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The day has arrived - we're both happy and proud to report that the brand-new SimpleCalendar 3.0 is out!
SimpleCalendar for Joomla 1.5 was a tremendous success story: with more than 40'000 unique downloads in about 2 years, SimpleCalendar was appreciated by a lot of users and used in a variety of websites. When Joomla 1.6 came out, time and motiation constraints kept us from upgrading this component to the latest Joomla version. On came Joomla 2.5, same story. Here we are now with Joomla 3.0 (and 3.1) as our main engine, working our way towards the next Joomla LTS (long-time support) version, which will be 3.5 in about 3 to 4 months' time.
While most of the underlying has been written from scratch, SimpleCalendar retains its unique features that made it an immediate success among the Joomla community: its "simple"! While that may seem unrealistic, lots of Event Management components have grown to become huge and unmanageable beasts. SimpleCalendar doesn't want to compete with more powerful (and complicated) products, but still provide its unique set of features that enables you to display, in a rather easy and straight-forward way, events on your website. SimpleCalendar 3.0 makes full use of the core improvements in Joomla, like fluid design: you'll love it!
Support is provided in our brand new forum which is now free for anyone to join.
There are - probably - features that are lacking in SimpleCalendar. Like recurring events, nested categories, event signup, etc. While we strive to provide you with the most complete package, we have had to make choices as to including or excluding certain features. We believe that SimpleCalendar is the most easy way to publish events. You can always post a feature request on the Suggestion Box area of our forum. We will pick it up from there and should we find it interesting, it will be added to this ever-growing product.
Translations are now handled through the excellent Transifex online translation tool! It is open to anyone to add a request for a new language and start working on it as soon as it is approved - all translated languages will be added to the release of SimpleCalendar, or be packaged into a language package that can be installed separately. Many thanks to those who already worked on some translations, and to those who will jump aboard the ship in the future.
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Former Lions' tackle Lomas Brown sent message during '94 Packers' game
In an intervew Friday on ESPN Radio, former Lions tackle Lomas Brown reminded us not all offensive lineman love their quarterbacks all the time.
Brown, a studio analyst for ESPN, was a guest on the "SVP and Russillo" show.
Brown, 49, said when he wanted to send a message to his quarterback, he would deliberately whiff on his blocking assignments so his opponent would get a hit on his own quarterback.
"Just let the guy hit him," Brown said. "Just let the D-lineman get a shot on him," Brown said. "I'd make it look good. I had some actor in me."
Brown cited an example of what he was talking about, a Lions at Packers game on Nov. 6, 1994, played in Milwaukee when Scott Mitchell was quarterback for Detroit.
"We were getting beat . . . at that time and he just stunk up the place," Brown said. "He's throwing interceptions, just everything. So I looked at Kevin Glover, our All-Pro center and I said, 'Glove, that is it.' I said, 'I'm getting him out the game.' . . . So I got the gator arms on the guy at the last minute, he got around me, he hit Scott Mitchell, he did something to his finger . . . . and he came out the game."
The Packers were up in the game, 24-0, when Packers defensive end Sean Jones hit Mitchell in the second quarter. Mitchell came out of the game with a broken bone in his right hand. He was replaced by Dave Krieg.
Krieg threw for three touchdown passes, but the Packers won 38-30.
"As you can tell, I'm just not a big fan of Scott Mitchell," Brown said. "He's not on my Christmas list."
On Sunday's "The NFL Today" show, Boomer Esiason and Bill Cowher offered their opinions about Brown's admission.
"The other thing about Lomas Brown, he was a tackle with me in Arizona," Esiason said. "When I heard this this week I could not believe that he would say something like this. His job on the field of play is to protect your quarterback. Now supposedly he let Sean Jones of the Green Bay Packers hit Scott Mitchell and he broke a finger. To me, it's an intent to injure play by Lomas Brown. I cannot believe that he would do something like this, and it's bordering on criminal. I had a lot of respect for Lomas Brown until I heard this this week. That is above and beyond what he should be doing on the field."
Cowher said: "He's retired. It's an isolated situation. I was in the league for 26 years playing and coaching straight, and every player played for his teammate. And if he did this, and intentionally, to me it's gutless and classless for him as a player to do something like that. He let down his team."
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Before I gave my heart to Jesus, I was a very religious person with an obsessive compulsive disorder. Each time I wanted to pray, I had to change all my clothes because I thought if they weren't clean, my prayers wouldn't be acceptable to God. Despite having a happy marriage and a good life, I had a deep depression. My husband and two beautiful sons aged three and seven could not fill the emptiness inside me.
At that time I was secretly taking medication, and inwardly I blamed everybody around me for it. I knew I couldn't feel happy even if I had every desire in my heart.
'I came to understand more and more about God's love; that God IS love, and His love for us is so vast that He gave His only son for us.'
One day, as I was flicking channels on the TV, I came across a programme I'd never seen before. The channel was called 'Mohabat' and the presenters were two kind and noble-looking men with warm smiles, talking about God's love towards us. At first I was totally confused, I had never heard anything about Christianity and thought Islam to be the last and best religion. But that day I heard something very different.
From then on I started watching the channel every day at the appointed time. I came to understand more and more about God's love; that God IS love, and His love for us is so vast that He gave His only son for us so that we can be saved. This new message was amazing to me and changed my life forever. My desire to know this God of love was increasing daily. One day I knelt down and repeated the repentance prayer with pastor Hormoz and gave my heart to Jesus forever.
I have never been the same since that day. Every day I learn more and more about His love, and one day, in a vision, God laid His hand on me and healed me from all my physical pains and emotional wounds, including depression and OCD. The joy was so incredible I couldn't keep it to myself, but shared everything with my husband. He had noticed that I had changed a lot and said, 'I don't know Jesus, but there must be a truth in Him that you could change this much' and advised me not to turn back to my old self. But we both knew I had to be careful, as his father was a high positioned mullah in the town and my husband thought that it would be disrespectful to his dad if people found out about my conversion. I kept it a secret for a long time.
I was very thankful to channel Mohabat, which was available 24 hours a day, so I could learn so much about Christianity and the Good News of Jesus. I started telling some of my relatives about Jesus, but they rejected me completely because of my new-found faith. During those days I never felt lonely, His presence and the love He lavished on me made me thirstier for His words.
'We were all shocked and terrified. It was a big price we were paying for our faith. Our future was a total mystery.'
I contacted channel Mohabat and over time I was connected to a sister in Christ who was very kind. Her name was Sima and she has been ministering to me since then. Through Sima I was invited to a 222 Ministries conference in Armenia, where I was baptised and heard many teachings that developed my spiritual walk. In 2013, three days after coming back from a conference, the intelligence agents came to my house and took all my belongings including my PC, books, passport, ID cards and mobile phone, and took me and my son to their office. While I was there I saw so many other believers and we were being interrogated individually. They let my son go home after badly beating him up and sent me to the ladies prison. We were all shocked and terrified. It was a big price we were paying for our faith. Our future was a total mystery.
We were questioned on a daily basis and asked to sign a blank paper every day before transferring us to a freezing cold room. As a mother the most difficult time for me was when I was being questioned and I could hear my son screaming with pain in the next room.
After a month I was freed with a 50 million tomans bail. They took me to court twice, I was convicted and sentenced to four years imprisonment. My crime was evangelism and activities against the government and national security. I found enough time to gather my things and leave Iran. I could not bear four years imprisonment simply for being a Christian. At this time my father-in-law insisted on our divorce.
Before doing anything I consulted Sima and 222 Ministries became involved through her. With their help and support my husband and I, with our two sons, illicitly left Iran for Turkey.
Today is about one and a half years since we left Iran. For the first eight days we were living with a family of believers, but then 222 Ministries rented us some accommodation and now we are safe. Now I can go to church and worship God in freedom. My prayers are for everybody in Iran to have the same freedom, and that one day we all can go back to Iran and rebuild our churches there. Against all odds and difficulties here we are blessed and our spirits are sealed for Jesus.


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Hologram Communication
Intrapersonal Holograms
Paul Chivington describes a psychological hologram in his book "Seeing Through Your Illusions". My communication models are based on Chivington's psychological model. Communication takes place when we respond to stimulus. We store new information based upon our past experiences and what we experience in the present. Our new subconscious record will be projected in the future. Both Pribram and Chivington say that we store and project information through our subconscious mind holographically.
The object beam represents our 5 senses. I believe the lens represents how sharp our senses are. The lens becomes "clouded" when we loose our sensitivity to stimulus. When we reflect our sensory stimulus attention onto the object, we record the waves as a reflection of our sensory interaction.
The reference beam is a reflection of the mirror of our past experiences, beliefs, attitudes, and our expectations of the outcome of the future. It is the projection of your past hologram. The diffusion lens needs to be clear to project a clear representation of the past.
The two beams causes the interference pattern to be created in our brains. We project these old images onto future events. Chivington claims that we can change our reactions to present events by changing our attitudes and beliefs about our past experiences.
3. Projecting Information
One reference beam is used to project a hologram. A white light can be used to view, or project, most holograms. But, to get the clearest image and the most perspectives, the light source used to project the image should have a coherency similar to the original light source. The waves of the reference beam will intersect with those on the film and reproduce the information of the image. The more intersections of waves, the clearer the image reproduced.
A hologram projected has an inverse relationship with the hologram recorded. Notice that the black side of the object is closest to the plate in both the real image and the virtual image.
Expanding Perspectives
The interpersonal model below shows what happens when two people view the same event. Each person records the hologram with their own intrapersonal energy coherency, or with different LASERs. They have common sensory experiences as show by the intersecting light waves from their object beams. But, each has a unique reference point, based upon information they recorded in the previous holograms.
This illustrates what happens when two people communicate about an event that they both experienced. A and B both view an event, but have different sensory experiences (object beams) and different past experiences (reference beams). They each have a unique record of the event.
If A is able to project a clear image of his perspective, then B will be able to add the waves from A's record's perspective of the event. Person B will have an expanded perception of the event. If each person could coherently project their unique perspective of the event, they could enhance the clarity of each others personal holographic image by projecting or recording another wave of interference. If A communicates precisely his perspective, and B accepts the perspective and vise-versa, then the image will be clearer for both of them.
2. Projecting Virtual Images
This is an example of holographic interpersonal communication. First, person A records an event. By projecting coherent communication energy, A will be able to produce a virtual image of that event. B's past reference beam is added to the image on memory plate. Person B can record the virtual image, and can also project to another person. If A cannot communicate at a coherent energy level, then he/she cannot re- produce the image clearly. Also, if the diffusion lens is dirty, then some of the information will not get through or some of the information could be distorted.
People project holographic images of their experiences using communication energy. The clarity of the image they project is dependent upon how coherent their original light source was, and how coherent the energy is that is produced by their communication efforts. Communicating at a high energy level will help to project a clearer image.
3. Quantum Memory Leaps
The whole communication process has a ripple effect as the waves expand. Each time our mind is stimulated, a wave of communication light energy is released. Any time we are stimulated by objects, events, or others' communication light waves, we will incorporate them into our mind. The crest of each communication energy wave will expand or propagate infinitely. Holographic theory re-enforces Dance's theory that communication is added upon. Dance's model operates on a continuum.
My communication model acts like the pebble's wave which also propagates to infinity. The wave energy of communication portrays this propagation as continuous quantum leaps of information. A quanta is a measurement that deals only with whole numbers. A jump from 2 to 3, without any numbers (2.1, 2.11, 2.12..) in between. Every time we participate in communication, we record a new wave of information.
Each new memory hologram is a quantum leap.


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What do you get when you cross the glowing LED box with a RC helicopter and the pyMCU microcontroller? A Python controlled glowing head of course!
This "Python Head Man" is capable of looking up and down in two directions, and lighting up "eyes" and a "mouth." This is possibly better explained in the video below. The 'bot uses the two servos originally meant to adjust the rc helicopter blades that this frame had on it. I originally wrote about controlling these servos here, but this setup also has two sets of LEDS that can be independently switched on and off. Control of the 'bot is also enhanced with a simple GUI using the Tkinter Python library. Diffusion of these LEDs is done with a foam cube, similar to the "Solar LED cube" that I made a few months ago.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a524jLYFdGY]
If you would like to try something like this yourself, you'll need the following:
- A pyMCU board from pymcu.com
- A small breadboard – available from Amazon or from pyMCU
- LED lights – awesome multi-pack I've been using from Amazon
- Diffuse styrofoam cube – hobby store or possibly dollar store
- Jumper wires
- An old RC Helicopter chassis and servo OR you could get a servo pan-tilt setup from Servocity.com and adapt that.
- Python source code – available here (or just make something up)
- Glue and something to hollow out the cube.
The pictures below should give you some ideas of how it's set up:
Note how I glued some cross-pieces on to the swash plate assembly to make a comparatively sturdy mount for the diffuse foam. Rubber bands then held the head on. The pyMCU and breadboard were attached using a glue and a small piece of plastic as described in this previous post. Pretty silly hack really, but it was fun.
Originally, I had thought about using this to respond to Twitter commands like Chris Allick's "blink for tacos" build. I still may, and he was quite helpful when I was working on it. Unfortunately, I seem to have the Maker's version of ADD, since there's always another project I want to work on… I do have other robots that I've made though, so be sure to check out the "Robotics" category for more robot-induced fun!


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Just ahead of its national debut on 'Good Morning America' this morning, the music video for 'Let It Go' from Disney's Frozen as performed by Demi Lovato has been released on YouTube. You can find it embedded below.
On November 26, Walt Disney Records will release the original motion picture soundtrack for Disney's Frozen (currently available for order from Amazon.com and iTunes).


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It used to be that rubbish material got rubbish production values, slap your hands together so-there style, be done with it and in no time, gone. Not so much anymore. These days, rubbish material can be handled brilliantly.
The pervasiveness of media awareness, genre sophistication, input from all sorts of traditional and digital sources, has encouraged a generation of artists—well, a faction of a generation—whose impulse is to follow the meta-muse. To riff on familiar tropes in a humorous way. Last season gave us Silence, the unofficial musical lampoon of The Silence of the Lambs; this year comes Triassic Parq, which isn't a spoof of Jurassic Park per se, but a what-if? What if you told a story about lab-created dinosaurs on the loose from their own perspective?
The musical (book and lyrics by Marshall Pailet, Bryce Norbitz and Stephen Wargo, music by Marshall Pailet) follows a few genre ground rules as faithfully as send-up allows: the dinosaurs have their own mythology to explain how they came to be, who they "answer to" as a higher power (they substitute Lab for God) and have some rude awakenings when they break free of their confinement to find that food isn't just delivered anymore. (Is it satire-significant that their usual food is a lamb?) But mostly…sigh…it's a campy sex farce with a good deal of gender reversal, symbolic and literal. At first, the dino herd believe themselves to be all female, but when an infusion of hormones enters their water supply, latent traits are triggered and some of them develop penises. The emerging males are played by women. The men play the females. It's not the screaming gayfest it may sound like in cold print…but it doesn't have a lot of macho ballast either.
The songs' music favor backbeats and hard, primary pulses (what else, right?) and the lyrics are fairly witless, tending to hump a single idea-phease to death (what else, right?). And the book, per the above, is mostly silly.
But here's the thing. It's designed wonderfully, in a kind of off-Broadway lo-tek way that's a budget comment on high-tek. Likewise, the costumes are glitzy, goofy and cheesy fun. (No, there are no B-movie dino-suits; it's all rather go-native symbolic.) Most importantly…it's brilliantly directed (ahem, for what it is) also by Pailet; he never misses a sight gag, a way to lampoon the limitations of the scenery, or an opportunity to make sure a "poetic" device meant to engage audience imagination (toward, say, filling in the literal detail of an implied a special effect) is called out as a cheap theatrical stunt…but only after the audience has fallen for it, which also makes the joke our own suggestibility and willingness to play along with corny convention. And commensurately, the cast is extremely hip and very funny. Personal favorites include Lindsay Nicole Chambers as a kind of Super Velocipartor of legend; and Lee Seymour as our guide through the evening: Morgan Freeman. (No, that's not a typo. He plays Morgan Freeman. I don't know what the hell Morgan Freeman is playing.)
And like every other meta show of its type, Triassic Parq is exactly as funny as your tolerance for this kind of crap is. If you said to the authors that the emperor has no clothes, they'd likely say, "Well duh. That's the point." And when you're stripping a genre to its nubbin, I guess it is, rather. Personally, I could have lived my life happily without it. But the night I was there, the audience went nuts.
And that, kids, is what makes tyrannosaurus racing…
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So last week I wrote about the smoky guy at the gym. You can view that here if you want. It has been a WTFriday month at the gym. I had another smelly experience last Saturday at the gym.
It's taken me a while to get the hubs interested in going to the gym with me and Saturday I actually go him up to go with me…yay!
We decided to do the elliptical and we got on two that were side-by-side. About halfway through our workout an older man got on the elliptical next to my hubs. It was fine until my hubs looked at me with this OMG look on his face. Then about a minute later I smelled it…BO and nasty BO. Holy cow, this guy smelled bad AND was sweating next to us.
It was not just a normal sweat smell but rather a…no shower or clean clothes at all, all week kind of smell.
OK so I get it…who wants to shower before the gym? Not me. But you can wear clean workout clothes and have it least showered in the past couple day before coming to the gym! In fact the gym has showers!!!
WTFriday…second week of gym odor…nasty!
Remember I would love your WTFriday moments to share!


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George Clooney has dismissed reports he has ended his relationship with Italian girlfriend Elisabetta Canalis, insisting the story was "made up".
The Hollywood heart-throb has been dating the model/TV presenter since July 2009, but recent U.K. reports suggested the couple split shortly after this year's Academy Awards ceremony in March 2010.
However, Clooney insists the pair are still an item.
He tells People.com, "Once again the story is made up, spread to other outlets and now denied."


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According to a recent ComScore report, Americans conducted more than 19.2 billion search queries throughout the month of July. To go along with that massive statistic, social networking now accounts for 1 out of every 6 minutes spent online, and according to a recent survey, 84% of people go online with the intent of socially sharing content. These are very powerful, yet very different statistics, but they work together to illustrate that people are using two mediums to find information online: search engines and social networks.
Over the last few years, search engines have begun to recognize the value users find in social networks and how social sharing can help inform them of which content is popular, of high quality and is deserving of a high search ranking. Because of this, major search engines like Google and Bing are now using links shared on social networks as search ranking factors.
As the relationship between search and social continues to grow, it's important for businesses to start taking one integrated approach to online strategy that considers how search and social media can work together to meet overall business objectives. This presentation gives an overview of how search and social media influence one another and also includes a few tactics to consider when taking an integrated approach to online strategy.
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The Scouting Movement
The JM Guides and Scouts are affiliated with the Associations of the Guides and Scouts of Lebanon respectively. They are divided into five units:
* The "Farandoles": Girls of Elementary I Division
* The Brownies and Cub scouts: Students of Elementary I and II Divisions
* The Guides and Scouts: Students of Elementary II and Intermediate Divisions
* The "Caravelles": Girls of 1st and 2nd Secondary
* The "Jeunes en Marche" (JEM): Girls of 3rd Secondary
The various groups meet regularly and have outings and camps throughout the year.
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April 2015
It was great The tour guide was very knowledgeable It was neat to cook chicken Mayan style and then eat it Only my wife comprehended Mayan math
September 2014
Wowzers! We had such an incredible time on our trip to Chichen Itza and learned so much about the Mayans from our tour guide Carlos! He was incredibly knowledgeable and clearly passionate about what he was sharing which brought so much of the history to life.
We would say though that the Viator description is slightly misleading. The cooking class involves cooking pre-prepared food, and the relaxation at the Mayaland resort involves eating and walking amongst the gardens on your way to different elements of the tour, but no use of the pool facilities. This wasn't a problem though as so much of your time is spent experiencing different elements of Mayan culture and of course going to the sight of Chichen Itza with our incredibly knowledgeable tour guide, Carlos, who could answer any questions you had about the sight and the Mayans.
We would highly recommend this tour as it was a huge highlight of our trip.
March 2014
The guide was very professional and knowledgeable. The hotel pickup was on time, everything was extremely well done.
February 2014
Our tour guide Carlos was very knowledgeable and interesting. We enjoyed the lesson in numerology, cooking like a Mayan and the show at the observatory very much. Chichen Itza is well worth a visit and Viator is the best!
December 2013
Great tour overall. It was only the two of us on the day we went, so I think ours may have been a bit different. We we're also a bit late being picked up, and after changing vans, arrived late to the tour. I think this hurried our classes (counting, language, cooking). No light breakfast or refreshments on the way, as noted in schedule details, so we were happy to have eaten a light breakfast at our resort prior to being picked up. After the planetarium (which was cheesy at times, but definitely a good history of the Mayan people and culture), we were supposed to go to straight to the ruins. However, we were starving at that point and asked to eat first, which they graciously accommodated. We had a feast! Multiple appetizers, entree choice of the chicken we cooked or another meat/fish, and dessert. However, we ate so much and for so long, that we cut our ruins tour down to only 1.5 hours. Luckily, we had Gil, the world's best tour guide who got us through the ruins efficiently. He was SO fantastic!!!
Overall, transfers and inclusions were an issue but at the end of the day I had fun, learned a lot, and came back thrilled!
August 2014
Our guide was very informative, but I think we should have gone to the ruins first. We went at the hottest point in the day and it was hard to focus with all the heat.
July 2014
Great exposure to the Mayan Culture..starting with an introductory film about Mayan history...prepared our lunch at cooking class...Highlight being the ruins..very crowded with flea market feel with all of the people selling souveneirs(worst part). Guide was very knowledgable and we came away with an appreciation of a culture long gone
January 2015
the ABSOLUTE best part of the tour is how informative the tour guide is! the bad part is that they rush this tour because they are on a schedule... so FORGET lounging in the hotel in your free time... there is NONE! ask to take pictures during the cooking lessons or with the cook and DO NOT be afraid to take out your camera during the entire tour, because if you are shy about it, you will miss the chance... the cook is the nicest and most patient man, despite the time limitation. I don't give 5 stars because it feels too rushed, and the tour guide does not miss a beat. I felt kind of bad for him because he needs to get all the things promised and back home with in the time limit given to him. Although very monotone when speaking, if you could get over that, he is a great tour guide and VERY informative and polite. they will constantly remind you that tips are not included both for him and the driver, so be prepared for that. I don't have problems with this because I understand this is how they make a little cash on the side. Over all I would recommend this tour to older couples and definitely NOT younger people looking to be free and really enjoy the tour.... I took my mom and she likes to walk away like any 3 year old would at her 63 years, so she felt hurried and confined. they will try to sell you the necklaces and names and some other things (which I bought) so be prepared for the extra spending money. Not for everybody. We got to eat what we prepared and it was ok. Make sure to eat or take snacks.. a long drive. they will serve you a light breakfast when you arrive of bread and coffee... over all it was a good experience.
January 2016
The local tour company had me travel to Chichen Itza on a bus with a whole bunch of people who had different tours for the day. Mine was supposed to be hours longer, with a much more detailed program. I ended up missing out on much of my program, including lunch. Bad, bad time management decisions on the part of the company.
May 2015
It was okay. We learned a little about the Mayan language, I thought it was going to more. It was like five minutes worth of leaning, we visit the shaman which was nice. We also learned the Mayan numbers and it was hard to understand. We cooked a dish, but it was moe like five minutes of preparation, but it turned out great. The planetarium was nice. However, we did the tour of the ruins towards the end when it was hot. We only had one bottle of water. We did not take any breaks during the ruins and I felt sick. I felt nauseous, dizzy and was about to pass out. The girl who was with us, also felt the same and was about to vomit. The tour guide Carlos was not going anywhere near the shade, we couldn't even sit down. I had to sit on the dirt in front of the ruin, in the hot sun. At the end, he asked were we okay, and I explained to him no, so we finally left to eat. Which he began walking slower to explain all the famous people who stayed at the hotel like Jennifer Lopez, and also tried to get us to buy a Mayan Neckless from someone. I never felt that sick in my life when they offer us fruit. I could not eat. I just drank water for about thirty minutes until I was able to eat. I must admit, the chicken we prepared was awesome. I never saw someone cook chicken in the ground before. Overall. I will still say I enjoyed myself because although I was sick, tired, and hot. I was able to see the ruins, one of the seven wonders of the world.
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chestnut, not only by reason of their direct effect where they kill the tree outright, but also by exposing its interior to the attacks of fungi and insects. In addition, such fires impoverish the soil by burning out the humus, thus materially lessening its fertility. Reproduction also receives a setback because seedlings, young sprouts, or nuts lying on the ground ready for germination, are easily killed. Forest fires have been abundant throughout the range of the chestnut tree, and it is reasonably certain that they have been much more frequent since the white man has settled these parts of North America. In the southern Appalachians, the deadly work of fire, followed by insects and fungi, is to be seen on every hand. In this connection the following citations give us some conception of the general condition of the chestnut in the southern Appalachians.
Dr. Mohr,[1] speaking of the chestnut in Alabama, says:
The chestnut, usually one of the most frequent trees of these forests, is at present rarely found in perfection. The older trees mostly show signs of decay, and the seedlings, as well as the coppice growth proceeding from the stumps, are more or less stunted. It is asserted by the old settlers that this tree is dying out all over the mountainous regions, where at the beginning of the second half of the century it was still abundant and in perfection.
W. W. Ashe,[2] says:
For many years the chestnut on the lower mountains in the southeastern portion of the state has been dying out, a few trees at a time.… Some of these are killed by the two-lined chestnut borer, but while this decline is in part due to the ravages of the borer, it seems to be due more to excessive burning and to the consequent destruction of humus and impoverishment of the soil.
W. P. Corsa,[3] states:
From causes not well understood, there is a marked decline in the vigor of the chestnut throughout the broad area of territory in the southern states where the white man found this tree among the most thrifty of the original forests. Down to the first quarter of the present century there seems to have been no mention of a trouble in the chestnuts of that section. Within the memory of residents of the Gulf States the chestnut flourished in all their higher lands. In point of time the trouble seems to have begun in the most southern limit of chestnut growth, and there the destruction has been most complete. It has pushed its encroachments throughout Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina, and is now reported in the strongholds of chestnut growth in North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia.
Buttrick,[4] in a study of the conditions in North Carolina, says:
- ↑ Mohr, Charles, loc. cit., p. 61.
- ↑ Ashe, W. W., "Chestnut in Tennessee." State Geol. Survey of Tennessee, published in cooperation with the Forest Service, U. S. Dept. of Agr. Bull., 10-B, p. 11, 1912.
- ↑ Corsa, W. P., "Nut Culture in the United States," Unnumbered Bull. of Div. of Pomology, U. S. Dept. of Agric, 1896, p. 78.
- ↑ Quoted by permission, from the manuscript of a report on the chestnut in North Carolina, prepared by P. L. Buttrick, under the joint direction of the


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Actor-filmmaker Amol Palekar, who is identified with simple and loveable comedies, says his Marathi directorial venture We Are On - Houn Jau Dya belongs to the same family of movies.
The 68-year-old, still remembered for his roles in Golmaal and Choti Si Baat, turned to direction with 1981 Marathi movie Aakriet.
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US and Iran Could Work Together for Peace in the Middle East
Jul 17, 2013, 05:27 ET from World Review
VADUZ, Liechtenstein, July 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
The 'Axis of Evil' could soon become the 'Pivot of Peace' as Iran's new 'moderate' leader, Dr Hassan Rouhani prepares to take over its presidency. His inauguration on August 3 2013 as the 11th president of the Islamic Republic could give Europe and the United States an opportunity to consider Iran as an ally in the Middle East.
It will be an opportunity for European nations to revise, and possibly reverse, its diplomatic alliances with the Muslim world, writes World Review author Charles Millon, former French Minister of Defence.
'Dr Rouhani is considered a moderate, a centrist, half-way between conservatives, whose allegiance is to the ayatollahs, and reformists,' says Mr Millon. 'As such, he is seen as the right man for renewing dialogue with a western world that stands close behind Israel.'
'The fact that he has won the election in the first round has also conferred on him a high level of legitimacy in people's and the eyes of Iran's ayatollahs, which should allow him at least a certain time-margin for manoeuvering towards normalising the Persian state's relations with the rest of the globe,' says Mr Millon.
'An unstable axis has developed from Lebanon to Iran under cover of the incoherent wars carried out by the West and Israel in the past decade,' says Mr Millon. 'Iran and the Shiite alliance may be the last remaining safeguard in the powder keg that is the Middle East'.
It is a fact that the West, particularly France, has in recent times placed its bets on an alliance with Sunni oil-monarchies whose alleged lack of respect for human rights have mostly escaped criticism.
'It is now, perhaps, time for Europe's diplomats to understand that this alliance will do more bad than good and that oil-monarchies are a source of discord in the Muslim, Arab and African world,' he says.
'It is therefore worth asking whether it would not be a better strategy for France, Europe and the United States to deal with Iran, to enter into deep-reaching negotiations with its new president Dr Rouhani and to seek to identify a middle course that would exclude belligerent Islamism and jihad.'
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Originally the number of players in a game of Rugby football was not limited, and there were no formal playing positions. Games at rugby school were simply played by however many boys wanted to play in a particular game. A kind of huge rolling maul developed, moving around the field since there was a very limited amount of space on the field in which to run. As the game began to be played between different schools and clubs a fixed number of players was needed. This then allowed players to start specializing in certain positions and to develop particular skills appropriate to those positions.
Rugby teams were then limited to twenty players made up of seventeen forwards and three full backs whose sole job was to maintain possession if the opposition managed to hack it out the scrum. Circa 1875 the number of players in a team was reduced to fifteen (ten forwards and five backs).
Today the player names, positions and numbers worn on shirts are defined by the International Rugby Board (IRB). Players usually have the following position names and numbers although there are some local variations in namingin common use:
1 prop (loose head) 2 hooker 3 prop (tight head) 4 lock 5 lock 6 flanker 7 flanker 8 number 8 B
9 scrum half 10 outside half or stand-off or fly half 11 left wing 12 left centre or inside centre 13 right centre or outside centre 14 right wing 15 full back
1 & 3 Prop
Along with the hooker, the loose-head and tight-head props make up what is known as the front row, which refers to their position in the scrum.
To be successful, both props must be extremely strong in the neck, shoulders, upper body and legs, and they should relish head-to-head competition.
While stopping their side of the scrum from moving backwards, the props also support the hooker's body weight, allowing him or her to see and strike the ball when it is put into the scrum. In the lineout, props should be able to support or lift the jumper to prevent the opposition winning the ball.
Away from set pieces, props help to secure the ball when a player has been tackled, so it helps if they can combine their power with a degree of mobility. You'll also often see them used as battering rams in attack, receiving short passes after a ruck or maul and hitting the opposition defence at pace in an attempt to occupy the defenders and make space for their own backs.
2 Hooker
Lining up in the scrum between the two props, the hooker is one of the forwards' key decision-makers. He or she will coordinate the timing at the scrum, and is also responsible for winning possession in the scrummage by hooking the ball back through the props' legs.
To allow the hooker to do this effectively, the props support much of the hooker's weight, leaving him or her free to concentrate on hooking the ball back, rather than pushing against the opposition forwards. For this reason the hooker is often the smallest member of a front-row trio.
At the lineout he or she is responsible for throwing the ball in and must be able to accurately hit the lineout jumper who is expecting the ball. In open play the hooker plays a similar role to the props, securing possession at rucks and mauls, or taking short 'crash' passes.
4 & 5 Lock
The second row forwards (also known as locks) are the engine room of the scrum and the target men in the lineout, meaning that they need to be tall, powerful players with excellent scrummaging technique and pinpoint timing.
If they bind to each other and the props too loosely in the scrum their pack will lose power, and if they are not accurate and dynamic with their lineout jumping, it offers the opposition forwards a chance to steal possession.
In open play the second row's duties have evolved from being support players at rucks and mauls to ball carriers. If a marauding second row is comfortable with the ball in hand, their bulk and power makes them very difficult to stop.
6 & 7 Flanker
Open-side and blind-side flankers are often considered to be the players with the fewest set responsibilities, but as such must be excellent all-rounders with inexhaustible energy. Speed, strength, fitness, tackling and handling skills are all vital.
Flankers are more often than not at the centre of the action – winning balls at the ruck and maul, collecting short passes from tackled players and making their own big tackles in open play. While they can rarely be blamed for a loss, they can certainly be the key to victory.
The open-side flanker plays on the far side of the scrum from the touchline and is often smaller in size than their blind-side partner, making them more mobile around the pitch. The blind-side flanker tends to have bigger, more physical role around the pitch, and also acts as a target jumper in the lineout.
8 Number Eight
Support play, tackling and ball-carrying are the No.8's areas of expertise, making his or her duties similar to the two flankers. Together the trio forms a unit called the back row.
Binding on right at the back of the scrum, the No.8 is also the only player from the forwards who is allowed to pick the ball up from the base of the scrum.
It is a move that is often used to gain vital yards when a team is scrummaging close to the opposition try line, and for it to be truly effective the No.8 must be an explosive, dynamic runner.
9 Scrum-Half
Acting as the link between the forwards and the backs, the scrum half is a key player when it comes to building attacks. Playing just behind the forwards, a good scrum half will control exactly when the ball is fed out to the backs from the rear of a scrum, ruck or maul.
A scrum half needs good vision, speed and awareness, quick hands and lightning reactions. They tend to be one of the smaller players on the pitch and so rely on protection from their own forwards. An indecisive or poorly protected scrum half makes easy meat for a rampaging opposition flanker.
10 Fly-Half
The heartbeat of the side and arguably the most influential player on the pitch. Almost every attack will go through the fly half, who also has the responsibility of deciding when to pass the ball out to the centres and when to kick for position.
The fly half must orchestrate the team's back line, deciding what rehearsed moves to put into action and reacting to gaps in defence. He or she is also the main target for the defending team's open-side flanker and so must be strong in the tackle.
The fly half has to be able to relieve territorial pressure by kicking down the field into touch, and is often the team's designated place kicker for conversions, penalties and drop goal attempts.
In defence he or she will marshal the backs to ensure each opposition player is covered, and a strong-tackling fly half can snuff out opposition attacks before they start.
11 & 14 Wing
Playing out wide on the side of the pitch, the winger is a team's finisher in attack. A winger is also often the last line of defence when they don't have the ball and as such, pace is their major resource.
12 & 13 Centre
The inside centre – who stands closest to the fly half when the backs line up – and the outside centre tend to be strong, dynamic runners with a good eye for exposing gaps in the opposition defence. In attack they tend to run very direct lines.
The centres take on their opposite number in an attempt to either break the defensive line, or draw in enough opposition defenders to create space and try-scoring opportunities for their team-mates. As such they need to be strong and powerful, and when attack turns into defence, they must also be accomplished at tackling.
The inside centre is often the more creative in a centre pairing and should be able to pass and kick nearly as well as the fly half. In either defence or attack, the inside centre tends to be all action – dishing out the tackles and then drawing the opposition defence.
Meanwhile, the outside centre tends to be the faster of the two and the ability to offload the ball quickly to the wingers is also vital.
15 Full-back
Lining up behind the entire back line, the full back is the closest thing that rugby has to a sweeper in defence. But they also receive deep kicks from the opposition, so they must be comfortable catching high balls and launching attacks from the resulting possession.
As such, the full back must have enough tactical awareness to recognise when to counter-kick, and when to run with the ball, often from deep within his or her half. Having started life as a winger, ex-England, Sale and British Lions player Jason Robinson was an excellent example of a running full back who also had the ability to kick his way out of trouble – the perfect combination for a number 15.
This high-pressure position is not for the faint-hearted, but those who can combine tackling, kicking, catching and running with a cool head can excel here.
Player line-up
Players will typically line up as follows at a scrum:
Position Hierarchy
Here is a hierarchy of player position naming including collective terms, the corresponding common player numbering shown in parenthesis:
Forwards Tight five/Tight forwards/Front Five Front Row Props (1, 3) Hooker (2) Second Row Locks (4, 5) Back Row/Loose forwards/Loosies Flankers/Wing forwards (6, 7) Number 8 (8) Backs Inside Backs Half-backs Scrum-half/Inside half (9) Fly-half/Outside half/Stand off (10) Inside centre (12) Outside Backs Outside center (13) Back Three www.rugbyfootballhistory.com Left-wing (11) Right-Wing (14) Full-back (15)
- In some countries the term halfback refers solely to the scrum half, while in other countries it applies to both the scrum half and the fly half.
- New Zealand saw advantage in having a fourth player in the three-quarters placing a forward between the half back and the three-quarters. Legend has it that the position was named by deciding that the half back was 4/8ths and the three-quarters 6/8ths, so therefore the new position must be a 5/8ths. When fly half play developed they introduced the first 5/8th and the second 5/8th. Hence the fly half is sometimes referred to as the 1st 5/8, implying a slightly deeper position than halfback and the inside centre is sometimes referred to as the 2nd 5/8 implying a more forward position than a 3/4 back.
- Centres used to be called Centre Three-quarters and Wings, Wing Three-quarters. The term three quarters collectively describes the centers, wings and full-back.
- In some countries the Flankers are referred to as 'Break-aways' e.g. New Zealand.
- In some countries the No. 8 is referred to as the 'Last man down' e.g. New Zealand.
Additional collective terms:
Midfield Centres Three-quarters/Three-quarter backs Wingers and centres
History of Positions
Origin of the Half-Back (collective name for Fly-half and Scrum-half)
Originally the rules described three full backs which was later changed to one and the other two players were then stationed at a midpoint between the forwards and the full backs and were to be called half-way backs. In time this was shortened to half backs. Their role and that of the full back continued to be to fall on the ball in the event of the opposition hacking it out of the scrum.
Origin of Fly-Half
In 1878 at Cardiff, in Wales, they developed a short pass to one of the half backs who would then go charging ahead with the ball. He became known as the flying half back which in time was shortened to the fly half. In New Zealand the fly half is sometimes referred to as the 1st 5/8, implying a slightly deeper position than halfback.
Origin of the three-quarters
In the 1880's the game had spread to the Universities, particularly Cambridge and Oxford, whose input lead to far more thought being put into the game and the style of play that was developed. They were instrumental in the development of the games tactics, the introduction of need to practice and the coaching of the players. In addition they re organised the scrum, developed short passes amongst the forwards and long passes amongst the backs. This led to the need for more players to be placed in the back line between the halves and the full back. The fraction between a half and a whole (full) is three-quarters.
Note: One alternative theory for why they are called three-quarters is that these new positions were called 'quarters' and the fact that three of them were put in this position led to them being known as three-quarters. But this seems unlikely since there is an obvious progression from Half-back (half-way from the from of the scrum to the full back), Five-eighths, three-quarters, full back..
Scotland claim the honour of having first introduced a third three-quarter, against Ireland in 1881.
Origin of the centre and wings
The middle player being called the centre with the two on his outside called wings.
Fouth three-quarter
The introduction of a fourth player into the three-quarters was to a large extent, accidental, with Wales again being allowed to take the honour. In 1885 Cardiff were due to play a tough match away from home and their first choice centre was not available so they promoted one Frank E. Hancock from the second side in his place. Hancock was a great success scoring two vital tries. When the Cardiff selectors sat down to pick their team for the next match they were keen to revert to their original team, but they were most reluctant to drop Hancock, so they compromised by introducing a fourth three-quarter. Within two years Wales had introduced it at international level.
The New Zealanders were quick to see the advantage of having a fourth player in the three-quarters. Their solution was to pull a forward out the pack and put him between the half back and the three-quarters. Their problem was what did they call the new position. Legend has it that consent was reached by deciding that the half back was 4/8ths and the three-quarters 6/8ths, so therefore the new position must be a 5/8ths, a name that has continued to this day in that country. When fly half play developed they introduced the first 5/8th and the second 5/8th.
Origin of the Number 8
This is a two-part question. In summary, the No 8 position evolved in South Africa, but was christened in New Zealand.
a) How did the No.8 evolve?
The position now known as No.8 evolved in South Africa in the 1920s.
Before the Great War a number of scrum patterns were tried. Most involved a three-man front-row in a 3-3-2 or more commonly 3-2-3 pack. Paddy Carolin of the 1906 Springboks claimed to have experimented with a 3-4-1 formation.
New Zealand most notably always used a 2-3-2 system. Their so-called diamond scrum had a rover to act as a detached winging forward who could also double as a second scrum-half. The Law dictating that a scrum must have a three-man front-row did not come into effect until the 1951-2 season (Law 15c.).
New Zealand apart, forwards in Test matches were selected primarily for their all-round skills - there were no fixed position in the early days. The first forwards up for a scrum were the first to pack down, although by the early 1900s there was usually one player specifically chosen to hook and one to act as a wing forward.
There is evidence that early Australian and French packs experimented with fixed places for their players under the 3-2-3 formation, but it wasn't until 1923 that Wavell Wakefield, as pack leader, allocated fixed positions to England's forwards. Two were devolved to prop up their hooker, while two formed the second-row. Behind them was a back-row of two wing-forwards either side of a middle man who was then called the lock or lock-forward - the position from which the No 8 has evolved. England won the Grand Slam that year and specialism became the norm in the Home Unions.
Meanwhile in South Africa, Oubaas Markötter of the famous Stellenbosch club developed the 3-4-1 pack formation to curb a fly-half named Bennie Osler, who was the master kicker and tactician for their great rivals at the University of Cape Town. Markötter's new scrum was essentially the 3-2-3 scheme but with the wing-forwards from the back-row flanking the second-row instead - and therefore closer to the fly-half.
That helped to address the Osler problem, but other advantages of the formation became apparent. With only one man at the back, the ball was heeled from the scrum more quickly, while the opposing scrum-half and loose forwards found it harder to disrupt possession. In addition, the inward push from the flankers at the scrum channelled considerable drive through their props and put extra pressure on the opposition hooker.
All South Africa embraced the 3-4-1 scrum and by 1928 it was the preferred formation for the Springboks in their home series with the All Blacks. In the first Test their scrum was a revelation to the New Zealanders, who were demolished 17-0. It wasn't until a few years later, however, that modern back-row play evolved. Markötter considered how to make the best use of a gifted Stellenbosch threequarter named André McDonald, who was not fast enough for a back and not big enough for a forward. McDonald was moved to the solo position at the back of the scrum where he inter-played with his scrum-half in attack and was deployed as a shadow flanker in defence.
So the prototype for the No.8 evolved in South Africa as a much looser player than his forerunner, the lock. South Africa still sought strong forwards who could push from the back of the scrum, but attacking and defensive duties for which the prime attribute was mobility became part of the job description.
The Springboks toured Britain/Ireland in 1931-32, demonstrating the new scrum formation and back-row tactics to the Home Unions, and in 1933 Australia saw them for the first time when they were beaten in a series in South Africa. By the time war broke out in 1939, most of the world's rugby-playing nations had bowed to Springbok supremacy, adopting the 3-4-1 pack and refining back-row tactics. The main dissenters were the Scots, who persisted with the old 3-2-3 system until the mid 1950s.
b) When was the term No.8 first used?
It was not until the 1940s that the expression No.8 became recognised worldwide as part of rugby's lexicon.
Finding a common name for the sole player at the back of the 3-4-1 scrum seems to have taken some time. In the Home Unions he was still referred to as the lock or lock-forward, as he had been in the 3-2-3 system. Australian reports of the 1937 Tests against the Springboks refer to the position as anchor-man or solo-lock. South Africans called him the eighthman (as many of the old-timers out there still do), in New Zealand he was usually the back-row or back-row forward and to the French he was le troisième ligne centre.
Numbering of players in Tests was a haphazard affair until the 1960s. In the Five Nations, some teams numbered from 1 to 15 from the back, starting with the fullback and finishing with a flanker (so that the back-row man was number 14). France and Ireland often numbered in reverse starting from the front-row, making the middle-man of the loose trio number 7. Wales even used letters throughout the 30s and 40s making him letter N! Players on tour were numbered 1 to 30 and kept their allocated numbers for Tests.
Old Test programmes show that the earliest efforts to number the back-row man with jersey eight were in New Zealand's South Island during the 1930s. For NZ v Australia at Dunedin in 1936 and NZ v SA at Christchurch in 1937 the All Blacks' back-row man wore this number. Abbreviating the South African term eighthman to No.8 originated there and the noted New Zealand rugby historian, Arthur Swan, was among the first to refer to him in print as the "number-eight". When post-war Tests resumed in 1946, New Zealand led the way in regularly numbering their back-row man in the eight jersey.
Curiously, South Africa's Hennie Muller, who played Test rugby between 1949 and 1953 and was universally hailed as the definitive eighthman of his day, never wore an eight shirt in a Test, although by 1951 the British press were referring to him as the team's No 8.
It was not until the 1960s that the shirt number universally matched its position's name in Test matches.
See also: Player Numbering/Lettering
1. The World of Rugby - John Reason & Carwyn James Pub. 1979. 0563162805
2. A History of Rugby - Reyburn, Wallace Pub 1971. 0213004860
3. No.8 John Griffiths Scrum.com Feb 1st, 2009.
4. RFU description of positions. May 22nd, 2011


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critic: marcelo SPINA
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
YE li: This project is to use pile to create a complex accretion and a lumpy mass.
There is a system. We can find them in mineral crystal, Starry Sky, flowers clusters and so on, it's a kinds of disorder, a nature rule of aggregation. It's pile like logic. Unlike the pre-decided order of stacking, piling's components are random rotated and scaled. We can only identify this order by its holistic forms.
The site Battersea Power Station in London, is the biggest red brick building in Europe. and the smoke cloud emanate from 3 chimney becomes to be a famous symbol of London. In Battersea, The traditional stacking logic and natural piling system combine together.
This project moving a step beyond from what we now perceive as a process of cohesive formal homogenization in the last two decades, and to revisit the organizational and aesthetics possibilities of the pile, towards perhaps a difficult and unexplored regime of inconsistency. In such a regime, excess still means equilibrium. Accumulation does not simply lead to simple stacking but to a complex accretion and lumpy mass.
It focus exploring the uneven, the lumpy and the pile. Beyond the obvious formal exploration, the assumption of the project is that these cumulative figures constitute a potential new symbol for a contemporary post urban landscape.
By using piles, my thesis aims to engage both form and illustration, to produce a strong shape and a cartoon at the same time. The proposal aims to connect the realms of Form, Shape, Illustration, and even the pictorial. From the most iconic view of the building, the front elevation, the new addition looks like a smoke cloud emanating from the chimneys of the old power plant. As a projective speculation, the proposal is both funny and massive, forward looking and positivist.
In Alejandro Zaera Polo influential text "the Hokusai Wave" he talks about the importance of using metaphors to effectively communicate architectural form. Whether these metaphors are intended or not, internal or external, what matters is the effect they produce. This proposal It's about the metaphor, the illustration the outline, the idea that it's not only a form, but it's allow this form can also has the other meaning, and in that meaning people can communication towards it.
sP: What or who influenced this project?
Yl: Marcelo Spina and Dora Epstein Jones.
sP: What were you reading/listening to/watching while developing this project?
Yl: Jeff Kipnis, Robert E. Somol, Sylvia Lavin, and Alejandro Zaera-Polo.
sP: Whose work is currently on your radar?
Yl: Morphosis, Eric Moss, P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S, Steven Holl, Herzog & de Meuron, and Álvaro Siza.
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Montclair State University's Carpe Diem television program and The Montclarion campus newspaper will present a live two-hour webcast commemorating the 10th anniversary of 9/11 on Friday, September 9, from 11:00 a.m. to approximately 1:00 p.m. The production is in association with the College of the Arts and will be presented from the DuMont Television Center.
The webcast will look back at the terror attacks on the World Trade Center and the political, cultural, and artistic fallout that resulted. The program will feature interviews with students, alumni, faculty, eyewitnesses, and prominent journalists whose lives were impacted by the tragic events of that day. News footage of the event and its aftermath has been made available to the University for this webcast by CBS News.
The webcast can be viewed from a link on this page: http://www.montclair.edu/remember911/
The webcast lineup includes:
Jonathan Alter—Former Newsweek senior editor, NBC News contributor, and Bloomberg columnist, Alter covered 9/11 in many aspects during the past decade. He will be live in the studio.
David Brancaccio—An award-winning journalist, Brancaccio will discuss his experiences covering the 9/11 story over the past ten years, as well as the economic impact 9/11 had on the nation.
Tom Kaminski—From his WCBS-AM traffic helicopter that day, Kaminski had a unique perspective as the Twin Towers burned and collapsed. A pre-recorded segment will be featured.
Mike Benfante—A Montclair resident, Benfante worked in the World Trade Center and helped a woman in a wheelchair down 80 floors that day. A prerecorded interview with Benafante will be featured.
Larry Londino—A Montclair State professor, Londino will screen clips from the various projects the University's Broadcasting Department has created about 9/11. One of the projects won a regional Emmy.
Suzanne Trauth—A Montclair State professor, Trauth is directing Tuesday, a play about 9/11 which was written by Montclair State alumnus Ben Clawson and will tour this fall with students from the Department of Theatre and Dance. Trauth will be live in the studio with a video clip of students rehearsing the play.
Beverly Petersen—A Montclair State professor who was in lower Manhattan on 9/11 and made the documentary 71 West Broadway, Ground Zero, NY. She will present a clip from the film.
Craig Monahan—A former NYFD firefighter who narrowly escaped death on 9/11 twice will be live in the studio. He lost dozens of close friends that day.
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One bite and you'll know why the Pasta con Melanzane at Rich & Charlie's hasn't changed in 20 years. As kids, the eggplant perched atop the big bowl of piping hot pasta was an afterthought. We'd throw the purple hunk on Mom's plate to uncover the shell-shaped doughy nuggets underneath, little beauties bathing in a subtly sweet tomato sauce and duo of cheeses. These days, we fight over those thick eggplant slices – blanketed in molten cheese just slightly browned and crunchy from a little time beneath the broiler. Carbs and cheese. Salty and sweet. It's an addicting combination: then, now, always.
Rich & Charlie's, 1081 S. Woods Mill Road, Town and Country, 636.227.8965, richandcharlies.com
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Hi @all,
please imagine the following scenario:
In my team we are using MDA, so we are generating classes like the above one. In our environment, we can use arbitrary strings to specify the super class of the generated class. This also means that there is no meta information in order to determine its methods. Therefore, "void aMethod()" must be generated statically.Code:
class myGeneratedClass extends *a_super_type_we_have_no_information_about* {
void aMethod() {
*call super.aMethod() IF AVAILABLE *
We cannot call "super.aMethod()" there, because it is possible that the super class does not implement this method. So we have to check and invoke during runtime (calling the super method, if available, is a requirement we have). We thought that reflection is able to do that. However, we have not found a possibility yet. Do you know, if this is possible?
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Glencross Invitational Charity Roughstock Event exceeds expectationsby Staff Writer / Calgary Flames
CALGARY, AB -- The inaugural Glencross Invitational Charity Roughstock Event Presented by the Calgary Flames and PennWest Exploration is deemed a huge success. The poker tournament and rodeo raised over $180,000 with all proceeds being directed to the Ronald McDonald House® Central Alberta and grassroots hockey programs through the Hockey Alberta Foundation.
The event kicked-off on Thursday, August 23rd where over 200 sponsors attended a charity poker tournament at the Jackpot Casino in Red Deer. The next day over 1,500 people filled the Daines Rodeo Grounds in Innisfail to witness some of North America's most accomplished riders in bull, bronc and bareback riding. Following the rodeo Gord Bamford took to the stage to cap off the two day fundraiser as a thank you to attendees.
"I cannot thank our supporters of the first year event enough," said Glencross following the event on Friday. "The event and the amount raised exceeded my expectations. I cannot wait for next year's."
Glencross spearheaded the idea for the event and lead a planning committee consisting of many of the riders, his family and friends from surrounding areas. The event was 100 per cent volunteer-driven and saw donations spanning from livestock to the venue, and even saw riders donating their winnings back to the benefitting charities.
"We are extremely grateful to Curtis Glencross, the event committee, volunteers, sponsors and the Central Alberta community," said Larry Mathieson, Executive Director, Ronald McDonald House® Central Alberta. "The funds raised will greatly support our annual operating costs and help provide much-needed programs and support for families with sick children."
Minor hockey support will be directed through the Every Kid Every Community program through the Hockey Alberta Foundation. The program fulfils grants for first time players to get active in hockey all around Alberta.
Ronald McDonald House® Central Alberta is prominently located facing the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre and backing on to Gaetz Avenue. A feasibility study was conducted to evaluate the need for Ronald McDonald House in Red Deer. The study revealed that there are 33,000 pediatric stays at Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre per year. One third or 11,000 of those children are from out-of-town. That's an average of 30 out-of-town children per day. Ronald McDonald House® Central Alberta supports sick children and their families from rural communities surrounding Red Deer.


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New law for cash investors on REO's (bank owned property)
This is a great opportunity, because of very low prices, for first time buyers to finally get into the housing market. Those that have saved a down payment (sometimes as low as 3% with FHA financing) and have documentable income can buy a home that just a few years ago may have cost twice as much.
The problem is many of these homes have multiple offers, ten or more is not uncommon in Marin county. It is not unusual that the majority of those making offers are cash investors that have no plan on living in the home. Nothing wrong with that, after all the United States is a capitalistic society which is not a dirty word.
The sellers, big banks many of whom received bailout money favor cash offers as do most sellers. There should be some regulation that would put intended owner occupied buyers on the same footing as cash investors. If the buyers have a down payment and proof of income and fully qualify for the purchase REO banks should not be allowed to accept a lower cash offer from a non owner occupied investor. These qualified buyers are the type that build communities, have an interest in local events and tend to keep up the homes and therefore the neighborhoods. This just seems like a no-brainer to me especially if the REO bank is using OUR bailout money.


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The Chief Medical Officer of the Jewish Hospital in Czernowitz, where Bronstein is being treated, tells the J.T.A. representative here that Bronstein will have to remain for some months still in hospital, although six weeks have already passed since he was tortured.
The wounds, he states, are still very dangerous. The wounds are as much as fifteen centimetres in length, thirteen centimetres in width, and very deep.


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CLOSED HEARTS by Susan Kaye Quinn
CLOSED HEARTS (Young Adult)-Book 2 of the MINDJACK Trilogy by Susan Kaye Quinn
RELEASE DATE: May 23, 2012
The Reading Cafe will feature an interview (and reviews) with the author Susan Kaye Quinn on May 31, 2012
When you control minds, only your heart can be used against you.
Eight months ago, Kira Moore revealed to the mindreading world that mindjackers like herself were hidden in their midst. Now she wonders if telling the truth was the right choice after all. As wild rumors spread, a powerful anti-jacker politician capitalizes on mindreaders' fears and strips jackers of their rights. While some jackers flee to Jackertown—a slum rife with jackworkers who trade mind control favors for cash—Kira and her family hide from the readers who fear her and jackers who hate her. But when a jacker Clan member makes Kira's boyfriend Raf collapse in her arms, Kira is forced to save the people she loves by facing the thing she fears most: FBI agent Kestrel and his experimental torture chamber for jackers.
********************MIND GAMES a review******************
MIND GAMES (YA) (found in the anthology In His Eyes) is the prequel short story to indie author Susan Kaye Quinn's new Mindjack Trilogy.
Background: Sixteen-year-old Kira Moore is a zero, someone who can't read thoughts or be read by others. Zeros are outcasts who can't be trusted, leaving her no chance with Raf, a regular mindreader and the best friend she secretly loves. (susankquinn.com)
In a world of mindreaders, Kira is an anomaly. She has yet to enter the change and is unable to read the minds of her fellow students. But at the same time, her mind is a blank to anyone who dares to enter. To be forever branded as a zero is not the title Kira wants. As the end of the school year approaches, Kira is hoping that summer vacation will usher in some new changes in her life.
Raf Santos is one of the most popular guys in school. With the upcoming year end Gamesdance, Raf has only one girl in mind for his date, but the others have different plans that do not include Kira. When Raf's so called friends threaten to harm Kira, Raf will make a decision that could hurt Kira and destroy their fragile relationship that appears to be unraveling day by day. Once best friends with Kira, Raf will have to face the consequences of his actions, when Kira may no longer be a part of his life.
Mind Games in the introductory short story in Quinn's Mindjack Trilogy. An interesting concept that includes the ability to read minds, hear thoughts and the isolation of those who have yet to attain status in a world governed by the reality of truths. Without the ability to be read, the zeroes cannot be trusted-for fear they hold secrets. A concept based in prejudices and stereotypes, I look forward to reading Open Minds-Book 1 and Closed Hearts -Book 2 in the Mindjack Trilogy.
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In Bond's latest adventure, and possibly the last for Daniel Craig, a cryptic message from his past sends Bond on a trail to uncover a sinister organization. While M battles political forces to keep the secret service alive, Bond peels back the layers of deceit to reveal the terrible truth behind SPECTRE. This film is releasing in regular and IMAX versions, this is the regular version.
148 minutes, No persons under 13 (Violence)Action, Adventure, Thriller.
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