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A Hundred years ago, the average person used less than 10 of THESE a day. Today, the average person uses 100. What is it? 507-373-9401
Gallons of Water! And in this heat, thats a good thing!
Is this a sign of the times? The average guy now worries more about THIS than losing his job. What is it? 507-373-9401
Gaining weight! How about that!
Someone with too much time on their hands has calculated that it would cost slightly more than 1.522 TRILLION to do THIS to planet Earth. What is it? 507-373-9401
Carpet the world!
More than half of women say THIS is the one thing they want after a bad day. What is it? 507-373-9401
A hug from their spouse or partner thats all. See guys they are not all THAT Bad.
According to the book = Be Safe! Simple Strategies for Death Free Living = You should always remove THIS when staying in a motel room in order to avoid germs. What is it? 507-373-9401
The Bedspread! I know I know EWWWWWWWWWWWWW
This might be a bit suprising, but men do THIS 35 percent more than women. What is it? 507-373-9401
They talk on their cell phones! Its all we have cuz the women folk are on the home phone. =)
The average adult does THIS 1.8 times per week. What is it? 507-373-9401, BTW I am not average when it comes to this cuz I'm a computer nerd.
They look something up in the Yellow Pages! I just google it.
Hey Guys, Experts say that you can make her fall in love with you by using open body language, direct eye contact, a sense of humor and THIS. What is it? 507-373-9401
Experiencing something scary together... Go ahead take that walk through the back alley of Saint Paul! She'll love you for it!
62 percent of people say THIS upsets them most when they first get to work in the morning. What is it? 507-373-9401
Their usual parking space being taken. Suprisingly it was not no coffee being made
3 out of 4 women say they have witnessed a guy doing THIS while watching sports at home. What is it? 507-373-9401
Hug another man.... Is it wrong???
On average, people are doing THIS 5 years earlier than they did back in 1970... What is it? 507-373-9401
We are turning Gray! HA so it's not just me!
When THIS happens to you, and it often does, it lasts 5 to 20 minutes. What is it? 507-373-9401
Todays answer was dream! We all do it!
Almost half of us indulge in THIS socially unacceptable behavior at parties. WHat is it? 507-373-9401
We Double Dip the Dip.. YUCK!
1 in 5 of us is incapable of performing THIS common physical gesture. What is it? 507-373-9401
Believe it or not, one in five of us can not WINK! Kinda puts the brakes of flirting a bit.
Summertime is the most popular time to buy on of THESE, and should you have to buy one, youll spend, on average 85 bucks. What is it? 507-373-9401
A wedding gift! Thats right, more weddings are in the summer months and should you be invited, the average gift is 85 bucks.
Hard to believe, but fully a third of adults polled think a married woman who does not do THIS is less committed to the marriage. What is it? 507-373-9401
Take her husbands last name! I admit i'm in the third that would think that way.

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The Sort Gallery button in Manage Gallery disappears every time I go to Options > Gallery > Sort Options and change one of the sort options. I changed it to sort by File Name, Descending, then went back to Manage Gallery, and the Sort Gallery button was gone. When I change the sort options back to Custom, Ascending, the Sort Option button comes back.
I'm assuming it's not supposed to work this way since one sorts the gallery manager and the other sorts the frontend galleries. Anyone know of a fix for this?


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Acting on tips, deputies from the Gadsden County Sheriff's Office have confiscated 45 marijuana plants and 4 pounds of marijuana since Aug. 24 in three separate incidents.
Seven plants with an estimated street value of $7,000 were found on the back porch of a private home a few miles south of Quincy on Sept. 1. An arrest is pending.
The plants had heavy buds, which indicated they had been pruned often and were well cared for when found, according to GCSO Lt. Jim Corder.
The parents of a 4-year-old boy who was dropped off by a school bus at a closed daycare center are upset with the center and the school district.
Bennie Mason and Tammy McWhite, parents of Bakaile Mason, said he was left standing outside the Gadsden County Day Care Services Inc., located at 911 Fourth St. in Quincy, on Aug. 28.
Quincy police are looking for Ezzard Sterling Sapp, the man they think burglarized the Quincy Garden Center on Sept. 1.
According to a report released by the police department, someone entered the historic building, which is commonly used for weddings and other social events, and took approximately $5,500 worth of antiques.
The Quincy city commissioners voted Sept. 8 to pass, on second reading, an ordinance that would prohibit soliciting or collecting money on a public right-of-way. The ordinance also restricts the distribution of printed materials to sidewalks or other non-traffic areas that are intended for pedestrian use.
The ordinance grew out of concern by several commissioners for the safety of people soliciting at intersections.
The State Fire Marshal's Office arrested 26-year-old Christopher T. Knight of Midway and charged him with five counts of attempted murder and two counts of arson of a dwelling Monday.
The charges stem from fires set Sept. 9 and 10. He is in the Leon County Jail, pending return to Gadsden County.
"I've never seen anything like it," said Gadsden County Tax Collector Dale Summerford Monday night.
He was referring to the crowds that swamped his office beginning Aug. 28 to take advantage of the old tag and license fees that took effect Sept.1, when prices doubled. The office, which usually handles less than 100 people per day, served 750 Monday.
Sen. Bill Nelson sat down with local community and government leaders last Thursday afternoon in the conference room of the Gadsden County Chamber of Commerce in Quincy.
As the meeting began, Nelson asked those present what issues were on their minds. Foremost among those issues were health care reform, the Apalachicola River, the economic forecast and stimulus dollars.
There were only a few seats left at the Leaf Theatre Aug. 25 as U.S. Congressman Allen Boyd opened a town meeting to discuss the health care initiative. He said most of the people in the room were raised by parents whose lives were shaped by the Great Depression and many people are losing their jobs and their homes – and people are "scared."
"I'm delighted you're here. You were told last September that our financial institutions were about to collapse. That didn't happen but we never get credit for averting disaster," Boyd said.
The Gadsden County Board of Commissioners have a tough decision to make and they must make it soon according to Michael Glazer, attorney for Gadsden Hospital Inc. Board of Directors, who laid the board's options on the line Tuesday.
The Quincy City Commission took pencil to paper last Wednesday and Thursday nights during the first two of three budget workshops planned before September public hearings to adopt the 2009-10 budget.
Commissioners studied the proposed budget almost line by line in an attempt to lower spending while continuing to provided services at a level to please citizens.
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Andrea Phillips | Waiting in Vermont
Y: Somebody called you so you could hear it?
Andrea Phillips: Alison stayed for the Mass, and she called Jonathan, who is also a representative, and he got on his phone said, "Here, you have to listen to this." And we were sitting around the kitchen table listening, and as I was listening, it started to snow. Now, snow is a good thing for us up here in Vermont. To me it was a sign. I know it's kind of an unbelievable thing to believe, but to all of us in that house we knew it–hearing that, the snow. It was our little miracle. We knew it was going to be okay, and a couple of hours later we got word.
Y: Tell me about when you got the official word that Richard had been rescued.
Andrea Phillips: I had a houseful. I had my sister and two good friends. They were my pillars; they just flanked me on both sides and took control over what I could no longer control. Amber would be the one person who in [the] early morning I would confide in. I'd say, "Amber, what if this doesn't work out?" She had my weakest moments.
So people are coming and going all the time on Sunday. Richard's mother had arrived. She's a very strong, religious woman, a firm believer, and she flew up from Florida; she needed to be here. She showed up Easter Sunday morning. I'm just drained. I'm going to go up [to] my room, which is kind of my safe haven. I just want to lie down for a while. This is close to noon. Even though I'm not supposed to turn on the TV, because we made the rule: no TV, because the constant 24/7, it could drive you crazy. I turned on the television just to see a movie and figured I'd fall asleep in a few moments. And as I did that, there's a little ticker on the bottom: "Captain Phillips rescued…"
I don't think I stopped on a step. I flew down the stairs and said to Jonathan, "Find out if this is true." And he called his contacts; the company was all celebrating, and they kind of forgot to call me. They were waiting for the official word. I still don't know how it came down from out there in the ocean to here at stateside, but there were tons of phone calls from that point. [Vermont senator] Patrick Leahy called me to tell me they were dancing in the parking lot.
My first phone call–because my girlfriends are holding onto the phone–my friend Paige says, "Who is this?" And I hear her scream: "Richard is on the phone!" It was just the moment of hearing his voice.
Y: What did he say to you?
Andrea Phillips: First he said to me, "Is your husband home?" [laughs] I said, "No." Then he said, "I'll come right over." It was just a little thing Richard and I always had; he'd call me at any hour, day or night, and in that little baritone voice of his, he'd say, "Is your husband home?" I teared up. I'm tearing up even now, remembering.
Y: From that moment to when he came home, he had no idea about the media response to this. Was there any way for you to prepare him?
Andrea Phillips: I said, "Richard, you have no idea what's going on on this side of the world; it's absolutely crazy." I told him about people camped out in the yard with satellites.
Y: Why do you think the nation got so caught up?
Andrea Phillips: Well, it was everywhere in the news. You couldn't help but hear about it. And the 24/7 news is usually something bad, you know, like the Tiger Woods thing, not usually a nice outcome, or as spiriting as this was. People will say, and even Richard has a hard time with the hero thing. I say, "You could have let them take control of the ship, you could have told them where the men were; you took a chance, having this play out differently, you did the right thing, Richard." I said, "You did the right thing; you protected your ship, you protected your crew, you protected your cargo… You knew the odds were better if it was just you against them, and that's a heroic moment.
So I can see why the public felt the same way; you don't get everyday heroes. You don't hear a lot about the everyday heroes. Look at the policemen and the firemen who put their lives on the line, and you don't hear about them. And it went on for five days, and it was Easter, a religious holiday for so many in the world. It wasn't just here in the United States. It was worldwide.
Y: When did you know you had your husband back, not the world hero back?
Andrea Phillips: From the moment he got off that plane. I always had my husband, because in our house we are who we are. Even outside this house, we are who we are. I don't want to say I wish it had never happened, but I'd be fine if it hadn't. This has given us unbelievable opportunities to meet some unbelievable people [whom] we would never otherwise have [had] the opportunity to meet, and that's the best part that came out of this: some of our U.S. military people; I had dinner with Madeleine Albright, who is kind of an amazing woman to me. And everyday people like us went to the Washington Opera. We toured the Queen Mary. I was never so impressed as I was meeting some of the military wives. I had a husband who had a job, went to work, who after three or four months came home, and until this pirate thing I never thought he had a dangerous job. But you take these young military wives, and they kiss their husbands goodbye not really knowing again if it's going to be two or three months or 18 months, and are they going to make it home. I was more touched by them than I thought I should be touching their lives.
Y: When did life become more normal?
Andrea Phillips: It took a while. We were so bombarded. People wanted us to get on TV. Larry King called us personally, and Jay Leno called us personally, wanting Richard to tell his story. It took pretty much until the end of May, when it started to die down a little bit. We joked and said, "Thank God for swine flu," because that became the next media sensation.
Y: Did you have a refuge?
Andrea Phillips: I think we did. We'd go out on the lake with a boat or just being with our close friends. People said, "We didn't want to call you, didn't want to bother you." We said, "Are you kidding? Your calling us is our normal, asking us to come over for a beer." Even our closest friends felt they wanted to give us time, but they were part of our real life. That's my norm. That's part of my everyday life.
Y: Richard has said that in his life he always had this pattern: home for certain months, then away. Now he faces a mysterious future. How does that affect you?
Andrea Phillips: I'm not sure yet. Ask me if he never goes back. Rich and I get along really well. We had the routine where I wouldn't see him for a while, and that kept everything new and fresh. Even my friends would joke: "Get my husband a job where he could go away."
We're in a different phase right now, the kids are away in college, and now it's back to where it started, just the two of us. But I still do what I always do: I get up and go to work. My everyday routines are still my everyday routines. It's different at this point having him home. He's actually busier with planning events, which is odd for us, because Rich would come home and never have to do anything except fix the door handle or cut the lawn. We're not used to having Richard sit in front of the computer or on the phone. I'm not sure how it will affect us; I'm hoping that it doesn't. I don't think it will. Through all of this, I'm proud that we've maintained who we are. We haven't lost that.


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Kennedy Space Centre
... had to punch ourselves a few times because we could not believe that we were standing beside a shuttle that had actually been in space - and many times! It was just, well, it was a big wow moment. And for this Australian, it suddenly made all of the space exploration stories that I had heard over the years just so... real. There were real people whose life totally revolved around Space Exploration and I still get goosebumps thinking about it. And of course I knew it was all real ...
Orlando and Disney Day 1
... all rolled into one. We got to see Human trees, check the photos, Silverback Gorillas, Giraffe, cheetahs, rhinos, lions and many more. The safari was by far the highlight and it would be a great park to visit with a family. Once we were finished there we headed over to Epcot which is like a science and technology amusement park and world adventure. The park is arranged around a giant golf ball type structure and a central circular lake. By the lakeside all the way around ...
Retail Therapy - Florida Style
... at a few stores at Downtown Disney where Courtney found an adorable Snow White mug before making our way over to Orlando Premium Outlets. First stop there was Vera Bradley where Courtney's heart-rate increased substantially as soon as the store logo was within eyesight. Everything was 60% off. Surprisingly, she didn't purchase any new purses, but made up for it with other Vera Bradley items, including a new iPad cover, iPhone wristlet and some smaller items. We continued on ...
Disneyworld - Magical Kingdom
... We then got in position to see the magical castle come alive with lights and to see the fireworks. We Noticed when the fireworks started that there were some trees in the way, so we moved to the back of the castle, so were actually sitting in between the two sets of fireworks going off overhead. This made for a great show. After the fireworks, we managed to get on the seven dwarfs mine roller coaster which had a huge line for most of the day. It was almost 11pm and the park was due ...
... stomach it, so we didn't get any. The eateries we passed on the way back didn't appeal to us, smelling all fatty.
A hot bath was run when we got back. A quick catch up on FB whilst we could get wifi and a message chat with pops. At about 10.30pm I could hear a distant rumble of thunder, as well as the Amtrak train horn now and then. I was getting tired, Andy was sleeping and *******. I needed really to pack up, but that will now have to wait until the morning. Slumber ...
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- Wonderful hotel!
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- Needs a Major Overhaul
Hilton Orlando Bonnet CreekInternational Drive/Universal/SeaWorld, Orlando | 4 star hotelfrom $140
Hilton OrlandoInternational Drive/Universal/SeaWorld, Orlando | 4 star hotelfrom $127
Hard Rock Hotel at Universal OrlandoFlorida Center, Orlando | 5 star hotelfrom $221
- It was incredible
- Love at the hard rock
- O.K. Service
JW Marriott Orlando Grande LakesSouthwestern Orlando/Grande Lakes, Orlando | 5 star hotelfrom $170
- Great hotel for business travelers
- Best Resort Service Around
- Upscale comfortable furnishings, lush & spectacular poolside
Embassy Suites Hotel Orlando - International Drive / Convention CenterInternational Drive/Universal/SeaWorld, Orlando | 3 star hotelfrom $128
- Great service in a hurricane!
- Enjoyed our stay...
- Not up to Embassy Suites reputation
Four Points By Sheraton Orlando Studio City HotelFlorida Center, Orlando | 3 star hotelfrom $85
- Brilliant hotel, fun for all the family!!!!!!!
- Great location
Ritz-Carlton Orlando Grande LakesSouthwestern Orlando/Grande Lakes, Orlando | 5 star hotelfrom $212
- Wonderful hotel, A must stay!!
- The spa rocks!!!
- Highly Recommend
Sheraton Lake Buena Vista ResortLivengood Park At Vineland, Orlando | 3 star hotelfrom $113
- Just Ok
- Pretty good....
Sheraton Vistana Villages - International DriveInternational Drive/Universal/SeaWorld, Orlando | 4 star hotelfrom $112
- This Place was outstanding.
- Truly Awesome Villa!!!
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Crowne Plaza Orlando UniversalInternational Drive/Universal/SeaWorld, Orlando | 4 star hotelfrom $88
- Decent room but some drawbacks
- Better than the Rest
- Most Comfortable Sleep Ever...
Westin Orlando Universal BoulevardInternational Drive/Universal/SeaWorld, Orlando | 4 star hotelfrom $119
Caribe Royale All Suite Hotel & Convention CenterInternational Drive/Universal/SeaWorld, Orlando | 3 star hotelfrom $120
- Stay at the Best in the Orlando Area!
- Excellent choice if the price is right
- The Best Hotel
Days Inn Orlando Convention Center/International DriveInternational Drive/Universal/SeaWorld, Orlando | 2 star hotelfrom $44
The Florida Hotel and Conference CenterOrlando International Airport, Orlando | 4 star hotelfrom $108
- Good Value
- Better than expected!
- Leaves a lot to be desired
Rosen Centre HotelInternational Drive/Universal/SeaWorld, Orlando | 3 star hotelfrom $67
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DoubleTree by Hilton Orlando DowntownCentral Business District, Orlando | 3 star hotelfrom $74
DoubleTree by Hilton Orlando Airport HotelOrlando International Airport, Orlando | 3 star hotelfrom $95
Doubletree by Hilton Orlando at SeaWorldInternational Drive/Universal/SeaWorld, Orlando | 3 star hotelfrom $82
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- I enjoyed my stay very much
- Not even close to The Sheraton standards
Doubletree By Hilton at the Entrance to Universal OrlandoInternational Drive/Universal/SeaWorld, Orlando | 3 star hotelfrom $72
- No problems with the Radisson Universal...
- Disappointing
- Quiet, clean and What a view!!
Avanti International ResortInternational Drive/Universal/SeaWorld, Orlando | 1 star hotelfrom $73
Quality Inn Universal Studios AreaFlorida Center, Orlando | 2 star hotelfrom $40
- A very nice place.
- Great basic hotel with free breakfast
- Scared to death in the middle of night
Holiday Inn Orlando - Lake Buena VistaDisneyWorld/Downtown Disney/Epcot, Orlando | 3 star hotelfrom $103
Holiday Inn Orlando International AirportOrlando International Airport, Orlando | 3 star hotelfrom $89
Waldorf Astoria OrlandoInternational Drive/Universal/SeaWorld, Orlando | 5 star hotelfrom $212
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Schools ready for students with peanut allergies
Parents are collecting supplies for the start of the new school year, including notebooks, pens, glue sticks and -- in an increasing number of cases -- epinephrine autoinjectors.
Commonly called EpiPens, these medical devices deliver measured doses of epinephrine to quickly treat severe allergic reactions to a variety of substances, including peanuts.
School nurses have been seeing more students in recent years come to school with these EpiPens.
"We're seeing a lot of peanut allergies, we always do," said Philip Gallagher, M.D., an Erie allergist. "Peanut allergies are increasing in frequency, both here and around the world. And they don't know why."
Peanut allergy reactions can range in severity from a mild cough or skin irritation to a life-threatening airway constriction. Reactions can result from eating food with peanuts, or inhaling small amounts of peanut or peanut products.
And someone who experiences a mild reaction one day could develop a severe one the next day, even though the person is exposed to the same amount of peanut, Gallagher said.
"The problem with peanut allergies is that the severity of reactions is not predictable, like those of some other food allergies," Gallagher said.
When Gallagher diagnoses a student with a peanut allergy, he helps his or her parent create an action plan for school that describes the allergy, and how to prevent and treat reactions.
"It's a graded response," Gallagher said. "If there's no history of severe, anaphylactic reactions, we suggest first treating the student with oral antihistamine when there is an exposure to peanuts. If there is a history of severe reactions, then they should use the EpiPen."
EpiPens are usually kept in the nurse's office, though students with a history of severe reactions might carry the devices themselves or keep them with their teacher.
Schools also take other precautions for students with peanut allergies.
The Millcreek Township School District makes its decisions on a case-by-case basis, said Ed Nientimp, the district's director of pupil services.
"A plan is developed for each individual student that depends on the severity of the allergy," Nientimp said. "We have cafeteria tables that can be peanut-free, and there are classrooms that we can designate as peanut-free zones, where no snacks or foods with peanuts can be taken."
The process is similar in the Erie School District, where about 50 of the district's 12,000 students have food allergies, said district spokesman Matthew Cummings.
"We work through our school nurses with the parent and the doctor to create a written plan that identifies the treatment and the types of symptoms," Cummings said. "The focus is on communication."
Because there is no cure for a peanut allergy, the only way to prevent reactions is to avoid peanuts, Gallagher said.
DAVID BRUCE can be reached at 870-1736 or by e-mail. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/ETNbruce.


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What is Envisat?
Envisat was ESA's successor to ERS. Envisat was launched in 2002 with 10 instruments aboard and at eight tons is the largest civilian Earth observation mission.
More advanced imaging radar, radar altimeter and temperature-measuring radiometer instruments extend ERS data sets. This was supplemented by new instruments including a medium-resolution spectrometer sensitive to both land features and ocean colour. Envisat also carried two atmospheric sensors monitoring trace gases.
The Envisat mission ended on 08 April 2012, following the unexpected loss of contact with the satellite. (See related news from 09 May 2012)
Latest Mission Operations News
EOLI-SA - New version 9.6.6 released
21 July 2016
A new version of the EOLI-SA Catalogue and Ordering tool (v 9.6.6) has been released and is available for download on the EOLI-SA web page.
ESA makes freely available to the scientific community sample Envisat and ERS-1 and 2 datasets. A pair of these sample datasets for earthquakes are now available for download via FTP.
Users are informed that the full mission Envisat ASAR Wave and ERS-2 Wind Scatterometer datasets have been migrated to the ESA EO centralised online dissemination service.
Latest Mission Results News
Methane and carbon dioxide on the rise
13 May 2016
Satellite readings show that atmospheric methane and carbon dioxide are continuing to increase despite global efforts to reduce emissions.
Antarctic ice safety band at risk
08 February 2016
Antarctica is surrounded by huge ice shelves. New research, using ice velocity data from satellites such as ESA's heritage Envisat, has revealed that there is a critical point where these shelves act as a safety band, holding back the ice that flows towards the sea. If lost, it could be the point of no return.
International effort reveals Greenland ice loss
13 November 2015
One of Greenland's glaciers is losing five billion tonnes of ice a year to the ocean, according to researchers. While these new findings may be disturbing, they are reinforced by a concerted effort to map changes in ice sheets with different sensors from space agencies around the world.
Is Europe an underestimated sink for carbon dioxide?
05 January 2015
A new study using satellite data suggests that Europe's vegetation extracts more carbon from the atmosphere than previously thought.
On solid ground
03 December 2014
Lovers of architecture and history can rest easy: the stability of historical buildings can now be monitored in real time by a new technique with its roots in space.
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The mission of Boys & Girls Clubs of America is to inspire and enable all young people, especially those from disadvantaged circumstances, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible citizens.
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I cannot access my site online with the pw and username I'd been using. I followed the directions in resetting the pw via PHP Admin and the codex procedure. I can see when I download the online db that the pw change has been made.
I thought making another db user would be a solution through the cPanel. No luck.
Am I missing some essential part of the process and/or just don't understand what's happening and supposed to happen?


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Black Ops 2 street date broken in Europe, photos of Hardened Edition appear – report
Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 goes on sale November 13th, but it appears as if PS3 copies of the Hardened Edition have been sold early by an independent retailer in Europe. Photos of the bundle have also appeared online. See the shots below.
CVG reports – by way of callofduty.4players.de that Black Ops 2: Hardened Edition was being sold by Slovakian website Bazo.sk, but that the site's product listing has since been deleted.
Here are two photo of the pack that were leaked online:
It is common for stores to receive empty display models of games like this with a few extras for customers to see before buying, and as no photos of the actual game disc have appeared, the validity of the sales claim is in question. As such, take this as speculation for now.
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Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy.
John Milton (1608 - 1674)
Source: Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 565.
Contributed by: Zaady
Avenge, O Lord, Thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Ev'n them who kept Thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not: In Thy book record their groans Who were Thy sheep, and in their ancient fold Slain by the bloody Piemontese that rolled Mother with infant down the rocks. Their moans The vales redoubled to the hills, and they To Heav'n. Their martyred blood and ashes sow O'er all th' Italian fields, where still doth sway The triple tyrant; that from these may grow A hundred-fold, who having learned Thy way Early may fly the Babylonian woe.
Source: Sonnet XVIII, On the late Massacre in Piemont
None But such as are good men can give good things, And that which is not good, is not delicious To a well-govern'd and wise appetite.
Source: Comus
Then wilt thou not be loath To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess A Paradise within thee, happier far.
Source: Paradise Lost
Better to rule in Hell than to serve in Heaven.
Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
For neither man nor angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks Invisible, except to God alone.
Cyriac, this three years' day these eyes, though clear, To outward view, of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot; Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heav'n's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer Right onward. What supports me, dost thou ask? The conscience, Friend, t' have lost them overplied In liberty's defence, my noble task, Of which all Europe rings from side to side. This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask Content, though blind, had I no better guide.
Source: Sonnet XXII, To The Same (Cyriac Skinner)
Just deeds are the best answer to injurious words.
Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.
Source: Areopagitica
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Alumni, Parents and Friends
Baylor alumni, parents and friends share a family bond rooted in over 170 years of rich history. Whether you enjoy connecting with other Baylor alumni and parents through Baylor Alumni Network and other events in your area or through publications like Baylor Magazine, social media tools, or campus events like Family Weekend and Homecoming, your role in the family is a vital one. From young grads to members of the Heritage Club and from first-generation parents to those whose Baylor legacies go back many years and to friends new and old, this page provides you with important resources and reminders to make your Baylor connections even more meaningful.
The New York Times: Woman Shares Her Sexual Assault Story with Baylor Players
July 26, 2016
Acting head football coach Jim Grobe invited Brenda Tracy, a 1998 sexual assault survivor, to Baylor's campus to speak with football and basketball players Monday. Tracy mentioned that the players actively listened, and she thanked those who tweeted her afterward, telling them that she appreciated them and to remember the pledge they made to each other.
Waco Tribune-Herald: Changing mindsets, outlooks amid uproar at Baylor: Q&A with BU regent chair Ron Murff, interim president David Garland
July 24, 2016
Q&A with Ron Murff, chair of the Baylor Board of Regents, and Interim President David Garland, who sat down the Waco Tribune-Herald for a wide-ranging discussion related to interpersonal and sexual violence and the University's implementation of improvements that also cultivate a culture of respect and character reflecting Baylor's mission.
Baylor Campus Kitchen wins national award for service
How did Baylor Campus Kitchen earn a national award for their service to the Waco community? For starters, the student-led organization recovered five tons of food from Baylor dining halls and served 6,320 meals to local charities last year. But beyond the numbers, they represent Baylor student service in action as they get to know […]
Baylor Regents Approve New Joint Seminary/Education Degree, Infrastructure Work on Seventh Street
WACO, Texas (July 22, 2016) – Baylor University's Board of Regents has approved a new joint master's degree program that links the faculties, resources and classes of two of Baylor's premier schools, George W. Truett Theological Seminary and the School of Education. The board also heard reports on Title IX and diversity, approved the lowest percentage tuition increase in more than 20 years and focused its retreat on best practices in board governance.
W. Basketball. Big 12/SEC Announce 2016 WBB Challenge Schedule
The Big 12 and Southeastern conferences have announced the 2016 schedule for their Women's Basketball Challenge which will feature every team from the Big 12 against 10 squads from the SEC.
W. Volleyball. Baylor Volleyball Earns AVCA Team Academic Award
Baylor volleyball was one of 132 NCAA Division I recipients of the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Team Academic Award, announced by the organization on Monday.
Track. London Produces Gold At World U20 Championships
Baylor track and field's Wil London won a gold medal by running the anchor leg for Team USA's 4x400-meter relay at the IAAF World U20 Championships in Zawisza Stadium Sunday.
Track. Bennett Wins Gold At World U20 Championships
Baylor track and field's Taylor Bennett earned a gold medal by running the second leg for Team USA's 4x100-meter relay at the IAAF World U20 Championships in Zawisza Stadium Saturday.
Baptist Standard: Baylor nursing alumni help hospitalized children feel like superheroes
July 25, 2016
Feature on Capes 4 Kids, a Dallas-based nonprofit started by two Baylor University nursing students, which organizes "cape factories" with volunteers at Union Coffee House in Dallas to create and deliver capes to hospital-bound children across the Dallas/Fort Worth area in hopes of encouraging them to become "superheroes" fighting their diseases. Jordan Loetscher, B.S.N. '13, and Cody Reynolds, B.S.N. '13, started Capes 4 Kids in 2013 as part of a senior class "give-back" project. (This story was written by Karyn Simpson, Baylor senior and student newswriter for Baylor Media Communications.)
Global News (Canada): Trying to lose weight? 10 tasty foods you'll like and can eat guilt-free
July 25, 2016
New research from Baylor's Hankamer School of Business finds that instead of making a list of forbidden foods and replacing them with boring options, dieters should zero in on the healthy dishes you want to eat. Meredith David, Ph.D., assistant professor of marketing, is lead author on the study, "Saying 'No' to Cake or 'Yes' to Kale: Approach and Avoidance Strategies in Pursuit of Health Goals," published in the journal Psychology & Marketing. (Eric Eckert, Baylor Media Communications specialist, pitched this story. He covers Hankamer School of Business research and faculty.)
India West: Indian American Tennis Standout Among Baylor's New Hall of Famers
July 25, 2016
Jahnavi Parekh, B.B.A./M.Acc. (Accounting) '02, was inducted into Baylor University's 57th annual Hall of Fame class. Parekh played tennis for Baylor University and was a three-time all-Big 12 performer. She is the first women's tennis player to be inducted into the Hall of Fame.
KWTX-TV (Waco, Temple, Killeen/CBS): Professors Hope to Prove Health Benefits to Standing at Work
July 26, 2016
VIDEO: Story about multidisciplinary research by Cindy Wu, Ph.D., associate professor of management, Hankamer School of Business, and Renee Umstattd Meyer, Ph.D., associate professor of HHPR, Robbins College of Health and Human Sciences, on the health benefits of using a standing desk. (Eric Eckert, Baylor Media Communications specialist, pitched this story and covers Hankamer School of Business research and faculty.)
#BearsOfBaylor — "Baylor's campus is big, but not too big."
"I'm from India — Bangalore — and I moved to Dallas in high school, about six years ago. "I like that Baylor's campus is big, but not too big… There's a lot of kids here, but everyone knows each other. Even though you might not know them personally, there's a friend that knows them. I […]
Baylor prof, students help discover ancient Biblical mosaics in Israel
For 1,500 years, elaborate mosaics depicting Bible stories like Noah's Ark and the parting of the Red Sea were buried in the ruins of an ancient synagogue in Israel. But this summer, a team that included two Baylor students and Dr. Nathan Elkins, a Baylor art history professor and coin specialist, uncovered this stunning artwork while […]
#BearsOfBaylor — "Baylor's always been a dream school for me."
"I'm from Frisco, Texas. Baylor's always been a dream school for me. I've grown up knowing I wanted to go into the medical field, and I know Baylor is like the perfect place. I want to work in a Baylor hospital. "I'm currently a CNA [certified nursing assistant] through a high school program, so I've […]
Baylor 'dorm mom' celebrates 90th birthday with former Collins residents
Doris Gage, BM '47, had never lived in a Baylor dorm. Because of it, she always felt like she had missed out on the full Baylor experience. She never had the frustration of learning to live with a roommate, or the joy of suddenly realizing she's become your best friend. But in 1979 — more […]
Plan Ahead to Rise and Shine for School, Baylor University Sleep Expert Recommends
WACO, Texas (July 27, 2016) — Students soon will leave behind the lazy summer days and go back to school, leaping — or crawling — out of bed when that early alarm clock goes off.
Baylor University Named a '2016 Great College to Work For' by The Chronicle of Higher Education
WACO, Texas (July 25, 2016) – For the sixth consecutive year, Baylor University has attained elite Honor Roll status as a "2016 Great College to Work For," according to a new survey by The Chronicle of Higher Education, a top trade publication for colleges and universities.
Baylor Alumnus Honored for Achievements in Church Music
WACO, Texas (July 22, 2016) — Nick Strimple, D.M.A., B.M. (composition) '69, was awarded the Baylor University Center for Christian Music Studies Award for Exemplary Leadership in Christian Music at Baylor's annual Alleluia Conference.
More than 200 Teachers to Attend Summer Literacy Institute
WACO, Texas (July 22, 2016) – Baylor School of Education will host a three-day Summer Literacy Institute at the Foster Campus for Business and Innovation on July 25-27. The professional development conference will feature internationally known literacy experts Kylene Beers, currently an advisor at Columbia University and previously senior reading researcher at the Comer School Development Program at Yale University, along with Penny Kittle and Linda Rief — both teachers, authors and instructors at the University of New Hampshire Summer Literacy Institute.
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I tried Age of Wushu when it first released for the western audience and I couldn't puzzle through it.
Everything was designed and translated so poorly that I felt it was an uphill battle to actually learn the game.
Now I started playing again yesterday with the new starting zone/story and the game is amazing.
The user interface seems to have been cleaned up massively, the chat has been improved, the translations are better although some of them are hilariously bad.
One of them had me burst out laughing when an old man tells you, "The sword fight on top of Mount Hua is bullshit" or something along those lines. In retrospect the text itself isn't that hilarious but in context it was great.
The cheesy cutscenes for the story are fun to watch even though they aren't up to par with what I am used to.
The game has been improved what has to be at least 300% from the new expansion.
At least in a new player's point of view. It actually feels like a quality game now.
I highly recommend that anyone who tried Age of Wushu and couldn't get into it make a new character and start with the Tempest of Strife storyline.
Keep in mind though some of the translations are still sketchy but they still get the point across (this sometimes makes it more entertaining because it feels like a poorly translated kung-fu movie). Plus with the auto-pathing system you shouldn't have any problems.
See you in Wushu!
Being in an MMO lull I actually decided to return to Wushu and check out the expac and was also pleasantly surprised. The UI feels way better, the translations are intelligible (if still pretty bad in some areas, still way better), and I actually understand what the hell my skills do. The new player experience seems to flow a lot better mechanically even if the story is hilariously awful (for instance, one of the character's name says (Played by Jet Li) after it in dialogue).
This game is still very much a niche game and I don't expect it to "catch fire," in the west but it is definitely worth a look now for anyone who wants to try something different. Just go in with an open mind and it is pretty fun. The F2P model leaves a lot to be desired though, I think if you ever want to play seriously youll have to invest
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Originally posted by DangerNobuo The game has been improved what has to be at least 300% from the new expansion. At least in a new player's point of view. It actually feels like a quality game now. I highly recommend that anyone who tried Age of Wushu and couldn't get into it make a new character and start with the Tempest of Strife storyline. Keep in mind though some of the translations are still sketchy but they still get the point across (this sometimes makes it more entertaining because it feels like a poorly translated kung-fu movie). Plus with the auto-pathing system you shouldn't have any problems. See you in Wushu!
Glad you and others enjoy the new expansion.
For those who played the native (Chinese) version, Tempest of Strife (ToS) is a many months old expansion so all our excitement is on the forthcoming Path of Chivarly (PoC) expansion out in less than 3 months
The developer indicated that it will take at least 4 months to translate new material in PoC to English after it is released in China.
Here is a peek on what we can expected in AoW: PoC
Total size of game world in PoC will be about 800 sq km versus 97 sq km in ToS (non-seamless world but zone maps can be up to 4000-5000m per map edge or 20 sq km in size)
Around 700 sq km of the world is in free-roam wilderness when a player takes a adventure journey beyond the existing core AoW world from their personal housing.
A maximum of 10 players can randomly matched per dynamic layer in a map zone. The new maps are designed to cater for low player density and personal stories.
Players in adventure mode inherits all consequences (personal, moral and faction imposed) occured in core gameplay but these are are modified by a "precept" ruleset. Beyond this restriction, player can freely PvP and pursuit other activities they inclined - exploration, farming for resources or PvE.
There are no safe zones in wilderness and placement of resources in the wilderness map zones are partially randomized and respawn very slowly or not at all.
New weapon types like whip, axe will be added with exotic weapons to be followed.
AoW: PoC will received an updated graphics engine and the expansion will have more than 10Gb of new content.
"A game is fun if it is learnable but not trivial" -- Togelius & Schmidhuber
I was having a blast for about a week but then I suddenly got hit by a wall again when I realized that unless I attack AFKers I lose pretty much every time. I think this is a product of the fact that this game, even more so than EVE, has a knowledge = power thing going on. The players that know how to play aren't really sharing, the community isn't BAD per se, just not very helpful. The population is also really low, and seemingly getting lower, and the few people that remain apparently barely even speak English it seems (not that I care, it just compounds the not understanding the game thing).
Also another thing I am not liking is that AoW has a big, beautiful game world that is completely empty. Everyone hangs out in Chengdu except to go do school spy or AFK as a patrol. Open World PVP is a little misleading because you will rarely find anyone more than a minute away from Chengdu. And along those lines... World PVP has no point that I can see other than the thrill of killing someone. It's all penalty with no gain. Im not advocating full-loot, but there should be some sort of incentive to balance the risk of going to jail or getting disciplined by your school. I've heard the argument before that in real life you aren't rewarded for crime. Well, that isn't true... if you rob someone, you keep their junk until you are caught. I'd like to see some sort of risk/reward thing here, unless there is one I just can't comprehend?
Then again maybe I just suck at the game or need a better guild lol


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Our family has made this clam dip for years. No added extras, just clams and cream cheese! We usually put it out while we finishing preparing dinner, and it's gone before dinner even begins! Lately, we've been serving it with pita chips. Instead of warming up the cream cheese, we usually whip it up in a mixer. Thanks for adding this in here Sony!


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In the wp's themes list page @ /wp-admin/themes.php when Clear Line is activated, the "Clear Line Theme Options" is linked to /wp-admin/options.php. It should goto /wp-admin/themes.php?page=options.php to edit the Clear Line options. I got to the seralized data "all settings" page trying to edit the theme options. Not sure if it is just me/mysite but just letting it be known to check it out. Some one could do some damage on that wrong page. :(...
I love the theme and am using it here: http://demo.newcastle19720.com/ a demo I modified a bit for a realty co. It uses Clear Line. Easy for the end user to do many things to change the site around themselves. The love it but not my price...yet...lol
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7 reviews | 4.1 out of 5
This a useful mini iron that works well to straighten my routes without burning my scalp. as another reviewer stated,,
The iron plates have a small gap which means you have to apply more pressurre to close the iron together.nooo big deal. Glad I found this item.similar one are 20. This little thing gets very hot!
I absolutely love this mini flat iron! I can stuff this baby into my purse and touch-up my hair when necessary. During the day I am extremely busy so my hair can become quite frazzled in the process so having this wherever I go is essential especially when meeting with clients! The best part is it actually gets my hair smooth and straight! The added bonus is that it comes with a cute zebra print case to put it in! I recommend this item if you have a busy on-the-go lifestyle like me! :)
Even though it's a tiny flat iron, it's good for touch-ups (not to flat iron your hair from start to finish). It heats up fast and gets pretty hot for a small flat iron. It's easy to use and in a few minutes, you can breeze through your hair and you're done. The cute little carrying case protects the iron and makes it portable for travel. For the price of this flat iron, it was a great value.
Love this flat iron. I recently cut my hair so I needed a smaller plate and iron all together. GREAT for traveling. Only thing I'd say I would change would be if I could adjust the temp, but it's definetely hot enough to straighten my thick hair, I just try and be conscious not to put my irons above 400 degrees
I gave this a poor rating because from the moment I plugged it in, it DID NOT WORK. At first I thought it might be the outlet, so I tried it in several outlets around my home. Still did not work, so I returned it 24hrs after receiving. Will order another one and hopefully my review will be positive. The only plus is the size and the case; I think it will be great to take on a trip as it won't take up much room in your luggage.
Great product, but didn't like the idea of having to pay shipping on a product that is sold by Walmart?????????????
Just right for short hair without the heat or sizzle of a large wand.


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Ow noes, blizzard probably changed the raid type into party, or something similar.
I'll try to look up what it is now, then I'll upload the fix.
Edit: When did this happen? It seems that the raid type still exists. Did this happen when you were in a LFG party or a LFG raid, a normal party or raid, in a battleground, or just in the open world?


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Coverage Includes: Planning chapters, Uruguay, Buenos Aires, Bariloche, the Lake District, Cordoba, the Central Sierras, Iguazu Falls, the Northeast, Mendoza, the Central Andes, The Pampas, the Atlantic Coast, Patagonia, Salta, the Andean Northwest, Tierra del Fuego, Understand and Survival chapters.
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cognates from Lithuanian to Sanskrit and Greek
"Puzzling Heritage: The verb 'fart.'" [more inside]
Electric! Copen! International orange!
Evocative definitions of colors in Webster's Third New International Dictionary and how they got there. [more inside]
Well, nobody's perfect. But at least we have cameras.
What makes a memorable movie quote memorable?
A news summary of how they went about it.
A short audio version (via NPR) of the story and research summary.
A Wikipedia list: AFI's 100 years, 100 quotes.
A short list of advertising slogans that fit the research model for movie quote memorability.
The research paper (automatic PDF download). [more inside]
A news summary of how they went about it.
A short audio version (via NPR) of the story and research summary.
A Wikipedia list: AFI's 100 years, 100 quotes.
A short list of advertising slogans that fit the research model for movie quote memorability.
The research paper (automatic PDF download). [more inside]
"Grief bacon."
Wonderful words with no simple English equivalent.
Beizhing or Bei Jing?
James Fallows, in a series of interesting blog posts, questions the typical English pronunciation of China's capital city arguing that "the "jing" in Beijing is pronounced basically like the "jing" in Jingle Bells. It's essentially the normal English j- sound. What it's not like is the Frenchified zh- sound you hear in "azure" or "leisure," or at the end of "sabotage."" One reader suggests, "My working theory about "Beijing/bay-zhing" is that at some deep, unconscious level, English speakers secretly believe that all foreign languages are French and should be pronounced as such in the absence of instructions to the contrary." Another reader argues, "Major cities and countries have historically had different names in different languages, and these names serve a good purpose by being easy to pronounce and identify in the languages where they are used. There is really no more reason to say "Beijing" in English than "München" or "Moskva."" [more inside]
10 years of language hat
Fearing cacodemonomania from jettatura, the acersecomic leptosome set off a biblioclasm of his scripturient neogenesis on ktenology, unwittingly bringing about hamartia.
The Project Twins have created bold illustrative posters of unusual words from A to Z. (via)
Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.
Collins Dictionary is seeking suggestions for popular new words that deserve official definitions. Most recent suggestions: blurge, wammocky, dingbat, sloading, and many more.
Dette er en pisse dårlig måde at forstå et sprog, men det er alt hvad jeg har fået
Momo and Andrew realized that no one else could pronounce Danish either and finally did something about it. [more inside]
What is that? Is that a red pen? No, that's not a red pen. That's a rock.
Where Are Your Keys? (WAYK) is a language-learning game that starts with identifying a few simple objects and builds into a conversation dealing with abstract concepts — in the space of an hour or two, with minimal supplies. [more inside]
Technology Enhancements for Sensory Impaired
Recent technologies developed at American universities are making communication easier for the sight and hearing impaired. Last summer a Stanford undergrad developed a touchscreen Braille writer that stands to revolutionize how the blind negotiate an unseen world by replacing devices costing up to 10 times more. Thanks to a group of University of Houston students, the hearing impaired may soon have an easier time communicating with those who do not understand sign language. During the past semester, students in UH's engineering technology and industrial design programs teamed up to develop the concept and prototype for MyVoice, a device that reads sign language and translates its motions into audible words, and vice versa.
"Words -- so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them."
Save the Words: Adopt words that have been abandoned by the English language.
Sound-Word Index — Emotions and their sound can invade our digital messages. Our words become flexible and vibrate according to the volume of our voices, transforming their written form into an expressive and resonating language. Without the help of body language, words can sometimes fall short in our digital conversations. However, sound, volume and rhythm can influence the spelling of our words, helping to translate our emotions hidden behind our screens.
"Niggas" in Practice
"Niggas" in Practice Jay-Z, Gwyneth Paltrow, and when white people can say the word. [more inside]
How I Scored A Million Points In SpellTower
My father-in-law Jerry is great at word puzzles. Over the holidays, I showed him SpellTower on my iPad. By the time I took my iPad back at the end of the trip, he had already broken the SpellTower "Puzzle Mode" record on the Game Center leader board by almost 100,000 points. So I asked Jerry if he would share his strategy
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...it's true that the progressive passive first appeared in the English language in the second half of the 18th century, replacing what historians of English grammar call the passival.
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False Fronts in the Language Wars
"Not since Saturday Night Live's Emily Litella thundered against conserving natural racehorses and protecting endangered feces has a polemicist been so incensed by her own misunderstandings." - Harvard Psychology Professor Steven Pinker responds to Joan Acocella's New Yorker piece, The English Wars [more inside]
As she is spoked
The myth of English as a global language One would have to say that English, far from being a pure maiden, looks like a woman who has appeared out of some distant fen, had more partners than Moll Flanders, learned a lot in the process, and is now running a house of negotiable affection near an international airport
A well-illustrated guide to heraldry. Want more? There's England's College of Arms, or the heraldry of the US Army. Notre Dame has a heraldic dictionary, and the internet at large is happy to provide you with heraldry clip art from (electronic) ages past. (And then there's always wikipedia)
Ceci n'est pas un meta
Ben Zimmer, the alternate-weeks author of the Boston Globe's language column, The Word, has a column today ("Dude, this headline is so meta") about the drift in the meaning of the prefix "meta" over the past few decades, from "above or beyond" (the metaphysical realm is beyond the physical one) or "at a higher level of abstraction" (metalanguage is language used to describe other language) to "consciously self-referential" ... a perfect meta-commentary on the consciously self-referential age we live in. [more inside]
"How do you know the moment when you cease to be human?"
We are the artistically creative authors of the truths we live by. We must then, if we are honest, live more tentatively in relation to the security and consistency we achieve through language. The effect of this conclusion, at least for me, at least most of the time, is bracing.
It is not bracing for everyone.
Scott Abbott examines the violent, funny, and philosophically distressing fictions of Brian Evenson, one of our most accomplished dark fantasists and genre-bending authors. [more inside]
It is not bracing for everyone.
Scott Abbott examines the violent, funny, and philosophically distressing fictions of Brian Evenson, one of our most accomplished dark fantasists and genre-bending authors. [more inside]
Luc Besson's "The Fifth Element"
Beanplating on The Fifth Element from architecture students at the University of Waterloo. [more inside]
Gathering the pieces of the tower of Babel
Tim Doner is a 16 year old polyglot from New York city who currently speaks 23 languages. (warning: video) He uses flash cards on his iPhone and posts youtube videos to get feedback from native speakers. [more inside]
Tower of Babelfish - A Language Learning Method
Aha! The anatomy of insight, like a rolling stone.
How do we have insights, and where does inspiration come from? Jonah Lehrer goes inside Bob Dylan's brain to find out...the "neural correlate of insight": the anterior superior temporal gyrus (aSTG). This small fold of tissue, located on the surface of the right hemisphere just above the ear, became unusually active in the seconds before the epiphany. [more inside]
A Database of Metaphor
The Mind is a Metaphor. A database of thousands of metaphors organized by category, like 18th century, Liquid, or Jacobite. It's maintained by University of Virginia English Professor Brad Pasanek.
The Chinese Typewriter
As you can see, the [Chinese] typewriter is extremely complicated and cumbersome. The main tray — which is like a typesetter's font of lead type — has about two thousand of the most frequent characters. Two thousand characters are not nearly enough for literary and scholarly purposes, so there are also a number of supplementary trays from which less frequent characters may be retrieved when necessary. What is even more intimidating about a Chinese typewriter is that the characters as seen by the typist are backwards and upside down! [more inside]
Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.
If you use Americanisms just to show you know them, people may find you a tad tiresome, so be discriminating.
You may have to think harder if you are not to use jargon, but you can still be precise.
Use all metaphors, dead or alive, sparingly, otherwise you will make trouble for yourself.
Some words add nothing but length to your prose.
(Notes from The Economist's style guide.)
You may have to think harder if you are not to use jargon, but you can still be precise.
Use all metaphors, dead or alive, sparingly, otherwise you will make trouble for yourself.
Some words add nothing but length to your prose.
(Notes from The Economist's style guide.)
What Would Babbage Do?
If PHP Were British. (via an Ars comment.)
That's like, French for "eeeeee"
Shit Burqueños Say (and part two) are twin odes to New Mexican idiosyncrasies. The videos (created by ABQ's own Blackout Theatre troupe) went viral and made the front page of the Albuquerque Journal this week, to the general amusement of most, though they're not entirely free of controversy. Watch and you too may exclaim eeeeee, this is all funny!
Yo Lady G, wassup?
The makers of Downton Abbey take great care to recreate the look and feel of the period in which it is set. But occasionally anachronisms in the dialogue slip through.
The Greeks have no word for "Sovereign Default" OR timeo danaos et linguas quae futurum tempus habent dicentem.
I find that speakers of languages with little to no grammatical distinction between the present and future (weak-FTR ["Future Time Reference"] language speakers) engage in much more future-oriented behavior. Weak-FTR speakers are 30% more likely to have saved in any given year, and have accumulated an additional 170 thousand Euros by retirement. I also examine non-monetary measures such as health behaviors and long-run health. I find that by retirement, weak-FTR speakers are in better health by numerous measures: they are 24% less likely to have smoked heavily, are 29% more likely to be physically active, and are 13% less likely to be medically obese. [more inside]
You say Tlingit, I say Hlingit
After years of work, New Zealand scholar Sally-Ann Lambert just released volume 2 of her 9-volume linguistics series. "Hlingit Word Encyclopedia: The Origin of Copper" is a 630-page encyclopedia of the SE Alaskan native language Tlingit. She traveled to Sitka for a mid-January book release and found one little problem: none of the Tlingit native speakers or scholars there recognized the language in it. [more inside]
Need a word for it?
The Lonely Planet has come up with a list of thirty travel terms that aren't in the dictionary.
The First Word
The First Word. A new Electric Sheep comic by Patrick Farley on the psychedelic origins of language. [NSFW, Via]
Of Particular Interest to Mefites
A history of "pearl clutching." Apparently, it originated on In Living Color.
The Mimic Method
The only way to become fluent in a language is to actively mimic the speech sounds of native speakers. Idahosa (ee-DAO-ssah) Ness has developed a language learning system based on music and mimicry.
Adventures with an Extreme Polyglot
"Most of the languages I've studied I've never spoken, and I probably never will," he told me. "And that's okay with me. That's nice if you can do that, but it's rare that you have an interesting conversation in English. Why do I think it would be any better in another language?"
Read all about it
Hubii is a map based newspaper browser. Filter by category, language, time or region or use the heatmap. [blog]
My Word
The Corpus of American Historical English is a searchable index of word usage in American printed material from 1810 to 2009. Powerful complex searches allow you to trace the appearance and evolution of words and phrases and even specific grammatical constructions, see trends in frequency, and plenty more. Start with the 5-Minute Tour.
Geography and Science Fiction
GeoCurrents is blog dedicated to "map-illustrated analyses of current events and geographical issues", run by Martin W. Lewis, a Stanford senior lecturer. For the past week, they've been posting a series of articles on imaginary geography. See below for a list of the posts so far: [more inside]
Because MeFites love proving that they are better than 90% of [X]
"If you can pronounce correctly every word in this poem, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world. After trying the verses, a Frenchman said he'd prefer six months of hard labour to reading six lines aloud."
You shall Hear things, Wonderful to tell
A decade on, the Coen brothers' woefully underrated O Brother, Where Art Thou? [alt] is remembered for a lot of things: its sun-drenched, sepia-rich cinematography (a pioneer of digital color grading), its whimsical humor, fluid vernacular, and many subtle references to Homer's Odyssey. But one part of its legacy truly stands out: the music. Assembled by T-Bone Burnett, the soundtrack is a cornucopia of American folk music, exhibiting everything from cheery ballads and angelic hymns to wistful blues and chain-gang anthems. Woven into the plot of the film through radio and live performances, the songs lent the story a heartfelt, homespun feel that echoed its cultural heritage, a paean and uchronia of the Old South. Though the multiplatinum album was recently reissued, the movie's medley is best heard via famed documentarian D. A. Pennebaker's Down from the Mountain, an extraordinary yet intimate concert film focused on a night of live music by the soundtrack's stars (among them Gillian Welch, Emmylou Harris, Chris Thomas King, bluegrass legend Dr. Ralph Stanley) and wryly hosted by John Hartford, an accomplished fiddler, riverboat captain, and raconteur whose struggle with terminal cancer made this his last major performance. The film is free in its entirety on Hulu and YouTube -- click inside for individual clips, song links, and breakdowns of the set list's fascinating history. [more inside]
Christopher Alexander
A Pattern Language explores the living structure in good and bad buildings, human artifacts, and natural systems, discussing the presence of the same living order in all systems. [Christopher] Alexander proposes that the living order depends on features which make a close connection with the human self. The quality of works of art, artifacts, and buildings is defined not merely in terms of living structure, but also in their capacity to affect human growth and human well-being.
Blame Brit for pitch shift!
American Woman: Vocal fried. On the partial glottalization of speech in young English speaking American women.
"For many tiny, endangered languages, digital technology has become a lifeline."
Everyone Speaks Text Message: [NYTimes] "Is technology killing indigenous languages or saving them? Well, you may soon be able to text in N'Ko."
Apparently so.
Playing with both cats and language
I can has language play: Construction of Language and Identity in LOLspeak. A presentation by Jill Vaughan and Lauren Gawne of the University of Melbourne at the Australian Linguistics Society annual conference 2011.
The History of English
How new words are created - just one section of a site that charts 'How English went from an obscure Germanic dialect to a global language'.
Phenomenology of Error
It has long been noted that style manuals and other usage advice frequently contain unintended examples of the usage they condemn. (This is sometimes referred to as Hartman's law or Muphry's law - an intentional misspelling of Murphy.) Starting from this observation, Joseph Williams' paper The Phenomenology of Error offers an examination of our selective attention to different types of grammatical and usage errors that goes beyond the descriptivism-prescriptivism debate. (alternate pdf link for "The Phenomenology of Error") [more inside]


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We will reopen on July 5, for appointments made before July 1.
Irondequoit Community Cupboard, Inc.
The Irondequoit Community Cupboard, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization designed to meet a variety of needs for families and individuals in the Town of Irondequoit, NY.
Mission Statement
"To provide emergency assistance to Irondequoit residents with dignity, kindness and without prejudice."
"To raise awareness of the presence and impact of hunger and poverty in our
community. We envision a community where all people share resources to ensure
that residents' basic needs are met in times of limited resources.
We advocate for and reach out to those in need and try to influence public policy so that every person in our community has the necessary support and resources to enhance nutrition, health and welfare."
If you are in need of
assistance, please call (585) 336-9107.
(no appointments are made online)
Distribution Hours (BY
Tuesday & Saturday from 9:30AM - 11:00AM.
Office Hours (BY PHONE ONLY)
Monday & Wednesday 9:00AM - 4:00PM
Fridays 9:00AM-12:00PM
"Letter from the President"
(May 2016)
Dear Friends,
Finally, we are getting some beautiful weather! I don't know about you but since we get limited amounts of sun and warm weather, I would much rather be outside than in an office so I will keep this month's newsletter short. Scroll down after my closing to see all of the many, many generous people in our community. J
We are still in need of some more volunteers for the month of August. We will also need people who will harvest and bring over fresh produce on Tuesdays and Saturdays during the summer months. (by 9am)
We are beginning to gear up to the end of the school year and with that comes me sending an occasional reminder about items that ICC is running short of. Summers are our leanest months and we really believe that our organization does a great job in being good stewards of the donations that you entrust to us.
That being said, I hope that many of you got to go to the Vineyard last week to see what a great job Jeff Printy and all of his/our volunteers and clients are doing with the ICC garden. They continue to grow and try new varieties of produce and herbs and we are so proud to be able to share this with our clients. This is also a way that some of our able bodied clients can help us. We also continue to offer a Recipe of the Month that uses a fresh produce ingredient. Please email me some of your favorite recipes. J
Often times during random conversations, we get people who ask us about all of the items they donate to Foodlink, both monetarily at the checkout aisle and through food donations like the Fill the Bus campaign. Last week a volunteer of ours was surprised to learn that we do not receive those direct dollars or food that is gathered at our local grocery stores, restaurants or other type of drives. A foodbank is different that a food pantry. Foodlink is a food bank. They are like the BJs and Costco of food pantries. We are able to purchase food from them with federal, state and local United Way grants that we apply for through Foodlink. In addition, like BJs and Costco, we pay an annual membership fee. In addition to food pantries and soup kitchens, Foodlink also is a food source for day care centers and group homes, summer meal programs, etc. We are fortunate that we are able to get things like shelf milk at a fabulous price from them that is not available to us otherwise. We also purchase a lot of healthy snack choices that aren't always available elsewhere. Foodlink is also a good resource to many area nonprofit organizations like ours. In addition to being a friend, Tom Ferraro was a great source of information and guidance as I began the journey of transitioning from my home to a real food pantry.
We have some thank you's to share. Many people don't think of how the food you leave at drop offs get to us. They get to us by tireless volunteers. Thank you so much to Warren, Barb, and Scott who pick up food for us at the Ridge Culver Fire Dept, Pinegrove Senior Center, and the Irondequoit Library.
In addition, thank you so much to Cherie Evans and Diane McHale-Mix who take care of our recycling and garbage every week.
Thank you so much to Irondequoit Lawn and Landscape who take care of our lawn and landscape.
Thank you so much to John Villeneuve who donated his time and resources by re-enforcing all of our shelves that have become weakened over time saving us a TON of money so we didn't have to purchase new shelving.
Our annual newsletter is running late this year as we have been trying to find a printing company to print them out for us. We are also updating our whole town mailing list which hasn't been an easy task either. Look for it soon!
We at ICC hope thank all of you for your continued support and we wish a safe and happy Memorial Day.
Debbie Evans; President
Sue Reynolds, Vice-President
John Kane, Treasurer
MaryJo Toepfer, Secretary
Cherie Evans, Board Member
Cherie Sutton, Board Member
John Cortinas, Board Member
Lisa Loeser, Board Member
Here is our overdue list of thank yous. We are SO
grateful to live in such a generous community that has always been
gracious in their support.We would also like to send a special thank you
to Don and Nancy Story who each and every week bring us in donations
that are always on our Top 10 list. I am blown away by their kindness.
They never want any thanks but we are so grateful to them. That being
said, every donation matters- Every dollar, can, bag and box of food
"Helps us Help others" in our community. Thank you thank you thank you!
Thank you so much to the following people, organizations, churches, schools and businesses: (unless otherwise noted pounds relate to food)
Anonymous donations at Ridge-Culver Fire Dept 331 pounds
Anonymous donations at the Irondequoit Library 285 pounds
Anonymous donors 10 pounds
Irondequoit Lions Club 31 pounds and $ from their annual rose sale
Durand United Church of Christ 71 pounds
Paula Beaver 33 pounds
Pam Rossi 7 pounds
Susan and Mary Kaye 16 pounds
Troop 60911 49 pounds
Jaurel Mroczek 174 pounds
Paul Illingworth 108 pounds
Irondequoit Post Office Drive 594 pounds
Don and Nancy Story 321 pounds
St Johns Lutheran Church 27 pounds
Helen and Maryrose Galante 7 pounds
Ms Reedy 32 pounds
Lutheran Church of the Resurrection 26 pounds
St Josephat Sunday School 162 pounds
St Kateri 149 pounds
West Irondequoit Teachers Association 136 pounds
Briarwood 19 pounds
Pat Helfer 6 pounds
Geva Theater 100+ pounds of kid friendly foods
Town Hall 14 pounds
Irondequoit United Church of Christ 54 pounds
Helendale Road Elementary 36 pounds
Stephanie Kanis 33 pounds
Briarwood 24 pounds
Daniel Johnson 77 pounds
Temple Emanuel 70 pounds
IHS Service Club 22 pounds of hygiene products plus time on 2 Saturdays to perform clean up tasks around ICC
Iroquois Middle School 6 pounds
Irondequoit Senior Center 19 pounds
Callene Hummel 4 pounds
Northridge Medical 15 pounds


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Chris Frates at the Politico reveals how Republican Leader John Boehner is seeking wiretap protection for himself, but not for ordinary Americans:
When a federal judge ordered Rep. Jim McDermott to pay House Minority Leader John A. Boehner and his attorneys more than $1 million in damages and legal fees for leaking an illegally taped phone call to the media, Boehner said he pursued the case because "no one — including members of Congress — is above the law."
Why, then, is the Ohio Republican trying to squash similar lawsuits against telecommunications companies who cooperated with the government in warrantless electronic surveillance, ask the attorneys behind the class action suits.
The blatant hypocrisy on display here is stunning.
While its customers are still puzzling over why Vista Media Center
is suddenly refusing to record over-the-air NBC digital TV, Microsoft has come out
with an astounding admission, courtesy of Greg Sandoval at CNet News:
"Microsoft included technologies in Windows based on rules set forth by the (Federal Communications Commission)," a Microsoft spokeswoman wrote in an e-mail to CNET News.com. "As part of these regulations, Windows Media Center fully adheres to the flags used by broadcasters and content owners to determine how their content is distributed and consumed."
After further investigation of reports of Vista refusing to record NBC, we have found at least one case where a user receiving digital TV over-the-air has been blocked from recording TV shows. Justin Sanders, who took this screenshot, says he was recording Raleigh's HDTV channel WNCN-DT1 on his Vista machine when a popup stating that "restrictions set by the broadcaster ... prohibit recording of this program" appeared.
This is significant: this is the first case we've heard of equipment voluntarily obeying broadcast flag-like restrictions on TV content digitally broadcast over-the-air.
A bipartisan group of senators sent a letter (pdf) to FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III this week demanding answers about an illegitimate National Security Letter (NSL) served on the Internet Archive last fall. The Archive joined with EFF and the ACLU to fend off the NSL, which sought information about an Archive patron that the FBI had no authority to gather. After extensive negotiations, the FBI agreed last month to withdraw the letter and lift an accompanying gag order that had been imposed on the Archive, EFF, and ACLU.
Yesterday saw two important court decisions in the file-sharing wars, both favoring defendants. First, Tanya Andersen, a single mother on a disability pension who successfully fought off allegations of illegal file-sharing, was awarded almost $110,000 in fees and costs. Andersen had insisted she had done nothing illegal, and demanded that the RIAA produce evidence linking her to the alleged infringement. The RIAA couldn't, and dropped the case instead--but not soon enough to avoid being hit with a fee award.
Orphan works legislation has returned to Congress, and the controversy surrounding the bill is just as heated as it was the last time around, in 2006. While a broad coalition of libraries, museums, independent filmmakers, public interest groups, and commercial arts organizations such as the RIAA and the MPAA back the bill, several prominent visual artists' organizations have been rallying their members in opposition. (For a discussion about orphan works, listen to the latest episode of EFF's Line Noise Podcast.)
Reports are coming in of digital video recording systems refusing to record NBC programs - both on digital cable and over-the-air transmissions.
We're still investigating whether these involved over-the-air digital TV, which would mean that NBC was the first broadcaster to attempt to revive the abandoned ATSC "broadcast flag" (as opposed to cable and analog copy control signals like CGMS-A which have been used before).
EFF is making some changes to the site's RSS feeds. If you subscribe to EFF.org with RSS, you've probably been using either our Blog Feed or our Press Release Feed or our Action Alert Feed or some combination of those three. To simplify things, we've consolidated them into one place: The EFF Updates Feed.
We've also just relaunched the long-dormant Line Noise Podcast. Line Noise has two feeds for your favorite podcast aggregator, depending on your audio-codec of choice: MP3 and Ogg Vorbis. Check out our latest episode, in which EFF designer Hugh D'Andrade speaks with Staff Attorney Corynne McSherry about The Lost Art of Orphan Works.
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I got tied up at the ball park with some Nick Castellanos interviews yesterday but I wanted to circle back and hit the scouting reports on the prospects involved in the flurry of trades leading up to yesterday's non-waiver trade deadline.
The Red Sox made two moves as the deadline neared, acquiring Craig Breslow for Matt Albers and Scott Podsednik and then sending first baseman Lars Anderson to the Indians for right-hander Steven Wright. The Anderson for Wright swap is the only one that involves prospects and it's a curious move.
Wright is a born-again prospect, having converted to the knuckleball. It's hard to make anything of a prospect that's throwing a knuckleball because sometimes they just appear out of thin air like R.A. Dickey this season with the Mets. Wright is an interesting project but one that is an extreme long shot.
In exchange, the Indians pick up the once highly though of Lars Anderson. Anderson has pop in his bat and good knowledge of the strike zone but scouts have fallen out of favor with him because of his complete lack of bat speed, noting that he has the classic "slider bat speed." He will likely play in the Major Leagues over the next few years but not as anything more than a fringy everyday guy at best.
In a move that has been anticipated since they signed him during the offseason, the Royals moved closer Jonathan Broxton to the Cincinnati Reds for two prospects; J.C. Sulbaran and Donnie Joseph. Sulbaran is the better of the two prospects, offering a low-90s fastball that has scraped 95 in past outings. Employing a consistent delivery has been a challenge for Sulbaran, leading to control problems and massive bouts with inconsistency. He will flash the occasional plus curveball and change-up, but neither has shown at that level regularly. Sulbaran is a high-risk proposition that could be a mid-rotation starter if everything clicks, or he could never secure a lengthy big league opportunity.
Joseph is a fine second piece to the deal, showing a 90-95 mph fastball from the left side in relief. He has plenty of effort in his delivery but that does lend to his fastball getting on hitters and making him more difficult to pick up. His slider could be a plus pitch with more consistency. With the effort in his delivery, Joseph struggles to throw strikes and few scouts project him for even average command, but if he can find the zone with some regularity he could be a nice seventh or eighth inning lefty.
The Marlins continued to be busy at the deadline, sending reliever Edward Mujica to the Cardinals and first baseman Gaby Sanchez to the Pirates in separate deals.
For Mujica the Marlins acquired third baseman Zach Cox, a former first round pick of the Cardinals whose stock has been falling for the better part of a year. Cox has a solid understanding of the strike zone and a good approach to his at-bats. Most scouts I spoke with believe he will be a solid-average hitter that can post .275-.280 batting averages in the big leagues with fringy (14-16 HR) power. He has a plus arm at third base but lacks the mobility or quickness for much range, leaving him as a fringe-average defender. Cox will be a big leaguer, but likely not one that stands out on a regular basis.
In exchange for parting with Sanchez, the Marlins received outfielder Gorkys Hernandez and a competitive balance pick. Hernandez is an outstanding defensive outfielder and has been since he burst on the scene with the Tigers several years ago. He has excellent range thanks to quick jumps and flawless routes. He regularly earns 70 grades for his defensive prowess and his arm has earned plus scores as well. For all his defensive talents, Hernandez hasn't developed offensively. He lacks punch in his bat and though he makes consistent contact, his approach is poor and he often makes weak contact because he expands his strike zone. He profiles as a solid fourth outfielder in the big leagues.
Because they included the competitive balance pick, the Pirates did manage to get another piece back in the deal, albeit a modest one. Right-hander Kyle Kaminska pounds the strike zone with an arsenal full of fringy offerings. He is a middle reliever at best and will likely be more along the lines of Triple-A depth.
Lastly, the Rangers managed to get the starting pitcher they so desperately sought, adding Ryan Dempster right as the deadline came to a close. After having a deal with the Braves fall through that would have netted right-hander Randall Delgado, the Cubs finally consummated a deal that included third baseman Christian Villanueva and righty Kyle Hendricks.
In Villanueva, the Cubs get a really nice all-around prospect, though one that may never be a star. For a young hitter, he approaches his at-bats with a consistent game plan and is able to make adjustments on the fly. He has plus bat speed and good hands. Scouts vary on his hit tool, but most think he will be an average hitter in time. He shows pop in batting practice and it is easy to project him for a ceiling of average power because of his approach and contact ability. He is a very good defensive third baseman and will be an asset on the left side of the infield.
Hendricks is a control artist that relies heavily on his ability to locate his entire arsenal. His fastball previously sat in the 87-89 range and touched 90 mph but he's bumped that up a bit this year and has been flashing some low-90s four-seamers that reach 94 mph on occasion. His two-seamer shows excellent movement in the lower levels of that velocity range, inducing easy weak contact. He is an intelligent pitcher – as you might expect from a Dartmouth kid – and he rarely gives in to walk hitters. His slider has improved and he mixes in a solid change-up as well. He may not profile as more than a number five starter, but he could get to the big leagues quickly.
While the non-waiver deadline has passed, I do plan to keep up with scouting reports on prospects dealt after the deadline and will try to chime in on any PTBNL that are formally identified down the line.