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LISTEN: Mariah Carey drops her new single 'You're Mine (Eternal)'
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Mariah Carey doesn't shy away from syrupy pop, and on her new single "You're Mine (Eternal)," the diva goes beyond what we've come to expect from her.
The track, producer by Rodney Jerkins, is hypnotic, dripping with "We Belong Together" greatness. It's the perfectly crafted Valentine's Day treat — yes, those candy hearts are favorites, too. Her upcoming album The Art Of Letting Go is expected May 6, after a series of setbacks last year.
"I can't seem to live without your love," she coos. "Suffocating here by myself, dying for your touch."
Check it out below!
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i watched in the mouth of madness the other day... quite by coincidence, i never knew you'd recommended it
it was... meh.. pretty standard 80s horror, lots of make up, high and low, shrill synth music, anamatronic evils.. it was a bit cheesy tbh, but not a bad film all in all but i don't think i'd dish it out as a recommendation
jeepers creepers though.. that's a shocker! i didn't really like the mothman prophecies much either
i am going to go out on a limb and recommend a film i've not seen yet. i'm going to the pictures to watch it on thursday... it looks excellent lol


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Last year I replaced my cellphone with an Apple iPhone, a smartphone that allows me to check my e-mail and go online. Tasks that once had to wait until I got home from work can now be handled on the fly. I don't have to leave the job site to exchange e-mail with clients, look up material specs, or order tools and supplies online.
Another great thing about this phone is that it can use apps. "App" is short for "application," a small program designed to perform a specific function on a smartphone. Most apps are inexpensive and many are free.
Apps that work on the iPhone's operating system can be downloaded from Apple's App Store. Similar apps are available for phones that use other systems — Android,
Windows Mobile, Blackberry, and the like. I'm going to talk here about the iPhone apps that have been most useful to me in my trim carpentry business.
One of the first apps I bought was BuildCalc (www.buildcalc.com), a construction calculator that can compute rafter cuts, stair layout, compound crown cuts, and just about anything else done with geometry or trigonometry.
Although made by a different company, BuildCalc is very much like a Construction Master calculator. It has a similar key layout and more or less the same functions. The biggest difference is the interface: Instead of punching actual keys, you hit virtual keys on the touch-screen display. Because BuildCalc is on my phone and my phone is always with me, I now have a calculator wherever I go. (If I forget to charge the phone, though, I'll be without a calculator — so I continue to carry my old construction calculator as a backup.)
BuildCalc has a terrific built-in help feature, a short on-screen manual that makes it easy to perform new functions. The help menu contains a series of slides that walk you through calculations.
Unlike a conventional calculator, BuildCalc — being software — is easily updated. During the months I've been using it, the app has been improved a number of times, and the maker has provided free online upgrades. BuildCalc is available only for the iPhone, but versions compatible with other brands of phones are supposedly in the works. BuildCalc sells for $20.
Calculated Industries (calculated.com) recently introduced Construction Master apps for the iPhone and phones that use Microsoft Mobile OS. I bought the iPhone version and have been trying it out. I haven't used it long enough to offer an opinion, but it too has an on-screen manual and the functionality appears to be identical to that of the Construction Master. It costs $15.
My Measures (sis.si) is a simple app that allows you to take photos with your phone and then label them with measurements you made. The resulting digital images contain more detail than sketches and can be saved or e-mailed from the phone.
I use this app to catalog the measurements for drawings I plan to make at home on the computer. If a question comes up on site, I can send an annotated photo to the customer, architect, or GC — and he or she will be able to see just what I'm looking at.
My Measures costs $4.
TimeCapture (www.norfello.com) helps you track your work hours. Its timer and customizable data fields allow you to assign time to specific customers, projects, and tasks. If you apply a billing rate, the entry will include both the time and the cost of the work. Different rates can be used for different activities. Time data can be exported as a spreadsheet and turned into an invoice or imported into QuickBooks.
I use TimeCapture as a time sheet on T&M jobs or when I want to compare my estimate with the actual hours worked. The app runs in the background and doesn't affect the phone's other functions. About the only thing you can do wrong with it is forget to clock out at the end of the day.
Although there are other time-keeping apps on the market, this is the only one I know of that lets you attach photos and notes to the records. I find that this information can come in handy on future estimates or when you want to show the customer exactly what you did. When I bought the app it sold for $10; it now sells for $2. At either price it's money well spent.
The iPhone contains a GPS device, and for $10 per month AT&T will provide audible turn-by-turn directions to your destination. It's like using one of those GPS units you find in a rental car. I chose not to pay for this service; instead, I rely on the free Google Maps app that comes with the phone. It works much like the Google Maps page on the Web, except it uses the phone's GPS to visually track your location on the map. This app saves me the trouble of printing out maps and makes my life a lot easier when I have somewhere new to go.
The RedLaser app (www.occipital.com) turns your iPhone into a bar-code scanner that searches the Web for pricing. To use it, you aim the phone's camera at a bar code and wait for vendors and prices (from Google Product Search) to appear on the screen. I recently used RedLaser at the lumberyard to get a better deal on a siding nailer. An online vendor was selling the tool for $100 less than the lumberyard. When I showed this to the salesperson, he matched the online price. Not a bad return on an app that costs $2.
Jesse Wright is a finish carpenter for Architectural Molding in Pleasant Hill, Calif.


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AUGUSTA, Ga. - Sergio Garcia needs to channel his inner teenager, the one who famously skipped down the fairway at Medinah Country Club all those years ago, in order to win the Masters.
Sadly, he won't let himself get that geeked up over a golf tournament anymore.
At 33, Garcia is so far removed from that joyous place of unbridled enthusiasm and never-ending smiles he seems like a different person.
He's older and wiser and more serious and even a bit defensive when talking about Augusta National. He just hasn't played well here. He and Augusta aren't exactly BFF's. Augusta hasn't treated him well, and he has no problem admitting this isn't his favorite place.
Last year, he admitted he couldn't win here.
And there's that dubious distinction he's still never won a major. Anywhere.
Garcia is a surprising Masters co-leader after firing an impressive first-round 6-under 66 - tied for his career best here - on Thursday. He had six birdies and no bogeys for the first time around here in 11 years.
He was asked about his lower expectations and responded: "Lower expectation, maybe that's what you say. Every time I tee off in a tournament, my goal is to play the best I can and have a chance at winning.
"It doesn't change this week."
The last time Garcia shot 66 was in the final round in 2004, but he wasn't in contention then.
He's in contention now and will be battling the demons that have plagued him in his 15 appearances here. Garcia has just two top-10 finishes (fourth place in 2004 was his best) and has missed the cut four times.
Would the old Garcia, who finished second to Tiger Woods at the PGA Championship at Medinah in 1999, please stand up?
"I'm not saying I wasn't realistic when I was 19," Garcia said. "But obviously as you get older, you mature a little bit more.
"I'm sure it happened to you, too."
After Garcia was done with his news conference, he ran into Dustin Johnson and the two friends shared a laugh. It was like looking in a mirror, except for the height differential.
Both are sponsored by Taylor Made, and both were wearing the same green shirts and black pants. Their outfits are pre-scripted by the company. If we could pre-script Garcia's game plan for the next three rounds, they would include hopping and air kicks, no matter the results.
Johnson remembers those circumstances.
"One of the shots I remember is maybe the PGA where he hit from behind the tree," Johnson said. "That's one that sticks out in my head."
Garcia pulled off a great shot, and couldn't hide his pleasure in doing so. That's everyone's early memory of Garcia, and then there are his surly comments and attitude over the year that got worse when he became known as the best player to never win a major.
Last year, he shockingly told Spanish reporters at the Masters: "I'm not good enough ... I don't have the thing I need to have. In 13 years, I've come to the conclusion that I need to play for second or third place."
Those words haunt him now, especially from where his name is perched atop the leaderboard.
"Those were my words," Garcia said. "But no, I think that at the end of the day, we go through those moments, tough moments and frustrated moments and I know that was one of them.
"I obviously didn't say it the right way because it was one of those frustrating moments."
He said it in his native tongue. It was honest. That's how he felt. He'd been beaten up here so many times, it's just tough he said it out loud for the world to hear. Now, in his own words, he's played some of his best golf here ever and must convince himself he has the stuff to play three more rounds in similar fashion.
"What I'm going to try to take to the pillow (at night) is the first 10 holes," Garcia said. "I think it's, without a doubt, the best 10 holes I've played at the Masters.
"Even though scoring-wise maybe it wasn't, but the way I hit the ball and amount of birdie chances I gave myself, it meant a lot."
And now, he must eat those words and pretend he had his fingers crossed behind his back.
He has to remember he can play for first. The kid in him never would doubt that.
We still remember that lovable Garcia, but he has long forgotten.
Maybe when he's thinking about those 10 holes in his dreams, he'll remember that joy he had for the game.
It would serve him well at the Masters.


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Is Kelly Rowland engaged?
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(Yahoo!) - Kelly Rowland might have some explaining to do!
The "X Factor" judge debuted a gorgeous ring on her that finger in a recent Instagram video, leading us to believe that she may have accepted a proposal from her rarely seen boyfriend and manager, Tim Witherspoon.
Last month, the former Destiny's Child singer told E! News that she was "too busy with the career" to get married, but this new piece of bling might suggest otherwise.
In the Nov. 15 video, Rowland is wishing her songwriter-producer pal Patrick "J Que" Smith's kiddo a happy birthday. At the end, she goes to blow him a kiss and winds up revealing a giant sparkler.
Reps for Rowland have not yet responded to omg!'s request for comment.
One day after the video was posted, the 32-year-old songbird took to Twitter and shared lyrics from her Destiny's Child song "Happy Face."
"I woke up this morning, the sunshine was shining.."
— KELENDRIA ROWLAND (@KELLYROWLAND) November 16, 2013
Could the tweet have been a secret message about her new title as a fiancée?
Rowland definitely keeps a low profile when it comes to her personal relationships. She and Witherspoon, who have been rumored to be dating on and off over the past four years, are rarely seen together. She was previously engaged to former NFL star Roy Williams in 2004, but the two never tied the knot.
Keeping her life shrouded in privacy doesn't mean a wedding is not in the works. Many Hollywood stars have remained tight-lipped on their love affairs and then shocked us with surprise weddings and engagements, much like Kerry Washington did this summer.
Hopefully, Rowland's new rock and cryptic tweet means she's no longer a single lady!


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AU Optronics (AUO) showed a 58-inch cinema scope HD (CSHD) ultra-wide LCD display at Display Taiwan 2010 from June 9-11.
The device features a 2560x1080 resolution, color saturation of 72% NTSC, 60Hz frame rate, brightness of 450cd/m2, 4000:1 contrast ratio, and 5.5ms response time.
Measuring 1416x628x12.8mm (at the thinnest) and weighing 15kg, it can display 21:9 films without black bars on the screen, the company said.
- Wireless broadband developments in Southeast Asia markets
As of 2013, the 10 ASEAN nations had a total of over 700 million mobile subscriptions, with the CAGR from 2003-2013 reaching 24%. This Digitimes Research Special Report analyzes the various mobile broadband markets in ASEAN and looks at the respective trends in 4G LTE development for those markets.
- 2015 global tablet demand forecast
This Digitimes Research Special Report provides a 2015 forecast for the global tablet market and analyzes the strategies of key market players such as Google, Apple, Intel, and Microsoft.
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This Digitimes Research Special Report analyzes the strategies of key China-based major panel makers BOE, Tianma and IVO for attacking the different market segments through technology and pricing, and their relationship to local vendors Huawei, Lenovo, ZTE, Xiaomi and Coolpad.


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I recently purchased an ALFA AWUS036H wireless USB adapter to use with BT4. I checked the wiki and it said that you have to alter the sources in the kismet.conf file to say "source=rt8180,wlan0,ALFA". I did this but then I get this error message:
Launching kismet_server: //usr/bin/kismet_server
Suid priv-dropping disabled. This may not be secure.
No specific sources given to be enabled, all will be enabled.
Non-RFMon VAPs will be destroyed on multi-vap interfaces (ie, madwifi-ng)
Enabling channel hopping.
Enabling channel splitting.
NOTICE: Disabling channel hopping, no enabled sources are able to change channel.
Source 0 (ALFA): Enabling monitor mode for rt8180 source interface wlan0 channel 6...
Source 0 (ALFA): Opening rt8180 source interface wlan0...
FATAL: pcap reported netlink type 1 (EN10MB) for wlan0. This probably means you're not in RFMON mode or your drivers are reporting a bad value. Make sure you have the correct drivers and that entering monitor mode succeeded.


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It is even possible to have the roof fall out of the mouth from gummatous changes and the Wassermann test yet be negative.
The theory that marriages should be made in the laboratory; the Wassermann test for love.
Wassermann from the Customs House came down too, his galoshes leaving a long dragging trail in the dry sand.
There were no symptoms of any kind and the Wassermann test was negative.
Imagine estimating philosophers by their chest expansions, their blood pressures, their Wassermann reactions!
Down in the office there sat Old Poulsen at one window and Wassermann himself at the other.
Three men—Wassermann, Ehrlich, and Noguchi—have supplied the knowledge whereby the evil may be attacked.
The salt used by Wassermann is not stated in his original publication.
If man would pace his paces toward the Wassermann test, that likely is distinctively his material business.
Wassermann, Keysser and Wassermann made experiments with it, chemotherapeutically, on animal tumors.
test for syphillis, 1909, from German bacteriorologist August Paul Wassermann (1866-1925), who devised it in 1906.
Wassermann Was·ser·mann (wä'sər-mən, vä'sər-män'), August von. 1866-1925.
German physician who developed the Wasserman test for the detection of syphilis.


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So who was responsible for that Zen-like incense that wafted over the Lakers on Friday night?
There was no clear-the-air team meeting, just a "cut the negativity" plea from Dwight Howard.
Then the Lakers proved for one night that Howard and Pau Gasol can share the same universe and bring their games that had eluded them for oh, half a season or so.
Howard had 17 points and 13 rebounds, Gasol came off the bench for 15 points and seven rebounds - pairing with Howard for considerable stretches - and the Lakers scored a feel-good 102-84 win over Utah at Staples Center.
They've been saying they still had a chance to come together, still had a chance to make a run that could carry them to the playoffs.
It's plausible, of course, but losing eight of their previous 10 games had everyone ensconced in meltdown mode. Except that coach Mike D'Antoni sensed that a team meeting in Memphis, even after losing to the Grizzlies, might have begun the galvanizing process.
"I think that had something to do with it," Kobe Bryant said. "I think our meeting, our indoor closed meeting that everybody seems to know about, had a lot do with it."
"We all had Skittles before the game," Howard said.
And to sustain this flash of brilliance?
"More Skittles," Howard added. "We have to stay positive."
That meeting might not have had the aura of a Phil Jackson drum session, but Metta World Peace also had 17 points and connected on five 3-pointers, hitting two late in the third quarter and one in the fourth that helped push the lead to 16 points.
Steve Nash (15 points) came out penetrating, shooting and scoring, but left the play-making duties to Bryant, who had 14 points, 14 assists and nine rebounds. The assist total was one shy of his career high set nearly 11 years ago, and he took four fewer shots than he had assists. Talk about an alternate universe.
"I thought Kobe was brilliant setting the table for Dwight," Nash said. "He was finishing, a big presence defensively. Those are our two big guns and when they're symbiotic - there's a word for you, guys - we're a special team, I think. I know it's hard to understand, but tonight we looked like a real good squad."
Howard, admittedly struggling to return to 100 percent health, and Bryant combined early on alley-oop dunks, Howard had two first-half blocks and the Lakers led wire to wire.
"He was extremely aggressive and going after every shot," Bryant said. "On defense, he changed every shot, was going after every rebound and was extremely effective in the passing lanes and on close defense. I thought he played a phenomenal floor game."
The Lakers shot 53.8 percent, held Utah to 42 percent shooting and won the rebound battle 45-30.
Yes, they still have some climbing to do and it resumes Sunday against Oklahoma City. But there's something on which to build, if not cautiously. Before the game, coach Mike D'Antoni said he didn't want to be "fooled" by just a little flash of effort.
"Let's put a two-, three-game streak together, let's play well, let's play hard and then we'll see," D'Antoni said. "You can teach and push when you win. It's harder when you lose.
"A winning streak would help."


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Get an overview of this hotelAll-suite hotel on Galveston Island Seawall
Popular property highlights
Near downtown
This family-friendly hotel is located on Galveston Island's Seawall, centrally located to all of the island's favorite attractions.
Pool, picnic area
Among amenities at Casa Del Mar Beachfront Suites are two outdoor swimming pools (one heated during winter), trellised barbecue area, laundry facilities, and conference facilities ideal for family reunions, small groups, and corporate retreats.
Free WiFi
All suites feature private balconies and free WiFi access. They are perfect for families as they offer a private bedroom, a living area with a queen sofa bed, and bunk beds as well as a newly remodeled studio kitchen.
Guest Highlights
- Good location
- Beach
- Family-friendly amenities
- Helpful staff
- Clean guestrooms
- Comfy beds
Casa Del Mar Beachfront Suites
Condo Amenities
Condo Amenities
This 3-story, all-suite condo is centrally located on Galveston Island, along the seawall at 61st and right across from the beach. The tropically landscaped grounds feature 2 tropical swimming pools, one of which is heated seasonally. A trellised barbecue/picnic area is also on site.
Other amenities at Casa Del Mar Beachfront Suites include complimentary wireless Internet throughout the property, 24-hour front desk, safe-deposit boxes, and guest laundry facilities. On-site conference and catering facilities are ideal for group gatherings. Self-parking is free.
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Total number of rooms - 180
- 24-hour front desk
- Laundry facilities
- Picnic area
- Barbecue grill(s)
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- Elevator/lift
- Number of floors - 3
- Number of outdoor pools - 2
- Free self parking
- 24-hour business center
- Conference space size (meters) - 221
- Free WiFi
- Conference space size (feet) - 2,374
- Smoke-free property
- Television in common areas
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Outdoor pools
- Free Wi-Fi
- Kitchenette
- Laundry facilities
- Sofa bed
- Full-sized refrigerator/freezer
- Microwave
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Free self parking
Room Amenities
- Balcony
- Separate sitting area
- Air conditioning
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Kitchenette
- Microwave
- Coffee/tea maker
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Shower/tub combination
- Iron/ironing board
- Sofa bed
- Cribs/infant beds available
- Phone
- Daily housekeeping
- Sofa bed size
- Full-sized refrigerator/freezer
- Stovetop
- Satellite TV service
- Free WiFi
- Cookware, dishware, and utensils
Where to Eat
This Galveston hotel does not have its own restaurant, but there are several dining options within the surrounding area.
Nearby restaurants:
Landry's Seafood Restaurant
Tortuga's Mexican Restaurant
Waffle House
Golden Corral
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
Condo Policies
Minimum check-in age is 21
Check-in time starts at 4 PM
Check-out time is 11 AM
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Rollaway/extra beds are not available.
- Cribs (infant beds) are available.
- Pets not allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
No rollaway/extra beds available
This hotel does not allow boats, recreational vehicles, or trailers on the property. For more details, please contact the office using the information on the reservation confirmation received after booking.
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- Casa Del Mar Beachfront Suites
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- Casa Del Mar Beachfront Suites Condo Galveston
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Why did the geese cross the road? Because they were following the bike, naturally.
We couldn't help but share this adorable photo and equally aww-inducing story, which we found via Grist. It goes something like this: A large flock of misplaced geese were struggling to cross the road, "getting closer and closer to being hit by cars," according to the person who took the photo above. At this point, a man on his bike came to the rescue, and led the gaggle of geese safely across the road. The geese, lured by a bag of bread that allegedly hung from the handlebars of the man's bike, followed their mother bike to where they wanted to be, without a single casualty.
Yet another tale of the pure goodness of bikes.


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Future seems so bright with govts that encourages such brutality. Hope this trend wont be globalized
error201 said
Oh and as a new author around here, long time follower, hello all!
welcome to our community!
VF said
Future seems so bright with govts that encourages such brutality. Hope this trend wont be globalized
futile hope, is already happening
But I'm not sure will stick to Italy. Here we have sale seasons like this guy explain better than me:http://anamericaninrome.com/wp/2011/08/saldi-sale-season-in-italy/
the only thing I want to add to above is this typical Italian way of doing business:
jeans price before sales season 70€
jeans price during sales season 140€ with 50% cut off = cost 70€! Buy now!
and yes is not legal
What a bad trend.
ShyDesign said
What a bad trend.
What a bad everything.
Wow. How disgusting.
Starving people wanting food would have more self-restraint than those people.
fighting over things you don't need and buy them on credit – social decay at its finest… so sad.
I just want to know why the Banksy picture was "flagged as inappropriate" That graffiti just perfectly talk about this subject. Maybe just need to understand the message. Anyway, just let say: Crucifixus Etiam.
Stylius said
Is this for real?
Why wouldn't it be?


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Best Of :: Bars & Clubs
All gay. All the time. Believe it or not, in an area that some call the new gay mecca, surprisingly few bars or nightspots cater exclusively to the gay market. Recently renovated, this club now boasts three spacious spaces, including an outdoor patio, so there's plenty of room to move around. Bartenders and clientele that are among the nicest on South Beach and music that always pumps ensures you'll have a gay old time.
This darkly hued downtown oasis is ideal for checking your investments while you quaff some refreshments. Sure it's a national chain with a gimmick: a news ticker. But at least it's an informative gimmick. Sit in air-conditioned elegance while the headlines and stock market updates whiz by on the wall. Somehow it's more exciting than watching television over the massive wooden bar. Steeped in sophistication the Capital Grille bar is cigar-friendly and aurally agreeable: A piano player jams nearby from Tuesday through Saturday. There is no happy hour to attract the boisterous riffraff, though you may get to observe how your neighbor at the bar reacts when he loses his shorts on those technology stocks.
Macabi's began as a retail store with one of the best tobacco selections around, as well as some of the best prices. But last June, after the nationwide cigar boom began to wane, owners Henry Vilar and Arturo Sosa transformed their showroom into a smoke room, complete with high-end liquors and cordials. Now, after picking out a hefty Arturo Fuente Hemingway (at seven dollars, not a bad price) in the walk-in humidor, you can settle into a plush chair, sip a Fonseca port, and depending on the night, enjoy music (Friday is latin jazz, Saturday is often blues) or games (Tuesday night the old-school fumadores gather to play dominoes).
Tucked into the extreme south end of downtown Coral Gables, this unassuming ranch-style edifice next to the Knights of Columbus hall has been called the Crown and Garter as well as the English Crown before its current owners gave it a more prosaic moniker a couple of years back. In its latest incarnation as the Gables Pub, it attracts a youngish crowd (more platform shoes, midriffs, and chain wallets than you'd find at your usual Gables gathering place) with its low-key atmosphere, tasty food, and Bass and Guinness on tap. (It skews a little younger on Wednesday's ladies' night and a little smellier on Thursday, when the rugby players show up.) Two narrow inside rooms and the outdoor concrete courtyard filled with tables make it more of a place to hang out than to pick up or throw down -- unless someone's throwing down her last ficha in one of the pitched domino battles that have been known to break out. One oddity: Despite the fact that the gringo quotient is no higher here than anywhere else in the Gables, the jukebox features a veritable rogues' gallery of the worst and the whitest. (Styx, anyone?) Yet the pub is so otherwise inviting, the patrons don't run screaming for the exits.
There's a saying that given enough time, even the town whore becomes respectable. That adage certainly applies to Tobacco Road, rapidly closing in on a century as one of Miami's most cherished watering holes. Once a notorious den of iniquity, the Road now has a family friendly vibe, or at least the atmosphere of an all-American frat party. Sure you'll still find plenty of cops swarming the premises, but unlike the Prohibition Era, these days they're there as (hopefully off-duty) customers. In fact wander out back to the open-air patio to catch a breeze off the river, and you're likely to come across several city prosecutors settling into a beer and a burger. Of course what draws the consistently packed crowds isn't just the locale, the brew, or the pub chow (solid as it may be); it's the music, which remains both very live and thankfully little more than spit-polished. Gaze upon the walls here and you'll spy framed posters immortalizing past Road gigs by protorocker legends such as John Lee Hooker, Bo Diddley, and Junior Wells, even outer-space soul-jazz visionary Sun Ra, all asserting that the "disco sucks" debate is far from over, at least in this joint. Veteran barflies may grouse that the booking policy is a bit less impressive on the talent front these days, but as last November's George Clinton date here proved, heavy hitters still occasionally grace the stage. Moreover Tobacco Road ensures a steady diet of roots-oriented outfits -- local and national, up-and-coming and unknown -- and continues to be a welcome home within which to wail away, providing a solid bet for an unpretentious, relaxed night out. In a city whose nightlife milieu increasingly is given over to tense stargazing, that says something.
Even if the Haitian music scene is dominated by men, Miami's best venue for live shows is powered by women. "The girls are in charge!" declares McArthur's social director Kathy Giddarie. Since March 1999 general manager Vivian Lazarre's female bartending crew has kept crowds of up to 800 compas fans happy. Out-of-town thrillers such as System, Sweet Mickey, and King Posse alternate with local favorites Zenglen and D-Zine on Friday and Sunday nights. Oldies night on Saturdays brings back the bands of yesteryear, from Haitian memory-makers to influential black acts such as the Temptations. Weekly dance contests put the fans in the spotlight. Since all that compas can work up an appetite, the kitchen is stocked with party foods, including conch fritters and the fried pork known as griot. Vive la femme!


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For the month of July, for the fourth month in a row, the American Institute of Architects' monthly Architecture Billings has shown signs of contraction and weakness in the market for design and construction services. This month, however, the rate of contraction has slowed considerably. At 48.7, the score for July was better than the 45.9 recorded for the month of June, which was a slight moderation in decline from the 45.8 recorded in May (50.0 is the break-even point between contraction and growth). The score for new projects inquiries was up to 56.3 from June's score of 54.4.
In addition, one of the industry's sectors, multifamily residential, and one of the nation's regions, the South, each showed growth in July—coming in at 51.4 and 52.7, respectively. In June, all four of the nation's regions and all four of the industry's sectors showed contraction in billings. (The regional and sector categories are also calculated on a three-month moving average, unlike the national score, which is month-to-month.)
But as you can see in the charts in the slide show above, all of the industry's sectors and half of the nation's regions showed improvement in July. Billings in the South grew, and the speed of contraction of billings in the West moderated. Multifamily residential billings grew, while the rate of contraction for commercial, institutional, and even mixed practice (which has taken an especially big hit over the past few years) saw their rates of contraction slow. Could we see more growth in the coming months for all of these sectors and regions? Possibly.
If billings do recover and begin growing again this fall, we'll see a repeat of the trend that we've seen the past three years, a cycle that seems to be becoming regular in the wake of the financial crisis of 2008. I don't know what the reason is—since it seems counterintuitive that the design and construction industries would pick up heading into winter, and then trail off come summertime—but the cycle of weakening billings during the warmer months has repeated itself once again, as you can see in the charts below:
Billings in 2009 and 2010 were still contracting, but ever more slowly as a general trend, returning to an expanding market at the end of 2010. The summer months brought a setback to recovery in each of those years. Billings were growing in the spring of 2011 and 2012, only to see a renewed contraction in billings come late spring. Last year, billings were growing again come fall, and if the trend continues, this fall there will be more work to be had as well.


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So I was Pentesting my network and while I was doing so, i recieved this error messege while using Aireplay-ng. I used the Aireplay-ng -3 -b xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx -h XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX eth1 command. Im using BT3 on a live CD and a Dell B130 laptop with the bcm43xx mini pci card. *WHICH DOES WORK* I have to keep repeating the command to generate packets and use the .ivs file Airodump-ng saves not the .cap from Aireplay in order to crack my key.
THX IN ADVANCEDCode:Read 9245 packets (got 4479 ARP requests and 4657 ACKs), sent 5126 packets...(50Read 9331 packets (got 4521 ARP requests and 4700 ACKs), sent 5176 packets...(49Read 9421 packets (got 4565 ARP requests and 4745 ACKs), sent 5226 packets...(49Read 9508 packets (got 4607 ARP requests and 4789 ACKs), sent 5277 packets...(50Read 9598 packets (got 4650 ARP requests and 4835 ACKs), sent 5327 packets...(49Read 9688 packets (got 4695 ARP requests and 4879 ACKs), sent 5376 packets...(49Read 9781 packets (got 4740 ARP requests and 4926 ACKs), sent 5428 packets...(50Read 9872 packets (got 4784 ARP requests and 4972 ACKs), sent 5478 packets...(49Read 9968 packets (got 4831 ARP requests and 5020 ACKs), sent 5527 packets...(49write failed: Cannot allocate memory wi_write(): Illegal seek bt ~ #
Is There a Way i can Write the . cap file from aireplay on a flashdrive instead of on the memory?
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Yes, you can give the command a path to a drive.Originally Posted by PR0J3CT_C
How would i write that code out , in the --help optoin in aireplay, it doesnt talk about those writing. Could you maybe write out a command for me? I use the aireplay-ng -3 -b XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX -h XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX eth1 command
As it is airodump that writes the large file, you would want to be including it in that command line. Where you use the -w option you would specify the output file including the path as I described above.
blah blah -w /mnt/sdb1/output.cap blah blah
im talking about Aireplay not Airodump. sry
Yes I know, but if you force the program that is causing the memory to be used up (Airodump) to write to some other medium, then your Aireplay command will have the room in memory it needs to create the file.


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Hi guys, looking to start fighting again this year. MMA or K1 at Bantamweight.
It's not about the money this time guys. I am on a mission to sort my record out. Any promoters looking for a fighter let me know. I am still available short notice if needed but notice would be appreciated.
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After 250 Million Downloads, Cut The Rope's Next Challenge Is a Brand New Game
Game developer ZeptoLab, best known for a cute little monster named Om Nom in mobile puzzler "Cut The Rope," is now onto something completely different.
Now that "Cut The Rope" has more than 50 million players — who check into the game about four days a month — and more than 250 million downloads, ZeptoLab is launching a new game called "Pudding Monsters."
It's another puzzle game where the goal is to link a number of balls of pudding on the screen together on specific panels. "Pudding Monsters" is launching on the iPhone and Android devices later this month for 99 cents.
It's quite the departure from "Cut The Rope," a physics-based puzzler where the goal was to ensure a number of pieces of candy fall into the mouth of a cute monster by swiping across the screen to cut ropes holding the candy and other environmental hazards.
We caught up with CEO Misha Lyalin to find out more about the new launch. Here's an edited transcript of the interview:
WSJ: How do you feel going into launch tomorrow?
Misha Lyalin: We feel that we finally have built a company. It's not like when we launched "Cut The Rope" experiments. We gave the game to our friends and family to play and they seemed to like. We conducted testing in our office where we invite a number of people from different age groups to play our games. That's a big group. So far, so good, people like it. I personally finished every challenge and now we're waiting for new levels.
WSJ: Is the game too hard?
ML: We want it to be a game you can pick up and play. You don't need to learn anything. It resonates with two-year-olds as well as very, very old people. People didn't seem to have a problem with it.
WSJ: How's it look compared to "Cut The Rope"?
ML: We're over 250 million downloads at this point for "Cut the Rope." The most impressive number is the fact that we have over 50 million monthly active users that play four days a month. If you think about it, we only have three games. We just launched the holiday game, and it's going really well. As more platforms hit the marketplace, we have more users we can reach. We're also growing like crazy in expanding markets. For example, we have more Daily Active Users (DAU) in China than we do in the U.S.
WSJ: How many employees do you guys have?
ML: We're full-time over 50 people, and we have a lot of contractors and agents. If you count everyone up, we employ hundreds of people. We feel pretty good about the fact that we have a great choice of people to pick from and the people who actually work with the company are focused on the things they do best. Everyone can study an idea. "Pudding Monsters" is a game that was developed from a concept that was internal.
WSJ: So how do you make new games?
ML: We have a fun way of managing this. Everyone in the company can send new ideas to an idea bank each month. Then we continue brainstorming and prototyping and vote for the top concepts. The entire company votes on which concepts we'll take through the actual development process. This keeps us on our toes creatively.
In the earliest stage, the concept for "Pudding Monsters" was actually much different, but through the development process we've made adjustments to create a new game that we really like and believe in. We created "Pudding Monsters" to be fresh and new, but also wanted to make a game that would be attractive to the same audience as "Cut the Rope," allowing us to cross-promote our games and products and open doors for brand expansion. "Pudding Monsters" offers a whole new group of characters for our fans to fall in love with, plus the quality and game play that they can now expect from a ZeptoLab game.
WSJ: Are you venture-funded?
ML: We were really fortunate that we have a game and "Cut The Rope" obviously generates a lot of money. We were able to use that to grow, and we haven't required a lot of cash so we haven't raised anything. Going forward, we might raise an amount. While we aren't releasing full financial numbers, we can say that we are and have been profitable. We've seen our download numbers and user engagement grow steadily since the day we released "Cut the Rope" a little over two years ago. For us, our reach is the most important asset.
WSJ: Are you guys expanding beyond just games, like Rovio?
ML: We're also growing in other areas—merchandising and licensing, an animation series we just launched and through partnerships with top brands like Burger King and Sony Pictures Television. While we're continuing to develop our "Cut the Rope" business, we now are expanding into new titles, like "Pudding Monsters." We want to be able to keep growing just as quickly, not just with one game and one brand, but with a portfolio.
We're in a different situation than most companies who are trying to raise funding because we're a business that already has a hit. We don't have to build ZeptoLab brand from the ground up at this point, and our costs per user are also different because we've created a very sticky environment that keeps users engaged.
WSJ: How do you guys view Rovio right now?
ML: We don't focus on Rovio or what they're doing — but they are a great validator for the space and the success that's possible for mobile games. That said, as a gaming company we have to make new games. We believe we can be a top-tier gaming company, and at the top level you have to produce new, quality content on a regular basis.
WSJ: What platforms is "Pudding Monsters" coming out on?
ML: "Pudding Monsters" will be on iOS mobile and Android devices. We're starting with these platforms because they are our roots, and it's how we can best manage the quality of the game. Once "Pudding Monsters" is a success, we can and will expand it to other platforms as we have done with "Cut the Rope."
WSJ: Anything on Facebook?
ML: We wouldn't rule out Facebook games, even if the platform isn't growing as fast as mobile. The fact is that so far, we haven't found something that our users would love specifically on Facebook as a platform, but we are working on new projects where social will be much more important to the user experience.


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Laughter and squeals of delight echoed through the Mahoney Gymnasium recently as about 20 high school students raced each other on scooter boards, tossed balls through moving hula hoops and played basketball and hockey. As they rotated from activity to activity, their coaches were physical
PBA business students try their hand at making gluten-free chocolate chip cookies at Cafe Joshua in West Palm Beach. Photo by Nathan Shoemaker. Palm Beach Atlantic University business students have found a way to make some dough —
Traditionally during the Christmas season, the faculty, staff and students at Palm Beach Atlantic University's Orlando campus collect toys and donate them to a local organization. This year, however, many said they felt the
Not long ago Palm Beach Atlantic University student Lauren Smith was on track to become a teacher. But her love for working with children ultimately led her from the classroom to a more clinical setting. Lauren Smith, a student in the School of Nursing at
Invoking the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Palm Beach Atlantic University commencement speaker and King scholar Dr. Terriel Byrd challenged graduates on Saturday to live in accordance with the University's theme for this academic year, Engagement Empowers. Dr. Byrd, who serves as
Rebekah Bouch came to Palm Beach Atlantic University with dreams of becoming a dancer. Instead, she'll leave with a bachelor's degree in marketing and the title of Outstanding Graduate of PBA's Rinker School of Business. She will be recognized during fall commencement at 2
Palm Beach Atlantic University student journalist Chris Hernandez always enjoys spotting people reading the campus newspaper, but he finds it even more gratifying when he hears people discussing the articles within it. "I see people interacting with the newspaper," said Hernandez,
For one of her first class assignments, Palm Beach Atlantic University student Susan Roberson wrote a passage that eventually became her personal slogan: "Success is dedication, perseverance and determination wrapped in commitment." PBA student Susan Roberson receives the
Three graduate students in Palm Beach Atlantic University's Rinker School of Business received the Joe J. Eassa Scholarship during the 14th annual M.B.A. Awards Presentation on Dec. 3. M.B.A. Award honoree Priscilla Taylor (second from left)
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Hello all, so I went against all of my instincts and got an alignment and tire change at a Firestone in my local area. Well they did the tire change, and alignment about a month ago, no fuss no muss.
Well immediately upon getting the car I noticed the steering was A LOT less responsive. Asked on here if I should worry, everyone claimed it was the difference in tires I had gotten, hard worn down RFT to soft normal Contis. I knew better, just because I could tell it was in the actual steering of the car, even before feedback from tires kicked in.
Anyway, well a week or two in my steering started to get tight at about a 45 degree angle on the steering wheel turn, when making a 90 degree turn. It was very intermittent and sometimes was accompanied by a leather/rubber? squeaking in the steering column. It felt like a lot more resistance than just a steering wheel part rubbing up against something. I hoped it was just my responsive steering coming back, because it was much tighter than before, but now its just dangerous because I never know how much force I have to put when making a turn.
So I brought it back to Firestone, they just called and said everything is fine and on "their end" and that they didnt feel any issues. I told them to take it around a couple blocks, and they said they couldnt do anything anyway because its beyond their expertise. I asked them if it was just a coincedence that 1 week after they changed my tires and did an alignment that Im now having this issue. They said they dont know, maybe someone put the wrong fluid in, when no ones put fluid in anywhere short of oil and windshield wiper fluid.
Obviously Im gonna bring it to an expert, but can I claim any kind of fault on their end? Faulty alignment causing steering issues? I tried to get a mockup when I got the alignment done and he didnt know what I meant and said the printer was broken. yeah, I know. Bells should have rung then. Any help?
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Amazing--Stereophile Class B
I listen to just about everything, with a focus on jazz (50%), folk (20%) and rock (30%. I go through some classical music binges but then I leave it alone for months. The PSBs (out of the box) were constrained and lacked almost any holographic picture. They just shot out detailed sound straight at me in a linear fashion. I wondered if my need to position them close to the back/rear wall was the problem. While it helped to move them out (they did sound better), it did not fix the problem. Dianna Krall's voice sounded super clear and right, but the PSBs just laid it on the floor. My Totem's painted it in the air. Trumpets? Same thing. There was no "arc" or bloom in the playback. Artist after artist and song after song, I couldn't change the way I felt and I couldn't connect with the music. I felt like I had bought something similar to what big box stores sell consumers, or used to. I felt like I wasted my money. They had to go. I continued to run in the PSBs only because I had no other speakers to listen to with the Totems gone. After about 15 more hours of listening some great stuff happened. The change was real in every way. I know it occurred and was not me getting used to the speaker because the speaker was doing things it wasn't before. My Totem's would case a picture. The PSBs would hit line drives with no soundstange. Then, after about 15 hours, moving into 20, they did just that. What's more, they now do just as much as the Totems did (albeit the Totem's
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Got some tickets for me and the GF and would'nt mind hitting up the weigh-in's aswell as the show the next day, anyone have an idea where they might hold the weigh-in's? Just trying to book trains and that around it.
And another sneaky question, are there any BJJ clubs around the Wembley venue, I know our hotel is like 5mins walking distance to the venue, but since the GF has booked it I dont have the exact details...typical dude!
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My personal opinion is all that it wasn't Romney who lost the election, it was the rebublicans (yeah, I don't even remember who they were) that made comments about "real" rape. Romney didn't help with the "binders full of women" (although good intentioned) choice of words. Both got publicized like crazy, and I think a lot of women connected this with the idea that the republican party is anti women.
My hubby (who is black) had a friend (white guy) over this evening when the results came in. The first thing he said was "I can't believe America is still being run by a black man." I think race played a large roll the first time around for the black community, but I don't feel like it did as much this time. (Although obviously democrats typically pull in the minority vote anyway.) in other words, if Romney were black too, I don't think it would have mattered.
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I need to build my own hash table to brute force a WPA router that has a unique ssid. A few questions if you guys don't mind:
(1) I'm running genpmk on my quad core using Win7 since I was hoping it would be faster then my laptop w/ backtrack. But in task manager I notice genpmk will only use 25% CPU max (like it's limited to 1 core). Any way to get it to use all 4 cores? If I boot into backtrack on this machine would it use all 4 cores? Anyway to get my GPU in on the action too?
(2) Is there a faster way to do this other then using cowpatty/genpmk? My wordlist is 18 million entries (200MB), is that a bit overkill as opposed to using a smaller one and john the ripper? Any general tips are appreciated, I'm new at this.


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Thursday, April 02, 2009
Introduction and a Question: What's Actually Wrong with Torture?
But what I really want to write about today, and ask this blog's readers about, is a very basic question that I think is frequently overlooked in the current security versus rights debate on torture, and one that I am in the difficult process of trying to answer for myself. That is: what's actually wrong with torture? What are its moral dimensions? Why should it earn the status as a crime against humanity; a war crime in some instances; and alongside genocide and slavery, an act that may never be committed under any circumstances? Why are we (and by 'we' I mean those who believe that torture is generally wrong, and I think that even includes its apologists) so troubled by it – either acting in shock or repugnance when its uncovered or going to great lengths to try and cover it up or make elaborate arguments allowing it? Why, when we think of older and more unsophisticated political and legal systems, do we immediately associate these with torture – with the rack, and the iron maiden, and other such grisly instruments that immediately signify cruelty and barbarism? What is it about torture that has such moral power?
This is an important question, especially for defenders of human rights, because if we can't actually put our finger on what torture's specific, special moral wrongness is, then it makes it very difficult to say exactly why it should not be practised, and when it should not be practised. An abstract argument of rights doesn't quite cut it, I think, when faced with the often compelling (at least on the surface) security-based arguments that those who think torture is a necessary moral act bring up (e.g. the infamous ticking bomb scenario, which I hope to discuss in another post). We really need to understand the moral contours of torture if we can hope to convince anyone, and ourselves, that it's the type of wrong that should never be committed.
At first the answer to what's wrong with torture seem fairly obvious, but I think that actually there's very little consensus on the issue. Most attempts to answer this question – particularly David Sussman's recent and very valuable paper (aptly entitled 'What's Wrong With Torture?') as well as various courts and international tribunals - have primarily focused on the pain that torture inflicts. Elaine Scarry wrote beautifully about this in The Body in Pain. She argued that torture is wrong because it inflicts such great pain that it is world-destroying: it destroys language, memory, thought, and that through pain 'the torturer uses the prisoner's sentience to obliterate the objects of the prisoner's sentience… the torturer uses the prisoner's aliveness to crush the things that he lives for.' Courts such as the European Court of Human Rights have similarly focused on the severity of pain involved in acts alleged to be torture, and we all know of the attempt by the Bush administration to argue that torture that does not happen until the 'pain inflicted… rises to the level of death, organ failure, or the permanent impairment of a significant bodily function.'
I think that Scarry and Sussman's accounts of what's wrong with torture are generally correct, but I suspect that too much emphasis is put on the role of pain. It seems to me that pain is a useful method of achieving torture's real purpose, and what's really wrong with it. That is the annihilation of individual agency and autonomy (both difficult terms to define, I know, but what I mean here is simply the ability to act for one's self, to meaningfully control one's actions) and the destruction of human dignity. The torturer, in interrogating his or her victim, brings the tortured to the point where he or she 'breaks', where he or she can't do anything but comply with the torturer's wishes. The victim has no choice in the matter because he or she is acting out of reflexive desire to survive, to put an end to the torment inflicted – and at this point, the victim has no agency or autonomy – they are merely an entity that is aware of nothing but torment and the desire to be released from it. The pain inflicted is really just the most effective and quickest method of achieving this state, but it's that destruction of the self that constitutes torture's deep moral wrongness.
It may seem a subtle shift, but I think if emphasis is put on dignity, to which pain is really secondary and which is the most useful mechanism by which to destroy dignity – we are getting closer to what is really wrong here, and what really repels us. It may also mean that we have to change our ideas about how to legally define when an act is torture – rather than how much pain is involved or its severity, we may need to focus instead of the loss of control in the victim, and their individual and subjective response to what was inflicted upon them. After all, if someone is deprived of sleep, hooded and beaten, and it drives them out of their mind and they falsely confess – why should this not be torture? Hasn't it had the same affect as say, waterboarding them might? If we force someone to take a drug that acts painlessly but compels them to comply with whatever the interrogator would like against their own interests and wishes – hasn't this destroyed their dignity and their agency meaningfully? Surely the destruction of dignity and agency in torture can't be secondary to pain. After all, human dignity is the seat of our humanity and the place around which our human rights are centred, and what they seek to respect – so there can be no greater crime than to destroy individual dignity. There are any number of acts quite capable of doing this which may not employ objectively severe levels of pain – if it's even possible to assess that.
I'm aware that there are great difficulties here philosophically. There are, clearly, examples of acts that destroy agency (e.g. lawful killing in self defence) that we do not think of as torture, it brings up issues of intention, and it would also be difficult to say the least to construct a meaningful legal definition around the destruction of human dignity, agency and autonomy. Pain is also clearly important, and it shouldn't be dismissed. But while the difference between a conception of torture's moral wrongness that places its emphasis in the destruction of dignity and agency with pain as secondary, and one that places it emphasis on the infliction of pain with the destruction of dignity and agency as the result of it might be a subtle one, I think this is an important question to answer. When we write about torture, or catalogue its practice, or inspect a government's attempts to secretly use it, it's often easy to forget the real nature of the act itself or to become detached from it, and a question like this is important if we want to understand what it actually is that we're concerned with.
As I said, I haven't come to any definite conclusions on this yet, so I'd be interested to see what readers think – and so I'd love to hear any thoughts that you may have. (Admittedly, there is much thought and detail that's been left out of what I've written here, but this is the general idea, and if a discussion does begin and people are interested, perhaps we can look at certain elements more closely.)
Update: Edwin, thanks for your comment. Your point about justice is a good one - I was extremely negligent and failed to say that I was writing about torture's wrongness just in terms of the act itself - so the elements of the act alone and not any states of affairs it might bring about - but of course when we look at the whole picture, including what torture is used for, the injustice of it becomes a primary concern. In terms of human rights, torture may often actually result in a double violation of human rights - firstly the torture itself, but secondly the tortured evidence/confession being used to deny someone a fair trial or resulting in some other deep miscarriage of justice. And Joni, thanks for reading!
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Susanne Kippenberger on 'Kippenberger'By Miranda Purves
In 1997, when Martin Kippenberger died of alchohol-related liver cancer at the age of forty-four, Roberta Smith opened her New York Times obituary by writing that Kippenberger was "widely considered one of the most talented German artists of his generation." In fact, outside of a subset of fellow Conceptual artists and prescient gallerists, he was not considered at all. At the time of his death, a museumgoer might have recognized a blurred Richter or a grim Joseph Beuys while being totally unfamiliar with Kippenberger's hotel drawings, the now-famous series of doodles on hotel stationary.
Although his life was a fast burn, the creation of his reputation has been a slow cementing, set by an extensive 2006 Tate Modern show, a U.S. exhibition that came to MoMA in 2009, and now a biography, released by J&L Books.. Kippenberger: The Artist and His Families is written by Susanne Kippenberger, the artist's youngest sister and a journalist at the Berlin daily Der Taggespiegel, and translated from German by Damion Searls. It is both a profile of a mad art star and a fascinating history of the bohemian scene in Germany before the fall of the wall. When Ms. Kippenberger met me at City Bakery recently to discuss the book, she did not, as her brother might have, jump on top of the table and pull down her pants then force me to stay out all night drinking.
I saw the Tate show in 2006 and left astounded by the incredible amount and range of work created by someone who died so young. The retrospective included the massive installation "The Happy End of Franz Kafka's 'America'," which is an ersatz sports field filled with desks and chairs; the ironic self-promotional exhibition posters; punkish figurative paintings; self-authored catalogues; and sculptures. I was surprised to find, reading your book, that when he was alive his art seemed eclipsed by his renown as a personality.
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University of South Carolina recognized by American Heart Association as Fit-Friendly Company
The University of South Carolina has been recognized by the American Heart Association's (AHA) Start! program as a Fit-Friendly Company for 2009.
The AHA designation recognizes employers that offer programs and incentives to its workers that promote health through walking. The university has several programs that encourage the campus community to walk for improved health.
Walktober is a pedometer-based walking program that takes place each October. The 217 participants in 2008 recorded 30,191,352 steps, equaling more than 15,000 miles. UWalk is a program in which participants log the steps they walk to gain "mileage" toward a t-shirt from the college or university of their choice. It fosters a competitive spirit with participants having logged more than 173,800 miles in virtual walking to places like UCLA, Ohio State and the University of Miami. The Fit Walk Paths Program establishes walking routes around the scenic campus for faculty, staff and students.
The trio of walking programs are part of Healthy Carolina, a university initiative to make healthy choices simple.
University of South Carolina students win public anthropology contest
Twelve University of South Carolina students won Public Anthropology Awards for a national writing competition that involved more than 4,000 students from 28 universities.
The competition is part of the Community Action Website Project, an online community in which students taking public anthropology courses at universities nationwide can learn about ethical issues facing communities in the world today. In this case, students learned and wrote about the Yanomami Indians and their fight to have blood samples of their ancestors, which were used for research, returned to them.
The student winners are from Dr. Jennifer Reynolds' "Understanding Other Cultures" class. They include Chelsea Rzepkowski, Charleston; Billy Mathison, Aiken; Carson Lamb, Columbia; Brook Burroughs, Charleston; Jake Williams, Irmo; Michael Ellis, Conway; Amanda Ginsburg, Columbia; Kristen Hendrix, Atlanta; Diana Delmontie, Wendell, N.C.; Alexandra Phillips, Charleston; Jeff Pfeffer, Davidson, N.C.; and Marc Guest, Anderson.


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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That subsection (a) of section 1162 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by deleting the following:
"Alaska————All Indian country within the Territory"
and inserting in lieu thereof the following:
"Alaska————All Indian country within the State, except that on Annette Islands, the Metlakatla Indian community may exercise jurisdiction over offenses committed by Indians in the same manner in which such jurisdiction may be exercised by Indian tribes in Indian country over which State jurisdiction has not been extended."
Subsection (C) of section 1162 of title 18, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: "(c) The provisions of sections 1152 and 1153 of this chapter shall not be applicable within the areas of Indian country listed in subsection (a) of this section as areas over which the several States have exclusive jurisdiction."
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One of the forerunners of Museum Victoria, the Industrial and Technological Museum, was closely associated with the great nineteenth century movement of 'World Fairs' or International Exhibitions.
During the nineteenth century, industrialising countries and colonising powers vied with each other to promote their technological inventions and achievements. At a series of International Exhibitions, new developments in manufacturing, science and fine arts, and recent discoveries from the 'new world', were presented to an international audience. The first such exhibition was held at the Crystal Palace, London in 1851. During the next fifty years, cities like Paris, Dublin, Calcutta, Philadelphia, Chicago, Melbourne and Sydney held exhibitions where exhibiting countries showed their products to a wider world.
In 1866, Melbourne organised its first Intercolonial Exhibition, held in a specially built 'Great Hall' on a site behind the State Library's Queens Hall in Swanston Street. The Australian colonies, with New Zealand and New Caledonia, exhibited their manufacturing, mineral, agricultural and timber resources.
At the end of the Exhibition, the Commissioners recommended that an Industrial Museum be founded in Melbourne, for 'public instruction and the technical education of Victorian mechanics and artisans'. The Museum was to include displays of samples of materials used in manufacturing, and models of machinery that could inform and educate visitors. The Industrial and Technological Museum was opened in 1870 in the Great Hall.
A large number of models of mining machinery, as used in Victoria and Europe, were transferred from the National Museum. These models had been collected since 1856, and they had helped inform gold seekers travelling to the Victorian gold fields.
The nucleus of the Economic Botany collection came from exhibits at the 1866 Intercolonial Exhibition. This collection was further developed during the 1870s and 1880s, to promote Victoria's agricultural and timber industries. Museum staff prepared exhibits of Victorian dyes, tans, cork, and medicinal products, and made wax models of fruit and vegetables. These made the rounds of exhibitions in London, Sydney, Philadelphia, Calcutta, Paris and Melbourne. Eighty-three wonderful timber samples, each decorated by May Vale with a fine illustration of the tree's leaf and flower, were widely exhibited.
At the Melbourne International Exhibition of 1880-81, Melbourne promoted itself as a sophisticated industrial city. Architect Joseph Reed designed the Melbourne Exhibition Building for the occasion. With its tall dome, the monumental structure was the highest building in the city. The exhibition was a product of the optimism, enthusiasm and energy of the people of Melbourne at the beginning of the 'boom of the 1880s'.
Germany, France, Prussia, Britain, and the United States of America all sent extensive exhibits to Melbourne. The British Court featured carpets, upholstery, chemicals, hardware, paperhangings, carriages, leathergoods and weighing machines. The Americans offered agricultural machinery, barbed wire, lawnmowers, cottons and electric lights. There were exhibits of lace, furniture, manchester, tiles, and armaments, and there was always something new to see or do.
The largest display came from the colony of Victoria. An extensive collection of heavy locomotives from the Phoenix Foundry of Ballarat and a heavy freight engine from the Victorian Railway Workshops demonstrated the colony's industrial manufacturing capacity. There were displays of Victorian wine, and a huge shape representing the amount of Victorian gold mined since 1851. There were artworks, craft displays, and a Fern Gully complete with a flowing fountain made in France. Over 1.3 million visits were made to the Exhibition.
Displays from New South Wales at the 1880 Exhibition.Photographer: Ludovico Hart / Source: Museum Victoria
The Centennial Exhibition of 1888 was even larger than the earlier one. Temporary annexes filled the gardens to the north of the Exhibition Building, and nearly 40 countries sent exhibits. There was a working dairy, a large quartz-crushing stamper battery, displays of schoolrooms and curriculum materials from throughout the world, paintings and sculpture from Europe and Australia, and an extensive musical programme. There were about two million visits to this exhibition.
Some exhibits from these exhibitions were acquired by the Industrial and Technological Museum, and are now part of Museum Victoria's collections. They are an eclectic lot: model boats from the Straits Settlement, Minton tiles for home decoration, bars made from pig iron and steel, mineral specimens and samples of rice, rubber, sago and timber …. Later curators have continued to acquire objects that were first displayed in a Melbourne exhibition, and some of these are on display in 'Windows on Victoria' in the Australia Gallery.
Dunstan, D. (ed.) 1996. Victorian Icon: The Royal Exhibition Building Melbourne. The Exhibition Trustees.
G. Davison, 1989. 'Festivals of Nationhood: The International Exhibitions' in S.L.Goldberg and F.B.Smith, eds. Australian Cultural History, Cambridge University Press, pp.158 – 177.
Hi there, thanks for your enquiry regarding your ancestor's exhibition at the REB. We have referred the enquiry to one of the curators in our History & Technology department, who will get back to us with an answer very soon.
Official records published at the close of the Melbourne exhibitions of 1880-1881 and 1888-1889 contain listings of all exhibitors with short descriptions of displays and prizes. The titles are: Melbourne International Exhibition, 1880-1881: Official record containing introduction, history of exhibition, description of exhibition and exhibits, official awards of Commissioners and catalogue of exhibits. And Official record of the Melbourne Centennial International Exhibition, Melbourne 1888-1889. These are held at State Library of Victoria and can be found in its catalogue.
Hi William, was the exhibition in Melbourne? Do you remember where? This may help with the detective work!
Hi Simon,
Belleek didn't exhibit under that name. There is a listing for 'M'Birney,D., & Co., Fermanagh.- Porcelain and china ware' in Melbourne International Exhibition, 1880-1881. Official Record ; this company was awarded a Third Order of Merit (certificate) for it's pottery display.
Hope this helps.
Thank you for your comments, John. We passed this on to Museum Victoria staff with specialist knowledge on the Royal Exhibition Building and the International Exhibitions, and they have responded to your comments as follows:
Your comments raise a number of important issues, and I hope this response helps explain Museum Victoria's position and approach to managing the Royal Exhibition Building (REB).
The REB continues to operate as a working building, and it is one of the principal reasons for the building and grounds receiving World Heritage Listing in 2004. The building supports a spectrum of trade shows, fairs, cultural and community events that are vital to the ongoing sustainability of the REB.
Museum Victoria would be interested in reinstating the dome promenade in the future. Meeting public safety, access and heritage issues is a major challenge, and the cost will be substantial. We receive no ongoing funding to do this. Over the past few years we have spent the periodic funds provided to us by the Federal and State government, and from revenue earned from commercial events on priority projects such as re-flooring the REB , fire-proofing the REB, and reinstating the heritage gardens.
In July this year, we installed a new display in the building. It features 15 image-rich graphic panels that chart the history of the building and gardens, and an interactive panel which contains a further 100 + images from the museum's collection and film footage of the opening of the first Federal parliament of Australia. Our hope is that the 440,000+ visitors who visit the building for commercial events will be able to engage with this history, as well as our visitors who attend the building on one of our guide-led daily tours.
We opened the doors to the building for Melbourne's Open House in July this year, and on that occasion we launched a short documentary film about the restoration work that has been undertaken in the gardens over the past four years. The projects discussed in the film illustrate Museum Victoria's and the City of Melbourne's commitment to ensuring that the building and grounds remain an integral part of Melbourne's cultural fabric.
Hi Peter, there are no photos of this exhibit in the museum's collection, nor reference to it in the Official record of the Melbourne Centennial International Exhibition, Melbourne 1888-1889 (although this is not to say that it was not exhibited). It might be worth contacting the City of Melbourne, as it is responsible for the ongoing management of Carlton Gardens, and hold a terrific collection of images of the gardens over their 150 year history.
Intercolonial Exhibition 1866 : official catalogue : Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Western Australia, Mauritius, New Caledonia, Batavia.
Hope this is of some help
Hi Craig,
Please see comments above with regards to the Official records published at the close of the Melbourne exhibitions of 1880-1881 containing listings of all exhibitors with short descriptions of displays and prizes. The titles are: Melbourne International Exhibition, 1880-1881: Official record containing introduction, history of exhibition, description of exhibition and exhibits, official awards of Commissioners and catalogue of exhibits. These are held at State Library of Victoria and can be found using this link.
Hello Robin
Thank you for the query and it may be possible to check on your item using the source suggested in the answer to Craig (above). However it may have been a commemorative item for the Melbourne Exhibition and that seems likely. Is there any year indication on the item? We also wonder if the mark could be W. Adams rather than E. Adams for the famous Staffordshire Company established 1657.
Hello Beth
Thanks for the question – to find the answer look at the records of the 1880 - 81 International Exhibition which are digitised at the State Library of Victoria and found in the answer to Craig above (use the view online option).
The term "M.L. Reichenbach and Co" does not seem to appear in the Swiss section or anywhere but you can check this. For the New Caledonia part of your question it is said that New Caledonia was poorly represented but the companies (presumably mining companies?) involved were Adet, Pelletier et Cie, Morgan W. et Cie, and Curcier et Adet (perhaps a company?).
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Periodic Pulse
I an working on Joule Heating and would like to generate 3 repeated voltage pulse
Pulse Width: 100e-9
Rise and fall: 10e-9
Period: 150e-9
This is what I tried
Lower Limit: 0
Upper Limit: 100e-9
Size of transition: 10e-9
Amplitude: 3V
Parameters >> Expression: rect1(mod(t,150e-9)
Derivatives: Automatic
Units>>Arguments: t
Plot Parameters>> Argument:t, Lower limit: 0, Upper Limit:0.001*
*With these setting, I can see the periodic waveform
Calling An1 in Electric Potential>>
V0: 3*an1(t[1/s])
Study >> Time: range(0,1e-9,4.5e-7)
Time stepping: Intermediate
Trying to see the temperature profile but it seems that the temperature keep rising up till 4.5e-. However, I do expect temperature to drop after each pulse interval before the next pulse starts.
What should I correct?
Please help. Thank you.
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u find the answer ?
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Ailey II Returns to The Ailey Citigroup Theater, 3/13
Ailey II, the youthful and gifted Second Company of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, returns to its home, The Ailey Citigroup Theater, from March 13- 24 for a highly anticipated two-week season - the first led by recently appointed Artistic Director Troy Powell. The 14 exciting performances experienced through two dynamic programs come on the heels of a successful North American tour to over 20 cities and an array of critically-acclaimed performances in Germany and France.
Troy Powell, the veteran Ailey dancer, teacher, choreographer and longtime former Ailey II Associate Artistic Director, was chosen to succeed 38-year founding Artistic Director Sylvia Waters in July of 2012. Troy Powell commented, "I feel blessed to have the opportunity to share the gift of Ailey with audiences and to continue delivering on the promise of keeping the Company fresh, exciting and soul-stirring. I hope everyone enjoys the two programs I curated for my first New York season - you'll smile, sit on the edge of your seat and gasp in amazement at what these 12 dancers can do."
The Company welcomes new Rehearsal Director Alia Kache, who is a former Ailey II member and an Ailey/Fordham BFA Program graduate as well as seven new dancers; Jeroboam Bozeman, David Adrian Freeland Jr., Gentry George, Edward Spots, Tyler Brown, Daphne Lee and Oliver Medus.
Opening night, Wednesday March 13th, The All New program begins with the premiere of One Forgotten Moment by rising young choreographic talent Malcolm Low. This work, set to music by Damon White, Cole Porter and Arvo Part, depicts the love and loss of various relationships. By turns assertive and vulnerable, it magnificently showcases the dancers' physical prowess and finesse.
Next on the program is a new production of Jessica Lang's Splendid Isolation II ("The Calling"). This elegant solo, originally part of Lang's full work Splendid Isolation II, is set to haunting choral music ("O Maria, Stella Maris" performed by Trio Mediaeval), as a woman stands enveloped in a long, flowing skirt that fills the stage. Her movements, at times fluid, at times angular, express an emotional intensity that captures both agony and ecstasy.
Another premiere, Rusty, by Paris-born choreographer Benoit-Swan Pouffer - a former member of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and the current artistic director of Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet - will follow Lang's piece on the All New program. This ballet brings a European sensibility to Ailey II's repertory and is set to the pulsating tones of a score by Mikael Karlsson. This contemporary piece explores the experiences of young artists - the challenges they face and the relationships they build as performers and features ethereal movement and lush partnering. The All New program will close with the premiere of Virtues byAmy Hall Garner. Ms. Garner is emerging as one of America's most diverse creative talents, with a career that spans from Broadway to ballet. In her new work, Virtues, set to a vibrant score by Karl Jenkins, Garner delivers high energy with a sophisticated edge. The dancers radiate with regal grace, deftly executing a distinctive blend of contemporary modern and jazz movement.


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By Lesli Nolen
Published May 2011
Recently I had the privilege of giving a speech on the topic of Priesthood. The Priesthood I'm talking about isn't the kind that requires you to go to seminary school. You don't have to have a degree to act as a priest to someone. I'm talking about a way of life. The way we are represents God to other people. A priest is considered to be anyone who has experienced love, acceptance and forgiveness of God—someone who helps others experience that grace as well. What I discovered was that we are all called to be priest and can be priest.
In our world today, more and more people seem to worship anything and everything except God. They worship money, power, drugs, gadgets; you can fill in the blank with whatever it is that separates you from God. Our world is living apart from God and is quite ugly and discouraging. And it seems like we only call on God when we are in need. And today we are definitely in need!
As I write this article there are numerous wildfires burning in and around San Angelo, Texas, as well as all across the state of Texas. Here locally, the wildfires continue to burn and burn. And the hot, dry weather is not helping either. The firefighters and volunteers are asking for our help. The local radio stations, the TV news stations and the Internet's social networking sites are all publicizing the need for water, food, baby wipes, eye drops and money for tires, fuel and transportation of water. Basically anything you can give to help them out in this time of need will be greatly appreciated.
As we went to drop our items off, you could tell the city of San Angelo has responded in a big way.
While Skylar and I were taking our supplies, water and cash to one of the local radio stations here in town, there were people driving up the same time we were, others were driving away and some were waiting to drop off. The vehicle that was being used to take items out to the firemen was fully loaded. And this was only one of the many drops off locations. People, you are acting as a priest! You came to the aid of someone in need. A priest's mission is to share love, acceptance and forgiveness with other people. You are doing just that. You are showing love!
Not only did many, many people take supplies to the drop off locations, but others served in a different way. The San Angelo Stock Show Association opened up the fairgrounds to house livestock away from the burning pastures. The Humane Society reached out and opened their doors to the animals of those being evacuated. The Foster Communication Coliseum served as housing for those who needed shelter. The citizens opened their wallets, their homes and their hearts for others when they needed it the most.
Matthew 25:35 says, "For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in." Any one of you that has helped out or donated items during this time of need was acting as a priest. You took on the role of the church. The church, is not the building or the walls; it is using your hands and feet for Christ. You are being a representative of God to others.
You helped to reflect light in the midst of darkness, as 1 Peter 2:9 talks about. By donation of items you are being that light for the firemen and volunteers. You are showing that you appreciate all they do and you support them in their efforts in their time of need. Praying for rain, protection and understanding—these are all acts of kindness. They are all characteristics of being a priest.
Do you think the firefighters have felt your love, your prayers? Do you think they know you are giving your best to them when they see truck after truck showing up out there with water, food, money and supplies? Do you think they have felt your grace, your grace of generosity? I do!
Being a priest is showing love to one another. God doesn't call just the preachers of the world to be priest. He calls and equips each and every one of us to be priest. God uses us, the body of Christ and the believers of Christ to represent him on Earth. It's not only our job, but it's our responsibility to be priest to one another.
I pray that by the time this is printed and you are reading this, rain has poured down upon our land. I also pray that just because the crisis is over, you don't stop acting as a priest. Each new day is a new opportunity to show our love for one another. To those drowning in difficulty the touch of a hand, a listening ear or even just a smile can bring a little light to their darkness.


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Loretta Lynn among Presidential Medal Of Freedom recipients
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Loretta Lynn is getting some very special recognition. She's among this year's Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients.
The award is the nation's highest civilian honor, and is presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to world peace, or to the security, cultural, or national interest of the nation.
According to a White House press release, Loretta is being recognized for paving the way for women in country music by "courageously breaking barriers in an industry long dominated by men."
A date for the ceremony hasn't been announced yet, but will take place later this year.
Lynn is one of 16 individuals receiving the award. Other honorees include Oprah Winfrey, baseball great Ernie Banks, former President Bill Clinton, and the late astronaut Sally Ride.
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You probably just need to install your video card driver. What kind of video card do you have? If it happens to be and nvidia card, it should be as easy as
apt-get install nvidia-drivers
and rebooting
Okay, so I'm running Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 on Windows Vista.
I don't know if its because Virtual PC isn't compatible with Vista, but when i try to start BackTrack 4 in Gui, it returns a Fatal Error
I have 2 screens, so i was hoping to start exploring BackTrack 4 while searching for Help documents online (not the easiest thing to do if you haven't configured internet on BackTrack4 yet.)Fatal server error:
AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver 0
giving up.
xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server
xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server erro
I'm going to look around the Virtual PC site to see about updating it and see if i have the same problem with BackTrack3, if anyone has any ideas, I'd be more than willing to try them out.
Bass Speaker
You probably just need to install your video card driver. What kind of video card do you have? If it happens to be and nvidia card, it should be as easy as
apt-get install nvidia-drivers
and rebooting
Okay, sounds like it should work.
Btw, I'm not sure if I'm running a live CD version, or the OS setup version. Since it's a Virtual PC, I'd like to make BT4 the OS.
ANYWAY, besides the point.
okay, so after starting up networking, i tried the apt-get.
I'm not sure if the Virtual PC patching worked, but I'll try downloading the Service Packages.root@bt:`# apt-get install nvidia-drivers
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package nvidia-drivers
If anyone has any advice / experience in this field, i would love your advice
Bass Speaker
it might be tougher if u have an ATi card.
Okay, we're making progress, somewhat.
apt-get install nvidia-drivers doest work
but driver* does.
After starting up networking, and using apt-get install nvidia-driver,
it spends about a minute at this:
0% [Connecting to archive.offensive-securty.com]
(about a minute or two later)
Err Com.org - Only the best links ... pwnsauce/microverse nvidia-driver 190.18-bt3
Could not resolve 'archive.offensive-security.com'
Anyone have any ideas on what to do next ?
Well, do you know that your network is actually working, or have you just started up networking. Try pinging something:
Or try loading a page. If your connection works within the backtrack cd, perhaps the repository was just down.Code:ping -c 4 google.com
Did you trybefore startx?Code:fixvesa
So just go download VMWare Workstation Trail ?
Ok, I guess i'll have to have my fun in 30 days
If anyone else comes up with a solution, I'd still be willing to try it.


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Joey Ferrell has been installed as president of the Kiwanis Club of Redlands-Morning.
A business banker for Pacific Premier Bank in Costa Mesa, Joey has been a member of the club for three years. His mother, Carole Coley, a longtime member of the club and president in 2010-11, was installed as secretary.
Also installed were Marie Jones as president-elect, and Mike Warren as treasurer.
John Coley was installed as immediate past president, completing a second term as club president.
Board members installed were Michael Ballinger, Linda Hemmings and Violet Wiant.
California-Nevada-Hawaii District of Kiwanis International's Division 36 outgoing Lt. Governor Max Tidler and incoming Lt. Governor Don Orosco were on hand to respectively retire and install the old and new board and officers. Mike Warren served as master of ceremonies for the program.
After breakfast, members and guests watched a PowerPoint presentation that reviewed the club's numerous community service activities for the past year as well as the many organizations that the club supports, including the Boy Scouts, The Painted Turtle, Redlands Music Association, Kiwanis International Foundation, Cal-Nev-Ha Kiwanis District Foundation, Youth Hope, Head Start and Redlands Community Scholarship Foundation.
During this year the club has inducted two new members: Paul Zander, a longtime resident of Redlands, who was sponsored by Mike Warren; and Shannon Sawicki, fitness coordinator at Plymouth Village, sponsored by John and Carole Coley.
The club currently meets from 6:50 to 8 a.m. every Thursday at the Esri Caf , at 380 New York St. in Redlands. Guests are welcome. If you are interested in membership in the morning Kiwanis club, contact Carole Coley at email@example.com or 909-335-2474.
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Cockyĺs Reading Express enters Pepsi contest
The University of South Carolina's Center for Children's Books and Literacy has entered Cocky's Reading Express in this month's Pepsi Refresh Project, a monthly competition run by the soda-pop manufacturer that rewards good ideas that have a positive impact.
The center is competing for a $50,000 grant for the November competition. Votes for Cocky's Reading Express can be cast daily at www.refresheverything.com/readingexpress.
If chosen as one of the top 10 projects, USC would use the money to continue its efforts to break the cycle of illiteracy through education and outreach. Among its practices are giving books to school children, providing literacy kits to families and educating families on encouraging life-long reading habits.
Ellen Shuler Hinrichs, executive director of the center, encourages people to vote daily through the end of November and outlines how the funds would be used.
As part of Cocky's Reading Express, student volunteers will visit children in 35 underserved elementary schools in three counties across the state, all home to USC campuses. These volunteers read aloud to children and, to emphasize the importance of life-long reading, give books to all children who pledge to read aloud with their family.
To reinforce these visits, the School of Library and Information Sciences, which houses the center, will host a family literacy program in each of the targeted counties. Families will receive information about the importance of reading at home and will receive a literacy kit that includes three picture books.
Cocky's Reading Express has partnered with Student Government for more than five years to bring the joy of reading and the values of literacy to children across South Carolina. The program has gained national acclaim for its unique partnership of student government, the School of Library and Information Sciences and the university mascot.
For more information on the South Carolina Center for Children's Books and Literacy and Cocky's Reading Express, contact Ellen Shuler Hinrichs at 803-734-8207.


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Lincoln Police and Fire & Lancaster County Sheriff live audio feed
Welcome to the Lincoln 911 Center, a nationally accredited Center through CALEA (Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, inc.).
Lincoln is one of the few cities in the United States where Police, Fire, and Communications have all received national accreditation. Lincoln received accreditation in 2002 making it only the 14th center in the nation to be accredited by CALEA.
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