift with 328 degrees of duration. Dove was tasked for the water pump, while Melling provided the oil pump. The '65-era heads were outfitted with monster 2.5-inch intake valves, and equally impressive 1.94-inch exhaust valves to move massive amounts of air and fuel. The stock dual-quad intake is topped with twin Holley 780 cfm mixers and is lit by an old-school dual-point ignition by XL, with a stock coil. Power numbers topped out at 675 horses at 8,000 rpm.
In preparing the Mustang for its life under Cammer power, George and Fred boxed the framerails, added a 3.89:1-geared narrowed 9-inch rear axle (courtesy of a '67 T-Bird), relocated the battery into the trunk, and added Cal-Tracs bars to new stock rear leaf springs. The rear frame rails were narrowed slightly, and the leafs moved inboard to clear the 15x8.5-inch '60s-era Torq-Thrusts, and their 27x11-15-inch Hoosier Quick Time tires. Tucked under the body, the vintage wheels and tires look factory perfect, just as the Scarpentis planned. The front suspension was beefed up by the addition of a crossmember, which was deemed essential after the removal of the factory shock towers, which were replaced by coil-over shocks. Subframe connectors were added to beef up the chassis, and a rear-steer rack-and pinion steering setup was engineered to offer more room in the engine bay along with more precise steering control. Another pair of ancient American wheels live up front, and they are also shod with Hoosier rubber; this time in skinny 175/70-15 dimensions.
Living between the healthy 475 and the beefy 9-inch is a bulletproof C6 automatic. With a 3,500 rpm stall converter and the full Trans-Go treatment, all those ponies are in good hands.
The body remains factory stock, with the beautiful exception of a fiberglass teardrop scoop (like the Thunderbolts use to have) and truly trick "SOHC" logos to replace the factory "289" scripts on the front fenders. We first saw this amazing Pony at the March Meet in Bakersfield, CA, and it had just been completed at that time. The Scarpentis haven't run the car hard yet, since its all so fresh. Once it gets broken in, we're confident the 3,250-pound 'Stang will impress with its ample power and flashback style.
It certainly isn't hard to love this car, and it makes us wish Ford would have made A/FX Cammer-powered Mustangs back in '65. Even if they would have, we doubt they'd have been as nice or as well engineered as this beauty.


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Easy 2 Ingredient Pancakes
Categories: Cooking
As you may know by now, I'm all about easy, but fun recipes, and today is no exception. I saw it on Pinterest, and like many things there, it seemed a little to easy/good to be true, but I'm going to try to make 2 Ingredient pancakes.
Here's what you need:
- A packet of instant oatmeal
- an egg
1. Mix them together and let it sit for about 30 minutes
2. Spread it onto a hot, oiled pan
3. Cook one side at a time
That's it.
So, how did mine turn out?
I got it all put together, and though I found out you don't want the pan too hot, it did make a good pancake. My photo is sort of unfortunate, but it really was good and it's reasonably low in calories, too!
Like the original post says, it's not a typical fluffy, round pancake, but it's really simple to do and you can use any flavor oatmeal you like. It's also a great way to use up those oatmeal packets no one ever seems to get around to finishing!


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The lines are closed, the results are in. No, not on tedious iPhone-related stuff - it's far more important than that. Yes, your resounding verdict on the baddest movie robot was... the Terminator, with a bone-crunching 35% of the vote, even if he was looking slightly long in the tooth by the third movie.
Proving there's still plenty of Futurama fans out there, even after the abysmal Bender's Big Score DVD, second place went to its main metal man with a respectable 24% of the vote. Go Bender, etc.
But he was run close by Megatron on 21%, a sign that not even Michael Bay can destroy fond childhood memories.
Robocop's ED 209 tied with Blade Runner's Roy Batty on a pretty miserable 6% proving that today's geeks have no time for evil death-dealing terrorbots that cannot finish the job.
Hopeless losers, on 5%, were Evil Bill and Ted, but you already knew that.
Robots that never made the cut were:
• that evil one from the Disney movie 'The Black Hole'
• HAL 9000, because he wasn't a robot
• anything from the Matrix, because we're still angry about the last movie
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The Benedictine University Archives collect, preserve, and make accessible those materials that record and exhibit the history and life of Benedictine University and its campuses in Lisle, IL, Springfield, IL, and Mesa, AZ. Also included are the records of the campuses' previous incarnations as Illinois Benedictine College, St. Procopius College, Springfield College in Illinois, and Springfield Junior College.
Collections include documents, photographs, media, and artifacts associated with the school and surrounding area. In addition, the archives contain non-Benedictine materials that support or relate to the school's programs of study. Our rare book collection includes volumes dating to the 1500s, including theological and scientific texts, local history, European history, geography, and Czech language volumes.
Our collections are available for research not only to the Benedictine University community, but also the greater community.


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Dressage Saddle Excalibur Muno by Stübben
The flexible saddle tree of Stübben allows the perfect union between the rider and the horse.Strong and flexible at the same time, the Stübben saddle tree protects the gullet of the horse and keeps the saddle in the right position: at the back of the horse's shoulder.
The stirrup arches, unbreakable and stainless steel, are included with the saddle, allowing the stirrup leathers not to come out in an awkward way thus promoting the contact of the rider with the horse.
Exclusive to Stübben BIOMEX technology.
Stübben, in collaboration with the Biomex Technology Development Center at the St. Moritz Gut Clinic, the Swiss Leading Hospital for Sports and the professional riders, has developed a saddle seat for an extremely comfortable sit.
The Stübben Biomex technology takes into account the anatomical deviation of the 2 ischial bones by offering 2 orthopedic foam cushions, which are located in the area of contact of the bones. These cushions are separated by a space to reduce the pressure on the bottom of the column and on the sensitive areas of the perineum.
This supporting action allows a healthier position for the whole musculoskeletal activity of the rider. Recall that, well practiced, riding is a benign sport for the spine.


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Givat Shmuel, Israel – March 17, 2009 – Cimatron Limited (Nasdaq: CIMT), a leading provider of integrated CAD/CAM solutions for mold, tool and die makers as well as manufacturers of discrete parts, announced it will showcase the new versions of GibbsCAM and CimatronE at Intermold Korea 2009 on March 18th (hall 3, section 6).
Cimatron Group will sponsor a large island booth at the event which will be divided in half displaying both of the organization's signature software solutions, CimatronE and GibbsCAM. New versions of both product lines will be available for visitors to see.
Version 9.0 of CimatronE contains over 200 enhancements across all modules that are available separately or as a complete integrated suite. There are significant advancements in automation for mold making, keeping with Cimatron's winning formula of flexible automation. Die making innovations feature a brand new Transfer Die application and enhancements to the Progressive Die application and a new DieQuote Generator helps Die shops produce accurate quotes and win more jobs. Machining enhancements include new machining strategies for HSM and 5-axis milling. A new CMM application defines electrode measuring points and probe path.
The new version of GibbsCAM contains a wide range of productivity enhancements for milling, mill turn and High Speed Milling. GibbsCAM 2009 includes a new 3D high speed machining application which facilitates faster programming and more efficient machining. Improvements to lathe capabilities take advantage of the newer high-tech cutting tools to turn harder materials and to machine smoother surfaces; these provide greater efficiency through increased tool control.
"We've put a significant amount of resources and energy into the Korean market because our solutions are highly suited to that market", said Danny Haran, CEO of Cimatron. "Our software lines are user friendly and easy to learn. They also provide the quality and delivery times that Korean toolmakers and manufacturers need to compete on a local and global level".
About Cimatron
With over 25 years of experience and more than 40,000 installations worldwide, Cimatron is a leading provider of integrated, CAD/CAM solutions for mold, tool and die makers as well as manufacturers of discrete parts. Cimatron is committed to providing comprehensive, cost-effective solutions that streamline manufacturing cycles, enable collaboration with outside vendors, and ultimately shorten product delivery time.
The Cimatron product line includes the CimatronE and GibbsCAM brands with solutions for mold design, die design, electrodes design, 2.5 to 5 axes milling, wire EDM, turn, Mill-turn, rotary milling, multi-task machining, and tombstone machining. Cimatron's subsidiaries and extensive distribution network serve and support customers in the automotive, aerospace, medical, consumer plastics, electronics, and other industries in over 40 countries worldwide.
Cimatron is publicly traded on the NASDAQ exchange under the symbol CIMT. For more information, please visit the company web site at: http://www.cimatron.com
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In 2011, the Eclipse Foundation began a new effort to replace the existing project management infrastructure--which includes the Developer Portal--with a new unified infrastructure with the intent to make project management activities more consistent and generally easier for all involved.
Themes of this effort include:
- Improved consistency. Configuration/data-driven project web presence, direct linkage between releases, reviews, and plans. Information--including basic project metadata, project plans, and release review information--is captured and retained in a consistent (and easily leveraged) data-based format (rather than in multiple documents in arbitrary formats).
- All-in-one-place. Committers are able to edit information in place on the project information pages. Text/information in one place with links in another is eliminated where possible. Comments and discussion related to reviews, elections, etc. are connected directly to the item being discussed.
- Get started faster. By default, projects are provided with a data-driven website that includes consistent links to project releases, reviews, downloads, etc. Projects can opt to override the default and provide their own customized web presence.Setting up a project presence is a matter of configuration, not PHP programming against proprietary APIs.
- Development
- Technology Choices
- Project Management Infrastructure/Overview and Design
- Data Migration
- Live instance for testing and experimentation
Project information pages, which are are used as the primary website by many Eclipse projects, are generated from data provided by project committers. On these pages, you will find useful information such as project description, scope, Bugzilla summaries, commit summaries, lists of repositories, and a multitude of useful links.
All of this information is presented for consumption by the general community.
Users are not required to log in to access information about projects, releases, and many other aspects of the system. But if the user does log in, more options are made available to them.
A logged in user, for example, has the ability to edit information about projects for which they are a member. That is, a project committer, or project lead can edit information about their projects. In this case, an "Edit" option appears.
Clicking "Edit" puts the system into "edit" mode allowing the user to make changes.
All changes are tracked via a built-in revision control system. Other project members can review revisions to see who changed what and when; more usefully, the information can be reverted if mistakes are made.
Note that PMC members and EMO staff members can also make changes to project information (these changes are also tracked).
At the beginning of a release cycle, projects are required to describe their plans for the release in a project plan. A project plan is expected to evolve somewhat during development on the release. At the end of the release, a project is required to provide retrospective documentation of the release for community review. All of this information is captured and maintained by the Project Management Infrastructure.
The primary benefits of maintaining this information within the system are consistency in how the data is provided, and ease of dissemination. This information is useful and valuable: having it in a format that is easily consumable will mean that it can easily be disseminated to a wide audience.
The "edit" mode for a release provides the ability to set the date and name of the release. Additionally, there are several tab groups of fields to specify a description, project plan items, and review items.
There other benefits of this set up:
- Finding and updating this information is consistent and easy; and
- By having explicit fields with built-in help text, the committer/project lead providing this data knows exactly what data is required and in what format.
Again, it is assumed that project members will revisit and tweak this information periodically during the development cycle of a release.


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Yesterday in Vancouver, Vampires everywhere:
Dakota Fanning signing autographs for fans. Jamie Campbell Bower and Cameron Bright hanging out downtown, and Ashley Greene grabbing street meat! Her stock just went up. Sigh. I miss street meat. My stomach was stronger back in the day. I could go for street meat any time. Then a couple of years ago, well, it changed. My intestines decided I was officially an old hag in her 30s and wouldn't accept it. F-cker.
Ashley Greene, barely into her 20s, clearly doesn't have to worry.
On set at New Moon today – Kristen is shooting interiors. Mostly the "depression" montages where Bella decides her life is worthless without Edward. Ugh. She sits by the window a lot and mopes. And has nightmares.
Also shooting with a different crew – most of the vampires in town are doing green screen work to complement footage that was complete over the last few days: fight sequences, some added stunts, something about a vampire getting his head torn off. More angles of Edward getting tossed around, against the wall, up towards the ceiling, and Alice unable to help him.
Here's an added little bonus for you Pattinson fans: am told he's been working out a lot lately. At the gym almost every day.
Exclusive photos from PUNKD Images
Vampires in the city
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Now that Adrianne Palicki is TV's newest Wonder Woman, it's time to pull out the golden lasso to get some truth about the future Amazon Princess.
1) Nicely bucking the recent trend of iconic American superheroes (OK, Wonder Woman's Amazonian, but she was created by an American and sports the stars and stripes) being played by Brits from across the Pond ('Cheerio, Christian Bale, Henry Cavill and Andrew Garfield), Palicki's from Toledo, Ohio, a nice, All-American town suitable for the 5'11" wearer of Diana's star-spangled boyshorts.
2) She's a legit comic book lover, and not of the "I'm doing press for my new superhero movie" lip-service kind of way. When your PopcornBiz writer visited Palicki on the set of the horror film "Legion" in 2008, we found her curled up with a copy of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' classic Watchmen at her side (Her other favorites include Y: The Last Man, Wanted, and Invincible). "I've always been involved in [comics]," she told us then, having hunted down the only comics shop she could find in Albuquerque, New Mexico, during the shoot. "My brother is a comic book writer, so I got into it at a young age." Indeed, her sibling Eric Palicki writes "The Mighty Quinn," "which is my favorite," she told us. "He does'The Undertaker's Daughter' and 'Graceland' – he does his own online comics." Her bro's current works include "Teeth" and "Barefoot."
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3) She's let her geek flag fly in a few cred-building roles before and after her "Friday Night Lights," including playing the original glimpse of Kara Zor-El (aka Supergirl) on "Smallville" (before the role was taken over by Laura Vandervoort) voicing Star Wars' Padme Amidala, Sailor Moon and chopsocky star Cynthia Rothrock for "Robot Chicken," reviving Judy Robinson for a "Lost In Space" TV movie and portraying the Siren in the CW's scuttled "Aquaman" pilot.
4) Palicki bears the mark of a genuine superheroine – literally. She's got a Supergirl tattoo on her hip. "When I was a kid I was this little blonde fuzzy-headed thing," she told the Wall Street Journal in 2008. "I looked up to her."


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Welcome to Lichborne, where Daniel Whitcomb wishes he could be doing Hallow's End achievements for his Death Knight on the live servers, where they count.
It's a fact of life. Burning Crusade is about to become obsolete. All those rep grinds, all those exalted purples, all those dungeon keys are just so much pretty little bank space wasters. Sure, gear lasts a little longer into Wrath, but for the most part, we're still going to be leaving it all behind for the new environs of Northrend, while Outland becomes a bump in the road to 80.
For Death Knights, this is probably still true. We're going to want to rush to get through Outland so we aren't desperately trying to find groups for Utgarde Keep while everyone else is getting Kel'thuzad on farm mode. But that means we'll have only the bare minimum of faction, no grind, no turn-ins, no purples. On the whole this is probably pretty much OK, since we'll be able to get good gear right out the gate in Howling Fjord and Borean Tundra. But is there still a reason to grind some of the Burning Crusade factions, or even to pay attention to them while leveling up?
Let's look at some of the factions you'll probably come across while speeding through Outland and what benefits they can offer the leveling knight.


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Robell 51576 Marie Crop 17 Taupe
Robell 51576 Marie Bengoline Stretch Crop Trouser.
Marie capri pull on trouser with a flat elasticated waistband, the perfect addition to your wardrobe this season.
Marie is a generous fit - you may need to drop a size.
Colour Code Black - Code 90
Inside Leg - 55cm / 22"
Fabric Content - 73% viscose 24% polyamide 3% elastan
Garment Care - Gentle 30 wash avoiding fabric conditioner and softener. Dry naturally and cool iron inside out


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Dear Dr. Grasshopper,
How much blood can a character lose before they die?
Well, it kinda depends on the size of the character, to be honest. If a very large man loses a liter of blood, it'll have a completely different effect than if a very small woman loses a liter. So the specific amount that a character can lose varies with the character. But I'll try to give some general guidelines so you can figure it out for your character.
First of all, let's figure out how much blood is actually in your character.
Blood is made of plasma, and blood cells, and all kinds of good stuff. (Remind me to write a post about blood composition.) Regardless, here's a reasonable way to figure out how much blood your character is starting out with.
WARNING! MATH AHEAD! DON'T RUN AWAY; YOU WILL JUST HAVE TO DO THE CALCULATIONS TIRED! (PS: I suck royally at math, so if I screw up, please let me know.)
(Important terminology – "Hematocrit" = the percentage of blood volume occupied by red blood cells. Typically, around 47% in men and around 42% in women. Plus or minus a few percent.)
Okay, now that that's out of the way, we can do some calculating!
Plasma volume in L = (Body weight in kg) x 0.05
Total blood volume in L = (Plasma Volume in L ) x (100/[100-hematocrit])
(That's a little hard to read. So let me clarify. Take 100 minus the hematocrit. Divide 100 by the number that results from that operation. Then take the number you have now, and multiply it by the plasma volume in liters.)
And, here's an example!
Our hero, Toughguy Manley, is a 70 kg man, with a hematocrit around 47. Let's see how much blood he has.
Plasma volume in L = 70 x 0.05 = 3.5 L
Total blood volume in L = 3.5L x (100/[100-47]) = 6.6 L
(Note: I'm using 47 because that's the usual hematocrit for a man. If we were calculating a woman, I'd use 42.)
So, Toughguy Manley will have about 6.6 liters of blood in his body, or 6600 mL.
Now that you know how it's done, you can plug in your own character's weight in kilograms. (Here's a handy calculator for people who use non-metric systems of measurement.)
I'll wait while you do some calculations.
Now that we know how much blood your character has, we can figure out how much she can afford to lose.
The pretentious medical term for bleeding is "hemorrhage". ("hemo-" = blood, "-rrhea" = flow). The way doctors classify hemorrhage is by percentage of blood volume loss.
Here's a quick rundown of the hemorrhage classes:
Class I Hemorrhage – Loss of up to 15% of blood volume. In a healthy character, this won't cause too much trouble. At the very most, her heart will start beating slightly faster. But that's about it. Her blood pressure won't change appreciably, and she probably won't have too many symptoms in general.
Class II Hemorrhage – Loss of 15-30% of blood volume. Your character's heart will beat faster to circulate the remaining blood faster, to make up for the fact that there's less of it. Her blood pressure will undergo a mild to moderate decrease, and she may start to have some symptoms related to the drop in blood pressure. For example, her skin will get cold and clammy as her peripheral blood vessels narrow down, squeezing the blood out of the skin so it can supply more vital organs. She may feel light-headed, and have some changes in her mental status. If she tries to sit or stand up quickly, she may get dizzy. She won't make as much urine, since there's less volume passing through her kidneys for processing.
Class III Hemorrhage – More than 30% blood volume loss. The symptoms that started to show up in Class II will get worse. Her heart will beat very quickly, but it won't be enough to keep her blood pressure up. The blood pressure will fall even more dramatically, resulting in even less perfusion of the skin and the extremities (which will make them cold to the touch), and her mental status will decline significantly.
Class IV Hemorrhage – More than 40% blood volume loss. Your character's body will not be able to compensate for a blood loss this severe. She must either get an emergency transfusion, or she will die from hemodynamic decompensation.
So with this information, now we can figure out how much blood, to the milliliter, will leave your character's body during your dramatic wounding-and-possibly-killing-of-character scene!
Let's have an entertaining example!
Remember, Toughguy Manley is a 70 kg male, and he has about 6600 mL of blood. He's just found the Seekrit Hiding Bunkur that houses the Doomsday Device of Doom (Of! DOOOOOOOM!). Suddenly, during the dramatic climax of the story, he's shot by Best Friend McTurncoat, who was actually working for the Evil Bad Dudes all along! Now, he can't die from this, because he has to tell Gorgeous Genius just how badly he's fallen for her, and he has to be just loopy enough that he'll tell Gorgeous Genius just how badly he's fallen for her! So, let's put him at an early Class III hemorrhage. Say, 32% blood loss.
6600 mL x 0.32 = 2112 mL, or 2.1 L
Toughguy Manley has lost a bit more than 2 liters of blood. He's giddy, his heart is beating like crazy, his blood pressure is low, and his hands and feet and skin are cold and clammy. And he's still losing blood. And Best Friend McTurncoat is standing over him, expressions of triumph and deep anguish fighting for dominance on his face.
It's not looking good for Toughguy Manley.
Luckily, at that moment, Gorgeous Genius activates the Doomsday Device of Doom (Of! DOOOOOOOM!), after re-jiggering it to use only a small percentage of its capacity, and to affect only Evil Bad Dudes! (Plus, now it writes novels! And assembles bicycles! And makes three kinds of french toast!) All the Evil Bad Dudes fall over unconscious, and the day is saved! Hip, hip, hooray!
And as Gorgeous Genius saves Toughguy Manley's life using the blood-transfusion setting on the rejiggered Doomsday Device of Doom (Of! DOOOOOOOM!), he professes his undying love for her and for her absolute bad-assery. And for physiology. Because physiology rocks.
The End.
Hey! If you want me to answer a question about using medicine in fiction, shoot me an email! doctorgrasshopper (at) gmail (dot) com. (Remember, though, that I don't have a lot of time to research answers, so please be patient with me. Thanks!)
Ganong, William F. Review of Medical Physiology. 21st edition. McGraw-Hill, 2003.
Manning, James E. Fluid and Blood Resuscitation. Tintalli's Emergency Medicine, Chapter 31. McGraw-Hill, 2004.
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Sunday, May 18, 2008
compare and contrast
This show is a lot like this show.
- happy face balloons... yes and yes.
- clothes on racks... yes and yes.
- flannel shirts, check yes and yes.
- scattered junk and leaning hunks.
- found stand-in man, hunky and dory.
- floormats!
everyone must go = closing down sale
I made the mistake of making a (negative) comment on the Philly artblog... gallery director William Pym responded with the brilliant deduction that I would probably accept if offered a show at Fleisher-Ollman. Wow, what a Sherlock. He really got me.
Randall Sellers thankfully contributed some well-thought and smartly couched/cautious advice (comment #15).
Jerry Saltz review of Wet Pain... with some good comments.
10 comments:
- Anonymous said...
Well now that I have gotten myself banned from every art gallery in Philly I guess I will call it quits over at artblog. Have a nice day.
- Annette Monnier said...
Hmmm. . .I don't think you guys are banned, everyone likes drama and I'm sure more then half of Philly agrees with you. . . but to be totally fair to F/O Alex Da Corte only has one-half of the gallery and Jack Sloss' work looks nothing like dan colen or nate lowman's work.
Also I like Alex.
- Anonymous said...
I will respond to these Philly turds here if you don't mind:
Anonymous said...
EG read my comment at 12: 21 again
(Wow what a response. I will display my creative bankruptcy by using the old "I know you are but what am I" tactic. Your a douchebag anonymous, a cowardly no-nothing.)
James Mills said...
Who is this annoying lunatic Eric Gelber?
Put down the pipe dude!
(Look who wondered in from the set of "The Big Lebowski". At least you have the balls to provide a name. Who knows if it is real.
Anonymous said...
oh and as for your three mundane points: (Yes and your comments are so exciting douchebag.)
1. make better/newer installation art is that really a point
(Well yes. Pointing out the unoriginality of a specific work by showing how it is unoriginal is a valid point.)
2. Judge install art with little jpegs is valid.
yeah i saw pictures of France and i can make an intellegent judgment about the whole country now.
(So all the scholarship done using photographic material is invalid in your book because no would ever write a travel book (?) using photographs only? You are clueless dude!)
3.elitist art system is to uphold some higher expectations.
your a virtual art critic calling people names.
(Me no like grammar. Me type like kindergarten student.)
- Anonymous said...
The blog owner Martin Bromirski has nothing to do with my comments. These are entirely the responsibility of Eric Gelber, who doesn't give a rat's ass about networking in New York or Philly.
I see that they don't take kindly to negative criticism in Philly either. They humorously criticized me for 'protecting' Martin (as if he needed protection!) but they are so busy patting each other on the back and ass-kissing one another that they can't even address a straightforward criticism.
Notice that the hypocrite Libby scolds me and the anonymous losers but she fails to scold all of the other commentators who resorted to name calling as well.
paul pincus:"negative, chronically-tense people like Martin @ 11:34 PM, and especially anonymous @ 12:26 AM should get together and start some sort of self-help group for the tedious and dull."
William Pym:"I wonder what he would say if he was offered a show at the gallery (yes please, I suspect)."
alissa h.:"(I can't help you with the first - try e-harmony or match.com for that - but regarding the second, please, please, stay on your medication). I suspect you'll feel the need to respond to this at least three times...that's what the meds are for."
james mills: "Who is this annoying lunatic Eric Gelber?"
Hey Libby and Roberta no slaps on the wrists for these folks? maybe they didn't use curse words but they were certainly attacking people on your precious blog.
Every art community is the same. Circle the wagons and protect your own kind.
Martin sorry I even went to the site you linked to. Martin has nothing to do with my comments. They were entirely self motivated.
Goodnight and good luck.
- Martin said...
hey eric - oh well. i want to post another comment there as well, but i'm going to try not to lose any sleep over it.
you are right that it was unfair that you were singled out for name-calling... the first personal attacker was paul pincus, the second was william pym.
pym's entire comment was dumb... i can't even begin.
other than that, libby and robert are pretty awesome. good artists, and a big inspiration to me. they (and tyler green) were the first artblogs i discovered, i've been following them since 2002 or 2003.
- Anonymous said...
Well I did learn something. Art blogs are all about protecting and promoting the art community that the author of the blog belongs to. We took sides and criticized a member of the Philly art world and therefore we attacked the entire Philly art world. Complaining about Roberta and Libby is like complaining about a shark after it bites you. They post quality content on their blog, help out artists, and I have nothing against them. They are a symptom of a larger disorder.
People in the art world are allergic to negative criticism. This contradicts their allegedly liberal and progressive leanings. If you produce too much negative criticism you are labeled conservative and reactionary. You don't want to question the existing hierarchy or set of values because then you will potentially disrupt the flow of business or at least call into question the value of the merchandise.
I am trying to finish the Jerry and Roberta comic. I did another frame last night but I still have to finish the penultimate frame.
Sorry if my comments on artblog made you look bad in any way. I know you are trying to network and get gallery representation. It appears that all of the enmity got focused on me by the end and you managed to slip under the radar. At least I hope this happened
- Annette Monnier said...
(In defense of Philly) It's not wrong to protect what you love. I appreciated your comments it isn't very cool that everything got so nasty.
Plus, you know, Libby and Roberta are awesome.
- Anonymous said...
Things got nasty before I even started posting and my first post included not one single personal attack and focused entirely on the art. The immediate response by a regular was unequivocally nasty. I tried for three posts in a row to address issues that were specific to the art in question. Sorry if Libby and Roberta didn't see it that way. I won't post comments on their blog again and I am sure they are happy about that.
- Martin said...
eric - i think you're generalizing too much (in the 8:37 comment). those eight or nine people were only a fraction of the many hundreds of people who read that blog everyday... one was "young brother" gallerist, along with a few others probably just coming to the defense of a friend. they seemed pretty young. whatever.
paul pincus is a design nerd, he creams over design. that explains that.
i'm still laughing (in a sad way)at pym's dopey comment...
from saying "it's wonderful to see so much constructive debate" (if what preceded his comment passes for constructive debate in philadelphia today... yikes) immediately followed by his attempted belittling of a dissenter, his self-affiliation as a "young brother working hard to find the answers through positive, constructive production", and claiming "nothing has changed" at the gallery when evidently it is in a new space, with a new program, under a new director.
ugh. it's true that i would show at f-o in a second... but it would be nicer to have shown under the smart guy, not the trendy one.
maybe you should take a lesson from paul and william and make sure to end all of your critical comments with "peace and love" or a smiley face icon. that seems to make it all better.
- Anonymous said...
"maybe you should take a lesson from paul and william and make sure to end all of your critical comments with "peace and love" or a smiley face icon. that seems to make it all better."
You are probably right about my 8:37 comment. I guess I was just commenting on the loss of objectivity or critical acumen that takes place when networking and self promotion become the most important things in the art world. Nothing new there I suppose.
I think Roberta and Libby were bothered by my "cussin'" and that is fine. Maybe they have young children reading their blog. I wouldn't know. If they study their web stats everyday they would know.
I just thought it was weird that no one really addressed the issues we brought up. Granted if this discussion played itself out over at Winkleman's blog there would have been plenty of nastiness flying around, but at least SOMEONE would have taken the issues we brought up semi-seriously. The one anon who responded to the issues made a less than half-assed attempt.
Philly is a great place. I love the fact that they haven't erased their architectural history like we did in New York City. They probably think all New Yorkers are nasty crazy people now. Oh wait, they thought that already.
I guess if I want to continue commenting on blogs in general I will have to ignore anonymous turds or at least use a lot of smiley face and winky face icons when I attack them.


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Petro Kosmides, a retired quality-control engineer who also taught at the Community College of Baltimore County, died Friday of complications from a brain tumor at his home in the Chapelgate section of Timonium. He was 83.
Born in Baltimore, he was known as Pete and lived on Edmondson Avenue as a young man. His father, George Kosmides, was a confectioner and candy maker. His mother, Alexandra, was a homemaker. He was a 1948 Polytechnic Institute graduate and earned a business administration degree at the University of Maryland, College Park. He then served in the Army in western France.
He met his future wife, the former Anastasia "Stacy" Stephanu, at a Greek community dance held at the Lord Baltimore Hotel.
After leaving military service, Mr. Kosmides joined the old Western Electric Co.'s Point Breeze Works as a statistical quality-control engineer. He also earned a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering from the Johns Hopkins University.
"Pete was a quiet fellow, and when he spoke, it was from authority," said a friend from childhood, Dennis Psoras, an attorney who lives in Sparks. "He was well informed when he spoke."
Mr. Kosmides worked for 28 years at the Southeast Baltimore plant. When it closed in the 1980s, he took early retirement but resolved to keep working.
"He was offered a job in Arizona, but he thought about it for two minutes and turned it down," his wife said. "He put his family before his profession. He was always the kind, proper gentleman with his words, actions and appearance."
He then joined Westinghouse/Northrop Grumman and held the post of senior quality engineer. He retired a second time at 75.
During his career as an engineer, he was an adjunct faculty member at the Community College of Baltimore County's Catonsville campus. He taught statistical quality-control courses.
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He lived for many years on Avondale Road in the Stoneleigh section of Baltimore County and was president of its community association for three years. He and his wife staged a popular community activity called Greek Night held at the old Club Venus, which featured Greek-themed dancing.
Mr. Kosmides was a Baltimore Colts and Orioles fan and later followed the Ravens. He also played tennis and enjoyed riding his bike.
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Item Number: P611
Title: John Adams
Date: 1862
Artist: Alonzo Chappel
Size: Image 5.5"x7.5", Sheet 8"x11"(not all of margins shown in photo)
Comments: Original engraving from famous "National Portrait Gallery of Eminent Americans" by Evert Duyckinck. Wonderful detail not captured in photo. Facsimile of signature below and publishers imprint and dated at bottom.
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<CITE class=vcard>By SERENA DAI and JOHN FLESHER, Associated Press Writers Serena Dai And John Flesher, Associated Press Writers </CITE>– <ABBR class=timedate title=2010-06-23T17:41:35-0700>Wed Jun 23, 8:41 pm ET</ABBR>
<!-- end .byline -->CHICAGO – An [COLOR=#366388 !important][FONT=arial]Asian carp[/FONT][/COLOR] was found for the first time beyond electric barriers meant to keep the voracious invasive species out of the Great Lakes, state and federal officials said Wednesday, prompting renewed calls for swift action to block their advance.
[COLOR=#366388 !important][FONT=arial]Commercial fishermen[/FONT][/COLOR] landed the 3-foot-long, 20-pound bighead carp in Lake Calumet on Chicago's South Side, about six miles from Lake Michigan, according to the Asian Carp Regional Coordinating Committee.
Officials said they need more information to determine the significance of the find.
"The threat to the Great Lakes depends on how many have access to the lakes, which depends on how many are in the Chicago waterway right now," said John Rogner, assistant director of the Illinois [COLOR=#366388 !important][FONT=arial]Department of Natural Resources[/FONT][/COLOR].
But environmental groups said the discovery leaves no doubt that other Asian carp have breached barriers designed to prevent them from migrating from the Mississippi River system to the Great Lakes and proves the government needs to act faster.
"If the capture of this live fish doesn't confirm the urgency of this problem, nothing will," said Andy Buchsbaum, director of the National Wildlife Federation's Great Lakes office.
Scientists and fishermen fear that if the carp become established in the lakes, they could starve out popular sport species and ruin the region's $7 billion [COLOR=#366388 !important][FONT=arial]fishing industry[/FONT][/COLOR]. Asian Carp can grow to 4 feet and 100 pounds and eat up to 40 percent of their body weight daily.
Rogner, from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, estimated that the male carp was about 3 to 4 years old. It was caught live but has since been killed and will be sent to the University of Illinois to determine if it was artificially raised or naturally bred.
The fish was sexually mature, but Lake Calumet's conditions aren't conducive to reproduction because the water is too still, Rogner said. Even so, the lake is the ideal living environment for the fish because it's quiet and near a [COLOR=#366388 !important][FONT=arial]river system[/FONT][/COLOR], he added.
"It fits the model to a T," he said. "They may be concentrated in that area."
Officials said they'll use electrofishing and netting to remove any Asian carp from the lake.
They have been migrating up the Mississippi and Illinois rivers toward the Great Lakes for decades.
There are no natural connections between the lakes and the Mississippi basin. More than a century ago, engineers linked them with a network of canals and existing rivers to reverse the flow of the Chicago River and keep waste from flowing into Lake Michigan, which Chicago uses for drinking water.
Two electric barriers, which emit pulses to scare the carp away or give a jolt if they proceed, are a last line of defense. The Army corps plans to complete another one this year.
"Is it disturbing? Extraordinarily. Is it surprising? No," Joel Brammeier, president of the Alliance for the Great Lakes, said of the carp's discovery beyond the barriers.
He said the capture highlights the need to permanently sever the link between the Mississippi River and the Great Lakes. The Army Corps is studying alternatives, but says the analysis will take years.
"Invaders will stop at nothing short of bricks and mortar, and time is running short to get that protection in place," Brammeier said.
In Michigan, officials renewed their demand to shut down two shipping locks on the Chicago waterways that could provide a path to Lake Michigan. The U.S. Supreme Court has twice rejected the state's request to order the locks closed, but state Attorney General Mike Cox said he was considering more legal action.
"Responsibility for this potential economic and ecological disaster rests solely with President Obama," Cox said. "He must take action immediately by ordering the locks closed and producing an emergency plan to stop Asian carp from entering Lake Michigan."
A Chicago-based industry coalition called Unlock Our Jobs said the discovery of a single carp did not justify closing the locks. Doing so would damage the region's economy and kill jobs without guaranteeing that carp would be unable to reach the lakes, spokesman Mark Biel said. "A few isolated incidents of Asian carp in this small section of the Illinois Waterway does not mean existing barriers have failed," said Biel, also executive director of the Chemical Industry Council of Illinois. "Additional regulatory controls and river barriers should be explored before permanent lock closure is even considered."