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Silversea's Silver Spirit Debutsby Paul Motter | Jan. 22, 2009
Silver Spirit is christened in Fort Lauderdale and begins life as a top of the line luxury cruise ship.
The beautiful new Silver Spirit from Silversea Cruises fresh from the Ship Yard
A gaggle of cruise journalists were on hand to witness one of the most significant events in luxury cruising in a decade - the inauguration of a brand new class of luxury cruise ships from Silversea Cruises, arguably the luxury cruise leader. The godmother, Silvia Lefebvre, sister of Silversea chairman Manfredi Lefebvre, presided over the festivities with the traditional words, "I name this ship Silver Spirit, God bless her and all who sail upon her."
With those words she cut the ceremonial ribbon with the unusually large ceremonial scissors ribbon holding the ceremonial bottle of Moët & Chandon champagne. The bottle swung widely against the hull of the ship, despite a steady 30 mph crosswind, and smacked heartily against the bow. Unfortunately, the bottle didn't break. Call it the ceremonial curse of Camilla whose bottle did not break when she christened the Cunard Queen Victoria in 2008. In any case, just as with Camilla, a deckhand pulled up the rope and swing the bottle mightily against the bow, smashing it to pieces.Click here for a video of the "Silversea Silver Spirit Champagne Christening Ceremony."
By the way, in the tradition of European cruise lines, this was a "Christening ceremony" with a blessing given by a priest. Many of the more Anglo-based cruise lines have started referring to the to the ceremony as a "naming ceremony" since the British Government has decided to take the religious component out of ship inauguration festivities. Father Thomas W. Falkenthal, director of the Apostleship of the Sea for the Archdiocese of Miami had the honors of blessing the ship in this service.
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|Father Thomas W. Falkenthal
|A Guardsman with the flag of Silversea
|Godmother, Silvia Lefebvre
|The crew cheers from above
|Silversea CEO Amerigo Perasso
|Silversea Chairman Manfredi Lefebvre
Rest assured, that event has absolutely nothing to do with the vessel itself which is the epitome of beauty and style in luxury cruise ships. We toured the ship thoroughly and sampled its excellent Relais and Chateaux cuisine, and found it all to be better than expected. Silver Spirit has all the intimacy of the smaller ships, even at 36,000-tonnes and a capacity of 540 quests. The decor is subdued but classic with bronze railings over glass panel and redwood accents.
The suites are among the most lavish in the cruise world, and there more of them per passenger on this ship than on any other luxury vessel. Most popular are the "Silver Suites" with their separate bedrooms, living rooms and bathrooms that go on forever. With a large walk-in closet, a separate room for the toilet, a jacuzzi-style bathtub and a separate rain shower, these suites are the price and joy of Silversea, so popular that they gave Silver Spirit 26 of them. There are also two Grand Suites and two Owner's Suites.
All suites feature: Pommery Champagne upon arrival, fresh fruit and flowers, beverage cabinet stocked to your preference, European bath amenities, fine bed linens, your choice of pillow, plush robes and slippers, personalized stationery, daily news summary, and twice daily suite service plus turndown nightly. The Owner's Suites are among the largest at sea: 1668 sq. ft when you add on an extra bedroom with adjoining verandah suite. The Grand Suite is 990 sq ft, or add an adjoining stateroom. The most popular Silver Suite is 742 sq. ft and has a separate bedroom, living room and extensive bath facilities.
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|Owner's Suite Balcony
|Espresso machine Vista Suite
|Standard Suite Amenities
|Owner's Suite Table Setting
|Suite Bathrooms
|Ipod Player Vista Suite
Every stateroom is a suite however. Even my simple Verandah Suite has a generous walk-in closet, a tub and a rain shower, granite counters and two televisions. The televisions are the most state of the art I have ever seen on a cruise ship. They are mounted within the mirrors, a large 36-inch model directly in front of the bed, and and a 31-inch model across from the sofa. In truth, while I saw the smaller television I never even saw the one across from my bed because it disappears when it is not turned on.
Relais and Chateaux Dining on Silver Spirit
We had a chance to sample The Restaurant on Silver Spirit and my lamb was roasted to perfection. Large chops on the rib were the perfect pink color you would expect to see when Gordon Ramsey of Hell's Kitchen, for example, holds up a perfectly executed chop and says "well done," to a budding chef. Not that the chop was well done, it was rare, but it was a "job well done," without a doubt.
But The Restaurant is just one of the more exciting dining venues onboard. very enticing by appearance (although we did not get a chance to try the food), is a new addition to Silversea, the Star's Supper Club which features a mouth-watering tapas menu. The room is open early as a nightclub with a wonderful soul balladeer, and the action continues through the night with the tapas and wine flowing until midnight when the kitchen closes. The selections include tastes of lamb, caviar and other delights.
Click here to see the Star Supper Club Menu
Another ultra-enticing dining option is the Seishin Restaurant for Kobe beef, sushi and seafood. There is a small fee to dine here. Le Champagne is present, as on the smaller Silversea ships. This is a six-course culinary experience where fine wines and spirits are paired with a tasting menu of several courses. This is a true gourmand experience with a price tag to match. Of course, the food and spirits you experience do not come cheaply to the cruise line. Truffles, caviar, foi gras and other very rare dishes are accompanied by the world's most famous vintages kept on board in the ship's stellar wine cellar.
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|The Stars Supperclub
|Seishin Restaurant
|Observation Lounge Bar
La Terraza is the buffet style restaurant also with extensive table service. The buffet itself is in a separate room to reduce the "buffet" feel of the dining room. You can get up to visit the on selection or a waiter will bring it to you. If you prefer eggs benedict or a special omelet, for example, you just ask your waiter to have it prepared for you. There is no standing in line. The pool grill is a similar experience to La Terraza, but with a smaller menu of grilled foods.
The main theater "Show Lounge" is beautiful with great sight lines and a fantastic sound system. It is very intimate even for a ship with over 500 guests. The casino is the biggest Silversea has ever had by far, with several tables games and several rows of slot machines. The panorama lounge has live music for dancing with "social ambassadors" for the ladies. For the gentlemen there is the Humidor, a fine cigar bar with accompanying brandies an scotches. Don't forget, on Silversea all of the liquor is included in the cruise fare, unless it is a particularly rare vintage in which case there will be a reasonable surcharge.
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|The Showroom
|The Casino
|StarClub Showroom
Think of Silversea, especially this newer and bigger Silver Spirit, as a repository of some of the world's finest indulgences available to you. If you care to enjoy in some of the rarest wines, spirits and food in the world you will have to pay a little extra, but it isn't mandatory.
Overall, it is plain to see that Silver Spirit will be Silversea's most exciting cruise ship yet. Yes it has more passengers but it still has all the aspects of intimacy one expects from Silversea. The larger vessel offers two exciting new dining rooms, the Supper Club for Spanish-style tapas, and the Sheinsei for Japanese cuisine. The ship has a beautiful showroom and a much larger casino. In the end this takes luxury to a whole new level.


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Since we see first-hand and experience the impact of this offering, I would like to say THANK YOU for giving to the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering.
Do you know how much the average Southern Baptist gives to international missions per year? $8.35!!!
Here are a few suggestions that you might consider this Christmas Season as you determine what amount to give. Some of these ideas come from the IMB website here, but most are things we have tried ourselves over the years and personally practice as a family.
1) Decide what amount of money you will spend on your family this Christmas and give MORE than this amount to the LMCO. After all, it is Christ's birthday we are celebrating. Should we be getting more than He if it is his birthday?
2) Something we have done as a family for several years now is set aside an amount out of our monthly paycheck and have that amount automatically credited to the LMCO. This took a couple of email and phone calls to set up, but we haven't had to fool with it since, and are able to give to LMCO throughout the year.
3) A variation on the idea above would be to have a LMCO gift box that you deposit a set amount every week/month throughout the year. Then give this amount to your church when the offering is collected in December.
4) Sell tickets to a mother-daughter or father-son breakfast or brunch. Invite a missionary as a guest speaker. Proceeds go to Lottie Moon.
5) Auction students to church members for a day of service, from cleaning house to raking leaves. Money members give for the work youth do goes to Lottie Moon.
6) One thing we missionaries have done for many years is have an auction where a volunteer team brings in "goodies" from the States and auction them off to the missionaries. A six-pack of Dr. Pepper went for $120 one year! My son paid $60 for a box of Double-Bubble gum. I myself have paid $35 for a jar of Jiff peanut butter! All proceeds go to the missions offerings. Might your church do something similar?
7) Challenge folks to save money for the offering by giving up something small. Examples include a fast-food meal a week or a movie a month. Host a special ceremony for everyone to give their offering and share what God taught them through their sacrifice.
8) Double (or triple!) whatever you gave last year. Give sacrificially, not what is convenient.
9) As a church body, decide to channel funds to a lost world instead of to building improvements or beautification projects.
10) View some of the ideas for promoting the LMCO at the IMB Idea Gallery.
Whatever you decide to give, please do so beforehand in prayer. The idea of just reaching in your pocket and giving whatever comes out doesn't seem worthy of the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Give thoughtfully, prayerfully. There are few offerings that make as much of an eternal impact on the world as the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering. Is $8.35 really all we can come up with in a year so that the world may know Him?
How much will you give this year to see souls around the globe come to the Savior?
You can give online here or checks can be mailed (gifts are tax-deductable) to:
Lottie Moon Christmas Offering
International Mission Board, SBC
P.O. Box 6767
Richmond, VA 23230
Lottie Moon Christmas Offering
International Mission Board, SBC
P.O. Box 6767
Richmond, VA 23230

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Sucker Punch made a very interesting, very good choice in choosing to set their follow up to inFamous in a fictional recreation of post-disaster New Orleans. The first game had a lot going for it—I've always thought it was underrated—but, its setting was not one of them. Our own Evan Narcisse has described inFamous as the "first post-Katrina video game," and I think he's right—so it made sense that Sucker Punch would take the logical leap and set the sequel down in their version of The Big Easy, a town called New Marais.
But if you're gonna do New Orleans, you gotta do New Orleans music. It's a whole other can of worms than the sort of jazz we heard in L.A. Noire, and a simple soundtrack of N'awlins R&B wouldn't cut it for an epic, cinematic superhero game.
So, Sucker Punch brought on both Stanton Moore and Brian "Brain" Mantia, drummers from the New Orleans funk band Galactic, to infuse the soundtrack with some soul and authenticity. Back when I was at Paste, I spent a lot of time talking with the folks at Sucker Punch, both about their choice of setting and running a big interview with Moore about the soundtrack.
But even after all that, I wasn't quite sold—New Orleans authenticity is a damned hard thing to recreate (just ask David Simon, who has put an insane amount of work into keeping his excellent HBO show Treme true to life). Fortunately, once I played the game I was immediately won over—Moore's score is an amazing blend of New Orleans funk, second-line, and epic Batman-esque hero music. Any way you slice it, it's a remarkable soundtrack, and I personally think that it's much more creative and interesting that the more bombastic (and still very good) score for Batman: Arkham City.
Here are three of my favorite tracks:
This track captures the similar sort of driving, heroic chords we'd expect from a superhero game, but mixes with it a ton of surprising choices. Particularly in how the strings begin to bend and twist the triumphant melody towards the end, signifying the chaos and ugliness of the conflicts to come. This kind of intense string arrangement, odd percussion, and driving beat has become emblematic of the inFamous sound, which is no small feat for a game that could have very easily had a generic soundtrack.
"7th Ward"
"7th Ward" uses Stanton Moore's second-line chops to full effect. Second line is the groove that comes in at 0:25, and while I don't claim to be an expert in New Orleans music, I am an expert in "things that make me want to get up and dance." And for all the darkness in the strings and melody, this tune makes me want to do a wicked jig. The instrumentation, again, is creative as hell—muted trumpets, weird-ass string sound effects, hand drums, sampled/distorted drums, and electronic effects all merge together to create an unsettlingly groovy track.
"Plant Monster"
It's easy to forget that in addition to being a superhero game, inFamous 2 is a bit of a horror game—it's got creepy bayous full of bloodthirsty mutants, huge, building-crushing beasts, and a general air of southern-fried monster mash. This track shows the composers' flexibility once more, as they immediately grab the string-stingers of the best horror movies and repurpose them into a driving chase anthem. It's equal parts Arkham City and Dead Space 2, making it all the more remarkable that it's cohesive. A terrific piece of superhero music, here, and a fine example of everything that made the inFamous 2 soundtrack so remarkable.
And that's inFamous 2! Outstanding soundtrack for a fun, somewhat overlooked gem of a game. The soundtrack can be purchased through Amazon and comes in two versions: Blue and Red, depending on the "alignment" of the music. We'll return tomorrow with yet another of the best video game soundtracks of 2011.
"The Best Game Music of 2011" is a multi-part series highlighting the best video game soundtracks of the year.


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Get the Look: Sofia Vergara at the 2012 Golden Globes./
Sofia Vergara had her makeup done by Kayleen McAdams for last night's Golden Globe Awards. She looked stunning in her blue mermaid gown.
Inspiration for the look:
This look is all about the lips. We chose a bright plum lip and kept the eyes soft with bronze shadow and multiple coats of mascara. The dress is a gorgeous shade of teal and the hair is very sleek and youthful so we wanted the makeup to stand out and look youthful as well.
I started by applying COVERGIRL TRUconceal Concealer #4 under the eyes and around the nose. I then applied COVERGIRL NatureLuxe Silk Foundation in Nutmeg with a sponge and set that with COVERGIRL Clean Pressed Powder in Soft Honey. I chose a plum toned blush (COVERGIRL Cheekers Blush in Plumberry Glow) and applied it along the cheekbones and apples of the cheeks.
I applied COVERGIRL Eye Enhancers 3-kit Shadow in Golden Sunset all over the lid and into the crease and then applied three coats of NEW COVERGIRL LashBlast 24HR Mascara to the top lashes and one coat on the bottom.
I applied COVERGIRL LipPerfection Lipcolor in Everlasting first and then applied COVERGIRL LipPerfection Lipliner in Beloved. This keeps the lipstick from bleeding, but makes it easier to apply the line with the moisture of the lipstick.
When she was ready to hit the red carpet, I sent Sofia on her way with powder, lip pencil and lipstick for reapplication.


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Why Airshow?
Whether one-on-one or in front of millions on TV, presentations are the primary means of persuasion in business. The problem is that most people receive no training in how to compose the most crucial images they project to an audience and the tools available do not take advantage of motion, touch, processing power, mobility and high resolutions.
Airshow teaches principles of persuasion using techniques of cinematography and visual storytelling.
What You Will Learn
You'll learn how to:
- Persuade with logic, empathy and credibility.
- Present rich data as compelling and emotionally engaging
- Get hands-on experience with modern tools of persuasion including tablets and interactive, touch-based interfaces.
You have the data. You have the audience. All you need is a story and a screenplay. How do you build them?
There are techniques which are proven to work. They've been used by writers, performers and playwrights for centuries. Professional presentation coaches will teach you far less and at greater expense.
- Airshow is better and less expensive, especially in terms of time.
- Airshow is an intimate experience. Audience size is limited.
- All the tools and techniques needed in one day of intense, inspirational and engaging training.
Now is the time to learn presentation skills for the post-PC era.
What People Say About Airshow
"Airshow: Post-PowerPoint storytelling."
—Jean-Louis Gassée, Fmr. Apple
"Airshow was amazing. Business stories with cinematic impact made easy with perspective"
— Paul Brody, Global Business Leader, IBM
"Airshow has fundamentally changed how I give client and industry presentations. It is an important tool in my toolbox which allows me to showcase my data and my story in ways that help audiences gain deeper insight and perspective."
— Ben Bajarin, Tech.pinions
"Nobody brings numbers to life like Horace Dediu does."
—Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Fortune/CNN
"Airshow is a treat [...] showing how to make the audience wonder."
—Bertram Gugel
"Fascinating time at Airshow London: Post-Powerpoint telling stories with data."
—Charles Arthur, Technology Editor, Guardian
"Airshow is surpassing my expectations. Very interesting deep content."
—Ryan Singer, 37signals.
Airshow event starts at 9:30am and will run no later than 4:00pm. Registrants will receive details via email prior to the day of the event.


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Anderson Cooper cut short an interview with Sarah Burge, the so-called "Human Barbie," after she defended giving her teen daughter Botox injections.
"I just think you're dreadful and I honestly don't want to talk to you anymore, so I'm just going to stop," he said before stopping the interview.
Burge, mom to three kids, is originally from England but has moved to the United States so her 8-year-old, Poppy, can be a pageant star like those seen on Toddlers & Tiaras. Burge has also made headlines for giving her then-16-year-old a voucher for breast implants as a birthday present and for teaching her then-6-year-old to pole dance.
"I would prefer to oversee my daughter's Botox than have her going underground finding a voodoo witchdoctor or in fact getting it off the Internet and administrating it herself," she told Cooper.
Because the only two options for teens are parent-supervised Botox treatments or black-market Botox treatments? Please note: No Botox treatments for teens is another option that should be seriously considered.
Cooper later said he regretted having Burge on the show.
"I didn't think it was an honest discussion and I didn't see the point in continuing," he said.


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Mosquito nose transplanted to frogs, flies
February 16, 2010 Leave a comment
To combat malaria, we must understand the mosquito's nose
Malaria affects several hundred million people worldwide every year, and each year, more than one million people–mostly children–die of the disease. The vectors for transferring the plasmodium that causes malaria to humans are female mosquitoes from the Anopheles genus. To combat these mosquitoes and this deadly disease, we must first understand the mosquito nose.
The mosquito sense of smell is localized to the animal's antennae. There, nerve cells sense various odors (all smells are particulate!) via molecules of protein called receptors (because they "receive" the input). Scientists have reasoned that if they can understand which odors trigger these receptors–and thus, the mosquito's interest–they may be able to develop odorants (smells) that distract the mosquito from people, thus reducing transmission of malaria.
Fruit flies and frogs with mosquito noses
While using the actual animal might seem to be the way to go, scientists turn to more standard laboratory models for such work. Fruit flies and frog eggs are long-time, well-characterized standbys in the lab environment, and specific manipulations allow researchers to introduce genes from other organisms into these species. Because fruit flies and frogs are such prolific animals, reproducing by the hundreds, the proteins that these introduced genes encode can be produced in the context of the whole organism in large numbers. In science and industry, a process that allows big production outputs like this is called "high throughput."
The labs of Dr. John Carlson of Yale and Dr. Lawrence Zweibel of Vanderbilt have respectively co-opted the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) and a frog (species not specified) as their method of high-throughput production of these mosquito nose proteins. The fly approach is a bit slower, involving painstaking insertion of the mosquito genes into flies one at a time. The flies express the proteins in their own antennae, a replacement for their own receptors that have been knocked out.
The frog egg approach is more truly high throughput, as the engineered frog eggs express an abundance of the mosquito nose proteins. The smell-sensitive egg then can be tested using a system that measures nerve signals: Whenever a specific odorant dissolved in the buffer solution surrounding the egg sets off the nose protein receptor, the system registers the electrical response.
The flies are good for testing compounds that volatilize in air, showing by their behavior whether or not the odor attracts, while the frog eggs allow for a more truly high-throughput analysis. Together, they make quite a team when it comes to testing the mosquito's sense of smell.
Frogs and flies, working together
The two labs tested each system using 72 receptors from the Anopheles "nose" and a panel of 110 odorants. The mosquito-nosed frog eggs and mosquito-nosed flies yielded results that pretty much matched: Some receptors are generalist types, reacting to just about any smell, but a special few focus more on specific odors. As it turns out, 27 of these receptors are fine-tuned to respond to the odorants in human sweat. The results from these studies are reported simultaneously in two papers, one in Nature and one soon to appear in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
A decoy smell for the mosquito
Why go to all the trouble to make mosquito noses in flies and frogs? The hope is to use these high-throughput methods to identify compounds that can serve as decoys for the mosquitoes by deceiving these "nose" receptors. If researchers can identify an eau d' sweat that distracts the mosquito away from a human target or an odorant combination that repels the mosquito from people, the outcome could be a decrease in transmission rates of malaria.
UPDATE: Malaria does not distinguish between kings and commoners: News reports indicate that the microscopic plasmodium may have felled King Tut himself.
Ideas for questions
Why do scientists focus on species like fruit flies or frogs (e.g, Xenopus laevis) when they do research like this? Why not use the species being studies instead?
Do some research on the relationship between the malarial plasmodium and the mosquito. Do all species of mosquito transmit this pathogen? What distinguishes species that transmit malaria?
The article references measuring electrical activity in the frog eggs in response to odorants. Look up "voltage clamp." How is that used to measure electrical activity?
World/public health question: What has been done in the past to combat malaria? How effective were these efforts? What is being done today? Some efforts are high-tech, like the studies described above. Some are low-tech. Can you identify a few examples of each?


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Archive for the 'Moses' Category
Turn it and turn it again: The Study of Torah encompasses them all/Talmud Torah k'neged kulam
It is hard to imagine that this month we will be ending our survey of the Eilu D'varim prayer and all the values it contains, but here we are. As I sat in Shabbat morning services this weekend, reciting this amazing prayer, I could not help but think about how far we have journeyed together these past nine months. Beginning with honoring our parents and right on through making peace among people, we have explored the wealth of values not only in this prayer, but in an incredible number of children's books that support those values. The most important lesson I hope to have taught each of you is that as the Values Educators for the children in your care – and YOU the parents, grandparents and teachers of these children are their Values Educators – there is a wealth of resources at your disposal at your local library, in your local bookstore and online. You just have to know how to discover it.
We are ending on the most important value of all, the study of Torah encompasses them all/talmud Torah k'neged kulam. As the first century Rabbi Ben Bag Bag says about Torah in Pirke Avot /Sayings of the Fathers (5:26) "Turn it and turn it again for everything is in it." All the values we have read about thus far and so many more can be found in the pages and stories that come from the pages of Torah. Here are a few books to get you and your family started on this important and lifelong mitzvah (commandment):
Naamah and the Ark at Night by Susan Campbell Bartoletti. Illustrated by Holly Meade. Candlewick Press, ©2011. Ages 3-8. Noah's wife, Naamah, sings the restless animals and her family to sleep during a stormy night aboard the ark. Beautiful collage and watercolor illustrations support the lyrical, rhyming lullaby.
The Seventh Day by Deborah Bodin Cohen. Illustrated by Melanie Hall. Kar-Ben Publishing, ©2005. Ages 3-8. Just like an artist, God worked hard molding, painting and singing the world into being until it was exactly as it should be. Then God rested and created Shabbat.
Abraham's Search for God by Jacqueline Jules. Illustrated by Natascia Ugliano. Kar-Ben Publishing, © 2007. Ages 4-8. Abraham is considered the father of three great religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. As a child he questioned the idol worship of his family and searched for the powerful One God.
The Coat of Many Colors by Jenny Koralek. Illustrated by Pauline Baynes. Eerdmans Books for Young Readers., © 2004. Ages 5-10. The biblical story of Joseph and his coat of many colors is retold in language for the young.
Green Bible Stories for Children by Tami Lehman Wilzig. Illustrated by Durga Yael Bernard. Kar-Ben Publishing, © 2011. Ages 8-11. The retelling of well known bible stories with "reuse-renew-recycle" lessons.
Masada: The Last Fortress by Gloria D. Miklowitz. Eerdmans Books for Young Readers., © 1998. Ages 11-14. Simon ben-Eleazar, the 17-year-old son of the leader of the Zealots on top of Masada, records the story of the battle between the Roman Army and a fierce group of Jews determined to live as free people in their homeland.
Pharaoh's Daughter: A Novel of Ancient Egypt by Julius Lester. Harcourt, Inc., © 2000. Ages 12-18. A beautifully told Midrash (story based in Torah) about the life of Moses.
As you read these beautiful stories, you may want to compare them with the JPS Illustrated Children's Bible, an excellent, award winning resource for your family, as is of course a copy of the Tanakh for older readers. Whichever you prefer, you will find some excellent discussion questions and activities for Torah Study in the Speak Volumes Guide for this month.
Happy Reading!
Kathy B.
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Properties 'Multilane' MapThis image shows the density of highways that have the property of Multilane in the Routino UK example database generated from the OpenStreetMap data for the UK. The locations are mapped into a zoom level 13 map tile (2x2 pixels on this scale) and the colour indicates the density of the highways with the properties measured in metres of highway per square kilometre within the tile.
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Ex Machina Delivers for A240
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Have you ever seen a movie and knew it was great but for whatever reason didn't like it as much as you should have? That's how I felt about "Ex Machina." It's far and away my favorite movie so far in 2015, but I didn't love it. It's complex subject matter yet simplistic story threw me off, but I'm in the minority on the "I Hate Critics" movie review podcast as Josh and Sean loved it.
There were two other movies that came out to Sean's dismay. "Age of Adaline" is a fine movie with such an unnecessary plot point that it takes you out of the movie. The plot point was so much more unnecessary than all the words that I'm using in my show notes…I learned that at the New Media Expo, but I didn't fix it. The there was "Little Boy" starring the cast of "Paul Blart Mall Cop 2."
In the news this week we lost a beloved Film Critic, we saw pictures of Jared Leto's Joker and some of the cast walked off the set of "Ridiculous Six" because they were offended by the jokes. Mean while Chris Evans and Jeremy Renner didn't make the news because all they did was make a joke about a woman and it's ok to be sexist…just not racist…even for a joke.
Our Undisputed Classic is "Odd Man Out." A film so old and out dated that it failed the sleep test. Josh and Sean appreciated it but didn't love it.
In 1985 "Just One of the Guys" came out and marked the first time our beloved cohost Josh saw a pair of boobs. "Stick" also came out starring Burt Reynolds. It was based off of an Elmore Leonard novel but Burt Reynold's arrogance and misogyny pretty much ruined any chance that movie had. Something else came out but it is unimportant.
The Little Princess
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FILE - In this June 29, 2012 file photo, Gen. David Petraeus testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. Petraeus, the retired four-star general who led the U.S. military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, resigned Friday, Nov. 9, 2012 as director of the CIA after admitting he had an extramarital affair. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)


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Obama campaign urges donors to embrace super PAC
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Reversing an earlier stand, President Barack Obama is now encouraging donors to give generously to the kind of political fundraising groups he once assailed as a "threat to democracy." He had little choice, his campaign says, if he was to compete with big-money conservative groups that are sure to attack him this fall.
Obama's campaign is urging its top donors to support Priorities USA, a "super PAC" led by two former Obama aides that has struggled to compete with the tens of millions of dollars collected by Republican-backed outside groups. Campaign officials said Tuesday the president had signed off on the decision.
The president is already facing criticism that he is compromising on principle and succumbing to Washington political rules he pledged to change. Yet in a plea to supporters, campaign manager Jim Messina said it would be unfair and unwise for the president's re-election effort to live under one set of rules while the Republican presidential nominee benefits from a new supercharged campaign finance landscape.
"We decided to do this because we can't afford for the work you're doing in your communities, and the grassroots donations you give to support it, to be destroyed by hundreds of millions of dollars in negative ads," Messina said.
The Supreme Court opened the door to the "super" political action committees, stripping away some limits on campaign contributions in its 2010 decision in the Citizens United case, a ruling that Obama has spoken against. The new super PACs can't coordinate directly with candidates or their campaigns, but they have played a major role in the Republican primary contests by raising millions of dollars for negative advertising in early contests in Iowa, South Carolina and Florida.
Messina said senior campaign officials, along with some White House officials and members of Obama's Cabinet, would attend and speak at fundraising events for Priorities USA but would not directly ask for money. He said Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and first lady Michelle Obama would not be part of the effort and would remain focused on Obama's own re-election campaign.
Republicans jeered Obama's decision, and they weren't alone. Supporters of more openness in government said the president had capitulated on his past calls to rein in the role of money in politics.
Former Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., a longtime advocate for campaign finance limits, said the decision to support the super PAC would "gut a winning, progressive strategy. When Democrats play by Republican rules, people see our party as weak, and a false alternative to the power of rich individual and corporate interests that are increasingly dominating our government."
Bob Edgar, president of Common Cause, said the notion that White House officials "are not soliciting money is laughable."
Republicans criticized the Obama campaign's embrace of the outside groups, calling it a hypocritical shift by Obama after he criticized the influence of secret, special-interest money. Obama has previously referred to the money as a "threat to our democracy."
"Just another broken promise," House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said of Obama's decision.
Not facing any primary opposition, Obama's campaign has socked away tens of millions of dollars. But his team took notice as recent fundraising reports revealed a large disparity with Republican super PACs. American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS, two groups tied to Republican strategist Karl Rove, raised $51 million last year, while major Democratic groups, including Priorities USA Action, collected $19 million.
Obama's campaign and its supporters at Priorities USA and the Democratic National Committee actually have out-spent their Republican counterparts by nearly two to one, records show. Financial reports as of late 2011 show Obama's re-election effort garnered nearly $253 million in contributions and had $95.9 million still on hand.
But the fundraising gap may be starting to narrow. While Obama-supporting groups have largely out-raised Republicans, including Mitt Romney's campaign, GOP-leaning groups such as Restore Our Future, as well as the Republican National Committee, have brought the GOP total to $226 million. That includes the $51 million raised from both American Crossroads and its non-profit arm, Crossroads GPS.
Some other major Republican donors have yet to get behind Romney fully. Casino mogul Sheldon Adelson and his family, for instance, have pledged $11 million to help Newt Gingrich, although operatives say he'll likely support Romney as the best chance to beat Obama in the fall. That, combined with yet-to-be-spent cash from other major fundraisers, could tip the money balance in Romney's favor.
Democrats have raised concerns about the potential impact of the super PACs on the general election. Obama campaign senior strategist David Axelrod said last month that the "prospect of hundreds of millions of dollars of negative ads raining down on us is not a prospect that I relish." But he said then that Obama was "thoroughly known to the American people" and would be less vulnerable to such ads.
Underscoring their concerns, the first ad aired by the Obama campaign defended the president's record on energy and ethics. It came in response to a hard-hitting ad aired by Americans for Prosperity, a group connected to billionaires Charles and David Koch, that accused the president of using taxpayer money to benefit political donors at bankrupt energy company Solyndra.
In a weekend interview, Obama bemoaned the influence of big money in presidential campaigns and said he expected many of the 2012 campaign ads funded by super PACs to be negative. But he also said the Supreme Court's decision had made outside money an unavoidable part of the political process.
"It is very hard to be able to get your message out without having some resources," Obama told NBC News.
The super PACs have played a major role in the Republican primaries so far this year. Groups working for or against presidential candidates have spent roughly $25 million on TV ads -- about half the nearly $53 million spent on advertising in all to influence voters in the early weeks of the race.
Though super PACs can't coordinate directly with campaigns, many that are active this election season are staffed by longtime supporters or former aides of the candidates.
In a separate campaign-finance matter, Obama's campaign said it was returning about $200,000 in contributions collected by family members of a Mexican casino owner who fled the U.S. after facing drug and fraud charges.
Obama's campaign said it had decided to return the donations arranged by Chicago brothers Carlos Cardona and Alberto Rojas Cardona, who had begun raising money for the campaign and the Democratic National Committee last year.
The New York Times reported late Monday that the fundraisers are the brothers of casino owner Juan Jose Rojas Cardona, who skipped bail in Iowa in 1994 and has since been linked to violence and corruption in Mexico.
The campaign said it refunded the money raised by family members after the newspaper asked about the brothers' fundraising role. Obama campaign officials said they were identifying donations bundled by other people connected to Cardona, expected to be about $100,000, and would return those funds as well.
"On the basis of the questions that have been raised, we will return the contributions from these individuals and from any other donors they brought to the campaign," said Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt.
The newspaper reported that Gordon Fischer, a lawyer and the former chairman of the Iowa Democratic Party, had sought a pardon for Juan Jose Rojas Cardona from Iowa Gov. Chet Culver, a Democrat, but none was granted.


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As soon as I got Rocsi on the phone, the first thing she said was "sorry my voice is a little raspy from the plane ride." But little did I know that it was her very distinguishing, cute raspy voice that got this Latina entertainment journalist her start. In fact, she told me she started off doing radio commericals simply after someone told her they loved "that raspy voice." Now she's launching a website next month (rocsidiaz.com) that will feature posts like celeb news and A-lister red carpet fashion, and she just got back from the Get Schooled Victory Tour where she was principal for a day at Browne Education Campus in Washington DC. In addition to her moving forward with her career, Rocsi says youth is also very important to her. "As cliché as it sounds, the young people are our future. It's part of what we're supposed to do: give back to the community."
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"One of the most important things I've learned is don't try to please everyone, because you can't. Just do the best that you can."
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Younger investors are more likely to feel their advisor isn't really working for them, less likely to recommend their advisor to someone and more likely to spread their assets among multiple advisors, according to a report from Market Strategies International, a global market research firm.
The firm conducted an online survey of more than 4,000 affluent investors with at least $100,000 in investable assets, including retirement accounts, but not real estate. Respondent were asked to rate on a scale of one to five how strongly they agreed with a series of statements, with a higher score indicating greater agreement.
When asked to rate their agreement with the statement, "I trust my financial advisor is working in my best interest," most responses were positive.
"About two-thirds agreed overall; 68% either gave a four or five," Meredith Rice, a senior director at Market Strategies International, told ThinkAdvisor on Tuesday. "They're very likely to agree, but among Gen Y and Gen X, it was actually less than six in 10. Gen Y was 59%, Gen X was 57%, whereas we see the level of agreement going up among the boomer and the silent generations. Among the first-wave boomers, over three in four, 76%, agreed and of the silent generation nearly eight in 10, 78%, agreed. There were very different feelings in terms of trusting their advisors, feeling their advisor was working in their best interest, when you looked at it by generation."
Younger investors were also giving a smaller share of their assets to their primary advisor, the survey found.
"Among Gen Y, they're giving about 35%, Gen X about 46% and it keeps going up to the silent generation having their primary advisor manage nearly 70% of their assets," Rice said. "We also found that the younger Gen Y investors are more likely to be working with multiple advisors compared to some of the older generations."
The survey found younger investors were less likely than boomers to offer a referral, too. Rice suggested that's because the industry is still catching up to the needs of these young investors. "The industry has been so focused on the boomers that some of these younger investors just haven't been getting as much attention. Something else we saw with Gen Y is they're really hungry for information. They're using all sorts of different tools to get that information and are more reliant on online tools."
Young investors might have more complex needs than advisors realize, too, Rice said. Over a quarter of Gen Y respondents said at least part of their assets are from an inheritance, compared with 17% of respondents overall.
It can't be ignored that advisors with a long history and a good relationship with certain clients will naturally give them more attention, even if unintentionally.
"The older customers, they have many years history of working with that advisor through thick and thin, through all different kinds of environments, whereas the younger investors don't have as long of a history [with their advisor], "Rice said. "The advisors, most of their time has been taken up by the boomers and the silent generation, particularly the boomers transitioning into retirement."
She stressed, though, that even though younger investors have a long time until retirement, it "doesn't mean they aren't hungry for advice or information. They're trying to have more of a concrete plan of how to reach their short-, mid- and long-term goals."
Although young investors differ from boomers in several ways, they are similar in one important way, the survey found: risk tolerance.
"They have very low risk tolerance," Rice said. "For instance, Gen Y has 25% of their assets in low-risk investments, which is about the same risk profile as a 50-year-old. They've had more limited investing experience, and a lot of it has been post the 2008 market meltdown. We asked some other attitudinal questions and found that they are definitely worried about what the effect on their savings could be if there was another market meltdown.
"This generation is a little different from older generations where there was more of a three-legged stool. They could rely on the government, Social Security, they could rely on pensions. I think this generation's very cognizant that they have more personal responsibility for their savings, and they're very focused on it."
A recent report from UBS came to a similar conclusion. Millennials aren't just conservative or somewhat conservative, they're "extremely conservative," with the average portfolio holding 52% of assets in cash, compared with 23% for other investors.
Rice suggested that to reach out to younger investors, advisors change the way they engage with them to meet young clients' expectations. "We do see that online tools are increasingly important to them, using social media and other ways to engage," she said of the survey results. "It's a little bit of a different relationship compared with the older investors who might be reliant on print mail or in-person visits or phone calls. Part of it is communicating with them in a way that works for them. Just letting them know that the firm is there to meet their needs and is focused on them, even just making them feel important."
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cofundit necesitaba un nuevo diseño de impreso o envases y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 36 diseños de 14 diseñadores freelance.
Cofundit.com is a new online social network where businesses can finance their growth, experts can showcase their expertise and individuals can optimize their investments. We are a trusted advisor supporting a community for Growth and Entrepreneurship.
Cofundit leverages the Power of the Crowd to screen attractive funding requests and facilitate the financing of Small and Medium Enterprises in Switzerland. Cofundit is headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland. More information is available at: http://www.cofundit.com
We target a new market!
Our desired audience is a young, dynamic crowd seeking alternative ways to existing issues.
They include
- Borrowers (Entrepreneurs, Film producers, designers)
- Investors (High net worth individuals, middle class)
- Experts (experienced managers, engineers)
This is a one-time layout for the complete magazine incl. Front/ Back Pages + inside layout
Format: B5 (176 x 250 mm or 6.9 x 9.8 Inches)
No particular set imagery
What we like:
should be decisively modern, sleek and dynamic
What we do not like:
It should NOTgo towards Bank / Financing Institute styles;
it should also NOT become too colorful / funny
The design should be consistent with our existing Cofundit Logo … but do not be constrained by it !!
We would like to make use of the same color coding, ideally only 3 colors
We would like also to explore a high-design black and white layout!
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Lawyers need trust accounts.
But according to the bank, in order to have a trust account, you need a business account first.
And to have a business account you need to have registered a business name. [check]
But before you can register a business name, you have to have the name approved [check]So, two out of four ain't bad for one week.
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Driving on frozen lakes is one of the best things you can do in a car, but not every lake is meant for automotive hoonage. Take these intrepid dune buggy riders, for instance.
While this ice may be strong enough to hold people, it ain't strong enough to hold this buggy. Their faces as the car goes under is absolutely priceless.
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Why Markets Shrugged Off Cyprus Crisis
The stock market's reaction to the Cyprus banking crisis is appearing to many as a case of wilful denial, Mark Hulbert discusses on Markets Hub. Photo: Getty Images.
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... I ... story coming out Cyprus obviously still very fluid Parliament has a plan that actually now does not if you look the EU is demanded to this initiative ignoble and will it even half buried in the island of Cyprus or all eyes are focused ... we know the Dow opened up badly yesterday we know it then closed for New Orleans well but today you can see the data off of sixteen point now says weakening a little ... markets are being pulled around by the nose on this story but ... not ... a really huge selloff yesterday why is that ... Mark over at ninety eight comes to us from North Carolina Mr. MarketWatch columnist ... aam ... yesterday actually know what you need to put a comment of Cyprus didn't exist ... the Dow letting down sixty some odd point day now ... nobody would notice what's going on ... so I think the if the market ... I don't think the market opened right to be able to ... the the impact of the band but didn't get the public are right ... I think that the Indy and the European Central Bank are driven to figure out a way of ... getting out of that that they're not allow a background of the day after the league will prevent that from happening the order to fund continued the theme of the good ... the speculation that far is that ... that that ... you are the only thing in the isolation International in and because he can think of them ... are going to take her ... to ... if that happened and I picked up with a market for betting on the beach that ... that that the tobacco were all collectively they owe and I think probably up for longer ... in your column in your latest column he took a look at some of the other sovereign debt crises ... and the reaction in the markets to them ... to a very interesting conclusion ... well that's right that that that the ... sovereign debt crises of them but yet very early on Nasdaq over three years ago ... with the idea that analyzes the market reacted to the European debt crisis the impact of the book for higher foreign debt ... but not so ... much and not quite the event of the Bank of New Mountain Capital Management in Argentina and an old ... Asian contagion capital growth in the late nineteen and so forth ... it turned out to argue that the critical part of the about the stock market reacted ... to each of them for sparking come up with an average of the market reaction is that the market reaction ... the European debt crisis of the last three ... years ... what we've been looking into the headlines almost daily about it ... that that are remarkably thermal would indicate ... that that that that number that typically are ruled by Apple to allow for copper to conclude that the word to me ... I think that that in all cases the central bankers make sure that the financial market ... did not collapse another double what the market depending on how well ... here ... they are bad ... obviously it's you know last forty years right don't fight the Fed the Fed has been very good to investors ... here's my question mark my real the real question ... what is this is the one what does that then one Mark Albers ... it opened the paper they do it again ... it did in the heck was that I did ... while the perpetrator ... I could have all the right fit in any given instant ... even though you know what they did go ... on and so ... I had to be that long ... ago I'll defer to that that that was a good bet that I think the intelligence that in any given ... time along the way ... that that that that they're going to be able to to learn ... to avoid that required that the deadline for ... now ... I'll use and in ... the bottom ... to top it all the above if you're out but I think ... it has a long shot that did with failing to get into that that that ... that ... in any given point and even with the market but added ... that the dough be able to figure out all over ... yet again ... I am so excited that one actually has to be a disaster thank you Mark Hulbert


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When I arrived in the parking lot, which served as the start for the Ride for Ilija, it became abundantly clear to me why I ride/race my bike and why I am proud to be part of this vibrant community. As many of you know, Ilija sustained traumatic head injuries during a routine ride about half a year ago.
Combined efforts from Share the Road and close friends created an initiative to raise funds for Ilija and his family this past Saturday. The initiative attracted some 300 cyclists who took part in rides of various distances. I believe this effort was a huge success, not only due to the overwhelming number of participants but also because, 3 generous individuals separately offered to match the funds raised by the riders; something in the order of $140.000!
Hesitant to throw myself into the 100 km ride (I am nursing a broken hand from a mountain biking fall sustained 2 weeks ago), I was assured by Pete that this was a "ride" and it would not end up being a hammer fest. Surely the flow of hundreds of bodies would enable me to "sit in".
Being a Saturday, when the usual Donut Rider would take place with the usual suspects, I should have listened to my inner apprehension. On the Donut Ride, I am challenged enough to tackle the hills on Keele St., opting to let the "A" types do battle on Jane St. This ride for Ilija proved that this was no ordinary ride, more like Jane St. on steroids!
The punishing pace splintered the group and fragments of the original pack limped into the rest stop in Zephyr. I was wrestling with feelings of ambivalence in Zephyr; unhappy by the fevered pace that was set and happy that I could stay as close as I did to the lead riders. In retrospect, I guess if Ilija had been there, this is the spirited type of ride he would prefer. My only real beef was that the code of courtesy of pointing out potholes was not followed (and my hand was complaining in a big way).
The ride home decisively split the group around "Ilija's Hill"; heaven knows how I managed to hang on. It was that push that burnt one of my last matches and I was content to sit up and wait for others behind me to form a new group. Arriving back at Leslie Green (start of the ride) @ 12:00 on the nose, I realized that I rode the 100 km distance with a small break in under 3 hrs; not bad for a casual charity ride.
The ride was topped off with a BBQ at the finish where the spent riders were refueled with burgers and sweets. This was my opportunity to fittingly toast Ilija with a cupcake since it was his view that, "A good cup of coffee was wasted without a decent pastry". There was also a silent auction and the quintessential draw prize event.
Probably the most meaningful and important part of the day was when Ilija's wife, Jackie, emotionally thanked everyone for their support. I was so proud to be part of this moment with my Erace teammates, namely, Gavin, Bob, Steve C., Vito, Mike and hubby Pete.
This was the true meaning of charity; giving when it meant the most. At its most primal level, bike racing is the true embodiment of suffering, and those of us who embrace it, are more likely to dig deep when the call of help is sounded. Well, I think we made a difference and I guess this is what draws the "Eracers" together. It is not just cancer, it is reaching out to others in time of need, whatever that may be. I am proud to be part of such a noble group.
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Angelina Jolie's "Unbroken" has opened more than a year after the rest of the world in Japan, the country where the main character endures as a prisoner of war and where some have called for a boycott of the movie.
There were concerns right-wing extremists may try to disrupt the opening on Saturday.
The crowd at Theatre Image Forum in Tokyo appeared engrossed in the film, flinching at the torture scenes and sympathizing with the hero, Louis Zamperini.
The distributor said in a statement it decided to go ahead as various views on war should be expressed.
"Unbroken" is based on the true story of Zamperini, an Olympic athlete who was abused in World War II camps until Japan's defeat in 1945.


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Sheung Li Uk was a public rental housing scheme designed by Wright in 1952. It saw the first manifestation of what was to become known as the 'Wright Principle'; a housing standard in which privacy and human dignity are incorporated into the design.
As such, Sheung Li Uk was the first public resettlement housing unit in Hong Kong to provide an individual bathroom and kitchen in all units. This signalled a move away from those designed by his predecessors, where residents had to share bathrooms and cook outside their own home.
Michael later took on a far wider role in ensuring standards across many areas of Hong Kong infrastructure were observed and put to use. His pioneering work includes the Plover Cove Reservoir, whose construction he supervised in the 1960s.
This reservoir, the largest at the time in Hong Kong, facilitated such an increase in water consumption that Michael instructed the construction of the even larger High Island Reservoir, which is still the largest volume reservoir in Hong Kong to date.
As a member of the Legislative and Urban Councils, Michael also provided a voice of insight to Hong Kong's development programme. He proposed a mass transport network, which has become the MTR system that carries four million passengers every day.
Michael Wright is now 105 years old and lives in London. With a public housing estate named in his honour, a mass transport system conceived from his surveying expertise, and a major role in the planning and construction of vital water reservoirs, Michael's outstanding contribution to the development of the built environment in Hong Kong and the surveying profession is clear.


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The long wait is nearly over!
As confirmed yesterday by Toei, we should all be able to watch Digimon Adventure tri. Part 6 Our Future quite soon on Crunchyroll!
It's been nearly 4 years since tri. was first announced, and it's almost 3 years to the day we first found out the form of the anime, along with the new cast playing the kids.
Under 3 years from the release of Part 1 to Part 6 is pretty good when you consider how long film and OVA series can take to come out.
Crunchyroll hasn't confirmed an exact time (as of the time of this posting), but we expect it to be between 8 and 10am Pacific based on earlier releases.
We expect it to be unavailable for free members until roughly a month from now.
The streaming regions are likely to be the same as with prior parts.
Once tri. Part 6 is available there will likely be lots of discussion of it in this thread.
I have 3 Crunchyroll guest passes which will be first come first serve to those who PM me (guest passes give you a temporary premium membership.) I'll be heading to bed soon, so you might not get them until I'm awake though (I do have a habit of checking my phone in bed for a few minute though.)
I'm sure other people will offer up additional guest passes if they have them in this thread.
Anyone have a special setup, snacks, guests, etc. for when they plan to watch?
And don't forget, Saturday at 2pm Pacific we will be discussing tri. Part 6 on our live podcast.
It's been one of the most exciting periods to be a Digimon fan, if not the most exciting. We've gotten more merchandise the last few years than most of us could ever dream of, from the cheapest can badges and widgets, to figures, to ludicrously expensive watches and artwork to hang on walls. We've gotten a stage play, multiple video games, even another Digimon series in Appmon.
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Great interview
Here's a snippet bound to start some buzz:
Q: Is that really it? Japanese runners train much more than that. (in response to hearing about his relatively 'light' training)
That's right, they do. They train way too much. For example, if they have a time trial scheduled and it's raining they do it anyway. If I were them I'd take the day off and wait to do the workout on a nice day. Doing it that way you can run a better time and leave with a better feeling about the workout. Japanese people are too serious about everything and don't like change. If training doesn't go 100% according to schedule or they don't run the times they are targeting they get all out of whack. When they go to do altitude training they try to do exactly the same training menu as when they're on low ground, too. It's bad for your health. At altitude you should run with a slower pace or just less. You should also train less in the summer and do it somewhere as cool as possible.


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WORCESTER � Dispatched to a Deerfield Road home four years ago on a report of an unresponsive woman, three Shrewsbury firefighters instead found a body rolled up tightly in a white blanket.
In a dark room, Firefighter Mark Turner unwrapped part of the blanket only to find the body was swaddled in a second blanket underneath the first.
When he managed to expose the woman's face from beneath the coverings, Firefighter Turner was confronted with a gruesome visage, he said Monday afternoon in the trial of Keith Rosiello, who is charged with murdering his wife, Maureen Rosiello, in February 2010.
"It appeared to me she was beaten," Firefighter Turner testified. "Her eyes, it appeared to me, the best way I could describe it was it looked like a plum on both eyes."
A few minutes before that testimony, the Worcester Superior Court jury had watched a state police video of the crime scene in which the camera moved from cluttered room to cluttered room, panning down at times to what appeared to be blood smears on the floor.
After about 10 minutes, the video camera settled on a flashlight-lit close-up of Mrs. Rosiello's battered face, her eyes swollen shut and bruised dark purple.
The 44-year-old mother was later found to be covered in scrapes and bruises. She had broken ribs and her lungs had collapsed, according to a state medical examiner who also testified Monday.
Mr. Rosiello, 49, sat still and looked at the large television screen at the front of the courtroom without showing any reaction as the silent, jumpy footage played uninterrupted for about 20 minutes. The 42-minute crime scene video, most of which was unremarkable, was played for the jury at double the normal speed to save time.
Crime scene photographs later presented by defense attorney Michael C. Wilcox showed a door, an attic access hatch and two bedroom windows had been partially boarded up inside the house.
Prosecutors contend Mr. Rosiello beat his wife to death in front of their two children. Mr. Rosiello allegedly instructed the children and his sister, Lisa Ricardo, to say Mrs. Rosiello had been the aggressor in the deadly fight. Ms. Ricardo is a co-defendant, but her case has not gone to trial yet.
Mr. Wilcox said in his opening statement last week that at the time of the killing his client was abusing various drugs and suffering from delusions that his wife had been unfaithful and was plotting to kill him. The defense plans to present evidence that Mr. Rosiello's mental breakdown and drug use would not have allowed him to form a coherent plan to murder his wife.
Under questioning from prosecutors Monday, two Shrewsbury firefighters, a UMass Memorial paramedic and a Shrewsbury police officer all testified that Mr. Rosiello appeared calm and composed and had no trouble walking or speaking at the Deerfield Road home on the early afternoon of Feb. 4, 2010.
Investigators have said Mrs. Rosiello was beaten to death in the home at some point the previous day.
Dr. Mindy Hull, a state medical examiner, testified that Mrs. Rosiello died of blunt force trauma. Her body was found to have 60 bruises, 45 scrapes and two cuts to the head. Dr. Hull also said she found multiple rib fractures during an autopsy.
The trial is scheduled to resume Tuesday morning.
Scott J. Croteau of the Telegram & Gazette staff contributed to this report.Contact Thomas Caywood at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @ThomasCaywood.


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Josh Stuart necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 81 diseños de 22 diseñadores freelance.
ACORN Canada
ACORN Canada is among the largest community based membership organizations in Canada with nearly 30,000 members in 20 neighbourhood chapters in 4 cities across Canada.
Since ACORN Canada's founding in 2004, we have taken action and won victories on issues of concern to our membership. Their priorities include: higher wages for low wage workers, regulation of predatory payday lenders, better housing for tenants, and increased investment from banks and governments in working family communities.
ACORN Canada achieves these goals through organizing new communities to build the power necessary to win change through direct action, negotiation, and legislation.
ACORN Canada's goal is to build a powerful dynamic national organization for low and moderate income families. We believe that transforming the conditions that adversely affect millions of Canadians can best be achieved with a national active membership - members deeply invested in their organization and focused on lasting socio-economic change.
There are 3 key markets that will see this logo:
1) Membership: Our core demographic is low to moderate income families that we want to to engage into our organization and campaigns. Theses members are demographically (but not exclusively) urban, women, 35+, have kids.
2) Funders: These are institutions that fund our work. They are more conservative than members, supporters. They support the organizations because of our advocacy work and the support of our growing membership.
3) Supporters: These are folks who support our campaigns in the general public. They are: politically progressive, vote NDP or Liberal (Read: Democrats), they live in a larger city, own their own homes, disproportionally women.
Our board of directors has signaled a few key pieces that must be included in the new design:
-"ACORN" must be capitalized - "Canada" does not need to be caps
-A maple leaf must be included somewhere (We're Canadian, eh?)
-The current 'acorn' portion of the logo (minus the circle) should be preserved in some fashion.
(See attachements)
The logo must be clean, professional, and find balance between the "fight the power" nature of our advocacy work, and the organizations role as one of Canada's high profile national non profits.
Attached are a variety of current variations of the logos.
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Non-native fish in Yampa will be euthanized
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) – Wildlife officials plan to euthanize non-native smallmouth bass removed from the Yampa River instead of transferring them to a reservoir.The Steamboat Pilot & Today newspaper reports the effort is part of the Upper Colorado River Endangered Fish Recovery Program. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says smallmouth bass compete for habitat with native fish and eat juvenile Colorado pike minnows, a native species.Wildlife managers have relocated about 6,000 bass from the Yampa, but officials say too many escape over the spillway at Elkhead Reservoir over the spillway and get back into the river.Tom Chart, director of the recovery program, says officials don't like to kill the smallmouth bass because they're popular among anglers. But he says efforts to keep the fish out of the Yampa haven't succeeded.
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