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IANA reports strong third quarter 2010 intermodal volumes
November 05, 2010 - LM Editorial
While various freight trends have seen numerous stops and starts in 2010, intermodal transportation is not one of them, according to the results of the third quarter Market Trends report from the Intermodal Association of North America (IANA).
In the third quarter, IANA stated that third quarter intermodal loadings—at 2,995,043—were up 20.3 percent year-over-year. This was ahead of the second quarter's 2,829,971 and behind the first quarter's 3,019,310.
Along with a 20.3 percent annual gain in total intermodal loadings, IANA said that the four major intermodal categories it tracks were also showed gains. Domestic containers—at 1,162,460—were up 13 percent. International containers—at 2,011,775—were up 28.1 percent (marking the second time since the second half of 2006 that international topped domestic containers. All domestic equipment—at 1,591, 227—was up 11.7 percent, and trailers—at 428,767—were up 8.5 percent (trailers have been down 19 of the last 23 quarters).
"Intermodal activity, particularly from the international-driven side, is somewhat of a leading indicator as to what the expectations are for the economy," said Tom Malloy, IANA Vice President of Member Services, in an interview. "A driver for intermodal's continued momentum is the optimism—and confidence—by supply chain managers in bringing materials in from overseas."
The Market Trends report supports this view, noting that the resurgence of international intermodal is primarily due to stronger container import volumes. But even with international container volumes up nearly 30 percent in the third quarter, IANA said they are still well below peak levels from the third quarter of 2006 as seasonally-adjusted third quarter international volumes are 11.7 percent below peak levels.
Domestic volumes for the third quarter, according to IANA, hit an all-time in the third quarter, with the report stating that domestic container shipments continuing to outpace the overall economic recovery in conjunction with intermodal shipments gaining share over other modes of freight transportation.
"Domestic activity is off the charts right now, especially for domestic containers of North American origin and termination, and are up over previous high points from 2008 and 2006," said Malloy. "This is a good story. Had there been more containers [available] there likely would have been increased domestic container activity. This means equipment managers are doing a much better job of managing load-to-load churn, which is key for the companies that own them, the manager that runs them in order to maximize revenue opportunities for these pieces of equipment on an annual basis."
IMC Performance: Intermodal Marketing Companies largely saw percentage gains on an annual basis in the third quarter, with intermodal loads—at 286,035—up 12.3 percent, and total loads, including highway which was down 7.9 percent at 144,284, up 4.6 percent at 430,859.
IMC intermodal and highway revenue—at $669,111,766 and $194,770, 436—were up 13.8 percent and 5.1 percent, respectively. Total revenue—at $843,083,202—was up 9.0 percent. Average revenue per intermodal load—at $2,339—was up 1.3 percent, and average revenue per highway load—at $1,345—was up 14.1 percent.


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How can I get search engines to crawl my site and see a localised view of my data?
I was wondering what would be the best URL strategy for a multilingual website (for an Italy based company).
I was thinking about site.com/it and site.com/en, not showing any content at site.com and redirecting the visitors to the localized site when they try to access site.com.
What about buying an additional domain, site.it, and then redirecting to site.com/it?
Are these good ideas? If so, regarding of SEO, which are the best redirect methods for both site.com (to site.com/en or site.com/it) and the additional (if available) site.it (to site.com/it)?

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Hi all! I've been an avid FM player for a number of years now, and over the course of the years I have accomplished many things. I have taken teams from the bottom of league structures to the top, won World Cups, even managed to compete in Asia with an Indian team. But I recently came to these forums in search of a new challenge, and I have found it. That's right; I am going to attempt to bring Liechtenstein to the top of the world. And I'm going to do so by promoting youth through a lowly club..
Am I crazy? Yes.
Do I believe I'm going to succeed? No.
Is that going to stop me? Hell no!
I am using this marvellous database update of Switzerland, which takes the league structure down to the 6th tier. And it is there I will start my journey, with Liechtenstein club FC Ruggell.
They are not the lowest Liechtenstein club in the league system, that honour belonging to FC Triesen in the 7th tier. Unfortunately, the odds of them coming up after holidaying a season would be extremely low, so this is where we start.
FC Ruggell is an Amateur club playing in the 6th tier of the Switzerland football system. They have never won the Liechtenstein cup, despite making the final on six occasions, and therefore have never played in European competition.
This database update doesn't have the Liechtenstein cup, but after holidaying a few seasons, and seeing FC Vaduz being the Liechtenstein club in the Euro Cup each season, I'm lead to believe that it is determined by either the highest ranking Liechtenstein club, the one who makes it furthest in the Switzerland Cup, or that the game is always going to make FC Vaduz qualify for the Euro Cup.
So prepare yourselves for probably the worst ever attempt of FM, and let's all hope the Liechtenstein, the only nation ever to lose to San Marino, can at least make some progress in the world.
- No players can be signed; the club must rely on youth players.
- Greyed out players can be signed if I'm short of players, this is the only instances in which a payer can be signed.
- Staff can be signed whenever.
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I've previously purchased several apps (Pixelmator, Rivet, a few others I can't think of now) that are now available in the Mac App Store. Given that apps in the store are not allowed to use their own updating frameworks (like Sparkle), how will I get updates to them in the future? Can I somehow tell Apple that I already own those apps and get updates through the store? Or will the individual developers have to work something out on their own?
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It depends.
As reported in the Daring Fireball link: it doesn't work for some apps like Panic's Transmit, Unison or Coda. The licensing schemes used when you buy via the App Store versus directly from the developer are different and won't allow for it.
But this article from Cult of Mac has the author successfully updating a previously installed version of TextWrangler to the latest version via the App Store.
I disagree with the Cult of Mac articles conclusion, that "if you see something in the store that's already on your hard disk, you shouldn't have any problems installing a newer version from there" -- as Panic has directly contradicted that conclusion and they build and sell through the App Store so, pretty authoritative there.
I did talk to the developer of my favourite Twitter app, Kiwi, and he said he wasn't sure if the App Store could be used to update copies of Kiwi bought before the App Store came in to existence.
So welcome to the Land of Confusion.


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In the Euclidean plane, is the circle the only simple closed curve that has an axis of symmetry in every direction?
A slightly different argument is as follows. Choose two symmetries $\sigma,\tau$ with axes intersecting at a point $P$ and forming an angle of $2\pi \lambda$ with $\lambda$ irrational. The composition $\rho=\sigma\circ \tau$ is then a rotation of infinite order generating a dense subgroup of the group of all rotations centered at $P$. Any closed subset left invariant under $\rho$ is thus a union of concentric circles centered at $P$. A simple closed curve invariant under $\rho$ is thus such a circle.
If a figure had an axis of symmetry in three non-parallel but non-concurrent axes, then composing these suitably would give a translative symmetry, which is impossible if the figure is bounded. So all the axes of symmetry of your putative curve are concurrent through a point $O$ which we shall call a centre. Then all rotations about the centre $O$ are symmetries. The only simple closed curves with this property are circles centred at $O$.


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I have a Trek 3900 Mountain bike that had a serious creaking problem whenever I would pedal. I found that the ring that holds the Shimano sealed bearing was really loose. I tightened it up and it helped somewhat. It loosened up again and I put loktite on the threads and really tightened it up but it is still creaking a little. The bearing cartridge seems fine. Any ideas?
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Creaks are notoriously difficult to diagnose. Because a bicycle is constructed from tubes, sounds often travel through the tube and sound like they are coming from a completely different place than where they actually originated.
The following are, in more or less descending order, the most common causes of creaks that sound like they're coming from the bottom bracket. As you run through the list, take each bolt and/or part off; clean it, re-grease it, and tighten it back up.
Bottom bracket tightness. Check both sides. If you have access to a torque wrench, use it.
Crank bolts. You probably had to take the crank off to get to the bottom bracket.
Chainring bolts.
Pedals. Make sure that they're bolted on tight. Make sure that there's no play on the pedal axles.
The bolt that clamps your front derailleur on. The derailleur can creak when the frame flexes if it's not tight.
Seatpost and clamp. The seatpost moving inside the seat tube can cause a creak that sounds like it's coming from the BB. Take it out, clean it, grease it, put it back. The seatpost rails can also creak where they attach to the seatpost or where the go into the seat. That sound won't usually travel to the bottom bracket, but anything's possible.
If none of that does the trick, work your way outward from the bottom bracket checking every single bolt on the bike. It could really be just about anything. Creaks can be very frustrating.
The ever helpful Sheldon Brown has a good article on diagnosing and fixing creaks.
Take the shell off of each side of that bottom bracket and grease each one up, along with the spindle. When you tighten that bottom bracket back on, don't over torque it or under torque it, if you over torque or under torque that bad boy is going to squeak. If you aren't sure of the torque or you don't have a torque wrench, visit your local shop.
Take the shell off of each side of that bottom bracket and grease each one up, along with the spindle.
I have had annoying creaks too. I found that the where the shifter cable housings where attached to the bike frame was the cause. I loosened the cable housing from the frame, and then applied a dab of grease to the housing and frame. The creaking went away.
If the creaking returns, I think I will try Teflon tape on the cable housing.
For the benefit of others, I had the same issue and it turned out to be a rear axle that wasn't tight enough. When it was greased and tightened properly the creak stopped.


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Sipping his $9.50 beer on the second level concourse at Barclays Center on Veteran's Day, Steve Dybn was in no rush to get back to his seat. Without hordes of people to wade through, he strolled along, surveying the interior of the brand new $1 billion arena.
"This is the first major pro team in Brooklyn since 1957, and I was just surprised how empty it is in here," he said.
Sunday's Brooklyn Nets game attendance was below the maximum capacity for the third game, and fans like Mr. Dybn have begun to take notice. The 30-year-old Williamsburg, Brooklyn, resident said reality hasn't matched the hype that led up to the 2012 regular season for the Brooklyn Nets.


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The Department of Geosciences at the University of West Georgia offers programs of study focusing on planet earth, our natural and built environments, and how societies interact with and alter the biophysical world. We are a welcoming, student-centered department with challenging programs of study that span a wide range of subject matter and techniques. Our programs emphasize hands-on learning and take students out of the classroom into the field whenever possible. For more information, please see more detailed descriptions of our offerings in Geology, Geography, GIS and the Environment. To declare a major in any of the Geosciences fields, come visit our office in Callaway 148.
Carrollton environmental consulting firm, Prater and York, recently sponsored OSHA (Occupational Health and Safety Administration) HAZWOPER training for Geosciences Department seniors. The course culminated in a simulated hazardous spill on the UWG campus. Pictured are Robie York (Prater and York) and newly OSHA-certified UWG Geosciences students.
The Geosciences Department partnered with the Upper Tallapoosa Watershed Group to host a very successful river cleanup on the UWG campus on 9/12/15. Seventy-eight volunteers showed up, cleaning out 13 tires and 82 bags of trash!


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The discounter joins several other major retailers, including Wal-Mart Stores Inc., that are opening earlier in the evening on the holiday and staggering deals over the two-day period. Over the years, stores have been expanding their hours on Black Friday to get ahead of the competition, but the kickoff is increasingly happening right after shoppers finish their turkey feast.
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this is my second version of Ubuntu, 11.04 worked really well for me, and I was really excited about 11.10... until I installed it.
I started by using the upgrade button in the upgrade app, but found that the new version was unstable - Firefox would crash every few minutes, I would be logged out very suddenly for no known reason, and so I decided to do a clean format and install, believing that this may fix the problem. Unfortunately, it seems that the problem is with 11.10 itself, as Firefox, Chromium, and various other programs crash for no reason, flash crashes and I still get chucked out of Ubuntu. Is there any way I can make this more stable, or should I just give in and go to 10.04?
In fact, Chromium just crashed while I was typing this up. What can I do?
Hardware: HP Pavilion with a Snapper MoBo, Running BIOS 3.08, with a 2.66GHz Celeron (32-bit), 2GB SDRAM with a GeForce 5200 GFX Card
GPU is running the latest driver, according to the additional drivers app.
Memtest returned a pass without errors, so it appears that the RAM is clean.
I thought I had it cracked - for a few days, everything worked fine, now just about every program is subject to random shut downs, the desktop vanishes a lot, the unity start menu thing disappears all the time when I'm using it and in Gnome, the desktop keeps crashing out - much as Windows explorer might do if it had some problems. I've decided to go back to 10.04 as there doesn't seem to be a way to get back to 11.04. Failing that, it's back to M$ - I don't like it, but at least it works.


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Plastic Bottle Greenhouse
I got this idea from my mother in law. Seemed like a simple project, but the hardest part was drilling a
hole in each cap, removing the label, and cutting off the bottom of each bottle. Thanks to everybody at
work that contributed their bottles to the cause! I screwed the floor to the concrete blocks, and used
the existing shed as extra support. All the framing was 2x4. The greenhouse measures 7x7, and just
over 6' tall. I took off some clear panels that were on the carport, and used them for the roof.
With the gaps, the temp does not get too high for the seed trays, but it is more humid, which they
like. You can see from the pictures, I ran a length of 20ga wire from top to bottom, and slid the
bottles onto the wire. It is tied at the bottom with a 3/4" fencing staple and after drilling a hole in the
2x4 at the top, pulled tight, and wrapped the wire around a nail. Each vertical row of bottles is wired
to the one beside it. This gives a bit more stability. The project was fun to do, and it was different. It also
gives me somewhere to keep the seed trays out of the rain.
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I am want to go to travel around Israel and Palestine (ideally most places other than the Gaza Strip) what is the most practical way to get about? Is it best to hire a car? - I've heard its hard to get about outside Tel Aviv and Jerusalem without a car? Is there any issue with driving an Israeli hire car into the West Bank?
I was very concerned about renting a car when we went to Israel because most all of the car rental companies are very particular about not driving in the West Bank. And driving around the West Bank can be a much longer trip than driving through it! It turned out not to be much of a concern for two reasons.
Between major cities in Israel the bus is a very good option. The Egged 480 bus from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv costs about 20NIS and takes about an hour. It runs about every 10 minutes or so. In Tel Aviv you pick it up at the Central Train station.
There are also frequent buses from J-m and TA to most major cities in Israel. Just be careful when traveling between major cities that you get a direct bus. For example, there are 2 Buses from Jerusalem to Haifa, the 940 goes direct and the 947 which stops at every junction along the way. You want the 940! It takes about half the time.
There are also trains through most of the country. Be warned that the train to Jerusalem is very slow, but the ride is really pretty.
As for renting a car, driving threw much of Israel is not a problem. There are a few parts of the Negev you may wish to be careful or it may get stolen. You can't take a rental car into Jordan or Egypt.
As for driving into the West Bank, if you are going into Jewish areas like say Ariel or Efrat it is also not a problem. If you want to go into area A (Including Jerico, Ramalah or the like) you probably can not do so with Israeli licence plates.
We rented a car in Jerusalem and drove along the West Bank (to Ein Gedi), back up to to Tiberius, and down to Tel Aviv. No problems at all, other than being search pretty thoroughly at a checkpoint while going back north (i.e. after driving down the West Bank and back). They were stern but nice, and implied that they were not suspicious of us, but had to make sure nothing had been done to a car while we weren't looking.
I'm not 100% sure but I believe it was a major rental car company - Hertz or Avis perhaps.


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Perhaps the finding by these researchers may help explain...
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Perhaps the finding by these researchers may help explain the significant clinical improvement in OCD signs with the use of N-acetylcysteine recently reported by the Lafleur group . I refer to the study by Aoyama et al. in which they find that the neuronal glutathione deficiency with consequent oxidative stress and neurodegeneration in EAAC1-deficient mice is restored with the use of N-acetylcysteine. This benefit might indicate that these SNPs associated with OCD result in reduced EAAC1 activity. Another interesting study by Gu and colleagues finds that β amyloid inhibits Na(+)/K(+)-ATPase and EAAC1. Maybe you could kill two birds with one stone here, as Studer et al. find that N-acetylcysteine downregulates APP gene transcription in neuroblastoma cells. Perhaps a study reporting APP gene transcription in those with Down syndrome treated with N-acetylcysteine would be very beneficial.
1. Aoyama K, Suh SW, Hamby AM, Liu J, Chan WY, Chen Y, Swanson RA. Neuronal glutathione deficiency and age-dependent neurodegeneration in the EAAC1 deficient mouse.
Nat Neurosci. 2006 Jan;9(1):119-26. Epub 2005 Nov 27.
2. Lafleur DL, Pittenger C, Kelmendi B, Gardner T, Wasylink S, Malison RT, Sanacora G, Krystal JH, Coric V. N-acetylcysteine augmentation in serotonin reuptake inhibitor refractory obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2006 Jan;184(2):254-6. Epub 2005 Dec 22.
3. Gu QB, Zhao JX, Fei J, Schwarz W. Modulation of Na(+),K(+) pumping and neurotransmitter uptake by beta-amyloid.
Neuroscience. 2004;126(1):61-7.
4. Studer R, Baysang G, Brack C. N-Acetyl-L-Cystein downregulates beta-amyloid precursor protein gene transcription in human neuroblastoma cells.
Biogerontology. 2001;2(1):55-60.
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Another intriguing link with schizophrenia is the relatively frequent occurrence of obsessional symptoms when schizophrenia patients are started on the newer antipsychotics clozapine or olanzapine (see, e.g., Ongur and Goff, 2005).
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Perhaps the study by Fournier and Robinson (2006), reporting that "SNAP-23 that lacks a domain required for SNARE complex assembly decreased the fraction of EAAC1 found on the cell surface and decreased total EAAC1 expression" may also have us suspect a role for SNAP-23(15q21-22)in OCD. Interesting that 15q21 is also a dyslexia locus.
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Harvey is a very large rabbit who is only visible to his best friend, Elwood P. Dowd (Sean Paul Farris), a man who once considered himself smart, but who is now content with merely being pleasant and having a drink with anybody, anywhere.
Throughout this light comedy, all the other quirky characters are constantly afflicted by Harvey's problematic existence, according to a news release. Because of Harvey, Elwood's beleaguered relatives are trying to get him committed to a sanitarium before his wacky "delusions" completely ruin their social lives.
Elwood's sister Veta Louise Simmons (Sydney Clinton) is finally beginning to think that Harvey might actually be real. Veta's eligible daughter, Myrtle Mae's (Chelsea Taormina) chances of attracting a potential husband are being thwarted at every turn by Elwood and his giant "Pooka," so the two ladies want cheerful old Elwood committed. Unfortunately for their scheme, sanitarium psychiatrists Dr. Chumley (Don Jones), Dr. Sanderson (Chris Eckersley), their nurse Ruth Kelly (Karen de Lucca) and feisty orderly Wilson (Scotty Oka) mistake Veta for the crazy one and promptly lock her up, sending Elwood on his tipsy way, along with Harvey.
It takes the help of stern family lawyer judge Omar Gaffney (Phillip Dolan) to try and get the right looney into the nuthouse, but the question is, who's crazy and who isn't? Who's committing and who's being committed? Guffaws continually erupt as Elwood and his big fluffy pal glide affably through the totally befuddled lives of everybody else, according to the news release.
Directed by Tommy Jones with assistance from Evan Vest and also starring Amanda Newnham, Hazel Campbell and Jeff Wood, "Harvey" opens with a gala featuring complimentary Bunny Wine and Rabbity hors d'oeuvres, presented in lapin (that means rabbits) elegance by hostess Claire Willard.
Doors open on Fridays and Saturdays at 6:45 p.m. with showtimes at 7:30. Sunday Matinee doors open at 1:15 with showtimes at 2. Play dates are Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays through June 30. Tickets are $15 for adults and $6 for students. Tickets are available at Wright's Custom Framing and Art Supplies and Chetco Pharmacy and Gifts in Brookings; New Wave Video in Harbor and at the door on performances. For reservations, call 541-469-1877. For theater information, call 541-469-1857 or visit http://www.chetcopelicanplayers.org for more information about all presentations.
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As I understand, Dirac equation was first interpreted as a wave equation following the ideas of non relativistic quantum mechanics, but this lead to different problems.
The equation was then reinterpreted as a field equation and it is now a crucial part of quantum field theory.
My question is: could you provide me a reference (paper, book) that explains this evolution, including the different historical steps, etc. ?
I have a good knowledge of QM and I studying field theories, but I would like to have a clearer view on this historical evolution.


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Later that night, after parting company with Carla and Lola (who had accepted Carlas invitation to spend the night at her place), I went back to my hotel and was letting myself into my room when a shadow detached itself from near the fire exit down the hall.
Sorry I startled you, Gunnar said after I climbed down from the ceiling. Got a minute?
Sure, mano, I said. Come in. I pushed the door open and Gunnar followed me in. Drink? I asked.
Gunnar just shook his head and jerked his thumb back toward the door as he walked over to the curtained windows. I shut the door and turned to see him carefully opening a tiny gap in the curtains to peer down toward the street.
Youre very secret agent tonight, I said with a laugh.
Gunnar turned toward me and said, I heard about what happened.
Yeah? I sat down on the edge of the bed and kicked off my shoes. The tie came off next and tossed it somewhere on the sheets behind me. What have you heard?
Gunnar moved over to the small table near the door and leaned back against it, folding his arms. A sprout was left at the construction site. Maybe it doesnt mean anything, but there are rumors.
I sighed. Ive had a long day, so
Sometimes cats from El Marrow make the scene, Gunnar said. Some hear things there about a rogue DOD agent making trouble in Rubacava. That was interesting. The stories arent very specific, Gunnar said with a shrug, other than to say that the Man isnt very happy. Could be hes unhappy enough to send the troublemaker a message.
Or maybe, I said, bad things just happen and **** has to land somewhere.
Gunnar nodded slowly. You cant escape gravity. He stood away from the table. Like you said, its been a long day and its time for me to scat.
Thanks for dropping by, I said as Gunnar went out and shut the door behind him. It wasnt until he was gone that I realized his gravity remark wasnt really meant as agreement.


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I noticed on the game this year that there is an 'interested' panel on our manager profiles. Has anyone noticed or not whether they have any other clubs interested them?
I noticed on the game this year that there is an 'interested' panel on our manager profiles. Has anyone noticed or not whether they have any other clubs interested them?
this was one of the first things i noticed, not actually seen any teams in it though, but its good to see
Hadn't noticed it but it's a good addition.
Just wondering if it actually works as i've looked at loads of managers in my game and it says none on every single one..
Well i'm not sure if it works properly, but if it does it's a brilliant addition.
i had a look through some managers without clubs, and theres no teams in them, hmmm
well, chances are you'd have to have clubs without managers, not managers without clubs for a club to be interested in a manager.
I fear though that he'll remain on the dole for years. In FM2008 Jose Mourinho stayed unemployed throughout my entire game and i played till 2028! FM has issues with managers not getting jobs in every single version. I report this every year but nexer ever fixed.
True enough, I'm going to wait until the next time I see a manager get sacked and I get the news item listing 3 or 4 managers who are likely to take over and then check their interested slots and see if it lists any clubs.
and it does work ,tell me how to upload a screenie if you don't believe me and i will
I can't find out how too? I press print screen but it doesn't allow me to paste to paint. Anywho, if you want me too, you are going to have to tell me how too. If not, you'll have to find it on your own game.
you have to open up paint (in accessories on your PC) and paste it in there.
I've tried and can't get it to work. Anyway, cba to try any longer. Just wait until you see someone get sacked and check the news item and then check the profile of one of the potential managers.
Was just thinking the other day that this would be a good addition, glad to see it added.
Has anyone seen this feature actually working?
Yep, I had Inter interested during my 2nd season. Sure enough a few days later they offer me a 4 year contract which I reject. There was also something about it on the transfer rumours page.
I was with Liverpool and had just signed a 4 year deal at 90k/w with them so Inter we're willing to pay some componsation.
EDIT: Also worth noting. I received an email about Sami Hyypia being looked at by Ipswich to be there manager. It was also in the rumours section and when looking at his profile I noticed it then too.
Ive had Arsenal, MU and Chelsea all offer me a contract and appear in that box just prior too the offer - They all had just lost their previous managers...
Also noted is the above comment about them not finding jobs...
Jose Murinho (sp?) Sir Alex Ferguson and Arsen Wegner all currently been without jobs for two seasons... Maybe SAF I can understand... But the other two?
I have seen it but on an world class unemployed assman, just a team that was interested in getting him on board.
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8 Celebrities You Didn't Know Were Geeks
Yet, there is a whole class of nerds who break that universal rule, who somehow wind up smarter than us, yet also, are so good at being tough or being hot that they've got legions of adoring fans. Maybe they're just lucky, or maybe they turned their backs on God and sought solace in the infernal embrace of a giving demonic patron. The fact is, it is not fair that these people exist and we suggest you take it up with your local clergy.
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#8. Natalie Portman
When Golden Globe winner Natalie Portman was 10 years old, a representative of Revlon found her at a pizza parlor and asked her if she wanted to model. Portman turned her down and said that, all things considered, she would much rather act.
Portman was a straight A student in high school, although it was a public school and we can tell you first hand that most of what they teach involves premarital sex and how to keep your gun properly oiled. While playing the Queen Amidala in The Phantom Menace, she skipped the premiere to study for her final exams. This, by the way, got her into Harvard (If you ask us, it's really a toss-up between the Ivy League and non-alcoholic sparkling cider at the kids' table with baby Anakin.).
Portman was a research assistant in a psychology lab and put in some time working for the youngest law professor in the history of Harvard, Alan Dershowitz. You may remember him as a member of O.J. Simpson's legal "dream team," permanently earning himself another place in history as somebody you never want to get in an argument with about anything, ever. He even gave her a shout out in his book The Case for Israel.
By the time she got her bachelor's, she had studied four languages in addition to Hebrew, the language of her birth, had been published in professional science journals twice, killed a butt load of aliens, and generally made us look like big human-shaped piles of poo. Seriously, when we were 10 years old, we wanted to be doctors or space cowboys or, at the very least, fire fighters. The closest we've gotten so far is one of those little shiny red fireman helmets.
Recently Natalie returned to the ground she covered with Dershowitz when she starred as anarchist apprentice Evey Hammond in the terrorist fable V for Vendetta. This got her invited to Columbia to speak to a class on terrorism and antiterrorism and, more importantly, bridging the raw, seemingly eternal divide between comic book and Star Wars geeks.
#7. The Offspring lead singer Dexter Holland
Bryan "Dexter" Holland is the kind of dude who, if he can't get into a rock show, grabs a buddy and starts The Offspring. Half a decade later, he was signed with Epitaph Records to join NOFX and Rancid, with whom his band is partly credited for bringing punk rock back into the angst-dripping hearts of suburban kids who really don't have much to complain about except the emptiness of their idle middle-class lives. To go down that road, however, he had to give up a pretty straight-arrow career path of over-achieving drudgery that probably would have given him some of his best moody material--and a sick minivan to go with it.
Dexter, as it turns out, grew up in the high-rent suburbs West Garden Grove, California.
He went to Pacifica High School and, instead of setting fires and declaring anarchy, went ahead and graduated as valedictorian instead. He went on to the University of Southern California, became a pre-med student and eventually got his Master's Degree in molecular biology. He was actually on the way to a Ph.D. before dropping out to follow his dream of throwing glistening globs of his own biological molecules all over screaming audiences night after night.
In his spare time he decided to also become a licensed airline pilot and flew himself around the world. Hey, why not?
5 & 6 Underworld's Kate Beckinsale and Kevin Grevioux
Let's talk about Kate Beckinsale first. Well, there's the posh and personable accent. Then, there's the "shaped out of clay and given breath by a prayer to the gods and a slowly expanding pillar of light" body. Also, there's that face. Oh, and this:
So how does one prepare to star in a campy Matrix-with-werewolves franchise? Why, by becoming a literary prodigy and mastering several languages, obviously. Beckinsale wrote award-winning short stories and poems (taking home the national W.H. Smith Literary Award twice in a row). That love for the written language took her to Oxford University, where Beckinsale mastered French, German and Russian and had her nose buried in French and Russian texts caked with several lifetimes' worth of "who the hell gives a damn about Baratynsky" dust. She was on her way to being the world's sexiest librarian in the world's emptiest library before she finally dropped out to eventually star in a movie about a war between vampires and werewolves.
Meanwhile, the biggest, baddest werewolf in the film was this guy ...
Kevin Grevioux, who played Raze. This dude, seemingly born to play horror movie monsters, served as a research assistant at the world famous National Institutes of Health and got his degree in microbiology from Howard University. While pursuing his master's in genetic engineering, Grevioux discovered he was more interested in film and moved to Los Angeles. The role of Raze was perfect for Grevioux because, well, he wrote the movie.
We'd like to have been a fly on the wall during that shoot, with Beckinsale quoting Russian poetry and Grevioux tossing out cancer cures in their spare time. Then, they get interrupted so they can go play werewolves and vampires.


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PCBA's President's Message
Remarks by President, Craig S. Young at the July 7th of 2014 Annual Meeting of the Peoria County Bar Association:
It is my honor to assume the role of President of the Peoria County Bar Association. I want to thank the Board, and all members of the Association for giving me this opportunity to help move the Association forward over the coming year. We have a tremendous Bar Association… truly one of the best in the nation. There is much for us to be proud of, much to preserve, and numerous opportunities for improvement as we work together in association as lawyers.
It has become tradition for the newly elected President to outline a platform or a focus for the coming year. I would like to introduce that subject by referring to a fairly famous photograph which likely hangs in some of our offices. The photograph is entitled Peoria Bar Association, Last Appearance in Old Courtroom – June 15, 1964. As the title suggests, this was the last appearance of the Peoria Bar Association, prior to the demolition of the old courthouse and the construction of the new courthouse we all practice in today. A review of that photograph, which was taken almost exactly 50 years ago to this date, reveals a great deal of history important to all of us. I can't help but notice Clarence Heyl, the founder of my firm sitting third from the left on the front row, looking every bit as stern as I am told he could be. He was a very active member of our bar serving as President in 1921, and actually, serving as the Lincoln Banquet speaker in 1943. In the back row, is my former partner, Lyle Allen, also one of the founding partners in my firm of Heyl, Royster, Voelker & Allen. I did have the privilege of practicing with Lyle for a couple of years before his retirement and got to know him both as a lawyer and a friend. In my office today, sit two leather bound chairs which were used by Clarence Heyl along with the desk and furniture used by Lyle Allen. It is important to me that I have inherited these as a reminder of these great lawyers who were instrumental in the founding and development of the firm I practice with. Most of you as a member of the Bar today will see faces in this photo important to your history as a lawyer.
From this introduction, it is likely clear I would like to focus during the coming year on the history of our Bar Association. I choose this focus not to simply recall our past in a nostalgic way, but because I think there is much we can learn from the lawyers who went before us in this Bar Association. Certainly, on some points, we will learn that we have made great progress beyond the views and outlooks of our predecessors. As an example, it cannot be overlooked that the 1964 photograph referenced above is filled with only white men. Our Association has made great progress in a positive way on the issue of diversity. Reflecting on our history will give us an opportunity to celebrate the positive impact our Bar Association has had over time on the advancement of the legal profession.
While our predecessors in the bar may have had significant room for development on the issue of diversity, and perhaps other issues, it will be more important for us to focus on the many positive aspects of their approach to the practice of law and their involvement in the Bar Association. For the past year, I have chaired an Ad Hoc Committee on attendance. Unfortunately, the reason for the existence for this committee is our Association has now been suffering for several years from low attendance at all Bar Association events. There are some positive developments that have come from this Committee's efforts. Recent diversity luncheons have been heavily attended. Attendance at our superb CLE presentations remains high, although diminished in the last couple of years. We were also able, with significant effort, to raise slightly the attendance at this year's Lincoln Banquet. Despite those minimal successes, we have to admit that overall attendance at virtually every event has been down significantly over the past several years.
As is demonstrated by the 1964 photograph referenced above, our predecessors did not suffer from this problem. While exact documentation is not possible based upon the information we have available, it is clear from reviewing rosters and censuses that a very large majority of the attorneys who practiced in Peoria in 1964 not only were members of the Bar Association, but appeared in the photo. THEY WOULD NOT HAVE MISSED IT. An important part of being a lawyer for them was the face-to-face association they had with each other on a regular basis both in their daily practice, and through the Bar Association. Active participation in the Bar Association was simply part of being a lawyer for those who practiced law at that time. On that point, we can learn a great deal from those who came before us.
It is my hope that by focusing on our history, we might revitalize our commitment to supporting each other through regular association at bar activities and functions. How will we do that? First, I will be trying to highlight certain aspects of our history in the Legal Ease on a monthly basis. I solicit your help in that regard. Frankly, we have lost much of the written documentation pertaining to our history, and if you have access to interesting facts about our past which you think would be relevant, please contact me with those suggestions.
Second, I will be asking our committees, where possible, to focus on our history when organizing various events and activities. Our CLE Committee has already done that with some of the recent ethics presentations, and there may be other opportunities where we can highlight our past as we share together in our events and meetings.
Third, our Mentoring Committee is reorganizing in a way which should prompt greater participation. Last year's mentoring program was organized around the Supreme Court rule which provides CLE credit. As expected, those requirements are demanding, and the result was low participation. This year we are not going to focus on those CLE requirements and simply encourage many one-on-one mentoring relationships between older and younger attorneys. It would be my hope that the older attorneys who were benefitted by a history of more active involvement in the Bar Association will be able to convey some of that past to the newer members.
Lastly, we have a unique opportunity with the Lincoln Banquet in 2015. Our Lincoln Banquet is the longest running continuing such event in the entire country. 2015 is a very important anniversary year, as this is the 150th remembrance of Lincoln's death, and the 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War. We in Central Illinois have the rare privilege of counting Abraham Lincoln as part of our legal past, and plans are already underway to make next year's banquet a true celebration. We will be doing everything we can to promote heavy attendance by all attorneys at this very important event.
I would like to end with one more history lesson going back to the very beginning of our Association. The first effort at organizing a bar association in Peoria took place on November 18th of 1879, when 20 attorneys met in the courthouse to form the Peoria Bar Association. By-laws were adopted, and dues were set at $1.00. The order of business for the day contained a 5th item entitled "Intermission for Social Conversation". The slate of officers elected included the first president of the association, David W. McCulloch.
On January 13th of 1880, the next meeting was held and President McCulloch gave his inaugural address. The importance of that activity is demonstrated by the fact his remarks were published the next day in the daily newspaper and were printed in three full columns. While I have been unable to locate a record of those remarks, I think it is safe to assume President McCulloch likely made reference to the statement of purpose adopted by that first association. It read as follows:
"The Association is formed to promote reform in the law, to facilitate the administration of justice, to elevate the standard of integrity, honor and courtesy in the legal profession, to encourage a thorough and legal education and to cherish a spirit of brotherhood among the members thereof."
As we focus on our past and consider both similarities and differences between us and those who came before us, I think we can agree the statement of purpose adopted by the founders of our association over 135 years ago would serve nicely as a statement of purpose for our Bar Association today. The difference, however, is the degree to which the entire bar in 1879 was participating together in carrying out that statement of purpose. While exact research is not possible, it appears when comparing the rosters of attorneys in Peoria in 1879 with the records regarding the members who formed the original association, that every single attorney in Peoria was present at these founding meetings. It is my hope that during the coming year we can learn from this history and begin anew to cherish the spirit of brotherhood among all our members.
Thank you, and I look forward to serving with you toward that end.
Craig S. Young
President - Peoria County Bar Association
On February 19, over 200 of our members attended the 107th Lincoln Memorial Banquet on the campus of Bradley University. This was a special year for our association's marquee event as it highlighted the 150th remembrance of Lincoln's death and the end of the Civil War. The evening was made special by extra effort from many individuals too numerous to mention. I do want to give special recognition to John Redlingshafer and Judge Shadid as chair and vice chair of the event, Judge Mihm for recruiting and introducing our exceptional speaker, John Heil and his public relations team for ingenious promotion, Linda for her great organizational skills, and our Young Lawyers Committee for the extensive research and creativity in the table decorations and set up. The attention to detail from so many made the evening truly meaningful for all who were able to attend.
Most importantly, I want to recognize our Board, and our membership as a whole for their strong support of this important PCBA tradition. We hold the distinction of hosting the longest continuous running celebration of Lincoln in the country. That hasn't happened by accident, and there have been times in the past where it was not certain this tradition would continue. I am one who believes that we as lawyers, who walk in Lincoln's footsteps, have a responsibility to continue to honor his memory, and I am proud of those who raised the bar for this year's banquet. By doing so, we set the stage for an even better eent next year, and for many years beyond. I look forward to seeing everyone at next year's Lincoln Banquet as we continue this time-honored tradition.
Craig Young, PCBA President
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How to Hire a Private Jet to Beat Winter Weather Delays
Charter Flights Can Offer Escape for Stranded Passengers Willing to Pay High Prices
Like thousands of other travelers, Debbie Grazioso found herself stranded by bad weather, stuck in a line of 70 people on Jan. 6 in Florida and told by JetBlue Airways JBLU -2.03 % that she'd have to wait four days for a seat to New York. That meant missing a birthday party for her 25-year-old twin daughters.
Sometimes emergency situations require emergency measures. Ms. Grazioso and her husband, Glen Vittor, paid $9,000 to hitch a ride with another family on a seven-passenger Cessna Citation Excel, landing only hours after their scheduled trip. "It was well worth it. You can never get a birthday back," she said.
Time after time, storm after storm, travelers have been left in the lurch this winter. Long after the weather clears, the impact on airlines and their passengers persists. So far this January, U.S. airlines have canceled more than 36,000 flights—more than after superstorm Sandy in 2012 and three times as many as the last two Januarys. That's roughly three million inconvenienced passengers. With most flights booked full, it can take three, four or even five days to get rebooked.
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Chartering a private jet is more complicated than buying an airline ticket.
- CHECK FOR SAFETY RATINGS. You want an operator with top-level certification from both Wyvern and Argus International.
- ASK A FRIEND. Someone you know with a jet card can speed the process up.
- UNDERSTAND THE PRICING. Is it fixed or dependent on the trip duration? If one-way, is there a charge for flying the plane empty to its next stop? Airport fees? Catering fee?
- ASK ABOUT SHARING. Some brokers will ask clients with available empty seats if they'd be willing to take on extra people to share costs.
- BUDDY UP. See a group of well-to-do people stuck in the same airport line? Chartering as a group spreads the high cost out.
Alternatives are limited—driving or taking a train may take days; other airlines are all booked up. For those few willing to pay the very high price, private jets can provide a smart escape.
Terry Cooper, president of Charter Matrix, an online directory and marketplace that lists flights with empty seats and arranges charters, said that during the holiday storms, his requests doubled. "There's a lot of freedom to corporate jets, but you pay for that freedom," he said.
How much? A small jet with four to six seats can cost $3,000 per hour, brokers say, putting a 2½-hour flight from Florida to New York at around $7,500. Airport fees and charges to reposition aircraft can raise that considerably. Larger jets run $8,000 or more per hour.
Magellan Jets, a Quincy, Mass., firm that handles regular customers who buy hours in bulk and one-time on-demand charters, says a midsize Hawker 400XP with seating for up to eight costs about $12,000 for a trip from West Palm Beach, Fla., to Teterboro, N.J., for its members, and $17,000 for a nonmember on a one-time, one-way charter.
Private jets have lots of advantages over airlines for getting in the air before and after storms. There are thousands of small airports available to them. While big airports often have more equipment to keep runways open, schedules can often get discombobulated by a lack of gates, a lack of security screeners, baggage handlers or gate agents, or simply the need to thin out airline schedules engineered for perfect flying conditions. That rarely impacts secondary airports, allowing private jets to fly when many commercial flights are grounded.
And there's the bonus of not having to stand in line for Transportation Security Administration clearance, either.
For three couples eager to get home, sharing a plane and paying $4,000 or $5,000 each may be more attractive than being stuck in a hotel away from family or work for most of a week.
Ms. Grazioso was grounded when JetBlue had a shortage of pilots after longer rest periods were required starting Jan. 1. She tried to find a way to fly to Dallas and then connect to New Jersey, or drive to Jacksonville, Fla., and get a flight home from there. No luck.
They looked into Amtrak—maybe flying to Washington, D.C., and catching a train from there. But there were no airline seats to Washington available. She had the American Express platinum members' desk working on it, and her own travel agent, who she says usually works miracles. "There was nothing. We checked every airline," she said.
So she began looking into private jets. One charter company quoted her a price of $22,000—too much, she decided. Her husband called Magellan and an agent said a client—three people and three dogs—were flying from West Palm Beach to White Plains, N.Y., with some empty seats. The client told Magellan they didn't mind sharing and a match was made.
"We had mutual friends, it turned out," Ms. Grazioso said. A rented car was waiting plane-side in White Plains and the drive home to New Jersey took about 90 minutes.
Magellan said it flew about 30 to 40 extra flights on Jan. 5 and 6 with people stranded by the ice storm, and had more people waiting. "It got to the point we were linking clients up with each other," said Anthony Tivnan, Magellan's president. In situations like that, the company charters to one client for one price and lets the passengers decide how to split the cost.
The high season for private jets runs from Thanksgiving through the end of March. No week is as busy as Super Bowl week. This year thousands of small-jet flights will descend on airports around the New York region, booking special takeoff and landing slots with the Federal Aviation Administration because traffic is so heavy. When the game ends, engines start turning with a race to escape quickly and avoid delays.
For the Super Bowl, Magellan said a Denver-to-Teterboro flight on a private aircraft starts at about $25,000 round-trip and Seattle-to-Teterboro starts at around $35,000 round-trip.
After slow years through the recession, private-jet firms say business is booming. "The economy is better and airline service is worse," said Bradley Stewart, chief executive officer of XOJet, a Brisbane, Calif.-based private aviation firm.
Charter firms have gotten more aggressive about posting "empty legs" available to travelers at deep discounts. Private jet charter firm JetSuite, based in Irvine, Calif., lists its empty leg flights on Facebook, for example, sometimes with prices as low as $500 or $1,000 for the whole airplane. A four-seat Embraer Phenom 100 regularly costs $3,400 an hour for members and $3,900 for nonmembers, JetSuite said.
While empty-leg pricing can be eye-catching, finding a trip where and when you want to go can be rare. You can set an alert on Charter Matrix and get an email when any flights that come close to a particular route open up.
With any charter, two safety measures are prudent: Make sure your operator has strong safety ratings from both Wyvern and Argus International Inc., two private aviation safety agencies. Argus includes background checks on pilots as well as rating operating companies; Wyvern runs checks on aircraft as well as crew training and experience.
With the New Year's storm, JetSuite flew customers out of the Caribbean into Texas and Florida, then on to New York once conditions improved, Chief Executive Alex Wilcox said.
XOJet positioned planes just outside the areas expected to be hard-hit by polar vortex storms over the holidays, parking them in places like Greensboro, N.C. They were easily able to pick up passengers in Florida and get them to New York as soon as weather conditions improved.
XOJet will provide a standby jet for good customers, Mr. Stewart said. The customers have airline tickets, but if flights get canceled and they have to be in Davos or at a board meeting, a plane and crew are waiting. "If they make their airline connection, great. If not, we swing into action," he said.
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TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW)__The main item on the agenda was a $12.69 million dollar budget to improve existing streets. The budget proposal includes stretches that run west on SW 4th, 5th, and 6th beginning at Topeka Boulevard.
Councilmembers voted to pass it unanimously but not before councilman Chad Manspeaker voiced his opinion on where those improvements should be made. "What's important is making sure we have a balance of the road projects that we are doing, not just the outskirts of the city. The central part of the city that is just as important as folks travel downtown and throughout the area," said Manspeaker.
The proposed budget would authorize maintenance and improvements to existing streets, curbs, gutters and sidewalks, with funding coming from the half cent sales tax.
That half cent sales tax plan was an issue for councilmember Karen Hiller, who says some of the streets allowed to be improved, were not supposed to be touched until two years from now. "We had a ten year plan. We are in year four and it was to only do major roads the first six years and residential roads the last four. If we start doing residential roads now, i just want to know if we are not following the plan anymore and if not, than we need to do it with a purpose," said Hiller.
Councilmembers also voted unanimously to improve a stretch of road on SW 17th from Washburn Avenue to Macvicar on the north end of Washburn University's campus.
Manspeaker represents the area and said it is in dire need of repair.


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A luxury yarn developed specifically for babies. A machine washable blend of merino wool and silk that has a wonderful soft handle for your little treasures.
Rowan Fine Art is a blend of fibre and colour. Designed for socks, shawls and other accessories, it is made with merino wool, kid mohair, mulberry silk and polyamide to make it suitable and durable for all projects.
Rowan Chenille is 100% cotton, soft and yet textured to the touch. This yarn takes cables and textured stitches very well. Available in strong jewel like colours and in a 50 gram ball it is ideal for colour work, mixing with other Rowan core yarns, but equally makes very wearable and warm garments when knitted by iteslf.


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I saw there is a new version of MacBook Pro is out which has Retina Display. This means there are more pixel per inch. Does this imply that text is smaller?
It depends on your setting.
There is a new option to configure the resolution and rendering in System Preferences → Color LCD. While you actually change the resolution and redering, Apple only refers to the visual impact of the settings.
So basically changing the setting offers:
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As you can see on the new MacBook Pro page (under the Retina-feature item), if you use the binoculars on the text, it doesn't look smaller. It just looks much, much, much sharper!
It's the same as the iPhone 4(S) comparing to the iPhone 3G(S). You don't need better glasses to read the text, because it's not smaller. It's just much sharper and easier to read.
Maybe, I can make my point even better with the iPad Retina page. You'll see you can fit as much text on both the Retina screen as the normal screen. It's just sharper!
Before you make a comment, YES, I know it's a screenshot of an iPad and the question is about the new MacBook Pro, but I didn't found any image with this much text on the new MacBook Pro, so hence the iPad Retina screen.
No. Text will be the same size. It will just have two times the resolution in each direction. Just like the difference between the original iPad and the 3rd gen iPad.


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On Sunday morning, Club 300 members, riders living with MS and the team that received the Platinum Safety Award lead the mass of cyclists from the fairgrounds on one of two routes that lead to Bastrop Intermediate School for lunch. Cyclists may take the Bechtel Challenge Route and enjoy the rolling terrain of Bastrop and Buescher State Parks or bypass the parks via the Genzyme One to One Lunch Express Route. After lunch at Bastrop Intermediate School, the route takes cyclists into downtown Austin for exciting Finish Line festivities at the State Capitol near the Bob Bullock State History Museum.


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After you've cast Collective Voyage, do you wait for everyone to pay and then respond with Flash, or do you have to respond immediately?
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MtG works by a system of timing and priority. The Active Player, player whose turn it is, can cast Sorceries when the stack is empty during their first or second Main Phase. After casting a spell and paying the required costs, including mana costs, the spell waits on the stack for all players to pass priority, then the top object on the stack resolves.
Casting Collective Voyage for one {G} mana places it on the stack, and then priority is returned to you.
You may choose to cast Flash before Collective Voyage resolves, in response to it, since Instants may be cast anytime you have priority and you have the required costs including mana cost {1}{U} to cast the spell. In this case, it would resolve first.
You may also choose to wait until after Collective Voyage resolves, when you will receive priority again to cast spells and activate abilities. In this case, it would resolve afterward.
During the resolution of Collective Voyage, players may not cast spells, but may activate mana abilities to search their library for land cards. The order of how much to pay is written on the card, starting with the player who cast Collective Voyage and continuing clockwise. After all players have decided how much to pay, the lands are placed on the battlefield simultaneously and Collective Voyage is placed in its owner's graveyard (having resolved).
When you play a sorcery, you place the spell on the stack. Players can then respond with an instant spell or an activated ability.
When nobody responds, or all the responses have resolved, the sorcery will "resolve" in one go. You cannot respond while a spell is resolving. That means you can't respond to the first part of the spell, when players pay mana. The spell will resolve in its entirety.
Only after the entire sorcery is done can you respond again.
You have two options.
To cast a spell in response to a spell or ability is to cast a spell after another has been cast but before it resolves.
If you cast Flash in response to Collective Voyage, Flash will resolve before Collective Journey, so Flash will resolve before anyone has payed any mana.
After Collective Voyage has finished resolving, players have a change to play spells, starting with the active player (which is likely the one who cast Collective Voyage, since it's a sorcery).
You could cast it then if the Active player declines to cast anything then.


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* Optional spirit level at convenient to view position.
The level is clamped to Rotator D4. It extends out of the R1/10 and can be placed to any easy to view position. We will also make similar level for monopod.
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* Optional advanced rail stop to remember NPP setting.
This is a compact and elegant integrated stop plate. It is clipped to the lens ring plate. The stopping position has to be predetermined and machined in the factory. The mounting of lens rings has been proved to be very repeatable. After collecting and varifying the setting for a particular lens at a particular tilt angle, we will start making the stop plate.
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LITTLE ROCK, AR. (Aug. 27, 2010) - Arkansas Children's Hospital (ACH) has named Kevin Haralson as director of Clinical Engineering for the state's only pediatric medical center.
Haralson, of Cabot, has worked as a clinical engineer at ACH for nine years, repairing biomedical equipment and managing a wide scope of system projects. He also has extensive experience in regulatory compliance and quality measurement.
One of only 114 clinical engineers in the nation to hold dual certification from the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI), Haralson has also worked in Clinical Engineering at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and Jefferson Regional Medical Center. He is a certified biomedical equipment technician and a certified laboratory equipment specialist.
"Whether repairing complicated dialysis machines or managing a database of the many thousands of pieces of equipment used to help patients at Arkansas Children's Hospital, Kevin's expertise is invaluable," said Cindy Holland, vice president of Clinical Services at ACH. "We're happy we found the right candidate, and that he was already familiar with what it takes to keep this hospital operating."
Haralson is a graduate of the UAMS Biomedical Instrumentation Technology program. He also trained in biomedical equipment repair with the United States Army. Haralson began his duties as director of Clinical Engineering earlier this month.
Arkansas Children's Hospital is the only pediatric medical center in Arkansas and one of the largest in the United States serving children. The campus spans 29 city blocks and houses 316 beds, a staff of approximately 500 physicians, 80 residents in pediatrics and pediatric specialties and more than 4,200 employees. The private, nonprofit healthcare facility boasts an internationally renowned reputation for medical breakthroughs and intensive treatments, unique surgical procedures and forward-thinking medical research - all dedicated to fulfilling our mission of enhancing, sustaining and restoring children's health and development. ACH, recently named for the third time as one of U.S. News & World Report's best pediatric hospitals, also has ranked twice on FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For®, most recently at No. 85. For more information, visit
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Basic Rules for Financial Freedom: Make Wealth Happen
Getting wealthy means being very honest with yourself and being willing to invest your time and efforts into the quest for greater prosperity. Many of the Rules are behavioral, and changing your behavior is never easy. Some Rules will seem stunningly simple, but for every Rule you have to ask yourself: "I may already know this -- but do I do it?" The willingness to put in the effort and do something, make things happen, is vital.
(Excerpted from "The Rules of Money" by Richard Templar)
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You've Got to Know Where You Are Before You Start
Before we can go forward, we have to know where we are now. Or rather, you have to. When Robinson Crusoe swam ashore from his shipwrecked boat, the first thing he did was check out what supplies, guns, and ammunition he had. Once he knew that, he could assess the situation and move forward.
So you are going to swim ashore and begin your new life. The first thing you have to do is to take stock. Find out what you've already got, what can be used, what can be discarded or discounted, what you owe, what you are owed, and what basically is your net worth.
We're going to do a full financial audit on you and your life. If you don't know where you are before you start, you can't really work efficiently toward becoming wealthy. It's a wise man who lays out his tools before he begins the job.
All you've got to do is collect all the information -- what you owe at the bank (or have in there in your current account, deposit account, savings account), and what you owe on credit cards. Also start working out what you spend on a monthly and annual basis (and where you spend it).
From The Rules of Money Copyright © 2007, FT Press. Used by permission of FT Press, and Pearson Education. All rights reserved.
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After 5 minutes of playing Amnesia the dark descent in linux version and other games running on wine i get a black screen.
During these days i only installed software from the Ubuntu software center,downloaded some source tar.gz files and edited some personal text files.
Nothing special at all which makes me wonder what is going on with my machine...
These are the only games i have installed (along with GTR2 which i have not tested).I run both games 3 times and got the same result.
OS: Pinguy OS 11.04 (Ubuntu Based)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-9-generic (i686)
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ 2200.33MHz
GPU: nVidia GeForce 240
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Rick Bowmer, Associated Press
As summers go around ski areas, this past one was rather calm. The focus, in most cases, was on making terrain more skier/snowboarder friendly wider runs, smoother ground, easier access.
There were exceptions — one new lift, a terrain park for females only, a big birthday party, quicker access to lifts and more snow with less energy.
The only new lift went into Snowbird. Actually, it replaced a very old lift. The original Gad 2 lift, installed in 1971, was by today's standards slow and uncomfortable. The double-chair lift was taken out and a new Gad 2 detachable high-speed quad was put in its place. Ride time on the new lift will be half what it was, which translates to more minutes on the runs.
The big news at Park City Mountain Resort is it's 50 years old. Plans are in motion for a season-long birthday party, says Andy Miller, communications manager.
He adds the focus over the summer was on the historic celebration.
"We have a lot of activities planned, like a weekly birthday party with giveaways and resort specials in order to give people the opportunity to help us celebrate,'' he says.
The big day will be Dec. 21, the official opening day of Treasure Mountain back in 1963, which later became Park City and then Park City Mountain Resort. Festivities that day will include speakers reflecting back on old times, along with music and fireworks.
In the canyon just over the mountain, Brighton and Solitude got a little closer together. The SolBright Trail between the two resorts was widened and groomed to make getting between the two much easier and faster this winter, notes Jared Winkler, Brighton public relations director. In the past, the trail was often rutted and bumpy and not always easy to traverse.
That didn't always make it easy for those buying the Big Cottonwood Pass, which allows skiing and snowboarding at both resorts on the same day.
To make things even easier, Brighton put in a new ticket system to match Solitude's that allows for direct-lift access. Skiers and snowboarders buying a lift ticket off-site will now be able to go directly from their vehicle to the lift without making a stop at the ticket window.
The system also makes it possible to get a card that allows an individual to activate it on a home computer prior to heading to the resort.
Brighton also became the first resort in Utah to have a female-only terrain park.
"We had a number of girls tell us they felt intimidated when they tried new tricks with boys around,'' said Winkler. "We'll try it and see how it works out.''
Snowbasin will introduce young skiers and snowboarders to dinosaurs this winter in its Riglet Terrain Park. Kids between 3 and 6 will be greeted by Dino the Brontosaurus and Terry the Triceratops.
"Our park will be one of only 13 theme parks in the country. We chose the dinosaur because Utah has a history of dinosaurs,'' says Jason Dyer, marketing manager.
And, joining Deer Valley and other resorts, Snowbasin invested in energy-efficient Snow Logic snow guns. The new snow guns produce more snow with much less energy.
The Snow Logic system produces the lowest cost per acre foot of man-made snow in the marketplace.
• Deer Valley will have a new ski run off Little Baldy Mountain for beginning-level skiers. It also invested $4.5 million to upgrade its snow-making system, purchasing ultra-low-energy-efficient Snow Logic tower guns. It also added three new snowcats to keep its reputation as one of the best groomed ski areas in the country.
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In the Treaty of Kiel of 1814, Norway was essentially given from Denmark to Sweden as a "sorry we were on the other side", but Iceland was not a part of this deal at all. This is in spite of the fact that Iceland had been a part of Norway since 1261 AD and then later part of Denmark-Norway in 1380 or so. So why was Iceland (and indeed other Norwegian "colonies", such as Greenland) excluded from the treaty?
Norway shares the so-called "Scandinavian" peninsula with Sweden, and the two are contiguous. Therefore, the latter country was eager to make sure that it was in "friendly" hands.
Apart from that, Sweden had an "eastern" (e.g. Baltic), facing strategy, unlike Denmark, which was more west-facing. As such, Iceland (and Greenland) to the west were not of particularly great interest to Sweden, but were of interest to Denmark.
Norway could form an important part of Sweden's "east-facing" strategy, because the northern part goes to the Barents Sea, and from there, Archangel, Russia. Also to the (formerly) Finnish nickel mines in Petsamo.
(Old question, but it is now the 200 years "celebrations" coming up...)
I also think that at least one of the countries supporting the Swedish claim, Great Britain, was not interested in having a new great sea power in the north.
Balance of power, etc.


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Baltimore Summer Restaurant Week 2014 [Pictures]
During this seasonal dining tradition, patrons enjoy dinners (and some lunches) at close to 100 Baltimore-area restaurants for a fixed price of $30 or $20 for three-course dinners, and $15 for two-course lunches. Baltimore Summer Restaurant Week 2014 runs Aug. 1-10. Find information about participating restaurants here (more restaurants and menu details will be added as they're announced).
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West Coast Stories
Robert Adams is best known for his austere depictions of the changing face of the American West. But the 75-year-old photographer came relatively late to the career that has spanned four decades and garnered him international prizes, including the Hasselblad Award in 2009.
After completing graduate studies in English literature, Mr. Adams taught English at a private liberal-arts college in Colorado.
American Dream
"He eventually went in a different direction, however, due in part to the stifling politics and mores of academia," says Joshua Chuang, co-curator of "Robert Adams: The Place We Live," which has just opened at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid.
Nonetheless, Mr. Adams's early career informs his art. "One of the things I think he carried over to his art is what initially drew him to writers like Joyce and Shakespeare: a deep interest and concern for the human condition and of human nature," Mr. Chuang says.
This retrospective exhibition of almost 300 black-and-white photographs dating between 1965 and 2007 portrays precisely these concerns. The iconic "Colorado Springs, Colorado" (1968), for instance, shows a woman silhouetted in a tract-house window.
"Many have asked, pointing incredulously toward a sweep of tract homes and billboards, why picture that? The question sounds simple, but it implies a difficult issue—why open our eyes anywhere but in undamaged places like national parks?" Mr. Adams writes in the introduction to his 1974 book "The New West," which includes this photograph.
"One reason is, of course, that we do not live in parks, that we need to improve things at home, and that to do it we have to see the facts without blinking."
The result is sublime; a prime example of Mr. Adams's remarkable handling of light, but also of one of his long-standing preoccupations: America's man-made landscape and how it can trap the people within it.
All the work in the exhibition comes from the Yale University Art Gallery, which owns the artist's complete archive, and his output is thoroughly represented, from the early photos of his hometown of Longmont, Colorado, to selections from his famous series "The New West" and "Summer Nights," to his more recent pictures of the Pacific Northwest coast.
Words are clearly still a vital element of Mr. Adams's work—his writings are part and parcel of the exhibition's wall descriptions and captions. And Mr. Chuang points out that the show is organized like a novel, in which each section is a chapter and each picture equivalent to a paragraph.
These mini-narratives allow the visitor to experience Mr. Adams's oscillation between tragic environments destroyed by humans, and the renewal he subsequently sought in other subjects, such as the tranquil beach landscapes of his "Sea Stories, This Day" series.
The exhibition concludes with a reading room containing many of the 40 books Mr. Adams has published throughout his career.
His texts, which consciously use the collective voice, reflect the formal austerity present in his images and his sense of complicity.
"We need to watch, for example, as an old woman, alone, is forced to carry her groceries in August heat over a fifty-acre parking lot: then we know, safe from the comforting lies of profiteers, that we must begin again," Mr. Adams writes, again referring to "The New West" series.
Until May 20, then traveling to Josef Albers Museum Quadrat in Bottrop, Germany; Paris's Jeu de Paume; Media Space, London; and Fotomuseum Winterthur in Switzerland.


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Small Group Subproblems
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Joe H proposed that we come up with some smaller problems that allow people to interactively solve them in short periods of time in ML meetups. We can construct a git hub project for them, create a skeleton project, and use issue tracking to list the problems and work on them. Here we list these problems and plan to build them out.
- Time Series Data (Erin)
- Rock Climbing (Joe H)
- Rock climbing data analysis
- Generate predictive system for how much someone should climb based on how they're doing that week.
- Noted that amount of deep sleep can be correlated to mood, which can be correlated to climbing.
- 4square Checkins (Joe H)
- Use 4square checkins to find out what would be the best time to visit a place in a region.
- Education Learning Problem (Tom)
- Determine how people learn over time.
- Figure out how difficult questions are, what kind of knowledge they test
- Determine how good are people at certain types of knowledge.


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I'm using the Sql Server 2012 Import and Export data (64) i'm not sure what options i should be picking to do what i want. I just want to be able to export all the data in the database to a file which i can then send to my other machine and then import the database.
The databases just contains tables.


text: Vindication? Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is a happy guy these days. At a recent news media availability, Gov. Malloy said he feels vindicated because Republicans failed to gain legislative seats by running against his agenda. "Democrats should have a takeaway. And that is you should not be afraid to make tough decisions, particularly if you are transparent about those decisions, if you explain why those decisions were necessary," the governor said. He should be reminded that legislators have some of the greatest job security in the country, primarily because of the old paradox that no matter how much people dislike a legislative body as a whole, they tend to greatly like their own representatives because they know them personally. (In Connecticut, the re-election rate for lawmakers is about 95 percent.) As such, it seems the election results had more to do with legislators' personal ties than with Gov. Malloy.


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The 5 Creepiest Ways Animals Have Mastered Mind Control
#2. Acacia Tree (How to Make Your Own Defending Army)
For decades, scientists thought that the acacia tree had a beautiful and beneficial partnership with a certain species of guard ant: The ants get to eat the sugary plant nectar and live in special hollowed-out thorns that provide safety, and in turn, they defend their kindly plant host from predators. But recently, researchers found that's not the whole story -- the nectar the plant produces isn't just sweet, it's like a drug that turns ants into an army of desperate addicts. And that's not all the acacia tree produces: It also secretes the single most effective ant repellent in the region. By providing or withholding one or the other substance, the acacia tree actually steers the ants around -- toward areas that need defending, or away from tender flowers during pollinating season -- with a combination of drug cocktails and ant-crack.
"Wanna buy a dimebag?"
That's right: This tree has specific wants and needs, and it somehow communicates those to its ant-addict commandos. If you're a plant competing for sunlight, the ants cut off your leaves; if you're a stem-boring beetle, get ready for an ant battle.
This makes the junkie flinging poop at a SWAT team look kind of lazy.
Sometimes even giraffes come for the acacia leaves. But the immense, ridiculous size difference is not enough to deter the ant hordes: If that giraffe steps to the wrong tree, the zombie ants attack, stinging and biting its face until it is forced to flee. As desperate as you think human addiction might be, ant addiction is a whole other bag (not many crackheads would happily fistfight something 10 times the size of Godzilla for another rock).
Marietta College
"Say hello to my even littler friend."
#1. Myrmeconema Neotropicum (Berry-Imitating-Zombie-Ant-Creating Roundworms)
There's a species of badass "gliding" ants known as Cephalotes atratus that leap from trees and actually parachute down in controlled falls. These sweet-ass paratrooper ants, unfortunately, survive largely on bird feces ... presumably because they haven't read this article on the anternet yet (that was for you, ants with terrible taste in jokes). To the surprise of nobody, the ants are frequently infested with a parasitic roundworm called Myrmeconema neotropicum.
Otherwise known as "the mother of all fire holes."
The roundworms eventually need to get all up inside a bird to complete their life cycle, which means, as you could have probably guessed, that some terrifying shit is about to go down in Antworld. But first, the roundworms have a problem: They can't just steer these ants in front of predators -- the ants don't like being devoured by birds (go figure) and so have evolved a number of chemical defenses to keep things from ingesting them. Long story short: They smell and taste horrible.
So the roundworm geniuses at the Polytechnic Institute of Parasitic Dickholes came up with a brilliant plan to get around those defenses: First, they infest the ant's, ah, rear parts, making it swell and turn bright red. The idea is to make the insect look like something a bird would want. In this case, a delicious kind of berry (presumably the unfortunately shaped, but nonetheless delectable, Ant-Ass Berry). The roundworms then somehow take control of their host and force the ant to hustle on up the forest canopy and show off that sexy berry-rump to passersby. The ants actually assume an 'eat-me' position: Head down, bright red ass in the air. If a near-sighted bird in a hurry needs some avian version of fast food and takes the bait, it gets not only a nasty surprise in the form of a mouthful of chemically defended ant-butt, but also a colony of parasites nesting in its guts.
Steve Yanoviak, University of Arkansas
It gives a whole new meaning to the term "dingleberry."
So basically, it's no different from regular fast food.
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