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Category Archives: Things To Do In Key West
Jets, Battles & Music Fest In Key West
The Blue Angels Are Back To Rock The Skies! Have you ever felt the power of a jet soaring overhead or seen a ballet in the sky? It is really thrilling! The U.S. Navy flight demonstration team, the Blue … Continue reading
Papa Hemingway Look-Alike Contest ~ Now thru June 22nd
If you think you look like "Papa" Hemingway, you could win a trip to Key West to attend the Hemingway Days Festival and stay at our Cypress House Hotel, day of fishing in the Key West Marlin Tournament and more great prizes. Enter here: https://apps.facebook.com/contestshq/contests/229957
Submit your original photo by 11:59 PM on June 22! Continue reading
Read A Book About Key West On This Rainy Day!
Rain is in the forecast all day today and tomorrow so I was thinking that it's a perfect reason to head over to Key West Island Books at 513 Fleming Street to pick up some books set in Key West. Here are some of our favorites: The Cypress House, Trap Line, Setup On Front Street and To Have And Have Not. Continue reading
Food & Wine Festival Starts Thursday!
Key West Food & Wine Festival 2012
During this year's festival we are going to feature one of our favorite wines from the Veneto region of Italy, Bolla Pinot Grigio. This light and refreshing wine has a delicate bouquet with aromas of peach, melon, pear and lime, making it an excellent choice for sipping by the pool on a balmy Key West day. Scott will have several tempting appetizers available as well to pair with it and our other cocktails.
DAILY: Enjoy poolside Happy Hours at our Lighthouse Court Cafe & Mojito Bar from 12PM – 6PM. Peter will be happy to make you a 'Blue Long Island Iced Tea', a 'Key Lime Mojito' our new favorite, or your favorite libation! Come try our delicious drinks or just relax the day away under the sunshine at the pool with your family & friends.
The Lighthouse Court Cafe & Mojito Bar is located at 902 Whitehead Street, across from the Hemingway House. Continue reading
Key West Could Be Sunned-In For Next Several Weeks!
Just heard on the news that Key West could be sunned-in for the next several weeks! It could get really rough! Residents and sun worshiping visitors have been urged to proceed quickly to the nearest beach or tiki bar for further instructions. Don't forget your sunscreen & flip-flops! We are asking our friends & relatives to the north to keep us in their thoughts! Or…you could come join us! Continue reading
Gingerbread House Build-A-Thon
This year Historic Key West Inns is excited to be sponsoring the Gingerbread House Building Party being held from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. this Saturday, Dec. 17, at The Oldest House, located at 322 Duval Street. We are rooting for a few historical or tropical versions with edible palm trees, eyebrow arches & picket fences! Continue reading
Our Idea Of The Macy's Day Parade ~ Keys Style
Our Idea Of The Macy's Day Parade ~ Key West Style. Happy day of thanks to everyone and thanks to you all for helping make this year so spectacular!! We'll be doing our favorite thing this turkey day, heading out on the water with family and friends, and we hope you all are doing the same. Have a fun time and wave if you see us marching in our parade! Continue reading
Kelly McGuire Is At Lighthouse Court For MOTM!
Parrotheads MOTM: Nov 2nd ~ 6th
Starting today, come on by to hear Kelly McGuire and friends playing through the weekend at Lighthouse Court Hotel ; we can't wait! He is showcasing his 'Songwriter's Series' during MOTM starting today from 2 -5PM and running thru Saturday. On Sunday the 6th, we have our Brunch & Jam event where will be serving bunch by the pool, available for purchase from 11am – 2pm, and Kelly will be there jamming in the garden.
Grab a cocktail from the bar, lounge on a chair or jump in the pool and instantly feel your latitude changing and your body grooving.
Mojito's and Margarita's anyone? Woohoo! Continue reading
Fantasy Fest 2011 Begins ~ Goombay Festival Starts Today!
We will be heading to our favorite Beginning-Of-Fantasy-Fest activity tonight in Bahama Village. Lots of Bahama conch foods, arts & crafts, as well as, hopping music! We will be at the Coral Elks Lodge on Whitehead street at 5:30 to join in the parade behind one of our favorite bands, the Junkanoo Rush, as it makes it's way to the street fair on Petronia Street.
Come join us and dance, eat & drink the night away! The Festival starts at noon today, October 21st, and runs thru Saturday until midnight. We'll see you there! Continue reading


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I am on my second bottle of Nizoral. Works very well for dandruff or dermatitis of the scalp. Works well as a clarifying shampoo and I use this 2x a week on my hair. I have fine hair which may have thinned out a little possibly due to dermatitis (I have not been diagnosed by dermatologist but my scalp is oily) and noticed a few hairs sprouting on my scalp.
It's important to follow the directions as directed on the bottle to get the best results which means letting it sit on your scalp for 5 minutes and massaging it in to your scalp.
I didn't think this smells minty as the reviewer stated below but smells like lavender which I love and tingles so you know it's cleaning the scalp. It's a little pricey for a small bottle about $12.00 CAD but it works to keep the scalp clean. Using this, I can skip a day of washing my hair which I normally can't.
Canadians can purchase the 2% ketoconazole over the counter. Ladies who color their hair will find it will strip out your hair color overtime but if you suffer from dandruff or dermatitus-this is shampoo to use.
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"Dandruff, seborrhea, itchy and dry scalp can be caused by a microscopic fungus (pityrosporum ovale) that occurs naturally on everyone's skin. During times of stress or change in climate or diet, the fungus can grow more quickly causing worsening of symptoms." Nizoral is the only product I know of that kills this fungus completely. I am using the presciption strength (2% ketoconazole) and after 30 odd years of itching and flaking (even in and around my ears), things are finally under control. I leave this on for the full five minutes once or twice a week, making sure to spread the lather inside my ears as well. Since my hair is short and uncoloured, I have no problem, in fact it leaves my hair full and soft. However, if you have processed hair, you will probably want to follow this with a really good conditioner. When I follow the Nizoral with Nioxin conditioner and leave on the requisite three minutes, the mint totally cools/soothes any irritable spots on my head. I was one of those people who could not go a day without shampooing or my head would be so intensely itchy it would drive my crazy - no more. This is expensive but totally worth it.
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NOTHING WORKED. This did.
I tried T-gel, head and shoulders, pantene pro v dandruff shampoo, and garnier fructice dandruff shampoo too. no use.
I kinda gave up after T-gel and thought I would have to live with it. I bought nizoral because I saw it on korean commercial and thought it had a funny name (LOL seriously)
Its abit expensive (9 dollar for a really tiny bottle) but I used it for a whole semester (you use it only 1-3 times a week anyhow) and it's the only thing that ever actually WORKED. I no longer have dandruff. This is definitely my HG shampoo! I really had no hope when i bought this either so it was a really pleasant surprise.
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This stuff is amazing. I've been dealing with an itchy scalp and annoying flakes for over 20 years -- since I was a teen. While it's never been bad enuf for me to see a derm, it's still a PITA! I feel like I've tried everything and almost nothing ever worked for me. T-Gel, T-Sal, T-Whatever -- none of those Neutrogenas worked for me. H&S never, ever, ever worked and the newer versions are still worthless for me. Tea tree oil? Nuh-uh -- my scalp laughed at it, by itching like crazy and producing tons of flakes. Selsun Blue really sucked and it's filled up to the wazoo with sulfates, sulfates and more sulfates -- guaranteed to ruin your hair. Denorex was the only thing that ever worked for me, but it's soooo harsh and it dried the heck out of my hair and always faded out my hair color (and that includes the new one for women that's supposed to be safe for color-treated hair -- BTW, it ain't). But after 3 or 4 uses of Nizoral, my scalp doesn't itch anymore and I have absolutely no flakes whatsoever. This is nothing short of a miracle. I just colored my hair before I started to use Nizoral and it doesn't seem to have affected or faded my color at all. WOWZA!!!! Now I'm hoping I might actually be able to go for more than a week without using dandruff shampoo -- which I haven't done for over 20 years! Nizoral is expensive but well worth it for results like this. Many, many thanks to the brilliant and beautiful ladies of the MUA Hair Board for recommending this.
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This seems very expensive for the size of the product, but it does the job. There are 2 strengths a 1% & a 2%. I used the 2%, but would be happy to try the 1% in the future - not sure what the difference would be in reality.
If you feel that the cause of your itchy scalp may be down to yeast organisms this is the product to try. Wish I had tried it years ago.
After 1 application my scalp felt soothed & I no longer feel itchy. Also although the product is quite pricey for the size you really do not use that much, and use less as time goes on.
I will always have this in the future.
This is the only shampoo that has helped with my severe dandruff problem. I've been using it 2 x times a week for the past month and I do not see any dandruff or experience itching in between washings anymore. Before, my scalp would get really irritated, itchy, dry and flaky even right after washing. The shampoo is a little bit harsh on the hair but I've been using a deep conditioner to counteract that.
For some reason it stopped getting rid of my dandruff...
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I've had dry scalp issues for years, but in the last year it got so much worse. Dry scalp, itchy, visible flakes, even getting little scabs (sorry if TMI, but want to get across the severity of it). I tried Tea Tree, H&S, non-sulfate shampoos, without success. With Nizoral, I noticed a difference in 3 uses. And within 3 weeks, my scalp was practically perfect. It's not itchy and now I can wear black w/o worrying. BTW, I am using the 1% 2x per week and use whatever shampoo is laying around the other days. Try it, especially if your at your wits end! It's a miracle for me.
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This review is for Nizoral A-D Non-Prescription Strength (the 1% Ketoconazole formula, not the 2% strength).
I began using Nizoral A-D back at the end of August. For at least a couple of years I had noticed scaling (or little scabs) on my scalp that I couldn't help but pick at. It seemed like they were always there. I'd pick, and I'd make them bleed; irritating my scalp even more. Also, throughout this time I'd noticed so much shedding. I didn't pay any mind to it until one day a few months ago when I'd looked in the mirror and noticed areas of visible scalp near my temples.
After reading up on female hair loss, I found out that it may be due to an over-production in androgens. Androgens can be a MAJOR cause in adult acne too (which I suffer from as well). Nizoral is an anti-androgen. It actually physically removes a good amount of DHT (androgens) from the scalp.
Here's how I use it: every time I wash, which is every 2nd-3rd day - I lather up Nizoral on my scalp area, let it sit for about 3 minutes or so, rinse with warm water, then repeat with my regular shampoo and conditioner for that day. I haven't noticed any additional dryness whatsoever.
Since using this over the past couple of months, I've noticed SOOOO much less shedding. Dandruff is no where to be found. Even more; I have not had ONE SINGLE SCAB since I started.
I just purchased two more bottles off ebay. I'm even considering buying the 2% to use maybe once every week or two.
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I deleted my previous review because after seeing a doctor I finally figured out what was going on with my scalp.
When I originally bought this I was suffering from seborrheic dermatitis, which is kind of like a yeast infection of the scalp. Nizoral contains an antifungal in it that kills the yeast, which solves the problem, but is pretty harsh on the skin. When I had SD, Nizoral definitely cleared up the problem quickly and I was flake free for a long while with only occasional maintenance.
Eventually I went off this shampoo completely, but months later experienced flaking once again. I tried going back on Nizoral but it didn't do anything, and I thought the shampoo had stopped working. I saw a doctor and it turns out that I don't suffer from SD anymore, it's actually psoriasis of the scalp, and Nizoral was prolonging the condition by being so drying and irritating to the skin.
I'm upping the rating of this shampoo to 4 again because it really was a miracle worker when I had SD. If you have bad or persistent dandruff, definitely see a doctor about it because you might be self-medicating in all the wrong ways.
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I blogged over on the Webmaker Blog about our Webmaker Work Week. Go read it!
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Webmaker 2014 Like the rest of Mozilla, 2013 has been a busy year for the Webmaker Product team. In 2014 we'll build on this year's work to increase our impact.
At the just-completed Mozilla Summit, Webmaker folks demo'd a nice upcoming feature - using TogetherJS from Mozilla Labs in Thimble to allow collaborative learning.
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The past summer was huge for Webmaker: our newly redesigned site began to operate as a central hub for all our tools; the integrity of our site was tested at 1600 separate events around the world; 30,000 users signed up and we quickly learned where our weak spots lay. And then John Cusack told a million people to break the web with us
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On August 12th, the webmaker.org product team joined folks from the communications and mentor teams of the Mozilla foundation for 4 solid days of building. The framing of the week was a follow through on our current development sprint - David Humphrey outlined our goals in his "Nine Weeks" blog…
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My daughter turned 4 a few months ago. We were musing over how to ask family not to give too much: we're uncomfortable when she receives a lot of gifts. We don't want to be ungrateful, so we experimented with asking people to give her $4. We'd then talk with her about saving a 1/3 of the money, spending 1/3, and donating a 1/3 to a charity.
Tonight we discussed what she'd like to do with the 1/3 she'd give to charity. We'd discussed inequality before - and she said she'd like to give the money to kids who needed it. We talked about places in the world at war, and how the kids in those countries suffered. We talked about Syria. And I thought of Bassel.
Bassel Khartabil is a contributor to open source projects. He is a developer. He's a tinkerer. He's help build two projects that have had a profound impact on my life: Creative Commons and Mozilla. And for over a year, he has been detained in a Syrian prison - arrested by the government in a mass roundup in Damascus.
Bassel had arranged a screening of my documentary, Rip, in a Damascus hackerspace. We'd exchanged a few emails. I had a chance to meet him in 2011 in Seoul at a Creative Commons gathering, and was very impressed by him. Humble, generous, intelligent. We discussed a potential collaboration - we chatted and explored Seoul. I snapped this picture of him. I had forgotten about this picture and found it on my computer in a backup of cell phone pics.
Bassel's curiosity is the same as mine and my colleagues at Mozilla. He has a family. I am grateful to him, and upset that he remains in prison for being a hacker and an independent thinker. I feel for his friends and family, and hope that the web he helped build can help in its way to dismantle regimes such as Assad's.
Layla donated a third of her birthday money to children in Syria with savethechildren.com. Bassel, we hope you are ok.
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Background: Webmaker as a community of craftThere's been broad consensus in the Webmaker community that building a community of practice and enabling users to share their work is an important part of the Webmaker formula. So in 2013, Webmaker.org will evolve to be a place where users are watching, remixing, and creating their own piece of the web - acquiring web literacies, including media production, HTML, and analytic skills as they go.
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Leading with making
We'll build an information architecture and user experience that creates opportunities for our users to make something from the moment they arrive on our site. We want it to be immediately clear that this is a place to "get your hands dirty". Part of how we'll get there is by featuring great content made with our tools.
On Webmaker, you'll be able to watch an artful presentation similar toNPR's 2012 Musicians in Memorium, and then make your own. You'll be able to string your favourite YouTube videos together in your own "Top 10 list", and then have your friends leave media production tips on your work. You'll be able to make audiovisual memes and mashups on your phone. And you'll earn digital literacy badges to represent the skills you've picked up along the way. All of this will be presented as a consistent, unified, and seamless Webmaker experience.
To get here requires an evolution of how we think of "tools" and "projects", as well as our product design process.
On the tools side, we will begin to merge our web apps together. We want users to have a "Webmaker" experience, rather than separate Thimble, Popcorn, and OpenBadger modalities. These code bases and projects won't go away - Webmaker.org will simply become a "client" of the great foundational open source projects we've created over the past 2 years. The recent demo of Webmaker X (see screencast below, and Doug Belshaw's excited blog post here, as well as Lyre's breakdown on how MarkupAPIs could be a game changer here.)
On the projects side, we need to focus all of our activities towards building a community of craft. An essential aspect of getting there is a robust way to showcase the work of these communities. Building galleries of user's work and robust user profiles/portfolios will be a key priority in Q1. We'll need more nuance around what we consider a "project". As a baseline, a project is a templated piece of content that invites you to contribute, reshape and remix/hack it. A video that needs an extra shot from you, a media rich web page whose meaning is changed when you hack the source code. Iterating on the FORM of these projects is a critical next step for Webmaker.
One of the ways we'll do this is by leaning on our excellent partnership development team. Engagements with the Born This Way Foundation, explorations into the Mars Explorer mission, comedy hack days, and Cloud Filmmaking experiments are already underway. Our partnership process will start with editorial strategy and content. Our criteria will be: "what is magnetic, and will draw people in? What would be fun or satisfying to watch, remix or make in Webmaker?" We'll let these efforts be part of an agile development process that can have a direct influence on the development of our platform.
We'll also build the capacity for anyone to build projects - ensuring that we aren't a bottleneck to the infectious energy of the Webmaker community will be something we bake into our work on user galleries in Q1. The entire Webmaker effort is built from "innovation at the edges" - Hackasaurus, WebMadeMovies/Popcorn, Open Badges, MoJo/OpenNews - these are all community inspired efforts that have not only had influence on our product: they've built it's foundation. The Community Learning group will make sure this happens as often in 2013 as it's happened over the last several years.
Mozilla staff will also work to innovate projects and content-types - David Ascher is leading an initiative to reboot Mozilla Labs, and within that structure we hope to see forays into games and other types of content that will eventually feed back into Webmaker. I'm also looking forward to having staff team members who can quickly make things with our tools to test out theories, engage new audiences and keep the site fresh.
Finally, it's clear that we also need projects that address very specific parts of our Web Literacies framework. Our information architecture shouldn't put these into a "learning ghetto", setting them aside from interest lead projects, but we ought to be clear to our users that there is a pathway to learning specific skills. We'll continue to build on the good work that's been started in this area already - many of the projects currently found on Webmaker.org fall nicely into this category of project, and we'll keep iterating, testing and improving how we teach these skills.
Webmaker roadmap 0.1Attached are public links to the Webmaker roadmap. As you'll see, we want to phase these improvements in over time in an agile fashion. We want to make sure we're still seeing gradual improvement to our existing platform, while setting a goal of transitioning to these proposed changes at the end of Q2 2013.
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- Our current challenges, and the solutions to these challenges
- Some proposed designs to address these challenges
- A detailed look at 5 releases of the Webmaker platform in the first 2 quarters of 2013
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For our first week back to work, a small group of MoFos met for a few days of offsite. Knowing that 2013 is going to be a year of enabling creativity, we thought it would be suitable to meet at the Art Bar of the Gladstone hotel. Our goal was to create several prototypes of new functionality in Webmaker that would help users create new types of content. Here are the demos. note: hit the full screen button if you need to look at text.
WebmakerX (Bobby, Atul)Live branch: http://webmakerx.toolness.org/#/bpzokgjb
what is it?
- Combines Thimble and Popcorn Maker interfaces
what it means for us technically:
- Implements Popcorn.js as Data attributes within HTML elements
- exposing popcorn functionality through markup (instappopin) and providing a GUI layer
- Markup API is declarative so its very "human readable"
- X- tags (mark up api) are a vision for allowing javascript hackers to create widgets or functionality that people who are not experts can leverage.
- Popcorn projects are published in thimble, its an elegant combination of our code bases
what it means for the user:
- You can see popcorn code while you author
- We can merge the experience of creating the layout and HTML with authoring the timeline
- You can control your entire media production process from start to finish, using either code or a GUI
- If you're a JavaScript developer and want to write your own Markup API (like Twitter Bootstrap), we can import this as a "widget" - its a new vector for community contribution, eg you can drop the timeline or the color picker into other tools
- You can learn to code while making cool, time based media
Chapter Markers for Slide Shows (Pomax)live branch: http://jbuckley.ca:8886/templates/basic
Slideshow that was produced: http://jbuckley.ca:8886/v/2.html (note: navigate using the arrows on the side of the embed)
what is it?:
- Popcorn plugins that let users set time markers (think "chapters") and then navigate to the previous/next mark or an arbitrary mark based on its name
what it means for the user:
- ability to create cool slide shows
- website- type "pages" or sections
- educational/instructional videos with "skip to …" functionality
- scrubbing "markers"
- create media that isn't just "play through", but rather interactive narratives, ie choose your own adventure, hackable comics, visual novel" non-linear story telling etc.
- in the future you might be able to do key framing, and create tweens between marks
what it means for us technically:
- it points the way to Popcorn Maker being a method of accepting code snippets of functionality as "triggers", rather than just "time events"
- In the "WebmakerX" universe, we could imagine many of these types of functionality extensions that we create, and that are also created by a community
- Even the timeline is now a maleable asset, rather than a fixed constant, allowing for customised (non-sequential) playback timelines by triggering a currentTime change
Popcorn Maker video editing (Scott Downe)live branch http://jbuckley.ca:8887/templates/basic/
what is it?:
- Ability to slice together youtube, html5 and soundcloud media into one seamless playback (audio, video, visuals, text and code snippets)
- Ability to set the time of a sequence, rather than have a "media conductor"
what it means for the user:
- you can edit together bits of video from around the web, and combine them with all of the other popcorn goodies
- You can make awesome videos on the web without having to download/compress/re-upload etc - we MASSIVELY speed up the web video production process
- greater level of remixability
- ability to create "mash ups"
- videos as samples (Kutiman http://www.youtube.com/user/kutiman )
- ability to create simple "narrated" experiences - ie take a video and put a voiceover on top
- editing becomes as easy as cut and paste
- potential for a user to pull in all of the attribution data with the content
- when we land this, we move away from Popcorn Maker being controlled by a central video, and instead have a user-defined timeline
In-tool youtube upload (Jbuck)
live branch http://jbuckley.ca:8888/templates/basic
what is it?:
- Directly upload video from your camera to youtube
what it means for the user:
- user can make video record from their webcam to use as content for Webmaking
- frictionless - rather than recording locally and uploading, or recording at youtube and copy/pasting URL, you can do it all from within Popcorn Maker
what it means for us technically:
- We'll want to start thinking of the "media" tab on Popcorn Maker as a place for multipe sources of media - this is where our "save for later" media should begin to appear
- capability to add content directly to the "media tab" / "gallery" / "save for later"
Save for Later (Jess, Blake, Ian)
what is it?:
- A clipping add-on that allows you to take image, text, video or html content from around the web, pull that into a gallery and then use it as remixable content for your Webmaker projects
what it means for the user:
- as you browse the web, you can bookmark/pin/clip media and images that you like in order to remix them later
- you can essentially use their "bookmarks" from within the browser as remixing content
- you can pull in content from other services like "gimme bar" or potentially pinterest or git gists directly into your webmaker "gallery" or asset library
- think about if built into Firefox, this could be a seemless experience directly associated with your Persona identity
what it means for us technically:
- It shows how we could incorporate Firefox and Webmaker
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In this year that is now ending, I had the privilege to work with an amazing crew to create Popcorn Maker. To say that I'm proud doesn't really sum it up: of course I am proud, but mostly I feel grateful. I don't think I realized how ambitious we were until halfway through this summer, when we REALLY needed to put the pedal to the metal in order to pull it off. In hindsight, a lot could have gone wrong, and a lot was on the line, so it's with no small measure of gratitude to my colleagues, to the fates, and to everyone's extraordinary effort that I'm ending 2012 feeling like we did exactly what we set out to do.
I remember feeling this way when finishing films as well - a certain euphoria and exhaustion, and a sense that the the work only really starts when you release something out of your internal group and into the world. It strikes me that all things worth doing are hard (at least for me). So as I look to new challenges and opportunities in 2013, I wanted to list out what I feel is a Survival Guide For Directors ™. All of these ideas owe to directors that I've learned from personally, or through writing (Rands, for example).
Software and Media Production are both collaborative crafts. As a director, you're only one member of a team. Your job is to help people do their job well, remember why they're doing it, and keep all eyes on the prize. Pick people who you know have crossed the finish line, or for whom this is a first chance to do something great. Try and ensure they have as much stake and opportunity in the project as you do.
Whether you're recording sound, editing the footage, writing some HTML or pitching in on design, you need to bring some part of this to conclusion with your own hands. Not only does it set the right tone, but it grants you an understanding of the team's challenges that you don't get by delegating. Particularly if you're embarking on a new subject area or technical approach, respect your collaborators and spend some time understanding their world.
Since you've picked great collaborators, let them be great. Give them a sense of the vision, but let animators run wild. Let designers surprise you with an unexpected innovation. Remember your developers need time to bake a feature and that they're as or more creative than you. Let your sound editors create brilliant juxtapositions you just don't have the talent to dream up. Your job after all is to look after the audience, so do them the favour of letting artists be artists.
Especially on projects with a long time horizon, everyone is going to have an answer when something goes wrong. Oh, and something always goes wrong. If something feels like it's the wrong approach. or too easy of a solution, or not quite right - it probably is. You'll need lots of advice, but learn to trust your own.
You'll never work on a project that turns out exactly like the original idea, so learn to adapt when real life steps in. A team member may leave, a documentary subject might change due to current events, you might run out of time or money. You'll need to cut features, change your narration, change your story or your product. Remember that the proposal or slide deck you created at the start of this is just a thought experiment - the real test is whether it can actually exist in the world, and sometimes no amount of brute force or late nights can produce something that isn't meant to be.
At the end of the day, what drives things to the finish line is vision. It might need to change, but everyone needs a picture in their mind of what you are building together, who it's for, and why the world will be better when it arrives. So as you adapt to reality, make sure that you and your team aren't building something that they wouldn't have signed up for. That way mediocrity lies, and that is cancer. Encourage an environment of peer review and critique, so calling something out as being not up to snuff doesn't feel personal.
Have someone read them over. You never get in trouble for thanking anyone, ever.
And above all, don't be a jerk. Life is too short. When you work in software or movies, generally everyone is there because they love it. Don't be the person that changes that. Instead, be as light of a touch as humanly possible , help everyone get the job done, be a bullshit umbrella and fight like hell for your team.
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Following on some great posts by David Humphrey, I've used Popcorn Maker to post some thoughts around the direction we're headed with Webmaker content.
This post is meant to provide some specificity to the 2013 Webmaker goals wiki. In this wiki, we've identified "webpages that move" created via tools that "make it way easier than it is today to mix your phone, web and social media content together into a compelling, moving collage that you can share with friends" as the core of the Webmaker experience next year.
This type of content exists in the wild, and in particular the Popcorn.js community has created some fantastic examples of these types of web pages. With a combination of Popcorn Maker, Thimble and the X-Ray Goggles, we're poised to let anyone make these media-rich experiences.
I've put these content types into three categories, and I'm keen for feedback:
The Audio Slide Show
Movie from the cloud
The Procedural Story
Please leave some comments - in my next post, I'll explore how we can build social into the experience of making and learning with our tools.
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The words were hardly out of his mouth before the girl turned and ran, screaming as if she'd seen the devil. She stumbled in the grass, and rolled awkwardly down the hill. The grass was completely flattened behind her, making the lieutenant's way down a lot easier.
"Hey! I'm sorry!" He exclaimed, crouching next to her. "Are you alright? You're not hurt, are you?"
Now that she was lying on the top of the grass, he was able to see her clearly. She looked almost like something a cult would sacrifice while worshipping a god, what with her long black and blue robes. He could barely tell her hair from the dark ribbons that tied it back as she shook the dirt off her face; and he couldn't help noticing that the seams at her waistline were beginning to tear and bulge.
"Hey?" The lieutenant put a hand on the girl's shoulder. "You're okay, right?"
She pushed him away, and he noticed she wore a parade of bracelets; all which were sewn into the hems of her robes.
He winced, noticing how raw her skin was from the bracelets pinching at the flesh, and tried not to stare at the blood that smeared on his hands.
The girl shouted something in another language as she quickly grabbed at the jar beside her. She relaxed, if only for a moment, before reaching to her neck and wailing.
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Five Plead Guilty in Fraudulent Aircraft Parts Scheme
Five South Florida individuals pled guilty in May to mail and wire fraud charges related to a scheme that falsely represented aircraft windows as properly overhauled. All five - Diego Garcia, Ivonne Portales, Geovanni Hernandez, Chabela Anerios and Aileen Bermudez - were former employees of Aircraft Transparencies Repair (ATR) and Transparencies Engineering Group (TEG) of Hialeah, Fla.
A multi-count indictment was filed on March 22, 2012, against 16 employees of ATR and TEG for conspiracy to sell and falsely certify to commercial aviation customers the airworthiness of aircraft cockpit windows. The indictment alleged that the employees used FAA Form 8130-3 Authorized Release Certificates, work orders and traceability documentation, while knowing that ATR and TEG were not authorized to certify the airworthiness of the windows.
The investigation revealed that from approximately August 2009 to August 2010, ATR's employees continued repairing aircraft cockpit windows despite the fact that ATR's repair station certificate had been revoked in July 2009. As part of the scheme, ATR/TEG purchased "as removed" aircraft cockpit windows in the open market and backdated documents, to make it appear to the customer that the windows had been retrieved from ATR's or TEG's inventories prior to ATR's repair station certificate revocation.
Additionally, serial numbers on the windows that had been sent to ATR by its customers were changed to disguise the source of the windows and to further make it appear that all work had been performed prior to the repair station revocation. The investigation was a joint effort of the Department of Labor, the FBI, the Office of Inspector General, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the FAA.
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Stage is the word doctors use to communicate the size of a cancerous tumor and where and how far it has spread. The first place cancer is found in the body is called the primary site or primary tumor. When a cancer spreads to distant parts of the body, it is said to have metastasized. There are two types of stages of cancer, clinical and pathological.
The clinical stage helps your doctor decide on the best treatment options for you. For bile duct cancer, your clinical stage is determined from biopsies and imaging tests.
The pathological stage is determined based on examination of your bile duct after it is removed by surgery. Sometimes the pathological stage is higher because the tumor has spread more than was expected during clinical staging.
By using exams and tests, a doctor can tell the stage of the bile duct cancer. A cancer's stage is one of the most important factors in deciding what treatment to have for the cancer. Both the International Union Against Cancer and the American Joint Committee on Cancer have developed a standard way to find out how much a cancer has grown. This system is known as the TNM system.
The TNM system is a standard system for describing the extent of a cancer's growth. Here's what the letters stand for in the TNM system:
T refers to where the tumor is (inside or through the bile duct) and whether it has spread outside of the bile duct into nearby areas such as the pancreas or a vein in the liver.
N refers to whether the lymph nodes in the area of the original tumor are cancerous.
M refers to whether the cancer has spread to other organs in the body (metastasized), such as the lungs or bones.
Once your T, N, and M stages have been determined, your doctor puts them together in a stage grouping. This is used to determine your overall cancer stage. Stage grouping is shown in Roman numerals going from 0 (the earliest stage) to IV (the most advanced stage). The following are the stage groupings used for extrahepatic bile duct cancer--the most common type of bile duct cancer, which occurs in the part of the bile duct outside the liver.
Stage 0. The cancer is only in the innermost layer of the bile duct. It has not spread to lymph nodes or distant sites in the body. This is also called carcinoma in situ.
Stage IA. The cancer is in the bile duct wall, but has not grown all the way through it. It has not spread to lymph nodes or distant sites in the body.
Stage IB. The cancer has grown through the bile duct wall but has not spread anywhere else.
Stage IIA. The cancer invades nearby structures, such as the liver, pancreas, or gallbladder. Or it may have spread to smaller branches of the hepatic artery or portal vein, but not into the larger vessels. It has not spread to lymph nodes or distant sites.
Stage IIB. The cancer is in the bile duct and has spread into lymph nodes but not to distant sites. It may or may not have spread to nearby structures.
Stage III. The cancer invades the main vein or arteries or part of the small intestine, gallbladder, colon, or stomach. It may or may not have spread to lymph nodes but has not spread to distant sites.
Stage IV. The cancer has spread to distant sites, such as the bones or lungs.
Your doctor considers the stage and your health to recommend a treatment plan. Staging information helps doctors compare your individual situation with other people who have had bile duct cancer. Based on clinical studies done on people in similar stages of the disease, a doctor can make some predictions about how the cancer may act and how different treatments may work.
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Antics #268 - hypathetical
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Gnome Herder said...
I'm not much of an RP-er but I do sometimes notice a bothersome discrepancy between a quest action and the class I play. For example, the Nesingwary quests.
Why in the world would a paladin go on a safari and kill dozens of game animals? I'm not talking about "ethical" implications, but it's just so strange to imagine this cleric-type guy bashing tigers with the holy light.
I can understand why a druid would take that quest. A druid can morph into a predatory animal. I can even imagine a warrior who might want to test his strength against savage beasts.
Or how about all those vehicle quest. How in the world would a shaman know how to operate a gattling gun or a tank?
On the counterpoint, a druid might actually have a bigger problem with the Nesingwary quests - for many, druidism revolves around a general respect for and protection of other life. Except for those life forms that have already demonstrated their own lack of respect for other life, of course. Many of the DEHTA members are druids.
I'm still just trying to figure out why, if Nesingwary and the rest are such awesomesauce hunters, that they send ME to go finish their hunts for them? Especially the ones in Nagrand? "There's this HUGE beast, TEETH so SHARP they can rip your skull open when he just GRINS at you - go kill him for me and I'll give you a present. Oh, but I'm still the greatest hunter alive. Don't forget that."
Seriously, the achievement should be "Patsy."
Yeah, I have that achievement as well. D'oh!


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Cobalt video explains the concept and execution of the 2D arcade shooter
From one successful PC Gamer alumni to another. Owen Hill - former PCG web editor, current Mojang word man, and secret Yordle - is hosting the new Radio Cobalt, a video podcast dedicated to explaining the Mojang published 2D arcade shooter. Talking to the game's developers, Oxeye Game Studios, this first episode provides a quick overview of the scope and breadth of the action.


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This is a great sub for guacamole!
Edamame Dip
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You won't need encouragement to eat your veggies when you serve this hearty, nutty dip with a variety of crisp vegetables such as jicama, bell pepper strips, steamed sugar snap peas, and carrot sticks.
Yield: 2 1/2 cups (serving size: about 3 tablespoons edamame mixture)
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Amount per serving
- Calories: 61
- Calories from fat: 37%
- Fat: 2.5g
- Saturated fat: 0.4g
- Monounsaturated fat: 1.1g
- Polyunsaturated fat: 0.7g
- Protein: 4g
- Carbohydrate: 6.1g
- Fiber: 1.2g
- Cholesterol: 0.0mg
- Iron: 0.7mg
- Sodium: 120mg
- Calcium: 23mg
- 1 1/2 cups frozen shelled edamame (green soybeans), thawed and cooked
- 1/2 cup water
- 1/4 cup chopped red onion
- 3 tablespoons chopped fresh cilantro
- 2 tablespoons rice vinegar
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/2 teaspoons chili garlic sauce (such as Lee Kum Kee)
- 1 (16-ounce) can cannellini beans or other white beans, drained
- Place all ingredients in a food processor, and process until smooth. Serve immediately, or cover and chill.
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3-D audioA technique for giving more depth to traditional stereo sound. Typically, 3-D sound, or 3-D audio, is produced by placing a device in a room with stereo speakers. The device dynamically analyzes the sound coming from the speakers and sends feedback to the sound system so that it can readjust the sound to give the impression that the speakers are further apart.
3-D audio devices are particularly popular for improving computer audio where the speakers tend to be small and close together. There are a number of 3-D audio devices that attach to a computer's sound card.
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Tonsillitis (cont.)
A wide variety of viruses and bacteria can cause tonsillitis, so the best prevention is to follow basic health and hygiene precautions. The following steps are especially helpful for children:
Home Treatment
The goal of home treatment of tonsillitis caused by a virus is to manage symptoms as the body fights off the infection. It includes measures to ease the discomfort of sore throat and coldlike symptoms such as runny nose, nasal congestion, sneezing, and coughing.
Things that may help you or your child feel better include:
Cough and cold medicines may not be safe for young children or for people who have certain health problems. Before you use these medicines, check the label. Antiseptic mouthwashes, decongestants, and antihistamines have not been proved effective for tonsillitis and may result in harmful side effects.2
A sore throat along with sudden fever and swollen lymph nodes, and without symptoms of an upper respiratory tract infection, may point to a bacterial infection. Anyone with these symptoms should see a doctor to be tested for strep throat, which requires treatment with antibiotics. It is important to get plenty of rest and take all the prescribed antibiotics exactly as directed. Keep your child home from school for the first 1 to 2 days of antibiotic treatment. He or she is still contagious during this time and might pass the infection to others.
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The scholarships are intended for full-time master's level studies in Sweden and cover both living costs and tuition fees.
Who is eligible?
The scholarships are only intended for students who are required to pay tuition fees according to the information at University Admissions.
There is no age limit for scholarship holders.
A scholarship cannot be granted for a student who:
- Has already lived in Sweden for two years or more previous to the scholarship period.
- Has a Swedish or EU/EES-citizenship, permanent residence permit or work permit in Sweden.
- Has previously been awarded a Swedish Institute scholarship for master's level studies or research at a Swedish university/university college. Students who have attended Swedish Institute summer courses in the Swedish language or within the Swedish Institute Summer University may apply.
- Already holds a degree from a Swedish university/university college.
- Is currently enrolled in a study programme at a Swedish university/university college.
Countries of eligibility
The programme is open to candidates from Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Russia and Ukraine.
Eligible programmes
A list of eligible programmes for 2015/2016 will be posted along with application instructions in late 2014. The programmes have been selected by the Swedish Institute on the basis of thematic relevance for the SI Baltic Sea Region Cooperation.
Scholarship benefits and period
The scholarship covers both the tuition fee (which is paid directly to the Swedish university/university college by the Swedish Institute) and living expenses to the amount of SEK 9,000 per month.
The scholarship is only awarded for programmes starting in the autumn semester (August/September) and is granted for one academic year, i.e. for two semesters at a time. It will be extended for programmes longer than two semesters provided that the student's study results are satisfactory.
The scholarship is designed to cover living costs and study expenses for the scholarship holder. There are no grants for family members. The scholarship cannot be transferred to another degree programme or university, nor can the scholarship period be altered or extended beyond the period of study for the degree programme. However, scholarship holders within the Visby Programme enrolled on one-year master's programmes (60 credits) may apply for an extension of the scholarship to pursue an unpaid internship in Sweden lasting for a period of up to 5 months beyond the ordinary programme period.
Travel grants
Scholarship holders receive a travel grant in connection with the scholarship. The travel grant is a one-time payment, fixed according to the scheme below and based upon the citizenship of the applicant. The grant is meant to also cover the cost of the return flight. Students on a programme that lasts longer than two semesters will receive an additional grant with the scholarship extension.
Scholarship holders are insured by the Swedish State Group Insurance against illness and accident during the scholarship period.
SI Network for Future Global Leaders
All Swedish Institute scholarship holders are invited to become members of the SI Network for Future Global Leaders – a network that offers unique opportunities during and after the stay in Sweden. Together with other talented people from all around the world, the scholarship holder is able to take part in a variety of events, exchange ideas and create networks that benefit both to career and personal development.
How to apply
Application instructions for 2015/2016 will be posted closer to the application date.
Key dates – 2014/2015 application round
27 March 2014: Notification of selection results published on Universityadmissions.se.
7-8 April 2014: List of successful candidates for Swedish Institute Scholarships published on Studyinsweden.se.
10 April 2014: Deadline for accepting your study place.
8-17 April 2014: Swedish Institute formal scholarship offer to successful candidates by e-mail
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Nigel Farage confirms that UKIP will not campaign to abolish same-sex marriage 58
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Do girls get turned on by sex topic conversations like men?
Personally when a girl talks to me about her cherry popping, or if her butt is too big I get so turned on
What's Your Opinion?
Most Helpful Opinion
Not always. Usually only if I'm talking to someone I know or I'm hooking up with. If its with a stranger online or something I'm usually just talking about sex. LOL. There's no turn on for me because I don't know the person, have no clue who they are or what they REALLY look like in person, if its like really some creeper behind the screen or whatever. I can read something and think that's hot but I'm not immediately turned on, no. I have to actually be attracted to the Guy/girl first. The idea of sex can turn me on but ill have to think about someone I know who I think is hot like my girlfriend or something.I've talked about sex with guys and I can just be talking about what I like totally just communicating and the Guy will get turned on and take it the wrong way. Like little teenage boys sometimes its funny.
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Yes of course we do. But I think it has to be more erotic, like the descriptions more detailed, because girls have very vivid imaginations.
of course...all the time...i hate how the world thinks men and women are like totally different species...turns out we're of the same one
rotflmao hell yea! I kno I get turned on by just talking about sex... with guys
all the time baby, lets chat!xox
Of course, I've done it lots of time with many of them , FWB...LOl.
I do... aha I got horny in health class when they were talking about the male anatomy . When my guy friends start talking about girls in front of me I start talking about hot guys. Its really funny how people think that girls don't talk about sex and stuff ...
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my girlfriend gets wet when we talk about sex and sh*t
She gets wet when you talk about sh*t?
Lol no... I meant sh*t as in stuff like that...


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Jon Pierik is a sports writer with The Age, focusing primarily on AFL football, cricket and basketball. He has won awards for his cricket and basketball writing.
United name change a gamble for 'elitist' Melbourne Tigers: Bogut
Jon Pierik Andrew Bogut says it won't take long to judge whether the controversial name change made by the 'elitist' Melbourne Tigers 'will be a huge success or a huge flop'.
Gaze calls for shift to winter season
Jon Pierik Andrew Gaze says said there's merit in the season running from March to October.
New coach talks up Boomers' chances
Jon Pierik Andrej Lemanis believes he has a squad that can achieve something "special".
Gaze predicts bright future for new-look NBL
Jon Pierik Australian great says financial security and expansion must be on top of the agenda of the new National Basketball League.
Gaze gets international gong
Jon Pierik Australian basketball great Andrew Gaze will be inducted into the FIBA Hall of Fame.
NBL season in danger of being scrapped
Jon Pierik Clubs need to prove they have the finances to orchestrate a de-merger or fall back.
Ex-Boomers coach Brett Brown takes on NBA's 76ers
Jon Pierik Former Australian Olympic basketball coach Brett Brown has agreed to be the head coach of the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers.
NBL to bring back the All Stars
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Gate of Madness (cinematic)
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|Gate of Madness
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|Realm of Torment
|Temple of the Six Gods
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- Party leader
- Kormir
- Lyssa's Muse
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- Kormir: "Gods, we beseech you. Hear our prayers."
- <Party leader>: "We have come where living men should not be. We have fought armies, crossed wastelands and conquered demons."
- <Party leader>: "Now we are in the heart of Torment. We must destroy Abaddon before he destroys the world. But we cannot battle him alone."
- Lyssa's Muse: "You are not alone. The gods are always watching."
- Kormir: "Watching? We need your help. We are only mortals, and we challenge a god."
- Lyssa's Muse: "There was a time when the gods walked the earth. Every thought and achievement was a gift of the gods."
- Lyssa's Muse: "But now you must realize that our gifts are within you. Dwayna lives in your compassion, Balthazar in your strength."
- Lyssa's Muse: "Melandru dwells in your harmony, Grenth in your justice."
- Lyssa's Muse: "And in your inspiration, Lyssa is there."
- Lyssa's Muse: "The divinity is within you. And so, we give you our blessing. That should suffice for the task ahead."
- Lyssa's Muse: "And to you, Kormir, a most special gift."
- Lyssa's Muse: "This is your world, now. This is your decision. You must make the choice that only a mortal could make."
- Kormir: "Our decision? They leave us some words of encouragement and expect us to fight a god?"
- <Party leader>: "The gods said we have a choice. A choice that only a mortal could make."
- Kormir: "Yes. Yes, there is a choice. We can end this. We don't have to be driven by gods and their avatars. Let us go."


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ST. LOUIS, July 8, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Energizer Holdings, Inc., [NYSE: ENR], announced today that it will close its feminine care facility in Montreal, Quebec by early 2017. This is a part of Energizer's previously announced restructuring program, and costs and savings from the closure are included in the estimated $350 million in total restructuring costs and $300 million in total gross restructuring savings.
"This was a difficult but necessary decision to maintain the company's position in this highly competitive business," said David Hatfield, President and Chief Operating Officer, Energizer Personal Care. "This decision is being announced now to maximize planning and transition time for all colleagues and the community. We will support our colleagues through this transition, and will work with local officials to ensure that support and resources to help colleagues re-enter the labor market are made available."
Feminine Care production at the Montreal facility will be consolidated into the company's Delaware facility; thereby maximizing cost and efficiencies. Consolidation will happen in phases from the summer of 2015 through early 2017. The Montreal facility currently employs 430 colleagues (workers).
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Energizer Holdings, Inc., headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, is a consumer goods company operating globally in the broad categories of personal care and household products. Energizer's Personal Care Division offers a diversified range of consumer products in the wet shave, skin care, feminine care and infant care categories. Our portfolio includes well established brand names such as Schick® and Wilkinson Sword® men's and women's shaving systems and disposables; Edge® and Skintimate® shave preparations; Playtex® Carefree and Stayfree feminine care products; Playtex gloves and infant feeding products; Banana Boat® and Hawaiian Tropic® sun care products and Wet Ones® moist wipes. Energizer's Household Products Division offers consumers the broadest range of portable power solutions, anchored by our universally recognized Energizer® and Eveready® brands.
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Town and Country Garden Club will meet at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 27, at the home of Sharon Bonnema in Luverne for a holiday potluck dinner and planning meeting for 2013. Anyone interested in joining may call Linda at (507) 597-6378.
Hollyhoppers Square Dance Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1, at the Brown School in Pipestone. Don Nugent will call this dance.
Beaver Creek Township Board will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 4.
Alcoholics Anonymous meets at 8 p.m. Wednesdays and Saturdays in the Rock County Community Library. Call (605) 321-4324.
Brandon area Al-Anon meets at 8 p.m. Monday and Thursday evenings and at 11 a.m. Saturdays at 209 Elm Street (behind VFW) in Brandon, S.D. Call (605) 215-9947 with questions.
Sound Cascade Sweet Adeline Chorus rehearses at 6:30 p.m. Tuesdays at Prairie Creek, 4400 W. Creekside Dr., Sioux Falls. Call (507) 597-6288 with questions.
Weight Loss Surgery Support Group will meet at 7 p.m. every third Monday each month in the Blue Mound Room at the Sanford campus in Luverne.
Luverne Optimist Club meets at 6:30 p.m. every first and third Monday of the month in the Howling Dog Saloon, Luverne.
Luverne Township Board meets at 9 a.m. the second Wednesday of every month in the Rock County Community Library.
Denver Township Board meets the third Tuesday of every month in the Hardwick City Hall.
Mound Township Board meets at 7:30 p.m. the second Monday each month at the Rock County Highway Building, Luverne.
Tops #777 meets at 6:30 p.m. Monday nights in Hardwick City Hall. Weigh-in is from 6 to 6:30 p.m. Call Glenda, 449-7878, or Rayola, 348-7287.
Weight Watchers meets every Monday in First Presbyterian Church, Luverne. Weigh-in is from 5 to 5:30 p.m. and the meeting is from 5:30 to 6 p.m. Call (800) 651-6000.
Luverne Tops 698 meets for weigh-in at 8 a.m. every Thursday in the Pizza Ranch. The meeting follows at 8:45 a.m.
Salvation Army kettles at Glen's this week
The Salvation Army kettles and bell ringers will return to Glen's Food Center lobby during the Thanksgiving holiday and through Christmas Eve. All funds raised in Rock County are used locally to make the holidays brighter for those in need. Anyone or any organization wishing to volunteer their time for bell ringing should contact Suanne Ohme at 507-283-4914.
Christmas Village at the Hinkly House Nov. 24
A Christmas Village reception at the historic Hinkly House will be from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 24. Enjoy the holiday grand opening of this grand Victorian home.
Grace Lutheran's organ rededication set for Nov. 25
The Grace Lutheran Church and Chancel Choir invite the public to celebrate the renovation and expansion of the church's 1964 Skinner pipe organ. The organ rededication hymn festival, "We Sing the Story of God's Love," will begin at 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 25. Dr. John Ferguson, nationally known composer and organist, will be the guest organist and conductor.
Refreshments will be served following the hymn festival.
SHARE and ATLAS distribute coats Nov. 28 and Dec. 1
SHARE and ATLAS will be distributing coats to those who have signed up through "One Warm Coat" project from 9 a.m. to noon Wednesday, Nov. 28 and Saturday, Dec. 1, at ATLAS, 201 E. Main St., in Luverne. Bring your SHARE postcard if you received one.
Healthy Community Forum to meet at Banquet Center Nov. 29
Building healthier communities will be discussed at the Healthy Community Forum from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 29, at the Blue Mound Banquet and Meeting Center in Luverne.
Participants will learn of efforts underway in Nobles, Pipestone and Rock counties to improve health through increasing opportunities for better nutrition, increased physical activity and decreased exposure to commercial tobacco products. The forum is free and open to the public, and a dinner of all local foods will be provided.
Santa's Workshop during Luverne's Winterfest
Kids in kindergarten through fourth grade are invited to the "shopping center" and "craft room" at Santa's 4-H Workshop at Luverne Elementary School from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1, as part of the Luverne Winterfest Celebration. 4-H "elves" will help kids shop for gifts for parents, grandparents or others, or help create "make and take" crafts. Gifts range from $1 to $5. Craft activities are $1.50 each.
Sign up for De-Light-Ful 5K
Sign up for the annual De-Light-Ful 5K run that begins at 6 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1, at the Luverne Area Aquatics and Fitness Center in Luverne. Race day registration will be from 5 to 5:45 p.m. at the pool for $15. Advanced registration for $12 can be completed at www.allsportcentral.com. Post Race will be at Sharkee's with the band "Undercover" providing music from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.
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Sign up for Community Ed's fifth-/sixth-grade basketball tourney
Teams may sign up now for Luverne Community Education's invitational basketball tournament on Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013, for fifth- and sixth-grade boys' and girls' teams. Pool play format is used with six courts available in one building. Students are guaranteed at least two games. Teams may use the registration form at isd2184.net under the Community Ed link or call 283-4724. Entry fee of $90 per team must accompany registration.
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Decorate your own Winter Planter with advice from George Bonnema on Nov. 24. Fee is $32 plus enhancements.
Minnesota School Readiness classes meet Tuesdays for children who are at least 3 years old by Sept. 1. Choose morning or afternoon sessions. Call 283-9191 for more information.
The Fall 2012 Luverne Community Education brochure may be viewed online under the Community Ed. link on the school website, isd2184.net.
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Night Seeker Pro, Silver, Model 5080
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Progress 12/01/11 to 11/30/12OutputsOUTPUTS: The following major tasks were conducted in the third year. 1. Modification of the two-chamber bioreactor for co-culture fermentation We spent significant amount of time solving the equipment leakage and cell retention module blockage problems after switching the reactor material to polycarbonate in order to stand high temperature during autoclave. Subtask 1: bioreactor leakage. The biggest difficulty with the new material is to find suitable glue to put different parts together without leakage. After extensive experiments with different glues and annealing/curing processes, we found that by applying silicone gel on top of Weld-on, a type of cement, to seal the connection, we solved the leakage problem. The developed reactor has been tested using 8 runs of autoclave sterilization and initial co-culture run which lasted over a week. In addition, we adopted the pseudo-continuous fermentation from the beginning of the experiment which enables the simultaneous control of both cell growth and ethanol production, and complete utilization of glucose and xylose. Subtask 2: cell-retention module redesign. To address the cell retention module blockage caused by bubbles generated closed to membrane surface, we conducted several different designs and modifications and a vertically positioned cell retention module was found to be the best. The selection of appropriate membrane for the cell retention module was conducted by testing and comparing outflow rate performances over extended period. Supor0.8 performs the best among tested membranes due to its superior material type and high water flow rate property. The outflow rate measurements showed the stability of the flow rate. 2. Optimization of growth condition for both strains. In order to determine the experimental condition that optimizes cell growth and ethanol production at the same time, we performed exploratory experiments to determine the growth phase condition for the co-culture experiment. We found that in order to control cell grow rate, for S. cerevisiae, we have to control sugar consumption rate, while for S. stipitis, we can control OTR. In our initial co-culture experiment, we confirmed our findings. 3. Accurate measurement and control of oxygen transfer rate. Existing literatures on the effect of OTR to xylose fermentation of S. stipitis are inconsistent mainly because of the lack of accurate control of OTR. To obtain accurate measurement and control of OTR, we are systematically investigating the effect of different factors on OTR, including cell density, agitation speed, and substrate concentration. We modified existing dynamic method to measure the OTR by considering the mass transfer between the reactor head space and the broth as well as the mass transfer between the bubbles and the broth. Experimental work is still ongoing. In order to achieve an accurate control of the oxygen transfer rate (OTR) in the co-culture system, we also developed a gas mixing apparatus to maintain the fixed overall gas flow rate while changing the ratio of air and nitrogen, which has been verified experimentally. PARTICIPANTS: Participants: Jin Wang, PhD, PI, Auburn University, led the research. Led the design of the two-chamber bioreactor; design of experiments; taught the students on data analysis and presentation preparation; paper writing and revision. Q. Peter He, PhD, co-PI, Tuskegee University, co-led the research. Led the design, modification of the two-chamber bioreactor; constructed the pH, temperature control system; design of experiments; paper writing and revision. Meng Liang, PhD student at Auburn University. Carried out some of the designed experiments, constructed the two-chamber bioreactor, carried out the data analysis. Min Hea Kim, PhD student at Auburn Univesity. Carried out some of the designed experiments, helped with the construction of the two-chamber bioreactor, helped with data analysis. Alyson Charles, undergraduate student at Auburn University. Helped with preparation of experiments. Collaborators: Brian Schwieker, technician at Department of Chemical Engineering, Auburn University. Helped with the construction of the two-chamber bioreactor TARGET AUDIENCES: Researchers in the field of biofuel production through biological pathways. PROJECT MODIFICATIONS: Nothing significant to report during this reporting period.ImpactsThe following major findings were obtained for the tasked performed during the third year. 1. Pseudo-continuous operation enables the simultaneous control of cell growth and ethanol production of both strains. It is worth noting that neither continuous operation nor batch operation would allow us to do so. 2. The mass transfer between the reactor head space and broth is significant and cannot be ignored in order to obtain accurate measurement of OTR. 3. Weld-on plus silicone gel can provide desired strength and sealing of polycarbonate reactor.Publications
Progress 12/01/10 to 11/30/11OutputsOUTPUTS: 1.Development of the two-chamber bioreactor for co-culture fermentation In the preliminary work we have built a prototype of the two-chamber bioreactor which enabled us to test out the mass transfer properties of different membranes. In the past year, we continued to test and modify/improve the bioreactor to address the following practical aspects of bioreactor operation when cells are present: sterilization, agitation, air distribution, temperature control, sampling etc. The major activities are summarized below. Sterilization: the bioreactor is originally made from transparent PVC material, which is durable and very easy to work with, but cannot stand for the standard autoclave condition. We developed a two-step sterilization process which can provide satisfactory sterilization, and prevent PVC material from getting opaque and deformed. However, the sterilization results are not consistent for every run. After investigation we decided to switch to polycarbonate. The new difficulty is gluing different parts of the bioreactor together. After extensive research and trials, we solve the problem with epoxy material. We modified the design of the bioreactor to facilitate the assembling/gluing process. After testing various curing conditions, we developed the appropriate annealing and curing processes and successfully built a two-chamber co-culture bioreactor with polycarbonate material. It has successfully passed the test for leakage and autoclave. Agitation and air distribution: We first used a string bar driven by an external magnetic field to agitate the system, and modified two commercial magnetic stirring systems in order to provide a strong external magnetic field. However, compared to the propellers driven by external motors, the magnetic bar stays at the bottom of the reactor which provides limited agitation and very limited air redistribution.Aafter extensive search, we identified a commercial system which uses propeller driven by external magnetic field, and we modified the commercial system to fit our purpose. The new agitation system has been tested to provide satisfactory agitation and air redistribution. Temperature control system: Because of the special design of the bioreactor, there is no commercial temperature control system available that can be uses directly. To control the temperature, we built a temperature control system in house by using the heating tapes and a commercial PID controller. We have tested that the developed control system can maintain the reactor temperature within 1.5 C of the target. 2.Proof-of-concept run of the co-culture experiment We first conducted separate batch experiments to determine the delay time associate with two different strains, and calculated the appropriate inoculum concentration for the co-culture experiment, which would give comparable cell density of both strains at the end of the batch fermentation phase. We then successfully conducted a proof-of-concept run of the co-culture experiment. The co-culture experiment consists three phases: batch aerobic growth phase, batch anaerobic fermentation phase, and pseudo-continuous fermentation phase. PARTICIPANTS: 1. Jin Wang, PI, led the research, worked with the co-PI and the graduate students to modify the design of the bioreactor, design the batch and pseudo-continuous fermentation experiments and analyze the data. 2. Q. Qinghua He, co-PI, led the research, worked with the PI and the graduate students to modify the design of the bioreactor, design the batch and pseudo-continuous fermentation experiments and analyze the data. 3. Meng Liang, graduate student, involved with bioreactor design and manufacture and carrying out some of the experiments. 4. Min Hea Kim, graduate student, worked on the bioreactor design and manufacture, experiment design and carrying out most of the experiments. 5. Stewart Philips, undergraduate student, involved with bioreactor manufacture and carrying out some of the experiments. 6. Alison Charles, undergraduate student, involved with carrying out some of the experiments. TARGET AUDIENCES: researchers in the field of fermentation, especially those in biochemical conversion of the lignocellulosic biomass to ethanol. PROJECT MODIFICATIONS: The progress is slower than what was planned due to two reasons: 1. the graduate student who has been working on this project was diagnosed with cancer and had to be away for 8 months for treatment. 2. the unexpected difficulty related to develop the new two-chamber bioreactor. As a result, a one-year no cost extension was requested and granted.ImpactsThe proof-of-concept run of the co-culture experiment confirmed our hypothesis which is the foundation of the final project goal, i.e., with pseudo-continuous fermentation, we can achieve complete consumption of both glucose and xylose simultaneously. Our results appear to be the first continuous co-culture experiment to achieve complete consumption of xylose under continuous operation; all existing results on continuous co-culture approaches only achieve partial consumption of xylose.Publications
Progress 12/01/09 to 11/30/10Outputs(N/A)ImpactsThe following major findings were obtained for the tasked performed in the first year. 1. Pseudo-continuous fermentation of single culture Pichia stipitis During the prolonged pseudo-continuous fermentation experiments, we confirmed that our hypothesis is correct, i.e., with pseudo-continuous operation, we can eliminate the possible wash-out that is common in continuous fermentation with P. stipitis, which makes it possible to test out different operation conditions; we also confirmed that the in-house developed cell retention module can provide satisfactory performance - several improvements have been made to prevent its breakage and to make sure that P. stipitis cells do not accumulate on the cell retention part so that the filtration resistance can be maintained at about the same level for the prolonged experiments; finally, we qualitatively tested the effects of different oxygen transfer rates, and collected useful information for future co-culture experiments. 2. Validation and investigation on the improved ethanol tolerance of Pichia stipitis gained through pseudo-continuous fermentation Exp1: conduct ethanol tolerance test. We found that adapted cells show significantly improved ethanol tolerance, especially at high ethanol concentration: when exposed to medium with 60g/L ethanol, the viability of adapted cells shows 8 folds and 7 folds increase compared to unadapted cells, for glucose-based and xylose-based culture media, respectively. Exp2: measure ethanol induced leakage of 260-nm-light-absorbing compounds. We found that compared to the unadapted cells, the adapted ones showed significantly reduced leakage of UV-absorbing compounds. Specifically, when exposed to 25g/L of ethanol for 6 hrs, the leakage (OD260) for the unadapted cells and the adapted cells are 0.87 and 0.21 for glucose-based substrate, and 0.86 and 0.20 for xylose-based substrate. Exp3: measure passive proton influx and active proton extrusion. The adapted cells shown significant lower passive proton influx (1.7 and 1.8 mmol/min/mg for glucose-based and xylose-based substrates for 120g/L of ethanol), compared to unadapted cells (15 and 19mmol/min/mg for glucose-based and xylose-based substrates for 120g/L of ethanol). In addition, the adapted cells showed increased proton efflux rate compared to unadpated cells. Both results on passive proton influx and active proton extrusion show that adapted cells exhibit better resistance to ethanol, probably due to improved ATPase activity as well as reduced plasma member permeability to proton. Exp4: determine the ethanol limitation to growth. For unadpated cells, the limiting ethanol concentrations are 57.29g/L and 50.24 g/L for glucose-based and xylose-based substrates, respective. For the adapted cells, the limiting ethanol concentrations were improved to 73.40g/L and 66.38g/L respectively. These numbers correspond to 28% and 32% of increase for the adapted cells.Publications


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Japanese Mobile Company DeNA Set to Purchase Mobile Publisher ngmocoA Japanese mobile internet company named DeNA--we're sure you've heard of them--is set to throw down a big sack of money in order to purchase mobile publisher ngmoco Inc. According to the announcement press release, DeNA will acquire the publisher for "up to $400 million" in cash and securities.
Shareholders and employees of ngmoco will receive $300 million in cash and securities, with an additional $100 million "contingent upon the achievement of certain performance milestones through Dec. 31, 2011." Publisher ngmoco has been responsible for the popular mobile franchises Rolando and We Rule.
The acquisition of ngmoco continues an ongoing trend of mobile companies being gobbled up by companies looking to expand their social and mobile game portfolios. In November 2009, EA acquired Playfish for $300 million, while Disney recently wrote a giant novelty check in order to add Tapulous Inc. to its magical kingdom. Reports have also pointed at a $100-$200 million investment from internet giant Google in Farmville creator Zynga.
At these prices, we shudder to think what these companies would have paid before the recession. If that's still a thing.
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Oklahoma U.S. Congressional Term Limits, State Question 662 (1994)
It was an initiated constitutional amendment.
The objective of the measure was to limit United States Congressmen from Oklahoma to a total of 18 years (up to 2 6-year terms as Senators, and up to 3 2-year terms as Representatives).
The validity of the proposition was challenged in the Oklahoma Supreme Court[1], and it was determined to be valid, and accordingly was placed on the ballot, where it won approval from 66.5% of Oklahoma voters.
The amendment, along with similar measures in many other states, was later struck down as unconstitutional by a 5-4 vote of the United States Supreme Court[2].
292,437 signatures were filed to qualify it for the ballot, versus a requirement of 208,554.
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Giving someone money/card to play WoW is NOT against the ToS. Being PAID to give your friend free time is. Let's use your example. Say your mother tells you she will give you 30 bucks to be nice to your friend and give him a 15 buck time card, and maybe mention that she's also having a bake sale on Friday. Sure, Blizzard doesn't KNOW you're getting paid to do it, maybe your friend doesn't either. But you do. You're making money off of Blizzard's gamecard. And say your Mother told you she would pay you 30 bucks everytime you GAVE out the timecard and talked about the sale... well... you'll be rolling in the dough. Sure, your friends aren't aware you're getting paid... and they will wonder why you care about your Mom's baked goods in all likelyhood.
So, yeah, you're making money off of something you don't own. You're not giving it away for free, you're not doign it out of the kindness of your own heart. You're a business, and you're selling products that don't belong to you.
So... AM I Stupid? Probably not. Am I informed? Probably? Am I right? Well, Blizzard seems to think so.


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Eregos ftw! said...
It's a fact, because the server has no lag. If you have even half a second of lag, the server sees you spending half a second between casts (that is a reason most caster use quarts, and almost all raiders 'button spam' so they can get the spells off as soon as the server has registered that the previous spell has stopped). However, though quartz and button spamming do help, lag will still reduce your dps to a certain extent.