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- Universal Cartoon Studios, Amblin Entertainment, Toon City Inc., Universal Studios Home Entertainment Family Productions
- Distributed by: YTV, Cartoon Network
- Cartoon Characters: Littlefoot, Cera, Ducky, Petrie, Spike, Thud, Chomper, Grandpa Longneck, Mr. Clubtail, Red Claw, Screech, Ruby, Tricia, Tria, Ruby's Father, Ruby's Mother, Petrie's Mother.
- Voice Actors: Cody Arens, Anndi McAfee, Aria Noelle Curzon, Jeff Bennett, Rob Paulsen.
- Produced By Diane A. Crea.
- Music: Michele Brourman, Ford Riley, Steve D'Angelo, Roc Gagliese, Terry Tompkins; more Musicians ...
- First Aired on May 04, 2007.
- Originally Aired on Boomerang, YTV (Canada).
- Running Time: 30 minutes.
- Episode Number: 116
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The adventures of Littlefoot, Cera, Ducky, Petrie and Spike continue as the five young dinosaurs set out to explore the mysteries of Great Valley. On their journeys though danger and the unknown, they face many bumps in the road, but always seem to... (more)
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The best ideas are the ones you can't believe didn't already exist. That's how I felt when I clicked over to Retro Renovation yesterday to find a photo feature on someone's very cool mid-century modern children's play house, designed and built from scratch by the owner. Why didn't anyone think of this before?
Of course, someone did think of it before. A number of modernist designers work with children in mind, as we've explored previously. And the mid-century modern look is popular enough that there are several such playhouses available commercially, for those without the tools, time, or know-how to design and build one from scratch.
The best collection comes from a company called Smart Playhouse, which features four designs. I'm partial to the Illinois model, above, with its classic lines, big windows, and porch. I also like the wood-paneled Hobikken, at left, with its sleek, black-framed windows and cool doorway. The avant-garde Kyoto and leaf-printed Casaforum are more design-forward, but also cool.
The main drawback to the Smart Playhouse designs is that none include play equipment. For that, a company called Metro Shed offers models with swings and slides, still with that straight, clean, glass-walled aesthetic, below.
Another company, Modern Cabana, sold a clear-ceilinged model with chalkboard walls that looked like a lot of fun, but a visit to their site reveals they've been bought by the prefab manufacturer Blu Homes, where a rep told me they weren't selling Modern Cabana stuff, though they hoped to do so by the end of the year.
With the kids home for summer vacation, this might be just the time to think about a second home for them in the backyard. And it's not that hard to make it stylish.


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Just to explain this better, I am NOT accusing Mr Phobik of anything and I trust him.
Consider this post more of a PSA on what can be done remotely with this script, that ANY server, not just Mr Phobik's, can use.
As much as I like the idea, there is a reason why something similar wasn't done before (for example, in ACAS) since it simplifies the install process for client-side scripts a lot...
Looking at the .dso file, in a couple seconds, I was automatically able to "decompile" the file:
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Anyone with a little knowledge of TorqueScript already has enough information to use this on their own server
Eval, for the less technical among us, executes ANY code. Eval is a function that should only be used very sparingly when there's no alternative, and it should be protected so that it can not just run any code sent from the server.
Making it so that it can be executed remotely by ANY server is a pretty idea, especially without any kind of checks for trusted servers (even though they'd be quite easy to avoid).
Basically, ANY server you join after you install this scripts can execute ANY TorqueScript code on your ThinkTanks client.
This could be used to automatically install client-side scripts, of course.
This means that (from what I remember about TorqueScript):
- they are free to edit any file on the ThinkTanks folder (or even delete all files on it).
- they can easily grab your admin password for YOUR server and send it back to their server.
- they can upload any file it has access to back to the server or to an HTTP server.
- they can make connections through ThinkTanks to any server through your computer. This includes any computers or devices (i.e. routers) on your network.
- they can log your chat through ThinkTanks (including admin commands), your IP, IPs of servers you join, etc
- send chat through you to any server, that could result on you getting banned for insults or whatever
- they could edit one of the .dll files on the main ThinkTanks folder, that would then execute when ThinkTanks is launched. This would allow the remote server to achieve real remote code execution without that much extra work, and basically do whatever he wanted with your computer.
All that said, as Mr Phobik himself stated, it should be impossible (it never is, but that's another subject entirely) to actually access anything on your own computer outside of the ThinkTanks directory.
Just so that everybody knows all the details before installing a script that allows ANY server a backdoor into your game and network.
tl;dr: If you install this script, avoid joining untrustworthy servers!
On a slightly different topic, I must say, after looking at what exactly Mr Phobik's server is executing remotely, I actually found the way he used CCAFragment and CCAEval quite interesting.
I have a small question for him tough: Why would your server need to close a player's game remotely? It's more a question out of curiosity than anything else since I don't play ThinkTanks anymore and I can't think of any legitimate uses for this:
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Following eight years as a professional musician in Los Angeles, Greg Jasperse has returned to Kalamazoo as an associate professor of vocal jazz and the new director of Gold Company and GC II at Western Michigan University. A world-renowned composer and arranger, he is sought after internationally as a clinician, adjudicator, and guest conductor. His conducting credits include all-state jazz choirs in New York, California, Oklahoma, Indiana, Arizona, Missouri, Colorado, New Hampshire, Illinois, and Iowa, as well as the British Columbia Honors Jazz Choir.
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"The [Government Agency] — Now Vested With The Power To Determine The Proper 'Disposition' Of Terrorist Suspects — Is The SAME AGENCY That Is At The Center Of The Ubiquitous, Unaccountable Surveillance State Aimed At American Citizens."
The Washington Post reports that the same agency which spies on all Americans also decides who is assassinated by drone or otherwise:
Over the past two years, the Obama administration has been secretly developing a new blueprint for pursuing terrorists, a next-generation targeting list called the "disposition matrix."
The matrix contains the names of terrorism suspects arrayed against an accounting of the resources being marshaled to track them down, including sealed indictments and clandestine operations. U.S. officials said the database is designed to go beyond existing kill lists, mapping plans for the "disposition" of suspects beyond the reach of American drones.
Among senior Obama administration officials, there is a broad consensus that such operations are likely to be extended at least another decade. Given the way al-Qaeda continues to metastasize, some officials said no clear end is in sight.
Obama has institutionalized the highly classified practice of targeted killing, transforming ad-hoc elements into a counterterrorism infrastructure capable of sustaining a seemingly permanent war.
White House counterterrorism adviser John O. Brennan is seeking to codify the administration's approach to generating capture/kill lists, part of a broader effort to guide future administrations through the counterterrorism processes that Obama has embraced.
The United States now operates multiple drone programs, including acknowledged U.S. military patrols over conflict zones in Afghanistan and Libya, and classified CIA surveillance flights over Iran.
Strikes against al-Qaeda, however, are carried out under secret lethal programs involving the CIA and JSOC. The matrix was developed by the NCTC [the National Counterterrorism Center], under former director Michael Leiter, to augment those organizations' separate but overlapping kill lists, officials said.
The result is a single, continually evolving database in which biographies, locations, known associates and affiliated organizations are all catalogued. So are strategies for taking targets down, including extradition requests, capture operations and drone patrols.
The database is meant to map out contingencies, creating an operational menu that spells out each agency's role in case a suspect surfaces in an unexpected spot. "If he's in Saudi Arabia, pick up with the Saudis," the former official said. "If traveling overseas to al-Shabaab [in Somalia] we can pick him up by ship. If in Yemen, kill or have the Yemenis pick him up."
The administration has also elevated the role of the NCTC, which was conceived as a clearinghouse for threat data and has no operational capability. Under Brennan, who served as its founding director, the center has emerged as a targeting hub.
As Glenn Greenwald notes:
The central role played by the NCTC in determining who should be killed – "It is the keeper of the criteria," says one official to the Post – is, by itself, rather odious. As Kade Crockford of the ACLU of Massachusetts noted in response to this story, the ACLU has long warned that the real purpose of the NCTC – despite its nominal focus on terrorism – is the "massive, secretive data collection and mining of trillions of points of data about most people in the United States".
In particular, the NCTC operates a gigantic data-mining operation, in which all sorts of information about innocent Americans is systematically monitored, stored, and analyzed. This includes "records from law enforcement investigations, health information, employment history, travel and student records" – "literally anything the government collects would be fair game". In other words, the NCTC – now vested with the power to determine the proper "disposition" of terrorist suspects – is the same agency that is at the center of the ubiquitous, unaccountable surveillance state aimed at American citizens.
Worse still, as the ACLU's legislative counsel Chris Calabrese documented back in July in a must-read analysis, Obama officials very recently abolished safeguards on how this information can be used. Whereas the agency, during the Bush years, was barred from storing non-terrorist-related information about innocent Americans for more than 180 days – a limit which "meant that NCTC was dissuaded from collecting large databases filled with information on innocent Americans" – it is now free to do so. Obama officials eliminated this constraint by authorizing the NCTC "to collect and 'continually assess' information on innocent Americans for up to five years".
And, as usual, this agency engages in these incredibly powerful and invasive processes with virtually no democratic accountability:
"All of this is happening with very little oversight. Controls over the NCTC are mostly internal to the DNI's office, and important oversight bodies such as Congress and the President's Intelligence Oversight Board aren't notified even of 'significant' failures to comply with the Guidelines. Fundamental legal protections are being sidestepped. For example, under the new guidelines, Privacy Act notices (legal requirements to describe how databases are used) must be completed by the agency that collected the information. This is in spite of the fact that those agencies have no idea what NCTC is actually doing with the information once it collects it.
"All of this amounts to a reboot of the Total Information Awareness Program that Americans rejected so vigorously right after 9/11."
What has been created here – permanently institutionalized – is a highly secretive executive branch agency that simultaneously engages in two functions: (1) it collects and analyzes massive amounts of surveillance data about all Americans without any judicial review let alone search warrants, and (2) creates and implements a "matrix" that determines the "disposition" of suspects, up to and including execution, without a whiff of due process or oversight. It is simultaneously a surveillance state and a secretive, unaccountable judicial body that analyzes who you are and then decrees what should be done with you, how you should be "disposed" of, beyond the reach of any minimal accountability or transparency.
Americans on U.S. Soil May Be Targeted
This might be acceptable if the U.S. government was only targeting really bad guys, and if drones were not being used inside the borders of America itself.
But drones are becoming pervasive within the U.S. Indeed, some of the numerous drones flying over American soil – projected by the FAA to reach 30,000 drones by 2020 – are starting to carry arms.
When torture memo writer John Yoo was asked last year whether drones could kill people within the United States, he replied yes – if we were in a time of war:
(Of course, since the U.S. has declared a perpetual war – and see this- drones will always be in fashion.)
Indeed, the military now considers the U.S. homeland to be a battlefield. The U.S. is already allowing military operations within the United States. Indeed, the Army is already being deployed on U.S. soil, and the military is conducting numerous training exercises on American streets. And see this.
Government officials have said that Americans can be targets in the war on terror. Obama has authorized "targeted assassinations" against U.S. citizens.
And it is not very comforting that the U.S. government labels just about every U.S. citizen as a potential terrorists.
The U.S. Activates Skynet
In the Terminator science fiction series, computers and machines – organized by "Skynet" – track people down who threaten the status quo of the machines and then selectively assassinate them.
The powers given to the NCTC remind me of Skynet. Especially given how fast the military is advancing its robotic capablities:
Greenwald comments on the machine-like aspect the NCTC's operations:
The Council on Foreign Relations' Micah Zenko, writing today about the Post article, reports:
"Recently, I spoke to a military official with extensive and wide-ranging experience in the special operations world, and who has had direct exposure to the targeted killing program. To emphasize how easy targeted killings by special operations forces or drones has become, this official flicked his hand back over and over, stating: 'It really is like swatting flies. We can do it forever easily and you feel nothing. But how often do you really think about killing a fly?'"
That is disturbingly consistent with prior reports that the military's term for drone victims is "bug splat". This – this warped power and the accompanying dehumanizing mindset – is what is being institutionalized as a permanent fixture in American political life by the current president.
At Wired, Spencer Ackerman reacts to the Post article with an analysis entitled "President Romney Can Thank Obama for His Permanent Robotic Death List". Here is his concluding paragraph:
"Obama did not run for president to preside over the codification of a global war fought in secret. But that's his legacy. . . . Micah Zenko at the Council on Foreign Relations writes that Obama's predecessors in the Bush administration 'were actually much more conscious and thoughtful about the long-term implications of targeted killings', because they feared the political consequences that might come when the U.S. embraces something at least superficially similar to assassination. Whoever follows Obama in the Oval Office can thank him for proving those consequences don't meaningfully exist — as he or she reviews the backlog of names on the Disposition Matrix."
But one thing is clear. Warmongering is always good for the super-elite, and bad for everyone else … And it destroys freedom and prosperity.
Given that the national security apparatus has been hijacked to serve the needs of big business and to crush dissent, it's not far-fetched to think that information gained from drones will be used for purposes that are not necessarily in the best interests of the American people.
As Greenwald notes:
The core guarantee of western justice since the Magna Carta was codified in the US by the fifth amendment to the constitution: "No person shall . . . be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law." You simply cannot have a free society, a worthwhile political system, without that guarantee, that constraint on the ultimate abusive state power, being honored.
And yet what the Post is describing, what we have had for years, is a system of government that – without hyperbole – is the very antithesis of that liberty. It is literally impossible to imagine a more violent repudiation of the basic blueprint of the republic than the development of a secretive, totally unaccountable executive branch agency that simultaneously collects information about all citizens and then applies a "disposition matrix" to determine what punishment should be meted out. This is classic political dystopia brought to reality (despite how compelled such a conclusion is by these indisputable facts, many Americans will view such a claim as an exaggeration, paranoia, or worse because of this psychological dynamic I described here which leads many good passive westerners to believe that true oppression, by definition, is something that happens only elsewhere).
As the Founders all recognized, nothing vests elites with power – and profit – more than a state of war. That is why there were supposed to be substantial barriers to having them start and continue – the need for a Congressional declaration, the constitutional bar on funding the military for more than two years at a time, the prohibition on standing armies, etc. Here is how John Jay put it in Federalist No 4:
"It is too true, however disgraceful it may be to human nature, that nations in general will make war whenever they have a prospect of getting anything by it; nay, absolute monarchs will often make war when their nations are to get nothing by it, but for the purposes and objects merely personal, such as thirst for military glory, revenge for personal affronts, ambition, or private compacts to aggrandize or support their particular families or partisans. These and a variety of other motives, which affect only the mind of the sovereign, often lead him to engage in wars not sanctified by justice or the voice and interests of his people."
In sum, there are factions in many governments that crave a state of endless war because that is when power is least constrained and profit most abundant. What the Post is reporting is yet another significant step toward that state, and it is undoubtedly driven, at least on the part of some, by a self-interested desire to ensure the continuation of endless war and the powers and benefits it vests. So to answer Hayes' question: the endless expansion of a kill list and the unaccountable, always-expanding powers needed to implement it does indeed represent a great success for many. Read what John Jay wrote in the above passage to see why that is, and why few, if any, political developments should be regarded as more pernicious.
Note: While it may be tempting to say that spying and assassination are part of the new "post-9/11 reality", widespread spying on Americans, assassination, militarization of the police, the Patriot Act, indefinite detention, and most of the other abuses were launched or contemplated long before 9/11.


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An Open-Label Clinical Trial of Replagal Enzyme Therapy in Children Ages 7-17 Years With Fabry Disease
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00071877
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : November 4, 2003
Last Update Posted : March 4, 2008
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This study will evaluate the safety of multiple biweekly intravenous doses of Replagal over 26 weeks in 25 children with Fabry disease and the way in which that agent can improve the health of this patient population. Fabry disease is a genetic disorder inherited as an X-linked recessive trait. It causes a deficiency in the enzyme alpha galactosidase, which normally breaks down a lipid, or fatty substance, called ceramidetrihexosidase, a building block in all cells of the body.
The deficiency in breaking down the lipid eventually causes that lipid to accumulate and injure cells. Problems in the blood vessels, kidneys, heart, and nerves are the result. The disease typically occurs in childhood or adolescence, with repeated episodes of severe pain in the extremities and other symptoms. There is no definitive treatment, but pain management is important in caring for patients with Fabry disease. Although it is not known exactly how lipid accumulation brings about such problems, studies of another lipid storage disorder, Gaucher's disease, have shown that the illness can be reversed if the lipid is removed when an appropriate enzyme, Replagal, is given intravenously. In this study, the gene response of the body's cells to Fabry disease will be described, as will any gene responses that change when the enzyme is used.
Patients 7 to 17 years of age who have Fabry disease may be eligible for this study. They will undergo the following tests and procedures:
- Physical examination.
- Neurological examination.
- Vital signs.
- Urinalysis.
- Blood tests to determine complete blood count and chemistries.
- Questionnaire on pain.
- Tests pertaining to sweating.
- Electrocardiogram.
- Doppler blood flow study.
- Diary for recording symptoms and the use of pain medications.
Participants will go through the evaluation, over a period of about 5 days, either as an inpatient or outpatient. Participants will receive an intravenous infusion of Replagal every other week, at the dose of 0.2 mg/kg of body weight. Vital signs will be measured before the infusion and immediately and after and 1 hour afterward. There will be careful monitoring for allergic reactions and side effects. The infusion time takes approximately 40 minutes.
This study will last 6 months, with the possibility of being extended another 6 months-a maintenance study in which patients will continue to receive Replagal at the same dose every 2 weeks.
|Condition or disease
|Fabry Disease
|Drug: Replagal
|Phase 2
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Enrollment :
|25 participants
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|A Clinical Trial of Replagal Enzyme Replacement Therapy in Children Ages 7 - 17 Years With Fabry Disease
|Study Start Date :
|October 2003
|Study Completion Date :
|June 2005
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|Child, Adult, Older Adult
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Male hemizygote with Fabry Disease as documented by clinical evidence and by laboratory evidence of alpha-galactosidase A deficiency.
Female heterozygote with Fabry Disease as documented by gene analysis showing a mutation of the alpha-galactosidase A gene. Female patients of child-bearing potential must have a negative pregnancy test at baseline and agree to the use of effective contraception such as oral contraceptive or double barrier method for study entry and while participating in the study.
7-17 years of age.
Adequate general health (as determined by the investigators) to undergo the specified phlebotomy regimen and protocol related procedures.
The child must assent to participate in the protocol and the parent(s) or legally authorized guardian(s) must have voluntarily signed an Institutional Review Board/Independent Ethics Committee (IRB/IEC) approved informed consent form after all relevant aspects of the study have been explained and discussed with the child and the child's parent(s) or legal guardian(s).
Patient has previously participated in a multi-dose clinical study of an investigational therapeutic agent for Fabry Disease.
Patient and/or the patient's parent(s) or legal guardian(s) are unable to understand the nature, scope, and possible consequences of the study.
Patient is unable to comply with the protocol, e.g., uncooperative with protocol schedule, refusal to agree to all of the study procedures, inability to return for safety evaluations, or is otherwise unlikely to complete the study, as determined by the investigator or the medical monitor.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00071877
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|National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
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|First Posted:
|November 4, 2003 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|March 4, 2008
|Last Verified:
|June 2005
Lysosomal Disease
Fabry Disease
Fabry Disease
Lysosomal Storage Diseases, Nervous System
Brain Diseases, Metabolic, Inborn
Brain Diseases, Metabolic
Brain Diseases
Central Nervous System Diseases
Nervous System Diseases
Cerebral Small Vessel Diseases
Cerebrovascular Disorders
Vascular Diseases
Cardiovascular Diseases
Genetic Diseases, X-Linked
Genetic Diseases, Inborn
Metabolism, Inborn Errors
Lipid Metabolism, Inborn Errors
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Where to go in Spain
Spain's cities are among the most vibrant in Europe. Exuberant Barcelona, for many, has the edge, thanks to Gaudí's extraordinary modernista architecture, the lively promenade of the Ramblas, five kilometres of sandy beach and the world's best football team. The capital, Madrid, may not be as pretty, but it claims as many devotees – immortalized in the movies of Pedro Almodóvar, and shot through with a contemporary style that informs everything from its major-league art museums to its carefree bars and summer cafés. Then there's Seville, home of flamenco and all the clichés of southern Spain; Valencia, the vibrant capital of the Levante, with a thriving arts scene and nightlife; and Bilbao, a not-to-miss stop on Spain's cultural circuit, due to Frank Gehry's astonishing Museo Guggenheim.
Not only are Spain's modern cities and towns lively and exciting, they are monumental – literally so. History has washed over the country, adding an architectural backdrop that varies from one region to another, dependent on their occupation by Romans, Visigoths or Moors, or on their role in the medieval Christian Reconquest or in the later Golden Age of imperial Renaissance Spain. Touring Castilla y León, for example, you can't avoid the stereotypical Spanish image of vast cathedrals and hundreds of reconquista castles, while the gorgeous medieval university city of Salamanca captivates all who visit. In northerly, mountainous Asturias and the Pyrenees, tiny, almost organically evolved, Romanesque churches dot the hillsides and villages, while in Galicia all roads lead to the ancient, and heartbreakingly beautiful cathedral city of Santiago de Compostela. Andalucía has the great mosques and Moorish palaces of Granada, Seville and Córdoba; Castilla-La Mancha boasts the superbly preserved medieval capital of Toledo; while the harsh landscape of Extremadura cradles ornate conquistador towns built with riches from the New World.
The Spanish landscape, too, holds just as much fascination and variety as the country's urban centres. The evergreen estuaries of Galicia could hardly be more different from the high, arid plains of Castile, or the gulch-like desert landscapes of Almería. In particular, Spain has some of the finest mountains in Europe, with superb walking – short hikes to week-long treks – in a dozen or more protected ranges or sierras – especially the Picos de Europa and the Pyrenees. There are still brown bears and lynx in the wild, not to mention boar, storks and eagles, while a near-five-thousand-kilometre coastline means great opportunities for fishing, whale-watching and dolphin-spotting.
Agriculture, meanwhile, makes its mark in the patterned hillsides of the wine- and olive-growing regions, the baking wheat plantations and cattle ranches of the central plains, the meseta, and the rice fields of the eastern provinces of Valencia and Murcia, known as the Levante. These areas, although short on historic monuments and attractions, produce some of Spain's most famous exports, and with the country now at the heart of the contemporary European foodie movement, there's an entire holiday to be constructed out of simply exploring Spain's rich regional cuisine – touring the Rioja and other celebrated wine regions, snacking your way around Extremadura and Andalucía in search of the world's best jamón serrano (cured mountain ham), or tucking into a paella in its spiritual home of Valencia.
And finally, there are the beaches – one of Spain's greatest attractions, and where modern tourism to the country began in the 1960s. Here, too, there's a lot more variety than the stereotypical images might suggest. Long tracts of coastline – along the Costa del Sol in Andalucía in particular – have certainly been massively and depressingly over-developed, but delightful pockets remain, even along the biggest, concrete-clad costas. Moreover, there are superb windsurfing waters around Tarifa and some decidedly low-key resorts along the Costa de la Luz. On the Costa Brava, in the northeast in Catalunya, the string of idyllic coves between Palamos and Begur is often overlooked, while the cooler Atlantic coastline boasts the surfing beaches of Cantabria and Asturias, or the unspoilt coves of Galicia's estuaries. Offshore, the Balearic Islands – Ibiza, Formentera, Mallorca and Menorca – also have some superb sands, with party-fuelled Ibiza in particular offering one of the most hedonistic backdrops to beachlife in the whole Mediterranean.
Hedonism, actually, brings us full-circle, back to one of the reasons why Spain is pretty much irresistible and infectious. Wherever you are in the country, you can't help but notice the Spaniards' wild – often over-bearing – enthusiasm for having a good time. Festival time is a case in point – these aren't staid, annual celebrations, they are raucous reaffirmations of life itself, complete with fireworks, fancy dress, giants, devils, bonfires, parties, processions and sheer Spanish glee. But even outside fiesta time there's always something vibrant and noisy happening – from local market to late-night bar, weekend football match to beachside dance club. Meals are convivial affairs – not for most Spaniards the rushed sandwich or chain-restaurant takeaway – and long lunches and late dinners are the norm throughout the country. And with family at the heart of Spanish society, there's a genuine welcome for, and interest in, you and yours, whether at resort hotel or rustic guest house. "A pasarlo bien!" (Have a good time!), as the Spanish say.
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See that big, open portal to the sky in front of you? Yeah, it's the back of a cargo plane. And we're about to drop some trucks right out of it.
Hopefully when we all stop shooting each other and send out peaceful love beams to solve our problems, we can still find a good reason to airdrop Humvees out of planes. It's just too cool.
(Hat tip to Lawrence!)


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I was very happy to get my copy of Brendan Powell Smith's latest work The Brick Bible: The New Testament, published by Skyhorse Publishing. Those in the online LEGO community are probably already aware of Brendan's 11 year old ongoing project, the Brick Testament, in both its online and print incarnations. To you, all I really need to say is that this is a beautifully produced paperback version including many of his New Testament stories, presented in a graphic novel style. Several of the stories have been re-built and re-photographed to update the stories reflecting newer LEGO figures, elements and colors, as well as Brendan's evolving building skills over a decade of work. There is also a Kindle version, but IMO if you're going to look at this on a screen, you're just going to go straight to his website. The huge benefit of this is that you can actually hold it in your hands and flip through the pages.
For others, I suppose some further explanation is warranted. Back in the fall of 2001 Brendan showed off his initial work to the LEGO community:
Hello, all.
I have embarked on a mammoth new project: interpreting the Bible in LEGO. I have plans for both Old and New Testament stories, but decided to start from the very beginning. I present to you the first fruits of my labor, six stories from the book of Genesis.
Enjoy, -The Rev. Brendan Powell Smith
As he described it in that post, his Brick Testament is a LEGO illustration of the Bible. He immediately got a lot of feedback from the community, and as he added content to his site, he also got noticed by the mainstream press with newspaper and magazine stories, appearances on radio and television, and countless blog posts, tweets, forum discussions and the like (and one notable two part interview ;) ). Over the years, his work has led to at least seven print versions.
Brendan's work has not gone free of controversy. He is not personally a religious man, and one of his stated goals is to get people to reexamine the Bible, not just their vaguely-remembered Sunday School story version. He just takes the raw text and illustrates it in a pretty literal way. I won't do this here, but elsewhere (on Lugnet and on my GodBricks blog) I've taken issues with some of his interpretive choices. Brendan has always been gracious to discuss these differences, and I've enjoyed conversations with him over the years. Also, as he noted even in his first posting back in 2001, the Bible is full of violence and sex, and he has never shied away from illustrating this in LEGO form in the online version of his work. A year ago there was a little tempest in a tea pot when Sam's Club removed his books from their shelves due to complaints over that. I have elsewhere mocked that decision, but I do want to note here for anyone considering purchasing the Brick Bible for their kids, there are no plastic toy figures placed near each other in such a way as to suggest sexual situations in the print version (plastic toy violence is another thing altogether). So, if you are highly offended by plastic toy figures placed near each other in such a way as to suggest sexual situations (PTFPNEOISAWATSSS for short), have no fear. You can buy this book in peace. Now, if you are more concerned that his interpretation of certain Bible passages doesn't match yours, well, I may share your view, but that would also mean that you have to also keep a close eye on every other Biblical interpretation in popular media from Charlton Heston parting the Red Sea on to animated vegetables singing silly songs. The key is just to be an intelligent reader, and, if you are buying this for your kids, read along with them and discuss the stories.
Now, I should spend a few minutes on this book, specifically. In large part it covers the same ground that you can find on his website, though with a different format (i.e. the website has single photos with text underneath, while this book version is laid out like a graphic novel, as you can see above). Several of the stories have been re-built and re-photographed (though not all - for example at one point the Magi are riding brick-built camels and at another Jesus tells how it is easier for a molded camel to go through the eye of the needle, so presumably the Magi photo is from before LEGO first produced the camel element in 2010). One striking difference is the lack of speech bubbles.
In the web version, Brendan uses black text in speech bubbles to indicate direct quotes from the Bible, but he sometimes has the characters make humorous asides, indicated by gray text. I kind of miss the speech bubbles and the side jokes, but I think I understand why Brendan did not include those in this. The other discrepancy between the print and web versions is simply in the choice of which material to include. Over half of the book is devoted to stories from the life of Jesus, which seems appropriate, but it seems that a third of the pages devoted to the book of Revelations seems out of scale. What's left on the cutting room floor is Brendan's treatment of the epistles of Paul, which are some of my favorite of his work.
That said, I highly recommend you get this book. Both religious and non-religious readers will enjoy the presentation. LEGO builders will particularly enjoy and appreciate seeing how Brendan translated different scenes into brick form.
ComicBricks-specific content - There is none, except the fact that the basic formatting is that of a graphic novel. I suppose there might be some elements in there that were produced for the various LEGO hero themes, but nothing immediately jumps out at me.


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WORCESTER — A jury has found Julie A. Corey guilty of murdering Darlene Haynes in her Southgate Street apartment in 2009 and cutting the unborn baby from the pregnant victim's womb.
The jury of six men and six women convicted Ms. Corey of first-degree murder Wednesday afternoon under all three of the prosecution's theories of the crime: that the killing of 23-year-old Ms. Haynes was premeditated, that it was committed with extreme atrocity or cruelty, and that it occurred during the commission of a felony, aggravated kidnapping, that carries a life sentence.
Ms. Corey, 39, who wept when the verdict was announced shortly after 3:30 p.m. in a packed Worcester Superior Court courtroom, is facing a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment without parole. Judge Janet Kenton-Walker postponed sentencing until Feb. 18 and ordered that Ms. Corey remain in custody without bail until then.
The verdict came after about 9 1/2 hours of jury deliberations over two days.
The decomposed body of Ms. Haynes was found on July 27, 2009, in a bedroom closet in her second-floor apartment at 94 Southgate St. She was eight months pregnant at the time of her death, and the victim's fetus and reproductive organs were missing when her body was discovered by her landlord.
An autopsy determined that she died from multiple blunt head trauma with skull fractures, asphyxiation by an electrical cord found wrapped around her neck and a 9-inch incision in her abdomen.
Two days after the discovery of Ms. Haynes' body, Ms. Corey and her boyfriend, Alex J. Dion, showed up at a homeless shelter in Plymouth, N.H., with a newborn baby girl Ms. Corey said was her daughter. DNA testing later determined that Ms. Haynes was the child's biological mother and her former boyfriend, Roberto C. "Tito" Rodriguez, was the father.
Assistant District Attorney Daniel J. Bennett introduced evidence during the 10-day trial that Ms. Corey was the last person to be seen with Ms Haynes alive, having given her a ride to a package store on the night of July 23, 2009. Two bottles of malt beverage that were bought by Ms. Haynes were recovered by police in her apartment after the discovery of her body.
One of the bottles had Ms. Corey's fingerprint on it and the other her DNA on it.
Ms. Corey's lawyers, Louis P. Aloise, Michael C. Wilcox and Christine M. Martin, did not dispute that their client was found with Ms. Haynes's baby, but maintained she played no part in the killing. They asserted a so-called "third party culprit" defense suggesting that Mr. Rodriguez killed his ex-girlfriend and turned the baby over to Ms. Corey.
The defense team also faulted police for allegedly failing to follow up on leads they said could have led them to Ms. Haynes' killer or killers.
Mr. Rodriguez, who was charged with assaulting Ms. Haynes about a month before she was killed, denied any involvement in the slaying when questioned by police. He was never charged in connection with Ms. Haynes' death and now has custody of the 4-year-old girl.
Ms. Corey had been pregnant, but apparently had a stillbirth several weeks before Ms. Haynes was killed. Mr. Dion said Ms. Corey called him several times from late on the night of July 23, 2009, into the next morning, first telling him that her water had broken and she was on her way to a Framingham hospital and later saying she had given birth to a baby girl. She arrived home later that morning with a newborn Mr. Dion said he believed was his daughter.
"I feel comfortable that justice was done for Darlene," Ms. Haynes' uncle, Karl Whitney of Palmer, said of the verdict. At the same time, he said, he felt sorry for Ms. Corey's family.
" I just can't imagine going through something like that with one of my children," Mr. Whitney said.
Ms. Haynes' father, Fred Haynes, declined to comment on the verdict, as did Ms. Corey's brother, Earl Corey Jr.
District Attorney Joseph D. Early Jr. said at a press conference later in the day that the jurors returned "a fair, just and right verdict" in the case. He praised the prosecution team of Mr. Bennett and Assistant District Attorneys Terry J. McLaughlin and Elizabeth Brennan for their efforts.
"There wasn't any luck here. It was just hard work," the district attorney said.
He also lauded the work of the Worcester Police Department detectives who investigated the case.
"They did hard work, boots to the ground, good and great police work, to help us get this conviction," Mr. Early said.
"We are obviously disappointed with the verdict," Mr. Wilcox said.
He said the defense would ask that a lawyer from the state Committee for Public Counsel Services be appointed to identify any issues that might be raised on appeal.
"The reality of life without parole is just setting in," def lawyer Mike Wilcox said about Julie Corey's emotion after verdict.— Scott Croteau (@ScottCroteauTG) February 12, 2014


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DETROIT – Thursday morning will be mostly cloudy and cold with lows in the low 20s. Lingering flurries will fall before and after noon creating some slick spots. The afternoon will have the 5-minute Southeast Michigan is known for in Winter. There will be intervals of sun and snow, and highs will be just above 30 degrees.
Thursday night will be fair and colder with lows in the middle teens.
Friday will be a bit sunnier with highs in the middle 30s. Saturday will have increasing clouds and highs in the upper 30s. Another cold front arrives Saturday night with snow showers and an Arctic blast behind it.
Sunday will be colder with temps in the 20s. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Monday and Tuesday will be frigid with morning lows in the single digits and afternoon highs in the teens.
The Local 4Casters have your latest weather forecast at JustWeather.com and on Local 4 News.


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The Harold Martin race team is pumped and excited about the 2001 IHRA Pro Modified Series. The electronic fuel injection wizard says his team will not rest until winter testing demonstrates a proven chassis setup that will optimize his horsepower. The team will spend extensive time during the off-season developing new engine and chassis combinations in an effort to reach new levels of performance. "We have the horsepower to achieve this performance level. It is critical that we test and develop chassis setups for varying weather and track conditions to maintain consistency throughout the race season" states Harold Martin.
The new car will be sleek and more aerodynamic in design than its predecessor, the Firebird. It will literally be a research and development laboratory on wheels. The ACDelco red white and blue will be prominent in the all-new paint scheme designed for the Grand Am. "We are energized that ACDelco will be our primary sponsor once again for the 2001 race season. My 15-year relationship with ACDelco has grown from designing & development to include promotion and marketing. The synergistic dynamics of our partnership makes this possible," says Harold Martin.
Harold, formerly a General Motors development engineer, has embraced technology like few other racers. Martin is an ambassador of speed, pushing the envelope of technology to etch his name in the record books. His contributions to the automotive industry are so innovative and revolutionary that they have resulted in 10 world patents. Each of the patents yielded products that are sold worldwide. Harold's accomplishments continue to be noted in numerous magazines and by the media.
Martin's ongoing innovations in EFI have been the basis to challenge himself to achieve higher levels with his progressive ideas. His 697 cubic-inch ACDelco Pontiac Grand Am employs an electronic fuel injection system (EFI) designed by Martin himself. The Martin race engines and engine management systems have also become popular with many categories of racers including Pro Modified, Pro Stock, Super Eliminator, Top Sportsman, Pro Street, Super Street, Super Stock, and Stock. According to Harold, "We are proud of the growing interest in our engines and EFI systems, and the resulting world championships, records and victories achieved using these high technology systems." Additionally, Martin Motorsports is proud of Pro Street "World Champion" Dan Scott and Nostalgia Pro Street "World Champion" John Cervantes who compete with Martin Motorsports engines. Champions are built to win by Martin Motorsports.
The company has expanded to include engineering and development of engine programs for OEM companies to professional race teams. GM Performance Parts, a prominent customer of Martin Motorsports, released a new high technology EFI engine crate program, designed and developed in conjunction with Martin Motorsports. Additionally, the company has been assigned full Powertrain responsibility for the new Shelby Series One Luxury Sports car.
With Harold's expertise and enthusiasm and the continued support of ACDelco, the 2001 race season is expected to be both exciting and record breaking for the Harold Martin Race Team. The innovative style of the Martin Motorsports Team will set the stage this season for their future growth and expansion.
With a combination of experience, education, innovation and enthusiasm, Harold
Martin is destined to realize a prominent place in automotive and motorsports


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Saxony's Zittau Mountains Nature Park is a scenic gem in the border triangle of Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic. Here a cultivated landscape stretching back 1000 years has grown up alongside the meandering River Mandau.
The particular charm of this, Germany's smallest highland area, lies in its varied sandstone mountains, volcanic peaks and picturesque valleys, and the area's fantastical rock formations, such as the "Brooding Hen" (Brütende Henne) or the "Chalice Stone" (Kelchstein), fuel the imagination further. Exquisite plant life such as marsh marigolds, martagon lilies and carline thistles can also be found in the marshlands and alpine meadows, and visitors can even watch roe deer, badgers, eagle owls and peregrine falcons amongst the tranquil woodland and riverbank meadows from sunrise right through to sunset.
This restorative landscape is also intersected by hundreds of kilometres of award-winning hiking, cycling, ski and bridle paths and nature trails. Attractive destinations include the observation points at Mt. Lausche (793 metres high), Mt. Hochwald (749 metres high), Mt. Töpfer (582 metres high) and Mt. Breitenberg (510 metres high), as well as the Scharfenstein (Sharp Stone), the Großer Stone (Big Stone) or the Nonnenfelsen (Nun's Rock) for some awe-inspiring views. The visitor centre in the 600-year-old Niederkretscham building in the spa town of Waltersdorf offers an accessible exhibition, available in four languages, which tells visitors about the green space itself, its geology and the lives of the people who live there. The centre also provides recommendations for excursions to different attractions, such as the narrow-gauge railway, the Oybin monastery complex, the TRIXI Holiday Park and its high-ropes course and sculpture park, and for museum and theatre trips.
The folk architecture of the traditional rural houses or Umgebindehäuser, which date from the 17th and 19th centuries and define many of the region's towns, is unique in Europe.
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Happy May!
My boys get out of school at the end of the month and I'm blown away because that is just weeks away! Where does the time go? My boys are pretty excited to get started on their summer vacation but they are also a bit sad to have to say goodbye to their teachers. They both have such wonderful teachers and so I have come up with a sweet little gift that they can give to them on the last day of school.
(This post was previously shared on City Farmhouse)
I typed up a few sayings, printed them out and glued them to decorative paper. I will share the printables at the end of this post so that you can use them too.
I came up with the idea of using rulers as plant marker, which I thought was so appropriate for a teacher. I hot glued a clothespin to the ruler so that it could hold the card.
I bought the ceramic pots at the dollar store. They had lots of different colors to choose from but I thought these turquoise ones were pretty. I then went to a local nursery and found some great little lavender bushes that smell amazing!
After I planted the lavender in the pots, I slid my ruler plant marker into the dirt.
I think that my boy's teachers will really like them.
At the dollar store, I also picked up some simple thank you cards in the same color as the pots.
I thought my boys could write a special little message to their teacher on the card and then it could be placed behind the note on the clothespin.
My original plan was to plant the herb, thyme in the pots and have the card read, "Thank you for your thyme" but the plants I got from the nursery felt too small for the posts, so I ended up using the lavender instead. I'll just keep the thyme for myself. Get it? Thyme for myself. Ha Ha!
To use either of these printable, just right click on the message below and save to your computer. I printed mine to be 3.5 X 5.
Teachers do so much for our children and so I think it's important to say thank you to them and let them know they are appreciated for the time, love, and support they give to their students each school day. I know my boys will remember their teachers forever.
Thanks for stopping by,