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Debbie McGee: Strictly Come Dancing star makes huge confession about 2018 line-up
Debbie McGee: Strictly Come Dancing star made a confession about 2018 line-up
DEBBIE MCGEE took aim at the Strictly Come Dancing 2018 line-up on her BBC Radio Berkshire show this morning when she made a very frank confession about this year's contestants.
The 59-year-old host, who took part in Strictly Come Dancing last year, gave her verdict on the line-up as she responded to questions from listeners wondering how she felt about it.
"My thoughts are the same as they often are every year," she said, admitting: "There's not that many people I know when they announce them."
Debbie McGee explained she didn't think many people knew some of the stars unless they were fans of shows they had appeared in.
"But that's what the programme is about," she added. "That then people surprise you and you learn about them as the series goes on.
"I think it's a part of what makes the series interesting."
The former Strictly finalist continued: "This year, there doesn't seem to be someone who will be the comedy person but that's where the surprise comes."
She then named who she thought had been the comedy acts in the Strictly 2017 line-up.
"In my year, it was a choice of quite a few people. There were a few of them that were really very funny.
"Susan [Calman], Brian Conley... Ruth Langsford was very funny at times, or most of the time," she giggled.
"I surprised people with what I could do, other people really improved," Debbie recalled. "I just think that's the same this year.
Debbie McGee: Strictly Come Dancing star admitted she didn't know many of 2018 contestants
"When they announce the names the press are always going, 'This is the worst line-up yet,' but they say it every single year and the programme is always a huge success and I'm sure it will be again this year."
Debbie made it all the way to the final with her professional partner Giovanni Pernice, 27, wowing not only the viewers but also the judges with her incredible technique.
Her impressive flexibility earned her the nickname Flexi McGee, but she was pipped to the post by actor Joe McFadden, 42, who lifted the glitterball trophy with his dance partner Katya Jones, 28.
On her radio show this morning, Debbie went on to reveal Giovanni had texted her to ask who she taught he should be paired up with from this year's Strictly line-up.
"I sent Giovanni a message the other day and I put, 'I'm not jealous yet," she laughed. "And he asked me who I thought he should be partnered with.
Debbie McGee: Strictly Come Dancing star made it to the final last year
"So I sent back, 'Me,'" the presenter quipped.
Debbie recalled how Giovanni had replied with a string of messages each containing one letter of her name, recreating the famous moment in last year's series which saw him reading out "D.E.B.B.I.E" from a board during a dance where she played an optician and he played a patient.
The Strictly Come Dancing line-up has come under fire from fans after all 15 celebrities were confirmed this week, with some fans saying YouTube star Joe Sugg, 26, isn't a big enough star.
Former Pussycat Dolls star Ashley Roberts, 36, has also been accused of having too much prior dance experience, having appeared as a judge on Dancing On Ice in the past.
Head judge Shirley Ballas, 57, has defended the line-up of contestants, saying on Loose Women: "First of all, I don't think the BBC ever get it wrong. That's just my feeling."
She urged fans to give the "diverse" cast a chance, adding: "It has to be a mixture of people and, at the end of the day, people will watch it, they'll judge for themselves."
Strictly Come Dancing returns Saturday September 8 on BBC One.
Debbie McGee: Her five most memorable Strictly Come Dancing performances revealed
Debbie McGee wowed both judges and fans with her incredible technique and flexibility on Strictly Come Dancing 2017. Here's her most memorable dances from the BBC One competition.
Week One: Paso Doble
Debbie was an early favourite to get far in the competition from the get go as she wowed the judges during the first week with her Paso Doble.
Her stunning moves received a lot of recognition and she was awarded 30 marks for her debut with partner Giovanni Pernice.
Week Four: Cha Cha
Debbie sent jaws-dropping around the UK when she performed a standing split during her Cha Cha with the Italian dancer.
The age-defying beauty showed off the extent of her flexibility as she perfected the daring move in a slit frock.
Week Seven: Tango
The former magician's assistant became the first contestant of the series to be awarded the perfect score of 40 last year.
Debbie performed the fierce Latin dance to I Gotta Feeling by The Black Eyed Peas and received rave reviews from the judges.
Week Eight: Salsa
Debbie's salsa was certainly memorable for viewers at home as she sizzled in a red racy dress.
The Strictly Come Dancing finalist put on a very steamy performance with Giovanni, which scored them 35 points.
Week 10: Argentine Tango
Debbie smouldered as she showcased her eye-popping flexibility during the Argentine Tango with Giovanni.
The radio host effortlessly fell into the splits during one part of the dance, displaying her toned pins in the process.

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This one is a little embarrassing.
But I am an open and honest kind of guy, so here goes.
Whenever I see an open cabinet, I like to run into it.
There isn't a reason, I just like to do it.
It doesn't matter where the cabinet is. I just dive in.
I'm pretty good at climbing and have no fear of heights.
The view from high is exciting…
…and I feel like King of the World.
The problem is this…
…I FREAK OUT when the door is closed!
If I accidentally get locked inside a cabinet I go nuts!
Panic sets in and I thrash about like a lunatic.
…I thought I'd never see the light of day again.
And then there's the cabinet…
…there's a pretty big mess left from the freak out.
The worst part?
The very worst part?
It's the girls who send out the alarm that I need rescuing.
When blind girls have to rescue a guy – THAT is embarrassing.
Warning: Stay out of open cabinets!
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XTERRA Ambassador Matt Haley has been the XTERRA Georgia Regional Champ every year since 2013.
One of the secrets to his success is fartlek training, or "speedplay." In a fartlek workout, you alternate your steady-state pace with faster bursts. This is a great way to simulate race conditions and learn how to put in surges when you need them. Additionally, fartlek training reduces the chance of overuse injuries because it alternates high intensity with periods of rest.
Q. Matt, can you share one of your favorite workouts?
A. I typically hit the track once a week for an interval workout. I tend to like longer repeats where I can settle into a groove. Then I finish with something shorter and faster to get in some turnover.
If I had to pick a favorite though, it'd probably pick a fartlek workout. I've been doing 30-60-90 workouts since college at Keene State in New Hampshire and that's always been a staple for me.
I pick a run between 7 and 10 miles and throw in three to five sets of alternating pick ups and rest. I go 30 seconds hard with 30 seconds rest and then 60 seconds hard with 60 seconds rest and then 90 seconds hard with 90 seconds rest.
After I finish five sets, I finish the run up-tempo to increase my lactic acid threshold.


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It is a killing fog, creeping about my legs like mustard gas in the trenches. I'd had my fill of the trenches, and the marks were permanently on my face.
With my walking stick in my hand, I dragged my sorry shape through the mists and odorous moisture of the east side of the city. Intermingled with the acidic white fog, was the stench of the docks.
I had just left the China Pipe Inn, which was a pub and much more. Do you blame me for my vices, with my leg on fire from the embedded steel and bone fragments that used to be part of a Hauptman's rib cage and an artillery piece? The killer fog also irritates the chemical burns on my melted face.
But I feel nothing. So judge me not.
Nothing is what I was looking for; my body is half dead and the simple opium solution allows my mind to ignore the physical shackle.
Sometimes the half alive part compensates; becomes overactive and assumes responsibility. And then, the stories begin. I have become a story teller to no one. A lone mangled figure sitting quietly by the docks, talking to the thick fog. The anonymous story teller; invisible and often unintelligible.
Since all your hallucinations are listening to my altered ramblings, still yourselves for a moment and I'll tell you a seasonal tale. And don't moan on about my bitterness, it is appropriate to my station in life.
I can see you people, forming and dissipating in the smog. I can almost see people I might have once recognized, at least when they had all their limbs properly attached.
But I wander....
Earlier this evening a foreigner asked me about Boxing day. So I spun the usual tale about abused servants getting to put the leftover food from their superior's tables in boxes the day after Christmas and taking it home for a cold feast.
The wog went away satisfied after stealing a draw off my pipe, the blackguard. Well, one must expect this from Chinamen and wogs, so I was not unduly stressed. Besides, the dissipated fop who runs the China Pipe feels sorry for me, and most nights the opium is provided free. Of course, the ownership papers are in my name in exchange.
This disturbs me not at all, since one prison is the same as any other, whether or not the doors are locked from the inside or outside.
Back to the issue at hand.
The correct story of Boxing day has nothing to do with the standard fable, which is assumed to be 'ancient'. In fact it was invented not fifteen years ago, between the Boer war and the Great war. This untrue version appeared because the truth is 'unpalatable to Englishmen.'
It seems my family is cursed with misfortune, for the story originates from my mother's brother, and their estates in a grisly, and miserable shale-covered peninsula not three hours train journey from here.
My uncle was quite unbalanced, as I am these days. Now, now, politeness is not required here. I know what I am. The huge difference between my current mental habits, and those of my uncle are simple; I am quite harmless you see, whereas my uncle was not.
What he truly was, is only speculated upon by those with a grim set of mind. You see, he was a titled petty aristocrat and part of his duties included a small parish a few minutes ride from the moldy Norman keep he used to call the 'Palace.'
In this Parish was, of course, the local church complete with the usual moss covered gravestones and a surprisingly large quantity of fresh graves. My uncle, as it turned out, was directly responsible for this sudden renewal.
The parish population had suddenly suffered a series of deaths. Something like one third the population essentially expired in the space of two years. Recall, this is an isolated place, with no reason for anyone to travel there, and the people too poor to leave.
I beg your pardon? What's this? I apologize, sometimes my memory fails in mid-hallucination. Never the mind, assume that I did tell you about the isolation.
My uncle was a large framed man, yellow of complexion, large of hand and jaw. His crazed mind forced his dim eyes to occasionally glitter suddenly, like a piece of shrapnel embedded in a corpse, reflecting a passing Very light.
Well, Uncle Myrdin had certain tastes, you see. And they dealt with small boxes about a yard by a yard. Many small boxes. And many small pieces of many small people who used to be large people within.
As I understand it, from the constables, there was a passageway from the graveyard to an extensive network of caves, which were also connected to that hideous Norman construction.
In short, Uncle used to travel beneath, extract the coffins and do whatever it is he did do. It seems he ran out of fresh meat after a while because over that two year period he would place people in the top and return later from the bottom. Very efficient, is it not?
One spring, there was an uncommon level of flooding, followed by an uncommonly hot sun. The boxes apparently let themselves be known, and out of curiosity, was inspected by a local veterinary, who suspected plague killed livestock.
When the story appeared in the local ill-reputed presses around this country, it happened to coincide with one of our more rich citizens who had poisoned all his servants the day after Christmas. They had been poisoned due to their master's whim, no reason stated.
Thus began Boxing Day, in its original form. It really has nothing to do with the box itself, but with the carved carcasses within.
I think you should leave at this point, for I am rather keen on getting a nice long swim in, before the fog lifts and the tide turns.
Ennui is an old bastard famed for uttering these incredulous words in over 35 countries ; "You only have Lager?" Beyond that, work has appeared in MPD, In Dark Faith Eternal, iMPs in the InkWell and a half a dozen other 'zines. The other half of his brain has been published in the Canadian Journal Of Contemporary Literary Stuff, Raw Nervz and other Lit oriented publications. Ennui spends his day as a corporate whore and his evenings are filled with Guinness products.


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Natural Insight is a hosted/SaaS task management solution for merchandisers and retailers. As their business grew, so did their need for a fault-tolerant server load balancing solution that was both flexible and scalable. HOSTING and Natural Insight worked together to develop the right dedicated solution at the right price point for optimal growth.
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"We knew where we needed to go—we rely on HOSTING to be the expert. We throw things over the fence and they come back with the solution. This means we focus on doing software and they focus on the hardware."
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"The Support Team has been excellent; they understood our customized environment, knew our servers and setup. When we migrated from Windows to Linux in a 6 week period, HOSTING assigned a high-level support person to be online or on a call every day. That was phenomenal."
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Load Balancing Offers Scalable, Secure Growth for SaaS Provider
Natural Insight is a hosted/SaaS task management solution for merchandisers and retailers. This web-based platform offers extensive tools for workforce communication and remote data collection, and brings "execution intelligence" to business organizations, which helps them reduce costs, accelerate speed to market and maximize performance. With Natural Insight, clients do not install software or do extensive programming—with the SaaS model, they can be up and running in less than 30 days.
Natural Insight relies on their IT infrastructure to help manage over 47 million survey questions, year to date, from 450,000 web surveys/tasks. In addition, Natural Insight captures over 30,000 images a month. In addition to all this data, customers are also running report queries, creating task assignments, task acceptances, or other communications within the platform.
As the client base expanded, there was a clear need for redundant, dedicated load balancers that would permit smart management of growing traffic while offering scalability to meet future needs—economically.
Natural Insight's application requires strict session persistence in order to meet client security requirements. Individual user sessions are identified by HTTP cookies, and a single session must be allowed to persist across both HTTP and HTTPS requests. As a result, in order to effectively load balance this application they required a server load balancing solution that supported SSL termination so that both clear-text and encrypted sessions could be correctly identified and switched to the correct server.
HOSTING had the perfect Load Balancing solution for Natural Insight – the Coyote Point Equalizer. Coyote Point was selected due to its aggressive price point, product maturity and rich array of features. The solution proved to be an ideal fit for Natural Insight's application.
"Coyote Point has been a great partner to work with. Their Equalizer platform allows us to deliver a feature-rich server load balancing solution at a fraction of the cost of their competition," said Darrell Hyde, Director of Network and Security Engineering for HOSTING.
Since that time, traffic on the Natural Insights servers has doubled. Now averaging over 50,000 unique users a month, they have grown from a few hundred users a month to this 50,000 mark in just 4 years. The HOSTING solution offerings were a major factor in their ability to grow and service their clients' needs.
According to Paul Carney, Natural Insight's VP of Technical Services, HOSTING helped them understand the many available options during this high growth time. "We were hitting the edge threshold of the shared load balanced solution. 500 concurrent connections is the shared, load balanced maximum and we were reaching over 1000. With current and planned growth we knew we needed a dedicated solution, and HOSTING worked with us to build the right one." Along the way, remarked Carney, "HOSTING is always doing the right things."
"HOSTING has provided us with a high level of service that enables us to provide fantastic consistent, reliable and secure service to our clients. We started with two dedicated servers 4 years ago and now process millions of pieces of data, images and PDFs each month. The HOSTING team has been invaluable in guiding us not only in the best solutions to meet our growing needs, but also provided the implementation steps to migrate from one platform to the next with minimal interruption."


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Gizmodo is one of my favorite tech sites and they feature a coffee shop that stands apart from it's boring competition.
The Wormhole, a coffee shop in Chicago, celebrates geek culture with a DeLorean parked right inside the shop. How could you not walk in if you see this on the street? You are a human with a heart, right?
Read the rest and see the photos here: http://gizmodo.com/5624795/this-coffee-shop-has-a-back-to-the-future-delorean-parked-inside
Great targeting an audience (Geeks) – to the point it might even turn other market segments off.
But it got this shop world-wide publicity. I'll bet if any of you are going to Chicago soon that its tempting to check this place out?
So – What can you do that makes as strong a statement about your business, while being completely consistent with your vision, goals and targets?
What would get you global publicity – simply because it's on message AND different?


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JPRussell needed a new print or packaging design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 60 designs submitted by 17 freelance designers.
Harmony Provisions, LLC
Harmony Provisions is a veteran-owned retailer of eco-friendly products made in the United States.
We are looking for an awesome-looking label for our handmade, organic soy candles.
Deliverables would be artwork in .jpg, .tiff, .ai, .eps, and .pdf format and Microsoft Word 2010 (.docx) template that would allow us to type in our candle scent and then print the labels on sheets.
Candle labels should include our logo (or variation) and the following text:
"Organic Soy Candle"
"6 oz."
"Handmade in the USA"
The labels we'll be using are here: http://www.planetlabel.com/labels/p…oval~green
We'll be using the brown kraft color.


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This is Kayloo sporting her Bored-Out-Of-My-Bean look.
We actually got that "Pup Treads" tire for Mickey the first day we got him (here is a photo of Mickey's 1st day with the most slammin' family ever). But he didn't like it because I think he sensed that if that tire-o-terror ran over his tiny little body, he would probably be crushed into a fuzzy brown pulp.
Newbie dog parents error: Don't purchase toy if said toy is big enough to obliterate your brand new pup. Just sayin.


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Down the old streets of Zurich, a young lady walked reluctantly on Christmas Eve. She was uncertain, unsure of the course of action that she had planned. I will know for sure, she reassured herself. I will know before it is time. I must know for sure! Her soft footsteps, caught by the icy winds from the silent, Alpine mountains, echoed among the city's quiet surroundings.
Preoccupied with her troubled thoughts, she failed to see the clouds, draping the night sky, as mysterious and ominous as an Agatha Christie's novel. A single moonbeam broke through the turbid clouds and fell before her snowy path without notice. She had determined to press on to her destination. Nothing would detain her.
Her footsteps faded slowly as she neared the abandoned waterfront. She had reached her quest.
Before her loomed the Münsterbrücke Bridge on the Limmat River. Its massive stones and iron railings seemed endless as they protruded into the night harbor.
Here I am, she said to herself. I must go on. I can't turn back now. She felt herself trembling not from the winter night, but from her own fears and uncertainties.
As she walked onto the bridge, she reaffirmed to herself that it was real and not just a dream. I have thought so much of this night, she mused. Now, it is here. It seems like a dream, but no, it cannot be. I feel the cold wind, and in dreams you don't feel. Slowly, she walked along the walkway until she reached the center of the mammoth structure.
Gazing into the undisturbed flow below, her mind drifted into a mystical trance. This is the place, she thought. This is the point of departure, the terminus of life. The word 'life' eased from her quivering lips in a vapor of breath that floated silently across the harbor.
Unconsciously, she clutched her long, beige, Tibetan lamb coat closer to keep out the winter sting. At the same moment, her flowing, blonde hair clung tenaciously to the back of the coat.
Although, she stared intently at the water, her face seemed expressionless, except for the glimmer of sadness in her soft, porcelain blue eyes. Those eyes bespoke bitterness and deep sorrow beyond human expression.
She had come to the bridge for a definite reason, and now, being released in the recesses of her mind, her decision approached the moment of its life. As she pondered the decision, her breathing became rapid.
The icy winds lifted her hair with uncaring caresses. Their harsh touch awakened deep emotion within her. Tears, hot and bitter, glided down her chapped cheeks, transforming her face from expressionless to agony.
Out of her distress, she believed, she saw the waters swirl. In their swirl, she glimpsed shadows from her past. She wanted escape from her past and escape, she vowed, she would have, no matter the price!
As she gripped the iron rails of the bridge with ungloved hands, she hardly noticed their almost, human, sardonic coldness. All her thoughts focused on the frigid waters moving below. They seemed so lovely, so peaceful, she reasoned. They summoned her to a place of solitude, a fortress whose existence evanesced into eternal night. I shall find peace at last, at last, I will be free, she believed.
Her decision matured as the moon light flooded through the morose clouds. Startled by its reflected brilliance in the waters beneath her, she lost her hold on her decision. Everything below appeared so beautiful to her fogged, tormented mind.
Quickly, she regained her composure. She prepared to make her decision a reality. Her hands released the iron rails as her body prepared to execute her last wish of life. Pressing her body against the railing, she began to climb the rails slowly. Their slipperiness prevented a firm hold, but she pushed herself with determination. There can be no turning back, she reassured herself. This is my fate. There can be no other.
Suddenly, out of the silence, a voice spoke to her. The voice, like the moon before, shook her back into the present. She practically fell from the rail as she descended to face a person only ten feet from her.
"Fraulein Wyss, is anything the matter?" A young man queried.
Resentfully, she said, "Herr Gustavson, what are you doing here at so late an hour?" Anger filled her at this intrusion by someone she hardly knew. How dare he interfere with my plans, she thought. Why is he here?
"I came to talk with you. May I join you?"
Her steady gaze held him in place for several seconds. She felt an unusual, unexplainable attraction to him. He just seemed so warm, so friendly, standing there in the moonlight.
At the same time, she was frightened, unsure of the meaning of this interruption. Hesitantly, she stuttered, "Ja."
Before she realized it, he stood at her right side. It became apparent to her that he did not intent to break the silence.
"What do you wish to talk to me about, Herr?" Her voice was tense and tired.
"A dream of hope for tomorrow since it is Christmas," he answered gently. He saw shock suddenly register on her face.
Thoughts of the past and the present tumbled through her mind. Should she continue this conversation with a stranger, a man whom she met only a few hours earlier? She reflected, but could not find a definite answer. As they stood on the bridge, minutes passed in silence again.
Finally, she decided to respond, "Please explain what you mean?"
He smiled. "Do you remember this afternoon in the Inn where you work?"
"Ja," she answered in a perplexed manner.
As he began to recall the afternoon, she relived it. It was so vivid in her mind as he told it.
At a table in the Limmat River Inn, a young man sat watching the fire. The burning pine logs started his imagination racing. He thought of the many years those pine trees had lived. If only the trees could relate the sounds and stories of the forest, it would be a grand tale like Hans Christian Andersen's "THE FIR-TREE."
As he pondered, a blonde barmaid walked over with his order. He was oblivious to her presence as she placed the food and cutlery on the polished oak table.
Softly she said, "Herr Gustavson." He awakened from his meditation.
"Ja," he replied.
"Your food is ready."
"Danke schon," he said. She smiled and prepared to leave, then hesitated. Turning toward him again, she looked puzzled. He smiled at her confusion as he asked, "Ja?"
"I can understand why you ordered Soupe au Pistou and apple-date strudel, but why a goblet of hot water?" He pulled a small package from his heather gray coat pocket. Tearing open the package, he poured the contents into the cup and mixed it with his spoon.
"Taste it," he suggested as he handed it to her. She complied.
A surprised expression sprinted across her face as she declared, "It's milk."
"Nein. It possesses the same nutrient value as milk, but it is non-dairy in composition."
"I do not understand."
"I am allergic to milk, but I enjoy the taste. This product is made by the laboratory complex at which I am employed. He proceeded to give additional details of his work. During the discussion, she asked a few questions and found him to be charming and intelligent company.
Fraulein Wyss interrupted the flashback. "Surely, Herr, I said nothing that could be interpreted as a cry for help."
"Let me add a detail."
After their conversation, she had turned and walked away. As he watched her, a misty form appeared before him. He thought he saw a drowning woman but he could not be positive. He shook his head to clear it. Everything returned to normal. He finished his meal wondering what he had seen.
Returning to the present, she stated, "Surely, Herr, you do not believe in visions, especially ones so unclear?"
"Nein. But let me tell you what happened after I went to my room to sleep."
A few hours later, as he slept peacefully in his room, wails of terror flooded his mind. Waking at once, he knew this was not an ordinary nightmare. His experience in the Inn convinced him of that. Hurriedly, almost feverishly, he dressed and rushed out into the night. He had to find the person in his vision before it was too late. An inward compulsion drove him to the bridge.
At this point they rejoined the present. She stood anesthetized by his strange account.
They both felt the increasingly biting winds. As the winds grew harsher, the waves struck the bridge's massive granite pillars with a sad, moaning echo which invaded the man and the woman's minds.
About them the icy fog began to settle over the city. Once again the moon hid in the night clouds.
Around the city's bridge section no life stirred. No auto lights and few building lights illuminated that part of the town. On the bridge silence enveloped the two people. Finally, she dared to speak, "Do you believe that I am the person in your dream?" She asked without a tinge of emotion.
"Ja. I believe that you are."
"I do not need assistance, Herr Gustavson. I am twenty-five years of age and the arbiter of my destiny," her tone was one of defiance.
"One of humanity's many idiosyncrasies is that we are unwilling to seek assistance."
"I am an adult! I don't need or desire assistance from anyone," she spoke emphatically, angrily at his presumption. Who does he think he is? She asked herself. Just who?
"You seem to be fighting to keep your tears at bay, Fraulein Wyss."
"Tears!" She exploded. "What tears? You are mistaken! I am not about to cry. I have no reason to cry!"
"Fraulein Wyss, you wrote a note to your employer, informing him of your decision to end your life tonight. You arranged for him to receive the note in the morning. By then, it would have been too late for him to act."
Shock etched itself on her face; she glared at him in disbelief. There was no possible way for him to know that, she thought. I gave it in a sealed envelope to a friend this afternoon, just after I wrote it. A word forced itself from her trembling lips, "How?"
"It is not important for you to know how I know. What is important is that we discuss your situation, Fraulein Wyss, tonight. Please give me a chance."
"I guess, I have no choice," she conceded.
"Please tell me what is on your mind? Why do you want to end your life?"
"What do you do, when you are totally alone? My whole life has been one rubbish pile of mistakes and failures. I believed the waters would be the only solution," she groaned tearfully.
"You could escape reality that way, but your beautiful life is too previous to toss casually into a winter river," he stated kindly.
"You are an American with a totally different background than mine and know nothing of the problems which plague my daily life." She seemed to be pleading for an end to his intrusion.
"I'm Austrian and only work in America. However, I agree. I probably do not fully comprehend your situation, but I do know that we all have problems of some nature. We are human, and to be human is to have problems."
"Ja. It's true, but I feel so lonely. My loneliness seems like insanity to me. I hurt so much most of the time."
He gently placed his right hand on her shoulder and said," Ja. I know what you mean, Fraulein." His touch seemed to penetrate her coat, and it felt so warm to her. "Have you ever been in love?"
"There was a man who loved me once in my late teens, but I spurned him because I wanted wealth and power."
"Why did you want wealth and power?"
"I grew up in a poor family of seven children. It was so hard to live."
"Did you find wealth and power?"
"I lived with an older man who degraded me to simply an object of his pleasure. Finally, when I failed to meet his desires and fantasies, he replaced me with a newer model. He threw me in the streets with my clothes to be forgotten. The owner of the Inn found me and took me in. He gave me a job. That was three years ago."
By this time, the fog engulfed the city, like a dark gray lining of a winter coat. The mountain winds had ceased, and for the moment, the waters rested peacefully below the bridge people.
"Your life has been soiled by uncaring and unloving hands." A warmth spread through her body as he said those words.
For the first time that night, she looked directly into his eyes and found them to be so warm, so understanding, and so peaceful that she had to know more about this wonderful man. So she asked, "If I may be so bold, are you married?"
"Nein. My wife died during the war."
"I am sorry. I am sure you and your children miss her greatly."
"We never had children, Fraulein."
"I believe you would be a tremendous father. You seem so tender."
As he gazed into her soft, pained, azure eyes, he felt a warm glow inside. He could not explain it, but at the moment, it did not matter. There would be time to explore it. "I appreciate the compliment. What about you, Fraulein?"
"Children! Nein. I do not."
"Fraulein, you have a child."
"Nein. Herr, I do." She paused as she remembered that lying was fruitless in his presence.
"She is a lovely child, Fraulein."
"She has a good home and more important, she has love, much love," she stated smiling.
"True, but Fraulein, the main question of our conversation remains unanswered. Did you expect to find your solution in death?"
"I do not really know."
"So you planned to take the only genuine substance you possess, your life."
"It is the only possession that I can claim as my own. When I was a little girl, I lived in my private dreams of growing up and being rich. To me that was what life was all about. Perhaps, I never became a mature woman."
"Many people never grow to maturity because they cannot accept life with its raucous reality. Dreams can never take the place of reality."
"To me it is a living terror to think about tomorrow."
"If I examine my past, what hope is there for my future? I have never found true love. My child, my child, I will never share her love or hear the word 'mother' from her precious lips. I am a lowly barmaid with no future, no hope. I'm twenty-five years of age, and I have never truly lived.
"Your hope is in your child. Your hope is in the Inn's owner who treats you like his daughter, the daughter that he always wanted but could never have. Your hope is in yourself. You are a beautiful woman with a potential beyond your dreams, don't waste it in death. You must value who and what you are."
"Can we know who and what we are, Herr? Can I know? I must know to live! I must," she pleaded.
"I have a friend whose philosophy of life runs like this: 'Live today, know it, cherish it, love it, enjoy it, value it but do not waste it. Today is a resource that cannot be replenished. Once it has passed from the scale of time, it is lost forever. Today is to be lived as you believe best. Only you can decide your destiny, only you can experience the joy of life, only you, only you. Live today to its fullest and have no empty tomorrows.' Do you comprehend, Fraulein?"
"Ja. I believe, I do. Your friend sounds like you."
"Don't we choose friends who are like us?"
"Ja. Herr Gustavson, we tend to do that. May I ask another question?"
"What is death? I know that sound strange coming from someone who wanted to experience it. Do you have any insights on it, like you do on life?" Her fascination with him was growing, and she hoped that it would lead to something beauty, something precious. She did not know if it was her heart or her mind that desired this reality. At the moment, she would not concern herself with details. Only this previous moment mattered.
"Death is like quantum physics. No one has complete insights or answers to it. If I may turn the question, what did you expect death to be like, Fraulein?"
"As a young girl, my mother would tell me that death is a corridor between two doors of an opposite nature. As we close our eyes in darkness, we open them in light. Does that make sense?"
"Ja. We all must travel that corridor between darkness and light at some time.
Do you believe the right time has come for you? If you do, I will not stop you from leaping into the river. It is your decision to make. Twenty-five is a bad time to die, but it is a grand time to begin living. I would be saddened if you chose to die, very saddened," there was a plead in his voice.
Their eyes once again met. As she pondered on his comments, she became aware of her surroundings. By now the winds blew faster. In the fog ice crystals formed, and snow began to fall. The ivory flakes speckled the night fog.
To her ears came the chimes of the old bells in the stone clock tower. They were a lovely melody, she thought. Life seemed different somehow, she couldn't explain, but she knew it was.
"Life," she said slowly. Smiling, she said, "Herr Gustavson, I will think on what you said."
"In that case I will bid you a good night. See you for breakfast?" There was an earnest longing in his tone.
"Ja." Walking across the bridge, she headed toward the Grossmunster Cathedral while Herr Gustavson moved toward the Inn bathed in a warm glow.
I know what I need at the moment, she mused. A place of solitude and warmth, with the aroma of perfumed candles, to think about my new life. I know a nice place. In a way, I wish breakfast time was here, but I will have all night to think about how glorious tomorrow will be!
Suddenly, Herr Gustavson heard the shriek of tires and an ominous thug. Turning quickly toward the cathedral, he ran across the bridge toward the accident scene.
"Herr," the driver began, "I did not even see her!"
Herr Gustavson bent down to the heap that had been human. There was still a flicker of life in the crushed body before him.
"Is she dead?"
"Not yet. I will take her to the cathedral out of the cold. Find help!"
As the man went for help, the cathedral bells commenced ringing. For some reason, they were late signaling the midnight hour, the dawn of Christmas Day.
Picking her up carefully, he carried her into the cathedral. Once inside, she opened her eyes and looked about at all the beauty. She breathed deeply the perfumed air for a few seconds and said, "Thank you," she coughed. "I am sorry that we won't have," she stopped again and coughed. "Breakfast." She tried to speak again but could only cough.
She died in his arms before he could reply. He placed her on a vermilion velvet cushion in the foyer between two seven foot high, golden candelabra. The perfume seemed to drip on them from the candles.
Brushing the snow from her face, he kissed her warm lips. As he stood to his feet, tears cascaded down his cheeks. He rushed out the double oak doors and encountered the night. Something caused him to pause. From where he stood, the falling snow made the bridge like a wool tapestry, etched in a fairy tale which could have no unhappy endings, yet this tale had an unhappy ending.
He shouted into the winter night with passionate anger. "How can Fate be so cruel to one so young, who had so much to live for now? I demand an answer! Why? Why did she have to die? It isn't fair, it isn't fair," his words fell silent as he dropped to his knees and cried. Tears streamed down his face and made indentations in the snow. With his face buried in his hands, he felt a warm hand on his left shoulder.
As he looked up, he found himself at his dinner table in the Limmat River Inn. Fraulein Wyss stood before him with a concerned look on her lovely face.
"Herr Gustavson, you haven't touched your food. Is anything the matter?"
He stared at her for a moment, a long moment, in unbelief. Shaking his head no, he said, "Everything is fine now, Fraulein. I believe tonight is going to be just wonderful. I would like to talk with you about something."
"May I ask about what?" She asked positively with a smile.
"A dream of hope for tomorrow, a reason to live for tomorrow. I thought you might need someone to talk with you about that tonight."
She smiled. "I will be off work in an hour. I had planned something, but your suggestion sounds much better. You couldn't possibly know how much better it sounds. I will be looking forward to it, Herr Gustavson," she sighed with joyous relief. She felt drawn to him, and she did not want to resist the drawing.
As Herr Gustavson looked out the window, the falling snow in the setting sun made the bridge like a wool tapestry, etched in a fairy tale which would now have no unhappy endings this night, Christmas Eve.
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The Story of Mumbai's Rajabai Tower
South Mumbai's Fort area hasn't lost its British aura yet. The buildings, wide roads, the Flora Fountain and the Asiatic Library surely aren't boasting an Indian look.
Sir Bartle Frere came to Bombay as the Governor of the Bombay Presidency. When he landed here in 1864, he knew that the Bombay skyline was an empty canvas to paint on. The chief wealthy businessmen at the time like Sir Jamshedjee Jeejebhoy, Jagannath Sunkersett, David Sasson and Sir Premchand Roychund had made a lot of money in the metropolis owing to the heavy trade between India and Britain which was conducted chiefly in Bombay. They readily joined in to Sir Frere's idea to craft Bombay into mini London.
Of course Bombay was less crowded and much quieter back then. It had less cars and a lot of tree over and no skyscrapers. If you look at the old photos of this town, I'm sure your eyes will pop out! You'll keep guessing what happened to Marine Drive since it is missing from this picture!
So what did these wealthy gentlemen and the Governor do? They built the entire South Bombay Fort Area as we see it today. The Governor knew that the British were home sick and craving a bit of the Britishness. What better way to start than to build a mini London in the tiny port city of Bombay?
The Rajabai tower that was once the tallest building in the country (85m) became a part of the city's early skyline because of this project. The Rajabai Tower is a clock tower much like the Elizabeth Tower with the Big Ben inside in London. It was designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott, the same man who had built renowned buildings in the UK like the Renaissance hotel outside the King's Cross Station.
What most people miss is the beauty of this piece of architecture we know as Rajabai Tower.
Back then, the proverb 'Time Is Money' was just picking up in Bombay. Most people had to get to work on time but couldn't afford watches. Hence, clock tower's were built. They would herald people about the time.
In 1878, the tower was designed to play about 16 tunes including the British Anthem called God Save the Queen. Today this clock strikes a single tune every quarter of an hour. Till May 2015, the tower was under restoration.
Apparently, the east side of the tower has stained glass windows. These windows are best of their kind in Mumbai. The bricks used to build the university's clock tower are called Kurla, these are found locally.
Have you ever wondered why this tower is called 'Rajabai?'
Well, the man who minted money in the Bombay Stock Exchange, Premchand Roychund had of course a lot of money. Building the tower cost Rupees 2 lakhs, a very heavy sum back then. Adjusting inflation, 2 lakh rupees would amount to Rupees 16.5 crores as of 2016 in value. Roychund donated the money in exchange of naming the tower after him. He asked for the tower to bear his mother's name- Rajabai. Roychund's mother was blind and a Jain by religion. As the Jains have a tradition to eat before sundown, the chiming of the bell estimated the dinnertime to her without anyone's aid.
This tower that still very much has a part in the city's olden architectural wonders is closed for the public. The suicides are to blame. Although the tower is an architectural wonder hardly few Mumbaikars know much about it or have seen it from the inside. Although when next time in the area, spare a good glance at this tower:)
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Ever wondered how your favorite jeans came into existence or why they are called jeans or maybe even how they become so popular? Read on more to find about these timeless and casual fabrics and their journey into becoming Jeans.
Denim or Jean, was a fabric that was believed to have originated in various parts of Europe. In Nîmes, France, Denim was made out of coarse woven cotton which not only made the fabric strong and durable but also proofed it against wear and tear from frequent usage. However, "Jean" Cloth was a term coined in Genoa, Italy for fabrics manufactured out of cotton corduroy specifically made for sailors.
The twill weaved fabric with diagonal ribbed thread became popular during the gold rush where miners were found adorning pants of made of denim. All thanks to the Bavarian entrepreneur, Levi Strauss and Latvian tailor, Jacob Davis who manufactured Jeans for the masses with their signature style of using metal fasteners to hold pockets to the jeans and creating a fashion revolution among the masses.
But why are Jeans blue in color ? Well, the blue color is characteristics of one of the most commonly used denim fabric dye called, Indigo, which is a dye extracted from indigo plants commonly cultivated in India and the Americas. Being one of the most frequently used dye, blue denims have carved their mark on the fashion revolution seen around the world in various forms.
Wondering how are the Jeans dyed blue ? Here is how. Most commonly used cloth dyes, when heated, get penetrated into the fabric and show the color, however, Indigo dye binds to the cloth threads only externally. Based on the finish required by the final product, the dye is washed over and over again using various tools which remove the dye molecules and small bits of threads also with them giving each pair of jeans their signature look and feel.
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In a meeting with the region's Mayor's last week, the conversation around the room turned to drug caseloads and trends among the popular drugs of choice in our respective communities.
Most of us are familiar with the explosion of opioids overdoses over the last several years that generated a lot of media attention and expanded our vocabulary to include new synthetic names like fentanyl and carfentanil — raising the stakes, and sadly the death toll for drug users.
All of a sudden the jump from pain-killing drugs to people-killing drugs became a very fine line and people from all walks of life were making headlines for slipping across that line unexpectedly due to the extra potency of the synthetics. These things pack a punch that people can't see coming until it's too late.
In response, Police and emergency responders added a new weapon to their arsenal for saving lives, Narcan, which can neutralize the opioid in the system before the body shuts down for good. The fact that Narcan is now available in many public venues speaks to how far the opioid crisis has crept into our lives.
I don't want to fact check it (because confirming it would be too depressing) but I'm pretty sure Ohio is one of the states that leads the nation in opioid abuse. Not exactly the Top 10 list you want to find your home state in the lead on.
In the meantime, with all that emphasis on opioids, it seems that an old killer has climbed it's way back to the top of the list — Methamphetamine.
The TV show Breaking Bad may have added some celebrity glamour to Meth but there's nothing glamorous about the way it literally rots the body from the inside out. To willingly poison your body as your teeth and skin and organs rot away in a slow crawl towards death, speaks to the toxic allure of Meth and it's unquenchable thirst.
Here's the 2017 data from the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigations that Kent's Police Chief Lee reports is consistent with the trends we're seeing in Kent too.


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When you open Explorer in Windows 7 you'll see a list of Favorites in the Navigation Pane. Microsoft has already put some there, but today we show you how to remove them and add your own favorite folders including Search Connectors.
Remove Favorites
By default Microsoft has included some favorite locations for you that you may not want. The default locations are Desktop, Downloads, Recent Places, and Recorded TV if you've set up Live TV in Windows Media Center.
To delete the locations from Favorites, simply right-click on the location and select Remove from the context menu.
Add Favorites
Adding you favorite locations that you visit often is easy. While your in the folder you want to add, right-click on Favorites and select Add current location to Favorites.
You can also drag a folder over to Favorites to link it there as well.
In this example we removed all of the default locations and added four locations…a FLAC folder from a home server, My Documents, My Videos, and our Dropbox folder.
If you want to get the default locations back just right-click Favorites and select Restore favorite links. It won't delete the locations you added, but will just restore the originals.


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Move Over, AJAX, Microsoft Pushing ARAXBy Darryl K. Taft | Print
Microsoft promotes Asynchronous Ruby and XML development.
Move over, AJAX; Microsoft is pushing a different scenario, known as Asynchronous Ruby and XML, or ARAX.
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The weather for October 2010, from the Klong Prao Meteorological Office, i.e. outside my window. Normally the first half of the month is much wetter and cloudier than the end of the month. Last year was the opposite. This year it has just been very wet for the first couple of weeks, with a few more days of heavy rain forecast. (This isn't limited to Koh Chang, it's been raining heavily across Thailand recently.) But entering the last 10 days of the month, the wind has switched direction and cooler, hazier weather is here – indication the dry season is on the way. And the final few days of the month saw very strong northerly winds and cold temperatures – 20C before you factor in wind chill but very little rain – just a few light showers.
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Incremental Value of Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Further Characterizing Hypodense Mediastinal and Paracardiac Lesions Identified on Computed Tomography
Abhishek Chaturvedi, Chris Gange, Hakan Sahin, Apeksha Chaturvedi
Department of Imaging Science, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA
Correspondence Address:Dr. Abhishek ChaturvediDepartment of Imaging Science, University of Rochester Medical Center, P.O. Box No. 648, 601 Elmwood Ave, Rochester, 14642, NY USASource of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: NoneCheck1DOI: 10.4103/2156-7514.227124
Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None
Mediastinal and paracardiac lesions are usually first diagnosed on a chest radiograph or echocardiogram. Often, a computed tomography is obtained to further delineate these lesions. CT may be suboptimal for evaluation of enhancement characteristics and direct extension into the adjacent mediastinal structures. With its intrinsic superior soft-tissue characterization, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can better delineate these lesions, their internal tissue characteristics, and identify adhesion/invasion into adjacent structures. This pictorial essay provides a brief synopsis of the key MRI sequences and their utility in further characterizing mediastinal and paracardiac lesions.
Keywords: Magnetic resonance imaging, mediastinal, paracardiac, pericardial


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Medical Spanish in Costa Ricaoffered by supplier M05641 (read about supplier)
Key Information:
Class Size: 1 people
Destination: Costa Rica
Category: Language Schools
Specialty: Spanish
Season: January - December
Courses Per Year: flexible
Course Level: All levels
Min Price: 345 US Dollar (USD) per person
Max Price: 1650 US Dollar (USD) per person
We offers Medical Spanish Courses in San José, Costa Rica, in order to meet the special language needs of medical professionals working in bilingual environments. Each specialized Spanish course includes intensive language study, visits to local hospitals/clinics as well as lectures on topics relevant to the field. These visits enable you to get in contact with your Costa Rican colleagues and to practice your gained knowledge.
In four to six lessons daily you will start with general Spanish and vocabulary. After the first part of the course we continue with the medical terminology. The course ends up with the specified part on your individual chosen section.
The Program Comprises:
- A. General Spanish language (grammar, vocabulary)
- B. Procurement of terminology
- C. Content according to individual needs, after consultation and agreement with participant e.g.: illnesses and symptoms, doctor-patient-conversation (anamnesis), the physical exam, exams for the incorporation in the National Chamber of Physicians
- D. Optional content: visits to local hospitals or clinics.
The Course's Level:
The courses are offered in all language levels (beginner, intermediate, advanced, superior). The course materials are carefully designed to meet the requirements of physicians, nurses and health care workers who treat and communicate with Spanish speakers.
We also offer Medical Spanish programs including tours to fascinating destinations in Costa Rica.
Faculty Information:
- Our teaching staff is accredited with the Costa Rican Ministry of Education and all of our instructors possess university degrees in Spanish, Education, Linguistics or Philology from one the most prestigious universities of Costa Rica.
- Some instructors hold a graduate degree and others present additional studies like journalism, law, biology, theology, medicine etc.
- Most of our teachers have worked at our school for more than three years and all have ample experience teaching Spanish as a second language.
- Our instructors are all very professional, enthusiastic and friendly and consider teaching the Spanish language as their mission.
Other Activities:
You can plan and book your tours with and at our school. We offer many different tours through Costa Rica. For Example: Canopy tours, Butterfly Farm, City Tour, Bungee Jumping, Rafting Tours, Tortiguero, Volcan Arenal / Irazu / Poas, Aerial Tram, Grecia and Sarchi, etc.
Every week our school offers some cultural activities, such as dancing or cook classes. There you can learn more about Costa Rica and its culture, but also meet a lot of other nationalities.
Facility Information:
Our language courses are held in modernly equipped classes. Home stay includes housing with a selected Costa Rican family, including 2 meals per day (breakfast and dinner or breakfast and lunch) and laundry service from the Sunday before the course starts till the the last day of the course. Additional days of home stay: $18 each.
Member discount:
10% discount for InfoHub customer. Request a free gift certificate.
- 20 hours' Medical Spanish course (1 week, 4 hours daily in individual classes from Monday through Friday) for US-$ 345.00;
- 4 weeks' Medical Spanish immersion program (4 hours daily in individual classes from Monday through Friday including home stay with two meals per day and laundry service) for US $ 1650
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Monday, November 15, 2010
Train-ing Day. May Day!
Denzel Washington as Frank Barnes in "Unstoppable", directed by Tony Scott. Fox
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It is well-known that Tony Scott's filmmaking style is as subtle as a sledgehammer, and his latest film, "Unstoppable", doesn't deviate. Based on true events surrounding a runaway train in Pennsylvania that included incredible stupidity and gross negligence by train company AVWR's personnel, Mr. Scott employs his most frequent collaborator Denzel Washington as a 28-year AVWR motorman, and Chris Pine as a hotheaded rookie conductor on his first assignment.
The southbound cherry red locomotive 777 (yes, jackpot!) roars and thunders through Pennsylvania, and Mr. Scott's film tries to approximate the speed, power and relentlessness of what one character calls "a missile as big as the Chrysler Building". The director succeeds somewhat, save for some identical, repetitive shots of train 1206, in which the two lead actors ride.
This muscular enterprise is just right for Mr. Scott, the testosterone and adrenaline flowing as much from his childlike joy of constructing this predictable film as from the events themselves. "Unstoppable" however, isn't right for the audience. You feel unmoved and distant from the proceedings. There's nothing suspenseful or nerve-jangling about "Unstoppable". There's little to invest in except the film's resolution, which will obviously betray its title. Mr. Scott could have done well to let the film speak more loudly for itself without pile-driving its loud, phallic primary character down our collective throat. The speeding bullet train needed little visceral or kinetic affectations from the director, but then again, Mr. Scott cannot help himself, and why should he?
The only participants staying relatively calm given the hysteria and consternation are Mr. Washington, who plays Frank Barnes, and Mr. Pine as Will Colson. Both act as if they are in a real-life story and not an action movie where actors make exaggerated movements or mean faces to get their point across. There's a credible unease and an authentic working brotherhood between Barnes and Colson. Their shared camaraderie shrewdly distances us from the urgency of what occurs around them, and they possess a cool detachment the actual duo may have had to prevent mass death.
Most enjoyable is the casual way Mr. Washington deflects or engages his colleagues on the job. He's hardly always fire and brimstone, and in many films, including some of his work with Mr. Scott, he genuflects with deliberation, timing and an off-handedness that is priceless and amusing for story's sake. He's still one of the very best and most professional actors the world has. His partnership with Mr. Scott always works, even if the films don't. "Crimson Tide" and "Déjà Vu" are the best work they've done together.
"Unstoppable", written by Mark Bomback, shapes up as a "Training Day" without the manual. For Mr. Scott the rules have long been tossed out of the high-rise, shredded into a billion smithereens. When you see the first shot of Mr. Pine in bed, you think Ethan Hawke waking up in Antoine Fuqua's 2001 film. When you see Mr. Washington in his glasses at a work table looking up at Mr. Pine for the first time, you think of the introduction of Mr. Hawke and Mr. Washington at the Quality Cafe, as the bespectacled latter is reading a newspaper -- or trying to.
Audiences have seen "Unstoppable" before from Mr. Scott, and literally only 17 months ago with "The Taking Of Pelham 123", whose original forerunner was supposedly based on true events. In that more contained film, Mr. Washington played a New York City subway transit operator, a former motorman who tries to talk John Travolta down from the loony ledge. Both films are about trains that miss their station stops and keep on a-rumbling, and there are scenes, shots and props (a huge, colorful electronic map) present in both, as is the term "dead man's switch". (Mr. Scott's lukewarm 2009 New York City film is more entertaining thanks to the exploits of Mr. Travolta, such a wild, loose cannon as Ryder.)
In "Unstoppable" the back stories about the main characters' family lives allows us to get a sense of Barnes and Colson beyond their working trade, however peripheral and convenient they are for the overall narrative. Though these relatively tranquil circumstances make for a brief and welcome respite, we ultimately care little about the familial situations.
After all, there's a train to catch.
With: Rosario Dawson, Kevin Dunn, Ethan Suplee, Kevin Corrigan, Jessy Schram, Kevin Chapman, Elizabeth Mathis, Meagan Tandy, Dylan Bruce.
"Unstoppable" is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association Of America for sequences of action and peril, and some language. The film's running time is one hour and 43 minutes.


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The Surge Management Workgroup held its October call on the 27th. After introductions members discussed next steps for the development of a webinar series focused on various subjects in surge management. Participants noted that while they have received interest in the proposed webinar series, it would be prudent to acknowledge current public health events and delay the beginning of the series until Q1 2015.
For the remainder of the call, participants discussed the NACCHO Model Practice Award review process and the development of NACCHO Stories from the Field. Next steps for members are to continue reaching out to subject matter experts to identify topics and potential speakers for the webinar series beginning in Q1 2015, potentially participate in NACCHO-hosted webinars related to the Model Practice Award review process, and identify NACCHO Stories from the Field.


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The weather:
Fall weather finally! 13C with sun today and upcoming week is from 16C to 20C.
On my reading pile:
Doomsday book – Connie Willis. Recommended by my friend PamelaG.
On my TV:
Ongoing with 6 feet Under. Halfway through season 2.
On the menu for this week:
Chicken vol aux vents , steaks, smoked meat.
On my to-do list last weekend:
My to-do list for next weekend is not written out yet. During the week I work during the day so don't accomplish anything in the evenings! I get home and am beat so weekends are for the to-do lists. Which is why I'll post about the last weekend to-do list.
Outside windows (front) –still have to do the rest of the house but those are the worst ones – glad it's done!
Deep-clean 2 entry closets –put out the mittens and hats in the Front closet. Put away sandals.
Low-fodmap crockpot spaghetti sauce to make 2 lasagnas for the freezer
French onion soup for the freezer
One load of summer clothes taken down to the basement
Regular housechores
What I am sewing, crocheting, knitting or creating:
Working on my scarf – finally advancing a bit. One of my friends on MHH sent me a link of how to do a 'lifeline' and it sure helped a lot with the unknitting!
Looking around the house:
My to-do list on the coffee table along with my knitting.
Looks nice outside with lawn mowed and all flowers and shrubs cut (except for the hedge which dh is hesitating with).
Halloween totes have been pulled out from the attic and are now sitting in the basement.
From the camera:
Don't always have new pics, so I'll pick some random pictures I have on the computer. An old picture of March 2017.... it's a-coming!
Something fun to share:
Started a new class at noon two weeks ago - Stretching (we have some classes available where I work during lunch hour - $). 1st class was just ok, but 2nd one was quite good. Hoping it helps to pull the kinks out of this body! :)
What I'm wearing today:
For now I'm still in my pj's getting this post ready. I'll just put on some jeans and a sweater.
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Michelle cradles unconscious Robert as Kate phones for an ambulance. In the hospital, the doctor confirms that Robert will make a full recovery. When Tracy muses how Robert has always had an aversion to hospitals since his Dad's cancer, Michelle realises why he's putting up such a fight. Robert admits he discovered the lump in his testis weeks ago. Michelle's horrified that he's ignored it for so long and taking matters into her own hands, arranging an appointment with the urologist who recommends a scan.
Out to cause trouble, Tracy lets slip to Chesney that she saw Sinead heading up to Daniel's flat shortly before the crash, leaving Chesney fuming.
Meanwhile, Kate admits her own feelings…
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Review: Fist Fight
PLOT: After a school's tough history teacher, Mr. Strickland (Ice Cube), is ratted out by his meek colleague, Mr. Campbell (Charlie Day) causing him to lose his job, he challenges his fellow teacher to meet him for a fist fight at the close of the school day. Desperate to get out of the fight, Campbell does all he can to foil Strickland's plans, only to realize some fights you don't back down from.
REVIEW: FIST FIGHT is basically a remake (although the filmmakers would call it a homage) of Phil Joanou's eighties classic THREE O'CLOCK HIGH, only with teachers instead of students. Opting for a zany, HORRIBLE BOSSES-type tone, FIST FIGHT begins as just another R-rated comedy trying hard to be racy, only to eventually gel in a solid third act that more-or-less makes the whole thing worthwhile.
The leads are well cast, with Cube as intimidating as ever as the near-crazed history teacher bent on showing his colleague that "snitches get stitches." Is that a good message to send to the students? Probably not, but Strickland is shown to have a few screws loose right from the start, taking a fire axe to a pupil's desk and ruling his class with intimidation that seems more like bullying, even if all the students are little jerks. When the movie occasionally tries to get you to sympathize with Strickland, it doesn't quite go over, as in the real world a guy like him would probably need to be medicated for his insane, violent rages and not be teaching a class.
Then again, the rest of the teachers aren't much better, with only Day seeming sane. Some of them are funny, like Tracy Morgan, at long last recovered from his accident, as the school coach who says "I'm trying not to get any of the student's moms pregnant – I'm trying!" Others come a little too close to being insane, like Christina Hendricks's switch-blade wielding teacher, who fantasizes about cutting Day's head open for a reason that never really makes sense. Then there's Jillian Bell's rapey guidance counselor, who proudly says she's on meth and is counting down the days until her student crushes turn eighteen so she can have sex with them. Umm, creepy, right?
Yet, Day kinda makes it all work, playing his character in a relatively down-to-earth way that bodes well for a good career on the big screen. He's definitely not doing what he does on "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia", and his acting is pretty good, especially in the last act, when he decides to man up and take his medicine, leading to a good, lengthy fight with Cube – the highlight of the film.
The one big problem though, it that FIST FIGHT, while breezy enough of a watch, isn't especially funny. Many of the lines fall flat, and when we get to the fight it's almost played straight – just like in THREE O'CLOCK HIGH, although this lacks that film's style or edge. Still, considering the recent lack of decent big-screen comedies, you could do a lot worse that FIST FIGHT, and even if it only really works in the last act, at least there's that.


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Saturday, 13 February 2010
Pražská botanická zahrada, Nove Mesto (1)
28 October. Pražská botanická zahrada, Charles University, is the oldest botanic garden in the Czech Republic. Originally in Smichov, it was moved to its current site on Na Slupi in Nove Mesto in 1898 as it was frequently flooded when the Vltava overflowed its banks.
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Recently wrote an article based on my comments at a panel discussion at the OSIDays conference in India. It was also published in the Financial Times. I welcome comments (next blog post)
Picture is of a panel discussion I participated in on programming languages
The conference schedule was done based on input and it seems that PHP is still the most popular language of choice especially in Chennai.
This picture is with the two project leaders of the two most popular PHP frameworks, Zend Framework and Symphony
- Virtusa - Vice President & Head of Strategic Initiatives, Global Technology Office
- Sahana FOSS Disaster Management System - Director (Pro-Bono)
- Akura Open Source School Management System - Project Mentor
- HFOSS Code of Conduct and H-FOSS Project - Advisory Board Member
- Open Source Initiative (OSI) - Charter Member
- PocoCasa - Co-Inventor & Director
Past and minor Involvements
- Google Summer of Code - Project Admin / Mentor
- Humanitarian-ICT Community - Co-Founder
- W3C Disaster Management Ontology XG - Past Group Co-Chair
- ISCRAM - Past Committee Member
- Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) - SL Chapter Director
- Apache - Apache AXIS Committer
- IEEE-CS Sri Lanka Chapter - Founder Committee Member
- Asia OSS Symposium - Delegate for Sri Lanka
- UNDP IOSN - Sri Lanka / Humanitarian-FOSSContent Contributor
- Lanka Software Foundation - x-Acting (Executive) Director and Project Lead
- LKLUG - Passionate User
- OLPC (One Laptop per Child) Contributor
- Global Forum of Sri Lankan Scientists
Sunday, November 21, 2010
OSI Days, India and Article on the Open Source License Compatibility for the cloud
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text: logging in or signing up opec mirzag Download Post to : URL : Related Presentations : Let's Connect Share Add to Flag Embed Email Add to Channel Copy embed code: Embed: Flash iPad Dynamic Copy Does not support media & animations Automatically changes to Flash or non-Flash embed WordPress Embed Customize Embed Use HTTPS URL: Copy Thumbnail: Copy The presentation is successfully added In Your Favorites. Views: 4591 Category: Travel/ Places.. License: All Rights Reserved Like it (1) Dislike it (0) Added: January 24, 2010 This Presentation is Public Favorites: 2 Presentation Description No description available. Comments Posting comment... By: krungsirikul (98 month(s) ago) good ppt. Saving..... Post Reply Close Saving..... Edit Comment Close Premium member Presentation Transcript Introduction : Introduction OPEC is a permanent intergovernmental organization which is a cartel of 12 countries made up of, Angola, Ecuador, Iran, Iraq, Algeria Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Venezuela. It coordinates and unifies the petroleum policies of its Member Countries in order to secure fair and stable prices for petroleum producers. It seeks to ensure the stabilization of oil prices in international oil markets. Slide 4: The main role of OPEC is regular supplying of petroleum to consuming nations. OPEC has maintained its headquarters in Vienna and hosts regular meetings among the oil ministers of its Member Countries. OPEC allows oil-producing countries to guarantee their income by coordinating policies and prices among them. Slide 5: Two-thirds of the oil reserves in the world belong to OPEC members and the members are responsible for half of the world's oil exports. OPEC represents a considerable political and economical force. Slide 6: Objective OPEC's objective is to co-ordinate and unify petroleum policies among Member Countries, in order to secure fair and stable prices for petroleum producers; an efficient, economic and regular supply of petroleum to consuming nations; and a fair return on capital to those investing in the industry. Slide 7: Slogan Slide 8: OPEC created at the Baghdad Conference on September 10–14, 1960, by Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela. These 5 countries are referred to as the 'Founder Members of OPEC. OPEC has since expanded to include seven more countries (Algeria, Angola, Indonesia, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, and United Arab Emirates) making a total membership of 12. OPEC was registered with the United Nations Secretariat on 6 November 1962 (UN Resolution No. 6363). History Slide 9: Member countries Founder Members Iran 1960 Middle East Iraq 1960 Middle East Kuwait 1960 Middle East Saudi Arabia 1960 Middle East Venezuela 1960 South America Slide 10: Full Members Algeria 1969 Africa Angola 2007 Africa Ecuador 1973 South America SP Libyan AJ 1962 Africa Nigeria 1971 Africa Qatar 1961 Middle East United Arab Emirates 1967 Middle East Slide 11: Reason for existence Through production quotas of petroleum OPEC control supply, in order to keep the prices high. Resources will continue to Provide income to those nations in the future. OPEC reacts to developments to ensure a balance between supply and demand Slide 12: Terms for Membership Any country with a substantial net export of crude petroleum Similar interests to those of Member Countries If accepted by a majority of three fourths of Full Members Including the concurring votes of all Founder Members Slide 13: The Statute further distinguishes between three categories of Membership Founder Member Full Member Associate Member countries which do not qualify for full membership, but which are nevertheless admitted under such special conditions as may be prescribed by the Conference Slide 14: OPEC Conference supreme authority of the Organization. It consists of a Ministerial-level Delegation from each Member Country The Conference meets twice a year in March and September and in addition holds Extraordinary Meetings when required Slide 15: OPEC Function Member Country Delegations meet at the OPEC Conference to coordinate and unify their national petroleum policies, in order to promote stability and harmony in the international oil market. They are supported by the OPEC Secretariat Directed by the Board of Governors Run by the Secretary General Slide 16: Influence on world economy OPEC provide the required amount of oil to all parts of the world to help their economies ISRAEL attack on muslim countries OPEC also called on industrialised and developing countries to come together to solve the problems facing poor countries and to look for ways of establishing a better economic system by allowing increased trade and exchange of knowledge. Slide 17: External Analysis Threats: Competitors: Entry of private players such as Reliance, Essar Oil and Shell , the sector is likely to witness increased competition going forward. Decrease in demand Opportunities: Technology advancement and depending on oil Slide 18: Social Responsibility OPEC is concerned about the environment and wants to ensure that it is clean and healthy for future generations. OPEC Member Countries have ratified the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change OPEC considers that the development of technology is important for limiting or reducing greenhouse gas emissions Slide 19: Any Question Plz? Slide 20: Thank you Thank you You do not have the permission to view this presentation. In order to view it, please contact the author of the presentation.