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Egypt to try 20 suspected in terrorist attacks
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's chief prosecutor charged 20 suspected militants Saturday with carrying terrorist attacks that killed seven people and wounded more than 100, amid new clashes between soldiers and insurgents in the restive Sinai Peninsula.
The statement released by Hisham Barakat's office said those charged belonged to a terror group called Ajnad Misr, which started its attacks after the July ouster of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi. The group's name means "Soldiers of Egypt" in Arabic.
The statement said the suspected militants planted explosives around police stations and security checkpoints. It said 14 suspected members are in custody and six others are on the run.
Ajnad Misr has claimed responsibility for a number of attacks since November, including bomb blasts that took place outside a presidential palace.
Meanwhile Saturday, insurgent-fired rockets targeting security forces struck civilian homes in the town of Sheikh Zuwayed, killing at least three people, including two children, and wounding five others, security officials said.
In raids Friday and Saturday, soldiers killed 26 suspected militants and arrested more than 50 others in northern Sinai, a military official said.
All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief reporters.
The raids follow the killing of two senior officers Friday, also in Sinai, when gunmen opened fire on the officers' vehicle and fled.
Assaults mainly targeting security forces have spiked in the restive Sinai Peninsula and elsewhere since Morsi's ouster. The government designated Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group, blaming them and their Islamist allies of orchestrating the violence to destabilize the country. The Brotherhood has denied using violence.
The military has responded with a wide-scale offensive to quash the insurgency.
Associated Press writer Ashraf Sweilam in el-Arish, Egypt, contributed to this report.
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The Zöllner illusion is a classic optical illusion named after its discoverer, German astrophysicist Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner. In 1860, Zöllner sent his discovery in a letter to physicist and scholar J. C. Poggendorff, editor of Annalen der Physik und Chemie, who subsequently discovered the related Poggendorff illusion.
In this figure the black lines seem to be unparallel, but in reality they are parallel. The shorter lines are on an angle to the longer lines. This angle helps to create the impression that one end of the longer lines is nearer to us than the other end. This is very similar to the way the Wundt illusion appears. It may be that the Zöllner illusion is caused by this impression of depth.
It is interesting to see what happens when the colours in this illusion are changed. If the illusion is printed in green on a red background and the red and green are equally bright, the illusion disappears.
This illusion is similar to the Hering illusion, the Poggendorff illusion and the Müller-Lyer illusion. All these illusions demonstrate how lines can seem to be distorted by their background.
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(Sanaa) – Yemen's government should create a commission of inquiry into serious human rights violations by the previous government and prosecute those responsible, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2014. The government should also pass legislation to end child marriage and reform laws that discriminate against women.
In 2012, Yemen's parliament granted immunity from prosecution to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, who had held power for 33 years, and to his aides. President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi has not followed up on promises to pass a transitional justice law, impanel a commission of inquiry into government abuses during the uprising in 2011, or create any other mechanisms to provide accountability for past violations or prevent future ones.
"The government needs to address the past, both to provide justice for the victims and to make sure the abuses stop once and for all," said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East and North Africa director."For two years the Hadi administration has ignored the demands for justice from people harmed by the Saleh government."
In the 667-page world report, its 24th edition, Human Rights Watch reviews human rights practices in more than 90 countries. Syria's widespread killings of civilians elicited horror but few steps by world leaders to stop it, Human Rights Watch said. A reinvigorated doctrine of "responsibility to protect" seems to have prevented some mass atrocities in Africa. Majorities in power in Egypt and other countries have suppressed dissent and minority rights. And Edward Snowden's revelations about US surveillance programs reverberated around the globe.
A six-month national dialogue began in March to make recommendations to guide the upcoming drafting of a new constitution. The process has involved 565 representatives of political parties and various segments of society, including women and youth. Working groups on transitional justice and rights and freedoms have recommended improvements in rights protections. The dialogue has continued past the six-month timetable.
Media freedom has greatly improved since President Hadi took office in February 2012, but there has been an increase in assaults by security forces and various armed groups on journalists and bloggers. The government's failure to investigate these attacks and hold those responsible to account has called into question the government's commitment to promoting human rights, Human Rights Watch said.
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) carried out dozens of deadly bombings and other attacks on Yemeni security forces during 2013. The United States carried out at least 23 drone strikes on alleged members of the Al-Qaeda-linked group from January through November, killing between 95 and 162 people, research groups who track the strikes reported. But neither government has reported or confirmed the number of civilian casualties.
Women face severe discrimination in law and in practice in Yemen, Human Rights Watch said. Women are not allowed to marry without the permission of their male guardians, usually a father or brother. They are denied equal rights to divorce, inheritance, and child custody, and a lack of legal protection leaves them exposed to domestic and sexual violence.
Child marriage remains widespread. During 2013, doctors and the media reported the deaths of child brides as young as eight following intercourse or childbirth. Yemen has not legislated a minimum age of marriage, though the National Dialogue's Rights and Freedoms Working Group in November recommended establishing 18 as the minimum age.


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The Hearts Series
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Vladimir Nazarov's HEARTS series offers a set of subtle meditations on movement, spacing, color and design. Strikingly expressive in his use of symbolism, Nazarov's poignant, neo-pop classics challenge the viewer's common associations and inspire new ways of looking.
In dealing with such an ancient symbol, charged with layers and layers of popular associations, Nazarov boldly ushers in a new way of looking at the heart. As popular icon, the ubiquity of the heart shape is riddled with commercial meanings – Valentine's Day, the saccharine emotional sale, and surely, the consumer fetish. Do we accept these meanings at face value, or let art and the inner creator take us deeper? In what ways has the commercial marketplace succeeded in monopolizing symbols such as the heart, to our cultural detriment? At what point does the symbol make servants of its human creators?
While the historical use of the heart shape sheds much light on its timeless potentiality, in Nazarov's contemporary depiction, these bright, larger than life paintings infuse the symbol with alternative associations. Amongst a range of visual meanings, seen from various angles and sides the heart shape morphs. It could be male genitalia, or the cosmic egg. Vibrant in effect, the hearts appear to hop right off the canvas. In cases were Nazarov paints the hearts with use of color gradation, they simply radiate out from all sides.


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Amber could've picked any place in the world to spend her summer vacation. Paris, Rio, London. But no, she picked Seoul, South Korea. Traveling there with her best friend, Emily, and staying with Amber's cousin, Nari. It's meant to be a time to relax and do whatever they want. What happens when they run into some guys who want to be friends and steal their time?
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Friends of Kasandra Perkins 'don't want her to be overshadowed'
Ten days before her long-time boyfriend killed her, Kasandra Perkins told a close friend life was good.
She and Jovan Belcher, a Kansas City Chiefs linebacker, had had their rocky times in the past. Yet things had gotten better. Not only could friends see it, but Perkins told Shelby VanCompernolle as much last month.
The holidays were coming, and the couple's baby girl, Zoey, who was not yet 3 months old, was so fun and loving. The couple's relationship, which Belcher's mother told police had been troubled in recent months, felt stronger.
"She was like, 'We're so happy, we're doing great,' " VanCompernolle, 21, of Independence, remembered her friend saying when she stopped by before taking Zoey to her 2-month checkup. "She said, 'We're the happiest we've been in a long time.' "
That's why the news of what happened Saturday morning inside the couple's home in the 5400 block of Crysler has hit close friends so hard.
The couple argued when Perkins came home about 1 a.m. from a concert, a friend of hers said, because Belcher was mad she'd stayed out so late. And then several hours later, Belcher, 25, shot Perkins, 22, many times while his mom and baby also were home. Then he drove to Arrowhead Stadium, where he killed himself in front of general manager Scott Pioli and coach Romeo Crennel after thanking them for everything they'd done for him.
Friends say they didn't see this tragic end coming. No warning.
Many people knew that Belcher owned guns and enjoyed shooting. But they'd never known him to be violent. Not even close.
Friends say they also knew the couple had experienced some rough patches, but what relationship doesn't, they ask.
"They're like every couple, they argued," said Kelsie Hoberg, 23, VanCompernolle's older sister and also a close friend of Perkins. "Nothing we thought was ever super-unhealthy. I don't know how it got to where it did — why he thought he needed to get a gun."
For friends, what's important now is the young woman they called Kasi. People need to know about her, they insist, and how she hoped to be a teacher one day. How if friends were having a bad time, she'd ask them out to lunch or sit and listen to their problems.
The young woman also volunteered in the community as part of the Chiefs Women's Organization, and Chiefs owner Clark Hunt said Sunday she was well known and loved and considered a part of the team's family. Cornerback Brandon Flowers added: "Kasandra was like a sister to us."
And as more details about the tragedy are likely to come, friends say what can't get lost is how Perkins loved her life as a mother. A life that ended just as it was beginning.
"I don't want her to get overshadowed by who he was," VanCompernolle said. "I know he was a Chiefs player and a lot of people know him, but she deserves recognition, too."
Perkins grew up in Texas.
A 2009 graduate of Anderson High School in Austin, Perkins has many family members still living in Texas — her parents, cousins, aunts. Many have declined to talk about the tragedy.
Someone answering the phone at the home of a Perkins family member in Austin Sunday evening said they couldn't talk, but said, "We'll have answers for you tomorrow."
One of Perkins' cousins, Whitney Golden Charles, had a role in bringing her to Kansas City. The cousin is married to Chiefs running back Jamaal Charles and, according to several sources, introduced Kasandra to Jovan in the fall of 2009.
Perkins had come to Kansas City to visit her cousin, friends say, and attended a holiday dinner for Chiefs players and their families. Belcher was there, VanCompernolle said. When part of the group later went to the movies, Perkins reportedly ended up sitting next to Belcher.
In February 2010, family members have said, the two started dating. A few months later, Perkins moved to Kansas City to be with him.
She loved living here, friends say, and met many good friends.
In the fall of 2010, she met Hoberg in class at Blue River Community College. The two started hanging out. Then Perkins met Hoberg's sister, and they became close. The sisters introduced her to other friends.
Before long, the sisters said, there was a tight group of six who would hang out, go to movies or grab Mexican food at La Fuente, where they would talk and share stories over margaritas.
The sisters spent time with Perkins and Belcher together. The young couple ended up spending a lot of time with the sisters and their extended family, attending birthday parties, a family bonfire and pool get-togethers.
Perkins and Belcher often showed their loving side, kissing and hugging and joking around.
"She talked about getting engaged, getting married," VanCompernolle said. "Before she got pregnant, she talked about how they wanted kids.
" They both were madly in love with each other. Never would have expected anything like this."
A bouquet of flowers sat Sunday afternoon at the doorstep of the home along Crysler Avenue where the couple lived for more than a year.
Several of Belcher's relatives were inside, but they declined to comment and had posted "no trespassing," signs on the front lawn.
Neighbors though, described a typical young family.
Kayetta Grant waved as Perkins took frequent walks through the neighborhood.
At the house, Perkins put out decorations for the Fourth of July, Halloween and most recently Christmas.
"I didn't notice anything bizarre or unusual," Grant said.
Other neighbors said the young couple appeared happy, especially since their daughter's birth. Belcher's mother was especially excited about her new granddaughter and had frequently visited the city to help Perkins take care of the child, said one family who lives nearby and knew the couple well. The family didn't want be identified because of their relationship with the couple.
Internet pages created in memory of Perkins and one in memory of both her and Belcher have thousands of "likes." Personal Facebook pages contain memories and heartbreak.
One of Perkins' friends from Anderson High School in Texas wrote:
"Trying to hold in the tears right now. I love you so much. You were such a comical person, people loved you in school. You were always a happy person, which made you even more beautiful. My heart goes out to your family right now.
"They're in my prayers, especially little Zoey. Rest in peace Kasandra Michelle Perkins."
Also on the Internet are countless pictures of Perkins' life, most from the nearly three years she spent in Kansas City. The day Zoey was born. Dates with Belcher. And nights on the town with friends.
One photo shows Perkins with sisters VanCompernolle and Hoberg and the others in their group. Five of the six friends had babies in the past year. They vowed to raise their children together, have play dates.
Now Perkins is gone and Zoey's future uncertain.
On Saturday, hours after the friends heard of the tragedy, they again met at their favorite Mexican restaurant, sitting at the same table where the group last gathered with Perkins.
Over margaritas, they thought of their friend and shared stories. And still, they couldn't get over everything that had happened.
"We were just sitting there staring at each other," VanCompernolle said Sunday. "Nobody knew what to say because we still don't believe it."


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Mark Webber was left annoyed after a timing error hampered his qualifying performance ahead of the Malaysian Grand Prix.
While team-mate Sebastian Vettel took pole position, Webber will start fifth after setting a time that was 2.6s slower than Vettel's best. Webber admitted his approach to the session wasn't quite right but revealed that he had thought he had more time to back off and start a final flying lap when he actually was the first car to take the chequered flag.
"To do the absolutely maximum lap time probably another set of inters was the right thing to do but it wasn't completely clear," Webber said. "I was saving my inters for that last run at the end but basically the information I had for when the session was going to finish was a little bit different to what I thought and in the end I got the flag. I wasn't expecting the flag so it's a double whammy because obviously the track's ramping in a lot."
Webber also clarified: "It was actually how many laps I had to go, so that was the information that I was struggling with."
While Webber didn't feel he couldn't have beaten his team-mate's time he did think he could have got a spot on the front row but said the way form was changing is perplexing.
"I think we could certainly have laid down a stronger time; if you look at a subbed prime against new prime, toe to toe on the same conditions I was probably going to struggle to get Seb but I think that we could have certainly done a stronger lap time. There's no question about it, the track was ramping up quickly and ... timing ... Malaysia; that's how it can be.
"It's very tricky and the track can change very fast. You look at someone like Adrian [Sutil] who has been very fast on the drys and he's good in the wet as well and then he can't do a time on the inters, so it's a bizarre situation that's going on, we don't really know why it's like that."


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Rand Paul: Demilitarize Police
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., is calling for demilitarization of America's local police forces in the wake of the heavily armed response to the protests in Ferguson, Mo.
Paul, who is laying the groundwork for a presidential run, wrote in an Op-Ed published Thursday in Time that the Ferguson response looks more like war than a police action.
"Washington has incentivized the militarization of local police precincts by using federal dollars to help municipal governments build what are essentially small armies—where police departments compete to acquire military gear that goes far beyond what most of Americans think of as law enforcement."
He cited a Heritage Foundation report on federal anti-terrorism grants buying armored vehicles, armor, and heavy weapons for local cops.
"When you couple this militarization of law enforcement with an erosion of civil liberties and due process that allows the police to become judge and jury—national security letters, no-knock searches, broad general warrants, pre-conviction forfeiture—we begin to have a very serious problem on our hands," Paul wrote.
Paul has been reaching out to minorities as he explores a run for president in 2016 and his Op-Ed brings up the issue of race and law enforcement.
"Given the racial disparities in our criminal justice system, it is impossible for African-Americans not to feel like their government is particularly targeting them...Anyone who thinks that race does not still, even if inadvertently, skew the application of criminal justice in this country is just not paying close enough attention," Paul wrote.


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The American Cancer Society is recommending that cancer survivors exercise more and improve their diets to help prevent the disease from coming back.
The cancer society on Thursday released new guidelines, saying there's now enough evidence to strongly recommend physical activity and better nutrition for survivors. The message: For many cancers, maintaining a healthy weight, exercising and eating a healthy diet can reduce the risk that cancer will return.
At least two other organizations have issued similar advice, but the cancer society's endorsement is expected to have greater impact. It's the nation's richest charity in both donations and volunteers, and is the largest non-governmental funder of cancer research.


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Monastery of the Holy Archangel Michael (Cañones, New Mexico)
|Saint Michael's Skete
|Male Monastery
|Fr. John
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|6 members
|Cañones, New Mexico
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|Music used
|Revised Julian
|Feastdays celebrated
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St. Michael's Skete in Cañones, New Mexico, is an Orthodox Christian monastery for men, under the omophorion of His Eminence Dmitri of Dallas and the South of the Orthodox Church in America.
St. Michael's Skete, founded in 1993, is set on approximately 15 acres located amidst the high desert foothills of the Jemez Mountains in northwestern New Mexico. The skete is blessed with a year-round natural spring that originates on the property, as well as a large stream that crosses the monastery grounds. It is also at some distance from major population centers, which is beneficial to a monastic community.
Community life
The life of St. Michael's Skete is centered around the daily cycle of services that are conducted in St. Michael the Archangel Monastic Church, consecrated on August 30, 2003. The main work of this monastic community is one of prayer and repentance; however, the brotherhood makes a living by providing hand-dipped pure beeswax candles to a number of churches. The skete also has a guesthouse, the Holy Archangels House of Ascent, and is available for visitors who call in advance.
The monastery facilities presently are limited. St. Michael the Archangel Monastic Church is the center of the daily services. A small farm house is the main monastic building that houses cooking and eating facilities as well as the monastery office and provides a work place for making candles. A "monk's row" of three cells is also in use in an area restricted to lay people. The construction of more cells is planned, as well as construction of a monastery trapeza. In 2008, development is planned of a cemetery that will offer burial to both members of the brotherhood and laymen.
Contact information
The daily cycle of services and other duties require frequent absences from the office. The brotherhood is pleased to hear from inquirers, but asks patience if not readily available. All correspondence should be directed to the skete, unless it concerns the guesthouse, in which case it should be directed to Hieromonk John.
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Here's a way executives can get in front of the mounting frustration about income equality and corporate greed: Restrain your pay.
What if your firm announced that top executives would not make more in total compensation than 100 times the lowest-paid worker?
For a company paying the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour (about $15,000 a year for a full-time worker), that means income of about $1.5 million. And that figure would include the stock awards CEOs often get.
As pay goes, $1.5 million is not peanuts. But it also is a far cry from packages that have ballooned for many execs into the tens and hundreds of millions of dollars.
Beyond-the-pale CEO pay is part of what's making Americans angry these days. It and other factors are fueling the sense that the nation is slipping into a place that has lost its bearings about what is fair and decent. We also have a tax code where millionaires can pay less than 15 percent of their income in taxes, a recovery in which corporate profits are up but unemployment remains high, and average wages that are stagnant even as companies demand more from workers.
President Barack Obama's "Buffett Rule" is based on billionaire Warren Buffett's observation that he pays taxes at a lower rate than his secretary. In the State of the Union address this week, Obama said those making more than $1 million annually should pay at least 30 percent in taxes. A majority of the U.S. public supports the concept.
Call my 100x compensation-restraint plan the "Business Buffett Rule." And limiting executive pay in this way could pay off for your firm. A dramatic, personal commitment to go against the greed grain would likely boost employee morale. This includes among high-potential workers. Such workers often have been asked to shoulder large loads in recent years with little in return—which helps explain why 1 in 4 were seeking new jobs last year compared with 1 in 7 in 2005. These key employees may be more willing to stick around if they see executives making sacrifices, too.
More concretely, containing pay at the top would allow raises for the rest of the workforce. And it would burnish the company's reputation among potential workers and consumers who want, more and more, to do business with socially responsible companies.
There's evidence that more equal societies tend to be healthier and happier. Companies are societies in miniature—and too much inequality between corner suite and standard cubicle frays a fabric of trust and common purpose that organizations need to perform at their best.
Doubters will claim the best executives will flee pay-limiting firms for pastures offering more green. But research has dented the theory that high executive pay corresponds with outstanding performance. Instead, the incentive packages crafted for C-level employees in recent decades have contributed to a short-term mindset and hyper-risky behavior.
By showing moderation in CEO compensation, companies are likely to find leaders focused on accomplishing the company's mission instead of executives primarily out to amass a fortune. What's more, CEO pay under the Business Buffett Rule has no absolute ceiling—it can rise as long as the lowest-paid employees also see their boats lifted.
There's already momentum to rein in executive rewards. The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act requires that companies show the relationship between executive pay and corporate performance. And some organizations already have adopted a version of pay restraint.
Executives of auto companies bailed out by the federal government had their pay capped. The California State University system recently agreed to limit salaries for new campus presidents, and there is a bill in the Golden State to restrict the pay of those presidents to 150 percent of what the chief justice of the state Supreme Court makes. In the private sector, financial services firms including Bank of America Corp. reportedly are capping cash bonuses.
And during the recession, a number of executives agreed to annual salaries of just $1, including Apple's Steve Jobs.
On the other hand, Jobs' successor Tim Cook recently was given a restricted stock grant currently valued at some $440 million. To be sure, Cook has helped Apple take the world by storm. But does anyone really need $440 million? Especially given the sickening evidence that Apple's products are made by workers often toiling in harsh, sometimes-unsafe conditions.
In fact, a more dramatic version of pay restraint would be to limit an executive's compensation to 100x the pay of the lowest-paid worker in their supply chain. But let's just stick with direct employees for the moment. I suspect Apple—and other companies—would shine brighter among employees and would-be customers by adopting the Business Buffett Rule.
Ed Frauenheim is Workforce Management's senior editor. To comment, write to email@example.com.


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This news is just big enough for me to briefly pause my hiatus. Sony Pictures has acquired the rights to make a Roller Coaster Tycoon movie. More from Reuters:
Sony Pictures Animation has pre-emptively picked up rights to the Atari video game "Rollercoaster Tycoon," and is developing the project as a live-action/CGI hybrid.
The "Tycoon" franchise, created by Chris Sawyer, is a popular series of computer games that simulate a combination of designing roller coasters and amusement park management. Each game challenges players with open-ended amusement park management and development while allowing them to construct and customize their own unique roller coasters.
The games are popular in the PC world, generating more than $300 million in sales and giving Atari bragging rights for having the third-best-selling PC title of all time in the U.S.
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Obviously this is exciting news for coaster geeks around the World. The sheer premise of a movie based solely on roller coasters is enough reason to take note. Never mind the countless hours some of us have spent plopping down drink stands, insane steel loopers, and landscaping to keep our park guests happy. I had a pretty intense addiction to the original game in 1999. One of my best creations was an X-Men themed park with a dueling launch coaster. Then, I had a short relapse in 2002 when the sequel was released. By the time the third game was out I was married and had much less gaming time on my hands. But, I still own it.
What Would a Roller Coaster Tycoon Movie Be Like?
Right off the bat the movie will most likely be aimed at families and kids. The press release refers to the project as a "live-action/CGI hybrid". Also, the movie will be developed by Sony Pictures Animation that has created animated movies like Open Season & Surf's Up. This leads me to believe that the game may somehow come to life like Jumanji or Zathura. Only this time, the live-action characters may be pulled into the game where everything is animated with CGI. A movie like this is perfect for the new 3D trend. I have no idea what the storyline would be, but that's my best guess at some of the plot. Luckily, for Sony, a visual spectacle doesn't have to have a good story to do well at the box office. On the other hand, we shouldn't expect a great movie when you look at the horrible track record of video game to movie adaptations.
Coaster fans shouldn't be too excited just yet as there are plenty of movies that make it further into development and never get made. Meanwhile, others are greenlit and pushed into production immediately. I'd lean towards the latter for a movie like this, but we'll just have to wait and see.
Another Video (PC) Game Movie: An Infamously Bad Track Record
Unfortunately, the track record for movies adapted from video games is really, really, bad. Die hard game fans may like some of them, but they don't have a history of performing well at the box office or being well received by critics. Case in point, I just watched Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li (hey, I'm a huge Street Fighter/martial arts fan), and it has a 4% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. Shockingly lower than PC game Doom (18%), but not as low as Alone in the Dark (1%). This history of bad transitions from game to movie goes all the way back to early 90's with such stinkers as Double Dragon, Street Fighter, and Super Mario Bros. Even big budget movies don't work. Tomb Raider (19%) and the sequel (24%). Even the early reviews of Prince of Persia which opens next week are luke warm at best right now.
One of my favorite video game franchises of all-time, Resident Evil, has found enough box office success to spawn off a series of movies, but I wouldn't say that the movies are all that great. They've received around a 20 – 30% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. In my opinion, Silent Hill, another survival horror video game was successfully adapted into a movie in 2006. The story wasn't great, but they definitely got the atmosphere and look just right. (Stay away kids it's a gruesome R-rated movie) Good adaptations that turned out to good movies are few and far between and many think that it's never been done. Silent Hill and the first Mortal Kombat movie are the only two that come to mind. Even these movies were panned by critics. See a list of video game adaptations and their box office earnings at Box Office Mojo.
The trick is to do a good job translating a game with good, rich subject matter to the silver screen. There are plenty of big, detailed, story-driven video games these days that could be adapted, but a simulator like Roller Coaster Tycoon doesn't make sense to me.
What's Your Take?
What do you think of a possible Roller Coaster Tycoon movie? Leave a comment below.


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In 1915 the Genealogical Society of Utah (GSU) in Salt Lake City, Utah published a 76 page book (including the paper cover) called "Lessons in Genealogy." The copy that I found online on Archive.org is the Third Edition. WorldCat.org shows only one copy of this Lessons book in any library across the world and I would assume that this would qualify as a "rare" book.
Back in 1915 the GSU was a subscription organization sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Church). Today, the GSU uses the tradename "FamilySearch" but is still operating as a separate entity from the corporation, FamilySearch, International. For all practical purposes to those outside of the the staff and employees of the two organizations, even though the two separate entities exist, they are essentially the same.
Some time ago, I finished reading Jacobus, Donald Lines. Genealogy As Pastime and Profession. New Haven, Conn: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co, 1930. I was very much interested in the point of view expressed by Jacobus concerning the methodology and practice of genealogy. This small pamphlet from the GSU is another generation earlier than Jacobus' book and expresses another, even earlier, view of the process of genealogical research. I think those of us who live in the computer age tend to improperly discount work done by researchers in much earlier times. Although some of the genealogies produced back in the 1800s and before are less than helpful to us today, there was a considerable amount of work done by careful and accurate researchers based on the records available at the time. We also have to remember that many of today's less careful researchers copy the old compiled books on genealogy wholesale into the present online mass of family trees.
If we ignore the past, we will never understand the present and will have no ability to see into the future. In the United States, there has always been, since the foundation of the Church, an undercurrent of anti-Mormon sentiment as evidenced by the current political contest for a presidential nominee. It is not unusual for genealogists to be affected by this 150 year old controversy. Even among the blog writers of today, there are those with a decided anti-Mormon and anti-Church sentiment. The fact that different genealogists have distinct and sometimes contradictory motivations for doing their genealogy should not limit us from putting aside those differences and cooperating at the level of investigators of the past.
Back to the 1915 Lessons book, a lifetime membership in the UGS was $10, no small sum back in those days. Adjusted for inflation the cost in today's funds would be over $200.
To even begin to understand the content of this Lessons book, it is necessary to recognize that genealogy is a basic tenant of the teachings of the Church and that genealogy is looked upon, not just as a pastime, but as a solemn religious duty of every member. The introductory paragraph of the Lessons is illustrative:
Every well-informed, consistent Latter-day Saint should believe in genealogy as much as he believes in faith, repentance, and baptism for the remission of sins ; and this belief should be manifested in works, the same as belief in baptism, tithing or any other gospel principle is shown to be genuine by its fulfillment in actual practice. This statement, that every Latter-day Saint should be a genealogist, may at first thought, seem a little extreme. It will be necessary, therefore, to establish the proposition by briefly pointing out what the Latter-day Saints believe regarding the salvation of the human race. [typographic and spelling errors in the original have been corrected].As a side note, this statement is essentially applicable to the members of the Church today and may help to explain many of their attitudes and motivations. I am not going to indulge in a doctrinal treatise because my purpose is to examine the genealogical practices at the time. By the way, there have been few changes, if any, in the fundamental doctrinal basis for doing genealogical research since 1915 but it is highly unlikely that modern writers and teachers in the Church would make reference to some of the content of the Lessons.
Beginning at page 8 of the book there is a very interesting summary of the status of genealogical societies as the existed at the time. The most notable of these from the book's standpoint, was the New England Historic Genealogical Society which by the way, is still flourishing and was a prominent participant in the recent RootsTech 2012 Conference. Here is an interesting quote from the then librarian of the Society quoted from a letter dated 19 August 1911:
No one knows how many volumes of genealogy we have in our library. We have never taken the trouble to ascertain either how many volumes of genealogy or how many titles. Our chief concern has been to secure everything possible in this line in order that we might show any American genealogy called for. We are striving to make this the court of last resort. We have paid prices ranging from $5 to $150 each for pamphlets and broadsides which really have but little use except to make our collections complete. As to this library's rank, it is unquestionably first of its kind anywhere, for three reasons : first, its completeness in printed works : second, its manuscript collections ; third, its duplicate copies.I think the goals of the Society have changed somewhat over the years, but it is still an extremely valuable organization. Interestingly, at the time the UGS had only a few dozens of books and other materials in its own collection.
When you look at the world through genealogical glasses, the whole world seems like genealogy. Looking at the past helps in establishing a perspective in the present.


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If I had to do it again I would probably go with a MicroATX chassis for a NAS build, but I'd purchased the current chassis I have a few years ago before I planned to go ECC/ZFS on my NAS. It started out with an Atom board, and those along with AMD options are plentiful, so long as ECC is not a requirement. I'd been holding off on the rebuild because 3TB WD Reds weren't available, but fortune smiled on me as I found an open box deal on the board the same day WD Red 3TB drives went on sale on Amazon for $149. I ordered the whole kit that day.


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First some comments on the words used:
1. You will be giving the blood. The doctor will be taking it. Be careful not to give the opposite impression.
2. A "regular" test is something which happens to a set schedule: every month, or every year, for example.
3. A "routine" test may also be a "regular" test, or it may be a one-off event; but the important thing about it is that it is not an emergency procedure.
4. "Fasting" may be used instead of "on an empty stomach".
5. If you are having a blood test, then the fact that you will be having blood taken is understood.
Taking all of the above into consideration, I would express the sentences above as, "Tomorrow, I will have to see a doctor for a routine fasting blood test".
Finally, I would assume that "a routine blood-work" is the same as "a routine blood test".
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Padres agree to terms with OF Seth Smith
SAN DIEGO - The San Diego Padres today announced that they have agreed to terms with outfielder Seth Smith on a one-year contract for the 2014 season, avoiding arbitration. Executive Vice President/General Manager Josh Byrnes made the announcement.
Smith, 31, was acquired by the Padres last month on December 3 from the Oakland Athletics in exchange for right-handed pitcher Luke Gregerson. In 2013, he hit .253 (93-for-368) with 27 doubles, eight home runs, 40 RBI and 49 runs scored in 117 games for the Athletics. The left-handed hitter started 97 games this past season, including 46 as the designated hitter, 43 in left field and eight in right field. Originally signed as a second-round selection by the Colorado Rockies in the 2004 First-Year Player Draft out of the University of Mississippi, Smith has hit .265 (539-for-2036) with 128 doubles, 21 triples, 73 home runs, 273 RBI, 304 runs scored, a .342 on-base percentage and .456 slugging percentage over 729 games played for the Rockies (2007-11) and Athletics (2012-13). He is a career .279 hitter vs. right-handed pitching with a .357 on-base pct., .487 slugging pct., and .844 OPS.
With today's announcement, the Padres have six remaining arbitration eligible players including right-handed pitchers Andrew Cashner, Ian Kennedy and Tyson Ross, infielders Everth Cabrera and Chase Headley, and infielder/outfielder Kyle Blanks.


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This event took place at The Santa Monica Pier on May 21, 2013. The evening started out with a lavishing red carpet step and repeat. There were many celebrities that attended the event to support Sugar Ray Leonard and his foundation. The carpet was actually quite relaxed. Though many celebrities arrived to grace the carpet they didn't all show up at the same time which allowed the media plenty of opportunity to get great coverage of the carpet.
This year's attendees included: Sugar Ray Leonard (Boxing Legend, Olympic Gold Medal Winner, Six-Time World Champion), Tommy Davidson (Actor/Comedian, Black Dynamite (Adult Swim's #1 series), best known for top-rated Showtime comedy specials and ground-breaking "In Living Color" MC of the Night), Usher (Recording Artist; The Voice), Billy Bush (Access Hollywood), Adam Rodriguez (Actor; Magic Mike), Sergio "The Latin Snake" Mora (World Boxing Champion), Johnny Gill (Recording Artist),Barry Bonds (retired MLB player),Andre Berto (Professional boxer; Two-time Welterweight Champion),Baxter Humby (Canadian Champion Kick boxer), Benito Martinez (FX's Sons of Anarchy),Clyde Carson (Recording Artist), DeVon Franklin (SVP of Columbia Tristar Pictures & Author of the bestselling book, PRODUCED BY FAITH), Dondre Whitfield (ABC's Make It or Break It), Edwin Hodge (Actor; Red Dawn), Franchesca Robi (Songstress; Singing the National Anthem for the night),McKinley Freeman (VH1's Hit the Floor), Robert Knepper (CW's Cult), Rory Cochrane (Argo), Sheriff Lee Baca (Sheriff of Los Angeles County), Tamala Jones (ABC's Castle)
Master of Ceremony for the event was Tommy Davidson. He entertained the crowd with his shenanigans making jokes and funny faces as he does best while everyone laughed and had a great time.
In between bouts the items donated were auctioned off to raise money for The Sugar Ray Leonard Foundation.
Songstress Franchesca Robi (daughter of The Platters' Paul Robi) sung the National Anthem to kick off the fight part of the evening. There were 4 scheduled fights for the evening.
Top 40s band Zota Pop, and DJ BABY CHINO really set the mood for a great event keeping the sounds going throughout the night playing a mixture of people friendly music.
There was so much food and beverages as people maintained an equal balance between the chili cheeseburgers and the margaritas. Those that were one of the fortunate guests to attend the event left there very content.
Some of the food and drink sponsors included Asombroso Tequila, Monster Energy Drink, Hansen, Sneaky Pete's Beverage, Tito's Handmade Vodka, and Weaver's Coffee & Tea. Beachy Cream, Sheila G's The Original Brownie Brittle Company, Garden of Eating Catering, Wicked Kitchen, Jalisco's Mobile Taco Grill, Monsoon Café,Rollin' Rib BBQ, Sabra Dipping Co., SUSHI POPPER, and Sweet Insanity Bake Shop.
VIP's received an autographed boxing glove from the one and only Sugar Ray Leonard on their way exiting the event.
This really was a class A event. I am already looking forward to attending next year.
To learn more about the Foundation and their cause, please visit: SugarRayLeonard.com.
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This post could have an alternate title - Why I'm thankful for this challenge.
Just before starting this post I was holding one of my most valued possessions. It is compact, measures 11cm x 16cm x 2.5cm. The outside is a reddish, browny leather. There was once a clasp (possibly brass - naming metals is not one of my strengths) holding the ends together, but unfortunately over time part of it has broken off. There is a circular piece of leather on one side which once would have held a writing implement. The sides, although now quite discoloured have patterns of pink and blue. It was probably purchased some time in 1853 by my great, great grandfather William Lee Dawson at Weaklin of 91 Farringden Street, London. Frederick Weaklin was a stationery manufacturer in London.
|Diary of Dr William Lee Dawson
It has been several years since I have looked at this diary and reacquainted myself with its contents.
It documents the time Dr Dawson worked as a ship's surgeon for the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company in 1853 and 1854 and his appointment as the ship's surgeon on the Mooltan taking emigrants to Hobart Town arriving on 1st November 1854. William Lee Dawson was called to give evidence at many inquests and his diary gives the names of those deceased and their cause of death. There is also a detailed list of the expenditure on his new house.
Of his personal daily life in Tasmania there is nothing except:
Came to live in the New House on Wednesday the 20th March 1861 and Fanny Harris came to live as nurse girl on Wednesday the 27th March 1861.
As I flicked through the pages this morning I came across an entry I had not seen before.
George Seabrook and Charles, & ???? came down to work on the 12th Nov 1860 and left on the 29th January 1861 £1 per week. £33.0.0
George and Charles Seabrook were his brothers-in-law. I had never stopped to think if members of Emma Dawson's (Seabrook) family built the Dawson house. This should have been an obvious connection as Emma's father and at least 4 of her 6 brothers worked in the building trade. Now I know Emma's brothers, 22 year old George and 16 year old Charles built or at least assisted in building the house shown below.
|William and Emma Dawson's residence in Franklin from 1861.
Thanks for this challenge Shauna. It highlights that we need to go back and look over all our sources with fresh eyes. We may be fortunate enough to glean new information. Now if only I could locate where this house was built in Franklin!
P.S. If anyone can read the name I can't interpret please let me know.


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Dear Bikini Girls,
Judging from your sign, I gather that you took #4's departure as hard as anyone. You look so happy right now – if only there was a way to bottle that joy and sell it at Walmart for $9.99 a six pack, we'd all be rich. In the meantime, I think it's time for you to have some new and enjoyable experiences at Lambeau… with the Packer Ranters!
Why? Cheese. Franklin and I go miles beyond your standard curd-consuming, cheddar-block tailgating chumps. We are totally into the art of cheesemaking/tasting. You haven't lived until you've tried Franklin's jalapeno and pork-flavored Havarti or my classic semi-soft sheep's milk cracker smear. Both will be on hand during our Sunday tailgate. We have even discussed testing out to be Grand Master judges for the 2010 World Championship Cheese Contest in Madison. Come tailgate with us and we'll tell you all about it.
Why? Loyalty. Unlike #4, who was only loyal to the Packers from 1992 to 2008, we have been diehard fans of the Green and Gold since birth. We are not subject to drafting, trades or free agency, and besides a nickel for every ad clicked on, we are not paid either. Our dedication has been and will always be with the Green Bay Packers. If you don't believe me, I will bring a picture of my headstone, which I purchased around Y2K. It reads, "Here Lies Robert Greenfield, Lifelong Packer Fan and Winner of Anduzzi's 1997 Packerena Danceoff."
As you can see, the case for you to party with us Sunday is pretty strong. We've already got a sweet tailgating spot picked out, possibly the best in Green Bay. As soon as we get confirmation of your arrival, we'll give you directions to meet us as well as the combination to the cheese safe.
Looking forward to your response! ~R.G.
Monday, October 26, 2009
We'll Never Betray You
3 comments:
- pashawwOctober 26, 2009 at 4:43 PM
Hey R.G.ReplyDelete
Use your Sith powers to make them think they really want to hang out with you.
I case they won't you can always put a bikini top on Hillside.
- IronManOctober 27, 2009 at 8:00 AM
Gotta love the Bikini Girls.ReplyDelete
That picture is photoshopped though. Here is the original:
pashaww - that is a great idea if I wasn't preparing to use all my mental energy disrupting the Vikings Sunday. Franklin will have to tell you his cup size these days - it fluctuates with his weight - I can't keep up.ReplyDelete
IronMan - I'm kind of embarrassed I posted a counterfeit Bikini Girls picture! Thanks for setting me straight! LOL.
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Stacie Grahn necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 101 diseños de 24 diseñadores freelance.
An afternoon tea shoppe in British fashion in British Columbia Canada. Serving handmade crustless sandwiches, petit four's, and light lunches. A cozy yet sophisticated tea shoppe that will transport you across the Atlantic to a Grandmothers living room in England.
Devonshire Cream Tea Shoppe
We are a mother team who are starting a business that involves both of our first loves - tea! We want a logo designed that will be a reflection of our love for tea. We want to give customers a feeling that they are in England dining with the Queen for afternoon tea. Our shop is filled with antique tables and chairs. The walls have wainscotting and then damask wall paper above. It's a place for men, women and children to come and experience a real life tea party. It's cozy yet sophisticated! The smell of home baking is in the air because everything we serve will be prepared on site. We need a logo for signage, menus, flyers and gift certificate.
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- No bright colours
- nothing too modern or Disney like, think Grandma in England and not Alice in Wonderland
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Play around with the stuff you add to the quiche.. i stuck to spinach and mushroom and added a top layer of parmesan crusted tomatoes but you can add whatever floats your boat to get a different version each time.
For the Pie crust
All purpose flour - 1.25 cups
Cold Butter - 7 tbsp, cubed
Cold water - 2 to 3 tbsp
Salt - half tsp
For the Filling
Spinach - 3 to 4 cups, fresh leaves, chopped (or use frozen)
Fresh White Mushroom - 1 (8oz) pack, cleaned and sliced
Red onion - 1 medium, chopped
Garlic - 4 to 5 cloves, chopped
Red Chilli flakes - 1 tsp
Tomato slices - 5 (optional)
Eggs - 4
Milk - 1 cup (whole milk preferred)
Shredded Cheese - 1.25 cups (I used pepper jack)
Parmesan Cheese - 2 to 3 tbsp (optional)
Salt & Pepper - to taste
Nutmeg powder - 1/4 tsp
Dried Italian herbs - 1/2 tsp
Olive oil - 1 tbsp, divided
1) For the crust: I used my food processor. Combined the flour and salt. Make sure that the butter is super cold (put them in the freezer for about 10 mins) . Add the butter and pulse until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Add water a tablespoon at a time & continue pulsing until it just becomes to come together. Remove from the food processor, bring the dough together gently, cover with cling wrap and refrigerate for atleast an hour.
For the filling:
2) Heat half tbsp olive oil in a pan, add garlic flakes and chopped onion with some red chilli flakes and saute till softened. . Add a pinch of salt and the chopped spinach at this time and cook until wilted.
3) Heat the remaining olive oil, add the sliced mushrooms and allow them to cook down without stirring too much. Flip and cook until browned with a bit of salt. Cooking them separately makes them nice and caramelized.
4) Beat the eggs in a bowl and whisk in the milk, nutmeg powder, salt & pepper to taste & dried italian herbs. Stir in the cooled down spinach mixture and the mushroom with about a cup of the shredded cheese.
5) Roll out the refrigerated pie crust to a thickness of 1/4 inch, to a circle slightly bigger than a pie pan. Transfer to the pie pan and crimp the edges... Blind bake this (Cover pie with parchment paper and add uncooked rice or dried beans to about 2/3rds - this will make sure that the crust doesn't puff up too much. Please note that the rice/beans cannot be cooked once used for blind baking, however it can be stored and re-used for blind baking at a later date) at 375 F for about 15 to 20 minutes or until half baked and not moist.
6) Allow to cool a bit and remove the beans or rice used. Now pour the egg-vegetable mixture to nearly the top. I added a layer of sliced tomatoes and sprinkled parmesan cheese on them. Sprinkle the 1/4 cup of remaining shredded cheese uniformly over the quiche.
7) Return this to the preheated oven at 350F and bake for about 30 to 35 minutes. Remove from oven and allow to cool for about 15-20 minutes before slicing in.
7) Return this to the preheated oven at 350F and bake for about 30 to 35 minutes. Remove from oven and allow to cool for about 15-20 minutes before slicing in.


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GOIBER rule #14: No matter what the purpose of entry, bring enough sustenance* to last eight days – you never know what could happen.
GOIBER rule #14: No matter what the purpose of entry, bring enough sustenance* to last eight days – you never know what could happen.
Good ideas can come from anyone. Great ideas require a little more – ingenuity, passion, the courage to forge ahead despite your family, friends, coworkers and trolls calling you a damned fool. That, and a secret room.
Some time ago, after getting twisted in my vacuum cord for the umpteenth time, I decided to do something about it. I locked myself for a week in my GOIBER, determined to formulate a mathematical solution for cordless electricity based only on the principles derived from the Faraday cage and Mortal Kombat's Raiden. But I lacked true focus. Theories led to tangents which led to endless streams of disruptive equations. It was ugly. Then the Dirt Devil came out, and life was good again.
As a Packer fan, you are undoubtedly excited about the recently announced stadium expansion, which will create a so-called "wall of sound." According to the Packers, these new 6,600 seats in the South End Zone will make a "tremendous impact on the noise level of the stadium." To me it, it's like sound on steroids (which, at the moment, cannot be tested but once enough stadiums adopt this practice, the regulatory dweebs with surely intercede...groan).
Until we experience this new and improved G-Force for ourselves, it will have to be left to the imagination. But as novice idea generator myself, I want to give the Packers their due props for this concept. It could, in some way, revolutionize the Lambeau experience – a thought so powerful one can only presume it came from the mysterious LOIBER (Lombardi's Observations, Inventions, Brainstorms & Experiments Room) hidden deep within the bosom of Lambeau Field.
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Groundhog Day is Sunday: Will Phil see his shadow?
Unfortunately, an analysis of weather data shows that Phil's forecasts are inaccurate.
Punxsutawney Phil, the world's most famous fuzzy forecaster, will pop out of his burrow Sunday morning in western Pennsylvania to tell the nation what our weather will be like for the next six weeks.
Will we have an early spring, or will winter drag on until mid-March?
According to folklore, if it's cloudy when the groundhog emerges, the critter will leave his burrow, signifying that winter will soon end. If it's a sunny day, Phil will supposedly see his shadow and, frightened, retreat back into his burrow, and winter will continue for six more weeks.
The forecast from the National Weather Service is for a cloudy day, with some rain and snow possible, but Phil can be very fickle, so it's hard to know what he'll do.
An analysis of weather data from the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C., shows that Phil's forecasts are, on average, inaccurate. "The groundhog has shown no talent for predicting the arrival of spring, especially in recent years," according to the center. "Phil's competitor groundhogs across the nation fared no better."
The center found that from 1988 to 2012, the groundhog was right 10 times and wrong 15 times. In other words, 10 times, the national average temperature for the remainder of February matched what would be expected based on what the groundhog predicted.
Last year, the furry rodent did not see his shadow, so there should have been an early spring. Phil gets a mixed grade last year — the nation had a slightly warmer than average February but a chillier than average March.
Since 1887, the groundhog has seen his shadow 100 times (meaning six more weeks of winter), and not seen it 17 times to predict an early spring.
There is no record of the prediction for nine years in the late 19th century.
Although Phil is the most famous hog of them all, other prognosticating groundhogs include West Virginia's French Creek Freddie, Georgia's Gen. Beauregard Lee, Ohio's Buckeye Chuck, North Carolina's Sir Wally Wally, Alabama's Smith Lake Jake and New York's Staten Island Chuck (full name: Charles G. Hogg).
Groundhog Day has its origins in an ancient celebration of Candlemas, a point midway between the winter solstice and the spring equinox, according to the climate center.
Superstition has it that fair weather was seen as a prediction of a stormy and cold second half to winter, as noted in this Old English saying:
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Winter has another flight.
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How To Conquer The 6-Month Work Gap On Your Resume
Conquering the 6-Month work gap on your resume.
By Anish Majumdar, Certified Professional Resume Writer (CPRW)
Few things give rise to more fear and uncertainty in job seekers than a dreaded "gap" in their employment history. Here's the truth: recruiters and hiring managers are trained to spot all gaps of six months and longer on a candidate's resume. So, does this mean that the gap on your resume will automatically be perceived as a negative? Absolutely not...so long as you properly ADDRESS it.
Here's a five step process that will allow you to quickly address these gaps:
1. Start by listing months and years worked for every job.
Don't try to cover up a work gap by only listing years worked for the job preceding and job following the gap. For example, a candidate whose last job ran from 6/08-1/10 and whose present job started in 7/10 might be tempted to list these as 2008-2010 and 2010-Present within the resume. Unfortunately, recruiters and hiring managers will instantly pick up on this detail and assume the existence of a gap. Take the time to list months AND years for every job you've held.
2. Identify the exact length of the work gap.
It's a cliché, but it's true: worrying about a situation is often more taxing than doing something about it. Nowhere is this more true than addressing work gaps on your resume.
-Identify the exact length of time, in months, that you were between jobs. Write it down on paper.
Chances are, it's less time than you think. And now that it's down on paper, we'll execute the following steps to minimize, if not completely eliminate its potential to be a negative:
3. Gather Information about everything you did during the gap.
When executing this step, its important not to place judgments on what you did. For the time being, don't worry about whether the information you're gathering is relevant to the resume. For example, did you complete a major home renovation? Did you take any courses or classes (either related or unrelated to the industry you'd like to work in)? Did you take a sabbatical to recharge your batteries? Create a "Work Gap" file with any supporting documents for the above. The latter can be used to back up your claims during an interview.
4. Create a two to three line "career note" that addresses the gap.
I can hear the complaints now: "What? All that work for a tiny two to three line note?" It's important to remember our purpose: address the work gap AS SUCCINCTLY AS POSSIBLE and prevent it from being a negative.
Review the information in your "Work Gap" file with an eye towards details that are particularly relevant for a resume. In general, organize information along the following levels of importance (from greatest to least):
-Any additional training or courses
-Any home or special projects
-Taking care of family obligations, etc.
Using the above as a guideline, what information works best for your work gap? Develop a brief Career Note that addresses it. Examples include:
"Garnered hands-on training in team leadership/supervision and worked to expand professional network of colleagues and industry professionals."
"Planned and executed home projects within three and a half month timeframe, managing resources and addressing issues."
"Strengthened family relationships and prioritized shared experiences such as three month biking journey in Spain."
5. Insert the "career note" directly within the resume.
It's important to insert the "Career Note" between the job preceding and the job following the gap. This approach delivers a clear message: I'm proud of my entire career and have nothing to hide. There's no better way to make a first impression.
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In his earthly ministry, Yeshua focused on comforting and healing the disabled of Israel; Shalva wants to give that same opportunity to Yeshua's followers today
Monday, December 03, 2012 | Ryan Jones
A recurring theme of Yeshua's earthly ministry was the comfort and healing of the disabled. He did this both as a sign for the unbelieving, and out of deep compassion for the afflicted. It is appropriate for those of Yeshua's followers who love and support Israel to follow His example by likewise paying special attention to disabled Israelis.
Shalva, a unique Israeli organization dedicated to empowering handicapped children, has recognized this special love Christians have for the Jewish state and its people, and is reaching out for help.
Founded in 1990 by Kalman and Malki Samuels after their own son, Yossi, was struck blind, deaf and acutely hyperactive by defective vaccinations, Shalva is today "a leader in the field of disability awareness and intervention."
Shalva boasts a wide array of programs providing care and assistance all the way from birth to age 21. But more importantly, Shalva has assembled a team that works tirelessly to create individual curricula fitting the needs of each child.
"At one-year-old, Miriam refused to eat solid food and was not gaining weight. She had a hard time participating in daily activities, at the day care and at home, and did not move around much," Shalva speech therapist Talia Cole told Israel Today. "Miriam's teachers and therapists met multiple times a week to brainstorm an intervention method, incorporating each of their therapeutic knowledge, to help Miriam overcome this obstacle. After months of hard work, Miriam now eats a variety of solid foods, is communicating, moving and getting chubbier by the day!"
Shalva also views as part of its mission taking some of the burden off those parents who have gone against the social grain by choosing life "despite a grim prognosis."
"The staff at Shalva [has become] my own support system. They always are happy to see me, ask how I am doing and treat me like family," said Dassie Corman, whose son, Ephraim, has Down syndrome.
It is a sad irony that Israel is home to such caring organizations as Shalva, while at the same time Israeli society all but expects mothers to abort children who will be born with "special needs."
"Very few babies who are suspected of having a mental or physical disability are brought to term. In fact, 9 out of 10 babies with Down syndrome are aborted," according to a statement released by Shalva. "Where the world would chose to terminate these lives, Shalva is an organization that celebrates these children…[in keeping with] the biblical command to regard the weak and the feeble."
"It is very holy and very biblical to help those who are struggling or downtrodden," Kalman Samuels told Israel Today. But as awareness in Israel (slowly) grows that disabled children also deserve life, Shalva has found itself in need of additional backing to expand its activities.
"We have hundreds of kids waiting to get into our programs who we cannot service. And there are hundreds beyond that in need of our services," said Samuels, as he described the $46-million facility Shalva intends to build. "Insofar as the Christian community is very supportive of Israel, we believe they will also find us worthy of their support."
Even before it has all the resources needed to operate at full capacity, Shalva is already giving back beyond its primary work with disabled Israeli children. When the McLean Bible Church in Virginia was looking to establish a similar ministry called Jill's House, Shalva was there lend its expertise.
"Staff from McLean came to Shalva and trained alongside our professionals in order to replicate the work in their church," said Samuels. "We visited on several occasions, they visited us, and they give us full credit for concept and training, which we provided free of charge."
During a recent visit to Shalva's Jerusalem center, President Shimon Peres summed up the situation well: "All those who criticize Israel should come to Shalva and witness the other side of Israel. The most noble, loving, and caring Israel. I am proud to be part of this Israel."
To learn more about Shalva: www.shalva.org


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Instrument Class: Passive Remote Sensing
Instrument Type: Spectrometers/Radiometers
Instrument Subtype: Imaging Spectrometers/Radiometers
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Wavelength Keyword: Near Infrared
Spectral/Frequency Resolution: 0.777 micrometers with 5-km spatial resolution and 2-ms temporal resolution over an imaging area of 600 km × 600 km.
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LIS is designed to investigate the global incidence of lightning, its correlation with convective rainfall, and its relationship with the global electric circuit. Conceptually, LIS is a simple device, consisting of a staring imager optimized to locate both intra cloud and cloud-to-ground lightning with storm-scale resolution over a large region of surface on Earth, to mark the time of occurrence, and to measure the radiant energy. It will monitor individual storms within the field of view (FOV) for 80 seconds, long enough to estimate the lightning flash rate. Location of lightning flashes is determined to within 5 km over a 600-km × 600-km FOV.
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LIS investigations are striving to understand processes related to, and underlying, lightning phenomena in the Earth atmosphere system. These processes include the amount, distribution, and structure of deep convection on a global scale, and the coupling between atmospheric dynamics and energetics as related to the global distribution of lightning activity. The investigations will contribute to a number of important EOS mission objectives, including cloud characterization and hydrologic-cycle studies. Lightning activity is closely coupled to storm convection, dynamics, and microphysics, and can be correlated to the global rates, amounts, and distribution of convective precipitation, to the release and transport of latent heat, and to the chemical cycles of carbon, sulfur, and nitrogen. LIS standard products include intensities, times of occurrence, and locations of lightning events. The performance of LIS has exceeded specifications and has been returning unprecedented data on lightning activity. LIS is enabling investigators to quantify relationships between lightning, convection, and ice production.
NASA Earth Science Reference Handbook [ Mission: TRMM ]
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Instrument Logistics
Data Rate: 500 frames per second
Instrument Start Date: 1997-11-30
Instrument Owner: USA/NASA


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TORONTO - Toronto's transit battle is heating up the airwaves as Mayor Rob Ford defends his plan to build more subways on his new radio show.
During his inaugural radio show Sunday on Newstalk 1010, Ford warned Premier Dalton McGuinty that he'll commit "political suicide" if he doesn't support Ford's plan for more subways.
The mayor insisted Toronto residents want subways, adding there's overwhelming support for them in public opinion polls.
Speaking to reporters Monday, the premier joked that he'd like some air time too.
"I gotta get a radio show, obviously," he said following a Toronto speech to municipal leaders.
In the end, Toronto residents aren't "weighing the political consequences" of whether the city should have subways or light rail, McGuinty said.
"I think they're talking about public transit and what it is that we can do as two responsible levels of government to work together to get the job done," he said. "I think that's what this is all about."
Earlier this month, Ford and his allies lost a crucial fight when council voted in favour of another proposal for light-rail transit.
The mayor insisted the provincial government would still go ahead with his subway plan, but McGuinty has said he must respect council's decision on the future of the city's transit.
Councillors voted for a plan to put light-rail lines on Eglinton Avenue and Finch Avenue West, and to study a subway extension on Sheppard Avenue. The province is awaiting the results of that study.
But the government — and Toronto residents — are losing patience with a plan that keeps changing, McGuinty said.
"We're coming to the end of our rope," he said. "We're running out of patience."
McGuinty originally committed $8.15 billion in 2007 to a plan called Transit City, which called for more extensive light rail on Eglinton, Sheppard, Finch and the Scarborough RT route. Transit City was almost entirely funded by the province, with the federal Conservatives chipping in $300 million.
But Ford declared his predecessor David Miller's cherished transit project dead as soon as he took office in 2010, saying there would be no more tracks down the middle of Toronto streets.
Last March, the premier and Ford announced a revamped, $12.6-billion transit project for the city that included light rail and subway expansion. The province agreed to contribute $8.4 billion to the plan.


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Walking seminars Beaumont hospitals featuring author Robert Sweetgall ('One Heart, Two Feet'), presenting free walking seminars, 6-8 p.m. April 16 at Beaumont Health and Wellness Center, Sola Life & Fitness, 1555 E. South Blvd., Rochester Hills; 6-8 p.m. April 17, Neighborhood Club, 17150 Waterloo St., Grosse Pointe; 4-5:30 p.m. April 18, Beaumont Hospital administration building auditorium, 3601 W. 13 Mile Road, Royal Oak; 10-11 a.m. April 19, Beamont Medical Center, Sterling Heights Outpatient Services Center, 44250 Dequindre. Registration required, 800-633-7377 or classes.beaumont.edu.
'Night Out' McLaren Macomb Healthcare Foundation hosts 'Girls Night Out,' 5:30-8:30 p.m. April 18, at Saks Fifth Avenue at the Somerset Collection in Troy. The event includes wine and hors d'oeuvres, fashion show and prizes, with proceeds to the hospital's emergency and trauma services departments. For ticket information, 586-741-4330 or http://FoundationGirlsNightOut.eventbrite.com.
'Beyond Trauma' CARE of Southeastern Michigan presents 'Beyond Trauma: A Healing Journey for Women' series for those struggling with problem use of alcohol or other drugs, 6-8 p.m. for eight Mondays starting April 8. Sessions at CARE office, 31900 Utica Road, Fraser. Fee $30 for series. To register, www.careofsem.com or 586-541-CARE.
Spring Gala Michigan Spinal Cord Injury Association first fundraiser 'Spring Gala,' April 18 at Club Venetian in Madison Heights. For tickets, 248-388-2270 or www.mispinalcord.org/mscia-spring-gala; purchase deadline April 5.
Friends' Ball Providence Health Foundation 2013 Friends' Ball, 6 p.m. April 20, at The Henry Ford in Dearborn. Tickets include dinner, auctions, music; call 313-343-4530.
Paula Deen St. John Providence Health System presents 'An Evening with Paula Deen,' 8 p.m. April 25, at MotorCity Casino Hotel's Sound Board venue in Detroit. Tickets, $32 and $35, available at Ticketmaster locations, Ticketmaster.com, by phone at 800-745-3000, or at Sound Board box office on weekends. Cooking show host, restaurateur and author, Deen also has her own magazine, 'Cooking with Paula Deen.'
Joint pain Henry Ford Health system's Joint Preservation Program classes on living with joint pain, 3:30-5:30 p.m. May 15, at Henry Ford Medical Center-Cottage, 159 Kercheval, Grosse Pointe Farms, and 5:30-7;30 p.. June 26, at Henry Ford Medical Center-Lakeside, 14500 Hall Road, Sterling Heights. To register, 313-972-4196 or www.HenryFord.com/joints.
Health Crawl Wayne State University Physician Group osts free ladies Nigh Out Health Crawl, 6-8 p.m. May 14, at Somerset Inn, 2601 W. Big Beaver, Troy. Guests select up to three of eight 30-minute informational lectures on such topics as cardiology, dermatology, gynecology and plastic and reconstructive surgery. Refreshments served 6 p.m., lectures 6:30.
Bullying support NoBLE Support Group for Parents Dealing with Bullying, meets 5:30-7 p.m. first and third Tuesdays through May, at Beaumont Hospital Administration Building, 3711 W. 13 Mile Road, Royal Oak. Free; donations accepted for hospital's NoBLE program. Registration required; visit Beaumont.edu/urnoble.
For bereaved Bereavement Group meets 6-7:30 p .m. Thursdays at The Lake House, 26701 Little Mack, St. Clair Shores. Call 586-777-7761 or visit www.milakehouse.org.
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Bereaved Parents New chapter of Bereaved Parents of the USA, a group to support bereaved parents and their families struggling after the death of a child, meets 7-9 p.m. first Thursday monthly at the Washington Senior Center, 57880 Van Dyke, Washington Township. Call 586-770-7746 or 586-336-0864.
Fibromyalgia education Fibromyalgia Support and Education Group meets 7-9 p.m. meets second Monday monthly (except January) at the St. John Macomb-Oakland Hospital Medical Education Center Building, 12000 12 Mile Road at Hoover, Warren. Visit www.mifibromyalgia.org or call 248-885-4673.
Epilepsy support The Macomb County Epilepsy Support Group meets 7-9 p.m. third Wednesday monthly at Erin Presbyterian Church, 30000 Gratiot in Roseville. Call 800-377-6226.
For moms 'Breast-Feeding Lifestyle' course, 6:30-9 p.m. once a month on Mondays at Beaumont Medical Center Outpatient Services Center, 33450 Dequindre, Sterling Heights, or PNC Center, 755 W. Big Beaver Road, Troy. Fee $25 for mom and support person; registration required at classes.beaumont.edu or 800-633-7377.
Lake House Grief Recovery series 6-8 p.m. Tuesdays at The Lake House, 26701 Little Mack south of 11 Mile Road, St. Clair Shores. Workshop includes educational and experiential sessions dealing with concepts of grief and recovery and moving beyond loss. For fee and registration information, www.MiLakeHouse.org or 586-777-7761. Also, crafts programs there open to anyone touched by cancer: Yarn Winders, 1-2:30 p.m. first and third Mondays; Creative Arts: Paper, Stamps & More, same time second and fourth Mondays. Fundraiser for Lake House, 5:30-8 p.m. Feb. 8, at Detroit Custom Framing & Art Gallery, 19571 Mack Ave., Grosse Pointe Woods. Evening includes items for sale from Michigan artists and framing choices.
For women Support group for women ages 30 and older who are experiencing depression, anxiety, relationship issues, low self-esteem, isolation or difficulty making decisions, 10:30 a.m.-noon Wednesdays, 6:30-8 p.m. Thursdays at Henry Ford Outpatient Behavioral health, $15 per session. To register, 586-203-1292.
Support groups SarahCare Adult Day Center hosts 'Healing Together' grief and loss support group, 6-8 p.m. third Monday monthly, at the center, 13425 19 Mile Road, Suite 500, Sterling Heights. Call 586-731-2273 or 248-440-1301; refreshments provided.
Free grief and bereavement support groups meet at 1 p.m. the third Thursday monthly at Henry Ford Macomb Hospital - Warren Campus on 10 Mile Road and Schoenherr, and 5:30 p.m. the first Wednesday at the Clinton Township campus, 15855 19 Mile Road between Hayes and Garfield. For registration information, call 800-532-2411.
HarborChase of Sterling Heights hosts Alzheimer's support groups at 5:30 p.m. the second Tuesday of each month at 13400 19 Mile Road in Sterling Heights. For more information, call (586) 254-5719. Also, Alzheimer's and home care support group, 10 a.m. third Thursday monthly at Monarch Garden Inc., 14203 Rick Drive, Shelby Township 586-247-3513 ext. 201, or www.monarchgardeninc.com.


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Conservative commentator Glenn Beck is known for having some "interesting" ideas and his latest could literally be his biggest one yet. Glenn Beck is planning "Independence, U.S.A" , which is a city/ community based on free market, limited-government model according to theblaze.com .
Beck, who now resides in Texas, has toured "three possible sites in three different states" and has talked to two governors already.
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While Independence is very much a dream at this point, the proposed city-theme park hybrid would bring several of Glenn's seemingly disconnected projects into one place. Media, live events, small business stores, educational projects, charity, entertainment, news, information, and technology R&D – all of these things would have a home in Independence.
Beck explains his plans some more in this video.