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CATIA for Engineers enables Digital Prototyping including Analysis and Simulation for design and validation of function quality and performance at all stages ofthe design.
Mechanical engineering is complex as assemblies are designed to perform a specific task with a specific target performance. Digital prototyping, combined with digital analysis and simulation, allows product development teams to virtually create and analyze a mechanical product in its environment. Mechanical engineers must be equipped with these tools so that they can gain insight into key factors in quality and performance early in the product development phase.
CATIA Composites Fiber Modeler
Composites designers benefit from proven and widely used technology from Simulayt, now fully integrated into CATIA V6.
From aerospace and automotive to consumer goods or energy, all industries may need to predict and optimize fiber reinforced materials' behavior, minimizing their weight while increasing their performance. Real-world components incorporate awkward features like sharp corners, splits and rapid changes in curvature. These requirements routinely trap fiber simulation tools that have not been developed with real geometry in mind.
The Simulayt simulation technology is routinely used to analyse complex surfaces. For example, a typical Formula 1 monocoque contains over two thousand separate plies. These structures are designed in the space of two weeks, so product performance is critical.
Rapid generation of accurate data streamlines the entire composites development process of design, analysis and manufacture. Real-time simulation, instantaneous flat pattern capabilities and many manufacturability simulation technologies ensure producibility assessment quickly and accurately. A robust link to analysis and manufacture ensures to account for varying fiber orientation at all points due to manufacture. Simulating fiber deposition clarifies if a ply is producible or not and generates fiber orientations over the ply.
- Robust draping simulation even on complex surfaces
- Simulates real-world manufacturing operations
- Optimize rapidly the producibility of fiber-reinforced materials
- High productivity by generating flat pattern, draped pattern and fiber orientations
- Specifies manufacturing procedure
- Ensures product quality
Proven Fiber Simulation through advanced propagation modesSeveral fiber simulation algorithms are proposed and fiber propogation is ensured thanks to different solvers such as a Tape Propagation Solver or to a Finite Element Flattening Solver.
High accuracy and resolutionCFM analyses the surface topology in detail in order to provide accurate simulations without errors due to fiber bridging. This Predictive Surface Topology (PST) approach yields important advantages on complex surfaces in particular. These advantages increase as the curvature of the surface increases.
Precise control with flexible Seed Point or Seed Curve constraint.Seed points can be defined at the ply boundary enabling draping to begin at the edge of the ply. The seed curve capability allows warp, weft or bias directions to be constrained along a curve, allowing plies to be applied over surfaces such as C-section spars and oval window frames.
Specification of the drape order through sequential areasOn the shop floor, plies are applied in stages to allow accurate placement. CFM allows the user to specify the order of draping over multiple regions to bring a new level of accuracy to fiber simulation.
Predict Excessive Shear and avoid it through flexible dart handling.The sophisticated algorithms allow the specification of plies with darted boundaries, accepting even sharp ply boundaries for a smoothed solution.
Instantaneous Flat Pattern to design with high performancesSimulayt's proven technology generates cutter-ready flat patterns instantaneously. These can be displayed on-screen to improve the interpretation of the simulation results and aid process optimisation. Also, flat pattern update following geometry update is quick.
Powerful Simulation OptionsCFM includes optimized propagation types that yield excellent results for commonly-used woven fabrics used for composites structures. The flexible architecture of the Producibity application will allow ready extension of CFM for specialist applications like tow placement.
Extensible Material ModelCFM supports extensible material models, including disparate warp and weft lengths from the first release.Extended material models such as those needed for Non-Crimp Fabrics (NCFs) exist in the underlying technology and will be supported as required by users.
Predict Excessive DeviationPreliminary analysis is based on theoretical projected fiber angles. Deviation shows difference between theoretical and actual directions. This difference can be reduced by cutting plies and realigning. CFM resolves detail where the ply boundary is jagged, as is often the case if many cuts need to be inserted to drape the ply. The resolution of edge detail is independent of the draping step length.


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Challenges for Sustainable Development and International Cooperation in Middle-Income Countries: The role of Networks for Prosperity. 12-14 June 2013, San José, Costa Rica Tickets may be purchased online with a visa or mastercard. Please use this link to make payment online.
The High-Level Conference of Middle-Income Countries is an opportunity for middle- income countries (MICs) to coordinate and shape regional and global development processes, and to further define the role and interests of MICs in the nexus of global sustainability and economic policy.
The High-Level Conference was hosted and organized by the Government of Costa Rica and facilitated by the UNIDO initiative Networks for Prosperity.
The objective of the conference was to create a platform for knowledge exchange and connection of MICs and to develop a joint action plan as well as a declaration. The outcome of the conference should inspire further discussions on the trends and scenarios in a possible post-2015 development agenda, and facilitate the establishment and improvement of related network governance structures for knowledge sharing, including among middle-income countries.
As expected the conference resulted in:
1. A joint declaration of middle-income countries on Networks for Prosperity;
2. Joint MIC action plans (regional and global), action networks (regional, inter-regional and global) and funding commitments for addressing the global economic and environmental challenges;
3. A special compact of upper middle-income countries on international cooperation.
Prior to the High-Level Conference in San José, preparatory meetings took place in Vienna, New York, Washington D.C. and Geneva. These meetings discussed the joint declaration and joint action plans in informal thematic briefings and open dialogues. Please see the schedule of preparatory events for further information.
The discussions of the meetings focused on the following three main issues:
- Inclusive growth and prosperity
- Environmental sustainability and green industry
- Financing for sustainable economic development
For additional information, please download the Concept Note (Nota conceptual).
The photo coverage of the event is available here.

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Olympic Eye Candy – Matthew Mitchum
by Steve Anderson
Matthew Mitcham (born March 2, 1988 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia) is an Australian diver. He is the 2008 Olympic champion in the 10 m platform, having received the highest single-dive score in Olympic history.
Matthew qualified for and represented Australia in men's diving at the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London. He placed 13th in the semifinals of the 10m event at the 2012 Olympic Games, narrowly missing the mark to qualify for the finals.
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text: Konstantino is a jewellery brand with a super high-end aesthetic that has attracted fans of stunning design from all-over the world, as well as a number of celebrities. This label produces all its pieces by hand and each one is something of a work of art. The aesthetic of the brand is certainly classic, with a kind of timeless beauty that makes each one of the designs a stylish investment piece. Shop the bracelets line from the brand for silver cuffs with white pearls and 18-karat yellow gold, ornately crafted bracelets featuring topaz and onyx and romantically etched bracelets. There's a definite sense of the ancient to each of the designs, whether via the carving, the shaping or the overall look.


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Indentured servitude
See also H-1B program for a modern version.
Indentured servitude consisted of a worker (the "indentured servant"), usually from a foreign country, agreeing to work for a specific time, usually about 7–8 years, to pay off his costs of travel to the new country. Pay would be minimal during those 7–8 years, and might only include housing, food and training. The worker might also receive land for himself at the end.
Indentured servitude was most popular in the early Virginia colony in the 1600s, when many workers were needed to farm tobacco. But a violent uprising by indentured servants in the Virginia colony, known as Bacon's Rebellion, made indentured servitude unpopular.
The term "indentured" comes from the type of legal contract that the employer and employee would sign (an indenture), obligating the employer to pay the cost of passage across the Atlantic and provide room and board while the servant was obligated to work for up to seven years.


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Welcome to Duffy School! We are a vibrant learning community where academic achievement, social-emotional and physical health, and access to and engagement in the arts are equal priorities. Our 500 students in kindergarten through grade five benefit from teachers who possess an unwavering commitment to the success and well-being of all. Parents play an integral role in our community, volunteering time, talents, and resources to support our curriculum. Together, we are innovating, we are celebrating, and we are rising up to meet the high expectations of 21st century public education. We know that the success of our mission depends upon the strength of our partnership.
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Paula Webster-Grant, founder and CEO of Phillybass'd Records, Inc.,Transforms Talent Into Stardom
Paula Webster-Grant has a keen eye for talent. Her company, Phillybass'd Records, promotes and produces music, while offering services in brand management, creative service, distribution, public relations, marketing, media, publishing, and intellectual property. With offices in Philadelphia, New York and Los Angeles, Phillybass'd Records attracts a wide spectrum of creative talent and caters to the unique spirit that often accompanies such talent. The company is credited with launching the careers of several music icons, including Ron Tyson of the Temptations and songwriter Bruce Hawes, who had such hits as "Sadie" and "Games People Play."
Ms. Webster-Grant also works to encourage creative environments where talent can grow. She is the co-chairman of the Board of Directors for the Whistling Wind Child Foundation, a non-profit art, literary and performing arts organization that provides educational workshops for songwriters, producers, literary writers and performers who are embarking on their journey in the entertainment industry.
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After a severe allergic reaction damaged his eye, Dr. Vladem became a two-time cornea transplant recipient, an experience which awakened him to the limitations in transplant availability and the struggles faced by those who need them. His vision of bringing transplant awareness to the forefront of patient advocacy developed into a global motivational speaking campaign and led to the production of several documentary films. In recognition of his efforts, he has been honored with countless awards from prestigious organizations which include the Albert Schweitzer Institute, the London Diplomatic Academy and the International World Order of Science Education and Culture.
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LOS ANGELES — On the wall, half a dozen posters featured Chris Arreola and the man he's going fight at the OC Fair and Event Center in Costa Mesa on March 9. All the posters looked the same, yet none looked like what Arreola, at age 31, looks like.
He has hair now. He's in better shape. He means business, and he wore it underneath that suit he arrived in for his press conference on Wednesday.
The Arreola who came to promote his World Boxing Council heavyweight title elimination bout on HBO against Bermane Stiverne wasn't the Arreola on the posters.
Arreola, who is 6-foot-4 and 255 pounds, even had to do a double take when he saw one of the posters. Missing were the tattoos he has on his chest and arms, and most importantly, a well-maintained body.
"They have so many new pictures of me and they put this guy in there [from like eight years ago]," said Arreola, who noticed a couple of important people in his life were cropped out of the photo, which appeared on the posters. "Dude, my wife's not in there. She should be somewhere over here, and then my friends over here."
Stiverne took their place on the posters, right next to Arreola.
While Arreola's wife, Lucy, and friends showed up to the press conference, Stiverne was a no-show. Arreola's promoter, Dan Goossen, said he was a little disappointed to get a call from Don King the night before about Stiverne not being able to make it.
Arreola didn't view it as a sign of disrespect.
"All I know that March 9 we're going to meet in the ring," said Arreola, who headlines a five-bout card. "I'm here … to make sure people know that I'm fighting again."
Arreola (35-2 with 30 knockouts) will fight for the first time in a little more than a year. He's excited about his return and how it can further his career.
His goal is to become the first Mexican heavyweight champion. A win by Arreola against Stiverne (22-1-1, 20 knockouts) and he might get a rematch with WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko, who handed Arreola his first loss on Sept. 26, 2009 at Staples Center.
It was a devastating setback, because he didn't get to finish the fight in his hometown. His corner stopped the fight after the 10th round, that's how bad of a beating Arreola suffered that night.
Nevertheless, that fight wasn't what woke Arreola up, and it wasn't his second loss, coming against Tomasz Adamek, seven months after losing to Klitschko.
What woke Arreola up was a 12-round fight against Manuel Quezada on Aug. 13, 2010.
"He should've lasted four rounds with me. No disrespect to him, because he's a tough guy," said Arreola, who won via unanimous decision. "He didn't belong in that ring with me. He shouldn't have gone 12 rounds [with me]. I shouldn't have broken my hands. I shouldn't have had two black eyes for fighting a guy like him.
"[I'm] sitting in my house [four months after the Quezada fight], and I'm looking at the wall. I'm like, 'What the [heck] happened to me this year?'"
What happened to Arreola is that he says he thought he was the next best thing since slice bread. He believed his own hype. It messed him up, making him believe he could win without taking care of himself and preparing for fights.
Now, Arreola says he's eating healthier, even cooking with his wife and not dining out as much, and he's working out six days a week.
Another thing he says he's working on is his mouth. He swears a lot, mixing in bad words in Spanish and English almost as much as he does punches in the ring.
He has always been brash, having grown up in East L.A. He's brutally honest. He rarely pulls punches.
As for where his next bout is taking place, inside the Hangar at the OC Fair and Event Center, he's not enthusiastic about it.
"I'm disappointed," said Arreola, adding that he has been to the OC Fair and seen fights in the Hangar. "I believe I belong in bigger venues than that. That's almost like having it in a parking lot. No offense to the venue. But c'mon, now. I belong in like, if not at Staples [Center], Nokia [Theater], or [in an] arena. I don't belong in a parking lot."
There had been talks of having the fight on a bigger stage, in December in Caracas, Venezuela, and then this month at USC's Galen Center, to accommodate more fans, but they fell through. Goossen said HBO loved the 2,000-seat Hangar after surveying it last week.
Roy Englebrecht, a Newport Beach-based promoter, hired by Goossen Tutor Promotions to sell the fight locally, said this will be the first HBO show out of Costa Mesa. Goossen said tickets will go on sale on Friday, starting at $250, $150 and $75 each.
The small site reminds Arreola of his early days, when he fought inside hotels.
"It is a place that you get your start [at]," Arreola said of the Hangar. "Look where I'm at now. I'm fighting [in an] eliminator. You might as well take me back to … Ontario at the DoubleTree."
He smiled when a reporter brought up the DoubleTree again.
The reporter then asked Arreola if Stiverne reminded him of any fighters he has fought.
The answer was no, but he went on to compare Stiverne to the reporter.
"He's a little shorter, compact, kind of like you," said Arreola, who pointed at the reporter, who on his best days is 5-10, four inches shorter than Stiverne. "I've never faced someone like him, with his hand speed and his power. He does have one punch to change the fight.
"He wants to make history for himself also. Him being Haitian, he wants to be the first Haitian heavyweight champion."
Arreola will turn 32 four days before the fight. He says he plans to celebrate his birthday after he knocks out Stiverne. A picture of that might make for a good poster.
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Man killed in action in 1970
WASHINGTON (AP) President Barack Obama is awarding the Medal of Honor to a Pennsylvania Army specialist killed in combat in 1970 while serving as a rifleman in Cambodia during the Vietnam War.
Paperwork for the award was lost for three decades, the Army says, and the efforts of a Vietnam veteran are largely credited for the medal being awarded posthumously to Spec. Leslie H. Sabo Jr. for heroic action. His platoon was ambushed by North Vietnamese forces in 1970 near the village of Se San in eastern Cambodia.
A White House description of the action says Sabo saved the lives of several of his fellow soldiers. At one point, he grabbed a nearby enemy grenade, tossed it away and shielded a wounded comrade with his body, saving his life.
Although wounded by the grenade blast, he continued to charge the enemys bunker, the White House account says. After receiving several serious wounds from automatic weapons fire, he crawled towards the enemy emplacement and, when in position, threw a grenade into the bunker.
He silenced the enemy, but the explosion also killed him.
Sabos widow, Rose Mary Sabo-Brown, and his brother, George Sabo, are expected to attend the White House ceremony.
Sabos medal was a long time coming. The Army says paperwork for the award was done at the time of the war by George Koziol one of the men wounded in the battle of Se San but that it was lost in 1970 and did not resurface for three decades.
In 1999, Alton Mabb, a 101st Airborne Division Vietnam veteran, found the original paperwork while at the National Archives researching an article for the divisions magazine. A few weeks later he asked archive personnel to send him copies of the paperwork and began the push to get Sabo recognized.
Mabb confirmed Sabos military records and awards using the Freedom of Information Act. He also began the three-year search for veterans of the Se San battle. He discovered that there was a three-year statute of limitations on Medal of Honor nominations that would require a congressional override.
In March 2002, Mabb took the paperwork to Rep. Corrine Brown, D-Fla., and asked her to intervene.
According to the Congressional Medal of Honor Society, the medal has been awarded 3,458 times since it was first awarded in 1863. There are fewer than 90 living recipients.


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[Illinois] MCB 493 Lecture 2: Recurrent Connections and Simple Neural Circuits
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Networks with recurrent connections, forming circuits, and containing only a few neural units can shape signals in time, produce oscillations, and simulate certain forms of low-level motor control.
2.1 The Dynamics of Two Neural Units with Feedback in Series
2.2 Signal Processing in the Vestibulo-Ocular Reflex (VOR)
2.3 The Parallel-Pathway Model of Velocity Storage in Primate VOR
2.4 The Positive-Feedback Model of Velocity Storage in the Primate VOR
2.5 The Negative-Feedback Model of Velocity Leakage in the Pigeon VOR
2.6 Oculomotor Neural Integration via Reciprocal Inhibition
2.7 Simulating the Insect-Flight Central Pattern Generator
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Researchers should cite this work as follows:
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL
NanoBio Node, Obaid Sarvana, George Daley
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text: On Mon, 21 Aug 2006, Ed Hill wrote: > I want to be able to write codes that can make use of the vast existing > C and C++ libraries for, say, I/O or computational geometry or "systems" > type programming while simultaneously using existing Fortran routines > for building and integrating big systems of equations derived from PDEs, > ODEs, etc. And, if at all possible, I'd like to do it without having to > manually flatten and then re-assemble every single bit of information to > some sort of least common denominator pointer-to-array-of syntax when I > pass between the two. > > But maybe thats too much to hope for... Probably. Remember, the whole MANTRA of the object oriented programmers has always been that the data description of the problem is paramount, not the code per se. To be able to write truly efficient libraries without tuning them to the way a given compiler manages its memory is a fond dream, but is it really possible? Even within ONE language, performance can vary with things like just where and how a data object is allocated, and there may be many ways to remove the pelt of a feline. To use one of my favorite examples (from real life) ODE solvers almost invariably want to be given vectors -- a vector of deriviatives, a vector of initial values and results (and maybe a jacobean or other stuff in a matrix form, maybe various other parameters). Yet in many PROBLEMS, the actual ODEs are themselves laid out in an array, or even a high dimensional tensor! Even with a single language, one is often stuck doing horrible things dereferencing components of a multidimensional matrix out of the underlying vector memory block, presuming that one took care to allocate the actual memory for the matrix AS a contiguous block. And the matrix has to be rectilinear at that or things get even worse, and even the rectilinear array often has to be referenced with offsets -- inserting Y_{lm}'s into an array for example (with those pesky negative indices). The result is often extremely ugly code, since even within a SINGLE language one is often forced to write code that is some sort of mangling of a pointer/vector to and from an array form all because the basic tool (ODE solver) requires a vector, period but the data itself is not in vector form. Within C this has at least one extremely elegant solution. One can build a struct or array with precisely the shape of the actual data, non-rectilinear, arbitrary initial offset, with ELEMENTS that are even themselves structs. One can allocate the entire data object as a single contiguous block of memory (a vector) and do your oddball addressing arithmetic ONCE to pack the indices of the right offsets into the vector into a suitable ***pointer. You can then freely pass an ODE solver the address of the vector, but write the derivative evaluator so that it uses the packed pointer and hence dereference the array for the purposes of doing algebra-based arithmetic in COMPLETELY NATURAL notation. In at least the fortran I learned in my youth, this has no solution but the ugly one. Matrices start at index 1, period, and are rectilinear -- the hell with what your data actually does. Can't check bounds or optimize if you break the rule, so instead you have to write ugly and illegible code when your data (as not infrequently is the case) does not oblige. Seriously illegible. Anybody who has looked at the massive block of legacy fortran knows that this kind of thing IS almost routine -- fortran programmers have gotten really good at visually interpreting MYVECTOR[I*(JMAX-1) + J] or the like (sometimes in three or four dimensions, sometimes with IMIN and JMIN offsets to permit negative I,J indices) over and over in their code. Them bounds are perfectly good, but only at the expense of code readability, long term maintainability, elegance of the implementation, and so much more. Within C++ you CAN implement the C solution, but only if you've learned to use pointers, and in C++ pointer use is anathema (from what I understand from what my students tell me was covered in classes that taught C++ back before java was invented:-) at least if you didn't learn C first. In C pointers take a long time to learn to use correctly; in C++ courses they often openly discourage you from using them at all for anything but trivial purposes, e.g. argument passing in subroutines and the like. I don't know how a C++ programmer would solve this problem and pack a Y_lm -indexed object efficiently so that it could both be passed to a vector-hungry ODE solver and still be addressable as y[l][m] for m \in -l,l, l \in 0,lmax. Without pointers, that is, the Sufi way. Allocating a recursive set of "objects" each of which is a vector row? But then how does one guarantee that the data itself is in a vector? Each language can do it, but each language is likely to do even this simple task with a ubiquitously necessary tool differently (and may even be able to do it more than one way within the languages themselves). Top this off with the often minor but nevertheless annoying real differences between data conventions and subroutine/stack/heap manipulation -- e.g. slightly different conventions for the way one specifies and terminates a string. Pass by reference vs pass by value. A language where protection/inheritance mean something vs two where it doesn't and there is no way to enforce an opaque data type (and often no INCENTIVE to enforce an opaque data type). Two languages where structs are a commonplace thing (in one THE commonplace thing) vs one one where most legacy code, at least, comes from an era where there was no such thing as a struct whatever there may be now. And then there is I/O. Systems calls. Linker options. Preprocessors. Initialization. Ouch. C comes close to being common ground between these three at least, IF you program in really ugly, restricted C and accept that the C++ port will both reflect the need to maintain a fortran version (and will still be ugly) and will obviously not use any of the C++ isms -- just use the C++ as a hopefully adequate superset of C and forget the rest. At least, it is probably less work to wrap a C library (of any sort) into either a fortran or C++ port than it is to port either fortran or C++ libraries to where they'll be all happy in anything else -- C, C++, or fortran. I say this on the basis of having ported a fair chunk of fortran to C in my day, and having found that you really can't -- you can maybe preserve the algorithms but otherwise you just have to start over. C++ to C is almost as bad, because for all their similarities the resulting code is just -- different. Just understanding and porting I/O statements (which is actually quite a lot of many programs) is a PITA, and of course C++ just doesn't use pointers where many C programmers would be using them all the time as it would defeat the strong type checking and so on that are features of the language. Not so much work with C++ as I just didn't like it when I tried it and there is a relatively small code base to steal from (although I have snitched i.e. a multidimensional quadrature routine and backported it -- painfully to C). So yeah, I think it is too much to hope for, for anything but very simple stuff. C and C++ can and do share at least some code base and libraries, but either one shares little with Fortran, which is really a pretty alien language in comparison although they've steadily moved the compiler standard closer and closer to C as fortran coders demand some of the amenities available in C. Perhaps in another decade they'll actually meet somewhere, have a drink together, and in a night of illicit love spawn a new language called Cortran, or perhaps fortraC, that groks both printf and hollerith, that has a binary exponentiation operator (the one feature of Fortran that I miss, actually:-), that can both do strongly typed arrays -- with arbitrary index offsets -- but can also manage structs and pointers. Talk about inheritance -- or the need for those compilers to use protection, no matter how close they may get...;-) rgb > > Ed > > -- Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb at phy.duke.edu


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I assisted my friend's photoshoot last Saturday.
I wasn't the main photographer on that day but I did helped my friend to get few digital shots and some backstage shots because the photographer,Yuvali, was shooting on film.
Main Photographer: Yuvali
Styling: Raki
MUA: Louise Linder
MUA: Louise Linder
She got this vintage VW van from our tutor's friend : )
I have always wanted this car and I was very excited because the owner drove us to the park in this : D
It was my first time sitting inside a real one : D
It was freezing and cloudy but luckily it didn't rain and we managed to finish before it gets dark! : D


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The problem with Louisa is that she is from Nebraska. Nebraska is a beautiful state and I especially love Peony Park (is that still there?). But I don't like the issues I am having with early record searches there. I found Louisa on her daughter's death certificate and that was the first, and the last, time I saw her in print. Her daughter was Ella Caroline Webb, born 1864 in Wahoo, Nebraska (according to her death certificate). Ella's death certificate states that her father's birthplace is Kentucky and her mother's was Wahoo, Nebraska. The problem with being born in Wahoo, Nebraska is that it did not exist when Louisa was born, which I'm conjecturing was between 1840-1845. In fact, Wahoo didn't exist until 1870, long after Ella was born as well.
I know Ella's father was Charles M. Webb, who was actually born in Indiana. I have been able to track Charles through census records from age 10 to 86, except for 1860. In 1850 he was living with his mother in Indiana and in 1870 he was in Ray County, Missouri with 6-year-old Ella. Apparently, a lot happened to him in those 20 years. He never remarried and his death certificate lists him as widowed, a good indication that he and Louisa were actually married...but you never know. Nebraska is not on the route of travel between Indiana and Missouri, so what led Charles there? And more importantly, where is Louisa?
Here is what I have tried:
- I contacted the Saunders County Museum and Historical Society, where Wahoo is located and they were unable to find any record of a marriage for Charles and Louisa. Because Saunders County was formed from Cass County, they suggested I try there.
- I contacted the Cass County Historical Society, but they found no record of Louisa's headstone or anything about her in their newspaper indexes. Of course, the newspaper for the area didn't begin printing until 1865 so that may not have helped anyway.
- I contacted the Cass County Clerk, who would have had any early records for the county, but she found nothing. She suggested I contact the state archives, but they only maintain birth records from 1904/1909 to present.
- I also sent an email to the Nebraska Historical Society to see if they had any early records for Cass County, Nebraska. I have yet to hear back from them.
- Looked at FamilySearch.org and found no microfilm options for Cass or Saunders Counties that were helpful. A search of Nebraska marriages came up empty handed as well.


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Romeo Eekerkik
Canadian, 1923–1983
Family, 1976
caribou antler, sinew, brown colouring, black colouring
18.5 x 26.2 x 12.2 cm
Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery
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Most carvers from the Kivalliq community of Arviat create single, monolithic images of human figures and animals from the hard, grey steatite stone obtained locally. Eekerkik's work is an exception, as he is known for his complex sculptures from different materials, particularly caribou antler and bone. This composite sculpture is made from caribou antler, and the carver has burned the bone to give it a specific patina. In this unusual composition, the figures hold miniature items in their hands: a kayak, a bear, a human head. Each figure also wears an amulet on his back: heads of a walrus, a double human head, and a polar bear. In the shamanic belief system, amulets give spiritual assistance and protection to the wearer.
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As of Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013, at least 2,121 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press count.
The AP count is three less than the Defense Department's tally, last updated Friday at 10 a.m. EDT.
At least 1,759 military service members have died in Afghanistan as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers.
Outside of Afghanistan, the department reports at least 127 more members of the U.S. military died in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Of those, 11 were the result of hostile action.
The AP count of total OEF casualties outside of Afghanistan is three more than the department's tally.
The Defense Department also counts three military civilian deaths.
Since the start of U.S. military operations in Afghanistan, 19,080 U.S. service members have been wounded in hostile action, according to the Defense Department.
The latest identifications reported by the military:
—Spc. Nicholas B. Burley, 22, of Red Bluff, Calif., died July 30 in Pul-E-Alam, Afghanistan, of injuries sustained when enemy forces attacked his unit with indirect fire; assigned to the 6th Squadron, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, Fort Stewart, Ga.
—Sgt. Stephen M. New, 29, of Bartlett, Tenn., died July 28 in Bagram, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when his unit was attacked by small arms fire in the Sarobi District of Kabul Province, Afghanistan; assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 20th Special Forces Group (Airborne), Jackson, Miss.


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When this year's presidential campaign began, Rick Santorum looked like a fringe candidate, consigned permanently to the outside edge of an overcrowded debate stage. But as earlier conservative front-runners sputtered, Santorum plugged away, sticking doggedly to his unfashionable message of uncompromising social conservatism.
And then, suddenly, he got lucky. Republicans started believing the attack ads Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich rained on each other, and both men's popularity sank. Meanwhile, a battle over contraception coverage in health insurance plans reminded conservatives how strongly they feel about the social issues — and how much they enjoy accusing President Obama of waging a "war on religion."
Santorum, no longer on the fringe, won two caucuses and a primary in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri.
The resulting shift in the polls has been dramatic — the biggest five-day swing in the primary campaign to date, according to Gallup. Among Republicans nationwide, Santorum is now running neck and neck with Romney; Gingrich and Ron Paul have fallen far behind.
We've seen plenty of candidates rise briefly to the top in this GOP race, and so far the surges have come to nothing. But at least for the moment, we have to take Santorum seriously, especially since he's leading the polls in the two most important primary states immediately ahead, Michigan and Ohio.
This could mean that the contest is, finally, a two-man race: Romney, the candidate of an establishment that no longer holds much sway with the base, and Santorum, the candidate of a conservative insurgency that seems able to draw voters to the polls.
So how has Santorum succeeded in getting this far? And how far is he likely to go?
Much of his rise, to be sure, has come through a process of elimination: At this point, he's one of the few candidates for the "not Romney" role left standing.
But it hasn't been only stubbornness and luck. He's run a pretty good campaign, finding ways to expand his message beyond a narrow social conservative agenda. He still talks plenty about abortion and gay marriage if voters ask, but the core of Santorum's stump speech these days is economics. Like every Republican candidate, he's for lower taxes and a balanced budget. But he's also proposed a set of policies to promote the creation of blue-collar manufacturing jobs, including elimination of the corporate income tax for manufacturers.
Within those themes, of course, lies an implicit critique of Romney, a Harvard-educated venture capitalist whose equally conservative economic platform is aimed at the financial markets more than the factory floor.
Not surprisingly, a CNN poll released this week found that a bit of class warfare has broken out within the GOP electorate. Republicans who describe themselves as blue collar were backing Santorum, the grandson of an Italian immigrant coal miner, by a wide margin, while those who call themselves white collar were backing Romney.
The CNN poll also pointed up another gap between Santorum and Romney voters: gender. The former senator's uncompromising social positions — he doesn't think anyone's insurance policy should cover contraceptives, for example — haven't endeared him to many women. The poll found Romney leading by 9 percentage points among Republican women, and Santorum leading by 10 points among GOP men.
Even if it's now a two-man race, can the former senator actually win his party's nomination? That will still be tough.
Up to now, Santorum has been spared the full force of a negative campaign, in large part because Romney and Gingrich were focused on slamming each other. But now that Santorum appears to be the biggest threat to Romney's nomination, he's starting to be targeted. Last week, Romney supporter and former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty denounced Santorum as a "pork-barrel spender" during his Senate terms. And the "super PAC" supporting Romney has already unveiled a television commercial that calls Santorum a "Washington insider" who voted to raise his own pay.
And Santorum doesn't have nearly the money that Romney does. One GOP fundraiser estimated this week that Santorum has less than $2 million in cash on hand; Romney had $19 million at the end of 2011, although he spent a chunk of it last month.
Both campaigns are likely to spend heavily in Michigan, which votes on Feb. 28, because the stakes for both are high. For Santorum, a win in Michigan would prove that his surge hasn't been a fluke and that he can beat Romney even in the state where the former Massachusetts governor was born.
Even if Santorum wins in Michigan and shows well on Super Tuesday in early March, the arithmetic will be against him. Romney leads the delegate count now, and he is virtually certain to win in several states on Super Tuesday. Santorum's own strategist, John Brabender, has conceded that winning an outright majority of delegates may not be possible and that the insurgent's best chance may lie in a deadlocked convention.
Republican strategists I spoke with still consider Romney the front-runner. For Santorum to keep his surge going, he'll need to be more than just smart and lucky, the factors that brought him this far. He'll need Romney to fail.


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April 2
10:05 a.m. — Peabody ambulance made an advanced life support transfer from Hillsboro Community Hospital to Kansas Heart Hospital.
1:41 p.m. — Florence Fire Department extinguished a farm implement on fire at the intersection of U.S. 50 and U.S. 77. Florence ambulance also responded.
8:25 p.m. — Florence Fire Department extinguished a semi on fire on U.S. 77 north of the intersection with U.S. 50. Florence ambulance also responded.
9:30 p.m. — Marion ambulance took a woman in her 40s with a migraine and possible seizure from the 300 block of West Santa Fe Street to St. Luke Hospital. Marion Fire Department provided lifting assistance.
11:11 p.m. — Peabody ambulance made an advanced life support transfer from Peabody Care Center to Newton Medical Center.
April 3
6:39 a.m. — Marion Fire Department extinguished a yard fire on Remington Road south of 190th Road.
1:52 p.m. — Peabody ambulance took a woman who fell and had shoulder pain from Peabody Care Center to Newton Medical.
10:05 a.m. — Tampa ambulance and Durham Fire Department responded to a semi overturned on 290th Road east of K-15. No transport was made.
2:48 p.m. — Peabody and Goessel fire departments responded to a controlled burn that was threatening to go out of control in the 900 block of Indigo Road.
5:56 p.m. — Durham Fire Department provided traffic control on 290th Road east of K-15.
5:57 p.m. — Peabody ambulance responded to a person who was choking. The patient was no longer choking by the time the ambulance arrived, and no transport was made.
7:32 p.m. — Lincolnville Fire Department responded to a possible grass fire along U.S. 77. It was a controlled burn.
6:41 a.m. — Hillsboro ambulance responded to an unresponsive woman in a vehicle in the middle of 210th Road east of Eagle Road. A sheriff's deputy also responded. No transport was made.
1:48 a.m. — Marion ambulance took a diabetic man in his 60s with low blood sugar from the 200 block of Walnut Street to St. Luke. Marion Fire Department provided lifting assistance.
4:05 p.m. — Hillsboro ambulance was called to Tabor College for a woman who fell and hit her head. The ambulance was canceled less than a minute later.
9:22 p.m. — Peabody Fire Department extinguished a tractor on fire in the 1200 block of Old Mill Road. Marion ambulance also responded.
9:33 p.m. — Peabody ambulance responded to a call of a woman who was not breathing in the 200 block of North Elm Street in Peabody.
6:52 p.m. — Hillsboro ambulance was called to Ash Street for a report of someone performing CPR. The call was canceled as a false alarm.
10:40 a.m. — Florence ambulance took a man in his 70s who fell and had a possible hip injury from the 2300 block of U.S. 50 to Newton Medical. Florence Fire Department provided lifting assistance.
11:51 a.m. — Hillsboro ambulance transferred a woman in her 80s from Parkside Homes to HCH.
2:58 p.m. — Hillsboro ambulance made an emergency transfer from HCH to Wesley Medical Center.


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KölschSeptember 1, 2009 - K. Florian Klemp
Great European brewing nations may be famous for their tradition, but it is the array of regional specialties that really stoke the intrigue of beer drinkers. They are a touchstone for locals, a beacon to adventurers. No style better exemplifies that spirit of community pride and distinction than Kölsch, the indigenous beer of Köln, Germany.... View Article


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(made me chuckle) half the time when people say lol, it's either not funny or just a little funny in which makes you end up chuckling.
by A black dude in Hawaii July 12, 2011
An acronym (Mutual Manual Coitus) that refers to the act of two people (m/f, f/f, m/m, etc.) simultaneously masturbating each other.
by SouthernGrip69 May 23, 2010
a group of dope ass, pong playin, show goin, gym shorts wearin, whoop yer ass if you step out of line type o' niggas. Most notably is their uncanny skill to sink pong balls into red solo cups and kick yer ass off the table so quick yer dick will turn inside out and grow a clit. Come to an MMC party and yer guaranteed to get drunk because youre guaranteed to get kicked off the pong table no matter how "good" you think you are. Started off as a Diablo clan, now Fayetteville legends, "We can do 1 on 1, but if you win... yer fucked."
Guy 1: "DAMN! You said WHAT about WHO?! Be careful, you gon' end up dead! Dat nigga's MMC! AINT YOU KNOW?!"
by Rizzlenator August 24, 2010
The Master Masturbation Club! For anyone who masturbates on a daily bases and is excited to learn more.
Marta joined the MMC to learn new masturbation techniques.
by Inchworm55 January 11, 2017
it stands for "Master Mother Creeper". it is a kind of person who is so indescribably creepy that they hav such skill in the art of creeping, they hav formed a special academy for teaching all the creepy little babies of the world to creep better...
Parent 1: man, when did my kid become such a creeper...?
Parent 2: oh, well they might hav been enrolled in MMCA, u kno, that new place that unloving parents send their children...
Parent 1: ugh... *sigh* i thought i told my husband to stop reading those wierd ads in Creeper Monthly...
Parent 2: oh, well they might hav been enrolled in MMCA, u kno, that new place that unloving parents send their children...
Parent 1: ugh... *sigh* i thought i told my husband to stop reading those wierd ads in Creeper Monthly...
by poorGardenChild December 20, 2009
(noun) Acronym for Mutha Mutha Crew. One of a kind group consisting of four badass guys & a badass chick. Originated in Panama City, Florida during spring break of 2010 and was founded in Lubbock, Texas at Texas Tech Univeristy. They are also well known in the Dallas, Texas area. This group is notorious for partying and drinking a lot of alcohol. They are adorded by many and have plenty of groupies.
The party was lame until the MMC showed up, and then everybody blacked out!
by p0811v August 24, 2010
Friend 1: look at this meme
Friend 2: mmc
Friend 2: mmc
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Scotties Win GSAC Championship, Advance to NCAAs
Sunday, April 27, 2014
Atlanta, Ga.--The Agnes Scott softball team won the Great South Athletic Conference Championship today with a 14-9 win over Finlandia University. The Scotties entered the double-elimination tournament as the number one seed and started with an 8-0 win over Wesleyan on Friday and a 3-2 win over Finlandia on Saturday. Finlandia defeated Trinity Washington University 8-0 and Salem 10-9 on Friday followed by a 4-3 win over Salem College on Saturday.
Agnes Scott started the championship game in style with six runs in the first inning. At the bottom of the third, Agnes Scott was still up 7-3. Finlandia pulled ahead in the top of the fourth with five runs to lead 8-7. The Scotties took the lead again in the bottom of the fourth with three runs to lead 10-8 and held Finlandia to zero hits and zero runs in the top of the fifth. The Scotties scored three more runs in the bottom of the fifth to pull ahead 13-8. Finlandia and Agnes Scott each scored one run in the sixth. Agnes Scott kept Finlandia from scoring in the seventh and clinched the win 14-9.
GSAC Freshman of the Year Alliyah Williams was named Tournament MVP. In the championship game, Williams hit for the cycle with a triple in the first and a home run in the second followed by a single in the fourth and a double in the fifth inning. She also led the Scotties with five RBIs. Williams currently leads the Scotties with a .432 batting average, 15 doubles and four homeruns and is tied with junior Kat Riale with 30 RBIs.
All Conference infielder Casey Arnold hit 3-of-3 including a double and scored two runs and two RBIs. All Conference infielder Ashley Monsrud hit 2-of-3 including a double and scored three runs and two RBIs. All Conference outfielder Aimee McKibbin hit 3-of-5 with one run and one RBI.
On the field, the final out was a fielder's choice; shortstop Megan Snipes threw to Tiffany Cain to get Finlandia out at third.
On the mound, GSAC Pitcher of the Year Holly Jones pitched 3.2 innings and allowed two hits, one run and struck out five. Arnold pitched two innings and allowed one hit, one run, one walk and struck out one.
Over the three games of the tournament, Williams hit an impressive .700. She had seven hits in 10 at bats with five runs, two doubles, a triple, a home run and six RBIs. McKibbin batted .500 with five hits in 10 at bats along with three runs, two triples and two RBIs. She also had one stolen base, her 25th of the season. Arnold hit .444 with four hits in nine at bats with three runs a double and two RBIs. Monsrud hit .429 (3-7) and tied with Williams with five runs and two doubles. All Conference outfielder Alyssa Millikin got her 18th stolen base of the season and All Conference catcher Kat Riale got her 30th RBI.
Head Coach Talya DiGirolamo got her 23rd win of the season, setting a new Agnes Scott softball record for most wins in a season breaking her own record of 19. The win also marks the first time Agnes Scott has won a conference tournament for softball, earning a trip to the NCAA tournament for the first time.
With the win, the Scotties advance to the NCAA Regional. The location and opponent will be announced later this week.
Agnes Scott College educates women to think deeply, live honorably and engage the intellectual and social challenges of their times. Students are drawn to Agnes Scott by its excellent academic reputation, exceptional faculty and metropolitan Atlanta location—offering myriad social, cultural and experiential learning opportunities. This highly selective liberal arts college is known for its diverse and dynamic intellectual community. Through SUMMIT, it provides every student, regardless of major, with an individualized course of study and co-curricular experiences that develop leadership abilities and understanding of complex global dynamics.


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City star Nahki Wells has been honoured for his goal-scoring exploits in his homeland of Bermuda.
The 23-year-old striker's performances during the Bantams' promotion-winning campaign attracted admiring glances from a number of higher-placed clubs.
During half-time of the England C versus Bermuda match on Tuesday, Wells received a special memento in a presentation from Bermudian Premier Craig Cannonier, Minister Wayne Scott and BFA President Larry Mussenden.
Premier Cannonier thanked Wells for continuing the legacy of players like Clyde Best and Shaun Goater, and for keeping Bermuda's name 'on the football map'.
Wells scored 26 goals and made 54 appearances during the Bantams' historic 2012/13 campaign.
His goal in the League Two play-off final win over Northampton saw him become the first Bermudian to score at Wembley.
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If you know Astrid Lindgren's world-famous children's books, you will recognize these Swedish cookies known as pepperkakor, which actually contain black pepper. The lovely crispy and spicy cookies are cut out of a thin layer of dough and then decorated with royal icing. The cookie cutters in Scandinavia are in the shape of men and women, the mythical creatures Nisse or Tomte–pigs, reindeer, and the only really scary animal in Nordic Christmas lore, the horned billy goat. Hearts, stars, and bells are popular shapes, too. The dough is very easy to make, and can also be shaped into pebernødder ("pepper nuts"), small, round, crispy cookies the size of a hazelnut. They are always extremely popular with children, and easy to shape even for a two-year-old. The traditional way to decorate them is to frame the cookie with icing, make buttons, shoes, and so on, or to write the family's names on heart-shaped cookies and hang them in the windows on red ribbons.–Camilla Plum
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No single ingredient or title can do justice to these lovely, crisp, slightly spicy cookies that also contain cinnamon and cardamom and cocoa and ginger to mitigate pepper's pungent warmth. Quite simply, you must try them. Photo: Janet Stein.
Black Pepper Cookies
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- Makes many, many cookies!
- 2 sticks (8 ounces) unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 2 1/2 cups sugar
- Generous 3/4 cup heavy cream
- Generous 3/4 cup corn syrup
- 2 tablespoons baking powder
- 4 teaspoons ground ginger
- 4 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 4 tablespoons cocoa powder
- 4 teaspoons ground cardamom
- 2 teaspoons ground black-pepper
- About 8 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for the work surface
- Royal icing
- 1. Beat the butter and sugar in the bowl of a standing mixer or with a handheld electric mixer. Stir in the cream, then the rest of the ingredients except the flour. Add the flour and stir just until the dough is no longer sticky. Knead the dough on a lightly floured surface, then shape it into a disk, wrap it in plastic wrap, and let it rest in the refrigerator until the next day.
- 2. Preheat the oven to 350ºF (176°C).
- 3. Roll the dough on a lightly floured surface to a very thin sheet (1/8-inch thick is fine) and cut it into shapes. If any cookies are destined for hanging on the tree, pierce holes in the top of the cookies using the tip of a wooden skewer. Arrange the cookies on baking sheets lined with parchment paper. Reroll the dough until the last scrap is used. Bake in the oven until golden at the edges, about 12 minutes; a little less if chewy cookies are desired, a little more if crisp cookies are preferred.
- 4. Decorate with royal icing. The traditional way is to frame the cookie, make buttons, shoes, and so on, and to write the family's names on heart-shaped cookies and hang them in the windows on red ribbons. Store the cookies in airtight tins for up to several weeks (yes, you read correctly, weeks!).
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The village of Vernon Hills, IL, and its park district reached an agreement on Tuesday with the Central Lake YMCA to purchase the financially strapped fitness facility just days before the Y was set to close.
After weeks of negotiations and a rejected $1.4 million offer to purchase the facility, the YMCA is now a village-owned, park district-operated fitness center, the Vernon Hills Review reported.
As part of the agreement, the Central Lake YMCA will remain open with regular services while the village and park district perform inspections, get needed licenses, make staff decisions and finalize paperwork. The inspections will address maintenance concerns, including the Y's damaged roof, which could cost the village $200,000 to repair, and the need for a pool lift to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act, which could cost $6,000 to $8,000.
Park Board President David Doerhoefer told the Vernon Hills Review that the purchase would change the YMCA in name only and that the members, membership rates and staff would stay the same. More than 3,000 people belong to the Central Lakes Y.
The final purchase price was not disclosed after the YMCA board rejected the initial $1.4 million offer. The Y was assessed at $2.25 million and owes approximately $6 million on its locations in Vernon Hills and Waukegan, IL. YMCA officials had initiated a campaign to raise between $5 million and $8 million by Oct. 31 to keep the facilities open, of which only $28,000 was raised. How the purchase would affect the Waukegan facility was not discussed.
The village purchased the Y using its $22 million reserve fund. The park district plans to work toward buying the facility from the village, according to the newspaper.


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Thousands of sacred natural sites are in jeopardy around the world despite the fact that many lie within formal Protected Areas.
At the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Barcelona, Spain, IUCN and UNESCO launch the latest in the Best Practice Guidelines Series on Protected Area management. The new guidelines are called Sacred Natural Sites – Guidelines for Protected Area Managers. The 100-page volume focuses on improving protection of sacred natural sites within and near Protected Areas.
"IUCN has become a key player in the effort to protect sacred sites and holy lands of the planet," says Gonzalo Oviedo, IUCN Senior Adviser on Social Policy. "We run projects in the field with custodians of sacred places, we support them at the policy level, we advocate for their recognition and support and we promote better understanding of their values.
Around the world there is growing interest in, and recognition of the importance of, sacred natural sites as critical elements to both biological and cultural preservation, especially in light of the accelerating loss of biocultural diversity as an unintended by-product of globalization. These new Guidelines summarize experience to date in recognizing, planning and managing sacred natural sites in a variety of Protected Areas. The Guidelines will be used to share experience with protected area managers and their colleagues around the world who are concerned about and interested in protecting sacred natural sites.
The new publication includes 44 guidelines and 16 case studies from around the world. While focusing primarily on the sacred places of indigenous communities, the guidelines are also relevant for the sacred sites of mainstream faiths.
"From the ground up, working from place to place, we are building bridges with custodians of sacred lands of indigenous and traditional peoples as well as of religious and monastic communities," says Gonzalo Oviedo, IUCN Senior Adviser on Social Policy. "Alliances between many such groups and conservation are based on strong common values and a shared commitment for the planet."
There are now 108,000 protected areas worldwide encompassing 11.75 million square miles, an area greater than the African continent, but the definition and practice of protection is not uniform. Indigenous peoples are sometimes excluded or forcibly removed from their traditional territories and separated from sacred natural sites they have cared for over many generations.


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Quote from: choroneko on March 28, 2012, 11:45:38 PMI miss Colton. Yeah me too. His presence in the merge might be more interesting than what is happening right now. Colton love!
I miss Colton.
I think Kim will win the season.
Quote from: Kandace on March 29, 2012, 02:19:25 PMI think Kim will win the season. Methinks too.
This season has to have the worst players ever to play the game.
So he busted his plan by saying he'll vote Mike?
I'm really loving this season! I think we have a good mix of people. Mean, annoying, strong, weak, smart, likeable... They're all there. I think that Kim is emerging as the master manipulator this season. I hope that it plays out for good instead of biting her in the butt. Right now, I feel that the girls have the advantage. But I hope that the tides don't change! I'm a little unhappy that Troyzan found the Idol, have never rooted for him. I hope that the Idol doesn't knock out one of the girl powerhouses...Kim! Chelsea! Sabrina! Kat! All the way!!!!!!! And I'm starting to like Jay. He's a decent, down-to-earth guy. But girl power!
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Zero stars (out of four)
This must be a nightmare: There can't actually be a cutesy, vapid dramedy set in WWII-era Germany featuring voiceover from Death. With a charming British accent.
Death does not have a charming British accent! He doesn't comment on how he encounters humans at their best and at their worst (not necessarily true) and that no one served the Fuhrer more loyally than he!
The "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" of Holocaust movies, "The Book Thief," adapted from Markus Zusak's novel, is a fantasy, a fairy tale and a crock. Bordering on propaganda, the film is almost completely isolated from the horrors of war. It largely ignores the millions of Jews persecuted and killed, and instead delivers a shameless tear-jerker about a pretty young girl who likes reading, hoping to generate emotion through the collateral damage deaths of a few innocent Germans. And I thought "The Reader" was exploitative.
Pre-teen Liesel (Sophie Nelisse) loses her younger brother and gets turned over to new parents Hans (Geoffrey Rush) and Rosa (Emily Watson), though she sheds no tears and her adoptive mom can't understand why her new daughter would be shy and unhappy. Rosa's harshness exists so Hans can grumble about how his wife won't keep her yap shut, like some kind of 1950s American sitcom. The main characters almost exclusively speak English, as if "und," "nein" and "danke schoen" were the only German words at the time.
The script from Michael Petroni ("The Rite") presents an insultingly smiley character in Max (Ben Schnetzer), the young Jewish man Hans and Rosa hide in their basement. (This leads to the requisite scene of a Nazi officer coming in to search.) Max tells Liesel that words are life, a lesson that appears hollow at every turn. Director Brian Percival doesn't care about Max's experience, though, especially proven in the ultimate, detached resolution to the man's story. All the team behind "The Book Thief"—which gets no points for competent performances—wants is for viewers to grin at moments like Max and Liesel joking about Hitler's mom scolding him and Liesel and her smitten best friend, Rudy (Nico Liersch), shouting across a lake, "I hate Hitler!" So darling, right?
The film's title comes from Liesel, who at first can't read or write but learns very quickly, eventually swiping a few books. She hasn't thought about what she's doing or reading, and the few viewers who applauded this offensive Oscar bait clearly hadn't thought about what they'd seen—unless they were cheering the last of about seven fake endings. I almost booed.
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Wherever you're going
I wanna go
Wherever you're heading
Can you let me know
I don't mind catching up
I'm on my way
Just can't take the thought of you miles away
And I know you're going somewhere to make a better life
I hope that you find it on the first try
And even though it kills me
That you have to go
I know it'll be sadder
If you never hit the road
So farewell!
Somebody is gonna miss you
"Watch N' Learn"
Won't say a thing,
About the way you amor me
Except for, I like the way
I amor the way you touch me
If I toot it, leave it tooted up
Then I drop it, drop it
Till ya making faces
And look like you wanna
Tell me stop it
Imma do it, do it, do it
Till you can't take no more
Till my lipstick ain't up on my face no more
Imma do it, do it, do it
On the bed, on the floor, on the couch
"Roc Me Out"
Yeah, yeah
So give it to me like I want it
This is for your eyes only
Roc me out, back and forth
Roc me out, on the floor
Give it to me like I need it
You know how to make me feel it
Roc me out, mais and more
Roc me out, on the floor
Come over boy, I'm so ready
You're taking too long to get my head on the ground
And my feet in the clouds, oh oh
I'm so clean, feeling so dirty
"Drunk On Love"
I feel like I'm a hopeless romantic
I can't help falling in love
I fiend for love
I want it, I crave it
I just can't get enough
Take me away
I wear my coração on my sleeve
Always let amor take the lead
I may be a little naive, yeah
You know I'm drunk on love
Drunk on love
Nothing can sober me up
It's all that I need, yeah
I've been let down
But never been tainted
"We All Want Love"
We all, we all, we all, we all, we all
We all, we all, we all, we all, we all
I can pretend that I'm not lonely
But I'll be constantly fooling myself
I can pretend that it don't matter
But I'll be sitting here lying to myself
Some say amor ain't worth the buck
But I'll give every dime I have left
To have what I've only been dreaming about
Everybody wants something
Gotta want something
What are you living for?
"Lost In Paradise"
How was I to know that my amor was delusional?
Somebody tell me how to mend a broken-hearted soul
In amor we all will fall but we fell a little harder
What am I supposed to do with this heart?
It may be wrong but it feels right to be lost in paradise
I'm so lost in paradise (lost in paradise)
If I open up my eyes
I can see the storm, I can see the sky
I can see the darkness, flashing lights
All my fears gone tonight
"No amor Allowed"
911, it's a critical emergency, yeah
Better run run run,
Come and charge him with the 143, yeah yeah
Told me this world was mine
Such a beautiful lie
Now he's done done done and his amor is no mais for me
Hand in the air as he wave me goodbye
He said he care but no tears in his eyes
And ask me if I'm alright
Nigga is you blind
Like a bullet your amor me hit me to the core
I was flying 'til you knocked me to the floor
"Get It Over With"
It's dark in the day, and I'll say, now don't complain
Look up, the sun it's just a nuvem away
You're so afraid to cry, but your coração be feeling dry
It's time to change
But you keep thundering thundering
I'm wondering wondering, why you keep thundering
Won't you just rain, and get it over with
When I'll feel the pain, now baby I won't complain
I'll hear you saying, look up the sun it's just a nuvem away
"Love Without Tragedy / Mother Mary"
Red lipstick, rose petals, heartbreak
I was his Marilyn Monroe
Brown eyes, tuxedo, fast cars
A James Dean on the low,
Dean on the low
I ask you what's the matter
You say, oh it's nothing at all
Heart's racing, outta control
And you knew that I couldn't let it go
You used to be this boy I loved
And I used to be this girl of your dreams
Who knew the course of this one drive
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.comment: On Writing About Linux
The Paradox of News
June 20, 2001
When I was very, very young, I happened to be in southern Indiana when a Lockheed Electra broke its mainspar and spun out of the sky. On board were 63 people who were perfectly healthy when the plane was one foot above the ground and an unrecognizable mass of shredded human flesh less than a yard later. It was absolutely horrifying, especially to six-year-old me.
It was covered by the newspapers and on television.
And then, as now, reporters were criticized for having covered it, even though those doing the criticizing also rushed to get their newspapers and read every detail, and turn on their teevees and stare attentively at all the pictures from the scene.
So it always has been and always will be. A substantial part of the news is breathtaking detail about things that people wish hadn't happened at all. Readers, who devour it, presume that reporters take delight in it having happened, so they could write about it, maybe win a prize, make the front page, whatever. When the Electra crashed, a local resident actually wrote the little weekly paper in the small Ohio River town of Cannelton to ask why there were never any stories about the thousands of flights every day that don't crash.
The answer was, and is, that those thousands of flights aren't news. They're very nice, and we're all glad that they reach their destinations as planned, but they're not news.
This is pretty basic. If you picked up the newspaper and the headline was "Big News! Sun Rose as Expected This Morning!" you would not read it. Certainly, the fact that the sun rose is important, essential as the sun is to life on our little planet. But a piece about the glories of the sun is of neither interest nor use to anyone. If, on the other hand, the story was "Big News Today! The Sun Didn't Rise!" you would read it, and you would soak up every detail. That's the nature of news.
This is all so obvious that it's sad that it need even be mentioned. But it does need mention, because there are people in the Linux community -- the loudest contingent -- that apparently holds the belief that the purpose of reporting is to cheerlead; that reporters should only cover good news about Linux, and that if a reporter covers bad news he is somehow in favor of the events on which he reports.
A Case in Point
Yesterday afternoon, within about an hour of each other, two stories were posted on LinuxToday. The first to appear was the good news that Red Hat Software had for the first time posted a profit. No matter your opinion of Red Hat, this is good news: it means that in even a weak economy a company based on free and open-source software can make money. This in turn might help remove the black cloud that has hovered above things Linux when viewed by the investment community. And if you don't think investment is important, ask any of the people who have been laid off recently by Linux companies. Ask them over at Eazel.
Exactly 45 minutes later, a story I wrote was posted. It dealt with some ill-will in the KDE and GNOME camps that had led leading developers to resign from each project. This was not about garden-variety flame wars, but about things having reached points where developers no longer felt welcome. The story did not take sides; in this case, especially, there are good arguments to be made for the positions taken by everybody, yet those positions are mutually exclusive. Life is like that sometimes. And it was news. In one situation, the shape of GNOME 2.0 was likely to be affected; in the other, KDE users who had grown to know and like an application called Pixie would surely wonder why it had suddenly disappeared.
Which story is more important? Actually, they both are. One brightens the future of Linux in general, while one clouds or potentially clouds the hopes of those of us who hope for the desktop success of Linux.
Which story did readers think more important? Again, it's difficult to tell, but twice as many people read about the disputes in KDE and GNOME as read about Red Hat's profits, as of six hours following the posting of the later piece. Twice as many people posted comments to the dispute story, too, though most of those were to condemn me, LinuxToday, or both, for having, in the immortal clich� used in at least one of the talkbacks, aired the projects' dirty laundry, and for being happy the disputes took place.
First, I'm not happy the disputes took place. In the column that was to have run today, I mentioned my pleasure in a theme developed by Daniel M. Duley, known in the KDE community as Mosfet, who wrote the Pixie application and who has been performing some very attractive alpha-channel miracles. He is the longtime KDE developer at the center of that dispute, about which more in due course.
Second, it is utterly astonishing to me that people who are forever going on about "free speech" and the like, which was codified for the first time in the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, would now suggest that a medium whose purpose is to cover things Linux should not cover anything inconveniently embarrassing or that casts a bad light on what they wish people would believe, as they do, about Linux. This suggests to me that these poor, real-life-less specimens are merely conduits, who devote little or no time to thought and absolutely none to independent thought -- whose next original notion will be their first. True Believers, Eric Hoffer called them. Miserable whining cowards hiding, often, behind aliases and phony email addresses, I call them, when I'm being polite. (People who pleasure themselves while gazing at a jpeg of Madonna and don't know that it's different from actually being with Madonna, which is understandable because they lack the experience from which to draw the distinction, when I'm not being polite.) Fortunately, they can usually be safely ignored -- what stock can one take in the views of those for whom no respect is possible? But sometimes they get loud enough and annoying enough that they need to be identified, characterized, and very specifically disregarded. Consider it done.


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From the TMC blog: "Choosing Wisely" in maternity care: ACOG and AAFP urge women to question elective deliveries
Last April, the ABIM Foundation, with Consumer Reports and other partners, drew national attention to overuse of ineffective and harmful practices across the health care system with their Choosing Wisely campaign. As part of the campaign, professional medical societies identified practices within their own specialties that patients should avoid or question carefully. Today, the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) and the American Association of Family Physicians (AAFP) have joined the campaign, drawing national attention to the overuse and misuse of induction of labor. ACOG and AAFP are telling women and their maternity care providers:
- Don't schedule elective, non-medically indicated inductions of labor or cesarean deliveries before 39 weeks 0 days gestational age.
- Don't schedule elective, non-medically indicated inductions of labor between 39 weeks 0 days and 41 weeks 0 days unless the cervix is deemed favorable.


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Editor's Note: This post was written in 2007. We have not visited MK restaurant since that time and they may have greatly improved their service and polices. Please give them a chance and take this review with a grain of salt. We are hoping that they have improved and are now reaping the benefits of growth through experience.
I recently visited my parents in Oak Brook a suburb 22 miles west of downtown Chicago. I came to Chicago because I had not seen my parents in months and I wished to introduce them to my new love interest. During our five day jaunt, I planned one day and evening in Chicago. With Priceline's help, we snagged a 4 Star luxury hotel suite for less than half the original price at the Westin River North. The room was fantastic and the location was next to the river, the House of Blues, and Harry Carey's.
Our big treat was a trip to Restaurant MK (Michael Kornick) not far from our new digs. In 2002 I ate at MK and loved every bite and gulp. Fantastic food, huge portions, a electric room and crowd to match. The place oozed New York "It." Everything was pure pleasure. Then it happened.
Like "Family Guy's" Quagmire or a former beauty queen past her beautiful stage in life, MK has become clueless to it's decline. The food still remains a solid bet as it is both tasty and plentiful. But there have been major changes that prevent me from recommending it to anyone.
1. The Staff has the attitude that they are "doing you a favor" by allowing you to dine at THEIR place.
2. The Sommelier constructed his wine list as if Quagmire took over his brain. Too many white wines on the list were from Red winery specialists. Likewise there were red wines on the list from white wine producers who make poor red wines. Add to this weird mix, the fact that there is no value section at all unless you think that a $35 per bottle corkage fee is value? Like a 3rd World country, this list has it's downtrodden poor and it's super rich. Consequently unless you are willing to spend $60+ per bottle, very few selections are worthy of the food.
3. The Service and Attitude was both over the top and under the table. The waiter acted like a snooty society snob. He had NO clue about wine or wine etiquette. No restaurant should ever assume that it is their right to pour the wine. They should ask if the patrons would like to control the wine or if the waiter should pour away. At MK they get pissy if you tell them hands off the bottle. The other etiquette breach? They took our bottle off the table and then expected us to wait for our server to go find it to then pour it. That is a terrible idea and one I quickly squashed. The whole issue made for an uncomfortable experience.
At the end of the night, I tipped but it killed me. I was kind of wishing I could pull a dine and dash like the good ole high school days when the local bowling alley guy was too hammered to chase us. But this time I would have been the bowling alley guy and I would have never made it out of my seat.
If you are looking for great food in Chicago try Charlie Trotter's, Greek Town, most any Steak House, or something eclectic. Just save yourself, and that Brinks roll, and avoid MK for now. Maybe in the future they will wake up to the fact that their beauty is gone and it costs dearly to be a Quagmire!


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SAN JOSE — A man who called authorities and said he had just killed two people and planted bombs in and outside a Fruitdale Avenue home triggered a major response around 8 p.m. Wednesday before it was determined to be a hoax, according to sheriff's officials.
"We had 25 to 30 deputies dedicated to this call," said Santa Clara County sheriff's spokesman Sgt. Kurtis Stenderup. "We set a perimeter up, and let our special SWAT and bomb squad units know something was going on and put them on standby. We were assisted by San Jose fire, police and county emergency medical teams, all at the staging area waiting to see what was going to happen."
The home in question was in the 2200 block of Fruitdale near Bascom Avenue, and abutted the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, which was also notified about the situation.
About an hour and a half after the call came in, teams went into the darkened home and found it vacant and devoid of any explosives.
Stenderup said that in a way they "got lucky" because they discovered it was a hoax before assembling more resources.
He said the first red flag was raised because the emergency call came in from a cellphone, which investigators are now trying to track down.
"I don't know if something like this has happened here before, but I can't think of anything that involved a response this extensive," he said.
Last November, the Los Angeles City Council began offering rewards for information leading to people pulling hoaxes known as "swatting," in which a crime is reported that brings a large police response to a home where nothing of the sort is happening.
According to the Los Angeles Times, there were four such incidents last April, including at the homes of Rihanna, Justin Timberlake and Selena Gomez. A Los Angeles councilman was also swatted.
Stenderup said they did not immediately know why the Fruitdale home, in an unincorporated pocket of San Jose, was targeted.
Contact Eric Kurhi at 408-920-5852. Follow him at Twitter.com/erickurhi.


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UnNews:United Kingdom's prime minister found in Dutch coffee shop
This article is part of UnNews, your source for up-to-the-microsecond misinformation.
23 September 2006
LONDRES, Angleterre -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair faces another scandal after he was forced to quit. He managed to stay Prime Minister, claiming there is no law that can force him to quit. He is now the center of a new scandal, after he was found in a Dutch coffee shop. The Dutch call the places they sell so called soft-drugs (not addictive drugs) 'Coffee shops'. Tony tries to defend himself, saying:
|I was just looking for tea, then found out they had so much more, being curious of nature, I just had to try what they have, how could I know that spacecake did contain drugs? From the outside you can't tell they sell drugs.
A report of 784 pages made by Sigmund Freud on the scandal however, claims otherwise: Tony Blair was fully informed what coffee shops are, even his wife admits that he makes a lot more political visits to Holland than is needed in his political career, he claims it is required to fix his bad image, but his wife cites drug abuse as one of his bad habits. Furthermore, it is highly unlikely that tea is sold in a COFFEE shop. Tony Blair deliberately and purposefully visited the shop, knowing full well what those shops sell.
Not everyone believes that Tony Blair sinned. A group called 'Stoners Anonymous' is currently rallying for the fall of the government, their spokesmen said: "Hey dude, you know.. those eckies are good shit.. god I'm fucked up.. where am I.. oh wait.. yes, I've been following the news.. and err.. you know dude.. I think the prime minister is err.. you know.. the only sane person in the government.. we just need softer drug regulations.. and err.. down with the government dude!"
Tony Blair immediately fled after the report was commisioned. His location is as of yet unknown, however it seems likely he fled to Holland. The United Kingdom asked the Dutch government for handing him over, however they claim "In Holland, those drugs are ok for personal use, we can't arrest him for what is legal here."
UPDATE: Someone claimed to have seen him in Amsterdam, but after further investigation it seemed to be Elvis Presley.
- Icabod Crane "Things Tony Blair and Willie Nelson have in common". New Days Press, September 23, 2006