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For most of the year Christians hear a part of a letter of St. Paul read during Sunday worship. But if you had stopped Paul on the street in some place like Corinth and asked him if he thought his letters would become a permanent part of Christian liturgy and that his faith would make him the father of Christian theology, he probably would have laughed at you, in between dodging stones.
Paul started local. In almost every authentic letter he was addressing a particular Christian community he knew personally in some way or another, teaching, criticizing, praising, exhorting, praying for them.
Paul, though, did not write private letters as a private person. He wrote as an apostle, missionary, church planter, teacher, and preacher. A messenger like Timothy would carry the letters to their destination, read them to the assembled community-"I solemnly command you by the Lord that this letter be read to all of them," says 1 Thessalonians 5:27-and interpret them.
It is also likely Paul's letters started circulating or being swapped among churches. "And when this letter has been read among you," says Colossians 4:16, "have it read also in the church of the Laodiceans." We hear as well of how Paul's letters were becoming more widely known when the Second Letter of Peter talks about how "our beloved brother Paul wrote to you . . . as he does in all his letters. There are some things in them hard to understand" (2 Peter 3:15-16).
Ah, those things "hard to understand." They point to yet another sense in which what Paul wrote was broadening beyond his letters. Many of the letters, such as Romans, contain complex theological arguments and soaring expressions of faith. Without knowing it, Paul was laying the foundation of much of Christian theology to come.
In addition to circulating his letters, the time around the end of the first century witnessed the collecting and preserving of letters written by key early Christians, such as Paul. This collecting showed the value and reverence in which the early community held them.
It was also about this time that Paul's letters, instead of only being read in meetings of Christians, actually became part of a service of the word Christians were attaching to their eucharistic celebrations. One of the earliest records of Christian worship comes from St. Justin Martyr in the second century. He says that two readings were part of the service of the word: one from the prophets and the other from "memoirs of the apostles"-gospel stories and also possibly letters of the apostles, Paul's included. In these ways and others Paul the missionary letter-writer became Paul the apostle for the ages.
This article appeared in the July 2009 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 74, No. 7, page 41).

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I am happy to announce that my novel, RETURN TO ABO, will soon be released in paperback and e-book by University of New Mexico Press. This story of three generations of women living and struggling together on a ranch in dry, dusty central New Mexico was a finalist for the WILLA Award for Contemporary Western Women's Fiction from Women Writing the West.
Set in the geographic and emotional heart of New Mexico, RETURN TO ABO tells the tale of Maggie, who is drawn back to the tiny home town she fled twenty years earlier to confront her crusty homesteader mother, the boyfriend who broke her heart, the harsh land she loves, and her tangled relationship with her rebellious teenage daughter. In these pages, the personal histories of the characters are entwined with the authentic history of the people of New Mexico. As Maggie discovers the secrets of her past, she grows beyond the beliefs that have driven her away, to build a future for her family and for the land that is her home.


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Everett Golson was readmitted by Notre Dame Friday, which means he will be available to practice with the football team and begin his path to returning to the Fighting Irish as soon a possible. Golson reapplied for admission to Notre Dame in mid-November after being academically suspended last spring.
Notre Dame head coach Brian Kelly said last week Golson would not be practicing with the football team just yet and that he would not be returning to a normal practice schedule until after Notre Dame's bowl game. Notre Dame faces Rutgers in the Pinstripe Bowl later this month. Once the bowl game is in the books, Golson will begin to work to regain the starting quarterback job as the Irish begin to transition in to the spring.
Golson was Notre Dame's starting quarterback for the 2012 season that led the Irish to an undefeated regular season and spot in the BCS Championship Game. Golson passed for 2,405 yards and 12 touchdowns and he rushed for six more.
With Golson likely to be under center for the Irish next season, the offense could get a bit of a boost. Although Tommy Rees was not terrible as the team's starting quarterback this season, he lacked the ability to keep some plays alive the way Golson may be able to. Golson will also have plenty of time to get back in to game shape after missing a year on the field.


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Beat the Streak Report: Tuesday, July 26
Ahoy, Streakers! After several days of aimless drifting in the Sea of 20-game Streaks, a few of you finally made landfall on 30-game Isle last night.
Chase Utley, Jacoby Ellsbury and Adrian Gonzalez helped Jerrystuppy, mimiziemann and rrsiebe dock safely in the harbor, earning those lucky Streakers one-month MLB.tv subscriptions and the undying respect and/or envy of their peers. The dynamic trio join 21 previous Streakers on the beach (30-game Isle is known for white-sand beaches), but the road ahead is treacherous: only six of those 21 lasted long enough to reach 33 games.
Good luck, Bourn-speed and enjoy the buffet, friends!
Tuesday's picks:
(Make a BTS pick)
Oh, hello there …
Brett Wallace: .714 (5-for-7) since '06 vs. Cardinals starter Jake Westbrook
Brian McCann: .800 (4-for-5) since '06 vs. Pirates starter Jeff Karstens
Ian Kinsler: .500 (6-for-12) since '06 vs. Twins starter Carl Pavano
Andre Ethier: .462 (6-for-13) since '06 vs. Rockies starter Jhoulys Chacin
Brandon Phillips: .571 (4-for-7) since '06 vs. Mets starter Jon Niese
Nick Markakis: .500 (4-for-8) since '06 vs. Blue Jays starter Brandon Morrow
Feeling kinda spicy?
Jerry Hairston: .500 (7-for-14) since '06 vs. Marlins starter Ricky Nolasco
Skip Schumaker: .346 (9-for-36) since '06 vs. Astros starter Brett Myers
You'll thank me later …
Paul Konerko: .119 (5-for-42) since '06 vs. Tigers starter Justin Verlander
Travis Hafner: .125 (3-for-24) since '06 vs. Angels starter Jered Weaver
Miguel Cabrera: .071 (1-for-14) since '06 vs. White Sox starter Jake Peavy
Ryan Braun: .195 (8-for-41) since '06 vs. Cubs starter Ryan Dempster
Matt Kemp: .150 (3-for-20) since '06 vs. Rockies starter Jhoulys Chacin
Asdrubal Cabrera: .190 (4-for-21) since '06 vs. Angels starter Jered Weaver
Top MLB streakers
Emilio Bonifacio: 23 games
Dustin Pedroia: 22 games
Dan Uggla: 16 games
Carlos Ruiz: 11 games
Michael Bourn: 10 games
Cameron Maybin: 10 games
Home Run Beat the Streak pick:
Kevin Youkilis: (14 home runs this season) vs. Royals starter Danny Duffy
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After 2 days of waiting til the 9th inning or later for a hit, I could use a little 1st/2nd AB magic. Skippy for seven. Good luck Mdrossi
You too Vinny. I might wish luck to gpearson too, but he's a Reds fan 😉
Well LaV I've decided not to quit yet, but the 1st reset on or after August 3rd will be it since the regular season ends on September 28 and it will be mathematically impossible to reach 57 if at 0 on August 4th or later.
I took Jimmy Rollins he did not get a 1st AB hit, hopefully he gets a hit on his 2nd, 3rd or 4th AB. I don't want a 9th O fer of July.
Way to go!!
Yeah, how did you put it? "I LOVE 1st AB hits!" 🙂
Yep! Get it over with, why wait?
Thanks Lav! Call me Mark.
Well Mark, if you didn't get enough sleep last nite because of the late game; no such problems today. A baker's dozen you have
I LOVE 1st AB hits!
Congrats Mark
Thanks! GL to you!
If those at 0 get a hit every day from now through September 28th we'll reach 65.
That's a bit unusual. Pedroia batting clean up. Ellsbury has day off; pinch hit not likely, I'd say.
LaV's List
Tuesday's Top Picks of the current Top2500,
137 Batters picked overall
Batter, Times Picked, Percentage
Dustin Pedroia 419 16.93(1rst)
Adrian Gonzalez 199 8.04
Michael Young 162 6.55(4th)
Jacoby Ellsbury 141 5.70(1rst)
Robinson Cano 128 5.17(4th)
Brandon Philips 85 3.43(4th)
Yunel Escobar 72 2.91
Hunter Pence 69 2.79
Andre Ethier 67 2.71
Ian Kinsler 53 2.14(1rst)
Nick Markakis 48 1.94
No Selection 25 1.01
Highest "No Selection" 😛 pg# 9 with streak of 15 back to zero.
Yesterday's Top2500 Reset rate was 20.84% with ROBBIE CANO reseting the most.
There was also 9.4% PPD due to players not playing, These streakers do not reset, but did not increase either.
Got Pinched OR 1/2 AB Wonders
TOP2500 saved or reset by PHA (going to include any pinch hitters and/or double switch, 2 AB or Less)
J Votto CIN, RESET 24, HIGHEST WAS 12 GAMER
B McCann ATL, RESET 10, HIGHEST WAS 15 GAMER
L Duda NYM, RESET 1, WAS 9 GAMER
Bloggers Group Top2500
UserName, Streak, Page#, Rank, Pick, (Times picked in top2500)
Mdrossi(nymets1979), 12, pg 16, 370, YUNEAL ESCOBAR (PICKED 72X)
peterkevinperkins, 12, pg 19, 370, MIKE YOUNG (PICKED 162X)
Sawx87, 11, pg 22, 505, PEDROIA (PICKED 419X)
bullfrogs, 10, pg 35, 654, PENCE (PICKED 69X)
Vinny1979, 9, pg 72, 1146, LIND (PICKED 11X)<b
gpearson17, 8, pg 83, 1807, MIKE YOUNG (PICKED 162X)
smoron015, 8, pg 89, 1807, PEDROIA (PICKED 419X)
jonhilliard, 8, pg 100+, 1807, A-GONE (PICKED 199X)
Bloggers Reset Yesterday
GL to all
Not in starting lineups tonite ::: Mauer, Ellsbury, Chipper ( quad injury)
Oh my goodness Rollins is going O fer too. This is 9 Ofers including 3 in a row. What did I do wrong?
Just bad luck. Sucks.
Man, whoever had Bautista is done. He got hit in the head and was taken out of the game as a precaution and he was 0 for 1.
One of the three 1st place leaders fell tonight with Kinsler going 0-fer
PG 86, jvairo has 12 entries in a row @ 9 games.
5 more on pg70, 2 more on pgs 74,67,65, 1 more on pgs 64,61,60
must have some sort of program that just selects for him.
That's 26 entries, and i stopped looking at pg 58.
How'd you feel if you had Prado picked yesterday? 9 ABs, no hits.
McCann going on DL Wednesday
How Would you feel if you were a pirates fan after that BS call? Methinks the ump crew just wanted to go home.
I looked at the play and I looked at it a few times. McKenry swiped at him but never touched him. He did swipe but never touched him so the ump made the right call.


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What's the storage for? Most of it (20 gigabytes' worth) holds detailed maps of the United States and Canada, used by the built-in GPS navigation system (previous models required drivers to juggle map DVDs for each travel area). The system delivers all the features we want most in GPS navigation, including spoken street names (not "Turn left," but "Turn left on Alameda Street") and an easy-to-read display that toggles automatically between day and night modes. By adding an XM satellite radio subscription with a car navigation option, you can receive traffic reports that will help you reroute past upcoming difficulties.
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Talk:Manual Debian
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Can we get some community / more official debian help. If some one wants to get the stylus / touch screen calibrated on the gta02 that would be great. Oh and lenny works nicely if you don't want to use sid. :) --Dbmoodb 16:54, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
Feedback from Brian_252
Not sure if this is the best place for feedback...
Strange how debootstrap requires root (sid). Can that be avoided?
I remember seeing a umount /media/card command on this page which i don't see anymore. That's needed or you will get
/dev/mmcblk0p1 is mounted; will not make a filesystem here!
Fdisk will also complain
WARNING: rereading partition table failed, kernel still uses old table: Device or resource busy
I needed to umount and rewrite the partition table in order for /dev/mmcblk0p2 to appear.
Got some of these error messages while installing software:
Processing triggers for man-db ... Can not write log, openpty() failed (/dev/pts not mounted?)
Preconfiguring packages ... Can not write log, openpty() failed (/dev/pts not mounted?)
Setting up dbus (1.2.1-3) ... Adding system user `messagebus' (UID 102) ... Adding new group `messagebus' (GID 104) ... Adding new user `messagebus' (UID 102) with group `messagebus' ... Not creating home directory `/var/run/dbus'. Can't start system message bus - /proc is not mounted failed! Setting up dbus-x11 (1.2.1-3) ... Setting up libgl1-mesa-dri (7.0.3-5) ...
Setting up xserver-xorg (1:7.3+15) ... xserver-xorg postinst warning: failed to infer keyboard layout from layout/lang '10 debian-installer/keymap doesn't exist--' Setting up perl (5.10.0-11.1) ...
Even though /etc/hostname is populated...
startx -- vt1 hostname: Unknown host xauth: error in locking authority file /home/root/.Xauthority xauth: error in locking authority file /home/root/.Xauthority xauth: error in locking authority file /home/root/.Xauthority xauth: error in locking authority file /home/root/.Xauthority
X: warning; process set to priority -1 instead of requested priority 0 _XSERVTransSocketOpenCOTSServer: Unable to open socket for inet6 _XSERVTransOpen: transport open failed for inet6/om-gta02:0 _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to open listener for inet6 _XSERVTransSocketINETCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: server already running
Fatal server error: Cannot establish any listening sockets - Make sure an X server isn't already running giving up. xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. xauth: error in locking authority file /home/root/.Xauthority
aptitude install xserver-xorg-input-tslib aptitude install kde Preconfiguring packages ... /proc/net/route: No such file or directory
I was prompted for which keymap to use. Any suggestions?
Do i need to do anything special for a bootloader?
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My first attempt to visit Nonya was met with closed doors due to a sudden kitchen renovation mysteriously just after they'd opened which ended going downstairs to More More Cha. This time when arriving I was told by the menu spruiker downstairs that the kitchen was experiencing kitchen gas problems so there was only three dishes available on the $9.80 menu. I guess it's better than nothing but it means I didn't get to try their Char Kway Teow I was hoping for this time. There's a fair amount of seating but like More More Cha the space looks like it used to be some kind of bar or club so the dining space is a bit scattered around. Service seemed friendly enough and quite young. My pet hate with the place was the placement of the very annoying trolley in the dining area used for cleaning up dishes. You'd expect this in a food court but if Nonya are trying to be a nicer style restaurant then the noise from cleaning the dishes can be unsettling and cheapens the atmosphere.
At first sight the Chicken Curry Nasi Lemak ($9.80) could have been a bit more generous in portions but flavours were surprisingly better than expected. The Hainanese Chicken ($9.80) was tender and moist as hoped, fairly generous in portion and served boneless. It was served with a good assortment of condiments although the rice was a bit on the dry side and there was no side soup which usually comes with such a dish. I'd be happy to order again. For dessert the Ice Kachang ($5 small) was very good. It had a decent amount of flavour from the palm sugar and rose water and was quite easy to mix in bowl. I'm always a fan of palm seeds in the ingredients. The Cendol ($5) was OK but was a bit too heavy on the creamy coconut milk for my liking and would have preferred a bit more palm sugar syrup in it but it had the right ingredients.


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Press Release
From: Royal Astronomical Society
Posted: Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Using radio observatories in the UK and US and computer simulations, a team of astronomers have identified the youngest forming planet yet seen. Team leader Dr Jane Greaves of the University of St Andrews will discuss the 'protoplanet' in her talk at the RAS National Astronomy Meeting in Belfast on Wednesday 2 April.
Taking advantage of a rare opportunity to use the Very Large Array (VLA) of radio telescopes in the US with the special addition of an extra telescope 50 km away, the team studied the disk of gas and rocky particles around the star HL Tau. This star is thought to be less than 100000 years old (by comparison the Sun is 4600 million years old) and lies in the direction of the constellation of Taurus at a distance of 520 light years. The disk around HL Tau is unusually massive and bright, which makes it an excellent place to search for signs of forming planets.
The VLA gives very sharp images of HL Tau and its surroundings. The team studied the system using radio emission at a wavelength of 1.3 cm, specifically chosen to search for the emission from super-large rocky particles about the size of pebbles. The presence of these pebbles is a clue that rocky material is beginning to clump together to form planets.
In the UK, scientists used the MERLIN array of radio telescopes centred on Jodrell Bank in Cheshire, to study the same system at longer wavelengths. This allowed the astronomers to confirm that the emission is from rocks and not from other sources such as hot gas. Jodrell Bank scientists Dr Anita Richards and Dr Tom Muxlow analysed the data.
The big surprise was that, as well as detecting super-large dust in the disk around HL Tau, an extra bright 'clump' was seen in the image. It confirms tentative 'nebulosity' reported a few years earlier at around the same position, by a team lead by Dr Jack Welch of the Berkeley-Illinois-Maryland Array. The new image shows the same system in much greater detail.
Dr Greaves comments, "We see a distinct orbiting ball of gas and dust, which is exactly how a very young protoplanet should look. In the future, we would expect this to condense out into a gas giant planet like a massive version of Jupiter. The protoplanet is about 14 times as massive as Jupiter and is about twice as far from HL Tau as Neptune is from our Sun."
Dr Richards adds, "The new object, designated HL Tau b, is the youngest planetary object ever seen and is just 1 percent as old as the young planet found in orbit around the star TW Hydrae that made the news last year. HL Tau b gives a unique view of how planets take shape, because the VLA image also shows the parent disk material from which it formed."
Team member Dr Ken Rice of the University of Edinburgh ran a computer simulation to find out how such a massive protoplanet could form. His animation shows a very similar body condensing out of a disk with similar properties to that actually observed around HL Tau. The planet forms because of gravitational instability in the disk, which is about half as massive as the star itself. This allows small regions to separate out and cool down into self-contained structures. This instability mechanism has been controversial, but the simulated and real data are such a good match that it seems the mechanism really does operate in nature.
Dr Rice comments, "The simulations were as realistic as we could make them and we were delighted that the results compare so well with the observations."
One intriguing property is that XZ Tau, another young star in the same region, may have passed near HL Tau about 1600 years ago. Although not required for planet formation, it is possible that this flyby 'tweaked' the disk and helped it become unstable. This would be a very recent event in astronomical terms. Whether the proto-planet formed in only the last few hundred years, or sometime in the 100000 years since the birth of HL Tau, the images provide a unique view of planet formation in action, and the first picture of a protoplanet still embedded in its birth material.
Images of HL Tau and still and movie from simulation http://www.roe.ac.uk/~wkmr/HLTau/HLTau.html
Figure 1: The false colour image is a map of the radio emission (at a wavelength of 1.3 cm) emitted from the region around the star HL Tau. The candidate protoplanet is marked 'b'. The bar at top left (marked 50 AU) indicates 50 times the Earth-Sun distance on the same scale, or about the size of the orbit of Pluto. HL Tau is located in the centre of the image. The star is surrounded by a dusty disc tilted to the line of sight; only the inner part is visible here but its extent is indicated by the white ellipse. The arrows show the direction of the jets of hot gas emitted as 'overspill' from the star growth process. Image: VLA and Pie Town antenna
Figure 2: This is an image from the computer simulation of HL Tau and its surrounding disk. In the model the dense clump (seen here at top right) forms with a mass of about 8 times that of Jupiter at a distance from the star about 75 times that from the Earth to the Sun. Image: Ken Rice / Royal Observatory Edinburgh
Movie: Animation from the simulation showing the growth of the protoplanet in the disc around HL Tau. The total time is about 3000 years and shows the protoplanet forming at the edge of the disc, and then spiralling inwards to a distance about 75 times further from the central star than the Earth is from the Sun. Movie credit : Ken Rice
The VLA is operated by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (USA) on behalf of United Universities, Inc.
MERLIN is operated by the University of Manchester, Jodrell Bank Observatory, on behalf of the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC).
The simulation ran on a supercomputer funded by the Scottish Universities Physics Alliance (SUPA).
The RAS National Astronomy Meeting (NAM 2008) is hosted by Queen's University Belfast. It is principally sponsored by the RAS and the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC). NAM 2008 is being held together with the UK Solar Physics (UKSP) and Magnetosphere, Ionosphere and Solar-Terrestrial (MIST) spring meetings.
Dr Jane Greaves
School of Physics and Astronomy
University of St Andrews
North Haugh
St Andrews
Fife KY16 9SS
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Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics
Alan Turing Building
University of Manchester
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Dr Tom Muxlow
MERLIN/VLBI National Facility
Jodrell Bank Observatory
Cheshire SK11 9DL
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Dr Ken Rice
Institute for Astronomy
University of Edinburgh
Royal Observatory
Blackford Hill
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TATE, Incorporated – Trusted Agent for Training and Education.
TATE, Incorporated is a multi-disciplinary professional services firm. Founded in 1994, the company and its employees are committed to building our position as the innovative leader in providing expertise in training development.
Working closely with its clients, TATE uses in-house resources to help the Department of Defense (DoD) and other government agencies develop curriculum and training programs tailored to the client and training programs as well as analytical studies of training programs. Our employees bring a full spectrum of military and commercial expertise to focus on the most demanding challenges.
As of 2008, TATE now offers these unique skills and expertise to the commercial sector, with a primary focus on distance/mobile learning solutions.
The company offers an unparalleled breadth of expertise in:
• Training program development, on-site education and practical exercise training
• Analytical and doctrinal studies in support of DoD mission area requirements and planning
• Multi-media design/development and broadcast quality video pre- and post-production services
• Secure computer network design and installation; including custom Learning Management Systems (LMS).
• Rapid development of Enhanced User Manuals (EUMs), Computer Based Training (CBT) User Manuals, and iPhone/iPod touch Enhanced User Manuals (iEUMs); the latter being the latest addition to the TATE family of training solutions
Core Values
We provide state-of-the art services to a broad and diverse customer base. Our company is distinguished by a commitment to three core values:
Research: Applying knowledge-based solutions to risk-filled environments, education and training, operational support and analytical studies.
Customization: Tailoring our services based on requirements of each customer.
Service: Providing customers with the support that they need, when they need it.
We achieve our mission with a current staff of 400+ educators, psychologists, researchers, information technology professionals, individuals with real-world operational experience and customer support personnel.
Our Expertise
- Curriculum Development
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By: Patrick Gavin
December 3, 2012 02:58 PM EST
If there's an assumption that American universities are predominantly liberal, Eurkea College provides an apt counterbalance. It's Visiting Reagan Scholars program provides students with an in-depth look at our 40th president (Reagan graduated from Eureka in 1932) and Reagan biographer Craig Shirley was one of those scholars this fall.
He admits that students nowadays have just a cursory understanding of the Gipper.
"They know about Reagan to the extent that he was the president of the United States and a successful two-term president," Shirley told POLITICO, adding gleefully that there were no protests in his classroom by, say, College Democrats.
Shirley's two books on Reagan are "Rendezvous with Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign that Changed America" and "Reagan's Revolution: The Untold Story of the Campaign That Started It All."
His class focused on Reagan's political campaigns in 1968, 1976 and 1980 and was Shirley able to put his Rolodex to good use by having such notable politicos as Newt Gingrich and Joe Scarbough Skype in to the classroom. He discovered that the biggest misconception modern college students have about Reagan is that his life was a cake walk.
"They didn't have an understanding — like most people — of the tribulations and struggles he went through to become president of the United States," said Shirley. "He didn't just show up in January of 1981 and open the front door of the White House."
Reagan may seem like ancient history to some of those college students, but Shirley knows all too well that Reagan is as current as ever, given the Republican Party's current post-Election Day soul searching.
"Reagan as a model is applicable today because it was about principles and principles never change," said Shirley. "Yes, the party needs to change, it needs to create a new appeal but within the framework of its traditional principles of individual rights, individual freedoms, personal privacy, moving power away from the national government back to the states and the localities. I think that would probably resonate even more today than in 1980 in many ways."


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That ultimate Cactus League grade for Quentin won't come from results, which have him holding at a dismal-looking .136 average through Friday's personal off-day. For Quentin, it's about dealing with the negative moments even when they don't count on his resume.
"To be honest, I'm really paying attention to, how do I say this, how I respond to whatever happens out there," Quentin said. "That's something I've planned on the offseason to work on.
"So I want to maintain a level head, just maintain a relaxed feeling out here. It's been pretty good. There have been a couple of days where I resorted back to frustration. But I want to say that I'm making some progress there. From this point, I want to monitor how my mindset is on a day-to-day basis."
As far as Quentin's swing progress, the deep-thinking right fielder said he has been working with hitting coach Greg Walker with a purpose in order to clean some things up. Walker pointed to looking for a lower-effort swing for Quentin and getting consistent with posture and body position.
"There's a trust involved," Quentin said. "[Walker] sees stuff I can't see, and I go to work on them. The at-bats have been better. Contact has been better."
Major production hasn't been there for Quentin, who has three singles in 22 at-bats. But those struggles actually might provide better regular-season preparation for Quentin than hitting safely in almost every at-bat. Quentin understands he isn't perfect, and there will be the occasional bat slam after missing a pitch he should have hit.
"Really, it's about the five minutes right after that," Quentin said. "Maintain a good mindset to go out there and compete and have the best chance to succeed in the next opportunity.
"It's always easy to handle good results. The key is to handle the ones that aren't so optimistic and move on from there to have the best chance for good results the next day."
March 11, 2011
"it's about the five minutes right after"
White Sox vs. Cubs on 2:05 pm CT; televised on CSN
Game at 2:05 CT. Mark Buehrle and the White Sox renew their rivalry with the Cubs at Camelback Ranch. Buehrle is expected to work at least three innings.


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The Hope College Chapel Choir will present its annual post-tour "Home" concert on Monday, March 25, at 7:30 p.m. at St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
The concert will feature pieces by composers such as Eric Whitcare, Z. Randall Stroope, Jussi Chydenius and Zoltan Kodaly. There will be a number of folksong arrangement as well as a couple of grand anthems with organ.
The choir will be returning from its March 10-20 tour featuring performances in Michigan, Ohio, New Jersey, and New York, before concluding with the traditional home concert.
The Chapel Choir is Hope College's premier choral ensemble. Comprised of auditioned singers, the Chapel Choir has toured extensively throughout the United States and Canada, and has traveled abroad on eight occasions, most recently to South Africa in May 2009. The choir is featured along with other music ensembles in Christmas Vespers, a tradition that stretches back to 1941. Award-winning broadcasts of Christmas Vespers by WGVU of Grand Rapids are shown on PBS stations around the country at Christmastime. The choir is directed by Brad Richmond, professor of music and director of choral activities.
St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church is located at 195 W. 13th St., on the corner of 13th Street and Maple Avenue.


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The tornadoes caused damage this week in Mathews and Houma.
The National Weather Service has confirmed that two weak tornadoes touched down in Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes Sunday night and Monday, resulting in minor damage but no injuries.
A tornado touched down in Mathews about 8:30 p.m. Sunday near U.S. 90 and La. 308.
About 25 yards wide with maximum winds of about 85 mph, it traveled northeast about two miles, causing minor damage to canopies and roofs on homes, the agency reported. The tornado also damaged fencing at Central Lafourche High, downed power poles along U.S. 90 and ripped the air-conditioning unit out of a small building.
A second tornado touched down a little after 4:30 p.m. Monday near Industrial Avenue in Houma. That 35-yard-wide tornado traveled about a mile along Industrial Boulevard with maximum winds of 95 mph.
The winds blew down utility poles and damaged canopies at the Shell station and the Cash Magic service station off Grand Caillou Road. A car was overturned on Main Port Road, and Leonard J. Chabert Medical Center reported minor damage. The doors to the emergency room were blown out, the switch that controls generator power was damaged, and the boilers and chillers that supply steam to sterilize medical equipment was damaged. In addition, several hospital windows were blown out, and cars in the parking lot received damage.


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Highline's enviable reputation for quality, strength and value exists throughout Australia
At Highline the choices are endless, with a huge range of sheds, stables, barns and garages, to ensure that we are your One Stop Shed Shop. Highline has designed and manufactured over 100,000 buildings, from garages, patios and farm sheds, to light industrial. Each and every one of them boasts the same guaranteed high standard of quality and engineering excellence. We know that you are not just buying a product, you're buying an important investment for your family or business. So it's comforting to know you're dealing with a company that has been providing quality products for over 35 years.
Please note that there is a steel price rise coming in April 2018.


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We have to thank @_Lucky45 for his hard work bringing us this OS7 theme for the Bold 9790, since we all know that the Theme Builder for OS7 devices has not yet been released by RIM.
If you would like to change up the factory theme, and think the factory banner needs a little touch up for your BlackBerry Bold 9790, then give this theme by Lucky and his team a visit by clicking on the download link below.
Please leave any comments below for other potential BlackBerry Bold 9790 owners, as I am sure they would appreciate your time and feedback.
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What's in a blog?
I saw that CMP launched GameSetWatch this week, which (ahem) "aims to pinpoint and succinctly link to the gems of video game coverage online".
Hmm... I'm not sure what to make of it. Certainly can't blame CMP for wanting to hop on the blogwagon (Hey, I can portmanteux with the rest of you), and they've certainly put together a good crew to do so, including EIC of GDMag Simon Carless, the creator of Geeks on Stun, and BBC-ette Alice (link on the right).
That being said, there's still something irking me a bit, and I'm not sure why. Here's a try at a couple things that are nagging at me:
- Will Simon's job editing GSW improve or diminish the quality of GDMag. Will it let the mag focus on 'big picture' type features, or will juicy items need to get up there right away. Same goes for Gamasutra, btw.
- Where does a blog end and a website begin? And does it matter? On the continuum of sites that goes from, say, a news.com type format, to a slashdot, to a boingboing or engadget, to a gewgaw, what's really the difference? I guess I still cling to an antiquated concept that a blog is a personal thing, but I guess that doesn't hold much water. I dunno.
- Will we lose the better personal coverage from some of this crew? For example, I frequent Alice's blog, but it seems that some things that she used to post now will clearly belong on GSW. Maybe the rest will still be compelling? Maybe GSW will be a better place to frequent?
- Will a corporate charter lead to the same pressures that a lot of mags/sites face, and will they be good about being unbiased/tainted? Pretty easy when things are looking up and lucrative like today, but if the ad market takes another 99-style hit, well, integrity is harder to keep when you need to eat, right?
Alright, enough negativity. I guess I should give the site -oops, blog- the benefit of the doubt, and so should you! Go give it a once over and subscribe to the feed for a while and let me know what you think!


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Description: You have witnessed the lesson of the Halloween cat, so now try out this tutorial on "how to draw a Halloween bat", step by step. The bat is also a very popular animal that has a history for representing Halloween. Since Dracula was the first to associate the bat being Dracula in animal form, the vampire bat has since been linked to Dracula. The bat can be a complex animal species to draw, but since we are getting lessons on drawing Halloween stuff, I wanted to make sure that anyone can tackle this tut on drawing a Halloween bat. You may not like the concept and if you don't that's fine. My suggestion to you would be to tweak what you don't like, and create something that you love. I hope you enjoy this submission folks. I will return like always with more drawing fun. Peace out people and may the dark side stay away from you!


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On Tuesday, November 6, the United States will not only be electing people to represent us in Congress, as well as at the state and local levels, but perhaps most importantly we will be electing our next president.
The next big steps before Election Day will be the presidential nominating conventions. The Republicans will hold their convention August 27 to 30 in Tampa, Florida. The Democrats will hold their convention September 3 to 6 in Charlotte, North Carolina.
In addition to choosing its nominees for president and vice president, the parties also adopt platforms at the conventions that outline the beliefs and goals of each party. The platforms include planks that specify details.
Recently, much news was made about the Democratic Party including marriage equality for same-sex couples as a plank in its platform. However, there has not yet been any news about the inclusion of an HIV-specific plank.
To that end, David Ernesto Munar, president and CEO of the AIDS Foundation of Chicago, testified in front of the committee currently drafting the Democratic National Committee (DNC) platform.
These are the detailed recommendations submitted by Munar to the DNC:
Policy to Achieve an AIDS-Free Generation
President Obama and the Democratic Administration have committed the United States government to pursue an AIDS-free generation at home and abroad. To achieve an AIDS-free generation domestically, the DNC supports federal policy development and increased federal investments necessary to achieve or exceed the National HIV/AIDS Strategy targets by 2015. In addition, DNC supports development of a new 2016-2020 National HIV/AIDS Strategy; full implementation of the Affordable Care Act, including efforts to promote Medicaid expansion in every state to individuals with incomes up to 133 percent of federal poverty; and sustained support for domestic initiatives in HIV-related prevention, care and treatment, housing, support services, research, stigma/discrimination mitigation and protection of civil and human rights. The White House Office on National AIDS Policy will continue to champion continuation of signature HIV programs such as the Ryan White CARE Act, Housing Opportunities for People with AIDS, Medicare/Medicaid, and NIH Office of AIDS Research, and coordinate the HIV-related activities of the federal departments of Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Defense, Veteran Affairs, State, Justice, Education, Labor, Agriculture and Homeland Security to achieve maximum results.
Better Public Health Outcomes in the U.S.
The 2010 National HIV/AIDS Strategy sets ambitious targets to (1) decrease new HIV infections; (2) increase the number of HIV-positive people who gain access to continuous high-quality clinical care, housing and support services; (3) reduce HIV-related health disparities among African-Americans, Latinos and men who have sex with men of all races/ethnicities, and (4) increase inter-governmental coordination and collaboration to maximize results with scarce resources. To achieve and exceed specific targets in each area, and establish a stronger foundation for the 2016-2020 National HIV/AIDS Strategy, the DNC supports the following:
- Robust research on the most effective ways to implement new prevention strategies as well as the continued prioritization of research toward a preventive HIV vaccine and a cure.
- Substantial increased investments in domestic HIV prevention services to assist an estimated 250,000 Americans unaware of the HIV-positive status and millions of other men, women, and adolescents at risk of infection. Proven-effective HIV prevention services save money and lives, yet they comprise only 4 percent of the federal HIV/AIDS budget. By 2016, HIV prevention will comprise 8 percent of all federal HIV-related spending. The federal government will also develop HIV prevention and care quality measures, including routine screening for HIV, as part of federal guidelines for state-based Medicaid expansion and design and implementation of insurance exchanges.
Access to Care
- Reauthorization of the Ryan White CARE Act and an increase in its appropriations by 25 percent by 2016; reauthorization of the Housing Opportunities for People with AIDS Act and a 50 percent appropriations increase by 2015.
- Assistance for states to implement health reform provisions in ways that maximize benefits for people with and at risk for HIV and that save money and lives. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) will appoint a senior official to work with the Health Resources Services Administration and states on HIV-related health reform implementation. In addition, CMS will develop a federal model benefits package to guide states in adhering to federal HIV treatment guidelines and the National HIV/AIDS Strategy.
Health Disparities
- Recognizing that HIV disproportionately affects vulnerable communities, effective HIV responses must address social determinants of health. The federal government must pursue efforts to reduce rates of poverty, unemployment, un-insurance, unstable housing and homelessness, food insecurity, disproportionate incarceration of people of color, low educational attainment, domestic violence, drug dependence, untreated mental illness, bullying, hate crimes, homophobia, xenophobia, sexism, ageism, homophobia, and transphobia. Science shows that these socio-economic inequalities and marginalization help fuel the HIV epidemic in America.
- Aggressively confronting and countering the war on women is instrumental to reduce the impact of HIV/AIDS among women and girls, particularly women of color.
- The federal government must lead efforts to repeal stigmatizing state criminalization laws, which serve no public health benefit and discourage acceptance of HIV testing and care services. In addition, efforts to build the resiliency of individuals from marginalized groups—including HIV-positive individuals—must be a focus of federal research and public health interventions in the U.S.
Coordination and Public Health Leadership
- Creation of a National HIV/AIDS Strategy implementation fund—with financing from a 1 percent tap on federal HIV appropriations—to help achieve the Strategy's goals.
- Initiatives by the President, his Cabinet and federal departments and agencies to increase the proportion of Americans with accurate HIV/AIDS knowledge, measurably reduce stigmatizing attitudes and beliefs toward HIV-positive people, and increase utilization of HIV testing and care services.
- Enactment and appropriations for the Ending the AIDS Epidemic Act (Rep. Lee).
- Federal public health leadership to increase local and state technical capacity and expertise to implement evidence-informed public health strategies and healthcare reform strategies.
Global Health
The newest science shows that putting HIV-positive people on antiretroviral therapy keeps them alive and healthy and, with a combination of prevention efforts, can halt new infections and reverse the global HIV/AIDS epidemic. In the period ahead, the U.S. must support an AIDS-free generation around the world by leveraging its bilateraland multilateral agreements and its global public health leadership and diplomacy. In particular, the U.S. will:
- Affirm its global commitment to achieve universal voluntary treatment on demand for all people in low and middle-income countries.
- Invest $50 billion in the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and the Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria over a five-year period.
- Expand access to male and female condoms, lubricants, harm reduction tools, male circumcision, sexual and reproductive healthcare and rights, primary education, HIV prevention services, HIV testing, and other strategies designed to curb rates of new HIV infections in the developing world.
- Expand and protect the rights of low and middle-income nations to enact laws that allow manufacturing and procurement of generic antiretroviral medications as part of an effective global response to HIV.
- Support for the civil and human rights of LGBT people, women and girls, school-age children and orphans, sex workers, and drug users in order to ensure they gain access to the help, services and legal protections they need to lead healthy, productive lives.
- Support a financial transaction tax of less than half of 1 percent for global and domestic health and services.
American Values
Pursuit of an AIDS-free generation is among the most emblematic examples of America's compassion, generosity and global leadership. Globally, in 2011, there were an estimated 34.2 million individuals living with HIV, 2.5 million new HIV infections (including 330,000 children), and 1.7 million deaths from AIDS-related causes. In the U.S., an estimated 1.2 million people live with HIV. Despite substantial progress, 1 in 2 HIV-diagnosed Americans is not receiving clinical care or life-saving treatments that can increase longevity and curb new infections. As a result, every year 50,000 individuals become infected and 16,000 deaths occur among people with HIV/AIDS. By transmission category, the largest number of new HIV infections currently occurs among men who have sex with men (MSM) of all races/ethnicities, followed by African-American heterosexual women. By race/ethnicity overall, African Americans are the most heavily affected, followed by Latinos. The most recent data from CDC show that between 2006 and 2009, a growing number of new HIV infections occurred among young gay and bisexual men—due in large part to an alarming 48 percent increase among young, black MSM.
DNC Platform Recommendations for an AIDS-Free Generation
On Tuesday, November 6, the United States will not only be electing people to represent us in Congress, as well as at the state and local levels, but perhaps most importantly we will be electing our next president.


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Jawbone's first wireless speaker was something of a rarity when it was released at the end of 2010. At a point when so many of our favorite gizmos were being subsumed by our smartphones, the Jambox was, quite simply, a standalone survivor. It did something novel–music! wirelessly!–it did it well, and it did it all in an attractive, I-wanna-play-with-one-of-those-things package, courtesy of designer Yves Behar.
And while some of its competitors have since bested its audio quality, it has always retained an undeniable cool factor, and thus a good deal of visibility in the increasingly crowded category. Last year, Jawbone expanded the line with the dance party-ready Big Jambox. Now comes the Mini Jambox, which takes advantage of an all-new manufacturing approach to retain some of the cool factor of the original, and then some.
The Mini Jambox, available for preorder today at $179, is a slimmer, sharper version of the original. Gone is the rubber that capped the top and bottom; the new device is cool metal all the way around. In terms of first impressions, it might seem slightly less friendly than the first Jambox, but it proves no less touchable. And, once you get your hands on it, it exudes superior quality–not unlike the difference between the iPhone 3GS and the iPhone 4 that followed it.
Of course, the Mini Jambox makes good on its name: It's nearly half the size of the original Jambox by volume. And while it doesn't necessarily look mini, it does feel mini, and when you're talking about something that's supposed to go in a pocket as much as a purse or a backpack, that's important. Behar and Hosain Rahman, Jawbone's CEO, were determined to bring it in at under an inch of thickness–it ended up a millimeter or two under–and while there may not be room for it in your skinny jeans, you could certainly slip one in a jacket, or a hoody's pouch.
The biggest departure, though, is in the way the Mini Jambox is manufactured. The original Jambox was basically built like any other speaker: The drivers, passive resistor, Bluetooth antenna, and all the other guts were housed in a sealed plastic enclosure, a package that was then in a thin piece of metal, stamped with industrial-grade presses to lend the speaker its beloved texture. Creating that internal seal is essential for good sound, but in the case of the first Jambox, that outer, stamped piece was largely cosmetic–the Jambox Remix, introduced last year, gave users the chance to swap in differently colored grills and end caps as they desired. In other words, the stuff going on inside the speaker was altogether separate from the stuff going on outside.
With the Mini Jambox, the outside is integral to the functioning of the inside. For the new version, Jawbone moved from stamping to CNC milling, allowing them to streamline the internal design of the speaker to a remarkable degree. The Mini's body is a single piece of extruded, anodized aluminum which serves not only as the device's outer shell, but as the sealed box for the sound cavity inside, too. With the original Jambox, all the actual speaker business was held in place by a skeleton, with a skin wrapped around it. With the Mini Jambox, the skeleton and the skin are one in the same.
Opting for CNC instead of stamped metal might not seem like a big deal, but it informs the Mini's design through and through. As Behar explains it, "This is a complete reinvention of everything we've done in the past, for the purpose of sound and size." In terms of size, the unibody design allowed Jambox to eliminate several layers of stuff inside the speaker, making for greater internal volume–and thus better and louder sound–in a package that's half the overall size. It's the same idea behind the celebrated unibody design of the Macbook Air. Where the design for the original Jambox demanded several layers–maybe 3 millimeters for the plastic box, one millimeter for space around that, another millimeter for the metal skin–with the Mini, Behar says, "that 1.1 or 1.2 millimeter wall thickness is all you've got."
The approach came with its challenges. "There's a lot of innovation around how you essentially put this not in a sealed box, but rather have all of this seal itself," Behar says. For one, it necessitated a switch to the aluminum body–a material whose rigidity made that tight seal possible (and ultimately allowed the engineers to better fine-tune the sound the Mini was producing.)
But the milling also presented a challenge in terms of the patterns that decorate the front and back of the speaker. Compared to stamping, CNC work is pricey, so Jawbone and Behar had the unique challenge of figuring out what sort of patterns they could make using as little machine time as possible. Some early ones took upwards of a hundred minutes under the drill. But by working out the unique geometries possible with a gigantic, robot-controlled drill bit–how intersecting imprints and fast sweeps of large, circular bit, for example, could result in diamonds or other angular patterns–Jawbone got the high-tech choreography down pat, with the final textures taking just about two minutes of machine time on average. "These are actually made with single bits, extremely fast," Behar says, examining one variety of the Mini's fine metal grills. "But you'd never be able to tell."
After all the experimenting, Jawbone settled on five different patterns (and nine colors) for the final product. Getting those right was key. "Color and textures have always been a way that we take these technological products and make them human and personal–to allow people to have opinions, to like something or not like something," Behar says. "A very different philosophy from other design-leading companies out there."
Arriving at that final product involved some dead ends along the way. For every texture the designers were able to execute in a cost-efficient way with CNC, there was another that was left in the sketchbook. More unusual form factors were ultimately dropped in favor of the simple box, and other features were phased out as the design took shape. At one point, a skinnier prototype sported a rubber foot that pinched open, offering some support for the tottering unit. The final design was thick enough to stand on its own, but the aluminum bottom introduced another problem: when the bass got pumping, the lightweight speaker would start to walk across the table, even with sizable rubber feet. The solution, interestingly, was to make the feet smaller. The less rubber they used, the designers found, the better the speaker clung in place; in the end, the Mini has just two small strips on either side of its bottom face.
The Mini, like its forebear, is still a speakerphone, though the omnidirectional mic has been moved to the side of the speaker for better coverage. It still includes Jawbone's LiveAudio DSP tech. But there are a few new updates to the package. To keep bass in the mix, the Mini borrows a clever trick from the Big Jambox; as you turn the volume down, the bass isn't lowered as much as the rest of the track, so you can still hear bass lines and kick drums even at lower decibel levels. Another new bit is the Jambox app–a smartphone application that slurps down playlists from disparate music services–iTunes, Spotify, Rdio, etc–and gives you access to all of them in one bubbly interface. The app lets you control the Jambox, too, reassigning its hardware buttons and changing the device's computerized voice.
As Behar explains it, the design of the Jambox Mini was one driven by process. "Part of designing this," he says, "was asking ourselves, 'What's the next method that we can develop that's going to give us as much volume as possible.'" Of course, when he says this, he's talking about the space inside the unit–not the decibels you'll be able to crank out of it. Which gets at the heart of what's really interesting about the new Jambox, from a design perspective. While the Mini may indeed jack up the outward cool-factor of the original, the coolest stuff is all happening out of sight–underneath the swooping arm of a gigantic drill bit somewhere in China and packed tightly inside that cool unibody shell.


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Nursing Moms Support Group
Date: Tuesday, June 25, 2019
Time: 9:30 am - 11:00 am
Location: Adult Reading Room, RAMBAM Center (Library)
A breastfeeding support group, dedicated to mommies and mommies to be.
2nd & 4th Tuesdays, 9:30–11:00 am
We understand that families, and especially mothers, need a lot of support when it comes to breastfeeding. And what can be better than a strong group of breastfeeding mothers and their babies, guided by experts, all together to share, teach and learn from each other their most valuable breastfeeding experiences?
Facilitated by Mariana Bigio, a Certified Lactation Consultant, with years of experience in the clinical field as well as in the private sector, helping mothers from the very first moment to overcome the challenges of breastfeeding. Mariana is the founder of MamaLáctea, dedicated to educate and offer support to breastfeeding families, providing evidence-based information, and empowering them to make the best choice for their babies.
During our sessions we'll be discussing the hot topics of breastfeeding, and learning about the most updated lactation trends. Our goal is to help mothers to have a beautiful and meaningful breastfeeding experience. Join us for our tea time!
There is no charge for these sessions.
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I went dancing with my Fiance to Franks and had a great time. We like to look our best and these outfits were perfect as was the music and company. It was a mmmm…. special night. These outfits certainly got noticed and there was several im's querying the creators. I strongly suggest you visit these stores for formal attire.
She is wearing Paris Metro: Venti Cup Gown + Gloves
This gown is not only elegant but just speaks volumes of sex appeal whereever you go, with its horizontal slit down your right side, it teases but doesn't quite reveal more. The gloves add that touch of sophistication with a flowing skirt that catches the inquiring eye. You will certainly feel the centre of attention in this magnificant creation by Paris Metro:
He is wearing Mohna Lisa Couture: Sir James Evening Suit
The Sir James Evening suit is a very elegant suit with its concepts based on formal Miltary wear and elegant suits for that special occasion. The suit is very elegant, and stylish and with its red Cravat, gold buttons and watch chain, and white shirt, it gives you that element of uniqueness and will get you noticed in any ballroom or social function. The suit offers you a closed or open shirt option and the texturing work is of the highest quality. This one will take the Ladies breath away and soon you will dealing with a storm of IM's.


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In this discipline, referred to as Music Information Retrieval (or MIR for short), the topic is not so much to understand and model music (like in the field of music cognition), but to design robust and effective methods to locate and retrieve musical information, including tasks like query-by-humming, music recommendation, music recognition, and genre classification.
A common approach in MIR research is to use information-theoretic models to extract information from the musical data, be it the audio recording itself or all kinds of meta-data, such as artist or genre classification. With advanced machine learning techniques, and the availability of so-called 'ground truth' data (i.e., annotations made by experts that the algorithm uses to decide on the relevance of the results for a certain query), a model of retrieving relevant musical information is constructed. Overall, this approach is based on the assumption that all relevant information is present in the data and that it can, in principle, be extracted from that data (data-oriented approach).
Several alternatives have been proposed, such as models based on perception-based signal processing or mimetic and gesture-based queries. However, with regard to the cognitive aspects of MIR (the perspective of the listener), some information might be implicit or not present at all in the data. Especially in the design of similarity measures (e.g., 'search for songs that sound like X') it becomes clear quite quickly that not all required information is present in the data. Elaborating state-of-the-art MIR techniques with recent findings from music cognition seems therefore a natural next step in improving (exploratory) search engines for music and audio (cognition-based approach) (cf. Honing, 2010).
A creative paper, discussing the differences and overlaps between the two fields in dialog form, is about to appear in the proceedings of the upcoming ISMIR conference. Emanuel Bigand –a well-known music cognition researcher–, and Jean-Julien Aucouturier –MIR researcher–, wrote a fictitious dialog:
"Mel is a MIR researcher (the audio type) who's always been convinced that his field of research had something to contribute to the study of music cognition. His feeling, however, hasn't been much shared by the reviewers of the many psychology journals he tried submitting his views to. Their critics, rejecting his data as irrelevant, have frustrated him - the more he tried to rebut, the more defensive both sides of the debate became. He was close to give up his hopes of interdisciplinary dialog when, in one final and desperate rejection letter, he sensed an unusual touch of interest in the editor's response. She, a cognitive psychologist named Ann, was clearly open to discussion. This was the opportunity that Mel had always hoped for: clarifying what psychologists really think of audio MIR, correcting misconceptions that he himself made about cognition, and maybe, developing a vision of how both fields could work together. The following is the imaginary dialog that ensued. Meet Dr Mel Cepstrum, the MIR researcher, and Prof. Ann Ova, the psychologist."Aucouturier, J., & Bigand, E. (2012). Mel Cepstrum & Ann Ova: The Difficult Dialog Between MIR and Music Cognition. Proceedings of the 13th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, 397-402.
Honing, H. (2010). Lure(d) into listening: The potential of cognition-based music information retrieval. Empirical Musicology Review, 5(4), 121-126.
Volk. A., & Honingh, A. (eds) (2012). Special Issue: Mathematical and Computational Approaches to Music: Three Methodological Reflections Journal of Mathematics and Music, 6 (2). 10.1080/17459737.2012.704154


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Phew what an epic weekend! We've had some friends in town since Friday, so we spent most of our time out and about, doing fun touristy things around here – like boat rides through the city, the Night Safari, going to the observation deck at Marina Bay Sands, wandering around Gardens by the Bay, and of course indulging in our fair share of delicious food!
Catching up with friends is definitely one of my favourite things :)
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A speech freedom advocacy group has released audio of Bradley Manning's testimony about his motives for leaking secret US government documents to WikiLeaks. It marks the first time the public has heard Manning's voice since his 2010 arrest.
Defying the military's ban on making recordings at Manning's pre-trial tribunal at the military court at Fort Meade, the Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) has released Manning's February account to the judge explaining why he exposed military secrets.
"We hope this recording will shed light on one of the most secret court trials in recent history, in which the government is putting on trial a concerned government employee whose only stated goal was to bring attention to what he viewed as serious governmental misconduct and criminal activity," the FPF said in a statement.
While unofficial transcripts of the statement are available, this is the first time anyone outside the court has heard Manning's own explanation of how and why he gave the Apache helicopter video, Afghanistan and Iraq Wars Logs and State Department Diplomatic Cables to WikiLeaks.
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Count me among the skeptics who believe the Fed has pretty much already done all it can to pull the economy out of the deep hole that it's in. Zero short-term interest rates, purchases of longer-term bonds to keep long-term rates at historic lows, backstopping various asset markets, emergency loans to banks, etc. It's helped avert a Second Great Depression, which is nothing to sneeze at. Some economists who I usually agree with are convinced that aggressive new policies could pull us out of the current Little Depression, too. They're smarter than I am, but they have yet to convince me that these policies could work.
The tonic du jour is nominal GDP targeting, by which the Fed would try to reach a certain level of nominal GDP — say, $16. 3 trillion (the current level of potential GDP assuming that, as I've read, current GDP is 7% below its potential. Do the math and that's a $1.1 trillion gap between current and potential GDP). Christina Romer, Obama's first head of the Council of Economic Advisors, recently backed this approach in a New York Times op-ed. Scott Sumner has been pushing it all along, and there's now a whole new school of macroeconomics, "market monetarism," which revolves around nominal GDP targeting. (Economists: see here for Ed Dolan's helpful explanation of how nominal GDP targeting is a form of Milton Friedman-style monetarism.)
Now, once the Fed announces this new target, how does it actually get there? Romer provides the clearest answer I've seen yet:
'Though announcing the new framework would help, it probably wouldn't be enough to close the nominal G.D.P. gap anytime soon. The Fed would need to take additional steps. These might include further quantitative easing, more forceful promises about short-term interest rates, and perhaps moves to lower the exchange rate. . . .'
'Nominal G.D.P. targeting would make it more likely that the Fed would take these aggressive actions.'
That's clear, but so is weak tea. None of these actions sound all that different from what the Fed is already doing. Proponents of nominal GDP targeting seem to be counting on a huge "announcement effect," i.e., that people will hear about the Fed's commitment to raising GDP and will assume that Fed will make it happen. Yet the Fed's goals already include maximum sustainable employment, which is the employment rate you'd have at potential GDP, so why should this change the public's behavior? (Although there is a difference between monetary policy goals, like low unemployment, and targets, which now include interest rates, it's a rather subtle one. I don't see why it would move markets.)
Another popular tonic is a higher inflation target. Right now the Fed's unofficial but almost universally acknowledged inflation target is 2%, and for the past few years the core inflation rate has been below or near 2%. When inflation is very low, real interest rates (nominal interest rates minus inflation) can still be high even when nominal rates are also low. In the U.S. in the early 1930s, for example, nominal rates plunged toward 0%, but deflation was raging, so real interest rates were actually quite high. Economic historian Nick Crafts, in a Financial Times op-ed, says that Britain's recovery from the Great Depression was greatly aided by a combination of low nominal interest rates and rising inflation rates — i.e., negative real interest rates — which promoted homebuilding. Crafts says targeting a higher inflation rate — say, 4% — could do the trick today.
Again, I just don't see how you get there. Would I like to see lower real interest rates? Sure. But for 4% inflation to happen, a lot of other things have to happen first. Banks need to loan out their excess reserves, people and businesses need to buy stuff with those loans, the money needs to be redeposited in banks, more loans need to be made, etc. That's how monetary policy works — when it works. Right now, the banks have over a trillion dollars in excess reserves that they're just sitting on. Banks are not eager to lend, and businesses and households are not eager to borrow. Classic liquidity trap.
Nominal GDP targeting and higher inflation targets sound radical, but are they? Chicago Fed President Charles Evans said in a speech this week that he viewed the 2% inflation target as a medium-run target, not a short-run target, saying that as long as inflation averaged out to 2% over a multi-year period, higher inflation rates would be acceptable in the short term. That statement is consistent with either a nominal GDP target (shoot for low inflation when real GDP is high, tolerate higher inflation when real GDP is low) or an inflation target (let inflation rise when unemployment is high), which suggests that neither of those policies is all that new. Both seem to promise much more than they could ever deliver.
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'Off the Bat' episode a team effort for Cards
New episode features a focus on chemistry of Wainwright, Wacha and Miller
NEW YORK -- For those who follow it closely, there's no question the Cardinals' starting rotation is a close-knit group. For anyone who doesn't, tonight's episode of the MTV2 show "Off the Bat" has you covered.
St. Louis starters Adam Wainwright, Michael Wacha and Shelby Miller will be featured in the fourth episode of the new series, airing at 11 p.m. ET. In town for a four-game series against the Mets, they all stopped by the MLB Fan Cave this week to participate in the making of the show.
During this episode, the three pitchers agree to play a game to see just how well they know one another -- though, as might be expected, the game quickly takes on a life of its own, thanks to its contestants.
"We're around each other more than anyone else in our lives," Miller said. "It's every day for 162 games and all the travel days and Spring Training and hopefully into October -- so it's important to not just get along with these guys, but to really have that feeling of being a family. And we've definitely got that, especially within our starting five."
Tonight's episode also provides a glimpse into the off-field lives of Wainwright, Wacha and Miller. For instance, it may shed light on which one of the three is most likely to dance his way through the clubhouse, who is most likely to call reality TV his guilty pleasure and who has the best pickup lines.
Fair warning: The answers to some of those questions are probably not what you might expect.
"We've got something pretty rare, we really do," Miller said. "And it's not just us three or just our starting five, but our whole clubhouse. We're all best friends, and everyone gets along great. We make for a pretty great family, and that makes a bigger difference than some people might think."
In the eyes of the 23-year-old Miller and 22-year-old Wacha, the man most responsible for shaping the clubhouse that way is Wainwright. Following the retirement of co-ace Chris Carpenter this past offseason, Wainwright has assumed the leadership role not just for the rotation, but the Cardinals as a whole.
Though Wainwright calls it a natural process, his teammates -- though they don't cut him any slack during tonight's episode -- give him a lot more credit for the work he does, on and off the field.
"With so many young guys on our staff, it's really important for us to have that veteran leadership. and Waino does a great job with it," Wacha said. "He not only leads by example out on the mound, but even off of it he's a big part of making sure everyone in our clubhouse blends together, regardless if they're veteran guys or rookies or whatever. He's definitely the rock for us."
Yet there he is in tonight's "Off the Bat" episode, matching the Cardinals' young guns joke-for-joke and insult-for-insult.
"We have a great mix of guys, old and young," Wainwright said. "It's a situation where the young guys are learning from the older guys, the old guys are out there just doing their thing, and in the end, we're all really learning from each other and having a lot of fun doing it. That's the way it should be."
For this week's "Off the Bat" episode at least, that's the way it was. Despite taking a train into New York City following Sunday afternoon's series finale in Washington, D.C., Wainwright, Wacha and Miller jumped at the opportunity to tour the Fan Cave on Monday morning before stepping in front of the cameras.
Wainwright and Wacha will pitch against the Mets on Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively, with the "Off the Bat" episode airing on MTV2 the same night as Wainwright's outing. Miller, who took a no-decision in that Sunday afternoon contest, isn't scheduled to pitch at citi Field.
Still, Miller will be there supporting Wainwright and Wacha -- and the rest of his teammates -- just as they will be doing for him when he takes the mound again Friday against the Pirates. For the time being, all he can do is hope his MTV2 debut tonight goes over well with those teammates.
"It was a lot of fun," Miller said of his involvement with this week's episode. "We don't always have the chance to get out and do something like this during the season, especially in the middle of a road trip. And to share it with these guys just made it all the more fun, and it should be interesting to see how it turns out."


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Discussion in 'Nintendo Gamecube' started by SpawnKiller, Jun 25, 2007.
Mine is SSBM
well, i don't own a gamecube but i like Sonic Adventure 2 Battle
hmmmmmm ssbm and animal crossing
Hey ! Thanks for not using search !
I loved Wind Waker.
Mario Kart: Double Dash
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Either Nightfire, Medal of Honor Euopean Assualt, or Super Mario Strikers.
Zelda Wind Waker
Beyond good and evil
Metroid Prime 1 and 2
Smash Bro melee
And finally Mario Party 7
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On topic, I liked to play SSBM and MK: DD. Now that I think about it, I also enjoyed Metroid Prime 2.
Don't have a Gamecube, but I did occasionally play the console at a buddies place awhile back. Crazy Taxi, NBA Street, and Super Smash Bros. were definitely good times back then.
My favorites are
Mario Kart: Double Dash
Resi 4
Spiderman 2
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uh..... melee to stay on topoic
melee and re4 tied
Metroid Prime 1 and 2
All Resident Evil games
Wind Waker
Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes
Windwaker or Double Dash
But atm I'm enjoying Metroid Prime 2 so could change
re4 all da way
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Wednesday, 29 June 2011
Tuesday, 28 June 2011
jun, 28th - tippity tap....
day 503:
it's been one of those days. a day where only music, dancing or a good book can help....or alternatively chocolate cake, a large glass of wine or an over-zealous bubble bath.
i chose dancing...well in fact Limi's dancing. Jae had her tap shoes shipped from Oz and bought Limi her own pair so that they could step-ball-change around the Shoebox. it brings back so many memories of step-ball-changing around my own room growing up.
Limi absolutely loves the sound they make....especially when stomping....good thing that they do most of their 'practising' while the neighbours are at work.
i would never force Limi to go in any direction.....so, if she loves dance as much as I did growing up then I will happily sew on sequins and sit in the audience at every show.....but if she just likes to stomp or make music then we can do that too.......
for now, it certainly gets you out of a funk watching her eyes light up as she clippity-clops around the living-room. who knew that tap shoes even came in such small sizes.......
ps. although, Limi is determined to put on her own shoes at the moment they do generally end up on the wrong feet.....
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Monday, 27 June 2011
jun, 27th - cape to cuba....
day 502:
so after two days of sweltering London weather, threatening tropical-style thunderstorms and wimbledon covers going on and off more times than Limi playing with a light switch.....the weather has been the only thing taking centre stage lately.
we've slept with windows open, trains have been claustrophobic and Limi has run around in just a nappy and bloomers. it's been almost island life in London. so, no better time to share some of the last pics of our trip to South Africa in April.......and blog about one of my favourite places, Cape to Cuba.
it's a laid-back spot in Kalk Bay {see day 437, day 438 and day 437 continued...}, with beach sand floors, chandeliers, tobacco and mean mojitos.
you can sit around in the sunshine and enjoy some drinks or step into the dining room, pressed right up against the train line, you dine whilst looking out over the bay.....it feels perfectly decadent and dishevelled all at once. a magical mix.
Cape to Cuba's been around for awhile....usually in this town, it means that people have moved on to the next best thing but with something so good, this place still draws a crowd...who can resist popping into a place where you can throw off your slip slops, sink your toes into the sand, sip on a mojito and enjoy the sunset.....i know that i never get tired of it.
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Sunday, 26 June 2011
jun, 26th - weekend....
day 501:
our weekend was pretty quiet, we stayed close to home, had delicious dim sum, afternoon naps, paddled in the local park pool and promenades after dinner...
Limi still hasn't quite figured out chopsticks....
jasmine flower tea....always magical....
promenading after dinner.....
it's not quite the Promenade des Anglais, but the lovely long evenings are still worth savouring.
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Saturday, 25 June 2011
jun, 25th - glorious.....
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Friday, 24 June 2011
jun, 24th - v&a reading rooms....
day 499:
the great thing about London......is that there is always something new to explore....sometimes, it's something brand new but other times, it's a gem that has just remained undiscovered....it was always just there.
earlier in the week, i went to see this exhibition, on South African photographers, at the V&A. afterwards, i decided to try the V&A Reading Rooms. i'd recently read about them. they're not in the actual museum but across the road, a short walk away.
and what a find. a wonderful collection of books and you are enthusiastically encouraged to browse with a chilled glass of something in your hand....i was there mid morning so i chose a coffee instead. there are nooks throughout the space to settle in and turn some pages.
i found a sunny spot in the window and spent a good hour reading up on a wide selection of topics from the photographers that i had just seen to a history on victorian underwear......there is an eclectic collection in this place. a sweet spot. definitely worth another visit....especially for a chilled glass of sauvignon blanc.
so, if you're in London - pop into the V&A Reading Rooms, it's like visiting a friend, with a brilliant library AND bar.
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Labels: museums, Things To-Do in London
Thursday, 23 June 2011
jun, 23rd - baking....
day 498:
i love baking. i used to do a lot more of it......... i'm not particularly patient....i'm more of a sift-ingredients-together-throw-in-some-liquid-and-cross-my-fingers-that-it-will-rise type baker.....my sister, on the other hand, is brilliant........the produce-a-batch-of-meltingly-light-fairy-cakes-in-a-spare-moment-during-a-busy-afternoon type baker.....but i do love the ritual of separating eggs, scraping batter....and hoping for magic......and of course, licking the spatula is something that i want Limi to remember from her childhood the same way that i remember it from mine......
so, to keep my folding-wrist in practise, i made some brownies today....adapted from a recipe by Small Food, it a simple recipe that produces dense, chewy-centred brownies that give you a serious chocolate-jolt.....they're not the healthy option but definitely worth a try.
Pecan Chocolate Brownies
2/3 (two-thirds) of a cup of plain flour
1 cup cocoa powder
3 cups demerara sugar
1 cup muscovado
2 cups roughly chopped pecans
125 g good dark chocolate, roughly chopped
125 g good milk chocolate, roughly chopped
500 g butter
4 teaspoons vanilla essence
8 eggs, lightly beaten
if making it for a dinner party, then:
substitute 2 teaspoons of vanilla essence with 1 dessert spoon of good quality Rum
1. preheat the oven to 180 C. grease two baking tins with butter and line with baking paper.
2. sift the flour and cocoa together and add the sugar and pecans
3. make a well in the dry ingredients and add the chocolate
4. gently melt the butter and add to the ingredients with the eggs and vanilla essence (and Rum, if adding)
5. fold together, pour into the tin and smooth the surface
6. bake for 50 mins or until the top has a thin crust and the centre in spongy
7. leave to cool a bit and either cut roughly and serve warm with creme fraiche or ice-cream or alternatively, refrigerate for 2 hours and cut neater wedges.
makes about 25 rectangular wedges, depending on how big you cut them.
i loved baking them....now to resist eating them........fancy some tea?
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Wednesday, 22 June 2011
jun, 22nd - float like a butterfly....
words floating about in my head at the moment: metamorphosis, rebirth, flight (well...at least a severe longing for some travel).....so it was apt that we visited the Natural History Museum's butterfly exhibition yesterday....
the outdoor butterfly house has become an annual event.....and something that i thought Limi would love this year.
yes, butterflies have become a little overexposed of late (they need to sit their PR company down and sort this out)....popping up at weddings and birthdays, all over stationery and fabrics......it's allowed the lesser known dragon-fly and ladybug to become way more hip.....but there's still something about a butterfly......
their ability to float and gently step down onto the tip of a leaf....watching them is something that will never get tired of.
we had a brilliant morning in the butterfly house......although, yikes, it's like a sauna in there.......perfect for butterflies but not so great for humans wearing more than a swimming costume. so, if you're planning a visit wear the least that you can get away with. then, as you are skipping down the paths after butterflies you won't leave a trail of sweat droplets behind.
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Former Duke, Yale Players Join UCLA Staff
UCLA men's lacrosse is pleased to welcome two new assistant coaches to Westwood for the 2013-2014 academic year: George Buckley (Duke '05) and Matt Gibson (Yale '12).
Buckley, a four-time letter winner at Duke, will coach the UCLA defense. Gibson, a two-time First Team All-American at Yale and the 2012 Rookie of the Year in Major League Lacrosse, will coach the Bruins' offense.
"I'm looking forward to working with the coaching staff and our players in order to have fun and compete as best as possible," noted Buckley a few weeks into the preseason. "I believe there's a real willingness and ability for our returning players to help our new guys develop on and off the field, and I'm excited about the potential we have on the defensive end."
Seconding his optimism, Gibson commented that he was "very excited to join the UCLA Men's Lacrosse family and the strong staff already in place." Reflecting on the university, he added that "UCLA has a rich athletic and academic tradition, and I'm happy to be a part of it."
Returning to the UCLA coaching staff with head coach Jacques Bagley are assistant head coach Ben Bitonti and goalie coach Pete Britt. Having concluded their Fall Ball preseason, the Bruins will return to practice in January in preparation for the beginning of their regular season in February.


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No home theater would be truly complete without home theater furniture. It is usually the last element that homeowners consider in setting up a home theater but having the right pieces of furniture is essential to the entire viewing experience. Below are some pointers on what home theater furniture you will need and how to pick them.
An entertainment stand should be first on your list of home theater furniture. This is very useful for those who have limited space because it provides a single space where you can put your television, sound system and DVD player. If you do have the space, then you can opt for separate cabinets for the stereo or for the television, for instance. However, just make sure to pick out home theater furniture that go well together and that fits with the look of your home.
The next essential home theater furniture that you should consider has to do with seating.
There are so many options when it comes to couches and chairs so you should be able to find one that will suit your taste and that will fit certain requirements such as space, the number of people you want to accommodate and, of course, comfort. An important thing to consider when choosing the seats is whether the room is a dedicated home theater or not, in which case you would need to choose seats or home theater furniture, in general, that will fit the other purpose of the room.
If you are fortunate to have a separate room just for a home theater, then you are free to choose seats much like you would see in regular movie theaters with beverage holders even, only more comfortable. There are loungers with spacious armrests and gliding footrests, too. If your budget allows it, you can consider other home theater furniture aside from cabinets and seating to enhance your home movie watching experience further such as a popcorn machine or a snack bar. These add-ons will surely make your viewing more pleasurable.
Home theaters are growing in popularity and so manufacturers are coming out with so many options for the customer, which also means that prices of home theater furniture have become more affordable. Just remember to shop around compare before making a purchase. Try to survey as many furniture stores as possible, including online stores, so you can compare prices of different home theater furniture and get the best deal.