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You will be given a cell array of nx2 matrices. Choose one row from each matrix. These are the ordered pairs that will be placed in a line like this.
{[1 2 [4 5 [0 4 3 5 2 4 3 2 1 5] 5 1] 5 3]}
Choices might be: [1 2 3]
yields: [1 2][2 4][5 3] or: abs(2-2) + abs(4-5) or: 0 + 1 or: 1
You are trying to minimize the score, the absolute difference of the sum of the difference at the intersections.
this isn't a big deal, but you have inconsistent inputs for your test cases. cases 1 & 3 are 'row vector' cell arrays whereas case 2 is a 'column vector' cell array.
It would be good to amend the Test Suite in the following regards: (1) Add "%%" to the beginning of the first test case, so that Cody interprets it as intended. (2) Include more test cases: currently the twelve smallest 'correct' submissions are all hard-coded cheats. (3) Include test cases in which the minimum score is not zero. (4) Include test cases in which the number of dominoes to be placed "in a line" is not three. —DIV
And (5) Include test cases in which for a particular position there are more than 9 candidate dominoes available.
Cf. Solution 1554377: if Shared Variables ("SV") assertion fails, output from SV section is echoed to console and Test Point is not called. If SV assertion is passed, output from SV section is not echoed to console (i.e. 'hidden'), and Test Point is called, with output from the Test Point call echoed to console.
Presumably would fail if the Test Suite contained a case in which there were more than 9 candidate dominoes available for a particular position.
Some cheating :), since the least score is always 0 in the test suite, despite the statement in the problem description.
Honesty always appreciated :-) This is also an example of relying on the Test Suite always requiring 3 dominoes to be represented in the output (i, j & k here). —DIV
Find all elements less than 0 or greater than 10 and replace them with NaN
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Back in September I wrote about how documentation was the must-have option when buying a classic Corvette. That article focused on mostly the paper trail: dealer invoices, build sheets and tank stickers. Today the focus is on the engine and the clues available for verifying authenticity. While the term "Matching Numbers" in its simplist form is various serial numbers and codes located on key parts and their relationship to a particular year of Corvette, it's the engine block that is the most important part of the matching numbers equation. Unfortunately, as Corvette values rise, so do your chances of buying a Corvette with altered numbers being passed off as an original. As my favorite mantra goes when purchasing a Corvette, knowledge is power, and the more you can learn about documenting a Corvette prior to purchase, the less likely you will get burned with buying a Corvette of questionable lineage.
A series of codes and stamps are located on the engine block that will allow you to identify it as being manufactured specifically for a Corvette. There are dates of manufacture and the engine's original application if you just know where to look. As the year's progressed and engine options increased, the numbering and casting system obviously changed and became more specific. For the examples provided, I will be referring to the 327 ci 300 hp small block V8 in my 1966 Corvette.
Casting Numbers
The casting number is a sequence consisting of raised numbers that was cast into the engine block when it was made. What's a bit tricky here is that casting numbers on Corvette blocks can also be found on other engine blocks made by GM. Casting Numbers are important to the engine documentation process because certain numbers were used for Corvettes and some were not. Also, the numbers are specific to the size of engine in the Corvette. 283's, 327's and 427's all had their own casting numbers specific to individual years, so for the process of documenting a Corvette engine, the casting number will be used to confirm that that block was used in a Corvette and that it was available during the same year the Corvette was manufactured, and finally, it was unique to a specific engine size. The casting number on Chevy V8's is located on the drivers side of the engine where the block is connected to the bellhousing. It can be a bit hard to see with the ignition shielding in place but the numbers are fairly large. The casting number on my 1966 is 3858174 which is identified as a 327 ci V8 block. That block casting number was also used in 1964-67 passenger cars including the Chevelle and Camaro as well as Chevrolet trucks.
Casting Dates
The cast date symbolizes the date of manufacture of the block. Dates are coded beginning with a letter representing the month. Letters began with "A" for January through "L" for December. The next section of digits represents the day of the month and is either 1 or 2 digits in length. The final single digit represents the year. Corvette casting dates only show the single digit for the year. If the block contains two digits for the year, then it was a block manufactured at the Tonawanda engine plant and therefore is not a Corvette block (Corvette engines were almost exclusively built in Flint, Michigan). Cast dates on small block V8's can be found on the passenger side of flange where the block is connected to the bellhousing. I found this number difficult to locate. On 1965-67 big blocks, the cast date is located on the passenger side of the block where the starter is attached. The cast date on the block in my 1966 is "E 5 6", which decoded stands for May 5, 1966. If you are trying to document an engine, the casting number would confirm the size of the engine and its intended recipient, and the date code would confirm that the block was used in Corvettes.
Engine Stamping
Engine stampings evolved in the early years of the Chevrolet V8 engine. In 1955-56, it was simply a continuous serial number, but one that didn't match the serial number of the Corvette. It was then followed with F for Flint, where the Corvette engine was manufactured and then the year (F55 or F56). The final two letters indicated the original application of the engine. Application Codes usually indicated engine size, type of fuel delivery (Injection or carburetion) and transmission. As engine options grew, so did the number of application suffix codes. In 1957, the serial number was dropped and instead the stamp contained the letter F for Flint, a three to four number sequence for month and day of assembly and then the two letter engine suffix code. Beginning in 1960 the stamp included the serial number of the car it was installed in. The 327 engine in my Corvette contains the following number sequences: 6122891 F0518HE. Decoded, the first sequence is 6 for the year (66) and then the VIN sequence of 122891. The second stamp decodes F for the Flint Plant, May 18 is the engine assembly date and the HE suffix code stands for a 327 ci 300 hp with a manual transmission.
So there you have the basics of decoding engine numbers for the purpose of documentation. Please note that there are some exceptions to the information contained above. In 1965 it is said that there was a shortage of 327 blocks from the Flint plant, so Chevrolet used some engine blocks from Tonawanda. Those engines would have a T instead of F on the stamp, as well as the full year in the cast date. There are several publications that contain a breakdown of engine codes and sequences. The NCRS also provides a publication that details how engines were stamped and therefore, may help you identify restamped engines.
The Must-Have Option When Buying A Classic Corvette
Five Factors That Drive Corvette Values – Options

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June 06, 2013
LAWT News Service
On Saturday, May 18, Best Start Watts-Willowbrook hosted a Resource Fair at Ted Watkins Park in Watts that attracted more than 500 local residents. The event started at 9:00 a.m. with a walking tour of several community organizations, beginning at the Watts Labor and Community Action Committee (WLCAC). General manager and renowned community leader Tina Watkins welcomed participants and provided a tour of the WLCAC facilities and the Cecil Fergerson Gallery. Community activists from the East Side Riders Bike Club also demonstrated bike tricks for children and their families.
The walking tour concluded at Ted Watkins Park, where another 40 organizations were on hand to talk with participants about critically important services and resources that are available in Watts-Willowbrook and across South Los Angeles. These organizations included Shields for Families, Watts Health Corporation, California WIC, Cedars-Sinai's COACH for Kids and Kaiser Watts Counseling and Learning Center. Entertainment included the LA County Arts Commission, which hosted J.A.M. Samba Dance Party sessions; Hoop it UP, which held hula hoop lessons for children and parents; cooking demos and face painting with the Watts Healthy Farmers Market and a performance by the Watts Village Theatre.
Leaders from Best Start Watts-Willowbrook shared their vision for the event, which was designed to get residents out and moving, while linking families to important and valuable resources located right in the neighborhood.
Watts-Willowbrook is home to dozens of resource organizations and Best Start Watts-Willowbrook wants the community to know about them. The parents and residents who make up the Best Start Watts-Willowbrook Partnership—and volunteered their time—are committed to improving the lives of their children and the future of Watts.
Best Start is an effort of First 5 LA, a child advocacy organization created by California voters to invest tobacco tax revenue in programs that improve the lives of children ages 0-5 in Los Angeles County. Best Start focuses its efforts on children ages 0-5 because studies show that 90 percent of brain development occurs in the first few years of a child's life. Best Start Watts-Willowbrook is one of four SLA Best Start communities. The other SLA Best Start communities also include Compton – East Compton, West Athens and Broadway Manchester.


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Sabrina Chapadjiev on creativity & self-destruction, pt. 3 (of 3)
by megan milks on Oct.01, 2010
The following is the final part of a three-part excerpt of my interview with musician/writer/performer Sabrina Chapadjiev for Mildred Pierce. Here are the first and second parts.
These questions are about Live Through This: On Creativity and Self-Destruction (Seven Stories Press, 2008), an anthology edited by Chapadjiev that collects stories, essays, and art by mostly feminist and queer artists and writers who have lived through periods of self-destructive acts.
MILDRED PIERCE: I appreciate the approach you (and the majority of the authors in the book) take to self-destruction, challenging the 'bad bad' psychological and social discourse on self-destructive behaviors that can be quite necessary — at the same time avoiding romanticizing such behaviors. Why do you think so much of the discourse around these issues is so simplistic and moralistic?
SABRINA CHAPADJIEV: I could talk for hours on this. But I will say that it is changing, and that we've come a long way in understanding/talking about mental health in the past twenty years. I am not an expert by any means, but I give a lecture on the history of sanity, specifically focusing on the gender difference in sanity/mental health through the years, and these moralistic and numbingly pedestrian outlooks on self-destruction stem from a place of power, which to me was the main way mental health was seen in the past. 'Insane' people were weak, 'sane' people were powerful. But who got to decide? Well, men, first and foremost. And then Religion took a stab at it. And then Freud came and since then we all want to fuck our fathers and have penis envy, and then there's now.
For years, the pen of psychiatry was held by primarily by men. Before that, exclusively by men. Only women could be deemed 'hysterical.' It was primarily a 'female disease', this thing now called 'mental instability.' Though self-destruction is something that both men and women experience, there is definitely a gendered difference on how forms of self-destruction have played out. Cutting and anorexia — two primarily female related forms of self-destruction — are damned because a lot of the people studying it have been male, or been working in a relatively extreme male work-force. I think this moralistic misunderstanding is a form of patronization and an attempt of ownership over a woman's true experience of the world.
Basically, it's condescension, but a condescension that has been qualified over years of gendered or religious theology over mental health.
Again: I'm talking from an understanding of how females have been seen in the whole self-destructive manipulation. Dudes have their own problems. There is a lot less problematizing of male self-destruction — in fact, it is glorified. I do believe that female self-destruction is shamed and male self-destruction is either glorified or is simply not demonized in the same way.
Shutter Island Part 2: Sara Stridsberg and the Cinematic Body
by Johannes Goransson on Aug.10, 2010
In my last post I wrote about Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island, and how many critics perceived the hallucinatory visions/dreams in that film as "garish" interferences with the plot, and how the movie itself seems to display anxiety about "garishness" by making them all a symptom of an original trauma, which explains them. The critics' feelings of imbalance is proof that these hallucinations are so much more visually fascinating than this explanation; and so is the fact that the number of original traumas seems to grow, as if to make up for this deficiency.
I'm interested in works of art that purse intensive states of consciousness without pathologizing them as trauma, curbing their power with sentimental notions of interiority. I'm interested in more interesting, dynamic relationships between language and image than of the plot as an attempt to restrain the image (caption it, make it meaningful).
Although you can find these garish visions far more often in literature than film (think of all of Rimbaud for example), there is a close connection between the anxiety about these and cinema.
I'm reminded of Susan McCabe's book Cinematic Modernism, where she shows modern poetry in conversation with the emergent art form of film, arguing that the fragmentation of the body experienced in film "ruptured fantasies of physical self-presence or wholeness." She also shows how film created a hysteric body on the screen, as well as had "the capacity to induce in the spectator the hysteric's physical symptoms of dislocation, amnesia, suggestibility and even anesthesia. Most importantly, "modernist hysteria brought into the open the blurred ground between corporeality and consciousness, undermining the absolutist categories of sexual difference."
I also really love Steven Shaviro's book, The Cinematic Body, where he argues against a lot of pervading ideas about film (and art in general) – for example the idea that there is something immoral about the affect of cinema. He argues for "visual fascination":
"Visual fascination is a passive, irresistible compulsion, and not an assertion of the active mastery of the gaze. And it is linked with the delegitimation of violence, its dissociation either from the demands of social order or from the assertion of virile (stereotypically male) power and control, for Eugene "catches" violence as one catches an infection, more than he inflicts it as a willful expression of a warped self. His Phallic, aggressive fantasies are decentered and unhinged in the very movement by which they are intensified. He is less an independent character than a hysterical figuration of the destabilizing excessiveness of Turner's own desire. And Blue Steel as a whole celebrates this excess… Blue Steel exposes visual fascination as a restless, shattering mobility – rather than as the stabilizing fixation assumed by so much film theory," (9)
What might Shutter Island look like if Scorsese did not turn the fascinating visuals into symptoms of trauma, did not make it about character, did not attempt (and apparently fail) to balance his film, instead letting it be about destabilizing excessiveness of desire?
One way it might have looked (I will post others in the near future), is Swedish novelist Sara Stridsberg's brilliant 2006 novel Drömfakulteten: Tillägg till Sexualteorin (The Dream Department: Appendix to the Sexual Theory), which was recently picked as the top novel of the 00s in Sweden (which would be unimaginable in the US, where it would dwell in obscurity on some small indie press at best).
The novel is really a series of vignettes, a series of dreamlike scenes involving Valerie Solanas, author of the infamous SCUM manifesto and the would-be assassin of Andy Warhol, as she lies dying. Sometimes she talks to The Narrator, a well-meaning but square woman doing research on the history of women's lib, her mother Dorothy or a woman named Cosmo.
The mis-en-scenes changes, starting out in a down-and-out flophouse called Bristol Hotel in San Francisco (where Valerie is dying) but going into the deserts where the atom bombs are tested and a mental hospital in New York etc. Something that really fascinates me is this dream-like space the novel opens up, a space Stridsberg calls Bambiland (an kitschy Americana that shares aspects of the space Alice Notley generates in Alma, and the America Swedish author (and member of the academy Lotta Lotass creates in her book about American serial killers, My Voice Will Now Come From Another Place in the Room).
And also, the garish vignettes in Shutter Island.
There is plenty of trauma in the book (she's raped by stepdad for example), but the trauma doesn't explain the hallucinatory vignettes, doesn't turn them into symptoms of the trauma. The trauma saturates the vignettes. Solanas comes off as a courageous person, and the vignettes are beautiful and traumatic. These two (trauma, beauty) are of course not as separate as they are often imagined. It becomes an absolutely absorbing book about feminism, hysteria, violence; a kind of hagiography of sorts, in which Marilyn Monroe, Sylvia Plath, Ulrike Meinhof and Valerie Solanas are all connected as violent women martyred by the patriarchy.
Here's an excerpt that I really like (my very rough translation, apologies to everyone, I'm doing it quickly). As you can tell from this frist excerpt, the novel consists largely in what appears to be scripts for a movie.
Briston Hotel, April 12, 1988
The Narrator: I can help you sort your papers, I can exchange the light bulbs so that you won't have to lie in darkness, I can help you get up for a while.
Valerie: Thanks, I'm fine the way I am. And I prefer to lie here alone. But go ahead. Keep at it. I'll sleep for a while.
The Narrator: We have to talk more about prostitution. We have to talk more about the American feminist movement. You have to tell me more about your relationship to the liberation project.
Valerie: I don't have to do anything. I have to lie here and wait and see if I decide life or death. My heart still beats. I am still full of hate. I can still see you. And all of your papers. That means I'm not dead yet.
The Narrator: To get close to the authentic material…
Valerie: Am I the material?
The Narrator: Maybe not material… You are the subject matter of the novel. I admire your work. I admire your courage. I am interested in the context of the manifesto. Your life. The American women's movement. The sixties.
Valerie: There is nothing called context. Everything should be pulled out of its context. Contexts explain away the most apparent connections. Buyers, dealers, dildoes, fake cunts. It's a question of detachable phenomena.
The Narrator: I'm interested in your world.
Valerie: I'm not interested in living in this world. Marilyn Monroe. Sylvia Plath. Cinderella. To lie murdered and raped on the beach. I ran with dying animals in my arms through the desert back home to Dorothy. I waited for the animal to decide life or death. Sometimes they decided to die, sometimes to live. Sometimes it was a giant dragonfly that would die before nightfall anyway. It's always been that way for me, I've had a hard time making decisions. It has been neither life nor death. But now it looks like it's going to be death for the foreseeable future. Yes, that's a decision one can stick to. It has an enduring character.
The Narrator: Talk more about the manifesto, talk more about SCUM.
Valerie: A worldwide, anti-violence organization. A utopia, a mass movement, a laughing blob that slowly spread across the world. A state of mind, an attitude, a way of moving through the city. Always shitty thoughts, shitty dress, shitty long intentions.
The Narrator: Number of members?
Valerie: Unknown.
The Narrator: Who were the members?
Valerie: Arrogant and selfish women all over the world who could not longer wiat and hop for the deprogramming of millions of assholes. Universe-rulers in all nations… All the women of the world or just Valerie…
The Narrator: And you?
Valerie: The loneliness of the desert.
The Narrator: Can I hold your hand?
Valerie: No.
The Narrator: Can I sit with you when you sleep?
Valerie: Remember that I'm sick and that I'm waiting to die. Remember that I am the only woman not crazy around here.
The Narrator: I love you.
Valerie: Fuck you.
[Here's another little bit about SCUM Manifesto that I love for the way it seems to revise, or rather pre-vise (it comes earlier in the book) Valerie's answer above:]
If you fall asleep and dream about Maryland and wake up again and it's dark and death is there, a vertiginous aching chasm of black trees and black snow that is falling. There is no organization called SCUM, it has never existed. The only thing that remains is Society for Cutting Up Myself, a worldwide organization with countless members. An organization that will never cease and disappear.
In addition to these scripts/potential movies, the books contains many intensive passages that, as i the McCabe quote above, not only creates a fragmented, hysterical body in Solanas, but also generates that effect in the reader:
You cough and get blood in your hand and beneath your silver robe there is a screaming under-water animal that wants out, a bird-like horror without feathers and skin that bites and chews around. The belly aches and cries and the silver robe is wet and cold of urine, but you love it and if you are anyway going to die now, you want to die in silver and with silver buttons. If you are anyway going to die, you want to die with Cosmo in your hand. The last thing she said was don't leave me here and the sky was heavy and pressing and your leopard fur was wet from fear when you took the train back to Maryland the last time.
In this particular piece, I love the way materials seem infused with the trauma, and how the interior is conceived of as not just a montage but an impossible montage (the underwater animal that both is an is not a bird, that has no skin).
OK, that should give you an idea. It's a harrowing, beautiful book. One of the best novels I've read in a long time.
I feel there is a connection between Valerie's detachable body and the cinematic body, the hysterical body, the violence. What I've elsewhere called a "Spasmadic Aesthetic."
The book does decidedly not take the route of Scorsese in Shutter Island. The hallucinations are not explained away as symptoms of inner trauma and the trauma is not originary, cannot be fully explained. The trauma saturates the text. Valerie even rejects "context."
I haven't done a great job explaining myself, but hopefully it will come together more in my next post. Next up: Atrocity Kitsh, Ken Chen's Sublime, Aase Berg's trauma-rama body infested by media, Abu Ghraib aesthetics, Carolyn Forche's kitschy dead dissident bodies.
The vignettes in Stridsberg's novel are cinematic the way August Strindberg's (no relation!) Dream Play was much more film than any possible theater back in the early 20th century. Funny that it should be a book about Valerie Solanas, the one feminist who might actually have believed what Strindberg thought all women believed (ie want to kill men).


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Tokyo tourism: Chinzan-so garden, delicious food and rich in culture
Olivier LeCourt and Lee Jay Walker
Modern Tokyo Times
Chinzan-so is a stunning garden in Tokyo whereby you can view the natural beauty of an amazing Japanese garden, beautiful architecture, elements of Buddhism, the magical world of Shintoism, and so much more. Also, unlike the vast majority of stunning gardens in Tokyo which close early this doesn't apply to Chinzan-so therefore at night the garden is also extremely beautiful and you have many restaurants to eat scrumptious Japanese food. However, being Chinzan-so, then even the restaurants blend in with the natural environment and clearly this beautiful place would bless any major city in the world.
The natural beauty of Chinzan-so is so refreshing because not only can you connect with stunning nature but also this garden is rich in culture and history. The stunning pagoda and aspects of Buddhism, Shintoism, Taoism, and the sacred 500 year old tree, also highlights the exquisite nature of Chinzan-so.
Luxury can also be found at (http://www.fourseasons.com/tokyo/) the Four Seasons Hotel which can be found throughout the amazing city of Tokyo and internationally. The Four Seasons Hotel highlighted in this article applies to the hotel which is located in the same Chinzan-so area. Therefore, if you adore luxury, architecture, the backdrop of an amazing garden and so much more; then the sublime Four Seasons Hotelfused with your stay in Tokyo and the richness of Chinzan-so garden is an amazing break which will stay long in the memory.
Chinzan-so is like walking into the past and into a magical world where you can imagine the amazing animation film called "Spirited Away" by Hayao Miyazaki. This applies to the stone deities, aspects of Buddhism, small Shinto shrine, and famous religious tree. Therefore, the spiritual nature of Chinzan-so is a welcome dimension and at night if you have an "over imagination," then you can feel the mystery of the old world which is also highlighted in the animation film called "Spirited Away."
This stunning garden enables people to feel the hidden magic of the Edo period and the changing times of Japan in the Meiji period. Also, it is clear that the opulent wealth of the elites in the past developed this splendid garden and they did so with an eye on culture and aesthetics.
Prince Aritomo Yamagata built his magnificent mansion where modern Chinzan-so stands but of course modifications have been made. The name Chinzan-so means "House of Camellia" therefore you will find many types of camellia throughout this exquisite and stunning garden.
In a past article about Chinzan-so by Modern Tokyo Times it was stated that "The prestige of Prince Aritomo Yamagata and his importance and how Chinzan-so is viewed can be judged by the fact that the Emperor Meiji held many important meetings in this place, in order to plan the future with dignitaries who held important seats of power. Therefore, it is abundantly clear that the stunning environment, remote settings where seclusion could be found from prying eyes and the cultural aspect of Chinzan-so meant that it was an ideal setting."
"Much of the historical legacy today which can be viewed must be credited to Baron Heitaro Fujita because he utilized the stunning grounds and topography. This applies to adding important historical monuments and many of these came from Kyoto and Toba. However, the stunning pagoda which is very beautiful was relocated from Hiroshima."
Therefore, the historical legacy and richness of culture is abundantly obvious because Baron Heitaro Fujita utilized every positive aspect of Chinzan-so and today Tokyoites and tourists can witness many intriguing aspects of Japanese culture. Also, from a religious and philosophical point of view the Taoist images from ancient China fuses naturally with aspects of Buddhism and Shintoism. These images and the numerous stone lanterns are a wonder to behold and the delightful pond, exquisite pagoda, images of Taoism and Buddhism, small Shinto shrine, a sacred 500 year old tree, waterfall, and the stunning layout of the garden means that Chinzan-so is very special.
Throughout the grounds you also have many restaurants to visit and for tourists and Tokyoites you can enjoy not only the natural beauty of Chinzan-so, but you can also eat scrumptious food. This applies to "Kinsui"which is a traditional restaurant which is famous for the kaiseki cuisine; "Mokushundo" where they provide delicious Japanese box lunches, fondue, and barbecue; "Chuu-an" restaurant serves up Edomae sushi and other delicious food; and "Mucha-an" restaurant provides delicious food and is known for their delicious Japanese soba.
The beauty of all these restaurants is that they blend in naturally within the stunning grounds of Chinzan-so. Therefore, the dining experience is a real treasure because not only can you eat extremely delicious food, but the backdrop of the stunning scenery is really special. Not surprisingly, all these restaurants are of the highest quality and cater for different styles of Japanese food.
Also, you have a firmly established restaurant called "Camellia" in this stunning environment and this dining place is famous for its French cuisine. This restaurant is rich in history because for more than 50 years it remains highly acclaimed based on the mouth-watering food which is provided. The view is also extremely majestic and the setting is spacious. Therefore, if you are a connoisseur of scrumptious French cuisine then restaurant "Camellia" will certainly please you.
Within the main hotel complex overlooking Chinzan-so you have "Café Foresta" which is very spacious and a great place to relax and drink tea, coffee, and other choices, and to eat a delicious cake and so forth "Café Foresta" also provides amazing views of Chinzan-so if you are lucky enough to find a place by the enormous windows. At night, the view is fantastic because of the lights which highlight the beautiful pagoda and other special areas.
Chinzan-so is a must place to visit in Tokyo because of everything highlighted in this article and so much more.
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GCH CH Mt View's Ripsnorter Silver Charm
The big points this week were in Syracuse and that's where we will begin our Monday Morning Mop Up. There were more than 4500 points available at the Salt City Cluster's four shows and the German Wirehaired Pointer, GCH CH Mt View's Ripsnorter Silver Charm got every one of them. Check our archives for reports on Thursday's and Friday's shows.
GCH CH Sharjets Starr Catcher CD RN
At Saturday's Central New York Kennel Club show BIS judge had the option of the GWP, Oakley, the Longhaired Dachshund, CH Stonybrook's Phinito, his RBIS, the Doberman Pinscher, GCH CH Sharjets Starr Catcher CD RN, the American Staffordshire Terrier, GCH CH An Garda Deja Vu Looking At You, the Pekingese, CH Schuyler's Laparata Robert, the Tibetan Spaniel, GCH CH Kan Sing's Tenzin, and the Briard, GCH CH Deja Vu Mia Cool As A Cucumber.
GCH CH Larkspur Acadia Save Me A Spot
(Photo by Kayla Bertagnolli courtesy of Best IN Show Daily))
Sunday Dr Steve Keating preferred Oakley as his BIS at the Onondaga Kennel Association event over his RBIS, the Lakeland Terrier, GCH CH Larkspur Acadia Save Me A Spot, the Whippet, Abbey's Keeping Up Appearances, the Boxer, GCH CH Hi Tech The King of Sherry Shoot Jp, the Yorkshire Terrier, Nicnak's Second To None, the above named Tibbie, and the Bouvier des Flandres, GCH CH Stonepillar's Steel Blu.
That brings Oakley's BIS total this year to 14 and will leave him just a hair behind the Number Two Dogs All Breeds.


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I hail from Brewer, Maine but love to travel and have been to many parts of the US and Europe. A health and fitness enthusiast, I love the outdoors. I walk about 3 miles a day and have for many years. Best friends with my Mom, family is very important to me. At one time a drama major, my passion regrouped into a love of movies and a long time study of film arts. My actual degree is in Interior Design from a school in Boston, where I lived for many years. Then my career morphed into marketing until finally finding my home in radio where I have been a part of the Maine radio landscape for more than 12 years. I'm best known by my friends as an animal lover and someone who loves to laugh.
Dorian Daniels
Scientists Deduce The Number Of Christmas Lights You Need To Be Visible From Space
Inspired by 'Deck The Halls ' students formulate the number of Christmas lights needed to be seen from space.


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Pulling Data: Interview with David Bowen
David Bowen's solo exhibition, drift, recently opened at Redux Contemporary Art Center in Charleston, SC. Bowen investigates the intersection of mechanical and organic systems; his practice is driven by an interest in the collection and visualization of data. His materials include simple robotics and electronic components, integrated with natural elements and information systems. Two of Bowen's kinetic sculptures, Fly Lights and Tele-Present Wind, are currently[…..]


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|System: PS3*, Xbox 360
|Dev: Iron Galaxy
|Pub: Capcom
|Release: March 12, 2013
|Players: 1 (2+ Online)
|Screen Resolution: 480p-1080p
|Blood, Partial Nudity, Suggestive Themes, Violence, Online Interactions Not Rated by the ESRB
by Angelo M. D'Argenio
Darkstalkers Resurrection is cut from the same cloth that all of the other Capcom fighting game re-releases are cut from. It doesn't update the mechanics of its games (Darkstalkers 2 and 3) in any way shape or form. Instead, it updates just about everything else, from art to achievements, and lets the games speak for themselves. Heck, it's even done by the same studio, Iron Galaxy, that brought us the incredibly well-received Street Fighter III: Third Strike Online Edition.
As a result, there's not a whole lot to discuss here. We all basically know what's in store for us in terms of gameplay. If you liked the original Darkstalkers series, then you will absolutely love this updated version. If you didn't, then there isn't anything new or revolutionary here that will change your mind. Darkstalkers Resurrection isn't anything more than a love letter to currently existing Darkstalkers fans, a beautifully written and masterfully crafted love letter that makes us all remember why we fell in love with the series in the first place.
Of course, no Capcom fighting game remake would be complete without a host of new graphical options, and those are all present. You can apply all sorts of filters, making the game look as smoothed over or pixelated as you like. You can stretch the game to fit widescreen TVs, or you can keep the game bordered at its standard 4:3 ratio.
However, none of these graphical options is the coolest thing that Darkstalkers Resurrection has to offer. That honor goes to the "over-the-shoulder" view, which pretty accurately simulates standing over the shoulder of an old pro at your local arcade, waiting for your turn to play. Of course, you never had to actually play from this perspective in the old days, so it's a little weird to control. You're not likely to use this option much outside of playing around with your friends. Still, it's an amazing piece of nostalgia that satisfies old arcade regulars like me.
All the same bells and whistles that were present in Third Strike Online Edition are here as well. For example, the game has a full list of achievements and challenges that can be set to scroll up the margins of the screen as you complete them. The points you earn by completing these challenges can then be used on a number of mostly aesthetic unlockables that your standard superfan would appreciate.
A fully fleshed-out tutorial has also been integrated into Darkstalkers Resurrection, and it's one of the better tutorials that we have seen in a fighting game remake. Granted, it's essentially just a trial mode and there are only five trials per character, but for once the trials aren't just a Simon Says combo simulator. Instead, these trials actually teach you the utility behind each character's best moves. Some of these trials get difficult fairly quickly, and that is sure to anger some of the newbies who have never touched Darkstalkers before, but biting your tongue and sticking it through will make you a far better player.
It's impossible to talk about re-releases like this one without discussing the inevitable inclusion of online mode, and Darkstalkers Resurrection's is one of the best. The game's online modes take full advantage of the GGPO networking library, the best online library for fighting games out there. The majority of matches go off without a hitch. You can easily play matches across the country without perceiving a hint of lag. Problems only start showing up when you decide to take on opponents from the other side of the planet.
Ressurection's implementation of online multiplayer is far better than even Third Strike Online's. You can now filter matches both by region and by ping, making sure you only get the best connections possible. You can create eight-player online lobbies that allow you to set your own rules for the game, including straight out banning characters that you just don't want to deal with. If you are a fan of online-only tournaments, which have become all the rage in the fighting game community in recent days, you can run one using the game's online tournament mode. Finally, if you feel the need to show off your Darkstalkers prowess to the world, you can upload your match replays directly to YouTube from the in-game interface.


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The second version is with a photo from David Pace. It started out as a larger photo but the original is a little grainy, Dave had some camera issues that weekend. It is a little clearer because it started out large, but still is a little bit grainy (taken after dark).
Thanks to Bob Snyder for providing all the other pics on the banner.
I got this idea a couple week or so ago & first bounced the idea off BP & Danny. Danny, BP & I have been emailing back & forth, We've been asking people through PM's that we thought might have what we need. Finally I asked Danny if he might have a photo we could use. When I got home tonight Danny posted this on CFCB.
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I'm glad Danny has seen what we've put together so far & is excited about it. We'd really like for him to see the finished product before it's printed. I'll echo what Danny said, if anyone has a photo that could replace these (similar pose & hi res) we'd appreciate it if we could use it on the banner. There's a couple other things in the works too, so if we get more than one good shot we may be able to use more than one.
Thanks for any help you can provide, & be sure to keep Danny & his family in your thoughts & prayers.


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Today's blog entry picks up on my entry from last week focusing on conversations with Tupper Thomas, former President of the Prospect Park Alliance and Administrator of Prospect Park in Brooklyn, and Meg Cheever, current President and CEO of Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy. Pioneers in public-private partnerships for parks, both Meg and Tupper's years of experience are filled with lessons for the rest of us – in how they got their start and in how they shaped their partnerships over the years.
The Prospect Park Alliance and the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy are now in their 26th and 17th year of operation, respectively. I talked with both women about what has changed since they started.
Growing Engagement
One thing that changed, says Tupper, is that by the late 1990s it was clear that the Alliance needed a way to engage members and partners outside of just the formal agreement they had with the city. Many other residents and organizations cared about the park and wanted to influence was what going on with their own ideas and Tupper knew that a diverse set of opportunities and programs was one way to get people to go into the park.
The Prospect Park Community Committee (ComCom) was specifically created to involve the local community in Prospect Park's management and operations. The ComCom includes representatives from more than 50 local organizations, as well as all of the elected officials (federal, state, and city) and community boards that represent the park and the surrounding districts.
The ComCom plays an active advisory and advocacy role, representing the interests of park users and the community while making recommendations for the function and future of the Park. The ComCom meets monthly to discuss relevant issues of Prospect Park management (e.g., dog rules, garbage and recycling policies, park drive regulations), review all capital plans and programs, and have regular discussions with city agencies.
When the ComCom was created, the Alliance "…did a ton of research." They hired a person to help them understand the community culture; they worked with elected officials; and, they combed the neighborhood for responsible organizations that should be involved. They reached out to them and invited them to join the committee. It turned out there were a lot of activists – smaller ad hoc groups that offered ideas and solutions but did not have the capacity or skills or even the interest to be on the Alliance board and help run an organization. So the ComCom offered a way for community members who had views on policy and operations to provide input. And they were very helpful in that role. "We worked hard to pick people who represented all of the usership – who they were and whether they would come and help even when there was no crisis, was important," adds Tupper.
Since 1987, Park visits have increased from just 2 million a year to over 10 million today.
Growing Capacity
The Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy is now in its seventeenth year of operation. Support for their work and the public-private partnership has grown. The funding community sees their track record of successful capital projects – the parks look great and are well cared for – and they see that it is now in everyone's interest to look more broadly at how a partnership can help with capital and maintenance support for all city parks.
In 2006, the five-acre Schenley Plaza – used as a parking lot for decades – was restored to its intended use by the Conservancy and its community partners. A second phase of the Plaza's revitalization, the restoration of the Mary Schenley Memorial Fountain, was completed in 2008. Like the partnership to restore Sister Cities Park in Philadelphia, a group of institutions including the University of Pittsburgh, partnered to plan, design and restore the park.
The Conservancy now has a 30-year lease and management agreement for the 5 acres – an agreement which gives them far greater oversight and management responsibilities than they have had before in any park. The city provides some basic services but the Conservancy provides extra sanitation and security, additional horticulture; they manage concessions and the park's new restaurant, as well as overseeing 200 free events each year.
It took three years to raise the capital dollars for Schenley Plaza and now they are raising additional money, "We still have 23 years left to go in our agreement, says Meg. "We need to need to continue to raise more money or do things more efficiently to keep going. For those places that require a more sophisticated amount of maintenance, we need to raise money for maintenance as well as capital."
Mellon Square – a park over a parking garage and a historically significant example of mid-20th century modernist landscape architecture – is next up for the Conservancy. They just raised the money to complete a capital restoration and to create a $4 million permanent maintenance fund. Here again, the Conservancy will work with the city but will have responsibility for the park's oversight and maintenance.
Pittsburgh is blessed with being part of a Regional Asset District (RAD) that provides a sales tax override that throws off money for regional cultural assets in Alleghany County. The city gets money for the 5 biggest parks in the city – considered regional assets – mostly for operations and some capital. But there are about 170 parks in the city; 80% of the parkland is represented by the big parks but the city is now working with the Conservancy to figure out how to take care of the small parks not eligible for RAD money.
The vision of the conservancy – wide appreciation and enjoyment of the citywide park system is a big vision. With a staff of 22 now, "…the challenge of where we stop and where we go is a conundrum that we work on every day," says Meg.
Growing for the Future
Tupper retired from the Alliance last year. Just before she left, the Alliance signed a new contract with the city. The legacy she wants to be remembered for? "I wanted to make sure people from every income level and every culture felt welcome in the park," Thomas told newspapers when she retired. "And I feel we've done that."
When she announced her retirement the Alliance hired a firm to help them make the transition – how to grow the Alliance into an institution and how to make the transition from a founding Executive Director – and make the organization into something that would last.
"The organization has to grow; the board has to transition to a new board with a regular addition of new members; and the organization has to become an institution." One question on the table is what the relationship will be like with the new mayor. The new contract was important to clarify the differences in what the responsibilities would be for both partners and to lay the path for maintaining this partnership long into the future.
Tupper envisions the Park being much more like a cultural institution, like the Brooklyn Museum, but with this idea many people fear the loss of a government role. Will privatization lead to a more heavy-handed private role in the name of efficiency? No one has yet abused the privilege. Still it remains hard to explain to residents and reporters how important the partnership is for maintenance – how the Alliance is adding to that effort. Tupper says that,
"…the key question to ask on this issue is: are the policy and operations decisions still being made by the people who report to the mayor – who was elected by the people? Cities are so strapped there has to be a give and take. As the parks department budget gets cut, the conservancies have filled the gap. Cities without them would pour money only into the popular parks. The conservancies leverage their ability to raise private money to keep all the parks open."
In Pittsburgh, the same is true. The kind of stuff the Conservancy is doing isn't what city staff is doing; they collaborate with the city on a clear agenda that puts the parks first. "Of course, the parks are still owned by the city which has control over park policy."
In spite of private partnerships like those in Brooklyn and Pittsburgh, city parks departments should be putting more money into parks; it wouldn't be that much of an increase to maintain a higher standard. But that is one thing private park partners have not been able to do – increase the city budgets to reflect the higher priority that funders, members and supporters have shown for the parks. So, how do we ensure that there continues to be a sufficient amount of public investment in parks? That's one of the issues taken on by the City Parks Alliance which believes we need, first, an effective advocacy to ensure that the public dollars remain dedicated to parks. The kind of advocacy, commitment and success that Prospect Park Alliance and the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy have created.
The partnerships in Brooklyn and Pittsburgh will certainly evolve but the commitment by the Conservancy and the Alliance is certain; and their experience and their new contracts makes it clear about who is the decision maker and makes the rules – and who carries them out. Meg puts it perfectly when she says, "Tupper was so generous with her time in getting us started that I will forever be grateful. Each partnership has to go its own way in figuring out what works for their circumstance – but it is helpful to understand the context for the work, what has gone on before you and what lessons there are."


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Well, this is certainly an exciting time. Next week, we will receive the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, here in the United States, an historic and joyful occasion for all Catholics.
I have written a letter to be read this weekend in all of the parishes, calling on our people to reflect on the importance of this moment and to realize the great gift that the ministry of the pope means in our Church, the ministry of unity and of our catholicity.
We are over one billion Catholics in the world. As I always say, we come in every size, shape and color, speaking every language, and we need this ministry of Peter to keep us united in Christ's body and in fidelity to the teachings of the Gospel.
We have a great gift in the incredible intelligence and clarity of this pope who is a true teacher, and I am sure he will come to our country with many messages that will be of great importance for us in living our Christian life. So, the purpose of my letter was to encourage people to look beyond just the event of the visit and to focus on the message and the meaning of the visit.
Dearly Beloved in Christ,
Throughout the history of salvation, God has raised up individuals to lead his people. Christ assigned a special role of leadership to St. Peter. After Christ's name, it is Peter's name that appears with the greatest frequency in the New Testament.
The testimony of Early Christian writers and the witness of the martyrs demonstrate that the pope's role has always been a crucial part of God's plan for the Church. Jesus said the words to Peter: "Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church." It was Jesus who gave Simon the new name, Peter, meaning "the rock." Jesus also bestows on Peter the power to forgive sin and to loose and bind on heaven and on earth.
To me one of the most moving experiences of my life has been to visit the tomb of St. Peter under the Basilica of St. Peter on the Vatican Hill. St. Jerome says that Peter was Bishop of Rome for 25 years until his martyrdom by Nero. Peter was nailed to the cross upside down because he insisted that he was not worthy to die as Christ did.
The New Testament does not hide Peter's human weakness, but the Acts of the Apostles describes Peter as he boldly proclaims Christ's resurrection, announces the Gospel message and leads the young Church in the face of so many challenges. Guided by the Spirit, Peter chooses a replacement for Judas and carries on the mission that Christ entrusted to him. That mission has continued in the apostolic succession handed on from generation to generation by the laying on of hands and the power of the Holy Spirit. Christ has not left us orphans. The Holy Spirit still guides the Church, and makes the ministry of Peter present in every generation. The pope's ministry is a gift from Christ that promotes the unity and the catholicity of our Church with over 1 billion members in every part of the world.
In the New Testament, St. Luke describes how the early Christians laid their sick by the side of the road so that Peter's shadow might touch them. Catholics throng to where the pope is for the same reason, to be near the vicar of Christ. It is the way we express our love for the Lord Jesus, who has given to his Church this ministry of Peter to guide us and to confirm us in the faith.
I write this letter to ask you to pray for the spiritual success of the Holy Father's visit. At the same time, I urge all my fellow Catholics to listen attentively to the message that the pope will address to us. The Holy Father is not a celebrity or a rock star. He is a shepherd and represents Christ, the Good Shepherd, who commanded Peter: "Feed my sheep." Pope Benedict is coming to feed us in our hunger for God and for truth.
Let us receive our Holy Father with loyalty and affection. May his presence among us help us to grow in our love for Christ and for one another. May his words renew us in our commitment to be faithful disciples in Christ's Church.
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During Pope Benedict's visit, I will be going down to Washington, D.C. There will be a welcoming ceremony at the White House on Wednesday. Phil Moran, a member of the Archdiocese of Boston's Pastoral Council, will be attending the event, joining many lay people from around the country who will be a part of the welcoming ceremony.
Also on Wednesday, the Holy Father will address the bishops in the afternoon at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.
Thursday there will be the Mass in the new Nationals Park in Washington. In the afternoon, the Holy Father will meet with Catholic college presidents and the superintendents of Catholic schools from throughout the United States. Our people from Boston will be there — from our Catholic colleges and schools. There will also be an ecumenical meeting that day and Father Kennedy, rector of St. John's Seminary, will attend.
On Friday, the Holy Father will address the United Nations, a very important part of his trip, and there will be a number of other events in New York — an ecumenical service and a Mass which will be attended by several Boston bishops, priests and religious, including Father Art Coyle, Sister Marian Batho and Father Richard Erikson.
Then, there will be a youth rally at St. Joseph's Seminary. Our seminarians will be attending that event along with some of our youth groups from our parishes and colleges. Finally, the closing Mass will be on Sunday and 3,000 people from Boston will be attending that Mass.
All the events will be carried live by CatholicTV. They will also broadcast the events live at their website.
The Friday and Saturday prior to the pope's closing Mass, we will be celebrating the Boston Men's and Women's Conferences. One of the themes of the conference will be to ask those participating to be in prayer for the spiritual success of the pope's visit — which is something we encourage all Catholics to do, particularly this week as we prepare for the visit and experience the visit.
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Last Friday I attended a conference entitled "Co-Workers in the Vineyard: Laity and Clergy Journeying Together in Christ," at St. John's seminary.
Aldona Lingertat, the associate Director of our Master of Arts in Ministry Program
The conference focused on the role of the laity in the Church and the future of lay ministry in the archdiocese. I am please to say there was an excellent turnout — I believe about 200 people attended. The room was practically standing-room only.
The discussion at the conference was based on the USCCB document "Co-Workers in the Vineyard of the Lord" in light of the Archdiocesan Pastoral Planning Committee's Report on future needs of the archdiocese.
In the morning, Aurelie Hagstrom, a theology professor at Providence College, delivered her keynote address on the USCCB's "Co-Workers" document and later Father George Evans, chair of the archdiocese's Pastoral Planning Committee spoke on his committee's report.
Aurelie Hagstrom
In the afternoon, there were group discussions and a panel discussion. At the conclusion of the gathering, I made some brief remarks and delivered the final blessing.
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Last Saturday I traveled to St. Lucy Parish in Methuen for the 50th anniversary of the parish. We had a very good time with the parishioners and their pastor, Father Thomas Keyes. They have sent us some photos of the event that I want to share with you.
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On Sunday, I had a Mass with the Nigerian community. It was a very colorful experience.
The people were all wearing their beautiful Nigerian attire for festive occasions — the women wore head dresses and the men in their robes. It was a very joyful celebration. Of course, the music was magnificent. They sang many songs in their native language.
The community is part of St. Katherine Drexel Parish in Roxbury. The pastor, Father Oscar Pratt, was with me as well as Father Anselm Nwagbrara, a Nigerian priest who is their chaplain. And we had the great joy of having Msgr. Felix Ojimba visiting. He used to live with us at the cathedral and had done such wonderful ministry among the sick years ago in Boston. He was later called back to his home diocese but visits regularly because he has relatives and many friends here.
At the end of Mass, they have the custom of calling children and young people up to give them a blessing and of course there were many children there. It was very moving to see them come forward and to see the enthusiasm and joy that characterizes the community's celebration of the Mass.
It reminded me of the time when I was in the West Indies. The people come to church dressed up, they sing and the Mass is an event. It is a celebration in every sense of the word. The Mass lasted about two-and-a-half hours, and I am always happy to be in a place where people won't be checking their wrist watches during my homily. I can talk as long as I want!
Afterwards there was a meal with plenty of Nigerian food. At the beginning of the celebration they offered to me, as a sign of hospitality, a plate of some very fancy nuts, so I took one and said to Father Oscar, "Am I supposed to eat it?" and he replied, "If you eat it, you won't sleep for two weeks." So, after a little consideration, I gracefully declined the offer!
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Tuesday was officially the 200th anniversary of the Archdiocese of Boston, which was formed on April 8, 1808. We marked the day by celebrating a Mass at CatholicTV.
We were joined by Father Thomas Kopp, who is our director of the Propagation of the Faith and also pastor at St. James the Greater Parish in Boston. He brought a number of his parishioners from St. James, many of them from the Chinese Catholic community, as well as his parish's deacon, a young Jesuit, Deacon Joseph. We were also accompanied by Msgr. Finbarr O'Leary, director of the Saint James Society.
At the Mass we reflected on the fact that our diocese was started 200 years ago by two missionary priests from France. Over the past 200 years, the archdiocese has made quite a substantial commitment to the mission of the Church, sending 300 priests to South America through the St. James Society as well as the work of the Propagation of the Faith.
CatholicTV also aired a special edition of "This is the Day" where a number of people discussed the bicentennial, for which I was interviewed.
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Until my next blog posting, in which I hope to share with you the first part of the pope's visit to the United States. I want to reiterate my request for prayers for the spiritual success of his visit.
God Bless you all.
Cardinal Seán


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If you have gum disease, some forms of fluoride topical may be irritating to your gums. Talk to your dentist or doctor if you have bothersome mouth irritation while using fluoride topical.
Talk to your doctor and dentist before using fluoride topical if you are pregnant.
Talk to your doctor and dentist before using fluoride topical if you are breast-feeding.
The use of fluoride is particularly important in children to protect against tooth decay. The American Dental Association's Council on Dental Therapeutics recommends the use of fluoride by children up to 13 years of age. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends fluoride supplementation in children until the age of 16 years old.
Do not allow a child to swallow fluoride topical or serious overdose symptoms could result.
Get emergency medical help if you have any of these signs of an allergic reaction: hives; difficulty breathing; swelling of your face, lips, tongue, or throat.
Call your doctor if you have any of the following side effects:
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This is not a complete list of side effects and others may occur. Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.
Do not swallow fluoride topical. Spit it out after use.
It is not likely that other drugs you take orally or inject will have an effect on topically applied fluoride. But many drugs can interact with each other. Tell each of your health care providers about all medicines you use, including prescription and over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, and herbal products.
Use this medication exactly as directed on the label, or as it was prescribed by your dentist or doctor. Do not use it in larger amounts or for longer than recommended. Follow the directions on your prescription label.
Fluoride topical should be used immediately after brushing or flossing your teeth. For best results, use the medication just before bedtime, unless your doctor tells you otherwise.
Swish this medication in your mouth without swallowing. Then spit it out.
Do not eat, drink, or rinse your mouth for 30 minutes after using fluoride topical.
Store fluoride topical at room temperature away from moisture and heat.
Seek emergency medical attention or call the Poison Help line at 1-800-222-1222. Overdose symptoms may result if you swallow large amounts of fluoride while using it.
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Use the missed dose as soon as you remember. If it is almost time for your next dose, wait until then to use the medicine and skip the missed dose. Do not use extra medicine to make up the missed dose.
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A graphic video that appears to show a man cursing at animal rights activists then fatally shooting a horse has sparked outrage and investigations, according to reports.
The man in the YouTube video is said to be a former employee of a Roswell area-based meat company that is trying to open the first U.S. horse meat slaughterhouse since 2007.
Valley Meat Co. said in a statement to the Albuquerque Journal that it fired worker Tim Sappington after becoming aware of his appearance in the video. A lawyer for the firm told the Journal the video was posted a year ago, but it is now being touted by the Horse Plus Humane Society.
In the 51-second YouTube video, a man is shown leading a horse out on a dirt road.
"All you animal activists, [expletive] you," he says before firing one shot at the horse's forehead.
Warning: The YouTube video linked to here is extremely graphic.
The apparent shooting is being investigated by New Mexico's Livestock Board as a possible act of animal cruelty, according to the Journal.
While Sappington has so far not commented on the video, Valley Meat's statement to the Journal said he euthanized the horse "as was his legal right for his own consumption."
KOB-TV reported that the FBI is now involved since Sappington and others connected to the plant have received death threats.
"I didn't have anything to do with that video, that's the honest truth, but like I said, people will make assumptions," Valley Meat part-owner Rick De Los Santos told KOB.
The video has surfaced as Valley Meat is poised to begin slaughtering horses for meat despite opposition from animal activists.
Last year Congress decided not to extend a ban on USDA horse meat inspections, which had kept the meat from being produced in the U.S. for human consumption.
Valley Meat attorney A. Blair Dunn told Bloomberg News earlier this week that it could begin horse slaughtering in the next three weeks. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack did not confirm the timetable.
"We're very close to getting the work done that's needed to be done to allow them to operate," Bloomberg quoted Vilsack as saying.


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When a Manager Leaves a Fund Should You?
Before you head for the exit, see who's waiting in the wings.
Let's say you were fortunate enough to identify a talented fund manager and stick around for the ride. What happens when your wealth builder retires or quits? It happens. In recent months, Jeff Gundlach, the mortgage maven who had run TCW Total Return Bond (symbol TGLMX) since 1993, and his co-manager, Philip Barach, left TCW to set up their own shop. Anne Gudefin and Charles Lahr, the skilled duo in charge of Franklin Mutual Global Discovery (TEDIX), decamped for Pimco. The inimitable Bob Rodriguez, longtime manager of FPA Capital (FPPTX), is taking a one-year sabbatical.
The first question to ask is, How important was the manager in the first place? If it's a one-man show, like Ken Heebner's CGM Focus (CGMFX), then the loss is critical. Fidelity Magellan (FMAGX) never really recovered after the legendary Peter Lynch called it quits in 1990. But if it's a fund in a family -- think American or Dodge & Cox -- that deploys teams of seasoned managers on each fund, then one manager's departure shouldn't make a huge difference.
Analyze the family. You should also consider the organization and culture behind the fund. For example, although Fidelity and T. Rowe Price are both large outfits with abundant resources, Russel Kinnel, director of fund research for Morningstar (and a Kiplinger's columnist), gives higher marks to Price when it comes to manager transitions.
Price manager changes are telegraphed well in advance, a long transition period ensues, and a fund's investment strategy is unlikely to change. For example, when Rob Bartolo took the reins of T. Rowe Price Growth Stock (PRGFX) in 2007, the fund hardly missed a beat.
With Fidelity, says Kinnel, you often get a new strategy with a new manager. If you intend to stick with a Fidelity fund after a manager change, watch the new portfolios carefully for six to 12 months, advises Kinnel.
Company culture matters. As with Price, Mutual Series -- which was bought by Franklin in 1996 -- has a long-term, team-oriented culture. For now, Global Discovery is in the able hands of Peter Langerman, chief investment officer of Franklin Mutual and manager of Mutual Shares (TESIX), and Philippe Brugère-Trélat, manager of Mutual European (TEMIX).
FPA is a similar story, except that Rodriguez announced his sabbatical long ago and groomed his successors, the co-managers of his two funds: FPA Capital and FPA New Income (FPNIX). Don't expect any major changes in this value shop, where the investing professionals care deeply about preserving capital. "At FPA, they all think like Rodriguez," says Kinnel.
With TCW, it's harder to predict the future. For one thing, Los Angeles–based TCW has merged with a crosstown company, Metropolitan West, which will manage Total Return. That means two cultures will have to blend. Plus, Gundlach's talents may be hard to replicate. He is an idiosyncratic manager who navigated the fund brilliantly through the tumultuous markets of the past few years.
One strategy you might consider is to stick with the jockey, not the horse. That's what we did when we followed Chuck Akre from FBR Focus (FBRVX) to his new fund, Akre Focus (AKREX), and switched our Kiplinger 25 pick accordingly. Akre had a long record of success. You may get a similar opportunity with Gundlach.


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RE: Alistair++ is a free otome game (dating sim featuring a female protagonist and male bachelors)
Merui loves video games, especially her favorite MMORPG, Rivenwell Online. Merui also has a very short temper, so when some JERK named Alistair steals a rare item from her, she's determined to exact revenge on him. Unfortunately, she has no idea who he is in real life. But hey, that's never stopped anyone, right? Take control of Merui and make new friends, balance schoolwork and fun, go shopping, search for the culprit, and maybe even discover a new romance.


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Madeira Veterinary Hospital
If you live in Cincinnati or the surrounding area in OH, then you have picked the perfect site to find a veterinarian.
Madeira Veterinary Hospital was built in 1934 and is one of Cincinnati's oldest veterinary hospitals. Selected as one of the top veterinary clinics in the city by Cincinnati Magazine, we are honored to be one of our city's longest continuous American Animal Hospital Association member facilities, having voluntarily achieved the high standards of the organization for more than 36 years. Only 14% of animal hospitals in the United States are AAHA accredited.
We understand the special role your pet plays in your family and are dedicated to becoming your partner in your pet's health care. We treat your pet as we do our own. Our goal is to practice the highest-quality medicine and surgery with compassion and an emphasis on helping clients provide their companions a long and healthy life. Our entire healthcare team is committed to providing personal attention to the unique concerns of each pet owner.
Our hospital is staffed with two full-time veterinarians and one part-time veterinarian. All of our veterinarians are members of the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA), the Ohio Veterinary Medical Association (OVMA), and the Cincinnati Veterinary Medical Association (CVMA). We have a support staff of eight.
Madeira Veterinary Hospital is a full-service companion animal hospital. Located at 7250 Miami Ave. in Madeira, Ohio, our hospital has been serving Madeira, Indian Hill, Kenwood and Montgomery for more than 80 years. We are dedicated to providing quality veterinary care throughout the life of your pet. Our services and facilities are designed to assist in routine preventive care for young, healthy pets, early detection and treatment of disease as your pet ages, and complete medical and surgical care as necessary during his or her lifetime. For your convenience and for your pet's comfort, Madeira Veterinary Hospital also makes house calls.
We have a number of resources for you to learn about how to take better care of your pets. Browse around and look at our articles and pet videos. The best veterinary care for animals is ongoing nutrition and problem prevention. If you want to ask a question call (513) 561-7467 or email us and we'll promptly get back to you. Madeira Veterinary Hospital is very easy to get to, and you can find directions on our Contact Us page. You can also subscribe to our newsletter which is created especially for Cincinnati pet owners. In between your veterinary visits, your pet will benefit from you reading these free informative articles.
Thank you for taking the time to read about our veterinary practice and the services we offer. We welcome your comments and suggestions. Please contact us at (513) 561-7467 for all your pet health care needs.
At Madeira Veterinary Hospital, we treat your pets like the valued family members they are.


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The Preferred Worker Program provides an opportunity for employers to save money when hiring experienced, highly-qualified workers.
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Losing your biting point - get your clutch checked ...
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We can carry out a comprehensive check of your clutch system to put your mind at rest. If yours does need replaced, you can rely on us and our experience to supply and fit your car with a high-quality clutch at affordable prices. Your clutch enables you to connect and control the power of the engine to your gearbox - and then to create motion. It's essential that it is working correctly and that wear is monitored.


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Last week I created a python webserver as a patch for make talos-remote. This ended up being frought with performance issues, so I have started looking into it. I based it off of the profileserver.py that we have in mozilla-central, and while it worked I was finding my tp4 tests were timing out.
I come to find out we are using a synchronous webserver, so this is easy to fix with a ThreadingMixIn, just like the chromium perf.py script:
class MyThreadedWebServer(ThreadingMixIn, BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer): pass
Now the test was finishing, but very very slowly (20+ minutes vs ❤ minutes). After doing a CTRL+C on the webserver, I saw a lot of requests hanging on log_message and gethostbyaddr() calls. So I ended up overloading the log_message call and things worked.
class MozRequestHandler(SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler): # I found on my local network that calls to this were timing out def address_string(self): return "a.b.c.d" # This produces a LOT of noise def log_message(self, format, *args): pass
Now tp4m runs as fast as using apache on my host machine.


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- Shortens Duration of throat, sinus and bronchial irritations
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- For best results, use at the first sign of symptoms and continue to use for an additional 48 hours after symptoms cease.
- Adults and children 12 years of age and older: take 1.5 ml 3 times daily by mouth.
- Children under 12 years of age: consult a doctor.
Nature's Way has been a leader in herbal medicine since 1969. Headquartered south of Provo in Springville, Utah, Nature's Way has become one of the most technologically advanced supplement manufacturers in the country.
The company's commitment to the industry they helped to create has never wavered. As the first major U.S. dietary supplement company to be certified as an organic processor, Nature's Way's relentless pursuit for quality is evident in their product line. They offer an extensive range of health-promoting products that have been carefully scrutinized and tested, all while adhering to Good Manufacturing Practices.
Nature's Way's focus has always been on safety, and relying on proof of product effectiveness. While many of their products have been researched, it is vitally important to strike a balance between traditional medicine and modern science—this blended approach allows Nature's Way to produce traditional herbal supplements and cutting edge nutritional supplements.
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Nature's Way continues to look for innovative ways to use the powers of nature to enhance the health of people everywhere.


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Netherby Bridge Club - 08/12/2022
Event Category: Sarratt Events
We meet at 2 – 4:30pm Thursdays in Sarratt Village Hall back room. New individuals and pairs are welcome to join our small group of contract bridge players. It is £2:00 a session and includes tea and biscuits.
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Halfway through the novel, I felt that The Woman in White had far too many elements, and I feared that these may not come together in the end, resulting in a loose narrative. But Collins pulled it off, and he did so elegantly! Even the minor subplots have their own significance in the story. The effect is that you feel you've read a novel that's carefully and meticulously planned.
Told in an epistolary fashion, The Woman in White has several characters that Collins use to tell the story. He begins with Walter Hartwright, an arts teacher who has accidentally met a woman in white while on his way to the Fairlie estate. Hartwright helps this woman (Anne Catherick) escape from two men intent on capturing her. Hartright has been commissioned to tutor the Laura Fairlie and her half-sister Marian Halcombe, who's one of the most strong-willed characters in fiction ever. Laura has been engaged to Mr. Glyde, a man who's only after the Fairlie inheritance. When Laura apparently dies due to a mysterious circumstance, Hartright becomes determined to find out the truth and hopefully reveal to everyone the sinister intention of Glyde. What follows is a whirlwind of tragic romance, mistaken identity, detective work, family secret revelations, and redemption.
So how does the woman in white figure in the story? Aside from having a strong resemblance to Laura Glyde, she carries with her a secret that can spell the downfall for one of the novel's main characters.
The Woman in White is truly one sensational work of fiction. If you have the willpower to go through the more than 600 pages, the effort is well worth it. It's hard to imagine why the novel was a bestseller when it came out in the 1850s. All the hallmarks of a very engaging read are here -- a mystery, cliffhangers, and narrative twists. It still is a hugely entertaining novel, if you pay close attention to the convoluted plot that Collins lays out for you.
I'm now on the look out for other novels by Wilkie Collins. I've already bought Armadale (another doorstop at more than 700 pages) and am planning to get a copy of No Name. I'll probably read The Moonstone again, since I read it when I was 13 and I probably wasn't able to catch all the details. You should read Collins, dear reader. You'd probably love sensational novels, too.
Read this book if:
- You love sensational fiction.
- You're craving for a good mystery.
- You like your novels big in every sense of the word.


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First CBD commercial land purchases welcomed
Press Release – New Zealand Government
Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Minister Gerry Brownlee says the first commercial property purchases for Christchurch's CBD Blueprint Plan represent an important milestone in the city's recovery.Hon Gerry Brownlee
Minister for Canterbury Earthquake Recovery
30 November 2012
First CBD commercial land purchases welcomed
Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Minister Gerry Brownlee says the first commercial property purchases for Christchurch's CBD Blueprint Plan represent an important milestone in the city's recovery.
"I'm pleased with progress made by the Christchurch Central Development Unit (CCDU) in negotiating with landowners to create a willing-buyer willing-seller scenario," Mr Brownlee says.
"To date the Crown has purchased three properties that will form part of anchor projects outlined in the Blueprint in the Christchurch Central Recovery Plan."
The three properties are the Craigs House and Lucks Building sites, which will form part of the new Convention Centre Precinct, and the Poplars Apartments site, which will be part of the new East Frame.
Purchase prices will be publicly available when final settlement of the transactions has been completed.
Mr Brownlee says the Crown has agreement in principle with the owners of another 15 properties, and is at an advanced stage of negotiation on a further 50.
"Negotiations are underway on 116 properties in total, which shows CCDU is making real progress towards achieving the vision laid out in the Blueprint Plan – a plan the public have very positively embraced.
"CCDU is finding property owners are keen to engage in negotiations with the Crown, and to conclude these negotiations in a timely way so they can move on and perhaps invest elsewhere in the city."
The Crown intends to acquire 761 designated properties in the CBD, with the first negotiations being carried out according to the priority of the anchor projects.
Once agreement is reached between the Crown and property owners, sale and purchase agreements are prepared, signed by the vendor and in turn the Minister's delegate, before settlement occurs within a mutually agreeable time frame.
If agreement cannot be reached, the Crown will need to consider moving to the process of compulsory acquisition.
Notices of Intention to take land by compulsory acquisition have so far been sent to 45 property owners in priority anchor project areas, but these notices do not prevent negotiations continuing or indicate anything about the nature of ongoing negotiations.
More information on the CBD Blueprint and the property acquisition process can be found at www.ccdu.govt.nz.
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