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Finn, Jake the Dog, Princess Bubblegum and their friends head to theaters for a feature length "Adventure Time" movie from Warner Bros.
Ahead of the release of the limited-edition boots, Cartoon Network and Dr. Martens have released a promo spot to kick off their partnership.
Nobody's cooking and everyone is hungry in Christopher Hastings and Zachary Sterling's "Adventure Time" #37, on sale Feb. 25 from BOOM! Studios.
In a collaboration between Dr. Martens & Cartoon Network, the renowned shoe manufacturer will produce limited-edition "Adventure Time" boots.
Preparing for its upfront presentations in May, the cable channel officially announced its 2015-2016 programming slate.
The new adventure comes from returning "Adventure Time" OGN scribe Danielle Corsetto and "Steven Universe's" Bridget Underwood.
We look back at some of the best -- and best-looking -- collections released last year, from the "Saga" hardcover to "The Muppets" omnibus to "Big Damn Sin City."
BOOM!'s "Adventure Time" #33 from Ryan North, Shelli Paroline & Braden Lamb finds the group dealing with the bully know as The Mnemonoid.
Kate Leth, known for her voice for diversity in comics, discusses expanding her sights to the world of podcasting.
The newest recruits must get through their first week of classes in Kent Osborne & Dylan Haggerty & Mad Rupert's "Banana Guard Academy" #2.
The protectors of Candy Kingdom take the spotlight in BOOM!'s new "Adventure Time" miniseries from Kent Osborne, Dylan Haggerty & Mad Rupert.
This week, Finn and Jake pull double duty, Black Widow takes public transportation, A princess hangs tough and Alex Ross goes retro.
"Adventure Time" head writer Kent Osborne details the exploits of Princess Bubblegum's royal security force in "Banana Guard Academy."
Our artists mashed up the Avengers with "Adventure Time" to give you AVENGER TIME! Jake/Thor, Finn/Iron Man, Scarlet Witch/Princess Bubblegum & more!
Matt Fraction shares with CBR News the experience of successfully pitching an "Adventure Time" comic book story with his six-year-old son.
"Guardians of the Galaxy" MiniMates, DC Collectibles' latest and Captain America large scale figures from NECA and Sideshow debut!
Paul Levitz discusses his new role on the board of directors at BOOM!, his four decades in the comics industry, his upcoming book on Will Eisner and more.
"She-Hulk" prepares for a big day, Jonathan Hickman's still got a "Secret," "The Auteur's" cover is eye-poppingly odd and more.
Kate Leth sends Marceline and Jake the Dog off for some "Adventure Time" of their own in the original graphic novel "Seeing Red."
Writer and storyboard artist Tom Herpich weighs in on what makes the third season of "Adventure Time" more balanced than previous years.
Weak sales for top titles in January! Interviews with Scott Snyder, Shelli Paroline and Braden Lamb, J.G. Jones and Joshua Hale Fialkov! Plus more!
Honoring "excellence in the field of animation," the 41st Annie Awards recognized "Toy Story of TERROR!," "Futurama," "Adventure Time," "Pacific Rim," "Monsters University," Katsuhiro Otomo and more.
Bistrips looks to find even more uses for its comics! Interviews with Nate Powell, Mike Mayhew and Kate Leth! Brandon Graham's "Empowered" process! Plus more!
"Bandette" creators Paul Tobin & Colleen Coover join with artist Wook Jin Clark to tell an algebraic body switch tale in "Adventure Time: The Flip Side."
Finn and Jake face a primordial threat when Princess Bubblegum's latest experiment goes wrong in Ryan North's "Adventure Time" #22!
"Adventure Time" writer Ryan North discusses hitting the quarter-centennial mark and the importance of precious things. Plus, exclusive cover art!
This week, Finn gets spooky, Marco and Alana get romantic, The Shadow gets surreal and Dream gets -- well, two spots.
"Adventure Time" contributor Kate Leth discusses her career, autobiographical comics, working comics retail and more.
"Adventure Time" and "Dinosaur Comics" writer Ryan North discusses "The Midas Flesh," his first miniseries for BOOM! Studios' BOOM! Box imprint.
"Adventure Time" creator Pendleton Ward brought John DiMaggio, Jeremy Shada, and more to answer questions from a theater full of fans.
Cartoonists Kate Beaton, Christopher Hastings and Ryan North discuss their work in and outside of comics - including Beaton's new project with Scholastic.
Peppermint Butler and Cinnamon Bun are still on the case of the missing Finn and Jake in an exclusive preview of BOOM! Studios' "Adventure Time: Candy Capers" #4. The investigation continues October 9.
Fourth annual Cincinnati Comic Expo kicks off Friday! Geoff Johns talks "Forever Evil" and Lex Luthor! Fred Van Lente on "Brain Boy"! Braden Lamb and Shelli Paroline on "Adventure Time"! Plus much more!
From "Iron Man 3" to "Alien" & "Man of Steel," pieces based on huge movie successes made their debut this week. Plus, Sideshow Collectibles revealed a new Gwen Stacey statue based on J. Scott Campbell's design!
Marvel's Red Skull, "Portal's" Sunburst Aperture Sentry Turret, Star Wars' General Grievous and a duo of classic 8-bit killers assault the spotlight in this week's edition of TOYING AROUND!
"Thor: The Dark World" cast and crew break down the recent trailer! Dane DeHaan teases Harry Osborn in "Amazing Spider-Man 2!" Clark Gregg discusses Coulson's resurrection in "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." & more!
Peppermint Butler and Cinnamon Bun take over the spotlight in "Adventure Time: Candy Capers" #1, and thanks to BOOM! Studios, CBR has an exclusive preview!
On July 3, Natasha Allegri's "Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake" miniseries comes to a close with the sixth issue, and CBR has an exclusive preview thanks to BOOM! Studios.
BOOM! Studios has provided CBR with an exclusive preview of "Adventure Time" #17 by Ryan North, Shelli Paroline, Braden Lamb & Jay Hosler. A new totally math adventure begins June 26.
This week, our artists mashed "Adventure Time's" cast with comic characters! Check out the mathematical results, including Finn-Mann and the Masters of the Oooniverse, Marceline & Vampirella and, of course, it's Avenger Time!
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Our Kansas delegation gladly supported the sequester, even knowing it would cause significant pain for working mothers, those who are struggling to make a pay check stretch, the young, the old, the disabled, the homeless and hungry. They refused a commonsense proposal to mix spending cuts and tax increases and concluded that our pain was a small price to pay for their position.
Then, lo and behold, these three – Lynn Jenkins, Pat Roberts, and Jerry Moran – found themselves stranded on the tarmac with the great unwashed (that would be you and me) and suddenly found the sequester unacceptable.
Did this great insight motivate them to relieve the pain of hardworking, struggling Americans?
No, they chose to relieve their own pain, voting for a thin splinter of a bill that will allow them to be more comfortable in their air travel, still refusing to help the Head Start preschoolers, the working mothers, the struggling families, still refusing to undo the other painful cuts imposed by their support of the sequester by the simple act of working together.
Apparently they have not heard of "the greater good" or the importance of promoting social well-being, strong social bonds, or meaningful living. All of which can be done on a budget.
I'll give our congressional delegation this: They are consistent. Consistently advocating the best interests of Lynn Jenkins, Pat Roberts, and Jerry Moran without regard for the greater good of the American people.
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I have installed Ubuntu 10.10 32bit on my PC with my USB Flash disk. Then, i installed NVIDIA Driver with Additional Driver. unfortunately, i forgot the driver's version, but i think it's nvidia-185.
And i reboot my pc, and showed up a ugly splash screen, and i can't passed login screen. The screens showed up a mess, and i can't login anymore.
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Lunchtime Movie: Viva Las Vegas
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Date & Time:Tuesday, January 8, 2013 - 12:00pm – 2:00pm
Bring your lunch to the Bluffton Branch Library each Tuesday at Noon and enjoy a newly released film. We'll provide dessert! Full movie listing is available at the Bluffton Branch Library.
In celebration of Elvis' birthday we will be showing Viva Las Vegas!


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6 Acts of Real-Life Heroism Made Possible by Video Games
As Cracked has pointed out before, mankind is just now coming around to the idea that video games might actually be good for something after all. We need these stories to counterbalance two decades of claims that games brainwash kids into going on shooting sprees, and after having watched many friends abandon their social lives in favor of grinding for XP.
Remember, games are neither good nor evil -- it's all in what you do with them. For instance ...
#6. Online Gamers Have Saved Strangers' Lives
In any discussion about the benefits of multiplayer gaming, its capacity to bring people together would not usually enter into the equation. Yes, current technology allows gamers to speak to opponents at the other side of the world with nothing but a cheap headset, but the conversations tend to revolve around the promiscuity of the mothers of said opponents, so that's not all that impressive.
But among the jerks, there are some downright heartwarming stories. For instance, a Canadian teenager made the news after helping an autistic youth online who was showing serious signs of depression, to the point of hinting at suicide. The teen had no idea who the other kid was, or where he lived, or anything other than his gamertag. That didn't stop him -- he got in contact with the police, who contacted the at-risk kid over Xbox Live. They were then able to spend a few hours talking him down.
Since the hero of the story hasn't been named, we just have to assume he looks like this.
And here's the best part: When authorities got in touch with the suicidal kid's parents (who lived in Texas), they said they had no idea there was a problem. It took a 14-year-old gamer who lived 1,500 miles away to see the signs.
Meanwhile, Robert Chambers also benefited from the concern of online strangers. He was sitting at the computer playing the browser game Evony when a fire started in his house. His muscular dystrophy prevented him from getting to a phone to call for help, so he turned to the people he was playing with online. He gave them his home address (which isn't advised when your house isn't on fire). Thankfully, his fellow players got in touch with the authorities, who showed up and carried Chambers to safety within minutes.
This would have been a very different story if Chambers had a history of griefing.
With all those stories of cyberbullying swirling around, we need to be reminded that on the whole, forging connections between strangers is a good thing.
#5. A Guy Saved a Life With His FPS Medic Training
War games aren't just about mindless slaughter -- pretty much every war video game has you play as the good guys, and each one has missions that involve rescuing hostages or giving aid to civilians.
But still, an entire campaign of Medal of Modern Warfare: Ghost Recon Duty isn't going to teach us any skills that help us to actually rescue people and save lives, right? These are games where you "save" people by blowing the hell out of the cartoonish enemies that are threatening them, and where you recover from bullet wounds by pausing to catch your breath.
Via Lowpings.net
"This man needs a nap, stat!"
Some games strive for realism, however, and if not for one of them called America's Army and Paxton Galvanek, a random dude who played the ever-loving shit out of it, there might be at least one less person on the planet.
Galvanek is a North Carolina man who was just driving along the highway back in 2007 when some pretty scary stuff started to go down. An SUV in front of him lost control, flipped upside-down and started to spew smoke. Ignoring the fact that "Paxton Galvanek" sounds more like a Bond villain than a citizen hero, Galvanek stopped his car and rushed to help.
He was later punished by being forced to appear on Fox News and explain what a video game is.
There was one teeny tiny problem that would have prevented most people from helping: Galvanek had no prior real-world medical experience. However, he did have loads of virtual hours of medic training, thanks to, you guessed it, America's Army. The game is not only known for having super-realistic weapons and combat, but it also boasts medic training that apparently rivals a real-life EMT course. And we're not talking "Get the health mushroom to the victim when his heart icon gets below 50 percent" here. It's the real stuff.
Galvanek went to the flipped SUV and safely pulled a passenger from the smoking metal heap. He then saw that the driver had lost two of his fingers and was bleeding heavily. Galvanek pulled him out and, remembering his "medical" training, used a towel as a dressing to curb the blood loss. He then told the driver, who must have thought it was lucky as hell that he crashed his car so close to a doctor, to raise his hand over his head to lessen the blood flow and prevent further blood loss. Galvanek capped it all off by evaluating the rest of the man's injuries, which included a cut on his head, until the paramedics arrived.
That's right: Thanks to a video game, Paxton Galvanek was able to save the life of a complete stranger -- without any of that highfalutin medical schooling. Let's see board games match that.
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#4. A Kid Somehow Fended Off a Moose Thanks to World of Warcraft
Ninety percent of the reason we play video games is to live out our ass-kicking fantasies that would be impossible in real life. What self-respecting kid hasn't dreamed of launching a fireball at a bully and screaming "Hadoken!"? Or kicking someone in the face while screaming ... whatever the hell it is Ryu screams when he does his spinning kick. Seriously, he says like a whole sentence.
"I am going to kick you in the face with my foot, you have no honor and your face now smells of kick-foot!"
Sadly, science has not yet advanced to the point where we've learned how to shoot fire from our wrists. But as 12-year-old Norwegian boy Hans Olsen demonstrated, that doesn't mean that video games can't teach us how to foil a would-be attacker -- even one that's much bigger than us. And has antlers.
You see, little Hans and his 10-year-old sister were walking to school when a moose spotted the tykes on his territory. The antlered monster was none too happy about this, and showed it by charging at the duo. That's when Hans went into Super Big Brother EX mode and tried to save his sister from their attacker -- using his World of Warcraft skills.
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Luckily for the moose, he didn't play a mage.
Luckily for his little sister, Hans is an avid World of Warcraft player. A key strategy in WoW when taking on any kind of huge, overpowered monster is managing the enemy's "aggro" -- that is, intentionally drawing its aggression away from weaker teammates. So, the boy taunted the moose, trying to get it to take its attention off of his sister. It worked like a charm! The moose lost all interest in the girl, but there was only one drawback: It was now charging full speed at Hans himself.
This is usually the part where a full-grown adult shits his pants and wonders whether morticians can repair antler-shaped holes to a corpse's sternum. But Hans kept his cool. The moose caught up to Hans and headbutted him in the back, striking his backpack. At that moment, Hans realized that he should use a skill that you acquire at level 30 of WoW: feign death. Hans did his best possum impression while the moose sniffed at the boy and eventually lost interest and wandered off to do other asshole moose things.
Like morph into its demonic Ice Moose form and fuck with tourists.
Hans was declared a hero and remained totally nonchalant about the whole thing. When a Norwegian news outlet asked him if he was scared during the encounter, his response was simply, "It went really well." It went really well? This kid is only 12 -- we predict he'll be the Beastmaster by 30.


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5 Turncoats Who Changed the Tide of History
In the grand scale of things, not much changes when a single dude decides he'd rather be a Communist than an American, or vice versa. The balance of power is still basically the same, right?
But every balance has a tipping point, and sometimes all it takes is one turncoat to change the course of history. Like ...
#5. Lee Harvey Oswald
The Man:
The guy who killed President Kennedy, unless you believe the conspiracy theories.
Changed Everything By:
Not long before the Kennedy assassination, Lee Harvey Oswald defected from the Soviet Union to the United States (after first defecting from the USA to the Soviet Union).
If he'd decided to stay there, or not been allowed to leave, JFK would have lived and some alternate version of history would have played out.
Wait, What?
Lee Harvey Oswald wasn't a crazed loner -- he didn't shoot JFK because he thought the White House was beaming mind control waves into his brain. He had an actual beef with the American government, and by that we mean he was kind of a communist sympathizer. So much so that, four years before he climbed to the sixth floor of a book depository and became one of the most hated men in American history, he flipped America the middle finger by defecting to the Soviet Union. And since he was just a random, whiny douche at that point, America didn't put up a big fight to keep him. Would you?
Unfortunately for the whole world, life in Soviet Russia wasn't as exciting as Cold War propaganda posters let on. By 1959, the USSR was more like the bleak, gray, impoverished, always-snowing suicide trap you see in photos like these:
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Those aren't hats.
Oswald had hoped to study at Moscow University, but the Soviets had a job opening for a lathe operator in Minsk, and apparently, in Soviet Russia, the job chose you. (Sorry.) The idealistic Oswald must have been pretty disappointed by what he saw. So did he change his mind, having a revelation that maybe the American way was better? Eh, not exactly.
As Oswald himself wrote in his journal: "I am starting to reconsider my desire about staying. The work is drab, the money I get has nowhere to be spent. No nightclubs or bowling alleys, no places of recreation except the trade union dances. I have had enough."
"Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome ... Lee Oswald and the Trade Union Dancers!"
Yep, it was the lack of bowling alleys and nightclubs that drove him back to the USA, and back onto the path that would lead him to killing a president.
By all rights, at that point the USA should have told Oswald to go fly a kite, trapping him in Russia where he could never hurt a pinko fly, much less the president. Instead, the United States let the wayward dipshit come home, presumably after a hearty round of "Told you so," and the USSR let him go, presumably because his lathe machine operating skills sucked.
So Oswald comes home and goes nuts, right? Not at first. First he tries to defect to Cuba, since everyone knows the second time is the charm. But this time the U.S. wasn't having it. A few weeks later, President Kennedy decided to visit the home town of a twice-jaded trigger-happy Communist newly enraged at being told he was trapped in America forever, and conspiracy theories notwithstanding, the rest is history.
"Ironically, I am actually three people."
#4. Vasili Mitrokhin
The Man:
A Soviet spy so shitty at spying that he wasn't allowed to spy any more.
Changed Everything By:
Raiding the Soviet's document archives and turning everything over to the West, giving them a huge advantage in the Cold War.
Via News.bbc.co.uk
And having a mustache that redefined facial hair for fast food restaurant managers worldwide.
Wait, What?
Vasili Mitrokhin began his promising career with the Soviet Motherland as a spy for the KGB. However, in a plot befitting a Steve Carell comedy, he bungled a mission and his employers gave him a new permanent assignment: head of the KGB archives. In other words, they punished him by making him a librarian.
It wasn't this humiliation that turned Mitrokhin against the USSR, but rather what he found when he got there. Access to the Soviet Union's most secret of secret documents revealed the terrifying extent of the nation's efforts to oppress and terrify its own people. And though he'd been losing faith in Stalin's brand of communism for some time, details of events like the crushing of the Prague uprising clinched the deal. The only question was, what kind of damage could one man do to the Soviet Union?
"Let's see how they like it when I steal their most beloved recipes!"
Quite a bit, if that man was left alone in a room full of top-secret Soviet government files and had a lot of free time.
Day by day, Mitrokhin made copies by hand of top-secret Soviet reports and smuggled them back to his summer cabin. Of course, the problem of what to do with them remained. His life-endangering efforts to contact the CIA fell on deaf ears, so he instead attempted to defect to the British. Once the value of the Mitrokhin archive fully came to light, the Brits politely invited Mitrokhin and his family to come stay with them for tea and crumpets and any paperwork he wanted to share. What he brought with him turned out to be "the most complete and extensive intelligence ever received from any source."
Mitrokhin's treasure trove of top-secret intelligence identified scores of Russian spies in frighteningly high-rank government and media positions. It also exposed unknown political alliances the USSR had with other countries and details of secret military operations (including the plot to assassinate Yugoslavian leader Josip Tito). It even included information on Soviet propaganda campaigns within the USA to perpetuate various conspiracy theories (i.e. the JFK assassination, J. Edgar Hoover being gay, the CIA killing Martin Luther King Jr.) and to foster the rise of the KKK. They were like the Gossip Girls of international espionage.
But, man, could they ever dance.
Though the Soviet Union was already beginning to implode by the time Mitrokhin got his information out, it nevertheless destroyed any leverage the USSR might have had over the West by effectively ending their entire spy program. Who ever said librarians had dead-end careers?
#3. Munir Redfa
The Man:
An Iraqi Air Force pilot flying the most advanced aircraft in their arsenal.
Changed Everything By:
Giving Israel intel that may have saved it.
Via Incredibleimages4u.blogspot.com
His high school yearbook voted him Most Likely to Steal a Jet.
Wait, What?
In the 1960s, relations between Israel and the surrounding Arab states were even worse than they are now. Israel was worried because its enemies had a brand new toy that they didn't know anything about -- the Soviet-made warplane called the MiG-21. If tensions in the region were going to escalate into conflict, they wanted to know as much about the jet's capabilities as possible, but they couldn't exactly steal one. The only way they'd get one would be if one of the pilots just flew one into an Israeli hangar. Luckily for Israel, that's exactly what happened.
Munir Redfa was a MiG pilot in the Iraqi Air Force, but unlike most Iraqis, he was a Christian. The Israelis figured this might afford them some leverage, since anyone lucky enough to get promoted to fly the top-secret jets tended to be ultra-patriotic, as the Israelis learned when a previous effort to bribe a pilot got the conspirators put to death. But Christians had a hard time in the Iraqi military (Redfa was even often forced to fly without a full fuel tank, to conserve fuel for his valuable Muslim colleagues), so Redfa was understandably jaded.
Via Incredibleimages4u.blogspot.com
"I shave my mustache in defiance!"
It was just enough to pique his interest when Israeli agents came to him with an offer of one million dollars, as well as protection for his family and guaranteed citizenship and employment in Israel. All he had to do was give them his plane.
So one day, Redfa boarded his plane as usual and took off for a planned flight, but this time he deviated from course and shot off in the general direction of Israel. When radar picked up his unusual detour, the authorities threatened to shoot him down. Redfa acknowledged by turning off his radio and diving below effective radar coverage. Presumably with an extended middle finger, Redfa said goodbye to Iraq as the Soviet-made jet streaked toward its rendezvous with an escort of Israeli Mirage IIIs.
The Israelis studied the hell out of Redfa's MiG, and he helped them by teaching some of their pilots how to fly the thing. They even loaned the jet to the USA once they were done with it, just to stick it to the Russians even more. When the shit finally hit the fan in Israel in the form of the Six-Day War, Israel's mastery of its enemies' secret weapon earned them victory in just, well, six days. So they have one disgruntled Iraqi pilot to thank for being alive to argue with the rest of the Middle East for another half a century.


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Join the thousands of riders who will unite in Philadelphia on September 10th to raise funds to support the Lance Armstrong Foundation and their mission to inspire and empower people affected by cancer. Support the LIVESTRONG Ride by joining the Abramson Cancer Center's team led by Linda Jacobs, PhD, CRNP, Director of Penn's Living Well after Cancer Program which was started with a grant from the Lance Armstrong Foundation.
Imagine a nation of cancer survivors, living life on their own terms, with dignity and strength. It begins with a single rider, taking up the challenge of the LIVESTRONG Ride. It begins with you. Join the movement that's making a difference for people affected by cancer. It's only possible if we all work together.
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LAMPASAS (September 16, 2011)- Lampasas residents looking to make sure they are eating healthy and preparing food properly are encouraged to attend Food Fun Day.
Food Fun Day is Sunday at the Lampasas County Office Building, located at 501 E 4th Street.
The seminar costs $2 a person and lasts from 2-5 p.m. in the building's conference room.
Topics that will be covered include nutrition, food safety and food cookery principles.
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ST. CLAIRSVILLE - The $1.9 million set aside by Belmont County commissioners to build a road connecting U.S. Route 40 with the Ohio Valley Plaza sits unused as county officials wait to see if the Ohio Department of Transportation will build a bridge across Interstate 70, connecting the plaza with the Ohio Valley Mall.
The Belmont County Transportation Improvement District, Belmont County commissioners, the city of St. Clairsville and Richland Township have joined together in submitting an application to Ohio Department of Transportation's Transportation Review Advisory Council, seeking $20 million in TRAC funds for the completion of the total U.S. 40 /Mall Road project. The entire project would ultimately connect Route 40 with Mall Road through the Ohio Valley Mall and Ohio Valley Plaza, and involve construction of a bridge over Interstate 70 by ODOT.
The bridge then would connect to a road being constructed behind the mall by the mall's owner, the Cafaro Co., with ODOT extending the roadway on to Mall Road.
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MALL ROAD — Belmont County commissioners have earmarked $1.9 million for the construction of a road beginning at U.S. Route 40 near the St. Clairsville corporation line at the All Fore One miniature golf course. The road would extend west of the Ohio Valley Plaza behind Sam's Club, and turn south to end behind the Lowe's Home Improvement store.— Joselyn King
TRAC money requested would fund ODOT's portion of the project.
Belmont County commissioners already have earmarked $1.9 million toward building a connector road that begins the project.
The proposed road would begin at Route 40 near the St. Clairsville corporation line and the All for Fore One miniature golf course, extend west behind Sam's Club at the Ohio Valley Plaza and turn south to wind behind the Lowe's Home Improvement store. It is at that point ODOT's bridge project begins.
Commissioners Ginny Favede and Mark Thomas said the county will know later this year whether the project will receive the $20 million in TRAC funding, and there is $80 million available for projects this year. The Transportation Review Advisory Council is charged with considering how these ODOT funds are allocated.
But Favede says there is no reason for the county to build the connector road unless there is a guarantee ODOT will build the bridge and complete the project.
"We will know in December if we receive the money," Favede said.
"Without the guarantee of these funds, we have no intention of starting our end of the project without knowing the entire project will be complete. That's been the problem all along. No one will be happier than me if the state provides the money."
If the project doesn't receive the $20 million in TRAC funding, the county will have to look at other options, Thomas said. An alternative option could be a Federal Highways Administration Grant. Unlike Favede, Thomas believes the county's connector road could be bid out soon by the County Transportation Improvement District.
"It's slow progress," he said. "The only thing that could happen in 2014 is (the connector road) could be completed this year. At end of 2014, we should know if we get the TRAC funding.
"If we get the money, there will then be a couple of years of construction. We're looking at least until 2016 until the bridge is constructed."


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115 Saint Marks Place
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Gucci announces an exclusive online sale with Christie's to benefit CHIME FOR CHANGE
Three exclusive Gucci handbags will be offered at Christie's online-only sale, open for bidding from the 23 September until 30 September. All proceeds from the sale of these bags will benefit CHIME FOR CHANGE, founded by Gucci, which convenes, unites and strengthens the voices speaking out for girls and women around the world, and raises funds for Education, Health and Justice projects for girls and women through its crowdfunding partner Catapult.
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Boston PD: 3 more suspects in custody
BOSTON Boston police say three more suspects have been taken into custody in the marathon bombings.
In a tweet Wednesday morning, the police department says only that three more suspects are in custody and more details will follow. Police spokeswoman Cheryl Fiandaca confirmed the tweet but referred all other questions to the FBI.
Three people were killed and more than 260 injured on April 15 when two bombs exploded near the finish line.
Suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev died after a gunfight with police several days later. His brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was captured and lies in a hospital prison.
Both are Russian natives who lived for several years in the U.S. They are accused of using a weapon of mass destruction.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
Relatives of the dead suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing will claim his body now that his wife has agreed to release it, an uncle said as officials in both Washington and Russia deepened their investigations into him and his ties.
The body of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, has been at the medical examiner's office in Massachusetts since he died after a gunfight with authorities more than a week ago.
Amato DeLuca, the Rhode Island attorney for his widow, Katherine Russell, said Tuesday that his client had just learned that the medical examiner was ready to release Tsarnaev's body and that she wants it released to his side of the family.
Police said Tsarnaev ran out of ammunition before his brother, 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, dragged his body under a vehicle while fleeing the scene. His cause of death has been determined but will not be made public until his remains are claimed.
"Of course, family members will take possession of the body," uncle Ruslan Tsarni of Maryland told The Associated Press on Tuesday night. "We'll do it. We will do it. A family is a family."
He would not elaborate. Tsarnaev's parents are still in Russia, but he has other relatives on his side of the family in the U.S., including Tsarni.
Tsarnaev's father, Anzor, announced plans last week to travel to the U.S. in the hope of burying his elder son, but he told the AP on Wednesday that those plans are off because he is suffering from bad headaches and high blood pressure. The 46-year-old Tsarnaev said he still hopes to go when he is feeling better.
Anzor Tsarnaev's other son, Dzhokhar, lies in a prison hospital after being wounded in the shootout with police as he and his brother made their getaway attempt. He is charged with using a weapon of mass destruction to kill, a crime that carries a potential death sentence.
Russian agents placed the older suspect under surveillance during a six-month visit to southern Russia last year, then scrambled to find him when he suddenly disappeared after police killed a Canadian jihadist, a security official told the AP.
U.S. law enforcement officials have been trying to determine whether Tamerlan Tsarnaev was indoctrinated or trained by militants during his visit to Dagestan, a Caspian Sea province that has become the center of a simmering Islamic insurgency.
The security official with the Anti-Extremism Center, a federal agency under Russia's Interior Ministry, confirmed the Russians shared their concerns. He said that Russian agents were watching Tsarnaev, and that they searched for him when he disappeared two days after the July 2012 death of the Canadian man, who had joined the Islamic insurgency in the region. The official spoke only on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the news media.
Security officials suspected ties between Tsarnaev and the Canadian - an ethnic Russian named William Plotnikov - according to the Novaya Gazeta newspaper, which is known for its independence and investigative reporting and cited an unnamed official with the Anti-Extremism Center, which tracks militants. The newspaper said the men had social networking ties that brought Tsarnaev to the attention of Russian security services for the first time in late 2010.
President Barack Obama said Tuesday at a news conference that the U.S. counterterrorism bureaucracy "did what it was supposed to be doing" before the Boston Marathon bombing as his top intelligence official began a review into whether sensitive information was adequately shared and whether the U.S. government could have disrupted the attack.
"We want to go back and we want to review every step that was taken," Obama said. "We want to leave no stone unturned. We want to see, is there in fact additional protocols and procedures that could be put in place that would further improve and enhance our ability to detect a potential attack."
In Rhode Island, DeLuca said Tamerlan Tsarnaev's widow met with law enforcement "for many hours over the past week" and will continue cooperating. FBI agents on Monday visited her parents' North Kingstown, R.I., home, where she has been staying, and carried away several bags.
"Katherine and her family continue to be deeply saddened by the harm that has been caused," DeLuca said Tuesday.
Terrel Harris, a spokesman for the Department of Public Safety, said Tuesday evening that the state had not yet received Russell's request to release her husband's body.
He said arrangements must be made to release the body and once that happens a death certificate will be filed and the cause of death made public. He said it is too soon to speculate on when that might happen.
Contributing to this report were Associated Press writers Lynn Berry in Moscow; Arsen Mollyaev in Makhachkala, Russia; and Alicia A. Caldwell, Eileen Sullivan and AP Intelligence Writer Kimberly Dozier in Washington.
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Looking at converting from Windows XP to Ubuntu. Need to know if Ubuntu can open and update Microsoft Word files.
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Looking at converting from Windows XP to Ubuntu. Need to know if Ubuntu can open and update Microsoft Word files.
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To be frank there's a lot of issues with .doc and .docx formats in LibreOffice. If your MS Office files are simple text files, it won't give you trouble. But if it contains images, specially the .docx files, you might have a frustrating experience with LibreOffice.
You can do all the things in LibreOffice that you do in MS Office. But first thing is you need to get rid of doc/docx file formats. Open Document Tex (.odt) is the default file format in LibreOffice and it is great. It even works with MS Office.
However, if you want to stick to the doc/docx file format, you can even install MS Office in ubuntu. There's a provision for that.
Apache Open Office, and LibreOffice are both freely available for Ubuntu. While they do support editing/creating word documents in .doc and .docx formats their support isn't 100%. If you want to test them out first to see if this will affect you both Apache Open Office, and LibreOffice are also available for Windows. Another option would be to try running Microsoft Office in Wine. Wine is a program that attempts to act a compatibility layer so that you can run Windows programs on Linux operating systems. Some programs work, some sort of work, and some don't work at all. I've never tried Office in Wine so I don't know if it works.
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Yes it can, Ubuntu comes with Libreoffice writer installed it can open ms word files and can save them to ms word document format it supports .doc and also .docx format. Libreoffice is freeware and preinstalled so no need to install it.
I almost never use Microsoft Word these days as Google Docs (free if you have a Gmail account) works simply and straightforwardly in the browser on Windows, Ubuntu, Mac OS X and even on tablet devices. The other advantage your data is stored in the Cloud and therefore automatically backed up and available from wherever you need it.
If you go down this route I would recommend you download and install the Chrome browser in place of the default Firefox to get the most out of the features.
LibreOffice though is definitely a competent alternative Microsoft Word, and as noted is installed as standard in Ubuntu.
Whilst the use of open file formats is to commended you may find Windows / Word stalwarts (especially ones running older versions) complaining when they receive files with unusual extensions!
As already mentioned, as long as the .doc/.docx files are simple structured you won't have big issues. That changes with the complexity of the .dox/.docx files. A further headache is the collaboration with other users who use MS-Word only on their Windows or Apple machine or even work with customers.


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What do the Lunar New Year and National Hot Breakfast Month have in common? This year, the Lunar New Year falls on Feb. 19, right in the middle of a month devoted to warm and comforting ways to get your day started. With that in mind, it'd be impossible to ignore what is arguably the best hot breakfast of all: the tradition of Chinese dim sum. Dim sum (which technically translates to "point of the heart") can be a disorienting ritual: unrecognizable food being wheeled around in carts, waiters who only speak Cantonese, and an endless number of dumplings and buns.
We're here to save you from the confusion of the process, as we present to you our ultimate field guide on the subject. We promise, you'll never be scared to order dim sum again!
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I wonder about the life-styles of the inhabitants of ancient civilizations. As a particular case, if we consider the era of Sumer, what are the significant diversities compared to rural life today?
According to historian A. Roger Ekirch's At Day's Close, peoples in pre-industrial societies actually went to bed as soon at it was too dark to work, and slept (and still do sleep in such areas today) in two fourish-hour phases, interrupted by a short period of activity. He found numerous references to this in literature, from Medieval literature to Homer. However, the electric lighting available to modern industrialized societies resulted in people staying active after dark, and thus needing to skip the middle activity period to make up for it.
Ekirch argues that these days we have become so used to an uninterrupted 6-8 hour sleep that we have trouble translating the concepts of "first sleep" and "second sleep" from older literature (hiding the fact that they existed), and those who wake up for a while in the middle of the night often think they have some kind of disorder.


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These days, the standard way to present differential calculus is by introducing the Cauchy-Weierstrass definition of the limit. One then defines the derivative as a limit, proves results like the Leibniz and chain rules, and uses this machinery to differentiate some simple functions such as polynomials. The purpose of my question is to see what creative alternatives people can describe to this approach. The nature of the question is that there is not going to be a single best answer. I have several methods that I've collected which I'll put in as answers to my own question.
It's not reasonable to expect answers to include an entire introductory textbook treatment of differentiation, nor would anyone want to read answers that were that lengthy. A sketch is fine. Lack of rigor is fine. Well known notation and terminology can be assumed. It would be nice to develop things to the point where one can differentiate a polynomial, since that would help to illustrate how your method works and demonstrate that it's usable. For this purpose, it suffices to prove that if $n>0$ is an integer, the derivative of $x^n$ equals $0$ at $0$ and equals $n$ at $1$; the result at other nonzero values of $x$ follows by scaling. Doing this for $n=2$ is fine if the generalization to $n>2$ is obvious.


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The Ohio Valley is known for its community celebrations and traditions, and few traditions are as well known locally as the Wellsburg Applefest.
The festival, which celebrates the area's connections to both the Grimes Golden apple and the legend of Johnny Appleseed, is making its return for the 34th year this weekend, and it is sure to be an event everyone will enjoy.
The apple is central to our local event, with pies, fritters, apple butter, cider and other goodies available as far as anyone can see.
We can't forget the baking competitions either. Now known as the Apple for Everyone Contest, and sponsored by Mullenbach Funeral Home, the contest will take place Sunday and will include a variety of apple dishes, with everything from cakes to pies to cookies to applesauce vying for a prize.
There's much more though, with lots of entertainment, the Wellsburg Applefest Pageant, with special guest Miss West Virginia Kaitlin Gates, and a variety of fall-themed activities like pumpkin decorating and carving contests.
Residents also can take some time to get a sneak peek at the new location for the Brooke County Museum, which will open its doors during the festival to show residents the progress being made at its future home.
The Wellsburg Applefest is a true Ohio Valley tradition, and we are sure it will, once again, be a true success.


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given the density of states according to Gutzwiller's trace formula
$ g(E)= g_{smooth}(E)+ g_{osc}(E) $
i know that the 'smooth' part comes from $ g_{smooth}(E)= \iint dxdp \delta(E-p^{2}-V(x)) $ for one dimensional system
however how it is the oscillating part of the trace obtained ?? :D i mean the sum over lenghts of the orbit (in the phase space)
also how does the condition for WKB energies appear ?? $ \oint _{C} p.dq= 2\pi \hbar (n+ \alpha) $ from the Gutzwiller trace ??


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April 13, 2012
Recovery Plan
Every day is different. Managing all aspects of a building, you may deal with various issues...
Jason Wednesday Miller, Facility Planning and Management, '13
Co-op Employer: Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital
Co-op Position: Engineering Department Co-op
Hometown: St. Louis, MO
If You Can't Beat Them, Join Them
When Jason Wednesday Miller, BFPM '13, moved to Boston from St. Louis as a young professional, he learned firsthand how hard it was to compete against Wentworth graduates. "Despite my six years of experience as a facilities manager at a museum, I was constantly losing jobs to Wentworth graduates who had multiple co-op experiences and a facilities planning and management degree." Rather than lose another job opportunity, Miller decided to level the playing field by going back to school to earn an undergraduate degree from Wentworth.
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At Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Miller's co-op experience has re-affirmed his passion for this multi-discipline field. "Every day is different. Managing all aspects of a building, you may deal with various issues—architectural, electrical, plumbing, hospital codes, and LEED certification. It is never boring and there is always something to take care of." Currently, he spends his time helping Spaulding prepare for their new 240,000-square-foot rehabilitative care and research space in the Charlestown Navy Yard. The state-of-the-art and environmentally conscious hospital is expected to be completed in December.
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Miller plans to apply his classroom knowledge and co-op experiences all over the world. "Professor Richard Christiano introduced me to a U. S. Department of State recruiter. In this potential facilities management role, I would be posted at various embassies, consulates, or diplomatic properties, and traveling every two to four years. I would love to see the world while managing United States embassies in Ireland, The Netherlands, and Japan."


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Gremlins 6" Gizmo Smiling Plush for $10.97 + free shipping
This brings me back.
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HAHA, awesome blast from the past!
Why can't it ship to Arizona?
Buy One Get Three Free if you put a few drops of water on it.
Too bad it doesn't come with the movie!
I picked up this doll at toys r us a couple weeks ago! It was $10 there!
Don't feed the Plush after midnight. As a matter of fact.. don't fee the plush at all. Probably don't want to get it wet either.. just saying..
If I get this for my 5 year old son, would I be a dick if I swapped it with a gremlin when he's sleeping?
@haus: Yes, yes you would be..... but I still laughed my a$$ off at your comment!
I loved this movie when i was kid!
I still have my original gizmo plush from when the movie came out back in the day. I have no idea why, but I still have it although it makes a noise when you squeeze it.
why don't they make a gizmo version of furby?
ha, still not sold out! C'mon (deal)Wooters; this thing is ranked as the 2nd most purchased item on their site!
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I'm in the planning phases of a mobile-based game that depends heavily on tracking your location (think FourSquare). The main problem I have is storing and tracing location.
If a user has a phone with a data plan, I can simply ask them to turn it on at the target location to allow me to save that information (that they visited location X). But what about if they don't have a data plan?
FourSquare allows you to use some sort of SMS system to "check in" to locations, but implementing that is beyond me. What I probably need is some way to just figure out and temporarily store the user's location, and when they next connect online, they can upload all the "visited locations" information.
I know this is vague; I'm looking for general solutions. If you want specifics, I will be using MonoGame and supporting iPhone and Android phones.


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There is an email I need to send out everyday via Microsoft Outlook, which includes the updated information grabbed from some web servers. It takes about ten minutes manually (not that bad).
My question is whether there is a software solution (or my last resort is looking up the OUTLOOK programming API), which would allow me to send template-formatted emails more efficiently.


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Schoeller Arca re-enters bulk container market
March 23, 2011 - MMH Editorial
At a press conference Wednesday, Schoeller Arca Systems (Booth 3908) told Modern that it is re-entering the bulk container market with two new lines of green, collapsible large container solutions: the ComboLife 315 NG and the Magnum Optimum.
With an average life expectancy of about 10 years, both product lines provide end users with the ergonomic, economical and environmental benefits. "We're all about green," said Schoeller Arca Systems president Robert Engle. "We search for opportunities to offer sustainable and reusable packaging that will directly replace containers that go into landfills or that are only partially recycled."
The efficient ComboLife 315 NG is a bag-in-box system that is strong, safe and offers a 4-to-1 return ratio driven by a collapsed height of just 12.3 inches.
The Magnum Optimum is a modular container system that can be configured and reconfigured in many ways with multiple, RFID, labeling and tagging options to suit the end users needs.
Engle asked, "Why build one standard unit and force it one a user when you can offer a customized solution?" Good question. The answer is: They don't.
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Clifford Durr and the Importance of Principled Personal Decision Making in Public Life
April18, 1999
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Ever since I lived with them in the summer of 1965, I have regarded Clifford and Virginia Durr as my personal heroes. Not even death diminishes the meaning of their lives.
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For the past 25 years, Geoffrey Cowan has been an important force in almost every facet of the communication world, as a public interest lawyer, academic administrator, best-selling author and award-winning teacher, playwright, television producer, and government official.
Since November 1996, he has been dean of the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication, which includes the university's School of Journalism, as well as all of its communication programs. The School has a faculty of 35 full-time members and 1,250 graduate and undergraduate students. He is professor of journalism and law in the School of Journalism, and jointly holds a professorial appointment in the USC Law School. He is the author of See No Evil: The Backstage Battle over Sex and Violence on Television (Simon & Schuster, 1980), and The People v. Clarence Darrow: The Bribery Trial of America's Greatest Lawyer (Random House, 1993).
Prior to becoming dean, Cowan served as director of the Voice of America. He was appointed to that position by President Clinton in March 1994. In that capacity he served as the 22nd director of the VOA, the international broadcasting service of the U.S. Information Agency, broadcasting nearly 900 hours of programming in 52 languages to a weekly audience of about 100 million. He also served as associate director of the USIA and as director of the International Broadcasting Bureau, with responsibility for WORLDNET TV and Radio & TV Marti as well as VOA.
For the previous 20 years, Cowan taught communication law and policy at UCLA and was founding director of the university Center for Communication Policy. Concurrently with his teaching at UCLA, Cowan worked as a television producer, receiving an Emmy Award as executive producer of the movie Mark Twain and Me, which was voted the Outstanding Prime Time Program for Children by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. From 1979 to 1984 he was a member of the Board of Directors of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, playing a key role in the development of National Public Radio. His radio play on the Pentagon Papers battle, starring Ed Asner and Marsh Mason, won CPB's Gold Medal for Excellence in Best Live Entertainment. Cowan served as chair of California Common Cause, and he was chairman of the Los Angeles commission that wrote the city's ethics code, cited as model for the nation. Other civic activities included key roles in the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, The American Jewish Committee, Children Now, and the National Council on Families and Television.
On a personal note, Cowan spent four years as principal owner of the Stockton Ports Baseball Team, a Class A Farm Team of the Milwaukee Brewers, during which time the Ports won two championships and held the best overall record of any team in baseball.
Cowan is a graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School. He is married to Aileen Adams, former director of the Justice Department's Office for Victims of Crime and now California's Secretary of State and Consumer Affairs. The have two children, Mandy, 15, and Gabe, 25.
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"Err [waiters eyes roll upwards, but he stops short of slapping his forehead]… The clue is in da name… We're Primeburger. We do burgers. We've been doing them since 1938… [leaning forwards] Y'know, we're pretty good at them by now."
To be fair the menu is extensive but we take his point and order two cheeseburgers. They are simple and no nonsense. Plain bun, good meat patty with your selection of toppings. As the waiter tells us "at Prime Burger, everything is a la carte". It's well regarded but probably not going to top any foodie best burger lists but for me the charm of Prime Burger would put it firmly on mine.
If proper New York banter isn't enough, then the opportunity to live out a Mad Men fantasy should tip the balance. The 50s / 60s original decor could be lifted straight out of the show with Don Draper sat drinking coffee and contemplating life over the days second packet of cigarettes. It's an authentic slice of New York which shouldn't be missed. If you are not sold at this point I'd suggest the nearest Wendy's and ask you never to darken this blogs doorstep again.
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Field trips are usually more fun and meaningful if you involve other homeschoolers. This can be as simple as inviting one or two other homeschool families to come along or it might as formal as providing an invitation to a formal homeschool group. Whenever you involve other people, you need to be prepared to coordinate your trip with them.
The first step is to find out who else wants to attend. Unless it will be a very informal trip, you probably want to prepare an invitation that explains all the specifics of the trip. In your invitation, ask for a formal response by a specified date. If you need to purchase tickets or make other financial commitments for a field trip, I recommend that you ask people to provide the required monies with their responses. This helps ensure that you won't end up footing the bill for other folks unnecessarily.
The number of people that you will want to invite depends on several factors. First, do you need a group to be at least a certain size or less than a certain size to have access to special opportunities? Second, how much coordination are you willing to do? The larger a group gets, the more work you need to do. Third, is there a "natural" group that makes sense for the trip you are planning? For example, if you are planning a field trip to a theater for a matinee and backstage tour and you know several families that have a specific interest in the theater, that group would be a natural fit for your field trip.
If you will need help on your field trip, make sure you ask for volunteers in your invitation. If possible, get specific people to commit to specific tasks.
Also, if you need other adults to attend with you, make that clear on the invitation as well (specify whether other parents are required to attend or not). Most of the time, you will want a parent to attend from each family so that you aren't responsible for all the kids on the trip; plus, you might enjoy some adult company!
After your response date passes, create a list of everyone who will attend along with contact information including phone numbers and email addresses. If you need to purchase tickets or make reservations, do so.
Make sure that you communicate any changes to the plans as soon as possible. This is where email addresses come in handy because you can efficiently communicate even with a large group.
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Spring catwalk shows begin in New York
|Model Senait Gidey waits for her show to start outside the Fashion Week tents at Lincoln Center in New York, Thursday, Sept. 6, 2012. Fashion insiders, ever ahead of their time, began looking to spring on Thursday as they previewed the outfits that will land in stores and in magazines for the season at New York Fashion Week. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
Max Azria of BCBG had the first marquee show, and seemed to offer an early indicator for trends, balancing soft, fluid fabrics with tough material and graphic patterns. Azria said it was important to make a strong impression.
"It has to have substance as the first big show," he said in a backstage interview. "I don't want you to forget it."
More than 100 previews are on the calendar here for retailers, editors and stylists over the next eight days, before this crowd heads for London, Milan and Paris. The Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week tents at Lincoln Center serve as one hub, with a smaller but growing second "home" in Manhattan's Meatpacking district at Milk Studios. Still other designers, including Tommy Hilfiger, Donna Karan and Ralph Lauren, choose to have their shows in other locations, which keeps the crowd moving.
"It feels like going back to school. I'm happy to have it all start in New York," said Joe Zee, creative director of Elle magazine.
Zee, who also hosts Sundance Channel's "All on the Line," says what he most hopes to see on the catwalks is newness — and no more colorblocking. He likes the look, he explains, but it's a tired trend. Same goes for platform heels. "I know women like it and I know it's more comfortable — and I don't have to wear it — but I'm done with it. I want to see a new idea."
How about happiness? That's what Diane von Furstenberg, president of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, expects to see a lot of. "I think we're all looking for some lightness and happiness, and I hope I am bringing that to my collection." She shows Sunday at the Lincoln Center tents.
Hilfiger's show will be Sunday at the open-air High Line, an urban park built on an old freight line overlooking the Hudson River, which he describes as an ideal venue for springtime clothes. "I'm always excited for my own shows, but also to see what the other designers are showing; there is a creative energy in the city this time of year that I love."
Von Furstenberg says Fashion Week goes beyond industry insiders now. "People like fashion," she says. "It used to be very trade-oriented, but it's not anymore. It's accessible to everyone because of the Internet, but fashion is glamorous, and it's about dreams and aspiration and desire."
There was high contrast on the catwalk Thursday at the BCBG Max Azria runway show, with leather harnesses sharing the stage — and sometimes the same outfit — with lingerie lace.
Fluid silhouettes were tempered by the tough texture of the leather, and soft, draped crepe fabrics were strong thanks to the graphic black-and-white roots of the palette.
Azria explained that he aimed to capture the allure of femme fatales and the sharpness of Helmut Newton's photography.
Dresses, the BCBG signature, were the most impactful pieces, especially a shirtdress with patchwork lace that allowed just a peek of peony pink to come through the mostly white look, and the black double-weave dress with lace inserts that gave the illusion of many airy layers.
Lace, patchwork, crystal. That could have made for an overwrought, overdone runway, but Tadashi Shoji mostly filled his collection with dresses that captured a modern, clean femininity.
Some of the gowns seem likely candidates for the red carpet, especially the one-shoulder, wheat-colored tulle and embellished gown with floral appliques and lace that closed the show. It had a little bit of pageantry to it, but that's OK for those big moments.
Shoji alternated between those feminine sand colors and brighter hues of blue, "paprika" red and green. The blue dresses, including the boatneck sheath dressed up in lace and the chiffon-and-lace blousoned gown with pleats that created a Venetian-blind effect, were reminiscent of lovely vases from the Ming Dynasty.
The Richard Chai Love collection helped set the tone for spring — and toned we'll need to be to wear Chai's clothes.
His sporty styles in a soothing palette of blues and tans that one might find at the seashore featured more than a few bare midriffs. "Apparently, what we'll all want are shorts, anoraks, halters and flat abs," said Melissa Liebling-Goldberg, editorial director of womenswear for Gilt Groupe.
Chai favored a light touch even if he piled on a few layers: The first model out wore a sheer, shiny cotton-nylon parka with a silk-nylon floral dress with bra-style halter top and flared A-line skirt. For men, Chai offered a crinkled cotton jacket and trouser with a zip-front shirt.
Swingy, bejeweled silhouettes from the `60s and shimmery, vintage snakeskin lame stood out at the show for two up-and-comer Chicagoans who call themselves Creatures of the Wind.
Focusing on the technical elements of old couture rather than a specific narrative, Shane Gabier and Chris Peters sent out bright greens, yellows and pinks in dresses, printed skinny trousers and skirts in jacquards, cottons and polyesters. A full, pleated dress in green had a large, loose bow below the chest with three-quarter sleeves and a skirt the color of oatmeal with star bursts of massive Swarovski crystals just above the hem.
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Last year, the CWC Lady Bulldog softball team defeated Harrisburg 3-0 to win a regional title and move on to the sectional. In the sectional, they faced a Nashville team who would go on to the state championship. This postseason, many were looking forward to what may possibly be a rematch in DuQuoin with the two teams.
But Harrisburg was looking to spoil the plans and did just that, knocking the number one seed CWC Lady Bulldogs out of the postseason on Tuesday, in a 1-0 shutout at Johnston City.
A first inning home run by Harrisburg was all they needed, as CWC hit the ball well, but it felt like Harrisburg had extra fielders all game, with the ball always heading towards a player in purple.
The CWC defense and pitching was good all game, it was just the offense that never got on track totally.
Kaylea Chappelle got the start and she went seven innings, allowing six hits and three walks, while striking out two. The home run was all that mattered though.
CWC managed just three hits in the game, with the only extra base hit coming off the bat of Bailey Winters.
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When i run the Sample Android App from Facebook SDK 3.0 for Android i'm getting the error page "Misconfigured for Facebook Login. Press Okay to go back to the application without connecting to Facebook".
There is already a Facebook app in the device, if i uninstall that app the sample app getting me to login page of facebook. In logcat im getting the Error as " Failed to find provider info for com.facebook.katana.provider.AttributionIdProvider". I have given the hash key in dash board of facebook and also given the APP ID in the app. In dashboard i didnt find any option like enabling Single Sign on.
This might be a duplicate question. But i'm unable to find the solution to make the sample app run even a facebook app already exists in device. Help me to sort it out. Thanks in advance.


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The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz chaired the Cabinet's weekly session at Al-Salam palace in Jeddah this evening. The Cabinet congratulated all Muslims on the advent of the holy month of Ramadan, wishing them successful fasting. The ministers received a briefing on the Saudi humanitarian relief airlift for flood victims in Pakistan, as well as the launching of King Abdullah's Popular Campaign for the Relief of the Pakistani People, and urged Saudis to contribute to the aid efforts.
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Today I got an invoice from a major, world-wide known car rental company. It seems that I have used a toll express highway without paying and I also got a speeding ticket during my vacation in Canada. I don't want to discuss the ethics here, but is there any drawback if I don't pay the bill? Would I get into trouble when trying to rent a car with the same rental company?
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If you rented the car with a credit card, you will have signed something that says they can charge these things to your credit card and it's not disputable. The only speed-camera ticket I ever got was in a rental car (and they tacked on a handling fee to boot.) It took weeks to come through, but it came as a charge on my credit card.
If you had driven your own car on the 407 and then not paid the toll, there would be consequences for the car. (At one point, you couldn't renew your license plates if you had outstanding tolls against that plate.) Presumably the car people have paid the toll so that their car can still function. You now owe them the money.
I am completely sure you've signed something that holds you liable for these charges. Since you're describing an invoice, you must have rented the car with cash or cheque. Whether to pay or not now is no different than if you had ordered something and then not paid for it once it was delivered. The country as a whole is not in the habit of enforcing these sorts of debts, so you probably won't be nabbed at the border, but you can be certain that the rental company will keep track of you. If they hand the debt to a collection company, it's possible the collector would find it worthwhile to harass you from a distance. They can be pretty nasty.
To me it's simple. You signed that you would pay such things. Pay it. If it's a lot of money and you can't afford it right now, contact them and tell them so, and arrange to pay it over time. But pay it. And next time stay off the toll highways (they're clearly signed) if it's not your intention to pay the toll.


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Are people going for armor, resists, vitality, damage? Which stat(s) and why? Does it vary with each class?
There are two ways to roll.
Either Tank/normal, or Glass Cannon.
In normal/tank mode, you want to stack both armour and resists (and preferably block chance if you're using a shield). You can use this handy guide to figure out how much armour 1 resist is worth at your current armour/resist levels. The reason people are stacking armour/resists and not just straight vitality is because of how damage reduction (DR) works. It works by increasing your effective hp (EHP). This means at 50% total DR, if you have 10k health, it's actually like you have 20k health, because a mob will have to do 20k unreduced damage to kill you.
Another benefit to having low actual hp, but high EHP, is that any heals are worth a lot more. If I have 100k health and no DR, and I heal for something that heals for 10k, I'm healing 1/10th of my total health. If I have 20k health, and 80% DR, even though I have the same EHP (100k), my heals are now worth half of my actual health, increasing the worth of heals (this doesn't work for any % based heals).
After DR, and some vitality, you want to stack enough dps stats to let you kill enemies before they enrage. These dps stats can be your main stat/crit%/crit damage/etc.
A few extra stats that help here (especially for Barb/Monk) are Life on Hit and Attack Speed %. Gear with these two stats can be worth a lot if they're a high amount, as attack speed % increases the effectiveness of Life on Hit, and Life on hit in high amounts (coupled with high EHP and lower actual HP) can be the difference between farming a difficulty and barely progressing.
For Glass Cannon mode you want to forgo any survivability stats (armour/resists/vit) and just stack DPS stats. This only works for the ranged classes (Wiz/WD/DH) because melee classes have to get close to fight, so they'll always get hit at least once.
This build works by having so much dps that you kill enemies before they can even hurt you. You also need to bring at least one survivability spell, because when you fight ranged enemies it can sometimes be tough to avoid their moves.
In this playstyle, all you need to do is shoot anything before it can get close. If it hasn't died in time, pop your survivability move and move away before shooting it again. You will be one shot by pretty much anything in Inferno with this build, but it's very easy to gear up for, so that's why people use it a lot, as opposed to the normal builds which cost a lot of money to gear up for.
Resist all has been referred to as the "God stat," due to its necessity for barbarians and monks, as well as its usefulness to each and every class.
While it does vary for each class, the current stat preferences is quite helpful:
Resists > Vitality > Primary Stat (Strength/Dexterity/Intelligence)
You want to have significant values for all the stats you mentioned, and then more.
As an example, solo'ing Belial on Act II is extremely difficult, I have yet to beat him. Here are my stats:
I can't speak for any other class, but the above stats costs millions of gold to produce, and it still isn't enough for the act bosses. Although I can easily survive anything else in Act II, heavy hitters are still common.
It definitely varies with each class. For instance, Demon Hunters pretty much don't even try to build survivability stats, whereas with other classes survivability stats are pretty much a must-have.
In general, though, you're going to want a significant amount of your class' primary stat (e.g. Int for Wizards), then some mix of secondary DPS stats (e.g. Attack Speed, Crit, CritDamage), and some mix of survivability (Vitality, Resists, Armor, etc).
My monk is currently able to solo Act II Inferno, here are my stats:
Resists to All: 71.34% Dodge Chance: 49.73% Block Chance: 16.00% Armor: 6831 Health: ~31,000 DPS: ~14k Attack Speed: 1.94 Life on Hit: 491
This is with me stacking 4 defensive skills and 1 offensive skill, Fists of Thunder and 2 heals + 2 immunities respectively.
If you're using a monk, comparative stats should be good enough to get you through Inferno.


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Sidewalk seating associated with an adjacent business requires a Street Use Permit from the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT). There are two types of permits – a "Tables and Chairs" permit and a "Sidewalk Café" permit. Read the following summary and decide which is right for your business.
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A Tables and Chairs Permit allows the adjacent business to set out tables and chairs on the sidewalk immediately adjacent to the business. While available to their patrons, these tables and chairs are open for use by the general public, table service may not be provided, and alcohol cannot be consumed. Tables and chairs must be removed daily and no fixed improvements (i.e. a railing or other obstruction) may be installed.
The Table and Chair permit fee is $146.00 for the first year and renews annually at $140.00. The permit allows for a maximum of four tables with two chairs each, depending on site characteristics. Freestanding umbrellas are not included in this permit.
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I am trying to showed that if $X$ and $Y$ are path connected then $X \coprod_f Y$ is path connected. (The adjunction space). Let $A \subset X$ , and let $f:A \to Y$ be the attaching map.
(Note: there is some abuse of notation in what follows, in terms of re-use of symbols for function names for different paths)
So path connectedness of $X,Y$ means for every $a,b \in X$ (or $Y$) there exists a continuous map $\phi:I \to X: \phi(0)=a, \phi(1)=b$ (or equivalent for $Y$)
Let $p: X \coprod Y \to X \coprod_f Y$ be the quotient map. Consider any two points $a,b$. If $p^{-1}(a)\cap Y = \emptyset,p^{-1}(b)\cap Y = \emptyset$ then path connectedness is clear (again, also replace $Y$ with $X$), as $X$ and $Y$ are path connected.
If $p^{-1}(a) \in A$ and $p^{-1}(b) \in A$ (I know that doesn't strictly make sense, but I think it is clear what is meant!) then path connectedness is again clear, as we can take the path given by $\phi: I \to A:\phi(0)=p^{-1}(a),\phi(1)=p^{-1}(b)$ and compose with $p$ (I guess via the maps $A \to X \to X \coprod Y \to X \coprod_f Y$) to give a path $\phi' :I \to X \coprod_f Y: \phi'(0)=a, \phi'(1)=b$
So say $p^{-1}(a)$ is in $X$, but not in $A$ and $p^{-1}(b)$ is in $A$. Then there is still a path $\phi:I \to X: \phi(0)=a, \phi(1)=b$. We can then break this into two paths $\phi_1:I \to X: \phi(0)=a, \phi(1)=t$, $\phi_2:I \to X: \phi(0)=t, \phi(1)=b$, where $(a,t) \in X$, $(t,b) \in A$, and then we can just form the path that is the composition of the two paths above (probably using the gluing lemma or something similar)
I think this argument could be made rigorous - but I also feel like there is a nice simple proof of this that I am missing.