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We have reached the cream of the crop in the rankings of the 24 Under 24 – the top 24 players under the age of 24. Today's five names include a 2010 Rookie of the Year candidate, two Chicago Fire players, Braunaldinho and the lowest SuperDraft pick in the entire list.
With a career high nine goals in 2010, the stock of "Braunaldinho" Justin Braun (No. 10) has risen considerably this year.
Braun is followed by two rookies who have wowed the critics in NY Red Bulls central defender Tim Ream (No. 9) and Chicago Fire goalkeeper Sean Johnson (No. 8), who has left his mark with several spectacular saves.
He's in his third year in the league, but 2010 has been the breakout season for Brek Shea (No. 7) and US manager Bob Bradley has also taken notice, giving Shea a USMNT call-up.
The surprise of the day is Marco Pappa's No. 6 spot in the rankings. The Chicago Fire midfielder has had a quiet year in 2010, but three years of MLS action have left their impression on the expert panel.
Check back on Monday as we begin the countdown of the Top 5.
What is the 24 Under 24? Simply, the best 24 players in MLS under the age of 24 (as of Nov. 1, 2010).
MLSsoccer.com whittled down the list to a group of 30 players and then an expert panel ranked the names based on five categories: (1) Skill; (2) Upside; (3) Q-Rating or Marketability; (4) Future Value; and (5) Intangibles.
The "24 Under 24" expert panel was made up of six members: Jeff Carlisle (ESPN.com), Steve Davis (SI.com), Brian Dunseth (Fox Soccer Channel), Allen Hopkins (ESPN), Alexi Lalas (ESPN) and the MLSsoccer.com editorial staff.
Facts & Figures
Sean Johnson is the lowest drafted player in the 24 Under 24 list.
Marco Pappa is one of only two MLS All-Stars in the rankings.
Tim Ream has started more games (26) than any other 24 Under 24 player in 2010
Brek Shea is one of 11 players among the Top 24 not to have played NCAA soccer
Justin Braun has played the fourth most career MLS matches (63) of any player on the list
6.Pappa, MarcoM
MLS Technical Directors Say: "Really technical with great skill … Has good vision for the game and he can find a splitting pass and can change a game getting by a guy … He's not going to run you up and down … Plays a lot older than his age … If he played more defense he'd be a more effective player and he'd be around the ball more often and in position more often to take advantage of quick breaks."
7.Shea, BrekM
MLS Technical Directors Say: "Great size, good engine and brave with the ball … Very good technical ability especially for his height … Has a nose for the goal … He's matured and matured in a comfortable environment, you're seeing the talent blossom … Having more of an impact on games … Big and fast and left-footed and attacking. You'd kill for that package in anybody, anywhere at any age."
8.Johnson, SeanGK
MLS Technical Directors Say: "His athleticism in terms of being a shot-stopper is very good. Where he's going to need to show improvement is the tactical end with his positioning and when to come out of the goal … With more experience will learn to read the game, direct his back line and know positionally where to be when the ball is in different parts of the field."
9.Ream, TimD
MLS Technical Directors Say: "Composed and good in the air … Comfortable on the ball, a very good passer of the ball and a playmaker out of the back … The mistakes he's made they don't live with him. … Needs to improve on ability to turn and make quicker decisions … Has to smell danger and learn to whack balls up the field when he needs to and not make passes that aren't there."
10.Braun, JustinF
MLS Technical Directors Say: "He's got a great body for the position as a target forward … Very active and very good in the air and once you get him going forward … Needs to improve on erratic finishing, playing with his back to goal and getting his teammates involved with the passing … He's a young kid and has a lot of upside."
11.Opara, IkeD
MLS Technical Directors Say: "He is still raw but an excellent athlete ... Tremendous upside ... can dominate in the air, good timing in the air ... He's able to outrun mistakes ... From a man-marking situation few can physically beat him ... Needs to work on ability to play out of tight spaces, make passes and make quick decisions."
12.Smith, RyanM
MLS Technical Directors Say: "Talented player, technically gifted with both feet, has pace, the ability to serve balls on the run … Needs to find some kind of consistency to be regarded as an elite player in this league … Has 50 different moves on the dribble … Needs to find when the best time to dribble and when the best time to find a teammate."
13.Bowen, TristanF
MLS Technical Directors Say: "He's got a lot of good tools … Very good athlete and technically better than people give him credit. He can take people off the dribble. He's a good finisher with both feet … Needs to get better with his head and holding the ball up… He's going to be a very solid MLS player."
14.Hamid, BillGK
MLS Technical Directors Say: "He's clearly got the tools and he seems to have got some poise … He can be a really successful goalkeeper in this league for a long time if he can get healthy and stay healthy. Young guys have persistent injury problems."
15.Rogers, RobbieM
MLS Technical Directors Say: "He's left-footed, he has pace and he's American. These are players to be celebrated … Needs to be tougher and defend more … He's one of those players that will stretch a defense. He has a good engine … He needs to demand the ball a little bit more and get more involved in 90 minutes."
16.Tchani, TonyM
MLS Technical Directors Say: "Tchani is still very raw ... One of the best players in college last year. An amazing athlete. Huge, massive upside. Almost unlimited potential but he is not very polished which is normal for a kid at that age."
17.Bunbury, TealF
MLS Technical Directors Say: "He's got the size, the physicality. He's better than some in terms of technical abilities and he's got some more size. And he's probably got some more pace than most guys ... It needs to be consistency with him around the goal area. He's got the tools physically and technically. He's above average."
18.Pontius, ChrisF
MLS Technical Directors Say: "In our league he's got to be a forward ... You want him in and around the goal to profit from that athleticism and ability in the air. For a young player, he's a decent finisher which is relatively rare. He's a prototypical college player in that he's a tremendous overall athlete and he works really hard."
The Brazilian is a vital cog for the Galaxy, pulling the strings in central midfield and jumpstarting their deadly counter. He reads the game well and has a knack of being in the right place at the right time. He's not the strongest and most imposing of central players but his presence is felt as LA can attest during his recent absence.
20.Johnson, WillM
MLS Technical Directors Say: "A fantastic player, he's got a great engine. Technically very good. He's a fantastic two-way player, one of the best in the league even though he's a young player from an age standpoint ... He needs to be a little bit more productive on the attacking side of the ball: assists and goals ... You're looking for an 8-and-8 guy. His production needs to be better."
21.Alston, KevinD
MLS Technical Directors Say: "Has very good concentration, he's brave and he has elite athleticism … He can get forward with that athleticism but he needs to refine his game in the attacking third in his one-v-one play and his combination play … he needs a little more consistency on his final pass."
22.McInerney, JackF
MLS Technical Directors Say: "Like his mentality. He's always busy, always in motion … His size is a factor but he makes up for it with this work rate and his ability in the air … His finishing is very good … He needs to manage his own expectations and he'll find his way in MLS."
23.Torres, RogerM
The young Colombian wowed fans with his ball skills early on, but he has since lost his place in the Union starting lineup and has become an occasional sub. He possesses superior vision and technique but there are doubts whether his speed and physique can meet the demands of MLS.
24.McCarty, DaxM
A full 2010 season may have bumped up McCarty's place in the rankings. After a promising start in central midfield alongside Daniel Hernandez, he fell to a quad injury and now has an uphill battle just to regain his spot in the FCD starting lineup.


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SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Professional athletes tear their anterior cruciate ligaments so often these days, the injury has become almost commonplace.
As his road to recovery nears its end, San Jose Earthquakes midfielder Mehdi Ballouchy can readily admit his ACL experience was hardly routine.
Ballouchy had never faced the kind of layoff required after suffering a ligament tear against FC Dallas on Sept. 29. For the first time as an adult, the 30-year-old was forced to live a life without soccer — and it proved at times to be harrowing.
"I think I didn't know how important [soccer] was for me," Ballouchy told MLSsoccer.com . "It wasn't just a profession, it was a lot more than that for my life. I almost became a different person. Leaving the game for a while was probably one of the hardest things to go through in my life."
READ: Marvin Chavez still not 100 percent despite solid return for Quakes
Ballouchy said getting back into training several weeks ago helped quell his early fears about what kind of damage had been done. He played 45 minutes for San Jose in a Reserve League match against Colorado on Sunday and delivered an over-the-top lead pass to set up Cordell Cato for the first goal in a 3-0 victory.
"When you get a serious injury like I had, you start doubting a lot of things, especially early on in the process," Ballouchy said. "I'm lucky, I had a few friends that have gone through it and a few teammates that have gone through it that have helped me out throughout the process. Right now, just playing soccer, here or anywhere, I'm really happy. It's done a lot for my head."
Ballouchy said he's learned to be more patient as he's waited for a chance to get back into MLS regular-season action. He said the doctors treating him had to slow down his rehab for fear of coming back too soon and reinjuring the knee. And Ballouchy said he "kind of had an argument with everyone" when the Quakes moved to enforce the pre-set 45-minute limit during the Reserve League game.
READ: Victor Bernardez, Marvin Chavez named to Honduras roster ahead of World Cup qualifiers
Ballouchy's chance might be coming, however. He was on each of San Jose's last three game-day 18-man rosters, and San Jose's options in midfield could be narrowing. Coach Frank Yallop said that veteran captain Ramiro Corrales is out with an ankle problem, and Rafael Baca, Sam Cronin's usual partner in the center of the pitch, came out of last weekend's match with a tight right hamstring and did not practice on Tuesday.
There would be a little bit of poetic closure if Ballouchy were to play this weekend, against the same FC Dallas team he faced during his last league appearance. Whenever it happens, though, Ballouchy is more than ready.
"I just don't think about [the knee]," Ballouchy said. "I think I'm here, I think I'm healed, I think I'm ready to go. I'd rather think about it that way."

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Last year, Google launched their eBookstore with more than 3 million eBooks available for free and for purchase. These eBooks could be downloaded by users for their eBook reader devices like Amazon Kindle, Nook, Android and more. In addition to that, users could also make use of a Web Reader application to read those books from any web browser.
eBooks are a big business today and Amazon is one of the market leaders for eBook sales. In-fact, Amazon sold more eBooks than hard covers last year. Much of Amazon's eBooks business rely on third party affiliates who link to Amazon from their website. This definitely helps them drive sales.
Google, who has been serious about the books offering are now taking a cue from them and launching an affiliate program for the eBooks store. Website owners in U.S. can now become Google eBooks affiliates and link to Google Books from their site and earn commission on any sales driven through them.
Google eBooks affiliates is a part of the Google Affiliate Network. Users of GAN can subscribe to the Google eBooks product feed and get access to links for Google Books. Alternatively, affiliates can also programmatically access the eBooks catalog using the Google Books APIs.
Google already has a huge base of publishers who make use of their Affiliate Network. This platform now gives them a readymade base of affiliates who can help drive the sales of Google Books even higher.
I was not able to confirm the commission amount that affiliates will receive when they sell Google Books. I will update this post once I am able to get hold of that information.


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Heather Carlasare
Violin and Viola
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Heather J. Carlasare, a native of New York, was born into a very musical family. Both of her parents are professional musicians and she was brought up in the classical tradition at an early age, starting violin lessons at the age of seven. She attended the LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts in Lincoln Center, graduating in 1999, and decided to make the switch to viola when entering college. Carlasare completed her baccalaureate degree in viola performance at the Manhattan School of Music in May 2003. While at school, she had the opportunity to travel with the orchestra on a Venezuelan Tour (playing under Gustavo Dudamel and his El Sistema orchestra) and studied under such great conductors, such as Kurt Masur, Gunther Schuller, Michael Stern and Leonard Slatkin. Her teachers and coaches included Karen Ritscher, Karen Dreyfus, Pamela Frank, Heidi Castleman and Sylvia Rosenberg. She was also the assistant orchestral music librarian for many years.
Carlasare began her studies at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in 2003 with a full scholarship under the tutelage of Alan DeVeritch. While there, she was the graduate assistant to the String Department for some time. Completing her performer diploma in 2006, she decided to pursue a master's degree and graduated in December 2008. She has also studied with Yuval Gotlibovich, Helen Callus and Atar Arad in addition to having performed with Joshua Bell on several occasions.
In addition to performance, Carlasare has always had a deep love of teaching music. Starting in 1998, she was a private instructor at the Victory Music Studio in New York for many years. At Indiana University, she enjoyed studying under famed string pedagogue Mimi Zweig. After marrying pianist Mario Carlasare in August 2009, Heather moved to Illinois where she accepted a teaching job at The Music Connection in Orland Park, Illinois and Frankfort, Illinois. At The Music Connection, she teaches weekly Suzuki Violin and Adult Strings Groups, along with a full private studio. Carlasare completed her Suzuki Violin Books 1-3 training with Edward Kreitman.
In addition, Carlasare enjoys many freelance opportunities, performing extensively for many different orchestras. She has played at Carnegie Hall and Avery Fisher Hall numerous times. In June 2008, she completed a tour of South Korea with the New Jersey Philharmonic. She was invited to play with the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas for a special concert in Avery Fisher Hall in 2008 as well. Since moving to Illinois, she has played with the Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra numerous times as well as the International Chamber Artists, Northwest Indiana Symphony Orchestra and Southwest Symphony. She is a founding member of the Chicago-based Chicago Camerata, comprised of musicians from the Lyric Opera Orchestra and Grant Park Symphony, as well as a founding member of Chicago String Progression, a wedding string quartet. Recent highlights include performing the Dittersdorf Sinfonia Concertante for viola and bass with the Southwest Symphony and joining the Trans Siberian Orchestra at the Allstate Arena for their winter tour.
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"Heroes" might be a bubble show by most expert views, but cast members are starting to express optimism that the show will return for the fifth season.
After hopeful Tweets from Greg Grunberg, Ali Larter joined in this weekend saying she still believes there's life. She expressed as much during the WonderCon event in San Francisco.
"I think we'll be back," she said, according to Celebrity-mania.com. "I think there are still stories that need to be told."
You want to believe, especially from someone who displays feats of superhuman strength on the show. And despite some ragged shows of late, it is a quality product overall.
But others might disagree. The Hollywood Reporter claims that the show is "the network's biggest question mark, with the Peacock strongly considering a final-season order."
We'll stay tuned.


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By Kathleen Finck
The "fiscal cliff" deal reached in January brought good news for some people over 70 who faced a big tax hit due to distributions they are required to take from Individual Retirement Accounts.
But time is short to take advantage of a provision of the American Tax Payer Relief Act ("ATRA") that allows those age 70 ½ and older who received an IRA distribution in December 2012 to receive favorable tax treatment on up $100,000 of that distribution if they make a charitable gift by Jan. 31, 2013.
That gift, known as a "Qualified Charitable Distribution," does not qualify for a charitable income tax deduction, but instead, the amount of the QCD will be subtracted from the amount received in the IRA distribution in December, up to $100,000. This will serve to reduce the donor's gross income for 2012.
For example, "Mary" received her required minimum distribution of $22,000 on Dec. 5, 2012. On Jan. 15, 2013, she sent a check for $3,000 to her favorite charity. This qualifies as a 2012 QCD because, under ATRA Sec. 208(b)(2)(B), "any portion of a distribution from an individual retirement account" may be transferred to charity before Feb. 1, 2013. Therefore, a partial gift such as the $3,000 transfer by Mary is permissible. The amount she claims as income on her 2012 tax return will be $19,000 because the amount of her required minimum distribution is reduced by the amount of the charitable gift.
The gift may be made in addition to other charitable gifts a donor made in 2012.
ATRA also extended the charitable IRA rollover to 2013. Eligible donors may make charitable gifts of up to $100,000 directly from their IRAs in 2013 and thereby exclude the amount of the gifts from their taxable income.
Kathleen Finck is Director of Gift Planning at the San Antonio Area Foundation. To learn more about how to convert a taxable IRA distribution and potentially reduce taxes, please contact her at 210-242-4744 or email@example.com.


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Aviation Maintenance instructor sees positive impact program has on students
As an instructor for Fresno's Aviation Maintenance Technology (AMT) program, Don Dutra has seen every type of student join his Powerplant class. Those eager faces fresh out of high school, career-change seekers, and close-to-retirement adventurers who are finally fulfilling a dream, stare back at him.
"We get some students with zero experience and those who have been in the job market for awhile," says Mr. Dutra.
No matter what their work background or experience level, the AMT program will have a positive impact. "Even when a student has not really decided that this is the right course for them, it is important that they keep working toward completion; not giving up," says Dutra. "Maybe for the first time, they learned to finish what they started and to become good at something."
What seems to be an obstacle to their success, if overcome, "helps graduates to become good employees – no matter what the field – and good civilians," as Dutra calls it. "Many happy parents and spouses are grateful they finished and look forward to the next chapter."
And, then there is the 'natural,' that person who was born to fly…or keep things flying.
"That student is motivated by being around aircraft; seeing all the different aspects of aviation," says Dutra, whose program is located at Fresno-Yosemite National airport where students can look out on the runway and see aircraft take off and land daily.
"They don't get bored seeing that, and they know that one day they're going to be turning wrenches on similar aircraft," Don says.
Mr. Dutra's Powerplant class provides instruction in all facets of aircraft engines. Students are up to their shoulders in huge engines of all imaginable aircraft in the campus' expansive hangar.
Don describes his teaching style as more 'coaching' than professorial. "I like to let my students learn from their own mistakes and then briefly explain what went right and what went wrong," he says. "A belly flop makes a better point and they retain the information long-term."
Don Dutra spent some of his 23-years as a Navy jet mechanic teaching 'mechanics school' to Navy and Marine recruits. After separation from the military he decided to get the formal education necessary to continue a career as an educator.
He earned his A.S. and B.A. degrees while going to school at night and working full-time for SJVC. He took the FAA exam to get his Inspector Authorization license. Don's experience allowed him to bypass additional training for the test. He passed on his first try.
"Airframe and Powerplant certified mechanics with an IA endorsement is about the highest honor mechanics can achieve in their career," says Jason Alves, Academic Dean.
During these years of balancing work, school, homework and home-life with his wife, Mary, Don lived the spread-thin life many of his students experience today. He can tell them first-hand that the end result is worth it.
"I am the very first person in my family to ever earn a college degree," he says having grown up in Fresno in a family of eleven. But, he had good role models. "My mom worked hard her whole life, and my dad was a junk man who spent his life buying and selling cars, which is where I got my interest in engines."
Don wants to make sure that his students get every bit of life and career experience he has to give them.
"I want our students to walk away with something that serves them in long-term employment and, hopefully, happiness," he says. "When they walk away with their license, we know they've accomplished what they came here for and we've done what we are supposed to do."
Judging from a long line of grads that stop by the campus, the successes are self-evident. Their claims of "I couldn't have done it without you," and "I am amazed and surprised at how much we learn here and apply on the job," reinforce Don's confidence in what the AMT program provides.
Toward this end, Don likes to plant seeds of wisdom and offer a little inspiration that might help his students get there from here.
"I tell them that there will always be the stories about the pilot who saved the day or landed the plane safely," he says. "But, what you never hear about is the mechanic. It's the mechanic – you – who puts that plane in the air; and it's only going to stay there if you do your job right."
Don's words make a nice landing.
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Publicizing Job OpeningsCopyright: Thilo Vogel
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There are two possibilities for publicizing open positions at RWTH Aachen. One, we can hang your advertisement on the Career Center bulletin boards around the university. Second, you can enter the position in our jobs database, and thus reach a larger audience of potential applicants. In addition to online publicizing, we will send the announcement to departments and disciplines that fit your desired profile. This service, 21 days of activation in the RWTH online jobs database, and the forwarding to respective departments, costs a 100 Euros handling fee (not including tax).
In order to publicize an open position, please upload your job advertisement and free-of-charge bulletin board postings into our system. In case of advertisements that are subject to a service fee, please make sure to include an invoice address, your VAT number, and, if applicable, your internal order number. Please ensure that these specifications are accurate as they cannot be modified at a later stage.
We also offer discounts if you would like to post multiple positions simultaneously. You can also find further information on discounts in the online sytem; discounts are automatically applied when you place your order online.
The RWTH Aachen Career Center team is gladly available for further questions and services.


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Saturday, 10 May 2008
Biscuity Lime Pie
I have linked the recipe below!
Biscuity Lime Pie
10 comments:
- Swati said...
You are such a sweet daughter ... The love and respect you have for your in-laws reflects so much..
A lovely dessert Maria!!
- 10 May 2008 at 18:00
- Anna's kitchen table said...
That looks sooo delicious!
- 10 May 2008 at 19:53
- Vicky said...
That looks and sounds like the perfect finish to a barbie. I hope you have a great evening.
Vicky xxx
- 10 May 2008 at 21:10
- Unknown said...
Maria, I only wish I could eat all of these lovely dishes you bake....I would give them all a go, especially this one, but I know I would become the size of a house as I can't just stop at one small slice like ladies should do...I just woarrff the whole thing down (maybe cutting a small slice for hubby of course...hahaha). No, but seriously, I admire your ability in baking!!
Loulou x
- 11 May 2008 at 09:00
- Rosie said...
Oh this is lovely Maria and I bet the family really enjoyed a slice of this lime pie. This is one of my favs so I must try this out too ;)
You have an award sweet on my blog!
Rosie x
- 11 May 2008 at 16:15
- Kelly-Jane said...
It looks so yummy, I'd love a bite right this minute!
- 11 May 2008 at 16:23
That looks so delicious. Hope you had a fabulous evening.
- 11 May 2008 at 18:18
- Oh my! Apple pie! said...
Maria it looks delicious! The perfect way to round off a barbecue.
- 12 May 2008 at 14:17
- Maria♥ said...
Thanks everyone for the lovely comments. This was one very delicious dessert and definitely perfect for a bbq!
Rosie thanks for the award ;o)
- 12 May 2008 at 14:49
whoa... this looks so good! my mouth is puckering just from the thought of the lime taste!
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|Ed Gerhard has created a "guitar voice" that is recognized and praised worldwide. Known for his gorgeous tone and compositional depth, Gerhard can move a listener with a single note. A recent GRAMMY winner for his version of "Moon River" on the Pink Guitar CD, Ed can be heard on our Highlights Volumes 2 and 3 and a cut from "Sunnyland" on Vol. 5.
|"Gerhard writes songs only a guitar can sing."
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|"one of the masters of steel string fingerstyle guitar…consistent brilliance."
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Guest Blog: Understanding the Scars of Domestic Abuse
Emotional Abuse: The Scars Within
By: Tamika L. Sims, Author and Lexington Medical Center Quality Date Specialist. She's a mom, sister, friend and survivor.
As a young girl I recited the following nursery rhyme, "sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt." I said this every time I felt offended; on the playground during recess, walking down school hallways, or walking home in the afternoons at the end of the school day.
I dismissed this nursery rhyme as nothing more than that. After all, words could never hurt…right? Words were meant to roll as "water off a ducks back." They were not seen as a source of pain. As I became an adult, I realized that only half of this statement is true. Sticks and stones can break bones – but words can and definitely will hurt, especially in a relationship when they are spoken from the lips of one who is supposed to love you.
Victims of physical abuse are easy to identify. Victims of emotional abuse have the appearance of the "everyday woman." Bruises heal. My concern is the invisible scar, the one that murders the soul.
Emotional abuse cripples the victim – leaving them feeling helpless and hopeless. While not the easiest to identify, it is the hardest to move forward from. Psychologically, emotional abuse damages your self-esteem and your sense of who you are.
By the time she realizes that she is a victim of emotional abuse; she is no longer the same woman. She is now withdrawn, experiencing hair and weight loss, depressed all because of the violence she is experiencing at home. She believes that this is love which confuses her. She reasons within herself that this is all she is worth and does not deserve anything better. All of which is not true.
The majority of the relationship with my former boyfriend D.L. was emotionally and verbally abusive. I suffered many other forms of abuse, but the emotional was the most damaging. I no longer recognized the distorted reflection in the mirror. At some point, I became so dependent on him for validation, a transformation took place. I was lost and hidden in him. We were interconnected.
Through counseling and support, I was able to get back to me.
If you or anyone you know is in an abusive relationship help is available. Please call 1-800-799-SAFE to get connected to resources in your community. Love is NOT abuse. Love does NOT hurt.


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The rumor mill's cranking up once again about that smaller iPhone, and this time the story goes that it will have a 2.8-inch screen instead of the current 3.5" display.
Apple Insider reports the unconfirmed report from an industry analyst that Verizon Wireless will be rolling out this new iPhone in the third quarter of 2010.
The upcoming handset will allegedly use a dual-system chip from Qualcomm, able to operate on both GSM/UMTS network of AT&T and T-Mobile as well as the CDMA network of Verizon and Sprint. It's an intriguing rumor, but a lot can happen in nine months.
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And what about all the bad blood built up between the two companies from Verizon's iPhone attack ads? Water under the bridge, according to Apple Insider.
Verizon's merciless attacks on AT&T's 3G network coverage in ads spoofing the iPhone's "there's an app for that" slogan were another factor which left some observers to think that Verizon could not possibly be in talks with Apple to sell the iPhone anytime soon, but the OTR report indicates that Verizon and Apple have already hammered out an agreement to sell the new iPhone model within the year


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(CBS News) If you live on the East Coast, fair warning, you're about to be invaded, but it's not the zombie apocalypse. It's actually an invasion by billions of creatures coming back to life after being buried since the 1990s.
In one of nature's great mysteries, the Brood II cicadas are expected to appear en masse along the East Coast this spring, which is a ritual nearly two decades in the making.
The bugs will make their presence known with a buzzing racket that's been compared to the sound of a New York subway train.
"Brood II is a periodic cicada that hatches out every 17 years," said Craig Gibbs, an entomologist at the Wildlife Conservation Society's Queens Zoo. "The specific thing about these 17-year cicadas is they are going to be a very dark colored body. They have really bright red eyes, and they also have bright red wing veins."
These insects spend nearly their entire lives underground, feeding off the roots of trees. They go through five stages before reappearing above ground from New England to North Carolina.
"What will happen is the nymphs will come up and they will shed their nymphal skin and they'll crawl up into the trees and they'll take about five days to harden and then they'll start for next four to six weeks calling and looking for mates," said Gibbs.
This year the invasion is forecast sometime between mid-April and late May, at which point residents will be bombarded with millions of cicadas per square mile.
The exact time is unknown, as Gibbs explains that the ground has to be 64 degrees before they appear.
A big positive about these bugs is that they're harmless to both trees and humans, and are only a nuisance because of the sound they make.
Cicadas: the familiar sound of summer
"It'll be noisy. There's no getting around the noise," said Gibbs. "And again that's just the males looking for females. What's noisy to a human is the sound of love to another cicada"
If this particular love song is not music to your ears, after about a month the cicadas will disappear again until 2030.


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- Oga's Cantina
- Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge
- Summer 2019 opening
Like brave rebel spies attempting to determine where the First Order's secret schematics are hidden, "Star Wars" fans are poring over three words in the latest post on the Disney Parks Blog.
And those words are "libations for adults."
And the location where "libations for adults" will be served, at the Happiest Place on Earth?
Inside Oga's Cantina, inside Black Spire Outpost, inside Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge, inside, yes, Disneyland Park, which is inside Anaheim, and not a galaxy far, far away.
The cantina element of the big reveal is full of fantasy and quirk, with accompanying artwork that speaks to a space-tastic "sip 'n sup" space that fans can expect to visit when the "Star Wars"-inspired land opens in summer 2019.
And the "libations for adults" part of the announcement, which was posted on the Disney Parks Blog on Thursday, Aug. 30, has fans chattering: Will this be the place to purchase a spirited drink, one made with alcohol, inside Disneyland Park?
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The day's top national and international news.
Disneyland officials confirm that hunches are correct: You will be able to buy a grown-up beverage inside the world's best-known theme park, finally.
Well that "finally" is a bit soft, as alcohol is already served at Club 33 in New Orleans Square, a private club open to members and their guests.
And Disney California Adventure's Wine Country Trattoria is known for its nice vinos, while, over at Pacific Wharf, a brew buff can find a line-up of sophisticated suds.
Whatever you choose to quaff at Oga's Cantina, you can do so while listening to the musical stylings of RX-24, "... the former StarSpeeder 3000 pilot droid we first met in Star Tours, who has re-envisioned himself as the cantina's DJ."
Questions, intrigue, and mystery will continue to swirl around Oga's Cantina, like planets orbit a double sun.
After all, the establishment overseen by Oga Garra, an "intriguing alien prospector," already boasts a reputation as a "... smugglers' safe haven and a popular stopping point for those seeking to avoid the authorities."
Will the "unique vessels" that will hold the libations at the "notorious local watering hole" pay homage to the Cantina scene of "Star Wars IV: A New Hope"?
Will you spy patrons inside Oga's who look as though they've just rocketed in from Mos Eisley?
And will any of the drinks pay tribute to the blue Bantha milk from Tatooine, and the other sippables made famous in the film series?
Best go practice your light saber moves and wait it out, for there are more delicious reveals from Oga's Cantina, and the Happiest Place in the Solar System, still to roll out over the several months.


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Christmas is so close I can almost touch it! Yippee!
In case you haven't finished wrapping your gifts yet (like me – oops), I've got some sweet printable wrapping paper for you to use. You can download it in either A4 or Letter size, print it, wrap those little gifts right up and voila – they're ready to pop under the tree. You've probably noticed these papers in a couple of shoots recently, and they match perfectly with the Freebie Christmas Tags from last week!
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Photo: The Kennel Club
After a record-breaking year with almost 8,000 submissions, the Kennel Club has named the winners of its annual Dog Photographer of the Year Competition.
Roger Sjolstad from Norway has been selected as the overall winner of the competition with his dynamic image of a young girl and a Great Dane running through water, which was the winner of the 'Man's Best Friend' category.
The Kennel Club Dog Photographer of the Year Competition consists of six categories: Portrait, Man's Best Friend, Dogs At Play, Dogs At Work, Puppy and I Love Dogs Because – a category specifically for those aged 16 and under.


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When I started working with linux, I had the choice of the following text editors:
- KEdit
- Vim
- Emacs
I decided to try all of them. After initial try, I was certain I would not use vi. It just did not suit my tastes. KEdit turned out to be limited in functionality. So, Emacs became my editor of choice. Initially, I was using it for trivial tasks only. Gradually as I knew more about it, I started using it more.
Compiling and debugging in emacs was fine. However, I was missing code navigation features which really come in handy during code reading phases. Searching through the world wide web, I found this blog explaining the use of etags with emacs for code navigation. I gave it a shot and it surely is fast. While working with python, I found emacs' support for python is not that good; but I am sure it will improve soon.


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San Antonio
San Antoniosăn ăntō´nēō, əntōn´ [key], city (1990 pop. 935,933), seat of Bexar co., S central Tex., at the source of the San Antonio River; inc. 1837. The third largest city in Texas, it is one of the nation's largest military centers; Fort Sam Houston and the Air Force Aerospace Medical Center are in the city, and nearby are Lackland and Randolph air force bases, both training command centers, and Brooks Air Force Base, an aerospace medical headquarters. San Antonio is also the industrial, commercial, and financial center of a large agricultural area. Its manufactures include textiles and apparel, computerized mapping equipment, processed foods, motor vehicles, air conditioners, aircraft parts, and beer. Tourism is an important industry as well. The tree-lined river meandering through the downtown, the huge Mexican quarter, the Franciscan missions, and the warm climate attract thousands of tourists annually. In the late 20th cent. San Antonio was one of the fastest-growing U.S. cities. Its outlying suburban area developed significantly in the same period.
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OEM Automotive Systems and Components
In order to realize a sustainable society, DENSO is committed to developing powertrain technologies that solve issues such as reducing CO2 emissions and the diversification of energy, thus helping to conserve the global environment.
DENSO develops various driving assist systems with a focus on the sensing technology that monitors driving situations. Whether developing Lighting Control Systems, Steering Systems, Airbag ECUs or Brake Control Systems, DENSO pursues the prevention of accidents and injuries.
HMI (Human Machine Interface) technology provides the driver with feedback appropriate to the driving situation in a safe and comprehensive way. DENSO contributes to the creation of a safer and more convenient society by utilizing Information and Communication Technology.
DENSO technologies for body electronics products raise comfort, convenience, safety and security. Built-in sensors, such as light sensors that detect ambient brightness and automatically switch lights on and off, determine the vehicle's condition in real-time to enable optimal control.
DENSO has the world's leading market share of small motors for vital automotive components such as wipers and power windows and will continue to support drivers by offering outstanding stability and durability.


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October 7, 2009 – Baptist Medical Center's Emergency Department will begin using a new procedure, called therapeutic hypothermia, starting Oct. 19 to increase a patient's chances of survival after cardiac arrest.
The new procedure involves decreasing the core body temperature to 89º F after the patient's heart has been restarted. Cooling may be started by paramedics if they have been able to restart the heart prior to getting the patient to the hospital. This involves injecting a patient with chilled intravenous (IV) fluids. Portable coolers will be on ambulances to cool down the IV fluids. Upon further stabilization at Baptist's emergency room, the patient then undergoes placement of a specialized cooling catheter into a large vein in the chest and abdomen, which safely cools them down to 89º.
"The American Heart Association has recommended therapeutic hypothermia following resuscitation from cardiac arrest, because the treatment has been shown to significantly improve a patient's chances of survival without brain damage," said Baptist Emergency Department Medical Director Eric Zoog, M.D.
He added that Baptist has already used this technique on one patient utilizing chilled water blankets in direct contact with the patient's skin, which enabled the patient to return to the same quality of life he had prior to his heart attack. "This treatment allows us to reduce the impact of a heart attack on a patient's body and increase their chance of survival once they get to the hospital," he explained.??Brain injury, heart dysfunction, systemic inflammation and the underlying disease that caused the cardiac arrest all contribute to the high death rate of patients who initially have their pulse restarted. Collectively, these symptoms are known as post-cardiac arrest syndrome.?This treatment method is able to increase not only a patient's chances of survival, but survival with normal or nearly normal brain function by a factor of 2.5. It is estimated every sixth time a cardiac arrest patient is treated with therapeutic hypothermia, physicians can rescue one life.?Baptist and its ER physicians made a donation of coolers to American Medical Response Oct. 5.
"This is the only therapy that nearly triples the rate of survival after cardiac arrest," Dr. Zoog said. "Strides like this have not been made with cardiac arrest in over 30 years – since the invention of CPR."
Baptist is the only hospital in the Metro Jackson area with Chest Pain Accreditation from the Society of Chest Pain Centers.
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Thank you to all you Key West locals and to our fabulous visitors to this southernmost island… for 10 great years at Mangoes! After our 10-year run at 700 Duval Street, our lease has come to an end. Please visit your favorite team members and our incredible menu items as they pop up at The Waterfront Brewery, Red Fish Blue Fish, Caroline's Café, Caroline's Other Side, Jack Flats, Fogarty's Key West, & Flying Monkeys. We are excited for what the future brings as we continue to serve you the best in food, beverages, and fun! We are so so lucky to have many of our original Mangoes team members now celebrating their 10-year anniversary with us and getting settled at their new locations. We have the absolute best people in this people-centered hospitality business; we thank you for making it all possible!
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Although, sadly, the Open Exeter project has come to an end, our work will still continue! And we will be letting you know what we are doing via our new Open Research Exeter blog!
The Open Access and Data Curation Team will carry on supporting researchers and postgraduate research students at the University of Exeter with Open Access (OA) and research data management (RDM).
We manage the institutional data repository, Open Research Exeter (ORE), to make University of Exeter research more visible, reusable and citable. ORE provides long-term storage for all types of research data, research data and PGR theses.
We also deliver training and guidance for researchers on OA and RDM and the Team can help you to develop your own research group level policy on these issues or advise on data management plans.
We will be blogging on topics to do with Open Access, research data management, repositories, open research, big data, transparency, altmetrics, how to make your research more visible and anything else we think may be of interest to Exeter's research community!
So this will (probably!) be our last post on the Open Exeter blog. We hope to hear from you soon on our new blog or via or . And remember if you have any OA or RDM queries, please visit our Open Access or RDM webpages or contact us directly on the above emails!
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HONG KONG—A stock market slide, escalated conflict between Japan and China and more Gangnam-styled success for South Korean singer Psy will shape the incoming Year of the Snake, say Asian soothsayers.
Those who make predictions according to the study of feng shui — or literally "wind-water" — are influential in many parts of Asia where people adjust their lives or renovate houses and offices based on the advice.
As they bid farewell to the Year of the Dragon, the fortune tellers warn that the "black water snake" that emerges to replace it on February 10 — the first day of the Lunar New Year — could be a venomous one that brings disaster.
Previous Snake years have been marked by the September 11, 2001 terror strikes that killed nearly 3,000 people, the crushing of the 1989 Tiananmen pro-democracy protests and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
The 1929 stock market plunge that heralded the Great Depression also occurred in a snake year.
Hong Kong's celebrity feng shui master Mak Ling-ling predicts the stock markets will enjoy a smooth first-half before becoming turbulent in the second half of the year, which she links to the characteristics of the reptile.
"It's just like the movement of snakes — fast, aggressive and sharp, but cunning and tricky at the same time," she tells AFP.
Mak warned that despite early market optimism there would be no full recovery in the crisis-hit eurozone, while the economy of the United States would not gather a strong pace until 2014.
She added that President Barack Obama needed to "be less conservative" in his attempts to revive the economy.
Astrologers say this year's snake is identified with the element of water — symbolizing fear — that sits on top of the fire element, representing joy and optimism. They say conflict between the two will bring turbulence in May.
"This is a disaster year… a lot of things will not go smoothly," said Singapore's "Grand Master" Tan Khoon Yong of geomancy consultancy Way OnNet Group.
"The European Union may split, the euro may be in trouble," the 59-year-old said, adding that the bloc would be threatened by division in May.
Hong Kong astrologer Chow Hon-ming said a disharmonious May would see an ongoing dispute between Japan and China possibly escalate into a "brief" war, as two "snakes" are going to clash according to his reading of the Chinese almanac.
"May is known as the 'snake month' and it's the Year of the Snake so between May 5 and June 6, these two snakes will meet.
"This is why things will be very intense between Japan and China. Tensions will rise to a peak and they will possibly go to war."
Snake style
Chinese fortune telling is based on ancient philosophy and belief dating back thousands of years that events are dictated by the different balances in the five elements that make up the universe: metal, wood, water, fire and earth.
A person's fortune can be calculated by using the exact time and date of his birth, with the relationship of each of the elements.
The lunar calendar is based on the cycles of the moon and associates each of the 12 years forming a rotating cycle with an animal — with the snake assuming the sixth position out of the 12 animal signs.
China's new leader Xi Jinping and "Gangnam Style" singer Psy, two of the most famous people born in the Year of the Snake, will see success despite entering a year matching their Chinese zodiac, usually considered to be a bad thing.
But China's Xi, born in 1953, and 36-year-old South Korean pop sensation 'Psy' Park Jae-Sang will be spared, due to their favorable birth dates and elements.
While the 60-year-old Chinese leader is set to see a smooth leadership transition in March from predecessor President Hu Jintao, there may however be the odd bump in the road.
"He needs to watch out for his health. He might suffer a fall in November if he travels," Chow said, recommending Xi avoids "Europe or Russia" that month.
CLSA, one of Asia's leading brokerages, creates its own tongue-in-cheek annual "feng shui index". This year it states that while stock markets will be volatile in the second-half, the presence of the market-driving "fire" element gave reason for optimism.
"We've got the fire element so we're pretty hopeful," CLSA analyst Mariana Kou said, predicting this year markets will have a "decent finish" this year.
Past Snake years give little encouragement, with the three most recent ones seeing Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index finish down, falling 33.5 percent in 2001.
"As befits "skin-shedders", Snake years are marked by major transformation and change — and sometimes great upheaval," CLSA said.


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Racing Seats - You May Be Seated
After A Hard Hit, It Could Be Time For A New Seat
Late in the 2007 season I was involved in a wreck. It was a typical Saturday night B-Main. I was running third as we were coming out of Turn 4 to take the green just after a restart. The car ahead of me had mechanical difficulties, whether it was his rearend locking up (the rumor I heard later) or something else didn't matter. He slowed, drastically, and I, along with the rest of the field, darted to the right to avoid him. The guy behind me hooked my right rear and drove me into the front wall. I hit hard, left front first, and then I slapped the wall on the driver side.
Everybody said I was knocked out, but I was unconscious so I really didn't know. All kidding aside, when I hit the wall my head hit the rollcage. Thankfully it was padded. Even so, when I hit it everything went bright. My seat had the traditional right side head support but nothing on the left side, which is why my head ended up smacking the rollbar.
The next morning when I woke up my left-side ribs were really sore, which is amazing that I noticed my ribs at all considering how bad my head hurt. I knew I hit hard, but it wasn't until later in the day when I was looking at the car that I realized how hard I hit. The left rib support on the seat was bent. Actually, it wasn't just bent, it was completely straightened out.
There was no way to fix this damage so it was time for a new seat. I was adamant after that hit that I wanted a seat that would give me more protection, especially in the areas of rib support and the left side of the head. I'm a big guy which narrows my seat choices somewhat. So after scouring catalogues and Web sites, I settled upon Ultra Shield's Lightweight Long Bottom Halo seat. Ultra Shield is one of the few companies that has an off the shelf seat that is 18 inches wide (a necessity considering my big frame), plus the reduced weight will allow us more freedom of weight placement when it comes time to do the setup.
The seat is constructed out of lightweight 5052 aluminum and comes with a full 20-inch deep bottom which will provide extra support in the 100-lap races that we are going to run this season. This seat has both a right side and left side "halo." Now, I have never run a full containment or halo style seat because of the difficulty of getting in and out of the tight fitting cockpit of a Dirt Late Model. But the left side halo on this seat is 2 inches shorter than the right side halo. That simple fact will make it easier for me to get in and out of the car. Plus, the added benefit of a left side halo means that in a left side hit my head won't slap the rollcage. If I had this seat last October, my head would not have hurt so much.
This seat has rib supports that go all the way around and behind the seat which Ultra Shield calls their C-channel stiffener. The seat also has additional support in the shoulders and bottom. This was just the kind of extra support I could have used last October.
We pulled the old seat out and got to work. When we originally mounted my old seat in this car, we purposely welded a 1/8-inch steel plate to the frame underneath the cockpit so that we had a solid structure on which to bolt the seat. I have had some people tell me that the seatbelts are what hold you in the car and that you only need to secure the seat down to prevent it from moving when you get in and out of the car. They said pop rivets would hold the seat fine. I, obviously, never took that advice and neither should you. Any hard impact will tear pop rivets right out. The seat and the belts need to work as a complete, secure system.
We're going to reuse the same mounting plate for the new seat install after checking it out, but truth be known if that plate was bent I probably wouldn't be writing this.
We chose to install the seat further to the right than the old one for added safety but at a slight angle to the centerline of the car. Angling the seat slightly will help reduce fatigue in the longer races because the g-forces will be distributed over a wider part of the body than just on the side of my ribs.
Mounting the seat is a relatively straight forward process. With the seat in the car, I climbed in and mimiced my driving position, being sure to angle the seat like planned we also set the steering wheel in place. This is an important step because the new seat is completely different than the old one and it could alter how I grip the steering wheel, but the fit turned out to be perfect.
We used a Sharpie to mark where to drill the holes in the new seat so they line up with the original mounting points. Speaking of the mounting points, we welded steel brackets to the rollcage for the original seatback and will reuse these same brackets for the new one (top photo).
We're using grade-8 bolts with large diameter washers exclusively for safety purposes. These hardened bolts are stronger than conventional bolts and since we believe that you should actually mount your seat as opposed to just placing it in the car, we're using them.
Now you'll notice in the pictures that there is a good sized gap between the back of the seat and the back wall of the cockpit. In order to fill that gap we fabricated a pair of aluminum brackets out of the same 1/8-inch 5052 aluminum as the seat. One side of the bracket is welded to the seat and the other side has a 3/8-inch hole drilled for the bolt. These brackets are nice and big to help dissipate energy in the event of a crash. And since they're welded, they become part of the actual seat. A hurricane isn't moving this seat.
Before drilling, we measured and test fit everything twice just to be sure we had the correct placement. Recommended mounting procedures use two bolts in the bottom; two bolts on the right side; and two bolts in the back, along with large diameter washers on each. That accomplished, our new Ultra Shield seat is in place. The seat is extremely comfortable, and while the new left side halo will take a little getting used to for me personally, I barely even notice it, and getting in an out of the car is a snap. I can't wait to get on the track with it.


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The first unofficial images of Denzel Washington, shiny of tooth and spiffy of hat, on the set of 2 Guns have made it to the Web. Based on the pulpy Steven Grant comic, it stars Washington as Trench (a DEA agent) and Mark Wahlberg as Steadman (a naval officer), who team up to rip off the mob. Neither realizes the other is undercover nor that they're actually being set up to steal from the CIA. Wahlberg's Contraband director Baltasar Kormakur is helming the pic, which is described (in the novel, at least) as "a light-hearted crime romp in the vein of Ocean's Thirteen and The Italian Job." The solid supporting cast includes Edward James Olmos as a villainous drug lord, Paula Patton as Washington's fellow DEA agent and love interest, Bill Paxton as a high-ranking CIA operative and James Marsden as a naval commander. The script comes from Blake Masters (Showtime's Brotherhood). Hit the jump to check out the pics.
We don't yet know what the typically gritty Kormakur will do with the material, but it's reasonable to assume that, at some point, Washington's character (who again, is named Trench) will kick someone in the throat and be like, "That's Trench-foot, asshole."
Here's the official synopsis for Steven Grant's graphic novel (via Boom! Studios):
A pulp story about cops and thieves and the men that are something in between. Trench has targeted a local bank to rob, and asked Steadman in on the job. Trench figures it's a great way to score — considering it's a cover for mob money. They'll be thieves ripping off thieves. But what Steadman doesn't know is that Trench is a DEA agent. And what Trench doesn't know is that Steadman's a Naval Intelligence officer. They're both cops! And neither one knows that they're not robbing the mob, they've been set up to steal $50 million from the CIA! A light-hearted crime romp in the vein of Ocean's Thirteen and The Italian Job from comics legend, Steven Grant!
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Ottawa's Bruce Cockburn to receive SOCAN lifetime achievement award
TORONTO — For Bruce Cockburn, the best thing about winning SOCAN's lifetime achievement award is that no one else has to lose.
"The thing I like about it … is the fact that it's not really competitive," Cockburn said down the line from his San Francisco home this week.
"To me, the competitive aspect of most of the awards that are offered is a negative — and I just don't think that's what music's about. For this, I suppose there's some degree of competition in that there must be a committee who decides who they're going to give it to, but it's not like you're saying so and so is the 'best' something or other."
Well, SOCAN — the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada — certainly felt strongly about Cockburn, anyway.
The 67-year-old, known for his conscientious folk songs and acoustic guitar wizardry, will be honoured alongside Vancouver hell-raisers Trooper and Niagara Falls, Ont., electronic producer and recent tabloid fixture Deadmau5, who will receive national and international achievement awards respectively at a Toronto gala on Monday.
It was Cockburn's stunning longevity that really impressed the SOCAN board, said CEO Eric Baptiste.
"It's pretty obvious that he's one of the most high-profile members SOCAN has who deserves a lifetime achievement award," Baptiste said in a telephone interview earlier this week. "He really fits the bill very nicely."
As Cockburn chats about the honour, the 11-time Juno winner's soft voice is occasionally overwhelmed by the background wailing of his baby daughter, born roughly a year ago.
The crying serves as at least one reminder that while a lifetime achievement award can sometimes feel like a career bookend, the "If I Had a Rocker Launcher" singer is focused firmly on the future.
"The one that really felt like that was getting inducted into the (Canadian Music) Hall of Fame — aren't you supposed to be dead for this to happen?" he said with a laugh.
"Having done that, this one doesn't feel quite as weird… Certainly, if I remain alive and kicking, the creative process is still going on. It ain't over till it's over."


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If you were reading around in the library blogs today, it was hard to escape at least one discussion of the Kindle, the new ebook reader from Amazon profiled in Newsweek.
I skimmed the Newsweek article and listened the accompanying video review. The Kindle does look like it's slightly better than some previous efforts, but I don't think I'll be buying one.
This isn't because I'm anti-ebook. Far from it. I became an enthusiastic devotee of ebooks three years ago when I loaded Mobipocket onto my then new Dell Axim. The convenience and portability are great, and I love the Mobipocket interface. I also like the ability to create Mobipocket files from Word or text documents, so I can essentially take any text content I find on the web and turn it into a uniform ebook file. Since I don't buy a lot of new books, it works very well for me. I can download and read plenty of classics from Project Gutenberg and create my own files if I find something I like. This past summer I got a Samsung Blackjack and loaded Mobipocket on it as well, and still love the convenience. Being able to carry several hundred books in my pocket at all times means I never have to be without something good to read.
But I wouldn't buy the Kindle (or the Sony reader either) for a couple of reasons. First, I don't want a separate tool. I like my Mobipocket because I have the ebook reader along with the email, calender, feed reader, browser, chess program, camera, and everything else fitting nicely in my pocket. If the iPhone ever holds enough music, I'd be willing to add in the iPod as well, but I want fewer devices that do more rather than a separate device for everything. It seems like the things the Kindle can do, I can do now on my phone, and even though the screen might be smaller, the text is very clear.
It also bothers me how rigidly controlled commercial ebooks are. Ebook readers want to try to emulate the book, but only in the reading experience. Ebook readers and publishers are trying to stop many of the other ways people use books. In general, I don't like the way digital rights issues interfere with ebooks in a way they don't with paper books. I might be willing to buy a book, since I buy books now, but after I buy the book I want to do with it what I please. If I want to lend it to a friend, regift it to an acquaintance, donate it to a library, or sell it to a used bookstore, I want the freedom to do that. Publishers naturally want to keep me from doing that, though they never could with paper books, and paper books have long sold even though libraries, used bookstores, and reading friends exist.
The stranglehold on information will be difficult to maintain, but as long as it will be illegal for me to do with digital books what I now do with print books, I'll resist buying them. I have bought a few, mostly reference works, but my ereading is mostly confined to those texts I can get and trade for free. What that means for publishing, I have no idea, but if ebooks are restricted in the way that paper books aren't, then they're not as much good to me. I'm surprised publishers don't start suing used bookstores for reselling their books. One could argue that iTunes does the same thing with music, and one would of course be right. However, even with my iPod I prefer to copy my own CDs rather than buy from iTunes whenever possible. Regardless, as long as I can buy used CDs or legally obtain free music, then I can legally still control what I purchase in a way I can't with iTunes purchases.
With the Kindle, one can also subscribe to newspapers and blogs for a fee, but again, I can read these things on my phone for free. The idea of paying to subscribe to a blog is bizarre, and perhaps I read that part wrong.
Anyway, I hope for a day when I can do with ebooks all the things I can do with paper books now, but I know that won't be the case if publishers have their way. If we have ebooks without the freedom to lend, give, resell, or donate them, then in many ways we'll have a bleaker book future than we could have. This isn't a complaint against ebooks, as much as I like traditional print books, but it is a complaint against the commercial restrictions that may dominate the future of copyrighted books.
I should add one more reason. 400 bucks? What, are they kidding me?


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Upcoming Cars in India
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Surprisingly spacious and slightly bigger than the average small car Fiat's Grande Punto has 75 bhp 1.3 multijet diesel.Styling of the car is really good. In this solid and compact car you may feel nimble footed on city roads. However, the car feels a bit awkward at slow speed and feels great only when it gains momentum in speed and what's more is also expected to be good in fuel economy. ….
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Maruti is expected to come up with its Splash model early 2009.First showcased at the Frankfurt Motor Show, the car has been put into production in Magyar Suzuki Corporation in Hungary. Inspired by its popular Swift, this hatchback would be targeted at families who need extra space in the car. It's slightly bigger then the regular hatchback's in Indian Market. Splash will come in both petrol(1.3 litre) and diesel engines(1.3 litre multi jet ) versions.….
Expected Price: 4,00,000
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Toyota Innova and Chevrolet Tavera will face their new competitor Ingenio by early 2009.Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M) to built Ingenio on an all-new platform, it would be equipped with latest technology and will have contemporary styling and spacious interiors.It is also expected that Ingenio will come with a variety of engine options, including the M&M™ indigenously developed common rail direct injection diesel engine and hybrid option. Which will definately make Ingenio a great competitor.….
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Children's book by MIND Institute author wins national award
Percy Learns to Fly awarded a 2013 Gelett Burgess Children's Book Award
Percy Learns to Fly, a children's book by Patricia Schetter, project coordinator at the Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities at the UC Davis MIND Institute, has received a gold medal for outstanding contributions to children's literature in the 2013 Gelett Burgess Children's Book Award competition.
The book was honored in the "motivation and inspiration" award category. Schetter received the medal during a ceremony at the Rowell Family Empowerment Center in Redding, Calif., on Nov. 23.
Schetter said she wrote the book to share a story about discovering children's differences and recognizing that being different isn't necessarily a bad thing.
"Differences can be viewed as a gift rather than a challenge," Schetter said. "We often focus on people's deficits — what they aren't able to do or aren't good at — rather than figuring out what they can contribute, focusing on their strengths and developing their talents."
The eponymous Percy is a little penguin who grows up in a family of seagulls on Gull Island. Percy and his parents are distressed to find that he has limited success in school because, despite trying his hardest, he is not learning to fly like the other birds.
"For some unexplained reason, Percy is hatched into a family of gulls," Schetter said. "No one ever knows how or why. Of course he goes to school with the other children, but although he has wings and a beak and is clearly a bird, he can't get the hang of flying no matter how hard he tries or how much he practices.
"He starts to feel very frustrated until, one day, he is accidentally launched into the water and discovers that he really can fly — given the right environment," she said.
Schetter is the mother of two and lives in Woodland, Calif. She said she is not a children's book author but was inspired to write Percy because of her work with children with neurodevelopmental disabilities and experiences as the mother of a son with learning differences.
"My son has ADHD and learning disabilities," Schetter said. "He has struggled with reading and writing. In school that's how you succeed. By the third grade most of what children are expected to learn is delivered through print. If you struggle with reading, that's going to be difficult for you. In addition, most teachers assess students' learning using writing as the output. Again, if writing is not how you best demonstrate what you know, you are at a disadvantage.
Percy Learns to Fly is illustrated by Mary A. Livingston, with educational content and resources contributed by Kandis Lighthall. It is published by ABTA Publications in Redding, Calif. Hardcover and paperback versions are available online and an eBook is planned.
"What I have found with my own son is that I had to trust my own instincts about what kind of environment was best for him, and that it had less to do with an IEP (individualized education plan) or special education services and more to do with the attitudes and beliefs of the people who were in his life," Schetter said.
"When people focus on his strengths and show him how to use them to compensate for his deficits, he succeeds and feels confident," she said. "That is what it's really all about! And I guess that's what Percy's about: finding the right environment to showcase a child's strengths and nurture his talents."
The Gelett Burgess Awards and Children's Book Honors Program are conferred by the Gelett Burgess Center for Creative Expression in Portland, Ore., named for artist, poet and humorist Gelett Burgess, author of the poem The Purple Cow and The Goops series of children's books.


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Sequences in Clojure and in Heron
In Heron the fundamental data type is the sequence "Seq", which is a abstract representation of a collection. In turns out that this idea is very similar to the Clojure approach to sequences.
The fundamental good idea that Clojure and Heron share regarding collections, is that programmers should work with an abstract representation of a collection as much as possible.
In Heron this is the Seq type, which can be an abstract representation of either a lazily evaluated list (e.g. Iterator) or a concrete type (e.g List). It has only two member functions: "ToList()" and "ToIterator()". There are three operators which will accepts a Seq type: mapeach, select, and accumulate. There is also the ubiquitous "foreach" construct which takes a Seq as input.
In Clojure the basic collection type is called an ISeq, and is very similar in design to the Heron sequence, once you get over the superficial differences. I won't talk to much about it because the documentation on Clojure sequences is a must read.
I didn't actually know about Clojure sequences when I designed the Heron sequence concept, it was instead based on how the C# IEnumerable works, but with better language support for fundamental list operations.
So what does this all mean for programmers? In Heron the sequence operators are convenient, and have counterparts in C# as libraries (e.g. LINQ). The difference for Heron from LINQ is that the compilers (and metaprograms) can leverage specific assumptions and knowledge about these operators to optimize the dickens out of list code. For an example see this article about optimizing Haskell via Map fusions.


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Joining the American-British invasion of Iraq in 2003 was Japan's first military engagement since WWII. Historic peace marches took place in Tokyo, and many of the protesters were young people. In Five Days in March, a number of characters voice their deeply personal concerns. The image they sketch of their personal, everyday lives in Tokyo stands in sharp contrast to their public participation in the demonstrations. In this adaptation of his original 2007 creation, Toshiki Okada sketches a generation of young people who have lost their way.


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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Pulitzer Prize–winner Goodwin (No Ordinary Time ) seeks to illuminate what she interprets as a miraculous event: Lincoln's smooth (and, in her view, rather sudden) transition from underwhelming one-term congressman and prairie lawyer to robust chief executive during a time of crisis. Goodwin marvels at Lincoln's ability to co-opt three better-born, better-educated rivals—each of whom had challenged Lincoln for the 1860 Republican nomination. The three were New York senator William H. Seward, who became secretary of state; Ohio senator Salmon P. Chase, who signed on as secretary of the treasury and later was nominated by Lincoln to be chief justice of the Supreme Court; and Missouri's "distinguished elder statesman" Edward Bates, who served as attorney general. This is the "team of rivals" Goodwin's title refers to.
The problem with this interpretation is that the metamorphosis of Lincoln to Machiavellian master of men that Goodwin presupposes did not in fact occur overnight only as he approached the grim reality of his presidency. The press had labeled candidate Lincoln "a fourth-rate lecturer, who cannot speak good grammar." But East Coast railroad executives, who had long employed Lincoln at huge prices to defend their interests as attorney and lobbyist, knew better. Lincoln was a shrewd political operator and insider long before he entered the White House—a fact Goodwin underplays. On another front, Goodwin's spotlighting of the president's three former rivals tends to undercut that Lincoln's most essential Cabinet-level contacts were not with Seward, Chase and Bates, but rather with secretaries of war Simon Cameron and Edwin Stanton, and Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles.
These criticisms aside, Goodwin supplies capable biographies of the gentlemen on whom she has chosen to focus, and ably highlights the sometimes tangled dynamics of their "team" within the larger assemblage of Lincoln's full war cabinet. Agent, Amanda Urban. 400,000 first printing; BOMC, History Book Club main selection; film rights to Steven Spielberg/DreamWorld Entertainment. (Nov.)
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EXETER — The Provident Bank's Exeter branch located at 95 Portsmouth Avenue will be hosting "Art for a Cure for DMD (Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy)", a special fundraising event featuring nature-themed artwork and photography by local students and art teachers, professional artists, and community members.
The artwork will be on display at the Exeter branch for one week beginning on Monday, April 1. A closing reception and silent auction will take place Friday, April 5, 2013, from 6 to 8 p.m.
Proceeds from the event will benefit "Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy", a nonprofit organization dedicated to funding research to find a cure for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, a devastating childhood disease that affects 1 in every 3,500 males born worldwide, resulting in about 20,000 new cases each year.
Two local boys with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy — Lucas Currier, a fifth-grader at Newfields Elementary School, and Cameron Yurik, a third-grader at Swasey Central School in Brentwood — are among those youngsters hoping for a cure.
Lucas and Cameron were the inspiration for the Art for a Cure fundraiser, a project created by 14-year-old Rebecca Gowing, an eighth-grader at the Cooperative Middle School in Stratham and the daughter of Laura and Jamie Gowing of Newfields.
Rebecca is the driving force behind this project, with support from her former elementary school art teacher, Crystal Buswell, who now teaches both Lucas and Cameron in art classes at their schools.
Information about the art show and Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy can be found at www.facebook.com/ArtToCureDMD. For those unable to attend the silent auction on April 5th, the site provides a creative opportunity to support "Art for the Cure DMD" through online donations to "Liberate DMD Ladybugs," and also features other art-themed activities designed by Rebecca.


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- Jobs and Careers
- Education
- Projects
- Technologies
- Business
- Consulting
- Trends
- Etc.
The atmosphere in the Corner Cubicle will be just like that in a business setting: On-topic, professional, and industry related
The Caffeine Lounge is still for off-topic discussions that don't relate to the programming and web development industries and don't require a serious discussion.
So, with all that said... Welcome to the Corner Cubicle!


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Chipotle will soon join the growing list of restaurants that offer expanded benefits to all employees, including tuition reimbursement for students.
The new benefits package will include paid sick days and paid vacation days, as well as a tuition reimbursement to part-time employees, the company said in a press release. The changes will be implemented July 1.
"We are always working to attract and retain the very best employees we can, and to helping develop our people so they can achieve their full potential," Chris Arnold, Chipotle's communication director, said.
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Chipotle is joining a small and growing group of fast food restaurants offering more benefits. Earlier this year, Starbucks announced it will pay for a full four years of Arizona State University's online degree program for its employees. Roughly 2,000 Starbucks employees have chosen to take the offer thus far, according to the company's website.
McDonald's unveiled a similar college reimbursement program in April. The fast food giant also announced an increase in pay and paid sick days for its employees.
Chipotle officials hope the new package will encourage their target employee demographic of high school and college students to pursue a career within the restaurant field.
"We have a lot of people who, if they realize they could make a career with Chipotle, would stick with us while they are in college and take advantage of our tuition-reimbursement program," JD Cummings, recruitment strategy manager at Chipotle, told Nation's Restaurant News. "They could find the path to restaurateur is an amazing path that they might not have thought of."


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I only have 28 left to do. I had to bin 20 because they were just too poor to use. I'll melt them down and turn them into Pathans or the such like.
The last 28 will be based individually to give me some variety of use.
Wonderful work! I like the black shields with the brown and white contrasting accents. The light must be at the end of the tunnel Martin - keep up the steam!


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Hello, all. I have recently began selling off some of the excess pieces of collection. While most of it is being auctioned off on eBay, I still have quite a good deal left to get rid of, and I am hoping to trade these away on CC. If you have any of my wants, Pm with what you would like to trade them for, and we will work out a deal.
I am looking for:
1x1, 1x2,1x3, and 1x4 bricks - Light Bluish Grey
1x2 tiles - Light and DK bluish Grey
6x5 and 4x3 Tree leaves - All shades of Green
1x2 Profile Bricks - Light and Dark Bluish Grey
1x4 tiles - DK Brown
2x2 turntable bases - Black
Telescopes - DK Brown
1x1 Round Plates - Reddish Brown
1x2 Plates - Green and Yellow
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Talk about bad luck.
GWG was just about the only category up for grabs.
I noticed.
Both the top seeds might get knocked out in the semi's.
I am definatly interested in your league, however i know that im a new guy and im sure you have been friends or have communicated with the other guys on this forum for awhile now but I would be interested in the league i am a very active manager in hockey pools, i am new to the whole farm team but i would like to join if you have room...Thanks Brandon
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Harry Connick Jr. says he did the right thing by expressing his outrage at a blackface skit poking fun at the Jackson Five in Australia last week.
"I'm pleased with the way I handled the situation," the 42-year-old American singer and actor told reporters Wednesday in Hong Kong, where he was promoting his new album "Your Songs."
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"I handled it in exactly the manner I thought was appropriate," he said.
The skit was featured on an Australian TV variety show where Connick was a guest judge. Four men in blackface and with Afro wigs sang and danced behind a Michael Jackson impersonator wearing white makeup. Connick gave the performance a zero score. The host of "Hey Hey It's Saturday," Daryl Sommers, apologized to Connick at the end of the live show.
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Connick said in response, "I just want to say, on behalf of my country, I know it was done humorously, but we've spent so much time trying to not make black people look like buffoons, that when we see something like that we take it really to heart."
Public reaction in online forums was mixed. Some Australians said they were embarrassed such a racist sketch had been broadcast, while others said detractors were too politically correct and that the skit was funny.
Connick said he canceled an autograph session and interviews in Sydney after the show to let the controversy die down.
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"It was very hot. It was a subject that was very, very controversial. So we just decided to take a couple of days off. I wasn't worried about physical harm," he said.
Blackface once was a part of minstrel shows in the United States, with whites playing stock black characters — usually demeaning stereotypes — after rubbing coal, grease or shoe polish on their faces.
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Cricket Spectator
Who do you think is better out of these to class players? Lara or Tendulkar? For me, it has to be Tendulkar he is a classy act.He has just got all the strokes in the book and a perfect example of that is his innings of 98 against Pakistan at WC 2003.
What do you think?
What do you think?