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Who will replace Miers to replace O'Connor?
For now, let's look at what the right is saying about who might be President Bush's next nominee for the Supreme Court -- that is, who might be Miers's replacement now that she's withdrawn her nomination.
RedState.org: "Multiple sources are telling RedState that Samuel A. Alito, Jr. of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals will be named by the President at the next associate justice of the United States Supreme Court as early as Monday." Luttig may also be a leading candidate, but "[a]ll signs are pointing to Judge Alito right now". See also here.
Feddie of Southern Appeal, writing both at his own site and at Confirm Them, looks at Pryor, Sykes, and Alito. Go to the main page of either blog and scroll down for more.
See also Professor Bainbridge on Bush's "chance for a do over".
Back at the MSM, the Times looks at the next stage of this "pivotal battle": "The pressures from both sides present a political challenge for President Bush - and it could generate a battle that could bog down the Senate for months if Democrats decide to block a vote on the new nominee." The Times also mentions that Alito may be the leading candidate, but Luttig and Owen remain in play.
Ann Althouse responds.
PoliPundit has polled his readers "to see which potential Supreme Court nominees would be acceptable to [his] readers". Right now the top ten are, in order: Brown, Luttig, Alito, Owen, Estrada, Garza, McConnell, Williams, Cornyn, and Wilkinson. Gonzales is 18th, last on the list.
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A small experimental plane sputtered and crashed in flames into a supermarket in the DeLand, Florida shopping center Monday evening, injuring five people and sending frightened shoppers running from the complex, authorities said.
Several people in the Northgate Shopping Center in DeLand dialed the 911 emergency dispatcher around 7:20 p.m. to report that the aircraft had plunged into the complex, the Volusia County Sheriff's Office said. Callers said the plane showed signs of trouble moments before it hit the roof of the supermarket of the Florida-based Publix chain.
"A twin-engine experiment aircraft has crashed into the roof of the Publix supermarket," DeLand Police Sgt. Chris Estes told The Associated Press by telephone. "Publix is the only structure to suffer any damage." But he said all the businesses in the complex were closed to make way for emergency crews.
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He said the plane had taken off from a nearby municipal airport in DeLand, a Florida city about 20 miles (30 kilometers) west of Daytona Beach.
UPDATED 4/4/2012: The amphibious Sea Wind 3000 plane encountered problems shortly after taking off from the DeLand Municipal Airport, less than two miles from the shopping center. Investigators weren't sure where the plane was heading.
One 911 caller said the engine began sputtering. "The next thing you know, it went down nose first," she said.
The plane is made of composite material and was amateur-built in 2002. It seats four people but only two people from Illinois were aboard, said Schiada.
DeLand Police spokesman Lt. Jack Waples identified the men as Kim Presbrey and Thomas Rhoades.
Three customers were hurt, and two people aboard the plane were hospitalized in Orlando. All of the injuries came from burns, said Luke Schiada, an investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board.
The Volusia County Sheriff's Office said a pilot and a passenger from the plane were airlifted to Orlando Regional Medical Center. Spokesman Gerardo Morales later confirmed to AP that two people had been airlifted there, but he declined to identify them or discuss their injuries.
Emergency dispatch tapes released Tuesday captured the urgency of the situation as customers fled the store a day earlier: A man is heard yelling "Get out! Get out!" on the 911 tape.
Marleny Arevalo, a manager at a nearby Taco Bell fast food restaurant, said she didn't hear or see the crash but Arevalo said she quickly ran with another employee to the shopping center and saw flames in the air shooting from near the back of the Publix supermarket.
"There was a lot of smoke. When I first saw it, there was fire in the air and then it was just a lot of black smoke," she said, adding she tried to go behind the supermarket where fire officials blocked the area. She said they also blocked surrounding roads for hours afterward.
Roth Peeler, who lives about 300 feet (90 meters) behind the store, told the Orlando Sentinel he saw the plane go down.
"A small ... yellow plane spiraled right down and through the roof and just exploded," Peeler said. "Not a piece of the plane came out. It's all in the store."
"I went around the front and saw people running out of the store and trying to get into their cars and out of the parking lot," he added.
It wasn't immediately clear how many people were in the shopping center at the time of the crash or where exactly the plane had struck the supermarket.
Broadcast station WFTV reported on its website that Publix employees who declined identification looked up after the plane crashed through the roof.
The station reported that workers saw the pilot and a passenger climb from the plane with their clothing on fire. The report added that a manager in the supermarket meat department was able to put out the fire in their clothes and rush them outside for help.
The report said both of the plane's occupants were severely burned and three other adult shoppers in the store were taken to a local hospital where one was treated and released. The report said none of the shoppers had life-threatening injuries, quoting an unnamed hospital official.
A dark column of smoke wafted from the supermarket rooftop after the crash. About 20 fire trucks at one point crowded about the complex. Firefighters atop a truck's extension ladder poured streams of water on the flames.
Kathleen Bergen, a spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration, told The Associated Press in an email that the FAA did not provide air traffic services for the flight and had no information on the plane, its flight or those aboard..
AP writers David Fischer in Miami, Mike Schneider in Orlando, Carlotta Bradley in Washington, and Bill Cormier in Atlanta contributed to this report.
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Workshop Proceeding
Ecological Knowledge and Environmental Problem-Solving: Concepts and Case Studies (1986)Board on Life Sciences
Topics: Environmental Quality, Health, and Management Natural Resources and Ecology Life Sciences Ecological Research Ecosystems Ecological Studies, Environmental Impact Ecology Ecological Studies, Environmental Impact
This volume explores how the scientific tools of ecology can be used more effectively in dealing with a variety of complex environmental problems. Part I discusses the usefulness of such ecological knowledge as population dynamics and interactions, community ecology, life histories, and the impact of various materials and energy sources on the environment. Part II contains 13 original and instructive case studies pertaining to the biological side of environmental problems, which Nature described as "carefully chosen and extremely interesting."


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School of Nursing and Midwifery
Welcome to the School of Nursing and Midwifery. Our School offers high quality courses with strong links to local health districts. Our staff are active in research and committed to delivering the best teaching strategies to equip our students to be valuable practitioners in a variety of healthcare settings.
Postgraduate Studies
Postgraduate programs offered by the School of Nursing and Midwifery include:
- Master of Midwifery Studies
- Master of Nursing
- Master of Applied Management (Nursing)
- Master of Mental Health Nursing
New Graduate Certificate in Clinical Nursing Program
The University of Newcastle's brand new Graduate Certificate in Clinical Nursing has been designed for registered nurses to develop their skills, knowledge, and the ability to respond to complex patient situations in specialised clinical environments.
The program consists of four courses. There is a core course in pathophysiology and health assessment, which forms the basis of specialist practice. The remaining three courses give you the option of specialising in one of six areas including;
- Acute Care (Medical/Surgical)
- Aged Care
- Critical Care
- Emergency
- Mental Health, and
- Public Health.
Within the program are core and advanced clinical competencies that are based on the standards of practice published by the respective colleges, e.g. College of Emergency Nursing Australia (CENA).
This program can be studied 100% online allowing you to stay where you are needed most.
For more information and to apply, visit the program information page on the Postgraduate website.
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The School is engaged in a range of research and research training activities which are enhanced by well developed partnerships and collaborative initiatives with other Schools, Faculties, universities and industry partners including Hunter New England Health.
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We offer a unique opportunity for you to become a registered nurse or midwife with the highest level of qualification and extensive professional experience. We have a strong emphasis on emerging healthcare technologies with our graduates being employed in local, national and global settings.
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There will be a reunion of descendants of Samuel Moore of Massachusetts and New Jersey on Saturday, June 25, 2011 at the Norwich and District Museum, 89 Stover Street North, Norwich, Ontario.
He was born in 1630, and his great-grandson, Samuel Moore of New Jersey, was born in 1742.
People are invited from across Canada and the USA.
Mark the date on your calendar now, and plan to attend!
For more information, contact:
Donna Moore, UE,
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Shelburne County Archives & Genealogical Society
Shelburne County, on the southwestern coast of Nova Scotia, has had a genealogical society since 1987. And they publish a newsletter three times a year.
In the Winter 2011 issue, they bring us up-to-date on the latest news of the Society, and on page 2 there is a lengthy article about the "Missing Link: The Ancestry of John Spinney" by Brian Smith.
It is interesting to see how Brian took a few clues from the "History of Barrington Township" about Spinney's ancestry, and by using classic research in land petitions, and research at the New England History and Genealogical Society, Smith was able to go back three generations.
There is also a transcription by Ann and M. Edward Butt of the notes by Walter E. Abbott in "Surveying the Canadian United States Border as found in Stories and Reminisces of Walter E. Abbot" as how he talked about the boundary as it affected the fishing industry.
There are a couple of projects of the Society that may interest the readers of this blog, and they are -
The Society will soon issue a publication on the doctors and dentists of Shelburne from 1783 to 1965, and
The "Women of Shelburne County",which is an oral history project. It will be released on a DVD, and will be released early in the summer.
To look at the website, please visit them at http://nsgna.ednet.ns.ca/shelburne or contact them at email@example.com.
Disclaimer: I am from Shelburne, and am a descendant on my paternal side of Andrew Barclay, a Port Roseway Associated Loyalist, one of the founders of the town in 1783.
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This collaborative program leads to a bachelor's degree in Psychology or Human Services from Mount Saint Mary College, and a Master of Science in Mental Health Counseling from Pace University.
Students spend the first three years at the Mount taking courses to fulfill the requirements for a bachelor's degree in Psychology or Human Services, while establishing eligibility for admission to the Master of Science in Counseling program at Pace.
Students must reserve 12 credits of open electives in order to take four, 3-credit graduate courses during their fourth year at MSMC. Psychology majors may also use 6 credits for the three electives at the 2000 level or above. The remaining 24 credits of the master's program are taken at Pace.
For both Psychology and Human Services majors, students must complete all General Education requirements for a bachelor's degree from the Mount. Beyond this, required courses vary within the major.
To be eligible for the program, students must have completed 78 credits, including a one-semester internship. Students must have attained a Grade Point Average of 3.0 and a GPA of 3.3 in their major. Students must also have completed PSY 3000 (Principles and Techniques in Counseling) as one of their elective Psychology courses.
Students meeting these criteria must submit an application to be reviewed at the Mount by the Counseling Advisory Committee. If the CAC recommends acceptance into the Pace Counseling program, the Pace Graduate Counseling Admission Committee will review the application and make the decision regarding acceptance into the program.
Mount Psychology majors have had internship experiences at a wide variety of public and private institutions, including a number of different childcare facilities, public schools, mental health facilities, penitentiaries, and other community and state agencies.
Specific examples of where Mount sudents have interned in recent years:
Anderson School, Arlington Central School District, Beacon Community Center, Bethel Nursing Home and Rehabilitation Center, City of Newburgh Police Dept, Dutchess County Jail, Four Winds, FSI Teen Parent Program, Glen Hines Memorial Boys & Girls Club, Good Counsel, Head Start of Eastern Orange County, Hoops Express, Integrated Pediatric Therapies, John Jay High School, Kiddie Academy Child Care, Kids Peace Foster Care and Family Services, Learning Center, Mental Health Assn. in Fulton & Montgomery Counties, Middletown Schools, New York Police Department, Newburgh Enlarged City School District, Newburgh Family YMCA, Newburgh Healthy Families, NY Youth Advocate Program, NYS Dept of Mental Health, OC/AHRC New Windsor & Newburgh, PS 156. PS 203K Brooklyn, Putnam County Youth Bureau, Rehabilitation Support Services, Neighborhood Day Care Services, The Center for Recovery, The Center for the Prevention, The Children's Home of Poughkeepsie, The Johnes Home, The Learning Experience, Unity House-Domestic Violence Program, USMA Child Development Center, Vassar Brothers Medical Center, YAP Youth Advocate Program.
Students with a master's degree in Counseling work in social service agencies, private counseling, workplace counseling, substance abuse, business (such as personnel work and organization development) and community improvement groups.


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Does anyone know the name of the tune of the opening of this Manzai episode?
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It's Yokai Ningen Bem.
It's an anime about three yokai ningen who want to become humans. There's also a live-action drama and movie a few years ago.
This manzai is a parody of the anime with the three dressed as the main characters
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If only this was subbed... D:
Or the anime itself, I've been looking for years, but it is definitely impossible to find a fansub for this anime.


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In order for librarians and educators to be informed about what their patrons and students are buying from their local comic shops, we present the Top 25 Manga for May, based on actual comic shop sales.
Every month, Diamond Comic Distributors announces its best-selling graphic novels and trade paperbacks based on actual unit sales.
The following represent the 25 top-selling manga titles of May 2016:
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How does Diamond calculate the charts? It all starts at the comic book shop.
Data for Diamond's sales charts—which include our monthly market shares and all of our top product charts—are compiled by Diamond Comic Distributors from a universe of over 4,000+ accounts, comprised of comic book specialty shops and other merchant stores and buyers. The shops are primarily located in North America, with a percentage of sales also to international shops and buyers located throughout the world. The account base includes not only brick-and-mortar comic book specialty shops, but also Internet stores, chain stores, and other specialty stores.
Unit and dollars sales are calculated based upon orders invoiced and shipped to Diamond accounts during any given month, which comprises initial pre-orders, advance reorders, and reorders, minus any copies that are received back from a title marked as returnable.


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"Responding to the massacre [at the Luby's cafeteria], the Texas Legislature in 1995 passed a shall-issue gun law, which requires that all qualifying applicants be issued a Concealed Handgun License. . . .
"The law had been campaigned for by Dr. Suzanna Hupp, who was present at the massacre where both of her parents were shot and killed. She later expressed regret for obeying the law by leaving her firearm in her car rather than keeping it on her person due to the fact that it could have cost her chiropractic license.
"She testified across the country in support of concealed handgun laws, and was elected to the Texas House of Representatives in 1996."
Wendell Goler of FOX let a gun-grabber strategist lie today about the Ft. Hood Massacre when he used that event as "proof" that "good guys with guns" doesn't work. As with most leftists not planning to use military service as a springboard to the ruling class. the gun-grabber has enough disdain of the military to not even do his homework.Fort Hood personnel are not allowed to carry weapons on the base. Military weapons are only used for training or by base security, and personal weapons must be kept locked away by the provost marshal.
David Gregory mocked the NRA's Wayne LaPierre for proposing that armed guards be at every school in America. But the NBC host seems to have no problem with 11 armed guards protecting his kids everyday at Sidwell Friends where they attend school in Washington and that number does not include the Secret Service detail for Obama's daughters who attend the same school. Not only are they armed with fully automatic weapons but I bet in one of those Yukons there resides a hand-held anti-aircraft missile.
But having one armed trained police officer in each school is entirely inappropriate for the peasants. Our elected and media elites agree with the King of Id, "The peasants are revolting!" They mean it one way, but they might find the peasants mean it another.


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Keith Wymbs is vice president of Marketing at Elemental Technologies, the leading supplier of video solutions for multi-screen content delivery.
Today, we're announcing our next generation platform for video processing to help deliver rich video content on demand to a variety of devices, including PCs, tablets and smart phones. Major media brands including Comcast, HBO and ESPN all use Elemental gear to bring premium multiscreen content to viewers on any device, anywhere, and at any time.
Elemental pioneered the use of GPUs to optimize video streaming over IP networks, and we continue to innovate with new technologies designed to take best advantage of parallel processing architectures.
Our new architecture harnesses the power of the latest NVIDIA Tesla GPU accelerators based on the Kepler architecture.
Multiscreen Services Skyrocket
Today's news comes as pay TV operators, content owners and broadcasters work to expand their infrastructure to deliver multiscreen video.
Multiscreen services are becoming critical to all these markets: Consumers are expected to double their IPTV subscriptions by 2016, according to market-researcher Infonetics. iPads and other smart tablets are seeing breakout sales. Sixty-five percent of US households will watch 58 billion hours of TV and video on the devices by 2017, according to market research firm TDG.
Video infrastructure spending will reach $1 billion by 2016, Infonetics says.
The secret sauce for successful multiscreen deployment: flexible software built on high-performance, programmable hardware.
By using NVIDIA Tesla GPUs, Elemental is harnessing the most powerful programmable architecture on the market today, and offering customers unmatched video quality with products that continue to set the standard for large-scale video processing.
Together, Elemental video processing solutions and NVIDIA GPUs support technologies vital to delivering the high-quality viewing experience consumers expect now and in the future.
Already, the match has the support of industry leaders:
Comcast Cable video quality and reliability VP Dave Higgins says "the migration path Elemental offers has allowed us to significantly increase our video transport quality and efficiency as the market demand for multiscreen video continues to grow."
And, ABI research director Sam Rosen sees the combination as providing a bridge to media deployment architectures of the future.
Ultimately, end users benefit from the innovative solutions NVIDIA helps Elemental to deliver. Dozens of brands already have our new platforms deployed in production environments and are positioned to give viewers access to more premium content than ever before, on their terms.


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Coriander Seed At Botanicals
Coriander Seeds are produced by the flowers put out by the Coriandrum sativum plant, which is an annual herb known as cilantro and is commonly found in Asia, North Africa, as well as North and South America. The seed may help to relieve coughs, chest pains, bladder pain, fever and bad breath. It is also used in cooking a wide variety of dishes. Our Coriander Seed comes in powdered and whole varieties, as well as Organic and kosher versions.
Many different types of food can be brightened by the addition of whole Coriander Seeds. The Moroccan condiment and seasoning known as Harissa uses coriander together with chiles, garlic, cumin, mint and olive oil. Another Moroccan dish that uses the spice is couscous, which is a quickly cooked grain that can be brightened with the addition of vegetables and fruits, and is typically served as a side dish to lamb. It can be added to a yogurt marinade used the flavor fish fillets. The Indian rice dish called Biryani uses coriander as part of the flavoring. Tandoori Chicken calls for ground Coriander Seed, along with cloves, ginger, garlic, cumin and cinnamon to bring the flavors to a peak in this poultry dish. You can make a spice rub using coriander to go on meat cuts for the grill, such as pork chops. Vegetable-based dishes such as curries that feature spinach, lentils and beans, as well as onion and tomato often include coriander in the spice mix. An Indian-influenced rice dish can be created with cashews, coconut milk, raisins and turmeric, with coriander added for zest. A flank steak can be cooked using coriander to give it a Thai flavoring, and pasta salads can be jazzed up with a pinch of the fragrant seasoning.
When you buy Coriander Seeds from Botanicals you can be assured that all of our products come with a one-hundred percent satisfaction guarantee. We provide you with value by offering only the highest quality products such as Organic Coriander Seed powder, along with superb customer service and reasonable prices.


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Reuters answers the mystery of why the US took Abu Anas al-Libi to New York so quickly after his ambush and capture in Libya. The chief suspect in the 1998 al-Qaeda bombings of US embassies in Tanzania and Kenya had been taken aboard a Navy vessel, one of the "floating Gitmos" that have replaced the detention center at Guantanamo Bay and CIA "black sites" for interrogating captured terrorists. His abrupt arrival in New York might have indicated that interrogators had extracted enough valuable data to allow them to turn the AQ terrorist over to the Department of Justice. Instead, it seems that al-Libi pulled a high-stakes bluff that worked:
An elite U.S. interrogation team abandoned its questioning of an al-Qaeda militant who was snatched in Libya after he stopped eating and drinking regularly on board a U.S. Navy ship where he was being held, a U.S. official familiar with the matter said.
As his health deteriorated, U.S. authorities decided to fly the suspect known as Abu Anas al-Liby to New York last weekend, where he was taken to a hospital for treatment. …
Upon arrival in the United States, al-Liby became subject to the rules of the civilian American court system. That means he can no longer be interrogated without being advised of his constitutional right to avoid incriminating himself, the official said.
Last week, U.S. officials said one of the principal reasons U.S. Delta Force commandos staged a risky raid to capture al-Liby at his Tripoli residence was so the United States could gather intelligence from the former senior operative of the core al Qaeda organization founded by Osama bin Laden.
This is why keeping the actual Gitmo would come in handy. The terrorist didn't get extradited through diplomatic or law-enforcement channels, but was captured in a military/intelligence operation. That follows on the 2001 AUMF in which Congress authorized the White House to attack al-Qaeda and its allies as a war rather than an investigation and prosecution. In that paradigm, al-Libi can and should be handled as an illegal combatant in the military commissions that Congress has repeatedly authorized and which the Obama administration is now operating.
The White House tried to have it both ways, and ended up with a bit of egg on their face. They won't take captured terrorists to Gitmo because they don't want to admit that Gitmo is necessary. At the same time, the administration is now using Navy vessels for the same purposes as Gitmo on a temporary basis. This time the detainee calculated that the Pentagon and the White House wouldn't want to explain how a captured terrorist died during questioning and that they would take him to the US and the civil court system rather than Gitmo, where intel interrogators would pursue him indefinitely.
He won that bet, apparently, and now every subsequent capture will play out along the same arc. That may not make a great deal of difference in prosecuting al-Libi, where the 1998 court case has long been established and solid. It will make a difference in gathering enough intel to prevent future terrorist attacks against America and its interests.


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Yesterday also Prime minister Hisham Kandeel told journalists in Cairo that countries do not bankrupt , bankruptcy happens only in companies !! "He did not know that many countries in the world declared its bankruptcy when it failed to pay its debts"
Yesterday as well before Morsi would say his word and Kandeel would speak to the journalists with all confidence , the Central Bank of Egypt issued a statement declaring that the Egyptian foreign reserve hit rock bottom for real using numbers and dates.
Today the Egyptian Pound hit a new record low against the US dollar. Believe or not it earlier today the US dollar was sold for LE 6.34 in Egyptian banks while now "@4:08 PM" I hear that it is being sold for LE 6.6. This is in banks , it is not Forex companies or in the black market.
Hotel owners are selling their hotels and motels in Luxor and Sharm Sheikh for God sake.
Of course today Kandeel is speaking about having a national dialogue about economy !! What national dialogue in time of crisis !??
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Yes they compare Egypt to China !!
Anyhow back to Morsi and Kandeel, I do not know how they are fooling !! Do they believe their lies and thank people are naive to believe their lies as well !! They are speaking about the economy of Egypt indeed .. in parallel universe.


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By Father Scott M. Lewis, SJ
Special to Catholic News Service
The story of Nicodemus in the Gospel of John, Chapter 3 is the key to understanding much of the fourth Gospel. It describes in symbolic form the human condition — the inability to understand spiritual things as well as the inability of many to understand and accept the teachings of Jesus.
The end of the prologue has prepared us for this scene, for 1:18 informs us that no one has ever seen God except the Son, who alone can make him known. All human beings are ignorant of God (according to John), even the best and holiest. There is a "glass ceiling" in our striving for God that renders direct and true knowledge of God impossible without divine help.
Nicodemus symbolizes "everyman" and is the best that human society can create. He is educated, pious, and righteous -– a decent human being. Nicodemus appears on the scene by night -– in John's Gospel, darkness is the absence of God.
His preliminary flattery is brushed aside by Jesus with an almost brusque insistence that one must be born from above in order to see the Kingdom of God. In a Johannine pun, the Greek word anothēn means both "again" and "above." Speaking from the limitations of ordinary human consciousness, Nicodemus interprets the word in a literal fashion — "again" — and is therefore flummoxed in his attempt to understand the absurdity and impossibility of a grown man returning to his mother's womb to be born a second time.
As Jesus continues, he contrasts human nature with what is born from above, the earthly and the heavenly, the above and below. In several places in the Gospel Jesus tells the uncomprehending crowds that they are from below while he is from above. Ordinary human nature is incapable of comprehending the world of the spirit or having true knowledge of God. The doors of perception must be cleansed, and only by being born of water and the spirit — baptism and the reception of the Holy Spirit — can one enter the Kingdom of God and experience spiritual illumination. No one has ever ascended to heaven to be with God — only the one who has descended from there (Jesus) is able to speak from experience. The Kingdom of God is understood not as a place but a state of spiritual consciousness or awareness.
In the story Nicodemus symbolizes a whole group of people, namely those who are open or sympathetic to Jesus but do so in secret. He is attracted to the message of Jesus, but wants it both ways — he wants to be part of the system and accepted by his peers and is afraid to make a public commitment and face the cost, just like so many of us! He appears again in 7:50 and 19:39, and appears to be rather timid and weak, refusing to take a positive and unequivocal stand.
So how does one experience this second birth from above if human perception is so limited? First of all, one must recognize the flawed and provisional nature of all human knowledge, especially the conventional or received wisdom. The enigmatic parables and word plays serve to destabilize the reader's awareness and understanding so he or she can begin to question and search.
Secondly, Jesus gives many signs that disclose his divine and transcendent identity. Those who read the signs and are willing to put their faith in him — and remain in him — are led into an ever-deepening spiritual awareness. But let the reader beware: The Johannine understanding of faith is not belief in specific doctrines or creeds. It is a total surrender of the self and all aspects of one's life to the one who has descended from above. No shortcuts, no easy out — but a whole new life.


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Hi, I have been trying to counterstain nuclei of Drosophila S2 cells that have been fixed in paraformaldehyde. As we don't have a confocal with a UV laser the stain has to be either red or green. I have tried propidium iodide, which does not stain at all, and SYTOX Green which does stain but is very unstable in S2 cell nuclei and does not last over night. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks, Toby PS please cc me.


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This is a topic that we have been discussing around the water cooler lately. And then this morning I found a blog entry which covered the same subject and I figured I would pile on.
As architects we have to keep up with as much as possible. The means reading incessantly. With tomes that reach into the high hundreds of pages and articles and blogs spitting out new material daily this is a major challenge. This is doubly true for me since I never developed speed reading skills.
I really like Garry's suggestions. They aren't anything new, but reminders always help.
This is a subject I am just starting to understand. I talked with Dave Bost the other day at the February CAG meeting about Azure. This morning the subject came up again as I was listening to the Thirsty Developer podcast. These got me thinking about where does cloud computing fit in?
As I understand it the difference between ASP model and Azure is that an ASP is hosting their application for you to use and what Azure offers hosting your application. Now this differs again from normal hosting companies since with Azure you are purchasing application resources instead of server resources. I believe that as a term "Cloud Computing" can actually cover all of these scenarios.
Where I see this as an opportunity is for smaller companies who can't afford a staff to manage a set of servers. I am sure that large companies will also leverage this technology, but proportionally this type of expense is a larger part of a small companies expenses. Spend your money on developing applications that allow you to run your business, not on maintaining a server farm and all that goes with it.
Of course all this is just initial thoughts based on very little information. What I do think it deserves is a closer look.
The Chicago Architects Group will be holding its next meeting on February 26th. Please come and join us and get involved in our architect community.
Presenter: Paddy Srinivasan
Topic: Cloud Computing
Location: Microsoft - Downers Grove
3025 Highland Pkwy
Suite 300
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Time: 6:00 - Doors open at 5:30
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The Central Connecticut women's basketball team earned a 59-50 victory over Bryant on Saturday afternoon at Detrick Gym. The Blue Devils (7-7, 1-2 NEC) were led by a trio of 12-point scorers, including senior Kirsten Daamen who registered Central's first double-double of the season with 12 points and 10 rebounds.
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The Blue Devils opened the game with a three by senior Jalcyn Babe, which gave Central an early 3-0 lead. Central held the lead for the first nine minutes of the game with sophomore Kaley Watras doing the bulk of the scoring for Central.
A layup by Bryant's Maureen Leahy gave the Bulldogs (4-9, 1-2 NEC) their first lead of the game, 9-8, with just over 11 minutes left in the period.
Watras again answered for Central, drawing a foul and hitting a free throw to tie the score at 9-9, but a three by Bryant gave the Bulldogs the lead for good in the first half.
After surrendering a six-point run to the Bulldogs, Central fell behind 29-19.
The Blue Devils climbed back into the game with a 7-0 run of their own late in the half. A layup by junior Lauren Arbogast and a pair of free throws by junior Jessica Babe cut the deficit to single digits. Daamen added a free throw and Watras dropped in two free throws to cut Bryant's lead to 29-26 heading into halftime.
Watras finished the half as the game's leading scorer with 10 points. Jessica Babe and Arbogast both had four points and four rebounds in the half for the Blue Devils.
Early baskets by Arbogast and Daamen helped the Blue Devils tie the score at 30-30 in the second half.
Bryant pulled in front again and led 38-34 follwing a layup by Courtney Schissler with 15:05 left in the game, but the Blue Devils answered with a 5-0 run.
A free throw by Daamen and a layup by Jessica Babe got the Blue Devils within a point of the Bulldogs. Central was finally able to retake the lead at the 12:12 mark of the second half as Jessica Babe cut to the hoop on an inbound play and hit a layup to put the Blue Devils ahead 39-38.
Tied at 43-43, Daamen grabbed an offensive rebound and was fouled on the put-back. Daamen hit both free throws to give Central a 45-43 lead. Two possessions later, Arbogast hit a jumper in the lane and Daamen capped the Blue Devils' 6-0 run with a jumper that put CCSU ahead 49-43.
Bryant's Katie Whittington used a pair of free throws to pull her team within a point, but CCSU answered with a fast break layup by Arbogast to go up 53-50. Freshman Nicole Ferguson added a free throw to put the Blue Devils ahead by four with 33 seconds remaining in the game.
Junior Jaleen Thomas and senior Jaclyn Babe combined to go 5-of-6 from the free throw line over the final 30 seconds to extend Central's lead to 59-50.
Watras, Arbogast and Daamen all finished with 12 points. Jessica and Jaclyn Babe both had eight points in the game and led the team in assists with five and four, respectively.
Arbogast fell a rebound short of her first double-double of the season. She finished with nine boards.
Jessica Babe also added seven rebounds and four steals to her stat line. While Daamen had her best game of the season with four blocks.
The Blue Devils will return to action on Monday night against intrastate rival Sacred Heart. The game is scheduled for a 7 p.m. tip-off and fans can follow the action live on NECFrontRow.com.


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- Bubbles will qualify for kindergarten this year but should not, under any circumstances actually go to kindergarten. Everyone agrees. Principals, prospective K teachers, and his speech therapist. In November, a state bill is likely to pass which will make most K teachers very happy: No more children starting kindergarten when they are four.
- If it passes, the change will affect children beginning school in 2012. Sigh.
- The cut-off in PA is already September 1st.
- There are 10 month winters in PA.
- I need new clothes but can't even afford to get the *&$%&*ing car fixed.
- Supergirl wants new shoes every week and loses at least 3 socks every week.
- Those 3 socks are never matching ones.
- She has a drawer full of unmatched socks.
- Guess what? The farmer's market takes food stamps. Lucky day.
- Thrift store is 50% off on Tuesday.
- I need a butter dish.
- For under a buck.


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In order to use LiveCycle Data Services 3, I decided to upgrade to JBoss 5. When I attempted to add in the Axis2.war file to the {JBoss_Home}/server/default/deploy directory, I got a whack of errors when I started up the server. The main complaint was that the server barfed up the "Failed to create a new SAX parser" and several subsequent errors. The issue is that there are older versions of certain jars within the axis2.war file that won't work and cause a java.lang.ClassCastException. In particular, the org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration cannot be cast to org.apache.xerces.xni.parser.XMLParserConfiguration
So how do you solve it? It is not too hard but a bit tricky. First, open up the axis2.war file. On a Mac OSX, you can do this by using StuffIt.app. Just navigate in finder to the directory containing axis2.war and control-click then select "Open with…" and choose ~/Applications/StuffIt.app. This will expand the WAR file in the same directory.
Within the directory, there are two files you have to get rid of. I first tried to delete xml-apis-1.3.04.jar and xercesImpl-2.8.1.jar thinking that should work. This is shown below.
It actually did but lead to another problem (later). To get all the files back into a war, you have to do two things. The first is to use the command "jar -cvf ". Since I wanted to rename the output to axis2.war, I navigated to the directory holding the META-INF, WEB-INF etc files and rant the command "jar -cvf axis2.war *". This made the war file which is essentially a *.jar file.
After this, on a unix based system, you have to change the permissions to ensure the file is usable by the app server. Use the Chmod 775 command for that as shown below.
Figuring I had this problem licked, I started up the appserver. It started fine however when I went to navigate to the http://localhost:8080/axis2/ URL, I got another error. This time is was a mismatch in impendance between the JSP servlet jars. The error comes out as "The method getJspApplicationContext(ServletContext) is undefined for the type JspFactory". The problem is that the build of axis2 I downloaded had an older version that did not have the same method. Once again, to rectify this, open up the axis2.war file and remove another file called "servlet-api-2.3.jar". Repackage the war file and chmod it so that it is executable by the appserver.
JBoss 5 should start up perfectly and you should now see the happy axis page when you navigate to http://localhost:8080/axis2/ as shown below. Problem Solved!!


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Labor protestors plan demonstrations for iPad launch
Instead of asking for broad third-party supplier labor reforms, investigations, and "an ethical iPhone, Change.org campaigners will take to Apple retail outlets on Friday in a push for Apple to build "an ethical iPad," reports GigaOM.
The protestors, lead by organizer Mark Shields, will take advantage of the hype surrounding the new iPad's launch and hold multi-store demonstrations when retail locations open at 8 a.m. in Washington, D.C., New York City and San Francisco.
Despite Apple's continuing efforts toward bettering labor conditions in its contracted factories in China, Shields says that more can be done.
âItâs great to see Apple taking important steps like the factory audit this month, and pay raises for the factory workers,â Shields said. âBut Apple hasnât crossed the finish line yet. New product releases, like the iPad 3 this week, have typically been the most dangerous for workers because of the incredible pressure they are under to meet release production deadlines.â
Shields' online petition asking for the protection of Chinese factory workers has gathered over 251,000 signatures, and has sparked a media blitz regarding the conditions under which Apple products are made. The movement first gained momentum when a pair of New York Times reports investigated major Chinese electronics builder Foxconn, which is a major Apple contractor, over alleged worker abuse.
Mark Shields (left) speaking with reporters outside an Apple Store over labor concerns. | Source: The Washington Post
Despite Foxconn's impressive client list of electronic heavyweights that include Microsoft, HP and Sony, the burden of guilt has been placed squarely on Apple by Change.org and SumOfUs.org.
In response to the mounting criticism, Apple asked the Fair Labor Association to conduct an inspection of its third-party suppliers in Asia. Although the FLA noted that Foxconn's factories were "first class," the auditors did find that many issues needed to be resolved. Workers at the factory later claimed that Foxconn hid underage workers from inspectors in order to avoid scrutiny.
In Apple's annual supplier code of conduct, employees may be aged 16 to 18 years old if they can legally work, though special restrictions limit the type and amount of work they perform.
Most recently, it was reported that Apple allegedly conducted an inspection of an iPad factory run by Chinese company Pegatron immediately before a blast occurred that injured 61 people. The claim brings into question whether Apple's audits are effective in stopping workplace accidents.
The planned Friday protests follow a series of demonstrations in February, though the high turnout for the iPad launch is expected to bring a larger media presence for Change.org to exploit.


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Welcome to a new digital transformation era in planning
After decades of decreasing productivity, the building industry is on the verge of a revolution. Architects, planners, consultants, integrators and contractors will soon be able to share information more easily, drill down into design specifications at any stage of a project and collaborate with greater efficiency.
What is BIM?
BIM stands for Building Information Modeling, the process of generating and maintaining a digital representation of a building and the project it entails. BIM includes software, CAD and 3D, but it's not only these things. Rather, BIM focuses on the process of fostering better communication and collaboration among all the parties that make a complex construction project come together.
BIM is still evolving, and challenges remain. Standards for the management and exchange of data need to be agreed on, for example, before all the data needed to design, plan, engineer, construct and maintain a building can flow seamlessly and in a unified format.
Nonetheless, the excitement surrounding BIM within the building industry is noticeable, because BIM can offer a solution to time overruns, budgetary overdrafts and the lack of transparency that often plague complex, large-scale projects. As the industry evolves towards BIM, those responsible for the success of a project are adapting to this new world and beginning to realize the benefits it can offer.
How does Bosch support BIM?
Bosch Building Technologies recognizes the power that BIM has to change the industry and offers BIM files for its intelligent IP video cameras today. As files for additional products become available, Bosch's BIM strategy will grow to address all phases and stakeholders in a construction project.
With the Bosch offering of smart, parameter-rich objects for BIM, architects can model more accurately and planners can simulate and troubleshoot across all dimensions. The goal of BIM is to empower all parties involved in a construction project to share, collaborate and interact seamlessly, driving time and cost savings. As BIM takes hold and begins re-shaping and adding transparency to the building industry, Bosch's goal is to support the industry in realizing these advantages.


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Optime Software is dedicated to bringing you the games you love at a price you can afford. We've released a steady stream of free games since the company was founded and we have more on the way.
We take games that everyone knows, like Tic Tac Toe and Checkers, and update the gameplay and graphics to suit the most advanced mobile devices on the planet - the iPhone and iPod Touch. The result is endless hours of fun!
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Just for the record, I have to agree with Dr Rob that the anti-primary care screed over at Emergency Medicine News is, well, it's just embarrassing. I've put out my fair share of poorly-thought-out or inflammatory posts, so I can sympathize. But Dr. Glauser is not just wrong, he's cringe-inducing in his ranting. As they say on the interwebs: Epic Fail.
Rob makes a couple of nice observations:
- There are some really angry doctors out there. Any time people are fighting over their share of money, you see their worst.
- There are many physicians out there who don't respect primary care. They seem to think that we do our job because we couldn't get into "better" specialties.
- Emergency Medicine News should edit more carefully.
Hear, hear.


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The Adobe FrameMaker Template Series is a collection of over 150 professionally designed templates. Using the templates, you can create technical manuals, cookbooks, Web sites, and many other types of publications entirely in FrameMaker. We've also thrown in over 30 custom table formats; multi-purpose borders; and special features, such as guide lines, pre-built fractions, customizable variables, and tables of contents.
This pack includes five special-purpose book templates whose layout and standard features require a more complex format structure or more elaborate page design than was necessary in the book templates included in Template Pack 1. These templates generate the following types of documents:
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Be Your Own Pet's second album, Get Awkward (review), was released through XL last Monday (17 Mar). DrownedinSound caught up with guitarist Jonas Stein on the day the band landed in England to begin their latest tour of our fair isle.
An "ill, tired, jetlagged, hungover", Jonas talked from the safety of his band's van as they sped along a couple of hours before an inshop show at Banquet Records in Kingston, Surrey. After that, they'd go on to see an evening show descend into a foodfight over east on Kingsland Road and, DiS imagines, further punish Stein and that hangover of his. Under such circumstances, it's probably best just to dive straight in.
What do you think's changed on the second record – obviously the first one, it's been described as 'raw' and 'youthful' – I know Get Awkward's been pitched as a more mature record but to me it just sounds like an extension of the first?
Jonas Stein: Personally I just think it's an overall better record – I think we're better songwriters now. I think with the first one you can tell that we're younger in it. I think regardless of the humorous, high school-esque lyrics and stuff you can hear a maturation in the band. I think it's better put-together, we put more time into it and we knew what we wanted to do with it and didn't have to get used to being in the studio. With the first record there were three weeks blocked out for recording and at first I was kind of rebellious in that I didn't think we needed to spend that much time or money. But after, I realised it was crucial to have that time to work on your shit.
Also, our relationship with our producer has developed since the first record, now we're totally comfortable with him. It's Steven McDonald, who um…
…was in Red Cross?
JS: Yeah, yeah.
They're a great band… was it you that approached him or did he come to you?
JS: My first memories of him are this tall, lanky, really goofy dude with a whiny voice coming up and just talking to us. He was really non-threatening and easy to get along with, and fun to talk to. We ran into him a few times and the subject came up of having a producer and out of everyone we met, we related to him the most, regardless of what he'd done in the past.
Did you know about Red Cross before he approached you?
JS: I hadn't really explored their back catalogue by any means but I knew it was a good band and I knew a couple of songs. Someone that was in that cool a band and is so down to earth, it's just a really big plus.
Video: Be Your Own Pet - Get Awkward: Webisode 1
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You talked about a maturation and the high-school lyrics – are there any plans to grow up, or slow down at all? Do you have any idea where you might be in five or ten years or are just not thinking about that right now?
JS: I'm not really thinking about it in that way, but when I do start to think about age I realise how much of a jump start we have on everyone. A lot of our friends are older than us and they still seem very youthful so I'm just looking forward to the fact that I have a lot of years left in which to be youthful and productive. I'm just kind of riding the wave, going with the flow – I think we're all going to continue making music as a band and with other people as well. I just don't want to get bored. I don't see that happening anytime soon. At some point I'd like to take several months out of the year to go travelling. In five years I'd like to be at a place in our career where we can dictate our schedules a bit more and get a lot of the hard stressful work over with in the first few years and be able to spend more time having lives. I just want to have more time to pursue other interests such as travelling. I want to plan out a very long motorcycle adventure…
What, in South America or somewhere else?
JS: Yeah, I'd like to go from my hometown in Nashville through Mexico down into Central America and Costa Rica. I'd like to do it with a couple of friends and just lose ourselves on the road.
If you speak to most bands, they're very locked into a career and very single-minded, but I guess what you're talking about is just taking a break and feeling that life isn't just being in a band.
JS: Yeah, I want to tour and be consistently successful but have the time to do other things. I want to have time to explore the whole different areas of life. I'd like to go to India, in particular – I've heard great, life-changing things about that place. Just 'cause it's one of the oldest countries or civilizations in the world. It seems like a very spiritual place, which I'm interested in.
So what – you're on the way to Kingston now? You must be so bored of the UK, you've been here a fair few times already.
JS: It's always great to come back here and play shows. The fans are great and there's just such a good market for our type of rock. Maybe another thing about the future is that we'll be at a big enough point in our career so that we can have that fanbase all over the world and we can play shows in other countries that wouldn't normally be on the wrap sheet.
Where have you felt most out of place so far?
JS: One place that kind of sticks out in my head in a kind of negative way is Brussels in Belgium. I'm very weather-sensitive and the weather was overcast so I felt shitty. I got hassled by some local kids too, when I was walking around by myself. I just felt very unaccepted there.
Food-fighting @ Vision Video Bar, Dalston, London; 17/03/08
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Does that affect the performance at all though? Does it make you more fiery?
JS: I dunno, I guess that's when you get to disconnect and feel like you can distance yourself from your surroundings a bit more. I can't really talk too much shit coming from the United States of America which probably has one of the worst reputations of all the countries in the world, at least in terms of leadership.
Yeah but you can't blame Be Your Own Pet for that can you? You either take to a place or you don't I suppose. What's Nashville like?
JS: It's really hot in the summer, it's pretty cold in the winter. It's not a huge city by any means, but it's still big enough to get lost and have adventures in. It's not one of those towns where you start getting really bored, getting home-town fever and start smoking crack to keep yourself alive. For how moderate it is, it's very hip and exciting right now. I don't really like using that word, hip…
Yeah, there aren't many words you can use to mean 'good' that aren't embarrassing any more… are there any bands around Nashville that you grew up with? Was there a scene as such or were you out there on your own?
JS: Yeah, the scene that I grew up with were mostly out-of-town bands coming through this one place, Guido's Pizza. It was an all-ages pizza place that used to put on shows in this little back-room. Pretty much everyone could play there, but at that point in my life there was a really good hardcore scene there. DIY hardcore bands. These awesome bands came through with small numbers of dedicated fans and we were the youngest ones there, 13, 14, 15 and we used to hang around with people in their mid-to-late 20s, early 30s. So we were exposed to this hardcore party environment 'cause they would still sell beer there, everyone would get shit-faced except for the kids. It'd be us getting in the mosh-pit with these 30-year-old dudes. I think that was very important 'cause at that age you're very impressionable and we were lucky to be exposed to that and the four of us understood and bonded with that type of music. I think you can hear the influence from Guido's Pizza still in there today.
I was gonna ask as well – you mentioned the hardcore scene, but a lot of what you might term as 'indie kids' are into you as well. Would you say you identify more with that side of it or is it back to the Guido's pizza, punk fans crowd?
JS: Oh, definitely the punk fans. I was never really into like Pavement or… I don't really know where to start with all those bands but we're definitely more into the punk and hardcore stuff.
Video: Be Your Own Pet – 'Adventure'
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That's interesting 'cause I saw that you recently told Pitchfork that you'd been influenced by Animal Collective and The Kinks on your new record. Do you think that influence has made it into the new album, or…
JS: The Kinks are just one of my fucking favourite older rock bands. The sound is so warm but there are these dark lyrics. The reason I'm so big on and respectful of Animal Collective is because they've found a way to make some of the craziest fucking music ever but maintain a poppy aspect and that's why they have eight or nine albums and thousands and thousands of fans. The general population would probably not approve of that band – a lot of people in America aren't too caught up in music, but they've got to the point now where they can play sizeable venues. There are so many bands that will try to do something so different and it turns out sounding like someone taking a shit, but Animal Collective do it so you can listen to them and have a freak out moment one second and then be blissful the next.
Yeah, completely – another thing that strikes me about Animal Collective is that they've found this way of staying youthful, when they play music at least – is that an aim that Be Your Own Pet might have for the future, in terms of keeping that excitement there?
JS: Yeah, it's fun to listen to and it's kind of childish and it's kind of about using the inner child and imagination and I relate to that. 'Cause we are still pretty young and we don't want to take ourselves too seriously. I want to remain youthful for a long time and I think those guys have done a good job at it.
The remaining dates of Be Your Own Pet's UK tour read like this:
26 Birmingham Academy 2
27 Bristol Thekla
29 Stoke-on-Trent Sugarmill
30 Oxford Academy
31 Brighton Audio
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GT friends, you may have noticed an uptick in dopey, unsavory trollery today. As we've pieced it out, a known bad actor who was pulling all these same stunts on other GM sites (creating racist burners, making threats of doxxing, impersonating other commenters, pretending to be famous trolls from past years) has brought his dreary act to our shores.
So if you see something like this, please don't engage. Trolls feed on attention. Resist the urge to yell at them, that's what they're angling for. Just drop a line to Slay at email@example.com or me at email@example.com, or better yet both, and we'll whack the account.
Thanks, guys. Hope everyone in the States is having a great Memorial Day weekend.


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Following further discussions between the NHS Number team and the Digital Information Policy team,
requirement 401 for acute trusts has been amended to reflect the time permitted for full
implementation of the new NHS Number Standard for Secondary Care (England).
In making the amendments we are aware that the attainment levels for Requirement 401 are now
outside of the usual format for IGT requirements, i.e. "nothing done; documented; implemented; evaluated".
However to assist acute trusts and in recognition that this is an NHS Operating Framework standard we
have agreed that for version 7 of the IGT, level 2 can be attained as long as the trust has evidence
that they have begun to implement the NHS Number Standard for Secondary Care (England).
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If you love Crocs, you can blame the economy because it looks like those plastic-looking foam clogs are losing ground to flip flops.
Crocs took the world by storm in 2002, much to the dismay of fashionistas everywhere, and company sold 100 million shoes in seven years. (That's a lot of Flintstone feet walking around.)
The law of supply and demand took hold and the company expanded. y the economy went south and customers scaled back on the $30 investment in colorful foam footwear, opting instead for cheaper flip flops.
Business News
In 2007 Crocs Inc. showed a $168.2 million profit, which swung to a $185.1 million loss for 2008. Now the company is in financial peril; it has until September to pay off its debts.
Seems the problem with Crocs is they're nearly indestructible. While that's a great selling point, it could lead to the company's downfall since adults don't really have a need to buy a new pair.
The company does have a plan to stay afloat, the Crocs CEO tells the LA Times. The shoe maker will market to the medical field, caterers and people with foot issues.
While no one wants to see a company fail and people lose jobs, we can't help but think fashion experts are happy to see the foamy footwear fall off in popularity -- we know we are.


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Wednesday, 26 October 2016, 10:30 am - 1:30 pm
This group explores different walks and tracks in and around the greater Dunedin area and is suited to those who enjoy walking for a couple of hours or more.
The group meets at Blind Foundation at 10.30am. Cost $2 for transport within Dunedin City and $5 when travelling out of the city area.
Starts again on February 3rd 2016 and meets at 10:30am at Blind Foundation every fortnight on a Wednesday.
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Usage: APPLICATION generate app [OPTIONS] [NAME]
mojo generate app
mojo generate app TestApp
-h, --help Show this summary of available options
Mojolicious::Command::Author::generate::app generates application directory structures for fully functional Mojolicious applications.
This is a core command, that means it is always enabled and its code a good example for learning to build new commands, you're welcome to fork it.
See "COMMANDS" in Mojolicious::Commands for a list of commands that are available by default.
Mojolicious::Command::Author::generate::app inherits all attributes from Mojolicious::Command and implements the following new ones.
my $description = $app->description;
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my $usage = $app->usage;
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Veterans still are doing better than the civilian population overall.
About 10 percent of U.S. veterans under the age of 65 lack health insurance and are not being cared for by the Veterans Affairs Department, either, according to a study published on Thursday.
The study estimated that 1.3 million veterans and nearly 950,000 members of their families lack health insurance. These uninsured military families account for 4.8 percent of the 47.3 million uninsured Americans, the Urban Institute and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation reported.
But the 2010 health reform law might help nearly half of these veterans get health care through expansions of Medicaid, because they make so little money, the researchers wrote.
"This is the first published report to provide estimates of uninsurance among nonelderly veterans and their families both nationally and at the state level and to assess the potential for the Affordable Care Act to reduce their uninsurance rates," wrote the Urban Institute's Jennifer Haley and Genevieve Kenney, who used Census data on 129,000 veterans for their study.
"Although the ACA does not change the VA or other military health care systems and is not targeted specifically at veterans, it includes a number of provisions aimed at increasing access to affordable coverage that could benefit veterans and their families," Haley and Kenney wrote.
"Nearly half (48.8 percent) of uninsured veterans will likely qualify for expanded Medicaid coverage, while another 40.1 percent have incomes that would allow them to qualify for subsidized coverage through state insurance exchanges, provided that they do not have access to affordable employer-sponsored insurance."
Veterans are doing better than the civilian population overall -- just under 18 percent of the total non-elderly population lack health insurance. "Of the estimated 12.5 million nonelderly veterans nationwide, 1.3 million, or just over 1 in 10 are uninsured and do not use VA services," Haley and Kenney wrote.
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Vinnie Vincent has scheduled another live performance just months after canceling his previous comeback attempt in February.
Vincent had postponed his comeback from December to February as issues cropped up with the venue and his live band. Then with the rescheduled shows only about a week away, the former KISS guitarist and collaborator pulled the plug on the whole affair, in a move many deemed career-ending.
But Vincent appears to be running it back again, announcing a rare performance on June 7 at S.I.R. Soundstage in Nashville.
The guitar hero is apparently scaling back his expectations in terms of attendance this time around, putting only 60 VIP tickets on sale for $300 each via his website, VinnieVincent.com. Each ticket package includes a meet-and-greet from 1 - 4 p.m. the afternoon of the show.
A statement on the event page of Vincent's website referred to the ill-fated previous comeback attempt, blaming the promoter for the debacle.
"We are aware of all of the problems fans encountered with the last promoter and we are ensuring a safe and secured show for everyone who attends," the statement read.
There were rumors before the cancellation that Vincent felt like he was being rushed into the comeback and didn't have enough control over the shows.
Vincent has announced a new band for the upcoming SpeedBall Jamm performance at S.I.R. Soundstage, including musicians Mike Weeks and Chuck White, though it's unclear whether the performance will be acoustic or electric.
Vincent has performed a handful of acoustic storyteller-type sets since returning from a near-30-year hiatus last January. He has only performed electric with a full band once, which was with Four By Fate last October in a pre-Kiss Kruise event.
Drummer Carmine Appice, who was slated to perform with Vincent at the earlier canceled shows, said he thinks the guitarist blew his last chance. He noted that he had long been wary of Vincent's follow-through. Even though the shows weren't canceled until a week prior, the band had yet to rehearse and had little contact with Vincent directly.
"I always thought that if Vinnie messed this up, or whoever messed it up, I don't know if there'll be another chance," the drummer said.
Appice continued, saying he doubted whether Vincent was truly prepared to return.
"Vinnie's always been like a showoff kind of guy, and he just stood there," Appice recalled of the footage of Vincent's Four By Fate collaboration. "He looked like he was scared to me."
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Sara E. Bell, 83, Killbuck, passed away Sunday afternoon, Jan. 27, 2013, at Affinity Medical Center, Massillon, after a brief illness.
She was born Jan. 8, 1930, in Coshocton County, the daughter of Ray and Ruth Chaney, and married Bob D. Bell on April 9, 1950. He survives.
She was a homemaker, and enjoyed animals and collecting penguins. She was a member of Killbuck United Methodist Church.
Surviving in addition to her husband are a daughter, Vicky J. Oldaker of Wooster; a grandson, Tyler Weaver of Wooster; sisters Doris Mullet and Jean Lawhead, both of Millersburg; and numerous nieces, nephews, great-nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by a son-in-law, Dennis Oldaker.
Memorial services were to be held at a later date. Private family burial was in Killbuck Cemetery. Arrangements were handled by Alexander Funeral Home, Millersburg.
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People from Wisconsin are generally a congenial, easygoing lot. Those Cheeseheads love their Green Bay Packers, their Friday Fish Frys, and their beer and bratwurst, and they aren't big on drama. Until Scott Walker came around, there wasn't much to argue about, except, well, beer and bratwurst.
Wisconsin's largest ancestry group is German, and the original immigrants brought their bratwurst with them. Today, bratwurst are a defining characteristic of the local cuisine. And while brats — which rhymes with "pops," not "rats" — are beloved by all Sconnies, there is quiet discord with respect to the purely Wisconsin ritual of bathing brats in beer. They disagree, for the most part politely, not only over when to do this, but also why.
The dominant sentiment among beer soakers, within and beyond Wisconsin, is that the brats should soak in hot beer before going on the grill. There is, however, a small but highly knowledgeable contingent of brat scholars, centered on the shore of Lake Michigan, that puts its brats in warm beer after cooking, not before.
Bratwurst is a raw, pork-based sausage that must be thoroughly cooked before serving. The idea behind soaking bratwurst in hot beer prior to grilling is that they cook all the way through ahead of time, so the grill master needn't worry about serving an undercooked sausage. The pre-cooked brats spend a brief amount of time on the grill to get browned, and are then served. Less time on the grill makes the brat less likely to dry out, and some pre-soakers believe the brat soaks up enough beer to influence the flavor and juiciness. The beer also makes the sausage casings more pliable and less likely to split.
Once, when I told a bartender from Milwaukee that I wanted to try the beer bratwurst thing, he preached to me about the holy trinity of beer flavorings: garlic, onion, and black pepper. And before he would agree to fill my growler, he made me promise to pre-cook in Old Milwaukee, not the fancy microbrewed IPA he was pouring.
But in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, widely considered to be the capital of the bratwurst belt, many locals politely shake their heads at this pre-soaking business.
Chuck Miesfeld is a fourth-generation sausage maker and owner of Miesfeld Meat Market in Sheboygan. He agreed to speak with me about when to soak a brat in beer, and why, in hopes that it might help "straighten those people out."
By "those people," Mr. Miesfeld was referring to his countrymen in Milwaukee, Green Bay, and Madison, as well as further-flung wannabe Sconnies on the internet, who believe that pre-cooking brats in beer before grilling them is proper.
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- Brats in a post-grill beer bath
"The whole deal with soaking them in beer," Miesfeld told me, "is about keeping the brats warm until you put them on your hard roll. If you're cooking brats on a charcoal grill, which is the only way you should be doing it, and there's nobody standing there with a hard roll, there has to be a way to keep them warm."
The hard roll of which Miesfeld speaks, the only Sheboygan-approved brat holder, is the antithesis of the soft hot dog buns upon which brats are too often served. Even at Miller Park in Milwaukee, the only baseball stadium in America that serves more brats than hot dogs, brats are served on those "squishy buns," as Miesfeld calls them with disdain. If you don't live within striking distance of a Sheboygan bakery, your best bet would be a German or Austrian bakery that makes a hard-crusted white dinner roll. In Sheboygan it's customary to pack two brats into a single hard roll.
As for the idea that the pre-soaking results in a juicier brat, Miesfeld isn't impressed. He says if a brat dries out on the grill, it was either overcooked or a sub-par product.
But while the primary purpose of a post-grill soak in beer is to keep the brats in optimal shape for serving, Miesfeld concedes that the submersion adds more than heat.
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"You do grab some flavors from the beer, but that's not the real point. If you were doing it for flavors you'd want to leave the brat in there a long time, but you don't want to leave the brats in too long, because they get mushy. It's just a half-hour thing."
Miesfeld's post-cooking brat bath includes butter and onions in the beer. And as the bartender from Milwaukee had advised, Miesfeld urged me not to use good beer. It should be kept at around 170 to 180 degrees, he said, which is not quite simmering. And there is no place for black pepper, despite what the bartender from Milwaukee says. "If you have to add black pepper, you've got a shitty brat."
While he isn't a pre-soaker, Miesfeld does drop the brats into cold water for five minutes before grilling, which softens the casings, making them less likely to split.
The key to the proper grilling of brats is to not have the fire too hot, he told me. Control any flare-ups with water and turn them often. Skilled brat chefs can determine with a squeeze of their fingers when a brat is cooked, but a meat thermometer, poked into the end of just one brat will do. When the internal temperature reaches 180 degrees, it's done.
I followed Miesfeld's instructions, mixing a can of cheap lager with a tablespoon of butter and half an onion, sliced. And against everyone's advice, I couldn't help making another beer bath with a high-quality IPA. I don't cook with wine I wouldn't drink, and I figured the same applied to beer, though it hurt to pour such good beer into the pan.
I compared brats that were pre-soaked in each of my two beer baths with those that were immersed after grilling. I also made a brat that was simply grilled, and without any exposure to beer (except in my mouth).
The brats placed in beer after grilling were noticeably juicier, with the first bite exploding awkwardly in my face. They had more of a beery flavor, and I'm sure the butter didn't hurt. I preferred them. The pre-soaked brats were closer in flavor to the non-soaked brat but juicier, but they were less juicy than brats soaked after cooking.
As for any difference between the fancy IPA and the cheap lager, I couldn't detect any. At least, on this point, we can all agree.


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If I were Dr. Robotnik I'd totally dress them up in little outfits.
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The Disney Magic has gone under the knife and is on its way to Miami. The re-imagined cruise ship spent four weeks at the Navantia Shipyards in Cadiz, Spain and is set to show off its new gams so to speak at its winter home of PortMiami before repositioning to Port Canaveral in January 2014.
The ship had been slated to arrive on Sunday, Oct. 20, but poor weather forced the Magic to finish work in Port Canaveral before beginning sailing 3-, 4- and 5-night itineraries to the Bahamas and the Caribbean starting Oct. 25.
Most notable will be the new waterslides on the upper deck including the unique AquaDunk, a fast, three-story drop slide in which the rider is sent out of bomb-bay doors.
The enhancements to the Magic, which debuted for the line in 1998, come on the heels of the introduction of the line's newest and larger ships the Disney Dream and Fantasy in 2011 and 2012.
"What's kind of fun is that we launched two great new ships, the Dream and the Fantasy," said Joe Lanzisero, senior vice president for creative development at Walt Disney Imagineering. "We took learnings from the Magic over to those ships and we learned new things ... and now we're taking some of the great things we learned from the Dream and the Fantasy and bringing them back to the Magic."
Those things include the addition of the Animation Magic feature at the Animator's Palate restaurant, in which diners' drawings are brought to life alongside classic Disney animation while they're eating. Also coming to the Magic is a revamp of the nightlife area, being redubbed After Hours, a revamp of the kids-oriented Oceaneer Club and a change to two of the ships' dining areas.
"Guests will step aboard this beloved ship to find familiar elements refashioned with new touches of magic designed to delight all ages," said Disney Cruise Line president Karl Holz.
New to the ship and not appearing on any other of the fleet's vessels include:
-- Carioca's, named for Donald's parrot pal in the film "The Three Caballeros," will be a Brazilian-themed restaurant
-- After Hours, with two unique options: Fathoms nightclub, which will transform its look and feel with lighting and special effects as the evening moves into night and also Keys piano bar. A third venue, O'Gills Irish pub is featured on the Disney Fantasy
-- Marvel's Avengers Academy, a multi-day experience in which children ages 3-12 can interact with characters like Iron Man, Captain America and Thor while taking on crime-fighting duties of their own
-- The AquaDunk, a thrill-seeker's waterslide that will drop riders out of a bomb-bay door into a translucscent tube that begins 35 above the pool deck and twists around 20 feet over the side of ship before coming in for a landing
-- Twist n' Spout is a 250-foot-long slide that goes through four twists as it wends its way down from roughly three decks up from the pool deck
-- Nephews' Splash Zone for children 0-3
-- Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, in the Oceaneer Club
-- A redesign of the cabins that allows for storage under the beds
New features coming to the Magic that have appeared on the lines other vessels include:
-- AquaLab, first introduced aboard the Disney Fantasy is themed around Donald's nephews -- Huey, Dewey and Louie -- and features dumping water buckets, sprayers and other interactive water features
-- Animator's Magic, the interactive feature at Animator's Palate that brings diners' drawings to life
-- Andy's Room from "Toy Story" in the Oceaneer Club
-- Pixie Hollow in the Oceaneer Club
-- Cabanas, the Finding Nemo-themed casual dining experience
-- O'Gills Irish pub
Gone from the ship are the following:
-- Beat Street entertainment complex with its three venues: Diversions, Rockin' Bar D and Sessions
-- The second stairwell in the atrium
-- The Mickey Mouse-shaped pool
-- Nemo's Reef for children 0-3
-- Parrot Cay restaurant
-- Topsider Buffet
The Magic sails out of PortMiami until January 2014 when it will move up the coast to Port Canaveral for 3- and 4-night Bahamas cruises.
The second oldest ship in the Disney Cruise Line fleet, the Disney Wonder, which debuted in 1999, is also slated for a refurbishment in 2014 and expected to receive many of the same enhancements the Disney Magic received.
"You should already know that we've always had a robust reinvestment program for all of our ships," Holz said. "It's part of our heritage."
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The Disney Magic has gone under the knife and is on its way to Miami. The re-imagined cruise ship spent four weeks at the Navantia Shipyards in Cadiz, Spain and is set to show off its new gams so to speak at its winter home of PortMiami before repositioning to Port Canaveral in January 2014.


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- "There must have been a mighty crowd of dwarves here at one time and every one of them busier than badgers for five hundred years to make all this, and most in hard rock too!"
- ― Sam Gamgee[1]
Badgers were known in Northwestern Middle-earth for being excellent hole-diggers.[1] Men used traps to catch these animals.[2]
A mysterious kind of apparently sentient badgers, only told of in legends, were called the Badger-folk.
[edit] Portrayal in adaptations
1982-97: Middle-earth Role Playing:
- Badgers (which are given game statistics) are carnivorous animals of the fauna of Rhovanion. They are timid but can be dangerous if cornered.[3]
2002-5: The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying Game:
- Badgers (which are given game statistics) can be find in the Shire and throughout Eriador.[4]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring, "A Journey in the Dark"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers, "Helm's Deep"
- ↑ Zachariah Woolf (1995), Lake-town (#2016), p. 149
- ↑ Scott Bennie, Mike Mearls, Steve Miller, Aaron Rosenberg, Chris Seeman, Owen Seyler, and George Strayton (2003), Fell Beasts and Wondrous Magic, p. 56


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The Brandon Florida Kennel Club is in Plant City FL for their two shows this weekend. Today's final fell to judge James Frederiksen who chose his top two from the Vizsla, GCH CH Regal Point Pinnacle Of Kilauea JH, the Borzoi, GCH CH Sylvan Silver Springbok, the Great Dane, GCH CH Raintree Erinwood Dixie For Heavens Sake, the Australian Terrier, GCH CH Temora Ri Diercc, the Silky Terrier, GCH CH Lamplighter's Tattle Tail, the French Bulldog, CH JCRV-Klasse Warrior Rising The Banner, and the Australian Shepherd, CH Aussbern Premier Ticket Of Myshara.
GCH CH Temora Ri Diercc
His BIS was the Borzoi, Spring, and his RBIS the Australian Terrier, Mac. It was the first all breed BIS for the winner of the 2013 Borzoi Club of America National Specialty. Congratulations to breeders/owners Christopher & Patti Neale.


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Get ready for one of the most rewarding hip hop listens of 2009, HORRORSHOW's 'Inside Story'.
HORRORSHOW bring the energetic optimism and anxiousness of post-school pre-mortgage times to life, with vividly true poetics. The coming to terms with what will ultimately be lifelong memories: from overseas travel and the perspective it provides; to self-realisation and adulthood. The lyrical and musical sophistication defy their youthfulness – but they play it humble and earnest, stripping away any pretension.
Let's not get too philosophical but 'Inside Story' is hip hop to its bones. However SOLO holds notes as comfortably as rhyme flows, and ADIT's production is deep, with lush strings and evocative samples painting the picture. And yeah, they're only 22!
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In a short 18 months they've built up a loyal and expanding fanbase – playing Sydney Big Day Out, Groovin the Moo festivals, national tours with HERMITUDE and MUPH & PLUTONIC as well as taking out Best Album for 'The Grey Space' in OZHIPHOP.COM's 2008 awards. Their connection is immediate with younger people but the maturity of their outlook, performance and talent has earned them the respect of older heads.
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