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I took the day off work to spend time with my cousin who's visiting from Montreal. So, we'll be spending our day eating cheese and being awesome. Hope you have a great weekend. Here are some bits and pieces that made my week:
- A few weeks ago it actually got cold enough for the canals to freeze in Amsterdam. All those frozen canals = tons of skating surface.
- Lately I've been spending a lot of time googling Ira Glass. He's the wonderful, soothing voice behind 'This American Life.' I came across this gem on storytelling.
- Not a week goes by that I don't find myself thinking WWTTDY? (What Would Tami Taylor Do Y'all?). I am OBSESSED with the TV character Tami Taylor from Friday Night Lights, played by the incomparable Connie Britton. So this piece from the Hairpin made my day.
- The cutest Kate Spade video.
- I was one of the lucky few to see the super talented Bahamas play a très intimate set at the NOW Magazine lounge recently. You can check out a video from the set here.
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Sept. 10, 2012) – Coming off their final preseason tournament of the season over the weekend at Alabama, the ETSU volleyball team returns home Tuesday night to host Western Carolina in a non-conference match. Game time is set for 7 p.m. inside Brooks Gym.
The Bucs (8-5) – who dropped three of four matches at the Hampton Inn Bama Bash – end a grueling stretch of games on Tuesday night as the match with the Catamounts marks the ninth game in a 12 day stretch for the Blue and Gold. Following its match with Western Carolina, the Bucs will have a week off before opening Atlantic Sun play at Mercer on Tuesday, Sept. 18.
After winning two of its first three to begin the season, Western Carolina has lost six of its last seven matches, dropping to 3-7 on the year. The Catamounts defeated Campbell in five, while falling to North Carolina State and Central Michigan over the weekend at the N.C. State Invitational.
Sophomore outside hitter Caitlin Piechota leads the team with 3.57 kills per set, while junior libero Morgan Cochran is averaging a team-best 4.11 digs per set. Piechota ranks fourth in the SoCon in kills per set, while Cochran is eighth in the league in digs per set.
Tuesday marks the 62nd meeting between the former SoCon rivals and ETSU leads the all-time series 32-29 dating back to the 1978 season.
Fans unable to make the trip to Johnson City can watch all the action online for free on A-Sun.TV, while live stats will be offered on ETSUBucs.com.
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ASRock K8 Combo-Z ALi M1689 Motherboard Review
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Today we are looking at the ASRock K8 Combo-Z. Like the ASRock K8 Upgrade 760GX board we reviewed not long ago, the K8 Combo-Z touts the ability to support both Socket 754 and Socket 939. But unlike the K8 Upgrade 760GX, the K8 Combo-Z has both sockets onboard!
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Region 7B, Arenac County receives additional funding for job training
ARENAC COUNTY — Since 2007, Arenac County has entered more than 300 dislocated workers into the Michigan Works! No Worker Left Behind (NWLB) re-training program created by Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm in an effort to train 100,000 Michigan workers in demand occupations by 2010.
Now, Region 7B of Michigan Works! (MW), which Arenac County is a part of, will get a boost of over a quarter million dollars. MW Region 7B Executive Director Mark Berdan says, on April 1, Granholm announced $266,590 of additional funding for the region's NWLB program.
"[Region 7B] ran out of funds [for NWLB] for the first time ever," Berdan said. "So I applied for the additional funding.
"With the Recovery [and Reinvestment Act] funds, we expect to double our training this year."
Berdan added Region 7B normally trains 150-175 dislocated workers a year.
He also says the increase in funding is mainly to assist dislocated employees of Kalitta Air, Oscoda.
"The Kalitta Air workers aren't just from Oscoda though," Berdan said, adding Kalitta Air employs workers in many Northeast Michigan counties including Arenac.
But the training funds aren't only designated for Kalitta Air employees.
"Any dislocated worker who is eligible for the program (NWLB) can receive the funds," he said.
Berdan says right now 117 people from Arenac County are actively participating in NWLB, which offers over 40 different fields of training in demand occupations.
"The demand occupations are listed on our Web site www.michiganworks4u.org," Berdan said, adding NWLB only offers training in occupations with high demand for skilled employees such as certified nurses assistants and over-the-road truck drivers.
"Participants in No Worker Left Behind are eligible to receive no more than $5,000 a year or $10,000 a lifetime in training," the director said. "To be a dislocated worker you either have to be an adult who's been unemployed for seven days or laid off in a mass layoff by a company.
"You can receive training either from a two-year college or through a training program approved by the state."
Berdan says the Governor's goal of 100,000 re-trained workers is easily within reach and overall, the program has been very successful.
"One example is that we had a guy who worked in manufacturing for 20 years," he said. "His plant closed, we helped him get training in the health care field and now he's working in West Branch."
For more information on the NWLB program or Michigan Works!, visit the Michigan Works! office on Cedar Street in Standish or call 989-846-2111.
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Visit the FACTS site at WWW.FLVC.ORG. Once there, select the option you want. For Degree Audits go to "Academic Advising" and for Transcripts, go to "College Transcripts". Make your choice from the options listed there.
You will need to create a FLVC Student Account first.
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You will need your Student ID and personal identification number (PIN) to access your Chipola information.
Your Student ID for FACTS and Online transactions is your SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER.
All students enrolled at Chipola beginning with Fall 2000 have been assigned an 8-digit PIN according to the following criteria.
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- The last two digits of the PIN equal the numeric YEAR of your birth.
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Your PIN should be valid for the next 2 years. If you forget your PIN or you would like to change your PIN, please visit the Registrar's Office in the Administration Building (Bldg. A) for assistance.
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I will present the traditional Chinese and Indian medicine point of view on your symptoms.
In terms of Chinese medicine, you are exhibiting symptoms of Spleen Yang Deficiency (basically, cold spleen). This deficiency manifests as weakened digestion and cold hands and feet.
The dietary treatment is to have warm foods and beverages and avoid cooling ones. Stews, soups, meat (especially red) and black tea (green tea is cooling even if you have it hot) are warming. Alcohol is warming, but avoid excessively chilled beer. Use lot of hot spices on your food, such as chili, black pepper, ginger or cinnamon. Sweets and pastries are cooling.
The herbal treatment is to take ginger, licorice, ginseng and baizhu in some form. It would be the best if you could go to your local China town and ask in a herbal shop if they have the "Fu Li Zhong Wan" or "Regulate the Middle Pill". You can also order it online. This formula is exactly for the symptoms you are describing: stomach pains, chills etc. It basically makes you warm, gives you vitality and improves digestion. One package of pills is $5 and one pill contains all the herbs I mentioned above. It is coated in honey and tastes sweet. Take one pill in the morning and one in the evening until the issue goes away.
In terms of Indian medicine, your issue is aggravated vata (air) element in your body. Aggravated vata will mess up your digestion, make you experience cold, dryness, dehydration and emaciation.
The dietary treatment is to have warm and oily meals (hot soup with olive oil, potatoes with butter, hot milk etc) and and avoid cold and dry foods (rice crackers, cold beverages, salads etc).
The herbal treatment is to take ashwagandha (winter cherry) and ginger either in tablets or as a tea, once in the morning and once in the evening until the issue goes away. Ginger warms you and improves digestion, ashwagandha gives you vitality. You can alternatively replace the ashwagandha with ginseng.
As you can see the approaches differ slightly but it is only a different way of looking at the same issue.
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Powercolor Radeon HD 5550 Review
Well the battle is on. With everything unveiled on both sides, nVidia and ATI are going at it with guns blazing. With close to a half-year lead, ATI has a distinct advantage in this war in that it has had plenty of time to unleash its full arsenal while nVidia is still deploying. With the 5550, ATI is covering the casual gamers and graphics professionals out there by delivering modest DX11 capable power at a measly $70. At that price, you can budget this card into almost any build, and with the HDMI port, I can see this card going very nicely into an HTPC.
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Following the card's budget price, the packaging is anything but spectacular. In the top right corner, the PowerColor logo is displayed along with its slogan 'Unleash the Gaming Power' directly beneath. To the right of the logo is a sticker publicizing this card's respectable 512MB of DDR3 RAM. As usual, there is a pretty intense graphic adorning the front panel in the form of a warrior wielding a large sword, which looks like it would be a pain to sharpen (think of a giant serrated knife blade gone shark's tooth). Ouch. Along the bottom, Radeon HD 5550 is proudly shown in big text and the ATI Radeon logo sits snug in the bottom right corner. The sides are fairly bland with either the brand name or the product name being displayed, flipping to the back, PowerColor lists some features and a graphic rating the card's abilities out of five stars, they are as follows: Gaming - 3 stars, Video - 4 stars, and Office - 5 stars. Let's take a look inside.
Opening up the small box sheds light on a red bubble-wrapped card, the driver disc, and some manuals. There are no tricks or gimmicks here, PowerColor seems to be doing everything possible to keep the price down for the end user. The bundle included with the 5550 is the definition of slim, but hey, at $70 no one's complaining. All you get with the card is a slim quick install brochure and an ATI labeled driver disc.
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Animal Species:Redback Spider, Latrodectus hasselti
Redback Spiders are found throughout Australia and are common in disturbed and urban areas.
Standard Common Name
Redback Spider
Alternative Name/s
Red-back Spider
Redback spiders (Latrodectus hasselti) belong to the Family Theridiidae, which is found worldwide. The notorious Black Widow Spider (Latrodectus sp) of the United States is a close relative of the Redback Spider, and only differs in appearance by the absence of a red dorsal stripe. Other species of Latrodectus occur in Africa, New Zealand (the Katipo), the Pacific Islands, Europe and North and South America.
Female Redback Spiders are black (occasionally brownish) with an obvious orange to red longitudinal stripe on the upper abdomen, with the red stripe sometimes being broken, and an "hourglass" shaped red/orange spot on the underside of the abdomen. Juveniles have additional white markings on the abdomen. Females have a body about the size of a large pea and slender legs.
The males' red markings are often less distinct. The body is light brown with white markings on the upper side of the abdomen, and a pale hour-glass marking on the underside.
Size range
1 cm (female); 3 mm - 4 mm (male)
Similar Species
Grey House Spider, Cupboard Spider
They are found Australia-wide and will live almost anywhere as long as there is adequate food, a sheltered web site and warm enough for breeding. They are especially common in disturbed and urban areas, in association with human habitation.
Webs consist of a tangled, funnel-like upper retreat area from which vertical, sticky catching threads run to ground attachments. The Redback Spider favours proximity to human habitation, with webs being built in dry, sheltered sites, such as among rocks, in logs, shrubs, junk-piles, sheds, or toilets. Redback Spiders are less common in winter months.
Habitat type
Terrestrial Habitat: peridomestic, pest
Feeding and Diet
Insects are the usual prey of Redback Spiders, but they are capable of capturing quite large animals, such as male trapdoor spiders, king crickets and small lizards, if they become entangled in the web. Prey-stealing is also common, with large females taking stored food items from others' webs.
Feeding Habits
arthropod-feeder, carnivorous, insectivorous, predator
Life history mode
Life cycle
Once the female has mated, she can store sperm and use it over a period of up to two years to lay several batches of eggs. She spends much time producing up to ten round egg sacs (1cm diameter), which are white, weathering to brown over time. Each egg sac contains approximately 250 eggs and only one to three weeks need to pass before more eggs can be laid. These sacs are suspended within the web. Sometimes small ichneumonid wasps parasitise them, puncturing each sac with tiny holes. The young spiderlings hatch in two to four weeks. Spiderlings are cannibalistic and will eat unhatched eggs and other spiderlings. The spiderlings disperse by ballooning to another suitable nest site on long silk threads that are caught by air currents.
Females mature on average in about four months. The smaller male matures on average in about 90 days. Females may live for two to three years, whereas males only live for about six or seven months.
Mating and reproduction
Male Redback Spiders do not produce a web, but may be found on the fringe of a female's web, especially during the summer mating season. The male has to make overtures to the female to discover whether she is ready to mate, which can prove fatal if she mistakes him for prey. It has been found that in order to occupy the female's attention during mating, the male spider offers her his abdomen by standing on his head and 'somersaulting' his abdomen towards her mouthparts. The female begins to squirt digestive juices onto the male's abdomen while the first palp is inserted. If he is not too weak, he will manage to withdraw, and then insert the second palp. She will continue to 'digest' his abdomen. Most males do not survive this process, which seems to be unique to Latrodectus hasselti.
Predators, Parasites and Diseases
Daddy-long-legs Spiders and White-tailed Spiders are known to catch and kill Redback Spiders.
Evolutionary Relationships
It was once thought that the Redback Spider, Latrodectus hasselti, was a sub species of the Black Widow Spider but it is now known to be a distinct species.
It has also been suggested by some workers that the Redback may not be native to Australia but have been introduced since European settlement, although it's not clear where they originated.
Recent research on the DNA sequences of all recognized Latrodectus species indicates that the Redback is a distinct species, most closely related to the New Zealand Katipo, and probably an Australian native.
Redbacks have most likely become much more common since European settlers started providing them with lots of the kinds of places they like to make webs in.
Danger to humans and first aid
Redback bites occur frequently, particularly over the summer months. More than 250 cases receive antivenom each year, with several milder envenomations probably going unreported. Only the female bite is dangerous. They can cause serious illness and have caused deaths. However, since Redback Spiders rarely leave their webs, humans are not likely to be bitten unless a body part such as a hand is put directly into the web, and because of their small jaws many bites are ineffective. The venom acts directly on the nerves, resulting in release and subsequent depletion of neurotransmitters.
Common early symptoms are pain (which can become severe), sweating (always including local sweating at bite site), muscular weakness, nausea and vomiting. Antivenom is available. No deaths have occurred since its introduction.
Apply an ice pack to the bitten area to relieve pain. Do not apply a pressure bandage (venom movement is slow and pressure worsens pain). Collect the spider for positive identification. Seek medical attention.
- Species:
- hasselti
- Genus:
- Latrodectus
- Family:
- Theridiidae
- Order:
- Araneae
- Class:
- Arachnida
- Phylum:
- Arthropoda
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Simon-Brunet, S. 1994. The Silken Web: a natural history of Australian Spiders. Reed Books.
- Preston-Mafham, R. 1991. The Book of Spiders and Scorpions. Quarto Publishing.
- Pyers, G. 1999. Australian Animals: Spiders. Heinemann Library.
- Forster, L. 1995. The behavioural ecology of Latrodectus hasselti (Thorell), the Australian Redback Spider (Araneae: Theridiidae): a review. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement No. 52: 13-24.
- York Main, B. 1976. Spiders. The Australian Naturalist Library, Collins, Sydney.
- Garb, J. E., A. Gonzalez, & R. G. Gillespie (2004). The black widow spider genus Latrodectus (Araneae: Theridiidae): phylogeny, biogeography, and invasion history. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 31, 1127-1142.
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Richie Redding is one of the funniest guys that you've probably never heard of. As a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania it was unlikely that his comedy career start off in urban rooms and burlesque shows, but that's how it happened. He left the corporate world determined to get paid to have fun which is obvious every time he takes the stage. His set is edgy, high energy and autobiographical, drawing on a lifetime of ridiculous true stories that can only happen to a recovering alcoholic Ivy Leaguer that lives in the 'hood. His boy band looks and colorful word selection have gained him well-deserved attention, earning him a spot in HBO's Comedy Festival as part of the Lucky 21 Show. In 2010 he moved to Jersey City and became a regular at New York's top comedy clubs. In 2012, he was selected to perform in Walter Latham's Comedy After Dark and became a regular on HOT 97FM. That same year he also won the Bermuda International Comedy Competition. He has performed in five foreign countries and also had the honor of being selected to feature in a USO tour of South Korea, entertaining the 30,000 American troops stationed there.
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Law School Admissions / Re: Question about resume« on: March 03, 2011, 12:10:13 PM »
Yes, I reported all of this to LSAC but I'm nervous since I took these courses while holding a full time Job and a part time Job and thus didn't do as well as I did when I went to school for a degree. However, they will see that even during college I was holding down jobs and still managed to do above average.
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The proposed 90,000-square-foot school, Basis Independent Brooklyn, would be located on an abandoned industrial lot at 556 Columbia St. Officials rom the Arizona-based Basis Independent Schools came before CB6 seeking support for a zoning change.
The school will charge an estimated $23,000 in annual tuition fees to roughly 1,000 students. The group currently runs 12 charter schools in Arizona, Texas, and Washington, D.C.
"This is nothing but a façade," said board member Roger Rigolli. "They didn't go out and meet these leaders and give Red Hook respect."
He worries rezoning the lot could start a trend of industry leaving Red Hook, taking away potential jobs for local residents.
A petition asking CB6 to vote down the proposal garnered 100 signatures. At last week's board meeting, opponents of the plan were handing out flyers stating that Basis did not do necessary outreach.
Basis officials argued they notified the community as stipulated, but they were criticized for only notifying individuals living or working within 500 feet, excluding many residents.
Residents of nearby Red Hook Houses said they never received any notification about a private school moving into their neighborhood.
"My sense is that this is either a blatant attempt to fly under the radar or, in the best case, incredibly naïve to think that you could put a school servicing wealthier constituent group into a neighborhood like Red Hook and not have to involve the community," said board member Elizabeth Shipley.
Mark Reford, CEO of Basis Independent Schools, said the school would be willing to share its theater and gymnasium with the community. In addition, the school has proposed establishing a scholarship program for residents of the Red Hook community.
The Board of Standards and Appeals will make a final decision on the rezoning request.
"It is unfortunate that members of the community were not persuaded of the benefits that our world-quality, STEM-focused, liberal arts programs will bring to Red Hook and Brooklyn," Reford said. "We have always worked well with our local communities and we are committed to continue working diligently to show the community the benefits and resources we will bring as the approval process proceeds."


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A Conversation with Gene Logsdon
Author Gene Logsdon appears to be picking up steam as he rolls into his ninth decade. He has developed a prolific body of work as a writer, novelist, and journalist on topics ranging from a philosophical look at woodlands (A Sanctuary of Trees) to the higher calling of manure (Holy Shit), and his ever-popular contrarian look at life and farming (The Contrary Farmer).
In his latest book, Gene Everlasting: A Contrary Farmer's Thoughts on Living Forever, we find Logsdon at the top of his game as he reflects on nature, death, and eternity, always with an eye toward the lessons that farming taught him about life and its mysteries.
We asked Logsdon some questions about his latest book, recurrent themes in the book and whether or not immortality is overrated. Enjoy.
The subtitle of your book is "thoughts on living forever." So, after writing the book and thinking about it: Is immortality worth it? Is it overrated?
I wanted to come up with a book sort of making fun of the concept of immortality, one that would be critical of conventional religious views but not showing the kind of atheistic righteousness you see in books by Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens on this topic. I more or less agree with them, but found them a little too angry and strident for the religious believers I grew up and belonged to — too nasty. I used to be angry that way, but I got over it. That kind of approach just makes religious believers all the more convinced that they are right.
But it's a tough subject to write and talk about without irritating someone. Ideology starts dominating the talk right away. Discussion quickly comes down to 'my religion versus your religion' or 'my lack of religion versus your lack of religion.' We're all so filled up with such fear of the unknown about this topic. Even atheists can get religious once in a while, and by that I mean too fervent about their beliefs. As can those who believe that science has all the answers. I have made snide remarks about black holes being quite a stretch and in doing so irritated scientists. I see where the famed scientist, Stephen Hawking, who started the monstrous notion of black holes now says they don't exist.
To answer your original question, I've come to realize that it's really not worth it — immortality, that is. Ask yourself: What time of your life would you like to immortalize? I know that I don't want to be immortalized in this winter; this has been the worst damn weather I can remember.
I think even religious people can chuckle about that – what time of life in which you'd like to be immortalized. That kind of mild humor is what really guided me in the writing. I wanted to write about all the Great Notions in a gently mocking way that didn't irritate people too much — or maybe each side a little bit, both those who believe in science and those who believe in religion. In the end I think I irritated everyone.
Birds are a recurring animal in the book—killdeer, bluebirds, and even buzzards to which you devote an entire chapter. How come buzzards have such a bad reputation?
I'm an avid birdwatcher and have been for years, and often in the wintertime I don't want to go outside and so I watch birds come to the feeder. And we get hundreds of them.
You don't often see raccoons, coyotes, or wolves, but birds are always around and so I suppose that birds more often sink into my subconscious. But buzzards would anyway— they are the creepiest looking things. Society has demonized buzzards and bats because they look so ugly, but when a buzzard is soaring in the air it's a very elegant thing. And bats in motion are awesome too.
I describe in the book, the time I saw buzzards circling over the pasture and I knew they had come across a sheep carcass. I sneaked over the hill very slowly so they could only see my head, and there were about 10 of them on the ground wrestling over the carcass, and six of them were on separate fence posts sort of overseeing the carnage. When those six black birds with their red heads saw me they all spread their wings wide, each a six foot span— it was quite a sight. I defy anyone who travels to the farthest regions of the world to find anything more awesome than that, and it was right here close by.
Buzzards are a symbol of death in many cultures and the more I thought about it, the more angles I found to write about—Andrew Wyeth painted them, and a friend of mine and his wife had one as a pet if you can believe it. This is what often happens to me, this kind of serendipity where a subject will become interesting to me in a very tangential way and then feed into my writing.
You talk about a lot of non-farm topics in the book, the Higgs boson, compound interest and even death cafés. What exactly is a death café and do they serve organic food?
That would make a great article — Menus for a Death Café. Perhaps it should include a bowl of cherries. I've never been to one, but as I understand it a group of people get together, drink a little truth serum—alcohol—and tell each other what they really think about dying and death.
The interesting thing I learned about death cafés – or death dinners that people are now holding – is that far from turning people off, the subject makes them perk up their ears. People want to know more.
This is not about ushering off a dying person with a party, although I think that would be a good idea too, but people just hanging out and talking about what they think is going to happen when they die. The point that I think needs to be brought out and what motivated me to write about this topic, and this book, is that younger people are not at all satisfied with what their religions have taught them about death. But there's a hesitancy to start a conversation about it. When you get a dozen of them together, they feel freer to talk.
If you can bypass traditional ideological mindsets and just talk, then that's when people begin to open up. That's also where the humor can come in and that was part of the challenge of this book — writing about death lightly without being flippant.
People often play the games of whistling past the graveyard or holding their breath when they drive past one. Are cemeteries good for something more than just interring our dead? Should we be viewing, and maybe using them differently?
We're missing an opportunity to use graveyards for a lot more than just burying people. First of all, we should be viewing them as arboretums and nature preserves rather than just a vacant park. A good place to go bird-watching. Sometimes in old cemeteries you can find native plants that have been all but destroyed elsewhere. Cemeteries can also be gathering places. I've read about a cemetery in Washington DC where some of the tombstones are shaped like park benches and people are encouraged to come in and eat picnic lunches there. I think that's a neat idea.
I like cemeteries. They are so quiet and you are usually allowed to go in them without asking permission. Why not plant apple trees, pear trees, hickory trees for the express purpose of producing food. People could come in and harvest them and remember that this tree or that tree is growing right over Grandmother's bones. She made the best pies with these apples. Trees could be grown for the wood too and if all of the cemetery caretakers got together and planned out a schedule for timber harvesting, they could change the places into an ongoing source of lumber and wouldn't that would be fantastic. The trees are going to get old and die anyway, so why not use them? Make coffins out of them.
On a serious note, you write, "There is no such thing as vacant lots or abandoned farms. Nature will always fill them with life." This is a consistent theme in the book and seems to be a core realization as you came to terms with your own mortality. Why do you think people focus too often on the vacancy rather than what is filled around them?
Nature abhors a vacuum. Yes, this is a very important part of my thinking. There is no such thing as something empty or vacant in nature, and the fact that we tend to look at nature and see emptiness or vacancy is an example of how our education so often is failing us. All around us all the time are marvelous wondrous things happening—like buzzards. We're so eager to tell people that excitement comes from looking at the Seven Wonders of the World, or to get into an airplane and go far away. It's just not so and leads to many misunderstandings about nature and reality. People think that travel will relieve boredom, but boredom is a problem inside the mind, not outside it.
And this idea of there being nothing ever empty was a key inspiration for me because it led me to decide that matter is eternal. There never was nothing. This is where I upset both my religious and scientific friends. To my religious friends, God is eternal, and for scientists every effect must always have a cause. If matter is eternal, they are both wrong.
Deciding that matter was eternal, that the universe in some material form was always going to exist, was electrifying to me because it got rid of all those haunting questions about how life got started. To me the Big Bang theory is as ridiculous as a god hauling off and creating the universe from nothing. When I first thought of this I thought I was brilliant. Or nuts. Then I learned that people have had this thought for thousands of years, and they call it Taoism. That made me feel a little bit better, because I felt that if I'm nuts, then at least I've got a lot of good company.
This gets us back to this idea of immortality — that there's no such thing as an empty place and never will be. Time is only the overflowing NOW. Couldn't this be the most uplifting notion of all? That the key to immortality lies in mortality? That in nature there is not death but only a change of form.
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Neither of them could finish the cupcakes though because they found them too sweet, especially the icing. This is what comes of not eating sugar around here on a normal basis.
However, Jayden was really taken by the whole cupcake thing and wanted to know if we could make cupcakes around the house that would taste even better. I told him I was certain we could.
I decided to hunt down a cupcake book, and I'm telling you it wasn't easy! Most cupcake books were made based on how you decorated the finished product and that was completely useless for us as most of that involved a lot of sugary candies we can't eat.
I was eventually torn between two choices and had it narrowed down when I caught reviews that weren't of the greatest. That's the problem with reviews, if only the dissatisfied customers leave a review then you're not so certain about making the purchase! In the end I decided against both and then stumbled across The Sweet Little Book Of Cupcake. It's seriously tiny!
It turns out the book is full of recipes from a little bakery in Boston. The recipes do use sugar, but are easily adaptable to our non-sugary choices. The toppings on the cupcake aren't based on candy decorations but different icings, another thing we can easily alter. And the selection inside are quite tasty sounding. I'm quite intrigued by the Chocolate Pomegranate while Jayden is much more eager to try the Molasses Gingerbread cupcakes. I think his choice has something to do with the gingerbread cupcake pan he bought me for my birthday, but that's okay.
The book is broken down by seasonal cupcakes {think fruity for summer, chocolatey and warm for winter, etc.} and then you go to the back of the book to find the actual recipes which are mixed and matched throughout the book with the icing & filling recipes. Jayden all ready knows about the little book, but I'm planning to get him a few goodies to make the recipes with for Christmas. I'm just glad he wasn't freaked by the pink color of the book!


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From the bride…Our whole approach to planning the wedding was creating a party that we would love going to. We toyed with the idea of several different locations including New York and Italy before settling on Miami, the city where we met, fell in love, and had some of the best nights of our lives. January seemed the ideal time for my family from New York to get in some sunshine, and to feel like the whole wedding weekend was one amazing vacation. I've always been inspired by the kitschy and art deco vibes in Miami, and wanted the design elements to reflect that while still feeling modern. We also chose darker, sexier colors and luxurious fabrics, almost as if we had transplanted an NYC winter wedding to Miami. Not to mention the were other fun elements, like a white vintage GT0 ride to the reception, and a black and white checkerboard dance floor. While it was super important to us that the wedding felt felt fun and fresh, we also wanted to pay respect to our heritages and traditions. For the cocktail hour we had a live Cuban band and a cigar roller while mojitos were passed around. For the reception we had a traditional Albanian band and incorporated special traditions, like having Alexis's godfather unveil me, and Alexis and I leading the valle (traditional Albanian dance).
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Aaseem Dixon paced NAU (15-17) as he knocked down 6-of-10 attempts from 3- point range en route to a game-high 20 points. Max Jacobsen contributed 18 points and Kris Yanku had 12 points.
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|6 speakers
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Small Crossovers should be fun and fashionable but that doesn't mean they can't also be versatile, capable and practical too. Like Vauxhall's little Mokka? Perhaps. Here's the new face of this changing brand and it's one you might very well find yourself growing to like.
Suddenly, Vauxhall design is all about the delivery of that most current of automotive traits, the 'lifestyle statement'. Has been ever since brand parent General Motors belatedly realised that profit, not market share, was of most importance in achieving commercial respectability. And the result has been a whole wave of interesting new models wearing the Griffin badge - the individualistic ADAM premium supermini, the stylish Cascada convertible and our subject here, the interesting Mokka small SUV Crossover. It's aimed directly at the one hugely popular rival that's really shaken up this sector of the market - Nissan's trendy little Juke. Wild and wacky, the Juke bought a super-sized serving of attitude to this conservatively-styled segment. But not everyone liked its wilfully outlandish looks or its cramped rear cabin. So this Mokka takes it on with a slightly more spacious supermini floorplan and fashionable cheekiness designed for wider appeal. It's a package also created to perfectly position Vauxhall against other direct segment contenders like the MINI Countryman, the Ford EcoSport and this Mokka's own design stablemate, the Chevrolet Trax. A Vauxhall then, that is in every way a car of its time, very much chiming with the new face of a changing brand. Let's try it.
Driving Experience
Mokka buyers are people likely to be enthusiasts for life rather than for cars. So they may not care that this car isn't quite as sharp and wieldy as a rival Nissan Juke, nor does it have the 'big SUV' polish of a comparable Skoda Yeti. Instead, there's a potentially pleasing compromise between the two. Under the bonnet, there are three main engine options, the most affordable, as ever, being the least desirable of the trio, the 2WD-only 115PS petrol 1.6-litre variant which, with only 155Nm of torque, needs to be rowed along a little with the gear lever - a stick that only offers you five speeds. A better bet for petrol people is the Mokka we tried, the 140PS 1.4-litre turbo. Sixty is just 9.4s away enroute to 118mph, so it's usefully more rapid, and there's a healthier 200Nm of torque. Despite all this and the optional inclusion of 4WD, the provision of a 6-speed gearbox and more modern mechanicals mean that this pokier 1.4 is actually cheaper to run than the feebler 1.6. The most practical engine choice though is the one most buyers will probably select, the 130PS 1.6-litre CDTi diesel capable of a top speed of around 119mph and rest to sixty in around 10s. You get all the main mechanical choices with this unit - so you can specify your car with 6-speed manual or automatic transmission and with or without 4WD. Perhaps more importantly, you get a lot more pulling power - 300Nm in all. Every Mokka is theoretically capable of towing a braked trailer of up to 1200kg in weight, but this diesel variant is the only one that'll really take such a task in its stride.
Design and Build
This Mokka sets its own course amongst small Crossovers. Though supermini-based, like a Nissan Juke, it's nearly as big inside as a family hatch-style Crossover like Nissan's Qashqai. But whatever your thoughts about this car's size, you'll probably agree that the way this Mokka looks will go a long way towards selling it. Cute and individualistic without being wilfully outlandish in the manner of a rival Nissan Juke. Under the skin are the underpinnings of a supermini - more specifically, the Chevrolet Aveo, mechanicals Chevrolet has also used in its Trax small lifestyle Crossover that's one of this Vauxhall's sharpest rivals. In the back, the rear seats benefit from wide opening doors that simplify the fitment of a child seat, though that sharply rising waistline might restrict the view out for smaller occupants. As for luggage room, well, there's no high boot lip to negotiate and beyond it lies 356-litres of carriage space - about the same as you'd get in a MINI Countryman but 30% more than you'd get in a Nissan Juke. And at the wheel? Well the interior isn't overly adventurous, but this car's more conservative vibe might just mean it mops up sales from people left a bit cold by the sheer extravagance of some rivals.
Market and Model
So, this Mokka's a small, trendily-styled five-door little SUV/Crossover isn't it? Well yes. So it'll be priced directly against the other car we tend of think of in this market sector, Nissan's Juke, won't it? Well, no. Vauxhall points out - correctly - that their car is a significantly larger thing - hence the price span for the range that lies in the £16,000 to £24,000 bracket. To put that into perspective for you, that means you'll be paying a price premium of around £2,500 for this Mokka over an equivalent Juke. Perhaps the most telling comparisons though, come when, as many will, you begin to stack this Mokka up against something more conventional. Why, for example, would you buy a conventional 1.6-litre petrol-powered Vauxhall Astra family hatchback when a Mokka with exactly the same engine would save you around £1,500 and offer you more luggage space? A diesel Astra with the same 130PS 1.7-litre CDTi engine you'll find in this Mokka would also be around £1,500 more. If, having considered all of this, you decide that it is indeed a Mokka that you actually want, then you'll be pleased to find that whichever of the five-door models you choose - 1.6-litre petrol 2WD or 1.4-litre petrol turbo 4WD or 1.6-litre 130PS CDTI diesel in 2WD or 4WD configuration - it'll come well equipped.
Cost of Ownership
As far as cost of ownership is concerned, it would be fair to call this Mokka 'class competitive'. As you'd expect these days, a start/stop system is fitted across the range (though only on manual gearbox models) to cut the engine when you don't need it, stuck in traffic or waiting at the lights. As a result, even the oldest engine in the line-up, the 115PS 1.6-litre petrol unit, doesn't lag too far behind its 1.6-litre petrol Nissan Juke or MINI Countryman rivals, returning 41.5mpg on the combined cycle and 158g/km of CO2. As for the 140PS 1.4-litre petrol turbo 4x4 Mokka we tried, well despite the extra power and weight, the figures are nearly as good - 45.6mpg and 144g/km of CO2. Much pricier all-wheel drive petrol Juke and Countryman models use much bigger, thirstier, dirtier engines that don't ultimately take you much faster. Stacking up even better is the Mokka in 1.6-litre CDTi 130PS diesel form. Thanks to 'Clean Tech' technology that optimises combustion control, NOx nitrogen oxide emissions are reduced and overall efficiency is dramatically improved. To the point where the figures for this variant - 65.7mpg on the combined cycle and 114g/km of CO2 - get close to those of a MINI Countryman Cooper D that, with around 20PS less, takes around a second longer to get you from rest to sixty.
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TUSCALOOSA | Local businesses carrying Crimson Tide apparel had a sharp increase in business Tuesday as fans bought items commemorating the University of Alabama's back-to-back BCS national championships
TUSCALOOSA | Local businesses carrying Crimson Tide apparel had a sharp increase in business Tuesday as fans bought items commemorating the University of Alabama's back-to-back BCS national championships.
"It is like the Christmas rush," said Verna Rowland, manager of Bama Fever in University Mall.
The store, which carries only UA-related items, had sales comparable to those typically seen the weekend before Christmas, she said. That weekend traditionally has the busiest shopping days for brick-and-mortar retailers.
After Christmas, it is mostly returns, she said. But with the clinching of the national championship, it's different. It's like a second Christmas, she said.
The hottest items were shirts that proclaimed Alabama as the 2012 season national champions and with "15" — the number of national collegiate football championships the Tide now claims — and hats and shirts with the game's score.
"We didn't open until 10 (a.m.), but people were buying (championship apparel) as we opened the boxes," Rowland said.
The store prints some T-shirts and uses some local vendors for its other apparel printing. That allowed it to get apparel with the game score, Alabama 42 and Notre Dame 14, ready for sale as the store opened.
"People are really excited," she said. "With three championships in four years, I was thinking (demand for commemorative wear) would diminish, but it really hasn't."
Shoppers also kept staff at Alumni Hall at Midtown Village busy on Tuesday.
The Tuscaloosa store specializes in Crimson Tide apparel and accessories. It stayed open Monday night, and fans started arriving at halftime, when Alabama had a 28-0 lead, said Josh Belcher, Alumni Hall's corporate director of stores, who was in Tuscaloosa to help with the sales.
He said the Midtown store had Crimson Tide items to sell to the Monday night customers but that those wanting T-shirts that hailed UA as the 2012 BCS national champion could not buy them until the game ended.
Licensing agreements required that boxes containing those items could not be opened until the game ended.
If Alabama had lost the game, the unopened boxes would have been returned to the manufacturer for a refund. If the boxes' seals had been broken, the items could not be returned.
Alumni Hall, which is based in Knoxville, Tenn., has 16 stores in college towns. Each store carries clothing and accessories affiliated with its local university.
The store stayed open until 2 a.m. Tuesday to accommodate postgame shoppers and then reopened in the morning.
Many of the shoppers at the Tuscaloosa store on Tuesday were local residents. From past experience, Belcher said he expects to see a lot of out-of-town shoppers buying commemorative items this weekend.
He said he thinks sales of Alabama championship items are better than they were last year, when Alabama beat LSU for the BCS national title.
Alabama's dominance of Monday night's game and its winning two consecutive titles have people more excited, he said.
Among the excited fans was Matthew Eubanks, who got championship sweatshirt at Alumni Hall.
"I am new in town and just became a Tide fan this season," he said.
Eubanks said he works at UA and being new to the area, he lacked team-related clothing until Tuesday. "Now, I won't be the only one in the department without something," he said.
At T-Town Gallery at University Mall, sales associate Tom Park said he thinks championship-related sales will be better this year than last. He said the store's manager was picking up T-shirts and caps containing the game's score early Tuesday afternoon and it expected to be selling the items by mid-afternoon.
David Jones Jr., manager of the Alabama Bookstore, said his store, too, was waiting for a Tuesday afternoon shipment of freshly printed apparel containing the score from Monday night's game.
"We get the bulk of our apparel from Montgomery and North Carolina and it is en route right now," he said Tuesday afternoon.
The store had about six different UA championship game apparel items in stock before game and sales of those items were good on Tuesday.
With more merchandise in the pipeline, the merchants said they expected sales of championship-related items to continue.


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As we approach the halfway mark to next year's Wrestlemania, now is a good time to look at WWE and assess the current product and major storylines.
While everything last year led to the heavily hyped Rock-John Cena rematch, some new players are likely to move into starring roles for next year's mega-show, scheduled April 6 at the Superdome in New Orleans.
Perhaps the most significant development since Wrestlemania 29 nearly six months ago has been the emergence of Daniel Bryan as one of the biggest stars in the company.
While Bryan's considerable in-ring talent has been appreciated by those in the wrestling world for a number of years, it has only been in the past several months that his potential as a major attraction and personality has been recognized in WWE.
From somewhat of a mid-card comedy act (albeit WWE tag-team champs) with Kane as Team Hell No, Bryan has parlayed his ability to connect with fans into a top spot in the company and a legitimate pay-per-view draw.
The major development on the heels side of the ledger has been the re-emergence of Randy Orton as WWE's top bad guy.
Coming off a costly divorce earlier this year along with other personal issues, Orton has regained the edge that made him one the best heels in the business a few years ago.
The response to Orton's babyface character has always been lukewarm at best. The 33-year-old third-generation star is a natural heel who, in the past, has earned that distinction honestly — whether it be through harassing WWE divas, trashing motel rooms or violating the drug policy.
The fact of the matter is that there's always been a tremendous upside to Orton, but that upside is in the antagonist role where Orton's talents shine the brightest.
The McMahons, this version consisting of Triple H (Paul Levesque) and wife Stephanie McMahon, have produced most of the conflict in recent months while presiding over the company in on-screen authority roles.
Instead of maintaining the order, however, Triple H and Stephanie have shaken up the ranks by backing Orton as world champ, employing The Shield as henchmen, and using the emotionally conflicted Big Show to carry out their dirty work.
All, they contend, under the guise of doing "what's best for business" while flexing their political muscles.
The Bryan-Orton feud will continue to heat up, with the two meeting for the vacated WWE title at the Battleground pay-per-view on Oct. 6.
The likely money match, though, will be Bryan seeking revenge against Triple H for engineering his recent beatdowns. WWE desperately needs to put the belt on Bryan, else risk the real possibility of fans growing tired of seeing the rug pulled from under the sympathetic underdog.
Until last week's revolt, the WWE locker room had been portrayed as a weak, disjointed unit more concerned about job security than presenting themselves as "superstars."
Perhaps the WWE star coming off the worst has been Big Show, who has been forced to acquiesce to the demands of the power-hungry Triple H and the smarmy and condescending Stephanie on a weekly basis, turning his character from a 500-pound monster to a sentimental softie whose ability to turn on the waterworks should get him a future gig on the Hallmark Channel.
The last thing you want to do is have "the world's largest athlete" come off as weak and whiny, but unfortunately that's exactly what WWE has accomplished.
It will be difficult to turn Show babyface when they inevitably have him side with Bryan. Fans may have short memories, but the vivid images of the once-feared giant laying out members of the Rhodes family, among others, won't be easily forgotten.
While strengthening the heel personas of Triple H and Stephanie, the storyline has done nothing to enhance the sappy Show's reputation.
One possible way out of that conundrum would be to expose Big Show as having been a willing participant in the McMahon power play all along. That way, Daniel has another transitional feud on his way to getting his ultimate shot at the boss, and Big Show gets to put over his undersized but undeterred opponent.
Perhaps no one has told a better story than C.M. Punk and Paul Heyman. It's the age-old wrestling angle of the mentor turning on his best friend, with the result being some of the best mic work in WWE this past year.
Like Bryan, Punk is another example of an underutilized performer who shined on the independent circuit, was deemed not suitable for WWE greatness, but defied the odds and broke through the glass ceiling.
Ryback, who burst upon the scene a year ago and drew comparisons to Bill Goldberg, has seen his star fade after a hot start that was derailed by a series of non-wins at pay-per-views and other high-profile events.
WWE has attempted to reboot his character with a gimmick of bullying WWE performers. Even enlisting Heyman as his mouthpiece, though, is unlikely to restore his lost credibility.
As for rumors of The Undertaker putting his streak on the line against Ryback at next year's Mania, the latter would have to undergo a massive transformation for that to occur.
And with The Undertaker taking great pride in his annual big-show performance, it would be difficult to imagine a Taker-Ryback match coming close to equaling his most recent classics with C.M. Punk, Triple H, Shawn Michaels and Edge. Better choices for a WM opponent would be John Cena or Brock Lesnar. Given Lesnar's stiff, rugged style, WWE would be taking a chance matching him up with the 48-year-old "Dead Man," who has been plagued with various injuries in recent years.
If Taker doesn't pan out for Lesnar, there's always the chance that The Rock will make his fourth straight Wrestlemania appearance, setting up Rock vs. Brock.
Last year's Wrestlemania was the highest-grossing pay-per-view event in company history, and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson was a major reason.
For now, though, the 41-year-old "Great One" isn't showing his hand on a possible return.
"I'd like to leave it open. But if I'd never wrestle again, I'd be very content with that," he said in an interview earlier this year. "We'll see."
The conspicuous absence of former WWE champs Cena and Sheamus due to injuries has left a void in the top tier of the roster, but it's also allowed other stars to shine and grab some of the spotlight.
The Shield has been a pleasant surprise, with the young trio promising to be a part of the main-event picture for a long time. Dean Ambrose and Seth Rollins have been highly effective in the ring and on the mic, while Roman Reigns (former first-team All-ACC defensive end Joe Anoa'i from Georgia Tech) has been a breakout star in his enforcer role.
Another hot act of late has been The Wyatt Family led by the former Husky Harris. Bray Wyatt (Windham Rotunda), son of former star Mike Rotunda and grandson of Blackjack Mulligan (Bob Windham), has emerged as one of the top talkers in the company.
Rey Mysterio is scheduled to return next month following an eight-month layoff due to a bad knee.
One of the top high flyers in the history of the sport, Mysterio has been plagued by knee problems in recent years, and this could be his last major run in WWE.
What WWE fans can look forward to is the imminent return of WWE chairman Vince McMahon who, hopefully, will restore some order.
WWE hoped to make a big splash by luring Steve Austin back for one more match at Wrestlemania 30 — this time representing longtime arch-nemesis McMahon in a battle with Triple H, the new evil ultimate boss, for control of the company. Austin, though, turned down a big-money offer, obviously content with staying put on his Texas ranch.
Between then and now, speculation will run rampant, rumors will fly. That's what makes Wrestlemania the biggest event of the year in professional wrestling.
Daniel Bryan (Bryan Danielson) and Brie Bella (Brianna Garcia-Colace) are now engaged, according to the E! network, which airs the "Total Divas" reality show.
E! News reported that Daniel popped the question on Sept. 25 while they were on a hike in Big Sur, Calif. The two have been together for nearly three years.
"I have never in my life seen him so nervous. I've been by him when he's gone out for Wrestlemania and some really big things," Brie told E! "He got really, really nervous and he started talking about how long we've been together. He got down on one knee and compared our love. He said he'll love me forever like the ocean goes on."
The cameras, of course, were rolling when Bryan got down on that knee, and viewers can watch the entire proposal when season one of the show returns on Nov. 17.
Sports Illustrated named C.M. Punk as one of the 100 Twitter accounts to follow for "finding news, information and entertainment."
SI noted that the seven-time WWE champion (and noted Blackhawks and Cubs fan) is a master of the Twitter mic, whether mocking spelling and grammar mistakes from Twitter trolls or tweeting photos of himself to battling singer Chris Brown ("I would like @chrisbrown fight somebody that can defend themselves. Me curb stomping that (expletive) would be a #wrestlemania moment.")
Bobby Smedley, better known as former Smoky Mountain champion Bobby Blaze, has penned a candid memoir titled "Pin Me, Pay Me! Have Boots Will Travel." The 219-page autobiography offers an insightful and entertaining behind-the scenes look at the Ashland, Ky., native's career in the ring — the good, the bad and the ugly.
The book is available at amazon.com.
Reach Mike Mooneyham at 843-937-5517 or firstname.lastname@example.com, or follow him on Twitter at @ByMike Mooneyham and on Facebook at Facebook.com/MikeMooneyham.


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Rokita Partners with Indiana Commission on Hispanic/Latino Affairs
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Voters reminded about election law requirements
(Indianapolis) -- As Hispanic Heritage month celebrations abound throughout the nation, Indiana Secretary of State Rokita, in collaboration with the Indiana Commission on Hispanic/Latino Affairs, wants to remind Hoosier voters of their rights and responsibilities on Election Day, Nov. 6.
To do this, both offices participated in Fiesta Indianapolis, offering voter registration and providing general election information to thousands of visitors to Indianapolis' American Legion Mall downtown. This was the third year that the Secretary of State's office participated in an effort to facilitate voter outreach throughout the area's Hispanic community.
"I want every eligible Hoosier citizen to exercise their right to vote, and partnerships like this are key to getting the word out to Hoosier voters," said Rokita. "Decisions made at local levels of government have a significant impact on Hoosier voters and tax payers. It is critical that we make our voices heard by voting in the November 6 Municipal Election."
"The Commission is pleased and honored to join with Secretary Rokita in promoting civic engagement to Hispanic and Latino voters throughout Indiana," said Amy Mendoza, Executive Director of the Indiana Commission on Hispanic/Latino Affairs.
Commission members are encouraged to share information with their memberships on using http://www.indianavoters.com/ to verify their voter registration and check their polling location. Additionally, members are challenged to conduct a voter registration drive or educational campaign within their organization using the forms and other free resources from the Secretary of State's website, www.sos.in.gov/elections.


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Experience the adventure of the great outdoors on your very own Ranch! Grow organic crops and animals, use them to bake tasty dishes and then serve them or trade with your friends to earn cash. Use cash to build and decorate your very own homestead in the beautiful mountain wilderness.
Become the greatest Zookeeper the world has ever seen! Visitors are sure to flock to your Zoo as they catch wind of your ever–expanding, ever–evolving animal kingdom. Acquire, breed, train, race, and continue to nurture your prized animals. Take care of your animals and feed them treats to keep them safe, healthy, and happy.
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Have your own Fashion Store! Create the clothes, put them on the stands, and try to sell them to your customers by hiring friends and adding dressers. Decorate your store to be cooler than others!
Rise as King of the Jungle in the hunt for magnificent jewels and valuable gold coins. Compete with your friends and swap jewels vertically or horizontally to form groups of three or more same-colored jewels. Adventure, discovery, and thrills at every turn make Jungle Jewels the most exciting game.
RockYou is a leading social gaming company delivering nearly 20MM monthly active users. The company developed the social game classic Zoo World, over 50MM installs to date, and the award-nominated Gourmet Ranch, one of the fastest growing Facebook games. RockYou is committed to the development of high quality titles for the social space.
RockYou empowers brands and game developers to reach and monetize audiences through innovative social advertising solutions, including Deal of the Day, video products and in-game brand integrations.
Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, RockYou is funded by Sequoia Capital, Partech International, Lightspeed Venture Partners, DCM and Softbank.
The RockYou Executive Management Team consists of industry experts with experiece from Electronic Arts, Activision, Yahoo, Google, YouTube, eBay, Time Warner, and StumbleUpon. This cohesive leadership is focused on bringing RockYou to the forefront of social gaming.
Employment is managed through the Human Resources Department and all candidates are presented through this avenue. Recruiters are requested not to contact RockYou employees or management directly in an attempt to present candidates. Complying with this request will be a factor in determining any professional relationship with RockYou. To protect the interests of all parties involved, RockYou requires a signed agreement to be in place prior to the presentation of any candidates. RockYou does not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than directly from the candidates for either current or future positions. Submission of unsolicited resumes in advance of a signed agreement between RockYou and the recruiter does not create any implied obligation on the part of RockYou.Thank you for your cooperation.
RockYou reaches 200MM monthly unique visitors and provides innovative social media advertising solutions.
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Edward Dalton
Ted landed in Vietnam in 2013, looking for new ways to emulate his globetrotting, octo-lingual grandfather and all-round hero. After spending a year putting that history Masters to good use by teaching English, his plan to return to his careers adviser in a flood of remorseful tears backfired when he met someone special and tied the knot two years on. Now working as a wordsmith crackerjack (ahem, staff writer) for Word Vietnam.
After a fruitful year writing for Word, and a further three-and-a-half living it up in Hanoi, Edward Dalton returns to his homeland, the UK. But going home with Vietnamese wife in tow is not as straightforward as it may seem
Come Dine with Me: The Hanoi Edition
Four dinners, four erstwhile chefs, and four nights of great food. Edward Dalton and three other hosts prepare dinner parties and get marked on how well they do. For the first time ever, the popular British cooking show, Come Dine with Me, has come to Hanoi — kind of.
Legends of the Viet
Vietnam has many legends which help define its people, the Kinh people, as a nation. Here are a few.
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Two years since opening, Linguini Fini continues to go from strength to strength. With an extensive menu using only the freshest ingredients and home-made pastas, it's easy to see why.


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Common Ground will convene a special weeklong "Taste of Seminary" gathering, June 13-18, offering young adults a unique, immersive experience of seminary life as they discern God's call to ministry. Participants will have an opportunity to engage one another and learn from highly regarded scholars of color from a variety of Christian traditions and seminaries to get a "taste" of Biblical Studies, History, Theology and Ethics, and Ministry. /taste.
A pair of companion young adult conference-retreats, "Throwing Down, Expressing Faith," hosted July 9-11 and August 13-15, looks at identity and faith formation through the artistic lens of music and spoken word/poetry, respectively. For more information, visit /conferences.
Capping off the slate of summer events is the "Pastors Networking Gathering," August 2-4, which offers experienced pastors a time of Sabbath, reflection, and mutual learning about best practices in ministry across a variety of congregational settings and ethnic and cultural backgrounds. Find out more at /leaders.
In the fall, Common Ground will the Next Generation Ministry Consultation, bringing together pastors and church leaders from African American, Latino/a and Asian American congregations, with scholars from related fields, to identify and discuss the issues, challenges, commonalities, and differences related to the development of the next generations of church leadership for these specific communities and for the greater Church. Specific dates and times are forthcoming at /nextgen.
"Globally, particularly in the United States, we are living in a rapidly changing environment where cultures and traditions are increasingly diverse," says Project Coordinator Emily McGinley (M.Div., Class of 2009). "This is both terrifying and wondrous. Our great hope at the Common Ground Project is that we can prepare leaders of color in the church who will not be left behind in these changes but be uniquely equipped to shepherd their communities into the fullness of the hope that this change represents."
About the Common Ground Project
Made possible by a grant from the Lilly Endowment Inc., the Common Ground Project is an ecumenical initiative dedicated to supporting communities of color. The Project recognizes that the challenges facing communities of color are multi-faceted and distinct to each community, but also sees precedent in scripture for great hope in the midst of any trial when communities are tied together by God's vision for humanity. Therefore, one of the primary principals of the Project is partnership among church leaders across culture and race. The Common Ground Project brings together African American, Asian American and Latin@ leaders of color in the church for the purpose of exploring and discussing shared challenges, opportunities and gifts.
For more information on McCormick's Common Ground Project, made by possible by a grant from Lilly Endowment Inc.'s Making Connections Initiative, visit www.mccormick.edu/common-ground-project or call Emily McGinley at 773.947.6319.


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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California man accused of making online threats against elementary schools after the school shooting in Connecticut won't face charges, Los Angeles prosecutors said Monday.
The district attorney's office said Kyle Bangayan, 24, made no specific threat to a victim or school before he was booked into the downtown jail Sunday for investigation of making criminal threats.
The Pomona man told police he was joking when he wrote that if people don't stop posting about the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings on Facebook, then he would do the same thing. Bangayan said the joke got a few laughs.
On Friday, Adam Lanza, 20, killed his mother, then shot and killed 20 children and six adults at the school in Newtown, Conn., before killing himself.
Bangayan also wrote that thousands of children die in other countries and that Americans needed to get over the shootings.
Police and FBI agents went to the east Hollywood home of Bangayan's father after a resident notified authorities about the online postings, Smith said. FBI agents closed their investigation after they talked to Bangayan's parents, searched his apartment and car, and found nothing threatening.
"When we get information like this, we take it very seriously, even more so now in light of the Connecticut school shootings," Cmdr. Andrew Smith said.
The joint investigation has been turned over to Los Angeles police, and there won't be any federal charges, FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller said.
When police and FBI agents arrived at the east Hollywood home, Bangayan's father gave permission for a search, authorities said.
Nine weapons and ammunition were confiscated, including rifles, a shotgun and handguns, authorities said.
It's not yet known if the weapons belonged to Bangayan or his father. No weapons were found at Bangayan's residence in Pomona.
The father's telephone number is unlisted, and there is no listing for Kyle Bangayan in Pomona.
The home is in a working-class neighborhood about eight miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles. Pomona is about 30 miles to the east.
No charges for suspect of threats against schools
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California man accused of making online threats against elementary schools after the school shooting in Connecticut won't face charges, Los Angeles prosecutors said Monday.


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|The mission of the Texas Department of Transportation is to provide safe, effective and efficient movement of people and goods.
|Since 1932, membership in Texas Good Roads / Transportation Association has been made up of business people, community leaders, chamber of commerce members, professionals and transportation experts – Texans who understand that good roads lead to a stronger economy. Our goal is to support the efforts of the Texas Department of Transportation in working with the Texas Legislature to promote efficient transportation.
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|The mission of Texas Transportation Institute is to solve transportation problems through research, to transfer technology, and to develop resources to meet the transportation challenges of tomorrow.
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Officials around the county and the state were preparing for what was expected Wednesday to be the first significant snowfall in almost a year.
Officials around the county and the state were preparing for what was expected Wednesday to be the first significant snowfall in almost a year. The western portion of Kansas was expected to have the heaviest snowfall and strongest wind gusts from a system that was to move in to the area with rain Wednesday night and turn into snow and sleet between midnight and 3 a.m. Thursday morning. According to the National Weather Service, the chance for precipitation in Leavenworth County on Wednesday was 100 percent, with between one and three inches of snow to fall as a result of the storm that was to last through Thursday morning. Moving in from the west, the storm brought Interstate 70 to a close in Goodland, Kan., on Wednesday afternoon, the Kansas Department of Transportation reported. Being the first significant snowfall of this winter season, Kansas Highway Patrol officials were anticipating a higher than usual number of accidents, and offered tips to motorists, like the importance of having an emergency kit with blankets, water, a flashlight and first-aid supplies; having a full tank of gas; and allowing oneself more than enough time to get to a destination. KDOT reminded motorists of its free 511 phone number alerting drivers on road conditions and announced that drivers could sign up for personalized text or email messages on road conditions by subscribing at www.kandrive.org. Area public works crews were also getting prepared. They've had plenty of time and have ample resources on hand, according to Leavenworth Public Works Director Mike McDonald. "We hardly used anything last year," he said of salt and chemical supplies due to the dry conditions last winter. "This will be the biggest storm of 2012, we think." Last winter, Leavenworth County Public Works Director Mike Spickelmier said his department also used little of its salt and chemical supply, meaning that the salt storage units needed little in the way of resupply. "We're all full and we're prepared for the storm," he said. Though to what extent they are prepared depends somewhat on the nature of the storm, officials said. Lansing Public Works Director John Young said perhaps one of the biggest challenges will be shifting from the other paving work that the department has been able to do as a result of continued dry conditions. And Young said, the forecasts call for high-speed wind gusts in addition to the snowfall. "We may see a little bit of drifting. That would probably be the main issue with this storm," he said. "It's going to get nasty." But given the advance notice of the storm — forecasts were calling for snowfall as far back as last Thursday —�McDonald said the city started preparing beforehand by getting plows fitted with spreaders Tuesday, reviewing the routes with crews and giving newer members of the department some practice. "We're kind of preparing for two to three inches," he said. McDonald said Public Works will take the primary role in clearing the streets. However, he said personnel from the Parks and Recreation and Wastewater departments have also been trained on the snow plowing equipment and will be on call to take a portion of the work, if needed. The first shifts were scheduled to be called in that night to pretreat roads if conditions allow, McDonald said. Until the system actually moves in, he said, crews would be waiting.