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The AIG-owned Advisor Group is facing dissension within the ranks over plans to hold a joint conference in 2012 for its three broker-dealers.
Meg Green, one of the biggest producers in the Advisor Group and head of Meg Green & Associates, is one among many Royal Alliance independents who have been vigorously fighting perceived efforts to merge the New York-based BD with its two sister firms FSC Securities of Atlanta and SagePoint Financial of Phoenix. Many Royal advisors have simply left, she said in an intervew with AdvisorOne recently, while those remaining are campaigning to retain Royal Alliance's individuality and culture as an upscale wealth management BD.
"You just saw it: AIG was moving toward merging the three broker-dealers into one. But we don't want to swim in the public pool; we want to be with our own. We don't want to be the AIG Advisor Group; we want to be Royal Alliance. We're bigger and smarter and do more business than [either FSC or SagePoint]," says Green, named by Barron's one of "America's Top 100 Women Financial Advisors" for the past six consecutive years.
Next year, instead of holding three separate BD national education conferences, as has traditionally been the case, one joint conference has been booked for the entire group. AIG cited economies of scale and the opportunity to secure a super-big-name speaker, according to Green, who is based in Miami and manages assets of about $600 million.
Under Larry Roth, Advisor Group CEO, AIG has moved to centralize BD operations. "They were slowly dismantling each broker-dealer to merge," Green says. "Little pieces were falling apart. Royal Alliance advisors were leaving one by one. We railed against what AIG was doing, but it was like a big locomotive that kept moving, moving, moving."
(AdvisorOne requested a comment from Advisor Group on Wednesday but they not did respond to us before publication.)
When the BDs' back offices were merged and relocated to Phoenix, many Royal Alliance FAs said "enough." "They started letting people go and changing things. They were bringing in people from Phoenix and Atlanta that knew nothing about running a business. It was beyond ineptitude. It just wasn't working," Green says.
Now with the joint national education conference, in Washington on the agenda, AIG is "trying to equalize us even more," she says. "Royal Alliance is about wealth management. But AIG doesn't have the vision."
The veteran advisor was pleased, however, when earlier this summer AIG decided to retain Royal's long-time director of operations in New York, Jeff Planty, whom, Green says, they had been trying to force out.
"I told management, 'If you let this guy go, you're going to see a mess–and we're all out of here,' " she recalls.
Now "we're grateful to have been tossed an olive branch. Instead of being shut out, we've been allowed to keep some of what's important to us. Royal Alliance is once more functioning on its own. They finally put Humpty-Dumpty back together again–for now. We have our own people back. We fought for a little bit of autonomy," Green says, "and got it. Now let's see where it goes. If Royal Alliance's culture–highly educated, very caring–isn't retained, nobody is going to be happy."
When it became clear to Green that AIG was en route to merging the BDs, she secured a meeting with AIG President-CEO Robert Benmoshce asking him to halt the plan. She had just been named Royal's top producer for 2009.
"I told him: Everybody is grumbling, but you have the capacity to fix what's wrong," she says.
Now, "everything seems to be kind of copasetic," at Royal, Green says. "But let's see what happens at the joint conference."
AIG plans separate courses for each broker-dealer, though the three will be brought together for all general meetings, according to Green. She adds that AIG also indicated that if the merged conference doesn't work well for the three BDs, "it won't happen again."


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Ever since I was young, whenever my mother asked me what vegetable I'd like for dinner, my answer 99% of the time was "chao ong choy", the idiomatic Cantonese term for stir-fried water spinach. (In non-idiomatic Mandarin it's 炒空心菜 cǎo kòng xīn cài.) I don't know what made me love it from an early age on, but it always tasted meatier than other stir-fried greens. Maybe because the hollowness of the stalks - hence the "kòng xīn", which means "empty center" - cradled whatever seasonings or sauce it was cooked with. Many many years later I still love water spinach, although I now dabble in other greens from time to time.
Chinese water spinach is usually in season during the summer, but here in Zhongshan, where warm whether stretches well into October, I can enjoy my leafy green for a bit longer.
My mother's recipe for stir-fried water spinach is simple and hasn't changed much since my days of single-veggie-fanaticism. Most Cantonese restaurants and other people's mothers will make a very similar version of this dish, which is why, apart from using old stalks or over-cooking, it's hard to make a bad plate of water spinach.
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Stir-fried Water Spinach
1 bunch of fresh water spinach, washed
15 mL (1 tablespoon) peanut oil
3-5 cloves smashed garlic
120 mL (1/2 cup) of water
1 dash chicken essence
1 dash chili sesame oil*
Salt and pepper to taste
Heat peanut oil in a wok or large skillet over high head. Toss in smashed garlic. When you smell the first hints of garlic, or when the garlic begins to brown, throw in water spinach. Watch as the large bunch wilts and shrinks more, more, more. Pour in water and cover with lid for 1 minute for stalks to steam through. Add chicken essence, chili sesame oil, salt and pepper. Toss with a spatula or a flick of the wrist. Take water spinach off stove, serve hot with your other mains and sides.
*Soy sauce or hoisin sauce can also be used instead

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TRUCKEE, Calif. – An 8-year-old boy was released from the hospital Wednesday evening after he fell about 25 feet from a chairlift earlier that day at Tahoe Donner Downhill Ski Area, an official said.
The boy, a skier who was wearing a helmet, was on the Eagle Rock Chair with his father when he fell at about 3 p.m., according to a statement from Brinn Talbot, director of Marketing and Membership Services for Tahoe Donner.
While the chair's safety bar was down for most of the ride, the boy fell after it was raised as he and his father were preparing to depart, Talbot said in a follow-up interview.
The resort's ski patrol members witnessed the incident and responded immediately, Talbot said, and the boy was transported by ambulance to Tahoe Forest Hospital in Truckee.
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When people move, it is usually for a reason and although the reason might seem to the individual or family to be highly personal, like seeking a new life or going away to school, it is almost inevitable that the movement and the reason for the movement are shared with hundreds or thousands or even millions of other individuals and families in similar circumstances. If you know when someone disappeared from a certain location, it is likely that historic population movements will give you clue as to where they might have ended up.
Even if a movement seems counter to the prevailing population, there is likely a reason shared by many other people at the same time.
My early contact with the issues and problems of population movements came in graduate school where I worked on a National Science Foundation Grant to describe the origins of the Uto-Aztecan languages (also called the Piaute-Shoshone expansion). If you want to see the product, you could look at:
The modern approach would rely more on DNA and less on language, but the investigators are looking for the same thing. But language and genetics are not the same thing. Populations that are racially diverse can all speak the same language like those in the U.S. or racially homogeneous peoples may speak different languages. Language migration patterns may show a more culturally uniform migration than simply looking at DNA samples. Then again, neither language or DNA are likely to shed any light on how my ancestors arrived in the desert Southwest. My own family, even family members I remember knowing, were part of the great western migration in the United States and the Mormon settlement of the Inter-mountain West. My great-grandparents arrived by wagon in Arizona beginning in 1876.A Lexicostatistic Study of Shoshoni DialectsAnthropological Linguistics
Vol. 13, No. 4 (Apr., 1971), pp. 142-164
Fortunately, many historical population movements are documented. But how many, even more advanced, researchers are aware of population movements. There are some major population movements that are well known such as the western movement of settlers in the U.S. but nearly every part of the United States and almost every other country in the world has some history of population movement. Finding information about these important aspects of ancestral history is as simple as making a Google search. But, mind you, it will take days and weeks and months to read even the barest outlines of the history of migrations.
Whether your family came from Scandinavia, the British Isles, Europe, Africa, Asia or the Pacific, you can trace population movements and explain when and how families came to another country or part of the same country.
In the U.S. I consider one of the basic references to understanding the original settlement of the area now in the United States to be the book:
Fischer, David Hackett. Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
I have read few books that give a more graphic and concise explanation for early European populations movements in America.
Here are a number of websites to get you started is searching and learning about the movement of people across the world:
- Wikipedia:Human migration (look especially for reference sources)
- Pew Social and Demographic Trends; Maps, U.S. Migration Flows
- Great Migration of Puritans from England to New England (1620–1643)
- Great Serb Migrations from the Ottoman Empire to the Habsburg Monarchy (1690 and 1737)
- Great Migration of Canada, increased migration to Canada, (approximately 1815–1850)
- Great Transatlantic migrations, a voluntary mass migration of Europeans to the Americas (1836–1916), including over 30 million Europeans who migrated to the United States[1]
- Great Migration, resulting from the 1947 Partition of British India
- African American "Great Migrations":
- The original Great Migration from the southern United States to the northern United States (1910–1930)
- The Second Great Migration from the southern United States to the northern and western United States (1941–1970)
- The New Great Migration, reverse migration from the North, Midwest and the West to the southern United States (1965–present)
- The Great Migration of 1843, the first large group of settlers to travel via the Oregon Trail to the Oregon Country


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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc's shareholders have been hit by one of the bloodiest weeks in the history of the stock, but wider fallout from such weakness might be more important to the long-term value of their investments.
While Apple's iPhones, iPads and Macs remain gold standards, signs the company is losing some of its edge in the smartphone market suggest its clout with business partners could wane.
Recent comments from executives at phone carriers and component suppliers show they see room for at least some shift in the balance of power.
In particular, a move by No. 4 US mobile service provider T-Mobile USA to stop subsidizing smartphones around the time it starts selling the iPhone in three months time may put pressure on Apple, especially if other carriers follow the example.
U.S. phone companies mostly subsidize handsets in return for two-year contracts. If customers start paying the full price for an iPhone they might look for cheaper alternatives.
Asked whether carriers are now in a better position to negotiate lower prices with smartphone makers such as Apple, Fran Shammo, chief financial officer of Verizon Communications, said having four strong platforms - Apple, Android, Windows and BlackBerry - is leading to more competitive pricing.
"The more operating systems we have to compete in this area the better the competition," he told Reuters.
Verizon Communications Inc is the majority owner of Verizon Wireless, the biggest U.S. mobile provider.
Apple sold a record 48 million iPhones in the December quarter, but its share of the overall market is expected to peak this year at 22 percent and become dependent on repeat business from loyal customers unless it accepts lower margins by making low-cost iPhones, according to ABI Research.
Meanwhile, arch-rival Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, with a range of handsets has overtaken Apple as the world's top smartphone seller.
If Apple's customers and suppliers, let alone rivals, smell blood and take a much harder line in negotiations, it could erode Apple's gross margins, which slipped to 38.6 percent in the last quarter from 44.7 percent a year ago.
Apple declined to comment on its business with partners, although when CEO Tim Cook was asked on an earnings conference call last July about subsidies potentially being reduced, he said the total subsidy carriers pay is fairly small compared with revenues over a two-year contract. He also said carriers told him the iPhone has many advantages, including lower churn rates and the ability to sell shared data plans for other Apple products such as the iPad.
Certainly, Apple's astounding run over the past decade and ever rising volume of iPhone sales have given it unrivaled power to negotiate with wireless carriers and component suppliers.
Last week's results fell short of Wall Street's estimates, sending Apple's share price down more than 14 percent. That underscored signs Apple is coming back down to earth, transforming from undisputed Wall Street darling to a more normal - if enormous and hugely profitable - company.
A less powerful Apple could be welcomed by telecommunications carriers and component suppliers that have grown accustomed to the tough terms Apple was able to exact thanks to its massive scale and leadership in the market.
Wireless carriers that once agreed to unfavorable contracts and hefty subsidies still cannot live without Apple, but experts say they could have more leeway in the future if Samsung and other device makers continue to grab market share.
Subsidies have been a major driver of the iPhone's success and in boosting Apple's earnings. Analysts estimate operators pay a roughly $400 subsidy for each iPhone they sell in comparison with subsidies of $250 to $300 for other smartphones.
But that may already be changing. T-Mobile USA, a unit of Deutsche Telekom AG, has not disclosed the details of its deal with Apple, but CEO John Legere said it will not be as onerous as Sprint Nextel's commitment to pay $15.5 billion over four years. Instead of subsidizing smartphones, T-Mobile USA will let consumers pay the full price in monthly installments.
Randall Stephenson, CEO of AT&T, Apple's first partner for the iPhone, applauds T-Mobile USA's idea.
"That's something we've looked at on several occasions. I kind of like that idea," Stephenson said. "It's something we're going to be watching."
Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam told Reuters T-Mobile USA's strategy is "very intriguing," but wondered if consumers are ready to pay full price. An iPhone 5 with 16 gigabytes of storage that is not tied to a contract costs $649 on Walmart.com.
If subsidies are removed and payment plans widely adopted, some experts say consumers might opt for cheaper devices.
"The illogical love affair is over. Now it's just a great company," said a former top executive for a rival in the handset business. "The AT&Ts of the world will start to try to get themselves weaned off of paying such great subsidies to Apple."
In content, there are already signs of resistance. The company is meeting media executives in a potential effort to transform the living room with some kind of new Apple TV product, sources have said.
Its efforts are hindered, however, by the reluctance of movie and TV program makers to make content deals favorable to Apple. They saw how Apple's iTunes service helped decimate recording industry profits some years ago and they are very wary as a result, sources and analysts say.
Samsung led the global smartphone market with 29 percent market share in the fourth quarter, up from 22.5 percent a year ago. Apple was No. 2, but its share fell to 21.8 percent from 23 percent a year ago, according research firm IDC.
Apple's ability to extract low prices from the makers of chips and other components is one of the reasons it preserves margins in the 40 percent range on average.
But given increasing competition in the United States and its relatively weak position (sixth in smartphone sales) in the rapidly growing China market, that power might be hard to keep.
Supplier stock prices surge or plummet as result of being chosen or rejected by Apple. Chipmaker Audience Inc went public last year on the back of its Apple business, but the stock plummeted when Apple stopped using its chips. Audience's largest customer is now Samsung and its stock is recovering.
An executive at one chipmaker welcomed the prospect that one day his company might depend less on Apple.
Selling to Apple is "a double-edged sword," said the executive, who was not authorized to discuss his company's relationship with Apple. Having Apple as a customer guarantees huge volumes, but comes at the cost of accepting rock bottom prices that can cripple profit margins, the executive said.
Meanwhile, a few component makers are staking out territory in smartphones and tablets without Apple.
InvenSense Inc reported a 58 percent jump in quarterly earnings last Wednesday and its stock leaped 11 percent, partly because its gyroscope chips are used in hot-selling Android devices, including the Google Nexus 7, Samsung Galaxy S3 and Amazon Kindle Fire HD.
To be sure, InvenSense is trying to win Cupertino, California-based Apple's business. But even without Apple, it has become a key supplier in the smartphone and tablet market.
But as Samsung's share of the smartphone market grows further, it too is forcing suppliers to accept lower and lower prices, said Evercore Partners analyst Mark McKechnie.
"Samsung beats the heck out of people too. Be careful what you wish for," McKechnie said.
For now, Apple is still a mega player, even if it ships fewer phones than Samsung. For many consumers, its cult-like status remains unchallenged.
Despite recent stock market losses - more than $230 billion has been wiped off Apple's value since its September peak - the iPhone alone pulled in $30.66 billion in revenue last quarter, 43 percent more than Microsoft's entire sales for the period.
"Even though they're not gaining share, they're such a large piece of the market and such a driver of customer volume into their stores that people can't walk away yet," said David Yoffie, a professor who specializes in competitive strategy at Harvard Business School.
"Over the longer term, clearly there will be more and more pressure on Apple if they don't find new ways to innovate."
Even with slower growth, Apple is still widely seen as a highly successful company with a bright future and plenty of potential to produce another revolutionary product.
"What rabbit will Apple pull out of its hat to once again transform the industry?" asked Joseph Doyle, who co-manages wealth management firm Morris Capital Advisors' large cap strategy. "And if they can't do it, does that make it an awful investment? No, that will make it more like everything else."
(This story corrects paragraph one to add dropped word "be", corrects paragraph 32 to "makers" instead of maker)
Additional reporting by Sinead Carew in New York and Sarah McBride in San Francisco; Editing by Martin Howell and Andre Grenon in New York


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ADULT stores are selling a synthetic cocaine called White Bull for $100 a gram. This is twice the price of old-fashioned amphetamines that bikies used to cook - and we were told it's stronger than the real and illegal stuff.
White Bull is part of a $200-million-a-year catalogue of legal highs that adult stores are marketing as an offset for the drop in DVD sales because of the prevalence of online porn.
The man behind the counter at Love Play had only two little bags of White Bull left for sale. He said the store sells out every weekend. ''Less is more with this stuff,'' he said.
White Bull is an apparently legal substitute for cocaine, which retails illegally for $350 a gram. ''The feeling is that of cocaine, speed, ecstasy,'' he said. Meaning it keeps you awake, a bit horny and somehow sets a disco beat rocking in your head. It also makes your heart beat faster, and put on a hot glow that suggests one's thermo-regulation system is out of whack.
''But it doesn't make you grind your teeth,'' said the merchant.
What's in it? He didn't know.
Fiona Patten, of the Eros Foundation, which has assumed the role of being the representative body for the legal high industry, hadn't heard of White Bull. She knew that coke substitutes were selling out in adult stores every weekend, and that they were also selling from petrol stations and convenience stores.
She said the market in legal highs was worth $500 million a year, and 40 per cent of the market was run out of adult stores. ''Which is where it should be contained. We want it regulated, not illegalised.''
Paul Dillon, director of Drug and Alcohol Research and Training Australia, hadn't heard of White Bull either. ''It's probably the latest version in the new range of synthetics and won't be around next week. What you are going to see is this will get a bit of media attention and it will disappear. Something new will come on the shelves next week.''
Last week we reported that the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction had found that every week a new psychoactive drug was coming on to the market as a ''legal high''. Mr Dillon said that declaration was based on 2011 figures.
''They're actually being produced at a faster rate than one a week,'' he said.


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The Tower of Hercules is located between the cove of Orzán and the Gulf of Ártabro. It is a Roman lighthouse from ancient Brigantium dating from the 2nd century AD, in the time of Trajan, which was refurbished in 1788 by order of King Charles IV of Spain. It was designed by the Portuguese architect Cayo Sergio Lupo. It has a square ground plan, measures 68 metres and the light that it casts is visible at sea from a distance of 32 miles. The tower is divided into three sections, each successively narrower, up to the lantern. There are a total of 242 steps leading to the top of the lighthouse, but the effort is well worthwhile for its magnificent views of the city of A Coruña and its coastline. However, according to mythology, Hercules cut off the head of Geryon and built this monument after burying his remains below.
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The Olympus Note Corder DP-10 digital recorder records in the Windows Media® Audio (WMA) audio format. The two recording modes provide options for recording high-quality sound files or expanding memory capacity by using a lower-quality recording mode. The EAR jack enables playback through earphones or earbuds.
How much recording time is available in the DP-10?
The length of potential recording time available in the DP-10 is governed by the recording mode selected.
An HQ (High Quality) mode recording uses more memory than an SP (Standard Play) mode recording because the HQ mode makes a more-detailed digital record than does the SP mode.
The table below shows the approximate maximum recording times possible in the DP-10 in the different quality modes:
How is the DP-10 turned off?
The [POWER] switch is the recorder's ON/OFF control. It is recommended to set the switch to OFF/HOLD when replacing the batteries to preserve the time and date settings.
How is the recording volume controlled?
The DP-10 always records at 100% volume level to prevent accidentally recording with the volume set too low.
The recorder has two levels of microphone sensitivity:
HIGH () is a high-sensitivity level used in conference or lecture situations.
LOW () is a low-sensitivity level used for close-up recording.
Microphone sensitivity is set using the MIC SENSE switch on the left side of the recorder.
How is the playback volume controlled?
The playback volume is controlled using the VOL dial on top of the recorder.
Can playback speed be controlled?
Playback speed is controlled using the PLAY SPEED switch on the right side of the recorder. The options are x0.50, x0.75, x1.00, x1.25 and x1.50.
How are files erased from the DP-10?
It is possible to erase individual selected files or all files of a certain date. Sequential file numbers will be reassigned automatically.
To erase a selected file:
Press the [] (Left) or [] (Right) button to select the file you wish to delete.
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Magdelina Bay Sunrise
Sunrise in Mexico
wingssail-Fredrick Roswold
Labels: Mexico
Wednesday, December 04, 1996
Magdelina Bay Sunrise
Sunrise in Mexico
wingssail-Fredrick Roswold
Labels: Mexico
Tuesday, December 03, 1996
December 3, 1996- Bahia de Tortugas, Baja California
December 3,1996-Turtle Bay
The boat is gently rocking, the wind has died off to just a breeze. Tonight we are anchored in Bahia de Tortugas (Turtle Bay) on the west coast of Baja. This big bay, closed on three sides, provides protection from the ocean swells, and is one of the best anchorages we've been in since leaving the Northwest, and we are happy to be here.
There are ten or twelve boats anchored nearby, dark shapes barely visible in the deepening shade of the evening. With the binoculars I sweep the harbor, and I am able to pick each boat out of the gloom. Some of them have lights glowing from their port holes, and one by one they will also turn on anchor lights.
The town is a string of pearls on the north shore and the surrounding hills have finally disappeared in the darkness. Earlier we watched as the sun got lower and turned the hills and other geographic features of this place into deep colors and shadows.
I return below where we are listening to the stereo, and drinking Tequila. There are no sounds outside, it is quiet and it seems very big and empty out there.
This is a very peaceful place, Bahia de Tortugas
December 8, 1996-Magdelina Bay
I sat on deck drinking coffee and listening to Javier's rooster crowing at sunrise today in Magdelena Bay, 250 miles down the coast from Turtle Bay. I think it was Javier's rooster because everyone has a few roosters, and there are plenty of Javiers.
Listening to Javier's rooster (or Julio's), I watched the sky, the clouds tinged with gold, and the mist on the mountain tops behind town. This town is smaller and quieter than Turtle Bay. Can that be possible?
I like to have my coffee as the sun comes up, at sea or at anchor.
We sailed here from Turtle Bay in 42 hours and I saw two sunrises. Beside the sunrises, it was a good passage. We sailed all the way and we beat all the other boats which coming here too. We also caught a Bonita on the way, which we barbequed last night, and it was delicious.
We'll stay here a couple of days then sail on to Cabo San Lucas, only 30 hours away now.
Fred & Judy, SV WINGS, Baja
Labels: Mexico
Monday, December 02, 1996
Religious Festival
Festival to welcome the fishing fleet
wingssail-Fredrick Roswold
Labels: Mexico, Puerto Vallarta
Sunday, December 01, 1996
December 2, 1996-Radio Wars
December 2, 1996-Radio Wars
"WINGS, what do you have down?" the voice crackled through the radio without prelude.
We'd just arrived in Turtle Bay and after motoring around the anchored fleet had dropped our hook. Apparently one of the other skippers wanted to talk about our anchoring technique.
Something about this guy's tone set me off, so my response was sarcastic.
"An anchor, why?"
"What type of anchor?"
"I have a sufficient anchor."
"Hey skipper, this is serious so I'd like a polite reply. Several of us here have been here a couple of days and you've just arrived and it has been really blowing. Last night it was blowing 35 and we were up all night worrying and watching. We've all got about 200 feet of chain and we are concerned about you. You are pretty close to us. So what is your ground tackle?"
"I have a plow and chain."
He gave up on us but soon he was on the radio talking to his friends and they were talking to each other about how concerned they were, about how difficult some people were to deal with, (meaning me), and the others were congratulating the guy on his diplomacy.
Obviously Judy and I had stumbled into an established fleet, and we'd offended them by anchoring within their territory. I'm also sure my radio response to the "Alpha Male" wasn't properly deferential. Who knows in what other ways we had offended them. Right at that moment we were feeling pretty unwelcome.
So that is how our stay here at Turtle Bay got started. Judy and I both felt that we'd been in an argument and lost. Maybe I should have just told the guy to go to hell, or maybe I should have licked his ass. At any rate, we don't like being the cause of continuing bad feelings so we raised the anchor and moved completely around the whole anchored fleet to the back of everyone, which ended the confrontation, but it sure left a bad feeling with us.
We learned two things from this encounter: One, be very careful what you say on the radio; everyone is listening. I came off badly in that exchange and we knew we'd have to live with the opinions that the members of this fleet had formed of us because of that radio conversation for a long time. Secondly, winning an anchoring dispute just isn't worth it. People don't have to be right to be territorial and aggressive. If you argue with them, you automatically lose, because even if you win the argument, the hard feelings will remain, and the cruising community is small.
We also learned that this guy on the radio is a jerk. Now that I know what kind of a guy he is I think I know how to bug him. Someday I'm going to really yank his chain real good..
Fred & Judy, SV WINGS, Baja
Labels: Mexico, Puerto Vallarta


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The epitaph is a version of the popular Friends and physicians could not save. The bonus here is that after an English verse, there is a second verse written in Welsh.
Daughter of
BENJAMIN and
who departed this life
June 13, 1840.
Aged 18 Years
& 13 days.
Phycisians could not save,
This body from the grave;
Nor can the grave confine me here,
When Christ doth call I must appear.
Fy nghorph, er hardded oedd ei wedd.
Raid orwedd yma yn y bedd;
Yn fwyd i bryfed man y llawr,
Hyd foreu'r adgyfodiad mawr.
Here, letter for letter, are the Google Translate results for the Welsh epitaph as transcribed above:
My body, though hardded was in his thirties.
This must lie in the grave;
In the floor space food for insects,
Up foreu'r great resurrection.
Look at the leaf detail on the carved sprigs that decorate the inscription circle: A leaf is folded back to "make room" for the inscription.
Can you identify the leaves? Based on my recent experience with David's daffodils, I looked up the national tree of Wales, but Margaret's leaves clearly are not sessile oak.
Radnor Cemetery, Delaware County, Ohio


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On Monday, he ate through one apple. But he was still hungry.
On Tuesday he ate through two pears. But he was still hungry.
On Wednesday he ate through three plums. But he was still hungry.
On Thursday he ate though four strawberries. But he was still hungry.
On Friday he ate though five oranges but he was still hungry."
|I used all of the fruit from the first five days of the caterpillar's journey and made a fresh fruit salad.
"On Saturday he ate through one piece of chocolate cake..."
|To make the cake, I used a bundt pan. I cut the round cake in half and the cut one half in half again. The dirt is crushed Oreos.
"...one ice cream cone..."
"...one pickle, one slice of Swiss cheese, one slice of salami..."
"...one piece of cherry pie..."
"...and one slice of watermelon."
|The butterfly "Thank You" card!
|We took Jaden to Target and told her she could get Taylor any toy in the whole store and this is what she picked out for her sister.
|Good choice!
|Uncle Matt and Stephanie got Taylor a snail with a mirror on it.
|We always have a signature frame at the girls' parties so we can remember everyone that came to celebrate.
|Gramma J made Taylor a signature plate that she will have to remember her first birthday. Jaden had one of these at her first birthday too.
|Abbey made Taylor's birthday hat.
|Luckily Taylor had Jaden on hand to blow out her candle.
|Sharing the love... er... cake!
|The only things sweeter than birthday cake are these two girls!


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Verizon users hoping to upgrade to a shiny new iPhone or an Android will have to pay a little extra starting this month.
The wireless carrier announced that it will begin charing a $30 fee everytime a subscriber wants to upgrade to a new phone.
Verizon said in a statement that the money will go partly to fund customer support and online education tools.
But the move follows what other providers are charging to deal with the rising cost of subsidizing phones, such as Apple's iPhone.
The fee is another way for providers to recouperate some of the costs of subsidizing the smartphones so many of its users want.


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BIRTHDAY GUY: Actor Dylan Baker was born in Syracuse, N.Y., today in 1959. This birthday guy is probably best known for playing Curt Connors in "Spider-Man 2" and "Spider-Man 3." He's also appeared in "Secretariat," "Revolutionary Road" and "The Cell." On television, he's recently appeared in recurring roles on "Damages" and "Ugly Betty" as well as starring in the short-lived series "Kings."
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Discuss the future. Relationships are highlighted and you are able to discuss your relationship plans with your partner with ease. Agreements and contracts should be handled carefully and if anything is not to your liking, postpone.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Don't take favors for granted. If someone has come through for you in the past, don't let them down when they come to you. Cooperation is easily achieved; when the agreement is reached it benefits everyone.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): All experience gained is a good thing. You may be offered sound advice from those who are in power. Even if all you can find is a horrible example, there is still a valuable lesson to be learned from it.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Do your share of the work. Don't just tag along for the ride; pitch in and help when the need arises. Family matters take precedent and a serious situation at home may require your immediate attention.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Giving yields its own rewards. You will get the most satisfaction by being generous and compassionate today. This is a good time for making a fresh start in the business world or for reigniting an old flame.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Count pennies. Going over the books could reveal an error that leans in your favor. In business, seal the deal -- even if a better offer might come later. Treat friends and loved ones to an evening of fun.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You've earned the right to be lazy. You may be at your best if you kick back and relax. After a long week of work, a little dance with romance may recharge your batteries and improve your outlook.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Play to win. Any job worth doing is worth doing well; when faced with a task, your best bet is to give it your all. A casual romance may turn into something much more valuable than anticipated.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): If someone scratches your back, make sure you scratch theirs. Compromise is today's key word. You can overcome obstacles by finding points that are mutually beneficial to all parties.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Keep your cool. Losing your head over a business matter could land you in hot water. Remain professional and aboveboard in all your dealings. Don't let your emotions run away with your head.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Test your limits and exercise your talents. Move out of your comfort zone and explore new avenues of business. Romantic interests will safely simmer on the back burner until work is finished.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Burn the midnight oil. Even if it cuts into your leisure time, stay at work until the task at hand is finished. Once the job is done, you'll have all weekend to whisper sweet nothings to that special someone.
IF OCTOBER 7 IS YOUR BIRTHDAY: Romeo and Juliet might have met under the same conditions that exist this month. Don't make any major promises or commitments during October, as they might entail more responsibilities than expected or unseen drawbacks. January is a much better time for entering into romantic commitments or for making a job change. Not only will people in general recognize your unique abilities and attractiveness, you seem to project honesty and trustworthiness that will be reciprocated. April is a good month for decisionmaking or to obtain professional advice, while July is a very good month for financial decisions.
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Lanhydrock House
owned by the National Trust.
We have recently returned from a few days holiday visiting the South West of England, after promising ourselves we should tour around more in our own country.
The picture above is Lanhydrock House, a magnificent Late Victorian country house with extensive servants' quarters , gardens and a wooded estate. There are 50 rooms to explore and the gardens are particularly spectacular, especially at this time of year - we visited in early June.
The following photographs were taken at the Eden Project in Cornwall, the plants are just stunning, I particularly loved the gorgeous bright blue ones, sorry but I forgot to make a note of the name, however I am sure there are some plant lovers out there who could enlighten me!
We also visited another National Trust property Killerton House in Exeter, Devon where we saw a lovely collection of costumes including a dress worn by Queen Victoria! This was one of the most exciting moments of our visit as I love anything victorian and I particularly love reading about Queen Victoria.
Stitching news
I am currently trying to get all my finishes completed before the summer holidays, I am working on a final private exchange that I am hoping to post next week and I am putting the finishing touches to the Christmas in July exchange for the Hooked On Exchanging Too group.
I will then be planning and stitching my first anniversary gift for the 31 July and then I will be concentrating on some of my large unfinished projects, including my HAED Gothic Rose here and The Porch Swing by Paula Vaughan (click here for progress picture) as I have been neglecting them lately!
Kathy was the winner of the Ladybird Biscornu, I shall be posting that this week.
Thankyou for your visit and happy stitching everyone!


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Just about everyone has ridden a bike, so it's no big deal when a TV celebrity does it, unless it's a ride across the U.S., done by Phil Keoghan, host of The Amazing Race, in 2009.
The New Zealand native rode 3,500 miles (Los Angeles to New York City), averaging 100 miles a day, so Phil is an accomplished rider. No wonder he looks fit. His ride, intended to increase awareness about Multiple sclerosis, raised $500K.
If that wasn't enough, Phil joined Specialized for its annual Susan G. Komen for the Cure ride from its headquarters in Morgan Hill to Las Vegas, a 660-mile journey finishing at the Interbike show. Some 32 riders covered the entire distance over the Sierra and through the desert in September 2010. Founder and President Mike Sinyard participated.
While I enjoy watching The Amazing Race, I can't imagine ever finishing such an event. It looks hard!
Tags: Amazing Race, Mike Sinyard, Phil Keoghan, Specialized, Susan G. Komen


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SimCity returns to the Mac in February 2013, when EA releases the city builder as a digital download via Origin. Seeing as many of us first played Maxis' storied franchise on an Apple system, this is grand news.
"Whether you owned a Macintosh or a DOS PC, we all have memories of laying down zones and reticulating splines from our youth," said Lucy Bradshaw, Senior Vice President and General Manager of EA's Maxis Label. "To the millions of SimCity fans out there, we've been listening and can proudly say that your calls have been answered. SimCity has a long legacy on the Mac and the team at Maxis is ensuring that it will be the deepest, richest and most accessible SimCity game yet."


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Want to Stay Anonymous? Don't Make a Hit Computer Game
By Ed Ballard
Nine days ago, 19-year-old Gabriele Cirulli enjoyed a quiet life, certainly out of the limelight of the tech blogs.
Now he freely admits that he "sometimes" feels a pang of guilt when somebody on Twitter or Facebook curses the time they've wasted playing 2048, the fiendishly addictive online game he created only last week, and which now has over 5 million players.


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Pedalboy nears adulthood…
You play guitar for three-plus decades, you tend to accumulate a few pedals along the way, maybe enough to earn the dumb infantile nickname 'pedalboy'.
I've been putting off cleaning musical-equipment house for maybe oh...two-and-a-half of those three decades now. But finally starting with this, for some tiny sub-strata of musicianly geeks, the jewel in the crown that is my collection - the Schumann PLL, now for sale. If you have to ask what it is, probably no reason to read on. And definitely no reason to ask how much, since that'll make us both feel weird. Trust me.
If you do know what it is, you'll also know it isn't available as an impulse-buy at Ash. And that it isn't exactly filed under 'affordable'. Now, I'm of a mixed mind about cashing in on the price inflation of these sort of hilariously collectible (read: overvalued) doo-dads, but in this case, it's the sad & rare case where I've luckily bought short and now need to sell long. Much as I love the pedal, I haven't ended up using it as much as I'd planned and I could really put the money to better use & towards more practical finish-the-record type things like really good headphones, plug-ins, etc. (besides paying Christmas shopping balances, creating the illusion of income, etc…).
So putting it up here before going the ugly route of Ebay because, on the mathematically improbable chance that there exists someone out there who embodies the unholy trifecta of 1. into our band enough to see this, 2. into this pedal enough to read this and 3. into spending a couple grand to acquire it, I would love for it to go to them.
So yeah, implied & not a typo, selling for… I hope you're sitting, preferably with a cocktail…$2,000 (incl. PayPal & shipping etc. as needed). Original signed and numbered (#66) cardboard box, one-sheet manual & power adaptor are all included.
Is it worth it? Debatably. Is it cool and unlike pretty much anything else I've had or tried or seen? Without doubt.
I'd really prefer a local sale (I'm in Brooklyn) if only to avoid the knuckle-biting of shipping. From my credentially end, I do have perfect feedback on Ebay as Tippymtcarmel; and am of course am findable here at Tri-County Wrens Headquarters, and our Facebook and Twitter locales.
And as mentioned, am selling partially to finance some recording-type stuff so I'd consider some very specific things to knock down the cash price:
- Sennheiser HD 600 headphones
- AKG K701 headphones
- Yamaha HS10W sub
- Hughes AK100
- baritone horn / euphonium
- maybe some cool 500-series comp, pre or eq
And obviously I love the weird in pedals, so anything along the lines of:
- Moog Freq box
- Synthmonger Pulsemonger
- Mini-Ark
- Digitech XP300
- Electro-Harmonix V256 vocoder
…etc. Try me. But again, this is supposed to be more about reducing clutter so I should really only take one or two things in trade + cash. "Should" but it's flexible. If interested, drop me an email...firstname.lastname@example.com.
Thanks, as always. And back a little later this week with a year-end wrap up & where's-the-record update.
Happy Martin Luther King and Inauguration Day.


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Friday, June 26, 2009
Surgeons from MGH and Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (MEEI)
performed an Auditory Brainstem Implant (ABI) surgery -- a New
England first -- May 20 with the goal of eventually partially
restoring the patient's hearing. Developed in 1979 at the House Ear Institute
in Los Angeles
and approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 2000, the procedure has
been performed for approximately 500 patients worldwide.
ABI surgery is used primarily to partially restore hearing loss
due to a hereditary disease called Neurofibromatosis Type 2 (NF2). The condition causes benign tumors on several key nerves. The auditory
nerve, which carries sound signals to the brain, often is damaged by tumor
growth or surgery to remove tumors. As a
result, many NF2 patients develop hearing loss in both ears.
To help restore some degree of hearing in these patients, surgeons
implant the ABI, which bypasses the inner ear and auditory nerve and
electrically activates nerves in the brainstem. The device is currently the
only hearing option for deaf NF2 patients and allows them to hear sounds in
their environment such as doorbells, horns or other noises. The implant offers
patients enhanced communication when combined with lip-reading.
The ABI surgery was performed at MGH by a team of MGH and MEEI
surgeons. MGH specialists were Fred Barker, MD, of the Department of
Neurosurgery, and Robert Martuza, MD, chief of the Department of Neurosurgery.
MEEI specialists were Daniel Lee, MD, FACS; Ron de Venecia, MD, PhD; and
Michael McKenna, MD. William Hitselberger, MD, of the House Ear Institute, the
first neurosurgeon to perform the procedure, also participated. Follow-up care
is being provided at MEEI.
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yogiessential needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
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yogi essential
We are selling yoga products. targeting everyday yogi from everyday walk of life
I'd like to explore the following colors:
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Dark neutrals: Formality, mystery, exclusivity and luxury.
THis is not our image. We want the Y in Yogi essential to be made with the yoga pose below. If you have other or better ideas we are interested in that too. We are open to any other designs. Dark pink and gray to be primary colors no more than two colors. We also would like a stamp to be used on our products. So the stamp would be similar to image but more like our new logo.
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Green Knights Pull Away in Win Over Beloit
From Sports Information Director, January 8, 2014 | Men's Basketball
by Dan Lukes, firstname.lastname@example.com, (920) 403-4077
DE PERE - St. Norbert College got out to a big early lead and cruised to a 68-48 win over Beloit College in a Midwest Conference game at Schuldes Sports Center.
The Green Knights (10-1, 6-0 MWC), ranked No. 13 in the D3hoops.com Top 25, won for the eighth straight game. Beloit fell to 4-7, 2-4.
St. Norbert held an 8-7 lead early on before going on a 20-5 run to take control at 28-12 with 9:25 left in the half. The Green Knights scored on six straight possessions to take a 21-9 lead at the 12:33 mark, and Kam Cerroni's 3-pointer and Andrew Schwoerer's basket closed out the run. The Green Knights scored just six points in the last 9 minutes of the half to settle for a 34-21 lead at halftime.
Beloit cut the deficit to 34-25 in the first two minutes of the second half, but St. Norbert answered with an 8-0 run. Cerroni converted a pair of free throws, Brandon Gries connected on a 3-pointer and Andy Fox had a conventional three-point play for a 42-25 lead with 15:33 left. Beloit would get no closer than 16 points the rest of the way.
St. Norbert shot 50 percent from the floor, making 25 of 50 shots. Cerroni finished with 15 points, while Schwoerer came off the bench to add14 points. Austin Elliott had 13 points, while Gries totaled 12 points. The Green Knights held a 32-25 rebounding advantage.
Beloit shot 39.1 percent (18-for-46) from the floor and was 5-for-22 (22.7 percent) from beyond the three-point arc. The Buccaneers, who had 18 turnovers, were led by James Lazarcik's 14 points and eight rebounds.


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Big Island police are investigating the theft of longan fruit from several Kurtistown farms.
Multiple thefts were reported between February 21 and March 8 . During that time, 20 longan plants and more than 1200 pounds of fruit were stolen. These types of agricultural thefts constitute a felony offense.
Police ask that anyone with information about these thefts call Officers Scott Amaral or Sandor Finkey at 965-2716 or the Police Department's non-emergency line at 935-3311.
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David Stephenson
(United States of America, Australia 1955 – )
Cathedral of the Assumption, Kremlin 1475-79, Moscow, Russia
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'While the subject of my photographs has shifted from the landscapes of the American Southwest and Tasmania, and the minimal horizons of the Southern Ocean, and the icy wastes of Antarctica, to sacred architecture and the sky at both day and night, my art has remained essentially spiritual – for more than two decades I have been exploring a contemporary expression of the sublime – a transcendental experience of awe with the vast space and time of existence.' David Stephenson 1998 1
With poetic symmetry the 'Domes' series considers analogous ideas. It is a body of work which has been ongoing since 1993 and now numbers several hundred images of domes in countries including Italy, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, England, Germany and Russia. The typological character of the series reveals the shifting history in architectural design, geometry and space across cultures and time, demonstrating how humankind has continually sought meaning by building ornate structures which reference a sacred realm.2 Stephenson photographs the oculus – the eye in the centre of each cupola. Regardless of religion, time or place, this entry to the heavens – each with unique architectural and decorative surround – is presented as an immaculate and enduring image. Placed together, the photographs impart the infinite variations of a single obsession, while also charting the passage of history, and time immemorial.
1. Van Wyk S 1998, 'Sublime space: photographs by David Stephenson 1989–1998', National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne np
2. Hammond V 2005, 'The dome in European architecture', in Stephenson D 2005, 'Visions of heaven: the dome in European architecture', Princeton Architectural Press, New York p 190
© Art Gallery of New South Wales Photography Collection Handbook, 2007
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- 55.0 x 55.0 cm image; 82.3 x 84.5 cm frame
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Signed and dated verso frame, black ink "David Stephenson 2000"
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- Purchased with funds provided by Graham and Mary Bierman, Josef and Jeanne Lebovic 2002
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The lawyer for a woman suing the city alleging a host of civil rights violations has, in an unusual legal turn of events, himself become a defendant in the civil case he filed.
In answering the lawsuit brought late last year by Nga Truong, who was charged by Worcester Police with killing her infant son four years ago based on what was later ruled to be a coerced confession, city lawyers have hit back with a third-party complaint against her lawyer, Edward P. Ryan Jr.
The city's complaint in federal court claims that if Ms. Truong is entitled to damages for the nearly three years she spent in jail awaiting trial, then Mr. Ryan is as much to blame as the city because he took too long to get the coerced confession tossed out of court by the judge.
�Ryan's breach of his duty was a direct and proximate cause of plaintiff's alleged injuries and damages,� according to the city's claim.
Mr. Ryan, who practices in Fitchburg, declined to comment publicly on the city's complaint against him.
But one of his fellow lawyers in Ms. Truong's civil case dismissed the city's third-party complaint as absurd.
�Worcester Police coerced a confession from a 16-year-old girl who would have spent the rest of her life in jail for a crime she didn't commit, and the city wants to shift the blame to Ed Ryan?� said Brookline lawyer John Reinstein, who called it an �astonishing� move by the city.
Mr. Reinstein said murder cases require careful legal research and thorough investigation, not rushed motions.
�If you were facing a first-degree murder charge, would you want it rushed?� he asked. �If it was so obvious the confession should be suppressed, why did the city continue to push the case?�
In the complaint against Mr. Ryan, city lawyers note that he was almost immediately critical of the police questioning of Ms. Truong without a parent present and raised issues about the validity of her supposed confession in the media soon after her arraignment in December 2008.
Mr. Ryan eventually filed a motion to suppress the confession on Nov. 1, 2010, almost two years after his client was arraigned on the murder charge for allegedly smothering her 13-month-old son, Khyle Truong, who died Nov. 30, 2008.
City Solicitor David M. Moore said in an email response to questions from the Telegram & Gazette that Ms. Truong is attempting to hold the city responsible for the time she spent in jail while awaiting trial.
�Her lawyer allowed almost two years to pass before he made a motion to get her released by suppressing her confession. While there are numerous defenses in this case, our position on this point is that, if the city is somehow found liable for the excessive incarceration, then the lawyer who represented her also bears liability for her time in jail,� Mr. Moore said.
Legal observer David E. Frank, a lawyer and managing editor of Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, called the city's effort to include the lawyer who got her released from prison in any damages resulting from her confinement an unusual one.
Mr. Frank noted that Mr. Ryan likely had to watch the video tapes of his client's questioning many times, carefully review recent Supreme Judicial Court cases involving confessions and collect testimony from expert witnesses before filing a motion to suppress.
�Is the city saying that the lawyer should have just whipped something together and filed it quickly in a case where a 16-year-old girl was looking at life in prison? That argument seems like a stretch to me,� Mr. Frank said. �The stakes couldn't have been higher.�
Once the motion was filed, Superior Court Justice Janet Kenton-Walker ruled that the confession was not given voluntarily. The charges against Ms. Truong were dropped by District Attorney Joseph D. Early Jr.'s office for lack of sufficient other evidence. Ms. Truong, now 21, was released from jail in August 2011.
She alleges in her lawsuit in U.S. District Court that she was the victim of malicious prosecution, false arrest, false imprisonment and intentional infliction of emotional distress. The defendants in her civil suit are the city, City Manager Michael V. O'Brien, Police Chief Gary J. Gemme and Sgt. Kevin Pageau and Detective John Doherty, the officers who questioned her.
Portions of the two-hour interrogation of Ms. Truong were broadcast last year by WBUR, a National Public Radio affiliate in Boston, and the station posted several video clips of the police questioning on its website.
Chief Gemme said at the time the lawsuit was filed that Sgt. Pageau and Detective Doherty did not coerce the confession and that their work on the case was validated by Mr. Early's decision to prosecute Ms. Truong based largely on the confession.
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Naughty Dog's upcoming Playstation 3 title "The Last of Us" is a step in a grittier direction for the company.
Inspired by the film "No Country for Old Men," Naughty Dog Community Strategist Arne Meyer said the game came from the distinct idea that the company wanted to "go to a darker place."
"There's really no music in that movie," Meyer said. "It's all about the tension. We wondered how we could invoke that in the player. We wanted to create a game where the player feels the same emotions of the characters in the game. We want you to empathize with them."
A survival/adventure game, "The Last of Us" takes place during a time when a rapid virus spreads all over the United States. With no cure and the virus killing countless people over 20 years, nature begins to change the landscape of the country.
Those not infected are held in quarantine zones and the military personell are the only ones who can get in and out. But when Joel, a smuggler-for-hire is entrusted to take 14-year-old Ellie across a barren wasteland that used to be the U.S., an epic journey begins.
For nearly 20 years, Santa Monica-based Naughty Games has made its mark in the video game industry through innovation. After they created the first 3D platform superstar in "Crash Bandicoot" in 1996 on the original Playstation console, they upped the ante with the massive "Jak and Daxter" series in 2001 on the Playstation 2.
In 2007, the developer unleashed "Uncharted" on the Playstation 3; two sequels later, the Indiana Jones/Tomb Raider type gameplay still works well. With their niche in the industry all but cemented, Naughty Dog still wanted to show the world they could learn a few more tricks.
"We felt that it would be a shame that if we just stuck with one game and didn't push our boundaries," Meyer said. "After 'Uncharted 2,' our developers wanted to explore new game genres with the technology they had."
"The Last of Us" takes the graphical engine and style of gameplay of "Uncharted" and adds a surrealistic element not found in the company's previous games. Over time, Ellie and Joel become completely dependent on each other for survival. Depending on how they interact, enemies will approach them differently. The way the game is played changes, depending on the player.
"The AI was very important to us," Meyer said. "You're always with Ellie and sometimes there are other characters, so we wanted to make sure every one behaves realistically. We wanted those characters to be helpful and not drag you down. We wanted to create an interesting style to the combat gameplay, where there's a balance of power."
Unlike the zombie plague in video games, movies and television shows, this virus changes over time. Certain "infected" are slow and mindless. Others have a more progressed version of the virus, which causes their face to split down the middle and go blind.
These victims, "Clickers," use their sense of sound in order to find their prey (similar to a bat) and are much stronger than those newly affected. Joel and Ellie also have to deal with survivors, who aren't affected but are forced to attack due to a lack of supplies.
"If a human survivor is carrying a gun and sees you only have a 2x4, they're going to be aggressive. If they feel you can hurt them, they may be sneakier and try to flank you," Meyer said. "The same thing goes for the infected. There's a different way to approach all of them. If there are a few different types of them in one area, you really have to think about what you're going to do."
With Ellie's care always your highest priority, advancing through the level isn't always done by killing. Knowing the terrain and making sure the teenager is always safe is more important.
"We'd love for this game to be remembered as something you've made an emotional connection with," Meyer said."We want you to invest yourself in the story and the characters."
"The Last of Us" is scheduled for a June 14, 2013 release and is rated M for Mature.


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Lebanon's main union, the General Confederation of Lebanese Workers (GCLW), has voted in a new leader who is backed by pro-Syrian parties, although more than a third of the GCLW's executive council boycotted the vote, Lebanese press reported Friday, March 16.
Ghassan Ghosn was voted in Thursday with the backing of the Shiite Amal movement and the National Syrian Social Party (NSSP), along with the 12 elected members of the union's executive office, in the presence of representatives of the Labor ministry. Labor Minister Ali Kanso is a member of the NSSP.
But federations classified as "independent," including one representing bank employees and others supported by left-wing groups, boycotted the vote, the reports added.
A total of 27 members of the 74-strong executive council, which chooses the leadership, boycotted the vote.
The number two of the outgoing leadership of the 200,000-member GCLW, Yasser Nehme, told AFP he did not consider the elections legal.
"The executive office of the GCLW did not have the right to call for the shortening of mandate of the leadership, elected 18 months ago for a period of four years, and the labor ministry did not have the right to agree to organize new elections," Nehme said.
Beirut deputy Michel Pharaon, who is minister of state responsible for relations with parliament, also condemned the vote, which he said "favored division instead of promoting good relations in the interests of the workers." Pharaon tried unsuccessfully to mediate in the dispute.
The GCLW in 1992 brought down the government of Omar Karame after a one-day general strike in protest at the high cost of living.
Syria is the main powerbroker in Lebanon, where it stations 35,000 troops, whose presence has come under increasing criticism. — (AFP, Beirut)
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The Chronicle of Melrose noted: "Machentagar attacked them and mightily overthrew the king's enemies; and he cut off their heads and presented them as gifts to the new king ... And because of this, the lord king appointed him a new knight."
Fearchar of Ross or Ferchar mac in tSagairt (anglicized as Farquhar MacTaggart), was the first of the Scottish Ó Beólláin (O'Beolan, Beolan) family who received by Royal Grant the lands and Title of Mormaer or Earl of Ross (1223-1251.)
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On June 13-17th, 2011 Emmanuel Arts Academy, Franklin Springs, GA, will offer its fifth Fine Arts Summer Camp for ages 8-14 from 8:30-4:00 daily; Advanced Performer's Clinic (half-day) for ages 13-17 from 8:30-12:00; and Pre-school Arts Workshop for 4-6 year olds from 8:30-11:00 a.m. Camp, clinic, and workshop professional instruction is provided by Emmanuel College professors & Arts Academy instructors.
The Fine Arts camp provides instruction in many areas including music (piano, guitar, voice), musical theatre and drama, art (drawing & printmaking), creative writing, film critique and photography as well as worship, recreation and games. Tuition is $135 or $150.00 after May 30th and includes hot lunches, morning snack and t-shirt.
The Performer's Clinic offers coaching and instruction for more advanced musicians in a master class setting as well as providing training in music history, fundamentals and stage movement and audition techniques. Tuition is $100 or $110 after May 30th and includes a camp t-shirt.
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Arts Academy Director, Dr. Deborah Stark says, "We look forward to another summer session of training young musicians, artists and writers in our community and hope that these opportunities will spark talents that can be further developed throughout the year. We have seen some dynamic young artists emerge and look forward to a wonderful week!"
Enrollment is open through June 9h or until filled. Application and payment information is available through our website at http://www.ec.edu/about-ec/emmanuel-arts-academy or you may contact
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What will be our legacy?
My husband, Ted, and I attended the funeral of his sister in law, Aquila Freeman, in Houston on the same day as all newscasts were telling of the horrible murders in Aurora, Colo. Ted's oldest daughter lives in Aurora and is a movie buff, so of course we called to see if she might have attended the Batman movie the night before. She did not, but she did tell us of chilling scenes taking place just a short distance from her home. She reported that she lived not very far from where the accused shooter lived in the apartment complex. All of the main streets were blocked off with yellow crime scene tape and Cindy had to find other ways to get where she needed to go.
During the funeral service for Ted's sister in law, who only lived a week in ICU after cancer was found all over her body, a theme seemed to be taking place, and apparently without it being discussed among the ministers who were chosen to conduct the funeral. One thing I liked, even though some of my former church family would probably disapprove, is that a talented young man led the congregation in singing one of Aquila's favorite songs, and he did it with boundless energy and a big smile on his face.
The old spiritual, "Goodbye, World, Goodbye," seemed to fit this godly woman who really wanted to go to Heaven to see Jesus first, and to be with her preacher husband who had died three years earlier. The song is bouncy, fast paced, and demands toe-tapping and hand-clapping, which it got from the folks gathered in the church building.
One portion I remember is "Now, don't you weep for me when I'm gone, for I won't have to leave here alone. And when I hear that last trumpet sound, my feet won't stay on the ground. I'm gonna rise with a shout, gonna fly, gonna rise with my Lord in the sky. Heaven is near and I can't stay here. Goodbye, world, goodbye." When we returned home, I looked up the song in an old Assembly of God hymnal. I read, "I've told all my troubles goodbye, goodbye to each tear and each sigh. This world where I roam cannot be my home, I'm bound for that home in the sky. I walk and I talk with my Lord, I feast every day on His word. Heaven is near and I can't stay here. Goodbye, world, goodbye."
This verse is for those that might be dealing with depression and heartache today: "I won't have the blues anymore, when I step across to that shore. And I'll never pine for I'll leave behind my heartaches and cares ever more. A day, maybe two, then goodbye, goodbye to each sorrow and sigh. Heaven is near and I can't stay here, goodbye, world, goodbye."
The minister that stood to speak after that rousing song said almost in surprise, "Wow, that certainly described Aquila's legacy. She knew where she was going, who she would see, and she was certainly ready to make that crossing over to Heaven." Another speaker continued on the theme by saying that Aquila's legacy was in her six grandchildren and one great grandchild that she adored. Everyone she met soon learned about these special folks in her life.
I ask today one question: What legacy are we building to leave for our children, grandchildren, coworkers, neighbors and friends? Do we really want them to think that we can drink more alcohol than anyone they know? Do we want them to remember that we were unfaithful to our spouse? Didn't put our kids first in our lives? How about remembering that we were skilled in deceiving folks in business associations? Perhaps that we lied frequently? Or used terrible language? That we made unwise choices? Or that the sin of pride kept us off guard in every area of our lives?
Somehow, I have to come to think that the accumulation of acquiring great amounts of money, houses and lands, empires in this world, great firms, business institutions, universities, sports records, and travel miles just won't match up to a godly character, honest reputation and a heart of love at our dying day. That legacy is being built every day we live.
The closing speaker said he had little to say and that he had learned many years ago that the deceased person in the casket had really preached his or her own funeral. He said Aquila had used well the dash between the date of her birth and her death to build a lasting legacy of pointing people toward the Savior and of helping others. May we do the same.
Brenda Cannon Henley is an award-winning journalist and writer living on the Southeast Texas Gulf Coast. Having enjoyed more than four decades in ministry, Brenda shares her columns with our readers and works with churches and faith-based programs nationwide. She can be reached at (409) 781-8788 or at brendacannonhenley [at] yahoo [dot] com.


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Each year the Franklin (OH) Chamber of Commerce recognizes a local business with their Industry of the Year Award to honor a business that makes significant contributions to the city through business expansion and community outreach. This year, Huhtamaki's Franklin facility received this special award.
"Taking care of our employees first and supporting the community is always something we want to do here," Bill Bausmith said. "This award validates everything we've been doing for many years and we plan to do even more."
Huhtamaki-Franklin gave back to the community in a big way by donating cameras to the Franklin Police Department and working with developmentally disabled individuals at Production Services Unlimited, Inc. This is in addition to support for the Atrium Medical Center, the American Heart Association and the Franklin High School After Prom program.
Franklin employees are also currently celebrating more than 667 without a recordable or lost-time incident, making them one of the safest facilities in all of Huhtamaki.
According to the award letter sent from the Franklin Chamber of Commerce, Huhtamaki-Franklin was recognized for its steady presence, its investment in employees and the many ways it gives back to the Franklin community.
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On Thursday, HBO announced premiere dates for returning comedies Insecure and Ballers. They'll be back Sunday, Aug. 12, with Ballers at 10/9c and Insecure at 10:30/9:30c.
Ballers returns for a fourth season. The series stars Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson in his downtime from being the world's biggest movie star as Spencer Strasmore, a football-player-turned-financial-manager for athletes. This season, Spencer and his partner Joe (Rob Corddry) go to Los Angeles to try to expand their business into action sports.
Then, in a different part of L.A., Insecure will kick off its third season of following Issa (Issa Rae) and Molly's (Yvonne Orji) awkward adventures of love and sex and career and everything as two black women in their late 20s.
Ballers is HBO's most-watched comedy, while Insecure is one of its most acclaimed, with Season 2 scoring an impressive 90 rating on Metacritic.


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CIMARRON — Rob Peterson, 53, of Colorado Springs, has donated his 640-acre property near Cimarron to Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever as part of the organization's Grassroots Conservation Campaign. The donation provides a place for future hunters and conservationists to enjoy forever. Peterson, a long-time Pheasants Forever member and Pikes Peak Colorado Pheasants Forever chapter co-chair, noted that his father's passion for the outdoors and the time they spent hunting and fishing are the main reasons to make Pheasants Forever the recipient of his gift.
A retired U.S. Air Force Colonel, Peterson grew up in Minnesota where he hunted and fished with his father, Robert Peterson, Sr. "We spent a lot of time in the outdoors," Peterson said. "The success of the hunt was not always a big deal to us. It was the experience of spending time together that we valued most."
Those outdoor experiences are what shaped his dream of honoring his father's memory. In 2010, during one of the last conversations Peterson had with his father, he told his dad of his plan to dedicate a piece of land in his memory, so his outdoor legacy could live forever. Shortly after this conversation, his father lost his battle with cancer.
The property is currently being converted to productive wildlife habitat. "Habitat is my vision because I realize if we don't have the habitat, the upland hunting is going to dry up," Peterson said. "If we don't have the habitat, we can't ensure there will be an opportunity for young people to hunt 20, 30, 40 years from now."
Peterson credited Pheasants Forever's Farm Bill biologist program for providing expert guidance with grassland restoration through the federal Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP). Pheasants Forever development officer Jordan Martincich helped execute the gift through the organization's Grassroots Conservation Campaign.
Peterson will continue managing and enjoying the property throughout his lifetime. Upon his passing, Pheasants Forever will oversee the property for wildlife habitat and public use. In addition to the land gift, Peterson has donated a significant portion of his estate to Pheasants Forever with the goal of furthering the outdoor traditions that both he and his father enjoyed.
For more information on Pheasants Forever's Grassroots Conservation Campaign and how Pheasants Forever can help you leave your legacy, phone Martincich at 816-560-1070.