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Until recently, the only way to produce Time Location charts was by hand, either with pen and paper, or by using a CAD system. This is a long, laborious, time consuming process and, just as the last line or annotation has been drawn, along comes the Project Manager with new ideas or information which requires changes to the programme.
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Data may be imported into ChainLink's simple spreadsheet format either by means of the clipboard or by using the built-in conversion utilities for interim files such as Microsoft Project Exchange (MPX), Primavera P3 Export (PRN) or Primavera P4/5/6 Export (XER) files.
Most Microsoft Windows based project management systems, such as Microsoft Project, Primavera P3, P3e, P5, P6 and SureTrak, CS Project, Project Commander, etc., which display the data in spreadsheet form on the screen, can make effective use of the clipboard to transfer the data into the ChainLink system.
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Babies with Low Birth Weights
What does this measure?
The proportion of babies born with low birth weight (less than 2,500 grams or about 5.5 pounds) out of all live births.
Why is this important?
Low birth weight is a leading predictor of neonatal death. Low birth-weight infants are also more likely than normal birth-weight infants to experience long-term developmental and neurological disabilities. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that maternal smoking is the cause of 20% to 30% of all low-weight births in the United States.
How is Dutchess County performing?
In 2014, 8.6% of babies born in Dutchess had low birth weights, up 2 points since 2000. Dutchess County had the highest rate in the region and was above the state (excluding NYC) rate of 7.7% in 2014, the first time the county's rate surpassed the state.
Among local areas for which data were available, Poughkeepsie's rate was 7.9% and Beacon's was 7.8% in 2014.
Notes about the data
Rates based upon small numbers in some of the geographies can vary widely, making it difficult to distinguish true changes from random fluctuations.


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Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Is not something I normally do, however it seems to be the only thing I'm sketching right now. I keep thinking about making myself some sort of crazed one piece out of left over mesh from a couple seasons ago.
My only real experience with sewing lingerie has been in some fairly strange circumstances. There was the Laser Bra, which was made out of waxed linen, black cotton, and elastic. I may use this pattern with different fabric for a non-costume piece. The glowing swirls were made using Light-up shoelaces from Dealextreme.com.
A stab at a triangle bra using PVC, wide elastic, and black ribbon. I found that the ribbon really should have been replaced by a stiff elastic.
And the most recent foray into the world of boob, the rose petal bra. This one was ridiculous. I used the triangle bra pattern and cut it out of nude mesh. I then hand sewed 400 polyester rose petals to the cups. After covering the cups in petals, I attached a wide pink ribbon to the bottom, and a thinner pink ribbon for a halter strap. I probably wouldn't have even started this if I hadn't had a lot of time at my day job that allowed me to hand sew while earning money. It took around 20 hours to finish.
Oh! also causing all this to be on the brain, I've been following The lingerie addict on tumblr. So many amazing and inspiring pieces on there all the time.
So, what's next?
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The Building Inspection Department performs many functions in the township. First is administering the building and fire codes. The codes are nationally adopted minimum standards to ensure that buildings that are constructed or renovated are done in a manner that is safe. Presently, the township enforces the Pennsylvania Uniform Construction Code, Act 45 of 1999, which has been recently amended again by Act 106 of 2008. This Pennsylvania Code references the 2009 International Code Council's Building, Residential, Fire, Mechanical, Plumbing (amended by the Allegheny County Plumbing Code), Energy Conservation, Fuel Gas, Existing Building, Performance, and Urban Wildlife Codes. It has also adopted by reference the 2008 National Electric Code and the ANSI A117.1-2003 Accessibility Standard. Further information on the PA UCC Code is available at the Labor & Industry website. L&I has been charged with the duty of developing regulations to administer the code and is in the final stages of that task.
The Building Inspection department also handles the planning and zoning functions for the township. Planning and zoning differ from building codes in that they regulate how a property is used and what the site looks like after development. The planning and zoning regulations are enabled by the Municipalities Planning Code, a state law that gives municipalities certain rights on regulating how properties are used and developed. It divides the township into different zoning categories and sets forth the different uses that are allowed in those districts. There are documents available at the municipal building that explains in much greater detail the development process.
The department also enforces, through the Code Enforcement Officer, the 2009 International Property Maintenance Code. This code regulates how properties are maintained. This ensures that the health and safety of the residents and others are maintained. Some of the provisions of the property maintenance code regulate rubbish and garbage accumulation as well as high grass and weeds.
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A ray of hope, and a touch of grace.
That's the mantra that the family of Howard County teen Grace McComas hopes will prevail in confronting incidents of bullying. Addressing a group of parents and school leaders Saturday, they said the emerging epidemic played a part in Grace, a 15-year-old, ending her own life on Easter Sunday.
The McComas family joined forces with Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice to send a powerful message in a forum called "A Ray of Hope: A Pro-kindness, Anti-bullying, Teen Suicide Prevention Outreach," at Howard High School.


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February 19, 2013
Innovative Infectious Disease Research To Be Conducted Onboard The Space Station
April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online
All biologists know performing sensitive biological experiments is a delicate affair, akin to baking a soufflé in a busy house. Few of those biologists, however, have to deal with the daily and unique challenges faced by Cheryl Nickerson, a microbiologist at Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute. Nickerson's working lab is aboard the International Space Station (ISS) hundreds of miles above Earth, traveling at approximately 17,000 miles per hour.Nickerson is currently using her lab aboard the ISS to pursue new research into the effects of microgravity on disease-causing pathogens. She presented her research findings recently, and laid out future research goals for the ISS, at the annual meeting for the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
"One important focus of my research is to use the microgravity environment of spaceflight as an innovative biomedical research platform. We seek to unveil novel cellular and molecular mechanisms related to infectious disease progression that cannot be observed here on Earth, and to translate our findings to novel strategies for treatment and prevention."
Nickerson and her team made a startling discovery during an earlier series of NASA space shuttle and ground-based experiments: spaceflight culture increased the disease-causing potential, or virulence, of the foodborne pathogen, Salmonella. Many of the genes known to be important for its virulence, however, were not turned on and off as expected when Salmonella is grown on Earth. Understanding the regulation of this switching mechanism may be useful for designing targeted strategies to prevent infection.
Given their implications for the health of astronauts on extended spaceflight missions, Nickerson's findings were revelatory for NASA. Astronauts are already faced with the potential for compromised immunity induced by the rigors of space travel. Nickerson's findings show they may also have to contend with the threat of disease-causing microbes with amped-up infectious abilities. It becomes vital, therefore, to have a more thorough understanding of infectious processes and host responses under these conditions in order to design therapeutics and other methods of limiting vulnerability for those on space missions.
Nickerson's team, which included NASA scientists, performed further research that pointed to important implications for the understanding of health and disease on Earth. One of the central factors affecting the behavior of pathogenic cells is the physical force produced by the movement of fluid over a bacterial cell's sensitive surface, called fluid shear. Fluid shear helps modulate a broad range of cell behaviors, including provoking changes in cell morphology, virulence, and global alterations in gene expression in pathogens like Salmonella.
"There are conditions that are encountered by pathogens during the infection process in the human body that are relevant to conditions that these same organisms experience when cultured in spaceflight. By studying the effect of spaceflight on the disease-causing potential of major pathogens like Salmonella, we may be able to provide insight into infectious disease mechanisms that cannot be attained using traditional experimental approaches on Earth, where gravity can mask key cellular responses," says Nickerson.
An evolutionarily conserved protein — called Hfq — was pinpointed by the study. Hfq appears to act as a global regulator of gene responses to spaceflight conditions. The research team also established Hfq is a central mediator in the responses of other bacterial pathogens induced by spaceflight, including Pseudomonas aeruginosa. This represents the first spaceflight- induced regulator acting across bacterial species.
To examine post-spaceflight alteration in bacterial behavior, Nickerson's team used microarray technology, which allows analysis of gene expression for the entire 4.8 million base pairs found in Salmonella's circular chromosome. The study showed 167 distinct genes and 73 proteins had been altered during growth under microgravity conditions, including (but not limited to) virulence-associated genes. One third of the 167 genes undergoing up- or down-regulation in response to spaceflight were under the control of the Hfq master regulator protein.
Salmonella is an aggressive pathogen responsible for infecting an estimated 94 million people globally and causing 155,000 deaths annually. More than 40,000 cases of Salmonellosis are reported annually in the United States alone. These result in at least 500 deaths, and health care costs in excess of $50 million. Only a small percentage of Salmonella infections are reported each year, with an estimated two to four million cases of Salmonella-induced gastroenteritis in the U.S. causing a reported $2 billion in lost productive work time annually.
Nickerson stresses although Salmonella has been a pathogen of choice for a broad range of spaceflight investigations, her findings have both spaceflight and Earth-based implications. She is confident her team's work will show microgravity culture also uniquely alters gene expression and pathogenesis-related responses in other microorganisms as well.
The ISS provides an unprecedented opportunity to study the infection process under microgravity conditions, Nickerson emphasizes, enabling advances in our understanding of microbial gene expression and accompanying host responses during infection in fine-grained detail. The team's unique approach has the potential to identify new classes of genes and proteins associated with infection and disease not possible using Earth conditions where gravity can mask certain cellular responses. ISS based experiments have an advantage over shuttle-based experiments as well, namely the ability to study microbial transitions and cellular responses to infection over a prolonged time frame.
Research aboard the ISS may also provide an opportunity to identify novel targets for vaccine development. Nickerson's team, along with Roy Curtiss, director of the Biodesign Institute's Center for Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, has been working toward this goal. The results may be used to facilitate vaccine development on Earth.
The team flew a genetically modified Salmonella-based anti-pneumoccal vaccine developed in the Curtiss lab on a recent space shuttle mission, STS-135. The team's goal is the genetic modification of the strain back on Earth, which they hope to achieve by understanding the effect of microgravity culture on the gene expression and immunogenicity of the vaccine strain. This will allow them to enhance the ability of the gene to confer a protective immune response against pneumococcal pneumonia.
"Recognizing that the spaceflight environment imparts a unique signal capable of modifying Salmonella virulence, we will use this same principle in an effort to enhance the protective immune response of the recombinant attenuated Salmonella vaccine strain," Nickerson says.
To compare the behavior of bacterial cells under normal Earth gravity, the team's ISS experiments are carried out in conjunction with simultaneous Earth-based controls housed in the same hardware as those in orbit. Earth-based cell cultures provide additional information. These cultures are subjected to a kind of simulated microgravity, produced by culturing cells in a rotating wall vessel bioreactor (RWV). The RWV is a device designed by NASA engineers to replicate aspects of cell culture in the spaceflight environment.
The team conducted RWV reactor experiments back at ASU to help confirm Hfq plays a central regulatory role in the Salmonella response to spaceflight conditions. This RWV technology was used by the team to grow three dimensional (3-D) cell culture models that mimic key aspects of the structure and function of tissues in the body. These are used as human surrogates to provide insight into the infectious disease process not obtainable by conventional approaches and for drug/therapeutic testing and development for treatment and prevention.
Nickerson and her team also focus research efforts on determining the entire repertoire of environmental factors that may influence bacterial response to spaceflight culture. They found the ion concentration in the cell culture media played a key role in the resulting effect of spaceflight on Salmonella virulence, and using RWV they were able to identify specific salts that may be responsible for this effect.
Nickerson has a long list of firsts in the field of spaceflight research. She and her team were the first researchers to examine the effect of spaceflight on the virulence of a pathogen, first to obtain the entire gene expression response of a bacterium to spaceflight, first to profile the infection process in human cells in spaceflight, and first to identify a spaceflight-responsive global gene regulator acting across bacterial species.
These achievements will soon be augmented with a new experiment that will be flown on SpaceX Dragon slated for the ISS later this year. The project, nicknamed PHOENIX, will mark the first time a whole, living organism — in this case, a nematode - will be infected with a pathogen and simultaneously monitored in real time during the infection process under microgravity conditions.
Science's understanding of the molecular and cellular cues underlying pathogenic virulence will be deepened by this and future studies aboard the ISS. The team's work will open a new chapter in the understanding of health and disease to benefit the general public.
"It is exciting to me that our work to discover how to keep astronauts healthy during spaceflight may translate into novel ways to prevent infectious diseases here on Earth," Nickerson says.


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China's Great Tea Revival: An Interview with Zhou Chonglin
On the 1st April 2014 – and this is definitely not an April Fool's joke – the President of China and General Secretary of the Communist Party – Mr Xi Jinping, gave a speech in Brussels in which he contrasted the cultures of the West and China by comparing the former to wine and the latter to tea. President Xi's purpose seems to have been to note the different cultural and political traditions in East and West and figured that, in the case of China, nothing better than tea could highlight the unique features of Chinese sociability. The West, he was reported as saying, celebrates friendship and important occasions with wine, whereas in China tea has been the beverage of choice. The President's choice of tea for China is somewhat disingenuous as we all know that wine in Chinese culture has also lubricated many a festive occasion, indeed some of China's greatest poets did their best work 'under the influence'. But we get the point and there is no point pursuing the matter any further (not here at least), suffice to say that in my opinion East and West can both be characterised as 'tea cultures', albeit with different connotations and nuances. Western style wine is just making its mark in China whereas tea, by contrast, has shaped the interactions of China and 'the rest' for well over a thousand years.
To learn more about the true nature of tea in world history we are well advised, of course, to turn to the expert opinion of those who devote their lives to its study, and invariably if he or she is wise enough, to its consumption. In this blog I have previously provided transcripts of interviews with some of contemporary China's most influential tea and tea culture scholars, notably, Professors Mu Jihong and Shen Dongmei. Today it is my pleasure to share with you the abbreviated transcript of an interview with Zhou Chonglin. I met Chonglin several years ago when I commenced my research on Southwest China's 'Ancient Tea Horse Road'. At that time he was working closely with Professor Mu Jihong in the 'Ancient Tea Horse Road Culture Research Institute' at Yunnan University. We had long discussions, many cups of tea, and a few memorable (sic!) bouts with Chinese wine. Chonglin introduced me to the world of the young Chinese scholar. It was so refreshing and enlightening to meet someone so passionate about their research and, of course, about tea and China. Chonglin published the book The Tea War in 2012. The book, which is a reassessment of the Opium War (1840) through the lens of tea, was a huge success and catapulted Chonglin onto the national stage. To put this in context we need to understand that as China is rising there is much discussion about the nature of cultural change, and what kind of 'culture' China needs to develop in the 21st Century. Of course the role of 'traditional culture' in this scheme of things is very important. In Chonglin's case the question is what is the role and place of tea in Chinese culture and society? As you shall see in the interview below there is much more to this than just the pleasant feeling you get when drinking quality tea in aesthetic surrounds with your friends – it also speaks to the anxiety many people have in China, and around the world, about the pace of change and the disruption modernity brings to our daily lives. Personally I detect here the beginnings of a great work on political economy that takes tea and its production, distribution, branding and consumption as its focus. More on this in the future.
Most recently Chonglin, along with support from the Chinese tea industry and research community, has established an organisation aimed at promoting the development of Chinese tea in China. The movement – as they refer to such things in China – is called 'The Tea Revival' (茶叶复兴). I like to think of it as a movement dedicated to 'reviving China through tea'. One of the great ironies of China's engagement with the West since the so-called 'Opium Trade' (in which, to put it crudely, the British traded opium from India for Chinese tea) is that now, as the Chinese economy is opening to the outside world, that the company with the largest market retail for tea in China is Liptons. This represents a humiliating slap in the face to the Chinese tea industry. It is also a reminder that as China embraces global capitalism it will have to think quite creatively about how to protect and promote its own industries, including tea, in the face of multinational behemoths that have almost unlimited resources and decades of experience in market competition. A lot more could be said on this front but let's ask Chonglin to do the talking for now.
Just a few quick words about Zhou Chonglin's background. Chonglin is from Yunnan Province, a native of Shizong (师宗) in eastern Yunnan near the border of Guangxi and Guizhou. He attended the Chinese Faculty at Yunnan University. Upon graduation he was a journalist in Beijing for one year whereupon he returned to Yunnan. Since then he has been intimately involved in all things tea-related. His books include The Tea War and The Tea Secret. He is a Research Fellow in the Ancient Tea Horse Road Culture Research Institute at Yunnan University, and one of the Founders and Directors of the '[China] Tea Revival Movement' In 2013 he was nominated by an influential Chinese magazine as one of the young and upcoming people to keep an eye on. He is in his 30s and is the recent proud father of a baby girl.
Note: The interview was conducted in Chinese and has been translated into English by yours truly. The text has been back-translated into Chinese and be found here.
1. I know that tea has always featured strongly in your life since the day you were born. What are your earliest recollections concerning tea?
I started drinking tea when I was just a child, but it wasn't a regular daily habit at that time. Nonetheless the stage was set for tea to become a lot more central to my life later on. My most vivid recollection is the holding of the ritual offering ceremonies to the family ancestors. My father would get the tea ready for the offering. The everyday ritual items and food were always the very vest we could offer, and tea and alcohol couldn't of course be forgotten. I remember that there were always people who aren't tea drinkers but needed it for the ritual offering – they would come around to our house to 'borrow' some tea. Hence it is clear that the ritual offering couldn't be done without tea. The fact that in our lives tea occupies such a very important position is thus one of the deepest motivations for me to do tea culture research.
2. Why did you decide to write The Tea War (《茶叶战争》)?
There has been a consistent position in the Chinese tea and cultural worlds, that is, to describe the Opium War (1840) as a tea war. Of course evidence was needed to make the argument stronger. It was only later that I learned that in Western academia the Opium War was also highly controversial. I spent several years looking for the evidence and during the 2012 European Cup wrote the manuscript in one hit.
3. What has been the reaction of the reading public to The Tea War?
Within one year the book sold several ten thousand copies when it was published on the mainland. It was well reviewed in the media and won numerous book awards. It was also very well received when it was published in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Many said such an influential book in the tea history field had not been seen for many years. As a result I received many invitations, went on television, and gave countless lectures. In fact the book is still generating interest. So The Tea War has certainly put me in the spotlight. I couldn't have imagined the success and popularity of this book, especially since the style is a bit bookish. I wrote it without the intention of it being a popular-type book. So I'm very satisfied and honoured by the success.
4. Please speak to us a bit about the 'Tea Revival' project. What is the idea behind it? What are its objectives? And what form does it take?
China has been studying the West for over a hundred years. China's GDP is now ranked number two in the world. But people still aren't satisfied or happy because the environment is polluted and the villages are disappearing. We studied and adopted parts of the Western style of economic development, but China hasn't adopted the Western political system or yet developed a good system of social welfare. Scholars like me need to eliminate the anxiety that modernity brings and concentrate on reviving traditional culture, and bring out the beautiful things in life, and thereby let people live a life of security and dignity. In China all the people in the tea business are very idealistic and spirited, with the finest tea vessels, ceremonial attire, mountain tea, pure spring water, and fine fellow travelers with who to chat; it's an exciting and stimulating field to work in with many pleasures along the way.
Since I started the Tea Revival Movement I've encountered many like-minded people who are concerned about China and hope that tea's traditional core role in daily life can be re-established. So this is our goal and for which we are developing programs and activities. For instance, we have launched a 'Chinese style afternoon tea', the purpose of which is to let more people understand and appreciate the place of tea in Chinese culture. We are utilising social networking platforms such as WeChat to spead our message and it has proven to be very effective.
5. What is the biggest challenge facing the Chinese tea industry?
Firstly, there is no strong and competitive brand; if you add up the entire Chinese tea industry it still falls short of the size and sophistication of Liptons, one single English company.
Secondly, value adding in the industry is underdeveloped and the tea industry is still primarily agricultural in orientation. In this connection there is also insufficient participation of scientific research and innovation.
Thirdly, the consumption base of tea has been significantly disrupted. The consumption of tea in China has in modern times been disrupted several times. For a time tea was replaced by opium and tobacco; later it was ideological objections to the drinking of tea – as it was seen as a petit-bourgeois pleasure during the 1960s and 1970s – that put restrictions on the aesthetic consumption of tea. After the launch of 'reform and openness' in the late 1970s coffee and soft-drinks – such as Starbucks and Coca-Cola – poured into the Chinese market; not to mention the competition from an experienced multinational player such as Liptons. As a result the Chinese tea industry has been unable to react effectively. Nowadays the 'teahouse' is synonymous with a place for senior citizens to play mahjong; not a very attractive environment for young Chinese. We are trying to the fortunes of tea around and make it more attractive for young people.
6. In light of the above, how has Chinese tea culture developed in recent years? What are the main trends?
In recent years, due to the support from the Yunnan puer tea folks, the Fujian 'iron buddha' (铁观音) and black tea producers, the lifeblood is being slowly pumped back into the Chinese tea industry. The number of tea consumers in China has also significantly increased in recent years. As the tea industry revives research on Chinese tea culture has also picked up. By 2006 in Yunnan alone there were at least ten tea journals and over one hundred tea-related books published. Hence the visibility of tea in the media has improved considerably. Furthermore, in 2013 the 'Ancient Tea Horse Road' was officially recognised by the Central Government as 'China National Cultural Heritage' (国家文物保护单位). China Central Television (CCTV) produced and broadcast two well-received documentaries on tea. So tea continues to increase in visibility and is becoming a source of cultural pride for more and more Chinese people.
7. What do you mean by 'tea life' (茶生活)? What relationship does it have we the so-called 'slow movement'?
'Tea life' means to take tea as a central part of life. It could be as routine as part of the list of essential daily necessities in Chinese family life, that is, 'fuel, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar and tea' (柴米油盐酱醋茶); or it could be part of the more aesthetically refined notion of 'music, chess, books, art, wine and tea'. No matter whether 'ordinary' or 'refined' both of these include tea as an essential element. And both note 'slow time' as a core platform.
Indeed the traditional Chinese life-style is characterised by 'slow time', such as 'kungfu tea' (功夫茶). In Chinese 'kungfu' actually means to 'consume time'. 'Slow time', not surprisingly, can be found in the 'less developed' regions of China such as Yunnan. I was raised in this kind of 'slow time'. Part of our agenda is to help people rediscover the importance of 'slow time' through the social consumption of tea. [note: this fits well with my own position towards the 'slow tea movement' for which I have written a manifesto on this blog].
8. What message would you like to directly convey to a foreign audience?
If foreigners are interested in Chinese culture they can discover an 'interesting China' in tea culture. Tea in traditional Chinese culture – including the important elements of Confucianism, Buddhism and Daoism – was developed into a spiritually refined beverage and art of consumption. Just as I noted at the beginning of this interview, tea is still an important ritual item for Chinese to pay respects to their ancestors. In these times of a changing China, out of the three commodities that once made China famous and powerful – silk, porcelain, and tea – only tea remains in any significant way. China has much more than just 'fake products', it also has something as beautiful and refined as tea. I encourage our foreign friends to discover the 'real China' through tea.
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Fashion Week Spring 2011 Begins!
September 8th, 2010
The wait is over–Fashion Week Spring 2011 (the first in Lincoln Center!) is upon us. Like we did for Fashion Week Fall 2010 we'll be concentrating on trend analysis to bring you the trend information you need for next Spring and Summer.
While we gear up to start our Spring 2011 fashion coverage, you can reminisce with our some of our favorite Fall 2010 trends: Parkas, the Strong Shoulder, and Blazers over Dresses.
We'll be returning to our regularly scheduled fashion trends and tips on Monday, September 20!
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By John Corry
Published: November 20, 1983
''The Day After,'' ABC's much-discussed vision of nuclear Armageddon, is no longer only a television film, of course; it has become an event, a rally and a controversy, much of it orchestrated. Part of the controversy has to do with whether ''The Day After'' makes a political statement, which it does, although the statement is muddy, and part of the controversy has to do with how we confront the nuclear abyss. Champions of the film say it forces us to think intelligently about the arms race; detractors say it preaches appeasement. In fact, both sides have something going for them in their arguments, even if the champions of the film, for the moment, are being heard more clearly than the detractors. ''The Day After'' will be seen on ABC at 8 o'clock tonight.
Meanwhile, no matter what its political content, high earnestness or good intentions, ''The Day After'' must also be judged as a movie drama. By any conventional standard on this, it is terrible. In the first 50 minutes we are introduced to various characters. Then, in approximately a four-minute holocaust, the bombs fall. There is a white light in the sky over Lawrence, Kan., and then a blinding yellow light. There is the mushroom cloud, full of flame, followed by fire storms and wind. Buildings explode and implode. A poplar forest bends. People, vaporized, turn into images on an X-ray film. A moment or two later, Jason Robards, who survives, says it looked ''like the sun exploded.''
Dramatically speaking, that's about it. Almost nothing else happens in the next 70 minutes or so except for a relentless depiction of radiation poisoning. John Cullum is shot and several other characters just disappear, apparently edited out of the film, although for the most part actors simply wither away. In successive scenes, Mr. Robards's hair falls out. A wound on his face grows larger and angrier. His complexion turns sallow. The drama is carried along by latex, gelatin and wigs. The makeup man is the star.
As a primer on the horror of thermonuclear war, this is effective, a graphic rendering of the pit. On the other hand, television and movies deal increasingly in unpleasant images, and ''The Exorcist'' is visually more frightening than ''The Day After,'' while the ''Halloween'' movies are more gruesome. The special quality of ''The Day After,'' however, is its feeling of despair. No crops will grow in irradiated Kansas; the farmland is covered with contaminated ash. Infants will be born deformed. Medicine has no cures. The world has been arrested, and continuity is gone.
Thus the despair, made more intense by the awareness that we live in a time, the first time, when it all conceivably could happen. Physicians for Social Responsibility, one of a number of groups that has recommended ''The Day After,'' says that many viewers will react with ''feelings of depression and helplessness.'' It also says that ''given the accurate horror portrayed in the movie, these emotions are appropriate.'' Physicians for Social Responsibility, scarcely a collection of fanatics, urges people to cope with their feelings by supporting a nuclear freeze.
This is a political position, of course, and ABC is being disingenuous when it says ''The Day After'' makes no political statement. Deterrence is a political position, and in the movie deterrence has failed. ''We knew the score,'' a pregnant woman (Amy Madigan) says from a hospital bed. ''We knew all about bombs. We knew all about fallout. We knew this could happen for 40 years. Nobody was interested.''
Presumably, a nuclear freeze, or unilateral or bilateral disarmament would not have failed, and they would have meant that someone was interested. ''The Day After,'' meanwhile, avoids the question of which side fired first, and given the didactic purpose of the movie - making real the horror of thermonuclear war - the question does not even matter.
What does matter, however, is what the movie will mean, how it will be interpreted. The Campaign Against Nuclear War, a disarmament group in Washington, said that ABC was ''doing a $7 million advertising job for our issue.'' Representative Edward T. Markey, the Massachusetts Democrat who sponsored the nuclear-freeze resolution in the House, said that ''The Day After'' would be ''the most powerful television program in history.'' Mr. Markey was being excessive, although the Campaign Against Nuclear War was right.
It was right because ''The Day After'' engenders a feeling of hopelessness, and to be without hope is to be passive. It is to believe that nothing will avail. Psychologically, this is to want to disarm, to throw down weapons rather than take them up. Near the close of ''The Day After'' there is a printed message, white on a black backround, which says: ''It is to be hoped that the images of this film will inspire the nations of this earth, their people and leaders, to find the means to avert the fateful day.'' The word ''means'' is a code. The movie has conditioned us to accept disarmament, or, at least, to call for a nuclear freeze.


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Here you'll find so basic explanation on how the Windows Registry works
Explanation of Registry Hives
How Windows uses the Registry
Explanation of SubKeys
The Heart of Windows
More about Keys and SubKeys
Where are the Windows Registry files?
Where are the Windows Registry files?
If you have Windows 9x or ME, known as the 9x Platform, the Registry files are stored in the Windows folder. They are named System.dat and User.dat. However, Windows ME also has Classes.dat. These files all have Hidden attributes so unless you are view hidden files you will not find them.
If you have Windows NT, 2000, 2003, Xp or Vista, known as the NT Platform, the Registry files are stored in their own folder; Windows\System32\Config. You will not be able to copy these files to make backups, as the operating system is protecting them for security reasons.
Lets start with an explanation of the Registry Keys.
Open RegEdit, you'll see the six Hives on the Windows 9x Platform and five on the NT Platform under the "My Computer" header:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT: Contains software settings about the file system, it contains shortcut information, and other user interface information. There will be a SubKey for every file association. And each Key here points to another key. The entire Hive is part of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and can be found at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Classes. If you change a setting in either of these two locations it is also changed in the other.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER: Contains the information for the currently logged-on user, such as settings and software information. Setting changed in this Hive will only affect the current user. This Hive is part of the HKEY_USERS hive.
1) AppEvents Key: contains the settings for which sounds to play for system sound events
2) Control Panel Key: Control Panel settings are stored here, similar to system.ini and win.ini in Win 3.x.
3) InstallLocationsMRU: contains folder paths and drives
4) Keyboard layout: specifies current keyboard layout
5) Network: Network connection information
6) RemoteAccess: Contains information about the current log-on location using Dial-Up Networking
7) Software: Software configuration settings for the currently logged-on user.
You may find other Keys here placed by other software, that is probably should have been placed in one of the above Sub-Keys. The entire Hive is also found at the HKEY_USERS\.Default or if more then one profile HKEY_USERS\(Profile name). If you change and setting in either of these two locations it is also changed in the other.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE: Contains information about the hardware and software settings that are used for all users of this computer.
1) Config: Configuration information . Same as the Hive HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG on Windows 9x
2) Enum: Hardware information (found under System in NT)
3) Hardware: Information passed to Windows from the BIOS (found under System in NT)
4) Network: information about networks installed to the machine.
5) Security: network security settings.
6) Software: Software-specific information and settings
7) System: System startup and device driver information, and operating system settings.
HKEY_USERS: Information about for each user that logs onto this computer is stored here. Each user will have a Sub-Key under this heading. On Windows 9x, if there is only one user, the SubKey will be ".default". When a user logs on, one of the Sub-Keys will be loaded to the HKEY_CURRENT_USER key.
HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG : Contains info about the current hardware configuration, pointing to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Config. This hive is dynamic, meaning it is built on the fly.
HKEY_DYN_DATA: This key contains dynamic information about plug-n-play devices. The data here changes constantly. This key is rewritten every time you boot up, it is a virtual Hive. This Hive is dynamic, meaning it is built on the fly and is not used on the NT Platform.
How Windows uses the Registry
For reference:
First you need to understand that the Shell of Windows is the Windows Explorer. Without the Explorer there is no Windows, No desktop and so on.
With Windows loaded and you are logged on, Windows now can use the information in the Registry that each Hive contains. Here is a sample of how the Registry is used.
So let's click on the Start button, which is controlled be the Explorer.exe. Now Windows reads the Key HKCU\ Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ Policies Keys to determine what the current user is allowed to do. What the user is allowed to access. Now scroll up to the Programs label and the Key HKCU\ Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ Explorer is read to determine how Windows will react. Now you open the Start menu and it opens, then you click on a program you wish to open. This is a shortcut that you are clicking on. A shortcut is a file with the extension ".lnk" so Windows now looks at the HKLM\Software\Classes Key for the extension ".lnk" which reads "lnkfile". So Windows now looks for HKLM\Software\Classes\lnkfile which read "ShortCut" and it sees "NeverShowEx" = "" which means do not display file extension for this type of file extension. Windows then looks to see what SubKeys are there and it finds a CLSID SubKey which points to "{00021401- 0000- 0000- C000- 000000000046}". Since the SubKey was "CLSID" Windows knows to look at HKLM\Software\Classes\CLSID Key and finds the matching SubKey. This Key also read "ShortCut" and Windows now looks for what SubKeys are available. It find the "ProgID" Key which points back to the "lnkfile" Key. and it find the server file at the "InProcServer32" file. So Windows now knows to serve this file to Shell32.dll.
If the Explorer did not find the CLSID key listed it would have to search the CLSID Keys for a matching ProgID Key that pointed to the "lnkfile" Key.
Shell32.dll now takes over, the Explorer makes an API call to the Shell32.dll and tells it to Shell (run, start) the file that the that you clicked on. Now the Shell32 knows that this is a ShortCut so it reads the file and determines that you wish to activate the program QikFix. So it starts QikFix now needs an starts loading the other DLLs it needs to run. QikFix searches its' own directory and if not found there looks to the Windows Folder then the System folder. It finds the DLLs it knows it need to run, and then now sees that it needs an interface. So as with all Visual Basic programs it need the Msvbvm50.Dll or Msvbvm60.Dll to do the work for it. So then Msvbvm50.dll draws the plain window and then starts adding the text boxes and the tabs. To do this is may need help form another dll as with the case of the tabs. It knows it needs tabclt32.ocx because when I selected to use the tabs I need to include the DLL name in my source code, which in this case is an Active X control (ocx). Now it needs to draw Tabs but the Msvbvm50.dll has no idea what a tab is.
If there where TypeLib Keys under the CLSID Key then the Explorer would also got read the matching HKLM\Software\Classes\TypeLib Key. The TypeLib Key may point to an Interface Key (HKLM\Software\Classes\Interface) and this Key will tell the Explorer what version is available and so on. To understand more you need to read the next section about SubKeys.
Explanation of SubKeys
You will find a vast amount of different SubKeys, some are user (read) only by the software program, while most of the SubKeys are read by Windows.
So for this example let's use the * Key. If you open RegEdit and go to the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT Hive the first Key down will be the *. This Key is a wildcard Key for File extensions, all files. You will find a SubKey Shellex which should have no value set.The Shellex Key tells the Explorer what to do when you right click on a file. The context menu should be displayed when you right click a file, the Explorer will use the ContextMenuHandlers SubKey. You will also find a PropertySheetHandlers SubKey there also.This SubKey tells the Explorer what to display when you right click a file and select Properties.
My ContextMenuHandlers SubKey has three SubKeys, Open With, Quick View, and WinZip. I added the Open With SubKey so that I always have the option of the Open With when I right click a file. If you have the WinZip installed you'll have the WinZip SubKey, so let's follow the WinZip SubKey. It points to a CLSID Key, HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ CLSID\ {E0D79304- 84BE- 11CE- 9641- 444553540000} Key, and this Key has the SubKey InProcServer32 which points to WZSHLSTB.DLL. So Windows now knows what DLL to load if you click on WinZip in the context menu.
Now let's open RegEdit (so you can follow) and go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.gif, then right click on a file we all have, C:\Windows\Cloud.gif, this is a a standard Windows file. The .gif Key does have a Shellex SubKey, but not a ContextMenuHandler SubKey, so only the default context menu will be displayed. It does have the SubKey {BB2E617C- 0920- 11d1- 9A0B- 00C04FC2D6C1} which points to the CLSID\{3F30C968- 480A- 4C6C- 862D- EFC0897BB84B} Key which is now telling the Explorer if Thumb nails are use what to do, what file will handle this operation.
Now right click the Cloud.gif file and select Open. You will notice that the (Default) value of the .gif Key points to giffile. Windows will now go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\giffile to see what it must do. The (Default) value of this Key is GIF Image, this is what is displayed in the Explorer under the "Type" column if you view files in Detail. The giffile Key has 3 SubKeys, CLSID, DefaultIcon, and Shell. The DefaultIcon SubKey tells the Explorer what Icon should be displayed for a .gif file. The Shell SubKey should have 3 SubKeys, Open, Print, and Printto. Since we select Open on the Context Menu which would be the same as double clicking on the file, Windows will use the Shell\Open subkey. The Shell\Open Key has one or two SubKeys Command, and maybe a ddeexec SubKey. If you have just the Command Key, Windows stops there and shells (starts - run)the file listed at the (Default) value of the Shell\Open\Command SubKey with the parameter (command line) C:\Windows\Cloud.gif . This will tell the program, possibly Fast View to display the file Cloud.gif.
If there is no ddeexec SubKey the (Default) value would look something like this. "C:\Easy Desk Utilities\Fast View\Fastview.exe" %1. The %1 means to pass the file path and name only on to Fast View. This would be the same as typing in the Run box at the Start menu C:\EasyDe~1\FastVi~1\Fastview.exe C:\Windows\Cloud.gif. The Run box needs to have 8.3 format. Now Fast View is displaying the Cloud.gif file.
If you have a ddeexec SubKey the (Default) value might be :
"rundll32.exe C:\WINDOWS \SYSTEM\ SHIMGVW.DLL ,ImageView_Fullscreen " and ddeexec SubKey value is "[open(%1)]", In the Run box you would type:
rundll32.exe C:\WINDOWS\ SYSTEM\ SHIMGVW.DLL, ImageView_Fullscreen C:\Windows\Cloud.gif
The Heart of Windows
The Registry works the same on both the Windows 9x platform, and the NT Platform. However it is laid out a little differently, especially when it comes to the hardware.
The real heart of the Windows Registry is found at the Key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows, controlling the software. The System Drivers are controlled at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System. The hardware is controlled at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Enum in Windows 9x and ME And HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Enum in the NT Platform.


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Very recently the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced that the bidding of gTLDs (generic top-level domains) were open and that the purchase of web domains will be completely unrestricted.
Essentially this allows anyone to create a "dot-anything" as their web domain for whatever they desire. Maybe you want to add that extra impetus to your company signature: "http://www.gaurdian.newspaper" for example, or http://www.oprah.talk.
There have been plenty of companies over the years excited to register their domain names on the web, only to find that the hosting of their site is already dedicated to some small-time blogger or band that hasn't played since the early nineties. However these problems are not necessarily a thing of the past.
As mentioned above, to the man-on-the-street this news is a call to action to get signed-up through whatever sign-up process is involved in acquiring a new gTLD. No one would expect the acquisition to be free, but with the price of one of these web domains reaching $185,000 (excl. all additional admin fees) mikesplumbing.pipes probably won't be seen in a navigation bar anytime soon.
There is a belief amongst SEO pundits that this announcement and the resultant frenzy will render competitors disarmed and that the acquiring of customised web domains will go a very long way to ensuring that all SEO worries are extinguished. There is however a long way to go before this can be seen.
The most influential brands and Internet moguls have registered a combined total of 1,930 new domain strings and the suffixes range from the most reasonable to the most bizarre.
Google were obviously one of the most active participants submitting 100 requests, which included derivatives of their own service offerings (dot-Google; YouTube; Gmail etc.) but also more unusual ones, requesting: dot-play; pet; fun; baby and a whole lot more. Yahoo surprisingly only bid on dot-yahoo and dot-Flickr, whereas Apple only bid on it's own name.
In what is set to result in a few legal tussles, Google and Amazon have bid on 20 identical domains in their pursuit for web one-upmanship. A few of these strings include: music, search, free, game, spot, store, you and drive.
This announcement only settles the process of application for the new web domains, but according to ICANN, the official allocation of gTLDs could take months or even years. SEOs eager for these changes to make waves might be disappointed about the length of time search engines take to grant credibility to the new web domains, whether it be recognising small concerns or major online authorities.


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Best Hatsune Miku Songs
The Top Ten
I love this song! Please vote for Hatsune Miku so we can get her to be on here! She is the best Vocaloid I have ever seen! GO HATSUNE MIKU! You are the best singer out ther!
This is my definitely favuorite song by her. She is such beautful singer, and such talent from somthing without live. (Sorry for englis fall, I'm fron italia)
Yeah! My Favorite Song in Vocaloid is World is Mine! Everyday I listening to this music! Hatsune Miku! Lobve You So Much! Create more Music again! Okay? Ganbatte ne! ^_^
Best. Miku. Ever! my top 4 songs are Romeo and Cinderella, World is Mine, Levan Polkka, and my all-time fave, Solitary Hide-And-Seek! please vote for these songs!V 167 Comments
This song can really -strangely- moved and touched me and also a lot of hearts WORLDWIDE, even though people at first didn't understand the language! Just by listening to the good music, Miku's heavenly vocal, and the also the fantastic PV, it's like Miku is connecting ALL hearts and souls on the planet, all together!
This song was created by livetune. Livetune songs was mellow so, I decided to vote this. I really wish this song become number 1. Is anyone agree? By the way, this song was quiet beautiful
After listening to this song. I think on myself, I've to create my own Hatsune Miku Song.
This beautiful song really moved me. I really need to tell my world.
My Favorite songV 101 Comments
MELT in SECOND!? WHAT THE well I think I understand Melt really is the best yes but maybe a lot of people know World is Mine rather than Melt but Melt really is the best of Miku-Chan no Uta Melt made her Famous yeah Ievan Polkka did that too. I love every other song on this poll but to be Honest I like every song of Miku ALL OF IT four of my favorites here Are World is mine, Sekiranun Graffiti, Melt and Rolling girl but still MELT'S IN SECOND I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS SONG MADE ME LOVE VOCALOID
This is the most popular of Miku's songs, it skyrocketed her popularity, although the other songs on this list are fantastic, I think "Melt" has an extremely special quality that can't be compared to.
This song helps me feel better aboutt myself, I really think it deserves to be in the top 10 miku songs, it is so good and cheerful, catchy and really thoughtful
This song is AMAZEBALLS! Na nanana na na, na nanana na na na, sorryV 36 Comments
I love Rolling Girl because it really tells a story about how a girl keeps reaching for something that she can't seem to grasp. Because of this she keeps on failing and hurting herself, yet she can't stop because she doesn't know how, she needs someone to tell her to stop. It really connects to a lot of people's real life, and that quality is what makes it my favorite song by Hatsune Miku
Mostly tells about people going through a lot of stuff in life
Rolling Girl is beautiful rock song with a piano melody that soothes the ears. It tells a story, but still leaves the translation up to the linstener, so you can choose in which way it reflects on your life. This song is my all-time favorite Miku song, period.
This song made me feel like I'm not the only one who suffering from this ^.^ 😌V 47 Comments
This is the best song so far and why is this song all the way down here?! It should be at least at the top three it shouldn't be all the way down here anyway I wish I could vote for this a thousand times cause this song is the best
I seriously don't understand why something like po pi po is at the top of the list.. Anyway, it's a beautiful song which illustrates a love story from the point of view from Miku.
Frankly speaking, this is the most meaningful as it involves between a fairy tales, fantasy and drench of sadness. The rest of the songs it's all basically nonessential and particularly meaningless. This song has a truly deep and touching meaning in it and it's up to you for love it or not. Every sentences has a meaning to it.
Best song ever written for herV 33 Comments
This songs actually has a story and is connected to "ARiA" which I thought was pretty cute and clever in a way. It's considered an older Miku song but I think it should be more popular than it is now! I was so happy to see it included in the Mikunopolis concert (I was there) I wish more people were cheering for it along with Saihate. I hope one day this song becomes more popular!
I would definitely say that this is simply the best out of all of Hatsune Miku's songs. Not only are its lyrics extremely beautiful, but its chord progressions, or simply the way the song swells. It's so sweet and beautiful. I understand that some other songs are a lot more famous, like "World is Mine, " but this song's melody is so much more beautiful.
I love this song and I love miku please voe for miku
Perfect chord progressionV 15 Comments
I love this song because (if you know the English lyrics or you know Japanese fluently) it's about her being able to fight for her love even if it means war.
This did not make top ten? I understand if it doesn't make first, That would be asking too much for everyone to think as I do... But can't it at least be in the top ten?
Miku's best song by far. It sounds so realistic, and not annoyingly high pitched like a lot of her other songs. She sounds extremely strong as she sings how she would fight for her love no matter what, even it doing so results in war.
Fight for your love onceV 16 Comments
I love this song. This song is about Hatsune Miku how she almost disappeared one day. She was about to be accidentally deleted! Apparently no one was able to research her. The company said there had been computer problems. Hatsune Miku was not deleted (Thank God! ). What pretty cool is when they checked they found a new vocaloid (Akita Neru! ). So not only was Miku saved but Neru was created because of that! I was like when I found out! When this song was made it was very popular and it still is. Hatsune Miku forever!
The start of this song when I heard it and singed it it maked me feel like I'm a Vocalist of Vocaloid! :DD
This song really potraits the feeling of a dying star/vocaloid and touches me whenever I hear it
PariV 31 Comments
This song HAVE TO be in top 10 at least! This song is very REAL, SWEET, VIVID and COLOUFUL! It's just so awesome that you can hear Miku take breaths between lines. It also let you hear her heart and how she will always be there for you no matter what! Both the music and the lyrics are great and meaningful. This song really touches my heart. You guys HAVE TO here it out!
This is one of (or if not) the best Hatsune Miku song out there for me. How it can really make you feel the emotions, both the creator and the singer of the song, is really beautiful; even though we know Miku is just a Vocaloid. I didn't really notice how good this song was when I first heard it, until my friend recommends it to me (more than one time, if I may add) and told me to also listen to the lyrics. I decided to give it a chance... And boy, this is one hell of a song. So there you go, I believe, at the very LEAST this should be top 10. Number one for me though, hands down.
This song explains much about Vocaloid, especially Miku. Miku is always there for us, even if there isn't anyone who'll be on your side, Miku will always be.
I love itV 28 Comments
It's the first song of Hatsune Miku I have ever heard. This song is what makes me interested in her albums in the first place. I am truely amazed by what the vocaloid can created and it was astonishing. I loved Senbonzakura because I have also played it on Jubeat Plus and the experience was AMAZING! That's why I think this song should be ranked higher!
Yes! A great patriotic and catchy song! Finally! This should totally be first place. This song is amazing because it's a wake up call to Japan. Say no to America, stand up to China's lies and Korea's trickery! Return to the great days of old! I love this song!
I love the story to this AWESOME song! It's also the first song I have ever heard from Hatsune Miku. It is also a very good song to play on piano. This is personally my favorite due to its super fast tempo and its great/sad story behind it. You could really tell what's going on!
This song is my second favorite. and the first song I ever scored an S on!
My first favorite. is Kimi no Taion even though it is really sad when you read the english sub.
The Contenders
When you fall in love, you always have to understand does your subject of love really loves you. Do YOU really loves him? Miku doesn't know and tries to find that out in this song
This song is extremely catchy, and I just love singing to it. It's upbeat, fast, and just so AWESOME. I also love when other vocaloids sing this. Everyone sounds so good singing to it!
I don't know why but all the songs are good, but personally I love this for the insanity and the upbeat. I just highly recommend this song, it may not be your type but especially to pump you up this is what you need to listen to.
"Ura Omote Lovers" was my first Hatsune Miku song, and I was captured! Wowaka utilized Miku's ability to sing inhumanly quickly and was among the first to do so, resulting in a catchy and meaningly rap about a struggling girl's love life!V 7 Comments
I love you black rock shooter and hatsune miku you both look very sexy today
Black rock shooter is the best song ever not because miku sang it's because black rock shooter is the best she so epic everyone likes BRS so a song about her is great
I absolutely adore this song! I love the character of Black Rock Shooter as well
Amazing voice a rhythm that goes so well with the Black Rock Shooter animationV 8 Comments
Yellow! To be honest this song do have a magical effect that it will cheer you up no matter how sad you are! I really meant it, it always cheer me up when I felt sad or depress. Warm as sun, shine upon you from the dark
I do not know why this song just brightens up my day and makes me happy when I am in a depressed sort of mood.
I just listened to this song, and it really does deserve it's place among the top ten. It's happy beat and rhythm can lift your spirits in a heartbeat. I'm so happy I came across it.
This gets me through the toughest of days - it's guaranteed to cheer you up in an instant! - Entranced98V 15 Comments
Po Pi Po.. Po Pi Po... :D... Like an Advertisement Song.. But I like it :D..
I like all of miku songs but the tune and the steps of po pi po do stands out!
This song is awesome, very cute! It's just like an advertisement. In this one, Miku sings about vegetable juice, and how you should drink it!
I absolutely LOVE this song and I hope that everyone else does too.. Even if it IS in 4th place, haha!
After listening to this I suddenly knew what the music in Bunchies Try Not to Laugh…V 17 Comments
Amazing melody with touching lyrics that's similar to my own life It deserves to be in top 10. - ERica1130
You Should Listen To it Because It also tells how miku got blu hair
Feel like I'm walking in the night but the sun is bring back
It really makes me feel light inside... I love this song!V 2 Comments
This is the most upbeat song I have heard so far! This song should be all the way up in the top ten! It makes me smile, and dance, and wanna jump up and down in the warm summer sun!
How is this the most upbeat song?! It's so sad, about a girl who's crush treats her as a clown?! Miku CRIES at the end! I love this song, but it is not upbeat.
Let me just say, I know some of you think that's this not the most upbeat song, but I like the music of this song and it makes me wanna dance!
I love this song, the lyrics have an great meaning behind it and I can totally relate to itV 2 Comments
Like it so much!
This song really touches my heart. It kinda reflects my life. As a teenager, I repeat, AS A TEENAGER. It reminds me how my boyfriend and I love each other. Hatsune Miku really changed my life. Every song is just... Magical :3
Love words are all"Thank you" Miku deeply moved me
I rely love ai kotoba its perfect song for valentines day st sing for Vocalid 39 For creating this songV 12 Comments
Best song ever that songs got it all lyrics and the song is catchy
The best song ever and ever and ever
This should be #1, the most creative by far.
Nice Instrumental mix with a great dance rhythm
Shows how innocent is Hatsune Miku
What? Innocence should be in the top ten! - FennikenFan9V 2 Comments
This some is very nice and so energetic. I don't know why it is ranked 26 when it's so catchy. Although even the rin and len ones are better, this song is awesome and you should really hear it and find out.
I love this song too much! The lyrics to it are just so sweet, it's just perfect :3 the second Miku song I ever heard! It's so catchy, and upbeat, and... And... Asdfghjkl
Just love it so much, it should be way higher.
When I heard this song I had to burn its name into my memory because I really enjoyed it. I really love the lyrics and the how real it was. It is outstanding and show you how unique she is.
This song deserves a top ranking for what it represents!
Nah, Rin and Len's version is better, you know. - LaST_LiGHTV 19 Comments
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Berger and his scenic designer, Dane Laffrey, have reconfigured the theater's traditional stage into a playing area of alarming intimacy. Four banks of chairs look through openings variously representing windows, paintings, or mirrors into the lush red box of an upscale mid-20th-century French boudoir. Cramped but opulently furnished, it's unquestionably the possession of someone with taste, money, and no inhibitionssomeone who, most likely, is not like you. As you look across the set, you become acutely aware of the other people watching you, just as hungry and voyeuristic as you are for some glimpse, some explanation, of the life of someone wealthy enough to live here.
That's key, of course, for the title duo as well. Claire (Jeanine Serralles) and Solange (Ana Reeder) are attendants on the glamorous Madame, who've come to both depend on her wealth and generosity and despise the station they know will never be theirs. Throughout their days they enact the deepest fantasies in which they alternate playing the employer and the help, in attempts to satiate their desires and jealousies, and kill time until they can kill the source of their woes. Once Madame (J. Smith-Cameron) arrives, however, plans change as pacts dissolve and reality intervenes.
Because of the tininess of the setup, you're never more than a few feet from one of them, and that wrenches their discontent out of the theoretical and into the actual. Seeing the look of beatific satisfaction on Claire's face as she dons an ostentatious red dress in her fantasy, or feeling a wave of frustration washing over you as Solange forsakes a potent opportunity for freedom, suffocates you in the luxurious life as much as they are. You come to see the bedroom as their cage rather than their sandbox, and as the women's behavior becomes increasingly animalistic and violent, and as Madame herself seems to shrink out of sight as she struggles to find her place within her own property, you see the deeper wisdom of the set: Not only is this realm inescapable, it barely provides you glimpses of better places in your peripheral vision.
It's an all-encompassing concept that works without additional gimmickry (it's often said that Genet stipulated the roles to be played by men, to further heighten the conceit's disconnecting strangeness), in no small part because Berger has approached it so completely. Giving Solange and Claire so little space forces them into themselves and onto each other, and underscores Madame's own powerlessness. With his staging Berger traps and confuses you just like them, and in doing so reinforces the desperation under which they operate, with an intensity you won't have encountered if you spend much of your own life unconcerned about earning money or otherwise making your mark, or that you probably won't recognize even if you're not far removed from the maids' class yourself.
Smith-Cameron, decked out in a mockblonde bombshell wig, captures Madame's quiet desolation with overtones that are appropriately both heartbreaking and annoying; there's no doubt how she inspires such love-hate emotions in the people who work for her. Reeder is magnetic as Solange, finding myriad moments both cunning and touching in the more put-upon of the domestics, and gracefully transitioning from victim to victimizer and back again. Serralles has more difficulty negotiating the changes in mood and tone between the "performance" scenes and the real ones, usually hiding behind a hollow stammer or an artificial grin, except for the final 10 minutes, in which the tension drains from her body and you see that Claire has accepted the fate that, whether she likes it or not, has always been hers.
The ending of The Maids is, like much of what precedes it, poetic, absorbing, and overwrought, but Reeder and Serralles find within it a palpable humanity that tempers the ultimate tragedy of the proceedings. Perhaps Berger and his performers haven't unlocked many new insights, but they've focused on what's there strongly enough to produce a worthwhile journey to take and plenty to see. Including, of course, each other: Try as you might, you can't help but look past Claire, Solange, and Madame to see those sitting just beyond the opposite wall who are judging you in the same way. The message couldn't be clearer: We're all in this together and we're all part of the problem. Genet and Berger succeed at making the related anguish that floods most of the 90 minutes of play time seem like a necessary place to be.
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John, you will know when my art should be view by the art world
Frederica, Del. (PRWEB) May 02, 2014
In remembrance of a brother long dead and in peace, author John Thomas Vaina publishes the works of art that his late sibling Fred Vaina had completed in days of his prime. Sentimental yet inspiring, "Art Unseen II" anthologizes the creativity and artistry running through their veins.
The anthology of deceased Frederick Vaina's works begins with a recapitulation of the life he had lived and how he was remembered the best by the author who is his junior. Fred's inspirations are Francis Goya, Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol and Peter Max. The outputs of his experimentations with artistic media are arranged chronologically, from the most recent to the very first. Copies of the intaglios in zinc and copper which wowed art dealers and master print makers are also contained in the book.
"John, you will know when my art should be view by the art world," were the ideals of Fred that the author constantly plays in his mind. Though his artist brother was tragically killed in a car accident in 1977, Vaina hopes that through this book, this dream will come true.
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Police find drugs and guns in Manchester apartment after sting operation
June 18. 2014 9:58PM
MANCHESTER — Police early Wednesday morning arrested a city man after a drug sting operation that included three cocaine buys by undercover officers during the past three months.
Rene Quiles, 40, of 96 Ashland Ave., was stopped driving his personal vehicle in the area of Huse and Mammoth roads just before 6 a.m.
He was booked at the Manchester Police Department on Valley Street and arraigned later in the morning in 9th Circuit Court-District Division-Manchester.
As soon as Quiles was taken into custody, members of the department's special enforcement division and members of the SWAT team went to Quile's apartment to execute a search warrant.
Quile's wife and 6-year-old and 10-month-old children were removed from the apartment while the search was done.
Police reported finding 14 grams of cocaine, with a street value of $1,400; 15.8 grams of marijuana, with a street value $160; $5,495 in cash, as well as multiple scales, packaging equipment and cutting agents. Police also located a 12-gauge shotgun and a .45 handgun.
Quiles was charged with six felonies: one possession of a narcotic with intent to distribute, three of sale of a controlled drug, and two of felon in possession of a firearm. He was also charged with one misdemeanor of possession of a controlled drug.
At his arraignment in Circuit Court Wednesday morning, a police prosecutor said Quiles has convictions in both New Hampshire and New York.
Quiles could enter no plea to the felony charges, so a probable cause hearing was set for July 3, so a judge can determine whether there is sufficient evidence to send the case to the Hillsborough County North grand jury for possible indictment. There will be a status hearing on the misdemeanor July 3.
Bail was set at $50,000 cash/surety, with a hearing to determine the source of any funds offered for bail.


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The volunteer-based organizing committee for TEDxRegina has had four successful years delivering this independently organized TED event to our community. We have been thrilled with the success of the event over the years and are grateful to all the speakers, volunteers, sponsors and audience members who participated in TEDxRegina - thank you for your enthusiasm and support! More
We're pleased to announce completed videos for this year's speakers. Feel free to share! More
TEDxRegina is an independently organized TED event. The organizers, speakers, volunteers and sponsors are Regina community members passionate about ideas and creating value for our city.


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News: The Timeless Beauty is a forum for women over 40.Chat with us about makeup, skin care, or whatever is on your mind.Free and open membership. Never any ads. Privacy always respected.Interested? Read here and/or here. Or just register!
Not bad weather for February, don't you think?
This is the view from our balcony. No wonder we keep going back. The staff at the hotel are marvellous, so friendly, we always get a great welcome there. Granada and Seville are less than two hours by coach, Ronda is a bit less; wonderful towns, full of interesting monuments and beautiful scenery.
I don't find it too cold because I am used to the cold waters of the Atlantic


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More and more articles on the web state that multitasking and doing 10 things at a time, not only hamper creativity and innovation as well as reduce people's ability to behave in an 'emotionally intelligent' way; even worse, it can affect your memory and lead to stress, thus illness.
Whereas these facts are more or less known, little action is taken to reduce multitasking in work environments. On the contrary:
- People spend most of their days in calls
- At the same time they receive an enormous amount of emails, many of them 'urgent'
- Very often, latest findings and messages have to be simultaneously posted on various external social media channels as well as fed into internal communication channels
- Urgent calls are also coming in which were not scheduled beforehand
- And: maybe you are even supposed to be in a face-2-face meeting during the day
Fortunately, we cannot clone ourselves (yet); we simply cannot be at different places at a time and do various things at once. In order to cope with the daily workload and demands, we usually try very hard to live up to everybody's expectations.
For a certain while, we might even be able to handle all the demands and inputs successfully… but then, we normally feel overwhelmed or at least we cannot remember properly what was said in a call (where we were on 'mute' doing something else in the meantime) or when our colleague came to our desk to talk to us.
What should we do? We need to learn to scale down and approach tasks, demands and workload in a different, mindful way. Nobody can handle everything at the same time and people – yourself even more – deserve your unbiased attention.
You also might want to try implementing these little tips:
- Prioritise your emails: only answer the ones which are of major importance and where you are the direct recipient (not in cc and not in bcc).
- Instead of responding to chains of mails, make a quick call. Your issue might be solved in a couple of minutes
- When attending phone conferences, ensure that there is an agenda, clear objectives and you have an active part to play. You will find that most calls have no outcome and that very often your attendance is not necessary.
- When you do attend a call, switch off your other phone and concentrate solely on what is being said (without writing mails or surfing on the net on the same time); make notes and write down action points to make the most out of it.
- When attending face-2 face meetings or speaking with somebody, ensure you have enough time and switch off your various devices so that your attention lies on your discussion partner or the people in your meeting.
If you feel too overwhelmed and would like to speak about it, please don't hesitate to contact me. I would be happy to coach you (even online) so that over time you can find strategies that work for you and adapt them. Mindful and systemic approaches are very much needed to ensure that your time is spent in an effective and creative way.
Thanks for reading, have a great weekend! Jenny


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"Wild Burro's panhandling, gunfighters shooting and ladies dressed in 1890's style strolling, it must be Oatman, Arizona. Just across the Colorado River and up the hill from Laughlin, Nevada on Historic Route 66 is the lively gold mining town of Oatman. In its heyday of the early 1900's to the 1940's, Oatman and its two mile away companion town of Goldroad were the largest producers of gold in Arizona.
During the Second World War the government needed other metals for the war effort, so the miners were taken to other mines and the mines here closed. The gold was just waiting for better times. Then in 1995 the Goldroad mine was opened again and was taking out 40,000 oz. of gold annually. In 1998 they closed again because of low gold prices. They now have great mine tours daily.
In 1952, Route 66, the main route from the Midwest to California, bypassed this stretch of mountains to be I-40 from Kingman, Arizona to Needles, California. Oatman and Goldroad became real Ghost Towns.
In the 70's Laughlin, Nevada started building up and in the late 80's Route 66 became popular destination for tourists from all over the world. Oatman started becoming very lively again.
Oatman's "Wild" Burro's are the descendants of burro's brought here by the miners and when no longer needed were turned loose. They wander the streets and greet our tourists. We usually have about ten burro's and a few babies.
The Oatman Ghost Riders Gunfighters perform Wild West Shootouts every day at 1:30 pm and 3:30 pm (the 3:30 pm show may not be performed during summer months due to heat and amount of tourists) and are available for "Shotgun Weddings", Tour Bus "Robberies", Stage Coach Hold Ups they like to call them that, and all kinds of special gunfight shows. Also the Oatman Ghost Rider Gunfighters are available for School Field Trips along with Jackie from Fast Fanny's, Prospector Bob and Billy Bob Bob. So come watch the Ghost Rider Gunfighters with some downright Funny Old Wild West Comedy!
We have about 40 gift, antique, and craft shops, Old Time
Photo Shop, Judy's Bar, assorted ghosts and several places
to eat and listen to live music. They include The historic
Oatman Hotel with its thousands of dollar bills tacked to
the walls of the restaurant and bar and the Olive Oatman
Restaurant and Ice Cream Saloon that is named for and sports
a large painting of Olive Oatman who in 1851 was captured by
Indians and was later traded to the local Mohave Tribe,
where she spent 3 years before being returned to her family.
Some of our fun town events are the Bed Races in January,
the Sidewalk Egg Fry Contest on the 4th of July, Gold Camp
Days with the International Burro Bisket Toss on Labor Day
weekend and the Book Fair and Bake Sale on Veterans Day
weekend in November. Special holiday events on Easter,
Halloween, Memorial Day, and of course Christmas times are
also great Entertainment.
By: Jackie Rowland
We invite you to visit Historic Oatman, Arizona
So many
ghosts upon the road,
Your are Visitor Number ~
23963 ~ Thanks for Stopping By!
Oatman-Gold Road Chamber
of Commerce in Oatman, Arizona
Oatman Gold Road Chamber of Commerce Website is made possible by The Glory Hole & Making Memories Old Time Photos.


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India will come back stronger, says Ross Taylor
New Zealand batsman Ross Taylor, a former skipper, expects India to come hard at them in the second ODI that will be played here today
Hamilton: New Zealand batsman Ross Taylor, a former skipper, expects India to come hard at them in the second ODI that will be played here today.
Ross Taylor
Taylor said World No 1 India, who suffered a 24-run defeat in the first ODI in Napier, will come out bigger and stronger.
"They'll be better for the hit-out and I'm sure them being the No 1 one-day team in the world, they'll come back bigger and stronger, Taylor was quoted as saying by stuff.co.nz
Taylor feels India will now be better prepared and sharper than ever before. The Indians had no warm-up game in New Zealand ahead of the series.
Conditions at the Seddon Park here would suit the Indians the most. The track here is slower than the one they encountered at the McLean Park and Indian spinners Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja will have some role.
"The wicket in Napier is probably one of the fastest wickets that we have in New Zealand. It was probably a little bit slower than what it normally is, it was probably prepared a couple of days earlier for whatever reason.
But this wicket here is a little bit slower and there probably is going to be one boundary that is going to be a little bit bigger than the other, so we need to be smart in the way we do approach that," he said.
Taylor, who struck 55 off 82 balls that had just one four in the last match, defended his slow knock saying his role is to set the platform. "I think my role is to bat in that middle order and set the platform for the guys coming through," he said.


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Newcastle's Civic Park War Memorial Grove sits in a quiet corner of the city's central park, opposite Newcastle Art Gallery, and the Regional Library and across the road from the City Hall and Civic Administration Centre.
Civic Park, of which the grove forms a part, features the dramatic Hindle Fountain, which is an icon in the city of Newcastle.
The War Memorial Grove was developed from a community desire to honour servicemen and women killed during the world wars. It was constructed from public and private funds, some of the money coming from families whose relatives are commemorated on each of the 68 plaques featured throughout the garden. Much of the work was done by volunteer members of the New Lambton Heights Garden Club, and this relationship has been maintained till this day.
It was opened and dedicated as a War Memorial in 1961 by the then Anglican Bishop of Newcastle, Rt. Rev. James Housden.
The grove has long been a quiet place for reflection and although a little neglected towards the end of the 20th and early 21st Century, a preservation group has now been formed to lobby for its refurbishment. This project will be undertaken in partnership with Newcastle City Council.
It also features some significant and interesting pieces of sculpture and memorabilia as well as a reflection pool and small ceremonial gathering area and flag pole.
Copyright © 2016 Newcastle Civic Park War Memorial Grove


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A Trickster Tale from the Pacific Northwest
Gerald McDermott
Age Range:
4 - 10
Pub Date
April 1st, 1993
Hero and mischief-maker Raven is central to Native American myths of the Pacific Northwest, as McDermott explains in a gracefully written note. Here, he's a cunning trickster who brings the marvelous gift of light to the world. Turning himself into a pine needle, Raven is swallowed by the Sky Chief's daughter and reborn as her son. He finds the sun hidden away in a box, resumes the shape of Raven, seizes the sun in his beak, and throws it into the sky. Retelling the tale with elegant simplicity, Caldecott Medalist McDermott illustrates it with handsome mixed-media art. Raven, a bold pattern of red, blue, and green on black, refers directly to the familiar totem pole figure; the landscape is a lovely, understated expanse of watercolor; the stylized sky people, in gentle earth tones, are at once decorative, warmly benevolent, and sculpturally heroic. A splendid setting for an important myth.
(Folklore/Picture book. 4-10)


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Today I want to tell you about the single most counterintuitive-but-true thing I've ever heard.
Suppose you're observing something that changes over time — say the Dow Jones average, or the temperature in Barrow, Alaska, or the number of people who have been shot by terrorists so far this year. Suppose you have absolutely no prior information about how this thing behaves — in particular, you might have no way of knowing whether it changes continuously (like the temperature) or whether it's subject to sudden changes (like the number of terrorist victims). You have no formula for it; you don't even know whether there is a formula. It could be absolutely anything.
(For those who want more precision: This thing you're observing is a real-valued function defined on the positive real numbers — which we can think of as a function of time. It can be any function whatsoever.)
Now suddenly, at some randomly chosen moment, your ability to observe comes to a halt. If that randomly chosen moment is, say, 6:23 AM, then your observations go right up to , but do not include, 6:23 AM.
Your task is to accurately guess the value of the variable at that first moment that you can't observe. In fact, let me make your job a little harder. If your observations stop at 6:23AM, then I want you to accurately guess the value at 6:23 AM and for a little while thereafter.
Now here's the theorem: There is a strategy that will allow you to succeed at this task with probability 100%.
If that sounds even remotely plausible to you, then you haven't understood it.
If you could implement this strategy, you could certainly beat the stock market, unless you preferred to spend all your time winning bar bets about the paths of raindrops along windowpanes. Unfortunately, the strategy is (provably) too complex to implement on any computer. But there's a sense in which it's easy to describe, though not to implement. Sometime soon I'll blog the description and a sketch of why it works. If you just can't wait, here is the paper I learned this from.