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Create stunning embroidered designed with this high quality Cross stitch kit which includes everything you need to get started.
Available Kit Options
18ct Canvas Size: 14x16cm Picture size: 10x12cm
14ct Canvas Size: 18x20cm Picture size: 13x15cm
11ct Canvas Size: 22x25cm Picture size: 16x19cm
- Counted or printed canvas x 1
- Cotton thread x 1set (30% more than necessary)
- Needle x 2
- Paper blueprint x 1 set (For very simple picture, paper blueprint is not included for printed canvas version)
1. What is printed canvas? "unprint" is blank canvas,
"print" is printed canvas. Pattern was pre printed on canvas, to help identify different color thread, it can be washed off after finish the whole picture. It makes cross stitch much much easier and faster, recommend!!!
2. What is included in cross stitch kit? Include: Canvas, enough thread, needle, paper blueprint(Some simple picture may not have paper blueprint)
3. How many threads should I use to sew? The thread on paper pad should be divided to 6 stands, 14ct or 18ct canvas, 2 stands for full stitch and half stitch, 1 stand for back stitch; 11ct canvas, 3 stands for full stitch and half stitch, 2 stand for back stitch;
4. What is half stitch? Half stitch is half cross, full stitch is full stitch.
5. What is mixed stitch? Mixed stitch needs 2 color threads together, help the color change more naturally. For 11ct canvas, sewing with 1 stand of a color and 2 stands of the other color. You can decide which is 1 and which is 2. It doesn't matter.
6. What's "silk" thread? Cotton thread is normal version, easy for stitch. Silk thread is a new product, it is made from cotton, not real silk. It is more smooth, brilliant and beautiful, but difficult to stitch.
7. What's 3D? Full stitch is normal version, means all the grids on the picture need cross stitch. All the printed patterns will be washed off with water. It usually takes a long time needlework. 3D/5D is new version, means the background is printed on the canvas and cannot be washed off. We only need to stitch the main part. It is easier and faster than full stitch
8. What is "ct"?
"ct" is grid quantity in one inch. For example, 11ct means 11 grids in one inch, 18ct means 18 grids in one inch. So compared with 11ct, 18ct grid is much smaller, finished picture size will be smaller, pattern looks more delicate and beautiful, and also difficult to embroider.
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If you're injured in a car accident there are certain steps you should take to prepare for a potential lawsuit down the line.
First, you should seek medical attention. Get your injuries treated and make sure you are OK.
At the accident scene, if you are physically able make sure to get the names and contact information from any witnesses. Also try to take pictures of the accident scene if you are able to do so.
Next, document all evidence of your injuries. Take photos of wounds, bruises, bandages, the hospital room, anything that can help prove later that you were injured.
Keep all of this information on hand and present it to your attorney as he or she works on your case.

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by Tariq Ali
from the London Review of Books blog
P.J.Tobia's photographs of these monstrous buildings in Kabul convey only part of the horror. Their location is not too far from the slum dwellings that house the poor of the city, sans water, sans electricity, sans sewage, sans everything. A young photo-journalist from Philadelphia, Tobia supplied the captions and writes on True/Slant:
Here in Kabul, the poor live in unimaginably squalid conditions and the rich live like kings. Kings in very ugly castles.
We call them Poppy Palaces or Narcotecture, because much of the money that went into building them came from Afghanistan's biggest crop. I also suspect that some UN/NGO/USAID dollars are paying for these insults to taste and design.
You can see these monstrosities all over town and I've photographed a few of the worst for your viewing pleasure. Note the really high walls and metal armor on some of them.
I apologize for the hurried nature of these photos—I took most of them from a moving car—but the AK-47 toting guards who stand watch at these palaces become a bit, um, grumpy when you take pictures around them.
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Decades of successful integration efforts are at stake when one school district fights over school proximity and school "balancing."
When a Baltimore mom hit her son to keep him away from protests, many applauded her—but the myth of the superstrong Black mother does more harm than good.
Randol Contreras' drug-robber respondents were not born criminals or torturers, so how did they become "stick-up kids"?
LGBT educators struggle to balance professionalism and pride in the classroom, splittling, knitting, or quittting, in the words of the authors.
China and the U.S. look to each other's educational systems as they try to balance individualism and collectivism, ability and effort, and grade school and college rigor.
Scholars have documented the emergence of apparently race-neutral discourses that serve to entrench racial stratification following the elimination of de jure segregation. These discourses deny the existence of both present-day racism and the contemporary effects of histories of racial oppression. Researchers posit that individuals are socialized into these views, but little empirical attention has been paid to the processes through which such socialization occurs.
It is well known that family socioeconomic background influences childhood access to opportunities. Educational reforms that introduce new information about school quality may lead to increased inequality if families with more resources are better able to respond. However, these policies can also level the playing field for choice by equalizing disadvantaged families' access to information. This study assesses how a novel accountability system affected family enrollment decisions in the Chicago Public Schools by introducing new test performance information and consequences.
The Paradox of Generosity: Giving We Receive, Grasping We Lose
Education has a large and increasing impact on health in America. This paper examines one reason why. Education gives individuals the ability to override the default American lifestyle. The default lifestyle has three elements: displacing human energy with mechanical energy, displacing household food production with industrial food production, and displacing health maintenance with medical dependency. Too little physical activity and too much food produce imperceptibly accumulating pathologies.
Researchers have documented widening educational gradients in mortality in the United States since the 1970s. While smoking has been proposed as a key explanation for this trend, no prior study has quantified the contribution of smoking to increasing education gaps in longevity.


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Find a reliable Babysitter in Munirka, New Delhi
Finding a reliable Babysitter in Munirka, New Delhi is always a challenge. When you look around, there are not enough options to find a reliable Babysitter.
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The Be The Link Campaign. The Campaign is the first of its kind to raise awareness for HIV and AIDS, visually linking 250 influential people in a voice of unity. The goal is to destroy the stigma surrounding the disease and to support HIV/AIDS awareness, education, and care for people with AIDS. Three years in the making, the national Campaign will exhibit photographic images at fundraising events for Until There's A Cure – one in New York City and one in Los Angeles, symbolically linking both coasts.
The highly anticipated west coast event will be a star-studded gala in Hollywood, California on February 21, The exclusive invite only black tie affair will be held at Bardot Hollywood. The Spanish colonial theater at the famed corner of Hollywood & Vine has been a show-business epicenter since opening in 1927. The event theme is love and the power it has to diminish the stigma of HIV. For entertainment, there will be special live performances by Billboard Dance Hit beauty Amy Weber; plus a performance by the sultry sounds of Colette Falla.
The highly anticipated west coast event will be a star-studded gala in Hollywood, California on February 21, 2013.
The Be The Link Campaign honored World AIDS Day 2012 on December 1 at the successful New York Gala Event. The red carpet affair was held at the historic firehouse on Lafayette Street in New York City.
The fundraiser gala spotlighted the photography of Andy Tsagaris, director and visionary of the event and featured a special performance by Sylvia Tosun. Attending were some of today's most prominent figures in the world of business, entertainment, and fashion including: Avivia and Reid Drescher, television personalities of Real Housewives of New York; Randy Jones, multi-platinum recording artist and founding member of The Village People; Project Runway Season 10 Winner Dmitry Sholokhov; VH1's Mob Wives Carla Facciolo; reality star Jessica Romano of Jerseylicious; Malan Breton, fashion designer; Loris Diran, fashion designer; Project Runway alumni Christopher Palu, Marilinda Rivera is the season three model winner of Project Runway, Fabio Costa, Buffy Jashanmal, and Lantie Foster; Billboard Club Chart queen Sylvia Tosun and co-founder of Sea to Sun record company; Christo Curlisto, hair designer; Svetlana Rakham, Viktor Luna, fashion designer, Eila Mell, fashion writer; Antonio Azzuolo, fashion designer; Gayle Sobel from Condé Nast; Stephen Knoll, hair designer; attorney and founder of Survivorship A-Z David Landay; Victor De Souza, fashion designer; Alex McCord and Simon Van Kempen, television personalities; the young ladies of Miss New York Teen; Nora Hanna, Executive Director of Until There's A Cure and many more.
AIDS is a chronic, potentially life-threatening condition caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). By damaging the immune system, HIV interferes with the body's ability to fight the organisms that cause disease. While there have been great strides in the prevention of HIV transmission and care of HIV infection and AIDS since AIDS was first recognized in 1981, there is no cure.
The Be The Link Campaign is partners with Until There's A Cure, a national organization since 1993 dedicated to eradicating HIV/AIDS by raising awareness and funds to combat the pandemic. Until There's A Cure is committed to: funding innovative programs which promote AIDS awareness and prevention education; providing financial support for care and services for those living with AIDS; and supporting and advocating for AIDS vaccine development which offers the best hope for reducing the spread of HIV. For more information on the foundation, visit http://www.until.org
The Be The Link Campaign spreads the message online at http://www.be-the-link.org featuring conceptual images of participants and PSAs sending the message that the participants are not just a face in a picture but also a voice for HIV in America. For more information on the campaign, including images and profiles of the participants and campaign resources, visit http://www.be-the-link.org or follow on Twitter @bethelink1 The Be The Link Campaign is the first of its kind to raise awareness for HIV and AIDS, visually linking 250 influential people in a voice of unity. The goal is to destroy the stigma surrounding the disease and to support HIV/AIDS awareness, education, and care for people with AIDS.
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Ratchet & Clank: Into the Nexus announced
New Ratchet & Clank game coming exclusively to the PS3; upcoming game to return to series' action-adventure roots.
New Ratchet & Clank game coming exclusively to the PS3; upcoming game to return to series' action-adventure roots.
Amazon France listing suggests high-definition combination pack of PlayStation 2 action titles due out May 16 on PlayStation 3.
Developer of Ratchet and Clank, Resistance signs on to create an original game for Xbox 360 and PS3 with Electronic Arts publishing through external developer program.
Valve cofounder to be honored for creating Steam at March developer conference, as Marble Madness creator is honored by Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences.
SOCOM II, Jak II, Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando, Rise to Honor, and ATV Offroad Fury 2 will each only cost $19.99.
SCEA announces the North American release of Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando.
We take the sequel to Sony and Insomniac's platformer for a spin.
We get our hands on an early version of Ratchet & Clank 2 at the PlayStation Experience 2003.
Sony and Insomniac's dynamic duo let it all hang out in their upcoming sequel.
Insomniac Games is hard at work on the next Ratchet & Clank game.
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Saving the Seed, a documentary film, explores the struggles of rural farmers in Honduras to control their food supplies and livelihoods. The film highlights one organization's pioneering model for rural community development.
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Besides a brief cry of indignation from world leaders during the coup d'état of July 2009, for decades Honduras has rarely made the news. But around the globe there is renewed interest in food security and, as the planet heats up, this small republic in Central America offers a rare lesson in resilience.
Saving the Seed presents an intimate portrait of a dedicated team of farmers- scientists in the hillsides of Honduras who are on the frontlines of climate change research and adaptation. In a country still dominated by big, cash-crop plantations, the film gives us unique access to the personal stories and daily lives of farmers succeeding on marginal lands. Most importantly, it documents a new approach to rural development that is putting the right to self-determination back in the hands of farm families. Whether it's corn, beans, or rice, the secret to a strong food system is simple: saving the seed.
Saving the Seed was made by two students at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Scott Turner and Claire Kane Boychuk. Original soundtrack to by Graeme Bousada.


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"[A] multilayered masterpiece." —The San Francisco Chronicle
"Beautiful. . . . Spectacularly scenic. . . . Impressive. . . . The euphonious sounds of the prose, together with the sensory impressions they unleash, reinforce the book's message that language can offer mesmerizing pleasures." —The New York Times Book Review
"Enchant[ing]. . . . Elegantly translated. . . . An intricate and affecting legend of love, loss, and intellectual obsession." —The Boston Globe
"An exquisitely structured, dreamlike tale of strange and noble quests, not to mention love, that roams across centuries and touches down in China, Burma, Mali and Paris." —Kansas City Star, Best 100 Books of the Year
"Haunting and complex. . . . Told with a spare elegance of prose. . . . Abounds in inventive mythology darkly threaded by a tragic love story." —The Washington Times
"A freewheeling meditation on language as the divine current that buoys human experience. . . . As a piece of art, encrusted with meaning and mystery, it is rich and strange." —The Los Angeles Times
"Much of this wonderfully written book is set against the colorful backdrop of Old Peking and the crisply written narrative is as exciting and powerful as a typhoon." —Tuscon Citizen
"At its heart the novel crafts an ode to the power of language." —National Geographic Traveler
"[This] complex and well written historical novel . . . grips the audience thoroughly with its poetic look back in time." —Mainstream Fiction
"Mesmerizing." —Audrey Magazine
"Elegant and thoughtful. . . . Worthwhile and captivating with a beautiful ending sure to resonate with its audience. . . . A celebration of the joy of a good story. [Dai] Sijie delights in storytelling." —Bookreporter.com
"Filled with twists and turn of fate, back stories, symbolism and intersections of politics and religion worthy of a Dan Brown novel. . . . Dai adds layer upon layer of meaning. . . . [Once Upon a Moonless Night] pulls the reader along, as does the language, which is pungent and immediate. And as for the scroll itself: this is one mystery, one message, that really makes it worth reading until the last lines of a novel to discover." —UPI Asia
"Once on a Moonless Night is full of tales within tales and worlds within worlds, ranging from ancient Chinese empires through communist China to modern Beijing." —A. S. Byatt, The Guardian [UK]
"[Dai] Sijie's ambitious work spans a thousand years of Chinese history. . . . [with] a rich repository of tales, traditions and sensibilities [the book's] theme of indeterminacy of meaning is braided into the clash between East and West. . . . [Dai] Sijie has a gift for the spectacular." —Times Literary Supplement [UK]
"Once on a Moonless Night evokes the past with all the eerie clarity of a dream, its outlines blurred, but every tiny, telling detail extraordinarily alive. Anyone in search of a brief history of China would do well to begin right here." —Financial Times [UK]
"[Dai] Sijie's breathtaking story shows the beauty and horrors that make up China's history while the poetry of [Dai] Sijie's words is revealed in Hunter's magnificent translation. It's fitting that a story of a love affair with language should be written so beautifully." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"[B]ewitching. . . . As impressionistically historical as it is imaginative, Dai's dreamlike tale of epic quests and love put to the test is exquisitely structured. . . . Dai's dazzling and magical saga intimates that language is transcendent; books are precious; translation is a noble art; stories are the key to freedom; and truth prevails." —Booklist (starred review)


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Cash, that most basic element of our economy, can be in abysmally short supply for new young families scraping by on marginal jobs.
Sustainable housebuilding may not be foremost in their minds.
But one young couple in Wales managing on an annual income of just $10,000 went ahead and built their own cheap home anyway, sustainably, mostly out of materials from "a rubbish pile somewhere."
They had wanted to spend as much time as possible at home while their two children were young. Their nearby woodlands ecological management work would have been impractical if they were paying a mortgage.
So they enlisted some help from family, and sometimes just from people passing by, and from any of their friends who stopped by to visit:
The result was their very low impact homemade house. A hand built unique setting for a charmed life for their two young toddlers. I'll bet they'll remember this first home for the rest of their lives.
Four months of hard work and they were all 4 moved in and cozy.
Total expenditure? $5,000. Tools? A chisel, a chainsaw and a hammer. Building expertise? Simon Dale says:
"My experience is only having a go at one similar house 2yrs before and a bit of mucking around in-between. This kind of building is accessible to anyone. My main relevant skills were being able bodied, having self belief and perseverance and a mate or two to give a lift now and again."
Sustainable design and construction:
- Dug into hillside for low visual impact and shelter
- Stone and mud from diggings used for retaining walls, foundations etc.
- Frame constructed of fallen trees from surrounding woodland
- Reciprocal roof rafters are structurally very easy to do
- Straw bales in floor, walls and roof for super-insulation and easy building
- Plastic sheet and mud/turf roof for low impact and ease
- Lime plaster on walls is breathable and low energy to manufacture compared to cement
- Reclaimed (scrap) wood for floors and fittings
- Other items were reclaimed from "a rubbish pile somewhere": windows, wiring, plumbing
(Maybe there should be a new LEED rating just for building so inexpensively: Sustainable Financing. This is one mortgage bill that's not going to be haunting their mum and dad for years.) Inside there's a wood-burner for heating – waste wood in the old-growth forest is locally plentiful.To get the most of the heat, the flue goes through a big stone/plaster lump to retain and slowly releases the warmth.
There are just a couple of solar panels – just enough for for lighting, music and computing. It's a simple life. A skylight in the roof lets in enough natural feeling light, and water is fed by gravity downhill from a nearby spring. There's a compost toilet. Roof water collects in a pond for gardening
Says Simon: "Our house is unusual but the aesthetic appeals to lots of people and perhaps touches something innate in us that evolved in forests."
Want to try making one too? Simon will show you how or check out other metal homes for more ideas and inspiration like this post on building a cob house.
Images: www.SimonDale.net
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Earthsheltered Home Construction Work Exchange
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Are the neighbours nice?
What's the kids' favourite spot to play? What repairs have you made? What does THIS thing do? How long does it take to get to the airport? Really, that quick? Well, what about in rush hour?
No one's better able to answer those and a million other buyers' questions than you. You can be a font of wisdom and confidence and expertise, the ideal person to advocate for your biggest asset.
But there are some common mistakes, errors we see in the real estate industry every day, that could make you, let's say ... the less-than-best person.
Beautiful pictures, a thoughtful comparative market analysis, a smartly worded MLS listing, great exposure through Internet real estate sites and your own social networks: the power of all of those can be diminished by sale-repelling errors.
Let's start with the most routine mistake: clutter. Many homesellers assume that buyers will overlook clutter and mess and train their mind's eye on their home's potential. You have to tidy up - even your storage spaces. Mess prompts stress in prospective buyers, and that's bad news for the deal.
While you're at it, get your dog out of there. I feel your ambivalence on this. My wife and I love our dogs. We do that thing where we treat them like children. And yet I would never in a dozen dog years have them around if I was selling my house. They're a distraction and they can act unpredictably. They're out.
Once your home's in tiptop condition and your buyers are inside, lead the tour. Don't follow. The open-ended, "have-a-look-around-at whatever" just provokes uncertainty and awkwardness.
Use your presence to your advantage: be that advocate, that confident seller, that expert guide. Emphasize the things you love. You are the deal's second-best asset, after the home itself.
That said, give your prospects some time and space. Don't hover and smother; let your buyers linger in a room and then start guiding the tour again when they're ready.
Meeting prospective buyers is often a great experience. You may click so well with them that you maintain a relationship after the sale.
Other times, they can test your patience and, if you let it happen, needlessly complicate the potential sale. So don't let it happen.
If your buyers crack wise about something you love about your home, let it go. Note their objections and suggest fixes if they're realistic, and keep your objectivity.
Sometimes a savvy buyer will grind you with multiple criticisms to try to shave the price down. Don't take it as rudeness (even though it probably is). Think of it as good negotiation, and respond in kind by citing the market comparables and research on sales activity in the neighbourhood that you've done.
Weird smells are death to a sale; luckily, it's summer, which is the perfect time to air out your home and showcase your fragrant backyard. Even strong odours that you assume smell great - the Scentsy candles you buy in bulk from Julie next door - might turn a buyer off. Stick with clean, fresh, subtle.
Finally, the phrase, "Do NOT go in there" is not in a homeseller's vocabulary. All doors in your home are open, literally and metaphorically.
You have no secrets. Give your buyer a reason to think you do, and it'll be you, your beautiful dogs and your scentsy candles enjoying another Christmas in a home that won't sell.
Scott Bollinger is the broker for ComFree Commonsense Network in Alberta. Suggest column ideas by email at Scott@comfree. com and follow him on Twitter@ComfreeScott.


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The first round of The Most Specialest Holiday Specials Face-Off Ever proved to be quite brutal for many.
On Facebook, one reader wrote: "'Santa Claus is Comin' to Town' versus 'Frosty the Snowman'?!? You are cruel. That is like making Sophie's choice. How ever does one choose?!?"
In the Red Bracket, "A Charlie Brown Christmas" beat "Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol"; "A Muppet Family Christmas" slammed "A Very Brady Christmas"; "Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas" bested "The Night the Animals Talked"; and "A Garfield Christmas Special" scattered "The Gathering."
In the Green Bracket, "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" beat "The Yule Log"; "The Year Without a Santa Claus" sleigh rode all over the upstart "Prep & Landing"; "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" outshone "The Junky's Christmas"; and "Frosty the Snowman" put the chill on "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town."
Now, it's on to the second round, where voting will be held until noon Tuesday. Click on the name of the bracket below, where you can cast your votes:


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I never thought that I have to write about this topic again, but I have to since a couple months ago I have to justify a decision of using Spring Framework in an enterprise environment. The decision to be made was whether we are going for JEE or using Spring Framework. The constraint was very clear:
- We need to support both batch and web apps.
- For web apps we only can use an old OAS (Oracle Application Server) with JEE 1.4.
- Commercial support has to be available for the framework and the runtime environment.
- We are going to update the app server for JEE 6 or 7 soon, so it should be possible to have a smooth migration.
- We would like to minimize the use of our home grown frameworks.
Still there was such a quarrel in the team because there are already some JEE web apps run in OAS upgraded with JBoss Weld CDI 1.0. Normally JBoss Weld 1.0 won't run out of the box in OAS but with some patches we got it run. The problem with all those web apps is we had a lot of our own CDI extensions to fulfill enterprise features (declarative transaction management for services, caching, security) which already a part of Spring Framework a long time ago.
So it's time to google this topic "JEE vs. Spring Framework" to see whether the dispute between them still exists.
Spring Framework Bashing 2012 and 2013
I found in Google a lot of Spring Framework bashing in years 2012 and 2013. There are some of blogs and articles saying that with the existence of JEE - especially JEE 7 - we don't need or should avoid Spring Framework. One of the most controversial article is this one: Why is Java EE 6 better than Spring? Luckily there are also some counter parts like this one: Java EE a tough sell for Spring framework users and this one Java EE vs Spring. Or: What is a standard?
So the topic is still hot!
Base on these discussions I need to make my own picture so let's get the two important aspects of enterprise application development: programming models and runtime environments.
To conclude: the umbrella JEE specification which contains all those APIs also makes everything more complex and makes update to a newer version of APIs very slow.
In my opinion the enterprise development in Java has to go in the direction above:
- Drop the umbrella standard JEE.
- Concentrate on one and only one runtime environment specification, the Servlet specification.
- Concentrate on APIs standardization like JPA, JTA, JMS, CDI, Batch and others and make them loosely coupled. Let the version of the APIs to be used mixed and matched.
- Use the standard dependency mechanism of Java to include the implementations within the web and batch apps.
- Don't forget the Security APIs, just copy them from Spring Security analog to Batch APIs using Spring Batch.
So at the end as an end user we have one and only one runtime environment (container). The rest is just standardized APIs (JPA, JMS, CDI, Batch, Security) with their implementations (Hibernate, ActiveMQ, Spring DI, JBoss Weld, Spring Batch, Spring Security) which can be used mixed and matched as you need them. With this style you can update the version of particular specification without having to update the whole runtime environment and all the APIs in one step. A new developed app can use the up-to-date APIs and their implementations. Update of older web and batch apps can be planned carefully without the need to update all the apps at once.
The full story can be found here: http://lofidewanto.blogspot.de/2014/06/why-should-we-dump-jee-standard.html


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ST. CHARLES – A Bartlett orthopedic surgeon is suing a St. Charles chiropractor and his practice, alleging the chiropractor defamed him by calling him a "butcher" and alleging the surgeon would do unnecessary surgery, according to court papers filed in DuPage County recently.
According to the lawsuit, Dr. Howard Freedberg is accusing Pat Calcagno, founder and CEO of Olympia Chiropractic and Physical Therapy in St. Charles, of defaming him in a conversation with a boy at a St. Francis High School football event last August. The boy was 16 at the time.
The teen was scheduled to undergo surgery with Freedberg for a sports injury and was using crutches at the event, according to the lawsuit.
Calcagno approached the teen to ask why he was on crutches and to press for details as to the type of surgery he was going to have and by whom, according to the suit.
"Calcagno told him that Dr. Freedberg was 'a butcher' and that he should get a second opinion before being operated on by 'the butcher.' [Calcagno] further stated to [the teen] that the only reason that Dr. Freedberg wanted to perform surgery on him was that Dr. Freedberg was going through a difficult divorce and that he needed the money," according to the complaint.
The teen – identified in court papers as John Doe – was surprised by Calcagno's comments and replied that Freedberg was well-known in his field, to which Calcagno replied that he was not well-regarded. And that "Dr. Freedberg 'takes pictures with famous people but isn't recognized in his field,' " the complaint states.
Calcagno told the teen he did not need surgery "and that he should instead be treated at Olympia if he wanted to return to the football field sooner," according to the complaint.
Freedberg found out about the conversation after the teen told his parents and they told the surgeon, the complaint states.
Freedberg is asking for damages of more than $50,000, plus legal fees and a jury trial. The next court date is Aug. 12 in Wheaton.
Freeberg attorney Lance Northcutt said he tried to reach out to Calgano for an explanation and retraction before filing suit, but the chiropractor never responded to their calls.
"Dr. Freedberg has built an outstanding reputation as a physician and surgeon," Northcutt said. "And this [was] false and blatantly damaging commentary to a prospective patient about to go undergo surgery."
Northcutt said the teen boy went ahead with the scheduled surgery and is doing fine.
Calcagno did not return messages seeking comment.
Olympia Chiropractic also has offices in Bartlett, Park Ridge and Sycamore and two offices in Elmhurst.


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Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Smith on the History of Sexual Abuse of Women in U.S. Prisons, and in the Context of Slavery
Brenda V. Smith, American University, has posted an article, Sexual Abuse of Women in United States Prisons: A Modern Corollary of Slavery. It appeared in the Fordham Urban Law Journal. Here's the abstract: This paper addresses the sexual abuse of women in custody as a more contemporary manifestation of slavery and discusses the congruencies and the differences that exist between the sexual abuse of women in custody and slavery. The paper charts the history of the parallel abolition and prison reform movements and examines their divergent paths arguing that the women's movement abandonment of prison advocacy has harmed the women in prison movement. The article concludes that the embrace of human rights norms has assisted in providing new avenues for redressing the sexual abuse of women in custody.
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Have you thought about......
Whilst most celebrations are pretty straight forward, weddings always require a little more thought, planning and consideration. For example.....
Breakfast music:
Have you thought about how you will play your breakfast music? most dedicated wedding venues and hotels have some form of PA, but they are not always the best quality. It's always a good idea to ask if you can listen to the system before your big day
Grande entrance:
Unless the venue has a toastmaster or master of ceremonies, how will you plan your Grande entrance as the brand new married couple? if your on a budget and the venue has a PA and radio microphone, perhaps ask a friend or family member, alternatively, you can book me to help with all the official announcements throughout the day, including help with the breakfast music
I can formally introduce your speeches and supply radio microphone and PA system, however, it might be worth checking with your venue to see if they already have a PA that you can use. People tend to absorb sound, so a microphone is essential if you would like everyone to hear clearly what is being said
Cutting of the cake:
Not only is it important for your photographer to capture your moment of cutting the cake, it's always a bonus when friends and family get a photo opportunity too, I can help rally everyone around with their cameras, or indeed, camera phones to capture your memories
First dance:
Naturally, the first dance is a very special moment, so consideration of timing and if you would like me to invite your guests onto the dance floor about half way through are tow small but very important points, for example, will all your evening guests be there, and letting your photographer know that they will have a chance to capture you two on your own and then all your friends and family with you (Photographers usually vanish after the first dance, so it's a great way to complete the day of taking pictures)
If always a good idea to discuss all of the above in detail, having a good idea of how your day will run is also essential, for example, room turn around times is usually the time for the DJ to get setup, or perhaps your venue and room configuration may have the option for early morning setup. A consultation will also enable us to discuss music preferences and get to know each other a little better in the process.
It's good to talk:
When shopping around for DJ's for your special day, it's always worth having an initial chat on the phone to see how you feel about the person you may potentially be booking for the most important day of your life, take your time, chat to a few DJ's, discuss music, ask about equipment, PAT test and public liability insurance, how flexible are they willing to be in order to help your day run perfect, will they take requests on the night, ask them to explain a typical event and how they work, etc


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Meeting the Hulk
It was almost laughable when the Yankees were a cool10 games ahead of the Baltimore Orioles in the AL East standings on July 18, but right now, there is nothing to laugh about. July 18 is practically a lifetime ago, and the Yanks are now only a slim 1.5 games up on the O's with just nine games left in the 2012 regular season.
Now, the Yankees and Orioles in a nose-to-nose race, the AL East Division will more than likely come down to the last day of the season – the winner claiming the East and the short straw punching a ticket to a one-game Wild Card playoff.
On a positive note for New York, the Yankees have caught some late-season magic, never more evidenced than by Saturday afternoon's thrilling 14-inning, 10-9 victory over the Oakland A's at home.
Locked up at 5-5 in the 13th inning, Oakland managed to plate four runs to untie the game on the strength of three home runs. Trailing 9-5 in the bottom of the frame, defeat looked imminent for the Bombers.
But they made sure to make it interesting.
In a stroke of sheer resiliency, the Yankees scored four runs to knot the game up, highlighted by a huge two-run home run off the bat of Raul Ibanez. The next inning, Eduardo Nunez reached on an error allowing Ichiro to come home for the win.
It wasn't the cleanest victory of 2012, but it was probably the most meaningful. All season long, the Yanks have fallen when they trailed after the eighth inning but on Saturday afternoon they proved they can win in the face of a sure loss; they gave us a taste of the old days of 2009.
While the Yankees were experiencing a radical win, I was experiencing something just as fun – meeting pro wrestling and pop culture icon, Hulk Hogan.
The Hulkster was signing autographs and making an appearance at a wrestling show at Dutchess Stadium in Fishkill, N.Y. – the same Stadium I spent most of my summer nights this year, covering the Hudson Valley Renegades.
My cousin Joe and I patiently waited on line for several hours, but it was worth it. Once we got to the front, I shook Hulk's hand, which is about as large as a tree trunk, and told him what an honor it was to meet him. Hulk was as nice as can be about it.
"Oh, the pleasure is all mine, brother! It's good I got you protecting me now, you're a young guy!"
Joe was mesmerized, being a huge "Hulkamaniac" (or in other words a fan of Hulk's) since he was five years old. We each gave Hulk a "bro-hug," if you will, after we took pictures with him. He joked for a minute with Joe, nearly hip-tossing him, and then we were on our way.
I have to say, meeting Hulk was pretty cool; a nice little memory I'll hold onto. During the show he went face-to-face with one of his old foes from back in the day, "Rowdy" Roddy Piper. It was pretty surreal; almost felt as if we were thrown into a time machine and sent back to 1985, the year Hogan and Piper headlined the first WrestleMania at Madison Square Garden.
On a side note, super heavyweight wrestler Vader also made an appearance. From the front row, I led the crowd in a Boy Meets World chant, as he held a recurring role as Frankie's dad (for fans of the show who would know that). In fact, he wrestled Jake "the snake" Roberts in an episode, on the night of Topanga's Sweet 16 party.
Vader saw me yelling Boy Meets World, smiled and shook his head. Then he looked at me from the ring and simply said,
"Ok, Ok. We got it, we got it…"


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I don't smoke but my Dad used to. He saved the coupons. I noticed that Camel Cash certificates are expiring and wrote a post about it a few weeks ago. Now a lot of people are finding out that Camel Cash will no longer be redeemable after March 31, and are trying to figure out where to get the catalog. Many of them have come here.
It took quite a lot of searching, but I can tell you that you can call 800 226-3522 but it won't do you much good, cause they don't have any paper catalogs left.
The website to go to is camelsmokes.com, or http://www.smokerswelcome.com/CAM/dtclogin.jsp?brand=CAM
where you will have to register which involves giving a lot of personal information. If you say you are not a smoker at present, you will not be able to register.
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Rainbow cake
Nutrition and extra info
- Freeze un-iced sponges only
Nutrition: per slice
- kcal601
- fat29g
- saturates18g
- carbs73g
- sugars47g
- fibre2g
- protein11g
- salt0.6g
You'll need 3 x these ingredients for six sponges
- 125g butter, softened, plus a little extra for greasing
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- 225g plain flour
- 150g golden caster sugar
- 3 medium eggs (very important to use the correct size)
- 1 tsp baking powder
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- pinch of salt
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- edible food colouring - red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple, plus optional pink (see below)
For the icing
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 3 x 250g tubs cream cheese or mascarpone
- 350g icing sugar
Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Grease 2 x 20cm round sandwich tins and line the bases with baking parchment. Tip all the sponge ingredients, apart from the food colouring, into a mixing bowl, then beat with an electric whisk until smooth.
Working quickly, weigh the mixture into another bowl to work out the total weight, then weigh exactly half the mixture back into the mixing bowl. Pick 2 of your colours and stir a little into each mix. Keep going until you are happy with the colour – the colour of the batter now will be very similar to the finished cake, so be brave! Scrape the different batters into the tins, trying to spread and smooth as much as possible – but try not to waste a drop of the batter – a rubber spatula will help you. Bake on the same oven shelf for 12 mins until a skewer poked into the middle comes out clean.
Gently turn the cakes out onto a wire rack to cool. Wash the tins and bowls thoroughly, and start again from step 1 – this time using another 2 colours. Unless you're making the optional pink layer, repeat one more time to get 6 sponges, all of different colours. Leave them all to cool.
To make the icing, very briefly beat the vanilla and cream cheese or mascarpone with an electric whisk until smooth. Sift in the icing sugar and gently fold in with a spatula. Be careful – the more you work it, the runnier it will get, increasing the chance of splitting.
Smear a little icing on your cake stand or plate – just a splodge to stick the first sponge. Start with the red, then spread with some icing right to the very edge. Repeat, sandwiching on top the orange, yellow, green, blue and finally purple sponges. Spread the remaining icing thickly all over the sides and top of the cake. For more tips and expert advice on how to create the perfect rainbow cake, check out our tips, below.
Recipe Tip
How to create the perfect coloursTo make sure you've got a good balance of colours, test your colourings in a little water first – I tried over 20 shades before I found my favourite combination! Find out more about colourings
Recipe Tip
Tips for a professional finishWhen you make each batch, keep a tiny blob of batter back – then, as you dye each future batter, you can make sure the colour strengths match. A palette knife, which has a long, rounded and flexible blade, makes icing big cakes much easier, as the blade is long enough to scrape the whole side at once. You can buy them in cookshops. A turntable really helps if you're trying to ice a big cake. If you don't have one, use a cake stand instead.
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Which colours did we useWe used SK Professional Paste Food Colour and Quality Food Colour paste ranges from squires-shop.com. Buy pots in Red, Orange, Sunflower, Fern, Hyacinth, Purple and Pink. From the supermarket, try Dr Oetker gel food colours in Bright Red, Neon Orange, Sunshine Yellow, Lime Green, Sky Blue, Ultra Violet and Hot Pink. Read our top tips on colouring.
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Trimming your spongesWe've kept the sponges as light as possible so they may be slightly rounded when they come out of the oven. You may want to trim them just a shade, to flatten so they all stack neatly together. We've answered your FAQs on sponges here.
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Make an extra layerMy recipe makes six sponge layers, but you can make one extra layer by halving the cake quantities and baking a single sponge dyed pink – use this as your seventh layer. It's not strictly necessary, the cake will still look fabulous with six – but why not! Click here for more tips on sponges.


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Re: Re: Inserted Objects wont Print!!
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- Subject: [mg11975] Re: [mg11910] Re: Inserted Objects wont Print!!
- From: "Alberto Raydan" <email@example.com>
- Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 02:21:22 -0400
>Unfortunately, there is no way to get an OLE cell (the >result of doing Insert Object) to print directly in 3.0. >To work around this, you could convert the cell to a >bitmap cell by doing Cell->Convert To...->Bitmap. >Disadvantages to this method are that you can no longer >activate the object by double-clicking it, and it will >print out only at screen resolution (although if the >object you inserted was a bitmap image, this shouldn't >be a problem). In 3.0.1, you could also try converting >the cell to a metafile cell (Cell->Convert To...->Metafile), >which does a better job of preserving the resolution of >the graphic. > >John Fultz >email@example.com >Front End Group >Wolfram Research, Inc. > John, Thanks for the tip. I tried both methods but they didn't quite work for me. I'm using Mathematica 3.0.1 under MS Windows 95. In any event, I decided to move all the relevant information from the Mathematica notebook to MS Word and print from there. Mathematica is a great program but it has its shortcomings. This printing issue is the least of my worries. I'm not going to air in this email all my gripes but I hope future versions of Mathematica solve some of these problems. Thanks again, Alberto Raydan email@example.com


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Today, we heard Gus Johnson commentate his second soccer game for FOX Soccer, where he was the announcer for the UEFA Champions League match between Arsenal and Bayern Munich. His performance as a commentator at the Emirates Stadium tonight showed that he was a considerable amount of work ahead of him if he wants to improve.
The main issue with Johnson's commentating today was his inability to correctly read the game in key moments. Examples include Johnson shouting "What a save!" when Manuel Neuer stopped an Olivier Giroud shot that was aimed point-blank at the German goalkeeper. Plus, in the first half, Bayern Munich won a free kick on the edge of the area, Johnson didn't call it. Either he didn't see the referee signaling for a free kick, or didn't understand the call that the ref made. Instead his commentary was "A nice slide… dangerous for Arsenal." His inability to distinguish between a foul and a "nice slide" is worrying. Plus, the TV viewer at home shouldn't be the one figuring out it's a free kick before the commentator does.
Other flubs included repeatedly mispronouncing Bacary Sagna's name in the first half, as well as misreading a Bayern Munich corner as an Arsenal goal kick, and lulling us to sleep with his monotone commentating during quieter moments of the game.
Thankfully co-commentator Ray Clemence papered over many of the cracks, doing a far better job alongside Johnson than Warren Barton did last week. Clemence's insights into the game were timely and astute, often enhancing our experience of watching this exciting match. His chemistry with Johnson was also decent. Clemence was able to defuse Johnson's over-exuberance at times. When Johnson made the "What a save!" call, Clemence explained that "To be fair to Neuer, he doesn't know a lot about it. If that's half a yard either side of him, it's in the back of the net."
While Johnson's performance was far from catastrophic, today revealed a little more regarding how much of a gulf there is between what he knows compared to the knowledge level of an average soccer commentator. I can live with Johnson calling anything coming near the goal as "on fire" and his annoying "In the six!" calls, but the bottom line is that he's not saying anything. He's not adding anything to these games other than a good voice, an American accent and tons of energy. Take those three things away and there's nothing.
Gus Johnson's next commentary is this Sunday's Premier League match between Manchester City and Chelsea (8:30am ET on FOX Soccer).
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Plano police have issued a missing person report for a man with cerebral palsy who was last seen Friday evening.
Corey M. Cann, 21, was last seen at his home on the 500 block of Hale Street in Plano at 7 p.m. Friday and has not be heard from since, police said today.
Cann, who attended Southern Illinois University, uses a wheelchair and has cerebral palsy and can speak, police said.
Some reports indicated Cann may have been in a tan truck but those reports have not been verified, police said.
Cann is described as a white male, 5 feet 3 inches tall, weighing 170 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes. He was last seen wearing a white Brookfield Zoo T-shirt and glasses. He was in his wheelchair at the time of his disappearance.
Anyone with information is asked to call Plano police at (630) 552-3122.
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The Zeiss Planetarium in Bochum was built in 1964 and since that time it has been one of the most modern facilities of its kind in the world.
A central projector beams an image of the night sky beneath the domed roof so that visitors are given a realistic impression of the heavens. The corridor that surrounds the circular projector room contains permanent and temporary exhibitions. In May 2010 the attraction reopened after four months of refurbishment, and is now the world's first planetarium with a velvet full-dome projection facility.
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So ... is it likely to be the cracked impeller that's the problem?
Should we check or re-check something else on the machine?
Also, if this means we just need to replace the whole drain pump, is there any way to jury-rig the part for the time being, so we can at least wash clothing while waiting for the new drain pump to arrive?
Out of curiosity, is there something you know of that tends to cause cracks in that part of the machine?
They don't make pumps like they use too.
What's the world coming to?
Anyway, I've ordered the part and I'll post an update after it gets here.


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As a result of employee furloughs due to sequestration, the FAA is implementing traffic management initiatives at airports and facilities around the country. Travelers can expect to see a wide range of delays that will change throughout the day depending on staffing and weather related issues. For example, the FAA is experiencing staffing challenges at the Cleveland, Washington and New York En Route Centers, the Chicago, San Antonio, Southern California and Tampa TRACONs, and Newark, LaGuardia and JFK and Regional South West Florida Airports. Controllers will space planes farther apart so they can manage traffic with current staff, which will lead to delays at airports including Newark, LaGuardia, JFK, Chicago O'Hare, Regional South West, and Tampa. The FAA also expects delays at a number of other airports because of weather and winds.
The FAA will continue to work with the airlines throughout the day to try and minimize delays for travelers. We encourage all travelers to check their flight status and also to visit fly.faa.gov for the latest airport delay information.
Yesterday more than 863 delays in the system were attributable to staffing reductions resulting from the furlough at the New York, Washington, Cleveland, Jacksonville and Los Angeles En Route Centers, the Potomac, Dallas and Southern California TRACONs and Detroit Tower. There were more than 1,269 additional delays as a result of weather and other factors.


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DavidTate wrote:Pan's Labyrinth sounds intriguing; do you consider it (dark) fantasy, as opposed to horror?
DavidTate wrote: I have mixed feelings about anime. I haven't seen much, but most of what I've seen is... not good. I don't know Miyazaki, but I know that many fans of Diana Wynn Jones were pretty upset about what he did to Howl's Moving Castle.
Books? There was only one book, Dune. Just like there was only one Highlander movie, and only two Star Wars movies. Rumors of sequels are the work of the Evil One.MarkJH wrote:Although I know it is much maligned and fans of the books take issue with it (I've never read them myself) I have to admit to being an admirer of David Lynch's 'Dune'.
owlcroft wrote:Comments on the comments:
Blade Runner: I kept asking myself "Where's the beef?" Granted that I think Dick is way over-rated anyway, I have to believe that the book was better than this. It was a slow-motion trip to nowhere, living entirely on a sort of moody mediocre special effects that looked better in the too-short-lived Max Headroom TV series.
DavidTate wrote:Dark City (1998)
owlcroft wrote:I don't know how I managed to forget that little gem "Carnival of Souls". Add it to the list.
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Advocates, brass meet as details emerge
Ten of the 38 women listed as victims in an ongoing Air Force sex scandal described their encounters with instructors in San Antonio to investigators as "unwanted."
Just how many women were raped, however, isn't clear in the new information the Air Force released about the scandal at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland. An instructor at the installation was recently convicted of raping one woman, but Air Force Maj. Carla Gleason could not provide exact numbers.
As those details emerged, the top commander of Air Force training met Monday with a New York advocacy group that has closely followed the Lackland scandal. Gen. Edward A. Rice Jr. spent 75 minutes with Service Women's Action Network executive director Anu Bhagwati and policy chief Greg Jacob in SWAN's offices.
SWAN said it asked that the Air Force punish sexual assault perpetrators and hold officers and senior NCO leaders accountable — including those at Lackland when the assaults occurred.
"We also pointed out that in order to create a real change in the culture at Lackland, substantial increases in the number of women (instructors) and women officers are needed to teach trainees that good leadership is not a function of gender," said Bhagwati, a former Marine Corps company commander.
One in five trainees at Lackland, home of Air Force basic training, is female, but only 11 percent of the nearly 500 instructors are women.
Rice could order changes in training once a probe led by Maj. Gen. Margaret H. Woodward is done. Woodward, based at the Pentagon, was ordered by Rice to look at the possibility the scandal was caused by command-climate issues — an atmosphere that fails to discourage bad behavior.
The Air Force has identified 38 women as potential victims and is investigating 15 instructors. Dozens of investigators are looking into allegations that Gleason said date to 2008.
There are questions about the numbers given by the Air Force. Nine women said they were the object of unwanted contact with Staff Sgt. Luis A. Walker, convicted in July and given 20 years in military prison.
One trainee in that case called her encounter consensual but testified that she was shocked at Walker's advances and feared him because of his irrational behavior.
Two other women also accused a pair of trainers of luring them against their wishes to a dimly lit Lackland supply room. Both told evidentiary hearings that they did not know what to do and submitted to the instructors, who await trial.
Rice, meanwhile, called the SWAN meeting "very helpful" in a statement. He said the Air Force would continue to "reach out to those who may have an interest in understanding the situation we are dealing with at basic military training and who may have some insight that can be helpful for us in doing what's best for our airman."
Retired Air Force Col. Morris Davis likened the meeting to those he had with interest groups while serving as chief prosecutor for the Guantanamo commissions.
"It's a big deal given the scope of the problem," he said. "I give him credit with making an outreach effort and meeting with people who would not be your typical Air Force crowd."
SWAN, which supports women in the armed forces, said its leaders stressed that trainees should have the chance to confidentially report allegations of misconduct, harassment or assault without fear of reprisal.
The Air Force has taken steps to improve reporting, one of them being the installation of 40 comment boxes where the trainees are less likely to be seen by instructors.
Bhagwati said Rice, in New York for Air Force Week 2012, talked about issues relating to military culture for "quite a while." She also will meet in the Pentagon this week with the assistant commandant of the Marine Corps, Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr.
"I think the top brass are extremely interested in engaging us on how to improve the quality of life for women in the military and that covers a whole range of issues," said Bhagwati, "from recruitment to retention to training to what women value, perceptions about physical standards, the combat exclusion policy, everything."


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As you engage in game-like sensory exercises that help your loved one, you will feel the emergence of a strong, new connection.
You will do the same sensory games for a couple of weeks. We will give you fresh new exercises based on your report of where your loved one has improved.
Novelty and consistency are key factors of an enrichment therapy.
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There are many factors involved in selecting the best protocols for you to do each time. Which protocols you are prescribed depends not only on age, strengths and challenges, but also on where the brain is ready to make improvements.
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User community support forum for Apache OpenOffice, LibreOffice and all the OpenOffice.org derivatives
Open Office version 3.1 on Windows 10
But I did it yesterday!
Edmund Pickett wrote:Yesterday I saved a file I had created on OO as a .docx file. Today I don't have that choice. There are many choices under "save as" for file types but .docx does not appear. What am I doing wrong?
Edmund Pickett wrote:All the replies are ignoring the fact that I did it yesterday!
Edmund Pickett wrote:The reason I need to is that I'm transferring a file to an ebook formatting program called Vellum and it requires .docx.
Edmund Pickett wrote:One of the choices was "save as .docx."
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Welcome to "Nurse Notes," a new feature that showcases LMC nurses and highlights job opportunities in nursing at our hospital.
LMC is hiring nurses with at least one year of experience in Med/Surg, Critical Care and Labor & Delivery to work night shifts with a $2,500 signing bonus. Learn more and apply online by clicking here.
In Webisode 1 of "Nurse Notes," we meet Megan Sires, who takes care of heart patients at our hospital. In this video, she talks about why she chose to pursue nursing as a career and tells us why it's great to be a nurse at LMC.


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It's exactly 100 years since the birth of Alan Turing. And just over 58 years since his death. An event which left scarcely a ripple in the media of the time, and which might have left none at all had it not been for the manner in which it happened.
Under the headline "Death Apple By His Bed", the Daily Mail of 11 June 1954 covered the coroner's findings that this "bachelor" who "lived alone" committed suicide by means of a cyanide soaked apple while the balance of his mind was disturbed. Although he is described as "one of Britain's most brilliant mathematicians", Turing's name was not remotely well enough known to make it into the headline, and the piece takes up barely a couple of column inches, one of dozens of stories on that page alone. Brief as the Mail's account was, they did more than most other national papers in at least reporting that Turing had died.
Fast forward to now, and Turing has gone from being a man whose life was seen as less interesting than his death, to one requiring 12 months to celebrate his achievements and influence. 2012 has been declared "Alan Turing Year" with an official organising committee and events across some 50 countries and organisations. There are exhibitions, conferences, TV and radio programmes, even a special UK postage stamp. That apple by his deathbed has become the most famous in science since Isaac Newton's windfall, with claims that Turing poisoned it so he could mimic the one in his favourite fairy-tale, Disney's Snow White, and – repeatedly – that it inspired Apple's famous once-bitten logo. Although writer/actor/presenter/technophile Stephen Fry says that when he asked Apple founder Steve Jobs if the story is true, Jobs replied: "God we wish it were. It's just a coincidence."
'Modern hero'
There are many reasonable reasons why Turing is now so highly regarded. It helps he was a leading figure in the World War II code-breaking work at Bletchley Park: he developed the electromechanical "Bombe" which deciphered messages sent using the fiendishly complex German Enigma machines, work which ultimately led to the first computers. It also helps that over the years the layers of secrecy which surrounded much of what he did have steadily been stripped away, only belatedly allowing the full magnitude of his accomplishments to be appreciated. And it perhaps helps, although it certainly did not during his lifetime, that after the war this "bachelor" who "lived alone" – which many Daily Mail readers of the time would have correctly taken to imply he was homosexual – was subjected to persecution, prosecution and ultimately chemical castration, which may have led him to take his own life while still only 41. Such was the widespread anger at this injustice that 30,000 people signed a petition calling for a government apology, and in 2009 then Prime Minister Gordon Brown issued an unequivocal one, saying that it was horrifying Turing had been treated "so inhumanely".
All of this goes a long way to explaining why we find ourselves in the middle of Alan Turing Year. But not quite all the way. Having been propelled from unfair obscurity to unlimited acclaim, Turing has now reached that most attractive and semi-mythic status of a modern science hero. Attractive as in desirable, but also attractive as in things keep being drawn towards him.
Besides various plays and TV dramas based on his life, a fictionalised version of Turing turns up as a character in Neal Stephenson's classic geek novel Cryptonomicon; he's clearly a major inspiration for the character of the - resolutely heterosexual - cryptographer Tom Jericho in the film of Robert Harris' Enigma (the two are more distinct in the book), and he even managed a cameo cartoon strip appearance in inventively sweary British adult comic, Viz.
Which would all be fine and even largely good in terms of depicting scientists positively, if it weren't that this is a two-way process and we've begun to accept fantasy elements as being facts about Turing's life.
Turing is now regularly described as being the "father" of computing. Or of computing science. Or artificial intelligence. Sometimes all three. As the only name most of us are familiar with among the code-breakers at Bletchley Park, he is often depicted as if he unraveled the secrets of the Enigma machine entirely unaided. And it's often said that without him, what I'm writing this on (and in all likelihood you're reading it on) would not exist.
None of that is entirely a lie. None of it is really true . Which may sound like an attempt at an enigma, but it's not. As I have written before, we are fond of the myth of the lone genius. Turing may have "lived alone" but he didn't work alone. His famous code-breaking Bombe, for instance, benefitted from tweaking by mathematician Gordon Welchman and engineer Harold Keen. And it got its name because it was itself based on an earlier device to crack the Enigma ciphers called the Bomba developed by Polish cryptologists.
Unquestionably he played the leading role – but it was not a one man show. And the claims about Turing being the big daddy of computing and artificial intelligence are even more questionable: both have many fathers (and a few mothers) and even without his considerable input does anyone really think we would not have computers very similar to the ones we now use?
So perhaps we need a different kind of Turing test – not one that can aid us in telling machine from human, but one which enable us to discriminate between the facts and fictions as our desire to have science heroes risks us forgetting the collective, collaborative nature of most scientific advances. Turing was undoubtedly one of the greatest minds of the last century, but shedding light on his achievements shouldn't involve plunging all those he worked with into the shadows.


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Trying to achieve black selfhood in Little Rock
The erasure of pre-integration black community also means the loss of artifacts of black joy. Those artifacts, mementos of those places, seem harder to find today, scrubbed from memory, or crowded out by the drama of police dogs and fire hoses. Whenever I catch the stories of early classes from Little Rock's black high schools—Dunbar, or Horace Mann—the joy such stories bring to the faces of their alums feels out of time with the Little Rock I imagine preceding 1957.


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LAS VEGAS (AP) Erick Green scored a career-high 31 points, including a go-ahead layup off an inbounds turnover with 21 seconds left, to lift Virginia Tech past Bradley 66-65 in overtime Saturday night in the Las Vegas Classic's third round.
Green's the nation's second-leading scorer, also had eight rebounds. He also converted a 3-point play with 26 seconds left after the Braves had led 65-61, cutting the lead to one.
Cadarian Raines had 16 points and nine rebounds for Virginia Tech (9-2).
Dyricus Simms-Edwards led Bradley (8-3) with 15 points and seven rebounds.
Trailing 66-65, Bradley's Walt Lemon Jr. (nine points) missed two potential go-ahead free throws with 11 seconds left. The Braves got the ball after the Hokies knocked it out of bounds at the :07 mark.
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Montessori education information from a Montessori teacher and Mom. Personal art work and journal entries about my life as a busy Mom of three sons ranging in age from 7 years to 21 years. My hope: To create a place where parenting questions can be answered and conversations as well as ideas shared.
Monday, August 24, 2009
More Toddler Curriculum
Yoga ~ Movement
body control
Classroom Ground Rules
"Be Safe
Be Kind
Be Gentle"
Introduction to PEACE Curriculum
community building
More to follow.....
In PEACE
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- robert said...
Thank you for those impressive ideas, photography as well.
Spending nearly the whole day with my two year old son will surely see some of it tomorrow.
Please have a nice Tuesday.
- August 24, 2009 at 8:03 PM
- Lindart said...
Beautiful photos! What is the "Peaceful Feet" basket, and how is it used?
- August 25, 2009 at 7:32 AM
- Jennifer Howard said...
The Peaceful Feet basket is explained in detail in a past post, hopefully if I did it correctly you can hit the highlighted words BODY CONTROL it should bring you back to the page that explains it.
I really should have written CONTROL OF MOVEMENT but I guess I was tired when I posted.
I hope this helps. If you don't find the answer to your question please ask again.
- August 25, 2009 at 7:48 AM
Jennifer, I love all your photos. I have a ? about the one with the child placing photo-name cards around a circular rug that visually reminds one of the sun and the solar system. The ? is - is that a braided chair seat cover?
You genius!
Susan Dyer
The Moveable Alphabet
- August 25, 2009 at 11:49 AM
- Jennifer Howard said...
Yes, Susan the rug is actually a braided chair seat cover. This is my Circle Time work; I'll post more about it soon. Thanks for the inspiration!
- August 25, 2009 at 12:18 PM


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