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I know that some of my readers may not want to buy Burgers from Aliexpress or Chinese suppliers and would prefer to work with suppliers from the US, UK, Germany, Japan or other countries instead.
Or, some of my readers may want to sell authentic big brands, such as Nike, Adidas, iPhone, etc., and they are looking for licensed wholesale distributors.
Unfortunately, there are so many distributors selling counterfeit brands and posing themselves as offering original brands. On top of this deception, they are not even licensed! Do not fall into this trap.
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Practice session between Federer and Fish. A glimpse of Djokovic...2011 Rogers Cup in Montreal from last august!
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Did you shoot this Albert?
I see Gasquet hitting with Nole too. Very cool spot to be.
I have never seen Fed with a baseball cap on backwards! Who's he think he is? A young punk?
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bh wrote:Shakes wrote:Great interview with Malkin and Engblom.
"Why is the PP so good?"
(incredulous) "Well, because we have...Crosby...Iginla...Letang...Kuny..."
"And Malkin?"
"Yes. Malkin too. Yes."
that's hilarious
Engbloom can sometimes be an idiot. Case in point, his question to Duper on why he took the shot on the short handed goal. Duper just looked at him and basically said the Sens defender took away the passing lane, so he had to take a shot. It was like a "Everyone in the building except you knows why I shot" look. LOL


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Dancing With The Stars Kym Johnson And Dmitry Chaplin Light Up The Mohegan Sun
Last night, Kym Johnson and Dmitry Chaplin gave a free dance for some lucky fans at the Mohegan Sun. Gina Scarpa (pictured above with the two dancers) of Reality Wanted sat down with an exclusive interview with the two before they danced. She asks them what they've been doing in the off season and how they feel on becoming celebrities in their own right. She also ask them on their favorite styles to dance (I'm not surprised how they answered this, are you? 🙂 ). This and much more below and at the link.
Q. Gina, RealityWanted: What do you both do during the off season, when you're not on Dancing With The Stars?
A. Kym: At the moment, we've been doing a lot of shows around America. We just came from Florda, San Francisco, I'm going somewhere else tomorrow… we've been very busy. I'm hoping to enjoy some of the summer here in America and have some time off soon.
A. Dmitry: Everybody's teaching. We've been dancing. We're dancers. That's what we do best. I'm going to be choreographing for So You Think You Can Dance this summer. Louis [van Amstel] will be choreographing as well.
A. Kym: Yeah, we teach and we do shows. We're always keeping really busy.
Q. Gina, RealityWanted: You guys are becoming celebrities in your own right. Do people recognize you when you're out?
A. Kym: Yeah, especially when the season has just been on. The show is so popular and I think that this was the most watched season ever. It's incredible that we've been on for so many seasons…
A. Dmitry: Well, you have!
A. Kym: The fans just love the show. Some of the die hard fans have watched it since day one.
A. Dmitry: Oh yeah. Some of them record every episode and have like, a library of every season. They know exactly what happend five seasons ago.
Q. Gina, RealityWanted: What will you guys be doing tonight?
A. Kym: We're going to do three dances. We've danced together quite a bit.
Q. Gina, RealityWanted: Is there a style that you prefer to dance?
A. Kym: He likes more of the Latin stuff.
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My co-workers are decorating the cubicle aisle.
My elf, apparently, is explosive.
Another sub-20°F morning has come and gone. We had some light flurries yesterday but the roads remained clear. I'll be taking it easy (read: riding the bus a lot and going to bed early) for the rest of the week. I am excited and anxious about the upcoming 200k.
Some accomplished cyclists will probably get a chuckle about my concern over the 200k that starts in sub-freezing temperatures. Others will likely wonder why I'd even consider it. Regardless your stance, it will easily be the most difficult thing I've ever tried to do on a bicycle. While I wonder if I am prepared enough to actually complete it, I am not worried about the event itself. I'll be with a good friend who's done a lot of these, and my wonderful wife has told me she'll be on standby if I need rescuing.
That reminds me... I haven't taken The Twelve out since I wrenched on it. I need to ride it around a bit tonight and tomorrow just to make sure everything is in order.
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Thursday, December 04, 2008
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My co-workers are decorating the cubicle aisle.
6 comments:
- Apertome said...
Hey, I think it's awesome you're going for the 200k in the cold. Put me in the category that understands why you're doing it, and feels a bit jealous. I need to do something similar, soon.
- December 04, 2008 9:20 AM
- XAVI NOVELL said...
- December 04, 2008 12:09 PM
Good luck on the ride. Hope you can stay warm. I can manage on my 5-6 mile commutes but not sure about my feet on an extended ride.
- December 04, 2008 1:41 PM
- Unknown said...
Eat early and often and drink, drink, drink! Good luck and pack a dry base layer. 200k is a very good day.
- December 04, 2008 8:18 PM
- Jason said...
Have a great time! :) You guys will do fine.
- December 05, 2008 8:04 AM
Decorations look very festive. But man, that's some gawd-awful looking carpet. LOL
- December 05, 2008 8:16 AM
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Central Connecticut Hall of Famer and two sport standout Eugene Reilly passed away on Sunday, April 13, 2014. Reilly was inducted into the CCSU Alumni Athletics Hall of Fame in its inaugural year in 1979. He was an All-American men's basketball and baseball player for the Blue Devils who helped lead the nationally ranked men's basketball team during his tenure in New Britain, and was also signed to a contract with the San Francisco Giants. Reilly's accolades at CCSC (it was Central Connecticut State College at the time) were numerous and his impact on the Blue Devils has been lasting. He remains among the school's all-time leaders in points scored and was a team captain in 1965-66. He was awarded the Frederick M. Gladstone Award in 1966 as the top male student-athlete at CCSC.
"The CCSU family was saddened to hear of the recent passing of Gene Reilly," Director of Athletics Paul Schlickmann said. "Many alumni tell me he was one of the finest student-athletes to ever grace our fields in a Blue Devil uniform. Gene was part of an iconic Connecticut basketball family and certainly left an indelible mark as a high school coach, educator and mentor to countless young men throughout his remarkable career. We are proud to call him one of our own and all those close to him will miss him dearly. Our thoughts, prayers and best wishes are with his family at this difficult time."
EUGENE REILLY OBITUARY (also online HERE)
Eugene M. Reilly, 70, husband of Mary (Bourke) Reilly, of Charlestown RI, passed away on April 13, 2014 at RI Hospital. He was born in Hartford, son of the late Joseph and Lavina (Gaudet) Reilly and graduated from Bulkeley High School and Central Connecticut State College. Gene played basketball and baseball for CCSC and in 1966 led the nation in foul shooting and was an All-American for the nationally ranked Blue Devils.He was also an All-American in baseball and signed with the San Francisco Giants as a pitcher. After two years in the Giants organization, Gene was drafted into the US Army where he spent a tour of duty in Vietnam. Upon returning, he taught and coached basketball and baseball for 2 years South Catholic High School and 35 years at Portland High School. His teams won state championships in both basketball in 1982 and baseball in 1988. He was selected Coach of the Year in Middlesex County (1976 and 1995) and Connecticut High School Coaches Association Basketball Coach of the Year in 1998. He is a charter member of the Central Connecticut Hall of Fame and a member of the Twilight League Hall of Fame. Gene has received numerous awards including being selected to the Connecticut High School Coaches Association Hall of Fame, a Gold Key from the Connecticut Sportswriters Association and induction into the New England Hall of Fame. Gene was also a member of the BPOE Lodge # 771, Middletown, CT. Besides his wife, he is survived by his brothers Robert (Jane) Reilly and Donald Reilly; his sisters Beverly Strout, Joan (Lewis) Compson, and Mary Ellen (Roger) Fortier; his sisters-in- law Teresa (Joseph) Reilly, and Eleanor (Richard) Reilly. He was predeceased by his brothers John Reilly, Richard Reilly, and Joseph Reilly; sisters Elizabeth and her husband Russell Stocinis and Margaret Reilly; brother-in-law Clayton (Beverly) Strout. Friends may call April 15, 2014 from 4:00 to 7:00 at the Farley-Sullivan Funeral Home, 34 Beaver Rd. Wethersfield, CT 06109. A Mass of Christian Burial celebrating Gene's life will be held April 16, 2014 at 10:00 am in Corpus Christi Church, 601 Silas Deane Hwy, Wethersfield, CT 06109. All are asked to go directly to church. Burial will follow in Mount St. Benedict Cemetery, 1 Cottage Grove Rd., Bloomfield, CT 06002. There will also be a Mass for Gene in St. James Church, Charlestown RI at a later date. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to CCSU Athletics, 1615 Stanley St., New Britain, CT 06050. To extend online condolences, share a memory or to light a candle, please visit Farleysullivan.com.
The following was written by Bart Fisher several years ago for the Connecticut Sports Writers Alliance Gold Key Dinner:
By Bart Fisher- The Herald of New Britain
A lot of the guys with whom Gene Reilly served in the fabled 199th Light Infantry Brigade learned about courage and discipline in terrifying places 10,000 miles from home with names like Long Binh, Ben Wah and Xuan Loc.
Reilly took courage and discipline into combat with him.
While he doesn't talk much about his service in Vietnam or the medals he won, Reilly says quite seriously that the toughest disciplinarian he ever faced was not some hard-case drill sergeant or gung-ho platoon leader, but Lou Bazzano, his high school basketball coach at Bulkeley High in Hartford.
"With Mr. Bazzano, everything was about discipline and doing things a certain way," Reilly says. "Whether it was how you laced up your sneakers or the way you were expected to dress for an away game, you did it his way or you didn't do it all. He was a great coach!"
Bazzano was also a coach whose teams were noted for their fine free-throw shooting.
"Coach Bazzano used to tell us if you can make one, you should be able to make two; if you can make two, you can make three; if you hit that third one …," Reilly recalls. He took that message to heart. He still owns the CIAC record for consecutive free throws made (30) in tournament play.
At Central Connecticut State, where he played for Bill Detrick, Reilly led the nation in foul shooting for the nationally ranked 1966 Blue Devils and earned All-America honors.
Much of his coaching philosophy came from Detrick, who, he says, "always put his players in a position where they could succeed. That's what great coaching is all about."
Reilly also played baseball for Hank Majlinger at Central, well enough to earn all-America honors and be signed as a pitcher by the San Francisco Giants. He spent two years in the Giants' organization in such garden spots as Decatur, Ill., and Medford, Ore., before the U.S. Army sent "Greetings."
Gene came back from Vietnam older, wiser and still blessed with a sneaky quick fastball and a devastating curve. But the Double-A team in Amarillo, Texas, where he was assigned, had pretty much already been picked, and the Giants wanted him to go back to Class A, at least for a while. "I was 26. That's not an age where you want to start all over again," he says.
So Reilly started some-thing else: coaching.
He began his coaching career as an assistant to his older brother Joe at South Catholic in Hartford but quickly moved on to Portland High, where he has coached basketball for the past 34 seasons. With 518 victories, he currently ranks third among the state's active hoop coaches. His teams have won more than a dozen Charter Oak Conference titles and the 1982 state Class S crown.
For many years he served as Portland's director of athletics, retiring from that post in 2000. He also spent 14 successful seasons as the school's baseball coach, earning over 160 wins and a state championship in 1988. Detrick has called him "Central's best basketball player."
Bazzano says he's one of the smartest players he ever coached, and Majlinger, now deceased, never failed to mention Reilly in any list of favorite players. All three have Gold Keys, and joining them "is as humbling as it is fulfilling," Reilly says.
"Being in that company, being mentioned in the same sentence with all the past Gold Key winners including the coaches who helped shape my career, is something I will never forget."
Nor will he be forgotten. Many of his players have gone on to outstanding careers in law, medicine, business and dozens of other fields. It still is a thrill, he says, when they stop off at Portland High to share their success.
Reilly and his wife, Mary, share a life that began when they first dated in high school more than 40 years ago. Gene says he's mellowed some as a coach over the years, but the truth is he remains a constant in a sea of athletic change. He still wears the same crew cut, still holds the same values and still exhibits the same competitive spirit that led his coaches, his players and the men with whom he served in Vietnam to respect and admire him.


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Group Pushing Deficit Cuts Has Deep Business Ties
[From the New York Times]
By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE
When Jim McCrery, a former Louisiana congressman, urged lawmakers last month to pursue entitlement cuts and tax reform, he was introduced on television as a leader of Fix the Debt, a group of business executives and retired legislators who have become Washington's most visible and best-financed advocates for reining in the federal deficit.
Mr. McCrery did not mention his day job: a lobbyist with Capitol Counsel L.L.C. His clients have included the Alliance for Savings and Investment, a group of large companies pushing to maintain low tax rates on dividend income, and the Win America Campaign, a coalition of multinational corporations that lobbied for a one-time "repatriation holiday" allowing them to move offshore profits back home without paying taxes.
In Washington's running battles over taxes and spending, Mr. McCrery and his colleagues at Fix the Debt have lent a public-spirited, elder-statesman sheen to the cause of deficit reduction. Leading up to the fiscal negotiations, they set up grass-roots chapters around the country, met with President Obama and his aides, and hosted private breakfasts for lawmakers on Capitol Hill. In recent days, Fix the Debt has redoubled its efforts, starting a new national advertising campaign and calling on Mr. Obama and Congress to revise the tax code and reduce long-term spending on entitlement programs.
But in the weeks ahead, many of the campaign's members will be juggling their private interests with their public goals: they are also lobbyists, board members or executives for corporations that have worked aggressively to shape the contours of federal spending and taxes, including many of the tax breaks that would be at the heart of any broad overhaul. Indeed, while Fix the Debt criticized the recent fiscal deal between Mr. Obama and lawmakers, saying it did not do enough to cut spending or close tax loopholes, companies and industries linked to the organization emerged with significant victories on taxes and other policies.
"Some of these folks who are trying to be part of the solution have also been part of the problem," said Jared Bernstein, a senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a liberal-leaning advocacy group, and a former economic adviser to Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. "They've often fought hard against the kind of balance that we need on the revenue side. Many of the people we're talking about are associated with policies that would make it a lot harder to fix the debt."
Sam Nunn, a former Democratic senator from Georgia who is a member of Fix the Debt's steering committee, received more than $300,000 in compensation in 2011 as a board member of General Electric. The company is among the most aggressive in the country at minimizing its tax obligations. Mr. McCrery, the Louisiana Republican, is also among G.E.'s lobbyists, according to the most recent federal disclosures, monitoring federal budget negotiations for the company.
Other board members and steering committee members have deep ties to the financial industry, including private equity, whose executives have aggressively fought efforts to alter a tax provision, known as the carried interest exception, that significantly reduces their personal income taxes.
Erskine B. Bowles, a co-founder of Fix the Debt, was paid $345,000 in stock and cash in 2011 as a board member at Morgan Stanley, while Judd Gregg, a former Republican senator from New Hampshire and a co-chairman of Fix the Debt, is a paid adviser to Goldman Sachs. Both companies have engaged in lobbying on international tax rules.
Mr. Gregg also sits on the boards of Honeywell and IntercontinentalExchange, a company that has warned investors that a tax on financial transactions would lower trading volume and curtail its profits. The two companies paid Mr. Gregg almost $750,000 in cash and stock in 2011.
In all, close to half of the members of Fix the Debt's board and steering committee have ties to companies that have engaged in lobbying on taxes and spending, often to preserve tax breaks and other special treatment.
Business Leaders Urge Deficit Deal Even With More Taxes (October 26, 2012)
A Campaign on U.S. Debt Gains Steam (December 24, 2012)
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Fix the Debt does not endorse specific tax proposals. Instead, it advocates broad principles for debt reduction, including "comprehensive and pro-growth tax reform, which broadens the base, lowers rates, raises revenues and reduces the deficit." A spokesman, Jon Romano, said that the executives involved with the campaign were committed to tax reform, even if it closed loopholes that benefited their companies.
"All the people involved in this campaign have said from the beginning that everything has to be on the table," Mr. Romano said. "Our C.E.O.'s, our state chapters, our small-business leaders — they are all willing to give something up for the sake of the country."
Those involved with the campaign say they have tried to separate their advocacy for Fix the Debt and their private work for clients. Vic Fazio, a former Democratic congressman from California who is on the campaign's steering committee, is a lobbyist at Akin Gump, a Washington firm whose clients include KKR, a leading private equity shop, and the Private Equity Growth Capital Council, an industry trade group.
Mr. Fazio said that he and other people involved with the campaign had tried to set aside their parochial interests and had assumed that any grand bargain between Mr. Obama and Congress would include some elements they did not like.
"The people who have signed up to work with Fix the Debt are people with lots of tax preferences that are important to their business model," Mr. Fazio said. "But they go along with it because they think there is an overriding benefit to their companies and to the country."
But so far, at least, the companies and industries most closely linked to Fix the Debt have been aggressive in defending their narrower legislative interests.
The fiscal deal preserved the carried interest loophole, eliminated most of a large prospective increase in dividends taxes and preserved a tax break, known as the active financing exception, that allows G.E. and other multinational companies to avoid paying United States taxes on overseas profits.
The deal also forestalled large automatic cuts in military spending, a boon to contractors like Honeywell. The company's chief executive, David M. Cote, is a co-founder of Fix the Debt; the group's "core principles," which call for retrenchment in entitlement programs like Social Security, make no mention of military spending, which constitutes about a fifth of the federal budget.
"It's easier to get face time in Washington as a deficit hawk than as a corporate hack," said Kevin Connor, the director of the Public Accountability Initiative, a watchdog group. "They are spending millions, but they are protecting billions in defense contracts and tax giveaways that would otherwise be on the chopping block."
Yet after an election in which many industries, including Wall Street, bet heavily against Mr. Obama, Fix the Debt has also had more credibility among Democrats than some traditional business groups like the United States Chamber of Commerce. The chamber, by far the largest business advocacy group in Washington, staunchly opposed proposals to raise taxes before the fiscal deal.
At a news conference in New York on Tuesday, Mr. Bowles suggested that Fix the Debt was just getting started.
"I'm not a quitter," he said at the event, which was sponsored by Nasdaq, the country's second-largest stock exchange. "We're going to stay until we get the job done."


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A easy recipe kids love are Quesadilla. "Queso" is cheese in Spanish. And a quesadilla is a toasted tortilla with melted cheese inside. Not only is this a meal the whole family can enjoy, it also easy on the family grocery budget.
Heat a large cast iron frying pan to medium high heat.
Add a small amount of oil (about 1/2 teaspoon) or butter and spread it around the bottom of the pan with a spatula .
Place one large flour tortilla in the pan. Flip the tortilla over a few times, 10 seconds between flips. Pockets of Air should begin to form within the tortilla.
Add a handful of grated cheese, sprinkle over the top of the tortilla, making sure that the cheese does not land on the pan itself.
Add whatever additional ingredients you choose – grilled diced chicken, onion, sliced mushrooms, olives, tomatoes, etc. Do not layer on the ingredients to thickly, this is a quesadilla, not a quiche.
Reduce the heat to low and cover he cast iron pan, to melt the cheese and brown the tortilla.
After a minute, check to see if the cheese is melted. If not, return the cover until the cheese is melted.
When the cheese is melted, use a spatula to lift up one side of the quesadilla and flip over the other side. The tortilla should by now be browned slightly. If not flip every 10 seconds until it gets browned. Remove from pan and cut into wedges.
Quesadilla are delicious served with thinly slice some iceberg lettuce, sour cream, salsa and guacamole.
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Exploring and reporting on the use of online tools and virtual worlds for those working in engineering-related fields.
The Frontier Project - A Showcase of Sustainability
The Frontier Project (http://www.frontierproject.com), a demonstration project showcasing sustainability, held a grand opening at its Rancho Cucamonga facility last November. In April of this year, the facility once again hosted a grand opening. However, this time, the event was held at their virtual facility in Second Life―a 3D replica of the actual building and site. According to the project website, both builds have been created to show "how sustainable design is economical, efficient, and inviting." The project goal is to "educate resident consumers, commercial builders, and sustainable advocates regarding the latest methods and technologies in water, energy, and site conservation."
The main focus of the project is a uniquely designed, 14,000 square foot building with a LEED Platinum rating. Its glass, exterior walls wrap around a landscaped entrance to create the feeling of an interior courtyard. As visitors enter, they are welcomed into a demonstration gallery. The virtual gallery has a control panel allowing users to either set up chairs for a presentation or set up a display of artwork. A kitchen, living room, bathrooms, offices and conference rooms showcase different technologies designed to promote sustainability.
Virtual Lessons Apply to Offline Designs
Jon Brouchoud, aka Keystone Bouchard in Second Life, is an accomplished designer of virtual environments. Fortunately for others working in this medium, he recently built a space in Second Life showcasing fundamental design concepts called Virtual Architecture 101. The site itself also serves an example of a creative, well thought out use of space incorporating elements from the design field.
But the lessons offered in the Virtual Architecture 101 area are relevant for designers regardless of whether they create digital buildings or brick and mortar structures. Jon starts out the instruction with representations of fundamental design elements such as points, lines, color, texture, etc. Each display has a short explanation of the element with a related 3D example. The next areas describe the design process and design strategy. Throughout the space, Jon offers examples of design concepts and ideas.
Some who have not yet set foot in a digital space, might wonder why not study this information through a more traditional method. But the ability to actually walk into a space and feel and see the concept presented helps to make the learning more interactive and memorable. You can tell someone that elevating a floor impacts a feeling of space and increases prominence of an area, but you won't actually feel it unless you can actually walk onto a platform. This is what the virtual space offers - the ability to offer that experience during the learning process.
Internal Revenue Service in Second Life
The IRS Careers Island in Second Life offers the following attractions located on a platform in the sky:
- Career Center in the northwest corner of the sim offering information about how to register and apply for a job
- Seasonal Job Center
- Conference Center
- Tax Forms Center with links to many forms and publications
- Tax Information Center with links about where and how to file, FAQs, and other tax-related facts
- Club Possibilities—this area hosts a space for dancing; trivia competitions are held on Tuesday nights
- Veteran's Memorial
- Drive-In Theater with cars
- Photo Spot
- A race track lies below the main platform. Visitors can pick up a car and drive it around
- Sandbox for practicing building
- Freebie zone
- Playground
There is also an IRS Careers Group and gifts are located throughout the sim for group members.
Energy Island in Second Life
Earlier this spring, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) opened up Energy—a virtual site in Second Life located just east of the Meteora sim—another government-owned island managed by NOAA. Visitors to the Energy sim start at the DOE Career Center, a large building perched on a hill in the center of the island. Energy Ant, a digital bot located at the front desk of the center, is available to greet anyone interested in chatting. Books and displays throughout the center offer information about working for the DOE. A treasure hunt is available on the center's patio on the ground floor.
On the second floor of the center, there is meeting space and a boarding area for the island's monorail. The monorail ride provides narration about the island and points out energy-related displays positioned along the track. These exhibits showcase tidal generators, a geothermal power plant, heliostat array, and wind turbines.
People interested in touring the particle accelerator, a large structure that encircles the island, can enter from the second floor of the career center. Here, avatars can rez a cart on which to ride through the accelerator and learn more about its purpose and operation.
Participatory Chinatown
Emerson College and the city of Boston broke new ground in 2007 when Eric Gordon, professor of new media at Emerson, launched Hub2 with the help of Nigel Jacob, technology advisor to the mayor. This initiative focused on using immersive technologies like Second Life
Baden-Wuerttemberg in Second Life
According to the website for the MFG Baden Wuerttemberg, the agency launched a virtual build in March 2007 in Second Life. The agency, known as the Public Innovation Agency for Information Technology and Media in Baden Wuerttemberg, eventually expanded their efforts to include another sim. "Our aim is to give young, creative brains from Baden-Wuerttemberg a chance to test new forms of communication and cooperation on the 3D Internet at an early stage in partnership with us", explains Klaus Haasis, managing director of MFG Baden-Wuerttemberg.
Birmingham in Second Life
According to the sign at the entry point to this Second Life build, "Birmingham Island has been developed to explore the possibilities for the city of Birmingham, UK, within virtual worlds." Upon arrival, visitors have the choice to visit the following areas:
b-scape: this display allows visitors to access a variety of maps from the Birmingham area. Some are enhanced using Second Life 3D objects and Flickr photo feeds.
The Planning Portal
The Planning Portal is an online planning and building resource established by the UK gove
Prince Edward County
The Prince Edward County sim is located on the grid just south of the Loyalist College island. The site was designed to highlight recreational activities and attractions from the county such as a crystal palace, art trail, sandbanks, taste trail, wine trail, and graveyard.


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As a follow up to winning the audience award for best project idea at the Power of One Conference held in Nicosia, Cyprus in October 2012, the Media Buffer Zone Project team was invited to present and workshop their innovative project at the "POINT2013 – Political Accountability and New Technologies Conference" held in Sarajevo 23-26 May 2013.
Now you may be asking yourself what does this prestigious "unconference" featuring many fascinating speakers such as UZROK from Serbia, Milica Begović of UNDP-Montenegro, "The Facebook Girl of Egypt", Esraa Abdel Fattah and the famed Amira Yahyaoui of Al Bawsala from Tunisia have to do with a group of committed activists from the MENA region, Cyprus and Central Europe who want to provide media skills trainings to NGOs and develop an Internet platform linking media talent to civil society have to do with this group of incredible entrepreneurs? Well, more than you'd think!
It seems our unique idea formulated during long days and coffee-fueled brainstorming sessions, but whose birth was really a product of the group's years of passion and experience working for their respective communities, is something that many innovative people relate to and are inspired by. So, it was a natural fit in this turbo-charged and "change the world for the better" atmosphere.
The crowd response to our informative workshop session included people from Egypt, Libya and across Europe and was overwhelming positive. We all wish we could have started the trainings on the spot! However, we agreed to settle for stimulating idea creation, exchanging the needs of various communities in a more in-depth fashion and creating a space for a better understanding amongst the regions.
In-between the conference sessions members of the Media Buffer Zone Project team gathered in hotel lobbies, coffee shops and Labor Union halls (yes really, we met at the headquarters of the "Confederation of Independent Trade Unions of Bosnia and Herzegovina", thanks labour leaders!) to discuss how best to implement the project to satisfy the needs of all.
The first order of business we thought of was to gauge the pulse of the people by conducting an in-depth needs analysis of what NGOs from our regions really need. So naturally we turned to our trusted partners from Palestine, Near East Consulting, who have years of experience in just this type of data mining. Next we thought to design the trainings from the actual research and turn that info into training materials civil society can use in their efforts to build their capacity in media skills.
Then we planned to use these tools to train "trainers" in media skills to multiply across the regions with media skills trainings in both Cyprus and Egypt to better equip our target audiences from the vast experience of both media partners CCMC and Qabila. From there we decided to develop a web-based platform which will link interested media professionals to active NGOS in the region to better serve the needs of the people these organizations serve. Whew! From an idea to being productive is an exciting and challenging proposition.
In order to make this all work we realized we need the vast networks of our partners Universal Patient's Rights Organisation (Cyprus) and Zašto ne? (Bosnia and Herzegovina) to activate their networks to communicate, inform, and motivate the participants. Only in times of true inspiration due the stars align and such partnerships are formed!
So, here we go on our journey from a loose confederation of NGOS scattered throughout the Middle-East, Mediterranean and Central Europe to a tight-knit group of dedicated civil society leaders working for an innovative inter-regional knowledge exchange to strengthen the role of citizens and civil society in stimulating positive social change. Follow our adventures on twitter at @MediaBufferZone.


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Danny Care believes Chris Ashton has propelled himself back into England contention after plundering the tries that have placed Saracens on the brink of a first Heineken Cup crown.
Ashton has crossed 11 times on the European stage this season following his double in Saturday's stunning 46-6 semi-final destruction of Clermont.
The 27-year-old lost his England place during the recent RBS 6 Nations, but would have been relieved of Test duties sooner had Christian Wade and Marland Yarde not been struck by injury in the autumn.
Having finally lost patience with a player who made a blistering start to his international career, England's management instead opted for Jonny May and Jack Nowell in the Six Nations.
But Ashton is almost certain to be recalled for the summer tour to New Zealand and could profit from the knee problem that has ruled Nowell out of the trip.
Care is excited by the rugby league convert's form and added his voice to the chorus calling for his return in an England jersey.
"Chris was disappointed after missing out on the Six Nations and he's since shown what a wonderful player and finisher he is," said Care on behalf of O2 Touch, a nationwide touch rugby programme run by England Rugby in partnership with O2.
"Scoring 11 tries in the Heineken Cup this year is not a bad effort and he is pushing to get back in the England team.
"I've played with Chris a fair few times and I know he's a massively competitive lad who wants to play for England as many times as he can.
"He dealt with the criticism he took really well. It's never easy to be turning up for England training and then going home every Tuesday.
"But he did it graciously, he did it with a smile on his face and helped out the other lads who were selected. He was the first one to congratulate Jonny and Jack.
"He's a true professional who did what you have to when you're not selected, which is to go away and try and prove people wrong.
"We have some brilliant wingers, but Chris is right up there at the moment.
"Saracens as a whole were outstanding. I thought before the match they'd win, but not by that scoreline. It was an unbelievable win."
England will be missing their Aviva Premiership finalists for the first Test in Auckland on June 7 due to the Twickenham showpiece taking place a week earlier.
Head coach Stuart Lancaster has already worked out the various permutations with a Saracens and Northampton final appearing the most likely outcome.
Care looks set to be involved against the All Blacks at Eden Park alongside Harlequins team-mates Chris Robshaw, Mike Brown and Joe Marler, but the scrum-half has not given up hope that his club will reach the play-offs.
"We just have to dream that we can do it. It's out of our hands, but we'll know by Sunday when we get to our game against Exeter what's happening," he said.
"We might beat Exeter and beat Bath, but still not make the play-offs. We won't die wondering, we'll give it our best shot.
"You want to play in the semis and the final, so we'll win as many games as we can.
"And if we don't make it then I'll be available for that first Test, so it's win-win.
"We'll be missing our Premiership finalists, but it won't just be that first Test that's difficult, the second and third will be tough as well."
* Danny Care was speaking during an O2 Touch session at Old Alleynian RFC in London. To find your nearest session visit www.rfu.com/O2touch


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November 21, 2014
'Tis the season to be grateful
Posted in Events by Marilou Ubungen
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Windermere Foundation Quarterly Report
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BOSTON, April 30 (UPI) -- Republican Gabriel Gomez and Democrat Edward Markey will vie for the seat of former U.S. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., after both won primaries Tuesday.
Gomez, 47, a businessman and former Navy SEAL, had 50.7 percent of the vote with 93 percent of precincts reporting, Politico reported. His closest rival for the GOP nomination was Michael Sullivan, who received 36 percent.
Markey, a U.S. congressman from Massachusetts' 5th Congressional District, took 57.5 percent of the vote, while Steven Lynch, who represents the state's 8th District in the U.S. Congress, received 42.5 percent.
"The Senate is the nerve center of dysfunctional Washington and we need to get it working again," National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman Jerry Moran of Kansas said in a statement. "Gabriel Gomez is just the sort of next generation leader we need to help turn it around. Gabriel Gomez is the kind of results-oriented leader who will bring a never say die attitude and spirit of service to the Senate on behalf of the Bay State."
"Gabriel Gomez is a pro-life Republican who was the spokesman for a super PAC that attacked President Obama over the killing of Osama bin Laden," Markey campaign spokesman Andrew Zucker said in a statement. "He opposes an assault weapons ban, supports devastating cuts to Social Security, and while he's running as a 'businessman,' he refuses to discuss the 16 years he spent in private equity."
The primary contests received little attention as the state was consumed with the response to the April 15 Boston Marathon bombings that killed three people and injured more than 260 others.
Markey is heavily favored to win the June 25 special general election in the blue state, though Republican Scott Brown in 2010 won the seat vacated by Democratic icon the late Sen. Edward Kennedy.


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If you ask a gay person to identify the moment they first realized that they were gay, they will often say something like: "On some level
I've always known." I feel the same way about my lack of religious
belief. I have known that I did not believe in God since I was very
young. I just had no idea that there was such a thing as people who
don't believe in God.
I was baptized at St. Margaret Mary Alacoque Catholic church in Lomita, California in January of 1978. I was dragged reluctantly to
church every Sunday with my mother until I left for college. I am guilty
of starting more than a few arguments over the years with her when I
would question the existence of God. But since it's hard to make an
atheist argument credible when you're in the 4th grade, I never really
got anywhere with her. I think she assumed that atheism was some phase
that I was going through and that I would eventually come out on the
other side as a believer. No such luck.
Ironically, I attended a Jesuit college where I received an excellent education and never seemed to be bothered by the fact that I was
surrounded by Catholics. I even sang in the church choir, not because I
liked church, but because it was the only place where they would let anyone
sing. I was studying classical singing at the time and needed to
practice performing before an audience. After college, I explored
paganism a bit until I realized that adopting another religion was just
exchanging one set of fairy tales and parables for another. So I let it
all go and admitted to myself that I did not believe in God. However, it
took me until I was about 27 before I started admitting it to anyone
I am now 32 years old and after the latest round of news about the Catholic sex abuse scandals I decided that I am done with this church. I
am so ashamed that my name still appears in their baptism records; that
they can officially count me as a member. In order to avoid being in
any way associated with them, I decided to take action. I discovered a
section of the Catholic Canon Law that allows for formal defection from
the Catholic church. All you have to do is write a letter listing your
reasons for leaving, state that you are of sound mind and have not been
coerced into defection, have a witness sign it and submit it to the
bishop of the archdiocese where you were baptized. You then receive a
response telling you that they have put a notation in the records that
you have defected and you will no longer be officially considered a
Catholic. Simple, right?
Enter his haughtiness, Pope Benedict XVI–or "Ratzass", as my husband calls him. In December of 2009 the Pope issued a decree that
revised the Code of Canon Law and eliminated the provision that allowed
for defection. This was explained in a letter sent to me in
response to my defection letter dated June 1, 2010 and signed by Rev.
Thomas C. Anslow, Vicar for Canonical Services for the Archdiocese of
Los Angeles.
So what do I do now? How do I fight back? Is it now impossible to officially and completely disassociate myself with an institution that
has "conspired to commit countless felonies, engaged in astonishing
displays of bigotry, and disregarded the dignity and welfare of its
parishioners more times then can be counted"? (This is the language I
used in my letter of defection).
These are precisely the questions that I will try to answer. I will not quit until I have officially "escaped" from the Catholic church.
Welcome to what I am sure will be an interesting and possibly wild ride.
If you are a baptized Catholic who shares my feelings about the church,
I hope you will join me in my great escape. But I welcome anyone and
everyone who wants to be a witness to this journey: Atheists, Agnostics,
Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Muslims, Pagans, Buddhists…
Memo to Vatican City: It's on.
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You Shall Receive Power Till Jesus Comes
So when they met together, they asked him, "Lord, are
you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?" He said
to them: "It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father
has set by his own authority. But you will receive power when the
Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in
Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the
earth." After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes,
and a cloud hid him from their sight. They were looking intently up
into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in
white stood beside them. "Men of Galilee," they said, "why do you
stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been
taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have
seen him go into heaven." Then they returned to Jerusalem from the
hill called the Mount of Olives, a Sabbath day's walk from the
city. When they arrived, they went upstairs to the room where they
were staying. Those present were Peter, John, James and Andrew;
James the son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot, and Judas son of
James. They all joined together constantly in prayer, along with
the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and his
In volume one of Luke's two-volume work, the Gospel According to Luke, he told the story of all that Jesus began to do and to teach. Now in volume two, the Acts of the Apostles, Luke is going to tell the story of what the risen, living, reigning Christ continues to do and teach through his Spirit and his witnesses.
To prepare the apostles to be his instruments he does four things:
- he gives them a Spirit authenticated commandment (v. 2);
- he verifies his resurrection from the dead by appearing to them for 40 days (v. 3);
- he teaches them about the kingdom of God (v. 3); and
- he promises to baptize them with the Holy Spirit (vv. 4–5).
The Disciples Ask a Reasonable Question
Now when the apostles hear the promise of the baptism with the Holy Spirit, they ask in verse 6, "Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?" In other words they knew that the Old Testament promise of the outpouring of God's Spirit was a promise for the last days when God would establish his kingdom on the earth and restore his people. For example, in Ezekiel 39 God says, "I will restore the fortunes of Jacob, and have mercy on the whole house of Israel . . . I will not hide my face any more from them, when I pour out my Spirit upon the house of Israel, says the Lord God" (vv. 25, 29). So when Jesus says that the long awaited outpouring of the Spirit—the baptism with the Holy Spirit—is just a few days away, they would naturally ask for a clarification: "Do you mean the end is that close? The final kingdom is about to be established in just a matter of weeks or months?"
This was not a foolish question, even though verse 3 says that Jesus had been with them for 40 days talking about the kingdom of God. Because, you remember, back in Luke 22:29–30, at the Last Supper Jesus had said, "As my Father assigned a kingdom to me, so I assign to you, that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel." In other words Jesus had told them that the kingdom would be restored to Israel—they themselves would sit on thrones as rulers along with the Son of Man over a renewed and believing Israel. And they knew from the Old Testament (Ezekiel 39:29; Isaiah 32:15; 44:3–5; Joel 2:28ff.; Zechariah 12:10) that this restoration was going to be the result of a great outpouring of God's Spirit. So it is not a foolish question to ask, "Do you mean the restoration is in this time—in our lifetime, or even in the next few months?"
Jesus' Response
Since it is not a foolish question, Jesus does not rebuke them. He does not correct their theology of restoration (which we will see more of in Acts 3:21). He corrects their assumption that they can deduce the timing of it. He says in verse 7, "It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has fixed by his own authority." In other words, don't assume that the long-awaited outpouring of the Spirit will immediately bring in the kingdom and restore the fortunes of Israel. God has appointed the times and the seasons for all things, and they are kept in the secret of his own wisdom. Such things are not for us to know. They would not be good for us to know—anymore than knowing the time of our own death would be good for us. They would be harmful, in fact.
But then Jesus goes on to tell them what the baptism with the Spirit will mean for them. It does not mean immediate restoration of Israel; it does not mean the immediate, full establishment of the kingdom. BUT—notice this strong word at the beginning of verse 8—BUT, here's what it does mean. "You shall receive power"—in other words, even though I may seem to have popped your balloon in saying it doesn't mean the end is tomorrow, even though you may think I have taken the wind out of your sails, hear me! Hear me! Though the baptism with the Spirit doesn't mean that, YET . . . BUT . . . it does mean this: "You shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria and to the end of the earth." Jesus doesn't want to minimize the wonder of what he is promising them. It is not tomorrow BUT it is power—to the end of the earth!
Four Parallels Between Acts 1 and Luke 24
Notice four things here. I want you to see them in Luke 24 as well, so that we can sense how utterly crucial they are for Luke as he tells this story.
- First, there is the goal of beginning at Jerusalem and reaching the end of the earth with the witness of Jesus.
- Second, there is the witness itself, the testimony to the truth of Christ.
- Third, there is the Holy Spirit that comes upon the disciples.
- And fourth, there is the power—power to be witnesses.
Luke 24
Now turn with me to Luke 24:47–49. You realize, don't you, that volume one and volume two overlap by 40 days? So Luke tells us about the last words and the Ascension of Jesus twice—at the end of the gospel and at the beginning of Acts. You can see this now as you compare Luke 24:47–49 to Acts 1:8. Picking up the words of Jesus in verse 47 he is telling the apostles that
. . . repentance and forgiveness of sins should be preached in
his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. You are
witnesses of these things. And behold, I send the promise of my
Father upon you; but stay in the city, until you are clothed with
power from on high.
Now let's point out the four things we saw in Acts 1:8.
- First, we see the goal to begin at Jerusalem and reach the end of the earth in verse 47: "forgiveness of sins is to be to be preached in his name to all the nations [i.e., to the end of the earth] beginning from Jerusalem."
- Second, the apostles are called witnesses in verse 48: "You are witnesses of these things."
- Third, the Holy Spirit is promised in the words "the promise of my Father" in verse 49—these are the words in Acts 1:4 that refer to the coming baptism with the Holy Spirit.
- Finally, there is explicit reference in verse 49 to the power needed for this mission: "stay in the city, until you are clothed with power from on high."
Then in both Luke 24 and Acts 1 the very next thing that happened was the Ascension of Jesus: he was taken up from them and a cloud received him out of their sight. Acts tells us that two men in white robes—in other words, two angels in the form of men—said (in verse 11),
Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This
Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same
way as you saw him go into heaven. (See Luke 21:27.)
So the last words that Jesus said in Luke 24 and in Acts 1 are clearly meant to be words to guide his disciples in the time between his Ascension and his return. So let's go back now and ponder these things again. And then in conclusion we will look ahead to verse 14 to see how the disciples prepared to receive the power of God.
Is the Power Promised Then Available Now?
One crucial question we need to ask is whether the power promised in Acts 1:8 and Luke 24:49 was only for the first generation of Christians or whether it is something we should seek from Jesus today?
More Than Ordinary Christian Living
Before I answer that, let me emphasize that this power, this experience of the "coming upon" or "being clothed" by the Holy Spirit was something beyond ordinary, happy Christian living. In the Old Testament "being clothed" with the Spirit referred to extraordinary times of empowerment and prophecy as in the lives of Gideon and Amasai and Zechariah (Judges 6:34; 1 Chronicles 12:18; 2 Chronicles 24:20). But it is most obvious from what happened on the day of Pentecost—wind and sound and tongues of fire and miraculous languages and prophecy and exuberant praise and 3,000 conversions.
An Illustration from Lloyd-Jones
Let me use an illustration from Martin Lloyd-Jones in his book Joy Unspeakable to describe the difference between common Christian living and what happens when the Holy Spirit "clothes" a person with power or "comes upon" a person with this unusual power.
He says it is like a child walking along holding his father's hand. All is well. The child is happy. He feels secure. His father loves him. He believes that his father loves him but there is no unusual urge to talk about this or sing about it. It is true and it is pleasant.
Then suddenly the father startles the child by reaching down and sweeping him up into his arms and hugging him tightly and kissing him on the neck and whispering, "I love you so much!" And then holding the stunned child back so that he can look into his face and saying with all his heart, "I am so glad you are mine." Then hugging him once more with unspeakable warmth and affection. Then he puts the child down and they continue their walk.
This, Lloyd-Jones says, is what happens when a person is baptized with the Holy Spirit. A pleasant and happy walk with God is swept up into an unspeakable new level of joy and love and assurance and reality that leaves the Christian so utterly certain of the immediate reality of Jesus that he is overflowing in praise and more free and bold in witness than he ever imagined he could be.
The child is simply stunned. He doesn't know whether to cry or shout or fall down or run, he is so happy. The fuses of love are so overloaded they almost blow out. The subconscious doubts—that he wasn't thinking about at the time, but that pop up every now and then—are gone! And in their place is utter and indestructible assurance, so that you know that you know that you know that God is real and that Jesus lives and that you are loved, and that to be saved is the greatest thing in the world. And as you walk on down the street you can scarcely contain yourself, and you want to cry out, "My father loves me! My father loves me! O, what a great father I have! What a father! What a father!"
What Happened at Pentecost
I think this is basically what happened at Pentecost. And has happened again and again in the life of the church. They were so filled with the fullness of God—they were overwhelmed with the length and breadth and height and depth of the love of Christ—that they began (as Acts 2:11 says) to speak "the greatnesses of God." Their mind was full of a fresh, new, breathtaking vision of God and their mouth overflowed with prophetic praise—sons and daughters, old and young, slave and free.
I believe that this kind of experience is what Jesus meant by the "witnessing" in Acts 1:8 that will be able to extend the gospel to the end of the earth. "You will receive this power . . . and you will be my witnesses." You will no longer be merely advocates who can prove like a good lawyer that Jesus rose from the dead. But under the influence of this power—this experience of the Spirit of the risen Christ—you will speak with the unwavering assurance of one who has tasted and knows the reality so immediately that all doubt is gone. You move from being an advocate of Christianity to being a witness of the living Christ. You move from simply deducing Christian truths from valid premises to proclaiming them boldly as experienced realities. This is the power and the witness that will take Christ to the end of the earth.
The Promise Is for Us Too
So I ask in closing, is it for us or just for the first generation that Jesus was talking to? And my answer is that it is for us. And the one argument I will give is simply this. The promise of this extraordinary power—this extraordinary experience of the fullness of God—is given, Jesus says, to enable his witnesses to take the gospel to the end of the earth (Acts 1:8), or, as Luke 24:47 says, to all the nations. But we have not completed that assignment yet. Therefore I do not think he has withdrawn the promise yet either. If the promise was given to empower the church to complete the Great Commission, then the promise is valid till the Great Commission is complete, and the witness to Christ has been planted among all the unreached people groups of the world.
Therefore, I conclude that the power promised here—the extraordinary experience of being "clothed with power"—is for us. And if we love the glory of God, and if we long for his kingdom to advance, and if we have compassion on the lost and hurting people of the world, we will increasingly want this power and we will seek this power. Which means very simply that we will cry out for it like the woman in the parable who wanted the judge to vindicate her cause (Luke 18:1–8). This is what Acts 1:14 says that the disciples did until Pentecost came: "they devoted themselves to prayer." So should we.
What If You Have Not Had Such an Experience?
That leaves one last question. Are you leading a valid, worthwhile Christian life and ministry if you have not had this experience but are seeking to honor the Lord daily in your life? The answer is yes. Let's call that solid steady-state Christianity. It is faithful, honest, obedient, loving, persevering service to Christ and his kingdom. Remember the child walking with his father.
I do not want us to minimize the blessings God has brought to us in our steady-state life together. They have been many and wonderful. But I ask you, can you not imagine what it might be like if our Father swept us up into his arms? It is not either-or. It is both-and. In the history of the church the steady-state, obedient, faithful, persevering years of life have preserved and nurtured the fruit of the times of extraordinary power. And, to put it the other way around, the times of steady-state, faithful, obedient life have prepared the soil, and extraordinary outpourings of God's Spirit have taken the work of the kingdom forward in a quantum leap, accomplishing overnight, as it were, what people have been laboring years to see.
It is not either-or. It is both-and. I pray that the Lord will give us a double grace: the grace to walk joyfully and obediently in the wonderful mercy of steady-state Christianity, holding our Father's hand; but also the grace to yearn and pray more and more that we might be clothed with power from on high and swept up into our Father's arms, that all the world might know that God is real.


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Tunisia's deposed President Zine Al Abidine Ben Ali seemingly provided the Arab world a textbook in what not to do to avoid being ousted.
Yet instead of avoiding Mr. Ben Ali's missteps, observers say, Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak appears to be taking pages from his playbook.
"I don't think Mubarak learned anything from the Tunisian case," says Mustapha Kamel El Sayyid, political science professor at the American University in Cairo.
In both countries, uncontrollable protests only worsened when police tried to forcefully restrain them; police pulled back and an ensuing security vacuum prompted neighborhood residents to patrol their streets to protect their property; and people gave a joyous welcome to the Army when it stepped in to secure streets.
The similarities in the responses may not bode well for the Egyptian leader, or for the United States. While Tunisia's revolution was a wakeup call to the Arab world and the West, the toppling of Mubarak, America's most stalwart ally in the Middle East and leader of the most populous Arab country, would have far wider consequences for the region.
Similar roots of unrest, anger at police
The revolution in Tunisia was sparked by widespread anger not only over rising unemployment and increasingly difficult living circumstances, but the ruling family's flagrant corruption and the government's crushing repression. In Egypt, protesters as well have combined economic grievances with a stronger call for freedom and an end to the 30-year-rule of their autocrat.
The Egyptian protests are moving somewhat faster than in Tunisia, perhaps thanks to the example of the nation whose population is a little over half the size of Egypt's capital, Cairo. While in Tunisia the demonstrations began as a protest against the government and did not, until the end, coalesce into clear calls for Ben Ali to leave, signs saying "Down with Mubarak" and "Mubarak out" have been a fixture at Egyptian demonstrations since the first one on Jan. 25.
As the demonstrations got bigger, police in both nations used force to try to put them down, in what Sayyid says was a key factor in pushing demonstrators over the edge.
Protesters fought police, welcomed Army
Tunisia's Army did not step in to restore order on the streets until after Ben Ali's departure. Egypt's military began patrolling the capital after protesters overwhelmed police on Friday. But in both cases, the people welcomed the military with cheers, hugs, and flowers. The internal security apparatuses of both nations have earned the hatred of the populations after decades of being used to suppress them. Torture at the hands of police is common in Tunisia and Egypt.
The militaries of both nations, on the other hand, have not been used in domestic repression and are seen as professional. The scenes of Egyptians taking photos of their children with Egyptian Army officers in front of their tanks are almost exact replicas of the scenes that played out over and over again in Tunisia the week before last.
And when police retreated in both countries, unleashing chaos in the form of looting and violence, residents formed informal neighborhood watch committees to protect their property and families. Even the predominant weapons they used were the same: makeshift sticks and clubs.
Mubarak's speech echoes Ben Ali
Mubarak at first ignored the protests, not making a formal statement until Friday evening, though the massive uprising began Tuesday. To be sure, that was much swifter than the 11 days it took Ben Ali to make a televised response to the unrest sweeping his nation. But when he did, he both tried to reduce the distance between himself and the people, while at the same time criticizing the protesters. Neither attempt went over well with Egyptians.
"I understand these legitimate demands of the people and I truly understand the depth of their worries and burdens," he said, in an attempt to wash away the stereotype among Egyptians that he's out of touch with their problems. "I'll always be on the side of the poor."
It was reminiscent of Ben Ali's final speech, when he dropped the formal Arabic normally used for public addresses and instead pleaded in the Tunisian dialect, "I have understood you." Both attempts at closing the gap between leader and people were dismissed by the masses.
Failed attempts to offer reforms
But Mubarak also criticized the protesters for unleashing chaos in Egypt, and said the road to reform was through dialogue, not violence. Like Ben Ali's first speech, in which he called the protesters terrorists and enraged the nation, Mubarak's words infuriated the protesters who had taken to the streets peacefully, only to have the police use tear gas, batons, and bullets against them.
Both leaders attempted to pacify protesters with concessions that were rejected: Ben Ali fired his interior minister and promised more freedoms, but protests only grew stronger. Mubarak last week dissolved his government and appointed a vice president for the first time, yet Egyptians are not satisfied by these moves.
"With Ben Ali in Tunisia and Mubarak in Egypt, the concessions were not satisfactory to the people, and they wanted no less than the complete change of the regime," says Sayyid.
Many Egyptians hope that Mubarak will take one more cue from Ben Ali, and flee to Saudi Arabia. As read one sign that a woman held on Friday: "Oh Mubarak, Saudi Arabia and Ben Ali are waiting for you."


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On July 19, 1957, five men stood at Ground Zero of an atomic test that was being conducted at the Nevada Test Site. This was the test of a 2KT (kiloton) MB-1 nuclear air-to-air rocket launched from an F-89 Scorpion interceptor. The nuclear missile detonated 10,000 ft above their heads.
Fifty-five years ago today, five Army officers and a photographer stood directly under a 2-kiloton atomic blast at the Nevada Test Site, about 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas, and survived.
The five officers, who volunteered for the duty, and the cameraman, who did not, designated the July 19, 1957, test site with a hand-lettered sign as "Ground Zero, Population 5," KPLU, a Seattle/Tacoma-based NPR station, said in a story marking the 55th anniversary of the blast.
The intent of the Cold War test was to film the officers surviving the blast and convince U.S. military leaders of the time that using low-grade nuclear missiles in the air would be relatively safe for people on the ground, KPLU reported.
A movie, obtained from government archives by AtomCentral.com, shows two F-89 jets zooming into view and one shooting off the missile carrying the atomic warhead. The officers are shown waiting during a countdown for the missile to detonate 18,500 feet above them. One officer, wearing sunglasses, looks up as the warhead explodes, at first in silence, followed by a roar, after which the sky goes black and the air turns to fire.
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The movie narrator shouts: "It's happened! The mounds are vibrating. It is tremendous. Directly above our heads!"
KPLU said the film was shot at the direction of Col. Arthur B. "Barney" Oldfield, public information officer for the Continental Air Defense Command in Colorado Springs.
KPLU listed the test participants as Col. Sidney Bruce, Lt. Col. Frank P. Ball, Maj. Norman "Bodie" Bodinger, Maj. John Hughes, Don Lutrel, and photographer George Yoshitake.
KPLU said it looked for death records on the five officers and said that as far as it could determine, at least two of them lived relatively long lives.
The test was one of many that the government conducted with live participants in close proximity to nuclear blasts or to ground zero directly after explosions. In a 2010 interview in The New York Times, Yoshitake spoke about the effect of the tests on cameramen like himself who chronicled the events.
"Quite a few have died from cancer," said Yoshitake, then 82. "No doubt it was related to the testing."
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How to download, activate, and burn Microsoft software
At the beginning of each semester, all students registered for at least one MIS course will receive an email message with account information for the customized Fox MIS MSDNAA Software Center. Use your account to directly download the software. Contact your professor if you have not received your login information (Search your inbox/junk mail first for the term 'MSDNAA').
What you need before getting started
- A current account on the MSDNAA Software Center site.
- A CD or DVD burner with software that burns .iso images or a software emulator.
Note that the software that came with your computer almost certainly does burn .iso files, but may refer to them as 'disc images'.
Downloading and product keys
Start by logging into the MSDNAA Software Center. This brings you to the software page where you can select a product to download. The most common software used by MIS students is highlighted on the main page, but others are available by using the drop down list above or by using the search feature.
Note that Microsoft Office is not available. Microsoft Access will be checked out in the example, which can be done by clicking its icon.
Select the download option and Access 2007 to your cart.
Read the end user license agreement on the following page and choose to either agree or disagree to its terms. You must agree in order to proceed. If you want to download more software then click 'Continue Shopping', but click 'Checkout' if you only need one product right now.
Microsoft requires your name and email address in order to continue. Note the privacy policy on this page and provide the information if you wish to proceed.
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Take note of your product key and click the Download button. This will launch the download of a small .exe file that you should run after downloading. Choose a location in the first step and choose to continue.
The downloaded .exe file will look like Downloader_for_Access_2007.exe, and when you click on it, it will display a box as shown below
The download will begin, which will take anywhere from a few minutes to several hours depending on factors such as your Internet connection speed and the size of the product you're downloading. When complete, select 'Launch Install' to be taken to the download location. You'll see your software there in the .iso format, and your burning software may launch automatically.
Open your CD/DVD burning software and select 'Burn Disc Image' or similar from the options. This will be different depending on which software you use. If you do not have a CD/DVD burner, then you can install from the .iso file using an optical drive emulator. Once the image is mounted you'll be able to install the software like as you would with any other CD.


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Has the time come for you to get out of the dorm and move into an off campus DC apartment? Perhaps the options available from the Davis College housing office no longer meet your needs and you would like to find a cheap apartment close to the DC campus. If so, you can search for off campus Davis College apartments with MyNewPlace's college housing search.
Although Davis College student housing may be very conveniently close to campus, moving to an off campus apartment can be a great way to save money, put some distance in between yourself and an RA, get accustomed to living in your own apartment and building up rental history.
DC apartments for rent are available close to campus and in other neighborhoods around Toledo, Ohio. Using our map based university apartment finder, you can find off campus housing near campus to ensure you can still get to all the DC 0 games and make it to class on time.
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University of Toledo, home of Rocky the Rocket, is a large public university with extraordinary academic programs and one of the best engineering schools in the country. Set in the middle of Toledo, Ohio, the UT campus is a pretty sweet piece of eye-candy. You can spot the tower of University Hall, with its breathtaking Gothic arches, from any point on campus. Dig through the 250 different areas of study at UT to relish in your passions and discover your career goals.
Although University of Toledo does offer some on-campus housing, most students choose to live on their own and many commute. Actually, 79% of undergraduates are living off-campus, either freeloading off of their parents or renting their own apartments. If you start your rental search in Toledo, you'll find beautiful brick apartment homes with fitness rooms or common study areas within the complex. Having that level of independence is part of the overall college experience. If you are just moving out of your parents' house or the dorms, our blog will hold your hand through this big step into adulthood!
The Campus Oasis is the absolute #1 favorite place to eat off campus among the students of UT. One of the great features about this place is that it accepts payment from Rocket Card, which has each student's meal plan stored in it already. The Oasis is also right on the edge of campus, so the location is ideal for students. Public transportation around campus and in the city of Toledo is prevalent. There are shuttle buses that will take you anywhere you need to be for your classes, but most of the distances are pretty walkable. If you're going out into the city at night, do not rely solely on the city's buses. Make sure you have a ride, but don't let this prevent you from checking out many of Toledo's great nightclubs. Notable Student: Kid Cudi studied film for a year at UT before dropping out.


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NFSD(8) BSD System Manager's Manual NFSD(8) NAME
nfsd -- remote NFS server SYNOPSIS
nfsd [-6rut] [-n num_threads] DESCRIPTION
nfsd runs on a server machine to service NFS requests from client machines. At least one nfsd must be running for a machine to operate as a server. Unless otherwise specified, four servers for UDP transport are started. The following options are available: -r Register the NFS service with rpcbind(8) without creating any servers. This option can be used along with the -u or -t options to re-register NFS if the portmap server is restarted. -n Specifies how many server threads to create. The default is 4. A server should run enough threads to handle the maximum level of concurrency from its clients. -6 Listen to IPv6 requests as well as IPv4 requests. If IPv6 support is not available, nfsd will silently continue and just use IPv4. -t Serve TCP NFS clients. -u Serve UDP NFS clients. For example, ``nfsd -t -u -n 6'' serves UDP and TCP transports using six threads. nfsd listens for service requests at the port indicated in the NFS server specification; see Network File System Protocol Specification, RFC 1094 and NFS: Network File System Version 3 Protocol Specification. The nfsd utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. SEE ALSO
nfsstat(1), nfssvc(2), mountd(8), rpcbind(8) HISTORY
The nfsd utility first appeared in 4.4BSD. BSD
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Eclipse provides a modeling infrastructure evolving around the Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) for which offering graphical representations and editing possibilities is essential.
Graphiti is an Eclipse-based graphics framework that enables rapid development of state-of-the-art diagram editors for domain models. Graphiti can use EMF-based domain models very easily but can deal with any Java-based objects on the domain side as well.
The objectives of the Graphiti project are the following:
Graphiti completely hides platform dependent technologies like GEF and Draw2D at its API. The user deals with a plain Java API and Graphiti specific objects. This simply hides all the nuts and bolts underneath.
First results in the form of running editors can be reached with very low effort by using the provided default implementations and the strong framework. In further steps the editor can be incrementally refined and improved.
User interactions for Graphiti tools were designed in close co-operation with usability specialists leading to a state-of-the-art behavior of the tool right out of the box. In case the default behavior is not suitable for the tool, it can be freely adapted to specific needs.
Diagrams are defined platform independently, enabling using a different rendering engine (e.g. for a Flash Web Ui). Currently Graphiti only supports Eclipse, but the framework itself is open for other platforms as well. Nevertheless platform specifics (like color dialog, font dialog, etc.) can be integrated.
Graphiti enables its users to build accessible tools that allow motion-impaired and vision-impaired people to use these tools. Graphiti provides full keyboard access to all functionality, supports themes like the high contrast mode and allows users to enlarge the visual representation of diagrams.
Graphiti is in the Incubation Phase.
Graphiti 0.12.0 is released as part of the Eclipse Mars release train and available for download. See the downloads section for the locations.
The service release 0.11.3 of Graphiti is available as separate download See the downloads section for details.
The service release 0.11.2 of Graphiti is available within the Luna SR2 service release. See the downloads section for details.
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Mina Baliamoune-Lutz is Associate Professor of Economics in the Coggin College of Business, University of North Florida (UNF). She holds an MBA and a Ph.D. in Economics from Northeastern University. She has been at UNF since fall 2000, teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in macroeconomics, international trade, the global economy, and the Study Abroad (Brazil) course on the Political Economy and Business in Brazil. In spring 2007, she was a Visiting Scholar at the Institute of Economic Development, Boston University.
Her doctoral dissertation focused on applying fuzzy-set theory to assess compliance of the G-7 countries with summit commitments. Her recent research work is mainly on the effects of policy and institutional reforms in developing countries, with emphasis on Africa. She has published over 40 articles in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes. Her recent peer-reviewed journal publications are (or are forthcoming) in Applied Economics, Contemporary Economic Policy, Business Economics; Empirica, Journal of Policy Modelling, Review of Development Economics, Information Technology for Development, InternationalAdvances in Economic Research,African Development Review, and Journal of African Economies (Oxford). In addition, she has co-edited a book titled 'Women in African Development: The Challenge of Globalization and Liberalization in the 21st Century', published by Africa World Press/The Red Sea Press, New Jersey (2005), and contributed 3 articles in the Encyclopedia of the Developing World, Tom Leonard, ed., Routledge (2005).
Her empirical work on the effect of policy and institutional reforms has received significant recognition internationally. She is a regular contributor to the research themes debated at the United Nations World Institute of Development Economics (UNU-WIDER) in Helsinki and to the United Nations Economic Conference on Africa. She is also a frequent Visiting Research Fellow at the International Center for Economic Research in Turin, Italy. Her Discussion, Research, and Working Papers are published at the University of Manchester (U.K.) Brooks World Poverty Institute (chaired by Nobel Laureate, Professor Joseph E. Stiglitz), UNU-WIDER (Helsinki, Finland), ICER (Turin, Italy); Zentrum für Europäische Integrationsforschung (ZEI)-Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (Germany); Department of Economics, UMASS-Amherst, and Boston University-Institute of Economic Development (Policy Papers).In addition to being a participant and often session organizer and chair at several conferences in the United States and Puerto Rico (the American Economic Association/Allied social Sciences Association, the Eastern Economic association, the Western Economic Association conferences, and the Academy of International Business), she has taught courses, delivered keynote papers, presented papers, participated in workshops, and/or served as Research Fellow in over 20 foreign countries, including France, Germany, Italy, Greece, Austria, Finland, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom, Jamaica, Brazil, Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, Canada, Lebanon, Morocco, Ethiopia, Senegal, and Tunisia. She has also served as the organizer/co-organizer and chair of the Annual International Business Research Conference at the Coggin College of Business, UNF (jointly with Warsaw University Center for Europe) for 7 years (2002-2008) and co-edited 6 conference proceeding volumes.
Dr. Baliamoune-Lutz has served as referee for World Development, Applied Economics, Applied Financial Economics, Contemporary Economic Policy, Review of Development Economics, Review of World Economics/Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, Journal of African Economies (Oxford), Journal of African Development (NYU), Information Technology for Development, and the International Review of Economics & Finance. In addition, she currently serves as associate editor for the Journal of Businessand Behavioral Sciences (since 2003); Information Technology for Development (since 2004); and Journal of African Development (since April 2008); and serves on the Editorial Board of Feminist Economics (since January 2009), and on the Board of Directors of the Eastern Economic Association (since spring 2009). Dr. Baliamoune-Lutz has served as Vice-President of the African Finance and Economics Association for 3 years (2005- 2007).


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text: In the 1930s, during the Great Depression, an unemployed architect named Alfred M. Butts invented a board game using letter tiles and a scoring system. He first called it Lexico, then Criss Cross Words, but it was in 1948, when he teamed with entrepreneur James Brunot, that the name Scrabble® was born. The game's wild popularity began in the '50s and continues today. Over 100 million Scrabble games have been sold worldwide.


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Chris Thompson of Chemistry Set has been a mainstay in Minneapolis and surrounding regions for more than a decade, playing his brand of roots-inspired music in venues ranging from small neighborhood dive bars to outdoor stages that draw hundreds. Come on down to the Big Green Booth and check out his Wednesday residency at Dusty's, where he holds court with other local musicians, mainly acoustic, always entertaining.


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the time for me to grow up has finally arrived. see, for the past 3 years i have been freeloading off the companies i work for and relying on my oral sex skills to keep me in laptops. but now in these harsh economic times it seems that not even a blowjob can get passed under the tax table without someone asking why the new girl has the MacBook Pro Aluminium Ltd Edition Steve Jobs worx, and the sad truth is that if i want a fancy laptop i am going to have to buy one. sigh.
some people ask me, "Alex, why didn't you buy one ages ago, you are so digital and stuff, surely you want your own super duper machine??"
it's a good question, but i have a good answer, and that is that buying a piece of digital as meaningful and statement-making as a laptop makes me want to wet myself just so that i have something else to think about. see, the machine i buy will slot me into someone's pigeonhole, and i have a lot of brand therapy to get through before i even start on my digital brand-made persona. for example, i am still not drinking alcohol because making a decision about what to drink and hence making a statement about who i am really is too much for me. this girl can't cope with that right now, not before i decide on my summer sunglasses brand. and now i have been forced between a work-provided desktop PC (yes they still make them LOL) and some sort of mobile digital device that says the following about me:
– i am an innovator and not afraid to try and buy new things and i am smart enough to make the choice that is not the obvious one for everyone else but totally works for me
– i am rich and have a lot of money to throw around despite everyone suffering in these harsh economic times which means i am an anomaly and hence highly desirable as a friend / colleague / blogger / girlfriend / cool chick in ur photos / person taking photos at your self-published book launch
– i have an amazing sense of style and taste that makes anyone who sees my piece of digital feel inadequate in all that they do, including their career, who they are as a person, as a lover and of course, especially, on levels of physical attractiveness
– i have my shit together yet i am also a slightly kooky wildcard and my digital piece is alternately an object of love and peace and beauty and a devastating weapon of destruction and slicey words that will blow your mind and also make you see things differently and change your perspective on how you view yourself
– that i am a self-starting innovative go-getter who will stop at nothing to release her single / publish her book / write her blog / twitter her thoughts / upload photos of her rad life / download photos of her friends' rad lives / shop online for her favourite brands (as of yet just a handful because i am really discerning)
you see how hard this decision is? do i get a sony viaoaoaooo or whatever in pastel pink because it contradicts my strong jawline? or do i get the new macbook air because it's completely useless in south africa and it will make people wonder how i make my money? or do i go against the laptop grain and get the most advanced blackberry known to mankind and make a big deal of blogging at the family christmas or whenever i'm in a mall? would i go to malls just to blog and start a mall-blogging trend?
this decision will have severe repercussions, make no mistake. i just want y'ulle to know that i'm putting a lot of thought into it and can promise that i will make the right decision when the times comes, and i might change my mind, but that will be the right decision, too.