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CASCO, Maine (AP) � Police in Maine say a golf cart accident caused injuries so serious that a LifeFlight helicopter was summoned.
The Cumberland County Sheriff's Department says 52-year-old John MacKay from Sanford was thrown from the golf cart that was being operated by a Massachusetts man Saturday night in the town of Casco.
MacKay was in critical condition Sunday at Maine Medical Center in Portland.
Deputies arrested the golf cart operator, 59-year-old Gary Belinsky from Westford, Mass., for drunken driving.
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And he's willing to play DH for the rest of the season.
Reports this afternoon said Dunn had been told he wouldn't be sent to the White Sox for Edwin Jackson, and Dunn shot them down. "No," Dunn said. "I haven't heard anything." (Dunn allowed, about the White Sox, "I like their uniforms.")
Dunn clarified several meaningful details surrounding his situation Dunn has stated his opposition to serving as a full-time designated hitter, but he said he would not mind for the final portion of the season if he is sent to an American League team.
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In other news, the girls and I have been goofing around a bit lately with our newest novelty--file folder games. We first saw the link to the free file folder games web site on Chasing Cheerios, but we've since become fans in our own right, downloading and printing out and making far more elaborate (vintage wallpaper and plastic laminate are required for nearly every paper craft that occurs in this house, apparently) quite a few of the games, including an alphabetical order game that uses pumpkins for Sydney and an animal alphabet set for Willow to spell with. There are plenty of math games on the site, as well, which I'm excited about because that's the subject that I feel like I'm the least likely to offer casual daily enrichment for the girls in.
Making and playing with the file folder games has served to get the girls interested in their assortment of paper and laminated paper games and playsets again, everything from simple laminated alphabet letters or animal silhouettes to play with, to a large variety of matching games--
--to the various puzzles or other activities that we've downloaded and then personalized together:
But the best thing that this new interest has led us to is a vastly better organizational system for these paper-based activities. Previously, I'd been storing each activity or set in a Ziploc bag on a shelf in the girls' room, where it soon gets lost and/or forgotten about. However, these file folder games naturally beg for a hanging file box to store them, and it was then an easy task to round up all these other playthings and assign them to file folders in the bin, as well. And THEN I moved each of the girls' random activity pages (nearly all of them from the free Dover samples that I get each week) from clear plastic bins to folders in the file box, so that now they take up less room!
I've read about some homeschooling families, unschoolers usually, who never have their kids do "worksheets." I even read one book by an unschooling mom, I forget which (tell me, anybody, if you recognize it from the story I'm about to tell), in which anytime one of her children asked to go to public school she'd give them some worksheets to sit down and do quietly, and they'd soon realize from this that homeschooling was way better.
I'm sorry, but I think that's messed up. Mind you, we're not homeschoolers, much less unschoolers, but we LOVE worksheets over here. I love crosswords and puzzles and brain teasers, and my kids love worksheets and activity pages and copy pages and sheets of math problems and whatever else they can do. I mean, I don't enjoy sitting and filling out my taxes or medical forms in triplicate or anything, but seriously, who doesn't love a challenging worksheet?
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Oh shoot, I changed the name of mine too, sorry I forgot to mention. It is now called Precarious Business. Update whenever you see fit Tannar, I'm in no rush! Thank you.
GORT's RotB2 is still noted as unreleased.
Oh shoot, I changed the name of mine too, sorry I forgot to mention. It is now called Precarious Business. Update whenever you see fit Tannar, I'm in no rush! Thank you.
I've updated GORT and ObservingEye entries.
Return to the Lost City (T2) from Intruder is Released.
You Can Add also from my Stuff:
Paradox Equation (T2)
Details: Not Yet
Current status: 5%
Estimated release date: Unknown
Heart of the Gems: Night of the Red Moon (Gold)
Details: A Rework of Heart of the Gems, that will be also playable on older PCs
Current status: 35%
Estimated release date: March 2018
FrenchDecay's entry Rotten Sun should be removed since it is already released under the name Breathing Corpses.
He is now working on a new mission, though he would be able to say more himself
Marblebro is right, I completely forgot to correct my previous entry, sorry.
Well, I might as well make an entry for my next FM now
Name : The Secret of Mortality
S/C : Single mission
Game : Thief 2 (newdark 1.23)
Prequel : Iron Heart - Thief 2 (newdark 1.23); Breathing Corpses - Thief 2 (newdark 1.23)
Status : Not even done with brushes!
Percentage completed : Roughly 20%
Comment ?: Trying something a bit different this time, but don't worry this one will still have its share of freaks. Should be a lot shorter than Breathing Corpses and have way less loot. No undead (so far), no robots (so far)
Contributors this far : marbleman; luckily the same voice actors that already helped with Breathing Corpses
Some of these may change in the future but I'll make sure to notify any changes this time
Author: Lady Rowena
Name: Home Sweet Home
S/C: Single mission. It is the first mission in what was to be a 3-mission campaign, but the second and third missions are lost. We're very lucky to be getting this one.
Game: Thief 2 (NewDark 1.25)
Status: In beta test
Percentage completed: 99%
Comments: Since this was to be the first of three, the mission ends unresolved in the middle of a scene which would have been continued at the start of mission 2. Out of respect for her legacy, we are not going to contrive some alternate ending to make the mission stand alone.
Release Date: Dec 24, 2017
If anyone out there sees this who has alpha or beta versions of missions 2 or 3, please contact Yandros by email.
I have released my mission, it can be removed from the upcoming list. Thank you!
I just saw that the FMs in the front list will be marked as released when they got published.
It's a bit confusing to have them still in the upcoming list, if they are already released.
Got confused there for a second. ^^'
I glanced through the list in the first post and spotted quite a few missions that should be removed, as they have been released this year or earlier already.
RELEASED : november 2014 : http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=144534Author: darthsLair
Cataclysmic Revelation Campaign (T2)
- The continuing story of Cataclysmic Revelations: Garrett died discovering his reluctant virtue, but the Builder has plans for him and his brethren. Garrett must now return to earth on a mission to save the Builder's Brethren from the clutches of evil.
Estimated release date: Unknown
RELEASED as 'Breathing Corpses' : april 2017 : http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=147734Author: FrenchDecay
The Rotten Sun (T2)
RELEASED : december 2017 : http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=148488Author: ObservingEye
Precarious Business
Estimated release date: 2017
Synopsis/Comments: An unknown benefactor has tasked Garrett with breaking into a rival nobles home to clean house and essentially ruin the man due to 'conflicting business interests'.
RELEASED : july 2013 : http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=142068Author: sNeaksieGarrett
Monster Arena (subject to change) (T2 v1.18)
Details: "A multiplayer style FM which is best suited for 2 or more players. Spawn spots available for up to four players. Requires Thief 2 Multiplayer patch from Tos."
Current status: in progress (in beta)
Estimated release date: Soon
RELEASED : august 2013 : http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=142252Author: sNeaksieGarrett
LOTP Winter (Codename) (T2 NewDark)
Details: "...a winter-themed version of Life of the Party using the original mission as the base." More info is here.
Current status: in progress (in beta)
Estimated release date: Soon
RELEASED : november 2017 : http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=148465Author: -Terra-
Five Nights at Dayport (T2)
Current status: 95%
Estimated release date: Winter 2017
And I would like to add a few suggestions:
when adding a new mission, please add the announcement date both in the authors records, but also at the top of the page ('Recently added:')!
There are quite a few missions listed, which contain no clue at all how long they have been lingering around already (and are probably dead ?).
E.g. 'Moreno Tower' by Dale_ seems to have been announced in august 2014. But to find that info, one has to search the entire thread, as it isn't shown in the actual list.
As far as released missions are concerned (e.g. 'Rebellion of the Builder 2' by GORT or 'Return to the Lost City' by intruder), please remove them from the author,
or at least remove all irrelevant info. Still having an 'estimated release date' or outdated 'latest news' around makes no sense, clutters the page and confuses me a lot as well.
Author: intruder
Return to the Lost City (T2)
- see this post.
Current status: Released (june 2017)
Latest news:
(7 May 2017) http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthrea...=1#post2356784
(16 Dec 2012) http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthrea...=1#post2158730
(28 May 2012) http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthrea...=1#post2127407
(28 May 2012) http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthrea...=1#post2127401
(28 May 2012) http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthrea...=1#post2127402
Estimated release date: Summer 2013
Having the list of recent updates at the top is nice, but the term 'recently' seems a bit of a stretch, as the last 'removal' of a mission was in 2014.
Please add the removal/anncouncement dates here as well for any future updates.
Sorry for that lenghty rant. Just let me show what I would envision a change to look like (additions highlighted green):
I believe this would help to make this page much more usefull.Recently added:
2015 - may
- FM: Falls of Westbree (T2) by neux and gigagooga
Recently removed:
2017 - october
- FM: Rebellion of the Build 2 by GORT - Mission released - Link to forum
2014 - ?
- FM: Kingsbridge by Eternauta - Mission released
- FM: Death's Turbid Veil by nicked - Mission released
- FM: Endless Rain by skacky - Mission released
FM in development:
Falls of Westbree (T2)
Authors: neux, gigagooga
Added: may 2015
Current status: 50%
Estimated release date: 2018
Screenshots: yes
And easier to maintain as well, as the person maintaining that list has a clear idea when it is safe to remove any entries after 3 years or so.
Appreciate the comments, gnartsch.
I'd like to just note that there are a few sticky threads started by people who no longer spend much, if any, time here. This means that moderators have to do the updating. At the moment, Nightwalker, Tannar and I are up to our eyes in it and have little available spare time. I know I've fallen behind and my apologies to those whose contributions haven't been added to OPs. In fact, I'm currently a sad failure at most things but I'm hopeful my life will return to some sort of normality in March although I'm also sure I'll get some updating done before then. With luck.
An update. My Mortuos Liber Campaign is soon to be released. Its in Beta right now.
Not quite abandoned, but way behind schedule, not being currently worked on, and may be abandoned in a year or so ...
True Dreams and Graduation
The final two missions in my Prequel campaign. True Dreams is 95% complete and Graduation is maybe 75% complete. I just don't have the time available for the foreseeable.
What about a new sticky thread by someone who has some time to update the thread at least once a month while also being perineally here.
Is this thread still a thing? Anyone updating it? I finally have a FM that made it to be eligible to list here, 30%.
I wonder. I see now that i forgot to mention that Mortuos Liber Campaign is done for almost a year ago. And that i have another mission in beta testing.
I just found out that Komags The Two Towers is unfinished.
Is it already listed here? I couldn't find it.
He wrote:
"This is a demo mission. It is my first serious work I ever did with dromed, but abandoned last March."
"Distribution of this level is allowed in any way, shape, or manner you wish. You may edit or use this mission however you want. It's all yours :-) "
It's a shame, because it shows big potential. Anybody used it for his/her fm yet?
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How do I get notified as soon as a new mission is released? on taffers paradise its usually a week later
Check here more frequently ?
The other night, while going through old crap to get rid of, I found my unfinished 'T2 - Plunkett's Point' mission on a (get this) zip disk that I had backed-up to and totally forgot about. Now, with New Dark kicking around, I kinda want to go back and actually finish the thing.


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North Hempstead Supervisor Jon Kaiman is establishing a campaign committee to explore a run for Nassau County executive this fall as the county Democratic chairman continues to lobby former County Executive Thomas Suozzi to enter the race.
Kaiman, 50, a Great Neck Democrat, said he mailed papers Monday to the county election board to establish a "Kaiman 2013" committee to begin raising money for a potential challenge to Republican County Executive Edward Mangano.
"I filed papers for an exploratory committee. We checked the box for county executive. That's really what it is, no more no less at this point," said Kaiman, who took office in 2004 and is completing his fifth term as supervisor.
Kaiman's move comes amid speculation among Democrats that Suozzi, a Democrat who lost narrowly to Mangano in 2009, was considering running again for the county job.
Suozzi, of Glen Cove, denied that he planned a news conference Tuesday to announce he would be running but did not respond to other questions about his intentions.
Although Suozzi has said he did not plan another run for county executive, Nassau Democratic chairman Jay Jacobs has been urging Suozzi to join the race. Jacobs said he expected to talk with Suozzi again Tuesday.
Asked about a possible Suozzi announcement Tuesday, Jacobs said, "Sometimes you don't know what's happening tomorrow until tomorrow. I can't comment on that in any fashion. Tom has been having conversations with me. He's on the cusp of making a decision. I think it will be one way or another in a fairly short period of time."
Kaiman, a former District Court judge, said, "Tom has not announced. I've not announced. It appears we're both exploring our options."
Kaiman said the "goal is to see who's best suited to make this race. There will be a party convention down the road. That will be the primary force in determining the candidate."
The only announced Democratic candidate for county executive is political newcomer Adam Haber, 47, a businessman who sits on the Roslyn school board.
"We welcome anyone into the race who wants to discuss how to improve our county, but Nassau's middle-class families have suffered through over a decade of career politicians who mismanage services, overtax our families and don't deliver for our communities," said Haber's campaign manager, Justin Myers. "Adam Haber is running to change that. He's running to save taxpayers money and provide services more efficiently, not because he's looking for his next job."
Kaiman had been expected to be appointed by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to head the Long Island Power Authority before superstorm Sandy hit Long Island, exposing flaws in LIPA's performance and prompting the governor to explore privatizing the authority instead.
Asked if the governor had asked him to run, Kaiman said, "The governor and I have a good relationship and that's about it . . . We've had discussions about my future options. I wouldn't go any further than that."
Kaiman had a meeting at his home recently to consider the county executive's race. Robert Zimmerman, a Democratic national committeeman from Great Neck who attended, said Monday, "Jon Kaiman has been a role model as a public official and an extraordinary town supervisor. He would be a great candidate for county executive."
After his loss to Mangano, Suozzi had more than $1.5 million in his campaign fund, and has about $1 million left. Suozzi, 50, has said he is enjoying his family and his work as an attorney and with Wall Street's Lazard Ltd.
"Residents know Ed Mangano is the guy in their corner stopping tax hikes and cutting wasteful spending -- that's something the opposition cannot overcome," Mangano spokesman Brian Nevin said Monday night.
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The clinical laboratory will continue to operate under the name VIP Dx, until it moves to the University of Nevada's Center for Molecular Medicine in August 2010.
At that time, the lab will operate within the Institute under the name Unevx, providing services and revenue to the Institute in a manner similar to other institutional clinical reference laboratories.
"Our agreement to acquire VIP Dx is the culmination of years of planning and sacrifice," said Annette Whittemore, president and founder of the Whittemore Peterson Institute. "It has always been our intent to offer a wide range of patient services, including diagnostic testing, within WPI's new facility at the University of Nevada, Reno. The addition of comprehensive clinical laboratory services will significantly strengthen the translational clinical research program providing much needed answers to patients and their doctors"
• Finally, in response to thousands of requests for testing, WP Biotechnologies (WPBio), a wholly owned subsidiary of the Whittemore Peterson Institute, finalized a non-exclusive license agreement with R.E.D. Laboratories N.V. of Belgium (R.E.D. Labs) to provide XMRV testing of European patients.
As part of this agreement, R.E.D. Labs will receive consulting services delivered by VIP Dx to ensure the Belgium laboratory delivers the proprietary tests with the utmost accuracy.
"This activity will help implement the delivery and execution of XMRV tests by virus culture for patients all across Europe, using the WPI technology," said Carli West Kinne, director of WPBio. "The European market is a significant part of our plan to move the work of the WPI forward on behalf of those who are ill."


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My daughter couldn't be more excited for the holidays. Together we've started decorating our home, a big red bow on our door, Christmas lights adorn our entertainment center, and Christmas carols help us get ready in the morning. A crucial piece of the holidays is the presence of her co-parent, who isn't my biggest fan. Being involved in a high-conflict co-parenting relationship during the holidays isn't always so fun. It often causes headaches and additional stress – and who really needs any additional stress at this time of year? Taking the high road to co-parenting during the holidays can be really tough, and requires you to stop thinking so much about yourself, and more about your child's happiness.
During the season of joy and happiness, I spend a lot of time thinking about how best to communicate with my co-parent during the holidays. I find it hard to swallow my immense dislike for his usual unreliability and disrespect and assume he'll play more a role in our daughter's like during the holidays. But I try—for our daughter. For awhile I really thought the love of my family could blanket her heart with all the love she would ever need. I completely disregarded her father's side of the family, every last one, based on her grandfather's behavior and our continuously rocky relationship. I didn't take into account the love they all shared for our daughter, and held them all accountable for her father's behavior. Our daughter is amazing, and no I'm not just saying that because I'm her mom. There is something so wonderful about being in her presence, in seeing her smile, in being part of her warmth. She is lucky to have so many people who love her and want to spend time with her. And since I love her more than I dislike them, I take the high road during the holidays.
Read the rest of my post including my five tips on co-parenting during the holiday season over at The Cubicle Chick!


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Click below for a really interesting episode of Ancient Aliens:
Saturday, March 17, 2012
The Mystery Of Puma Punku
Posted by Rot at 1:12 PM
Labels: aliens, ancient aliens, history channel, paranormal, unexplained
2 comments:
- crudedoodle.com said...
man, when Ancient Aliens is good, It's AMAZING.
(when it's bad it's well...you know)
Great ep.
- March 17, 2012 at 6:07 PM
- FoolishCop said...
I recently watched the entire two seasons of the series they offer on Netflix streaming and a lot of it was a lot of fun. I agree the Puma Punka was a pretty fascinating episode. There are a lot of pretty odd and seemingly inexplicable places in the world.
Perhaps the most inexplicable thing, however, is Giorgio Tsoukalos' hair.
- March 18, 2012 at 11:29 AM
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Hidden today is not working at all within my theme.
All of the icons within the theme are set to 'use device application order' within composer. The hidden today is checked under the extras panel in theme builder and navigation set accordingly. I have tried entering in calendar dates and it still does not show.
I created a basic theme with only one icon (calendar) within theme builder and enabled the hidden today. That worked, why wont it work when the icons are set in composer?
Is it a bug within composer or theme builder 6.0 beta 2 not allowing hidden today's from icons created outside theme builder?
This is boggling my mind!? Any advice or suggestions would be grateful at this point.


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Anyone can tell you if a trailer "looks good" or not. But Drew Magary, who spent over a decade working in advertising, is here to tell you whether or not a trailer WORKS. This week's trailer? "LOL".
There's something ominous about a Miley Cyrus movie titled "LOL". You can practically picture the out-of-touch studio exec who conceived of and greenlit the idea on the spot. "We need a movie that will appeal to all those teens, with their text messages and their iPatties. I'VE GOT IT! 'LOL,' starring Hannah Montana! SHOOT IT!" Yet, despite positively oozing with Hollywood cynicism, this is a remake of a French film. Still, here at PopcornBiz, we make it our priority to give every piece of entertainment a fair shake. And so it's time to check out the "LOL" trailer and see if there's more to it than meets the eye.
Let's answer a few questions:
Does the trailer let us know what the movie's about? Vaguely. Let's start with the basics. Miley Cyrus plays a rebellious teenager named Lola, but apparently everyone calls her LOL, because kids totally do that. Why, just the other day, my friend Ralph got bestowed the nickname ROTFL! Totally natural! Anyway, LOL likes to roll her eyes and make sarcastic wisecracks (think Juno, but better looking!) and flirt with boys, but her mom (Demi Moore) is all like, "LOL! You are LOLing wayyyy too much!" And then LOL jets off to Paris, because that apparently is a good way to teach rebellious teens that they need to settle down and focus. I'm a little confused, frankly. There's a bit of teenage angst, a little bit of family drama, and not a lot tying it all together.
Do the kids in the movie Gchat and text each other? They totally do! They even provide you with handy supers of their chat messages! It's like they took the experience of sitting next to an annoying text messenger at the multiplex, and put it up on the screen! That makes sense. Cuts out the middleman. Anyway, I'm sure America's youth will be like, "OMG! LOL likes to IM! TTYL!!!" Billy Crystal thinks this stuff is real cutting edge.
Do we get all kind of fantastic romantic cliches? Do we ever! The trailer is like a giant fire hose of teenager greeting card messages: "That special age where hearts are broken..." "Time to discover what we stand for..." "It's so good to love someone so much it hurts..." "Time to break free..." They ordered every cliche off the menu.
Is there a love interest with a bad haircut? There is indeed. Can't young men in movies today have NORMAL hair? What is WRONG with this country?
Does this trailer work? No, and there are plenty of reasons why. First of all, Demi Moore. There's some kind of natural law that prevents any Demi Moore film from making a profit, even good ones like "Margin Call." Secondly, there's no definitive storyline to glean from this trailer. It's just, "Miley Cyrus learns a bunch of life lessons," which isn't enough to hold our interest. Kids aren't dumb. They want their money's worth when they go to the multiplex, which is why the likes of "MI:4" have done well. They can get inane platitudes and text messages elsewhere for cheaper. There are moments of genuine dialog here, but it's not enough to overcome all the cliches. This very much feels like an studio's cheap interpretation of teen life, without being all that accurate.


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401 St Kilda Road
(near the corner of Toorak Road)
03 9866 8055
Opening Hours: Mon-Fri 7am-11pm; Sat-Sun 8am-11pm
There are few things more trendy in Melbourne than hidden destinations, tiny spaces (for elbow-knocking exclusivity), and The Vue Trinity. I'd love to be Mr Bennett's Ms Darcy.
Café Vue on St Kilda Road eschews the 'little local' hypothesis however - it's big, bright and beautiful. And with the droves of people clamouring to get on board - you can bet she knows it, the saucy minx.
We were seated immediately at 9:45am on a Saturday morning. Menus were brought promptly, with a full bottle of water.
We placed our orders, and my pistachio cupcake was served in seconds (this, unfortunately, marked the end of the day's good service).
It was almost like a pistachio flourless cake - very dense, very nutty, and not too sweet at all. I didn't like the stiff little icing, which was reminiscent of 'strongly-flavoured' pistachio ice-cream. But that's an absolutely personal thing - I've always thought pistachio ice-cream tasted a bit like cough syrup. And I'd definitely order this again, as the icing's easy enough to pry off.
My stalwart order - perfectly poached eggs, lemony hollandaise, crisp, chunky toast, and enough spice in the sausage to elevate it from 'something I could get at the supermarket'.
We were a little less impressed with the presentation on my sister's dish.
The tomato fondue blended with the capsicum purée to produce the freshest tomato 'salsa' I've ever had; there was absolutely nothing ketchupy, pasty or 'processed' about this, just really pure and fresh tomato and capsicum flavours. I unashamedly appropriated copious amounts for my own forkfuls of eggs, sausage and toast - the joys of eating with family!
And I can never go past this - the most perfect little lemon tart, with a meringue dollop only just-crisped on the surface ($4.50). I haven't had any better in Melbourne, and I love them - so tell me if you have!
All in all, you can't fault the food - or the fabulousness of your surroundings. My obvious gripe though would be how s l o w the service really was; in speed and quality! For example, it was a pretty annoying (and ridiculous!) end to the meal when we paid $58.10 exactly for our $38.10 breakfast and received our $20.00 change in coins. (The reason for this being that our $8.10 in small change was ignored completely, and the person processing our order only put the $50.00 note through!) Consequently, we received a mostly-silver pile of coins in our bill tray taller than the tart we'd just consumed! Mind, it took 10 minutes to get our bill, and a further 15 to (poorly) process the payment!
Would I come here again? Probably; I do adore the food, the novelty of sweeping space, and it's conveniently located in the middle of my regular route. But I wouldn't schedule anything else for the rest of the morning.
My advice? Bring lots of reading material if dining alone - plenty of surface area to spread it out on as well!


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Last week, Jenny went away for three days to work on her book. I don't know if anyone else out there finds this to be true, but we have this theory about parenting being easier — not better, mind you, just easier — when the spouse is away. The chain of command is clearer. Movements are more efficient. Decisions are more decisive. With no safety net, I feel like we tend to be a little better about being doers, about making the bed in the morning and mustering the energy to move that dirty juice glass the three feet from the sink into the dishwasher, about not standing around in the kitchen, checking email again and being generally suspended in that maddening state of inertia that sets in when you're trying to decide what to do and who's going to go upstairs and get the sweater down from Abby's closet and who's going to make sure Phoebe's teeth are brushed properly, since the dentist put a watch on one of her molars last time we were there and, wait, did we pack any snacks yet?
So I had a big weekend planned. We would be a perpetual motion machine! Saturday morning, we went hiking up at Bear Mountain. We had lunch — burgers with jalapenos and sharp local cheddar, a black-and-white milkshake, and hand-cut fries — at the outrageously tasty Woody's All-Natural in Cornwall, New York, which, if you live within 100 miles of the place, I implore you to try, for real. We made nine jars of pickles. We played home run derby on the patio. And when it came to dinner, I saw this as an opportunity to do something different and fun, to branch out with a hanger steak or a rack of ribs or one of those silvery whole branzinos I'd been eyeing at the fish market. The best part was, after a death march of a winter, we could even cook outside. The weather was just beginning to turn — a cruel tease, as it turns out — and the grill was on the patio, cleared of snow, practically begging to be fired up. Afterwards, we'd call Jenny and surprise her with our enterprising dinner adventures. There's nothing she likes more than when we go and expand the family repertoire.
It was late afternoon when we finally got around to planning the menu. I quick-polled the kids to see what they were up for.
They were up for chicken. Chicken, chicken, and more chicken. Chinese chicken, they said. Adam's crispy chicken. Barbecue chicken! Drumsticks! Chicken!
What is it about chicken? I mean, I have nothing against the stuff, I enjoy it most of the time and God knows, we cook it enough, but sometimes I worry that these kids, if left to their own scary devices, would eat nothing but. After trying and failing to tempt them with other (better!)* options, I folded up my tent and agreed, but on one condition: we try it a new way. I bailed, for the night, on my dream of grilling. Instead, I summoned the prefab glory days of the 1970s, and went with an updated, non-toxic version of Shake 'n Bake. It took no time to prepare, the kids had fun shaking, and we made it with all fresh stuff, and went heavy on the herbs. And the sandwiches the next day – on toasted buns, with mustard — were ridiculous.
*Seriously, why don't they trust me?
For the recipe, click here.
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2/7/2019 -- Congratulations to Wilson Gao, a West Middle eighth-grader, for getting a perfect score on the ACT test! Gao scored a 36 -- the highest possible score -- on the ACT college admissions and placement exam. Normally, the ACT is not taken until a student is junior in high school.
Nationally, while the actual number of students earning the top score varies from year to year, on average, less than one-tenth of one percent of students who take the ACT earn a top score. In the U.S. high school graduating class of 2017, only 2,760 out of nearly two million graduates who took the ACT earned a composite score of 36.
The ACT consists of tests in English, mathematics, reading and science, each scored on a scale of 1–36. A student's composite score is the average of the four test scores. The score for ACT's optional writing test is reported separately and is not included within the ACT composite score.
The ACT is a curriculum-based achievement exam that measures what students have learned in school. Students who earn a 36 composite score have likely mastered all of the skills and knowledge they will need to succeed in first-year college courses in the core subject areas.
ACT scores are accepted by all major four-year colleges and universities across the U.S.
Watch a story on KSDK, Channel 5 here and read about Gao in this recent Post-Dispatch story.
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The R.E.A.L. Prep 96 procedure processes multiples of 96 samples in parallel using both vacuum-driven transfer and centrifugation (see flowchart "R.E.A.L. Prep 96 procedure"). The procedure is based on a modified alkaline lysis followed by efficient filtration through a special filter unit, QIAfilter 96. Typically, yields of up to 7 µg plasmid DNA are obtained from 1.3 ml LB cultures or up to 20 µg with TB or similar super-rich media. With the optimized BAC protocol, up to 800 ng large-plasmid DNA can be isolated from 2.5 ml bacterial cultures.
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Social graph is an application that allows to view and interact with the ECLAP's elements. With a graph representation is possible to see for each object (video, user, group etc.) the elements associated, according to the existing relations. The basic idea for this navigation tool is to make the user experience much more intuitive, associative and social; this will definitely lead to find new connections within the content and with other users on the ECLAP portal.
Figure 1: Social graph for you PARA | DISO.
Most of the LOD are also accessible on ECLAP by using the so called Social Graph in the home page of each user. Via the Social Graph, any user may navigate among the several relationships established among, content, users, annotations, vip names via dpPedia and location via GeoNames. The SocialGraph of each user is accessible from citation of that user into the content metadata, see for example the social graph of Paolo Nesi.
Social graph is currently located below your media player in execution the relationship of that content with people and other content. An example is reported on figure2: in this case the user is watching the video you PARA | DISO and, how we can see, in the inferior part of the screen is already present Social graph (the frame pointed by the arrow). Social graph is also present in the page after user login, it shows the latest information related with the user, like: the last colleagues added, latest publications etc.
Figure 2: Social graph (indicated by the arrow) is located under the media player.
The graph is made from nodes and arcs. The nodes could be displayed in two forms, rectangle or circle, depending on the type of the object represented; the rectangles represent the ECLAP's elements, like video, images, users, groups and annotations, whereas the circles are fictitious nodes introduced for representing a specific existing relation between two or more different objects; for example they show with more clarity the groups which include a video or the users that prefer a content. The arcs show the links between objects and they have a direction for read uniquely the relation.
Figure 3: The components of the graph. (a)Element (b)Relation (c)Arc
In Social graph different functionalities have been introduced to increase the usability of the applications and favor the navigation. First of all, if we pass with the mouse over a node, this will be highlighted with his connected elements, for make it easier to understand the links.
Figure 4: Focus on a node. (a) Normal representation(b) With the mouse over we have focus of you PARA|DISO and its relations.
With the mouse wheel it is possible to zoom in the section of the graph indicated and increase or reduce his size.
While the left click of the mouse is pressed or the touch screen is touched in a free space of the visualization, it's possible to move the graph. While a node is clicked it is possible to drag it and drop it everywhere, fixing it in that place. During this move the other nodes would be repel from it.
With a click of the mouse, or touch, for the mobile devices, on a node, appears a menu, the navigation panel.
This navigation panel is made by three buttons:
Figure 5, Navigation Panel
The first, Explore / Reduce, provides to call the function for exploring the clicked node, showing the connected elements. For example, (figure 6) if we want to know which objects belong to the taxonomy 'Dance',we can click over it to display the menu (figure 6.a) and then select Explore (the result is in figure 6.b).
Figure 6: Example of exploration. (a) Navigationpanel for Dance taxonomy (b) Result of the exploration.


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TODO: Convert to MediaWiki syntax
- working MSYS build environment, see HOWTO Create an MSYS Build Environment.
Configure and make
The MSYS build process is designed to be run in separate build directory. MSYS source root is msys/rt/src (this is where ${PATH_TO_MSYS_SRC} bellow should point).
Build is done from within empty build directory in the MSYS build environment executing:
W32API_LIB=/lib/w32api W32API_INC=/include/w32api OPTFL="-fno-unit-at-a-time" export CFLAGS="-O3 -g ${OPTFL}" export LDFLAGS="-L${W32API_LIB}" export CXXFLAGS="-O3 -g ${OPTFL}" export CPPFLAGS="-I${W32API_INC}" export W32API_LDFLAGS="-L${W32API_LIB}" export W32API_CPPFLAGS="-I${W32API_INC}" ${PATH_TO_MSYS_SRC}/configure && make
- 'mingw32-gcc: command not found' or 'mingw32-g++: command not found' or : If this happens then the configure went wrong, and the files in the ./winsup/utils are trying to be built. Do the following so that configure doesn't try to use mingw32-gcc/mingw32-g++:
# make distclean # $ cat <<_ACEOF >/bin/mingw32-gcc #> #! /bin/sh #> echo "command not available" #> _ACEOF
Rerun configure and make
The other solution is to install MinGW (which contains mingw32-gcc and mingw32-g++). It is preferable to install it in your /mingw directory. Please remember *not* to install MinGW and MSYS in the *same* directory !
- 'configure: error: ./configure failed for cygwin': you configured in the source directory, something that you shouldn't have done. Run a 'make distclean' and read the section above about how to configure correctly.
- make just outputs :
make: Entering directory `/src/msys/rt/build/etc' make: Nothing to be done for `all'. make: Leaving directory `/src/msys/rt/build/etc'
You're probably under MINGW and not MSYS, enter MSYS (the window title should read "MSYS:some path")
Debugging, Tracing, etc
Building a debuggable MSYS dynamic library
When debugging it is often usefull to not optimize the binary output as optimization tends to change the debugging information. Add "-O0 -g -fnative-struct -DDEBUGGING=1 -DTRACING=1" to OPTFL variable above and rerun.
Installing debug version of library
Easiest way to test debug version of msys-1.0.dll is to copy MSYS instalation (default C:\msys\1.0) elsewhere and replace msys-1.0.dll with the one just built.
Regression testing |
Unfortunately I haven't kept up with the dejagnu testing that was already present in Cygwin. One of the reasons is that I'm not setup to execute dejagnu. I do have separate regression tests I use to check the pathing code. I need to add these to the CVS source so that others may use them.
Tracing |
When you build MSYS a program is created in the <top_build_dir>/i686-pc-msys/winsup/utils directory named strace.exe. Copy this program to the /bin directory, assuming you're debugging the CVS version of MSYS or a <nowiki>1.0.11</nowiki> or later release. You can then use strace to see the debugging output from the program. There is a lot of debugging information so be sure to specify an output file. Start the debug session like so, ``strace -o /tmp/strace.out foo''. You can use your production version of MSYS to ``tail -f /tmp/strace.out | less'' to watch the output. You may also use sysinternals dbgview to see the debug output.
Stack walking |
If you stack dump you will need to determine where in the code you've actually aborted. One of the methods I use is to create an output file of using objdump with the -S and -s switches. I then use gvim to view and find the addresses within the stack frame.
!Best of luck and happy hacking. Of importance; don't be shy about adding your tidbits of help. Others will appreciate the knowledge.


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I wrote this draft nearly a year ago (2009-11-28) and just unearthed it. So, I'm going to post it without edits. And add some new thoughts below.
For nearly a decade now I have wanted a PhD. I know this sounds strange, I mean wanting a PhD like I crave a favorite food dish or a particularly lovely new piece of technology. The point is however, that I thought the PhD was really important, it meant that I could reach a particular point in my intellectual travels. The PhD had specific conntations of who I wanted to be and where I would be. Now I don't think the same way. That doesn't mean I don't want to study and receive a PhD, but it does mean that I have changed how and where I place importance in my work/research. Let me Explain.
I saw a film recently, it was called Tum Mile, it was a bollywood piece and it wasn't too briliant. The film did however feature at least one interesting line and it was spoken by the male protagonist, a self confessed artist: "I make my art for the common person". Now, while I hate the words 'common person', I can see what the character means, in his context he is speaking of making art that isn't for fellow artists, art critics of gallery people, who think of art as a business or as 'high' culture, he wants his art to speak to everybody else. In this way I am the same, I want to transform and change myself and others, which also feature in magic, but we're not going there, yet. I have moved from caring about the needs and interests of academia, which is loosely thought of as the lecturers, professors and students in a high tower separated from the rest of the world, only talking to each other about how their work changes the world but never actually getting involved in changing the world, or trying to live in it. These reasons also seem to be why academia hasn't been badly effected by any economic downturns but we can get into that later, and in another piece.
Now, where was I? I place meaning, and direct my research to something academia calls the 'public' outside the tower .
The Philosopher, A C Graying has said numerous times that philosophers have to communicate their ideas and views to a wider public if they are to ave any importance. He even takes it further, he thinks that it is the philosopher's role to communicate, share and educate everybody they can, breaking the barriers of academia and not, which only disadvantage all concerned.
I am currently finishing my MPhil, and do not want to pursue a PHD right now. In the year since I've written the above, my thoughts on life have changed, resulting in the fact that most of what I want to do now is not myopically limited by the PhD. I want to venture into other things, and other realms without thinking that my life and career don't start until I have a PhD. Maybe in the future I will find something I really want to dedicate to a PhD. We'll see. For now though, look forward to me annoucing and doing other things.
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Relavent Quote: "Patriots spokesman Stacey James would say only, "The Kraft family has been very supportive of football at all levels of competition throughout New England. They are proud to have hosted Pop Warner, high school and college football games at Gillette Stadium. College football has a rich history in New England, and I know that the Krafts would welcome the opportunity to celebrate the college game's rivalries and traditions at Gillette Stadium."
If the Kraft family are on board for a UMass upgrade, that would the political and prestege push that could put UMass over the top.
The Blog would like to see ALL UMass games at Gillette. The fan base is in the East. Access to McGuirk is impossible due to the roads. UConn put their stadium near an interstate and Hartford. They knew no one was going to Storrs. The UMass fan base is already trained to use Gillette. Don't spend any money on McGuirk. Instead of a McGuirk upgrade, use the money for a new fieldhouse/training facility that would benefit all UMass sports.
There would be nothing wrong with being the "little brothers" of the Patriots.


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DA: 4 dead, including gunman, along rural Pa. road
HOLLIDAYSBURG, Pa. -- A prosecutor says four people are dead, including the suspected gunman, in a shooting along a rural road in central Pennsylvania.
Blair County District Attorney Rich Consiglio says three people were shot Friday morning in Frankstown Township, about 70 miles west of Harrisburg.
Consiglio says two men and a woman were shot and killed and the suspected gunman also died.
State police say one trooper was struck by gunfire but escaped serious injury because the shot struck his bulletproof vest.
Consiglio says two other troopers were injured but not shot.
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Bicycle deaths spike upward even as traffic accidents fall
Sacramento bicyclist: Not even brain bucket can protect against spike in accidents
Stan Craig dodged piles of leaves as he pedaled down the bike lane along H Street in Sacramento early Tuesday morning.
He said new statistics revealed by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration come as no surprise to him.
"I've seen drivers do stupid things. I've seen bicyclists do stupid stuff. I'm guilty myself," Craig said.
NHTSA reported that an analysis of 2011 traffic deaths revealed that the number of bicycle deaths rose 8.7 percent.
The jump in bicycle deaths comes even as the overall number of traffic fatalities dropped 1.9 percent.
Craig said the sheer increase in bicycle commuters and bike lanes in Sacramento may be one explanation for the increase in deadly crashes.
But, he added, bicyclist also make the same mistake as drivers who are behind the wheel.
"People in bikes just like in cars are running late, you're not paying attention, just ya know, whatever the things you do in a car -- a lot of times you do in a bike. I see people with headphones in. I see them texting," Craig said.
He added, the difference is that there is less margin for error when on a bicycle.
"I mean, you have the brain bucket, but that doesn't do you any good until you are flying through the air headfirst," Craig said.


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NEW YORK (AP) -- Willie Colon's wallet might take a heavy hit from the NFL.
The New York Jets right guard was fined $34,125 by the league Thursday for his actions during a sideline skirmish at New England last week, according to a person familiar with the situation.
Colon said he will appeal the fine, but declined to say how much he was docked. "Too much," he said, later adding that it "was way more than I expected."
The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the league had not announced the amount of the fine. The NFL usually announces fines for the previous week on Fridays.
Colon made contact with an official and threw a punch after Jets center Nick Mangold set off a shoving match along the Patriots sideline when he hit Aqib Talib low after Talib's interception sealed New England's 13-10 victory last Thursday night.
"I didn't really see the ref," Colon said. "I was looking past, looking at where Nick and them were at."
Several Patriots players and coach Bill Belichick took exception to Mangold's hit, and players on both sides began yelling at and shoving each other. Colon and Jets left tackle D'Brickashaw Ferguson appeared to take swings at Patriots players and were ejected. Mangold was called for a personal foul penalty.
Colon was relieved he wasn't suspended, as some speculated he could be, and will be available Sunday against Buffalo.
"They got me for contact with an official and I guess I was throwing some jabs when I was in the crowd," Colon said. "I kind of got the double whammy, so to speak."
Ferguson was also fined for his role in the melee, but declined to reveal how much it would cost him. Mangold had "cautious optimism at the moment," saying he hadn't heard from the league as of late Thursday afternoon.
Talib said earlier this week that he didn't think Mangold's hit was dirty.
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Nike. I don't think this thing for Nike is great. Maybe it's because I remember the days when every Nike ad kicked ass. "Kick it". "Good versus evil". "McEnroe swears by them". Remember?
So maybe the bar, for Nike ads, is set unfairly high in my mind. Anyway, this one doesn't make it over that imaginary bar. It clips it.
Remember A Charity. Blimey. This is a bit contrived, isn't it? OK, so it's nicely put together and amusing. And the stuntman idea has impact. But is it relevant impact? Please don't tell me that this Facebook-centric contraption is the best way to get the 50-plus market to leave money to charity in their wills.
Levi's. When I used to work in monstrous global advertising agencies, we'd play "global bollocks bingo". The more global bullshit you could spot in an e-mail or presentation, the more points you got. See how much global bullshit you can spot in this press release from Levi's:
"Levi's will open the doors to the Levi's Print Workshop in Berlin. The Workshop is a community-based screen-printing space designed to facilitate creative production and collaboration… It will serve as a community-based extension of the Levi's brand's global creative platform, 'Go Forth', which pays homage to the pioneering spirit of the brand and acts as a rally cry to create positive change in the world today and celebrates today's pioneers who are taking action to build a new and better future…"
Wow. If you're playing "global bollocks bingo", that's a full house!
MTV. The brilliance of MTV idents is that they've been doing the same thing for, what, 20 years? Crazy animation or film that segues into the letters "MTV". Look at "MTV idents" on YouTube and you'll see what I mean. There are thousands of them. This new one is pretty nice. Yup. A nice ident in a long line of nice idents.
Moneysupermarket.com and Comparethemarket.com. Earlier this year, we got involved in pitch for a new insurance aggregator. We pulled out for various reasons. One of the reasons was that we felt that the last days of insurance aggregators as we know them were upon us. And, therefore, that the new aggregator we were pitching for was unlikely to succeed.
I had never used an aggregator before. So while we were doing the pitch, I bought two policies from Comparethemarket – just to see how it all worked. One for my car. One for my motorbike.
The policy I bought for my car was OK. I chose the second-cheapest one. The cheapest was with Sheilas' Wheels, which I found odd given I'm a bloke. I feared it'd require me to have a sex change if I wanted to make a claim.
The policy for my motorbike was and remains a complete disaster. If I ever try to talk to the insurance company in question, which I've needed to as I changed my address, all I get is call waiting. Hours, days, weeks spent on call waiting. One day, I sent them 100 e-mails, just to see what happened. Nothing. Sod all. They are literally impossible to get hold of. God knows what would happen if I had to make a claim.
Anyway, my point is that I think the aggregator model is bust. And I think these ads reflect that. We all love the meerkat advertising. But a free meerkat toy with every insurance policy? Come on.
And the new Moneysupermarket campaign would have been OK in the 80s for Carling Black Label. But for car insurance?
Please, Mr Insurance Salesman. There's got to be a better way. Find a new-business model. Add some value to your policies. Service me better. Reward me for my loyalty. Find a new way to make my life easier and to deliver me value. Develop some innovative products.
I'm happy to buy beer and yoghurt from clowns. But not my car insurance.
Arnell Vaughan
I was first introduced to the wonderful world of advertising more than 25 years ago – a world without the internet, Facebook or Twitter. The location manager was a sort of esteemed god as he was the only person on set who carried a mobile phone, despite the fact that it was the size of a house brick. We didn't care – it was progress!
The scariest thing has just dawned on me that none of the runners at Stink were even a twinkle, let alone born, when I was starting out. So, with more than a quarter-of-a-century working in "the business", I thought that contributing to Private View would be a cinch. Suddenly, I have got stage fright and am having flashbacks to my disastrous best man's speech delivered to an austere and remarkably silent military crowd.
So here goes, kicking off with Comparethemarket.com. The meerkats are back in another fresh spot in this long-running campaign from VCCP. In "simples rewards", we see the little fellas interacting with humans in the real world. There are so many things I love about these scripts; they are always funny and entertaining while still delivering a clear message.
This time, it's what the nation has been waiting for. Buy your insurance through Comparethemarket and you get to claim your very own toy Aleksandr or Sergei. It's always a tricky one, mixing puppets and people, but this is seamless. Each time, these films take us on a new adventure – they are always a surprise and always a pleasure to watch.
Next up, we have Remember A Charity. All charity work is good work. This is nicely crafted but, for me, it would be punchier and far more engaging with a shorter edit. Stay safe, Rocky!
And now on to Levi's. This brand is quite close to home for me. Obviously, things have come a long way since I shot "creek" with Sir John Hegarty. I think we had a maximum of five mobile phones on that shoot, although still no Google.
While I think it is good to give exposure to young artists, I am not sure where they are going with this one. It's a well-cut documentary-style film but, yet again, far too long. I feel that I could just as easily be in Nike or Vodafone world when I'm watching this. Either of their logos could have been slapped on the end, which makes me feel as though Levi's does not really "own" this spot.
MTV. What can I say? Meerkats on acid! I like this ad. It is a full-on 20-second rush of great animation. I think MTV is the world's greatest film school, where young promo directors are given a platform to cut their teeth quick and fast. Sterling work from The Mill, there – long live MTV!
Surf's up with Moneysupermarket.com. How can you not like this ad? It's epic. A rollercoaster of pleasure, from the sexy Speedos to the exploding barbecues. Great casting, perfect performances, big-wave croc-riding and then all topped off with that genius endline: "You are so Moneysupermarket." But, best of all, it's not up it's own board bag.
On our last shoot in Miami, the production manager had a great saying: "Go big or go home." Well, Mother went big on this one and it makes me smile every time. It's so British, it's so good, it's the script I wish had landed in my inbox!
Finally, Nike. It is refreshing to see something simple after the big Nike blockbusters that have gone before. This spot has a charm about it – a nice blend of music with characterful animation. Oh, God, I'm starting to sound like a wine critic and I think it's time to shut up. But, seriously, I do like this film with its old-school vibe and great choice of music. It makes me want to buy Nikes all over again.


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Adobe Vs. MicrosoftBy Reuters - Print
Microsoft's Silverlight technology and rival Adobe's Flash format are currently locked in a race over who delivers the world's online video, but the ultimate prize may be who powers the next generation of Web software. Using Silverlight, the NBC site for the Olympics offered a glimpse of what is possible with future Web applications because viewers are able to watch up to four videos at once or follow the action with an online commentary that runs alongside the video.
Gartner analyst Ray Valdes said 90 percent of the top global 1,000 companies have yet to deploy any sort of RIA, while 90 percent of the top 100 consumer Web sites have already done so using the nonproprietary and more simple AJAX format.
That opportunity has Microsoft eyeing current leader Adobe for business that extends beyond Silverlight and into the sale of design tools along with server and database software to enable these new applications.
"We have a large and established customer base. There is no doubt in our minds that Microsoft is going after this space very aggressively, but we feel very strong and confident," said Jennifer Taylor, director of Flash product development.
Historically, Adobe's developer tools have focused mainly on design and creating for the Web. Now, it plans to extend that to more traditional software development with Flex, a system to help developers create and deploy applications.
Adobe plans to take the next step with tools called Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR), which allow programs to run on the Web or offline on a computer's desktop.
On the other hand, Microsoft is approaching Silverlight from the opposite direction. It plans to take advantage of its legions of outside developers experienced in writing for its ubiquitous Windows operating system.
The next version of Silverlight, being tested now and due later this year, will support Microsoft's .NET framework -- tools used by developers to create desktop applications that work on Windows.
"This is a logical extension of the investment that we've had in the development space for decades," said Brian Goldfarb, group product manager for Microsoft's developer division.
Microsoft introduced its first version of Silverlight a year ago, but Gartner's Valdes said the second version is the first real form of Silverlight since the inclusion of .NET support turns the technology into "very different animal."
(Editing by Andre Grenon)
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The Luci Bonneau Story: The Tragedy that Inspired a Bowling Tradition
By Gianmarc Manzione • Republished
Everything else in Luci Bonneau's life remained almost cruelly routine. At Crossroads Bowling Center in Beaumont, TX, bowlers wheeled their three-ball bags through the parking lot for the state tournament in which Luci had competed so many times before. Waiting behind the lanes for the next squad to begin, competitors indulged the kind of mundane preoccupations that Luci, too, once was able to take for granted: an adjustment of thumb tape in a spare ball, a digging for pocket change to buy a Coke at the snack counter.
The one person those bowlers did not find among them at that moment, though, was Luci Bonneau herself. Nodding off in a parked car outside the center to give her chemo-ravaged body the rest it so badly needed, Bonneau was grappling with an opponent far more formidable than any she ever faced on the lanes: breast cancer.
"She was sick and she would sleep out in the car before she came in to bowl," says Donna Conners, organizer of the Luci Bonneau Memorial Striking Against Breast Cancer Mixed Doubles Tournament held each year at Palace Lanes in Houston. "Then she went and bowled and we broke a state record and she went home. It's just such a sad thing, and it's a tough disease."
It was the last tournament that Luci Bonneau would ever bowl. And when she did go home that day, the memory she left behind was that of a woman who knew no obstacle powerful enough to deter her love of the sport – not the fingernails made painfully sore by radiation that she wrapped in tape to bowl the tournament, not the crippling exhaustion that sent her napping in her car between squads – nothing.
"She kept bowling all the way to the end," says former PWBA star Carol Norman, who had won a PWBA regional event with Luci Bonneau not long before that final tournament in Beaumont.
"She wasn't going to give up on her teammates as long as they didn't give up on her," says David Garber, Team USA High Performance Director for the United States Bowling Congress as well as a friend of Luci's. "Bowling gave her a purpose in life, she wanted to do it as long as she could. She had a passion that kept her driven even though she was facing a terminal disease."
In Luci Bonneau, breast cancer encountered the spirit of a woman who did not like to lose, a woman who even discovered a new passion in the very fight that threatened to take her life.
"She said 'If I survive we'll put on a tournament to raise money for breast cancer research,'" explains Donna Conners.
As with too many of the 200,000 women diagnosed with breast cancer each year, though, Luci Bonneau did not survive. But even breast cancer could not kill the dream she shared with Donna that day.
"That was 3 or 4 months before she passed away," Conners remembers of that conversation with her friend and teammate.
That conversation became a promise that Donna Conners keeps each year when the Luci Bonneau Memorial Striking Against Breast Cancer Mixed Doubles Tournament attracts some of the country's most talented bowlers and tournament administrators for one of the most anticipated events on their calendars.
Each year you're as likely to spot a pair of hall of famers such as Del Ballard Jr. and Wendy MacPherson as you are to find a duo of house bowlers from the local Thursday night league up the block. The list of names that come from around the country to compete in Luci Bonneau's name each year reads like a scoreboard from a major stop on tour: Parker Bohn III, Carolyn Dorin-Ballard, Wes Mallott, Tommy Jones, Lynda Barnes, Mike Fagan, Sean Rash, Mike Scroggins.
"Every year we've sold out," Conners explains. "This is such a fun tournament. The bowlers have a great time. One guy who bowled a 103 told me he was ready to bowl it again next year. He just told me that bowling next to people that he watched on TV was the coolest thing he could think of."
"It's a great event," says Del Ballard Jr. "Everybody has a great time."
So great, in fact, that the people who convene from around the country to make it possible—the PBA's Carey Mogart to oil the lanes, Jim Welch to help keep track of scores and brackets, Connie Cotton who works the microphone and was the first bowling coach in the life of a then-8-year-old Del Ballard Jr.—all contribute their services for free.
"You don't just get people to come down from Vegas to help with a tournament for free," Del Ballard Jr. says. "That's how you know it's done for the right reasons."
Another way you know that it's done for the right reasons is that, more often than not, the iPods, DVD players and flat-screen TVs that are raffled off get sent right back into the drawing by the very people who win them.
"The items that people win get returned back a lot of the time to be raffled off again so they can raise more money," Davis Garber explains. "It's not about winning stuff, it's about the cause."
In Luci Bonneau's life, though, it was always about winning – whether through sharing the winner's circle with doubles partner Carol Norman on the regional PWBA tour or helping others feel her passion for the sport through teaching, Luci Bonneau found in bowling a purpose that endures even years after breast cancer claimed her life.
"She was a role model for a lot of people," Carol Norman says, "a beautiful woman, very knowledgeable, and someone who loved to teach the game. She was just a great bowler and always conducted herself as a lady."
And every time Jim Welch hops a plane to Houston on his own dime and the winners of raffled-off iPods return them to the drawing to raise more money in her name, the legacy Luci Bonneau left behind – the champion, the role model, the fighter – lives inside the people who make the Luci Bonneau Memorial Striking Against Breast Cancer Mixed Doubles Tournament possible each year.
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Before the main event, a pre-show has been staged to warm concertgoers up. The Festival Village stage will boast performances from A$AP Rocky, Pusha T, Kendrick Lamar, Big K.R.I.T. and other up-and-coming rappers.
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Forums → Reference Desk → Phasing technology (reply • watch)
The 29th century hand-held phasing device used by Archer and Daniels in "Cold Front"... would that be covered here? Or, does it have its own article? —Scott (message me) 16:21, April 5, 2013 (UTC)
- I'm not remembering a phasing device, can you link to a picture of it at Trekcore, or tell me when it was used in the episode? Also, you don't need to use underscores in links, it just makes them harder to find in large pages. - Archduk3 19:44, April 5, 2013 (UTC)
Daniels uses it at 28:00 and Archer uses it at 37:00. Here are some screenshots from the Blu-ray. —Scott (message me) 21:38, April 5, 2013 (UTC)
- Since it seems the device was never named, nor was a person cloaked when using it, I'm not sure where it should go. I'll ask around. - Archduk3 17:15, April 6, 2013 (UTC)
- Seems to me like this is a hand-held molecular phase inverter. According to "The Next Phase", molecular phase inverters "change the structure of matter so it can pass through normal matter and energy" which is what this device does. I suggest we put this on that page. --Pseudohuman (talk) 03:40, April 7, 2013 (UTC)
- For bg info, I suggest the November 2001 issue of American Cinematographer and/or Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 3, Issue 1, neither of which I have access to. --Defiant (talk) 12:03, April 7, 2013 (UTC)
- Just found this again, and I think Pseudohuman's suggestion might be the best option outside of some "Unnamed Technology" page. - Archduk3 21:05, September 5, 2013 (UTC)
- While it is possible this is some type of other tech with another name, it doesn't seem like "molecular phase inverter" is that specific of a name for any device, just a description of a device that "inverts the phase of molecules" so they can pass through normal matter and energy. It at least is a canon term for what this device does also. --Pseudohuman (talk) 18:48, September 8, 2013 (UTC)
- So long as we make sure not to say that this definitely is that, I think we would be fine. I was thinking something along the lines of "A device from the 29th century had a similar effect to a molecular phase inverter..." in a new section on the page. If we ever end up with a name for this we can always move the info then. - Archduk3 19:01, September 8, 2013 (UTC)
- I agree. 31st century, to be exact, but yes. :D --Pseudohuman (talk) 19:32, September 8, 2013 (UTC)
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Projects Abroad sponsors Charity Ball
Past volunteer Ruth Charlton was a volunteer teacher in South Africa 2 years ago. Back then, she raised enough money to take 15 children from the tiny Refihlile farm school on the trip of a lifetime to the sea. This coming March, Ruth hopes to fulfil the promise she made to the younger students that she'd come back and take them to the beach too. Assisted by other volunteers who taught at the school (including Head Office's Katie Stevens), Ruth is organising a black tie Charity Ball to raise the required funds. The Charity Ball is being sponsored by Projects Abroad and will take place on November 13th at the Lodge Hotel in Putney, London. It should be a lively event with the band Jazz Bomb playing through the night. We'd love to see you there.
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After spotting issues is a breeze, the next step in the swimming education is to figure out how to improve those issues. Some are easy to fix with common swimming drills, others require a bit more thinking outside the box to help the individual overcome the issue. What they all require though is patience and dedication from the swimmer to repeat the "correct" movements over and over until mastered.
Below you will find a short freestyle swimming video which includes four identified problems with the swimmer's stroke. These are the biggest problems in the video preventing the swimmer to get to the next level of his swimming success. They are all easily fixed with a persistent and patient training, bringing great speed improvements to you as a swimmer or triathlete. So, please watch the video below and then scroll down for more detailed discussion of the spotted mistakes.
The KickIf we look at the swimmer's outline from the front, knowing that the body should be as small as possible, the image is suddenly disturbed with a very deep kick which protrudes behind the swimmer causing unnecessary resistance to the forward motion.
|Deep kick causes drag
As you have guessed it, the idea here is that the kick should be small and shallow and the swimmer should not rely on it for balance. To start with, an awareness of the kick needs to be brought to the attention of the swimmer during the swim. We can try using the analogy of rubbing the toes over each other or putting fins on. Then of course, doing a lot of balance drills like kicking on a side or floating at the surface will help with less reliance on the large kick for balance. The knee driven kick is a bit tougher to fix as to this day, there is no tool which could simply put the legs in the right position. Make sure the kick comes out of the hip with the knee only ever slightly bending while it gives into the pressure of the water.
Body and Arm AlignmentKeeping your hands pointing in the direction where you want to go, therefore, keeping them inline with your body when up in front is a must. In this case, the swimmer has a problem with one arm deviating from the long axis, especially when breathing. Remember, your body should roll as one, like a tree log.
|Left arm going away from center line
The CatchThe front catch is an advanced skill which takes some understanding to master. The swimmer on the video has some signs of an initial catch phase, but then is not able to hold the catch throughout the stroke, therefore, propel himself forward with the forearm like a paddle.
|Deep arm without a catch
The Lower Body LevelMost beginner triathletes and swimmers struggle with the concept of having their bodies in a horizontal parallel alignment with the surface of the water. This causes them to swim a bit uphill with inflated chests high up and tired legs down. In this swimmer on the video, this issue is quite visible during the breath, when the lower back just falls down below the surface.
|Lower back curve - spine not straight
If your misalignment happens during the breathing cycle, then the problem is not really in your lower back, but in the way you rotate your body. Which brings us again, yes you guessed it, to the balancing drills on sides. :). Master the hip rotation and balance with a nice straight spine and you are 80% there. The rest is just finetuning.
I hope you learned something useful in the analysis and have some material to work on in your swim routines. Keep in mind that everyone is unique and we all need different stimuli to help us achieve our goals, but there are basic principles that need to be mastered to get off the ground. In swimming, one of the key principles is the ability to balance your body alone without your legs and arms.


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I was watching some show and they were reporting on a guy in california that put crosses up for everyone killed. I think he did this every weekend (put them up, take them down). Although he was doing it for anti-war protest reasons, it affected eveyrone that saw it (according to the report). Whether people were for the war or against it, they all were in tears when they saw it. I don't know that it changed anyones opinion, but it was moving.A few months ago, I saw a protest downtown and many of the people were carrying crosses with soldier's names on it. It was heart breaking to see the number of them as the people just kept walkign and walking.
Last night I asked my dad how similar the Iraq thing was to Vietnam. He said we are not as entrenched there as we were in Vietnam. I said, how about at the beginning, before it became this stalemate, quagmire deal? And he thought about that and said he saw a lot of similarities, the main one being that in both cases the public kept urging politicians to get our troops out of there, and they did not.That's kinda scary. I'm not saying Iraq is another Vietnam--yet. But is history just going to repeat itself 30-40 years after Vietnam? That war is a clear memory for anyone maybe 45 or older (ie our president and most of Congress) but did they really learn from what happened there? I feel like if Bush is re-elected we could wind up in a Vietnam-type situation over there, and I don't need to tell you all why that would be really bad.