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The 17th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations were less head-scratching than those Golden Globe nods two days ago – and in a refreshing spin, one of the actors making the announcement shamelessly tried to sneak her own name into the mix.
As soon as Rosario Dawson read the list of nominees for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series, co-presenter Angie Harmon broke from formality to unabashedly add "I'm confident Angie Harmon is in there for 'Rizzoli & Isles'…I was like, 'Is it? No? Okay, that's fine.'" And when Dawson announced the contenders for Outstanding Performance By a Cast in a Motion Picture, Harmon tossed her own name into the mix once more.
"Was it too much? Well, they said it could be funny," an unrepentant Harmon laughed to PopcornBiz afterwards, admitting that, like any actor, the throaty-voiced star of "Rizzoli & Ives" couldn't resist scanning her copy for her own name.
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"It was wonderful to find it in the male actor category," she chuckled. "It's the voice, and I do put a lot of male energy into Jane Rizzoli so I was very, very happy about that, to finally have it appreciated in a film category. And that I was nominated as Best Movie – It was, like, 'Black Swan' and 'Angie Harmon!' And I'm flattered. I just can't believe it."
Harmon's name didn't actually make SAG's list, and neither did Angelina Jolie's, Johnny Depp's or some of the other somewhat questionable choices that stood out among the Golden Globes' crop of nominees. Instead, the list was culled from a list of more expected choices, with "The Fighter" and "The King's Speech" leading the motion picture crop with four nods each, and "Modern Family" ruling the TV picks, also with four.
In the Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture field, the contenders are "Black Swan" (Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel, Barbara Hershey and Winona Ryder), "The Fighter" (Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Melissa Leo and Jack McGee), "The Kids Are All Right" (Julianne Moore, Annette Bening, Mark Ruffalo, Josh Hutcherson and Mia Wasikowska), "The King's Speech" (Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter, Guy Pearce, Derek Jacobi, Timothy Spall, Michael Gambon, Jennifer Ehle and Anthony Andrews) and "The Social Network" (Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake, Armie Hammer, Max Minghella and Josh Pence).
The Male Actor in a Leading Role nominees in the film side were Jeff Bridges ("True Grit"), Robert Duvall ("Get Low"), James Franco ("127 Hours"), Eisenberg and Firth. Filmdom's Female Actor in a Leading Role crew included Nicole Kidman ("Rabbit Hole"), Jennifer Lawrence ("Winter's Bone"), Hilary Swank ("Conviction"), Bening and Portman.
Male Supporting Actor nominees were Jeremy Renner ("The Town"), John Hawkes ("Winter's Bone"), Bale, Ruffalo and Rush, while the Female Supporting Actor category featured Hailee Steinfeld ("True Grit"), Adams, Carter, Kunis and Leo.
The TV categories also ran among expected lines – though we're not sure whether to call the inclusions of Betty White and her TV Land series "Hot in Cleveland" a surprise or not after a year-long outpouring of Hollywood love for the octogenarian icon.
The Outstanding Performance By an Ensemble in a Drama Series nominees were "Boardwalk Empire," "The Closer," "Dexter," "The Good Wife" and "Mad Men." On the Ensemble in a Comedy Series side, the contenders are "30 Rock," "Glee," "Modern Family," "The Office" and "Hot in Cleveland."
Familiar television names in the Male Actor – Drama slots included Bryan Cranston ("Breaking Bad"), Michael C. Hall ("Dexter"), Jon Hamm ("Mad Men"), Hugh Laurie ("House") and category newcomer Steve Buscemi ("Boardwalk Empire"); vying for Female Actor – Drama are Glenn Close ("Damages"), Mariska Hargitay ("Law & Order: SVU"), Julianna Margulies ("The Good Wife"), Elisabeth Moss ("Mad Men") and Kyra Sedgwick ("The Closer").
TV's Male Actor – Comedy nominees included "Modern Family's Ty Burrell and Ed O'Neill, perennials Alec Baldwin ("30 Rock") and Steve Carell ("The Office) and category newbie Chris Colfer ("Glee"); the Female Actor – Comedy crowd was comprised of Edie Falco ("Nurse Jackie"), Tina Fey ("30 Rock"), Jane Lynch ("Glee"), Sofia Vergara ("Modern Family") and White.
SAG's membership will also chose winners in TV-movie/miniseries and stunt categories, as well as honor veteran actor Ernest Borgnine with a lifetime achievement award on Jan. 30.
Dawson said she thinks actors hold the SAG Awards particularly close to their hearts.
"We get to vote for other actors that we're either in competition with or inspired by," she said. "And it's an amazing thing that it's every actor out there regardless if you're doing commercials, television, theater, film – whatever it is, you're all under that same umbrella and we get to say and express the love that we have for performing and entertaining people. I love this award and I love that we get to have it and that we all hang out together and continue to just honor the tradition of what it is that we do."


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I teach college English, and it is becoming more and more difficult for me to find students not using "that" as the default indicative pronoun when referring to people or groups of people in both speech and writing. The simple example I hammer into their questing noggins every semester is this:
People = Who/whom
Things (anything not human) = That (SPOGG: or which)
The rationale I give is also simple, yet I think quite profound:
Our society and culture depersonalize humanity -- individuals or groups of individuals -- too much as it is. Let us not contribute to that depersonalization any more, as it may ultimately depersonalize us all.
~ Prof. Peter R Jacoby
San Diego Mesa College
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A related issue arises with animals. We think any animal with a name is a "who."
So, "My cat Fluffy, who eats rats for breakfast, has surprisingly pleasant breath."
And then this: "The dolphin, which swam alongside the ship, gave the wrong directions to Portugal."


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Other auction sites created by livestock experts have failed the test of time due to a lack of technical proficiency and poor customer service. At RareBreedAuctions.com, we specialize in raising livestock, but we also make our living in developing and maintaining customer relationships through online communication.
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The lucky winner of this auction will receive 10 or more unsexed blue birchen Marans day-old chicks. Marans are known for their remarkable dark brown eggs –reputed to taste better than any egg in the world—and this rare French breed is much sought-after in America. The rarest variety of Marans is the blue birchen, a bird with feathers as colorful and captivating as the eggs it lays. We scoured Europe to find blue birchen Marans, and after several years we were able to located two flocks of exemplary birds.
Greenfire Farms' blue birchen Marans are known to reliably produce some of the darkest chocolate-colored eggs in this country. Blue birchen Marans are extremely rare in the United States – very few people in this country have ever seen one. Greenfire Farms maintains the largest breeding flock of blue birchens in the United States, and our birds lay beautiful dark brown eggs typical of the breed. Here's a picture of eggs selected at random that we collected from our breeding pen one afternoon.
Of all the breeds we raise, the blue birchen Marans are among our favorites. They have great personalities, lay beautiful eggs, and are simply one of the most stunning chicken varieties in existence. The roosters have wildly dramatic colors, but the hens also have a beautiful mosaic of striking feathers.
Please keep in mind that if you win this auction you may receive blue, black, and/or splash birds as a result of the way the blue gene operates in chickens. But, the chicks you receive will be able to produce blue birchens in the next generation as well as the other colors associated with the blue gene. Chicks will be selected at random based on hatch availability and we cannot grant requests for specific colors.
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Mouth ulcers: what causes them? treatment, opinion and surveys.
Do you get mouth ulcers (canker sores, aphthous stomata, oral mucositis)? I do, and I don't like them, they are a curse. I get these great big jobs on my tongue which hurt like screaming great hurting things. Sometimes I go for months with none, sometimes I get an odd one or two, and sometimes there are weeks of non-stop affliction, with no tangible reason. Doctor doesn't know what causes them, dentist doesn't know what causes them, I don't know what causes them. I wish they would go away.
Since first writing this introduction 19 years ago, I have actually got my ulcers mostly under control, this is the first time since childhood - different things work for different people, the things that work for me were brought to my attention on this very message board. If you are looking for what causes mouth ulcers, a cure for mouth ulcers or treatments, read the messages, look at the surveys, be methodical in your approach. If you are new to the curse though, do please get checked out by a doctor or dentist first to confirm that it is mouth ulcers (canker sores), particularly if you have a persistent pain-free ulcer in the same place.
I wish you good luck in your search, and do be methodical (you can find out what works for me in the Featured Articles section). If you find this site helpful please do share it around.
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Joe Simpson is making amends.
Ashlee and Jessica Simpson's dad pleaded no contest earlier this week to driving with a blood-alcohol level of .08 or above in Van Nuys, Calif., the L.A. City Attorney's Office confirmed to E! News.
Joe was sentenced to 36 months' probation, fined $390 plus penalties and ordered to complete a three-month alcohol-education program. A separate count of driving under the influence stemming from his August arrest was dismissed.
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The charge being a misdemeanor, Joe wasn't required to be in court and his attorney entered the plea on his behalf.
Barring any unforeseen issues, the deal for the most part closes the book on one of the less pleasant things Joe has been dealing with lately.
Last month, he and wife Tina Simpson announced they were divorcing after 34 years of marriage.


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Has anyone bought the SMT BREAKOUT PCB FOR 44-QFN OR 44-TQFP - 3 PACK and if so, have you soldered the QFN side? I'm needing to solder some ATMEGA32U4's to it, and maybe I am just too blind and too shaky handed, but getting the solder on without a template for solder paste seems like it would be very difficult. It doesn't say anything about coming with a template/stencil, so I am assuming it doesn't.
Does anyone have any suggestions for how to accomplish this task? I can heat the whole board with the solder paste/chip on it, just need to figure out how to safely get it in place.


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Title: You're Welcome, Universe (2017)
Author: Whitney Gardner
Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary
When Julia finds a slur about her best friend scrawled across the back of the Kingston School for the Deaf, she covers it up with a beautiful (albeit illegal) graffiti mural.
Her supposed best friend snitches, the principal expels her, and her two mothers set Julia up with a one-way ticket to a "mainstream" school in the suburbs, where she's treated like an outcast as the only deaf student. The last thing she has left is her art, and not even Banksy himself could convince her to give that up.
Out in the 'burbs, Julia paints anywhere she can, eager to claim some turf of her own. But Julia soon learns that she might not be the only vandal in town. Someone is adding to her tags, making them better, showing off—and showing Julia up in the process. She expected her art might get painted over by cops. But she never imagined getting dragged into a full-blown graffiti war.
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Six stencils in and it's gone. Okay, the tag vanished by Stencil Number Two, but I have a point to prove. I'm not covering up your scribbled slur with just anything. I'm making art here. I'm creating. I'm on fire.
I've never thrown up such an intense piece—I was worried I wouldn't be able to pull it off in time. My arm flies across the wall, pink paint striping across the last stencil. It looks like it's going to work out. I chuckle to myself. This is what it's all been for, the hours of paint-pen practice, filling up every inch of every sketchbook with tags and words and pictures. All my hard work has paid off, and it's all up here on the wall.
I know I shouldn't be tagging the school. I know that. But I wasn't the first, and that mess had to go. Jordyn told the principal that someone tagged the gym, she had to. The vandal singled her out, and word gets around real quick at Kingston School for the Deaf. But three weeks went by, and "Jordyns a SLUT" was still there on the back of the gym for all to see. And good ole Principal Howard hadn't done a damn thing.
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Goldman's Alec Phillips is out with a new report titled: Is Health Spending Unsustainable?
The basic gist: Public healthcare spending is unsustainable, but overall healthcare spending isn't too much of a threat, and isn't likely to badly crowd out other areas of the economy.
Still, this chart below from the report really stands out, as it shows just how much of a freakish outlier the US healthcare system is.
Meanwhile, Fareed Zakaria had some kind of special about the dismal state of US healthcare last night on TV, and so he tweeted out a bunch of interesting facts.
The least efficient payers in the world are American private insurance companies with administrative costs of 20-30%. #SavingHealthCare— Fareed Zakaria (@FareedZakaria) March 19, 2012
Just 5% of Americans accounted for half of all #US health care costs in 2009. #SavingHealthCare.— Fareed Zakaria (@FareedZakaria) March 19, 2012
Taiwan went with a "single-payer" insurance model in 1995 and the number of uninsured dropped from 41% to 8% in one year. #SavingHealthCare.— Fareed Zakaria (@FareedZakaria) March 19, 2012
In the UK, the Brits spend about $3,500 per person on health care. The #US spends around $8,500 per person. #SavingHealthCare.
— Fareed Zakaria (@FareedZakaria) March 19, 2012


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a combination of entertainment and catering
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From the given program - including movie theatres, a bowling alley and indoor arcade hall - a combination of large and small entertainment modules working on the level of the consumer but at the same time creating an atmosphere where pleasure and meeting will logically follow from the layout of the new building: the Leisure center Zaltbommel.
The architectural design is based on a couple of functional and client orientated aspects namely, reception, lodging and relaxation.
The route through the building is based on a model of entering, elevating and looking around. The spatial model of the building is meant to offer the customer a smooth vertical transition through the building where for instance the roof level as the main entrance of building will be passed with the same kind of ease.
The program is organized in such a way that the dynamic functions located round the building will be visible from the highway. The alternating pattern of untransparant and perforated paneling of the facade establishes a controlled kind of openness, depending on the program, views and orientation.
The location lies north from the train station at the Oude Stationsweg, exactly located between the A2 highway and the railway of Zaltbommel.assignment
The assignment concerns a Leisure Center on the Spoorveste location; between the A2 highway and the railway of Zaltbommel. Following the initiative the brief consisted of a combination of entertainment and hotel and catering industry for the inhabitants of Zaltbommel, allthough it is mainly focussed on visitors coming from outside town.
The layout of the plan mainly is focussed on implementing the brief strategicly into the urban setting. In the process a considerable step is made in transforming the whole surrounding area into a dynamic 'leisurecluster' in Zaltbommel. And furthermore this new impuls will stimulate development of Spoorveste and job creation for the Municipality of Zaltbommel.


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The Gilneans always make me think of fairy stories. Deep dark woods, full moons glistening over head, fat candles burning down low and red roses dripping petals the colour of blood.
For a period when I was quite small, we lived close to the German/Netherlands border and used to visit Efteling regularly. Naturally as a child I loved it and whilst I was too young to appreciate the roller coasters, I adored the Fairy Tale Forest. I know the Worgen are meant to be British and whilst the fog might be, the architecture reminds me so much of wandering around that theme park visiting all my favourite fairy stories.
Here on the east coast of Scotland, it's often foggy. The Haar comes rolling off the sea, striding in-land like some vast Vykrul woman, her white cloak wrapping the world in cotton wool. You can taste sea salt on the air as she passes, clouding your vision and altering your senses.
The Forsaken have the next best set of buildings, all haphazard edges and balconies. I can't help wondering what sort of monster arose from it's slab just after this picture was taken.
Forests too change the way we see things, blocking out the bigger picture.
A Dandelion head, it's lacy strands dancing in the light like a spider's web.
Finally, who doesn't love marshes? The colours caught reflected in the viscous water and the strange trees which flower there make it a thing of beauty.
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A boy, a dog, and a frog
Dial Press, 1967 - Juvenile Fiction - 32 pages
Engaging pen-and-ink drawings will delight youngsters into supplying the story line for the boy and his dog on their frog hunt. Sequel: Frog, Where Are You? (1969). Also from the same author and publisher: A Boy, a Dog, a Frog and a Friend (1971); Frog on His Own (1973); Frog Goes to Dinner (1974); One Frog Too Many by Mercer Mayer and Marianna Mayer (1975).
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I'm going to post a few pages of an internal presentation at a major investment bank (from November 2007) and you try to guess the identity of the bank. (I've whited-out all the identifying portions.)
Think you know who it is? I'll put the answer (and the full presentation) under the fold.
You guessed Goldman, right? Wrong! It was.....Lehman Brothers. I kid you not. Full presentation below. Maybe now people will stop focusing on Goldman's decision to get short the housing market as The Reason that Goldman survived and performed so well. Probably not though.
Lehman - ABS CDO Exposure (Nov. 1, 2007)


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In a move that could have far-reaching implications for Pleasanton, Safeway Inc. and Albertsons announced a merger agreement for the two grocery chains yesterday under which the owner of Albertsons will buy all outstanding Safeway stock in a $9 billion deal.
Pleasanton city officials said they only were notified Thursday that Safeway will be purchased by Cerberus Capital. Safeway has had an 18-year presence in Pleasanton since 1996 and has been a major contributor to the city's employment and municipal tax base.
The company also is one of Pleasanton's largest employers, with approximately 2,600 employees between the local grocery stores and the headquarters operations. The company has a long history in the East Bay and was previously based in Oakland for many years.
"We understand that part of running a very successful enterprise means making a business decision that's best for the company," said City Manager Nelson Fialho. "Given Thursday's announcement of the sale of Safeway, it is too early to know what that means for Safeway, or for Pleasanton."
"It is our hope that Safeway, or a new version of the company, will remain an active member of the Pleasanton business community, and continue to be a place of employment for many of our residents."
The combination of Pleasanton-based Safeway's 1,335 stores in 20 states with the 1,075 outlets of Boise, Idaho-based Albertsons will create a
nationwide network of more than 2,400 grocery stores, the two companies said.
The companies said they expect administrative cost savings, but don't expect to close any stores.
The Safeway shares will be bought by AB Acquisition, which owns the Albertsons chain and is controlled by Cerberus Capital Management LP.
The merger is expected to be completed by the end of 2014. The agreement also provides for a three-week so-called "go-shop" period in which Safeway can receive and consider alternate proposals, the companies said.
"This merger is one of several actions we have taken in recent months as a result of our strategic business review," Safeway President and Chief Executive Officer Robert Edwards said.
"Safeway has been focused on better meeting shoppers' diverse needs through local, relevant assortment, an improved price/value proposition
and a great shopping experience that has driven improved sales trends," he added. "We
are excited about continuing this momentum as a combined organization."
If the merger proceeds as planned, Edwards will become president and CEO of the combined company, while Bob Miller, the current CEO of Albertsons, will become executive chairman.


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with down filled comforters wet bar private fire pit just to name a few and an unbelievable back to nature experience.The canyon boasts fifteen miles of backcountry hiking and mountain biking as well as ocean sports kayaking surfing swimming scuba diving fishing and
outdoor heated pool.Conference facilities include one of a kind Yurt meeting room that can accommodate from 2 to 200 people.Amenities included in room spa service on site gourmet canyon market seasonal jazz dinner concert series and an extensive childrens program.Come and experience a place so unique so close to nature yet with a level of comfort that is unsurpassed in the realm of outdoor recreating at a truly affordable price.
we are a luxury camping resort offering cedar cabins and safari tents and not a traditional hotel.
El Capitan Canyon is an outdoor lodging property offering cedar cabins and safari tents and not a traditional hotel.


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I see a lot of AATs and Hyenas (which I've yet to pick up). Swamp Speeder is surprisingly plentiful too.Only seen Plo Koon's fighter in one store and left it several times, but don't regret it, yet. Got Xanadu Blood and Droid Gunship via HTS and have yet to see them in a store.
I bought another one of these today after seeing it on the shelves for the first time at Walmart. Haven't decided if I will keep it or not, but maybe. I would really love to know how they managed to screw the pooch so badly on getting the Tri-Fighter and HMP out. That is really perplexing. I'm glad to have these at all, but I would have preferred swapping out my sub-par packages for mintier boxes.
I saw one today at a Wal-mart, too. It may be the only new Star Wars thing that Wal-Mart has gotten all year.
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Kettle Brand Brings Back Retired Chip Flavors, and They're Good
Kettle Brand starting bagging their first crispy, golden potato chips in 1982. Since then, they've expanded their lineup from plain chips to flavors like salt and pepper, spicy Thai, sweet onion, and honey dijon. In honor of its 30th birthday, Kettle Brand decided to bring back four of its retired flavors: Jalapeno Jack, Cheddar Beer, Salsa, and Red Chili. They're all the same kettle chips we've come to love and expect from the brand: thin, extra crunchy, and not too salty.
Jalapeno Jack
This flavor is the best of the bunch. Though they weren't nearly as hot as I would like, they do have a satisfying jalapeno flavor that finishes with salty jack cheese, peppers, and a little bit of spice. If you're like me and you love classic sour cream and onion chips, you might find yourself bulldozing your way through a bag of these.
Cheddar Beer
The straightforward, potent cheddar seasoning on these chips was a crowdpleaser at SEHQ. These are your go-to snack when watching the game. You'll need to have a bottle of beer on hand, though; the beer flavor isn't quite there. At all.
An unfortunate case of overseasoning. Way more intensely flavored than the others, these chips had a 70/30 flavor ratio of barbecue and taco seasoning. Not what you'd think of when you think salsa chips, but if you really dig mesquite barbecue flavor, you probably won't mind these.
Red Chili
Definitely the most interesting in the group. They start out vinegary and sweet, end with a slight kick, and give an overall Thai sweet chili sauce taste. They could have been spicier but they're still perfectly serviceable chips that break away from traditional or mundane flavors.
Overall, the Limited Edition Flavors from Kettle Brand are decent chips. They don't deviate much from familiar flavor combinations like sour cream and onion or zesty salsa, but they'll certainly hit the spot when you need a potato fix.
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The North and South Rivers Watershed Association (NSRWA) is gearing up for its 17th annual Great River Race, which will take place on Saturday (July 28).
The North and South Rivers Watershed Association (NSRWA) is gearing up for its 17th annual Great River Race, which will take place on Saturday (July 28).
The race, which starts in Norwell at the Union Street Bridge and finishes at the Old Washington Street Bridge on the Hanover/Pembroke line, is a 6.5-mile course for kayaks, canoes, rowboats or anything that is not motorized.
"All different ages are represented in the race," said Paula Christie, assistant director of the NSWRA.
The race is broken down into 12 different categories by the number of people and the type of boat.
"For a lot of people, it's a family tradition. They do it every year," Christie said, who expects a big turn out this year. "Last year there were 60-90 boats which equals about 100 people in the water."
"I've been around the race from the beginning," said Dan Jones, a Hanover resident who is racing in the men's single kayak category this year. "A few years ago my daughter, Samantha and I won the double kayak division."
All skill levels, from novice to racer, take part in the race. Some of the categories included are best-decorated boat or boater, family canoe, men's and woman's double and single canoe, senior citizens divisions, single men's and women's kayak and dories of all kinds.
"This summer I've been paddling a couple times a week and working pretty hard to get ready," Jones said of his pre-race preparation.
The race, with the help of corporate sponsors and volunteers, has been a successful event over the years.
"We get a lot of compliments," Christie said about the race.
"The bedlam at the start is very exciting," said Jones. "Everyone seems to think the race is a sprint, so they go all out to get through the bridge first and there's usually someone turned over. The finish, which is practically my backyard, is also a great part of the race.
"The spectators are all yelling from the beautiful stone arch bridge on Washington Street and it's very encouraging, whether you're the first or last finisher," added Jones.
"But I think my favorite part is about a mile from the finish when you finally emerge from the 12 hairpin turns you hit after passing under Route 3. They really wear you down because you just keep going back and forth but never feel any closer."
Registration for this year's Great River Race will begin at 8 a.m., and the race will start at 9 a.m. Spectators are encouraged to cheer the racers on at the starting line at the Union Street Bridge and at the finish line at the Old Washington Street Bridge.
After the races, an awards celebration will start at 11:30 a.m. at McGreal's Tavern on West Street in Norwell Center. Trophies and ribbons will be awarded to the top three winners of the many categories.
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Niners fans packed bars, drank beer, scarfed pizza and let loose roars of victory. Then the Super Bowl started.
San Francisco, like its football fans, had fortified for a win. Police Chief Greg Suhr deployed at least 100 extra officers across the city on Sunday, with special attention to the Mission District - where drunken revelers had smashed windows and set mattresses ablaze after the Giants won the World Series in October.
But as night fell - and the 49ers also fell for the first time on football's biggest stage - it became clear that there would be neither celebration nor mayhem this Super Bowl night.
A different sort of grim reality gripped the city as the 49ers got behind the Baltimore Ravens within the first five minutes and never pulled ahead.
"I'm depressed," said Michelle Fall, 26, a Sacramento State student at the Hi Tops sports bar in the Castro. "This would have been the perfect story, with (second-year quarterback Colin) Kaepernick, a kid with a big dream. ... We all fed into this dream, but it takes experience to do something like this."
Making matters worse, the fans at Hi Tops, which caters to a gay crowd, found some of the ads as disappointing as the game.
"I just threw up in my mouth," said Alan Trinh, 25, who works in property management in San Francisco, after viewing an ad for the Web hosting company GoDaddy.com that featured a female supermodel making out with a nerdy man.
Over on Guerrero Street in the Mission, 21-year-old Eric Almanzan of San Francisco crossed the street hollering, "I'm pissed!" to nobody in particular. "The D-line!" - the defensive line - had not come through, he said. At the Amante bar in North Beach, Monica Belgum, 22, was near tears. She took the loss personally.
"This is the first time we lost the Super Bowl ever," she said. "Just my luck."
Momentum after outage
Early in the third quarter, fans found new confidence when the 49ers seized momentum following a power outage that paused the game for 35 minutes.
When wide receiver Michael Crabtree scored a touchdown - the Niners' first in the game - fans exploded in cheers and stomped their approval.
Jay Zalowitz, the co-founder of a social-media recruiting startup, walked through the Mission and stopped at Cafe La Boheme at 24th and Mission streets.
As soon as he arrived, Crabtree scored. When Zalowitz decided to hang around, and the 49ers scored again, other customers decided he was a good luck charm - one that couldn't leave.
"The universe pulled me in here," he said. "If your city does something magical, don't fight it."
At Amante, Josh Lamb, a 25-year-old software salesman, declared, "We're a second-half team."
But it was a vain hope. And after it had drained away, fans were just plain sad.
"It was so close, said Natasha Budakova, 22, of San Francisco, at the Giordano Brothers bar in the Mission. "If they just weren't so lazy in the first half."
She applauded the team for its comeback try, but said, "I'm disappointed. As a San Francisco native, I expected more."
Her friend, 22-year-old Gretta Meji of San Francisco, somehow remained optimistic.
"Baby steps," she said. "We almost made it last year (to the Super Bowl). We made it this year. Baby steps."
Though the mood was subdued around the city, the police were out in force, including 75 to 100 officers who gathered during the game with riot helmets attached to their hips on a corner in the Mission. The streets were blocked off.
"In light of what happened with the Giants. we're erring on the side of safety," said Officer Carlos Manfredi, a police spokesman.
Shortly after the game, five officers began chasing a man. Onlookers followed, and everyone caught up with him at Hoff and 17th streets. Then a police van arrived, plus six more officers and some county sheriff's deputies.
Witnesses said the man had thrown a lighter into the street. Police wouldn't say what he might have done as they arrested him.
The crowd was furious. "Pigs!" they shouted, along with profanities, demanding to know why so many police were needed.
Police, streets prepared
Overall, there were very few arrests, Manfredi said. "Just some minor flare-ups in the Mission."
Over in North Beach, the normally boisterous stretch of Grant Avenue near Green Street had been cleared of cars to prevent a repeat of window smashing and other antics that had accompanied the Giants' World Series victory.
Police in blue baseball caps clustered along the street, but there was little for them to do. Bars were crowded with 49ers fans, while restaurants were empty.
Several bars had slapped up signs saying "private party" or had a guest list. In both situations, they admitted only regulars and people from the neighborhood. A few fans spilled out onto Grant Avenue lamenting the team's performance, but the mood was far from riotous.
Outside the Tope bar on Grant Avenue, 20-year-old Olivier Grandvoinet offered up an increasingly common refrain: that Kaepernick could have used more experience - that he was "too hyped up."
So were Niners fans, at least for a while.
Staff writer Nanette Asimov contributed to this report.
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Willyerd Collier '75 doesn't want to feed any perception that he's at Wabash simply to return the Malcolm X Institute back to the 'good ol' days" when he was a student.
Still, the new MXI Director believes there is much to be learned from long-time Institute director Horace Turner's model of running the center focused on African-American students.
"I don't think there is anything wrong with the original vision of the Institute," Collier said. "I think it has to be tweaked for 2013. What we're going to be about it is tweaking the vision to provide support for African American students, in general, and to provide a window for the larger community to understand those African American students.
"That's as relevant today as it was articulated before I got here in 1971."
Collier has spent his career as an attorney and more than 25 years in higher education. He served as the University of Arkansas Assistant Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Director of Affirmative Action. Prior to that he worked as an Equal Employment Opportunity Monitor at the University of Iowa. His first career, after graduating the University of Iowa College of Law, was as an attorney in Savannah, GA.
Collier had served on the Wabash College Board of Trustees the past four years. He has resigned that post to become the MXI director.
President Gregory Hess appointed the East Chicago, Ind., native earlier this summer and challenged him to help develop a "fuller understanding of the Institute, its constituents, and its history" before the College began a national search for a new director.
"I have specifically charged Willyerd with the task of reaching out to students, faculty, staff, and alumni so that we can plan for the Institute's future with as many voices represented as possible," Hess wrote in making the announcement. "I've also charged Willyerd to help me and Wabash think much more broadly about inclusivity in all its forms."
Collier agreed to take the position and finish his career at Wabash. The initial appointment is for two years, he said. "I thought it would take two years to put the Institute back on firm footing in student affairs where students come first," he said. "That's what I think has been missing since Horace Turner retired and that's what needs to come back for the benefit of all concerned."
He'll search for that footing by talking to alumni who preceded and followed his time at Wabash. Of course, he'll also be talking and listening to all campus constituencies in building the MXI of 2013 and beyond.
"You can't just say we're going to do the things we've always done. You can't do it that way. My job is to listen to all parties who care about Wabash and to listen intensely to the students here right now. My job is to listen to the faculty and staff members who've been involved in supporting the students and Institute in recent years and to find the sweet spot. I think there is a sweet spot to be found."
Collier defines the sweet spot as re-casting the MXI as a center of Excellence with a mission a bit different than the Wabash Center or Center of Inquiry. He calls the sweet spot "the historic mission between the MXI and how the MXI plugs in as a center of excellence."
He makes clear the Institute is not an academic department. He also comes out of his chair talking about working with students and what they can expect.
"I think students can expect that I get it," he said. "I get it. When it comes to the basic needs of some students who are culturally different from the majority of students to have a place they can go after hours and just fellowship – I get it."
But it's much more than just an after-hours gathering place, he said. "Let's face it, we're still talking about young men who are 17-22 years old and every night there needs to be an adult in the room. I intend to be the adult in the room. They can expect I might be here at 7 a.m. and I might be here at 11 p.m."
He made clear he has no reluctance to get in a student's ear and ask why they're not participating in athletics, the glee club, or writing for the Bachelor.
One of the first tasks on his agenda is keeping the MXI building open into the evening and not locking the doors at 6 p.m. He envisions more activities and programs deeply involving MXI alumni on a number of levels.
He sits back and marvels though at the thought of working at Wabash to cap off a remarkable career.
"I never thought I was going to have this opportunity in a million years," he said, head shaking. He first talked about being near his aging parents in East Chicago instead of a 10-hour drive.
"I feel like the luckiest person in the world to have an opportunity to cap off a 25-plus year experience in higher education and to cap it off where I started. My wife (Marta) and I were married my senior year. We spent our first year on East Main Street in a little apartment with a Murphy bed. That's where we started. But to come full circle, to come back, and to contribute to the institution, that is special."


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The Wallow Fire has now scorched over 300,000 acres in eastern Arizona, making it the second largest wildfire in the state's history.
In less than 24 hours, Wallow engulfed some 78,000 acres of land. Fire officials said the unrelenting wildfire's total destruction is 311,481 acres. As of Tuesday afternoon, the fire is 0 percent contained.
Arizona's largest fire is called the Rodeo-Chedeski Fire, which burned 467,000 acres in 2002.
Firefighters are having a hard time containing the Wallow Fire because of weather conditions – high heat and strong winds – fueling the flames and moving the fire in unpredictable patterns.
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Wind speeds of up to 30 to 40 mph are proving problematic to firefighters' efforts to contain the flaming beast.
In addition to forcing residents out of their home, the Wallow Fire is also raising concern as it moves towards Tucson Electric Power's main generating station. The wildfire is about 30 miles away from the power plant, but closer to transmission lines, according to Arizona's Fox11.
If the fire moves too close to the transmission lines, TEP plans to shut down those lines to protect firefighters.
"That in itself would not cause power outages here in Tucson, but it would make us more vulnerable to outages in the event something else occurs," said Joe Salkowski of Tucson Electric Power.
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Asdghig's long march
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The book had been among my parents' possessions for years. They couldn't remember who had given it to them and they had never got around to reading it. Finding nothing to do one lazy afternoon, I began leafing through its pages. The sentences were short, the English rather simple. I couldn't put it down. I never looked at Armenians the same way again. Every Armenian I met in Lebanon reminded me of her. I quizzed my father, a physician, about her.
'Asdghig Avakian?' he said. 'I remember her well. A kindly elderly nurse. She would make us stop working to eat.'
Little did he know that behind the kindly face was a lonely woman who had managed to survive the Armenian genocide, make it to Lebanon and spend the rest of her life searching for a love that never came.
Having lived through the Lebanese civil war, I knew the fear of massacres. But these fears were always shared with family and relatives. Never had I been alone or felt unloved.
Born in the Kharpout district in east central Turkey, two-year-old Asdghig was placed in an orphanage by her mother following the death of her father. She was sent back to rejoin her family when her mother remarried. The next few years were spent under the care of a loving mother and abusive stepfather.
Then in 1915, with the Armenian genocide well under way, everything changed. In just over four years, 1.5 million Armenians would be massacred by Ottoman Turks. Hundreds of men, women and children were forced to take part in the notorious 'death marches', walking through the desert without food, water and shelter. Many of those who survived settled in Lebanon.
In an effort to save her daughter, Asdghig's mother took her to the orphanage again, showered her child with kisses and fled. Asdghig never saw her again. She was presumably killed.
World War One was raging. The orphans were on the brink of starvation. In 1922, Armenian orphans were sent to Lebanon and placed in a Beirut orphanage. Before long, 15-year-old Asdghig was chosen by visiting American missionaries to be trained as a nurse at the American University Hospital.
Asdghig proved to be highly capable, earning the admiration of the hospital staff. She remained at the Hospital for the rest of her life. Despite a successful career, she never found the one thing she had always yearned for: someone to love her.
Resigned to a lonely life, she found solace in caring for her charges. 'I can find love in comforting my patients, to pat them, to relieve the raking sadness and love in the world that I live in,' she wrote.
I was in tears. I wished I could have met her. But she was long dead.
On impulse, I drove to the Armenian quarter, Bourj Hammoud, just 10 minutes from central Beirut and strolled through its narrow overcrowded streets. I may as well have left Lebanon. Armenian signs were everywhere and Arabic practically non-existent. I looked at passers-by curiously – each one a descendent of a genocide survivor.
About 200,000 Armenians currently reside in Lebanon. In a short time after their escape from the Turks, they managed to build for themselves sound communities all over the country. Skilled craftspeople, their shops of shoes, leather items and jewellery attracted Lebanese shoppers.
They also became admired for their music and cultural events. Lebanese parents – including mine – vied to get Armenian piano teachers for their children. Their active churches run social and educational institutions. Keeping their culture alive is one of their main aims. Parents speak only Armenian to their children and marriages to non-Armenians are frowned upon. The active Armenian community has seven deputies in the Lebanese Parliament.
I continued to wander aimlessly along the streets of Bourj Hammoud. I wasn't sure why. I wondered if Asdghig had done the same.
A few days later, I met an Armenian woman and related Asdghig's story.
After a few seconds of silence, she said. 'Did Asdghig ever save any lives?' I recalled from her book that she had.
My new friend sighed.
'Sometimes horrible things happen but good things come out of them,' she said. 'Think of Asdghig's good work at the hospital. Many people would have surely died without her nursing abilities.'
I did think of that. Asdghig's book now takes a prominent position on my bookshelf.
Learn more about the Armenian genocide at www.armenian-genocide.org
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Boehret Reviews Microsoft Office App for iPhone
Microsoft has launched Office Mobile, the first version of Microsoft Office for the iPhone. Katie Boehret says the free app has a lot of positives, but there are some limitations. (Photo: Microsoft)
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The Bioinformatics group is located in the Department of Molecular Biology at the Division of Biology, Faculty of science in Zagreb, Croatia. The group was formed in 2002 in an effort to include bioinformatics and computational biology courses in the molecular biology curriculum at the Faculty of Science and to motivate undergraduate and graduate students for research in this prominent and highly interesting new field of biology.
Our present research interests include codon usage analysis in whole genomes (INCA), protein-protein interactions and microarray data processing and analysis (MADNet).
We are open to all forms of collaborative activities! We are always looking for interesting biological problems to apply our computational biology methods. We are happy to share our knowledge and eager to learn from the more experienced bioinformatics groups worldwide.
The group is funded through several highly competitive grants. Among them is the EMBO Young Investigator Programme Installation Grant, awarded in 2006. Other funding sources include ICGEB Collaborative Research Project, EC Sixth Framework Programme and Croatian Ministry of Science.
Teaching activities are one of our main priorities. We teach bioinformatics for biology undergraduates and computational biology for graduate students in molecular and cellular biology. Our teaching is compliant with the guidelines of the Bologna convention and we extensively use distance-learning methods. Bioinfo.hr is the organizer of the annual bioinformatics course with lecturers from the European Bioinformatics Institute, University of Cambridge, UK and University of Wageningen, The Netherlands.
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While wishing a happy birthday to British comic magazine 2000 AD on its 35th birthday, Simon Pegg (presumably from the set of Star Trek 2) grabbed Karl Urban, and possibly captured his growly new Judge Dredd voice as well.
This all makes sense, since 2000 AD is the original home of the futuristic Judge of Mega-City One's adventures.. And Urban is playing the Judge in the new reboot, titled Dredd, so it makes perfect sense that Pegg would let him give a shout out. But why would Urban change his voice and reshape his mouth into that classic Dredd pout? Because clearly, this is the persona Urban becomes when playing Judge Dredd. While we love the mouth, we're a bit nervous about the voice — especially for the tons of Dark Knight jokes that will no doubt fill the internet soon enough. Ah well, he nailed the look (even if it's just for a second). Here's a large collection of Dredd stills if you want to see what Urban looks like in the boss' helmet.
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I have been sitting on this plugin for a while and I finally got a break to clean it up for you guys. It didn't really fit in with my other plugin so I made it into it's own. Huge, huge, huge thanks to Marcus here for getting me unstuck so many times. The guys a genius!
This plugin is basically a very basic array with some other canvas tools to help with making tiling sculpts. It takes a single Subtool and will duplicate then transform along the X,Y based on sliders. Then you can check the tiling with the "Tiling Preview" button.
Main Plugin
- L: Constrains the values of the two neighboring sliders so they move together.
Rows/Columns: These determine how many duplicates are made.
- X/Y Distance: These determine how far each mesh is offset from each other.
- Clone: If enabled, when "Tile" is clicked the script will be performed on a cloned version. This is recommended because finding the right distance to offset can be somewhat "guess-and-check."
- Random 90 Rotation: This button will randomly choose visible subtools and rotate them either 90 or 180 degrees on the X axis.
- 90: Disable to only rotate 180 when "Random 90 Rotation" is pressed.
- 180: Disable to only rotate 90 when "Random 90 Rotation" is pressed.
- Tile Preset 1-3: CTRL-Click to save settings. Regular click to restore saved settings.
Canvas Tools
- 128-2048: These buttons resizes the canvas to the respective size.
- StartUp Size: Restores document to size when Zbrush launched.
- Tile Preview Size: This slider determines what size the mesh will be previewed at when "Tile Preview" is pressed.
Tile Preview: When pressed the mesh will be tiled on the canvas so you can see how the mesh repeats.
Here is a short video showing off how it works.
Here area few examples I made very quickly with the plugin.
It's still somewhat experimental and beta. There is a known UI bug for a few people that will be fixed very shortly. I have some things planned but I am not really an enviro artist so I would love any suggestions on how to make it better for you guys!


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Netflix Inks Deal for First-Run Disney Films
Netflix Inc. has inked an agreement with Walt Disney Co. that will make first-run Disney films available to its subscribers in a pay-TV window. The terms of the deal weren't disclosed.
Under the multi-year licensing agreement, Netflix will be the sole U.S. subscription-TV service for first-run Disney films, beginning with Disney's 2016 theatrical releases.


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Is the government serious about tackling irresponsible dog ownership?
The government has fudged the dog laws again. A written ministerial statement from the Department For Environment, Food And Rural Affairs was released today, with the promising title "Tackling Irresponsible Dog Ownership".
A statement had been widely anticipated but its content had only been guessed at. In the Daily Telegraph over the weekend, Germaine Greer called for stricter controls on dog ownership, including a licence for humans to have dogs. I wrote a counter-piece, suggesting that such a radical change was not needed. My own choice would be to follow the suggestions of the RSPCA, Dogs Trust and the Kennel Club, who have suggested simple measures such as universal microchipping of all dogs, along with new legal instruments such as Dog Control Orders which could be used to force irresponsible dog owners to smarten up.
So what did the government say? You can read the full statement for yourself, but it seems to me to come down to three main actions:
1) The extension of the Dangerous Dogs Act to include private property. While this will bring some relief to postmen and other casual visitors to doggy households, intruders should be aware that this specifically excludes "trespassers". It seems that dogs can continue to bite burglars' bums without fear of being sued.
2) The police will no longer automatically seize and kennel dogs that are accused of being "dangerous" pending the outcome of court proceedings. This will be a great relief to owners of Pitbull-look-alikes that ran the risk of being impounded because of a mischievous complaint from a neighbour. The civil servants in charge of police budgets will be relieved that they no longer will need to pay for months of boarding for dogs "awaiting trial".
3) The government has announced its intention to "introduce regulations under the Animal Welfare Act 2006 on microchipping to promote animal welfare by making it easier for local authorities and rescue centres to quickly re-unite stray dogs with their owners." And this is where the fudge comes in: a decision has not been made on how to do this. The government is going to have "a further consultation to give the public an opportunity to give their views".
Four possible methods of introducing microchipping are listed:
(i) requiring all dogs to be microchipped on transfer of ownership,
(ii) requiring all dogs to be microchipped from a certain date,
(iii) implementing a phased-in process, such as starting with compulsory microchipping on transfer of ownership and after five years moving to mandatory microchipping of all dogs, (iv) making breeders responsible for microchipping newly-born dogs before sale.
The government has said that this last option is "preferred" but as a way of dealing with the problem of irresponsible dog owners, it's surely the least effective choice.
Most of those working in this field (including the RSPCA, veterinary organisations, Dogs Trust and the Kennel Club) have made it clear that they believe that compulsory microchipping would make a significant difference to both animal welfare and human safety. Why not just bite the bullet, and go for option (ii) with all dogs being microchipped from a given date?
And as for the other sensible suggestions of Dog Control Orders, why has nothing been mentioned?
It seems that the government has chosen to ignore the sensible advice of those working with dogs on the ground, and instead has decided to kick the "dogs" issue further down the road for someone else to tackle.


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Manitoba Hydro's board announced in late November that it has given the green light to a proposal from St Joseph Wind Farm Inc, owned by Babcock & Brown Canada, for what will be Canada's largest wind facility. The project is one of 84 bids the government-owned utility received in response to a 2007 request for proposals and the only one selected for further negotiation.
The announcement that a deal has been reached sparked questions in the Manitoba legislature about the company's financial capacity. But Babcock & Brown Canada's Edwards says the firm's North American energy group is strong. "The parent company is where all the news is coming around in terms of its financial health and I think a lot of those concerns are quite legitimate," he says. "This project is going to be delivered by the North American energy group, which is probably the most profitable group at Babcock & Brown. We continue to bring projects in North America into operation as we speak. So I think if you were relying on the ultimate parent it may be difficult, but this is a North American project and all the people and resources are still available."
Twenty-five year contract
Although Manitoba Hydro and B&B have agreed on the "material commercial aspects" of the deal, says Edwards, they still have to finalise the 25-year power purchase contract, something he expects to occur in early 2009. The company hopes to start construction in mid-2009, with commercial operation scheduled for late 2010 or early 2011.
Manitoba Hydro originally announced back in March that it had selected B&B as its preferred supplier. While negotiations have taken longer than anticipated, that has not affected the project schedule, says Brown. Edward assures that while his company's plans are now caught in the midst of a global credit and financial crisis, he does not expect it will have an impact on Babcock & Brown's ability to complete the project as envisioned.
"Our business model is to raise debt and equity from a variety of sources, so we do have redundancy on our capital funding solution," he explains. "I think for most people trying to raise money right now, certainly on the debt side, credit spreads have gone up but benchmark rates have gone down, so it's kind of a wash. That kind of has a neutral effect."
The project has an estimated price tag of more than C$800 million. It will be built across about 50,000 acres of farmland near the community of St Joseph, located 85 kilometres south of Winnipeg and about 20 kilometres north of the US border. More than 200 landowners are involved, according to Edwards. "Manitoba is an ancient lake bed, so the soil conditions require some additional design on foundations, but other than that, this is just an exceptional site," he says. By early December, the company had not yet settled on a turbine model.
Community revenues
The project is expected to generate C$70 million in local landowner payments and C$198 million in provincial and municipal tax revenues over its life, and displace 800,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions a year. As well as the economic and environmental benefits, says Manitoba Premier Gary Doer, it underscores the province's position "as a leader in clean energy." Currently, 97% of Manitoba's electricity comes from hydroelectric facilities. "The St Joseph wind farm represents another important step in diversifying Manitoba's energy resources," says Doer.
The province, with one 99 MW wind farm currently in operation, is targeting the installation of 1000 MW of wind in what is now a 5500 MW electricity system. It envisions adding another 200 MW of wind capacity every other year from 2013 to 2018. Robert Hornung, president of the Canadian Wind Energy Association, says the industry is hoping the government and the utility will announce the timelines for processes to procure that power soon.


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Installing Second Life on an EEE PC
I've been playing with an EEE PC lately. This 299€ (in Portugal) GNU/Linux ASUS laptop is awsome, and I'm really happy that ASUS did it. They did some mistakes, like using Xandros Server 2.0 as base for their distro, making me think, for instance, that if I had one of these I would replace their Operating System with something like Debian Eee PC, eeexubuntu or even eeedora. I might write about my thoughts on EEE PC later, but for now, a quick HOWTO (because I think this isn't documented nowhere) on installing Second Life on EEE PC.
HOWTO Install Second Life on an EEE PC:
- edit your /etc/X11/xorg.conf and change DefaultColorDepth 16 to DefaultColorDepth 24
- restart your X (press control+alt+backspace, for instance)
- edit your /etc/apt/sources.list file and add this lines:
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/pub/debian testing main contrib non-free
deb http://apt.byteme.org.uk/apt/ unstable main
- in a terminal (CTRL+ALT+t) write sudo aptitude update && aptitude install slviewer
- Remove the added lines on /etc/apt/sources.list and in the terminal run aptitude update to go back to the state you were
- Your Second Life is now installed. To run it write slviewer in a terminal.
Regarding to using Second Life itself, you'll notice that the windowed view assumes a bigger resolution than the one you have, so I recommend you to start by going to the options, changing the ratio scale and remove the windowed mode. Et voilá, you're on Second Life!


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Panasonic announces Lumix DMC-FZ35 ultrazoom
The newly announced Panasonic Lumix FZ35 looks and feels an awful lot like the FZ28. And why tamper with a high quality ultrazoom? Panasonic looks to build on the strengths of the FZ28, noted in our own review, and keeps the FZ ultrazoom line up to date with a few upgrades.
Starting with the basic specifications, the Lumix FZ35 will feature an 18x zoom lens with equivalent focal length of 27-486mm, a 12.1 megapixel CCD sensor, and Panasonic's updated Power O.I.S. optical image stabilization system. Without much technical information on the new image stabilization system, it's hard to tell how effective it will be. However, Panasonic claims that it will offer double the blur-reduction of its predecessor, and that it will reduce the effects of camera shake in instances such as when the shutter button is pressed. On the back panel, a 2.7 inch LCD is paired with an electronic viewfinder.
Exposure modes remain consistent with the previous model, including Panasonic's iA Intelligent Auto mode. Advanced users will still be able to use manual exposure modes, and the FZ35 will also offer advanced control over image quality with manual color and saturation adjustments.
Camcorder meets ultrazoom
Like the FZ28, the Lumix FZ35 will record 720p HD video. This model, however, includes AVCHD Lite encoding, a technology that combines advanced compression of HD video with Dolby Digital audio recording. The FZ35 also sports a dedicated video record button on the back panel. Other updates to the video capabilities in the FZ35 include use of aperture and shutter control while recording movies.
Stylistically speaking, the Lumix FZ35 is so similar to its predecessor that at a press event hosted by Panasonic two weeks ago, their prototype FZ35 was housed in an FZ28 body. As we guessed, photos released today show the final evolution of the FZ35 to be close to its predecessor, but it also looks very similar to the Lumix GH1.
Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ35
Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH1
Both the FZ35 and the GH1 are equipped with advanced HD video recording capabilities and the dual-core Venus Engine V. With the introduction of the Lumix FZ35, Panasonic seems to be taking another step toward developing a strong lineup of hybrid camcorder/still camera systems.
Pricing and availability
The Lumix FZ35 will become available in September 2009 with a retail price sticker of $399.99.


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July 27th Event
The event was a great success! About 5,000 people were in attendance. An estimated 1,500 Korean War veterans were honored in person.
Speakers included:
- President of the United States Barack Obama
- Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel
- Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Vice Admiral James E. Winnefeld, Jr.
- Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki
- Secretary of the Department of the Interior Sally Jewell
- Chair of the East Asian Languages and Literatures Department and Professor of Korean Language and Culture and International Affairs at George Washington University Dr. Young-Key Kim Renaud
- Special Envoy Chairman of the Political Committee Kim Jung Hun
- Chairman of the Republic of Korea Joint Chiefs General Jung
These shots were taken at the Korean War Veterans Memorial.


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Recently Mike Arrington of TechCrunch posted a polemic of Facebook's policies. So it turns out that Facebook does not ban denials of Holocaust and yet they ban pictures of breastfeeding women. This predictably disturbs many people, and has lead to paranoiac suggestions that Facebook is actually anti-Semite, anti-feminist, and so on.
Especially interesting here is the juxtaposition of the two taboos, positioning them from the start as a case of mispositioned censorship — one that should be but isn't censored, and another that should not be but is in fact censored. This proves to be more problematic the closer one looks at it: of course, people would still get angry even if Facebook does not censor breastfeeding (both not censored), while probably they would be content if Facebook censors both. However, this problematic only rises when there is a displacement of censorship, as is the case at the moment.
Which leads us to a more interesting perspective: what do Jews and tits have in common? As Žižek noted, Jews are the anti-Semites' embodiment of the malignant object-cause of desire, while breasts are of course one of the forms in which the object-cause of desire appears, according to Lacan. The appearance of anti-Semitic comments on Facebook discussions brings into obscene light this object-cause of desire, while breastfeeding, supposedly through its context, arguably does the opposite: it desexualizes the breasts into a non-sexual, family-friendly object.
The excuse for the latter's censorship is of course the usual one: "We knowthere is nothing sexual about breastfeeding, but nonetheless people have warped fetishes," while the excuse for having no ban of Holocaust denial is, presumably, that all opinions are allowed and must be respected. Of course, the hate speech shown on TechCrunch's screen-caps are already against Facebook's TOS (which obviously leads to the rash conclusion that everyone who denies the Holocaust are anti-Semites), but it seems that the core problem is not so much the hate speech as the space for denying the Holocaust whatsoever.
It is here (and not only on 4chan!) that one encounters the Real of the Internet. We start off wanting to promote "safe content" and end up censoring arguably trivial things such as breastfeeding, which recalls the proverbial paranoia that nothing is safe on the Internet (how about pictures of feet and socks, or of children at all, should Facebook allow them when after all people can just as easily take them off of facebook with a few simple clicks and use them as a means of warped public masturbation on another site?). The obverse is also true: we start off wanting to encourage discussions from all perspectives, and end up encountering the hard limit of our so-called postmodern tolerance (every historical account is relative and its truth is questionable, except the Holocaust, the truth of which must be maintained at all costs to keep ourselves from the resurgence of anti-Semitism!).
Mike Arrington ends his article with a comment, "Yes, Facebook, this is the side of the line you've chosen to stand on," and posted an obscene image of child victims. I would say that Facebook, being the "sixth largest country," is fated to continue to find itself in dangerous situations on the other side of the line (remember Facebook's privacy polemic several months back?) — why? Because Facebook is becoming more and more like a government rather than a system (like Wikipedia, Twitter, or 4chan, which are really more public places than a governed home). And the obscene image, what is it but a symptom dedicated to an innocent Other's gaze for which the truth of the Holocaust must be maintained?
Accommodating society with their own postmodern paranoia and micropractical ethics is a tough, if not impossible, job. There is a line, a primordial split constitutive of society, which looks different from different sides. In some ways 4chan (especially /b/) is luckier, since it embodies nothing but this split itself. Facebook tried to be careful as it always does, but it looks like once again they got back their message in an inverted true form.


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Recently I couldn't decide if I wanted to write a scathing critique focusing on the banality of the painfully quirky (500) Days of Summer or pen a love letter to The "feel good" Final Destination where we gleefully watched ridiculously good-looking and stupid young people die in unfathomably moronic and elaborate stunt-deaths — in 3D no less! — but neither film really warrants such efforts or talk. In times like these when searching for things worthy of writing about, my thoughts turn to my blog's old stand-by and most popular feature: The Greatest "Blank of All Time" Lists.
I've toyed for quite some time with doing a list of film's greatest cinematographers — which, by the way would look something like this: Conrad L. Hall, Freddie Francis, Roger Deakins, Sven Nykvist, Caleb Deschanel (Zooey/Summer Finn's accomplished father), Robert Elswit, Emmanuel Lubezki…but I digress — Continue reading


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Over the next three weeks, MLSsoccer.com will take a look back at the 2012 season that was for all 19 clubs in Major League Soccer, starting with Toronto FC and ending with the Supporters' Shield-winning San Jose Earthquakes. You can find the schedule and comprehensive reviews for each team here.
2012 record: 11-19-4 (37 points); 44 GF / 50 GA (-6 GD)
2012 Colorado Rapids statistics
2012 in Review: Colorado Rapids
Opta Spotlight: Why Rivero is the key to the 4-3-3
Armchair Analyst: Pain, progress for Colorado
Oscar Pareja's first year in charge was a roller-coaster ride, but after the Rapids dipped to an 0-6-0 July, it ended in disappointment for Colorado. With the early loss of captain Pablo Mastroeni to post-concussion symptoms and a lack of depth behind him, the team's holes began to show during a summer swoon that Colorado ultimately couldn't crawl out of.
But the midseason addition of Hendry Thomas along with the development of new additions Martín Rivero and Jaime Castrillón helped give the Rapids an auspicious 3-2-2 finish to the season. This offseason, the team hopes to shore up the backline and add a striker to the mix as they look to return to the postseason after missing it in 2012 for the first time since 2009.
MLSsoccer.com: What was the biggest lesson that you learned from your first year in charge?
Pareja: There are many. Good ones and bad ones, but all of them have been a process that we started a year ago, and a process that we see after the evaluation. The games teach you a lot of stuff. I'd say probably knowing that you're very optimistic thinking that things can happen right away, or sooner than you one maybe needs. The bigger lesson is that I need to be patient and keep working.
MLSsoccer.com: Heading into a full offseason for the first time, how is what you do over the next few months going to help you heading into next year?
WATCH: 2012 Colorado Rapids recap
Pareja: First, it will help get a couple players that we for sure know we need in the team. We have a little bit of time, not too much, to bring those pieces that are necessary for the philosophy, style, identity that we are preaching here. The offseason gives us time as well to let us know what is coming in the draft. Obviously, set the team the way you want it, bring the people back that you want that fit into it and let the ones go that are maybe going in a different direction. It's healthy for the club and the players.
MLSsoccer.com: You said that set pieces and lapses in concentration on defense were a big part of the defensive problems, particularly at the beginning of the year. How did you try to address that in the last few weeks?
Pareja: We have been working a lot on our concentration and focusing on anything we do. Our concentration has been a highlight of the topics that we want to work with these guys, and it's translated to things like set pieces, for example, because set pieces you can control. As a player, it's where you can have better concentration and do well. We didn't do well in that part, for sure.
MLSsoccer.com: Matt Pickens provided a lot of veteran leadership in Mastroeni's absence. Talk about his importance to this team now and moving forward.
Pareja:I think Matt's leadership keeps growing on the team, which is important. He brings solidness in the back, his experience as well, the security to the team. He understands and the team understands that we're all about how important he is to the squad right now. But he also understands there are many areas that we need to keep getting better.
WATCH: Pablo Mastroeni talks 2013 return
MLSsoccer.com: Youth development is a key for you. How much did that progress over the past year and what steps are you looking to take for that to develop now and further down the road?
Pareja: I think that one of the really positive things that came out this year was the progression of our younger guys. Dillon [Serna, an academy player] is with the US Under-20s, Shane [O'Neill] is doing U-20 stuff as well. Davy [Armstrong] progressed fantastically this year as well, I really think Davy could be a player with a legitimate chance to play. We got a player from the draft [Tony Cascio] who played more than 20 games. The academy is getting experience. I think in the youth aspect, the club is doing well. I'm happy with it.
MLSsoccer.com: Will we see the 4-3-3 in 2013?
Pareja: I hope so. We're working on getting the right players who are trying to adjust to the identity that we have. It's in my being to have a team that has an attacking identity, with strikers on the outside, and the 4-3-3 allows me to do so. But one of the lessons I learned this year is you have to have the players who like the idea, and not just hoping. For that, we had to adjust during the year to the formation. I hope we can have consistency in the lineup, but in order to have the consistency we have to have the players.


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Next meet at our woods "APRIL SPRING TWISTER", Sunday 30th April
the forth of 2017, our 8th Year and final year doing this, and will be Sunday 30th April down in sunnyish Kent.
This is meet 5/5 of the count down culminating in the Farewell weekender August BH weekend, a celebration of all the good times we have had down the woods.
Could be wet still, so will be interesting, still great for newbies wanting to see how the 4x4 works, as much as the guys/gals with the more modded trucks who can spend a day playing on the more technical and crazy stuff...
Be great to all catch up with everyone...and hopefully it will be a bit warmer still than the last meet
Meet at my workshop at 10am (pm for details if you dont know where that is, but its near maidstone, about 5 mins from m20 j7), or meet us down there after this time if you know where you are going.
Same as always £20 per car and driver, £5 per additional adult...Kids are free. The funds raised go to rent the woods, and the upkeep of it.
Tea/coffee and donuts provided as always...but bring grub as the nearest shop is miles away...
Hope to see you on the 30th April, down in sunny (possibly) kent!
Make the most of this unique venue, while we still can get to use it!
See Robs vid below to give you an idea of the site!


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For a guy who made his name on a single that served as a Hipster Listening Guide checklist, this list of songs that "Saved [James Murphy's] LIfe" is refreshingly within the realm of possibly-already-being-in-your-iTunes. Then, the alchemy of LCD and James Murphy's taste profile was less about his reference points' obscurity (obscure as some are) than the way he filtered and juxtaposed them. And so it stands to reason this list is impeccably curated and perfectly tasteful, running the post-disco gamut (from Loose Joints/Arthur Russell to the Rapture); paying homage to horizon-busting icons (Jonathan Richman, Mark E. Smith via the Fall, Nick Cave via the Birthday Party, Bowie); and drawing a bridge from NYC (Loose Joints, NYCC Choir, Suicide, Lou Reed & his Welsh/VU compatriot John Cale) to Germany (CAN, Kraftwerk). You've got Leonard Cohen for lyrics, A Flock Of Seagulls for haircuts, the Beatles because obviously, and Roberta Flack for closure ("The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face," which he recently told GQ is the song he wants played at his funeral). Sensibility aside, though, the most perfectly James Murphy thing about this list of songs he made for a website called Ten Songs That Saved Your Life" is that it is 15 songs. Right? Here it is:
01 Jonathan Richman – "I'm Straight"
02 Suicide – "Cheree"
03 The Fall – "Paintwork"
04 The Rapture – "House Of Jealous Lovers"
05 CAN – "I'm So Green"
06 Leonard Cohen – "Famous Blue Raincoat"
07 David Bowie – "Fame"
08 A Flock Of Seagulls – "Space Age Love Song"
09 John Cale & Lou Reed – "Work"
10 NYCC Choir – "Stand On The Word"
11 Loose Joints – "Is It All Over My Face"
12 Birthday Party – "Nick The Stripper"
13 The Beatles – "Tomorrow Never Knows"
14 Kraftwerk – "Computer World"
15 Roberta Flack – "The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face"
Also in that GQ interview: "I'm a reactive person. Mark E. Smith is a generative person." And, James is working on a novel. It's a good read, read it.


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ATF Stops 2 Neo Nazi Skinheads Who's Plot Was To Assassinate Barack Obama!
AP reports "ATF: Plot by skinheads to kill Obama is foiled Two Neo-Nazis held in Tennessee; allegedly also planned to kill dozens WASHINGTON - Law enforcement agents have broken up a plot by two neo-Nazi skinheads to assassinate Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and shoot or decapitate 88 black people, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said Monday."
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June 8, 2012 9:30 A.M. - 160 N. LaSalle St., Room C-500, Chicago, Illinois.
Notice of Public Hearing
Written Comments
Comment from Attorneys' Title Guaranty Fund and Illinois Real Estate Lawyers Association
Submission from NAACP, Chicago Far South Suburban
Submission from Ronald Parker
Submission from Land of Lincoln Legal Assistance Foundation
Submission from National Consumer Law Center
Submission from Codilis & Associates
Submission from The Patterson Law Firm
Submission from Spinnaker Cove Homeowners' Association
Submission from
A.C. George
Submission from Minchella & Associates
Submission from
Pierce and Associates
Submission from Prairie State Legal Services
Submission from Bordyn Law Offices
Submission from Hector Reyes and Loretta Capeheart
Submission from Housing Helpers
April 27, 2012 9:30 A.M. - 160 N. LaSalle St., Room C-500, Chicago, Illinois.
Written Comments
Speakers List
Letter from Attorney Mark Gyandoh
Comments from Noonan and Lieberman
Letter from Codilis & Associates
Letter from MERSCORP Holdings, Inc.
Letter from Land of Lincoln Legal Assistance Foundation
Letter from Judge Brendan Maher, 17th Circuit
Letter from Attorney Jeffrey Liss
Letter from Illinois Bankers Association
Submission one from Lauren Scheffers
Submission two from Lauren Scheffers
Submission three from Lauren Scheffers
Submission four from Lauren Scheffers
Letter from Thomas Haskins Jacobs
Submission five from Lauren Scheffers
Letter from Hector R. Reyes and Loretta Capeheart
Letter from Housing with a Heart