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Microsoft announced the release later this year of its new version of Windows Phone 7 called Mango. It has added 500 new features including the apps for social networking programs, built in voice to text and text to voice interface, and the power to run one application while another is in active mode. Microsoft Mango is in preparation mode and is ripe to ship out this coming fall season which is set to compete against rival, Apple, as the best smartphone in the market.Windows Phone 7 fans are excited and as ecstatic when the Mango version coming out in the market sooner. Smartphone is getting smarter and easier for users as concluded by Microsoft Andy Lee, president of the Mobile Communications Business after the news conference in New York.
It has been a bad experience when Windows Phone 7 its first launched in 2010 for Microsoft to compete in the race of best mobile phones in post-PC era. From the start before the launching, it has already disgusted the public when bogging down the video feed early during the media day conference and welcomes them instead loading slowly the video feed. The Microsoft smartphone lost from the race against from already establish giants Apple's iOS and Google's Android in the demand of mobile phone surging markets.
The coming out of Mango, all fixes everything from bugs to devices while best apps are getting numerous and competitive for end-users. With the advent of Mango, Apple might afraid that it might lash back the market, and people get change their mind.
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Installment two with Hound Allie Beckstrom begins after Allie's last adventure in Magic to the Bone, where Allie had awakened from a coma with major memory loss and the death of her father. Now she is having to deal with both situations, as well as several people out to kill her. On the way to the police station to finally handle her father's death, she is accosted by someone she had Hounded--someone who should be behind bars but has been legally released--and he gets her blood... From official release/information:
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Copywrite, Jakki, the ghost of Camu and Tage rapping at the Carabar here in Columbus.
This song is off the Life and Times of Peter Nelson available at the finer record stores everywhere.
Copywrite, Jakki, the ghost of Camu and Tage rapping at the Carabar here in Columbus.
This song is off the Life and Times of Peter Nelson available at the finer record stores everywhere.
Posted in Columbus, Music, Video, Wes Flexner
Tagged Camu Tao, Carabar, columbus graffiti, columbus hip hop, Copywrite, jakki, jakki da motomouth, MHZ, Ohio Hip Hop, tage
Groove Shack was a record store here in the Short North from 1994-97. Pretty much everyone like MHZ(Copy, Camu, RJD2, Tage, Jakki), JRawls, the 3rd, Illogic put in time there.
Groove Shack is where Columbus scene that eventually got noticed internationally with the help of indie labels like Def Jux, Rhymesayers, Fondle Em, Groove Attack, Rawkus and Eastern Conference was built upon.
The owners made a documentary about the spot.
This documentary is being screened this week.
Thursday, November 18th at the Gateway Theater 1550 North High Street Columbus, OH 43201
The showing is from 730-930.
to be exact.
I saw the screening at Madlab, and the footage is priceless. Just watch the trailers..
The movie has a couple flaws, but it is not to be missed.
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Tagged columbus hip hop, Copywrite, da intelac, jakki, jrawls, MHZ, Ohio Hip Hop, RJD2
MP3:Mhz freestyle 98 on the Stretch Armstrong & Bobbito Show 89.9
Writing about the MHZ is weird for Donewaiting.com cause, do I say…RJD2's rap group. Do I say the late Camu Tao's rap group? Copywrite's?
Regardless, on what would be the rock fan's reference point, the Mhz spawned a good chunk of what Columbus Hip Hop became nationally recognized for.
The above freestyle was from when Tage, Camu and Copy apprearred on Stretch & Bobbito. We had been for years savoring bootlegs of the infuential NYC radio show.
I mean Columbus rappers were on the same show that had become infamous because of Big L and Jay-z freestyles? The same show that broke Wu-Tang's first single?
I just being amazed how many times they said Columbus during this program. Still bugs me out listening to it now.
It was like…."Bobbito knows where Columbus is…no way."
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Paul Krugman: Treason Against The Planet
The Republicans who are rejecting the climate change bill are doing so based more on ideology than science. Paul Krugman reminds us that ice caps are shrinking arid zoes are spreading, and scientists are predicting a 9 degree rise in temperature by the end of the century.
Global greenhouse gas emissions are rising faster than expected; some mitigating factors, like absorption of carbon dioxide by the oceans, are turning out to be weaker than hoped; and there's growing evidence that climate change is self-reinforcing — that, for example, rising temperatures will cause some arctic tundra to defrost, releasing even more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
The deniers aren't debating from a factual analysis. Congressman Paul Broun of Georgia went so far as to call climate change a "hoax" that's been "perpetrated out of the scientific community." These deniers should ignore scientific warnings at their own peril; the peril being loss of their political careers.Click here for reuse options!
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How Jay Gruden and the Redskins Can Improve Their Tight End SituationFebruary 14, 2014
Jay Gruden has his hands full as the new head coach of the Washington Redskins. Amidst a roster that requires attention at nearly every position, the tight end situation serves as no exception.
While it may not be a atop the list, the Redskins can afford to take a look.
What Jay Likes
During his time in Cincinnati, Gruden enjoyed two-TE sets with Jermaine Gresham and Tyler Eifert—two athletic bigs with strong hands and the ability to block.
In Gresham's three years under Gruden, he hauled in 166 catches for 2,387 yards and 15 scores—good for an average of 55 catches, 796 yards and five touchdowns per season.
And despite having one of the league's more athletic tight ends in Gresham, the Bengals spent their first-round draft pick last April on Eifert, who went on to catch 39 passes for 445 yards and two scores as a rookie.
Take a look at Cincy's offense last season, and it's clear Gruden not only enjoyed using his two physically imposing, dual-threat tight ends, but he did so creatively in order to create mismatches and increase offensive production at every position.
The Current Situation
As the roster stands today, the Redskins have a three-man pack led by Jordan Reed, who's coming off a stellar rookie season despite being riddled with injuries and only playing in nine games.
Behind Reed—and assuming Fred Davis isn't re-signed following yet another failed drug test, according to Jason La Canfora—the Redskins have Logan Paulsen and Niles Paul.
Although Paulsen has pulled in a few nice grabs over the past couple seasons, he makes a name for himself by being one of the hardest-working guys on the team. Any coach—whether it be Mike Shanahan or Gruden—can appreciate a guy who gives you everything he has, both on and off the field.
Paul, on the other hand, is a converted wide receiver who remains a work in progress. While he may not be the blocker that Paulsen is, Paul's history as a receiver makes him intriguing as a pass-catching type. Can Gruden get Paul over the hump at his new position?
How Gruden views Paulsen and Paul remains to be seen. The good news, however, is that Paulsen will be just 27 years old to start the season. Paul is just 25, and both come at a nominal price.
The Free-Agent Market
Spoiler alert: It's not great.
Sure, Jimmy Graham would look perfect in burgundy and gold. But let's keep sane, shall we?
If Gruden wants to take his chances in the free-agent market, looking at guys like Ed Dickson could have some upside. Maybe a Garrett Graham?
Dennis Pitta? Forget about it.
Jermichael Finley? There will certainly be a market for him, assuming he makes a full recovery from offseason neck surgery. But what kind of market?
While the Redskins do have some coin to spend this offseason, they can't afford to go Richard Branson. Their surplus in cap space this spring needs to be handled with extreme care. Signing a tight end in this market should only be done as a low-risk play for the team.
Draft Potential
There's a lot to like in the upper echelon of the 2014 tight end draft class, but be weary of the drop-off. After names like Eric Ebron and Jace Amaro—both of whom the Redskins won't have a chance at—there's a step down, which includes guys like Austin Seferian-Jenkins and C.J. Fiedorowicz. After that, you're looking at projects and question marks.
With the Redskins' biggest offseason need being improved protection for Robert Griffin III, it's something that needs to be addressed by way of both offensive line and pass catching. Drafting a tight end like Fiedorowicz would be killing two birds with one stone, as he's a guy who can block in-line yet stretch the seam and offer a set of reliable hands for the quarterback.
Best Bet
If Gruden wants to add to his tight end corps, doing so by way of the draft seems wise. Not only is it a cost-effective approach, but the Redskins have the advantage of having high draft picks in the third and fourth rounds, providing them the potential for an ASJ or Fiedorowicz to fall in their laps.
On the other hand, with this draft serving as a critical building block for the new regime in Washington, perhaps Gruden gets the most value out of sticking with the group he has and using a combination of Reed, Paulsen and Paul to see what he can get out of them in his offense.


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Howard Stern, the self-proclaimed "King of All Media," stepped away from his normal, and sometimes outrageous, talk show routine on Sunday to speak to television personality Anderson Cooper about more serious topics.
60-year old Stern began the interview by jumping immediately into the deep end of the pool when he asked Cooper if the suicide of his brother, Carter Cooper, still shapes his life.
"Absolutely," the 46-year old journalist said. "It forms everything. It may not be the first thing [I think of in the morning], but there's not a day goes by that I don't think about it."
Carter Cooper took a fatal jump from their mother's 14th-floor Manhattan penthouse in 1988 when he was 23 years old. Anderson was 21-years old at the time.
"I think he had this impulse that he could not contain," Cooper told Stern. "He had woken up from a nap and was disoriented and ran to her room and said, 'What's going on, what's going on?' Then he ran to his room on the second floor and went out onto the ledge."
With no drugs or alcohol in his system, Cooper's family still doesn't fully understand why it happened.
"With suicide, we like to think that it's this clear thing, and it's not – and that's the horrible thing about suicide. The family members are left for their entire lives wondering why. Sometimes there isn't any why."
During the interview on Sunday, Cooper also announced that he doesn't expect to get any money from his mother, railroad heiress-turned-designer Gloria Vanderbilt, who is said to be worth $200 million.
"Who has inherited a lot of money that has gone on to do things in their own life?" Cooper asked. "From the time I was growing up, if I felt that there was some pot of gold waiting for me, I don't know that I would've been so motivated."
Currently Cooper brings in $11 million a year through his contact with The Cable News Network (CNN). "I'm doing fine on my own, I don't need any [money]," he said.
In fact, Cooper added that he never really paid attention to his privileged upbringing, which was due in part to his grandfather, Wyatt Emory Cooper.
"My dad grew up really poor in Mississippi. ... I paid attention to that because I thought that's a healthier thing to pay attention to than like some statue of a great-great-great-grandfather who has no connection to my life."
Cooper also spoke to Stern in the interview about CNN and Fox ratings, his career as a child model, and his boyfriend of 5 years, Benjamin Maisani.
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Halfords aiming to get back on track after profits fall
Retailer Halfords - which has 14 stores in Northern Ireland - has been left nursing a fall in half-year profits after seeing bike sales slump and said earnings in the next financial year were also unlikely to grow.
But recently-hired boss Jill McDonald put faith in a new turnaround plan to get its performance back on track, including a renewed push in the bike sector, with Olympian and Tour de France champion Sir Bradley Wiggins signed up to launch a new children's range.
Sir Bradley will help design eight bikes as part of his drive to get more children into cycling, with the range due to hit stores next July.
Ms McDonald unveiled her overhaul after a "disappointing" summer for bike sales, which dropped 7.6% on a like-for-like basis in the group's second quarter, down by 11%. It was hit by poor weather and high promotional activity, while the sales fall was also compounded by tough comparisons from a year earlier.
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Hello, it is so great to see you here.My name is Lydia. I am an Eating Psychology Coach and Certified Health Coach and I help women, just like you, heal their relationship with food, their bodies but more importantly the relationship they have with themselves.Don't just take my word for it. Check out what some of my past clients have said about working with me.
My Intension is to help guide you out of the maze of emotional turmoil, burst through confusion and knock down the walls of self doubt, self criticism and self judgment that is keeping you small so you can reach your full potential and finally find peace with food.
I Believe that true health is achieved when we focus not just on what you eat but what you think, feel and the habits that you do on a daily basis. It is about looking at your relationship that you have with yourself and the relationship you have with food. Is the relationship a loving one or it full of hatred and self punishment? When inner change occurs the outer change will follow.
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Like many young women I struggled with my weight, self esteem and body image. Unfortunately this led me to adopting a destructive relationship to food that went on for many years. I had lost all sense of balance in my life. I constantly felt this emptiness inside me which was so painful that it needed to be filled. Food was the thing that I reached for to fill me up. To allow me to feel whole again but as the weight started to pile on my self esteem plummeted and I was left feeling even more empty. I hated myself for giving into my compulsive nature. Shame and self loathing took over me and to eradicate the painful emotions that arose due to my out of control eating habits I would punish myself with restricting what I ate the next day and run my body into the ground with gruelling exercise regimes. This never ending cycle was so exhausting to maintain and it was no way to live.
Everyday I was driven to eat, think and live from a place of guilt, shame and self hate. My willpower soon wore off after being 'good' for a short period of time and I was back to using food to ease the pain. This cycle went on for many years with the number on the scale increasing overtime. I was left heavier than I had ever been with a level of self esteem and self worth that was non existent. I was an empty shell that was starved of nourishing foods, love and connection from others and from myself. I was living in deep fear. Fearful of not being good enough, thin enough, smart enough and from this place I acted in a way that supported my negative beliefs. I saw no way out of this nerve ending cycle that I was trapped in.
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I had to take a hard look at myself and decided enough was enough. I was tired of being at constant war with food and more importantly with myself. I had to give up the quick fixes and stop running away from my uncomfortable emotions. I had to start listening to what my destructive relationship to food was trying to tell me. So I began my healing journey in the hopes that I could med the broken relationship I had with myself and with food so I can lead a balanced, healthy and happy life.
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It has been a long journey of self discovery to get to where I am today. Instead of numbing myself with food I started to get curious. I had to begin to work through my painful emotions. I started to heal myself from the inside out. I immersed myself into the world of health, wellness and self development to help guide and support me on my journey. Instead of hating myself into change I had to learn the art of self compassion and forgiveness. This didn't come easy as I was so trapped in the self hate cycle but slowly I noticed things shifting. I started treating myself better as my relationship with myself grew stronger. I had to get comfortable with discomfort and find the courage not to get seduced by the quick fixes that I knew would only leave me worse off.
I started eating clean and nourishing foods and ditched the sugar that was fuelling my erratic eating behaviours. I started to move my body from a place of self love instead of punishment. I started to break through my limiting beliefs and destructive habits one by one and introduced healthier habits and began to think in a way that was supportive and kind. I was doing everything I could to help heal myself. My journey lead me to studying at The Institute for Integrative Nutrition and The Institute for the Psychology of Eating. Both these trainings were very healing for me as I learnt and gained so much knowledge that I could apply into my own life.
As a eating psychology and certified health coach I now am able to do a job that I absolutely love. I get to coach women into healing their relationship with food so they cant start loving their bodies but more importantly themselves. I used to be ashamed of my struggles but now I see them as a blessing as I can draw on my own personal experiences and bring them into my coaching. From this place of understanding and relatability I find that my clients let go of the shame much quicker and can be completely open with me because they know that I struggled with similar issues that they are dealing with.
I learn from mistakes and I learn a great deal from my clients as well. They help me stay on a balanced path. Everyday is a chance to nourish myself on many different levels wether it be emotionally, physically or spiritually. I used to fill myself up with too much food, too much negative thinking, the list went on. But today i choose to fill myself up with things that make me feel good. Everyday I commit to eating, thinking and living in a way that keeps me balanced and connected to myself. I am exited to continue on this journey as I continue to learn and grow.
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August 25, 2009
Iowa State gets second supercomputer
Iowa State University says its new Cystorm supercomputer is capable of doing 28.16 trillion calculations per second at peak performance.
Professor Srnivas Aluru, leader of the Cystorm project, said the supercomputer -- the university's second -- will help Iowa State researchers advance their work in materials science, power systems and systems biology. It is also earning Iowa State recognition as a Sun Microsystems Center of Excellence in Engineering Informatics and Systems Biology.Cystorm, a Sun Microsystems machine, uses 3,200 computer processor cores and has a peak performance that's five times that of CyBlue, an IBM Blue Gene/L supercomputer that uses 2,048 processors. CyBlue has been on the Iowa State campus since 2006.
Cystorm is going to be very good for data-intensive research projects, Aluru said.
The capabilities of Cystorm will help Iowa State researchers do new, pioneering research in their fields.
Aluru said materials scientists will use the supercomputer to analyze data from the university's Local Electrode Atom Probe microscope. Systems biologists will use the supercomputer to build gene networks that will help researchers understand how thousands of genes interact with each other. Power systems researchers will use it to study the security, reliability and efficiency of the nation's energy infrastructure.
The computer was purchased with a $719,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, $400,000 from Iowa State and a $200,000 equipment donation from Sun Microsystems.


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Downton Abbey Cast, Even when she's far from the English countryside, Elizabeth McGovern just can't leave "Downton Abbey" behind. During a recent trip to Florida's Epcot theme park, the actress who plays Lady Cora even brought "Downton" all the way to Disney.
McGovern posed with park performers from Epcot's United Kingdom Pavilion and recreated the show's memorable ensemble shot with them " sort of.
There weren't quite enough performers to stand in for the full cast, and McGovern herself was sporting her civilian wear rather than her costume drama finery, but at least one member of the group managed to completely capture the spirit of the Abbey.
Goofy, the often-blundering, anthropomorphic Disney dog, dressed for the occasion in top hat and tails that even the Earl of Grantham " if not his mother, the Dowager Countess " would approve of.


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This is a stunning fully air-conditioned 3-bedroom (with attached en-suite) sea-view apartment located in a quiet area of the capital city, The apartment is about a 15 minutes walk to the town centre.This holiday rental place is a 5-minute stroll to the famous Miramar beach, shops, cafes and restaurants. The accommodation is equipped with a modern kitchen facilities and supported by a friendly staff.The apartment is ideal for couples and families. Please check the photos for the stunning views from the rooms. The apartment/guest house offers a child friendly environment with 24-hours security and is wheelchair friendly. Car rentals and tours can be organised on request.
We spend great time between 17 Aug to 20 Aug 2017.
Spacious n beautiful rooms
Fully equipped kitchen
Laundry n iron facilities
Swimming pool
Walkable distances from Miramar beach
One of the best beach
Within 3km casino, Cruze, Dona plana
Centre of panjim
No disturbance
Great place
We had a wonderful time in this spacious unit which is well located near parks, the city and beach. We had 4 adults and 2 children in our party and all had room to live and play comfortably.
Louis is a great asset and a wonderful person. He is the local manager and will assist you any way he can. I would definitely return and would recommend it to anyone, especially families
Holidays should have such stays to make wonderful memories more beautiful.
We had a great stay in this lovely apartment. From the moment we booked, the hosts emailed and then phoned to see if there was anything we needed for our stay.
Luis ( the apartment manager) was there to welcome us on our arrival, and had even provided some fruit, egg, milk , bread etc. He was kind enough to show us around the local area, pointing out supermarkets, bus stops, the local market and places of interest, and was most helpful.
Overall the apartment was really spacious, in immaculate order, and a perfect base for us during our stay. The swimming pool was a real bonus too.
I would certainly recommend staying here.
We stayed for 2 months at thus beautiful 3 bedroom apartment and had a memorable time. Luiz the manager was superb with his band of helpers doing the house-keeping and assisting in every way.
We are returning in January of next year for another 2 months. I have seen alternative accommodations and decided that this is the one for me.
The communal swimming pool is kept immaculately clean on a daily basis. The gated community's residents are professional and business people who I found to be friendly and helpful
Alford & Marya
Great communication in the lead up to and during our stay if we had any queries, which was really helpful and greatly appreciated.
From the moment we walked through the door Luis made us feel as welcome as possible. The apartment is beautiful; really comfortable, spacious and bright - a little bit of luxury!
Everything is easy to find, with a well equipped kitchen, wifi, cable tv, washing machine, and the fantastic Air con was much appreciated in the heat! There were even some groceries and fresh fruit ready for us - which were gratefully received as we'd travelled a long way!
The bedrooms were beautifully furnished, plenty of storage, lovely pillows and comfortable bedding, and the en-suite bathrooms were all nicely finished and clean. Luis gave us a tour of the local area so we could easily locate shops, banks, etc and was happy to give us advice and recommendations on where to go and what to do. The local bus stop is a very short walk away and details for taxi drivers and restaurants are easily accessible in a information booklet they have made - we found this really helpful. The beach is also nice and close.
We would definitely stay here again and cannot recommend this serene home away from home more!
We are a professional couple of Indian origin living and working in Australia. We would be keen to add a personal touch to our this apartment and can relate to the expectations/quality of service to tourists from other parts of the globe.
We strive to ensure that our guests will have a warm 'Feel at Home' experience through the personal touch given to this family home at every corner.
Stylish location,sea view,close to beach and restaurants. Quiet neighbourhood drive to the town centre. Modern finishes and interiors. Secure block
Special interest holidays:
A day tour to owner's own spice farm can be organised. Other tours can be arranged on request.
5-minute stroll to the local Miramar beach. The sea-facing apartment is about a 30 minute drive from the famous Calangute–Candolim beach belt of Goa that includes Baga and Anjuna beaches.
23 kms from Goa's Dabolim Airport. We recommended car hire for sight seeing and commutes as local transport infrastructure is not reliable. Car hire can be arranged on request.
3 kms from Goa's capital Panjim and the town centre; 2 kms from the popular tourist spot Dona Paula; 23 kms from Goa's Dabolim Airport; 15 kms from the nearest train station, Karmali. The apartment is centrally located for tourism at 16 kms from the popular Calangute-Candolim beach belt and 15 kms from the Old Goa churches.
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Please consult our inhouse local manager to plan your itinerary to visit various places of interest.
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Booking Notes:
We request a booking deposit within 3-5 working days of the booking.
Outstanding amount is to be paid 20 days prior to arrival date. A 20% security deposit will be collected on arrival and returned after the departure of guests and the property inspection has been completed.
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Arrival/check in time: By 1 PM.
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Please contact us for special consideration in deviation from the above time frames.
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£200 (May - September)
£250 (October - April)
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It's dinner for just the ladies. Jamie is preparing some fabulous food to go with some top notch wines that we have
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You know, while I was running around doing my Klaxxi Daily Quests I came across an Idea.
I dislike Dailys.
They're like pulling teeth, except the teeth regrow every day.
So I thought "What could be an alternative"
Well, how about instead of tons of Daily quests to get gold, charms and points, You placed out in the world elite monsters, perhaps phased when you are wearing <Insert clever name for item for hunting monsters>
You need to explore the island of Pandaria, hunting these tough monsters with varied skills.. like rare spawns, only not rare. Killing one gives you rep and daily rewards.
You can kill them as long as you wish, but some sort of personal spawn timer means you can't fight the same one till a reset. Hell, they could even design them like the Hunter tames and make alot of them soloable only by you, Sort of like an experiece of the Brawler's guild.. outside the brawlers guild.
So what do people think? Would you like to slay monsters as much as you want over daily quests? Or would you prefer dailies?


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|Li Fu
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Throwing knives (8)
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|First Appearance:
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|Real name:
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孫德 - 孙徳
Li Fu (onyomi: Ri Fuku) is a minister of the Kingdom of Shu.
Role in GamesEdit
In Dynasty Warriors 7, Li Fu appears only at the Battle of Luo Castle. He defends the final base on Huang Zhong's path, where the latter will wait to conduct the ambush on Luo Castle. In Dynasty Warriors 8, he appears at Shu's Chengdu stage on the easternmost path that is taken by Pang Tong.
Historical InformationEdit
Li Fu was the son of Li Quan and born in Fu of Zitong prefecture, Yi Province. His father was a local leader in Yi Province and executed by Liu Yan. Eventually, Yi Province was conquered by Liu Bei and Li Fu joined him, becoming the Magistrate of Chengdu. He received numerous promotions in subsequent years. During Liu Shan's reign, he became Governor of Jiangzhou and "General Who Manifests Majesty". He was later appointed to "Supervisor of Masters of Writing" and made Marquis of Pingyang. He was also sent by Liu Shan to check on Zhuge Liang's condition during the latter's northern campaign and ask who should succeed him. In 238, Li Fu was appointed "Supervisor of the Front Army" by Jiang Wan and sent to prepare the army at Hanzhong against Wei. However, Li Fu died the same year. He had a son named Li Xiang, who served under the Jin Dynasty and a grandson named Li Shou.
Romance of the Three KingdomsEdit
In chapter 104, when Zhuge Liang's health continued to deteriorate, Li Fu was sent by Liu Shan to check up on the strategist's condition as well as to inquire who his successor would be. Upon being given this question, Zhuge Liang's answer was Jiang Wan followed by Fei Yi. In chapter 105, he returned to Liu Shan and reported Zhuge Liang's death and last words.


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Chocolate Glossary Directory
A, B, Bl, C, C-2, Ch, Ch-2, Co, Co-2, Cr, D, E, F, Fi, Fo, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, Mo, N, O, P, Pe, Pr, Q, R, S, Sn, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z
BAKER'S CHOCOLATE or BAKING CHOCOLATE or BITTER CHOCOLATE or UNSWEETENED CHOCOLATE:
A solid chocolate, without sweetening, made from 100% cocoa liquor. Historically, this type of chocolate was used solely in cooking and baking. With the more recent interest in darker and darker chocolate, however, some manufacturers, especially small-scale producers, are offering this type of product as an eating chocolate.
"Baker's chocolate" seems like a generic term, but it is a brand. Around 1764 or 1765, John Hannon (alternatively spelled as Hannan) and Dr. James Baker began importing cacao beans and producing the first chocolate in the American colonies, in Massachusetts. After Hannon's death, his widow sold the company to Dr. Baker, and it was renamed Baker Chocolate Company. That company remains in existence to this day, though it is now owned by the food giant Mondelez International. Baker's Chocolate is the oldest trademarked brand in the United States.
Baking chocolate purchased in grocery stores is typically made with the poorest quality cocoa beans. There is an assumption by the chocolate companies that the chocolate will be mixed with other ingredients that will mask the flavor of the inferior quality beans.
From the French. Literally, "Mary's bath". A pan of food is placed in or over another, larger pan filled with simmering water. Because the food is not placed over direct heat, it does not scorch or burn so easily. This is a time-tested method for melting chocolate, which is particularly susceptible to scorching when heat is applied to it.
In 1912, Jean Neuhaus, grandson of the founder of Neuhaus Confiserie et Chocolaterie, developed the first bite-size filled chocolates. When these were purchased, they were placed in paper cones. All too often, the chocolates were scratched or crushed in transit. Neuhaus and his wife, Louise Agostini, recognized the need for protective packaging for their delicate creations. Together, they designed an elegant box with structured components that would protect the chocolates. These boxes, still in use today, are ballotins.
From the French. Literally, "stick". A baton is a specialty-size portion of chocolate, sometimes placed in baked goods such as croissants. It is named after its shape, a narrow bar that resembles a stick in appearance.
BEAN, CACAO or COCOA:
The source of all cocoa powder and chocolate, beans are the seeds of the tree Theobroma cacao. Typically, between 20 and 40 flat, almond-shaped beans grow in a pod, which can be more than a foot long. Manufacturing chocolate from beans is a laborious process requiring multiple steps, including fermentation, drying, roasting, grinding, and conching. Historically, chocolate manufacturers have purchased beans from brokers in the beans' country of origin. More recently, some small-scale producers have broken with that tradition, purchasing beans directly from growing cooperatives or even individual farmers.
The term for a manufacturer who makes his or her own chocolate, beginning with'the selection of raw cocoa beans and continuing through the many steps necessary to achieve finished chocolate. The alternative is to purchase couverture chocolate made by someone else, often a large-scale manufacturer. Bean-to-bar has become very popular among small-scale manufacturers who seek change in everything from ingredients (and how they are sourced) to aroma, mouthfeel, flavor, and aftertaste of the finished product.
BELGIAN or BELGIAN-STYLE CHOCOLATE:
Although many people divide chocolate into Belgian, Swiss, or French "style", there is no Belgian style per se. Fine chocolate is made in Belgium, certainly, but equally fine chocolate is made in many other areas of the world, too. As with any food, the chocolate you like is a matter of personal preference and what you grew up with.
Another term for Baker's chocolate or unsweetened chocolate.
There is no legal definition of bittersweet chocolate in the United States. Semisweet chocolate must contain at least 35% chocolate liquor by weight, with a maximum of 12% milk solids. Typically, bittersweet chocolate contains more chocolate liquor and less sugar than does semisweet; in addition, neither semisweet and bittersweet usually contain milk solids. There are people who consider a 70% chocolate liquor content the minimum for bittersweet, but that is personal judgment. Bittersweet chocolate has become increasingly popular in the US over the past couple of decades, partly because darker chocolate, known to be higher in antioxidants, is considered "healthy", and partly because consumers are recognizing that chocolate doesn't necessarily need a lot of sugar to be pleasing.
|This glossary would not have been possible without the kind assistance of my good friend Karen Hochman who runs the website: The Nibble. Karen gave us permission to base our chocolate glossary on hers. TheNibble is one of the Internet's greatest resources for food articles, reviews, history, and just about anything when it comes to quality food. Please, if you have a few moments, visit my friend Karen's website and you'll be amazed at what a valuable resource it is. Thanks for all your help Karen!
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STONY BROOK — The University at Albany knows this: when the America East regular season ends for them Sunday on Long Island, the Danes will either be the third or fourth seed in the league tournament at SEFCU Arena later this week.
UAlbany and Hartford are tied for third place with 9-6 records. If both teams win Sunday, UAlbany will win the tiebreaker for third place (because of its record against Stony Brook, which is in second place). It would seem as though Hartford has the better odds of getting the third seed because the Hawks are home on Sunday against UMBC. However, Hartford lost to the Retrievers 60-58 in Baltimore in January.
Stony Brook has already clinched second place in the league, but did lost to the Danes in Albany 77-67 on Jan. 29.
UAlbany, which won the America East Tournament last season as a four seed, has won its last three games.
"It's important for us to win Sunday and have a four-game winning streak going into the tournament," said UAlbany center John Puk. "But it's not the end of the world if we don't. Right now, we are a confident team. I think we are coming together at the right time."
Here are the probable starting lineups:
G-DJ Evans, Sr., 5-9, 175 (11.0 ppg)
G-Peter Hooley, So., 6-4, 200 (14.8 ppg)
F-Sam Rowley, Jr., 6-6, 230 (11.2 ppg)
F-Gary Johnson, Sr., 6-6, 205 (11.1 ppg)
C-John Puk, Sr., 6-10, 235 (6.0 ppg)
G-Ben Resner, Sr., 6-2, 185 (0.7 ppg)
G-Anthony Jackson, Sr., 6-0, 185 (12.9 ppg)
G-Dave Coley, Sr., 6-2, 190 (10.6 ppg)
F-Jameel Warney, So., 6-8, 260 (14.9 ppg)
F-Eric McAlister, Sr., 6-8, 220 (7.6 ppg)


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Puritan Patristics: Protestant Catholicity
By admin | January 16, 2009
B. The Puritan use of the Fathers. This positive exposition still needs some careful qualification. No reformed writer treated any church father as if his writings were on a par with Scripture. But neither did they succumb to a naïve Biblicism, thinking that they alone with their Bibles could arrive at a satisfactory system of Christian theology. Such a notion almost always (if not always) leads the student into error. Their view must be characterized as between these polar opposites. The Fathers were of use for several purposes.
1). They evidenced the historical continuity of the Spirit's work in the church. Even after the departure of the Apostles, He was working among Christians.
2). They evidenced the Reformed or Puritan historical continuity with both the apostles and the early fathers. This oneness was of great importance.
3). Their use of the fathers served an important polemical purpose—it removed the sting of Rome's charge of historical novelty. To the contrary, it demonstrated theological agreement.
4). Their use of the fathers provided a means of demonstrating that Rome was actually the innovator. Her course had deviated from the straight path set down in the early church.
5). Likewise, the fathers provided a touchstone of argument against 'protestant' heresies.
C. The Catholic nature of mainstream Puritanism. We have already hinted at this, now let us pursue it for a moment. Vincent's formula "always, everywhere and by all" makes an important point, but one that needs careful application. Who really was in the middle of the stream? The puritan answer would have been: we are! Isn't the title Roman Catholic an oxymoron? In fact, Puritan polemics recognized that there was great diversity within the Roman communion. The various orders held differing views; there were significant changes over the centuries; the common thread was basically allegiance to the Roman See. But that allegiance can hardly demonstrate catholicity! Listen to how Miles Coverdale, early reformer, sometime bishop of Exeter wrote about this:
[We have already published this citation: See http://www.reformedbaptistinstitute.org/?p=224]
There is an important and very practical side for us to this discussion. Some have noted a very real and powerful movement from evangelicalism back to Eastern Orthodoxy or Rome. IN 2007, the president of ETS defected to Rome. Why is this? Because Roman and Orthodox apologists make much of the historical continuity they hold with the age of the Fathers. Evangelicalism has no real answer to this. A simplistic 'the Bible teaches this' cannot satisfy the demands of those who struggle with such issues. We need a better developed historical understanding of the ebbs and floes of church history. The Reformed and Puritans understood this problem very well, and addressed it in the best way possible—by showing that Rome was the innovator, not the Protestants!
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Afghan eagle's rehab grounded
U.S. Navy SEALs say rules hamper effort to get injured bird to an area sanctuary
Published 1:00 am, Thursday, July 1, 2010
GRAFTON -- An eagle wounded in the wing by a bullet in Afghanistan is being nursed back to health by elite U.S. fighters, despite limited supplies and the daily dangers they face in the war-torn country.
But because of an international treaty covering endangered species and U.S. wildlife regulations, their efforts to have the injured eagle sent to a bird sanctuary in Rensselaer County has hit a bureaucratic snag.
"I fear he will be killed soon unless rescued," Special Warfare Operator 1st Class Craig White of the Navy SEALs wrote recently in an e-mail from Camp Scorpion in Afghanistan. "He tries to fly, but cannot get off the ground. Its living conditions are the best with what we have, but not great. It is a cage the size of a small walk-in closet with rocks on the bottom and a shelf with a ramp."
White wrote seeking the assistance of Pete Dubacher, who runs Berkshire Bird Paradise in Grafton and who has taken in 20 wounded eagles over the past three decades. White found Dubacher's website and sent an urgent request for help since he fears for the eagle's fate once his unit returns to the U.S. in about two months.
"I doubt that the crew relieving us will want to put the effort into caring for it and we do not have the authority or capability to bring it back to us," White wrote.
"I would be honored to help the eagle because I'm so proud of the bravery of our soldiers who are willing to stick their necks out for a bird," said Dubacher, a former Army cook who served in the late-1960s in Panama, where he bought parrots being sold as pets in the vegetable stands of Panama City and set them free.
"Unfortunately, it's become sort of a mission impossible to get the eagle out of Afghanistan because of all the bureaucracy. I told the boys over there not to get their hopes up too high," Dubacher said.
Based on a photo of the wounded bird White e-mailed, Dubacher identified it as a steppe eagle, a large bird of prey common in Afghanistan, a migratory bird that traverses a wide habitat of deserts, steppes and savannahs from Africa to India and all across Central Asia and Europe.
"It's a dull, brownish color and not very pretty to look at," Dubacher said. "It's not in the same class as our bald eagle, but the effort and care the soldiers put into saving the bird is remarkable."
The steppe eagle was shot earlier this month on a rifle range, where Navy SEALs were training Afghan soldiers. According to White, the Afghan soldier had one bullet left in his rifle, the eagle landed out on the rifle range "and he decided to take a shot at it, and unfortunately hit it."
The SEALs gathered up the battered, bloody bird, bandaged its wing and helped it convalesce.
After getting the e-mail from Afghanistan, Dubacher enlisted help from Barbara Chepaitis of Altamont, an author and creative writing teacher who has just published with SUNY Press a book about Dubacher and his bird sanctuary titled "Feathers of Hope." It is being shipped to bookstores this week.
Chepaitis contacted the office of Sen. Charles Schumer, D-NY and an aide checked with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, where officials were not optimistic about bringing the eagle stateside.
"It ripped my heart out when I found out we can't help these soldiers in a dangerous situation who just want to help a wounded bird. It's almost as if the eagle has become a little piece of their soul," said Chepaitis, whose book explores spiritual connections between humans and birds.
Chepaitis opens her book with an Emily Dickinson poem: "Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul./And sings the tune without the words,/And never stops at all..."
Tom Alvarez, a spokesman for the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Office's Northeast regional office, outlined a litany of regulations that are aligned against bringing the steppe eagle to Rensselaer County.
For starters, a treaty signed at the Convention on International Trade and Endangered Species, CITES, comes into play. It regulates endangered species, including the steppe eagle, which is listed as a bird of "least concern" with an estimated population worldwide of 10,000 birds. The treaty requires that a permit for export is issued from Afghanistan, where steppe eagles are prized for hunting among falconry devotees. It's unlikely the Afghanistan government would make such a permit request a priority while war is raging, Alvarez said.
To be allowed to enter the U.S., in addition to the CITES export permit from the host country, the eagle needs a U.S. wildlife conservation act permit and an appendix 2 permit. Such permits take at least 90 days to process, Alvarez said. And there's concerns about parasites or diseases the bird may carry.
"U.S. troops have to follow the rules like everyone else," Alvarez said. "This isn't going to be easy, but there are exceptions made."
Alvarez said Schumer's aides were working with officials in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife's legislative affairs office to try to streamline the process.
Meanwhile, Dubacher, who has managed to rescue and rehabilitate numerous eagles given up as lost causes -- one poisoned by the Exxon Valdez oil spill, another mauled by a grizzly bear -- is ready to give the Afghanistan eagle a good home.
"Pete has devoted his life to saving birds and he can guarantee that eagle a safe haven for the rest of its life," Chepaitis said. "That eagle is not a terrorist. We should grant it political asylum."


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UPDATE: This post has been edited to reflect changes in Kola Aluko's stake in Seven Energy
Seven Energy, a leading Nigerian energy firm which was co-founded by Kola Aluko, a prominent Nigerian business tycoon, has closed a financing round that now values the company at nearly $1 billion.
Early last week, Temasek, the investment holding company owned by the Government of Singapore, made a $150 million investment in Seven Energy, a privately-held Nigerian oil and gas exploration company that Aluko co-founded in 2004. Temasek's investment follows a similar $105 million investment made recently by the International Finance Corporation (IFC) in Seven Energy. Together, these two investors now hold a 26% stake in the indigenous oil company. Temasek is the company's largest shareholder with a 15.6% stake, while Aluko, 44, owns 1% of the company's equity on a fully diluted basis).
In a press release issued by Seven Energy earlier this week, the company said it plans to use the funds to develop its growing portfolio of assets in Nigeria, where the group is focusing on the development of upstream reserves and resources and gas infrastructure to provide gas to the domestic market for power generation and industrial consumption.
Kola Aluko founded oil exploration company Exoro Energy in 2004 after a successful career in oil trading. That same year, Exoro partnered with Energy Ventures International, a Nigerian subsidiary of Weatherford, a Swiss-based oil and gas servicing firm, to market the latter's exploration and production technology in Nigeria. Energy Ventures subsequently changed its name to Seven Energy, and in 2007, Aluko led a management buy-out of Seven Energy. The company began acquiring Nigerian oil producing assets in 2009. Aluko left the company's management and board in 2011.
But Aluko's stake in Seven Energy is not his largest asset. That would be his 50% stake in Atlantic Energy, a private upstream Oil and Gas Company that has a very lucrative, albeit highly controversial Strategic Alliance Agreement (SAA) with the government-owned Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC) in relation to 4 prolific oil-producing oil blocks – OML 26, OML 30, OML 34 and OML 42. NPDC, which is the operating arm of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), owns 55% in each of these oil blocks, which collectively produce an average of over 108,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day. Under the agreement Atlantic Energy currently has with NPDC, Atlantic Energy funds NPDC's share of the operating costs of the 4 oil blocks by paying the latter's entire cash obligations. In return for funding NPDC's operating and capital activity costs, Atlantic Energy gets back costs, meaning that NPDC pays back to Atlantic Energy the initial money used to finance the operating costs, and also earns 35% of profits on the 4 oil blocks. According to its website, Atlantic Energy has spent a little over $500 million on the oil blocs over the last two years. The company is believed to have earned hundreds of millions of dollars from its share of profits during the period. The government-owned NPDC has not reported its share of the profits on the oil blocks it co-owns. Because of his various stakes in oil companies and the profits they have thrown off, Kola Aluko has been on our radar for the annual Forbes Billionaires List and Forbes list of Africa's 50 Richest.
Aluko, who has recently been in the media spotlight for his closeness to stars like Naomi Campbell and Hollywood A-lister Leonardo DiCaprio, is also a co-founder of the Made In Africa Foundation, a UK nonprofit that supports and funds master plans and feasibility studies for large scale infrastructure projects across Africa. He owns a 65-meter Galactica Star Yacht which is said to cost upward of $50 million and he divides his time between a $40 million home in Los Angeles, an $8.6 million duplex on Fifth Avenue in New York and other homes in Abuja and Geneva, Switzerland.


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I am also still working through the Lifebook lessons at a snail's pace. This piece was made combining two lessons, it was a lot of fun and I liked it enough to frame it and take it to work.


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Skip to comments.Oxford sex abuse victim: 'At first they treat you like a princess'
Posted on 05/19/2013 6:26:56 AM PDT by DeaconBenjamin
One of the victims who gave evidence in court against the Oxford child sexual exploitation ring has told the Guardian how she was groomed, raped and trafficked while in the care of Oxfordshire county council.
Girl C's abuse began just after her 13th birthday. By the age of 14, the gang had got her addicted to hard drugs and was regularly trafficking the teenager across the country to be raped by strangers.
By 16, Girl C was pregnant, not by one of the convicted men. She finally managed to escape only after her son was born, when the gang threatened to murder the baby if she did not start recruiting younger girls into the same cycle of abuse.
Five men Bassam and Mohammed Karrar, Akhtar and Anjum Dogar, and Assad Hussain were convicted on Tuesday on charges including rape, conspiracy to rape, trafficking for sexual exploitation and facilitating child prostitution against Girl C.
Two other defendants were found guilty of charges involving other victims. Two other men were cleared.
Girl C is reluctant to draw wider conclusions from the fact that all her abusers were Muslim and their victims white.
"Not all the men are Asian: at least two are Egyptian," she said. "They are, though, all Muslim but not all Muslim men behave like that."
There did, however, appear to be a subset of Muslim men in Oxford who targeted white girls.
Girl C said that when the men asked her to recruit younger girls, they specified that they wanted only white girls. "But not all the punters were Asian or North African," she added. "Although they were all foreign."
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
Where is this girl's mother? I keep a close tab on my daughter and I also model respectable behavior, work every day, no smoking, drinking, home by 5 dinner ready by 6, in before dark, and I am always in communication with her.
According to some liberals, you are abusing your daughter, just like these men abuse young women....just imposing your Christian values on them rather than muslim values.
Since this takes place in the UK, parenting is destroyed. She might not even know her mother or her mother is enslaved to another gang.
We are creating hell on earth.
Feral dogs. Double taps behind the left ear for all of them ... with a .22 to keep the cost reasonable.
These are the criminals sought by the US State Dept,
and then released over and over by the ObamaDHS and
the ultracorrupt Obama-DO"J".
Cost, maybe, but availabilty? One's enough, watch 'em twitch awhile.
Have you checked the cost of .22 ammo lately?
Use a noose at the end of a rope. It is reuseable. Hundreds of times.
In this girl's mind it is worse to be accused of RACISM! than to be turned into a sex slave by Arabs in her own damn country.
Of course the perps should be killed immediately but the ultimate responsibility lies with the British government that ships these foreigners in by the boat load and then gives them a comfortable living off the taxpayer dime. Who controls the British government? It not muslims and its certainly not the British people.
Following in the footsteps of their evil pedophile 'prophet' from hell.
Britain and America are so damned stupid in their ridiculous actions of opening the door to Muslims.
London's Metropolitan Police are still advertising for 'Muslim applicants for Metro police positions' in order to properly represent this violent minority!
I've always wanted to be treated like a princess. No, wait! Prince! I've always wanted to be treated like a PRINCE! And I want a pony.
Ah, how heartbreakingly romantic.
The pleasures of the ROP.
I thought the same thing — where is this girl's family? Did they think she just disappeared? Were they paid off?
Poor thing is SO brainwashed she has to say "not all Muslims are like that!"
This is what will soon be ruling over England.
Found the answer in the original article:
Speaking exclusively to the Guardian, Girl C revealed that her adoptive mother spent two years begging the council for help with her daughter, first contacting the council when Girl C was 12 years old and starting to stay out all night, returning home drunk and dishevelled.
"Mum wrote to all the key people in social services, called her own case conferences, invited agencies and got them sitting around the table, but they just passed the parcel between them and all the while, I was getting increasingly under the power and influence of the gang," said Girl C.
"My adoptive mum started asking Oxfordshire social services for help with me in 2004 and they refused and resisted giving even the most basic support for two years."
The British government has turned on its own people while coddling foreign nationals who prey on young women. The blame shall be placed on them for allowing these animals into England in the first place.
Girl C is reluctant to draw wider conclusions from the fact that all her abusers were Muslim and their victims white.
"Not all the men are Asian: at least two are Egyptian," she said. "They are, though, all Muslim but not all Muslim men behave like that."
Wow....just wow....
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Trahon Spelling Variations
Trahon Spelling Variations
Although there are comparatively few Welsh surnames, they have a great many spelling variations. Variations of Welsh names began almost immediately after their acceptance within Welsh society. In the Middle Ages, it was up to priests and the few other people that recorded names in official documents to decide how to spell the names that they heard. Variations that occurred because of improper recording increased dramatically as the names were later transliterated into English. The Brythonic Celtic language of Wales, known by natives as Cymraeg, featured many highly inflected sounds that could not be properly captured by the English language. Spelling variations were, however, also carried out according to an individual's design: a branch loyalty within the family, a religious adherence, or even patriotic affiliations were all indicated by the particular variation of one's name. The spelling variations of the name Trahon have included Traherne, Trahern, Treherne, Trehern, Traherne, Trahairn, Trahearne, Trahane, Trahan, Trehearn, Trahearn, Trehane and many more.
Early Notables of the Trahon family (pre 1700)
Early Notables of the Trahon family (pre 1700)
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Migration of the Trahon family to the New World and Oceana
Migration of the Trahon family to the New World and Oceana
Many people from Wales joined the general migration to North America in the 19th and 20th centuries, searching for land, work, and freedom. Like the many other immigrants from the British Isles, they made a significant contribution to the development of Canada and the United States. The Welsh and their descendents added a rich cultural tradition to the newly developed towns, cities, and villages. An investigation of the immigration and passenger lists has revealed a number of people bearing the name Trahon:
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My husband just deployed from fort drum about two weeks ago. I moved home for this deployment, but I know what your talking about. Drum and Watertown are sooo boring. This is my first deployment as well. Look at the bright side. At least you have your daughter there with you. I'm all on my own. Let me know how your doing.


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For 35 years Arthur Burns helped guide the economic policies of our country. As Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board in the 1970's, he contributed to the shaping of American monetary policy during a difficult and critical period. As Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers during President Eisenhower's first term, he helped return stability and growth to the American economy of the early fifties. During the first 4\1/2\ years of my administration, Dr. Burns served with great distinction as Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany. There he proved a wise and skillful diplomat as well as a trusted adviser. He was also a friend to the West German people and their leaders.
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"We did mention that as a progressive government which promotes access to technology, we were averse to the idea of stifling these technologies or banning them but rather we should look at an opportunity to develop our own young Zimbabweans who should develop software and programmes that counter those that are coming from Silicon Valley," the minister said on Thursday at the E-Tech Africa Symposium.
"After those engagements, we agreed with industry that one percent of the revenue of telecom companies which they generate out of the use to telecommunications services will go now into this specific fund for the promotion or development of platforms, applications by Zimbabweans."
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Carole went down to the Russell Rescue last weekend to pick up Dash, who will be our third JRT. Call it a weakness. We just love the little suckers. Speaking of weakness, I didn't even make a post last week to note the tenth year of this blog, or some version of it. I began in October following my Fulbright year in Vietnam in 2000 – 2001. It certainly has been a busy fall — I'm serving on a couple of departmental committees as well as trying to organize a student trip to Vietnam for the spring, teaching a new course, and preparing to teach another new course next term in the Honors Program. But I've been busy before without going completely silent in this space. I've been doing mostly drawing and painting in my free time, moving toward some kind of quasi autobiographical approach to those media and that seems to have drained my desire to write about myself here, though of course I ought to still be interested, on e would think, in the ostensible purpose of this blog, which is writing about reading. Perhaps as fall diminishes and winter settles in, I will want to setting in the warm glow of a computer monitor more often. Or not: the wood stove has its attractions, however lacking in intellectual rigor.
Rainbow, Loons, Listening to Leonard Cohen & Drawing
Heard a loon calling as it flew up-river this morning as we were returning from the morning dog walk. A couple of days ago, C. took one of the dogs out & called to me, "You really should come out and see this rainbow." Maybe the most spectacular rainbow I've ever seen, at least partly because it seemed to frame the scene I see every time I walk out my front door.
Leonard Cohen's Songs from the Road arrived yesterday from Amazon; it's a "best of" collection from the 2009 world tour. Cohen still sounds wonderful in his mid-70s, perhaps better than when he was young. All the mannerisms have dropped away. I've been doing a series of large "automatic" drawings recently & so this morning I put on the new CD and did a drawing.
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I visited a local a manufacturing company this morning. It's a very interesting company—they make simulation software for various governmental agencies. As I was listening to their COO present a summary of their operations and then later as we toured the facility, it struck me how consistent the use of QuickBase is with a lot of the things they do to manage their work flow and their business. They emphasize:
Agile Software Development
According to Wikipedia, "Agile software development is a group of software development methodologies based on iterative and incremental development, where requirements and solutions evolve through collaboration between self-organizing, cross-functional teams."
Key principles of Agile Software Development include:
- a focus on customer satisfaction through the rapid delivery of useful software
- close cooperation and communication between developers and businesspeople
- frequent delivery of software (days or weeks rather than months or years)
- welcoming changing requirements, even late in development
- a focus on simplicity
That sounds exactly like the typical development process for a QuickBase application!
Quick Strike Approach
The COO made a point that that they believe it much better to deliver a "good" tool rapidly to 80% of the target audience than an "amazing" tool to 10% of the target audience a year later.
Again—very consistent with the typical development process (and philosophy) for a QuickBase application. The typical development process on a QuickBase application is short (and the cost low), so the benefits are realized quickly.
Visual Management
On the facility floor, there were color coded charts and bulletin boards everywhere. The company seeks to use "visual management" where a manager can rapidly assess the state of work by quickly glancing at a board (that hopefully is filled with green).
QuickBase's ability to color-code dashboards and reports means that a user can quickly identify important items that need
attention. (If you were looking at the report to the right, what would you focus on?)
The company I visited has been highly successful because they focus on rapidly delivering high-value software. QuickBase is focused on the same thing (albeit with business software, not simulations!).Posted in People Management


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Google's PageRank algorithm uses a particular stochastic matrix called the Google matrix. The purpose of the PageRank algorithm is to compute a stationary vector of the Google matrix. The stationary vector is then used to provide a ranking of the pages on the internet.
A directed graph is constructed whose vertices correspond to web pages and a directed arc from vertex to vertex exists if and only if page has a link out to page . Then a stochastic matrix is constructed from : for each set
if the outdegree of vertex is positive and there is an arc from to in . Set
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Having defined choose a positive row vector such that where 1 is a vector of all ones. Finally, choose a constant . The Google matrix is
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On Tuesday, former three division champion Erik "El Terrible" Morales left the offices of the World Boxing Council, in the Zona Rosa, and went straight to the gym to continue his training. Morales met with the WBC to make a formal request to the sanctioning body to approve his upcoming fight - against Jorge "Hyena" Barrios on September 17 in Las Vegas - for the vacant WBC junior welterweight title.
The current WBC champion Timothy Bradley, has been inactive since winning the title in a unification bout with Devon Alexander in January. Due to an ongoing legal situation with his former promoters, Bradley does not expect to fight until next year.
After the meeting with Morales, the WBC sent a request for approval to its governing board, on the basis that "a former champion has the right to contend for the belt."
Morales expects the WBC's board to approve his request, and for Bradley to get stripped of his belt.
The WBC does not recognize Jorge Arce's claim as being the first Mexican boxer to win four world title in four weight divisions, because one of those titles was an "interim-belt." The sanctioning body will recognize Morales' claim, should the fight get sanctioned for the title.
The WBC's President, Jose Sulaiman, said - "If he wins, he will be the first Mexican to win four absolute titles in four weight divisions. It is a very tough fight. 'Hyena' hits hard. I think it will be a pretty good match because Erik is smart in the ring. "
Morales said - "This fight comes in good time. I'm glad that it's going to happen and we will be able to do something interesting, and go down in history. Barrios is a strong fighter who is always throwing punches straight ahead. He likes to work at a strong pace. I will train for eight weeks in Mexico City."


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Activist Deric Muhammad & Rice University team up at to address "unique needs" of Black Males
by Darwin Campbell, African-American News&Issues
"There are a lot of kids out there who need help, who are getting a lot of negative reinforcement. And is there more that we can do to give them the sense that their country cares about them and values them and is willing to invest in them?" –President Barack Obama, July 19, 2013
HOUSTON-When statistics tell us that African American and Hispanic young men are more than six times as likely to be victims of murder than their white peers — and account for almost half of the country's murder victims each year, it should do more than just raise eyebrows.
That statistic alone is enough to cause to get involved, take action and make a difference.
That is what activist Deric Muhammad is doing – taking the "bull by the horns" and working to change the future destinies of thousands of Houston youth.
Looking at the issue from a local perspective, Muhammad is addressing some of these unique challenges faced by Black males in our society, partnering with the Rice University Office of Multicultural Community Relations to organize a Black Male Summit in the Grand Hall.
The event is Tuesday, April 29 from 10 a.m.- 2 p.m and will take place in the Grand Hall.
The theme of the summit is "Smart'n Up."
It is an altar call for Black males to make better choices in life.
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* Pastor E.A. Deckard- Greenhouse International Church
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*Charles Caldwell-Nationally Renoun Artist
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*Rice University Black Alumi
"This is a school day. Therefore, we are inviting local high schools and middle schools to bring students to the campus of Rice University for an experience that they will never forget," Muhammad said.
It is important to reach young people at critical stage in their lives because many are at risk of not completing their education and being adequately prepared to face the world.
By the time they hit fourth grade, 86 percent of African American boys and 82 percent of Hispanic and Native American boys are reading below proficiency levels — compared to 58 percent of white fourth graders reading below proficiency levels, according to the U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2013 Reading Assessments.
That is one of the reasons why on February 27th, the President Obama held a press conference declaring the plight of young men and boys "of color" an issue of national importance.
My Brother's Keeper – is the new initiative to help every boy and young man of color who is willing to do the hard work to get ahead.
For decades, opportunity has lagged behind for boys and young men of color. But across the country, communities are adopting approaches to help put these boys and young men on the path to success.
"He launched "My Brothers Keeper", a national initiative designed to address the specific needs of Black and Latino males," Muhammad said. "We applaud the president's efforts."
According to Muhammad, the summit will feature a powerful and inspiring opening session. Afterward, each participant will attend three powerful workshops and a keynote speaker addressing specific issues faced by Black males.


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While the art of bonsai has long been associated with Japan, it actually originated first in China, and then eventually spread to Japan. Conceived by Buddhist monks who wished to bring the outdoors inside their temples, these plants are said to have roots as far back as 500 to 1,000 BC.
The term bonsai literally means, tree in a tray. The tree and container form a single entity. To create this miniature version of the tree, the bonsai must be placed in a smaller container to create the dwarf size.
The tradition of bonsai came to the west from Japan and China in the 19th Century at the Third Universal Exhibition in Paris in 1878 and later exhibitions in 1889 and 1900. This increased awareness of this beautiful art led to the first major bonsai exhibit in London in 1909. At the end of World War II, bonsai gained popularity as soldiers brought them home from Japan as gifts for their loved ones.
Today we can find bonsai throughout the western world, symbolizing serenity and sophistication.


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