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COPPULL, England — Nova Productions Ltd., based here, has appointed industry veteran Kevin Hayes to spearhead sales of its new PokerKard videogame in the U.S. and Canada.
Based on Texas hold'em poker, the new game will roll out as an amusement-only device for one to four players. The game officially launched this month in London and might make a U.S. appearance in mid-November during the IAAPA Attractions Expo in Orlando, FL.
"I've known the principals of Nova Productions, Peter Robinson and David Jones, for over 20 years and have always admired their creativity and passion for coin-op," Hayes said. "PokerKard is the culmination of their 60-plus years' experience in the business, and is the most exciting product to be introduced for the bar market in years."
Nova Productions has produced several successful coin-op games. In the U.S., the iconic electric chair game is among its best-known products. In Europe, its new Skillball Bingo continues to gain popularity. Describing PokerKard, Robinson and Jones said: "Not since the introduction of the pool table have we seen such a staple entertainment piece of equipment for the operator."
PHOTO: PokerKard accommodates up to four players and includes a single-player game. The touchscreen system in cocktail format makes the new videogame ideal for operations serving taverns.
The new game is offered in a cocktail-table format and completely controlled by a touchscreen interface. "No buttons and joysticks makes this a very cool game," Hayes said. "It's very much for a bar environment and we welcome patrons to put their drinks directly on top of it."
Wins are stored as points alongside the player's identity and a star rating on a card that is unique to each customer. Players have the option to buy a card that can store their names and accumulated points. The star rating designates a player's proficiency. A wireless communications option will be available for the game, allowing updates to download to units and player data to upload to websites.
The ability to create a socially rich amusement experience without a gambling element, the Nova officials said, is the main draw of PokerKard. The game is testing in England with a minimum £1 play price. Players are offered 30 minutes for play, depending on their skill; it is designed to make it easy for novice poker players to learn. Big Tony, a character developed by Nova for its gambling machines, is featured in the game.
Hayes has worked in the coin-op business for more than 30 years, most recently serving as president and chief executive of Namco's operating and manufacturing businesses in the Americas. He is based in California and can be reached by calling (408) 768-5187 or emailing email@example.com.


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By Chris Harris
Lukasz Fabianski is fighting every day to get his first-team place back.
The Polish goalkeeper was installed as Arsenal's No 1 this time last year following an injury to Manuel Almunia but, in January, Fabianski suffered a similar fate and was sidelined for the rest of the season.
Since then Wojciech Szczesny has established himself between the posts and impressed so much that he was voted the Club's Player of the Month for August and September.
Fabianski got the gloves back for Tuesday night's Carling Cup win over Bolton - and made a string of good stops - but he knows he must be patient and wait for his next opportunity.
"Of course, not playing doesn't make me happy. I want to play, that's my goal," said Fabianski. "But sometimes you have to be patient.
"I am just fighting, fighting [for my chance]. If there is an opportunity I want to play as well as I can and help the team. We will see what happens.
"I am just focused on the game and of course it is hard for the keepers, especially for me as I was out for a long time, more than seven months. I am coming back from the injury and for the keepers the most important thing is to play regularly. Then you can build up your confidence.
"I am just trying to take every single opportunity to show that I am deserving my chance."
Fabianski has done his prospects no harm with two solid displays in the Carling Cup and Arsène Wenger reiterated his faith in the Polish international after Tuesday's game. The 26-year-old is likely to be back on the bench at Chelsea on Saturday - but he will be ready for action.
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Another View: Americans support 2nd Amendment with only modest checks
Of course, there is nothing new about politicos standing up for strongly held convictions. And what seems to pass for governing these days is a recitation of talking points that highlight the resolve of some leaders while decrying the potential disasters associated with the other side's point of view. If you need an example, just consider the way in which our national economy is careening towards a fiscal cliff.
But there is hope. While most folks see the fiscal cliff in very abstract terms, there is no such lack of clarity when it comes to guns. For example, Americans do not believe guns or gun culture are the root cause for mass shootings like the one in Connecticut. In a Pew Research Survey following the July cinema shooting in Aurora, Colo., 67 percent of those surveyed believed that mass shootings, "are just the isolated acts of troubled individuals." Fewer than � believed such attacks, "reflect broader problems in American society." For those who seek to argue that there is a broader gun culture responsible for events like the one that took place in Newtown, the American people disagree by a significant degree.
Furthermore, even after events like the Virginia Tech shootings, the attack on Rep. Gabby Giffords, and the mass shootings at Ft. Hood, Texas, Americans remain largely opposed to any broad-based ban on handguns. In a 2011 Gallup Poll, for example, 73 percent of respondents said they would not support the banning of handguns. Second Amendment advocates should take great satisfaction in these results.
Still, Americans are supportive of some restrictions on gun rights. First, survey results reveal support for banning high-capacity ammunition clips. A 2011 ABC News/Washington Post survey found 57 percent favored a ban on high-capacity clips. Thirty-nine percent opposed such a ban. A CNN/ORC poll from August 2012 found a very similar breakdown over the banning of clips. Second, the same CNN poll found 96 percent of those who responded supported a background check for all gun purchases. And in the same poll, a majority supported the ban of assault weapons like the AK-47 and prohibiting gun ownership by convicted felons and those deemed mentally ill.
In short, the American people are sending a nuanced message to policymakers. Most support the Second Amendment and believe that private ownership of firearms should remain largely unrestricted. They believe further that what happened in Newtown is the product of an individual, not a gun culture. But they also believe there are reasonable restrictions that can and should be implemented to restrict who can own a firearm, what sort of weapon they can own, and the amount of ammunition that can be loaded into the weapon.
The preamble to the Constitution of the United States begins with three simple words, "We the people," that suggest that our charter document was an expression of the people's will. When it comes to gun control, the American people have some very modest and reasonable ideas that they will support to make our country safer. This sort of reasonable approach to developing appropriate policy should inform legislators across the country. Unfortunately, so long as Washington and state Legislatures remain locked in their ideological positions, reasonable measures to control guns have little chance of gaining traction.
Wayne F. Lesperance Jr. is a professor of political science and director of the Center for Civic Engagement at New England College in Henniker.


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- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 tablespoons Dijon mustard
- 1 teaspoon herbes de Provence
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 3 baby eggplants or 1 medium eggplant, cut lengthwise into 1/2-inch slices
- 3 small yellow summer squash, cut lengthwise into 1/2-inch slices
- 2 cups fresh sugar snap peas
- In a large resealable plastic bag, combine the first five ingredients; add eggplant, squash and peas. Seal bag and turn to coat; refrigerate for 2 hours, turning once.
- Drain and discard marinade. Place vegetables in a grill basket or disposable foil pan with slits cut in the bottom. Grill, covered, over medium heat for 5-7 minutes or until tender, stirring once. Yield: 4 servings.
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"I really liked this marinade. So many of the vegetable marinades seem to have an Italian dressing (oil and vinegar) base. It was great having the Worcestershire and mustard. Nice zip. Used red & green peppers, red onion, and mushrooms. Will make it again."
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Bees don't build igloos, people do:shock: Traditional igloos were heated w/ whale oil (and to a lesser extent, human generated body heat) and people sure don't stay in igloos for months on end w/out relieving themselves. To suggest so or to include human activity as part of this debate as examples over how to properly house bees lacks credibility IMO :).What is 'natural' for a bee hive? I don't know, but I've seen and heard of them occupying some pretty strange places 'other than' trees. There was a pic floating around here awhile back w/ a colony occupying an empty gas tank. Hows that for preference? Honestly, it seems clear that a lot of this banter serves only to stroke the egos of some presenters and offers little real insight into "bee behavior" or bee preference which is what I'm looking for (guess its why I always get sucked into these discussions :-D)."thomas
ASK the BEESDo your bees want a top vent or entrance?Create a top vent. Cover it a mesh with about 1mm ~ 2mm holes.Then let the bees decide.if they dont want it they will propolise it over. If they do want a top vent/entrance, they will leave it clear.Do your bees want more insulation?Increase the insulation - and ask the same question as above vent or no topvent? if they change their mind about the top vent or start fanning all the time its obviously too warm.My bees even in an insulated hive wanted it closed even at 10c nights
and what bees answered. They did say nothing. They just drew conclusion and vahished. = DCV
insulation and ventilation options. No way! They are not alternatives.
"Bees die for dampness not for cold". The most stupid sentence beekeepers have ever invented.
Beekeepers do not understand either the meaning of warm hive in Spring build up. Spring is long. In our climate it is 3 months when the hive has the brood temperature 36C and food consumption is high. Weather are often so bad that bees cannot come out.
...You are making the assumption the bees are heating the inside of the hive body. Just because you feel the warmth in the hive does not mean they are intentionally heating it. That is anthropomorphising. The bees are balling up and heating that ball. When the USDA says the bees don't heat the inside of the hive, but ball up to conserve that heat in the cluster I don't use choplogic to justify my picture of bees sitting around a wood stove, drinking cowboy coffee and eating cow pies.In fact your argument that the bees decide is ad hominem. ...
there are bees that dont form tight cluster-AHB for example-RDY-B
The mesh floor warm up the bee hive! ....yes and our cows can fly....
Yes, because there are big swings in temperature between day and night in the early spring. The SBB allows warm outside air to come quickly into the hive and gets the bees flying early in the day.
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i the air stapler is too powerful for the aluminum so i am using a hand stapler. that works well.how do you guys do the corners?


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Professional Title: Professor of Expressive Therapies, PhD Program; Dance/Movement Therapy Instructor
Areas of Academic Focus and Expertise: Dance/Movement Therapy, specifically and Creative Arts Therapies generally. Research interests include: consolidating and expanding the evidence-base for dance/movement therapy and the creative arts therapies; understanding the relationship between verbal and nonverbal communication behaviors in the patient-provider relationship; enhancing diagnostic specificity using movement assessments; movement disorders; gesture.
Area of Work and Concentration at Lesley: PhD Program in Expressive Therapies, Dance/Movement Therapy. Work concentration includes focus on doctoral curriculum development for the creative arts therapies; technology as a core dissemination strategy in teaching; effective teaching of research methods and statistics for doctoral students; using research and leadership to advocate for the arts therapies locally, nationally, and internationally as viable healthcare professions that bring humanity to caring for those in need.
Representative List of Recent Courses Taught: GEXTP 8101 Critical Inquiry; GEXTP 8103 Research I; GEXTP 8104 Research II; GEXTP 8105 Literature Review; GEXTP 8107 Dissertation Credits
Education: BA, George Peabody College of Vanderbilt University; MA, New York University; PhD, Educational Psychology, University of Arizona; BC-DMT, NCC, LPC
Representative List of Recent Publications / Exhibitions: Presentations"Abnormal Involuntary Movements and Psychodiagnosis." American Dance Therapy Association Conference, November 2014.PublicationsCruz, M., Cruz, R.F., & Pincus, H.A. (2015) Patients' Perspective on the Value of Medication Management Appointments. Healthcare, 3, 284-295.Cruz, R. F. & Koch, S. (2015) Reading and evaluating quantitative research in body psychotherapy. International Body Psychotherapy Journal: The Art and Science of Somatic Praxis, 14(1), 10-19.Koch, S., Kunz, T., Lykou, S., & Cruz, R. F. (2014). Effects of Dance Movement Therapy and Dance on Health-Related Psychological Outcomes: A Meta-Analysis. The Arts in Psychotherapy, 41 (1), 46-64.Cruz, R. F. & Feder, B. (2013). Feders' the art and science of evaluation in the arts therapies 2nd ed. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas.
Cruz, R. F. & Berrol, C. F. (Eds.) (2012). Dance/movement therapists in action: A working guide to research options 2nd ed. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas.
Cruz, M., Roter, D. Cruz, R. F., Weiland, M., Cooper, L., Larsen, S., Reynolds, C., Pincus, H.A. (2011). Psychiatrist-patient verbal and nonverbal communications during split-treatment appointments. Psychiatric Services, 62 (11), 1361-1368.
Cruz, M., Roter, D., Cruz, R. F., Weiland, M., Cooper, L., Larsen, S., Reynolds, C., Pincus, H.A. (in press). Association between appointment length and psychiatrist communication behaviors to medication management appointment adherence. Psychiatric Services.
Cruz, R.F. (2009). Validity of the movement psychodiagnostic inventory: A pilot study. American Journal of Dance Therapy, 31(2), 122-135.
Lausberg, H., Zaidel, E., Cruz, R.F., & Pitto, A. (2007). Speech-independent production of communicative gestures: Evidence from patients with complete callosal disconnection. Neuropspychologia, 45, 3092-104.
Dr. Cruz's clinical work has spanned populations such as adults with serious and persistent mental illnesses and children and adolescents with trauma and substance abuse issues. Her doctoral degree is in Educational Psychology with a specialization in Measurement and Methodology. She has worked as a research methodologist and research consultant, taught doctoral students since 1995, and has taught graduate courses in dance therapy, research methods, and statistics to students from many disciplines in the US, Europe, and South America.
Her courses reflect her interests in creative arts therapies research that uses the broad range of available methods and particularly, incorporating research thinking and resources into creative arts therapies clinical practices. Her teaching philosophy and practice are grounded in a professional collaboration model that reflects skills honed by teaching statistics to doctoral students from many disciplines at the University of Arizona. She uses a model based on the fact that students learn least from an instructor's oral recitation of information and most from engaging the subject matter themselves.
Dr. Cruz believes that policy and leadership go hand-in-hand for creative arts therapies and are important for the continued development and viability of these professions. She has devoted years of service to both the University and to the Creative Arts Therapies community at large. She serves as Co-Chair for the Lesley University Institutional Review Board, and was featured in the Lesley University 2012 Annual Report.
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The second ship in the Spirit-class, Carnival Pride entered service in 2001 and is on track for a major refurbishment in 2013 when she will receive Carnival's "Fun Ship 2.0" upgrades with new casual dining options, poolside bars, and more features. From
her year-round northeastern home port in Baltimore, one of Carnival Cruise Lines' "racehorses" Carnival Pride sets sail weekly for voyages to the Bahamas and Eastern Caribbean.
Spirit-class vessels may seem to be a throwback in size, but these sleek ships have the advantage of fitting through the Panama Canal and, with their additional length, include all the trademark characteristics of their larger fleet mates. They're also racehorses with the speed to reach far-flung destinations. Carnival Spirit—for which the class is named—makes its home port in Australia, primarily serving the Australian and New Zealand markets.
A rosy red skylight in the front bulkhead of the funnel—which houses the reservations-only upscale steak house—caps a soaring, 11-deck atrium. Lovely chapels are available for weddings, either upon embarkation or while in a port of call, and are also used for occasional shipboard religious services.
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The world's largest cruise line originated the Fun Ship concept in 1972 with the relaunch of an aging ocean liner, which got stuck on a sandbar during its maiden voyage. In true entrepreneurial spirit, founder Ted Arison shrugged off an inauspicious beginning to introduce superliners a decade later. Sporting red-white-and-blue flared funnels, which are easily recognized from afar, new ships are continuously added to the fleet and rarely deviate from a successful pattern. If you find something you like on one vessel, you're likely to find something similar on another.
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Clare Lindahl has been executive director of Conservation Districts of Iowa since October 2012. Prior to this position, she was with the Scott County Soil and Water Conservation District in Davenport, Iowa, where she implemented soil and water conservation on agricultural and urban lands. Lindahl graduated from Iowa State University with a bachelor's degree in landscape architecture and has earned a post-baccalaureate certificate in environmental geographic information systems from Western Illinois University.
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To Fox News' John Stossel, gender inequality and sexism simply no longer exist. In an appearance on Fox News' America Live yesterday, Stossel railed against Title IX, the 1972 legislation that mandated that schools and colleges getting federal funds provide the same opportunities for girls as boys. Stossel dismissed Title IX as legislation by "bully lawyers" whose "conceit and error" resulted in their believing that "just as many girls want to play sports as boys." He also stated that Title IX no longer is needed because, well, according to him, we live in a post-sexist world.
After host Megyn Kelly argued that, sometimes, "you need Uncle Sam to come in and say, hey, be fair to the little girls," Stossel summed up his attack on Title IX this way:
STOSSEL: No. No, the school's trying to attract customers. If the customers want this, and more girls do want to play sports, it will happen. But the conceit and the error of the Title IX lawyers is that the demand is equal -- that just as many girls want to play sports as boys. And I don't think that's true.
But the rapid growth of girls participating in sports since Title IX's passage completely undermines Stossel's argument.
According to The New York Times, when Congress passed Title IX in 1972, roughly 1 in 27 girls, or 4 percent, participated in sports. Just six years later, that number had exploded to 25 percent. Today, roughly 1 in 3 girls plays a sport. This increased participation rate is "proof," according to the National Women's Law Center, "that interest often reflects opportunity."
But nearly 40 years later, the opportunity gap has not closed. In an article examining Title IX compliance at Florida high schools, the Women's Sports Foundation stated: "There is no evidence suggesting girls are inherently less interested in sports than boys. We do know that at an early age (6 to 9 years old), they are equally as interested. However, participation opportunities decline sharply as girls get older." Highlands Today further reported:
After his daughter quit softball before her senior year, [Athletic Director Mort Jackson] asked why. After all, his son had been highly competitive. They were raised by the same parents and attended the same schools.
Why did she respond differently? Her granny had wanted her to play, she told Jackson, but in her last year of high school, she wanted to direct her energy to what was more important to her.
Boys have different role models, Jackson reasoned. Boys might emulate Tim Tebow; girls might choose Miss Florida.
Besides, Rivers reasoned, Title IX requires the percentage of Lake Placid's male and female athletes to match enrollment within 5 percent.
The number of Sebring coaches is comparable for males and females, Quarles pointed out.
"The only inequity here is in the facilities," Rivers admitted frankly. "We have a much nicer baseball stadium than a softball stadium. But baseball has been around longer, and it's greater attended."
Just last month, National Women's Law Center officials filed administrative complaints against 12 schools in districts nationwide after finding that girls in those school districts don't have the same opportunity as boys to play high school sports. The complaint was part of the center's campaign to illustrate "the widespread inequality that daughters face in school sports programs." Center officials warned that the those 12 programs "are the tip of the iceberg." As co-president Marcia Greenberger explained: "Nationwide, only 41 percent of all high school athletes are girls, even though they make up half the student population. That means schools are giving girls 1.3 million fewer opportunities than boys to play sports nationwide. It's past time to rally for girls in high school sports."
Real issues of inequality abound, and if it weren't for Title IX, it's dubious we would have as many girls' soccer, softball, or volleyball players. If it weren't for Title IX, some girls' teams would be forced to play their sport out of season because of limited facilities, or wait and practice after the boys. Or if they do have space, it's the kind that no one wants to use. If it weren't for Title IX, a greater number of women would have skipped college, be unemployed, or obese.
It's not really surprising, however, that Stossel has come out against giving women a fair shot; he previously attacked the Americans with Disabilities Act, expressing outrage over "extra-wide bathroom stalls that reduce the overall number of toilets." And he has also called for repealing the public accommodations section of the Civil Rights Act.
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Hi there ive been playing cabal online for awhile now and it seem there is alot they can improve on so here is a list of things that they should fix but never will i fear >.<
1. the drop rate on the game is horrable did 100 eod runs back to back one week wearing all luck items and didnt get anything worth my time
2. they dont sell Seh , Uchighest, in cash shop it like cabal doesnt want their player to get strong enough to go have a good time in the 125+ dungeions.
3. u never have a decent ammout of alz in the game because ur spending it on uch and uchiest with a very very low chance of sucess spend 36m alz or more to get a peice of equip to +6 and fail it at +7 and poof its+0 and ur broke again and have to farm for another week just to fail again and again and again
thus u never get any better equip and ur broke all of the time the cabals endless alz sucking hole..
4. there is a way to make decent alz but... ull love this one u have to fight high lv bosses that drop them witch is all fine i can solo some myself but the spawn time of 1 boss every 4 hours and the countless ammount of channel hoppers hunting them ull most likely never fight one and if u do ur also fighting 7-8 different ppl for the kill ...... cmon og planet really have u ever made a game b4 .... never met a game company as selfish as thisone.
5. and last but not least est softs failed attempt to make a game is that if u havent wasted enough time farming items that will never drop or hunting bosses that are never there, or fail enough upgrades to make you vomit ..then youll enjoy the countless glitches and game crashes this game has to offer .....
so yea the game would be a great game if they didnt have these issues
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Drum roll… SOHOSoho Galaxy shopping mall. Chaoyangmen, Beijing. Designed by Zara Hadid. Images by myself
Considering the number of SOHO's that have been built in the 6 years that I've been living in Beijing, SOHO Galaxy would seem a fitting name for the whole group of them. But no this is just one of the twoshopping centers currently under construction in Beijing designed by Zaha ( + one more in Shanghai). There more Beijing SOHO's than you can count with your fingers (SOHO New Town, Jianwai SOHO, SOHO Shangdu, Chaowai SOHO, Guanghualu SOHO, Guanghualu SOHO II, Beijing SOHO Residences, ZhongGuanCun SOHO, Sanlitun SOHO, Qianmen Avenue, Chaoyangmen SOHO I, Chaoyangmen SOHO II, and Galaxy SOHO)
Headed by the billionaire outfit developing couple described by The Times of London as 'China's most visible and flamboyant property tycoons', 'SOHO China Limited' have claimed the old London district's name as their brand. A name not derived from King Henry 8th's hunting cry on London's celluloid and sex driven quarter, disappointingly, but instead the conveniently rounded and plump acronym Small Office/Home Office. Or as what's defined in London planning regulations as Work/live space.
A quick waltz around Beijing on a freezing winter day last week took me to 5 SOHO's nearby my home. The older SOHO's (and by old I mean 3 or more years old) were desperately populated, high tech looking buildings filled with the type of shops, had they been located elsewhere other than SOHO shopping mall, that have the more traditional Chinese work/live arrangement that involves a bed behind the counter. Generally the hot lower level locations were run as cheap lunchtime staple-food joints, presumably for those working in the CBD but trying to save for that overinflated dowry apartment (on how china property soaring prices, price bachelors out of the marriage market) in the upper levels of SOHO, or not being able to afford the type of lunch their CBD job suggests.
The newly completed ones (Sanlitun SOHO being a prime, well known example) were empty colossuses with a few brand shops in the road side entrances and a scattering islanded coffee shops. An entire atrium devoid of slogans, logo's or any of the trimmings of the commercial shopping experience clanged and bounced along instead to the sounds of the only commercial enterprise there, an ammusment arcade on the ground floor. The grandness of the struture laying in emptyness and begining a life of disused decay led me draw comparisions to the english seaside Pier. An ambitious and once grand gesture now stuck in Limbo between enevitable decay and ruin and the unimaginably high costs of demolition vs rehabilitation. Dufully I headed into the arcade and exchaged my pictures of mao for local coin. Me and my companion were the only ones in there as we started on a game as a gun slinging cop duo accending a high rise shopping/office development in a lift which would occasionally open for us to be swamped with mutants, zombies and other creatures you would typically expect to find in a vibrant high rise shopping development. But the arcade machine had taken it to the next stage. It's gimic, an actual pair of elevator doors between us and the screen. The games generic architecture and rendering mirrored the lifelessness of the mall which housed it. By adding the real elevator doors the developers of the game had bought the player a step closer to reality, a step to address reality that the SOHO developers have overlooked.
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SOHO Galaxy CGI flythrough
Here are some more picures I've taken of the SOHO galaxy development
My days tour finished at SOHO Galaxy, the latest installment led by Zaha Hadid's architecture office. This building being more iconic that the previous SOHO developments and obviously aimed at the very highest tier of small office/home office purchasers. Where most other SOHO's have failed, for there guestures of modernity and high tech becoming to readily rendered cheap with a crass flambouyance and lack of inteligent design, this one atempts to ammend. Zaha Hadid who's name and design has been cashed in on by more than a few provincial party leaders should attract the hip and rich which seems to be the market which most appeals to the SOHO couple Zhang and Pan. The SOHO developments I more readily view as an entrance of the billionaire couple onto a scene of their own fantasy. This one may work out and like the similar Sanlitun village development be a hub of shopping in Beijing.
For more on Zhang Xin one half of the SOHO couple see Beijing Billionaire Who Grew Up With Mao Sees No Housing Bubble
And the other half PanShiYi on his Weibo account here
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I've been reading up and I keep seeing that it is good to let them mouth your hands but giving an "ouch" now and then to teach to be gentle. In the same article it says never to let them mouth your cloths.
What I've been doing.
I've been doing this but it was unclear what to do when the go for the cloths. I've been holding the snout and telling him to sit. It seems to work but I want to know if this is to aggressive. I don't squeeze or yell I just hold his snout shut and make him sit.
I have also been keeping a chew toy with me to give him when he tries to chew on things he shouldn't.
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I NEVER let my pups mouth on me. At all. If they do happen to get their mouth on me for any reason, I'll redirect them to something appropriate (like a toy) and change my management to keep it from happening again. I don't hold the snout because I've seen many puppies that take it as a game. Think of it like rough-housing. We mean it to be negative, but the puppy could see it as a fun response to their initiated rough-housing.
I personally don't want my dogs to ever think it is ok to put their mouths on people. While a soft-mouthed GSD probably won't do anything to an adult's skin, a GSD who thinks it is ok to soft-mouth people can still run into trouble if they do that to young children or elderly people as they have more fragile skin. And breaking skin is breaking skin no matter who it happens on.
I may have stricter standards because I tend to work therapy where it is essential that the dogs do not mouth at all, but I feel like making mouthing on people in general an off limits behavior will save you any potential future trouble. Especially with all the concern about dog bites these days.
I think you are doing fine with your pup. My girl was more excited when I yelped so telling her to sit or give paw worked better. She only chased clothes between 4 - 5 months. I personally don't want a dog who has no concept of controlling it's jaw pressure when biting. Even good dogs who would never bite a soul can become injured and bite accidentally. A dog who hasn't been allowed to learn bite inhibition has no concept of pressure and can react with a level 5 bite rather than a 1 or 2.
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The bite inhibition seems to work. He now mouths very light with me and the kids. I've also noticed when the kids give him treats he takes them very gently.
Still trying to keep him off the wife's slippers though.
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Ice Sheets and Sea Level Rise: Model Failure is the Key Issue
Guest post by Michael Oppenheimer, Princeton University
A plethora of research articles has appeared over the past year reporting new observations of the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets along with associated modeling results. RealClimate has reviewed the issues raised by these articles and attempted to clarify the sometimes conflicting inferences about the current mass balance of the ice sheets, as well as their future contributions to global mean sea level rise (see here and here).
Nevertheless, the issue still seems to perplex many journalists and others because there are two entirely distinct aspects of the sea level rise problem that are emphasized, depending on which scientists are speaking. On the one hand, these ices sheets are large enough to ultimately raise sea level by 7m and about 5m, for Greenland and West Antarctica, respectively. On the other, the recent observations that caused such a stir report a current contribution to the rate of sea level rise not exceeding ~1mm/yr from both ice sheets taken together. If this rate were maintained, the ice sheets would make a measurable but minor contribution to the global sea level rise from other sources, which has been 1-2mm/yr averaged over the past century and 3mm/yr for 1993-2003, and is projected to average 1-9mm/yr for the coming century (see IPCC Third Assessment Report).
The key question is whether the ice sheet contribution could accelerate substantially (e.g., by an order of magnitude) either in this century or subsequently. Sea levels were indeed much higher in the distant, warmer past but the timing of earlier sea level rise is very uncertain. From the point of view of societal and ecosystem adaptation, the timescale over which ice sheets might disintegrate, which may be on the order of centuries or millennia according to the two extremes posited in the literature, is crucial.
The complexity of bridging the gap between past and future trends is familiar to the climate community, which has dealt with the same issues with regard to global mean temperature. Ice sheets aside, continuation of past warming trends based on the roughly 100-year temperature record (0.05-0.1ºC/decade) would pose a significant but manageable problem for most countries. Projected future warming (0.15-0.55ºC/decade) based on increasingly reliable general circulation models, poses much more serious, even unmanageable challenges. But the state of ice sheet modeling is far different from the state of atmosphere-ocean modeling, as underscored by the recent observations. At this juncture, numerical modeling simply does not provide a credible basis for quantitative projection of ice sheet behavior in a warmer world.
The limitations of ice sheet models were revealed starkly by the collapse of the northern sections of the Larson B ice shelf in 1998 and 2002. Glaciers bounded by the landward edge of the ice shelf accelerated toward the sea while glaciers bounded by the more southerly section of the ice shelf, which remained intact, didn't. Apparently, backpressure on glaciers from the abutting ice shelf provides a significant portion of the restraining forces keeping land-based ice in place, at least in some instances. The recent behavior of glaciers farther south in West Antarctica, and in Greenland, points to a similar dynamical response to ice-shelf fragmentation.
Many glaciologists regarded these observations as a clear test of the ability of ice sheet models to forecast dynamical changes in a warming ice sheet, a test the models failed. The long-standing inability of ice sheet models to reproduce the ice streams of West Antarctica, unexplained dynamical contributions to the mass balance of the Greenland ice sheet during the late 1990s and its apparent basal response in one location to surface melt-water reinforced this skepticism. The problem is threefold: the physics in the models is incomplete, the numerical problems are very difficult particularly in the neighborhood of the grounding lines where the land-based ice begins to float (Vieli and Payne, 2005), and observations remain sparse. It may take more than a decade, perhaps much longer, to bridge the gap in the model world because human and financial resources dedicated to the ice sheet problem are woefully inadequate (see Kintisch, 2006: Science 312, 1296, for a discussion of problems with the planned National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS), a proposed platform for crucial future ice-sheet observations).
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County health urges people to get flu vaccine
Custer County still has just one confirmed case of influenza right now, but there may be other cases out there.
And according to a local public health official, as of this morning the state has seen enough influenza across Montana that they will now consider the rapid influenza test as confirmatory, so the number of reported cases should start increasing.
Cindia Miller, public health emergency preparedness coordinator for Custer County Public Health, said the vaccine takes about two weeks to develop a full immune response, so reminding people who haven't yet been vaccinated is very important right now.
This is actually National Influenza Vaccination Week.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, influenza typically does not peak until January, so it's not too late to be vaccinated.
"Please encourage all to get their influenza vaccine, as we have had one case of laboratory-confirmed influenza here locally," Miller said.
County health encourages everyone over the ages of six months to be vaccinated.
As of Nov. 30, the latest state mapping period, there were 15 confirmed cases of flu in seven counties.
Custer County was not among those but has since reported one case. Not everyone who has influenza seeks medical care or testing, and providers may not opt to test all patients, so the number of actual cases is hard to pinpoint.
"The sensitivity of influenza testing begins declining 48-72 hours after onset of symptoms, and so providers don't always test based on how long the person has been ill," Miller said. "They may go ahead and prescribe antivirals for suspected illness if appropriate for that patient."
According to the Nov. 30 map from the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, Gallatin County had the highest number of confirmed flu cases, with between 31 and 40. Lincoln, Flathead, Missoula, Deer Lodge, Park and Yellowstone counties all had between 1 and 10 confirmed cases. At that time, there had been two influenza-associated hospitalizations, and no reported deaths.
Miller said people interested in getting flu vaccine should call their usual provider and verify that they have stock on hand.
"If Custer County Public Health is your provider of immunizations, we do have stock on hand," she said. "Just give us a call and we can get you a time to come in."
Not all flu shot providers vaccinate younger children, so call ahead to see what their guidelines are.
The vaccine being administered actually includes strains of three viruses, in an effort to guard against different strains of the flu. Some providers also have quadrivalent vaccine, which covers four strains, Miller said.


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Phillies, Mariners, Reds interested in Padres' Ludwick
Outfielder Ryan Ludwick couldn't help the Padres reach the playoffs after San Diego acquired him from St. Louis last July.
But that won't prevent Ludwick from being moved again this year.
Sources say the Phillies, Mariners and Reds are among the teams that have already inquired about Ludwick's availability. And the Padres are signaling that they are willing to move Ludwick, the 32-year-old who is eligible for free agency at season's end.
San Diego appears to be one of the few certain sellers, with roughly 40 days to go before the July 31 non-waiver trade deadline. If parity around the game causes the overall supply of available players to be short, this could become a busy trading season for Padres general manager Jed Hoyer.
Ludwick is hitting .255 this year and leads the Padres with nine home runs and 45 RBI. Entering Tuesday, he had a .763 OPS since the beginning of May despite playing his home games at spacious Petco Park. Ludwick's power numbers could spike in the second half if he's dealt to a team that plays in a more hitter-friendly ballpark.
As of Tuesday, the Cardinals had yet to contact the Padres about the possibility of reacquiring Ludwick. But that could change if St. Louis struggles to score without superstar Albert Pujols, who is expected to miss at least the next month with a broken bone in his left forearm. (The Cardinals lost to the Phillies, 10-2, in their first full game without Pujols on Tuesday night.)
Still, Hoyer is probably going to receive more phone calls about pitching than hitting over the next month. Sources say a number of contenders have already contacted the Padres about their relievers. Now team officials must decide how many pitchers they are willing to move without diminishing their chances to win in 2012 and beyond.
One of the likeliest scenarios would involve the Padres trading two relievers – closer Heath Bell and veteran setup man Chad Qualls – while keeping the more affordable Mike Adams and Luke Gregerson.
Bell is the Padres' highest-paid player ($7.5 million this year), and he's eligible for free agency after the season. The Padres and Bell haven't had serious discussions about a contract extension, a source said, which makes it a virtual certainty that he will be dealt before July 31, provided he remains healthy.
The Phillies and Cardinals are among the teams that have checked in on Bell and Qualls, sources say. Rival clubs are expected to make a serious push to acquire Adams, who has a 1.35 ERA in 33 appearances, because he's not eligible to become a free agent until after next year. But the Padres are inclined to keep him, for the very same reason.
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Kim Kardashian and boyfriend Kanye West caused a bit of a ruckus at John F. Kennedy airport this week after the couple failed to go through security prior to boarding a flight.
The mom-to-be and her beau were attempting to board a connecting flight to Los Angeles (after arriving in New York from their weekend trip to Brazil) when the couple cleared customs, but completely bypassed security with the help of an American Airlines employee, according to E! News.
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"This was a lapse in judgment by one of our employees. We're working closely with the Transportation Security Administration and speaking to the individuals involved to better understand what happened," American Airlines told the website in a statement on Wednesday.
"The flight in question departed JFK an hour late," the statement continued. "It was delayed in part because of this issue and in part because a number of connecting bags were late arriving to the aircraft."
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The TSA reportedly said that an airline employee escorted a pair of "celebrity passengers" through a "non-public area in order to provide expedited access to their domestic flight."
Kim's rep had no comment regarding the incident when contacted by E!.
As previously reported on AccessHollywood.com, Kim and Kanye skipped the Grammys last weekend opting instead for a trip to Rio de Janeiro, where the couple was spotted kissing on their hotel balcony and mimicking the pose of the city's famed Christ the Redeemer statue.
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So with yesterday being MLK Day I had it off. I was talking to my dad about MLK and all the things that took place in the fight for equality. He was alive during all of it and (dating myself) I was not. So he was a great source of information regarding the topic.
So in thinking about all of this and how we shower people like MLK, and Rosa Parks with adoration for standing up against society norms and prejudices.
Why did MLK "Need" to organize a million man march? Why did he "Need" to give speeches and sermons pressing for equality? Why did Rosa Parks "Need" to stay in her seat as opposed to giving it to a white man? Why did they "Need" to do anything?
Truth is they didn't. They didn't "Need" to fight for civil rights... They wanted to. But nobody sees it that way nowadays. Nobody thinks the Civil Rights movement wasn't "Needed". Nobody questions why they felt they "Needed" to do anything to challenge the oppression of people of different color as the answer is pretty obvious and self explanatory.
So after a wave of pride of being American swept over me (this happens often) I thought of how grand it was to live in a nation where one doesn't have to rationalize their desire to exercise their human rights as a "Need" in order for the government to recognize and respect it and society to do the same.
Then my thought was interupted by a man on the T.V. asking, "Why does a normal citizen need 30 round magazines or an assault type weapon?"
A smirk came over my face because of how soon people forget and tend to choose which rights are considered a "Need". The same people who would tote how someone who stood up for his rights 50 years ago is a great man, but would look at others standing up for their rights now as crazy right wing extremists... Makes you think...


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Maybe you can assist me.
This could be considered a rant, but I'm very passionate about it.
I will, in February be studying for a CELTA qualification. Once I pass I'll be going to China.
Being an Englishman, a native of the home to the English language, England; I really want to teach English and not the altered secondary form of the language, American.
What happens in a case where for example I'm teaching colours and all the text books are incorrectly spelt colors?
Even worse what if the students tell me "You haven't spelt it right"?
How do I explain that a book isn't an English book, but an American book, when it uses of z instead of s, and a bike tyre has nothing to do with being tired?
Before applying for a job, should I tell the school that I would be teaching English?
It seems crazy that I'd have to tell them that.
I would feel as though my home country, culture and use of the English language would be disrespected if I were forced to teach a language other than English in my English classes.
English is English, not British English or any other kind of English. I'm English, I speak English not British English and I live in England. The clue is in the name.
I strongly feel that if people are to teach English, it should just be that. English should be first and foremost; Anything else should be acknowledged and taught as a variety of English and not by deception as English.
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An Arsenal supporters' club based in China has donated funds and goods to local children after being inspired by the Club's Save the Children project.
In June, the Club, through the Arsenal Foundation, made a donation of £300,000 to its official global charity partner over three years, helping to dramatically improve the quality of education of disadvantaged children aged six to 15 in some of Beijing's most under-resourced schools.
Together, Arsenal and Save the Children pledged to work to train 200 teachers and 20 headteachers so that they have the necessary skills to plan and deliver improved and age-appropriate lessons for students in China's curriculum.
While on tour in China in July, Abou Diaby and Johan Djourou visited the project and delivered a collection of stories of childhood from Arsenal players, staff and supporters in China to inspire children to be the best they can.
After the Club's visit, Arsenal Baidu Supporters' Club (ABSC) set up a local charity project in Guilin, Guangxi province and donated funds and goods for children with poor education and living conditions.
By September more than £3,500 had been raised, and Guangdong Arsenal Supporters' Club helped purchase goods such as books, stationery, clothes, footballs and other equipment.
On September 8, the leader of ABSC and eight fans from Guangdong Arsenal supporter club carried the goods to the school, and received a warm welcome.Copyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


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