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This Animus-Rhythm Illustration designed 1.5" Acrylic charm is professionally printed on Crystal Clear acrylic. It comes with a Golden strap
The charm can be used as a cell-phone strap, a bag strap and anything else in between.
This purchase includes:
One Crystal Clear Acrylic charm
One strap attached
1.5" metallic acrylic phone charms
3mm thick
printed on Crystal Clear Acrylic
Golden strap
Artist: Yueta
Thanks for visiting and enjoy shopping. If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, feel free to ask us.
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We accept PayPal and Credit Cards. If you wish another payment option, please contact us prior to placing your order.
We accept cancellations if the item(s) has yet been processed for shipment. Once shipping confirmation has been sent out, we can no longer cancel the order.
Orders ship within 1-3 business days. Weekends and US federal holidays excluded. We will notify you if there are any delays. Please be advised that this is for production only and shipping times will need to be considered in addition to this.
Orders will ship via United Stated Postal Service (USPS) - from the state of New York in the USA, and will take about 3-5 business days for First Class mail (or less depending on the type of shipping you've purchased) to deliver.
International orders take 2-4 weeks after shipment to arrive (even to Canada/Mexico). Or, if customs holds your package for inspections it can take up to 6 weeks.
Please note, even though we process all the international shipments with accurate information and details, sometimes (though rarely), there could still be custom fees or duties applied to the product upon delivery. Unfortunately, due to the unpredictability of such charges, we are unable to provide compensation. Thanks for your understanding.
If packages fail to be delivered due to reasons such as wrong addresses provided, non-claim by the buyer in post office specified time, rejection by the buyer, we will not be responsible for re-mailing the items. Additional shipping cost will apply if buyer would like the order to be re-processed after the item has been returned to us.
In the event that your package shows as delivered but you can't find it we advise the following actions:
Verify the shipping address
Look for a notice of attempted delivery
Look around the delivery location for your package
See if someone else accepted the delivery
Some packages travel through multiple carriers; check your mailbox or wherever else you receive mail.
Contract your local USPS, in some rare cases, packages were shown as delivered but was actually still in USPS office.
Wait 36 hours - in rare cases packages may say delivered up to 36 hours prior to arrival
Please note that, if tracking status indicates the item has been delivered by the USPS, we shall not be responsible to re ship the item or issue refund upon receiving claims from buyer that state otherwise. Please contact the USPS for additional information with tracking number provided.
If you'd like the delivery to be made before a certain date, please order early and taking into account our processing time as well as USPS delivering time. Please also give it a few more days in case the shipment has been delayed or we have encountered certain issues during production. We will try to process all orders ASAP but cannot guarantee them to arrive in a tight-last-minute-schedule.
If the item has arrived after the preferred date due to insufficient time was given for the processing and delivering phases, we will not be responsible and cannot accept returns as a result.
Thanks for your understanding
Just contact me within: 14 days of delivery
Ship items back to me within: 30 days of delivery
But please contact me if you have any problems with your order.
Because of the nature of these items, unless they arrive damaged or defective, I can't accept returns for:
Should there be damage or loss to your shipment: We will issue a refund or offer a replacement piece if possible when picture of the damaged item is provided, and situation assessed.
If you'd like to return the item after you've received it, or cancel it after shipment, we will happily refund the full amount. However, we will not be responsible for the return shipping cost, and the item must be returned intact without any scratches or damages. Charges could apply for returned damaged items. Initial shipping charge will also be deducted from the refund as the item has already been processed beforehand.
If the item has failed to deliver as per the fault of the buyer, such as wrong address provided or never claimed from the delivering agent, shipping fee will be applied again if the item is still desired.
If a refund is requested after the fail delivery attempt, partial refund (total excluding shipping and handling charges) will be issued after the item has been returned to us by the delivering agent.
If the item is lost and cannot be returned to us, we will not be able to issue any refund.
If customer failed to receive the item when the tracking showed that the item has been delivered, we will not be able to mail you a replacement. Please contact USPS with the tracking number to see if they have misplaced it.
Nov 24, 2018
Great little charm, thank you!
Oct 11, 2018
Jul 8, 2018
I love it so much it's great!
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Ben1980au necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 326 diseños de 58 diseñadores freelance.
Living Energy Solutions
We are two brothers who are looking for a logo that is bright, simple & striking.
Easy to recognise - something you want to look at twice.
We are young & keen to help our customers hedge against rising electricity costs. We offer a way to minimise the impact of energy demands of living for Australian families through education & solar systems.
We want the sun to power peoples house.
We are interested in our customers getting the best return out of their solar system by helping them make simple changes that have almost non existent impact on their lifestyle, but greatly reduce their electricity cost & carbon footprint.
We are targeting an existing market. We will always offer competitive pricing at all levels, but the market is now moving towards larger systems & customers seeing the value in buying bigger systems that will maximise their long term return rather than just give a short payback period. So we need to appeal to people with the money to do that.
We want to target:
- young homeowners that are considering putting a solar system on their mortgage
- retirees who do not want energy bills anymore
- anyone with money to invest in solar energy
They want professionals who they can trust to deliver quality as paramount.
We want to target people who want quality. The reason being, that our systems are top quality & we will not be competing on price with other competitors who supply a lower quality product.
Striking but simple colour scheme
We want to appear professional & want the logo to be very easy to remember given that our name is so long.
BUT firstly we want it to be obvious that it is a solar company!
& if possible we also want the logo to imply:
- that we provide a solution to the problem of rising energy prices
- quality
- professionalism
- concern with the environment
We know it is impossible to do this all in a logo, but please be confident in your idea & present your creations with pride.
In terms of colour, please consider:
Possibly orange & or green on black. But this is not an absolute requirement.
Feel free to use:
Solar panels
Blue sky
Be as creative as you wish.
We have not ruled out using the acronym LE or LES in conjunction with a logo but we do not favour it.
We dont want anything too cartoonish - ie no cartoon characters please.
We are considering the following catch phrases:
"...turning the sun green"
"putting the sunlight in your downlights"
We are toying with the following ideas:
orange or green sun in black square background
a logo which shows the sun in a light globe, or above the base of a light globe.
BUT please dont limit yourself to these, as you are the designers & not us so follow your instinct!!
Good luck
We look forward to seeing your designs :)
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The Order of the Stick Reprint Drive
What's Going On Here?
I've been self-publishing my comedy-fantasy-adventure webcomic The Order of the Stick in paper format since 2005, but one of the hardest parts about doing it all on my own is keeping the older books available. This project is designed to get at least one of those books back into print. The Order of the Stick: War and XPs was the third compilation of the color webcomic, covering a bunch of cool battle scenes like this and this and even this. Look, here's the cover now:
Problem is, we ran out of copies sometime in 2010. That means that many readers (especially those who only discovered the comic in the last two years) have had no opportunity to get it. Because it's such a long book (288 full color pages, the longest OOTS book yet), the cost of a second print run has been too high for me to raise on my own. Readers ask me every week when it will be available again, and thanks to Kickstarter, I now have an answer: Now (or never).
The goal, listed over in the top right corner, represents the amount of money we need to raise to print the minimum number of copies of War and XPs to place it back in stock on our website and in local gaming shops around the world (plus enough extra to cover domestic shipping for the pledge rewards and such). If we reach that goal, then I'll call the printer up at the end of this pledge drive and begin printing almost immediately. If we don't reach that goal within 30 days, though, no one will be charged anything; you only pay if the project is successful. (Obviously, if the drive is not successful, the book will also stay out of print for the foreseeable future.)
What's In It For Me?
Good question. Well, take a look to the right and see the different rewards that are available for different pledge amounts. You'll notice that most of them include a newly-printed copy of War and XPs, which will ship once they've been reprinted. But that's only part of the story.
If the drive is successful, everyone who pledges $10 or more will get a special never-before-seen The Order of the Stick story in PDF format. Titled "How the Paladin Got His Scar," this tale tells the story of how Azurite soldier O-Chul first joined the Sapphire Guard and includes appearances by many of the other Azurite characters from the online comic. I worked out the basics of this story for last year's Snips, Snails, and Dragon Tales book, but it ended up being too long to include. If the drive is successful, I'll go back, finish it, and release it to everyone who makes the minimum pledge as a digital file.
Furthermore, with most pledges, we'll also be sending out a brand new Roy Greenhilt fridge magnet, matching the ones we've made in previous years featuring OOTS characters Belkar, Elan, and Vaarsuvius. This magnet is exclusive to the pledge drive, so this is pretty much your only chance to get it.
Finally, we have a handful of premium rewards available for backers who really want to show their support (or who just happen to already own War and XPs), including crayon drawings of your favorite OOTS character by creator Rich Burlew (that's me again); a chance to commission an additional OOTS story featuring your favorite character; and a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to get a walk-on cameo for your favorite D&D character in the actual The Order of the Stick webcomic! Seriously, they'll be part of the story forever. It doesn't get much more exclusive than that.
What If You Beat Your Goal?
The best part is what happens if we go over that goal, though. The more that is pledged, the more copies can be printed, ensuring that the book stays available for new readers in the coming years. But if we get enough money, we can also reprint our original prequel book, The Order of the Stick: On the Origin of PCs, which has been out-of-print for almost as long. Since this is a portion of the story that has only ever been available in print, that'll let more people discover the otherwise-hidden origins of Roy, Haley, and the rest of the Order of the Stick.
If we get close to that goal, we'll let everyone know (and add the ability to get copies of the book to the reward options). And if we get that far and still have time left, all additional funds pledged will be saved toward reprinting the next book that needs it, No Cure for the Paladin Blues.
Whatever happens, thanks to all the fans who have been waiting patiently for me to come up with a plan to get this book into your hands. With luck (and enough support), we'll get the whole The Order of the Stick story back in print in time for the next new chapter to be published.
What If I Have No Idea How Kickstarter Works?
If you're not familiar with Kickstarter or how it will work, here's a brief overview (or you can read the official one, here). For the next 30 days, you'll be able to make pledges to help support this project, ranging from $1 to whatever you can afford without your spouse/parent/financial advisor slapping you. For your pledge, you can select one of the reward packages—listed to the right—of equal or lesser value to your pledge. You can always pledge more than the minimum to get a reward if you want (and for some packages, you'll need to do so if it must be shipped internationally). Your credit card or other account will not actually be charged at the time you make your pledge, and you can change your mind right up to the final deadline.
If the final deadline comes and we've reached our goal, then everyone gets charged the amount they pledged at once and we get to work printing and mailing books and magnets and whatnot. But if for some reason we don't meet our goal, then the whole thing is called off. No one gets charged, no fees are applied, everyone just keeps their money. So there's no risk of putting up money and then the reprint project never getting off the ground. Of course, if we fail to meet the goal, then no one gets any rewards, either, and some of those rewards are pretty cool, in my highly biased opinion.
What If I've Never Heard of The Order of the Stick?
Why, then you're missing out on the finest tale of comedy, action, and adventure ever to be serialized on the internet using brightly-colored stick figures. The Order of the Stick is a webcomic by Rich Burlew (me), started in 2003 and continuing ever since. It tells the tale of the eponymous band of heroes living in a fantasy roleplaying game world as they struggle to overcome their enemies, their environment, the rules of the game, and their own crippling incompetence (not necessarily in that order of importance). Much of the story is available for free on my website, Giant in the Playground, too.
The story starts here, though be warned that the art is pretty crappy at that early stage, and the roleplaying game references are numerous and dated. But it gets better after that, such that I would rate the current art as "less crappy" and the gaming references as "virtually unnoticeable." It's not for everyone, but if you enjoy a fantasy epic that doesn't take itself too seriously while still delivering a good story, you might like it.
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I love Ferraris. And I also love DSMs, especially the 3000GT, that under-appreciated beast of a car that was king of all the Mitsu-Chrysler collaborations back in the 90s. So it follows that if you put the two together somehow, the end product will be amazing, right?
No, of course it doesn't. And if more proof of this is needed beyond simple common sense, take a look at this recent eBay auction for a Fauxrarri F430 built from a 3000GT donor car.
I have to admit, I have kind of a weird obsession with Fauxrarris. I would never buy one, but I kind of appreciate the gall it takes to make an MR2 or a Fiero look even close to something that came from Maranello. This one, however, is such a miss it's not even in the ballpark.
Oh well, at least the 3000GT offered respectable performance in its day, thanks to a twin-turbo V6 engine and all-wheel-drive, so this should be pretty fun to hoon around in, right? Wait, no. The donor car had the base, NA V6 engine with front-wheel-drive.
That's right — you're looking at quite possibly the only car with Ferrari badges on earth with power going to the front wheels. Ouch.
"This car is so much fun to drive," the seller says. Let me add this: "You may get your ass kicked if the wrong person sees you in it, but it's fun to drive."
Buy it now for the low, low price of $14,495. Any takers?
Photos credit eBay
Hat tip to Alaa!


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A very special property. A sheep and cereal farm plus a 4000 hectare nature reserve with free roaming game and rare geometric tortoise. They also have a breeding program of T.B. free Buffalo. It is a real treat to stay here, where guests are totally pampered from arrival until departure. Gourmet food, beautiful rooms and total relaxation. Recommend booking well in advance.
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Reports are that less than 12 percent of eligible voters and about 22 percent of registered voters participated in the Baltimore primary election ("Election draws lowest turnout in history," Sept. 14). What a disgrace to a city with so many crucial problems!
Election returns indicate that we will end up with virtually the same City Council members. Continuity even goes to the next generation: Note Agnes Welch's son, Pete, is slated to carry on. The City Council, like any other organization, needs new blood and new energy to address the problems of loss of population, inadequate financial resources, the devastating effect of drugs, unmet needs of the city's youth, boarded up houses, the list could go on. We are in desperate need of new ideas and advocates for their adoption.
The city delegation to the Maryland General Assembly could take a major step in the upcoming 2012 session to improve voter turnout. They could work to have the date for Baltimore City elections be the same as for the Maryland gubernatorial and U.S. Congressional election. (Every jurisdiction in Maryland does that except Baltimore City.) With more at stake, more voters would participate. Besides, it would save the city money.
Being almost a one-party city also favors incumbency. As a lifelong Democrat, I hesitate saying it, but we need some Republicans or Greens or other parties in on council to produce fresh thinking to address the city's problems.
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SACRAMENTO — He could be getting a license plate, Charlie Brown.
The state Senate has passed a bill allowing the DMV to issue a commemorative license plate featuring Snoopy, Charles Schulz's beloved 'Peanuts' character.
The Santa Rosa Press Democrat reports (http://bit.ly/1e71ukz ) senators sent the bill to Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday.
The Snoopy plate is intended to raise money for California's 1,400 museums and science centers.
If the governor signs the bill, at least 7,500 motorists would need to preorder the plate before the DMV begins to issue it.
But the California Association of Museums says it has a list of at least 9,200 vehicle owners who have expressed interest.
The plates would cost $50 each, plus an extra $48 for personalized lettering.
The assembly passed the bill in May.
Information from: The Santa Rosa Press Democrat, http://www.pressdemocrat.com


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Achieving Consistent Meanings for DATETIME Values with JDBC
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The best-fit Java class for an Informix DATETIME value is java.sql.Timestamp. Java.sql.Timestamp technically inherits from java.util.Date; although, there are some semantic differences which are not typical of inheritance relationships. All the constructors, getters, and setters which are not deprecated for Date and Timestamp use values based on Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). They are offsets in milliseconds from the epoch, January 1, 1970 00:00:00 GMT. So, it would be logically consistent for Timestamps to convert to DATETIMEs using the GMT reference frame by default. However, the JDBC Tutorial and Reference specifies that, when no Calendar is provided, Timestamp values are converted to the time zone of the JVM in which the application is running. The difficulties surrounding Timestamps and time zones are not limited to the scope of the Informix JDBC driver; they are generic to all of JDBC because that is the specification.
This model creates problems in a variety of ways. For distributed applications, the Date or Timestamp values might be streaming into the database from JDBC drivers located in different time zones. With multi-tier applications, you might find yourself contending with a user interface in time zone A, the JDBC driver in time zone B, and the database server in time zone C. The driver is the library where external types are converted to internal types; so, where it is running is where the local time zone comes into play. It can be difficult for either the front end or the database to know in what time zone the driver is operating. Dealing with the conversion from Timestamp in GMT to DATETIME in the JDBC driver locale has to be done in the application layer directly interfacing with the JDBC driver.
The conversion done by the driver applies in both directions, and this can lead to complications if anything other than the JDBC Timestamp class is used in conjunction with DATETIME values. If strings representing DATETIMEs or DATETIME literals are used anywhere in your application SQL (including CURRENT), the values will not be converted on the way in, but will be converted on the way out. Similarly, different APIs will not convert in either direction. If you insert new Timestamp(86400001) (January 2, 1970 00:00:00.001 GMT) through JDBC, and select it back from within the same JVM, you will get that same value back. So, you might expect that selecting the same row-column from, say, DBAcccess, would also give you the same value, but it will not because the value was converted to JVM time zone on the way in through JDBC, but not converted on the way out through ESQL/C. If you are in the U.S., you will get some time on January 1st, not even the same day. The reverse also applies, you may find yourself with values inserted through other APIs, which perform no conversion, that are converted to some other time zone when selected through JDBC.
DATETIMEs, of course, do not contain time zone information. There are basically two ways to deal with this, record the time zone information in another column along with the DATETIME or establish a convention that all the DATETIMES in the database are in the same time zone. Establishing a convention is the simpler approach both from an application implementation perspective, and in terms of being able to easily compare values in different rows, columns, or tables. If you know that every Java application which will ever access the data will operate in its own JVM, you can code your applications to set the default time zone of the JVM, but this is a problematic solution when more than one, independent application is running in the same JVM, such as servlets in a web server. It is unclear what would happen with different threads of execution changing the time zone for all other threads, but if they were actually able to do that, it would not be pretty.
At JDK 1.1 two things happened, all the getters and setters for java.util.Date where the meaning was ambiguous with respect to time zone were deprecated and the java.util.Calendar class was introduced. Along with the Calendar class itself, methods accepting a Calendar object were added to the JDBC interface, for example Prep
Using a GMT calendar would be efficient because it requires less operations to convert between the Java classes and the value in the database. Also, the value will not change if other APIs, like ODBC or ESQL/C, are used. Conceptually, what is stored in the database is January 1, 1970 00:00:00.000 GMT + tstamp.getTime() milliseconds.
Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is a close relative to GMT and is just as viable. In this model, all date and time values in the database are on the same time line, and conversion to other time lines or calendar systems are handled at the user interface level. Using UTC or GMT for all DATETIME values provides a simple model to implement in applications. It also removes all the problems related to knowing the time zone of the JDBC driver runtime or if applications written in anything other than Java will ever be used to access the data.
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Katrina Thompson Moore, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Stony Brook University, 2007;
M.A., Stony Brook University, 2002;
B.A., Our Lady of the Lake University, 2000.
Research Interests
My research explores the interplay between race, gender, and popular culture in nineteenth and twentieth century North America. The continual display of negative racial and gendered stereotypes in mass culture is an active part of my research and teaching interests. My book Ring Shout, Wheel About: The Racial Politics of Music and Dance in North American Slavery, examines the conceptualization and staging of race through the performance, sometimes coerced, of black dance from the slave ship to the minstrel stage. Drawing on a rich variety of sources, I explicate how black musical performance was used by white Europeans and Americans to justify enslavement, perpetuate the existing racial hierarchy, and mask the brutality of the domestic slave trade. Whether on slave ships, at the auction block, or on plantations, whites often used coerced performances to oppress and demean the enslaved. However, for the black community music and dance served quite a different purpose. Through creolization and other means, enslaved people preserved some native musical and dance traditions and invented or adopted new traditions that built community and even aided in rebellion. My research allows me to further understand the misconceptions of race and gender that are ever present in today's society.
My current research focuses on the complicated structure of race, class, status and gender in New Orleans after its incorporation into the United States, and how its heterogeneous populations of metropolitan women slowly transitioned into this new world, yet not harmoniously. I hope to uncover the women behind this port city and the ways in which they negotiated power in the continually changing environment of the city, thus touching on the intersectionality of sex, gender, class, and multiracial identities of women in nineteenth century New Orleans. Although in the early stages, research will focus on further understanding the black female experience, the image of black womanhood in the public sphere of popular culture and identity.
While I am a trained historian, I often take an interdisciplinary approach to my research and teaching by incorporating methods and theories from Cultural studies, American studies, Women and Gender studies, mass media, Performance studies, and Diaspora research and literature.
You can follow all Professor Thompson research at academia.edu https://slu.academia.edu/KatrinaThompson
Publications and Media Placements
Ring Shout, Wheel About: The Racial Politics of Music and Dance in North American Slavery (Urbana, Chicago, & Springfield: University of Illinois Press, 2014).
Articles and Book Chapters
"Taking care a white babies, that what I do": The Help and Americans Obsession with the Mammy" chapter in When White Write Black, Claire Garcia and Vershawn Young, editors. (Palgrave Macmillan Press, 2014). (Forthcoming)
"Some were wild, some were soft, some were tame, and some were fiery": Female Dancers, Male Explorers, and the Sexualization of Blackness, 1600-1900," Black Women, Gender, and Families, Volume 6, Number 2 (Fall 2012).
"Distorted Images in Travel Literature: An Exploration of the Subjugation of Blackness in the Western World" chapter in America and the Black Body: Identity Politics in Print and Visual Culture, Carol E. Henderson, editor (Madison and Teaneck: FDU Press, 2009), 55-74.
Honors and Awards
Rutgers University Race and Gender Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2013-2014
Jesuits Recognition "Most Impactful Person," SLU, 2013
Provost Faculty Research Leave, Saint Louis University, Fall 2010
Erskine A. Peters Fellow, Department of Africana Studies, University of Notre Dame,
W. Burghardt Turner Fellowship, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 2001-2005.


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One thing that we've been taught as tanks throughout most of World of Warcraft is that you had to be capped at something in order to not be insta-killed by bosses. Back when I started playing, this was referred to as reaching uncrushable. You would have to stack up 102.4 percent avoidance in order to push the dreaded crushing blows off of the boss's list of possible attacks he could hit you with. This also meant that all incoming hits were avoided or mitigated in some way, shape or form. That primary form was blocks, and abilities like Shield Block and Holy Shield at that time were custom tailored to this environment.
With the release of Wrath of the Lich King, crushing blows were deemed a thing of the past and bosses would no longer be employing them against tanks. However, we quickly had a new cap to deal with instead of that called the defense cap, aka reaching uncrittable. This meant accumulating 540 defense skill against raid bosses in order to remove bosses of being able to hit us with a critical melee attack. In early raiding tiers, this was a constant balance between gems, enchants and trinkets, as each piece of gear we accumulated could change how the scales tipped.


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Feedback: Not All Digital Transmitters Are
One of Our Readers Takes Issue With the Reference to Manufacturers' "Digital Transmitters" in Rezabeck's Latest Article. See Why
I read with interest John Rezabek's article in the October 2012 issue ("One Remarkable Transmitter," www.controlglobal.com/articles/2012/rezabek-remarkable-transmitter.html). In it, he made a number of significant points about the evolution of electronic pressure transmitters.
I do take issue though with the reference to manufacturers' "digital transmitters." While all "smart" transmitters have microprocessers and digital circuitry, there is truly only one digital transmitter manufacturer today. Yokogawa's EJA and EJX series of transmitters are the only ones that have digital sensors using their exclusive dual resonance technology. All other manufacturers start with an analog sensor, like capacitance in the case of the 3051 you mentioned, and have to use an A/D in their circuitry.
The other issue that I had was your reference to the "Rosemount 3051C DP cell." DP cell is a registered name of Foxboro. They registered the term when they introduced the 13A pneumatic DP transmitter. Their products are the only ones that should be associated with the term DP cell. I understand that many people use the term, but I did want to point that out to you.
Roy Ratcliffe
RM Controls, Inc.


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Puerto Rico holding beach volleyball camps to prepare for World Championships
This weekend's training camp is taking place at Boqueron spa and the pairs will train and play in facilities at the Centralamericano stadium.
"We have a comprehensive work plan for teams to acclimatise to the system of competition in World Championships," said national coach Angel "Cholo" Peña.
Puerto Rico will be represented in the various age-category World Championships this summer.
In the Under-23 tournament in Poland next month, Gabriela Román/ Maria Delgado and Kevin J. Rodriguez/ Christian Encarnation will represent Puerto Rico.
The other participants in the World Championships are:
U21 (Cyprus) – Arnel Cabrera/ Sergio Figueroa and Gabriela Román/ Carola Biver;
U19 (Portugal) – Lina Bernier/ Valeria Cajigas and Daniel Rivera/ Ricardo Padilla;
U17 (Mexico) – Robilee Frederick/ Natalia Cruz and Gustavo Buitrago/ Ricardo Muratti.
Arnaldo Sánchez, the director of the Beach Volleyball Council of the Puerto Rican Volleyball Federation, explained that this will be the first of several training camps under the plans of the Council.
"This is our first camp, but we will have more in the coming months and we will be working with others in different areas of the island," Sanchez said, adding that this weekend's camp will also include work with Puerto Rico's representatives at the Olympic Youth Games to be held in Nanjing, China, in August.
Sánchez gave thanks for the support of the municipality of Cabo Rojo, its mayor, Roberto Ramirez, Foundation 2010 and the National Parks Company.


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Mariann necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 208 diseños de 71 diseñadores freelance.
TejkCare AB is a newly established company that focuses on selling environmentally friendly products to the consumer market. The products that TejkCare will offer are carefully selected as the best available choice for environmental care and sustainability, presented with information about the products effect and consequences for the environment. We are targeting environmentally responsible, aware and caring consumers that consciously care about our planet and the effects that their actions and consumption has on the eco-system. The initial target market is Scandinavia, but the aim is to expand to other markets in Europe.
The first products to go to market are professional high performance cleaning products that can replace traditional chemical products. These TejkCare products are using the latest technologies in biotechnology and soft chemistry that are safe and harmless to the environment. The products combine highly sophisticated bacterial culture technique with active fermentation extract and other biological molecules and are 100% safe, bio-degradable and fast acting with deep and continuous cleaning action.
The buzz words for TejkCare are:
- Think green
- Save the planet
- Health and safety
- Green revolution
- Environmental responsibility
The main target groups for the domestic cleaning products are:
- private homes
- boats and cars
- small privately held cleaning companies and their employees
We will be launching 4 products initially:
- TejkCare of All – a general cleaning product that could be used anywhere
- TejkCare of Floor – focus area floors
- TejkCare of Bath – focus area toilets and bathrooms (calcium)
- TejkCare of Odor – prevents and takes away bad smell (carpets, cars, toilets, boats)
The packaging is done in environmentally friendly plastic bottles with branded labels and instructions of usage.
The sales channels used:
- Internet with search advertizing
- Shopping centers
- Specialty shops (boats, cars, health food etc)
We would like help with designing a logo that is suitable for the products above and also be used for other environmentally conscious consumer products. The logo will be used on the homepage, labeling the products and on marketing material. Main use will be on a white background. The design should allow us to easily add new "TejkCare of …" product names easily. The environmental aspect should be very noticeable through the use of colors or symbols. We would also want to add a by-line in the logo so there should be made room for that.
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patycas necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 248 diseños de 43 diseñadores freelance.
VANILLA or VANILLE (main name) cupcake boutique and more
Im a very free spirit joyful person, i listen to several types of music, (arcade fire, the killers, regina spector, indie rock and so on i love life, to eat, to cook, my dog. I work for CHANEL so im as well very inspired by the french culture, their cuisine, the tres chic style.
My bakery cafe will focus on the new trend of gourmet cupcakes, in french bakery goods, croissants, pan de chocolat, fondant, quiches, sandwiches and salads, smoothies, milkshakes, kids menu, waffle, pancakes , french toast, and sunday brunch. BUT at night the light of the place go down, becoming a nice wine and chic wine bar.
the colors i want to use for the logo is white, or light gray or some type of raspberry color.
its a mix of the tradition in cooking and the modern and the simple ways of enjoying food.
For my country Panama this will be a new type of place, a lot of people are moving here, (specially americans) who have a lot of this type of places in NY Chicago etcetc...
My audience is cool people, people that its connected all the time, that thinks outside the box, customers that know about service and that want to go to a nice place to listen to cool music, modern music and to have a good time chatting with friends and drinking bloody mary on sundays. A coffee place.
organic ingredients, fresh produce ingredients
i will attached a few designs i've been looking, I would like a logo that will inspire relax, but at the same time a need to find out what is inside, the vanilla beans is one of my favorite things, the vanilla orchid its beautiful as well.
Its also a fact that the aroma of the vanilla raises appetite and gives a feeling of calmness
The decor of the place will be inspired in the following places i have discover on the web (http://www.georgetowncupcakes) and http://www.themodernpantry.co.uk.
It will be a combination at the shop from a pink lipstick color with a white furniture or gray, please take a look at this image (gracemagazine.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/graycolors400.jpg) Steel gray with Shocking Pink kind of style...
But recomendations are welcome!! I like very clear letters, no swirls and rococo styles of typography, very short and sweet, dont like swirls, like it clean and neat.
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I'm getting pumped, stupid pfls.
I'm getting pumped, stupid pfls.
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And that's the end of the match. Alternative XI won by 225 runs.
Alternative XI 275-7
Central Districts 50-10
Tozz angreh about his non-selection for Blax, no doubt.
Jesus brings life eternal
Dammit! My poor run of form in the CW Cup continues. Good stuff from the Ponies, with Potgeiter's lethal medium pace winning the match.
This week's fixtures:
Again, home team challenges, challenge to be made by midnight on Wednesday (BT-England time).Code:Group A: Leverock CC (6550) vs ASC Whenuapai (1569) Group B: Coco's Nuts (6533) vs Jaffna Jets (2272) Group C: Dee Crew (11217) vs Withington Wonderers (425) Group D: Tawonga Tigers (4929) vs Central Districts (6385)
I'll post the current standings and NRRs at lunchtime, unless someone else is far too keen and gets in there first!
Winner of the 4th Cricket Web Battrick Cup
Challenged Central Districts.
Group A: Connells vs Whenuapai
A bit of a mismatch, as a weakened Connells side came up against a strong Nibbs outfit. Whenuapai racked up 349 for the loss of only two wickets, Sutton and Newby making centuries at over a run a ball.
In reply, Connells limped to 93ao, with only Adu (46no) holding his head high.
Whenuapai win, NRR +5.12
Group B: Jaffna vs Cymru
This time it was the home team (oops!) who put out a strong, almost 1st choice team, getting put in to bat and scoring 351/1, with centuries from openers Cramar (101) and Quintin (186no).
In reply, Staveley (113) and Noon (108) made the most of the sunshine, putting on 210 runs for the 3rd wicket, but they were always behind the RRR. Once those two fell in quick succession, the rest did a fine impression of the England middle order to fall 103 runs short of the target.
Jaffna win, NRR +2.06
Group C: Magical Ponies vs Withington
My woes continue! This time, a 1st XI Withington side scored too slowly and too collapsedly against a full-strength (I think) Ponies side.
Ponies chased 206 down without much fuss, making it to 207/3 with five full overs to spare.
Ponies win, NRR +0.48
Group D: Alternative XI vs Central Districts
On paper, this should have been a close match. Certainly, the sides put out included plenty of good players, with the match ratings looking pretty tasty for both sides.
Alternative XI's captain, Pete McIntosh, won the toss and decided to have a bat. In PCH conditions on a green pitch, his side made a competitive 275/7, Vincent (84) and King (82no) making most of the runs.
The crowd braced themselves for a stirring Central Districts fightback, but it was not to be, as that man McIntosh left their batting order in tatters, all out for just 50 runs.
Alternative win, NRR +4.50
Code:Group A W T L Pts NRR ASC Whenuapai 1 0 0 2 5.12 Connells Estates CC 0 0 1 0 -5.12 Leverock CC 0 0 0 0 0.00 Group B W T L Pts NRR Jaffna Jets 1 0 0 2 2.06 Cymru Gurgitators 0 0 1 0 -2.06 Coco's Nuts 0 0 0 0 0.00 Group C W T L Pts NRR Magical Ponies 1 0 0 2 0.48 Withington Wonderers 0 0 1 0 -0.48 Dee Crew 0 0 0 0 0.00 Group D W T L Pts NRR Alternative XI 1 0 0 2 4.50 Central Districts 0 0 1 0 -4.50 Tawonga Tigers 0 0 0 0 0.00
And lastly, I've challenged Dee Crew at their place.
Challenged Jaffna Jets.
R.I.P Craigos, you were a champion bloke. One of the best
R.I.P Fardin 'Bob' Qayyumi
Member of the Church of the Holy Glenn McGrath
"How about you do something contstructive in this forum for once and not fill the forum with ****. You offer nothing." - theegyptian.
"There's more chance of SoC making a good post than Smith averaging 99.95." - Furball
"**** you're such a **** poster." - Furball
Good stuff! That's this weekend's fixtures complete:
Code:Group A: Leverock CC (6550) vs ASC Whenuapai (1569) Group B: Coco's Nuts (6533) vs Jaffna Jets (2272) Group C: Dee Crew (11217) vs Withington Wonderers (425) Group D: Tawonga Tigers (4929) vs Central Districts (6385)
At the halfway stage in our match Coco's Nuts have knocked up 285/5 against the Jaffna Jets. I'm pretty happy with that, even though I know The Jets aren't playing full-strength. Strydom continued a run of good form to hit 122 and Hutchinson chimed in with 73. The in-form Greene smashed 28 off 17 balls at the end to lift us to the total.
Will need a good bowling performance though and am hoping we can nip out a couple of their better players whose PFL's are a bit low to give us a chance.
Am predicting a Jet's victory in the 47th over. 4th ball
EDIT: We've picked up the somewhat fatigued dangerman Lucas and first drop Clayton in the first over to reduce them to 0/2
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Since many of my colleagues over the years would often describe me by saying "Jim is so obsessive-compulsive about data quality — but in a good way," when evaluating the list of potential names for this blog, it was not surprising to anyone that I finally chose Obsessive-Compulsive Data Quality (OCDQ).
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Sure, the NFL lockout may or may not survive a players' injunction seeking to prevent ownership from doing so. Little matter. Little surprise. But today, Commissioner Roger Goodell slashed his salary from $10 million annually with bonuses to $1. Just like he had promised should a lockout be imposed.
Goodell also has asked the league's compensation committee to delay any bonus payments to him until there is a deal with the players' union.
Also taking cuts will be all league personnel at the New York headquarters, NFL Films in Mount Laurel, N.J., and at NFL Network and NFL.com in Culver City, Calif. For now, salaries for those league employees will be reduced by 12 percent, an amount equal to two weeks' pay. [NFL.com]
He's just like those of us who have millions stashed away to feel empowered enough to engage in a public-relations ploy.


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Full Item Description
Approximately five and a half feet in total length, Saintmaker is a simple, broad blade, straight as an arrow, a single, broad fuller stretching from just before the point clear to the hilt of the blade. It is a well worn weapon, the blade notched and nicked along its length, near to the point of being saw-edged, the steel of the blade stained and dark with splotches of black and crimson. The hilt is undecorated, and wrapped in old leather, worn and stained the same crimson as the blade.
Once, Saintmaker was a simple executioner's sword, belonging to the dispenser of the king's 'justice' in a relatively corrupt nation. And it remained that for many a year, a symbol to focus the people's fears, until one day, it was used upon a martyr. A simple doctor of Arloch, renowned for his nigh-miraculous practice of the healing arts, and his generousity towards the poor, a true and humble follower of the Lady of Life, was convicted of aiding and abetting the enemies of the king. Unable to fight the law for having had mercy upon a wounded man, he surrendered, and placed his head upon the block willingly, allowing the blade to fall… And the Dark Ones smiled, where they lounged upon their fell thrones in their assorted hells, for one more light in the world had been extinguished. The first breath of their demonic strength they gave to the man's executioner, and it reposed in the tool of his art.
Still, in time, the executioner perished, ripped limb from limb by a rampaging mob, though hundreds fell as he fought back against them with the tainted blade. Realizing it for the dark thing it was, the Church of the Lady attempted to destroy it, but proved unequal to the task. The blade was sealed beneath the earth, and a temple erected to guard the seal.
Yet, this would not be the end of the unholy sword, for the Dark Ones were soon to choose a champion. In order to prove herself to her masters, she fell upon the temple, and shattered the seal, reclaiming the blade. And once she had done so, she gathered up the head priest of the temple, and sacrificed him to her masters. The torturous proceedure took thirteen days, as she used the giant, nicked sword much like a bonesaw, cutting his skeleton apart bone by bone, as she muttered foul incantations to sustain his life and conciousness throughout, the better to please her hellish benefactors. And they were pleased, and granted her power with which to terrorize the land through her sword…
Her defeat took armies and adventurers, a pitched battle upon the open plains of the east, a desperate struggle in her own stronghold, and though she fell, all the adventurers who stood against her shared in her death, the dark magics claiming them along with her as she was drawn down into the nether realms. When at last men dared approach her black citadel, no trace of the blade was to be found…
Magic/Cursed Properties
First and foremost, for the powers of the blade to be activated, the Dread Powers must first be appeased. The blade must be used to commit an atrocity. Simple murder is not enough, the weapon must be used for a truely revolting and vile act. Previous acts have included such things as the flaying and cannibilization of a child while her bound family looked on.
Once this is complete, the powers of the blade begin to manifest. It is capable of penetrating the majority of divinely blessed defenses, rendering the typical defenses of priests and the like useless against the wielder, though mortal steel and purely arcane power are effective against it. As well, it proofs the wielder against those same divine spells - both those which would be detrimental to him, and those that will help him. He cannot be stricken down by the magics of mere priests, but nor can he be healed, nor blessed. For holy magics to affect the blade, or its wielder direct divine intervention is required.
Secondly, the long association of the blade with pain and suffering have married the sensations to the weapon, and it oozes them from its very substance. The wielder is surrounded by a palpable aura which inflicts these upon any who enter it, including the wielder.
Finally, as time passes and the blade is used for the fell purposes of the Dark Ones, the daemonic strength will come forth from the unholy blade, and infest the bearer. Over time, he will become to gain a subset of a fell lord's power, slowly becoming to appear as one as well. As this progresses, he may gain a Patron God from amoung the myriad powers of Darkness, and he may find himself in a bargain for his very soul.
Still, the blade is at its most powerful when it is used to destroy and defile the holy, and more than one saint has fallen to its deathly kiss.
A McGuffin for the badguys. ;)


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Review of MoMA Century of the Child Exhibit
The Century of the Child Is on Display at the Museum of Modern Art
The Century of the Child Is on Display at the Museum of Modern Art
The world has never been as invested in childhood as it is today. Sure, that's a bold statement, but after visiting the Museum of Modern Art's new Century of the Child: Growing by Design, 1900–2000 exhibit, it certainly is an accurate one. The turn of the century brought a new interest in the childhood phase of life, and as Modernist design began to filter into the mainstream, it was quickly incorporated into kids' worlds via toys, posters, games, playgrounds, and schoolhouses.
The 500 items included in the exhibit — which is on display at the NYC museum until Nov. 4 — show how the focus has changed over the past hundred years starting with kindergarten movement founder Friedrich Fröbel's colorful cutting papers and simple wooden blocks, moving on to Maria Montessori's colorful and useful objects, then on to the Bauhaus movement, during which abstract design worked its way into toy development, and then finally into the post-World War II era as cardboard and plastic became the preferred materials for toy design.
The exhibit houses nostalgic favorites like the Spirograph and Playsam as well as an original Lego set, the first Colorforms, and pieces from the set of Pee-wee's Playhouse. But by far my favorite piece was a British catalog produced in 1939 entitled 25 Best Toys For Each Age — it showed me that 73 years ago, moms were already trying to ensure that their tots were playing with the best toys possible.
Keep reading to see a few other highlights from the exhibit, and if a trip to NYC is in your plans this Fall, be sure to add a visit to the MoMA to your to-do list!


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Records used for genealogy research are, unfortunately, riddled with errors, especially the spelling of names. These incorrect names create major challenges for family historians as they search for earlier generations.
Name errors occur for varied reasons. Sometimes names have variations and individuals were not concerned which version was used. Sometimes names were written down incorrectly in the original record. Also, handwriting on old records is often hard to read or in old-fashioned script, leading to errors when the names are transcribed for a census or name index, for example.
Genealogists learn to spot names in the records that might be the ancestors they are seeking — even when outrageously misspelled –and then work to prove or disprove their theory.
My search for my paternal third great-grandparents — parents of Sherman A. Bradley — is an instructive example. To celebrate Father's Day 2009, here is a look at my quest for my Bradley forefathers, focusing on the challenges of misspelled names!
When my paternal second great-grandfather Sherman A. Bradley married in Milwaukee on 6 Jan 1859, he was recorded as born in Connecticut "near New Haven" with parents Leman H. Bradley and Mary C. Bradley. When he married for a second time on 11 Jan 1882, the official asked for a maiden name for his mother, so Sherman's parents were listed as L. H. Bradley and Mary Simons.
An exhaustive review of all Leman, Lemon, Leming and Lyman Bradley men of the right period to have a son born in or about 1835 in Connecticut turned up no relevant results. Nor could an 1850 Census record with Leman, Mary and Sherman be found — anywhere.
Two intriguing records turned up, however, in Litchfield, Litchfield County, Connecticut, a place about 40 miles from New Haven:
> Leaming Hawkins Bradley b. 10 Oct 1808 in Litchfield to Horace Bradley and Hannah Hawkins
> Seyming Bradley m. 18 Sep 1830 in Litchfield to Mary Simons.
The name Leaming could be mistakenly recorded as Leman — and there was a middle name starting with H. And if those who created the Barbour Collection of Vital Records for Connecticut towns misread the capital L as a capital S, then the marriage record could be Leyming Bradley m. Mary Simons. Leyming is yet another way a clerk might think to write down Leaming, and marriage at age 22 was typical in those days.
This was the closest I had come to a match for the names Sherman gave as his parents. But could I prove this was right? Several records and books kept me focused on this family.
First, Leaming H. Bradley turned up in the 1840 Census in Washington Township, Litchfield County, Connecticut, with two sons in the 5-9 age range. Sherman would fit in that family.
Second, a Pedigree Resource File at FamilySearch.org for Leaming's younger brother John showed that he, another brother Clark and father Horace were in Dodge County, Wisconsin, not far from Milwaukee, in the 1850 Census. Here was an exciting Wisconsin connection with a date not long before Sherman arrived in 1857-58.
Third, among the books on Ancestry.com I found one with the genealogy of this Bradley family line going back to New Haven in the 1640s. It showed that Leaming Bradley, the first child of Horace Bradley and Hannah Twitchell [her correct surname], had married Mary Simonds and they "had several sons." Here was good confirmation of the Litchfield marriage record and a match to the two young males in Leaming's household in the 1840 Census.
[The book is Genealogical and Family History of Central New York, Vol. III, by William Richard Cutter. See page 1224.]
Attempts to find a birth record for Sherman A. Bradley were not successful, even with efforts by the Litchfield Historical Society and the Town Clerk for Washington, Connecticut. Such a record is always the best proof. I was pretty sure I had the right family, but felt I need some added records for confirmation.
I turned to the Milwaukee City Directories for the 1860s and 1870s to see if Sherman's father or parents might have come to Milwaukee as well. In the microfilms of those directories, on a day not long ago, I found the proof I was looking for: Leaming H. Bradley had come to Milwaukee where his son Sherman was married and working. You can imagine my excitement!
His name was recorded in various ways in the directories, and I share them all to show again the challenge of misspelled names:
> 1862: L. H. Bradley
> 1863: Leming H. Bradley, proprietor of L. H. Bradley & Co.
> 1865: Seamey H. Bradley, same address as Leming H. in 1863.
> 1866: Leaming H. Bradley, his name spelled correctly!
> 1867: L. H. Bradley
> 1871-1872: Lyman H. Bradley
Leaming's consistent use of his middle initial H. helped identify him, no matter how his first name was mangled.
The home address for all but one of these entries was on 8th Street, helping show that these are listings for the same man, just various spellings of of his name. And the location was about four blocks from the home of Benjamin Church where his daughter Hannah lived with her husband Sherman A. Bradley.
Also, in many of these years his occupation listed was pumpmaker, including the final listing when his name was spelled Lyman. Sherman A. Bradley had the same occupation. [Note: In that era, water pumps were made out of wood, so Sherman's career move to pumpmaker from carpenter makes sense.]
Two more clues helped confirm that Leaming Hawkins Bradley and Mary Simons were Sherman's parents. Written on a Bradley family tree were two notes: one, that Sherman had an ancestor in the Revolutionary War and, two, the ancestral name Abernathy, connection unclear. Books showed the parents of Horace Bradley as Aaron Bradley — who served in the Revolution as a youthful blacksmith and guard — and Lorrin Abernethy, daughter of Dr. William Abernethy.
All the pieces of the genealogical puzzle fell into place, at last.
But why was a Bradley male child born in 1808 given the first name Leaming? That name honors his great-grandfather Leaming Bradley who first brought the family to Litchfield from Middletown, Connecticut, and also his third great-grandmother Jane Leaming, daughter of Christopher Leaming and Hester Burnet, who married the first in the line of men named Abraham Bradley. But those are stories for another day.
Using the surname Leaming was a given name did indeed honor our Leaming ancestors, but also created a genealogy brickwall that was very strong, but has finally tumbled down!
This is one in a series of genealogy and family history research articles to help you find your family and ancestors, often for modest or no cost.


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Sarcastic wrote:I decided to play Far Cry 2 that I got from PSN like a year ago. So far so good. I got my mouse/kb set up really well already.
I'm glad you are enjoying it. Going from the initial FarCry to FarCry2 was one of the biggest gaming disappointments of my life.


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We are a non-profit committed to our mission of improving the quality of education for the impoverished children of Peru.
Mi Casa de Angeles was founded in 2009 by then sophomore in High School Gabriella Brignardello of Thousand Oaks, California for the purpose of improving the quality of education in the impoverished areas throughout Peru. The inspiration for creating this non-profit organization came to Gabriella at a very early age while visiting Peru and witnessing the hardships that many destitute children face on a daily basis. She immediately realized that she wanted to make a change in these children's lives.
Peruvian children in need face three main problems: poverty, chronic malnutrition, and lack of education. The goal of Mi Casa de Angeles is to provide a community-supported and positive environment, a safe place to learn, healthy nutrition, and a high level of education for these children. Mi Casa de Angeles is committed to empowering these children with knowledge and improving their lives so that they can have a better opportunity to succeed in society.


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Piana, designed by David Chipperfield, is a folding chair, easily stackable, available in different colours. Its minimalist design is perfectly representative of the conceptual nature of Chipperfield aesthetics. -The "Piana" chair can be employed in fire prevention measures listed in the Italian D.P.R.1-08-2011, n. 151, and is regulated by specific laws that govern its dassifìcation of reaction to fire.
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New trend: Trojan which steals your pics instead of your text
That private stash of, ah, special-interest jpgs? Lifted
Miscreants have developed a strain of malware that steals image files from compromised systems.
The Pixsteal-A Trojan dispenses with the conventional tactic of only stealing text files, instead concentrating on uploading .jpg, .jpeg, and .dmp (memory dump) files from infected machines onto a remote FTP server.
The switch in tactics reflects the changing way that users store potentially sensitive information, an advisory by Trend Micro explains.
"Information theft routines have been mostly limited to information that is in text form, thus this malware poses a whole new different risk for users," writes Raymart Paraiso, a threat response engineer at Trend Micro. "Users typically rely on photos for storing information, both personal and work-related, so the risk of information leakage is very high. Collected photos can be used for identity theft, blackmail, or can even be used in future targeted attacks." ®
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Briscoe To Start Third, Castroneves Sixth in Surfers Paradise
October 25, 2008
SURFERS PARADISE, Australia (October 25, 2008) - Team Penske's Ryan Briscoe and Helio Castroneves will start from the second and third rows, respectively, in Sunday's Nikon Indy 300 after a pair of strong qualifying efforts Saturday.
Changing weather conditions made qualifying - which included three segments of 20 minutes, 15 minutes and 10 minutes, in which the fastest six from each advance to the next round - tricky, as a storm hit just as the first of the segments began. All teams switched to wet-tread tires for the first segment and half of the second segment before returning to race slicks. By the final "Firestone Fast Six" segment, the track was nearly dry, with only a few wet sections from Turns 9 through 12.
Briscoe, a Sydney, Australia native, recorded a lap of one minute 35.8007 seconds around the challenging 12-turn, 2.795-mile street course in the No. 6 Team Penske Dallara/Honda, good for third on the starting grid. Fellow Australian Will Power won the pole position; New Zealander Scott Dixon will start second.
"I was a bit nervous when the rain came down," said Briscoe about the sudden downpour that changed the tenor of what was to be a very quick qualifying session. "It's never fun going down a street course in the wet. It's pretty daunting. But the car seemed to work pretty well, the tires were really good in those conditions as I never had any moments of aquaplaning."
Briscoe wasn't able to drive hard until the track dried off. "At the end when we finally made it to the Fast Six, the track was just getting dry and it was the first time we were able to put a good lap together," he said. "It was the first time I was really able to attack the curbs – and I was just hoping for the best coming off of them. I rubbed the wall a few times, but I'm happy where we're starting tomorrow."
Helio Castroneves, driver of the No. 3 Team Penske Dallara/Honda, will start sixth after a lap of one minute, 36.7425 seconds. Castroneves credited a change the team made during an early segment that helped him get into the top six.
"We took a gamble when it started raining," said Castroneves about his first run. "We had 20 minutes in the first session and it looked like it was going to continue raining, so we decided to change part of the gearing of the car to get into the Fast Six. When we made the top six later in the afternoon, we kept to our plan and the gears. Ultimately the track dried out. It was a little bit hard to put together the right lap, but it paid off because top six at this place is pretty good. Hopefully we'll continue our good progress during the weekend and see what happens tomorrow."
The Nikon Indy 300 will be telecast live at 10:30 p.m. (EDT) on Saturday, Oct. 25 on ESPN Classic and will re-air on Sunday, Oct. 26 at 11 p.m. on ESPN2. The race will air live on the IMS Radio Network and at www.indycar.com.
Qualifying Saturday for the Nikon Indy 300 IndyCar Series event on the 2.795-mile Streets of Surfers Paradise, with starting position, car number in parentheses, driver, chassis-engine and speed:
1. (8) Will Power, Dallara-Honda, 105.977 mph
2. (9) Scott Dixon, Dallara-Honda, 105.067
3. (6) Ryan Briscoe, Dallara-Honda, 105.031 mph
4. (10) Dario Franchitti, Dallara-Honda, 104.885
5. (17) Ryan Hunter-Reay, Dallara-Honda, 104.374
6. (3) Helio Castroneves, Dallara-Honda, 104.008 mph
7. (36) Alex Tagliani, Dallara-Honda, 99.317
8. (11) Tony Kanaan, Dallara-Honda, 99.229
9. (02) Justin Wilson, Dallara-Honda, 98.606
10. (33) E.J. Viso, Dallara-Honda, 97.767
11. (14) Vitor Meira, Dallara-Honda, 96.440
12. (19) Mario Moraes, Dallara-Honda, 90.238
13. (06) Graham Rahal, Dallara-Honda, 87.030
14. (26) Marco Andretti, Dallara-Honda, 89.672
15. (5) Oriol Servia, Dallara-Honda, 86.994
16. (27) Hideki Mutoh, Dallara-Honda, 88.781
17. (18) Bruno Junqueira, Dallara-Honda, 85.258
18. (4) Dan Wheldon, Dallara-Honda, 88.328
19. (20) Ed Carpenter, Dallara-Honda, 84.721
20. (34) Jaime Camara, Dallara-Honda, 88.223
21. (23) Townsend Bell, Dallara-Honda, 84.607
22. (15) Buddy Rice, Dallara-Honda, 87.994
23. (7) Danica Patrick, Dallara-Honda, no speed
24. (2) A.J. Foyt IV, Dallara-Honda, no speed


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18 Things You Didn't Know About Firefly
You can't stop the signal…
As a Browncoat, I had to post this new infographic: 18 Things You Didn't Know About Firefly from CarSort.com.
Firefly has quickly become a cult classic, after it was cancelled by Fox in 2002, after airing only 11 episodes (out of order). Firefly was created by Joss Whedon who is best known for creating Buffy the Vampire Slayer and is set to direct and write The Avengers movie set for release in the summer of 2012. Firefly is a space western set in the 25th century where the renegade crew of the Serenity try to stay one step ahead of the long arm of the Alliance.
CarSort.com has put together a fun infographic with little known facts about Firefly and Serenity.
Did you know that Neil Patrick Harris was turned down for the role of SimonSome people believe that Firefly was a rip off of an amine series called Outlaw StarSome of the sets were recycled from Power RangersZac Efron made his TV debut on Firefly…
Certainly not the best infographic design I've ever seen
WAY too much text! This is really a text list with some images.
No data visulizations for the body counts
Should have included a visual size comparison of Serenity to the ISS or the Battlestar Galactica when either of them was mentioned
No data sources listed. Where did these facts come from? Are they really true?
No license listed on the infographic (Copyright or Creative Commons)?
But the infomation is cool, and I learned a few things I didn't know. Joss, you can hit that red button any day now…
Thanks to Brenden for sending in the link!


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Why Obama's gun plan may be doomed
Before President Barack Obama can even launch his campaign-style blitz for new gun control measures, there are strong indications that any comprehensive legislation restricting weapons and ammunition won't even see a vote on the House floor.
Interviews with multiple House Republicans from the Midwest and Northeast reveal almost zero appetite to vote on any sort of sweeping gun bill. In the month after the school shooting in Newtown, Conn., none have brought up the issue with Speaker John Boehner. Without internal pressure from such center-right Republicans, and given his difficulties with restive conservatives in his conference, Boehner would seem to have little political incentive to move on guns.
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( PHOTOS: Politicians speak out on gun control)
And that may leave the president with few options besides focusing on background checks and what he can accomplish by executive action.
For all the coverage devoted to how much political capital Obama will spend on the hot-button issue and the details of what Vice President Joe Biden's task force will come up with, the political realities of Congress have gotten short shrift. Leaders in both chambers have stalled on the issue, using the Biden commission as cover to not weigh in definitively. But even if Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid were to attempt to muscle through a bill — no sure thing given his own ties to the National Rifle Association and the many red-state Senate Democrats up for reelection next year — there is only the most minimal support among rank-and-file House Republicans for gun control.
( Also on POLITICO: NRA unleashes lobbyists)
Take Reps. Charlie Dent and Jim Gerlach, a pair of moderate Pennsylvania Republicans from swing districts — the kind of suburban communities where gun politics post-Newtown may have changed. In separate conversations, both indicated they were interested in pursuing solutions on mental health to prevent future shootings but neither believes additional gun restrictions are the answer.
"I'm frankly more concerned about the mental health situation right now than anything else," Dent said. "It's very difficult to get somebody committed."
Dent, who represents the Allentown area, noted that semi-automatic weapons are "commonly owned" in his district and beyond. "This AR-15 that they're all talking about is one of the most popular hunting rifles in the country."
( Also on POLITICO: Obama guns plan to include trafficking law)
Gerlach, who hails from suburban Philadelphia, said he isn't seeking new curbs on firearms or ammunition.
"That's not something, at least in my district, that's a huge issue," he said. "Because most people recognize that responsible gun owners, regardless of what kind of gun they have or the magazine they're using, use them responsibly. It's how do you keep them out of the hands of those that shouldn't have them — that's the key."
Gerlach said he was open to tightening background checks, but not gun restrictions. "I'd be willing to look at [background checks] but actual bans of certain firearms just doesn't seem to be the area we need to be looking at."
( PHOTOS: Politicians with guns)
Other House members and senior GOP aides say the fiscal cliff and the supplemental spending bill for Hurricane Sandy has dominated the conference's internal conversation for the past month. They said the gun issue would most likely be raised at their retreat later this week in Williamsburg, Va., and that additional pressure would very likely come with Obama's inaugural and State of the Union speeches.


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Andreessen Horowitz Raises Yet Another $1.5 Billion Fund
Heavyweight Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, a backer of virtually all the hottest names among tech startups in recent years, has closed its fourth fund at $1.5 billion, matching the size of the fund it raised just two years ago.
The firm, founded in 2009 by Netscape Communications Corp. co-founder Marc Andreessen and Opsware Inc. and LoudCloud Inc. founder Ben Horowitz, is among a small number of firms that can raise and fairly quickly deploy funds of more than $1 billion.
Growth equity firm Technology Crossover Ventures closed its eighth fund at $2.23 billion last week, and firms like Sequoia Capital, Accel Partners, Founders Fund, New Enterprise Associates and a few others have also raised funds in the same ballpark.
The concentration of venture industry dollars among a few top firms is not necessarily a bad thing, said Scott Kupor, a managing partner at Andreessen Horowitz.
"The important thing is that the total number of dollars flowing into this industry is at a rational level," he said. "It's not so much about which firms can raise how much. The total dollar amount is more important than whether consolidation is good or bad. In 2000, it was like $110 billion. Now it's like $16 billion to $18 billion per year."
Despite the mounting number of startups posting $1 billion-plus valuations and eye-popping acquisitions such as Facebook's recent $19 billion purchase of mobile messaging company WhatsApp and $2 billion deal for virtual reality startup Oculus VR Inc. (an Andreessen portfolio company), Mr. Kupor resists the notion of a Silicon Valley tech bubble.
For one thing, public-market investors are far more circumspect and cautious than they were in the dot-com boom, he said.
"We're not in a bubble and there is no frenzy," said Mr. Kupor. "One healthy sign is that people are not just piling money into any IPO...look at Chegg, Violin Memory and King (Digital, maker of Candy Crush). People are discerning now. There's a delta now between the good performers and the bad performers. I'd be worried if every IPO went crazy, which is not the case."
Mr. Kupor said the firm's previous fund can be used on one or two new investments and a few follow-on rounds, and then it will be time to tap the new, $1.5 billion vehicle.
Andreessen Horowitz had no room for new limited partners while fundraising, Mr. Kupor said, as the university endowments, foundations, family offices and other LPs that have invested with the firm in the past all wanted to re-up their commitments, he said.
Most of Andreessen's LPs have been investing with the firm for five years, with the very newest of the investors coming aboard two-and-a-half years ago, Mr. Kapur said. He declined to discuss details of the fund investment terms.
The firm has experienced more than a few lucrative exits, including the 2011 sale of Skype to Microsoft Corp. for $8.5 billion, the 2011 sale of Nicira Inc. to VMWare Inc. for $1.26 billion, the 2012 sale of Silver Tail Systems Inc. to EMC Corp. and last year's IPO of online vendor Zulily Inc.
Andreessen has generally invested over a fairly wide range of business sectors, and 2014 will be no exception. The firm has interest in 3-D printing companies, companies developing drone technology, bitcoin, consumer mobile technology companies and enterprise infrastructure companies, he said.
Notable portfolio companies include Airbnb Inc., Box Inc. and Pinterest Inc.
The firm has more than $4 billion under management.
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LOS ANGELES — Stealing the moon can be a tough act to follow, as reformed criminal mastermind Gru and the creative team behind the $540-million-grossing 2010 smash "Despicable Me" discovered when it was time to dream up an encore.
After all, it was no mean feat to successfully juggle all that lunar lunacy with a delightful companion plot involving a trio of orphaned girls who, in turn, steal Gru's heart. While the new edition doesn't quite catch that inspired spark, there's still plenty to enjoy here courtesy of those zippy visuals and a pitch-perfect voice cast led by the innately animated Steve Carell.
Expect the movie's minions to once again turn up in droves in what is certain to be a stellar Fourth of July holiday weekend.
"Despicable Me 2" finds Carell's Gru more or less embracing his newly domesticated life after adopting Margo (Miranda Cosgrove), Edith (Dana Gaier) and little Agnes (Elsie Fisher), even swapping his more nefarious activities for a startup jelly-and-jam-making operation. But he soon finds himself in a stickier situation when he's dispatched by the top-secret Anti-Villain League to track down the perpetrator of a fresh heist involving a ginormous electromagnet.
Setting up an undercover operation in a mall cupcake shop, Gru is reunited with fresh AVL recruit Lucy Wilde (Kristen Wiig, formerly the proprietor of Miss Hattie's Home for Girls), with his suspicions set on the gregarious owner of a Mexican restaurant (a terrific Benjamin Bratt), who bears a nagging resemblance to El Macho, a notorious villain believed to have perished while riding a shark into a volcano with 250 pounds of TNT strapped to his chest.
It's those sort of details that lend the "Despicable Me" franchise an irresistible Looney Tunes-style nuttiness – one even more prevalent this time around in the absence of a more substantial plotline.
Still, returning directors Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud and the returning writing team of Ken Daurio and Cinco Paul again maintain the energy at a brisk, buoyant clip, while Carell and the rest of cast add an extra layer of dimension to those expressively drawn characters.
Also amusingly returning to the fold is Russell Brand as rickety resident mad scientist Dr. Nefario, Steve Coogan as AVL head honcho Silas Ramsbottom and Ken Jeong as Floyd Eagle-san, now the owner of a wig store.
Back again to imbue the production with a pleasing visual and aural snap are production designer Yarrow Cheney and on-a-roll Pharrell Williams, whose springy songs blend nicely with Heitor Pereira's bright score.
Those who foolishly opt to leave at the start of the end credits will be missing out on another entertaining 3D demonstration again led by a handful of those wacky Minions.
"Despicable Me 2," a Universal release, is rated PG for, according to the Motion Picture Association of America, "rude humor and mild action." Running time: 98 minutes.


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90 Graham M. Hall '64
|HOF Class of '90
Graham Hall was a four-year letter winner ad a member of the Kings Point sailing team. As a senior in 1964, he won the Inter-service Academy Championship, the MAISA Monotype Championship, the High Point MAISA Championship and placed sixth in the North American Championships.
In 1963 he led the Mariners to the Mid-Atlantic Championship and finished eighth at the North American Championships. Hall was inducted into the Sailing Hall of Fame at Annapolis for his outstanding contributions to the sport of sailing.


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alltheprettyhorses wrote:And I won't be offering ANY information I'm sorry, this wasn't a post that was meant to turn into a social engineering practice session for people to see if they could find the website/check it for themselves. Needless to say I felt discomforted enough reading them.
Back up your claims with some modicum of technical knowledge or don't make them.
Maybe you did some 31337 hax to gain secret documents. Personally, I doubt it. If you re-read what I wrote, you might find more than a slight amount of disbelief in your claims scattered throughout.
The fact that you follow up these questions over the authenticity of your initial claims with "NO! Not going to give no info, might somehow be identifiable!" goes to show just how clueless you are.
You're saying you don't want the site identified, right after you came here contemplating exposing it.
In any sense, I wasn't even asking for any details about the company. Re-read my prior post and you will see that it is not asking for any detail that would not be common among several hundred businesses of the same sort.
More to the point, I was hoping to get a sense of your technical skills: WHAT you exploited, HOW you exploited, and more into WHY you exploited it.
As to the last of the three, you've given me no sense of whether or not you have much of a clue as to what you are doing. No details whatsoever about what sort of attack vectors were used at all: physical access? Malware? Web vulnerability? NONE OF THIS INFO WAS PROVIDED!
And so, I guess as a member of some months here, I should just buy into whatever claims you make of yourself without substantiation? Absolutely not. As far as I am concerned, you did and know nothing, because when I ask simple questions about WHAT and HOW you did it, you dodge the questions with the seemingly clever retort of not wanting to expose the client (hypocritical in and of itself, since the OP was about selling them out).


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I hope somebody can help me with this... Running Ubuntu 12.10 GNOME Remix
I am trying to get Grub2 to use a resolution of 1600x900...
I have checked vbeinfo and hwinfo --framebuffer which both provide:
Mode 0x037f: 1600x900 (+6400), 24 bits
This resolution has worked on previous Ubuntu and Fedora installs.
Here is my /etc/default/grub: http://paste.ubuntu.com/1308444/
Line 25 =
As well as my /boot/grub/grub.cfg: http://paste.ubuntu.com/1308446/
Line 72 =
set gfxmode=1600x900
I have tried using grub-customizer:
Why is it not taking effect?? I have tried different resolutions... Backgrounds and font colours are changeable.
Thank you for your insight.


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Nice to have your feet in the water today. Xoxo
Good mOrning Project
I have searched out the most beautiful thing I could find every morning, usually in my own backyard, and taken a photograph of it to share.
My Good mOrning Project has been ongoing for nearly five years .....WOW.....that is.....math.......1825 images and counting!
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WHITEWATER, Wis. (Blugolds.com) – While the first four innings of today's NCAA Division III Softball Regional saw just four hits and two runs, UW-Eau Claire and North Central College (Ill.) combined to score 19 more runs and 16 hits but the Cardinals came out on top, beating the Blugolds 12-10 at van Steenderen Field.
The Blugolds struck first with Amanda Fischer (So.-Wausau, Wis./West) scoring a run in the bottom of the second. North Central tied the game up in the top of the fourth and the score remained tied at 1-1 after four innings.
In the top of the fifth, the Cardinals scored twice with just one out and then with two runners on bases, Amanda Walker hit a three-run homer down the left field line to give North Central a 6-1 lead. North Central scored one more run in the top of the sixth.
Down 7-1, the Blugolds didn't go quietly and regained the lead (8-7) with seven runs in the bottom of the sixth. Amanda Houle (Jr.-Chisago City, Minn./Chisago Lakes) scored the Blugolds' first run and Sarah Fern (Sr.-Brooklyn Center, Minn./Park Center) hit a double right after the run, scoring Abby Hansen (Fr.-Kaukauna, Wis.) and Jenny Hess (Sr.-Wisconsin Rapids, Wis./Lincoln). After two more runs came in, the Blugolds took the lead following a throwing error as Brooks and Taylor Pierce (So.-Ashwaubenon, Wis.) scored runs.
But just when Eau Claire had some momentum, the Cardinals took back the lead with five runs in the seventh to go up 12-8. With one more chance in the bottom of the seventh, Hansen got on base right away but North Central recorded two straight outs before Pierce cleared the bases with a home run to center field. One more Blugold got on base but a groundout ended the Blugolds' comeback short.
Three Blugolds finished the game with two hits each as the team recorded a total of nine hits. Fischer stole two bases and now has a total of 31 for the season, fourth most in school history. She needs just three more to tie a school single season record.
In the circle, Emma Wishau (Jr.-Burlington, Wis./Waterford Union) pitched 4.1 innings but was relieved after giving up seven hits and six runs while striking out three batters. Zana Lorbetske (Fr.-Rhinelander, Wis./Three Lakes) came in next and pitched 1.2 innings before Laura Raflik (So.-Plover, Wis./Pacelli) relieved her to close the game. Lorbetske gave up four runs while Raflik gave up two to receive the loss. She dropped to 7-2 on the season.
The Blugolds are now 26-8 overall while North Central improves to 33-10.
Eau Claire will now play at 1 p.m. Friday in an elimination game but an opponent will be determined tomorrow morning. Illinois Wesleyan University and Benedictine (Ill.) were scheduled to played Thursday evening but rain postponed the game until Friday at 9 a.m. The Blugolds will take on the loser of Friday morning's contest.


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Zack Snyder's Man of Steel, is poised to make a big splash at Comic-Con 2012. A teaser trailer for the film is due to be released online soon, in coordination with the Warner Bros. panel at the Con (which will undoubtedly showcase additional footage from Snyder's reboot of the Superman movie franchise).
We've speculated that Man of Steel could be fashioned as the first installment in a shared DC comics movie universe, following the announcement that Warner Bros. is resurrecting the Justice League film. New reports indicate that is indeed the plan, which puts even more pressure on Snyder to deliver the goods.
Warner Bros. can do its part to help out by getting the marketing for Man of Steel started on the right foot, with the one-two punch of the Comic-Con showing and official teaser trailer release. The teaser has been given a G rating by the Alberta Film Ratings, and is said to be about 1 minute and 27 seconds in length. Snyder's movies never fail to suffice as feasts for the eyes, so there's good reason to think the Man of Steel teaser could easily make a strong impression in that brief amount of time (see: the spell-binding Watchmen teaser trailer).
Whether or not the Man of Steel trailer will be an accurate representation of the actual film's quality, well, we won't have a concrete answer to that question until next summer.
Meanwhile, CBM has received the following tipoff about how, exactly, Man of Steel might pave the way for future DC movies set in the same universe:
According to our source part of WB's plan is to use 'Man Of Steel' and drop hints that Superman is in a shared universe with his DC counterparts. The hints will be very subtle such as character mentions. The one character that DC is really wanting to reference is Wonder Woman. The source was unclear on if this would be to set up a solo movie for the Amazon Princess or to the Justice League, but with the info that was just posted it seems more likely to be the JLA.
Michael Goldenberg (a co-writer on Green Lantern) is reportedly at work scripting the Wonder Woman movie. However, there's been some question as to whether DC will imitate Marvel's approach to building a shared universe and release solo superhero films, as buildup to Justice League. The alternative, of course, is to jump feet-first into a JL movie, and then branch-out into standalone ventures. The latter option would allow the studio to stave off from having to successfully reboot the Superman, Batman, and (possibly) Green Lantern franchises, prior to JL.
Marvel's Avengers undeniably benefitted from having five movies and four years of anticipation as lead-in. So, if DC elects to not imitate its rival's strategy for constructing a shared universe, the comic book studio will be banking on Man of Steel having cross-over appeal to the wider moviegoing masses - and, playing well with the immediate fanbase. So, again, all eyes are going to be fixed firmly on Snyder's project, beginning with the trailer kickoff this week.
For more Man of Steel news, keep a close eye on the Screen Rant Comic-Con page.
Man of Steel stars Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Michael Shannon, Diane Lane, Kevin Costner, Russell Crowe, and Laurence Fishburne. It is based on a story co-created by Christopher Nolan and Davis S. Goyer (the latter co-penned the script), and directed by Zack Snyder.
Look for Man of Steel to open in U.S. theaters on June 14, 2013.
Source: Alberta Film Ratings, CBM