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What would you expect to be paid to write a video game script? $US100,000? Maybe you'd get that a few years ago, but the rate is now more between $US10,000 to $US20,000, writes The New York Observer.
It's one of the more interesting did-you-knows cropping up in a collection of anecdotes about solid writers who are leaving more establishment gigs - news, novels - to try their hand at a chaotic field that's still establishing a who's who and professional structure. Games writing is largely a freelance, gig-by-gig career, like you'd expect for Hollywood, the difference is it pays a ton less.
The expectations are also a lot lower, to put it charitably. "I always say that the games industry makes Hollywood look like avant-garde poetry publishers," writer Tom Bissell said. "In the lit biz, I'm, to quote Ron Burgundy, I'm kind of a big deal. But in video games, no one cares."
N'Gai Croal, the former Newsweek games writer who founded the games consulting firm Hit Detection, figures prominently in the piece as well. "If you want a Frank Darabont, for instance, you need to pay Frank Darabont's quote or you don't get him," he says, comparing Hollywood and games. "But the flip side is, if you can't afford it, than maybe he's not the best one suited and maybe you want someone who knows games better, maybe isn't as big a name, but can deliver you 60 percent to 70 percent of what Darabont brings to the table in terms of dialogue and structure."
Other fun facts: N'Gai drinks strawberry mojitos, apparently. That's not exactly hard-luck shot-and-a-beer poison, so we'll assume his new gig can pay the rent. But strawberry, N'Gai? Tsk.
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As engagingly-chronicled by co-directors Linda Atkinson and Nick Doob, Carmen & Geoffrey, stands as a fitting tribute to a pair of extraordinary overachievers and as a touching portrait of over a half century of Black-on-Black love and of lives very well lived.
Excellent (4 stars). Unrated. Running time: 80 minutes. Studio/Distributor: Film Forum
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Knit up in delicious madelinetosh chunky yarn in colorway tern (love) on a big needle this is a quick 1-2 kind of evening project.
camille is a cozy & oh so comfy hooded double wrap infinity cowl knit in a lofty oblique rib pattern with warm chunky yarn. It also would look equally lovely in a super bulky, aran, or worsted. Quick to knit, with a fun construction this cowl involves no picking up of stitches. Camille is knit in the round and knit flat with a simple seamed hood.
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The Advocacy Institute is coordinated by the ALA Office for Library Advocacy and the Advocacy Institute Task Force of the ALA Public Awareness Committee in cooperation with the ALA Public Information Office (PIO), the Association for Library Trustees and Advocates (ALTA), the Chapter Relations Committee, the Committee on Legislation, and Friends of Libraries USA (FOLUSA). For more information, visit http://www.ala.org/advocacyinstitute.
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Margaret A. Edwards Luncheon
Saturday, June 28, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Come listen to Orson Scott Card, the winner of the 2008 Margaret A. Edwards Award honoring his outstanding lifetime contribution to writing for teens for his novels Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow. The annual award is administered by YALSA, the fastest growing division of ALA, and sponsored by School Library Journal magazine. Join us for lunch and listen to Orson Scott Card speak about his writing.
Tickets: $59
Event Code: YA3
Sunday, June 29, 2008
RUSA's [1] Literary Tastes Breakfast
This year at the Literary Tastes Breakfast we begin a new celebration for our readers/attendees by having authors from Notable Books Council, new The Reading List, and possibly other RUSA book lists.
Currently scheduled to appear are from the Notable Books Council list is Jon Clinch, author of Finn: A Novel, and from The Reading List is Susan Elizabeth Phillips, author of Natural Born Charmer.
The writers will read from their work or talk about an aspect of the writing process while attendees enjoy breakfast. They will be available to sign books and for further discussion after the breakfast. Tickets are $36 and are available on the Conference Registration form.
Sunday, June 29, 9:00 am - 10:00 am
Enjoy coffee and conversation featuring YALSA award winning authors! This informal coffee klatch will give you an opportunity to mingle with authors that appear on YALSA's Best Books for Young Adults Lists! (Mary Pearson, Gary Schmidt, Susan Beth Pfeffer, Barry Lyga, Margarita Engle, Jay Asher, John Green, Nancy Werlin, Cecil Castellucci, Dana Reinhardt , Laura McNeal , Tom McNeal, Amy Goldman Koss, Steven Chbosky, Adrian Fogelin, Ron Koertge, Eleanor Garner, Geraldine McCaughrean, Amanda Jenkins, Lynda Madaras, Terry Trueman, Stephanie Hemphill and Jennifer Jacobson).
Tickets: $19
Event Code: YA4
ASCLA's [2] LSSPS Annual Dinner
LSSPS is hosting its Annual Dinner in Anaheim. It is an opportunity to spend an evening visiting with colleagues and meet new people, over an enjoyable dinner. We will honor the ASCLA/KLAS/NOD Award recipient, with sponsorship being provided by KLAS. The ticket price is $35.
Sunday, June 29, 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Come join LSSIRT for an evening at Buca di Beppo Restaurant and enjoy dinner with your colleagues. Special event registration for ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim is now available online.
Ticket price: $37.50
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Monday, June 30, 2008
Monday, June 30, 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
The Michael L. Printz Award is an award for a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature. The annual award is administered by YALSA and sponsored by Booklist magazine. Come listen to the winner, Geraldine McCaughrean for her novel The White Darkness and honor book authors Judith Clarke for One Whole and Perfect Day; Stephanie Hemphill for Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath; A.M. Jenkins for Repossessed; and Elizabeth Knox for The Dreamquake: Book Two of the Dreamhunter Duet speak about their writing, followed by a dessert reception.
Tickets: Advance: $29. Onsite: $35
Event Code: YA5
Monday, June 30, 2008, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location to be announced
Please join the International Relations Round Table (IRRT) in welcoming and celebrating with librarians from more than 80 countries at the ALA Annual Conference. Open to all conference attendees, this reception offers a unique opportunity to network with hundreds of information professionals from around the world. Join us for a mixing of culture and ideas, regional cuisine, hors d'oeuvres and open bar (this event is free for international librarians). Advance registration is required.
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Congratulations to gingerroot, who won this week's contest for Your Best Radish Recipe with her Roasted Radish and Potato Salad with Black Mustard and Cumin Seed.
Describe an early food experience that has influenced the way you think about food and/or cooking.
I was fortunate to have two wonderful grandmothers who were both amazing cooks. They both expressed love through cooking and feeding their loved ones. I have vivid memories of helping each of them at an early age, maybe around 3 or 4, in the kitchen.
For my paternal grandmother, I was always in charge of grinding the pecans for her pecan pie in a hand mill. I remember sitting right on the kitchen floor to do this. At my maternal grandmother's house, I was in charge of opening the can of Libby's corned beef for her corned beef hash. I remember thinking it was a big deal, getting to use the "key" attached to the can. The fact that they both welcomed me into their kitchens and immediately made me a part of the production definitely instilled in me an early love and curiosity for food and cooking.
What's your least favorite food?
Hmm…I do not really care for the canned clam that is in Ozoni, traditional Japanese New Year's soup. I always gulp it down though, for the good luck. I also do not really like or eat processed fast food. That said, hot fries from McDonalds are my best hangover cure.
What is the best thing you've made so far this year?
This may sound corny, but ever since joining food52 my food has been better, my ideas grander and more inspired, thanks to everyone in this community. I owe A & M a debt of gratitude: My mind is often whirring to try things I have never imagined making before thanks to food52, and I feel fortunate to be a part of it.
One example is the Fresh Fig Custard I made during the basil contest – I had never made my own custard before but was very pleased with the result and flavor combination (and ate two in a sitting on two separate occasions).
Describe your most spectacular kitchen disaster.
Thankfully I have not had any spectacular ones to date (spectacular to me connotes fire and blood). There was a time years ago when I lived in Boston and worked at a preschool. Being from Hawaii, I decided to make ice cream mochi brownies for a class potluck. This was just when I really started getting interested in cooking and I was missing an ingredient or two but figured it would just work out. The sticky brownie soup I served was nearly inedible, although the parents and teachers were nice enough to taste it and smile.
What is your idea of comfort food?
Definitely some variation of hot Asian soup with or without noodles -– Chicken Pho, Vegetable Tan Tan, my mom's after-Thanksgiving Turkey Jook, or just a simple bowl of Miso soup.
Apron or no apron?
I would love to say apron, but as my wardrobe attests, no apron.
What's your favorite food-related scene in a movie?
So many great movies involve food! However, I am a big Scorsese fan and I love the scene from Goodfellas where they are cooking in prison –- especially Paulie slicing the garlic with his razor blade. Just because you are in the big house doesn't mean you should sacrifice the quality of your food, or what you eat!
If you could make a show-stopping dinner for one person, living or dead, who would it be?
My grandmothers because they helped shape the cook/food lover in me and never got to really experience my cooking.
Paul Newman, because he is my oldest (meaning he has been it the longest) movie boyfriend, and he went to my alma mater, Kenyon College. I figure we could talk about the beauty of Gambier, Ohio in the fall and make pasta!
You prefer to cook: a. alone, b. with others, c. it depends on your mood.
At home it is usually alone, although I can cook with my mom and aunt really well and happily; we all get into our own little groove and know each other's rhythm around the kitchen. I also love cooking with my siblings.
When it comes to tidying up, you usually: a. clean as you cook, b. do all the dishes once you've finished cooking, c. leave the kitchen a shambles for your spouse/roommate/kids to clean.
Definitely try to clean as I cook, especially since I am a pro at getting a lot of dishes, pots, bowls, spoons, etc. dirty in no time flat when cooking.
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Robert Heessels necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 304 diseños de 93 diseñadores freelance.
TimeCoacher is a new online application for managing your time, working with others and getting things done. It's about to be launched in the near future.
It provides functionality like
- management of tasks, (small) projects and processes
- full calendar and dayplanner
- management of deadlines and workload
- managing appointments and meetings
Target audience is mainly small businesses, with 1-25 employees. While growing their businesses and hiring more and more employees, it gets harder and harder to manage all tasks, (small) projects and processes that have to be done by individuals and small teams. TimeCoacher helps staying on top of things and not letting them slip through your fingers.
TimeCoacher will be sold to and bought by the owners of the small companies, so the logo should especially appeal to them.
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The first impression of the logo should show:
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Suggestions for visual elements in the logo are:
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You are free to use any or all of these elements, or choose something completely different, as long as the symbolism in the logo supports the name.
We like a clean and relatively simple style. So for instance, if you use a symbol of a thumbs-up do it a bit in the style of the attachment.
The logo, or at least the most important visual element of the logo, must be recognizable if it is scaled down to favicon size. A preview of what the favicon would look like would help us make a better selection.
We do not yet have a clean color or font use preference. Though fonts should probably be without serifs.
The logo may include .com, but only if that enhances the logo. It may be omitted. It must include 'TimeCoacher' though.
If there are extra costs involved for buying any royalty free images you've used, please state so upon submission!
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What are the benefits of naturalization group application workshops? How can you plan for a successful event? This webinar discusses workshop models and approaches; planning for a workshop; and stages of the workshop event. Speakers also provide tips for working with the media and recruiting volunteers. The presenters are Laura Burdick, Naturalization Project Coordinator, CLINIC and Lizette Marquez-Escobedo, National Director of Civic Engagement, NALEO Educational Fund.


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Larry LaRue: 'Absurd goal' to shed 300 pounds is within Graham man's reach
Raymond Cool was the fat kid in his senior class at Spanaway Lake High School, a likeable fellow with an appetite for life and food that seemed irrepressible.
It almost destroyed him.
"I'd tried to lose weight a lot of ways, but I never liked fad diets," Cool said. "I was one of those who believed if I ate less and exercised more, I'd lose the weight. That didn't work for me, and at some point I couldn't exercise — then it was all downhill."
Cool met Lisa in an online trivia chatroom in 2008, and though he told her he was a "big guy," they didn't meet for months. When they did, his weight wasn't an issue.
The two married and settled in Graham.
"She's the love of my life," Cool said.
When a friend loaned them the use of a time-share condo near the ocean, Ray and Lisa Cool spent an idyllic long weekend. It reinforced how much he loved his wife, how much he wanted to be around for her. It changed his life.
"I'd been on disability, the weight was like living in a prison," Cool said. "I couldn't do so many things. It was hard to just clean myself.
"I'd reached a point where if I didn't change I was going to die. I'd watched people go that route, and it's a long, downward spiral — 10 to 15 years of misery."
It was October 2010, and he was 45 years old. He could only weigh himself at his doctor's office — and he weighed 486 pounds.
"I set a goal, an absurd goal, to lose 300 pounds. For months, I didn't make any dietary changes, I just read a lot," Cool said.
He devoured books, used the Internet, searched for answers. That December, a friend invited him to watch a video about the vegan lifestyle.
"If he hadn't been a friend, I'd have stood up and left," Cool said. "I was a fanatical carnivore, but I watched.
"The focus was on what you should eat — whole grains, for instance," he said. "You could eat all you wanted. That appealed to me, so I took that last of my life savings — $600 — and bought a Grain Master."
He didn't become a vegan; he still ate meat, drank dairy. But he also started consuming homemade, whole-grain breads and cereals.
Stubborn when it came to change, he was determined to eat a more healthful diet.
The first three months, he lost 17 pounds.
"That was my first 'Aha!' moment," Cool said. "I realized I could do this.
"I still didn't want to give up meat. My second 'Aha!' moment was realizing that I was gradually eating less meat, feeling healthier and getting full without it."
In June 2011, Cool came across a website operated by Dr. John McDougall, a long-time proponent of making starches and vegetables the core of a diet. McDougall, a physician for 42 years, offers free courses online and runs a California clinic.
Cool watched a 90-minute video, took down recipes and realized McDougall's theories fit his own. Cool's conversion was complete — though not without opposition.
"My doctor told me the diet wouldn't work," Cool said. "She told me that after I'd lost my first 100 pounds, too."
McDougall had encountered that many times.
"Nutrition isn't taught in medical school, and doctors eat just like everyone else, except they can afford to go out to eat more often," McDougall said. "Some doctors are fat, some of them have children with diabetes. It's no conspiracy, they just don't know better.
"People are eating a diet fit for kings and queens — rich diets — and they look like kings and queens. They're overweight and sickly."
Cool went vegetarian.
"I'm never hungry, I love the food," he said.
And the weight continues to disappear. His exercise routine mostly consists of walking. One day last week he walked 16 miles, just five weeks removed from back surgery.
He weighed 196 pounds last week. He wants to lose another 20.
"I've been on disability for 10 years and that will end," said Cool, a former school custodian. "I don't know what I'll do for a living, but I'll be healthy enough to pursue some things. I'd love to work with others and help them do what I've done."
Not everyone has a wife like Cool's; he calls Lisa his "motivation and inspiration." But his approach, he said, can help anyone.
"What scares me is that I see kids getting off a school bus today and 260 pounds — what I weighed when I graduated — wouldn't be the fattest kid on the bus," Cool said. "You don't have to do everything I did, but take a few steps in my direction."


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dodint wrote:NBCSN noted during the broadcast of the Sabres game last night that this Pittsburgh team is the fastest team to 40 wins in franchise history. Seems amazing to me because it doesn't feel particulary historic. Probably because they've won so much in the regular season the last few years, and when they lose they really seem to lose big.
probably because the best team ever in franchise history went on a 17-0-1 close to the regular season, and this one has spread it out? I think this team has to get past that team's win total to be recognized. Maybe even needs to get to 60 wins.


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Earlier today, a large watermain broke around the Flatiron Building on 23rd Street here in New York City. Water mains break all the time, this isn't anything new.
What is interesting is that it broke right over the NRQ subway station on 23rd Street. It flooded the streets above ground, but below ground is where it became a big problem. Subway service was suspended and delays resulted. Impatient New Yorkers were probably livid that they were somewhat inconvenienced.
Check out the scene now that the MTA is pumping the water out of the hole. It's kinda crazy. All that lovely clean and totally not rat infested water looks delightful.
During Hurricane Sandy the subways took on a lot of water and totally flooded, but the MTA got it back online really quick. This should be another quick cleanup, but for now it sucks.
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In most of our recent posts about coverage of the Womenpriests movement, such as this piece by the Divine Ms. MZ Hemingway, we have ended up discussing how journalists often struggle to grasp basic historical facts about the Roman Catholic priesthood. In particular, journalists just can't seem to realize that the Church of Rome is a voluntary association and that to be a priest in this body one must, first and foremost, be in Communion with the pope of Rome and the bishops of that Communion. However, in an earlier post, I voiced my concern about the degree to which journalists from the Baltimore Sun seemed to have been cooperative, if somewhat passive, participants in the public Womenpriests ordination rite that they were allegedly covering as members of the public press. Here is a flashback to a worrisome passage in the Sun coverage:
Andrea Johnson, presiding as bishop, ordained two women from Maryland, Ann Penick and Marellen Mayers, one from Pennsylvania and one from New York in the sanctuary of St. John's United Church of Christ. The church was filled with family members -- including husbands of three of the ordinands -- and friends, including some who are employed by the Archdiocese of Baltimore but who support the ordination of women. Photography was limited to protect the privacy of those attending the ceremony.
Later, we learned that until recently Mayers had been employed as "a campus minister and religion instructor at a Catholic high school" until she was outed as a Womenpriests activist. The Sun team declined to click a mouse once or twice and give the name of her former school, perhaps, once again, because the journalists did not want to print information that would violate the privacy of well-placed Catholic progressives in the administration there. Might some of these people be longtime sources for the newspaper?
Anyway, this issue has continued to bug me and it is the subject of this week's GetReligion podcast. Click here to listen or head on over to iTunes to add our weekly offerings to your iPhone/iPod queue.
Even after we recorded this broadcast, I continued to work this situation over in my mind.
I've been trying to find a good metaphor, a journalistic parallel case, that might help readers understand why this bothers me so much.
The following metaphor isn't perfect, but it's close enough -- as we would say in Texas -- for horse shoes and hand grenades.
So let's say that the home mission board of the Southern Baptist Convention decided to hold a celebration in a Baltimore-area church sanctuary in which four people who are of Jewish birth and background would be ordained in order to serve in new congregations that would compete directly with local congregations that are affiliated with traditional Jewish movements.
Instead of being called pastors, however, the organizers -- leaders in the Jesusrabbis movement -- insist that these newly ordained ministers are not, in fact, Protestants or even "Messianic Jewish" pastors. No, they insist that the newly ordained are rabbis -- period.
Now, as it turns out, the participants in this public celebration actually included recognizable leaders from the Baltimore Jewish Federation, major Jewish schools, the Jewish studies programs of local universities and even major Jewish congregations. They were there to celebrate the ordination of these new "rabbis," cheering and applauding the rites.
And how about the news media? The event's organizers asked the media professionals who were present to honor the privacy of these Jewish leaders who came to celebrate the ordination of these Jesusrabbis. For example, the Baltimore Sun team members agreed not to cover this important factual element of the story or even to take photos of the crowd. In a way, the Sun actually helped these Jesusrabbi movement supporters to maintain their positions in prominent local Jewish institutions, even though the overwhelming majority of local Jews would see their actions as scandalous acts of betrayal to any traditional form of the Jewish faith.
Did I mention that all of this took place in a church sanctuary in an event that was clearly open, in some sense, to the public?
But wait! If the event was secret, then that would be even more significant. The Jesusrabbi Movement even knew to invite these Jewish leaders who were acting in rebellion against their own congregations and institutions. They would had to have been, to some degree, on the inside.
So, who can imagine Sun editors cooperating in this manner in this hypothetical case, going to far as to ignore crucial news information that the public would want to know? How about other major media institutions? Would they agree to help the Jesusrabbis movement in this manner?
Enjoy the podcast. Please keep your comments focused on the journalism issues in this post.
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It's something about that "there's no way that's safe for the environment" diesel haze mingling with clouds of tire smoke that is just so wrong. So wonderfully, wonderfully wrong.


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First, I must thank you all for your tremendous efforts at providing free and extensive access to your teachings--they have substatially enhanced my knowledge of these subjects and your program.
Second, I have been struggling to find examples of the kind of model I am attempting to test. I have downloaded several articles from your site and examined the Mplus examples, but I don't seem to find "exactly" what I am looking for. Would you please direct me to an article or example that might help me better understand how to:
examine interactions among continuous observed predictors of zero-inflated count outcomes over time? The interpretation of LGCM in ZIP models is difficult already (for me), but I am really stuggling to understand how I might examine/interpret interactions in this context.
Thank you so much for your time and effort,
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The meaning of an interaction between two continuous observed predictors would be the same as in regular regression. This does not change because of the scale of the dependent variable.
posted on Wednesday, May 24, 2006 - 8:39 am
Thank you for your response. Do you know of any references I might consult to see how significant interactions in the prediction of level, growth, level#1, and growth#1 might be described and discussed? I would greatly appreciate some materials to reference. My outcomes are delinquency and substance use (very zero-inflated in this sample). Thank you again for your time.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, May 24, 2006 - 10:32 am
I think Patrick Curran has written about interactions and growth models. I don't know exact references. Aiken and West also do work with interactions. Most regression textbooks discuss interactions.
To understand what main effects mean with count variables, see:
Long, S. (1997). Regression models for categorical and limited dependent variables. Thousand Oaks: Sage.
Once you get a feeling for main effects for count variables, interactions follow. The concept of an interaction does not differ depending on the scale of the dependent variable.
posted on Wednesday, May 24, 2006 - 2:47 pm
Thank you, Linda. I have the Curran and Aiken & West references (I've done interactions in regression). I'll look at the Long one as well. I think I just need to spend some time with it re: categorical variables--somehow in the ZIP terms I get lost. I really appreciate you assuring me that the concepts are the same. Thank you,
Jennie Jester
posted on Monday, March 17, 2014 - 12:45 pm
Would it be advisable to center continuous variables before creating interaction terms for ZIP models?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, March 18, 2014 - 1:38 pm
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To celebrate the British Library's upcoming exhibition "Comics Unmasked: Art and Anarchy in the U.K.," The Guardian's Weekend magazine is devoting Saturday's issue the medium, with six new collaborations between well-known novelists and established comics artists.
The Guardian website has already debuted Do You Hear What I Hear? by A.M. Homes (The End of Alice) and Frazer Irving, and Masks by Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl) and Dave Gibbons. Still to come: Freeforall by Margaret Atwood and Christian Ward; Thursdays, 6-8pm by Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler's Wife) and Eddie Campbell; Having renewed my fire by Dave Eggers (A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius); and Art and anarchy by Michel Faber (The Crimson Petal and the White) and Roger Langridge.
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The Hague Transavia Grand Slam | 15 - 20 July 2014
The Hague, The Netherlands, July 18, 2014 - Teams from Chile, Kazakhstan, Mexico and Switzerland posted unexpected advancements in the men's competition at US$1-million Transavia Grand Slam presented by Bas Van de Goor Foundation here Friday with eight tandems joining Thursday's pool winners in the second-round of the elimination bracket.
Two of the advancers from Friday's earlier men's matches were qualifying teams to the "money" rounds from Tuesday's preliminary competition - 26th-seeded Sebastian Chevallier/Alexei Strasser of Switzerland and 28th-seeded Esteban Grimalt/Marco Grimalt of Chile. Other "surprise" teams were 19th-seeded Alexey Sidorenko/Alexandr Dyachenko of Kazakhstan and 25th-seeded Lombardo Ontiveros/Juan Virgen of Mexico.
As the host country, The Netherlands had two teams advancing to the next round of elimination Friday as 10th-seeded and reigning FIVB world champions Alexander/Brouwer/Robert Meeuwsen and ninth-seeded Jon Stiekema/Christiaan Varnhorst eliminated pairs from Italy and The Netherlands, respectively, in their opening matches Friday.
The Hague Beach Stadium and two courts on Scheveningen beach are being used for the ninth men's FIVB World Tour event this season. Here is the men's second-round elimination bracket schedule:
• John Hyden/Tri Bourne, United States (15, Q2) vs. Nick Lucena/Ryan Doherty United States (11)
• Grzegorz Fijalek/Mariusz Prudel, Poland (6) vs. Alexey Sidorenko/Alexandr Dyachenko, Kazakhstan (19)
• Emanuel Rego/Pedro Salgado, Brazil (8) vs. Sebastian Chevallier/Alexei Strasser, Switzerland (26, Q9)
• Aleksandrs Samoilovs/Janis Smedins, Latvia (4) vs. Esteban Grimalt/Marco Grimalt, Chile (28, Q11)
• Alison Cerutti/Bruno Oscar Schmidt, Brazil (3) vs. Jake Gibb/Casey Patterson, United States (13)
• Jonathan Erdmann/Kay Matysik, Germany (7) vs. Jon Stiekema/Christiaan Varenhorst, Netherlands (9)
• Pablo Herrera/Adrian Gavira, Spain (5) vs. Alexander Brouwer/Robert Meeuwsen, Netherlands (10)
• Sean Rosenthal/Phil Dalhausser, United States (1) vs. Lombardo Ontiveros/Juan Virgen, Mexico (25)
As a "prelude" to the 2015 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships, the final three days of the Transavia Grand Slam will be staged only at the Scheveningen courts where the medal matches will be played Sunday. The final two teams in both gender's competition with be competing for the gold medals and a share of the $70,000 first-place prize for each winning team.
Following this week's event, the FIVB World Tour returns to the United States for the second-straight year as Long Beach in southern California hosts another $1-million event. The international circuit returns to Europe in August for stops in Austria (Klagenfurt, July 29-August 3) and Poland (Stare Jablonki, August 19-24).
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Fijalek & Prudel Net Poland's First FIVB World Tour Gold Medal
The Hague, The Netherlands, July 20, 2014 - The names of Grzegorz Fijalek and Mariusz Prudel are now in the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour record bo... More...
20.07.2014 16:02:17
Emanuel & Salgado win All-Brazilian Bronze Medal Affair
The Hague, The Netherlands, July 20, 2014 - Legendary Beach Volleyball Emanuel Rego has added a new country to his list where he has won international... More...
20.07.2014 14:57:22
Brazilians Fernanda & Lima Top Transavia Grand Slam Podium
The Hague, The Netherlands, July 20, 2014 - It has been another successful Beach Volleyball event in The Netherlands for Taiana Lima as she returned t... More...
20.07.2014 12:46:08
Antonelli & Juliana Capture Transavia Grand Slam Bronze Medal
20.07.2014 08:04:21
Europe vs. Americas for The Hague Beach Volleyball Gold Medals
19.07.2014 22:05:09
Poland Seeks First FIVB World Tour Gold Medal
19.07.2014 19:50:21
Holtwick & Semmler Seek Validation
19.07.2014 17:44:36
Three-set matches highlight Transavia Grand Slam men's quarterfinals
19.07.2014 14:46:43
From Qualifier to "Final 4" for Brazilians Fernanda & Lima at Transavia Grand Slam
19.07.2014 08:15:02
"Moving Day" Matches Spice Saturday's Transavia Grand Slam Schedule
19.07.2014 07:16:45
Chilean Cousins Claim Big Payday
18.07.2014 21:42:01
Americans Doherty & Lucena Tandems Earn Transavia Grand Slam Break-through
18.07.2014 20:23:05
Brazilian Women Continue Strong Transavia Grand Slam Showing
18.07.2014 14:46:47
Brazilian Women Dominating Transavia Grand Slam
18.07.2014 12:39:58
European Champions Van Iersel and Meppelink disappoint after loss on home sand
18.07.2014 00:55:32
Elimination Rounds Highlight Friday's Transavia Grand Slam Schedule
18.07.2014 00:49:40
Elimination Rounds Highlight Friday's Transavia Grand Slam Schedule
17.07.2014 20:57:03
Latvians Erase Swiss Memories
17.07.2014 18:59:34
American Olympic Medalists Led Transavia Grand Slam Pool Winners
17.07.2014 18:35:39
Travelling Aussies happy on the road
17.07.2014 18:23:51
Dalhausser and Rosenthal on the hunt for a 'turkey' in The Hague
17.07.2014 14:38:14
Beach volleyball gives Apeldoorn a big buzz
17.07.2014 13:25:39
FIVB World Champions Seek Transavia Grand Slam Success
16.07.2014 22:33:15
US and Australian pairs unbeaten in Amsterdam
16.07.2014 22:02:07
Swiss Tanja's pool winners after only one day in Apeldoorn
16.07.2014 21:27:24
Upsets Highlight Transavia Grand Slam Men's Pool Play Matches
16.07.2014 21:02:42
Sand suits Canadian Pavan
16.07.2014 20:21:27
Nummerdor: next year's World Championships are going to surpass everything
16.07.2014 17:37:22
Double or nothing for Bruno
16.07.2014 15:53:36
Germany's Ludwig and Sude making the most of a temporary partnership
16.07.2014 14:50:56
Transavia Grand Slam is the Wimbledon of beach volleyball
16.07.2014 14:46:41
Life is good, but…
16.07.2014 12:47:10
Just like old times
15.07.2014 23:48:08
Amsterdam, Apeldoorn Join The Hague in Hosting Transavia Grand Slam Matches
15.07.2014 16:36:34
Upsets Highlight Transavia Grand Slam Men's Qualification Tournament
15.07.2014 16:34:30
Top-seeded Brazilians Avoid Qualifying Transavia Grand Slam Upset
14.07.2014 20:26:19
Record US$1,000,000 purse for FIVB The Hague Transavia Grand Slam
14.07.2014 16:03:17
Qualifying Rounds Opens Transavia Grand Slam Play Tuesday
14.07.2014 14:09:38
Larissa "Is Back"
14.07.2014 05:07:15
Talking Stats: 2014 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour—July 13
14.07.2014 02:43:50
2014 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour update after nine events
11.07.2014 02:54:55
Double Dutch delight
03.07.2014 18:09:15
European champs ready to give home fans taste of what to expect in 2015
23.06.2014 17:32:15
Three cities for The Hague Transavia Grand Slam
07.04.2014 18:09:54
One million dollars in prize money up for grabs at Transavia and Long Beach Grand Slams
19.03.2014 18:01:38
Fortaleza Grand Slam postponed as The Hague confirms four cities
07.03.2014 11:32:52
Transavia Grand Slam 2014 in three World Championship cities
30.01.2014 16:45:20
2014 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour ready for more highlights in record-breaking year


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1 Make card from cardstock. Cover with patterned paper.
2 Cut circle from patterned paper; adhere. Ink edges of border; adhere. Stitch circle and card edges.
3 Stamp sentiment on patterned paper strip, ink edges, and adhere.
4 Stamp perk up! on cardstock, trim, and ink edges. Adhere. Stitch two vertical lines.
5 Die-cut coffee cup from patterned paper, ink edges, and adhere using foam tape. Die-cut flourish from cardstock and adhere.
6 Thread buttons with twine and adhere.
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ronanmca necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 227 diseños de 64 diseñadores freelance.
The Glenside
The Glenside Hotel is a small hotel north of Dublin in Ireland - trading for 30 years or so. The hotel is known for great food and a warm welcome and friendly service. The current owner bought the hotel 7 years ago and has traded the hotel as it's reputation described previously - the decor was "homely" and the menus and overall appearance could be described as traditional.
Going forward we now would like to update the hotel in appearance - food and accommodation offerings and branding, to a more modern feel, while keeping our reputation for a welcoming & friendly service.
We are looking for a logo design to use on brochures, our website and company stationary as well as advertising, posters and signage.
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Hotel Restaurant Weddings
We require a logo for the new brand. The new brand should exude the feeling that you will be looked after - leave your troubles outside - you are here to be pampered and treated really great - you are going to enjoy great food and great service. The brand should say "Welcome".
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We are looking for a logo design to use on brochures, our website and company stationary as well as advertising, posters and signage.
The Logo may also be used on our uniforms without the text.
To get the best we would like to give full license on color for the logo - use as many as you like - however with certain items for print such as coasters - this can really increase the cost so we would like a 1 color and a 2 color option to be included in the project.
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text: Gary Numan (born Gary Anthony James Webb on 8 March 1958) is an English singer, composer, and musician. He is considered to be one of the pioneers of commercial electronic music and has been described as the "King of synthpop." Numan is widely known for his chart-topping 1979 hits "Are 'Friends' Electric?" (with Tubeway Army) and "Cars". His signature style combines gloomy themes of depersonalisation and alienation accompanied by energetic synthesizer work.


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Washington reaches settlement with embattled Tosh Lupoi
SEATTLE — The University of Washington and former assistant football coach Tosh Lupoi have reached agreement on a mutual separation that will pay him $300,000.
The school confirmed the agreement on Wednesday.
Lupoi was the defensive line coach under previous coach Steve Sarkisian. Washington is looking into allegations of recruiting violations against Lupoi, first reported by the Los Angeles Times. The school said on Dec. 30 that Lupoi was being reassigned within the athletic department, but gave no details on what his duties will be.
Lupoi took to Twitter on Dec. 19 saying allegations he broke NCAA rules by paying for a football recruit's online classes and tutoring are "untrue attacks."
Lupoi spent two seasons at Washington after four years at California.


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So...Queens. It's basically everything you've heard and seen and more. Easily the shwankiest tournament that I have ever been to (yes, I'm looking at you, Madrid). Normally that would annoy the shizz out of me, but given my general love of all things British, meh, it didn't bother me at all. I give credit to the tournament for being able to balance the *heavily* corporate nature of the tournament with still giving hardcore tennis fans what they want: good seats, a great draw, and awkwardly close practice court access.
Not that this doesn't come cheap. I went on the first day and had to shell out 50 pounds for the cheapest Center Court ticket. With the blockbuster lineup on Tuesday I dropped 72 pounds for a second row ticket in a corner sideline. So...yeah. THAT'S FUCKIN' EXPENSIVE, YO. That said, I don't regret any of it.
More like "Out Train The RAIN" amIright?
This is the walkway to the practice courts. They're on the other side of the bushes. If you suck it up and squeeze through the random group of people just standing there and clogging up the entrance (move or leave, people!), then you're practicaly standing on the courts. It's a bit nutty.


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I'm trying to calculate the length of a curve from a polynomial in Mathematica and for some reason Integrate doesn't complete, it just runs until I abort the execution.
The polynom:
58.1735 - 36.4175 x + 7.10945 x^2 - 0.538311 x^3 + 0.0138115 x^4
Is a part of an integration like this:
where "koordfitprim" is the polynom above (i.e. what is integrated is in fact the square root of 1 + the above polynom^2).
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Braised Bamboo Shoots with Bok Choy
This simple stir-fry combines classic Chinese vegetables to create a distinctive dish that sings with the flavors of the bamboo shoots and bok choy. Braising the bamboo shoots and bok choy allows the flavors to permeate the whole dish.
Preparation time: 25 minutes
Cooking time: 20 minutes
Yield: 4 servings
1/2 cup chicken broth
1/4 teaspoon sugar
3 tablespoons oyster-flavored sauce
1 tablespoon cooking oil
1 clove garlic
3 slices ginger
8 to 12 medium fresh shiitake mushrooms
2 whole bamboo shoots
3 baby bok choy
1 teaspoon cornstarch
Combine the chicken broth, sugar, and oyster-flavored sauce in a bowl.
Place a wok over high heat until hot.
Add the oil, swirling to coat the sides.
Crush the garlic and ginger.
Add the garlic and ginger to the wok, then cook, stirring until fragrant, about 10 seconds.
Add the mushrooms and stir-fry for 1 minute.
Cut the bamboo shoots and bok choy lengthwise.
Add the bamboo shoots; stir-fry for an additional 1 minute.
Add the sauce; stir to mix thoroughly.
Reduce the heat to medium; cover and braise for 6 minutes.
Add the baby bok choy; cover and cook for 2 to 3 minutes.
Dissolve the cornstarch in 2 teaspoons water.
Add the cornstarch solution and cook, stirring until the sauce boils and thickens.
Tip: Some types of bok choy are rather short; go for those shorter types for this dish. The shorter ones allow you to sidestep cutting the leaves and stalks into crosswise chunks. Just slice them lengthwise into longer pieces.
Tip: Although you're probably most familiar with canned sliced bamboo shoots, you can also find canned whole bamboo shoots or even fresh ones in tubs of water at Asian markets. The whole shoots are usually cone-shaped and about the size of an average palm.


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