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Data center
Today, scientific research is almost impossible without the help of computer technology. In the Data Center of the Institute software applications are developed and maintained using various programming languages and tools, such as PL/SQL, C++, C, together with various script languages. Data Center covers more application areas, such as:
• management and development of oceanographic databases
• development and maintenance of the database web interface
• development and maintenance of real-time data-collection applications with automatic database recording
• development and maintenance of oceanographic data measuring systems
• application and development of Geographic Information Systems
• maintenance of servers and other computer equipment of the Institute
Servers are housed in a specially adapted system room. The room is air conditioned, with double-antistatic floor. The center of the Institute's Local Area Network is also set up there. In the System room there are also:
• mail and static web page server
• dynamic web page server
• database server (production)
• database server (development)
• server for real-time measurement management and database recording
• numeric models server (production)
• numeric models server (development)
• firewall computer
• 7 network switches and a network router
• 2 high capacity uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) with network interfaces
• keyboard, mouse and monitor switch (KVM switch), and keyboard, mouse and a monitor
Local Area Network of the Institute is designed for about 200 computers (currently around 100 connected) and extends into three Institute buildings. Apart from the System room, there is also a communications equipment cabinet on the ground floor of the main building of the Institute.


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GIGABYTE has some interesting products to show off at Computex next week. Make sure you come over or watch the coverage here and elsewhere.
A group of motherboard enthusiasts working for GIGABYTE, sharing their insider knowledge and general ramblings of the motherboard business, the tech industry, latest technologies and trends, and other random odds and ends.
Saturday, May 31, 2014
Friday, May 30, 2014
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Newegg shows off extreme overclocking live
Check out Newegg's video on extreme overclocking featuring the GIGABYTE Z97X-SOC Force motherboard.
Thursday, May 29, 2014
Z97X-Gaming 3 ready for action
Goldfries.com got their GIGABYTE Z97X-Gaming 3 ready for action, you got yours yet? Click on the image to find out more about our new gaming boards
Wednesday, May 28, 2014
Tuesday, May 27, 2014
OCAU Z97 comp is over, winners announced
I wanted to congratulate all the competition winners from the recent Z97 OC comp on OCAU forum (Overclockers Australia). GIGABYTE sponsored the competition with all top 3 prizes being Z97X-SOC Force and a participation prize (Z87X-OC).
This competition was based on 3 tests:
- Stage 1 Catzilla - 576P - CCC (crap card challenge) GT610 test
- Stage 2 Superpi 8M - 4GHz Cap
- Stage 3 3dmark01 - CCC (crap card challenge) GT610
The competition was not that straight forward. Contestants had to learn how to solder modifications on a really cheap graphics card (Nvidia GT610) and see if they can extract more MHz out of the GPU via mods and various cooling techniques. The modified card could be used on two different stages and it proved to be more than a handful. In the end, Robbo2 was the overall winner with the first place in Catzilla, while Newlife managed to snag the 3DMark01 round and bullants took the 8M superpi but has not contested the rest of the stages. GT610 GPUs operate at 810Mhz stock core and 600MHz memory. There guys were able to run them at 1400MHz core and over 900MHz memory for good measure!
- Robbo2 @ 26Points - First Place Winner
- Newlife @ 18 Points - Second Place Winner
- T8y @ 16 Points - Third Place Winner
Participation prize (Z87X-OC) went to a new Aussie rookie overclocker Paulie_AU who put a fantastic effort and is one of our future overclocking hopes with some great performances in HWBOT Rookie Rumble cups. Good luck Paulie on the next stage of that competition!
I'll leave you with some memorable images from the competition itself which you can check out at OCAU forum.
Big shout-out to Matt (zeropluszero) for his hard work in organising and managing this competition. Great ambassador for the OCAU HWBOT team!
Friday, May 23, 2014
Gaming tournaments getting close to the US$10 million prize money mark, Olympics next!
New era of sports tournaments is upon us and it's growing exponentially. I know this sounds unbelievable but I can see how Olympics will have a gaming tournament element in not too distant a future.
Alright, I've said it. E-Sport will one day be just as big and popular as just about any other sport we currently have at Olympics. I can see the 40+ year old's cringing now and blurting out one liners, "when I was a kid, we used to…". Those days are long gone! I was in the transitional phase so I should know a thing or two. My generation is the first of its kind to grow up with gaming platforms such as Spectrum, Commodore64, Amiga, Atari, PCs and many others. I am showing my age here but it's worth reminiscing about those all-nighters me and my friends put in playing all sorts of games. Competing in the virtual world and getting a taste for something new, something exciting that no one has experienced in our history.
Physical sports have been around for a very long time and technology has opened our minds to new possibilities, new ways to compete and have new lifestyles. Attitudes are changing from generation to generation as most of us from the first "gamer" generation have grown up now and have our own kids. Our kids now have taken gaming to a whole new level and it is literally becoming a professional sport with pro teams, team managers, sponsors, huge prize pools and big audiences. Gamers are becoming celebrities in their own right and they are the role models to a lot of kids. The technology at the same time is also much more accessible from simple iPods and Android phones to consoles and PCs. Some of the "old" gamers are now team managers or sponsors or supporting fathers and mothers of these crazy kids. Before long we'll be the grandparents and will tune in to watch some some Korean dude slaying everyone in Dota 5 LOL
Our friends from MEKA.Tt eSPORTS page put up a stunning graph showing where the tournament prize money has sky rocketed to currently and it is only going to get bigger! It's pretty clear that Dota2 and League of Legends are the games predominantly driving this push and what they both have in common is they are easily accessible, inexpensive and can be played on very basic hardware due to such strong technological advances of recent time.
This is not a new idea that I am discussing here but it is one that has opened up to me in the last couple of years as a real possibility for someone who is in the industry and is sponsoring professional gaming teams and can see such a large amount of young generations investing serious amounts of time into this hobby. I ended up coming across a petition website today which has close to 100K signatures for gaming to becoming part of Olympics. I guess there are another 100K likeminded individuals out there who share my views and I didn't even sign that petition! Phew!
There are still a lot of hurdles that present themselves for future gamers. One is internet infrastructure which is a very important aspect for some types of games. I remember speaking to the best Counter Strike and other FPS (First Person Shooter) gamers in Australia and getting told that ping times (essentially internet/game response times) affect a lot how well you can play online against other people. It was also evident that some of the best players were in healthy internet infrastructure countries such as USA, Northen Europe (Sweden, Finland, etc) or Korea. This is one area which will drastically improve over the next decade as many countries are now investing in this type of infrastructure. Places such as USA (Google fiber), UK, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, China, Indonesia, etc, all have plans in near future to improve in this area.
TV coverage is another major change that will probably evolve over time. Every time I travel to Taiwan for work, I am surprised to see video gaming channels dedicated to competitive gaming because Australia is still so far behind the times when it comes to that. You would expect otherwise as we certainly don't lack gamers here. It's just not reached that level yet I think. It will and that will be the major break through.
The real question is will gaming be included in Olympics by 2024 or before that, enjoy your weekend guys and happy fragging!
Thursday, May 22, 2014
Case modding done right!
Check out this video from Made By Kier featuring the new GIGABYTE Gaming logo using CNC. Nice work!
GIGABYTE Z97 overclocking guide by sin0822
Sin0822 does a lot of forum write ups from OC guides to indepth looks at board spec when new gen stuff comes out. There are always interesting tidbits in there to have a look at. In this particular instance, sin0822 has done a full out overclocking guide with the new Gigabyte Z97X-SOC Force motherboard and also compares some differences to the old Z87X-OC. There is also a video covering overclocking and some main features.
Check out the OC guide at your favourite forum here: Xtreme Systems, Overclock.net, Overclockers Australia and Tweaktown Forums.
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
G.Skill brings another OC show to Computex 2014
Last year G.Skill put a crazy overclocking show for Computex crowds which was very popular, had lots of giveaways and records were broken left right and centre.
GIGABYTE is joining the show this year as well with HiCookie, Sofos1990 and dinos22 on the stand. This year there is also a US$10,000 overclocking tournament happening on the stand as well, should be good fun. Here are a couple of videos from this year and last year's show wrap up, check it out!
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Best custom PC mod by a PC shop, check it out because it might just be THE one you are after!
I often see PC shops have a good crack at making cool custom made PCs but this one from Scorptec in Australia is seriously the best looking PC I've seen in a long time. How awesome does this green beast look? Good to see a nice G1 Sniper Z87 and GIGABYTE GTX780 GHz edition in the spec, very nice guys!
Give these guys some love on Facebook over here!
Plextor M.2 drive has some pretty crazy speeds, upgrade to M.2 SSD yet?
Have you guys tried the new M.2 drives yet on the GIGABYTE Z97 motherboards? They are crazy fast!
Plextor sent us their Plextor M6e M.2 PCI-E 256GB Solid state Hard Drive (PX-G256M6e) to use in one of our demo PCs at Intel show and we are pretty impressed with the impressive speeds the little solid state drive gives. Check out the ATTO test attached!
Monday, May 19, 2014
The 20 most bizarre and innovative motherboards: 1999 - 2010
Hardware.info guys from UK put up an interesting article in which they examine some of the most bizarre motherboards that have ever reached their lab. Some are amazing engineering feats for the time and others are just wild. I am a bit of a veteran and remember all of these boards and must say some of them really bring back the nostalgia of the good old days.
GIGABYTE features with some wacky cooling during the 975 chipset days as well as the blue board that started it all for us (journey away from the dull brown boards).
Let's also not forget the ever so cool Gigabyte GA-8N-SLI Royal (2005): with upgradable power delivery module. Here is what the magazine thought about that:
A motherboard with expandable CPU power supply. In 2005, there was such a thing, in the form of Gigabyte the Nvidia nForce 4 SLI Intel Edition-based GA-8N-SLI Royal. It was one of the first SLI motherboards for Intel processors. Behind the CPU socket there's a connector where you can an expansion card with extra phases for the CPU power supply. The DPS module (Dual Power System) was supposed to improve overclocking results. This idea never really gained traction, except we just saw ASUS' brand-new Maximus VI Impact Mini-ITX board with the exact same thing due to a lack of space. It also has a vertical CPB with the CPU power supply.
Saturday, May 17, 2014
GIGABYTE hardware installation guide e-book, check it out!
We've got a PC DIY guidebook 2013-2014 which goes into detail how to build or assemble your own PC. This guide should apply to the latest 9 series chipset if you are just looking at putting a new PC on the latest chipset. The guide has a pretty simple layout, it goes over the choice of components and how to put it together as well as how to use some special features on GIGABYTE boards.
Click on the image to go to the GIGABYTE "How to build your own PC" guide e-book
Friday, May 16, 2014
Gigabyte Z97X-SOC Force Extreme OC bios
Z97X-SOC Force X04 bios link: https://www.mediafire.com/?v23ea3jffju22er
I also got some requests recently for the Gigabyte X58A-UD9 GOOC bios, here it is as well!
X58A-UD9 GOOC bios link: https://www.mediafire.com/?ejcuuy9b64yi138
WARNING: These bioses are specifically designed for liquid nitrogen/dry ice overclocking. Do not flash these bioses for normal air or water cooling PCs!
Hardware Asylum podcast #40 is live
The guys over at Hardware Asylum have gone live with the latest podcast, #40. Computex is one of the main topics. Click on the image to go to the podcast:
A look ahead at Computex 2014
Computex is one of the largest technology trade shows in the world and happens to be Dennis's summertime destination. His trips to Computex started over 10 years ago and has been a great make new contacts and witness firsthand what new bits of computer hardware will be available for the Christmas shopping season. Over the years the Computex show has grown quite a bit, not only in size but with elaborate booths and cool overclocking demonstrations.
This year Dennis is looking forward to the GSKill OC World Cup which will likely replace the normal overclocking demonstrations at the GSKill booth. During the week there will likely be two on two overclocking competitions with the finals being held on the Friday of the show. An open qualifier was hosted on HWBot with the top 6 getting an open invite to the semi-finals and finals.
Back in 2009 Dennis hosted a small get together in Taiwan to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of NInjalane.com and as luck would have it, HWBOT is celebrating their 10 year anniversary this year after Computex By the looks of it they are planning a fun filled weekend of overclocking and general mayhem.
Related Links:
G.Skill OC World Cup 2014 Qualifier
9 Series Launch in Korea and Japan
Last week GIGABYTE held a few launch events in Asia for its new 9 Series motherboards One took place in Seoul and the other in Tokyo. Here are some pictures from these events.

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It was one of those moments where the time and place the news came remains frozen in memory. For me, I was shaving while worrying about all the stuff I needed to be worried about on the first day of what ended up being the last trial I handled before doing this on a full-time basis.
A friend called my cell phone to let me know that Redskins safety Sean Taylor had been shot by an intruder in his home.
Five years ago today, Taylor died from the bullet wound that severed his femoral artery and resulted in ultimately fatal blood loss. ESPN has put together an excellent reflection on the life of Taylor, the fifth overall pick in the 2004 draft and only 24 at the time he was murdered; receiver Santana Moss is still shaken by the incident.
Sean Taylor died protecting his Miami home, his girlfriend, and their 18-month-old daughter against intruders who assumed Taylor would be with the Redskins. He wasn't, due to an injury.
Taylor's early NFL years featured on-field and off-field incidents, from spitting in the face of Bucs running back Michael Pittman to brandishing a gun during a dispute over ATVs. By all accounts, the birth of his daughter had caused Sean Taylor to change, to mature.
The fact that he is still remembered so fondly and emotionally by those who knew him five years after his passing underscores that he was a special talent and a special person. Via WUSA, here's a look at some of Taylor's biggest hits; the biggest likely came on an afternoon in Hawaii, when he treated the Pro Bowl like anything but the glorified game of full-padded-two-hand-touch it has become.
We continue to wish Taylor's family and teammates well, specifically his daughter, Jackie, who is now six years old and growing up without her father.


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Hundreds Turn Out for Viking Days Parade
Hundreds lined the streets of campus Saturday morning to watch the 2011 Viking Days parade.
Themed "A Viking State of Mind," the parade was complete with student-made, New York-themed floats; marching bands; antique cars; Augustana's Marching Choir; motorcycles and even the Sioux Falls unicycle club.
View photos from the parade and yesterday's Ole the Viking re-dedication ceremony.
Viking Days 2011 continued with Saturday's football game against the Winona State Warriors; the Blue and Gold Gala, where the College honored its 2011 Alumni Achievement Award Winners; the 58th annual Viking Varieties; and more!
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FAQ about Intercultural-LEAD
Frequently Asked Questions about the Intercultural Leadership, Education and Development Fellowship
1. What are the benefits of being involved in Intercultural Leadership, Education and Development?
2. Is this a remedial program?
3. How do I apply for this program?
6. How many students are accepted into the program?
7. What is the application timeline for the program?
8. When does the program start?
9. When are student notified if they were selected for the program?
10. What if I'm not chosen for the program? What resources are available to me?
1. What are the benefits of being involved in Intercultural Leadership, Education and Development?
Financially, scholars receive a $10,000 per year scholarship. Scholars begin their college experience at CSB/SJU as recognized leaders within their first year class and benefit from twice monthly seminars where scholars connect with each other and members of the CSB/SJU campus community. First year scholars participate in a two-day retreat prior to first semester where they begin forming relationships with other members of their cohort. Scholars often speak about the feeling of family and support among the members of this program. Scholars also participate in formal and informal mentoring relationships with other scholars, steering committee members and other CSB/SJU community members.
2. Is the program a remedial program?
Absolutely not! Scholars arrive at CSB/SJU with strong educational backgrounds and a history of leadership in a variety of areas (fine arts, volunteer organizations, athletics, etc.). One of the main goals of the program is to continue to develop the skills that our scholars already have, while helping them seek new opportunities on campus and in the community.
3. How do I apply for the program?
Please refer to our How Do I Apply for an Intercultural Leadership, Education and Development Fellowship? page.
4. Who is eligible to apply?
In order to be eligible to apply for the Fellowship Program, students must:
- Be a first generation college student (meaning that neither parent has graduated from a four-year college or university).
- Attend high school within the United States.
- Have demonstrated experience and leadership with intercultural issues and actions.
- Have demonstrated academic accomplishment throughout high school.
- Have demonstrated financial need.
5. How many students apply?
Since 2015, we have seen more than 80 applicants each year for the 15 spots in the Fellowship Program. Applications for the program have grown steadily and we anticipate the 2019-2020 cohort will be no exception.
6. How many students are accepted into the program?
While our cohort sizes have ranged from 13 students to 29 students, our ideal cohort size is around 12-15 students. This allows for close inter-cohort connections as well as enhanced mentoring relationships with other scholars and the Intercultural Leadership, Education and Development steering committee.
7. What is the application timeline for the program?
The application is due by January 15. In order for an application to be complete, students must have:
- Submitted the Application for Admission to CSB/SJU.
- Submitted the FAFSA to CSB/SJU.
- Submitted an essay answering the diversity question on the Intercultural LEAD application form.
- Submitted the Intercultural Leadership, Education and Development application form.
Interviews for Minnesota students will be held February 10-11, 2019. Interviews for students from outside Minnesota will be held on February 23-25, 2019.
All interviewees are encouraged to complete their FAFSA by the February 1, as the FAFSA results are needed prior to Intercultural LEAD selection. The College of Saint Benedict (women) FAFSA code is 002341 and the Saint John's University (men) FAFSA code is 002379.
8. When does the program start?
First-year Scholars participate in a mandatory two-day retreat that takes place prior to CSB/SJU first-year orientation.
9. When are student notified if they were selected for the program?
With all interviews concluding by February 25, our goal is to have completed selection for the 2019-2020 program cohort by March 1, 2019.
10. What if I'm not chosen for the program? What resources are available to me?
The selection process is never easy and each year we find ourselves making very difficult decisions. All students on campus, including students who interview for the program and are not chosen for the program, will have access to the numerous resources available on campus including (but not limited to):
- Academic Advising: Information regarding study skills, free tutoring, one-on-one advising support and assistance in creating a four-year academic plan.
- Intercultural and International Student Services Center (IISS): A department on campus which promotes intercultural awareness and competence to all students. The primary focus of the Center is to provide services to students of color. The Center strives to facilitate intercultural interaction, learning and appreciation. It also provides personal mentoring and coordinates many special events—including the annual Festival of Cultures and Asian New Year.
- Student Activities and Leadership Development: Provides opportunities for on-campus involvement in student clubs, the Inspiring Leaders Certificate Program (ILCP), and countless events happening during the week and the weekends at CSB/SJU.
- Counseling and Health Promotion: Offers individual counseling as well as workshops on common concerns for college students (stress management, body image, homesickness, etc.).
- Career Services: Provides students with support in resume/cover letter writing, finding an internship and networking with CSB/SJU alumni. It also holds information sessions and career fairs for students to learn more about options after graduation.
- First Generation Organization Advisor: supporting first-generation students in their transition to college and continued support during the first year of college.
- Advocates for Inclusive Mentoring (AIM): striving to strengthen CSB's historically underrepresented students' personal development and leadership through collaboration with various academic groups on campus to help build community, sense of belonging, and overall student success.
- College Possible: near-peer coaching model leveraging the power of passionate, dedicated recent college graduates to offer advice and mentorship to young people as they navigate the complex world of college completion.


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Basketball legend Dennis Rodman made headlines once again as he arrived in Beijing Saturday following his visit from North Korea without imprisoned American Kenneth Bae.
According to CNN, Rodman told reporters at the Beijing aiport that it was "not his job" to talk about Bae and said to ask President Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton about it.
Rodman visited North Korea earlier in the week for a trip he said was strictly to have a good time and maybe bridge some cultural gaps- but not be a diplomat.
Rodman said the purpose of his visit was to display his friendship for authoritarian leader Kim Jong Un and North Korea and to "show people around the world that we as Americans can actually get along with North Korea."
Speaking to reporters in Beijing ahead of his flight to Pyongyang — his second trip to the North — Rodman declined to say whether he would seek Bae's release. Bae's health is poor, and he was recently transferred to a hospital.
"I just want to meet my friend Kim, the marshal, and start a basketball league over there or something like that," said Rodman, wearing rings through his lower lip and each nostril. "I have not been promised anything. I am just going there as a friendly gesture."
Bae was arrested in November and sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for what Pyongyang described as hostile acts against the state. Rodman once asked on his Twitter account for Kim to "do me a solid" and release Bae. Kim has the power to grant special pardons under the North's constitution.
"I'm not there to be a diplomat. I'm there to go there and just have a good time, sit with (Kim) and his family, and that's pretty much it," Rodman said, adding that he planned to see Kim "pretty soon," perhaps later Tuesday or Wednesday. Rodman is being hosted in North Korea by the Ministry of Physical Culture and Sport, which has not confirmed if or when Rodman will meet Kim Jong Un.
Meetings between senior North Korean officials and foreigners are normally not officially confirmed or announced in advance.
Rodman, however, suggested "basketball diplomacy" could warm relations and said that Kim wanted President Barack Obama to pick up the phone and call him. He has called Kim an "awesome guy."
Outside analysts have said Pyongyang is likely using Bae as bait to win diplomatic concessions in a standoff over its nuclear weapons program. North Korea denies this.
Pyongyang accuses Bae of trying to establish an anti-Pyongyang base in the North. Friends say Bae was based in a Chinese border city and traveled frequently to North Korea both as a tour operator and to feed orphans.
At least five other Americans have been detained in North Korea since 2009. The others were eventually allowed to leave without serving out their terms, some after clemency missions by prominent Americans, including former presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter.


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Let's Read and Find Out Science Level 2 - Human Body Package
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These are favorites at our house! Mark is extremely science-oriented (and Janine seems to be following in his footsteps). He spends hours pouring over Visual Dictionaries and Wildlife Encyclopedias and watching Wonders of God's Creation and other science videos. He is really quite knowledgeable for his age. While it is no surprise that he liked these science books also, I was surprised that they were not too "simple" for him, with the availability of all those adult-level books. Much can be absorbed from these - they illustrate and explain advanced concepts at levels children can appreciate. The narrative is a blend of story and information and the illustrations (including visual aids such as colorful charts, maps and diagrams) are appealing and uncluttered. Each book introduces a science concept, then provides a step-by-step explanation within a clearly-written narrative. You may be able to find some of these at your library, but we decided that these were "keepers."
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Ofcom is asking Arqiva to shift Freeview out of the 4G spectrum bands ahead of time, in the hope of appeasing the mobile operators who are still livid about EE's exclusive.
All the parties involved will be meeting today to discuss the matter, including the Ministry of Fun (who took over control of Ofcom last year) and the mobile operators themselves. But despite what's being reported in some quarters, there's no hope of the auction schedule changing, the plan is simply to make the spectrum available to the auction winners a little sooner.
The spectrum concerned is around 800MHz and used to be filled with analogue TV signals. The original plan was to have it clear by the end of 2012 (actually the very first plan was to have it cleared by 2006, but that was long ago) but the complexity of migrating everyone to digital slipped that deadline to around the end of 2013.
Ofcom is hoping to lop a few months off that time, perhaps clearing the larger cities by May next year, which could be around the same time the auction wraps up.
And that auction is not going to move, the legal framework and logistical effort involved would be enormous. One can't just shift an auction when there is so much money involved, companies are preparing to raise money, plotting strategies, making alliances and preparing to stab each other in the back - none of this can be moved on a whim.
But the spectrum can be cleared early, and now that the 4G cat is out of the bag, the network operators are desperate to get their 4G offerings onto the market. The challenge for Arqiva (which runs most of the broadcasting in the UK) is to work out a plan to shift multiplexes around the dial to get them into their ultimate home without interfering with the neighbours too much on the way.
So once the auction is over the new owners should be able to move into their new spectrum faster than previously thought, which is good news for everyone – except the Freeview viewers who'll have to do a bit more retuning a little more often than they had anticipated. ®


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Peter was the second son of Yuri Vladimirovich the prince of Murom in what we might now call Russia. Eventually he became the prince of Murom himself. He had been raised in the Christian faith by his family and friends and this provided him some comfort but it did not immediately address Peter's most pressing issue: the leprosy he had contracted shortly before taking the throne. Each day presented fantastic opportunities for a prince like Peter and his faith instructed him to use his power to take care of those who had been outcast. He had a calling and was equipped to do God's will for his life but he struggled daily under the burden of his disease. Likewise he prayed daily for either healing from or understanding of this burden. One night after many days in God's service as prince of Murom he received an answer to his prayers that offered both healing and understanding. He was told that there was a woman who was the daughter of a beekeeper and a peasant named Febronia. If he would go to her, then she would work a wonder over him and heal him. Peter went to find her the next day.
When Peter saw Febronia he gasped at her beauty. As prince had been surrounded by pretty women who were both alluring and flirtatious.Yet in Febronia he saw something different–she was only a peasant but there was a beauty within her that seemed to shine only for Peter.For a moment he forgot all about anticipated healing and sought only to talk to this woman who so thoroughly captivated him. Each day he would return to her home only to rest in her presence and learn more and more of who she was and what she believed.He was encouraged to learn she was a Christian but was even more encouraged by the fact that she held no disgust for his leprous appearance and, in fact, seemed to see some beauty within him that had been made only for her. Peter told Febronia about his vision and she seemed humbled by the very thought that God would use her to heal a prince. She agreed to pray over him and to serve God's will by fulfilling God's promise of healing. But before she could pray, Peter asked her to marry him after she was done working God's wonder over him. She agreed to his proposal and then prayed for his healing as his beloved fiance. Peter was healed at the request of his beloved–made whole by the love of another and the will of God–and soon the two were married.
There was one very big problem with this fairytale romance, however. The Russian nobles detested the very thought that a noble prince would marry a peasant. Even worse was Peter's clear infatuation and devotion to Febronia who they viewed as an unworthy commoner. They came to Peter and they urged him to cast his peasant wife aside. They appealed to his sense of tradition and nobility but this proved unsuccessful.They encouraged him to be thankful to Febronia for the healing–perhaps even pay her handsomely–but not to persist in marriage to a woman unable to attain nobility by their standards. Peter stoutly refused and remained committed not only to his beloved wife but also to their common faith which taught them the value of devotion and vows. So, Peter and Febronia were forced out of Murom and they traveled by boat away from the city. In their travels and wanderings they knew that they were "home" as long as they were with each other. They performed miracles and wonders as they traveled and their reputation not only as wonder-workers but, also, as devoted husband and wife spread. They died as they had lived–together and within the same hour. They were buried in the same grave for they shared one life.
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Branding Design
While a logo alone may be enough for smaller companies, a successful brand design will create a cohesive look throughout your business while representing your brand values. In addition to a logo, branding design can include marketing collateral, websites, menus, uniforms and even the physical business space. For inspiration on brand design, we've collected some excellent examples that will not only show you a variety of applications, but will also outline different branding approaches commonly used today.
Shape branding
One common approach to brand design is using characteristic shapes from your logo as a motif throughout the brand. For example, the Kovai Software Services brand design takes a circle and arc shape from the Kovai Software Services logotype and applies it rhythmically on business cards, posters, a Facebook cover and even a car wrap. This repetition of shapes strengthens the brand recognition. Every time you see those shapes you will think Kovai Soft!
The shapes used can be simple as with the Midori Lab brand design, or even complex as with the Gaea brand design. Do you have or want a logo that uses shapes as a characteristic element? If so use these examples for inspiration on branding design!
Typographic branding
Another approach to brand design is expanding a logotype's characters into other brand elements. For example, the brand design for Architects In Rabat creates the acronym AIR, which is spaced out on business cards and posters to allow other text to flow through. This technique helps connect text to the name and logo of the business. Alternatively, the brand design for Matrix Capital utilizes repetition of the logo's typographic characters to decorate business cards and letters. This creates a conceptual "trail" which leads viewers back to the company name. Typographic branding can also be as simple as using the same font from the logo for any brand text,
Does your business use or want a logotype? If so, use the examples above for inspiration in brand design!
Color branding
Branding design can also be approached by taking color(s) from the logo and applying it to other brand elements. For example, the Project 41 menu headings all use the same color blue as the logo. This technique ties the layout of the menu to the logo which reinforces brand recognition. Similarly, the brand design of For Kids By Kids takes the rainbow color pallette from the color version of the logo and creates a colored geometric pattern which decorates envelopes, letters and cards.
Does your business seek to represent itself with the use of color? If so use these examples when seeking brand design inspiration!
Illustration branding
Last but not least, illustration is a valuable tool for brand design. Many companies, like Zen Zero, have their logo designed around an illustration which can stand alone on brand materials. When people see the illustration, they connect that image with the company name. This technique can be especially effective on stamps, pins and business card backs. Meanwhile, companies like Pontoon Brewing choose to have their logo incorporated into an illustrated language which can then be "wrapped" onto anything imaginable.


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Samsung's latest court-based pot shot at Apple adds the iPhone 5 to an ever-growing list Apple devices that it reckons use Samsung-invented tech.
The iPhone 5 features in eight of Samsung's complaints; six of them are relating to utilities and the other two are to do with the UMTS 3G standard.
Samsung filed the claims in September 18 after it checked out the new iPhone, and reckons it uses the same internal allegedly patent-infringing tech to function as previous iterations.
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"The iPhone 5 has the same accused functionality as the previously accused versions of the iPhone, so the proof of infringement of the patents-in-suit by the iPhone 5 is the same as for other Apple devices already accused of infringement in this litigation.
"We have little choice but to take the steps necessary to protect our innovations and intellectual property rights," said Samsung.
While it's been a red-letter year for tech patent lawsuit fans, they're now in for a bit of a dry spell.
Nothing will happen in this particular Samsung-Apple-smackdown until July and August 2013 as both sides amass evidence and busy themselves behind the scenes.
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LAS VEGAS -- Mike Alvarado and Brandon Rios had barely got done hitting each other when the talk of a third fight between the two eager warriors began.
No reason not to do it again, the way these two like to go after it.
The action Saturday night was much the same as their first fight, only this time the result was different. Alvarado boxed and punched his way to a narrow but unanimous 12-round decision over Rios in the rematch of their slugfest from five months ago.
Alvarado came on strong in the late rounds to win 115-113 on two scorecards and 114-113 on the other to avenge his seventh-round loss to Rios in October. The ringside punch totals were almost as close as the scoring, with Alvarado credited with landing 261 punches to 241 for Rios.
It wasn't as dramatic as the first fight, when Rios stopped Alvarado after being rocked himself a round earlier. But the fight was still thrilling at times, fought at a high level between two game warriors.
It also was brutal at times, as evidenced by the cut on Alvarado's forehead and his swollen face. He was taken to a hospital for a precautionary brain scan after the fight, and Rios also was taken to the hospital.
When the two finally got done hitting each other and the bell rang to end the last round, the crowd of 5,418 was on its feet cheering.
"Brandon gave me a shot to redeem myself," Alvarado said. "I'll give him a shot for the trilogy."
Alvarado was again more than willing to trade punches with Rios, but began boxing more in the middle rounds, a change in strategy that may have won him the fight. Rios expended a lot of energy chasing him, and was not able to land as many big punches as in the first fight.
Alvarado won three of the last four rounds on two scorecards and all four on a third to pull out the fight.
"I won the first one, now they want to make the third one," Rios said. "Let's make the third one."
That will likely happen, but not right away. Promoter Bob Arum said he wants to see a third fight, but would look elsewhere for both fighters for their next fights.
"Are these guys going to fight again?" Arum asked. "Of course they will. But it doesn't necessarily have to be next."
Alvarado's corner credited his road work in the mountains near his Denver home with giving him the legs to stay away from Rios instead of brawling the entire 12 rounds. But both fighters were more than willing to trade when they needed to.
It was the first loss for Rios (31-1-1), while Alvarado (34-1) avenged his only defeat in the 140-pound bout.
"He didn't rock me at all," Rios said. "I'm a warrior."
Their first fight was so good it made them headliners for the first time, and both fighters were determined to deliver for a second time. They alternated between taking punishment and giving it out, both smiling at the other when they got hit with a good shot.
If they didn't fight at quite the pace of their first fight, it wasn't for the lack of effort. Rios kept coming forward, attacking Alvarado relentlessly, while Alvarado scored well with his jab and traded freely any time either fighter landed a punch
"I didn't get rocked," Rios said. "If I got rocked, I'd have been wobbling. I could go 15 more rounds. I'm a warrior. I love to fight. We got to do it again."
Though both fighters weighed the class limit of 140 pounds at Friday's weigh-in, Rios was unofficially 161 to 158 for Alvarado before the fight. That made it more of a middleweight bout, though no titles were at stake and none were needed before an appreciative crowd at the Mandalay Bay arena.
There were no knockdowns and neither fighter ever appeared seriously hurt. But that didn't stop it from being an action fight filled with big punches, one that was in doubt even as it went into the final round.
Rios, who came in as a 3-1 favorite, rocked Alvarado with a left hand with a minute left in the second round, sending him staggering backward. Any pretenses Alvarado had of boxing Rios went by the wayside as the two fighters began brawling in the center of the ring with little regard for defense of any type.
Alvarado was marked on his face with his eyes swelling in late rounds. Rios appeared fresher, but still took plenty of punishment.
Rios earned the biggest purse of his career, $1.25 million, while Alvarado was paid $625,000 for the rematch.


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Robert Downey Jr. is still a few months away from hitting the theaters as "Sherlock Holmes," but a sequel for the super sleuth is already reportedly in the works – and this time, he might be chasing Brad Pitt.
While there is no deal in place yet, Pitt has been in talks with producers to play Holmes' nemesis Moriarty in the next installment, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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In addition, Warner Bros. is in talks with "Justice League: Mortal" writers Kieran and Michele Mulroney to pen the script for the sequel.
In the Christmas Day-due "Sherlock Holmes," Downey plays the iconic detective originated by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, while Jude Law plays his trusty sidekick Dr. John Watson and Rachel McAdams stars as love interest Irene Adler.
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If the sequel does indeed take shape, it is likely all the stars would return a second time, with Guy Ritchie once again taking on the directing duties.
Earlier this summer, a studio rep shot down rumors Pitt was joining the cast of the first "Holmes" film after online posts suggested Pitt was spotted in London to film his scenes as Moriarty.
"Brad Pitt is not joining the cast of 'Sherlock Holmes' and we're extremely pleased with the production of the film," a rep for the studio told Us Weekly at the time. "As planned, it will be released on Christmas Day, 2009. In order to complete the movie, we've scheduled a few days on set to shoot a couple of additional scenes, obtain pick-up shots, and perfect some of the visual effects elements, all of which is standard filmmaking practice."
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Pitt's next project to hit the big screen will be the animated comedy "Oobermind," where he lends his voice to the character of Metro Man, alongside the voices of Tina Fey, Ben Stiller, Will Ferrell and Jonah Hill.
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Some things are going away. We're retiring Journals, Kidisms, Tidbits, People, Tags. And here's why:
· We're focused on creating new features and supporting the existing ones that we know you love the most.
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- 3 cups half-and-half
- 6 extra-large egg yolks
- 2/3 cup sugar
- 1 pinch salt
- 2 1/2 tablespoons ground espresso coffee beans regular or decaffeinated
- 1 tablespoon Kahlua liqueur
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 4 ounces chocolate-covered espresso beans chopped
Servings 1
Step 1
Heat the half-and-half until it forms bubbles around the edge of the pan and steam starts to rise.
Meanwhile, in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat the egg yolks, sugar, and salt until mixed. Slowly add the hot half-and-half until combined. Wipe out the pan and pour the mixture back into the clean pan. Cook over medium-low heat, stirring constantly with a wooden spoon, for 5 to 10 minutes, until it's thickened and the cream coats the back of the spoon. Pour the cream through a fine-meshed sieve into a bowl. Add the ground espresso beans, Kahlúa, and vanilla and refrigerate until completely chilled.
Pour the espresso cream into an ice-cream freezer and freeze according to the manufacturer's directions. Mix in the chopped espresso beans, spoon into a container, and allow to freeze for a few hours. Soften slightly before serving.
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Apple's only mobile phone series is one of the leading mobile product in today's
telecommunication industry. It can be easily said that Apple have made an huge impact in mobile
industry just by it only iPhone series, apple introduced many versions of iPhone but didn't
started any other series. Fact is that iPhone is most demonstrating cell phone ever seen in mobile
market. Only iPhone is the phone for which people use to do booking moths before its launch.
Recently Apple launched its latest version of iPhone i.e. iPhone 5 and it was most awaited phone
of the year 2012. Before launch of iPhone 5 a lot was expected and many rumors were made by
anonymous people and fact is that many rumors came true at time of launch. Like there was the
rumor that Apple will introduce the technology of 4G LTE in iPhone 5 which came out right at
its launch. Apple improved the network coverage a lot with 4G LTE introduction and it have
been seen as one of the most important feature of iPhone 5.
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interface of the OS have been kept similar to older version but once you are in iPhone 5 then you
will feel the huge difference from iPhone 4S.
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first time Apple tried to introduce its own map and navigation system but unfortunately this
didn't worked out in Apple's favor because numerous complaints were launched in regarding to
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rivals like Nokia and Google Maps.
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia
A couple of "lady boys" were working on the cutting room floor at the Daughters of Cambodia's operations centre in the middle of a district well-known for its brothels, pimps and drug dealers.
A few more were in the woodworking shop, cutting buttons from coconut shells and making wooden plaques.
The 10 boys in the program aren't that easy to spot among the other "daughters" — young women and girls who were once commercially sexually exploited and are now getting counselling and retraining so they can move on to a better life.
"They fit the criteria," Daughters' founder Ruth Elliott says simply. "I don't mind how they dress, whether they're male, female or in-between. They're human beings and we're trying to offer them freedom."
Elliott would like to do more to help the boys. But for now, the Oxford-trained psychologist says they're still learning how best to help them because their needs are so different from those of the girls.
Boys are largely forgotten or ignored in the sex tourism narrative. Everybody talks about the exploited girls. It's their images you see on the posters and ads for charitable donations.
So little research has been done on sexually exploited boys worldwide that estimates of its prevalence vary wildly.
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime doesn't have any estimates for victims of commercial sexual exploitation, only for human trafficking, which is closely related. It estimates that two-thirds of the victims of human traffickers are women, 13 per cent are girls, nine per cent are boys and the remainder are men.
But recent research here as well as in Ethiopia, Brazil, Peru, India and other sex-tourism hot spots indicates that boys are as likely as girls to be victimized by travelling sexual predators. Some research even suggests that boys are more likely to be exploited.
Elliott and many others working for non-governmental organizations here are particularly concerned about the explosion of the commercial sex trade in Sihanoukville that seems to involve many more boys than girls.
Sihanoukville is Cambodia's premier beach resort and is rapidly being re-developed to attract tourists with new guest houses aimed at budget travellers and spectacular, luxury hotels on outlying islands. It's happening just as Thailand is curbing its sex tourism industry.
Given that, a Western diplomatic source said, it's no surprise there is a concerted lobby to have direct air connections to Sihanoukville not only from Phnom Penh and Cambodia's other major tourist attraction — the Angkor temples in Siem Reap — but also from Russia.
Boys account for 55 to 60 per cent of the victims rescued by the French-based Action Pour Les Enfants, according to its director Seila Samleang. APLE investigates and helps prosecute child sex offenders.
Once the boys are rescued, Samleang says there are fewer shelters and fewer services. But he says, "Generally boys choose not to go to receive counselling or whatever.
"We offer to send them to after-care programs, but they refuse. They think that what they were doing isn't harmful. They think it's the quickest way to get money."
There's a certain logic to that. Most workers in Cambodia earn about $1 a day, while boys who have sex with men can earn anywhere from $10 to $50 a day.
Dozens — if not hundreds — of the estimated 3,200 non-governmental organizations here have programs to rescue, protect, counsel, empower, educate, train and reintegrate girls and young women back to their communities. But until three years ago, about the only programs for boys and young men were related to HIV/AIDS.
American Michael Munson first came to Cambodia in 2009 as a volunteer at the Agape Mission's kids' camp in notorious Svay Pak. But he got a job with another U.S.-based group called Hard Places working with street kids who hang out along Phnom Penh's riverfront.
Munson, along with Glenn Miles (who works for another NGO called Love146), recently completed a research project that involved interviewing 45 boys working in six different massage parlours.
"Boys are being sold as much as girls are and foreigners are the majority of the buyers," says Munson.
Both Munson and others say the boys' plight is largely ignored here because of long-held gender stereotypes as well as a social taboo against discussing homosexuality.
There's a Cambodian saying that sums it up: Boys are like gold. Girls are like white cloth. If boys fall in the mud, it can easily be washed off. If girls do, the stain remains. The belief reflected in the proverb is that if boys do anything wrong, they face no lasting consequences — social or emotional.
It's not much different in the West, says Miles, co-author of the recent study with Munson and another of boys in the sex trade in India.
Miles says Western perceptions of girls and boys are reflected in two Disney characters: Sleeping Beauty and Aladdin. Sleeping Beauty needs to be rescued, while Aladdin is a street kid, smart, self-sufficient, who's even envied by men because of his freedom.
"The message is that girls are vulnerable and not resilient and boys are all resilience with no vulnerability. Both are false and unhelpful," Miles says.
"It's not a good picture for the girls because you can build resilience in them, they can have a voice ... For boys, it's also not good. They are not resilient. They are completely vulnerable as well."
What results, he says, is that child-centred NGOs — many of which are faith-based — are often "blinkered."
Yet, it's mostly Christian organizations that pay for the little research and programs available.
Vancouver-based Ratanak International helps fund a boys' program run by Hagar, an Australian-based NGO that started out working only with girls. Ratanak also gives money to a small pilot project for transsexuals — "lady boys" — that's run by British-based Daughters of Cambodia.
"Boys suffer intense shame, probably more shame than the girls do," says Sue Taylor, who counsels boys in Hagar's program.
"Some of our boys are as badly off or worse off than the girls because of the degradation that they've suffered at the hands of perverted pedophiles, especially the lady boys [transsexuals]. At Hagar, we've seen a huge increase in the number of boys in the last few years."
The first research on sexually abused and exploited boys was done in 2008 for Hagar and the Cambodian government, with funds provided by World Vision Canada and its Cambodia office. It was aptly titled: I Thought It Could Never Happen to Boys.
Lead researcher Alastair Hilton noted that because boys' experiences are so different from girls, prevention, protection, rescue, treatment and training programs for them must also be different.
Most boys aren't trafficked or sold into a large brothel or massage parlour. Instead, many look for male partners on their own out of economic necessity, often after having run away from an abusive, violent home.
Unlike the girls, they rarely know others with shared experiences and their intense shame isolates them.
Research indicates that most sexually exploited boys do not identify themselves as homosexual, even though their abusers are almost exclusively men.
However, some are conflicted about their sexuality, particularly if they were sexually exploited before they reached puberty, if they were forced to dress like girls or if they are transsexual.
Unlike some parts of Asia such as Thailand and India where transsexuals — "lady boys" or "hijiras" — are better tolerated, if not accepted, here they are complete outcasts, despised, taunted and persecuted by society and even their own families.
"Our boys, their families want them to be 'normal,' " says Elliott. "Some of the boys attribute it to having been sexually abused. But they choose to become lady boys in most cases."
Her biggest concern is that they had to be promiscuous and exhibitionist to survive and, because of this, more likely to slide back into sex work, particularly the growing 'entertainment business' that includes transsexual shows and pornography.
Elliott hopes to have enough money in her budget this year to rent a house where the boys can stay together until they're strong enough to make good choices. She's also considering creating a centre for other sexually exploited boys. It would be called, of course, Sons of Cambodia.
Over at Hagar, counsellors are also struggling to find out how best to help the boys.
While rescued girls feel safest in larger, residential centres, Taylor says boys don't like being confined. They are also more likely to be violent and to act out sexually as they replay their trauma, which can make residential centres less effective.
As Miles puts it, "Girls are more culturally compliant. With the boys, it's like trying to hold jelly fish."
American-based Hard Places has plans for a large residential trauma centre. In September 2011, it secured a four-storey building close to Phnom Penh's popular riverfront area where men frequently proposition street boys.
While it waits for government approval, Hard Places offers day programs, including daily English classes that attract anywhere from 25 to 70 boys, ranging in age from four to 15.
Not all the boys have been commercially sexually exploited, says Munson. But some have.
A man who abused two of them — a foreigner — was arrested in 2011.
Action Pour Les Enfants (APLE): www.aplecambodia.org
Daughters of Cambodia: www.daughtersofcambodia.org
Hard Places Community: www.facebook.com/pages/The-Hard-Places-Community/277753568904315
LOVE146: www.love146.org
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime: www.unodc.org
World Vision Cambodia: www.worldvision.org.kh


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Word of the Day, Website of the Day, Number to Know, This Day in History, Today's Featured Birthday and Daily Quote.
Word of the Day
hornswoggle HAWRN-swog-uhl (verb) to swindle, cheat, hoodwink or hoax. — www.dictionary.com
Website of the Day
Startup framework
A high-quality solution for those who want to change their startup and not waste too much time.
Number to Know
8: On this date in 1900, the American League was organized in Philadelphia with eight founding teams.
This Day in History
Jan. 29, 1963: The first inductees into the Pro Football Hall of Fame are announced.
Today's Featured Birthday
Singer-songwriter Chris Castle (38)
Daily Quote
"The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first." — Ginger Rogers


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Earlier this winter I had the notion that I wanted to maybe start up my own bee hive. In my mind, the plan was to do my homework over the next year then get my supplies ordered by next Spring. One thing about beekeeping is it can be very pricey to start this hobby. In my research I found it's not uncommon to have 1,000-$1,200 in starting up your hive. (These estimations are based on starting two hives, which is recommended). Just when I thought I had this whole thing planned out.......I got the mail from my mailbox. In this batch of mail, I happened to find out their is a beekeeping school only 30 minutes from me being offered in early March. Well that got me thinking, "Maybe I could just go to the school and get a jump start on that homework I was wanting to do." This Bee School even provided some tools, books, hive start, ect...bonus right? After considering it a bit more, running all this by the Hubby, we decided that is would be great to take the school and be prepared for the next year. That very night, my
Craigslist stalking Husband was cruising one of his favorite sites.......HE SAW IT!!
All this so say, that even though I was thinking this whole project would begin next year, the Lord had different plans in mind. I'm okay with that, His timing is always better than mine. I can say one thing with great confidence...I WILL NOT BE BORED WHEN SPRING DECIDES TO ARRIVE!
I'm linking to HOMESTEAD REVIVAL...be sure to go visit other homestead bloggers.


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When Andrew Garfield didn't show up at the Oscars, one of the theories was that something had happened between him and Emma Stone. Then he was accused of being a dick during Oscar rehearsals and bailing on Batkid. Then he was exonerated. So it's fine. All fine. They're fine. And we have photos as confirmation. And I am relieved. So relieved. Because I love them so much, as creepy as that sounds.
Here they are in photos released on Friday while running errands in Beverly Hills. It's adorable. And they look like they adore each other. And are happy. As for the errands – perhaps travel items? The two arrived in Sydney today to begin promotion for The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and will likely be on the road for a few weeks leading up to the May 2 release date. I was about to say…already? But just realised it's March 17 and where did 3 months go?


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Criminal Practice ClinicSLN #: 15904
Course Prefix: LAW-774
Course Section: 001
Credit Hours: 6
Instructor(s): Zettler
Course Description:
Students enrolled in the Criminal Practice Clinic are responsible for prosecuting defendants charged with crimes within Maricopa County. Students are assigned to one of several City Prosecutors' offices or the County Attorney's office. Students are responsible for a full range of trial-related tasks, including interviews with victims, witnesses and police officers, pre-trial discovery, motion practice, and trial preparation all of which lead to the actual trying of the case. Students can expect to spend the maximum amount of time actually trying cases in the courtroom. The Clinic is structured so that students are initially assigned simple cases without defense attorneys to try. As the student gains experience, the student will be assigned more difficult cases. By the end of the semester each student should actually try a case to a jury. Faculty associate, Hugo Zettler, provides supervision of the Criminal Practice Clinic.
The seminar component addresses various advocacy problems encountered by the students in court. It also includes simulation exercises in trial practice. Attendance at the seminar is mandatory. Evidence is a pre-requisite for the Criminal Practice Clinic. Trial Advocacy is not a prerequisite, but if students have been through this course, the skills are beneficial to students' cases. Students may not take trial advocacy and the Criminal Practice Clinic within the same semester. Prior to signing up for the class, students must attend a Clinic Seminar meeting.
NOTE: Please see the Clinical Program website for more details: www.law.asu.edu/programs/clinic
Additional Information:
Credit Hours: 6
Grading Option: Pass/Fail Only
Graduation Writing Requirement: No
Flexible Writing Requirement: No
Skills Requirement: Yes
Experiential Learning: No
Prerequisite: Evidence
Special Withdrawal Course: Yes. Yes, last day to withdraw without special permission from the Executive Director of Clinical Programs is 2 weeks prior to the fisrt seminar class.
Limited Enrollment Number: 8
Final Exam Given: No
Attendance Policy: Per Statement Of Student Policies
Additional Attendance Policy: Mandatory
* The law school has a policy that Is used To calculate credit hours. Please see the Statement of Student Policies.


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One level I've uploaded to Simplicity: http://simplici7y.com/items/colony-mod-2
I started working on 3 maps about a year ago. They were an intro to an ~11 map single player campaign. The second map is almost done (whatever that means) and the third map has 90% of the polygons down, but no texturing or lighting (which, for me, is the most arduous and hateful part of map making). It was taking too long to finish all three of them, and the first one was just sitting there, so I polished it a bit and posted it.
New gun mechanics, some new monster behavior, no new art.
This first map was more focused on atmosphere. Trying to recreate the feeling of tension and fear that I felt when I first played Marathon.
Check it out. Feel free to engage in some thoughtful critique. I'm not too interested in my visual design, I know my texturing and lightning isn't good. I'm more interested in hearing about my weapon, monster, level, and encounter design.
EDIT: Level 2
This is a large (over 1k polygons), "nonlinear" map. It has a lot more going on than level 1 and I did some fun tricks. There's also a new type of Hunter.
Weapons that are a part of these two maps:
Fusion Pistol:
You can experiment with these and other guns in the cheat room, which is in each level and can be accessed through a hidden door at the start area.
Weapons that are a part of these two maps:
- No dual wielding
Secondary fire is grenade
Three grenades per magazine
Fusion Pistol:
- Primary fire does extra damage against cybernetic units
Secondary fire does not
Secondary fire travels through multiple enemies
- No dual wielding
Primary fire shoots double "bullets" as classic shotgun, but less accurate
Secondary fire is a charge-up attack with higher accuracy than primary attack
You can experiment with these and other guns in the cheat room, which is in each level and can be accessed through a hidden door at the start area.


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It's been a good 7 days. Clare and headed off to Barcelona for our wedding anniversary and loved it. The heat was amazing and the food was fantastic. We also heard a great new instrument called the hang drum – a kind of wok looking thing that makes the most beautiful sounds. You can hear it played here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-g8GOVonJI. My favourite place of the trip was the Goudi Cathedral – an amazing adventure of imagination and creativity. I hope I'm around long enough to see it finished as it will be remarkable. The cathedral is an amazing act of persistance and love (whether you are religous or not) and I really hope they succeed.
In terms of music we've just heard that the Arts Council of Wales are going to fund our Distil project to work Wales. This is a great opportunity for us and the Welsh musicians to work with different musicians from different fields and bring new ideas and opportunities to their music. It feels great to have our model accepted by the different countries. We're hoping to have the first residential in either February or April. I should know the dates in the next couple of days.
We've been working hard at Foot Stompin' to bring a selection of Scottish movies and documentaries to the site. It's amazing what's out there when you look. One I'm glad we've got is Night Mail by John Grierson. I've only seen this a couple of times before and I'm always pleased to admit that John Grierson was a cousin of my grandfathers (on my mothers side).


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Recently on the Creative Cow forum, editor Frank Bokoski Jr. ran into a little trouble exporting from Premiere Pro. Specifically, Frank wanted to export segments of his sequence the way he did in other applications. When exporting, Frank set In and Out points on the timeline and then attempted to export only this section. Frank found that the In and Out points were being ignored. So the question remains: how does one export only a segment of a sequence?
Fortunately, Premiere Pro experts Ann Bens and Jeff Pulera stepped in to help. Jeff offered up the workflow, while Ann provided specific details (like keyboard shortcuts and step order) for that workflow. Here are the steps for exporting segments of your sequence:
- Place the playhead at the in point and type ALT+[
- Place the playhead at the out point and type ALT+]
- Choose File>Export>Media
- Set the Source Range menu to Work Area (bottom left)
- Adjust any the rest of the output settings, if desired
- Click the Queue button
- Adobe Media Encoder opens
- Click the Start Queue button
- The encoding process begins
- Repeat this process for all the segments you wish to export


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John Keats
John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821 / London, England)
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You can click brand A.Monamour to view a full range of backdropsSize:5x7ft/1.5x2.1m;Material:Cloth vinyl waterproof,computer digital printed.Usage:Photo background,banner,wall cover,curtain,tablecloth,decoration,etcOccasions:Perfect for video photo studio,club,party,proms or weddingsFeatures:One piece backdrop;No pole slot;Artistic effect;Light and durable;Glare freeA.Monamour: to my love
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The backdrop is folded inside a plastic bag and you need to get the wrinkles out of it.
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Species In-Depth
At the Aquarium
Seven crested auklets, five males and two females as of February 2020, live in the Diving Birds exhibit in the Northern Pacific Gallery. The aviculturists who take care of our crested auklets can tell who's who by their feathering, proportions, and behaviors.
Geographic Distribution
Non-breeding: Alaska, east to Kodiak Island. Breeding: Alaska to eastern Japan & the Kuril Islands
These auklets live at sea most of the year, only coming to land to breed. Nests are located on island coasts where sliding rocks form a rocky slope, with the largest boulders at the bottom and bare cliff at the top.
Physical Characteristics
Crested Auklets have short stubby bodies with relatively long slender wings. Their uniformly slate-gray or black plumage is very dense. Their webbed feet are black and their eyes yellow. In breeding season their small thick bills are bright orange-red with a colored plate at the corners. They have long, conspicuous, forward curving crests on their heads that droop over their eyes and thin, white plumes extending backward from the back of each eye.
After the breeding season Crested Auklets shed their bill ornaments and their bills become brown, their crests shorten, and their eye plumes disappear. Juveniles lack the crests in all seasons.
Adult Crested Auklets are from 24 to 27 cm (9.5 to 10.5 in) long. Their average weight is about 285 g (10 oz).
They eat squid, planktonic crustaceans, comb jellies, and worms. Ninety percent of their diet is copepods and other planktonic crustaceans. They catch their prey by pursuit-diving. Resting on the ocean's surface, they abruptly tilt forward, opening their wings parallel to their body with the feathers oriented backwards. Keeping their wings only partially open to reduce drag, they dive. Underwater they beat their wings, "flying" at speeds about equivalent to that of a human's walking speed.
Crested Auklets are socially monogamous. They do not maintain their pair bonds at sea but meet at the nesting site each year to reform their bond. Mating usually takes place at sea near the nesting site. Nesting colonies range from 10-20 pairs to up to a thousand birds. These birds prefer secluded areas safe from predators for nesting and eggs are usually laid on bare rock in crevices on rocky cliffs.
Normally, one egg is laid each season. The eggs incubate for 34-41 days with both the male and female sharing responsibilities for the incubation and feeding of the hatchlings. Parents carry plankton to the chick in a pouch under their tongue. Parental duties end when the chicks fledge when about 35 days old. They fly directly to sea from the nesting colonies several meters (feet) offshore.
Crested Auklets are highly social, staying in large groups at sea, and nesting in large colonies. They fly close to the surface of the water with continuous whirling wing beats.
Silent at sea, these birds are the nosiest of the auklets when in the breeding colonies, vocalizing with groans, low hoots, grunts, and barking calls.
Well adapted to life at sea, their feathers are waterproof to keep out the cold water in which they dive to feed. Their stiff wings help them to "fly" underwater in search of prey. Their bones are very strong to withstand the underwater pressure. They are able to store oxygen in their body tissues and to use anaerobic respiration. Both of these adaptations enable them to make long dives.
Crested Auklets use scent to communicate socially. During the breeding season each of the male-female pair produces a strong tangerine scent in the nape of the ruff feathers of their neck. The scent is attractive to their mate and also signals their readiness to breed. Both partners perform a "ruff-sniff" display in which they press their bill and face into the ruff feathers of their breeding partner. This scent is strong enough to be detected by humans some distance from the breeding colonies.
Estimates of their lifespan vary from 7 to 25 years
Crested Auklet populations are declining due to predation at nesting sites by introduced predators such as Arctic foxes, red foxes, and rats. Human encroachment is also a problem. There are programs in place in some areas in Alaska to remove predators.
Special Notes
Research studies done at the Aquarium of the Pacific on the tangerine scent of the Aquarium's Crested Auklets and their breeding behavior have been reported in the scientific literature.


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Dennys World of Quotes: Christmas: Funny and Thoughtful Christmas Quotes and Short Poems: From Denny: Well, now that we have finished Christmas breakfast at our house it's time to roll out these fun Christmas quotes and Christmas poems for you and yours to enjoy!
Oh, how rude of me not to give you the Christmas breakfast menu: a Dutch Baby Oven Pancake with spiced cooked apples and a side of Honeysuckle Italian style ground Turkey made into a sausage which I spiced up extra with some seasoned brown rice, smokey paprika, garlic and extra virgin olive oil before shaping into small patties and cooking on the stovetop. Yeah, it's a tough day at our house all right. :)
And, yes, I made the roast turkey yesterday since we like to celebrate Christmas Eve as well so that pressure is non-existent. Made a wonderful wet rub for the turkey that sat a day uncovered in the fridge to marinate: rubbed under the skin and on top with a mixture of red moscato wine, extra virgin oil, and lovely spices and herbs like marjoram, rosemary, sage, ginger, sea salt, black pepper, smokey paprika, garlic powder, a touch of lite soy sauce and more. Blanched the green beans earlier in the week so all that needs to be done today is to heat them up in clarified butter and some spices as a side dish. All the cooking left is to bake the Louisiana sweet potatoes which are a divine dish in themselves they are so sweet! .... Click on the title link above to view the funny quotes at my quotes blog...
For plenty of holiday recipes and recipes for the entire year you can check out my four food blogs where I collect the best of our local cooks, my own recipes and variations, as well as the news and food networks:
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Oh, and the ads are for my Cafe Press store, Denny Lyon Gifts, where the proceeds go to the local food bank, Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank - and to St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital.


text: Former University of Georgia All-America shortstop Gordon Beckham, recipient of two American League Rookie of the Year awards, will be honored Saturday during the Georgia-Auburn football game. … Along with his baseball skills, Beckham is quite adept on the tennis court. He will make a special appearance at the Rock-n-Racquets tennis exhibition next month in Athens. The event features the world's top-ranked female player in Serena Williams along with former University of Georgia four-time All-American John Isner, U.S. Open star and Marietta native Melanie Oudin and the 2009 Olympus U.S. Open Series champion Sam Querrey. The event will be held at Stegeman Coliseum Saturday, Dec. 12 at 4:00 p.m.


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Maiden, mother, crone
roses reflect the seasons
of this fruitful life.
© Osquer Anderko 2019 🌞♥🌻
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure…We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?… There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do…as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same." ~M.Williamson


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80th Anniversary of the Institute
80th Anniversary of the Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries, Split, Croatia, 21-22 October 2010
Opening Ceremony was held in The Museum of Croatian Archaeological Monuments
After welcome addresses, history and present state of the Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries was given by dr. sc. Ivona Marasović, director of the Institute. Opening ceremony was finished by reception.
80th Anniversary of the Institute was continued with International Symposium: Towards the Excellence in Oceanography and Fisheries, held in the Croatian Chamber of Economy.
Invited lectures given by high-level international expert:
Lectures given by scientists from Institute:
Also at symposimum was held round table discussion with following topics:


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Joey Angelone's 1974 Plymouth Duster - No Hemi Required
Slick Paint, Big Tires, And A Hot Small-Block Make For One Sick Plymouth.
When you mention Mopar, most folks automatically think of the four-letter word that has become a household name over the past few years. And while the Hemi is obviously a successful design, there's something to be said for a well-built Mopar small-block. Joey Angelone of Old Fort, Tennessee, is a firm believer in minimal cubic inches, so he equipped this '74 Plymouth Duster with a Hensley Racing-built, 365ci small-block. To match that, he made room for big meats out back and set up the suspension for abuse before assembling the awesome package.
You won't find a flaw in the paintjob, and the interior is nice, too. Joey handled most of the work himself, shaping his Duster into a killer street machine. While some might say there's no replacement for displacement, Joey is pleased with his high-winding small-block, and we see no reason to disagree.
Tech Notes
Who: Joey Angelone
What: '74 Plymouth Duster
Where: Old Fort, TN
Engine: Under the hood is a 365ci small-block built by Hensley Racing Enterprises in Knoxville, Tennessee, that kicks out 472 hp and 508 lb-ft. The crank is cast, and it sends a set of Eagle connecting rods and Keith Black pistons into motion. In conjunction with the Fel-Pro 0.039-inch gaskets and 56cc combustion chambers, the flat-top pistons create an 11.24:1 compression ratio. The cylinder heads are Edelbrock Performer RPMs, but the crew at Hensley Racing ported them and added a race valve job. The camshaft is a Comp Cams hydraulic flat tappet with 0.507 inch of lift on the intake side and 0.510 inch on the exhaust, while duration comes in at 240 and 246 degrees at 0.050-inch lift.
Induction: Up top is a 750-cfm carburetor, which is an owner-built piece featuring a Proform main body and AED bowls, among other aftermarket internals. The custom carburetor sits atop a port-matched Edelbrock Air-Gap intake manifold.
Exhaust: A set of Hooker Super Comp headers sends outgoing air into an expanse of 3-inch piping, which connects the TTI cross-pipe and Flow-master mufflers.
Transmission: Power is sent to the rear wheels through a TCI Super Street 727 automatic transmission, which is equipped with a matching TCI torque converter with a 3,500-stall speed.
Rearend: A narrowed Chrysler 83/4 rearend rides beneath the Duster and features an Auburn differential and a 4.10:1 gearset.
Suspension: Up front, modifications are minimal, but Joey upgraded to Energy Suspension bushings and replaced the tie rods and ball joints with Moog components. The lowered stance comes from a slight torsion bar adjustment. A pair of relocated Super Stock leaf springs and a pinion snubber help in the traction department, along with the narrowed rearend to fit the huge rear tires.
Body: Body modifications included fitting a dual-snorkel scoop to the original hood, moving in the stock front bumper 4 inches, and installing a '70 Duster rear bumper, which is also moved closer to the body. Combating the rust was the biggest concern, and Joey handled most of the work himself. He replaced the passenger-side quarter-panel, the lower portion of the driver-side quarter-panel, and the taillight panel to refurbish the rear portion of the body. He also replaced the floorpans and trunk pan. While he was back there, he added 3 inches to the original wheeltubs and moved the leaf springs 3 inches in.
Brakes: Factory-style discs roll up front, while the 11x3-inch rear drums provide assistance.
Wheels/Tires: Joey's car rolls on 15x5-inch Weld Draglites up front and matching 15x10 Welds out back, which feature 7.5-inch backspacing. Mickey Thompson rubber is on all four corners with 26x7.50-inch tires on the front and 28x12.50s on the rear.
Interior: Several parts from Legendary Auto Interiors brought the inside of Joey's Plymouth back to life, including the covers for the '73 Duster buckets. The black vinyl interior is clean and simple with the Grant steering wheel and additional Mopar gauges as the only modifications.
Tell your wife you're buying a Duster for the house . . . she'll love you for it!


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Enjoyment in Our Toil
Matthew Henry comments, "Those that cheerfully use what God has given them thereby honor the giver, answer the intention of the gift, act rationally and generously, do good in the world, and make what they have turn to the best ...Read More
Being Truly Wise
Matthew Henry comments, "There is not a greater enemy to the power of religion, and the fear of God in the heart, than conceitedness of our own wisdom." When we think we know better than the Lord, we have already ...Read More
Our Debt to the Jews
As Gentile Christians, we owe a great debt to the old covenant community and the Jewish people. God chose them as the first recipients of His special revelation. He saves the world through a Messiah who is of Jewish ethnicity. ...Read More
Paying Our Taxes
God calls us to pay taxes, not to approve of everything our tax money pays for. In Paul's day, tax money was used to pay the salaries of soldiers and other officials who persecuted Christians and committed other evils. Nevertheless, ...Read More
Submission for Conscience's Sake
Doing good for any reason is better than doing evil, but the Lord does not find our doing good pleasing unless we are doing it for the right reasons. Only those who have been transformed by the grace of God ...Read More
Legal Force
There is much to be discouraged about when we look at the unjust laws that our ruling authorities have put on the books. However, we must also understand that even the most corrupt governments are signs of God's grace. Anarchy ...Read More
Christmas in Time and Space
The Bible insists that the Son of God entered history at a specific point and remains united to a human nature in the person of Jesus Christ forever. This is radically different from the Hindu concept of incarnation, which says ...Read More
The Eye of the Beholder
Although the subject is always deeply involved in any encounter with the arts, we must recognize that there is one ultimate standard of beauty—the Lord Himself. Scripture often speaks of the "beauty of the Lord" (Ps. 27:4), and we dare ...Read More
Exposing the Darkness
Matthew Henry comments, "We must witness against the sins of others, and endeavor to convince them of their sinfulness in our words; but especially by the holiness of our lives." Our holy living has consequences not only for our own ...Read More
Impurity Condemned
The antidote to covetousness and the sexual immorality it inspires is thanksgiving (Eph. 5:4). When we recognize how greatly the Lord has blessed us and how we do not deserve God's favor, we are more likely to be content with ...Read More