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This month has been a very bad month for gaming culture. Embarrassing stints continue to rock the foundation of the gaming community and the gaming journalism industry. The result has been a tide of the internet hate machine revving its engines in order to harass yet-another-woman who is involved in or speaks about gaming. The fallout is real and the injury to actual human beings (and not just to the targets of the scandal du jour) continues to mount. We cannot use scandals of this type to discuss any other problem than the cultural reaction itself, without adding further fuel to the problem.
It's a sad, deplorable state that the media just cannot put down because it's ever-present, loud, and extremely sensational. Worse, it doesn't need to be sensationalized at all; the explosive reaction to what happened with Zoe Quinn (death and rape threats continue) and more recently (again) with Anita Sarkeesian (more death and rape threats) on Twitter and other social media is a magnificent horror unto itself.
When it came to the scandal that may surround Zoe Quinn, much of the crusade against her alleged behavior came under the guise of pointing out the flaws in gaming journalism. A mistake we at Vox Ex Machina made when trying to report on the kerfuffle itself. To be sure, there may be many breaches of ethics and other issues, but the nature of the rolling thunder surrounding Quinn cannot be used ethically to speak about any issue in gaming journalism.
Why? Because the mob-crusade being led on social media and across small gaming press has absolutely nothing to do with gaming journalism: most of the fire, vitriol and consternation is directed at Quinn and boils out of allegations originating from a bitter ex-boyfriend.
And as more details about the "Quinnspiracy" continue to come to light it has become obvious that nothing she did has any relation to gaming journalism ethics whatsoever. There's no evidence that her actions led to favorable press. The very crux of using the scandal surrounding Quinn as an example does not exist. Yet it's still being echoed endlessly by social media and, just like an echo, is losing substance and definition and not gaining it.
At this point, the thin veil of "clean up gaming journalism" that might have surrounded the initial foray about Zoe Quinn or the "Quinnspiracy" is becoming ever-more-meaningless in a tide of venom and scorn that doesn't speak at all to journalism and instead to the psychodrama generated by impotent Internet rage.
Arthur Chu from The Daily Beast aptly covers the gist of this problem in "It's Dangerous to Go Alone: Why Are Gamers So Angry?"
Boom. Instant horde of ravening orcs. People digging up nude photos of her to humiliate her, people constantly and relentlessly sending her crude, vile, harassing messages, people vowing with a straight face to make sure she never works again. He couldn't have had a more effective tool to ruin her life if he'd been an organized crime boss.
The Zoe Quinn Hate Brigade party line is that this isn't about shaming one particular game developer for her sex life, even though that is very obviously what it is about. (I predict the comments section of this very article will be 50/50 people sternly telling me it isn't about her sex life and people gleefully tearing into her for her sex life.)
Chu continues on to describe the screen of "corruption in video game journalism" used by this harassment campaign. In short, with this sort of slime flying and little-to-do with journalistic integrity to talk about, it makes this entire subject a quagmire with no end.
As an industry a lot of the power does rest in the hands of publishers, developers, and distributors: the people selling a product to wanting audiences. The role of gaming journalism has long been stretched between glorified marketers—who are often tricked or cajoled by publishers to post previews of products as if they're full reviews based on polished up demos—and entertainment newshounds looking for the most recent gossip to cover. The current indignity certainly falls into the latter and it is not driven even an ounce by the former.
The all-pervasive and encompassing power of social media has provided more than enough taint to this story that it is obvious that any discussion of Zoe Quinn cannot and does not exemplar anything at all about video game journalism.
The worst part: the continued attention to this subject that does not focus specifically on the human impact of this bad behavior on social media, the campaigns of harassment, and the distasteful state of the community only contributes to said disgraceful state. It does nothing to forward any understanding of journalism. It does not provide a signpost on how to fix the industry.
If there are problems in gaming media and games journalism: we will not highlight them nor solve them through the lens of any scandal that may or may not exist around Quinn.


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After Near-$1B Inventory Write-Down, BlackBerry Starts Selling Unlocked Smartphones Direct To U.S. Buyers
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BlackBerry didn't break out its individual BB10 device sales in its quarterly earnings report released earlier this morning, but during its conference call to discuss its performance CEO Thorsten Heins revealed that it shipped 2.7 million handsets during the quarter, which is not a great number. Nokia shipped 5.6 million Lumia devices in Q1 of 2013, for instance, and AT&T reported… Read More
The BlackBerry Q10 Is Now Available For Pre-Order In The UK
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You're Doing It Wrong, BlackBerry
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The U.S. Likely Won't Get Its Thumbs On The Hardware QWERTY-Sporting BlackBerry Q10 Until May Or June
When BlackBerry unveiled its new BB10 line of devices and mobile OS, the company showed off both the Z10 and Q10 smartphones. The Z10 was released shortly after the announcement in many markets (the next day in the U.K., this week in Canada) and will hit the U.S. in March, but the Q10 with its hardware QWERTY keyboard was said to be hitting markets beginning in April. The key word there… Read More
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Live From RIM's BB10/Z10 Media Event In NYC
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The final Sole VII we had in stock has now gone.
Only Sole version VIII will be available from now on. We now only have two VIII's left at current price £725.
The next batch available soon will be £800 with choice of arm board - Linn, Rega, Naim Aro & Moerch. As those who know, it's a performance match to the Keel, and that incidentally costs £2,000 more for a screen printed name.
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Candice Patton Cast as Series Regular on The FlashMatt Richenthal at . Comments
Candice Patton is headed to Central City.
The actress (The Game, Rizzoli & Isles, Entourage) has been cast on the upcoming Flash spinoff as a graduate student named Iris.
She will be the daughter of Jesse L. Martin's CCPD Detective and a good friend of Grant Gustin's Barry Allen… who may become more than just a friend if the series follows the path of the comic books.
Gustin, of course, has always guest-starred on a pair of Arrow Season 2 episodes.
The CW will view a standalone pilot of The Flash this spring before deciding whether or not to order the drama to series. If it's a go, Patton will be a series regular.
Are you psyched for this potential spinoff? Compare it with others in the works now:
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- adj. Able to be traversed.
- adj. deniable; liable to legal objection
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. Capable of being traversed, or passed over.
- adj. Deniable; specifically (Law), liable to legal objection.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Capable of being traversed or crossed.
- Capable of being traversed or denied: as, a traversable allegation.
- In law (of an allegation in pleading), such that traversing or denying entitles to trial as an issue of fact, as distinguished from an allegation which is not material, or which relates only to the measure of damages.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adj. capable of being traversed
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Mexican relations and considering the high-level of business between the two neighboring countries it will remain open and relatively freely traversable.
The area's blend of ample hiding spots, readily traversable routes and a population historically wary of central authority have long made it a favorite for militants.
Only when the expertise of state-funded professionals was put to work did the country become properly traversable.
This is not helped by the fact that the area on the maps is apparently traversable in just a few days yet stretches from a frozen waste in the north to tropical lands in the south.
* The landscape is rugged, but traversable by stepwise, evolutionary search.
Every environment is fully traversable and enemies show up on the map, just like an MMORPG.
The question ultimately becomes what boundaries are traversable, and which are not.
More and more and more of the stepping stones were added until the entire property is now traversable without getting muddy feet.
The Heimliche Acht is a presentment not traversable by the offender.
Geographynote: controls most easily traversable land route between the Balkans, Moldova, and Ukraine


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Social Media, Social Media, Social Media – say it three times and you will not end up in Kansas or eating golden wrapped chocolate bars in the land of the Oompa Loompas – you will though need to check your marketing-based convictions at the door, because applying social media via process and social business practices to make a brand social media capable is more like taking a dive head-first into a 3rd year university sociology textbook on organizational change management.
WTF? Process design, change management, sociology – isn't this far removed from the basic tenant of social media – customer engagement? Well, look at this this way: engagement is the final goal. Creating a culture of social media acceptance and empowerment across the organization can mean the difference between one person assuming the role and responsibility of becoming your brand's social media efforts relegated to the ebb and flow of marketing budgets vs. an organic or matrixed approach to social media whereby every department feeds into a social media command center placing the social customer at the heart of the brand's customer-facing activities.
In social media, you come across brands of all shapes and sizes that are navigating the customer engagement waters, some have been even hurt by their past experiences for various reasons and once that happens, it becomes increasingly difficult to steer clear of the negative memories the organization at the highest levels may have of past activity making it even more challenging for that lone social media manager to get past this bottleneck to effect change within the organization.
OK, so this describes your current situation down to a tee – the Executive office, your boss: both see Social Media as a marketing function and hence a cost center. This is where the sociology part comes into play. This is where understanding the concept of social change helps bring about substantive change within your organization so the brand's key stakeholders can bring social media out from underneath the thumb of a P&L statement to that of one of the organizations key performance indicators for customer satisfaction (CSAT) – after all isn't that what every brand is in business for – the hearts and therefore wallets of their customer? (this is a rhetorical question, the answer should be a resounding YES!)
Former NPR cultural affairs program host, Scott London, has an outstanding piece on change entitled: Understanding Change: How it Happens and How to Make it Happen, that outlines and references the classic sociology textbook The Planning of Change in a very accessible manner towards effective change strategies falling into three categories: 1) rational-empirical, 2) normative- reducative, and 3) power-coercive.
The rational-empirical approach assumes that people are rational and practical and will change on their own given the appropriate conditions. These strategies include:
- Provide the right information, education or training to allow individuals to change of their own volition.
- Invite the perspectives or expertise of outsiders.
- Promote utopian thinking to stimulate creativity and "best-case" scenarios.
- Clarify the issues and/or re conceptualize the situation in order to bring about greater overall understanding among members of the group.
Let's look at the above points from a brand perspective:
- Information, education & training – all essential elements to ensure that your efforts relate to each department and why social media is more than just a bunch of Tweets or a Facebook page – this is a means to have a dialogue and a personal connection with your customer. Make sure every department understands this and why its important every department must work towards engaging with the customer or at least with the social media team (even if at first it's just you)
- Inviting the perspective of others, that is your organization's stakeholders and departments will allow you to hear from and understand other experiences related to social media – by seeking out the input from your own colleagues you not only make social media relevant to them you're on the path to gaining buy-in from the executive office.
- Promote utopian thinking – read business minded customer connectivity thinking. How can the company at large create an experience that stimulates the best-case scenario for the social-customer. Is it through the regular social media channels, further community moderation, social (customer) care or better reporting to understand the big-data surrounding the social customer?
- Clarity. Transparency really. If your colleagues still don't get the 'what' on social media and 'why' your brand needs to do certain things to engage with the customer, re-pitch it to them in their language. The language of the finance department means you talk up how social media can drive customer support call costs down and drive profitability up by having a better understanding of your customer. The language of the HR department relates to recruitment, learning, recognition and knowledge sharing. For Product Managers, social media is by far one of the most cost effective ways to crowd source customer feedback and product innovation.
The second category of strategies — the normative-reeducative — is predicated on the view that change begins from the bottom up, not the top down. That is to say, it focuses on changing the individuals that make up a social system. Two strategies characteristic of this approach are to:
- Improve the problem-solving capacities of a system by encouraging individuals to be self-diagnosing.
- Release and foster growth in the persons who make up the system.
Both points mentioned refer to one simple paradigm – the power of responsibility – make people responsible for certain parts of your social media process or strategy and let them wow you! By empowering your colleagues with certain roles and responsibilities, you're effecting change at the grassroots level, thereby making change an organic process that permeates through the organization almost akin to osmosis.
Shifting a cultural attitude takes time, however, by involving your organization's base the Executive office will be able to green-light projects and processes that are already part of the organizational fabric far easier than a project or process that may seem to overwhelmingly new to even hazard a chance on something so alien to the goals of the organization. So let me remind you again – the goal of your company is to connect with your customer and have them pay for their affinity with your brand's products right? (again, rhetorical question the answer again is YES – by connecting with your social customer and by empowering the grassroots levels of the company that connect with the customer on a day-to-day basis already, your organization becomes part of the social customers purchase consideration mindset.
At the heart of social media and all of its offshoots be it: social design, social presence, social business, social business process design, social care or social commerce – one additional consideration when understanding your social customer is clear – understand how to use sociology to effect change in your organization so you and a social media team (made up of different departments and personnel) can be ready and capable of engaging with the hearts, minds and wallets of your customer.


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Reminder: Please use your laptop ergonomically
Flickr'd Oh man, the Wall Street Journal sure is concerned about your Health and Well-being. It seems that laptop sales have, for the first time in recorded history, have overtaken desktop sales. That's bad news because laptops encourage people to sit in all sorts of unhealthy positions and develop poor computer-using habits. ("Golly gee, why don't I surf YouTube all… Read More
Webble: Something you put your feet on
This thing does look cool but I'm not sure the theory is sound. You essentially put your feet on it and roll it around under your desk while you work, encouraging circulation and wellness. BBG suggests that this might be a nefarious plot to bring skateboards into the workplace under the guise of ergonomics I'm more inclined to suspect that this is a device dedicated to eating up… Read More
The Hip Office: Hip isn't an adjective here, people
[photopress:stretch.jpg,full,center] Monotonous sitting in front of computer provokes serious health damages! Yes it does! Or so says, er, somebody at HK-Ergonomics, the pastel-colored manufacturer of this innovative belt-like laptop stand thing. It doesn't look very stable, but we like the overall idea. I'm going to try to get one of these for NAB, so I can walk and blog at the… Read More
Steelcase Worst Workspace Challenge Update
Yes! Scorcese won. Justice is served! Ahem. Sorry about that. I just wanted to give you all one final update about The Steelcase Worst Workspace Challenge. We're closing the contest at 12 noon, which gives you all six more hours to make your submissions. For those of you just tuning in, I'm sure you'd like to know what the hell I'm talking about: Read More
Steelcase Worst Workspace Challenge Update
After five days of worst workspaces, we're ready to admit that your work environments are worse than our wildest dreams. Holy crap. Your mothers would be disappointed in most of you. It's awesome. And it's not over. We still have three more days for you to enter and win. For those of you just tuning in, I'm sure you'd like to know what the hell I'm… Read More
Steelcase Worst Workspace Challenge Update [NOW WITH PICTURES]
We've entered day four of the Steelcase Worst Workspace Challenge. Lots of entries so far and we've seen some total disaster areas. You all continue to impress with your complete disregard for cleanliness. For those of you just tuning in, I'm sure you'd like to know what the hell I'm talking about: Read More
Steelcase Worst Workspace Challenge Update
Ugh. Mardi Gras is over, but my hang over is just beginning. Lots of drunken festivities were had. You can see my photos at my Flickr page. Anyway, quick update about The Steelcase Worst Workspace Challenge. We've had a lot of great entries so far and I expect they'll keep coming—I'm sure we'll get a flurry of them at the end of the week. So how do you enter? Read More
The Steelcase Worst Workspace Challenge
Happy Mardi Gras everybody. I've pried myself away from our drunken debauchery for a moment to give you an update on our Steelcase Worst Workspace Challenge. First of all, let me make some clarifications. Only original workspace pictures will be accepted. With that in mind, please submit more than one picture of your workspace. Multiple shots will help to ensure authenticity and to give… Read More
The Steelcase Worst Workspace Challenge
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Workspace Roundup: Ergonomic Chairs
As techies, there are few components that affect us more so than our chairs. Sitting in a chair for countless hours every day has a notable impact on our bodies. A crappy chair can cause immediate duress and also lead to prolonged pain. A quality chair, however, can do a lot of good for you. Proper lumbar support, being reasonably adjustable, sufficient padding, all these components play a role… Read More
Natural Wireless Laser Mouse 6000, Microsoft's Crazy Looking New Mouse
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League of Legends is the most popular video game in the world. According to a newly released infographic created by Twurdy, a League of Legends community, 32.5 million players log into Riot Games' smash hit on a daily basis. That means that if every single World of Warcraft subscriber played Blizzard's MMO in a single day when WoW was at its peak, League of Legends would still boast nearly three times the amount of players. In addition to its massive player base, League of Legends was recently the centerpiece of one of the largest eSports events in history: The Season 3 World Championships.
The Championship match was held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, the same building that hosts marquee events such as Lakers games and professional wrestling shows. If there was any question as to whether or not League of Legends could compete with such events in tickets sales, they were silenced almost immediately as the Season 3 World Championships sold out in 59 minutes. But Season 3 is coming to an end very soon, and Riot Games has been looking ahead to the next season, which starts tomorrow, November 12th. Over the past week, Riot Games employees (Rioters) have been posting numerous articles to Reddit about their plans for the new season to give players a glimpse of what's in store. After playing League of Legends for two years with two accounts that are in Gold League, I've attempted to compile all the proposed changes for Season 4 along with my impressions on what these changes could potentially mean for the future of the game.
First, let's talk about the state of the game as it is. A year ago, when Riot Games was preparing for Season 3, they placed a great deal of focus on trying to increase gold gains for support players and junglers. They added an item called the Sightstone that would give supports free wards and overhauled the jungle in an effort to give junglers more experience points and gold. Unfortunately, after the meta had settled, it seemed that all of these changes actually made things a bit worse. In Season 2, it was very common for junglers to have one, maybe even two gold per 10 items such as Philosopher's Stone and Heart of Gold. This gave junglers a greater amount of income to spend on wards and, more importantly, Oracle's Elixir. Some junglers would buy an Oracle's Elixir on their first back and spend the rest of the game clearing wards because they could afford to, but Heart of Gold was removed in Season 3, and Shurelya's Reverie (the item into which Philosopher's Stone was built) received a health nerf that made it less viable for tanky junglers to purchase. This removal of gold per 10 items from the jungler's repertoire, combined with the change that made Oracle's Elixir last only four minutes, meant that it was no longer financially feasible for junglers to buy Oracle's Elixir.
Since Oracle's Elixir is no longer a staple of jungler items, it began to fall to the supports to purchase the item. Unfortunately, the supports were already hard up for cash due largely to the same changes: lack of gold per 10 items and low income due to lack of minion farming. If you compare the Season 2 World Finals to the Season 3 World Finals, you'll see that the supports and junglers simply had better items in Season 2. In most of the games from the Season 2 World Finals, the support players tended to have two gold per 10 items, tier two boots, and an aura item (often Zeke's Herald). In fact, the winning support had usually managed to afford all of these items, as well as upgrading their Philosopher's Stone into a Shurelya's Reverie. By comparison, in the Season 3 World Finals, the support players usually had a Ruby Sightstone and tier one boots. In longer games, if they were lucky, they could afford a Philosopher's Stone and maybe even a Doran's shield.
So what does Riot intend to do this time around to fix the problems that they created in Season 3? Well, they have a few ideas that give support players and junglers the opportunity to earn more without altering their playstyles too much. For the supports, Riot is looking at granting more gold for situations that are usually specific for support players. Among these changes are: A mastery (likely in the utility tree) that grants players bonus gold if they are in a shared lane, increased money for assist streaks, and improved gold per 10 items. Some of the proposed gold per 10 items include the Spellthief's Blade, which essentially functions the same as the current mastery (Pickpocket) and the Executioner's Emblem, which will essentially allow players to deal 200 damage to a target minion twice every minute. This item is meant to help with late game lane pushing. Finally, the Philosopher's Stone is set to get a new bonus passive that grants players gold when nearby allies kill minions. For a more detailed look at support changes, be sure to check out the reddit post from Riot's Alexander "Xelnath" Brazie.
The junglers have an entirely new camp to look forward to, which will be placed around the Ancient Golem (blue buff) and wolf camp. In addition to the extra gold and experience granted by this new camp, the jungle monsters will scale with the average level of champions on the map. This means that if junglers are lower than the average level, they will be able to catch up faster by clearing jungle camps. For more on the jungling changes, Riot's "Solcrushed" has provided an overview on Reddit.
While those include some of the changes to the specific roles of jungler and support, there are plenty of overall gameplay changes that will affect every role. Perhaps the most significant change will be the new additions to vision and map control. In Season 4, vision will be everyone's job, not just the supports. Each player will have a ward limit (currently set at 3 green wards and 1 pink ward), where exceeding their limit will delete the player's oldest ward on the map, much like the current Sightstone item. Pink wards will no longer be invisible, meaning they must be guarded much more carefully; however, they have 5 hitpoints instead of 3 and will remain until destroyed. Additionally, there will be new trinkets that will fill a trinket slot. As of now, there are three confirmed trinkets: The Sweeper reveals and disables invisible units (not champions), the Totem has a renewable ward function similar to Wriggle's Lantern, and the Lens works much like the summoner spell Clairvoyance. Xelnath has provided more information on the changes to vision at Reddit.
Riot's final post about Season 4 was about changes to "Game Flow." Among the game flow changes are alterations to runes and masteries, changes to bounties, and a different focus on Dragon and Baron. Baron Buff is being reworked to be more of a siege tool and less of a teamfighting buff, whereas Dragon's gold and experience rewards are being scaled as the game goes on to keep it as a relevant objective even into the later stages of the game. Additionally, turrets will no longer grant as much global gold, but will instead grant more gold to players directly involved in the turret's destruction and less gold to players on the other side of the map. For a full rundown of the changes to game flow, check out this Reddit article from Riot's "Feral Pony."
So what do all of these changes mean for the future of the world's most popular game? Well, it's hard to be sure based on Riot's track record. Leading into Season 3, many people thought that Riot's "new jungle" and changes to support, including an item that gave them free wards, would fix the lack of gold flow to junglers and supporters. Obviously, this was not the case. So as great as it is to hear Riot talk about all of the improvements they are making, it's important to take it all with a grain of salt and look at the situation objectively. Here is what we do know based on what we've been told: Supports will be limited in the amount of vision control they can provide. This means that, beyond a shadow of a doubt, supports will no longer be relegated to ward-bots who simply run around dropping and clearing wards. However, whether or not they will be given a meaningful place in a team's roster beyond that remains to be seen. Perhaps they will have enough money to build items and scale into the late game, but are there enough meaningful aura items to do so? Or will support players be looking to build more personal items that don't focus on helping their teammates? Perhaps champions that haven't traditionally been supports will suddenly be viable in the role. Perhaps support Pantheon will be much more popular if he can put his money toward an early brutalizer and dominate the bottom lane with his high burst and reliable stun. I think this is the biggest question regarding Season 4… how will supports fit into the meta, and, more importantly, will "support champions" still be the best choices for the support role?
From a jungler perspective, it looks like Riot is trying to make farming creeps a more viable option, but this doesn't necessarily fix the problem of lanes being snowballed by early ganks. If you sit in your jungle and continually farm jungle camps while the enemy team successfully ganks each lane twice, your lanes will be so far behind that it doesn't matter if you can keep up in gold and experience. Meanwhile, many people want to see "carry junglers" become more viable, as the jungle has been dominated by tanky bruisers such as Jarvan IV and Lee Sin for much of the past two seasons. I think the most important thing to look for in jungling for the upcoming season will be the risk/reward of ganking opposed to farming. If laners get the Totem trinket, they can feasibly be warded at all times, making it much harder to pull of a successful gank. And if you waste too much time trying to gank while your opposing jungler is farming, you could fall very far behind. Junglers will definitely have to find a balance between ganking and farming like never before in the upcoming season. Luckily for us, we'll only have to speculate for a little while longer, as the Season 4 patch is set to go live on November 11th at midnight. By the time you wake up on Tuesday, you'll be fully entrenched in Season 4, waiting to discover all the changes and how they affect gameplay.


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Huntingdonshire District Council Ranger, Brian Gardner, said: "As well as giving people the opportunity to see what our Community Plant and Tree Nursery has to offer, there will be fun activities for all the family. For anyone who hasn't discovered this hidden gem, the four acre site includes a vegetable garden, a cut flower garden, an orchard growing 19 local varieties of heritage apple, an apiary and bee garden, a drought garden, a nuttery, and a rose garden. Why not come along to the open day and take a look? You could pick up some ideas to use in your own garden and buy some plants too."
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Juneau resident Rose Marie Ragone died Dec. 19, 2009, peacefully in her sleep surrounded by loved ones in Juneau. She was 79.
Born May 12, 1930, in Los Angeles, she was the only child of Michael and Carmen Ragone.
Friends and family said they remember Rose as being a beautiful woman both inside and out, a great storyteller, funny, intelligent, an excellent cook and "just a joy to be around."
She was blessed with a beautiful voice and as a young woman was lead soprano in several well-known operas, her family said. In addition, she was an excellent cook, who could turn a simple dish into something amazing and delicious.
She was preceded in death by her her oldest son, Michael Ragone, who died in 1997.
She is survived by her three daughters, Estelle Hansen and husband, Remy, of Utah, Carmen Mastronardo Katasse and husband, John, of Juneau, and Rochelle Sabadin Chappell of Juneau; son, Dennis Sabadin and partner, Leighetta, of Juneau; grandchildren, Jon and partner, Carolyn, Jaysen and wife, Brooke, Natalie and husband, Aaron, Frank and fiancé, Stacy, Gina, Mary and husband, Aaron, Michael, Jayme, Marco, Steven and Joseph; and great-grandchildren, Bella Rose, Jada, Noah, Jacob and Jessica Rose.
A memorial service will be held at 12:10 p.m. today, Dec. 22, at the Cathedral of the Nativity, with a reception following at 739 Fourth St. in Douglas.
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Riad Jomana is located in Bab Doukkala, a lively and authentic part of the Old City, right on the doorstep of the myriad bazaars and just 10 minutes from Jemaa el Fna square.
The riad offers you the choice of two rooms and two suites all decorated in a Moorish style (for the twin room, the private bathroom is outside the room, on the same floor).
Attention: a Tourist Tax, transferred completely to the Moroccan National Service of Tourism (ONMPT), 1,50 euro per accommodated person and per night will be perceptible as a supplement to the pointed out rates.
A dynamic team is on hand to welcome you and help make your stay in the Red City an unforgettable one. While away the hours on the patio, lulled by the gentle splashing of the fountain, or sample some mint teas and Moroccan pastries on the roof terrace overlooking the roofs of Marrakesh against the backdrop of the peaks of the Atlas Mountains snow-capped for part of the year.
The attentive yet discreet care taker at the Riad Jomana is as ready to help you during the day as he is to watch out for you when you return from a night out on the town.
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Licences of 6 doctors suspended for 5 years
The state medical council has also sent notices to 2 physicians, as all eight have been accused of defying norms of the PCPNDT Act
The Maharashtra Medical Council (MMC) has suspended registrations of six doctors for flouting guidelines of the Pre-Conception Pre-Natal Detection Techniques (PCPNDT) Act. Two other doctors have been sent notices to for violating the Act.
Of the six doctors, three are from Mumbai, and one each from Udgir, Solapur and Kolhapur districts. The doctors who have been sent notices are from Navi Mumbai and Solapur. An official from the MMC said, "Their registration has been suspended for 5 years."
With this development, the number of registrations that have been suspended in the past few months has reached 36 . The fate of more than 30 doctors is still hanging in balance, as the MMC is yet to decide on what action is to be taken against them. According to a MMC official, the final decision will be taken after reviewing each case individually.
Speaking to MiD DAY, Asaram Khade, state PCPNDT consultant, said, "The medical body has cancelled registration of around 66 doctors so far. Also, out of the 400 cases that were filed against doctors for violating the PCPNDT Act, 302 are pending in the court. While charges have been framed against 69 doctors, eight cases have been sent to Ayurvedic council and seven have been directed to the Homeopathic council."


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Earlier this year, I decided to max out any tax-deferred accounts I am eligible for. This included 401 (k), Sep IRA and ROTH IRA. My goal is to not only have a diversified income portfolio, but to diversify from a tax perspective as well. At the beginning of September, I tweeted about purchasing shares in ten attractively valued companies in my Roth IRA. The Roth IRA has several very appealing features such as tax-free compounding of capital, distributions are never taxed and there are no required minimum contributions.
I allocated $2,000 to the purchase of ten securities in September, and have $3,500 more to invest until the contribution limit of $5,500 for 2013 is exhausted. The brokerage used to execute this transaction was Sharebuilder. I believe that this is the best brokerage to use if you are just starting out your dividend investing journey and have low initial amounts of capital to invest.
It is important to maintain low costs when purchasing dividend paying stocks. As a rule, I try to avoid paying more than 0.50% in commissions on my purchases. With my regular accounts, it is easy to achieve that if I pay less than $5/trade and invest at least $1,000 at a time. With Roth IRA's however, the $5,500 limit makes it difficult to invest in more than 5 – 6 companies/year at such commission rates. Since I have much more ideas than that, and since I wanted to have a diversified allocation each year, I decided to buy a greater number of companies. I signed up for Sharebuilder's automatic investment program, which charges $12/month for 12 automatic monthly stock purchases. These stock purchases are executed on Tuesdays, with the automatic investment program. I also wanted to build the allocation over a period of time, rather than in a lump sum. I am allocating $2,000 in September, $2,000 in October and $1,500 in November. Since the first month of signing up was free, I am essentially going to end up spending $24 to invest $5,500, which is only 0.43%. After that I am going to cancel the service, until I am ready to put the contributions for year 2014 to work.
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Fuzz BombReader question was "Will we ever get to see Freckle after a wash-and-blow-dry?" It's a little Freckle, I guess. He was rather indignant about the whole thing, regardless.
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is another great episode. A large race of aliens (that all look
exactly like Arthur), called
The Heys, (the only word
in their language is Hey) is planning to destroy the Universe
by throwing a black hole into another black hole. Another race,
The Whats, (the only word
in their language is What) kidnap The
Tick to try to stop them.
Whats mistake Arthur for a Hey spy and interrogate him while The
Tick munches on space cookies. Unfortunately, the What spaceship
isn't fast enough to outrun the Heys dreaded ultimate weapon,
The Infinity Ball! With the Infinity Ball closing in, things looked
grim, because the What spaceship ran on fear and they were all
feeling confident with The Tick aiding them. Fortunately, they
had Arthur there to fill up the reserves...
the probing begin!
Tick, disguised as a Hey, battles the Infinity Ball
using Lint Warp to escape the Infinity Ball, the Whats managed
to send the Tick into the Hey mothership to stop them, where he
manages to defeat the entire Hey race, the Infinity Ball, and
the black hole all at once.
on Earth, Tick describes the entire adventure to Die
Fledermaus and Sewer Urchin
who of course don't believe him; and when asked for proof that
Tick saved the Universe Tick just says "Well, we're all still
here, aren't we?"
episode features these Superheroes:
The Tick, Arthur, Die
Fledermaus, The Whats,
and Sewer Urchin.
episode features these Supervillains:
The Heys
to pull myself together!
Tick disguised as a Hey
guys haven't done this much, have you?
Oh, Hey Arthur! Lookee! I'm being abducted by space aliens!
Let the probing begin!
Whip out those weird instruments of science and probe away!
You guys don't have a clue, do you?
You guys are ugly with a capital UGH!
OH, man, that's the pits!
Science, Boring! Interest Fading!
We're going to save the Universe!
It's going to be boss!
Let me get this straight. You want us to go into the mouth of
a black hole, confront the entire population of Hey, and steal
or destroy their doomsday device�Piece of cake!
Hey, we've got those on Earth! We hit them into little pockets
with sticks! and we got higher numbers, too.
Well, come on, uglies; how do we spur this iron space-pony on?
Your ship runs on fear? Wiggy!
Here, try Arthur! He's an anxious little dude!
Take it easy, man; it's just a sandwich!
Must defy laws of physics!
And because I destroyed their most devastating weapon, which turned
out to be pretty lame, the entire population began to worship
me, like unto a god!
What Interpreter:
have trained myself to speak all Earth languages�except of course
for Esperanto�you could tell that one was going nowhere fast.
Well, Tick, I'd like to be able to say that on our planet we're
considered quite beautiful, but frankly, we're dogs.
Enjoy another space cookie.
Our race is the most squirrelly, easily frightened bunch of cowards
in the Universe. Centuries ago we learned to harness our fear
and use it as fuel.
Our fuel tanks are already full filled with fear, and I've never
seen anyone as scared as Arthur! We're going to have to use untested
technology to achieve the speed of lint!
Hey Propaganda:
Hey! (Nothing lasts forever) Hey! (Nothing is worth fighting
for) Hey! (Yes we have no bananas)
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I confess–over many years designing office/service (O/S) process, I've never once introduced a client to free-standing BPM technology. Too expensive, especially for SMEs, but often in large company settings as well. Too hard to implement, complicated by increased IT outsourcing. But most of all, in O/S settings BPM technology is largely redundant and often irrelevant. Everything BPM systems do that's appropriate for the O/S space, we provide using alternative methods–especially process management facilities embedded in more and more application software.
For example, SAP's application layer workflow engine obviates using "bolt-on" BPM systems. And when ERP systems don't offer BPM functionality, for O/S purposes we typically look to very extensible and configurable CRM systems for process management and measurement. That works especially well because HYM designs O/S process from the customer in, so we're already enabling customer-company interactions with CRM software. And in the back office, supply chain management systems including SCOR, which is based on "outside-in" process principles, provides more granular process management support than generic BPM technology.
And speaking of granularity, a new wave of "communication-based process" applications embedded in telephony systems will soon appear, offering very granular management of unified communication across the enterprise. Still less need for freestanding BPM in the O/S space.
And there are other tools as well. In fact, although not yet widely used or understood, Microsoft's XRM supports development of multiple "applications" on a single platform with replicable, multi-use code, which will enable users to integrate office/service process management technology at the application level, a huge advantage over using free-standing BPM technology. We're drooling over the opportunity to apply the XRM concept to our Visual Workflow O/S process approach.
Because office/service environments are so highly collaborative and interconnected, the exact opposite of manufacturing, content management tools including SharePoint (used by Microsoft as part of XRM) pitch in and carry part of the load. Project-heavy companies are adopting workflow managing project management applications, which again drill down much deeper than free-standing BPM systems. often much more robust than PM capabilities in freestanding BPM systems.
Add it all up and we have "bolt-on" BPM technology that most SME's can't cost-justify; that's not specific enough to support much of O/S process; and that replicates application-level functionality already at work in many O/S settings. And ERP-based applications increasing have the manufacturing space covered.
Not exactly a rosy picture, when vendors are still stumbling over themselves to introduce new, "bolt-on" BPM systems.


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The Lewis Leathers shop in Whitfield Street W1 was the venue of the launch of The Look Of London map collaboration with Herb Lester Associates.
Photos from The Look Of London launch at Lewis Leathers
Documentaries: Up pops Tommy Roberts in Three Swings On A Pendulum (1967)
Look out for an appearance by Tommy Roberts – subject of my new book – in the 1967 documentary Three Swings On A Pendulum, currently available for viewing (in the UK at least) on BBC iPlayer.
Conversation: Lloyd Johnson + Ben Olins on Brighton Rock
Place: Golden Square, London W1.
Time: 1pm
Coffee: Nordic Bakery Soho
Lloyd Johnson, Ben Olins and I met on a sunny Saturday for a chat about Rowan Joffe's recently-released film Brighton Rock. The transposition of the storyline to 1964 has resulted in marketing which leans heavily on the backdrop of the Mods vs Rockers "riots" in British coastal resorts that year.
Pretty Green and Merc are among promotional partners; there lingers the distinct impression of an attempt to reach out to cinemagoers by creating a British version of the Mad Men buzz.
In fact the mod content is a gloss overlaying this stodgy interpretation of the 1947 film classic rather than Grahame Greene's 1939 novel (despite claims to the contrary; Joffe even chose the first film's climactic cop-out, against the author's wish for an unremittingly bleak ending).
An original modernist raised in neighbouring Hastings, Lloyd has considerable first-hand knowledge of the subject and worked on the film which is a primary visual influence: Quadrophenia.
Ben's fascination for the period is manifested in such activities as the club-night The Fabulous Cellar and certain aspects of his media company Herb Lester Associates.
As a cradle Catholic my heart sank when I heard the word on this; one of the great literary investigations into good and evil recast as a mod rite of passage. Mod really is the mainstream option these days isn't? So codified as to be meaningless and square beyond belief: all those "rules", all that conformity. For that, and many other reasons, the film lived down to my low expectations.
What do you reckon?
Herb puts Jimmy's Corner on the map
I am delighted to see that Jimmy's Corner, my favourite Manhattan bar, features on the latest map from Herb Lester Associates.
Jimmy's epitomises the map's celebration of "old" New York.


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Youth is the opposite of elderly. When something is new, it can be called young. Sometimes "young" is only for living things, and things that are not alive are"new". The word youth is often used to describe young people between the pre-teen age and early twenties. Old can refer to someone or something's age. Young can mean that something is current to date or well before its "best by" date. Different things lose their youth or grow old at different rates. For example, technology has a short life span and can only be considered young for roughly one year. In many countries, humans are no longer young at 23 or 25 years old. In many countries, humans become "adults" at age 18 by law, but are still seen as kids/youth by adults. This is partly due to the fact that the mental and emotional development isn't done until around age 25, and also that 18 and 19 year olds are still teenagers, many of them without any adult life experience. Guys and girls will notice a sligtly big difference in their maturity between the age of 18 and age of 25.
For some people, youth is an obsession. They want to look young. Because of this, they use various products like face cream and plastic surgery, to stop or slow their looking older. The "Fountain of Youth" was a popular myth, and people thought that if you took water from the fountain, you would never be old. Now however, we know that this was a myth, and it was not magical at all.


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Got a Gardener on Your Gift List?
Finding the right gift at the last minute can even drive Santa crazy!
Think outside the season
Since Christmas is a winter holiday I'm afraid that a lot of gardeners end up getting a sweater or scarf as a gift. Don't you think they'd really prefer a gift from their favorite garden center so they can indulge in their gardens when spring returns? As the giver you'll enjoy the reward of knowing that your gift is loved twice; once when it's unwrapped on Christmas morning and again in spring when it's put to use.
Pruning and other hand tools
Gardeners always need pruning tools and sharp new ones are always appreciated.
Garden accents
There are lots of garden accents available at the garden center from gazing globes to gnomes.
Pots and planters
Gardeners always appreciate decorative pots and planters for indoors or outside in summer
Bird feeding supplies
Lots of gardeners are also avid bird feeders. We love the creatures that share our gardens with us so a bird feeder or bird seed are always appreciated. How about a hummingbird feeder to attract those lively little ones into the garden in spring?
Houseplants & supplies
Every outdoor gardener I know also enjoys their houseplants in winter. We all need some flowers and greenery to keep the dream of spring alive during the coming months of white and gray. What better than some flowering houseplants like an amaryllis bulb, cyclamen, African Violet or a rosemary tree for the chef? Plant food, watering cans and mister bottles make great stocking stuffers too.
Gift certificates make perfect sense for the gardener
The one thing that gardeners always want are new plants for their garden, but this just isn't going to happen at this time of year. A gift certificate, in this case, is really a very thoughtful gift. What could be better than knowing that when spring rolls around, they'll be able to get that hydrangea, lily or blueberry bush they've been wanting? If you are giving a gift to someone who really loves gardening, this is the best gift of all. Even better if it comes with a potted Amaryllis Bulb so they can enjoy beautiful flowers this winter as they wait for "their" season to come back around.
The best gardener's gift of all…a gift certificate!
The art of Peter Bowden
If you are in the Saratoga area, I have a selection of fine art prints
on display at the Hewitts on Maple Avenue. They are 11″ X 14″ printed
on Kodak Endura paper for 100 year colorfastness. Signed, framed
and on sale for $49.99.


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"No UCLA student should be forced to funnel their tuition to the killing of their own family," Students for Justice in Palestine member Ayesha Khan said at the meeting, according to the Daily Bruin.
Jewish students say Israel divestment movement leads to campus anti-Semitism →
Americans United's Ms. Khan said the goal of the lawsuit is not only to get Ms. Morgan her plate, but to have the Motor Vehicle Commission establish a "set of viewpoint-neutral regulations that guide the discretion on issuing plates."
'8THEIST' plate denial sparks lawsuit in New Jersey →


text: California Adventure will be closed on June 14th, 2012 to the public in order to make the final debut preparation for the new Cars Land. Cars Land expands Disney California Adventure by 12 acres and immerses guests in the thrilling world of the Disney•Pixar blockbuster "Cars." Guests will feel as if they have stepped into the town of Radiator Springs as they enjoy three family attractions showcasing characters and settings from the movie, plus "Cars"-themed dining and shopping locations such as Flo's V8 Café, Ramone's House of Body Art and Radiator Springs Curios. If you plan to visit California Adventure around that time, please arrange your day of visit accordingly!


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Jan 18 2013
Doctors as Federal Agents
Among the more alarming of the 23 executive orders the Moonbat Messiah signed at the crest of his media's Sandy Hook hype appears to repeal the lone positive aspect of ObamaCare:
16. Clarify that the Affordable Care Act does not prohibit doctors asking their patients about guns in their homes.
Since we were not given a chance to discuss this while Democrats were unilaterally ramming ObamaCare down our throats, let's give thought to it now: Do we really want doctors to be agents of the federal government? Aren't you supposed to be able to trust your doctor?
Graphic compliments of Joel C.


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On Thu, 14 Jan 2010, Stripes the Tiger Cub wrote: [snip]
The wireless card is either an Intel 5100 802.11abgn or Intel 5300 802.11abgn. If there's no solution, I can go out and get a supported PCMCIA card or USB network card today. I haven't taken away the option of "throwing money (e.g. an external network card) at the problem."
iwn(4) in -current has support for this, but it's not (yet) been backported to netbsd-5.
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Riftmann Bio
I'm still very much a beginner with 3D art. I started using Poser in March 2005. Although I'm limited by my skill level and computer, I have a very varied and electic interest in what I depict. I hope to one day branch off into using other programs then Poser.BIOI live in Kansas, NW of KC a bit. Although I'm straight (mostly) I do love rendering the male form, Know your subject matter, right?
Having said that though, I like working with most anything. I enjoy creating erotic work, although my stuff is more tame then some stuff out there. I do like gorean themed artwork (the best thing about the gorean books were the covers, dreadfully written things, lol), and seem to have found my niche in doing kajirus (male pleasure slaves) images, I haven't seen many other's out there.
I do like to give some of my images that book cover look, especially from fantasy books like the gorean series. Pulp, retro science fiction and 'steampunk' is one area of interest.
My more explict artwork (but still rather tame) can be found at Renderotica.com,
I'm still very new to 3d artwork, and although I've learned a lot in the few months I've been doing it, I still have FAR to go.
After a break of almost 2 years I'm back at Posering. My finances being what they are, I can't justify spending more money on the Hobby/Habit, so I'll have to stick with the library I have now. Things sure have changed, and I still have lots to learn...


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Choose a school that will provide you with the education needed and look for jobs that will help you get some experience in the industry you are interested in. Also, make sure your grades are as high as possible to impress prospective employers.
If finding a job has been real rough, consider changing up your strategy. Many places aren't hiring, but you shouldn't let that stop you. Even if it's not exactly your dream job, try checking out other opportunities in areas you wouldn't have considered otherwise. Getting your foot in the door is what's important.
Use LinkedIn to it's fullest advantage. The Q&A section is a great place to show off your knowledge. You can also use this area to ask other users questions about their jobs, ideas and experience in certain industries and roles.
Take a few days prior to the interview and begin preparing some questions to ask in return. It is typical that an interviewer will ask you if you want to know about anything when the interview is complete. Ask questions concerning work environment and responsibilities.
While you may be applying for a job at a factory, dress as the factory manager would. Show you are a professional with quality and sleek attire.
If you don't have one, try obtaining a professional email address. This is one of the first things that an employer is going to see, next to your name. Try to get a simple email address that includes your name in some form. Having an unprofessional email address can actually cause you to lose the job before you've even been interviewed.
Your resume is important, but it is not the only aspect of getting a job. Update your resume before you begin a job search and only include information that is correct and current. Your resume is not the only factor when it comes to hiring. You must be enthusiastic and dedicated in order to make a good impression. Consider your strengths and highlight them.
It may be a cliche, but you need to dress for the job you want, especially when going to an interview. Carefully select your clothing and style your hair so that you present a professional image. Don't ignore the little details like the condition of your nails and shoes. Potential employers will form an immediate judgment based on your appearance, so do all you can to make a favorable impression.
Use social media in your resume writing. Social media is something that a lot of places are interested in. Even if you're just trying to show off your personal posts, you may make them interested in what you know about the subject.
Having trouble coming up with the style your resume should be? If so, check out online templates. There are many free options available which can be tailored to your needs. Choose a resume template based on the information that you want to feature in your resume.
A company's main priority is making money. Think about how you can show on your resume and during your interview that your talents will help lead to more company profits. Although being honest and responsible are important qualities, companies need more.
for jobs
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TV On My Terms: Chuck Raving MadJeffrey Kirkpatrick at . Comments
Two TV On My Terms posts in one day? What can I say, sometimes the urge to say something strikes, and you have to do what you have to do.
For all TV Fanatics, the sad, painful truth is that, regardless of our feelings, TV shows end. Sometimes after a good long run, sometimes after only a season. Some shows are outstanding, some are mediocre; some go through so many changes over time that they cycle from the former to the latter - and only in the rarest of cases do they ever reverse that pattern.
Often when there is a show on the bubble, as they say, particularly genre shows with strong cult followings, fans start trying to think of all sorts of crazy ways to try and improve the viewership because they are convinced that life will not continue if said show should end up officially on the chopping block.
I'm not trying to make fun of that feeling, I've been there. I was one of the few stalwarts who thoroughly enjoyed Alias in its final season, despite some admitted unevenness in the stories. I would have been thrilled to see it renewed for a sixth or seventh (heck even on through to a tenth!) season, if ABC had it in their hearts to do so.Regardless of any fan campaign that may have existed at the time, Alias was going to end, and I had to accept that. I'm aware that some shows have had some success in beating the odds due to fan response in the past. Yes, Roswell got an additional season due to incessant fans refusing to give up. I believe the same was true for Jericho, and even NBC's Chuck saw a measure of success in that regard (though I attribute the latter's success more to Subway's involvement early on and the horrible performance of other NBC shows over the last four years than actual fan power).
There comes a time, however, when fandoms go so stark raving mad over the potential loss of their television lifeline, they try to go after the absolutely unachievable.
The latest somewhat-organized effort by a few of the gotta-at-least-admire-their-tenacity-if-not-ingenuity Chuck fans to actively "recruit" Nielsen viewers to watch the show on Mondays has got to be one of the most far-fetched I've seen yet, not to mention poorly thought out. (An attempt to even mildly tamper with the Nielsen system of anonymity and statistics can't be good.)
The ratings have decreased season after season, and although seeming to have stalled at a borderline acceptable point in Chuck's fourth year, recently even those numbers have started to fall.
To put it bluntly, it's bleeding even its core fans at an alarming rate. I was once of them; a very devoted fan who enjoyed the escapades of a nerd dipping a toe into the spy world and hopefully getting the girl. It was a fun escape, even if on the more silly side. I won't go into great detail as to why I stopped watching, but essentially it boils down to a steep drop in story quality. You can't deny its there. Even some of the most diehard Chuck fans begrudgingly admit its not as good as it was two seasons ago. I love the actors, I'll always have a soft spot for the characters as they once were, but I no longer watch Chuck with any regularity, if at all. They lost me as a viewer.
My personal feelings on the quality notwithstanding, my basic point is to expect new fans to tune in en masse at this point is, frankly, ridiculous. It's not going to happen. Period. That ship has sailed. The fact that it's losing, or at least beginning to bore, even once-adoring fans should be proof enough.
My suggestion, welcome or not, to these fans mounting this ultimately ill-advised Nielsen campaign is this: let it go.
Even if Chuck gets a reprieve for one more season, it will not be due to your campaigning. Why go through the futile, frustrating efforts when there is no chance of achieving what you are setting out to accomplish? Instead, just sit back, relax and enjoy what time you have left with the show. That's really the best thing you can do. Watch it while you can. Relish whatever joy you get out of it. Discuss it with your friends and have fun with it. If you can talk a friend or family member into enjoying it with you, do it! And if you get a slight overnight ratings bump, celebrate that.
Then go outside. Get some fresh air. Smell a rose or two. Play with your kids. Kiss your significant other. Get some exercise. Enjoy your life in the three dimensional world. Remind yourself that life will go on without Chuck, or [ insert-your-favorite-show-here ] because, whether you like it or not, the end is coming, just as it did for my beloved Alias.
Before you know it, you'll find a new TV love that will fill the void in your heart without crowding out the memories of your former favorite, and you'll be just fine.
Follow Jeffrey on Twitter @TVOnMyTerms.
Jeffrey Kirkpatrick is a TV Fanatic Staff Writer. Follow him on Twitter.


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Facebook's IPO one of the world's largest
Facebook is about to find out just how much status updates, puppy photos and billions of "likes" are worth on Wall Street.
Facebook's stock is set to begin trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market on Friday, the day after the world's definitive online social network raised $16 billion in an initial public offering that valued the company at $104 billion.
That's more than Amazon.com and other well-known companies such as Kraft, Walt Disney and McDonald's. It's a big windfall for a company that began eight years ago with no way to make money. Facebook priced its IPO at $38 per share on Thursday, and opened at $42 per share on Friday.
Now, regular investors will have a chance to buy stock in Facebook for the first time. The stock will trade under ticker symbol will be FB.
Facebook Inc's valuation is the third-highest in an IPO, according to Dealogic, a provider of financial data. Only two Chinese banks, Agricultural Bank of China in 2010 and Industrial and Commercial Bank of China in 2006, have been worth more.
They were worth $133 billion and $132 billion, respectively. The $38 share price is the price at which the investment banks arranging the offering will sell the stock to their clients.


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June 2016 Articles
01 June 2016; volume 12, issue 6
New articles in their final version of record are published here as soon as they are ready. The latest ones are added to the top of the relevant section.
Animal behaviour
Conservation biology
Evolutionary biology
Global change biology
Marine biology
Population ecology
Special feature
Evolutionary ecology of species ranges


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Today I edited my first song, Batwannes Beek, by Warda. It was very daunting thinking that I had to cut an 8 minute song in half – especially Batwannes Beek…I'm still not sure if it sounds perfect – but the point is, there's a way to do it!
For those of you with macs, I found awesome instructions online that are so easy to follow!
And S/O to Lili Zayda for sending me on the right track!
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text: On the most southern Island of New Zealand there are strange trees that grow all twisted orientation north. Located on the edge of the world it's unique natural phenomenon. http://www.kuriositas.com The area, known as the "point slope" of the island, located about 2,000 kilometers from Australia and -4 803 miles from […] photo gallery science traveling guide UFO Slope Point's New Zealand Twisted Trees


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as they graze on crisp, green grass
fed by April and May rains.
Farm fowls like chicken, rooster and guinea hen
strut about in early morning glory
waking human sleepers with incessant cries.
Hickory and Walnut trees stand magnificent
resplendent and bountiful with fruit.
Each year their height and width increases
circles not wrinkles
defining age and time.
Spring in Georgia Mountains
Shades of sapphire grace the sky
Daffodils standing still in fields of gold
carpet the earth.
My log cabin sits still
holding me inside
I hibernate in order to rejuvenate
to breathe free, to feel full, to think bliss
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Grafton's first full-time fire chief is expected to be hired in the next few weeks.
After evaluating four finalists for the position, the Police and Fire Commission narrowed the search to one applicant who is undergoing the last round of tests and a background check, officials said this week."We are in the final stages of the search for a full-time chief," Robert Poull, commission chairman, told the Village Board on Monday.In an update on filling the position, Poull said the commission narrowed its choice to one candidate after interviewing finalists May 20. Because one of the four applicants withdrew from consideration after accepting another job, only three were interviewed.The four finalists were Howard Perry, assistant chief with the Beech Park, Ill., Fire Department; Kent Hulett, former chief of the Chippewa Fire District; Bill Rice, deputy chief of the Wauwatosa Fire Department; and James Taylor, battalion chief of the Menomonee Falls Fire Department.The name of the applicant chosen by the commission will not be announced until the Village Board finalizes his salary and benefits through negotiation, Village Administrator Darrell Hofland said.Poull said the four finalists were evaluated through an in-house assessment process before the May 20 interviews. The commission's choice will now undergo a criminal background check and psychological testing before moving into negotiations, he said.During the search for a full-time chief, John Place, who has been Grafton's part-time fire chief since 2010, has continued to serve in an interim capacity. Last week, the Village Board approved paying Place $1,000 per month, retroactive to January, for his interim role.During Poull's appearance before the board Monday, Trustee Susan Meinecke questioned why the commission had not asked Place to interview for the full-time position and why the commission had not gotten more input from Place and other department members in the search for a chief."This is still a volunteer department that's been around since 1896. The new chief will have to work with these members," Meinecke said.Poull said Place provided input to the commission even though he has not been directly involved in interviewing or evaluating applicants."The role of the Police and Fire Commission is to take all politics out of the process," Poull said.Even so, Meinecke said the department should have been more involved in the selection of its new leader. "I think this is a legitimate concern," she said.Village Attorney Mike Herbrand said state law requires the Police and Fire Commission to act as an independent body that oversees hiring and firing personnel."Independent is fine. Omnipotent, I have a problem with," Meinecke responded.Trustee Jim Grant said fire department members could have played a role in selecting the chief."My preference is to get input from people who have served, but I'm not on the Police and Fire Commission," he said.Hofland said results of the criminal background check and psychological tests will be forwarded to the commission as soon as they are completed. Pending the outcome of negotiations, the new chief could be hired in the next 30 days, he said.In approving a November referendum to upgrade the all-volunteer fire department, village and town residents agreed that a full-time chief should be hired. The village began advertising the position nationally in late January and accepted applications until late February.Voters agreed to spend $410,000 more annually for a full-time chief, to have part-time emergency medical technicians on call from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. and provide per-call payments of $20 for firefighters and emergency medical responders.The salary range for the new chief will be $68,703 to $87,068. With benefits, total compensation could be as much as $105,000.In addition to approving Place's pay as interim chief, the Village Board last week agreed to pay shift commanders at the fire department $4 per hour.


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Come and find out!
There's SO much more!
Exploring Calgary
What to do in Calgary
From hunting to going to nightclubs, Calgary probably has the widest range of things to do and you will never be bored when your there
By 2010, Calgary had a income of $89,490 (One of the best in Canada)
Calgary, Alberta
Calgary is ranked #14 in the best cities to live in Canada!
Calgary is also ranked #8 for household income in Canada!
And this is just the tip of the iceberg ;)
Calgary is a very accessible city to get to whether you are coming from the states, east or the west due to the well maintained highways that lead in and out of Calgary
In January, Calgary has a average temperature of -8.9C, (lowest average temperature) and in July, the average temperature is 16.2C (highest average temperature)
There are SO many things to do in Calgary and so many beautiful places to visit. If you continue to the next slide, you can find out what some of these things are
One of the most amazing things to do is to make a quick trip to Banff and go to the Banff Upper Hot Springs. I myself have been there and it is one of the most amazing things to experience I have experienced in my life
If you do go to Calgary, you have
to be there for the almost 100
year old tradition of the stampede.
It's what makes Calgary amazing
Calgary's average rent for housing is $1598
By the end of 2012, there were 21 205 total sales for housing in Calgary
Calgary is an amazing place to live and a great place to raise a family.
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Considerations for conducting research with women living in tribal communities in the USA
Center on Violence Against Women and Children
Thursday, September 26, 2013 from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM (EDT)
Event Details
After decades of grassroots advocacy by American Indian (AI) and Alaska Native (AN) women, the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act of 2005 included a provision that directed the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), in collaboration with the Office on Violence Against Women, to conduct a national baseline study on violence against AI and AN women living in tribal communities. In addition, NIJ was directed to evaluate the tribal, local, state and federal criminal justice responses to these crimes. This presentation will highlight the process NIJ undertook in collaboration with representatives from tribal communities and sovereign tribal governments to develop and test a culturally-informed survey instrument, culturally-appropriate survey administration, and community-specific sampling strategies
When & Where
School of Social Work, room 209
536 George St
New Brunswick,
Thursday, September 26, 2013 from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM (EDT)
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Center on Violence Against Women and Children
In the spring of 2007, the Rutgers University School of Social Work formed the Center on Violence Against Women & Children. VAWC facilitates a collaborative, multidisciplinary approach to research, training, and education aimed at eradicating violence against women and children.
The mission of the Center on Violence Against Women & Children is to strive to eliminate physical, sexual, and other forms of violence against women and children and the power imbalances that permit them.
This mission will be accomplished through the use of a collaborative approach that focuses on multidisciplinary research, education, and training that impacts communities and policy in New Jersey, the U.S., and throughout the world.
For more information visit: http://vawc.rutgers.edu


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Because there is no such things as taking too many breaks!
El Ateneo bookstore in Buenos Aires, Argentina is one of the most beautiful bookstroes that I have ever visited. The grand theater, built in 1919, was converted into a bookstore in 2000. The theater boxes and orchestra level are now filled with bookshelves, as well as the basement below. A coffee shop is located on what used to be the stage. When I visited, the architecture and design section was the first row from the stage – perfect!
I'm going back to the classics. Current read: The Illiad. Next up: The Odyssey. I just love saying the name Agamemnon.
I'm going back to school tomorrow, at least for one course! I am starting a language course in Aymara, which meets three nights a week at one of the local private universities. Wish me luck!
The language has attracted interest because it is based on a three value logic system and thus supposedly has better expressiveness than many other languages based on binary logic.
It is cited by the author Umberto Eco in The Search for the Perfect Language as a language of immense flexibility, capable of accommodating many neologisms. Ludovico Bertonio published Arte de la lengua aymara in 1603. He remarked that the language was particularly useful for expressing abstract concepts.
Most languages conceptualize the ego as moving forward into the future, with ego's back to the past. The English sentences prepare for what lies before us and we are facing a prosperous future, and possibly the word 未來 (lit. not yet come, meaning future) exemplify this metaphor. In contrast, Aymara seems to encode the past as in front of individuals, and the future in back; this is typologically a rare phenomenon.
Read More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aymara_language.
Today's brunch menu: waffles and fruit salad.
Stay tuned…for the next adventure of Rheumatoid Arthritis Guy!