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SAN FRANCISCO, June 11 (Reuters) - Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg faced a barrage of questions on Tuesday about the company's slumping stock price during the No. 1 social networking company's first shareholder meeting since its rocky initial public offering last May.
Zuckerberg, who has presided over a 37 percent decline in the stock since its debut at $38, said he believed Facebook was on the right path toward long-term success, even though he was disappointed with its performance on Wall Street.
Nothing "has made me really think that the fundamental strategy is wrong or that what we're building isn't valuable," the 29-year-old Facebook co-founder said at the event at a hotel in Millbrae, California.
In what Zuckerberg acknowledged had become a "theme" of the meeting, several Facebook shareholders complained during the question-and-answer session about how they had suffered from the stock's decline. They shared personal anecdotes about buying the stock with high hopes, and sought guidance on whether they might ever recoup their losses.
Facebook, with about 1.1 billion users, became the first U.S. company to debut on stock markets with a value of more than $100 billion. But aside from its first day of trading, its shares have never traded above their offering price.
The company has scrambled to address one of the main concerns weighing on the stock price, by developing mobile ads better suited to small smartphone screens that users increasingly use to access the service.
Mobile ads account for 30 percent of Facebook's ad revenue. But revenue growth remains sharply below that of two years ago, and the popularity of new mobile apps aimed at younger users has raised concerns that Facebook may risk losing its grip on consumers.
Zuckerberg said Facebook would continue to grow alongside newer, rival services.
"None of the trends that we see right now seem like they should get in the way of our success in any meaningful way," he said.
He noted at another point during the event that the amount of "likes" and comments that users post on the service "has gone up per person about 50 percent" during the past year.
Zuckerberg also reiterated previous comments that Facebook does not give the National Security Agency direct access to its servers or user data. This was in response to reports in the Guardian and the Washington Post last week about a secret government program to collect data from leading Internet companies.
"No one has every approached us to do anything like what was reported," Zuckerberg said.
Shares of Facebook closed 1.2 percent lower at $24.03 on Nasdaq amid a broad decline in the market.
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I'm sorry, I still have trouble getting over the fact that the Ravens enter their Week 4 matchup with the Patriots with the BETTER offense of the two teams. It's going to take more than 3 games for us to collectively thaw our frozen offensive hearts here in B'More, but I promise if we stick together, and take it 1 game at a time, we'll get through it with Joe Flacco and Cam Cameron at our sides.
Going into the season I thought the Ravens had no better than a 25% chance of winning in Foxboro. Naturally, after the hot start, I am much more optimistic. Let's look at some reasons why:
Through 3 games, the Ravens offense is reaching heights that nobody saw coming. If I've seen one national media piece this week on Joe Flacco's awesomeness, I've seen 20. Willis McGahee leads the NFL in touchdowns. He and Ray Rice are averaging, combined, an absurd 5.5 yards per carry – NCAA numbers. Kelley Washington has emerged as a very legitimate #3 WR, and he seems to pick up a first down every time he touches the ball. The young offensive line is playing out of their minds, opening gaping holes and giving Flacco plenty of time to scan the field and fire up his shoulder-cannon.
While the Ravens enter the game relatively healthy, the same can't be said of New England. With MLB Jerod Mayo already out, DT Vince Wilfork's ankle injury becomes even more problematic for the Pats. Wilfork is very important to Bill Belichick's run defense, and with him likely out, the holes that Matt Birk, Chris Chester, and Ben Grubbs are able to create between the tackles just got a bit wider.
They have issues on the offensive side as well. Randy Moss, after his 100-yard day last week against the Falcons, revealed that he was enduring excruciating back pain during the game, and could barely walk on Monday. Moss will play, and surely be effective, but anything that can slow him down, even a little, is a plus for the Ravens.
Wes Welker was listed as questionable for the Atlanta game with a knee injury, and did not end up playing. His status for Sunday is similarly up in the air, after he was limited in practice all week. Welker is as important as Moss to the New England offense, as he keeps the chains moving as expertly as any WR in the league, and is always getting open quickly for Brady when the defense brings pressure.
However, the Pats have no shortage of tiny white WRs sure to get on your nerves. Filling in for Welker is rookie Julian Edelman (11 rec, 118 yards). Fret not. Despite what this guy will try to tell you, Edelman is no Welker – at least not at this point. Wes Welker is a VERY GOOD veteran wide receiver. Julian Edelman has played 3 games in his career. Having #11 in there is a huge step down from #83.
Another injury affecting New England is one that happened over a year ago. Of course, I speak of the season-ending blow to Tom Brady in 2008. Tom Terrific hasn't regained his old form yet, and has shown the typical jitters-in-the-pocket symptoms that tend to follow such horrific injuries (see: Palmer, Carson; McNabb, Donovan). He's obviously still great, but he isn't playing like the 2007 Brady (yet), and so the Patriots seem, for the moment, incapable of blowing teams away like they did during their 16-0 regular season. Brady is susceptible to pressure, and can be forced into early, errant throws if the Ravens defense can get in his face.
None of this is to say I'm predicting a Ravens blowout. Far from it. Let's shift to the things that make me a bit uneasy going into this one.
Sure, the Ravens' D redeemed themselves a bit last week…but there is no getting around the fact that it was against the BROWNS. The Patriots, even with a hobbled Moss, no Welker, and a Timid Tommy Brady, are not the Browns. On paper, the Ravens have nobody to match up with Moss 1-on-1 like the Jets did with Darrell Revis in their victory over New England in Week 2. Fabian Washington has the pure speed to keep up with Moss, but is severely undersized. I feel confident that he can match up well with Welker, but the Pats like to move Welker inside to the slot, where he would face Chris Carr or a linebacker. I'd like to see the Ravens play a lot of Cover 2 Sunday, keeping Ed Reed and Dawan Landry deep over the top. The Pats have struggled in the Red Zone this season, so the weakness of their Red Zone offense versus the strength of the Ravens Red Zone defense is a match-up B'More should try to exploit.
Letting them pile up yards between the 20's, but keeping them out of the end zone will go a long way towards a purple win. Red Zone offense and defense don't matter a lick if you are giving up 40+ yard touchdown strikes (because Ed Reed tries to jump an out route and leaves the deep middle of the field completely open like he did several times against San Diego – thank you, NFL Network.)
Holding the Pats into the low-20's is probably a realistic goal for the Ravens D this week.
Special Teams
The Ravens return games have been crap in 2009. Chris Carr has looked hesitant and unsure, and continues to leave yards on the field. A big game like this may not be the ideal time to give Ledarius Webb his shot, especially considering his preseason fumble issues, so it would be nice to see Carr get on track.
Steve Hauschka is 4/5 on the season, but has yet to face a high-pressure kick, let alone a high-pressure kick in a very hostile environment the likes of which he will see Sunday. In a game that could very well come down to 2 or 3 points, the young kicker leaves us just a little worried.
Bill Belichick
Finally, there is the evil genius himself, New England head coach Bill Belichick. A master of having his teams completely prepared and of exploiting any weakness, however small, in the opponents, the hooded one can never be overlooked. The New England offense was very balanced against Atlanta, as the ageless Fred Taylor ran for over 100 yards. Nobody runs on the Ravens, so was that all part of a master plan to fool them into thinking the Patriots are back to a balanced attack? And with the way his defense held the Falcons' strong offense to just 10 points…
Belichick is good. Very good.
That said, the Ravens coaches are no slouches themselves. I think Cam Cameron will unveil some new wrinkles this week that will surprise old Bill, and Greg Mattison will show that he does indeed know how to use the Ravens' plethora of defensive talent effectively against a great offense.
Also, Joe Flacco will step up and show everyone that which we already know, but which nobody outside of B'More wants to admit – he is better than Matt Ryan.
Ravens 28 Patriots 23

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How To Repair Your Humidifier
No water through humidifier.
1. Verify manual water shut off valve is open.
2. Loosen incoming water line at solenoid valve or float valve. If water squirts out you are OK up to this point. If no water squirts out, go to water valve & loosen water line at that point. If no water squirts out then the water valve is either closed or plugged with dirt or rust.
Replace or clear water valve.
Water to solenoid valve or float valve inlet but no water out of solenoid valve or float valve assembly.
1. Verify the solenoid valve has electricity by turning thermostat way up on furnace to force it to run. Then turn humidistat from maximum to minimum back and forth. This will make the solenoid valve open and close and you should hear a clicking noise at the solenoid valve. If it does click and you still have no water out of the solenoid valve, the solenoid valve is bad and needs replaced.
Solution A:
1. Replace solenoid valve assembly. OR
2. If you have a float valve with water to it but none out, the float valve assembly is plugged and needs replaced.
Solution B:
Replace float valve assembly.
Drum motor makes a humming noise or clicking noise but does not turn. Motor needs replaced.
Replace motor.
Humidity level in home is too low.
Verify the humidistat setting is high enough to get where you need the humidity level to be. Also verify that the humidifier is actually running when your heating system comes on. Do this by temporarily raising the thermostat setting as well as the humidity setting. You should be able to hear your humidifier running at that time. If you have a vertical humidifier filter and a drain line attached to the humidifier you should also see a small trickle of water coming out the drain line. This is normal for humidifiers that have an electric solenoid valve on them.
Humidifiers require periodic maintenance AT LEAST once per year. Models that have a water basin in them that holds water and also have a float valve assembly require maintenance every 2 months during the humidifier season. Humidifier filters or (pads) must be replaced at least once per year (more often if you have very hard water. Sponge, paper or aluminum humidifier filters are NOT cleanable or washable. Failure to maintain your humidifier and replace the humidifier filters will reduce the capacity of the humidifier, reduce the units life and possibly damage your heating system and ductwork.


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S4 E10 Episode 410
ENTREPRENEUR: Jackie Courtney
ASKING FOR: $35k for a 10% stake
BEST PART OF THE PITCH: Jackie created an online boutique that offers a new way for women to shop for their wedding dress. The site offers wedding dresses for a lot less than the retail price. You can also sell it back to them after the wedding for half of what you paid. Brides can have an $11,000 dress for just under $2,000. They just launched their business, but the growth has been promising. Unlike a rental gown, you can alter these dresses if need be. They get all of their dresses on consignment.
DO THE SHARKS BITE? Barbara thinks that it's too early in the business to invest. She's out. Robert believes that the only time a woman is going to buy a used wedding dress is if she's divorced. He doesn't believe in this market. He's out. Daymond loves the space of this business, as he knows it's the only time a female has no rationale, but Jackie's business doesn't fit his own model. Mark likes the idea, but he feels Jackie's tastes are too specific. He's out. Kevin likes Jackie. He offers her $35k for 40% of the company. He's willing to take a chance on her because he loves love.
THE RESULT: Jackie asks Kevin if he's willing to come down just a bit. Mr. Wonderful says, "No chance." He was actually going to ask for 51%, but he's not that kind of guy. Jackie considers the lone offer on the table and then respectfully declines it. Looks like Kevin has been left at the altar.
LEARN MORE: Visit http://www.nearlynewlywed.com____________________
Entrepreneur Aldo Orta made a deal with Barbara and Kevin H for his designer jewelry collection. Since his appearance in the tank, Aldo has been able to show his collection on QVC. His sales have increased 70%. He was even commissioned to design a jewelry piece for the Queen. Thanks to Shark Tank, Aldo feels he is living the American Dream.
ENTREPRENEUR: Shane Cianciolo & Nathan Buffett
ASKING FOR: $105k for a 20% stake
BEST PART OF THE PITCH: People come from all over the world to experience an amazing wine adventure on the high seas. A Coast Guard captain greets guests as they board The Sunflower, a luxurious wine vessel. A wine host serves and explains selections during various cruises with atmospheres that are catered to their customers. Shane and Nathan are looking to expand on their sales of $250k from last year. They'll sell a $35k boat to another skipper for $175k with their business plan. They also want to sell their tasty pesto torte to stores. They also want create an indoor boat experience somewhere down the road.
DO THE SHARKS BITE? Mark believes the boat factor limits them in regards to the number of places they can go with their business. He can't see getting a significant return on an investment. He's out. Robert likes the guys, but feels there are holes in the boat. He's out. Daymond follows suit. Kevin likes the wine, but doesn't feel the business is investible—at least until he drinks more wine. Barbara likes the fellows, likes the wine, but doesn't like the business. She's out. Shane and Nathan sail off into the sunset without a deal.
LEARN MORE: Visit http://www.corksaway.com
ENTREPRENEUR: David Powers & Scott Tindel
ASKING FOR: $100k for a 25% stake
BEST PART OF THE PITCH: The business is essentially Netflix for neckties. David and Scott are attorneys who were always wearing the same tie over and over. They launched a service that delivers an unlimited number of neckties to a subscriber's doorstep for a low monthly price. Their customers can wear hundreds of different neckties. They have over 100 subscribers as part of their proof of concept plan.
DO THE SHARKS BITE? Mark doesn't believe these guys can sustain the business with the free press they've been using. He's also worried about the number of people who will cancel their subscription. Robert agrees that they don't have enough of a subscriber base yet. He's out. Kevin offers to put up $50k if they can convince another shark to come onboard. That second shark will also set the equity amount. That second shark won't be Barbara or Daymond, as they are both out. Now there's just one shark left and he never wears a tie. Mark believes the guys are guessing as to how the business will work. He's out. That means Kevin is, too. The tie guys will have to TieTry to find someone to help them tie up a deal.
LEARN MORE: Visit http://www.tietry.com____________________
ENTREPRENEUR: Rob Dyer
ASKING FOR: $75k for a 10% stake
BEST PART OF THE PITCH: Rob is a Major in the Marine Corps. He was inspired to create his product while he was deployed in Afghanistan. Ruckpack is the world's first peak performance nutrition shot. It was designed and tested by Special Ops forces. It's caffeine-free which is important for those in combat. He needs capital for inventory and to work down the cost of creating the product. Rob is an accounting professor now, but he was Special Forces. He has partners that come from military-based families. He's put up a lot of money for prepaid inventory.
DO THE SHARKS BITE? Robert feels the business isn't doing well enough to generate enough cash to buy inventory. Daymond goes out right away, as he's invested in similar products that would compete against this. Barbara is in love with this guy, but she's troubled by the large sums of money he's putting into the company. She's out. Mark, too. Kevin likes the product a lot. He'll give Rob exactly what he wants.
THE RESULT: Robert still feels Rob needs more cash. He wants to partner with Kevin to give him $150k for a 20% stake. It's double the cash Rob was asking for. Rob appreciates the offer and accepts it. It looks like this Marine's mission is a success.
LEARN MORE: Visit https://ruckpack.com/


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Jun. 30, 2018
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Free classes in which students learn to write and speak basic, conversational English. Childcare is provided for those attending the class through the generosity of a volunteer.
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Rights groups are asking Myanmar lawmakers to "change their approach" on how they handle sectarian violence after three days of fighting between Muslims and Buddhists in central Myanmar has reduced a town to smokey rubble, leaving at least 20 dead and forcing thousands to flee.
Today Myanmar's President Thein Sein issued a state of emergency to quell violence in Meikhtila and four nearby towns in central Myanmar. But reports late on Friday indicated that though the violence has receded, the situation is still tense. The government is sending military backup for the police, who have not been able to stop the fighting.
The violence and need for military backup calls into question the stability of Myanmar's nascent transition to democracy after a semi-civilian government in 2010 ended nearly five decades of military rule. And the lack of progress on improving minority rights has many observers up in arms.
"Governments are meant to guarantee rights, ensure that people are treated equally before the law, that nondiscrimination is the rule of the land, and that minorities have their rights protected," says says Phil Robertson of Human Rights Watch. "After seeing this [violence in Meikhtila], would anyone be confident in saying that the government is doing a good job?"
Led by reformist President Thein Sein, the country has undergone various economic and political reforms since its days under military rule – including the lifting of major censorship regulations and the release of many political prisoners – but it has also witnessed a growing tension between majority Buddhists and minority Muslims, who comprise roughly 5 percent of the total population of some 60 million.
The violence began Wednesday in Meikhtila, a town roughly 80 miles north of the capital Naypyidaw, after an argument between a Muslim shopkeeper and his Buddhist customers reportedly erupted and spiraled into a street brawl. Soon Buddhist mobs were roaming the streets with sticks and swords and setting buildings ablaze.
Many fear that the situation in Meikhtila could be a reprise of the type of violence not seen since last year in Rakhine state – which borders Bangladesh. Hundreds were killed and more than 100,000 left homeless after fighting broke out between Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims in June and October.
A stateless minority, the Rohingya are not recognized by either Bangladesh or Myanmar, and thousands of those living in Myanmar have fled to neighboring countries, often in rickety boats, for the promise of a better life abroad.
Exact numbers of those killed and injured since Wednesday in Meikhtila are still unknown, but the numbers range from 20 to more than 100.
Whatever the figure, say rights groups, the culture of impunity surrounding ethnic violence needs to end – and lawmakers like opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who has remained largely silent on how to the end ethnic violence racking the country in recent months, need to speak up.
"Staying silent is clearly not working, because in that vacuum, those who are inciting more violence are free to operate when they need to be challenged and tackled head on," says Mark Farmaner of rights group Burma Campaign UK.
"There needs to be a change of approach not just from Suu Kyi," he says, "but from all the political and religious leaders in the country to acknowledge that there is this growing anti-Muslim feeling in the country."
Friday's state of emergency was issued the same day Thein Sein met with Google executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, visiting the country to encourage private investment in its telecommunications systems.
Mr. Schmidt told a crowd in Yangon that the Internet could help politicians "get a much better idea of what your citizens are thinking about" and that "the Internet, once in place, guarantees communication – and empowerment becomes the law and practice of your country."
But for many of those who feel they are being targeted indiscriminately for their ethnicity, that empowerment could seem very far away, says Mr. Robertson of Human Rights Watch.


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TOMBALL, Texas - A man has been accused of trying to sexually assault a 6-year-old girl in a church parking lot.
Roberti Rodriguez Diaz, 56, has been charged with enticing a child.
Tomball police said Diaz and the girl were both attending a birthday party for a church pastor's wife at Igelsia Taller Del Altarero in the 200 block of West Main on March 10, 2012.
The girl went to the restroom at the church and when she came out, Diaz was waiting in the lobby.
Detectives said Diaz asked the girl if she wanted to see a surprise in his truck, and she said yes.
Diaz took the girl to his truck and put her in the front seat, officials said. He lifted her shirt up and kissed and tickled her stomach, police said.
Investigators said Diaz made an inappropriate comment and the girl began to feel uncomfortable. She told him that they were going to get in trouble.
Diaz then yelled at the girl and told her to get out of his truck and go back in the church, officials said.
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Mark and Peggy Sornson of Council Bluffs announce the engagement of their daughter, Jessica Sornson to Scott Lilland, son of Robert and Marsha Lilland of Estherville.
Jessica recently earned a master's degree in nursing at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and is pursuing a career as a nurse practitioner.
Scott works as a realtor/insurance agent and graduated from the University of South Dakota.
The wedding is planned for Sept. 25, 2010, at Bethany Lutheran Church in Elkhorn, Neb. Scott and Jessica will reside in Phoenix, Ariz.


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Alicante airport is the 6th biggest airport in Spain. Since 2011, it has gone through a significant growth hence the necessity to replace the old terminals with a new and modern terminal building. The airport is located in the southern area and named Alicante International Airport. Flights to Alicante are provided by top airlines in the world. Upon getting to the airport, commute to your destination is not a problem because there are taxis and vans for hire that can take you where you want to go.
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2) Bring steaks out so they can come up to room temperature, drizzle with a little olive oil and a few turns of black pepper.
3)Put egg whites in a large mixing bowl and gently whisk until slightly foamy. Using a mortar and pestle (or food processor), add the garlic, bay leaves, rosemary, parsley, thyme and sage. Add to egg whites with salt and combine well until it holds together like a paste.
4) Take a large cast iron skillet (or 2 smaller ones) and set strip steak in the center of the skillet and mold salt paste on top of and around the sides of the steak. Bake in the hot oven for 15 minutes (internal temperature should reach 50C) then pull out and rest for 7 to 8 minutes. Crack shell open - remove steak, slice and serve.


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Availability: Generated on request
HAP1 knockouts are engineered using the CRISPR-Cas9 system to introduce frameshift mutations into the coding sequence of genes of interest.
HAP1 is a near-haploid human cell line that was derived from the male chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) cell line KBM-7 (see Carette et al. Nature. 2011.). HAP1 cells are adherent with fibroblast-like morphology.
View our overview for more information on HAP1 cells
All HAP1 knockout cell lines are validated by PCR amplification and Sanger Sequencing to confirm the mutation at the genomic level. To enable you to verify our results, we provide our sequencing result, including primer sequences.
Further to this HAP1 wild-type cells have been extensively characterized by whole genome sequencing and transcriptome analysis.
HAP1 cells are grown in Iscove's Modified Dulbecco's Medium (IMDM) in the presence of 10% fetal calf serum and penicillin/ streptomycin. Cells are passaged every 48h at a dilution of 1:10 or 1:20, depending on the initial density. More detailed information is available here.
Additionally, this information is listed on the Certificate of Analysis for the cell line.
Customers obtain a clonal HAP1 cell line, bearing a frameshift mutation in an exon of the gene of interest. Typically, the mutation is placed closed to the 5'end of the gene, ie. in exon 1 or 2.
The mutation is described in the clone datasheet enclosed upon shipment and can be verified by a PCR on genomic DNA followed by Sanger sequencing.
All mutant cell lines are provided as an isogenic pair with the wild type line. This provides a control for your downstream experiments
While we cannot exclude entirely the possibility of off target modifications in addition to on target cleavage, we believe it represents a relatively low and controllable risk, as a number of recent publications have demonstrated that the CRISPR-Cas9 system is to be highly specific (e.g. Cencic et al).
Further to this a collaborator group have published a paper where they examine off-targets in the HAP1 cell line and observe very low frequencies.
At Horizon, to mitigate the risk still further our in-house selection algorithms warrant that only those guide RNAs with minimal predicted off-target sites in the human genome are chosen. Further to this, scientists can control their experiments through the use of multiple, independent clones or rescue of the knockout with a wild-type cDNA.
Our Technical Support team is happy to provide a visual inspection of your culture if you send an image to firstname.lastname@example.com.
In addition, further information and example images can be found in our HAP1 Cell Culture Guidelines.
When we perform the CRISPR gene editing, we often isolate multiple clones with successful frameshifts. The differences between them is often the number of bases that are inserted or deleted.
If you click on the product pages for each of the clones and scroll down the page, there is a pdf link with the datasheets attached. This describes the location of the frameshift and you can then determine which is more suitable for your needs.
We have observed that haploid cell lines will spontaneously diploidise over time. If a gene has been knocked out, diploidisation will not affect knockout status, but to minimise the potential impact of diploidisation one of the following approaches is recommended:
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Maxis: Your Reward For Buying Our Horribly Launched SimCity Is The Previous, Better Version Of It
from the one-step-forward,-one-version-back dept
Many of us are still waiting for a Maxis mea culpa following the horrible release of their always-online SimCity game. When last we checked in with Maxis, they were busy pretending that all of the backlash surrounding this complete mess of a release didn't exist and that tons (tons!) of people just loved all the features in the game that didn't work. Well, they're back to blogging again, and while it is only an apology in the barest sense of the word, they are offering up some freebies for their throngs of pissed off fans.
Our SimCity Mayors are incredibly important to the team at Maxis. We sincerely apologize for the difficulties at launch and hope to make it up to you with a free PC game download from Origin.This, of course, falls short of the full apology they should be making, which would be to say that lying their faces off about why the game always needed to be online (since it didn't) was wrong, as was their presumption that their fans needed to be treated like criminals. But, hey, baby steps, I guess. So what games are you offering up for free?
-Battlefield 3 (Standard Edition)...Really? As an apology for selling a game with an always-online requirement for a city building simulation, which we now know doesn't actually need to be online at all, you're offering up the previous version of the game which didn't have that requirement? And, based on what I can see from the general reviews, received far superior reviews? Why bother releasing the new SimCity at all, if the result is pointing people to the last iteration, a better overall product? Have we gotten to the point where you guys are just trying to make us laugh?
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We're a welcoming, friendly, volunteer-run Toddler's group.
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Wednesdays, 9.30am to 11.30am.
Admission is £3.00 per family.
There are lots of games, toys and crafts spread throughout the building, to busy little hands and minds.
Free refreshments are served during the session, for adults and children alike.
(If you have a food allergy, please notify one of the team when you first arrive - Thank you.)


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Our solicitors, led by Paul McNeil, work tirelessly to ensure that you receive proper compensation for any injuries that you sustained through medical negligence and for any medical negligence claim you wish to make. Every year, thousands of people are treated by healthcare professionals. Most of the time the care received is exceptional, but occasionally things do go wrong.
Medical Negligence Claims
Whenever a person undergoes treatment or seeks the advice of a clinician, they place an uncompromisable level of trust in that clinical expert's hands. Unfortunately mistakes are sometimes made which can be catastrophic or life changing
If you or your family have suffered Medical Negligence at the hands of clinicians who have delivered a substandard level of medical care, call our No Win No fee Medical Negligence solicitors. Our specialist lawyers have over 30 years' experience in giving you the support and legal advice that you need. We've already helped thousands of families in similar situations.
We fight for our clients to recover the maximum damages possible. Call us today on Freephone 0800 358 3848 to see how our expert solicitors can help you recover your losses, with a Medical Negligence Claim
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In this video Don Sherwood talks about his loving wife Mrs Jennifer Sherwood, who instructed Paul McNeil to handle her claim against Warwick Hospital for the consequences of a delay in diagnosis of cervical cancer which led to her death in January 2013.
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- that the care you received fell below the required standard of care; and
- that this caused you some harm
There are strict time limits, usually three years, in which legal action should be commenced. This three year period runs either from the date of the negligence, or from the date you should have been aware of the injury or claim. Where the patient suffers brain injury or is a child, special rules apply.
It is not always easy to decide if you have a claim. We can help you understand whether you have a claim by undertaking some initial investigations. Please contact Paul McNeil or one of our clinical negligence lawyers on free phone 0800 358 3848 for free initial advice.
How do I make a medical negligence claim?
A clinical negligence claim can be broken down into two stages; the first is the investigation stage and the second relates to court proceedings.
What are the initial investigations?
We will usually see you to take a statement from you. Then we will obtain your medical records and instruct independent experts to consider whether the treatment you received fell below a reasonable standard and if so, whether you suffered injury as a result.
At this stage, we will advise you whether or not you have a case that is worth pursuing. In some cases we will seek the advice of an experienced barrister to give an opinion on the merits of your claim.
We will always consider with you, the results of the initial investigations and together we will consider the appropriate steps.
Our Guide to Medical Negligence Cases sets out the rules for the pre-action protocol and court procedure.
Although taking a case to Court can be a lengthy process, we will do our utmost to ensure that your case proceeds as quickly as possible. Providing there are no hiccups, it normally takes 12-18 months for a clinical negligence case to reach trial from the date we issue proceedings. Throughout this time, we constantly update you and consider your case with you.
Many cases are settled because our philosophy is to prepare your case for trial from the outset.
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After all of that we were pretty tired and we got back to Columbus just in time to go to dinner and then head home for bed. Unfortunately, we didn't get a lot of sleep because I woke up with intense stomach pain around 2:30 in the morning. Larry and I couldn't figure out what was wrong, and I was bawling so we felt lucky that my parents we there and we could leave Creed with them and head to the emergency room (Larry was all sentamental, "Awe, our first trip to the emergency room together!")
After lots of tests and lots of vomiting, we still aren't sure what was wrong, but I feel soooooooo much better! There are all sorts of theories: my intestine was folded over on itself but self corrected, my gallbladder had sludge in it, etc. They said that 40% of the time they can't figure out what causes belly pain, and I seem to be one of the lucky ones with no clue what happened. I have never felt anything like that before and I hope that I never do again. They offered to keep me in the hospital another day, but with a two month old at home who needs to nurse and a husband who starts his rotation in the ER today and could treat me just as well at home as in the hospital, I decided to tough it out at home. After some more pain medication and a nap, I actually feel really good. I was able to take it easy today while my parents went to the Memorial Tournament (thanks for the tickets Jill!) so I didn't feel guilty about laying around. My friend Julia drove me to an ultrasound this afternoon, which gave us a chance to catch up. We went to high school together and I was shocked and excited to see her in church on Sunday. Her husband is just starting medical school at OSU so she was able to see where her husband will be spending a lot of his time and I was able to find out what's she's been up to.
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Clarina Irene Howard Nichols and her husband settled in Quindaro, Wyandotte County, Kansas Territory. She was active in politics and women's rights. Nichols attended the Wyandotte Constitutional Convention 1859 where she secured for Kansas women liberal property rights, equal guardianship of their children, and the right to vote on all school questions. Susan B. Anthony paid tribute to Clarina Nichols in her "History of Woman Suffrage".
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Course reviews
Most votes | Newest first | Oldest first
+3 votes Ryan Ranes › October 2, 2010
a fun object course far holes accurate tricky shots and a awsome night course
+1 votes Derek Yanez › February 14, 2011
+0 votes Stu Jensen › January 31, 2011
+0 votes Brodey Hansen › January 29, 2011
+0 votes Michael Suchoza › January 29, 2012
+0 votes Robert J › January 29, 2012
+0 votes Phill Cardenaz › October 13, 2013
It's disappointing that there are no baskets but I tried not let that completely ruin my experience of the course. It is a little confusing, matching up the map to actually playing. If the poles were more clearly marked I may have liked the course better. Because there aren't baskets, the idea of having tee pads is definitely out of the question. The time of day that I played there were not really any people at the park so I was a play with no delays.
+0 votes Scy DeathReaper › September 10, 2013
I must have come here on the wrong day to play. The park was full of Hispanic soccor leagues. My group looked way out of place here. Rather very awkward and as a rookie wasn't aware that this was an object-type course, so I'm foolishly thinking the baskets were removed. So I won't be bothering to come back.


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Grilled Butterflied Leg of Lamb with Mint Pepper Jelly
- Yield: 6 to 8 servings
- Prep: 10 mins
- Cook: 30 mins
You can begin marinating the leg of lamb up to two days in advance.
- Mint Pepper Jelly:
- 1cup pepper jelly
- 1/4cup chopped fresh mint
- 3tablespoons red wine vinegar
- 1teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- Lamb:
- 1 (4 1/2 to 5 pound) butterflied leg of lamb
- 8 garlic cloves, cut in half, smashed lightly with a knife blade
- 1/4cup fresh rosemary or 1 heaping tablespoon dried rosemary
- 3tablespoons olive oil
- 1/2cup dry red wine or Marsala
- 3tablespoons chopped fresh mint
- 1teaspoon kosher salt
- 1tablespoon freshly ground black pepper
- Safflower oil or canola oil for oiling the grill
- To make jelly, combine all jelly ingredients; whisk until well blended. Refrigerate in an airtight container until ready to use, up to 1 week.
- To prepare lamb, make about 8 small incisions on the fatty side of lamb and insert a garlic half and some rosemary into each slit. Rub lamb on both sides with olive oil, wine, remaining garlic and rosemary, mint, salt and pepper. Cover and refrigerate overnight or let stand 1 hour.
- Brush grill rack lightly with oil. Preheat grill. Remove lamb from marinade. When fire is medium-hot, place lamb on rack and cook 15 to 20 minutes per side, until temperature reaches 130F to 135F for medium rare or 140F to 145F for medium. Baste frequently with remaining marinade.
- Remove lamb from grill and let rest, lightly covered, 10 minutes before slicing. Carve into ¼-inch thick slices and serve with 1 tablespoon Mint Pepper Jelly per serving (You'll have some jelly left over).
From Foster's Market Cookbook by Sara Foster, copyright ©2002 by Sara Foster. Used by permission of Random House, Inc.
Nutritional Info *per serving
- Calories 395
- Fat 16g
- Cholesterol 155mg
- Sodium 395mg
- Carbohydrate 16g
- Fiber 0g
- Protein 50g


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There were two little crabs who met in Florida every year. One year when they arrived, one little crab was shivering terribly. The other crab asked why and he said, "I got a ride here on a man's moustache. He drove so fast, I was freezing."
"Well," the other crab said, "why don't you hide up a lady's skirt next year. Then you won't be as cold."
The little crab said, "Hey, that isn't a bad idea."
A year later, the two crabs met at the same place, and the one little crab was shivering very badly again. The other crab asked if he had taken his advice and he said, "Yeah, I went and hid up a lady's skirt, but when I woke up in the morning I was on that's guy's moustache again!"


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2012: The Year of the Gateway
By Ken Morse, CTO, Cisco Service Provider Video Technology Group
And here we are, video-side friends, at the start of yet another year. As we move together into 2012, I hereby declare this to be the year of the gateway.
The natural sidekick to the gateway, of course, is the client — and by "client," I mean virtual or "soft" set-tops. CPE, and CPE software. The suite of stuff that's going to connect up all the tablets, laptops, and new video screens we keep purchasing, as consumers, to the screens we're used to watching (meaning TVs) for premium, subscription video content.
Let's look more closely at the gateway, since I just so boldly declared 2012 to be its breakthrough year. And in particular, allow me to hone in on the Multiscreen Video Gateway line we've been working on and trialing with customers over the last year. A quick look under the hood of the Cisco 9800 series gateway, for our more gear-headed readers: Six tuners, to stream up to live or recorded streams, over IP, to other screens in the home; built-in DOCSIS 3.0 cable modem, for connectivity at rates as high as 320 Mbps downstream, and 120 Mbps upstream; transcoding engine, to convert MPEG-2 content to MPEG-4/H.264.
Because the gateway marketplace is not exactly lacking for activity, here's a quick rundown on why gateways like ours matter to consumers, to find and consume video, and to service providers, to bridge between the existing QAM-based environment, and the future, pure-IP environment:
- Gateways give the term "multi-room DVR" a whole new meaning. Remember that this all starts with a "headed" architecture, like with traditional set-tops, to bring SD, HD and 3D to digital televisions in the home. Gateways build on that, not only to share DVR content between the various TV screens in the home (multi-room DVR), but also with consumer-purchased screens.
- They let consumers simultaneously record on six channels. Today's QAM-based DVRs let consumers record two HD channels. Gateways increase that to six streams, simultaneously recording, and viewable across connected screens.
- Gateways straddle QAM, DVB, hybrid and full-IP video installations. This matters because we're in a transition period, from one form of digital distribution (QAM), to another (IP). In transitions, gateways are vital. Why: Because service providers need to migrate, not "flash-cut," to all-IP.
- They're easy on CapEx. The combination of gateway and soft clients is considerably easier on the budget than, say, furnishing a home with more than two dual-tuner HD-DVRs. Plus, gateways can share live and on-demand content with today's QAM-based set-tops, in addition to pure-IP set-tops – to both managed and unmanaged end point devices.
- They're cloud-ready. Video and navigation features are already moving into "the cloud" – meaning not contained locally, inside the device. Our Media Gateway is, for that reason, cloud-enabled, to easily and securely store content higher up in the network.
So much for a little New Year's tech-talk about our Multiscreen Gateways! But don't take my word for it. Check out the video below featuring yours truly and James Kelso, VP of Video Technology for Cox Communications, which delves into the reasons why service providers are drawing up their gateway implementation strategies. And our thanks to you, James, for helping to communicate what the heck a "gateway" is, and why it matters!
Cheers and a happy, healthy, prosperous 2012 to you all.
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Managing Director & Senior Partner
Rainer Strack is the global leader of the human resources topic at The Boston Consulting Group. He has been the head of BCG's People & Organization practice in Central Europe, the Middle East, and Africa for ten years, and he leads BCG's Social Impact practice in Germany.
Rainer became a Fellow in 2008. His research topic is the concept of people advantage, which deals with the ability of companies to generate competitive advantage through people management strategies.
In 2014, he presented a TED talk on how to solve the impending workforce of 2030 as part of a series of talks curated by TED and BCG. Rainer has authored numerous articles on such topics as HR controlling and people business in 2005 and on demographic risk management and strategic workforce planning in 2008, both published in the Harvard Business Review. He was a member of the Global Agenda Council for talent mobility of the World Economic Forum and presented twice on this topic in Davos.
Since joining BCG in 1994, Rainer has led a wide range of projects on strategy, process optimization, culture, organization, transformation, change, talent, and human resources management. His expertise lies in the automotive, banking, consumer goods, energy, health care, industrial goods, insurance, public, social impact, and technology and telecommunications sectors.
Prior to joining BCG, Rainer worked as a research assistant for RWTH Aachen University.


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Texas A&M Gets First Feel of Cowboys Stadium
The Texas A&M Aggies run practice in preparation for their January 4th, 2013 AT&T Cotton Bowl match up against the Oklahoma Sooners.
DALLAS – The No. 9 Texas A&M Aggies took part in their first practice on the playing surface for the 77th AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic with an hour practice at Cowboys Stadium.
"We were able to move the ball on both sides and really do our scripts we usually do on Thursdays," said head coach Kevin Sumlin. "We tried to turn the music up as loud as it could be so we could work with some crowd noise. We worked a lot on the kicking game today because that's what's different. Anytime you're indoors, particularly with as big of a screen up there, we had to work with our guys fielding kicks. We got a lot done today."
The workout in shorts and helmets gave A&M a chance to reacquaint itself with the stadium where it has played at least one game in each of the past four seasons. The Aggies are still seeking their first victory in the home of the NFL's Dallas Cowboys.
"We've played in here before and so has Oklahoma," said Sumlin. "This is a place we felt we had to get in a little bit and practice in before we play. You can't help but be excited to come into a building like this and know that there won't be an open seat in the house Friday night."
On paper, A&M comes into the game with the recipe to get that elusive win, led by redshirt freshman QB Johnny Manziel and junior LT Luke Joeckel on offense and junior DL Damontre Moore on defense. Sumlin said individual successes and accolades of his younger players are direct by-products of the intangibles his seniors have brought to the team throughout the season.
"Our seniors have done a tremendous job," said Sumlin. "The underclassmen are getting the credit but it's the seniors who are leading us. As a coach you can lead a lot when guys are in front of you. Real leadership on your team comes from guys when they are not around you, whether that's in the locker room, outside the building, going to class or out at night. When you have guys, like our seniors, who can lead like that, it makes your job a lot easier. I think you can tell from this team that we're getting great senior leadership out of this group."
The Aggies will enjoy a quiet night of rest at their headquarters hotel before having their final tune-up for the No. 11 Oklahoma Sooners (10-2, 8-1 Big 12 conference) with an afternoon walk-through at Cowboys Stadium on Thursday.
The 77th AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic will be held on Friday, Jan. 4 on FOX. Telecast starts at 6:30 p.m. with kickoff scheduled for 7:10 p.m. Gus Johnson will handle play-by-play duties with Charles Davis as the color analyst.
For the first time the AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic will be heard around the world on ESPN Radio. Providing play-by-play is Brad Sham, the "Voice of the Dallas Cowboys". Ed Cunningham will provide color commentary and Ian Fitzsimmons will report from the sidelines.


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The IUCN Cahoacan and Tacaná projects in Mesoamerica were recently selected to feature in the new ECODES catalogue, profiling a distinct selection of innovative social projects implemented by organizations around the world.
The purpose of the catalogue is to disseminate and promote initiatives conducted by civil society organizations that address climate change, encourage efficiency of water use, and improve air quality and development cooperation. ECODES selected the projects from around the globe, identifying in particular those that have the capacity to be replicated in other locations.
"It is an honour to have our projects featured in the ECODES catalogue, recognizing the important work IUCN and our partners have carried out in the Cahoacan and Tacaná regions," said Rocio Cordoba, IUCN Mesoamerica Water Coordinator. "The recognition that our projects are having beneficial impacts on the ground as well as functioning as models for replication in other project areas, is a boost to our project staff as well as the communities carrying out the work."
The main objective of the Cahoacan project is reducing the risk of disasters around hydro-meteorological impacts. Through restoration and conservation of the Cahoacan Basin watersheds, damage from excess water and severe weather impacts is prevented. The project has been carried out in 5 municipalities of Chiapas since July 2007 by IUCN and the Society of Natural History Soconusco, with the support of Fundacion Gonzalo Río Arronte I.A.P. The project is based on the creation of strategic alliances between different stakeholders. The intervention strategy began with improving the understanding of the structure and function of the basin.
Some of the outcomes of the Cahoacan project include 14 agreements linked to water for the development of Disaster Risk Management, participation of communities in civil protection, 785 ha reforested, erosion control through terraces and irrigation channels, formation of watershed committees which secured funding to implement the integrated management of water resources in the region.
The actions in Cahoacan have spread and together with other partners, IUCN is currently managing the second phase of the project.
The Tacana Project, supported by the Netherlands Embassy in Guatemala, covers the Suchiate and Coatan River basins between Mexico and Guatemala. It was also selected for inclusion for its achievements in strengthening participation of local stakeholders, creation of watershed councils and improving socio-economic conditions.
Nurseries, reforestation, livestock, greenhouse projects are but some of the active initiatives in Tacana that have taken place. Development of standards for water use, the spreading of local knowledge and expertise on watersheds, have all boosted grassroots organizations and the institutionalization of Watershed Councils. The Tacana approach has been applied in all 14 watersheds in the Suchiate and Coatan River basins.
More information on the Tacana project, please contact: [email protected]
More information on the Cahoacan project, please contact: [email protected]
The ECODES catalogue was launched at the Spain Pavilion during the Shanghai Expo 2010.
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that's the spirit!
August 10th, 2009
You've probably heard of the Duke Spirit by now- you might've even heard comparisons to Jefferson Airplane, Fleetwood Mac, Sonic Youth, etc. (what a combo!) They're definitely on the rise right now, being all over every late night show there is and playing chic fashion industry parties- but I didn't really see what the big deal was until I found this super 8 film made for their song "souvenir". It's so haunting and cool- so much so that I almost feel like a Duke Spirit convert.


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Diners at a Shawano restaurant got quite a shock when a wayward deer came crashing through the front window.
Waitress Amanda Peppler says she heard the glass shatter and thought it was a gunshot, then saw the deer appear out of nowhere. Surveillance video shows two deer running through the parking lot of the Perkins restaurant Monday night and one smashing through the glass.
No one was hurt by the shattering glass or unwelcome intruder. WAOW-TV (http://bit.ly/1fOX0Bt ) reports the deer was gone just as fast as it rushed into the restaurant.
Managers say it appeared to be injured, but hasn't been seen since.


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Deism is a philosophical state that derives the existence and nature of God from reason — as opposed to theism which relies on direct supernatural revelation and scriptural dogma. Deism rose during the 1700s in Europe and the United States, and today exists in the forms of Classical Deism and Modern Deism.
The central tenets of deist thought include:
- Rejection of miracles, prophecies, and supernatural events.
- Rejection of holy scriptures and religions based on scriptures.
- Rejection of most major religious faiths, such as Islam, Christianity, and Judaism.
- God exists and created the universe.
- God has an absolute standard for morality.
- Humans have some form of a "spirit" or "soul".
While deists agree that some form of God exists, the nature of God to individuals will vary greatly. This has caused deism to be much more obscure in the religious world, as deists are only unified by a belief in a God (much like atheists, on the other side of the coin, are only unified by their lack of belief).
Because there is no scriptural standard or dogma, deism is usually not classified as a religion but rather as a philosophical state or stance. Generally speaking, deists today identify with an omnipotent God who created the universe but now has no personal interaction with the actual world. Other variations include pandeism, a belief that everything is a part of God but humans are unable to comprehend God in its entirety due to the infinite nature of God.


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Though it was widely-reported that Star Trek director J.J. Abrams would also go on to direct the next Star Wars, it wasn't until tonight that Lucasfilm issued an official statement. Included are not only remarks from a very humble J.J, but also industry professionals vouching that the franchise is in good hands.
This includes even George Lucas himself.
George Lucas went on to say "I've consistently been impressed with J.J. as a filmmaker and storyteller." He's an ideal choice to direct the new Star Wars film and the legacy couldn't be in better hands."
"To be a part of the next chapter of the Star Wars saga, to collaborate with Kathy Kennedy and this remarkable group of people, is an absolute honor," J.J. Abrams said. "I may be even more grateful to George Lucas now than I was as a kid."
No mention of the frequency of lens flare in future Star Wars movies, but we'll keep you posted. For now, you can head over here to read the official statement in full.
Star Wars Is Being Kick-Started with Dynamite J.J. Abrams to Direct Star Wars: Episode VII [Star Wars]


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Map Flags Assortment
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Flag it with Moore Map Flags! These brightly colored triangular flags have hundreds of uses such as helping in sales planning, marking the location of customers and prospects, and identifying problem areas on maps.
Each pack comes with 15 flags in a random assortment of six colors that's perfect for creating strong visual control of planning boards. Colors are red, orange, yellow, blue, black, and white.
Moore Map Flags are 1 in. x 5/8 in. and come with 1 1/8 in. long pins. The pins have sharp points and are ideal for bulletin boards.
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Phoenix, AZ (PRWEB) February 25, 2009 — Productiontrax (www.productiontrax.com), a leading provider of royalty free music and stock sound effects, today announced The Blue Fuse production music library is now available on Productiontrax.com. This 2,515-track catalog was a well-kept secret of high-end post houses until May of 2008 when it was converted to royalty-free status. World-class musicians were recruited for the creation of this 55 CD library, and features a who's who of new musical styles such as dub step, kitsch, glitch and reggaeton.
Almost every track comes available as a 30 or 60 second edit as well as an alt mix with no lead element. This library has been heard on Fox News, Discovery Channel, NBC Primetime and others. To make the music search process smoother for fans of the Blue Fuse Music library, the collection has been divided into 6 sections, each with a distinct function….all with the same great sonic awesomeness. Here's how it breaks down:
"Drum & Bass" was a knock out of the park from the first day it arrived at post production houses in America. production music has never be same after these groovin', dead simple tracks of nothing but upright bass and drums formed the perfect foundation for radio ads that tried to say, 'We're a bunch of uptight, bean-counters…but we're cool. Look at how relaxed we are…….please?"
The energetic minimalism of the "Undertones" section really sets this collection apart from other music libraries. Offering high-quality rhythm grooves that leave plenty of room for your voiceover.
"Rhythm Project" is straight up drums, but man, they really pound! Just try to listen to the stressed out movie trailer tracks on Drama King Drums without flipping someone off in traffic. All tracks in this section were done with percussion.
The "Scoring Factory" section was originally designed to put everything a video producer needs for a 60-minute TV episode onto a single CD (bumper music, dialog beds, different versions of a central theme, etc). Check out all the cool short audio snippets on Ambient Drama Part I to get the idea. If your video program is long, but your OCD doesn't permit you to have CDs laying everywhere, head right to the "Scoring Factory" section.
"Friction" is, frankly, where the freaks hang out. That's the part of town you only visit during daylight. By default, if a music track is too harsh, demented, unclassifiable, noisy, or sounds like it was mixed by someone on hallucinogens, it goes into "Friction". Beware.
More than 300 tracks from the Blue Fuse Library are available for immediate download on Productiontrax.com with additional royalty free music tracks being added everyday. You can view the Blue Fuse library by visiting: http://www.productiontrax.com/profile.php?id=1764.
"Partnering with Blue Fuse allows Productiontrax.com to quickly expand our catalog with thousands of new music tracks and gives our customers access to some of the highest quality music libraries available today," says David Negron, founder of Productiontrax.com.
Productiontrax, (www.productiontrax.com), a leader in online distribution and licensing of royalty free music and sound effects, enables customers to license superior-quality royalty free music, sound effects, stock photos and stock video footage for use in film, television, and interactive media on an on-demand basis. As an innovator in online stock media, Productiontrax.com is the first site to allow creators of royalty free production music, sound effects, stock images and video to take an active role in licensing their work to the public. Productiontrax.com is dedicated to providing its customers with high-quality, yet affordable resources for multimedia productions. The music and images are 100% original, with new composers, new tracks and new images added everyday. Productiontrax.com is headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona and is a subsidiary of One Light Music Productions (www.onelightmusic.com).


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Selena Gomez Tweets About 'The Vow' — Is She Sending Justin A Hint?
Selena Gomez is super excited for Rachel McAdams new movie, 'The Vow,' to hit theaters. Do you think Justin Bieber will take her?
Listen up, Justin Bieber — we have the perfect Valentine's Day date for Selena Gomez! The 19-year-old starlet posted a pic of The Vow movie poster and wrote about it on her Instagram. You should rent out a movie theater again take her to see that — and wouldn't it be romantic if you popped the question?
"Just watched this trailer for the thousand time and cried… I can't wait," Selena wrote Dec. 4 about The Vow, which hits theaters Feb. 10.
It's been exactly a year since Justin, 17, and Selena became more than just friends, and what a year they've had. The couple has traveled all around the world together, performed at each other's concerts and sat front row at nearly every major awards show.
Although they're probably too young to tie the knot, they're one of our favorite celeb couples. They treat each other with respect, protect one another and always look like they're having the best time…no matter what they are doing. Do YOU think Justin should make a vow to Selena this spring?
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Hearts & Flowers Prettier Plaques Background Cookie Stencil
Hearts & Flowers Prettier Plaques background stencil has been thoughtfully designed by cookie master, Julia Usher, to make your cookies prettier than ever. This stencil has been unbundled from item SJU0012 - Love 2 Prettier Plaque 5 piece set. Background stencils can be used alone or mixed and matched with all message and frame stencils in the line. All stencils work well with both royal icing and airbrushing. These stencils fit the most popular 3- to 4-inch plaque cutters. The instructions in the PDF below explain how Julia typically creates a fully layered look, but feel free to improvise.
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Designs have been released for a new Dining Commons and Student Residence for the University of Chicago by Studio Gang with Mortenson Construction. The pair of new facilities will replace the current Pierce Tower and Dining Commons and provide accommodation for approximately 800 undergraduates as part of the university's traditional House System.
This system sees undergraduates living alongside advanced graduate students and faculty members in small communities with the new Dining Commons arranged so that the Houses can eat together as a family-style unit. Karen Warren Coleman, Vice President for Campus Life and Student Services confirms: "The design of the new residence hall reflects how students want to live when they come to UChicago - to have their school, work, home, and recreational lives knitted together for a full College experience."
When completed in 2016, the Residence Hall will be organised in 8 houses of around 100 students each centred on a 3-storey lounge and a series of private units for third- and fourth-year students keen to live a more independent lifestyle. These private rooms will each benefit from their own kitchen facilities but residents are still encouraged to join others in their 'House' in the Dining Commons.
Those eating in the Dining Commons will be able to enjoy scenic views across new green spaces landscaped by Studio Gang including a number of green courtyards. These can also be viewed from the top-floor reading room and supporting spaces such as retail units, offices, multi-use rooms and classrooms. LEED Gold Certification is being targeted for the scheme.
John W. Boyer, Dean of the College, commented: "High-quality collegiate housing, located centrally on the campus, is an enormous asset in supporting the educational goals of the faculty, in developing active and stimulating learning communities among our students, and in encouraging patterns of lifelong friendships among our alumni."


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DALLAS -- Five years ago, the United States Olympic Committee raised less money in major gifts than the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, its sort-of neighbor in Colorado Springs, Colo. For fiscal year 2007, the USOC raised less than $1 million in major gifts. In a word: pathetic.
For fiscal 2011, under the direction of chief development officer Janine Alfano Musholt, the USOC raised a net total of $10 million in gifts of more than $1,000. In two words: major progress.
In a wide-ranging news conference here Sunday at the traditional media summit in advance of the Olympic Games, USOC leaders said that they hoped American athletes would win the medal count this summer in London and that progress is being made in their ongoing revenue dispute with the International Olympic Committee.
But the most intriguing thing that was said -- and which relates directly to the medal count at any Olympic Games and ultimately could prove the secret to any new Olympic revenue model in the United States -- relates to the USOC's development campaign.
It's a potential game-changer.
As USOC chief executive Scott Blackmun reminded everyone, the focus at the leadership level is "to generate resources." With that comes the ability to do all the other stuff the American public not only wants but expects -- like, for instance, win the medal count.
Of course, the ground rule, spelled out in a 1978 law enacted by Congress, is that the USOC must be privately funded.
This is what makes the USOC different from every other national Olympic committee in the world. In the rest of the world the Olympic committee is an arm of its government.
For emphasis: the USOC must raise every penny it spends.
To grossly simplify, the USOC largely depends on television and sponsor money.
The crux of the dispute with the IOC is that the USOC gets a special cut of the NBC and sponsor deals that no other NOC gets. The USOC gets 12.75 of the NBC money, $4.38 billion from 2014 through 2020, and 20 percent of the IOC's top-tier sponsor deals.
From the perspective of the rest of the world -- it makes sense that everyone else might be upset. Why should the USOC get special treatment?
From the USOC"s perspective -- it makes sense that the USOC is super-protective of its share. Everyone else is getting funds from their federal governments. The USOC isn't. What is the USOC supposed to do? Cut back? And let Russia and China roll over the American team?
It's not as if the USOC is in position to ask the federal government for money, either. For one, it's not the American way. For another, as Blackmun observed, "It's hard for us to make a case that we should receive government support when we have won the [overall] medal count at every Summer Olympic Games since Barcelona [in 1992] and won the medal count at Vancouver," a reference to the 2010 Winter Games.
As it is, it's something of a miracle that the U.S. teams do as well as they do. The USOC's annual budget is roughly $150 million, about the same as Ohio State spends on its athletic department.
Which is where the notion of an enhanced development campaign comes in.
Everyone knows football drives sports programs at Division I universities.
The amount of money that can get thrown around those programs is, in a word, obscene.
Just to take one example:
In 2003, Lewis Field at Oklahoma State was renamed Boone Pickens Stadium after alum and oilman T. Boone Pickens donated $70 million. That gift, $20 million of which was earmarked for stadium expansion, according to the OSU website, generated $100 million in gifts and pledges. In 2006, Pickens donated an astonishing $165 million more.
The stadium was re-dedicated in 2009. They set an attendance record there last fall. The OSU football team played in a BCS bowl game in January, the Fiesta Bowl, and won, beating Stanford and Andrew Luck, who would go on to be the No. 1 pick in the NFL draft.
That's called success breeding upon success.
Why can't the USOC replicate that kind of success?
If there are boosters willing to do that kind of thing for dear ol' alma mater -- why won't someone stand up and do that for the red, white and blue?
Because no one had ever really thought about it.
Which is crazy.
Why, in particular?
Because, as Musholt said, "We could change the way the movement is funded in the United States, in a good way."
About two or three weeks ago, about half the members of the USOC board of directors got together in Denver to talk about this very thing.
"When we talked longer-term, we talked orders of magnitude different than what we are talking now," USOC board chairman Larry Probst said.
Just to be imaginative, why couldn't 20 or 100 really rich people contribute fractional shares toward USOC financing?
Why couldn't life insurance policies or annuities be contributed? They do that in college development offices all the time.
This particular revenue stream is so obvious. It's just sitting there, practically begging to be tapped.
It is, as Blackmun called it, the USOC's "major growth opportunity."


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Two Republicans who made widely criticized remarks about abortion and rape lost their Senate elections Tuesday, the result of a massive backlash by female voters in states where Republicans should have won handily.
Rep. Todd Akin in Missouri and Richard Mourdock in Indiana each made deeply controversial remarks about rape that played a significant role in shaping their public image, resulting in losses that make it highly unlikely that the Republicans could win control of the Senate.
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In addition, freshman Rep. Joe Walsh — who made a controversial remark that abortions are never needed to save a woman's life, a remark he slightly rolled back amid a huge outcry — lost his reelection bid in Illinois.
The trio of losses underscores the importance of abortion and reproductive rights in local races. While abortion has been a prominent topic in elections for decades, this year, it's gone beyond the traditional, constitutional arguments about Roe v. Wade and a woman's right to end a pregnancy. It became about rape and fed into a larger national theme of the "war on women."
Planned Parenthood Action Fund said the losses proved "there is a political price to pay for demeaning and dismissing women."
"Tonight, voters rejected some of the nation's most vocal and extreme opponents of access to birth control, safe and legal abortion, and basic health care," said Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Action Fund. "Women went to the polls tonight and sent a resounding message to politicians who want to insert themselves into personal health care decisions."
In Akin and Walsh's cases, they made statements that medical doctors said were flat out wrong. And in Akin and Mourdock's cases, they brought rape — of all topics — into the already red-hot controversy over abortion rights, remarks that all but ended their political bids.
Women broke strongly against them, according to polls conducted in Mourdock and Walsh's districts in the final days of the race.
A poll released Friday showed that women voters were breaking strongly against Mourdock in his race against Democratic Rep. Joe Donnelly. On Tuesday, he became the first Democrat to win statewide office in Indiana since 2004.
Months ago, Republicans considered Indiana a lock and weren't overly concerned that Democrats would be able to take the seat held by Sen. Dick Lugar, who lost to the tea party-favored Mourdock in the primary.
Mourdock said during a debate last month that a pregnancy resulting from rape is something "God intended." He later tried to backtrack on his remarks and say that he would never condone a rape.
But the rape remark "completely interrupted" Mourdock's positive momentum, Republican pollster Christine Matthews wrote late last week when she released the Howey/DePauw Indiana Battleground Poll. Among women in the poll, Donnelly led Mourdock 50 percent to 38 percent. Among men the two candidates were tied.


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31 May 2001
|Picketts Charge field - Gettysburg
|Robert E. Lee Statue -Gettysburg
|This is the "Copse of Trees" -Gettysburg
|Maj Warren at Little Round Top - Gettysburg
|Gettysburg from top of Little Round Top - Gettysburg
|1863 photo of Devil's Den - Gettysburg
|2001 view of Devil's Den - Gettysburg
The retirement home of the Eisenhowers is just west of Seminary Ridge and was in a photo I took from one of the battle observation towers earlier. It was good to see the home of a President who was alive when I was alive. In fact I have a 1952 "I like Ike" scarf from the campaign. I was VERY little at the time, of course. This farm tour was excellent. It's a part of the National Park Service. The home remains just as Mamie had left it when she died in 1979.
|Eisenhower's Gettysburg Farm
|The Eisenhower Rose
|Hershey Chocolate Factory, Hershey PA


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Digital Chocolate Dips Into Investors' Pockets, Raises $12 Million for Social Games
Mobile-game turned social-games developer Digital Chocolate has raised $12 million in additional venture capital.
The San Mateo, Calif.-based company, led by Electronic Arts founder Trip Hawkins, has now raised close to $56 million in total.
The latest round was led by Intel Capital and includes participation from previous investors Sutter Hill Ventures and Bridgescale Partners.
While Digital Chocolate is no Zynga–which is close to completing a funding round of $500 million, valuing the company at $10 billion, according to BoomTown's Kara Swisher–it has still managed to build a pretty sweet business as a cross-platform game developer, spanning both mobile and social.
Today, Digital Chocolate is the 12th-largest game developer on Facebook, with 17.6 million monthly active users playing such titles as Tower Bloxx, MMA Pro Fighter, NanoStar Castles, NanoTowns and NanoStar Siege, according to AppData.
The company also reports that it has achieved more than 100 million mobile downloads, and that it supports multiple platforms, such as iPhone, Android, BlackBerry and an upcoming slew of tablets.
Digital Chocolate says the capital will be used to improve its cross-platform capabilities and its geographic reach.


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WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- U.S. census officials said they're already debating whether to add a new race to the list of options for the 2020 form: Hispanic.
The possible addition has drawn passionate responses from both sides. Many Latinos dismiss the term "Hispanic" as too generic while others embraced the idea of distinguishing themselves from others of Caucasian heritage, the San Antonio Express-News said Monday.
In the 2010 Census, more than half of Latinos checked the "white" race box; 37 percent checked "some other race."
"That's how you know there's a problem," said Professor Jorge Chapa of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. "The data on race is not very good when 37 percent say essentially 'none of the above.'"
Others argued the term "Hispanic" doesn't offer any better racial profile of the nation than the current form does, given the diverse nature of those with Latino heritage.
Dr. Fernando A. Guerra, who retired as director of health at the San Antonio Metropolitan Health District, calls it "a mistake, given the longstanding anthropological classification of Negroid, Mongoloid and Caucasian races that have served demographers, anthropologists and public health data gatherers and analysts quite well."
The matter won't officially have to be resolved until 2018, when Congress must approve the language on the census forms.