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his is my Guinea Pig Maddy. What I think makes Maddy most special is that when she is on the stairs of her cage, I will go to her, say "Piggy Kiss," and she will put her nose on my mouth!! It is so adorable, and proves she is a smart girl. I bet some people don't know guinea pigs can learn tricks like that!
Maddy is a cutie, her personality is sweet and shy. She loves to play under piles of newspaper, and she is an affectionate guinea pig, not at all an independent type like her cage mates, Annie and Penelope. She likes exploring cardboard tubes when we set them down, and she likes it when we bring her outside so she can play on the grass. But when she first touches the grass, she is very cautious and has to sniff and check everything out. Only then she will scamper and play. Her favorite food is bananas, and her favorite toy is her ping pong ball.
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The Dallas Cowboys quarterback broke up with his overweight pop star girlfriend last week, as reported by People.com (thanks, Andy). Romo allegedly called the whole thing off on Thursday, the day before Jessica's 29th birthday.
"She is heartbroken," says the source. "She loves Tony. But it's been difficult lately. He's busy with his career and she's getting ready to shoot her show (The Price of Beauty). They decided to part ways."
The Dallas Cowboys quarterback fueled breakup rumors when he showed up with about 14 friends at the Hollywood hotspot MyHouse on Friday night without the birthday girl, a source tells PEOPLE.
Despite what some people might say, the best time to break up with a girl is right before her birthday. Especially if she's one of those people that acts like you two are "on a break" or "having issues" or whatever. Some women use the breakup as a wake-up call, so "breaking up" isn't exactly a genuine split to them. But if you rip the heart out of her chest right before a supposedly big day for her, the message is a lot more clear. Plus she usually cries, and if you're severing ties with someone whom you've invested in emotionally, that's always nice. You know, after the fact.
And for guys, it's easy to kind of chug along in a crappy arrangement for a while, pretending things are okay in hopes that they eventually do improve. But when birthdays come up and she expects you to be all bubbly and happy and all that crap, it just makes sense to jump off there. Sure, a woman can fake an orgasm, but only a guy can fake an entire relationship.


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My husband works overnights and 12-hour shifts, and frequently eats all his meals away from home. We've been relying too heavily on bought granola bars and fruit bars recently, and I'm trying to come up with a bunch of extras.
We're broke and don't have huge amounts of time, so everything has to be cheap, store well (either shelf-stable or freezable) and if homemade I'd prefer to make lots and lots. He's not a chowhound, and dislikes dried fruit, muffins, cake, and onions. Also, it must not need heating or cooling- no fridge or microwave. He has a thermos, and I send him with soup and stew, but i need more cold options.
So far, I've got pizza buns, trail mix, fruit, maybe home-made granola bars if anyone has a recipe, lots of baby carrots and fruit. We already go through tons of sandwiches, but interesting, preferably freezable sandwich ideas would be great.
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University of Bedfordshire are hosting an event in Oxford 'Promoting Digital Literacy through OER: the release, use and reuse of open educational resources' on Thursday 5th July 10.00am -2.00pm at St Anne's College, Oxford University. It is particularly aimed at ITE/teacher education and higher education providers of PG Certs in HE, as both promote teaching and learning and enhancement of digital literacy.
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England netballer Stacey Francis believes the team's steely determination to be the world's best puts them in an excellent position to win a medal at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
England have been drawn in Pool B where they face a run of three games in three days, beginning with Wales on July 25, followed by Australia and South Africa.
The top two teams in each pool battle it out for the medals and Francis insists the England team's straight-talking approach will benefit their quest to compete for the title.
"In the last Commonwealth Games and the World Championships we won bronze medal matches against Jamaica and beat them very convincingly," Francis told Sky Sports.
"Bronze isn't to be sneered at and I think lots of teams going there would just be ecstatic with a bronze but we want to be the absolute best we can be. We want to be No 1 in the world.
"Our squad is fantastic and we've really been challenging each other on our honesty. It's something we've been working on since the last Commonwealth Games.
"I think we are a pretty brutal team in our delivery of feedback to each other but we take it the right way and we're all very close.
"It can be hard to be that direct with each other without feelings getting hurt and it's not something that's come naturally to everyone. It's been a challenge.
"Everyone is working on pushing each other to give their honest and direct feedback and delivery and also challenging the coaches.
"We always ask them questions and they are also learning about us at the same time."
The 26-year-old, who is the daughter of former Birmingham City and Stockport County footballer Kevin Francis, hopes England's Commonwealth campaign will spark wider interest in netball.
"We went to Scotland at the start of the year to do a bit of a reccie and the buzz and the excitement around it is just fantastic," she said.
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These alluring breakfast-inspired cupcakes combine the tasty morsels associated with the morning meal with the awesome power of North America's favorite sugary indulgence. From cupcakes infused with bacon to cakes sporting plump poached eggs, there is no shortage of creative and delicious brunch-worthy designs. These early bird confections are so terribly tempting you might find yourself opting for one instead of the usual bacon and eggs.
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Author Notes: My family loves the roasted chicken so much they say it would be it their "Last Meal". If there's any chicken left after dinner, this salad puts it to good use (if it is possible to augment leftover chicken). The butternut squash can be omitted if it is out of season.
Serves 8
Roasting the chicken
- 2 4 lb. Whole Chickens, preferably kosher
- 6 tablespoons Ground cumin
- 4 tablespoons Black peppercorns, smashed
- 2 tablespoons Kosher salt
- 8 Carrots, peeled, trimmed and cut into 2" pieces
- 2 Heads of fennel, trimmed and sliced
- 1 White onion, peeled and cut into eight pieces
- 1 Butternut squash, peeled, trimmed and cut into 1" cubes
- 4 tablespoons Olive oil
- Mix cumin, salt and pepper. Drizzle 2 Tb. of oil over chickens. Rub chickens inside and outside with spice mixture. Reserve around 1/4 of mixture.
- Toss vegetables with remaining olive oil and spices.
- Heat oven to 450 degrees. Place chickens in large roasting pan. Put vegetables around chicken. Roast approximately 1 hour until juices run clear, turning chickens after half an hour. When chicken is done, remove and let cool. If vegetables are not soft and caramelized, continue cooking until they are succulent.
- When cool enough to handle, remove chicken meat from the bones and cut into big chunks (where possible). Coarsely chop vegetables.
Making the Chicken Salad
- 2 tablespoons Fig preserves
- 4 tablespoons Mayonnaise
- Combine chicken, vegetables, preserves and mayonnaise in bowl. Salt and pepper to taste. Salad is best when flavors can meld for at least an hour.
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Mayonnaise-Based Salad
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This package finds repetitive format patterns in an HTML page that contains one or more lists and extracts the sub HTML text that creates the patterns. The idea is that in a typical HTML data page containing a list of items, there will be a repetitive pattern for the human eye (the page format). This pattern can be recognized automatically, and the data in the list can be extracted.
The user should inherit from HtmlList and overwrite the handle_sub_html method in order to extract the relevant data. I built one HtmlList class - HtmlListBreak that verifies there is some text in the sub HTML sections, and counts the total number of words in the HTML list. This class is in the htmllist_break module.
The htmllist_demo module can be used as a simple stand-alone demon to process HTML pages from a web browser (see Testing below). This module runs all (enabled) algorithms on the HTML text, and displays a list of HTML-lists ordered by some relevance factor.
A note about the version numbers: The current version is 2.y.x. When the very first version of this package want to production in my old working place, I set the major to one. When I redesigned the entire package and implemented the "new" algorithm, I set the major to two. For practical reasons you can consider it as version 0.y.x.
>>> from htmllist.htmllist_base import HtmlList >>> hl = HtmlList() >>> hl.set_text(some_html_page_taxt) >>> hl.process() >>> lst = hl.get_html_list() >>> if lst: ... for itm in lst: ... print itm ... else: ... print "Cannot parse the page"
for a more detailed example look at htmllist.htmllist_demo.py
There is a regression test module for this package in the test directory. It tests the best result list on several HTML pages from different types of pages (news, shopping, search results, etc.). It still does not test the other, less relevant, results.
There is a way for a user to see how the system works by running htmllist_demo.py. The setup.py installer sets an htmlist script that runs this module. This script will run in the background. The user then should "Save As" the HTML pages from a web browser (as "HTML only") to the folder this script monitors ("./temp" by default). The script will try to process any HTML file in this folder, and will then open the resulting HTML file in the web browser. However when running from an egg file you probably must give a --monitor argument with the directory you want to monitor. This script uses all (enabled) algorithms on the page, and from each one takes the best list(s).
try: htmlist --help
If the system doesn't work well on pages from some websites, you should try to change some parameters of HtmlListXXX. These are also arguments of htmlist or they can be changed by supplying custom algo_dict file (see algo_dict.py documentation for that):
min_len - Optional minimum length of the output pattern (sub-list), default = 2 max_len - Optional maximum length of the output pattern (sub-list), default = 0 which is no limit. min_repeat - Optional minimum time the pattern should repeat in the list, default = 2. Note: min_repeat must be more then one! max_repeat - Optional maximum time the pattern should repeat in the list, a value of zero cancels this limit, default = 0. max_stdv - Optional maximum normalized standard deviation of the distances between occurrences. This is a number between 0 and 1. 0 means that the occurrences are in sequence (no other item in between). 1 means that there is no importance to the position of the occurrences in the list. The default is one. min_weight - Optional minimum weight of the occurrences list (see the weight method), a value of zero cancels this limit, default = 0. min_coverage - Optional minimum coverage of the occurrences list (see the coverage method), a value of zero cancels this limit, default = 0. min_comp - Optional minimum compactness of the occurrences list (see the compactness method), a value of zero cancels this limit, default = 0.
See the documentation for more (up to date) details.
I am trying to detect the most prevalent patterns on the page, assuming that these sections of the page will hold the main content. A "pattern" is a repetitive sequence of HTML tags (but other tags can still be in between the sequence items). An "occurrence" is every place in the page this pattern exists. The rules for choosing the pattern are almost identical to the rules in the IEPAD paper. These rules work much better than my old rules (and some of them are identical to some of my old rules). The pattern must occur more than once.
The new Count Tags algorithm is based upon the heuristic assumption that in most pages the prevalent pattern will have two or more unique tags in it. The package will only recognize patterns that have these unique tags in them.
The idea is to count tags and put them in "buckets" according to the number of occurrences of each tag. The second level of distribution to buckets is tags that appear in a sequence. Each index of a new item in a bucket should be greater than the last item index but less than than the next index of the first item... After I have the buckets, I simply find the one with the highest factor and try to expand it as much as I can. For more details see the repeat_pattern documentation.
The old Tags Pattern algorithm is working with an improved Suffix Tree data structure. By building a tree from the input list, I can find repetitive patterns relatively fast. In every node of the tree I also keep an indices list of the occurrence of this sequence on the input list. This allows me to check for overlapping, calculate derivative value, and find all the occurrences of the chosen pattern efficiently.
I am now working with a suffix array instead of suffix tree. The idea is similar but the algorithm is completely different. It is running faster and take about half the memory. I use a slightly modified version of the tools module of the pysuffix project, to build the suffix array.
This is very simple algorithm. It looks at certain container tags in the input list, expands below the tag (see "Count Tags"), and takes the patterns with the highest factor. It is simple, fast and work pretty good in many cases.
The break_html_page module takes an HTML text, builds a DOM tree, and creates a list of tags (with optional attributes). So the repeat_pattern module works on a list of arbitrary items, it does not know what an HTML tag is. I now use break_html_page2 that does not really parse the page, instead extracts the tags from it using regular expressions. It is much faster.
The sub-classes of HtmlList use the two previous types of modules to extract the information needed from an HTML page.
I use the term derivative as the distances between numbers in a list. This is a list by itself, with one less item than the original list. I'm calculating the normalized standard deviation on the first derivative of the occurrences list. This gives some idea of how randomly the occurrences are distributed on the page. This value is normalized to be between 0 and 1, lower being better. A lower value should indicate a good pattern on a typical HTML page.
The weight of a list is a number between zero and one that indicates how close this list is to the center of the page (the center of the input tag list). The weight is also factored in when calculating the list relevance factor.
Are measurements taken from the IEPAD paper, they are also factored into the final relevance factor. In addition I reduce the factor if it does not start with some "container" tag.
There is a paper (see below) that suggest to look at the HTML tags as a tree and not as a sequence. I did not Implemented this approach, but in break_html_page I am adding the parent Tag hash code to each Tag hash code calculation. That makes two Tags equal only if they under the same exact path. Then the sequence search algorithms will group only tags that are in the same place in the tags tree. It doesn't seems to give better results. I still use break_html_page2 which doesn't do it.
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Reuben Gray of The Tale of the Ale has the honor of hosting this month, and he's wanting us to think about Resurrecting Lost Beer Styles.
I wanted to do an interesting topic for the 100th Session and looking back over the other 99 topics, none have touched on lost or almost lost beer styles. There are many of them that have started to come back in to fashion since in the last 10 years due to the rise of craft beer around the world.
If you have a local beer style that died out and is starting to appear again then please let the world know. Not everyone will so just write about any that you have experienced. Some of the recent style resurrections I have come across in Ireland are Kentucky Common, Grodziskie, Gose and some others. Perhaps it's a beer you have only come across in homebrew circles and is not even made commercially.
Here in Central Oregon, if you look past the various breweries dabbling in historical styles such as pre-Prohibition lagers, cream ale, Berliner Weisse, the occasional Gose, and so on, the one brewery that stands out in this regard is The Ale Apothecary. Brewmaster Paul Arney set out to bring an historical aspect of brewing into a modern sensibility, brewing mixed-fermentation ales in small batches, with nearly every step of the process (minus the boil in the brew kettle) conducted in wood—wooden mash tun (made from a barrel), open primary fermentation in wood, secondary fermentation and conditioning/aging in barrels. And one of his beers in particular is directly influenced by an historical style that he has brewed as authentically as anyone could ask for: Finnish Sahti.
(I will let others debate whether Sahti should count as a style that "died out" since it technically has been continuously brewed in Scandinavia, though my understanding is that those beers are mostly brewed by home and farmhouse breweries and today there are very few commercial examples available to us, at least here in the States.)
Sahti is an interesting beer in that it is largely flavored with juniper, not only with berries added at the end of the boil, but also in the use of juniper boughs layered on the bottom of the mash/lauter tun to aid as a grain filter; and even more notably, this tun was traditionally carved out of a log to form a wooden trough called a kuurna. Not uncommonly fermented with baker's yeast, it's a fairly rustic, regional beer.
Of the few commercial examples out there, I doubt many of the breweries have gone to any length to brew a Sahti as traditionally as Arney has at his Ale Apothecare—because he went so far as to craft his own kuurna:
His interpretation of this style, which he calls Sahati, is described thusly:
SAHATI is our interpretation of traditional Finnish sahti. Starting with a 200-year old Engelmann spruce tree felled on brewery property, we created our own kuurna (an ancient Scandinavian lauter tun) to separate the wort from the grain during brewing. The bottom of the kuurna is layered with spruce branches; the needles act as a natural filter and impart resinous oils into the wort. The hollowed-out trunk of the tree also contributes spruce essence and structure from the raw wood. The beer is made of barley & rye malts along with a sparing addition of Goschie Farms Cascade hops and is brewed just a few times per year. SAHATI is in many ways the very definition of The Ale Apothecary, where complex flavors arrive from the very methods used for production…the result is the process impacts the flavor profile at least as much as the ingredients themselves.
This is my favorite Ale Apothecary beer, albeit one I've only had two or maybe three times because of it's rarity. When (relatively) young it has an amazingly fresh and pungent spruce character that's sweet and sugary with a resiny sap-like impression, but it's all balanced with the wild yeasts and bacteria to yield layers of complexity really quite unlike any other beer I've had. Last weekend I split a two-year-old original bottle with Brian Yaeger, and it was much drier, with the spruce character subdued quite a bit. Still a fantastic pour.
Yes, Arney's take on the style uses spruce instead of juniper, probably because he's surrounded by it in his part of town (actually about 9 miles west of town, towards the mountains). I also like the "New World synergy" of using spruce in this context as spruce was also used in early American ales, so it fits. Despite that I strongly suspect it's one of the most authentically-brewed American examples of a Sahti, at least being brewed commercially.
And he is, in fact, looking at expanding production of Sahati—which means chopping down and hollowing out a larger tree for a bigger kuurna. More recently the old kuurna was on display at the High Desert Museum's Brewing Culture exhibit (now closed). I can't wait to try that next batch… whenever it comes out.


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Guess what? It's 70 degrees here! Finally! Us Texans aren't used to such cold, freezing weather; in fact, usually by now, most of us have already planted our gardens, trees, and flowers for the Spring/Summer. Not this year, however. This winter has been brutal! I read that we've surpassed something like 60 days of below freezing temps! I remember last February, Joel and I wore shorts and took long, sunny walks with Cassidy several days out of the month. Not this year.
Oh well. Hopefully the cold, wintry weather is on its way out and warm, sunny weather is here to stay for awhile. To celebrate our day of sunshine and warm breezes, I made this pasta salad for lunch. It's so easy- just throw everything together and let it sit in the fridge for awhile. SO yummy!
Tortellini Pasta Salad
8 oz. cheese tortellini, cooked, rinsed, and cooled
2 cups fresh broccoli, cut into bite-sized pieces
1 yellow bell pepper, chopped
1 small can sliced black olives, drained
1/2 cup shredded cheddar cheese
1/2 cup bottled Italian salad dressing
Blanch the broccoli in boiling water for about 5 minutes, just long enough so that it's still nice and crunchy, but starting to get a little tender. Transfer from boiling water to a large bowl filled with ice water (this stops the cooking process and helps the broccoli to retain its bright green color).
Toss the cooked pasta with broccoli and all other ingredients and stir to combine. Chill in the refrigerator for at least an hour; preferably 3-4. Serves 4-6.
Recipe source: Sing For Your Supper original
**you could also throw in some frozen peas, chopped red onion, scallions, yellow corn…whatever veggies you like! It's so versatile!
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You're always thinking of something different. I would never have thought to punch the edges. Those Dusty Attic flowers work beautifully with that page. Love it.
so very pretty, Maryanne-that's the kind of thing I'd want to do on vacation too; I love old buildings and ruins! The chicken wire and cheesecloth look fabulous and the title is perfect!!
Gorgeous, loving the hexagon and the honeycomb...gorgeous pps :)
Great work on finding your ancestors. Love the hexagon pp u used here. This is amazing.
very very beautiful creation......
BEAUTIFUL Maryanne!!!! I love how you scrapped these fab photos! You are so right! That title is perfect!!!! Fabulous work, as always!
The chicken wire adds the perfect touch with the hexagon die cut in the bg...beautiful photos
Beautiful heritage lo. Wonderful that you were able to connect with your past and take lovely photos too. The resting place looks so peaceful.
Love this! Excellant design.
Beautifully done.....
Gorgeous!! Diff a fav!!!
Gorgeous layout!!!! Beautiful photos!!
Fabulous Maryanne! What a beautiful album this will be and how cool you got to follow your heritage! Love it!
Oh my goodness! This is just awesome!!! I love those photos so much!!!! You scrapped them beautifully with your gorgeous design!!!!!
wow what a stunning and beautiful layout so amazing detail on it too love it and thank you so much for the storie of your heritage is't it nice to know where we all are from..
Great design and layering. Those pics are so amazing.
love the photos and the chicken wire is perfect here :)
oh my there a very gorgoeusly impressive heritage page you have created, the fotos are awesome and so luv the new k/c papers you used, sweet lil details as well, and some fancy punching...boy how interesting treking around looking for relatives graves, I would have quite a few in England ireland and italy, but they were probably all convicts, lol,, fave page for me....xo
Beautiful photos and page, chippies, colors, pprs, flowers!
this is beautiful!!
How wonderful that you were able to find this place. Lovely resting place! Your title is perfect, you traveled many miles to find them and did not forget your heritage.
Beautiful heritage page Maryanne! Love the design and amazing photos! I wish my dd and I had had the time to look up our ancestors when we were in Ireland but the tour left no time for anything else. If we get there again that's what we'll do!
What a lovely heritage layout! Love the papers, flowers, chippies and embellies! Great punching job! The title is perfect for it.
fantastic page! extraordinary design!!!! love!
So beautifully composed and very peaceful!! The punchwork border with the pieces of chipboard interspersed about is a very effective design framing element! I love it! So very wonderful you were able to follow the ancestor trail and locate graves etc.!! The photographs are just beautiful too! What a gorgeous resting place, and a very stunning layout!!!
Lovely Work !
Love it. The hexagon die looks great with the texture of the stone arches in the photo.
so beautifully tranquil and serene - befitting the lovely photographs. Love the punchwork, the lovely cluster of flowers and the resin angel is PERFECT. How fortunate that you were able to visit burial sites of your ancestors - making a physical connection with your past is amazing, isn't it??
OMGoodness..this is a gorgeous lo!! So wonderful that you found the burial sites of your ancestors; the photos are spectacular!! Your pps, colours and embellies are beautiful, superb punch work, lovely resin pieces!! Fabulous job!!
You turned this into a beautiful, serene lay-out! The angel makes a perfect finishing touch.
Wow, you made this one so clean and classical , it fitts so good with the pictures. You made the ruins look majestic! Love it!!
Your title is very fitting, and it's really cool that you were able to locate the grave sites of some of your ancestors. Interesting layout!
Gorgeous, I love your punchwork, the papers and what wonderful photos!
Pretty lo and photos!
Wow just love the punch work and the way you've used the chippies . Fabulous photos, that you found so much heritage is wonderful. .The title is perfect as are the pps and embellishments.
Awesome and unique!
What a beautiful page! I've always thought graveyards are nice, peaceful places, so I love your photos. It sounds like a wonderful trip! How lucky you were to find so much of your history, and in such beautiful places!
This is such a creative design, love it!!


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. . . But that doesn't mean older people automatically possess wisdom, says a professor who has studied the subject.
Think about your circle of friends, your family, your co-workers.
In each bunch, you likely have the "deep" one who philosophizes about the meaning of life. Then there's the open-minded one, willing to hear everyone's point of view. And, of course, the sweet one who feels everyone's pain.
But is there a wise one among you?
To be wise, a person must have all three components: the ability to understand life (cognitive), the willingness to see situations from different perspectives (reflective) and genuine compassion for others (affective).
Or so says University of Florida sociology professor Monika Ardelt, whose study on wisdom was published in the May issue of Research on Aging.
Ardelt's study involved surveys given to 180 people from 18 religious, social and civic groups in the Gainesville area. The participants, from age 52 to 87, answered whether they strongly agreed or disagreed with a series of questions such as: "Things often go wrong for me by no fault of my own," "Ignorance is bliss," and "A person either knows the answer to a question or he/she doesn't."
Her results showed that high doses of the three components meant less depression in old age. Also, wise people had a higher sense of general well-being and were less likely to feel economic pressure or to fear death.
We recently asked Ardelt about her study, the importance of wisdom and how people can get more of it.What does your study tell us?
Well, it means that people who were scoring high on those combination of cognitive, reflective and affective characteristics, that they also tended to enjoy life more and they felt that they were more in control of their life and they felt that they had a higher sense of meaning and purpose in life.The concept of wisdom has been around awhile, dating back to biblical times?
Earlier than that. I think the concept of wisdom has always been around because I think it is really connected to basic human questions: Why are we here? What's the best way to lead our lives? What's the meaning and purpose of life? And so on. Historically, it was connected to the elders of society because they had been around. They had life experiences. And they were the most likely to be able to answer those questions. Is this still true? Is wisdom related to age? I would say no, not necessarily, because you can grow old without being wise or becoming wiser. Particularly now. In previous times, there were very few older people around, so the older people had some kind of secrets that they grew older: You know, how did they make it? Because it was quite difficult. You had to be able to survive. Now, a lot of people survive till old age, so it's not such a feat anymore, you know. And so, because of that, often the wisdom of the elders is devalued. I think there are still a lot of old wise people around, but also probably a lot of them that are not so wise. And so, it's not automatically that just by growing older, you get wiser. You have to learn something from life, learn something from experience.But being older helps, right?
Yes, growing wiser takes time. And because of that, the older you get, the higher is your chance to gain in wisdom. It's not easy to become wiser. You have to experience things and you have to learn from these experiences. Now, it doesn't mean that young people cannot be wise. You know when we hear that there are young kids sometimes who are wise beyond their years? This often happens when they have experienced some traumatic event and they have dealt with it in a positive way. These are typically the kids that we would consider wiser beyond their years. They might have a life-threatening illness. They might have lost parents - really traumatic events. And if they have coped with it in a positive way, then they often gain wisdom.In your study, you mention that people view wisdom differently in Eastern cultures than in Western cultures.
This really goes to an internal scientific discussion about (whether) the affective component is important in wisdom. And I think it is. The affective component is the sympathy and compassion for others. . . . In the Eastern tradition, clearly compassion and sympathy for others is always a component of wisdom. If you look, for example, at Buddhist philosophy, the wisdom you gain through experiences or through progressing on the path to enlightenment always results in compassion for others.What impact does spirituality have on wisdom?
That depends on how you define spirituality. If you equate spirituality with religion, how religious people are - well, wise people aren't more or less religious than others. . . . However, if you define spirituality as a sense of meaning in life, purpose and meaning in life, then of course, you have the strong relationship between wisdom and the sense of meaning and purpose in life. So it depends how you define it. I haven't measured this, but I would think that probably wise people would be more forgiving. And wise people are clearly more loving because this is a component, this is how I define wisdom. So, if you go with that, if you say spirituality is loving others, finding meaning and purpose in life, then yes, there would be a relationship.How can we use your study in a practical way?
What it shows, because these were older people, is that wisdom is very important in old age. And how do you get wisdom? You don't get it suddenly in old age. So that basically means you have to prepare for the experience of old age throughout your whole life because to develop wisdom does take time. So we should try to become wiser over the years, so that once we are old, we are actually wiser than we were in our youth and we can better deal with the vicissitudes in old age and a lot of the hardships in old age.How do you prepare yourself to be wise?
Some people compare life to a schoolhouse; you know, it's basically a schoolhouse. You learn each and every experience you encounter is like a lesson. Somebody ticks you off, well how do you deal with that? You can get very angry and you are miserable the whole day, or you can be reflective and say, "Well, yes, this person ticked me off but maybe this person had a miserable day or something happened or maybe there was something that ticked him or her off - what did I do?" And if you do it in this way, if you look at it from different perspectives, then you don't get as angry and you're not miserable for the rest of the day or even longer. And so by learning this, not being miserable, being less miserable day by day, you learn how to deal with life, which will help you to deal with life in old age.You say in your article that other wisdom studies like this are needed?
I had 180 people. And then it's a regional sample, it's the Gainesville area where I got the people from. So you want to get a more representative sample; you want to get more people. One study never tells you if this is particularly to this particular study or if it can really be more generalizable to other populations. You always have to replicate studies.Do you consider yourself wise?
No. One of the things you know when you study wisdom is that you are not wise. You know what's missing. But this is one of the things, I know that I don't know. I know what's missing. I know what I could do to react more wisely to things in daily life and when I do it.But isn't that a part of wisdom - knowing that you don't know?
Yes, that's exactly right. It is. It's a part. It's a step in the right direction. (But) I'm not there yet, definitely not.


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Tales from the Borderlands is coming this summer and earlier today Telltale Games have just released some new screenshots to show you how things are progressing. In these screenshots, you get a closer look at the upcoming series set on Pandora after the events of Borderlands 2. Featuring two playable characters, the story is told from two unique perspectives that will alternate as the story progresses. These characters include Rhys, a scheming, low-level data-miner within Hyperion who's plotting his own grand ambitions; and Fiona, a clever and classic fast-talking con-artist born and raised on Pandora out to pull off the grift of a lifetime.
While they themselves aren't vault hunters, both Rhys and Fiona will also come across vault hunters such as Zer0 and other characters from the world of Borderlands 2 throughout the series, as all events in Tales from the Borderlands will be part of the official Borderlands story canon.
Some other key features you will find in Tales from the Borderlands include:
The loot you grab in Tales will be available to use in other areas of the Borderlands franchise.
Its an episodic series thatll be $4.99 per episode (or you can save with the Season Pass).
Your choices matter and will help create your version of the story across the season.
The series takes place after the events of Borderlands 2. Handsome Jack is gone. Or is he?
Youre going to play two different viewpoints. Rhys works for Hyperion; hes a company man with grand ambitions that have been thrown off the rails. Fiona is a fast-talking con artist, with very few people left on Pandora she hasnt swindled one way or another.
They both have a very different opinion of the events that brought them together, and the only way to find out something near to the truth is to live their lives and make your own decisions.
Take a look at the screenshots below and tell us what you think. Are you excited for Tales from the Borderlands?


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Many consider the offensive line a key building block for any successful football team, understanding that an offense is only as strong as the men protecting it. Putting together a complete line for a full 17 weeks has proven to be a difficult task for the Jets over the past several seasons.
In an attempt to shore up the front lines, the Jets chose big guard
During this summer's training camp the 26-year-old has seen an increased workload and the heavier burden of being asked to play at both the guard and tackle positions.
"Vlad's situation is very tough because Vlad has had to learn everything," Rex Ryan said after practice Monday. "He's competing with the guards and he's competing at tackle so it's really tough on him."
Ducasse doesn't have a preference either way when it comes to which position gets him on the field. He said his preferred situation is "both" and if it was up to him to choose, he said, "It doesn't matter."
The responsibility of mastering multiple positions is not restricted solely to "Big Vlad." Rex Ryan and O-line coach Mike Devlin have consistently moved other members of the line around in an attempt to find which combination works best.
"We're working all the guards at every spot," Rex said, "so we've got Willie [Colon] learning left guard and right guard, same thing with [Stephen] Peterman. We've got Vlad working at tackle as well, because there's a lot of competition at these spots. Is he a starter? We'll see."
Ducasse has not shied away from any competition with Peterman and Colon, their collective 15 years of experience dwarfing his three. Instead, he has tried to learn and replicate the play of both veteran linemen.
"Seeing those guys play teaches you how to play," Ducasse said. "It's not as much them teaching verbally but it's more just seeing it and learning what they're doing. Those two guys are like bullies out there so that added something to my game and helped me be more like them."
As the Jets get ready to leave the humble confines of Cortland on Thursday, Vladimir Ducasse is set to complete his fourth NFL training camp, a number that secures him somewhat veteran status amongst his contemporaries. He understands the responsibilities that are associated with being one of the more senior members of his football team.
"There's always responsibility," he said. "There's more trust and now you have to step in those big shoes and play that role."
As for his role on the 53-man roster, Vlad understands that his ability to adjust to new environments and new positions will help secure his place as a valuable cog in the trenches.
"I think I'm a player that brings more value playing both guard and tackle," he said, "someone that brings more to the table; I'm trying to be more flexible, more versatile."


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Preds Losing Streak Shows serious Problems
Being a young team in NHL comes with its highs and lows, and the Predators have had a little of one and a lot of the other so far. After starting the season 2-0-0, with two wins against division rivals, the Predators have recently lost 4 in a row going 0-3-1 and giving up 16 goals in those loses.
The Predators decided this year to go through a youth movement while trying to match or better there great season last year. While all seemed good at the beginning, it has quickly turned sour for the Predators. While going on a 4 game losing streak at the beginning of the season is nothing new for the Preds who did it in 09-10, it is still something that you want to avoid, and fans are starting to get annoyed.
While losing is one thing, it has mostly been the way the team has lost that has players, coaches and fans getting upset. Even in the games they won, Rinne was the only real reason the Predators walked out with 2 points. The Predators have been out played in every game this season in every zone, and have had breakdowns of every kind.
With the Predators going so young, their oldest defenseman is Klein who is just shy of turning 27, and that has really showed. For the most part the pairing of Suter and Weber has been good, but not like they were last year. Blum and Klein have been ok, but have been prone to lapses in judgment when on the ice which has cost the team. The third pairing has either been Laakso, Hillen or Ekholm in any combination and have all looked pretty bad. Never getting anything more than 13 minutes a game, the 3rd pairing has been costing the team.
As for the forwards of the Nashville Predators, they have been equally as bad as the defence. The offence hasn't been able to click except for a line of Legwand-Smith-Wilson, which was early in the season. With both Erat and Fisher being injured the offense has had to rely on youngsters to step up, and not many have. Besides Halischuck and the line mention previously, no one has brought their game yet for the Predators, who are already offensively challenged on top of everything.
Though a slump at any point of the season is never good, there are some bright spots to everything. One being at least the team gets its problems fixed now rather than when they are in the middle of the playoff race. These problems can and will be fixed, so hitting the panic button is not necessary just yet fans. If things don't get fixed, and this team becomes a lottery team, at least fans can look forward to an exciting trade deadline as both Suter and Rinne, and possible Weber all get traded as this franchise starts another "rebuild" after finally recovering from the one that happened when the owners sold the team.
Either way, it will be an interesting year, and one that decides a lot of the Predators future of the franchise and its core players.
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The Los Angeles Times hailed her "eclectic tastes" and "artful" approach to home design and renovation.
"I love color and movement, and I can't abide by the rules of design," Lyndall says. "I love to mix objects and eras."
(Read the L.A. Times story on Lyndall's interior design work.)
The native of Australia knows the turf in L.A., having worked as a feature film director before turning to her talents to L.A. interior design and home renovation.
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"Unless you've spent many, many years doing this kind of work yourself, it makes total sense to hire someone -- a designer -- to help you make the best, most creative yet cost-effective decisions," she says.
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While on our trip, we plan to see a variety of historic places including this gem: OLD SHELDON CHURCH in Beaufort, SC
And the awesome Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah, GA:
And some awesome plantations, including Drayton Hall, which I did not get to when Matt and I visited the Charleston area 2 years ago.
Did I mention that the weather is in the 70's in these cities right now?! I am packing flip flops, skirts and short sleeves! I cannot wait!
Talk to you next week--I am sure I will blog all of our great adventures!


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What will happen when the questions asked are on 13 million mark for a million questions? It sounds like we will be
stuck in a bad number on EP for a million questions. How long will that take to get through this? Will it also coincide with the end of the world?
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If we will be....well...then ...we will be...
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Thanks bill
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You better start living your life with experiences then if worried about what the future will bring :)
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It happened with Ebola, which came from nowhere and dominated the headlines for months then disappeared from the news without a trace. Now the same thing has happened with Zika virus. Previously obscure, Zika virus has sprung into the public arena since a huge spike in the birth of babies in Brazil with microcephaly (a smaller-than-normal head linked with abnormal brain development). In a country which usually sees only about 160 babies born with the condition every year, there have been 3,893 new babies born with the condition in the last three months alone. In some areas, nearly one in 100 newborns have been affected.
Like Ebola, there is no reliable treatment and no vaccine available. Like Ebola, it seems to have come from nowhere but has actually been around for decades. First identified in monkeys in Uganda in 1947, the first case of human Zika virus infection was in Nigeria in 1954. By 1977, it had moved to Pakistan, Indonesia and Malaysia and on via Polynesia in 2007 to reach Brazil in 2015. Since then, it seems, there has been no stopping it, with cases seen in Barbados, Bolivia, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Martinique, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Puerto Rico, Saint Martin, Suriname and Venezuela.
Mexico, in case your geography is a bit rusty, is a mere hop, skip and jump away from the USA. A study this month suggested that once the weather warms up, Zika-carrying mosquitoes could spread along parts of the east and west coasts of the US and much of the Midwest, where about 200 million people live. What's more, US has some very humid areas where the mosquito could survive all year round - and those areas are home to 23 million Americans. So it's hardly surprising that President Obama has called for urgent action to develop treatment and vaccines, in the wake of the World Health Organisation prediction that it's only a matter of time before almost all the Americas are affected.
Just for once, we should probably be grateful in the UK for our miserable weather - Public Health England has reassured worried members of the public that the mosquito responsible for transmitting Zika virus doesn't live in the UK. Nor is it found in Canada or Chile - all three countries are too cold for the mosquito to survive. But Britons do travel in their droves, and not just to the USA. In the last five years, almost 1.5 million UK residents have visited South and Central America and the Caribbean every year.
The virus is passed through the bite of the Aedes species of mosquito, which also spreads the dengue fever and chikungunya viruses. Just one case of sexual transmission in semen from human to human has been recorded, and occasionally it can be transmitted in blood.
Unless there's a chance you might be pregnant, Zika virus isn't likely to be more than a minor inconvenience. Symptoms of infection tend to happen two to seven days after being bitten, although four in five people affected don't get any symptoms at all. The other 20% are likely to suffer only mildly, with fever, rash, joint pain, or conjunctivitis lasting a few days.
However, along with the sharp spike in babies born with microcephaly, there has also been a rise in cases of Guillain-Barre syndrome, a condition of the nervous system causing muscle weakness and sometimes paralysis. So it makes sense to take precautions to avoid getting infected, even if you're not pregnant.
Public Health England is advising women who are, or might become pregnant to consider avoiding travel to any area affected by Zika virus. For other travellers, avoiding mosquito bites is key. It's important to remember, too, that unlike malaria-carrying mosquitoes, which are most active at dusk and night-time, the Aedes mosquito is active all day. That means you can't rely on mosquito nets to offer much protection at all. Suggested precautions include:
- Long sleeved shirts and trousers
- Before you travel, treating clothing with permethrin (which should never be applied direct to the skin)
- Applying sun screen before insect repellent spray
- Applying insect repellent spray every few hours (although not under clothing)
- Staying in venues with air-conditioning or door and window screens to keep mosquitos out.
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Your parents likely told you skipping school would never lead to anything good. Yet it just might earn Gabourey Sidibe an Oscar.
A little over a year ago, Sidibe was a regular student, living in Harlem, studying psychology at Mercy College and working at the phone company to make ends meet.
Then her drama teacher told her about an open casting call that ultimately changed her life. Sidibe decided to ditch class and showed up just as the call was wrapping up. She read a brief scene for casting director Billy Hopkins, and two days later director Lee Daniels gave her the lead in "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire," a role pursued by hundreds of other hopefuls.
At that point, her entire acting resumé consisted of college productions of "The Wiz" and "Peter Pan."
Tonight, she'll be rubbing elbows with George Clooney, Meryl Streep and Sandra Bullock, which would probably be more impressive to her if she hadn't already met Oprah, who backed the film.
What Daniels liked most about Sidibe was that she was nothing like the character she was portraying: a shy, pregnant teen who lives in fear of her abusive mother.
Sidibe, 26, is ridiculously sunny, has a goofy sense of humor and, as Daniels likes to say, "talks like a white girl from the Valley." She's into Lady Gaga, church, sushi and HBO's "Oz."
"One of my favorite memories of Gabby is when we were filming under a very dirty bridge," says "Precious" producer Sarah Siegel-Magness.
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Charitable Concept – Basic Needs
Basic Needs has a fundamental goal of providing a non-government, not-religious place where people can ask for help without being judged and without embarrassment.
To do so, the shop front needs to offer a variety of services, so that you would not be judged by passersby as particularly poor or needy.
Fundamental Goal
People come in and ask to speak to an advisor, and the meeting takes place in a private room. Ideally this is booked online so there is no obvious waiting.
The advisor is something like a GP, in that they can help with certain things, but often they are there to refer you to a specialist. The advisor cannot directly offer more than advice and help with applications and appointments. For example, if someone is hungry they can direct them to a local food bank or soup kitchen, but they won't provide food on the spot.
The service covers all aspects of "I need help", whether it is personal, financial or social. LIFT in the USA is the initial inspiration.
Many needs are beyond the scope of local organisations, and appealing to the wider community provides the best hope. Today's typical online communities are not suited to anonymous requests for help. Basic Needs can ask for help online on the person's behalf. This could be via local Facebook communities, other social networks, crowdfunding, connecting with FreeCycle, or something custom-built. Whatever reaches the most people on a daily basis.
Creating a Welcoming Space
The fundamental goal will work best if people are comfortable visiting the premises. Therefore other facets could include some or all of the following:
- basic foodstuffs – see below
- drop-in centre / men's shed
- community education
- food co-op
- makers market
- art gallery
- child care
- op-shop
Many of these could already exist in the community, so at the very beginning discussions need to be made with stakeholders about whether they would want to merge or if they have problems with a "competing" service.
Basic Foodstuffs
Providing basic, non-processed, non-fresh food items at a subsidised price. Flour, sugar, rice, pasta, tinned beans and tomatoes, and so on. Combined with free lessons on how to achieve basic cooking, and access to a community nutritionist, nobody should ever be able to say to can't afford food. Selling a 5kg bag of rice for $5 instead of $12 shouldn't be hard to get funding for. Obviously donations from manufacturers could be a possibility. No food should be free – for free food people should be referred elsewhere.
Subsidised Cafe
There are a few excellent charity cafes that are staffed by volunteers, unemployed or homeless people - and are a standard cafe with standard pricing. Perhaps the same model could be used, but with less fancy provisions provided at budget prices. I'm thinking basic cakes like people bake at home. 50c tea or coffee. Free newspapers and magazines. It doesn't take much finance to provide a place for people to treat themselves to food, beverage and some company.
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Hollywood's biggest stars, after weeks of dieting for the Red Carpet, finally get to pick up their cocktail forks again at the glittering banquet that follows today's Academy Awards ceremony.
And celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck has the daunting task of preparing a post-Oscars spread worthy of the wait.
Puck will feed the 1,500 hungry guests attending the glitzy Academy Awards, one of the most glamorous on the US social calendar — a gathering of Hollywood's most powerful and best known stars, directors, producers, and movie studio heads.
Puck, who has catered the event for nearly 19 years, says he aims to create a culinary experience as unforgettable as the Oscars ceremony itself.
"This year we're going to have a party," he told AFP.
"These people are so hungry by the time they come out of the theater that everybody looks for food," the Austrian native said.
Puck, responsible for catering a reception held inside the Dolby Theatre just before the Oscars begins, has the even bigger job of providing the meals at the Governors' Ball after the ceremony is over.
The 63-year chef says he's undaunted by the challenge. He has spent weeks of testing and perfecting the nearly four dozen dishes that he will serve.
"When you come out, you are going to have this great sushi bar, you're going to have a big shellfish station," Puck said. One indispensable element of the soiree is an array of finger foods.
"We are passing around different appetizers, like our mini burgers, our smoked salmon Oscars, little empanadas, little spring rolls," he said.
A kitchen staff of 350 has been enlisted to ensure that thousands of appetizers, small dinner plates and desserts are flawlessly plated on Hollywood's most glamorous night, and the carefully handcrafted dishes and drinks will be served up by an army of 600 waiters.
"When people sit down, we offer them little salads ... and then warm dishes, like 12 different main courses — from baked potatoes and caviar to tortellini with truffles and lamb and lobster," Puck said. "You name it, we have it."
Puck moved to the United States at the age of 24, opening such legendary eateries over the years as Ma Maison and Spago on Sunset Boulevard, before that upscale resaturant moved to Beverly Hills.
The master chef now reigns over a culinary empire including upscale restaurants in Detroit, Las Vegas and Los Angeles and elsewhere in the United States, as well as numerous establishments in other countries.
Puck also provides sustenance for millions more via a thriving cottage industry of cookbooks, catering enterprises and ready-to-eat meals sold in US supermarkets.
Nowhere is the art of feeding masses of people well, quite the challenge that it is at the Oscars. But after a score years of catering one of the world's swankest after parties, Puck says he doesn't allow himself to get unnerved by the task. "I don't get nervous at all," he said.
"The only time I get nervous is half an hour before, because I don't want to start too early and hopefully that everything works fine."
Like many chefs, Puck enjoys innovating in the kitchen, some members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, who come to the Oscars ceremony regularly, actually want the same dishes year after year, prepared by Puck's exacting hand.
"We have to make our chicken pot and the Oscar salmons and the golden chocolate Oscar — that's a tradition," he said.
And once the glitterati are fed and the meal is over, Puck said, "the whole world is going to be happy."
Hollywood's biggest stars, after weeks of dieting for the Red Carpet, finally get to pick up their cocktail forks again at the glittering banquet that follows today's Academy Awards ceremony.


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In advent one of the areas which are gone over is hope.
Where would we be with no hope?
The sad thing is most people don't think about tomorrow. They don't realize that the only hope that exists is in the Creator. They don't know that there is a penalty to pay. The penalty of sin against our Lord is death. If Christ did not come and pay that penalty, there would be no hope for the human race.
For those who do not accept Christ's payment in the place of their own, there is no hope. With Christ there is complete hope. He brings us peace, He brings us hope, He brings us joy, and He brings us love.
1 Thessalonians 4:13 –13 Brothers, we do not want you to be ignorant about those who fall asleep, or to grieve like the rest of men, who have no hope.
This connected to one of my favorite groups of scriptures referring to the rapture, but the Paul reminds us that those without Christ have no hope.
Why do many people take their lives? You have to believe in many cases they see no hope. Focus this Christmas season on the One who gives us hope and a wonderful loving eternity ahead of us.


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Rejoice in our Lord.
Sing and shout aloud,
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My voice and hands to him I raise,
Jesus you are a great king who is to be praised.
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Graces and mercies from him it flows,
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Rolling Stone's definitive list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
236. Jackie Wilson, 'Mr. Excitement!'
Rhino, 1992
Wilson was a knockout live performer who made R&B that rocked and sang ballads with a voice, said arranger Dick Jacobs, "like honey on moonbeams." The highlight of this three-disc set – which spans from the Fifties to the Seventies – is the endless build of "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher."


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News just in is that the highly-awaited, yet very late New Doha International Airport, which will be the hub for Qatar Airways, is going to ve named Hamad International opening on April 1st this year.
The US$15.5 billion facility has been dogged by a series of delays, and missed its most recent opening date of 12/12/12.
But a statement from Qatar Airways confirmed that on April 1 the Gulf airline and eleven other carriers will become the first passenger airlines to fly from the airport.
There will be a phased opening, meaning Doha will have a dual airport operation until full operations begin in the second half of this year, when Qatar Airways will move its entire operations over to Hamad International.
It's not yet clear which airlines will move flights to the new airport on April 1, but a statement confirmed that the first phase would involve "12 international passenger airlines becoming the launch carriers of the new facility from 1 April. These include low-cost airlines".
The airport will accommodate 28 million passengers when it fully opens this year, increasing to 50 million beyond 2015.
Commenting on the news Qatar Airways' CEO Akbar al Baker said that as the operator of the new Hamad International Airport and main user of the facility, the carrier "looks forward to welcoming airlines and passengers to the airport in just a few weeks' time opening up a new era for our country".
"This will be a world class facility that promises to propel our nation further on the international stage. Of course the story doesn't end here.
"Later this year, Qatar Airways will move its entire operations to Hamad International Airport, as all airport lounges are expected to be ready and fully operational by then ensuring that all our passengers have a truly world class experience that they fully deserve."


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- For the Dark Souls variant, see Hornet Ring.
The Hornet Ring is a ring in Dark Souls III.
In-Game Description
- Ring associated with the Lord's Blade Ciaran, one of the Four Knights of Gwyn, the First Lord.
- Boosts critical attacks.
- The masked Ciaran was the only woman to serve in Gwyn's Four Knights, and her curved sword granted a swift death to any and all enemies of the throne.
Found in the Untended Graves.
From the shrine's entrance, follow the path on the right. The ring can be found near the same grave where Hawkwood usually goes to pray in the Cemetery of Ash. It is guarded by a greataxe-wielding Black Knight and will appear only after the Abyss Watchers have been defeated.
Boosts critical damage by 30%. Additionally, attacks like backstabs and ripostes may have slightly different and faster animations, depending on the enemy, which may knock them down in different ways and deal even more damage than the flat boost should add.


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fastjet Zimbabwe has increased the number of flights on its route between Harare and Johannesburg in what the group said was in response to strong passenger demand.
fastjet Zimbabwe will now offer double daily flights on each day of the week – apart from Saturdays – making a total of 26 flights per week on its route between Harare International Airport and Johannesburg's OR Tambo International Airport
The airline's current daily flight operates in the early morning, departing Harare at 06h15 and landing in Johannesburg at 07h55. The return flight takes off from Johannesburg at 08h40, and lands back in Harare at 10h15.
The increased flight frequency will see the addition of an evening flight departing Harare at 18h50 and landing in Johannesburg at 20h30. The return flight will
depart Johannesburg at 21h15 and land back in Harare at 22h50. The expanded schedule will result in approximately 1 700 extra seats each week on the fastjet flights between the two cities, providing travellers with more convenient travel options at affordable fares.
"We have always promised to increase the frequency on our route between Harare and Johannesburg as and when our customers demanded it," said Ed Lanca, Director of Flight Operations at fastjet Zimbabwe.
"Announcing an extra six return flights a week just one month after the inaugural Johannesburg flight emphasises our commitment to growing our flight schedule, making air travel easy, safe and affordable."
The increased flight frequency will be phased in, with Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday evening flights starting on the 26 February 2016, and evening flights on Tuesdays and Thursdays beginning on 28 March 2016. Tickets for the additional flights are already on sale, with fares starting from $80 one-way, excluding taxes ($50 departing Zimbabwe or $35 departing South Africa).
"The additional evening return flights mean that passengers can schedule meetings in either Harare or Johannesburg, and travel to their destination city and back home within the same day," said Mr Lanca.


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The Republican-controlled Senate is poised later Monday to pass legislation that would ban the sale and possession of synthetic marijuana. And no, they are not talking about oregano.
Criminalizing possession of the syn-pot follows an administrative ban by the Cuomo Administration on the retail sale of such substances earlier this year.
But with possession still legal, police have been complaining that they can't always act in some particularly violent or gruesome cases where kids have gotten high and essentially gone beserk after smoking the man-made marijuana. Proponents also say they need laws against street sales.
Synthetic pot consists of herbs sprayed with man-made cannabinoids, or the substance that gives smokers of real marijuana their high.
The trouble is, the synthetic version seems to make people behave violently and it can create a craving.
Sen. Betty Little, who represents the North Country, said she's heard of cases in which teens or young adults have broken into convenience stores, went right for the fake pot and bypassed the cash register.
"It's accessible and it's inexpensive," said Little.
Some of the synthetic pot products are packaged and sold under names like Spike 99, Wicked Herb X or K2 (not the popular brand of skis, or the Asian mountain).
"This isn't a rite of passage," said Jim Dexter, superintendent at the Washington Saratoga Warren Hamilton Essex BOCES which serves schools in the area.
He cited several instances in which teens who had gotten high on synthetic marijuana turned violent — throwing objects and assaulting people.
Assembly members are also looking at a criminalization of the synthetic pot, although no vote is planned yet.
Sen. John Flanagan, a Long Island Republican and one of the main sponsors, said he realized that lawmakers seem to be going ever farther afield to prevent substance abuse, but that's a sign of the times.
"All these things change," said Flanagan. "I didn't really expect in my lifetime that you would have to go to a special place to get cough syrup," he said, referring to the abuse and then the need to control that substance.


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Sharp Corporation and AU Optronics Corp. announced that the companies have signed an LCD technology-related patent cross license agreement and will dismiss pending legal actions filed against each other.
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Sharp to Sign Patent Cross License Agreement with AUO
April 15, 2011 — Sharp Corporation (hereinafter "Sharp") and Taiwan's AU Optronics Corp. (hereinafter "AUO") signed a patent cross license agreement today. Both parties have reached an agreement to mutually utilize patents relating to LCD panels and LCD modules owned by each party (hereinafter "LCD related patents") .
Both Sharp and AUO have led the LCD industry with development of advanced display technologies, and have built a strong and extensive patent portfolio in the field of TFT-LCD. Both parties have agreed to utilize LCD related patents of the other on the basis of mutual respect for each other's intellectual property rights. This agreement will allow each company to innovate using the other company's LCD related patents for the further advancement of TFT-LCD technologies.
Upon signing the patent cross license agreement, Sharp and AUO will dismiss all pending legal actions over LCD related patents that have been filed against each other.


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A TEENAGE amateur who only got his first handicap a year ago had his PGA pro partner marvelling in admiration as he sank eight single putts on the back nine of the Ryder Cup course to lead the Lombard Trophy at Gleneagles.
Will Hunt's red-hot putter helped yield seven birdies in eight holes as he and Scot Albert Mackenzie stormed to the top of the leaderboard at five-under-par 67 in the 36-hole tournament which carries a first prize of £12,000 for the winning pro.
Mackenzie, head pro at Devon links course Saunton, said of his 19-year-old partner: "Will has holed four putts in the last six holes from over 12 feet. His putting is quite unbelievable for someone who genuinely plays off a 16 handicap. It is quite extraordinary."
The duo hold a one-stroke advantage over former champion Martyn Thompson and Darren Budd from Parkstone, Ian Walley and Ian Neal from Kedleston Park and Paul Simpson and Richard Muldoon from West Berkshire, who carded 68s.
The Scottish clubs of Tain, represented by Stuart Morrison and Iain Cowper, and Prestonfield's Gavin Cook and Kevin Wood are two and three-over respectively.


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Lol guys people having their own opinions so try not to shove it down their throats.
I personally think that Gen Five well... was a bit... not gonna say boring, but more tame. There was nothing ground-breaking like what the other gens introduced. Gen I introduced... well, Pokemon. Gen II gave the Special Split, Gen III brought abilities and EVs/IVs (I think) to the table, Gen IV introduced the Physical/Special Split, which made some moves more viable than others. Gen V... well, one can argue that it brought Dream World Abilities, but that was an add-on to the already implemented feature in Abilities. While three abilities is a fistful to choose from, it still isn't really that "groundbreaking".
As for the games itself, it really broke tradition. The usual rock type gym was banished into the deepest container, and brought new ideas in terms of a trio-leader, and a properly-recognised Sequel. Gen V also brought cool-jelly stuff to the table, such as 3D, enhancement in breeding mechanics, new type combinations and an "isolation" where no older pokemon could be caught as well as the last trainer to be fought before the main story is completed not a champion, seasons and more. Black 2 and White 2 brought even more features in the form of PWT - able to battle all gym leaders -, further enhancements in breeding and aspects of shiny hunting, expanded area from the previous BW as well as the ability to catch multiple old legendaries: Regi trio, Lake trio, Lati@s... Hidden Grotto also is another breakthrough, giving a free-legit way to farm DW Pokemon in-game.
Overall, IMO, 5th Gen is definitely a fast-paced gen. Despite it not introducing HUGE mechanic changes to the table, it'll still be considered as a good gen (say all you want genwunners) and BW2 is considered some of the best games by many.~


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David Wallace Makes Search Predictions for 2010
Kaila StrongJanuary 07, 2010Expert Interviews
As the CEO of SearchRank, David Wallace has been an integral partner in developing successful marketing campaigns for his large and small business clients for well over a decade. David is a recognized expert in both search engine marketing and social media marketing. His company provides not only Internet marketing services, but also operates several portal web sites and topical blogs of their own.
In addition to his responsibilities at SearchRank, David is also a moderator at Search Engine Watch and High Rankings, popular search marketing forums. His expertise in the search engine marketing industry has led him to speaking engagements at Search Engine Strategies conferences, Pubcon and Search Engine Watch Live forum conferences. His predictions for the search industry in 2010 should help shed some light on what to expect in the coming year.
In the video below Arnie asks David:
1.) What are your predictions for the search industry in general for the year ahead?
2.) How about specifically reputation management, where do you see that headed?
3.) What one critical issue should those in the SEO space be concerned about or focused on in 2010?
Follow both Arnie and David on Twitter for their helpful advice in the search industry.
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