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MEXIA (October 10, 2012)-On Friday, seventh and eighth grade students will participate in the GEAR UP Launch, a program that creates awareness of college, career, and character.
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Ashley Olsen Talks Fashion: "Either You Care or You Don't"
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Ashley Olsen has moved seamlessly from child star to star designer, with successful lines Elizabeth and James and The Row under her petite belt, but the way she sees it, she dodged a bullet. Speaking to Marie Claire of her tightly-regimented childhood, she muses, "That's why I look at Britney, and I'm surprised I didn't end up like her." Her saving grace may have been her love of fashion and innate taste level. "I think you're either born with a sense of style or you're not," she tells Marie Claire, which is on newstands August 11. "Either you care or you don't." Ashley and her twin, Mary-Kate, "love fashion," she says. "When we were going to NYU, I think that was the first time we were aware of the power of our personal style. Not the power of it, but the result of it." The endless press coverage of their every outfit was a surprise at the beginning. "Between the big sunglasses and Starbucks cup and the big sweaters, the hobo-chic thing, we were more shocked than anything," she says. For the twins, it's just a natural choice. "Mary-Kate and I are very aware of trends and style, but at the end of the day, we don't even think twice about it," she says. "It's just, 'What do I feel like wearing today, and how do I want to put it together.'" And for both sisters, they are always willing to take a risk, even if it means destroying a designer piece. "The amount of beautiful things we've ruined — not having the patience for a tailor and cutting everything ourselves … My sister once took an Alaïa dress of mine and just cut the whole thing, and then she was like, 'I cut it too short.'" Ashley has to laugh. "Mary-Kate and I don't think about fashion as these clean, beautiful objects. We just kind of wear it and live in it."
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National Poetry Month, Continued
April may be over, but poetry lives on! Here are some poetry links worth clicking on.
Michael Robbins, a Commonweal contributor, has an essay on James Dickey in the new issue of Poetry. He opens with this rant against collected editions:
I would begin with a word against collected editions — or at least against the current trend of issuing them in gigantic, overpriced formats that resemble the compact OED. You should not be able to stun a moose with anyone's Complete Poems. In recent years, we've had enormous, expensive editions of, inter alios, Robert Lowell, Barbara Guest, Kenneth Koch, Frederick Seidel, James Merrill, Lucille Clifton, Louise Glück, Jack Gilbert, and Denise Levertov. Even so skinny a poet as Philip Larkin, in FSG's recent (and superfluous) Complete Poems, has bloated beyond recognition. I'm all for having these folks' oeuvres in print (although I'd also say a word against the fantasies of totality that compel editors to include drafts, revisions, juvenilia, and the like). But what's wrong with affordable and portable? The Library of America and Faber and Faber, for instance, manage to produce wieldy omnibuses (the former's, admittedly, not exactly budget-friendly). Another world is possible.
Nina Kang on the "lost art of memorizing poetry":
These days, memorization, like corporal punishment, is something our culture has largely evolved beyond. We might all know the first verse of Jane Taylor's "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star," but beyond that it's hit and miss. In the age of search engines, perfect recall is no longer prized—just remember a couple key search terms and we're good to go. Learning to remember has been replaced by learning to skim, and when yesterday's viral video or trending tweet scrolls below the fold, it leaves barely any imprint on our collective consciousness.
Adam Thirwell on Gottfried Benn, an ex-Nazi poet who is "the equal of Eliot or Montale":
These late poems are extraordinary exercises in bare, forked writing: slouchy, polyglot, nicotine-nervous. They are as splintered as a pile of pick-up sticks—all dying cadences, where the rhythm falters or disintegrates. True, Benn was always a master of crazy tone-shifts. But in the early poems it was all flesh and tropicalia: "The violins green. The harp plinks of May. / Palms blush in the desert simoom." Now the shifts were smaller, more like the quivers of a heart monitor.
About the Author
Anthony Domestico is an assistant professor of literature at Purchase College, SUNY. His book on poetry and theology in the modernist period is forthcoming from Johns Hopkins University Press.
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"The Complete Poetry" of anyone can be too much to bear. Some of my favorite collections of poetry are "selections": Louise Bogan's The Blue Estuaries, Philip Booth's Lifelines, Jane Kenyon's Otherwise, Lisel Mueller's Alive Together, Linda Pastan's Carnival Evening, William Stafford's The Way It Is.
Anthony --
This is going to be a rant. But first, thanks for pointing us to Robbins' article about James Dickey.
Robbins pretty well dismisses a most of Dickey, saying:
"These poets [Dickey et al] shared a somewhat desperate (and somewhat ridiculous) refusal to accept that the cultural authority of the Poet had been eclipsed. If I've lapsed into psychological criticism, it is because their poetry was so often nakedly psychological — a sifting of correlatives of moods and inner states."
Indeed, the status of the Poet's in Western culture has been diminished. But I doubt it's because poems have become purveyors of "correlatives of moods and inner states" as you put it. Much great old poetry conveys moods and inner states, and it does so in part by using comprehensible grammatical structures, Contrast them with the contemporary poets who have lost their status because they don't understanding that in poems as well as in prose the ordinary grammatical structures of the language are themselves *meanings*, and without sufficient grammatical structures then poets' individual words and phrases and clauses float about in their poems like dead leaves on puddles.
Granted, modern poetry doesn't have conveying information, historical or otherwise, as their goal -- no "The cat is on the mat" for them. Rather, today's poets aim to cause feelings in their hearers which mirror the feelings the poets. When that sort of poetry works, the result is a particular set of "correlative" feelings shared by poet and hearer, a particularly intimate and powerful sort of experience. This is a very, very different kind of artifact from most older poetry, but at least in the great moderns it's a quite legitimate and valuable sort.
However, much too much modern stuff falls flat because it doesn't give us enough grammatical structure to allow us to relate the meanings of the individual words/ phrases/clauses which elicit the images and particular emotions and sets of emotions that the poet intends to cause in us.
Consider the problem with antecedents in hte first two lines of the Dickey poem Robbins analyses.
"Pray, beginning sleeper, and let your mind dissolve me as I
Straighten, upright from the overflow crouch:?|
For starters, who is that "beginning sleeper"? What is the antecedent of "your" in "your mind"? It might be the "beginning sleeper" or it might be the reader himself. When I read a bit into the sentence. I discover that maybe that sleeper is someone/something who/which might "dissolve" (kill?) me? Is the sleeper Death? Then why, I wonder, is the killer-Death called a "beginning sleeper"? Or is it? Or maybe I'm the beginning sleeper and I'm slowly killing myself? Or what???? Does "the overflow crouch" hold the key? Or not?
Let's call this lack of clear antecedents an absence of reference, Often it's an absence of a clear grammatical subject -- some *definite* subject for which we can form a definite image. If the subject is ambiguous, our mind goes in all directions with no reason to settle on anything. I would even grant that at times ambiguity is valuable, but in typical contemporary poetry ambiguity just results in mushy meaning, which results in mushy images, and hopelessly mushy poetry.
And I've only mentioned lack of subjects. Consider the lack of punctuation. It also also allows the poets to bleed meanings all about, producing not the intended feelings but only frustration and contempt for the so-called "poetry". And I could go on about other lacks of structure that result in poetic porridge. So there.
Why do the critics and the teachers put up with this stuff? If they were more critical then the less gifted might keep what they do private. Maybe that would be a good thing. We wouldn't have to slog through so much mush to find the pearls. (Slog though mush for pearls? Bad metaphor.)
P. S. Sorry that is so badly edited. Couldn't stand to read through it again.
Chris, I agree about Selected over Complete poems. The exception, though, is Auden. You really need the collected works to appreciate how varied and wonderful he is, and the Selected Poems cut some of his best.
Anne, I agree with much of what you say: modern poetry often does disdain explicit sense-making (we have the modernists to thank for that!), and a lot of contemporary poetry is lazily unclear.
I'd say one thing, however: unclear referents and tortured grammar aren't just an invention of contemporary poetry; they're part of what makes poetry poetry--that is, what makes it different from prose. Emily Dickinson is more difficult than almost any contemporary poet, and she's so difficult in part because of unclear antecedents and syntax and pronouns. The key, though, is that she's productively difficult: she's unclear with a purpose.
So, do I think you're right about much modern poetry being mushy? Yes. But lots of older poetry is mush, too, and lots of modern poetry is productively unclear as well. Think of Wallace Stevens, or A. R. Ammons, or Tracy K. Smith, who I mentioned a few weeks ago. Throughout her collection, she uses "it" without any clear referent, and that's because she wants to gesture towards that which can't be precisely expressed in language: death, God, the cosmos, etc.
Anthony, I don't know that one needs the complete poetry of Auden to appreciate his range. W. S. Merwin has quite a range and he's often mentioned (justifiably) as a possible Nobel laureate. But I wonder if the Library of America needed to issue three fat volumes of his collected poetry. Complete editions are okay for public and university libraries, but when I go to a bookshelf at home, I reach for volumes that can be comfortably held or easily packed for travel.
I'm especially drawn to quiet, plainspoken poets. In addition to poets mentioned in my prior comment, I like Wendell Berry, Robert Creeley, Stanley Kunitz, Mark Strand, Thomas McGrath, Philip Levine, Ted Kooser, and Billy Collins. (I also like Alan Dugan, but not Charles Bukowski.) I'd argue that Dickinson and Merwin are at their best when they are clearer. Sometimes they seem almost willfully obscure.
Anthony --
Thank you for reading my rant. I'm glad you agree with some of it. But --
I'm not asking that poetry always make sense. Eliciting an emotion by means of a senseless sequences of words or even just silly sounds is quite alright with me IF the emotion is worth my effort. One of my favorite poems is e.e. cummings' "anyone lived in a pretty how town". On the face of it, it's pretty nonsensical, though not entirely. But it's held together by a great rhythm which echoes what happens to be the *quite ordinary grammatical structure* of the poem. Yes, there are crazy subject,s, weird predicates, with one part of speech playing the part of a different part of speech but we don't care. We get the simple message and the *feeling* that those ordinary lives were worth living however imperfect they were. Great poem.
What I object to so strongly is when the referents of the nouns and most especially the pronouns are so indefinite that we have to rack our brains to discover which among the many possible referents that come to mind will best serve the purpose of the poem. Consider an analogous possibility: a musician is writing out the notes of a melody, and at the beginning instead of writing down the first note, he writes in five different notes one on top the other (so it looks like a chord). Then he writes in the next note -- together with four other notes one on top the other. Has he begun writing his melody? No, he's writing noise. That's how I think of poems with indefinite meanings -- they're poetic noise. And that goes for some of Her Highness Emily Dickinson's stuff too. So there.
The best poets either overcome the problems of indefiniteness or they're worth struggling over it. Yes, Stevens leaps to mind. (He's my favorite modern, actually, and, true, I often don't' understand him.) But the lesser ones just aren't worth the effort.
Thanks for recommending your favorites. And I'll re-consider the ones I already don't like :-)
Oops -- that's Chris who made the recommendations.
Thanks, Chris.
e. e. cummings wrote so many wonderful poems. Have you heard this exquisite rendition of "All in
Green Went My Love Riding" sung by Joan Baez?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOlQb8L0kz0
No, haven't heard it, and too deaf to hear it now. She does have a voice born to sing cummings, doesn't she?
Which performers were made for singing which poets? Glenn Campbell sings Keats? Paul McCartney sings Lewis Carroll? Pavarotti sings Shakespeare?
I don't know that Baez is "born to sing" cummings, but I really do like her rendition of "All in Green..." In fact, the whole album ("Baptism") is excellent. I also like Natalie Merchant's recent concept album, "Leave Your Sleep" (she does a terrific rendition of cummings' "Maggie and Milly and Molly and May"). Greg Brown released a great album covering a number of Blake's songs of innocence and experience. One of my favorite prayer poems is Wendell Berry's "To the Holy Spirit" -- it's been set to wonderful music by Malcolm Dalglish. It doubles one's pleasure to hear beautiful poetry sung.
Thanks again for another thoughtful response. All of your points are well taken, and I agree with most if not all in principle. I suspect I just think more modern poetry is worth struggling over than you do.
Another contemporary poet worth struggling over, especially if you love Stevens: Timothy Donnelly. Here's one sample:
Chris -- It's good to know that composers are setting poems to music that can be sung by non-opera singers. That wasn't done in my day. (All I can think of Schwartzkopf in recital trilling some Shubert -- very silly song, actually.)
Anthony -- Thanks for the Donnelly. Now that's poetry! Yes, is is somewhat Stevensish -- urban, relaxed, things revealing deeper things
Anthony --- It's not that I think that modern poetry is intrinsically inferior to the old stuff. On the contrary. God know that a lot of the old poetry could use some serious editing of the blather too often found there. I guess I just want the best of all possible worlds -- e..g., Chaucer, Shakespeare, George Herbert, Auden, Stevens, Claudel, Rumi, plus lots of stray poems from stray authors. Not that I've read a great deal of poetry. But I do love some of it even as the junky stuff puts me off. Sadly, I suspect that's true of a lot of people.


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Ok, so I recently was requested to write a detailed tutorial about skinning in GIMP. This is
meant to take away from any of the existing tutorials about skinning, just to supplement them. Be sure to check them out.
Just note that this is aimed at beginners, so a lot of the descriptions will seem really verbose. Anyway, here goes:
I'm going to talk about using a few little features to your advantage to make your new skin look as good as possible. First we will be skinning the blue Mandalorian Assault armor, called "N_Mandalorian01" in kotor tool to be precise. To extract it, just select it and press "Extract". Save it to your favorite directory and open it up in GIMP. Should look like this:
Now, the first thing people seek to do in skinning is obvious: change the color. Sometimes this can be a bit screwy. In order to basically "start from scratch" color-wise, go to the "Colors" tab and hit "Desaturate". You should get this now:
What I want to do now is get rid of those silver designs on the armor and give them some cool new ones. Getting rid of them is a bit of a pain. First, use the "Free Select" tool (the lasso) and trace around all of the spots you're going to want to get rid of. To select multiple areas, after you've selected one already, just hold shift as you select the rest of them. That way you will be adding them.
Now your areas should be selected like this:
What our goal here is to get the silver color we just selected to match the darker shade of grey of the rest of the armor so that it is solid. What you need to know here is that silver + black = grey. So, that being true, we are going to use the "Overlay" feature to fill in black overtop the silver to match the grey.
In some spots you may have to play with the opacity because it may come out too dark, but in this case 100% works well for most of the armor. I did change the opacity on some parts though, because they did in fact turn out dark.
So go ahead and fill in all of our selected spots to match the color of of rest of the armor and, after you finish, press ctrl+a to select the whole picture. It should look something like this:
You may notice that since we aren't perfect, there are a few spots where we selected that still have lighter or darker defining edges. There are a couple ways to fix this, the easiest and most basic of which is to use the "Smudge" tool to essentially blend the edges. Try to make it look as natural as possible, staying in one direction as if you were painting a door or something. Just go up or down, left or right, instead of going in circles or something. Also be sure to change the brush size for different parts until you get the effect you want.
Eventually you will get something looking more complete like this:
The next thing is to add your fancy new stripes or whatever you want to call them. As you may have guessed, you want to do exactly the opposite of what we just did. You want to select all the places you
stripes, and then, using the "Overlay" feature again, fill in your spots with
so that it matches the original stripe color. I came up with this:
Next, we obviously want to fill in the rest of the armor with a color. I want the color of the original red Mandalorian armor, so I am going to open up that file. Next, instead of trying to match the color manually, I can just ctrl+left click on the color and automatically select it. The next part is a pain, but once again use the "Free Select" tool and select all the parts of the armor you want to be that color. In my case, red. Then, using "Color" mode (located in the same place as overlay), fill it in.
Now, "Color" mode only works with some colors. With certain colors, green in particular, it comes out very bright. If this is your case, just use the "overlay" mode again.
Here's what I came up with:
(I also overlayed black at 60% opacity on the areas like the pants that you see darker)
So we are almost done, but what good is a brand new mando skin without a sweet logo? So go on google or something and find a logo you like. Now make sure it is saved as a .tga or .png so that it can have a transparent backgroud; erase the background, size it correctly, and then press ctrl+c to copy the image (make sure you are editing it in GIMP also). You will see the image appear in the brush selection box now.
Paste it onto your skin now:
One last thing to do, which is not at all necessary. I like to sometimes make my armor look battle-worn. You can use just about any of the brushes - play around with them to get the effect you want, but I will be using the one shown in the image, with the "scale" which is right under "opacity" set to .35, and with the opacity anywhere from 10-40, depending on the look you like.
Last, just to fit in with the battle-worn look, a blaster score or two would look pretty cool. To do this, just follow the same steps you followed to add your logo.
Then save the file and throw it into your override. Change your appearance to a Mandalorian to check it out!
(I changed the neck later because I thought it looked cooler
The next little thing I want to go over is how to get a decent Camouflage look. For the sake of the tutorial I'm going to use a template I just made to show you guys. If you want, you can follow the first part of the tutorial to get to here (or leave the parts you want camo desaturated):
Now find or make a camo texture you like. Or you can use mine:
Select all the parts you want camo, once again using the "Free Select Tool".
Here's the important bit. Select the "Clone" tool.
Now Ctrl+Click on your camo texture. It is now "selected" to clone. Then, with the clone tool still on, select "Overlay" like we did before. Now just fill in your selected areas on your armor skin with the camo texture:
Now you may have noticed that you might have ran out of room on your camo texture and had to re-click it, resulting in the unnatural edges as shown by the arrows in the picture above. To get rid of them just use the "smudge" tool we used earlier. For this, a circular motion helps.
Make sure you haven't clicked out of your selection of your camo still!
You may also notice that while you can see all the cloth folds and such (which is the point of overlay), it may look "dull". We're about to fix it up.
After you fixed your edges, go to the "colors" tab and click "Brightness/contrast".
Now, play with both of these slider bars until you get a look you like. This is a pretty dark skin to begin with, so it didn't take much tweaking. However, with other armors, it may take a lot more and adjusting the contrast will greatly enhance the look of your camo. How you should approach it is to adjust the contrast first, and then adjust the brightness as needed. My configuration:
(I also upped the contrast seperately on the helmet because it was brighter than the rest)
Now throw it into your override and see how it looks!
I really hope that this tutorial helps some people in their quest for an awesome skin. I hoped to point out a few key features that help me all the time. If you have any questions feel free to contact me
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New Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII trailer showcases revamped battle systemWritten by: / / 3 Comments
Despite the criticisms levelled at the Final Fantasy XIII sub-series, many fans of Square Enix's signature franchise agree that its fast-paced battle system was well implemented and gave players plenty of breathing space to execute a variety of strategies.
Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII will further expand on FFXIII and FFXIII-2's battle mechanics by borrowing elements of the Dressphere system from Final Fantasy X-2 and giving players greater control of Lightning's movements on the battlefield. The game will also feature deeper customisation options which not only affect Lightning's look but also the range of offensive and defensive abilities she can employ during battle.
On this note, Square Enix recently unveiled a new trailer showcasing some of the ways in which the game's battle system has evolved compared to previous FFXIII titles. Take a look below:
Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII will be released for PS3 and Xbox 360 on February 11th in North America and February 14th in European territories. Head over here for El33tonline's previous coverage of this upcoming RPG, and be sure to let us know what you made of the game's recently released demo.


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My users are sending me point data that were digitized using GoogleEarth.
How can I convert their KML to a shapefile?
My users are sending me point data that were digitized using GoogleEarth.
How can I convert their KML to a shapefile?
Using the open source
ArcGIS 10 has a GP tool called KML To Layer that converts KML to a feature class. Search for KML using the new search. I've used this to take the oil spill kml feeds from Google and convert them into SHP.
Use ogr2ogr, but if you're not interested in a command line, try ogr2gui - a really simple front end for ogr2ogr.
If you are interested in command line tools, you can use GDAL/OGR from OSGEO.
To use spatial data published as a KML or KMZ file in ArcGIS you must first convert the KML to a feature class (shapefile). The University of Connecticut has a published a script for creating shapefiles from KML called KML_to_Shp.tbx. It works quite well and you can use it from ArcToolbox. Because KML will (should) always be in geographic coordinates (WGS84), you will eventually want to transform them to UTM Zone 15N NAD83...
As with all new tools, review the documentation on prior to use. This can be found on the UCONN's Center for Land Use Education and Research web site. Once you add it to your toolbox and understand its limitations, the tool is very straight forward to use.
FME posted a beta for an online tool that handles many different types of conversion, including this. http://fmeserver.com/userweb/sharper/Portal/EasyTranslator/index.html This converter should really help you.
Couple more options in addition to the other answers...
SL-King's fdo2fdo application, which uses the open source FDO libraries, allows you to perform KML to SHP and visa versa translations. It includes both a GUI (which express format-to-format translations and more customized schema mapping translations) as well as a commandline tool.
For properietary applications, Safe Software's FME gives you amazing control over how you map the source information into destination. If you have ArcGIS, you can access this via the Data Interoperability Extension (list of formats) at additional cost.
If they are just point features with no attributes, I'd consider parsing the XML into something you can easily import like a CSV; you're just looking for the data between the coordinates tags.
There are also some other commercial products. Arc2Earth comes to mind. It's got pretty good integration with ArcGIS Desktop. http://www.arc2earth.com
One more commercial product that bears mentioning is Global Mapper. This falls in the category of view, convert, re-project almost any geographic data you can imagine. I use the free version heavily in a class I teach and almost everyone walks away commenting on how this is the swiss army knife of GIS tools (though the free version doesn't do translations, it exposes all the menu's and options). Well worth the cost in my experience.
Another option is to use XToolsPro, a third-party extension that works in ArcGIS. Amongst their many handy conversion tools is a "Import Data from KML" function.
You can also look at FME from Safe Software http://www.safe.com
There is a 14 day trial available. FME lets you even map the attributes from your KML file to ESRI SHP format during the data conversion/migration process besides the ability to filter the KML point files based on certain attributes or spatial extents.
There is also the option to do batch conversion when you have a large set of KML files from your users.
use OGR for command line control, Google Earth Pro will give you a graphical way to convert, as will a variety of other apps
ET GeoWizards also has an import from Google Earth option, which will convert KML or KMZ files to feature class. > http://www.ian-ko.com/ET_GeoWizards/gw_MainFeatures.htm
If you're looking for an open source option, I see MapWindow was just updated, and there are a couple of plugins for converting to and from KML and shapefile.
The Open Source MapWindow GIS has a free extension (KML2Shapefile) for converting KML/KMZ files into shapefiles.
QGIS has become much more robust for the conversion between kml and shp. Just use the Save As from the right click menu on the layer. Or open up each of those file types from the Add New Layer menu, be sure to change the file type in the dialog box.
If you have the interop extension just load that KML straight into ArcMap and export to shp.
Although the opposite answer to your Q, in case someone has come here to do the vice versa, I find this script perfect to go from SHP-->KML http://arcscripts.esri.com/details.asp?dbid=14273
If you would like to convert your files online, try MyGeodata GIS formats and coordinate system converter. It is based on ogr2ogr (gdal/ogr library) - so almost all known GIS formats and coordinate systems are supported...
Zonum Solutions' Online KML to Shapefile converter also works well:
You can use the online GDAL/OGR site GeoConverter from Geometa Lab at HSR.
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Better way is to use "Convert GPSFile to SHP" toolbox for arcgis. It has KML to Shp convertor
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In the UK the movie is called "Avengers Assemble"
Why was it given a different name in that market?
In the UK the movie is called "Avengers Assemble"
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The Avengers was given a somewhat different name because of the british tv show The Avengers. The new name was to help keep them seperate and to avoid any confusion for audiences in the UK.
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They changeg the name in UK because of having the same name to TV show The Avengers. So they changed the name but only for UK.
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Avengers Assemble name is selected because The Avengers team say it every time they go into battle in comics and its the most comman phrase, So thats the whole reason for this.
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So hypothetically my driver's licence is lost (quite likely). I'm not in the UK. Is there any way I can get a replacement one from overseas and get it sent to either me, or a friend in the UK who can forward it on?
If you're permanently abroad, then the DVLA cannot issue you a driving licence.
Otherwise, if you are temporarily abroad, you will need to enclose a signed letter with your full name, date of birth, the UK address on your licence, and your address. This goes along with your D1 application and you will get your new licence mailed to you. Applies if:
If you lost both the plastic photocard and the paper licence, do not need to make changes, and have a Visa/Mastercard/Eurocard/Maestro credit or debit card, you will still need to send the letter. However, you do not need to fill out a D1; instead, you can make the request over the phone by calling +44 (0)1792 782 341 between 8.00 am and 8.30 pm Monday to Friday and 8.00 am to 8.30 pm on Saturday.
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5 Unexpectedly Perverted Tourist Attractions (NSFW Pics)
What could make for a more wholesome family vacation than dragging your children on a tour of famous statues and sculptures around the world? Sure, they're likely to be bored out of their minds, but it's better than little Billy staying home and browsing filth on the Internet. But then, while visiting an old church or park, suddenly ... penises. Penises everywhere. "Oh God, why are there so many penises? Look away, little Sally! Wait, no, don't look over there! Is that a clitoris?"
Congratulations, you and your children have unwittingly stumbled across ...
#5. The Sex Contortionists of San Pedro de Cervatos
If there's one tourist attraction on Earth you'd think you could rely on to not be full of stone sculptures of taints and nut sacks, it would be a church. It seems like a safe assumption, but you know what they say about assumptions making an ass out of you and religious structural supports.
via Relatos de Arte
Such guesses make you sound like you have your head up your ass.
The carvings on the northern Spanish church of San Pedro de Cervatos feature pretty much every perversion you can imagine, including animal sex, masturbation, grotesquely engorged genitals, and auto-fellatio made possible by some rather impressive flexibility. Here's a carving of a man who appears to be eating his own severed penis:
It was too short to reach his mouth, so he ripped it from its socket.
This 12th century house of worship is also known as St. Peter of Fawns, which sounds charming until you see the carvings and start to wonder precisely what it was Peter was doing with those poor deer.
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Possibly depicted here. We really can't tell.
These sorts of carvings were surprisingly common sights on medieval European churches, but San Pedro de Cervatos is the best example due to both the sheer number of them and their remarkable level of depravity -- their size and stamina, if you will.
Art historians can't agree on what their purpose was, besides messing with future generations. The most common theory is that they were used to educate the largely illiterate population on just how absolutely disgusting and definitely not fun it was to be promiscuous and sinful, like a 12th century PSA. Whether this had any effect at all on the bedroom habits of the congregation besides giving them some exciting new positions to try isn't known, but we seriously doubt it.
via Vicente Novillo
Here we see history's first depiction of the now-infamous "Canadian Snowblower" position.
Other scholars believe that the region was in desperate need of settlers, and so the carvings were intended to encourage the locals to put the "creation" back in "procreation." And a third theory suggests that sculptors with Jewish or Islamic roots helped build the churches and decided to troll their rival religion, making their employment the worst outsourcing decision in history until an Iranian airport discovered a giant Star of David on its roof.
#4. The Depraved Nightmares of Bosc de Can Ginebreda
Lluís Reverter, Bosc de Can Ginebreda
Bosc de Can Ginebreda is a picturesque juniper forest located a convenient two hours north of Barcelona. At first blush, it's your typical park ... and then you come across the dick-haired Medusa statue.
Lluís Reverter, Bosc de Can Ginebreda
Every time the poor woman tries shampooing, it ends in bukkake.
The park is the gallery of Xicu Cabanyes, Catalan sculptor and a psychoanalyst's wet dream. He's erected (sorry) over 100 pieces since the 1970s, most of which are about sex, death, or both. When asked why he created the forested gallery, he said, "I wanted to create a space where people could move freely throughout the art ... but I also wanted to annoy the Francoists," because as we all know, the Spanish Civil War was fought over the right to build a giant concrete vagina:
Lluís Reverter, Bosc de Can Ginebreda
One side demanded concrete, the other preferred snow.
Some of the statues are downright horrifying, like the man with a boner that's speared through his stomach and out his back. It's supposedly a commentary on gender violence and the excesses of male chauvinism, and we're not going to look at it long enough to argue.
Lluís Reverter, Bosc de Can Ginebreda
"Well, doctor, he told me to go fuck myself, and I just assumed ..."
Oh, and what's this over here?
Alex Sharp/The Guardian
Ah, the rear wall.
It's a wall of butts, all cast from some incredibly open and tolerant friends of the artist. There's a few frontal shots too, and once you've stopped wondering if any of your friends would let you slap their junk in a plaster cast, let's move on to the "Fornicating Tables."
Lluís Reverter, Bosc de Can Ginebreda
Fucking a chair leg now seems downright quaint.
The explanation for that one is "We often spend so many voluptuous moments around tables that the tables also become motivated," which is the most dubious sexual argument we've heard since the ol' "I've traveled back through time to impregnate you with humanity's savior!" routine. If the artist had had the idea of tables fucking today instead of in 1990, we suspect he would have written an Internet fanfic instead.
Cabanyes spends most days in the forest working on new statues, presumably when he's not hiding in the trees, spying on his guests and furiously masturbating. How much do you want to bet he's seen at least one over-enthusiastic patron of the arts fuck his work?
Lluís Reverter, Bosc de Can Ginebreda
Hell, Goatse here is just asking for it.
#3. The Gaping Vaginas of Sheela Na Gigs
Spain doesn't hold a monopoly on pornographic church art, because an idea that crazy can't be contained. Sheela na gigs are carvings of women showing off enlarged vulvae (usually with an incredibly unsubtle "come hither" look) found in a variety of countries, although they're most common in England and Ireland. The most well-preserved and famous is at Kilpeck Church near the tiny British town of Hereford, which on the scale of things for your town to be famous for ranks just above having a name that translates to an English profanity. Her disturbingly impish face can be found on replicas and pendants, because apparently people will pay money to wear crude images of a woman with E.T.'s head sticking her hands in her huge vagina.
Sheela Na Gig Project
Which is crazy. They can visit E.T. fist fetish websites for free.
The sheela na gig in the even tinier village of Oaksey is notable for having sagging boobs and a ridiculously enlarged clitoral hood, because apparently size does matter for women, just not in the way we all thought. Hey, when you live in a village of less than 500 people, you've got to get your entertainment somehow.
Sheela Na Gig Project
That's why long skirts used to be so popular: to cover ankle-length labia.
Speaking of clitorises (clitorii?), Ely Cathedral's sheela na gig is known for being perhaps the only one with a fun button that's still intact. That may explain why she appears to be in the middle of masturbating.
Sheela Na Gig Project
It's been 700 years, but she's about to get off any second now.
The most common theory as to why so many British churches have hardcore pornography carved into them is that they're a holdover from the Celtic worship of a pagan goddess. The gaping vagina symbolizes her role as a goddess of fertility, because subtlety hadn't been invented yet. It's also possible that they, like the Spanish church carvings, were designed to educate the population on the dangers of lust, although so many of these ladies seem to be enjoying themselves that we find it hard to take that theory seriously. If anything, they may have helped confused young churchgoers navigate a very special time in their lives.
Then there's the theory that they were meant to ward off evil, because ... demons hate vaginas? We guess? Yeah, we find it hard to believe that a naked lady practically begging to get some action would scare off any man, demon or not.
Sheela Na Gig Project
Although the theory does put a new spin on that crucifix scene in The Exorcist.
The sheela na gig isn't limited to Europe. Its Asian cousins, which represent the goddess Lajja Gauri, can be found across India and Nepal.
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Sometimes depicted with goats, which needs no explanation.
Often the head would be replaced with a lotus flower because it's a symbol of fertility, and because even ancient artists knew that when men look at pornography, they aren't checking out the faces.
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Lajja's films simply credit her as "she who crouches with legs spread."


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AOP Summer Program students Kevin Alvarez (right) from Cortlandt Manor, N.Y., and Zach Stepien from Lancaster, N.Y., work on titrations in their chemistry lab at SUNY Geneseo.
GENESEO, N.Y. -- A record number of students are participating in SUNY Geneseo's Access Opportunity Program (AOP) summer orientation this year. Through the college's two AOP components, 121 students are on campus through Aug. 5 taking courses, becoming familiar with campus resources and getting acquainted with faculty and staff before fall semester classes start in August. Geneseo received 1,200 applications for the program.
"The program is growing steadily and it fits right in with Geneseo's initiative to increase campus diversity," said Calvin Gantt, who has been AOP director at Geneseo since 2006. "The program involves both an academic and social component and our goal is to make sure the students are able to stand on their own and make their own decisions. This is a residential program so the students stay on campus for the entire four weeks, even weekends."
The college has operated the AOP program for 43 years as a means of means of meeting the higher educational aspirations of academically talented students who don't come from the same background as generally admitted students.
The Arthur O. Eve Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) provides these traditionally by-passed residents of New York state with access to higher education. The program is aimed at students who have the potential to complete a college degree but do not meet the general admission requirements because their academic credentials may have been adversely affected during their high school years by socioeconomic factors.
In 1985, the college established the Transitional Opportunity Program (TOP), patterned after EOP, to interest academically talented students in Geneseo - often minority students -- who were being denied access to SUNY Geneseo due to its high admissions standards. Final acceptance to attend Geneseo is based on the successful completion of the summer program.
"Being in this summer program has opened my eyes to what I can expect when classes start," said Kevin Alvarez from Cortlandt Manor in New York's Westchester County, a TOP student who intends to major in biology at Geneseo. "I have met terrific people and some lifelong friends. The experience has given me a taste of college life that will allow me to hit the ground running in August."
Alvarez and all AOP summer program students are taking three courses: a writing course for credit, a chemistry or math course and a college survival course. Gantt says students in the summer program have done well.
"The grade point of our AOP students last fall was on par with the average GPA of the generally admitted Geneseo student," said Gantt, who himself was in a program similar to AOP as a student. "We continue to meet with our students weekly throughout the school year to make sure they continue to progress."
AOP alumni often attest to the benefits of the program by returning to campus to speak with current AOP students about what they are doing. Rochester school teacher Leslie Rivera, a 2006 Geneseo graduate, will address the current summer program students Aug. 3.
Gantt says pride doesn't begin to describe how he and members of his staff feel when an AOP student graduates.
"We know a student's history and what he or she had to overcome to get to the point of graduation," said Gantt. "Given the opportunity, these students can make great strides in their lives and become productive citizens of our society. That's why these programs are so important."
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KILLEEN (November 29, 2012)--The Holiday Under the Stars event set for Saturday will offer a day full of holiday fun for all ages.
Beginning at 8 a.m. children and their parents can enjoy pancakes with Santa during the Breakfast in Toyland event.
For those wishing to shed some holiday pounds, the annual Jingle Bell Dash 5K will get lined up at 8 a.m.
More activities will be offered starting at 10 a.m. including inflatables, bounce houses, a petting zoo, food, entertainment and free skating on the city's synthetic skating rink.
New this year is a snow hill for children to enjoy.
Santa will make his official appearance at 6 p.m. to light the Christmas tree, followed by a photo session.
Children anxious to share their wish list with Santa will be able to do so in Santa's Cabin.
The final activity will allow people of all ages to enjoy free cookies and cocoa while watching "Arthur Christmas" at the amphitheater.
A blanket or chair is suggested for the movie which begins at 6:30 p.m.
The fun will be held at the Killeen Community Center on East Veterans Memorial Blvd.
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After hearing the latest edition of "Objection!" about video game adaptations, I object to the feelings of "The Super Mario Bros. Super Show" and the Super Mario Bros. movie expressed by the hosts and some of their speech enhancers (I would never say "d-bag" out loud. I never understood how that term became an insult). I did not mind the poor animation of the animated segments of "The Super Mario Bros. Super Show", as it was still very entertaining. The live-action segments are the most interesting segments of the program, especially many years after their original broadcasts. I never thought the acting during those live-action segments was bad.
The live-action Super Mario Bros. movie may not closely resemble the video games, but it was an entertaining and interesting interpretation of the elements of the Super Mario games. If there had been a sequel, it probably would have been closer to the games, as the first movie was about how the Mario Brothers discovered the Mushroom Kingdom.
There was an animated Mario movie produced in Japan years before the live-action movie. It was called "Super Mario Bros.: The Great Mission to Rescue Princess Peach" and it is available in four parts with English text on YouTube. Here are some links to information about the movie from the Internet Movie Database and to the first part of the movie on YouTube.
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When Dakota Wesleyan University set out to establish an M.B.A. degree program, we wanted to create a distinctive program driven by the wants and needs of students. We wanted to adapt to them, not the other way around.
In creating our M.B.A. in Strategic Leadership, we did just that—and the program development continues. Since launching our M.B.A. program six months ago, we have continued to listen to our students and to make changes to our program accordingly.
We continually ask our students for input—and then we listen. After each eight-week session, faculty survey students. They then tweak class formats, coursework and curriculum based on that feedback. We also alert upcoming instructors of a particular cohort's needs or patterns.
By working together, DWU faculty, administrators and students have created a nimble and relevant M.B.A. The program especially focuses on:
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In a situation, where it is efficient for one of two parties to pollute but highly inefficient if both parties do so, the harmed third party can freely impose its damage claims on both parties what crucially determines which equilibrium to expect. Whereas "equality before the law" requires equal punishments, efficient equilibria are predicted when holding one party responsible and letting the other escape punishment. After discussing equilibrium selection for the game, we report on an experiment with two treatment variables: one that determines when the harmed party announces its potential damage claims and one varying a game- and justice-unrelated difference between the two culprits. According to our experimental data, "equality before the law" dominates but is weakened by asymmetry in wealth and the possibility to announce sanctions.
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- The Dow climbed more than 125 points Tuesday to close at a record high of 14,253.77. That tops the prior record set in October 2007. Earlier, the blue chip index climbed to an intraday record of 14,286.37.
The S&P 500 added 15 points and finished at its highest level since October 2007 and is now only about 2% away from its record closing high.
"We're back to the highest levels in history, but we've got more things going for the economy and the market than we did last time," said Art Hogan, managing director at Lazard Capital.
Back in 2007, the economy was on the verge of winding down and heading into a tailspin, he said, whereas now it's continuing to improve, albeit slowly.
Stocks are also cheaper now. They were trading at 17 times earnings estimates in 2007. Currently, stocks are valued at about 14 times earnings estimates for 2013. Plus, both consumers and businesses have more cash and less debt, said Hogan.
Still, not all stocks are at record highs. The Nasdaq, which rose more than 42 points Tuesday, is nearly 40% below its all-time highs that were set in March 2000, prior to the collapse of the dotcom bubble. The Nasdaq is trading at its highest level since November 2000 though.
While Hogan expects stocks will continue to head higher, there are likely to be some bumps along the way.
It's possible that investors will take a break from buying, he said, adding that with the Dow up 9% year-to-date, it wouldn't be abnormal to see stocks move sideways or decline.
Concerns over Europe, particularly the Italian elections, and the ongoing budget drama in Washington, could serve as catalysts for a brief slide.
But a pullback could also be healthy and short-lived. Hogan noted that recent moves downward have been met with more buyers.
"There's a lot of money on the sidelines waiting to get involved in the market, but those investors feel like after the recent move up, they need a pullback before they get in," he said.
To that end, individual investors have put just $21 billion to U.S. stock mutual funds this year, a relatively small amount given that they pulled more than $500 billion out from stock funds since the financial crisis.
Moreover, as long as central banks around the world continue to support the global economy and financial markets, the bull run that began when the market bottomed in March 2009 is likely to keep going, said Hogan.
"Supportive monetary policy is going to be with us for a while," he said. "Central banks, including the Federal Reserve, have made it clear that they won't tighten their policies until economies are self-sustaining, with higher employment and low inflation."
Later this week, central banks in Europe, Japan and the U.K. are scheduled to meet. All of them are expected to give more promises of support the for world's major economies.
On the economic front Tuesday, the Institute for Supply Management's monthly index on service sector business activity rose to 56 in February, a slight improvement from 55.2 the prior month. Economists were forecasting a reading of 55.4.
In corporate news, JC Penney's (JCP, Fortune 500) shares tumbled more than 10% after Vornado Realty Trust, one of the retailer's biggest shareholders, reportedly dumped 40% of its stake. The struggling retailer is in the third week of a court battle with Macy's (M, Fortune 500) claims that Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (MSO) violated a previous agreement with Macy's in entering into a new partnership with J.C. Penney.


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I'm working on the following problem at the moment while preparing for an exam.
Find the present value of payments of 200 every six months starting immediately and continuing through four years from the present, and 100 every six months thereafter through ten years from the present, if i^(2) = .06. (all quantities in dollars)
Since interest is given, and not discount I went ahead and calculated this as an annuity immediate instead of an annuity due.
$\displaystyle a=\frac{1-v^n}{i}=\frac{1-1.03^{-9}}{.03}= 7.786108922$
$\displaystyle a\times200=1557.221784$
So far so good. Here's where I think I might be doing something wrong. For the last six years of the annuity, I'm calculating the present value four years in the future and then discounting that another four years. Is this wrong?
$\displaystyle 100a= 100\times\frac{1-1.03^{-18}}{.03}=1063.495533$
So this is the present value of the last six years of the annuity at time four into the future. I discount it four years to get:
$\displaystyle 1063.495533\times\nu^8=839.5331944$
To answer the question, I get 2,396.75. The book gives 2,389.72, which is quite close. Can anyone account for the difference?


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Stoke v City: Sold out
- 16 January 2013 09:54
- Posted by @markbooth_mcfc
Stoke City v Manchester City
Saturday 26 January 2013
Kick off – 12.45pm
Supporters are advised that tickets for our FA Cup game against Stoke City have now sold out. We can confirm that an additional 200 tickets were secured, increasing our overall allocation to 4,300.
All tickets were made available to qualifying supporters.
Official Match Ticket
Entry to the Stadium will be granted on the presentation of a valid ticket purchased from the Club. The Club excludes all liability to any supporter who is denied entry to the Stadium as a result of their ticket having been purchased through an unauthorised seller.
The unauthorised sale or disposal of tickets may also amount to a criminal offence and the Club will inform the police as soon as it becomes aware of any unauthorised sale or disposal of tickets.
It is important that you have purchased, and are in possession of, the correct ticket and that it is activated to allow you access in to the stadium.
If the supporter who originally purchased the ticket is no longer able to attend the match, please contact the Supporter Services team on 0161 444 1894 (option 1, then option 3) to discuss, and where appropriate, upgrade your ticket.
Please note that in some instances, you may be required to visit the Ticket Office above the City Store at the Etihad Stadium so that we can make the necessary amendments to your ticket (this is applicable where there is a change from a concession to an adult).
Failure to upgrade your ticket before you attempt to enter the ground may result in a stadium ban.
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Should you misplace your ticket, we can arrange for a duplicate to be collected on the day of the match from the Stoke City Ticket Office.
Please contact the MCFC Supporter Services Team on 0161 444 1894 (option 1, option 3) who will be happy to help. Failure to provide the correct information in advance or on the day may result in either club not being able to provide a duplicate ticket.
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Please call +44 161 444 1894 (option 1, option 3).
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RUSH, Kenneth Sr., A cherished husband, father, grandfather and friend, Kenneth E. Rush, Sr. ("Special K"), 79, a lifelong resident of Weirton, peacefully went to be with his Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, Wednesday, October 31.
Having lived a life wrapped in the love of Jesus, he would have us remember one thing: know Jesus, walk, trust and rest in Him. A friend to many, his family treasures the memories of his deep, faithful and constant love for his wife and his family.
He was predeceased by his parents, John and Lucy (Trader) Rush; brothers, Edgar and infant, John; sisters, Wanda Carpenter, Hilda Whiteman and Babe Oliva; grandson, Shane; and several other relatives.
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He leaves his wife of 57 years, Nellie (Carlton), who he adored and with whom he was best of friends and his three beloved children, Cheryl O'Leary (John) of Virginia, Cindy Koelbl of Arizona, and Kenneth Jr. of Florida (friend, Mary Ellen).
Survivors also include nine grandchildren, Jennifer Howell (Jake), Rebecca Meneely, Johnathan Rush, Lauren Miller, Heather Greer (friend Jay), Kenny Greer (Becca), Michael Miller, Sarah (Rush) Lamantia (Ryan) and Kenny Rush (Natalie); 12 great-grandchildren, Hannah, Logan, Junior (Kenny), Elaina, Dryden, Kayla, Grace, Taylor, Connor, Devon, Carmen, and Braxton; five siblings, his brothers, Otis Rush Sr. (Glenda), Paul Rush (Teresa), and sisters, Lois Lawrence, Glenda Sue Ames (Don) and Diana Wade (Roger); and his sister-in-law, Linda Rush along with countless other friends and family whom were blessed to know him.
A member of the 25-Year Club, Kenneth was employed in the Blooming Mill Office of Weirton Steel for 32 years as the Scheduling Clerk and Insurance Director, having retired in 1984.
A member of the Weirton First Church of the Nazarene and former member of the Follansbee Church of the Nazarene, he actively served in various capacities including Board Trustee, Steward, Chairman Board of Christian Life, Sunday School Superintendent, Sunday School Teacher, Choir member, and participated in JOY. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Award by the Church.
Born and educated in New Martinsville, he remained an avid fan of his high school alma mater, the Magnolia Blue Eagles and was a WVU enthusiast. In addition, he relished reading and studying the Bible, listening to Christian gospel music and watching gospel videos, playing crossword puzzles and dominoes, and enjoyed watching and participating in sports including football and golf, and in earlier days, hunting with his father, brothers, son and nephews on his brother's property. Committed to exposing his children to the sights and wonders of the United States and to enjoying meaningful family vacation time and time with Nellie after retirement, Kenneth traveled around the U.S. and to Hawaii and Mexico.
With great humility, Kenneth quietly inspired and impacted the lives of many with his faith, kindness, prayers, wit and smile. A legacy and not merely a life, he will be sorely missed.
Visitation will be held at the Greco Hertnick Funeral Home on Saturday, November 3 from 6-8 p.m. and Sunday, November 4 from 1-3 and 6-8 p.m.
A funeral service to celebrate his life will be held at First Church of the Nazarene, Colliers Way in Weirton, on Monday, November 5 at 11 a.m. Visitation will be provided at the Church an hour before the service.
Interment and graveside rights will be held at Highland Hills immediately following the funeral.
If desired, in lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Weirton First Church of the Nazarene, 475 Colliers Way, Weirton, WV 26062
The family wishes to thank the longtime care and friendship received from Dr. Cherian John and Dr. Sean Nolan and to acknowledge the kindness and support provided by the team of Valley Hospice.
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Top 10 Personalized Digital Photo Giftsby Lindsay Hutton
Digital photo gifts are a creative and easy way to show the special people in your life how much they mean to you, and the best part is that it can all be done online! We've chosen our top ten picks that you can easily order from your favorite online photo sites, like www.snapfish.com and www.shutterfly.com.
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COLUMBUS - The state's attorney general said this morning he hopes local citizens will continue to have confidence in his office's ability to lead the prosecution of two Steubenville High School student-athletes who have been charged with the rape of an underage girl.
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine said the case will be prosecuted and tried using an impartial judge, and "the job of a prosecutor is to find the truth - not just to prosecute."
The attorney general's office is handling the prosecution of Trent Mays, 16, of Bloomingdale and Malik Richmond, 16, of Steubenville, who have been charged in connection with the alleged crime that was allegedly committed Aug. 11-12. The trial of the Steubenville High School student-athletes is set to begin Feb. 13 before visiting Judge Tom Lipps.
DeWine said it wasn't unusual for the state to become involved in a case when there was a potential for a conflict of interest.
"We were asked to become involved by the local prosecuting attorney," said DeWine. "This is not unusual when there are (potential) conflicts with the local prosecutor."
Jefferson County Prosecutor Jane Hanlin has recused herself from the case, as has Jefferson County Juvenile and Probate Judge Sam Kerr.
DeWine also said the attorney general's office is working on the case with the Steubenville Police Department and the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation. He said state officials have no bias and are working actively on the case.
The Internet hacktivist group Anonymous has asserted more than the two individuals charged were involved in the alleged rape and has posted photos, tweets and other information from accounts of others they claim were at the scene of or possibly participated in the alleged crime. Anonymous also has made assertions a possible cover-up by local officials. A protest rally on the steps of the Jefferson County Courthouse last Saturday attracted 300 to 400 people, while another rally is planned for noon Saturday.
"Our job is to find the truth - not to just seek prosecution, but to seek justice," said DeWine. "The community should have great confidence we are approaching this with in an unbiased manner. It's a visiting judge. You have an independent attorney general's office prosecuting the case."
DeWine added, "This investigation is continuing. It's far from over. We encourage people to contact us if they have (evidence or information on the case.)"
DeWine said those with information on the case should contact BCI, at (855) 224-6446.


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Nepal profile - Timeline
- 27 September 2015
- From the section South Asia
A chronology of key events:
1768 - Gurkha ruler Prithvi Narayan Shah conquers Kathmandu and lays foundations for unified kingdom.
1792 - Nepalese expansion halted by defeat at hands of Chinese in Tibet.
1814-16 - Anglo-Nepalese War; culminates in treaty which establishes Nepal's current boundaries.
1846 - Nepal falls under sway of hereditary chief ministers known as Ranas, who dominate the monarchy and cut off country from outside world.
1923 - Treaty with Britain affirms Nepal's sovereignty.
Absolute monarchy
1950 - Anti-Rana forces based in India form alliance with monarch.
1951 - End of Rana rule. Sovereignty of crown restored and anti-Rana rebels in Nepalese Congress Party form government.
1953 New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Nepal's Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first climbers to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
1955 - Nepal joins the United Nations.
1955 - King Tribhuwan dies, King Mahendra ascends throne.
1959 - Multi-party constitution adopted.
1960 - King Mahendra seizes control and suspends parliament, constitution and party politics after Nepali Congress Party (NCP) wins elections with B. P. Koirala as premier.
1962 - New constitution provides for non-party system of councils known as "panchayat" under which king exercises sole power. First elections to Rastrya Panchayat held in 1963.
1972 - King Mahendra dies, succeeded by Birendra.
Multi-party politics
1980 - Constitutional referendum follows agitation for reform. Small majority favours keeping existing panchayat system. King agrees to allow direct elections to national assembly - but on a non-party basis.
1985 - NCP begins civil disobedience campaign for restoration of multi-party system.
1986 - New elections boycotted by NCP.
1989 - Trade and transit dispute with India leads to border blockade by Delhi resulting in worsening economic situation.
1990 - Pro-democracy agitation co-ordinated by NCP and leftist groups. Street protests suppressed by security forces resulting in deaths and mass arrests. King Birendra eventually bows to pressure and agrees to new democratic constitution.
1991 - Nepali Congress Party wins first democratic elections. Girija Prasad Koirala becomes prime minister.
Political instability
1994 - Koirala's government defeated in no-confidence motion. New elections lead to formation of Communist government.
1995 - Communist government dissolved.
1995 - Start of Maoist revolt which drags on for more than a decade and kills thousands. The rebels want the monarchy to be abolished.
1997 - Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba loses no-confidence vote, ushering in period of increased political instability, with frequent changes of prime minister.
2000 - GP Koirala returns as prime minister, heading the ninth government in 10 years.
Palace killings
2001 1 June - King Birendra, Queen Aishwarya and other close relatives killed in shooting spree by drunken Crown Prince Dipendra, who then shoots himself.
2001 - Prince Gyanendra crowned King.
2001 July - Maoist rebels step up campaign of violence. Prime Minister GP Koirala quits over the violence; succeeded by Sher Bahadur Deuba.
2001 November - Maoists end four-month old truce with government, declare peace talks with government failed. Launch coordinated attacks on army and police posts.
2001 November - State of emergency declared after more than 100 people are killed in four days of violence. King Gyanendra orders army to crush the Maoist rebels. Many hundreds are killed in rebel and government operations in the following months.
2002 May - Parliament dissolved, fresh elections called amid political confrontation over extending the state of emergency. Sher Bahadur Deuba heads interim government, renews emergency.
2002 October - King Gyanendra dismisses Deuba and indefinitely puts off elections set for November.
2003 January - Rebels, government declare ceasefire.
End of truce
2003 August - Rebels pull out of peace talks with government and end seven-month truce. The following months see resurgence of violence and frequent clashes between students/activists and police.
2004 April - Nepal joins the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
2004 May - Street protests by opposition groups demanding a return to democracy. Royalist Prime Minister Surya Bahadur Thapa quits.
Direct royal rule
2005 February - King Gyanendra assumes direct control and dismisses the government. He declares a state of emergency, citing the need to defeat Maoist rebels.
2005 April - King lifts the state of emergency amid international pressure.
2005 November - Maoist rebels and main opposition parties agree on a programme intended to restore democracy.
2006 April - King Gyanendra agrees to reinstate parliament following weeks of violent strikes and protests against direct royal rule. Maoist rebels call a three-month ceasefire.
2006 May - Parliament votes unanimously to curtail the king's political powers.
The government and Maoist rebels begin peace talks, the first in nearly three years.
Peace deal
2006 November - Government and Maoists sign a peace accord - the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) - declaring a formal end to a 10-year rebel insurgency.
2007 January - Maoist leaders enter parliament under the terms of a temporary constitution.
Maoists join government
2007 April - Maoists join interim government, a move that takes them into the political mainstream.
2007 September - Three bombs hit Kathmandu in the first attack in the capital since the end of the Maoist insurgency.
Maoists quit interim government to press demand for monarchy to be scrapped. This forces the postponement of November's constituent assembly elections.
End of monarchy
2007 December - Parliament approves abolition of monarchy as part of peace deal with Maoists, who agree to re-join government.
2008 January - A series of bomb blasts kill and injure dozens in the southern Terai plains, where activists have been demanding regional autonomy.
2008 April - Former Maoist rebels win the largest bloc of seats in elections to the new Constituent Assembly (CA), but fail to achieve an outright majority.
2008 May - Nepal becomes a republic.
2008 June - Maoist ministers resign from the cabinet in a row over who should be the next head of state.
2008 July - Ram Baran Yadav becomes Nepal's first president.
2008 August - Maoist leader Prachanda forms coalition government, with Nepali Congress going into opposition.
Maoists leave government
2009 May - Prime Minister Prachanda resigns in a row with President Yadav. Maoists leave government after other parties oppose integration of former rebel fighters into national army.
Veteran Communist leader Madhav Kumar Nepal named new prime minister.
Gurkha veterans with at least four years' service in the British army are given permission to settle in the UK.
2009 December - Four people are killed in clashes triggered by Maoist-led land grab in far west, giving rise to fears for peace process.
Impasse over constitution
2010 May - Governing coalition and Maoist opposition extend deadline for drafting of new constitution to May 2011.
2010 June - PM Madhav Kumar Nepal quits under Maoist pressure.
2011 January - UN peace monitoring mission ends.
2011 February - Jhalnath Khanal elected premier, ending a seven-month stalemate during which Nepal had no effective government.
2011 May - Constituent Assembly fails to meet deadline for drawing up new constitution.
2011 August - PM Jhalnath Khanal resigns after government fails to reach compromise with opposition on new constitution and fate of former Maoist fighters.
Parliament elects the Maoist party's Baburam Bhattari as prime minister. He vows to forge a cross-party consensus over the new constitution and the Maoist fighters issue.
2012 May - Prime Minister Bhattari dissolves parliament, calls elections for November after politicians miss a final deadline to agree on a new constitution. Mr Bhattari remains in charge of a caretaker government.
2013 March - Chief justice Khil Raj Regmi is appointed head of an interim unity government.
2013 April - Supreme Court suspends government plan to set up a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to investigate crimes committed during the civil war, citing concerns it could allow amnesties for serious crimes.
2013 May - Celebrations to mark 60th anniversary of first ascent of Mount Everest.
2013 November - Election for an assembly which will write a new constitution. Political deadlock as no party wins a majority.
2014 February - Sushil Koirala, the leader of the Nepali Congress, the country's largest political party, is elected as prime minister after securing parliamentary support.
2014 April - An avalanche on Mount Everest kills 16 Nepalese sherpa mountain guides, in the worst recorded accident in the mountain's history. The rest of the climbing season is cancelled as the sherpas demand better compensation, pay and conditions.
2014 June - Prime Minister Sushil Koirala is diagnosed with lung cancer.
2014 September - The last king of Nepal, Gyanendra Shah, is in stable condition after suffering a heart attack.
2014 November - Nepal and India sign a $1bn deal to build a hydropower plant on Nepal's Arun river to help resolve crippling energy shortages.
2015 February - Government sets up two commissions to investigate war crimes committed during the decade-long Maoist insurgency.
2015 February - Police fire teargas and water cannons at thousands of opposition supporters protesting plans for a parliamentary vote on a disputed new national constitution.
2015 April - Major earthquake hits Nepal, killing thousands and causing huge destruction. An international rescue and relief effort gets under way in response.
2015 September - Protests break out in southern lowlands by ethnic groups seeking more territory and devolved rights under newly-adopted federal constitution.


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Pictureka Flipper AND (Scrabble Slam OR Monopoly Deal) for $0.70
This week if you buy a Hasbro game (over $10) you can get a FREE card game (either Scrabble Slam or Monopoly Deal).
Many stores have put their Pictureka Flipper game (usually $15-$20) on 75% off super clearance. My store had it for $5.24, others had it down to $3.28. However, the computer system still considers it a "qualifying purchase" since the original price was over $10.
Without any trouble you can get one of the card games and Pictureka for about $3-$5.
If you want the EXTREME DEAL, just look for one of the card game packages with a yellow star burst in the top-right corners that says "$5 OFF COUPON INSIDE" Sure enough, in the box is a yellow card for $5 off a dozen Hasbro games including, you guessed it, Pictureka.
Bring it to the register, have them scan Pictureka, then the card game. The subtotal is $5.70, give the coupon, and you only pay the tax of $0.70!
I've personally done 3 times and handed out free games to family and neighbors.
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text: Here is the last Angry Bird related lesson that I have for you all. This is on "how to draw Mighty Eagle", step by step. Mighty Eagle is as how he appears, an eagle. The over exaggerated beak is without a doubt the highlight of Mighty Eagle's face or creation. This is also one of the first Angry Bird characters that I have drawn from a side view. But I guess that's the only way you can draw this bird to show off his ginormous beak. Anyways, this will be a blast to recreate especially if you are an Angry Bird fan. I will be back with more lessons but not till later on today. So enjoy the ones you have in front of you now, and meet me back here later. Adios people!


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(CNN)-- Luka Rocco Magnotta, the Canadian porn actor accused of killing and dismembering a man and mailing body parts to politicians, will not fight extradition following his arrest in Germany, a Berlin police official said Tuesday.
Magnotta told a Berlin magistrate that he will return voluntarily to face charges in the death of university student Jun Lin, Chief Supt. Stefan Redlich of the Berlin police said.
The 29-year-old did not make any comment regarding the accusations against him, Redlich said.
Magnotta faces first-degree murder and other charges in last month's killing of Lin, a 33-year-old Concordia University student from China.
Authorities accuse Magnotta of dismembering Lin and mailing one of his hands and one of his feet to Canadian politicians. Lin's head and other hand and foot are still missing, Cmdr. Ian Lafreniere, a Montreal police spokesman, said Tuesday.
Police also believe Magnotta filmed the death and dismemberment and posted it to the Internet. Authorities have said the video shows Magnotta engaged in sexual acts involving body parts. On Tuesday, Lafreniere told reporters the video also included evidence of cannibalism.
Berlin police arrested Magnotta on Monday at an Internet cafe where he was browsing articles about himself. The arrest ended an international manhunt that began when the body parts were found in the mail.
Montreal police see no hurry in getting Magnotta back to Canada, Lafreniere said.
"At the moment, it is not a rush for us," he said. "On our side, believe me, we've still got an investigation to do."
Police will investigate allegations of animal abuse made by online animal rights activists who accused him of killing kittens, and also look into possible links to other crimes, Lafreniere said.
"We're in contact with different agencies, it's a fact," he said.
However, Lafreniere said investigators currently have no evidence linking him to other crimes.
He also said investigators would check out rumored links between Magnotta and a well-known Canadian.
While Lafreniere did not name that person, several Canadian newspapers have reported on rumors that Magnotta had dated notorious Canadian killer Karla Homolka.
Ontario police arrested Homolka and her husband in 1993 in the rapes and murders of three Ontario girls, including her own sister. As part of a plea bargain, Homolka served 12 years in prison.
CNN affiliate Canadian Broadcasting Corp. said Montreal police also were investigating a website that hosted the video. The site could face criminal charges for publishing obscene material, CBC reported, citing Lafreniere.
The Magnotta case began last week when a caller complaining of a strong smell coming from an alley behind Magnotta's Montreal apartment building summoned police, Lafreniere said. Investigators found a torso stuffed inside a suitcase, he said.
That same day, officials at Canada's Conservative Party headquarters received a package addressed to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper that contained a foot. Officials later intercepted a package addressed to the Liberal Party that contained a hand.
DNA tests completed Tuesday showed both were Lin's, according to Lafreniere.
He said police don't believe Lin's missing body parts are in the country's mail system, but they are working with postal officials to make sure.
In addition to the video posted to the Internet, Lafreniere said investigators have reviewed surveillance video from his apartment building showing him carrying numerous bags downstairs.
Investigators believe Magnotta killed Lin on May 24 or May 25, posted the video, then took a flight to France on May 26.
He boarded a bus to Berlin on the morning of June 1, Lafreniere said.
Magnotta describes himself as 'a people person'
In the end, it was the keen eye of an employee at the Internet cafe in Berlin that helped police nab Magnotta.
The employee, Kadir Anlayisli, said he recognized the slight man who walked into the nondescript Helin Spatkauf Internet Cafe on Monday, but he couldn't quite figure out why he did.
But as Magnotta surfed the Web, poring over news accounts of the case in which he himself was the suspect, the realization dawned on Anlayisli.
"I looked in the papers and said, 'That's him who they're looking for, the porno killer,' " Anlayisli told reporters.
He flagged down a carload of German police trainees.
Magnotta initially denied his identity, police said. Then he gave up without a fight, stating simply, "OK, you got me."