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Well, I couldn't leave things hanging now, could I? Apologies for the photos. I've been trying to improve my pictures with a couple of tips from the ole interwebs. I think the images are looking sharper, but a bit washed out and pastel-like compared to real life. Still, to my mind at least, they do seem to have something going for them that I like.
First up, three WF zombie vixens. The one on the left uses the extra handbag accessory. I've tried to give the impression that she was a housewife, and so have used neutral colours like beige, brown and white to keep her from standing out too much in a crowd. The middle zombie is wearing some sort of ball gown, and because her posture doesn't scream "zombie", I used a more skeletal head to give some sort of balance to the model. She is the latest addition to the horde, so her base hasn't been finished off yet. Finally, we come to a businesswoman who has seen better days. I've used a few of the severed arms with splinters of bone protruding in building my zombie vixens, but tried not to go overboard with them. Less is more, as they say.
This next selection was fun. There's not a lot you can do with the waitress body. I may make something like a french maid or cleaner, maybe, with the others, but this time out, I decided to just go with the flow. A lot of stick seems to be received because of the "gotta pee" pose, but I think a zombie in high heels is probably likely to end up in that pose at some point as it tries to move around. In the middle is my zombie trailer trash chick. Note the gimpy, shrivelled arm. There are a few such pieces on the sprue. I love 'em! Little touches like that can really help creep you out on a subtle "somethin' ain't right" level without resorting to gallons of gore. On the right is Murgatroyd, my first female zombie. I converted her some time ago by simply slapping a pair of green stuff boobs on a Mantic zombie body (from which I removed an arm for extra gross factor). I'm glad she has some company now.
And, just because I wanted a change of pace, here's a
fatty from the Zombicide board game which I finished off. Zombicide is a
great game, by the way. Looking forward to getting the whole set of minis painted up. This guy will also serve as a tank zombie in other games.
No surviors yet, but this is a work in progress of what I'm terming a Z-Tac team. Corporate/Government (haven't decided which yet) zombie hunters with specialized weaponry, and body armour, designed to protect against hostile survivors, but also designed with panels that will tear off in case a zombie grabs them. Z-Tac team members always go into combat bare-headed to allow their team-mates a clean kill shot if they get bitten. I'll think more on the back story as I go along.
The model is an EM-4 plastic sci-fi trooper with a few GW bits added on. In retrospect, I'd have used more realistic weapons, but I had plenty of spare GW plastic weapons lying around, and it seemed a shame not to use them. Still, that gun certainly makes the sarge look like he means business!


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There used to be a Polaris (I think) in my inground pool. The booster pump was dead and has been removed and the Polaris was never seen by me. I've capped it off but I am thinking of a pool cleaner now. To buy a new booster and cleaner is a bit out of my price range, but I was going to look at getting a kreepy krawley suction type cleaner. I'd love to use the port as a dedicated suction port.
Can I just pipe it into the other intakes? Does it make sense to do this?
Currently there is a diverter valve (I think) that has two intakes (one is the drain, the other is the combined skimmers (2 of them must tee together underground)). If I add this third suction port, should I remove the divertor and just use three ball valves before combining them? Would that work and is that the way to do it?
I can post pics or draw a picture if needed.

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1. Is there anyway to check my M1 data usage online instead of the one in Iphone?
2. Does M1 charge for Facetime usage? I know this was discussed in one of the thread but i could not conclude anything from there. Wat i understood from that thread was that the Facetime activation will be charged whenever Facetime is turned 'ON' hence the recommendation is to leave it ON all the time. My question is more on the Facetime usage, will i be charged for the usage?
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Nightmares from the Deep: A Hidden Object Adventure is a bold mix of features from one of the most popular HOPA adventure games, and the free-to-play model. Set in the 18th century in the eternal Caribbean, the game allows players to immerse themselves in the colorful world of legendary pirates.
The player takes on the role of Aimee Duvall, an orphan whose tough life in the shady districts of a port city have made her resourceful and able to confront adversity. The story starts when the heroine is captured by pirates from the Society of the Black Spot. The villains are looking for the lost treasure of a Portuguese fleet, and their legendary Captain Bloodbeard seems to consider Aimee the key to finding the mythical fortune. Bootjack, her father's friend, arrives to rescue the heroine just in time. The girl begins to understand that the medallion and piece of a mysterious map that she inherited may be much more than just a family keepsake.
Will Aimee succeed in solving the riddle and find her father?
(source: http://www.artifexmundi.com)
Designing "a bold mix"
How about being involved in creating top-quality casual adventure games and at the same time fascinated with how free-to-play casuals make their way to the top of mobile games charts? The outcome can be only one:
It's time to do our best and show something totally new to the world!
This philosophy led our team to a great challenge, probably the greatest of my game designer's career.
Development of puzzle adventure F2P game, with gameplay, graphics and story on the same level of excellence as studio's previous productions, with new features never before seen in any game on casual market.
Both production-wise and design-wise, this project was huge. Almost every step required well-performed research on casual market combined with developed intuition and skills of everyone involved.
Basic idea seemed fairly easy: Take what's best from the two popular formats and make those best features work together. And then basic idea brings you more problems and riddles to solve every day. Every solution had to be iterated thoroughly to actually be realized. From the shape of procedurally generated locations, to the story that had to be interesting while smuggled in speech bars of random side-characters.
During making of NFTD: A Hidden Object Adventure, along with the team, we developed few interesting solutions to properly answer those arising problems and questions.
Here's few words, on few of them.
Procedural generation of levels in casual adventure game
While making 2D adventure game, like any HOPA we made previously, we had to prepare hand-painted, detailed and vivid locations, to make exploration of our game one enjoyable and unforgettable experience.
We considered no excuses in quality while starting work on NFTD:AHOA 2D levels — obviously, that's where our talented art-team skills were to be shown! Thus, our plan was to keep our stand-alone games' highly polished graphical style, even with realizing how assets-heavy it may become as for a mobile game. And here the reality came along to mess things up.
Of course, places to explore in adventure game have to be interesting, full of details, colourful and live. But, in reasonable free-to-play format you just have to make the place re-usable, to reduce the production costs and weight of assets from the technological aspect.
More importantly from the design's perspective, when players enter the same place in game's world over and over again, they need to see that the world changes due to their actions. The game has to feel alive and never fully discovered. Otherwise, the whole experience may become boring habit quite quickly. And that would almost certainly kill enthusiasm among the players, causing big drop in game's retention value.
In popular Hidden Object Games there is usually little pressure put on the aspect of entry points' coherence — every place can be described simply as a big scene with more and more hidden objects dropped in as the player's skill progresses. Obviously, in good games those elements are designed and drawn carefully. The aim of this fluent fusion of skills is to provide the best difficulty increase and balance of gameplay possible — because that's what is practically building up the whole experience.
In case of our game, where we wanted to involve story and characters atop of the objects search layer, whole thing instantly became much more tricky than we'd ever expect it to be.
Inspired by the best trends among top-grossing mobile games, as well as by classic solutions found in interactive stories and rougue-likes, we decided to give a shot to the procedural generation. Maximum possible randomization of the 2D image, while keeping its consistency and logic. Locations are prepared and joined together in a way that allows to randomize each entry point's differing look for every generated adventure.
That's a huge step forward while crafting the gameplay which has to be re-used, sometimes many hundreds times. It turned out for us to be the practical method with impressive effects, but it also appeared to be significantly time- and assets-consuming. We discovered that fact when the production was at its bloom.
That's because we were able to see how it actually performs only when facing almost final prototype. Mix of almost final level design joined with functional art and pre-balanced gameplay of first few locations shown us, that we took some really demanding (and expensive) task on ourselves. Then, it was virtually no way back.
So, if you ever plan to make such a huge game with use of procedurally generated levels, feel warned — it's certainly an ambitious plan.
Hidden Object Scenes:
Matching casual feel with fast pacing
This is the most characteristical part of casual hidden object games: laid-back, relaxing gameplay. Difficult just enough to give players a challenge, but mostly not stressing and allowing them to explore the beautiful, hand-crafted world of images.
Most of typical HOGs (hidden object games) found on today's market involves time limit on hidden object scenes as a main tool to balance the game's difficulty. With time limit, the difficulty curve on progression charts looks different than in the classical HOPA game — its smooth increase is significantly fragile.
Every mistake of an artist and/or a designer can cause a stressful drop in feeling among the experienced players, letting down their expectations of their favourite logical gameplay.
No excuses here – each element of each scene must remain logical, visually attractive and at the same time enough challenging to demand some use of power-ups, helping in beating it in the shortest time possible. It's very hard to craft this kind of experience suiting almost every player.
Having this knowledge, we still saw no better way to involve target players, than introducing time limit like other F2P games. At the beggining, we felt that this "mandatory" restriction for casual gameplay is not the best available solution. Later we learned, why it's actually neccesary and why in the end it appears we made the best possible move.
F2P players are at the moment used to the confinements of gameplay, characteristical for the genre. Decreasing energy or currency required for exploration is something rather naturally found in every free-to-play game. Most of F2P opponents argue, that these factors are the intricate mechanism to "suck money out" of players — while they are supposed to get their product "free", as the name indicates. I get the emotional reasons that stand behind this approach, still I couldn't fully agree on it. Without those restrictions it would be very hard, if not impossible to even create an endless, consistent gameplay given away for free, not mentioning any profit for the developers. I mean, not in this economy system we have today.
To make things sweeter for everyone: There's an unspoken trade here, between developers and players. Due to the strict requirements of free-to-play market, developers have to take monetizing issues into consideration to even stand a chance in getting to the public's notion. But, with that confinements come also opportunities to transform the gameplay into more challenging, and thus even more rewarding for the casual players of F2P games. It is doable by careful iteration of gameplay's balance in prototype phase, soon leading to research on almost-final product within small groups of beta-testers. Close contact of designers, programmers and quality assurance experts is crucial for this process to give the best possible effects. Effects unseen in most of the stand-alone intended video games.
To simplify the process: We infused our well-crafted hidden object scenes with the best features taken straight out of well-known HOGs. We took a good care to make them rich in puzzles, intriguing, relaxing and at the same time enough challenging for the short time left for casual players to explore them. Surprisingly, crafting the hidden object hunt part of gameplay brought us ourselves a lot of fun and lead us into making something genuinely fresh, beautiful and smoothly playable.
Sometimes all you need to do is to… copy. Find the best experiences while playing the copy. Choose your favourite few and point them out carefully, your way. This way you estabilish features that feel fresh, while being based mostly on existing, proven solutions. Paradoxally to some, in my opinion that's exactly the way we should develop the casual genres. Non-invasively for the fans, focused mostly on pleasing the players, still giving your game the best you can.
Simple logic with sophisticated system
Mini-games in NFTD:AHOA are another dimension of casual gameplay. Adventures consist mostly of interactive gameplay related with story, characters, world and items. Hidden object scenes challenge players' associative and adaptive skills in detailed, senses-feeding environment. Mini-games present players with intriguing and sometimes quite sophisticated logical puzzles.
I think they are the most demanding of all the game's elements. They can provide real challenge for casual players, especially on higher levels of difficulty. Again, every single mistake in smooth gameplay and balance design could result in accidental frustration. With our experience in mini-games used in our previous games, we made everything we could to provide players with puzzles that they will love to master. Laid-back at the beggining, demanding and satysfying in later stages of the game.
To create this kind of experience, designers had to split rules of every mini-game into small, individual portions. Then we needed to browse through their logic to find the pattern of difficulty increase. With this knowledge, we were able to make each different mini-game demanding more or less at the same degree when presenting players with the constant confinement of time limit.
Here's where procedural generation had to meet pure design and programming prerogatives. All the dirty moves allowed, to deeply understand and beat the game you've just created. One example of unusual designer's skill to control balance and gameplay progression: use of calculation charts.
Let's take match-3-like puzzle mini-game for instance.
- Obstacles and tokens are divided into types. Each type is then divided into its possible appearance on the grid: as a single token, cluster of them, or a functional group.
- Later, possibly many various grids are introduced, each consisting of different types of obstacles mixed into playable levels.
- Those prototype levels are then presented to the beta-testers, to find out what are approximate skills and time needed to beat each level. How much does it take to break through each of obstacles, in relation with other ones?
- Then you collect the data, add some of designer's gut-feeling, maths and heavy iteration to create working, pre-balanced levels editor.
- Finally, if your calculations were correct, what you get is a handy tool for designers to provide new levels with increasing difficulty for updates — in practically no time.
Deep understanding of created mini-game's mechanics comes free of charge.
Vast world to explore
Metagame is the visit card of every major F2P title. Here the player is experiencing the vast game's world, filled with adventures, colourful characters and the game's main mechanics. This time production plan was fairly simple – make possibly the most functional hub for all the game's features, with especially top-notch graphics, animations and clear user interface. Everything as simple as possible, while giving the feeling of an endless content, just waiting to surprise the players with its well-polished feel.
With hard work of everyone involved, the meta-game was growing steadily, becoming more rich with every passing Agile sprint. Was they the programmers taking care of fluent, bug-free functionality, the graphic designers turning their marvellous concepts into state-of-art world and characters full of life, or the writers introducing their particular wit and clever wordplay into the game's narration.
I think after many iterations our soft-launch meta-game world map turned out to be exactly the impressive visit card our game needed!
Just dive into it!
At the project's beggining noone thought it's going to be "a piece of cake". Of course, with that attitude we just had to be right! That's why our work on NFTD: AHOA consisted mostly of mastering the best possible way to combine many-years skills and experience of Artifex Mundi team with playful improvising on totally new challenges.
Now, after some time has passed from prototyping phase to the released build, I realize how much we owe to the producers. Without proper workflow and excellent plan it seems next to impossible to me to ever deliver this kind of game. Whole team firmly embraced this big challenge. With so many points of risk, not fully recognized market, and a great need for improvising skills. Even with that in mind, our casual-setup artists and designers have put as many passion into the project as they possibly could, while carefully crafting the gameplay balance and inerasable features related with monetizing issues.
Very few of us actually had faced making the casual F2P before the production process has begun. The team was very experienced in providing the great quality fun with casual adventure games, but when we left our comfort zones to try as many new things as possible — the waters we travelled on turned out to be hostile.
The crew and the ship were ready for everything. And soon we faced everything.
Our fingers were constantly on pulse of what's going on in mobile games market. We focused thoroughly on gaining every possible lecture, book, expert conversation on free-to-play games development, to later incorporate what we've learned into this massive, uncharted project.
Words would become too complicated to give away the size of that kind of endeavor and richness of the gameplay created. The best way to describe it, is simply to try it out.
— Des
The initial version released on iPad contains:
- 740 addictive adventures to dive into
- 300 intriguing quests to tackle
- 38 collections to piece together
- Eight stunning locations and 14 scenes to explore
- Nine challenging mini-games to play
- Hundreds of unique characters and over a dozen powerful Talismans
I had my good share in design of every part of this vast title.


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Publisher: Penguin Group
The lip gloss that turned Harper Jane Price's world upside down.
I love Harper! She maybe way too lady like but she kind of break that image of hers and became a total headbutting bad ass of the town. I like how she developed her relationship with her arch nemesis David Stark and made her friendship with him go to a whole new level, also her using of swear words, she so totally against swearing and cursing that you could actually see it on how she tell the story. So clean. Harper has this attitude of trying to fix everything like she can handle her social life and her supernatural life altogether, it stresses her out but wont admit it, that is the flaw in her character, why wont she take the advice of the people around her which is only one word… Chill.
This whole business of Paladins, Oracles and Mages really did spark up my interest about the book, it's really cool how Harper is waiting for her Professor X to sprung up and teach her how to be a Paladin and it turns out to be the person she least expected. Harper has a nice relationship with her best friend, Bee, who tries to understand Harper situation and never turns her back on Harper. David and Ryan, the geek hottie and the jock hottie. I'm so looking forward on how would these two deal with each other considering their current situation. I love how the author made Harper he bad ass here and not a damsel in distress. The awkward trio! Roles are exchanged where oracles and mages are suppose to be girls become boys and paladins who are supposed to be boys become girls, that role swap made the book even more cool. So keep up the good job Rachel Hawkins.
It's really cool how the story is written though it's kind of dragging at some point, but from the moment it hit the climatic incident everything is so high on top that when the s-word (see what I did there, s-word) went down it got me holding on so hard and craving for the next installment, that cliff-hanger at the end is real deal cliff-hanger.
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We have had plenty of brand new furniture ranges come into our stores and online this month already, and with our sale ending in just over a week, we thought we would give you a rundown of our favourite new pieces so you can snap them up just in time.
If your bedroom is in need of a bit of a pick me up then the Orsay bedroom range is a fantastic choice. The ultra-glamorous collection is just the thing if you want to add some luxury in to your life. Panels of glistening antique mirror silver leaf, with wood finished trim, are set against soft oyster colour that creates a lavish feast for the eyes.
Made from popular hardwood solids and veneers, the handcrafted finishing process uses up to sixteen steps, resulting in unsurpassed clarity and depth of colour. The durable surface of the furniture has a smoothness that is delightful to the touch. This is certainly a range that will create character in your bedroom.
Alternatively, if your dining room is the one in need of a makeover, then the Arklow range is here to help and inspire you. Made from spruce wood with a smokehouse distressed finish, this range creates a fantastic rustic look.
With the whole collection created to offer this stunning rustic finish, no two pieces are the same, with timber knots and distressing adding to the Arklow unique natural charm. So if you are looking for a dining range with a difference, this is it.
Maybe it's your living room that you want to update, then the Galena Corner Group is just the ticket. The stylish corner sofa comes in three different sizes, with the smallest of the lot seating up to five people! This is the perfect space saver whilst giving you optimum seating.
Its soft linen fabric mixed with 100% goose feather cushions makes this corner sofa the sofa of your dreams.
This is just a small fraction of new items added to the Barker and Stonehouse family, there are plenty more to choose from online and in store. Why not head over to our website and discover furniture you will instantly fall in love with?
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The Momster here today. I wanted to thank all of you so much for all the suggestions and ideas for getting Phantom to eat. I have been calling him Picky Boy for a while now, but it is probably a misnomer. He just plain doesn't want to eat. Some days I think he has an eating disorder. I did want to clear up a few things. Phantom is not on a diet of plain kibble. I have tried to feed him everything you can possibly think of. He does NOT like his food mixed with anything, so forget adding broth. I have tried sprinkling cheese, garlic, and small bits of tuna on his food. He won't touch it. If he is going to eat, the food has to be separated from anything else. One day he might eat chicken, another day he walks away from it. Same with any kind of meat I cook for him. For a while this fall he was doing pretty well with some raw organic chicken patties by Nature's Variety, and I really thought we had hit the jackpot. But now he will only eat a very small amount of it once in a while. We have tried probiotics and pepcid, but if it is IN or ON his food, he won't eat . If I try to give it to him as medicine, I have to put it down his throat and wait for him to swallow it, then he retreats to his crate because he gets so upset by it.
We have done tuna, sardines, liverwurst, rice, pasta, baby food, hot dogs, chicken, turkey, beef, cheese, yogurt, peanut butter, broth (he hates his food wet) . He won't eat potatoes. We have a buster cube, but forget that, he won't even try.
He really is a mystery. Most of you will look at his photos and say he looks great, but if you could touch him, you would probably report me for abuse. It is not very easy for me to touch him as he is just like a skeleton. Some days I can get him to eat treats, but I don't want him to live on treats. The vet tells me to give him whatever he wants to get him to eat. Ha - easier said than done.
He is scheduled for his annual physical in early January at which time the vet will most likely run another senior panel on him and check his numbers. In the meantime, I just keep trying to get him to eat. With his two malignant lumps, I can't help but wonder . . .
One other suggestion from a reader was more walks for him alone with just me. He and I walk together almost every day - he does LOVE his walks.
Today he was treated to a day at the spa. TD and Ciara go tomorrow. He came home looking pretty spiffy. What do you think?
The groomer is so good to him, treats him very gently and got him done by noon so he didn't have to stay all day. Let's hope he is hungry tonight.
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"And it's a great day to be alive, you know the sun's still shinin' when I close my eyes..."
~Travis Tritt
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Some fall photos for you this morning - it's such a beautiful time of year!
I'm off to an all-day crop. I should have lots to share when I get back. Have a super sunny Saturday everyone!


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Track: Hillsborough boys, Plant girls take titles
Plant's girls and Hillsborough's boys won team titles at Tuesday's Vernon Korhn Track Championships, but the Panthers and Terriers did it in decidedly different ways — Plant more through the distance events and Hillsborough in sprints and jumps.
In the end, Plant's girls won with 92 points, eight ahead of second-place Wharton. Freedom was third with 75 points, followed by Hillsborough with 63. Hillsborough's boys, meantime, won with 68 points, 13 ahead of runner-up Jefferson.
The overall star of the meet was Hillsborough's Jeremiah Green, who won four events: the triple jump (48 feet), long jump (23-91/4), 100 meters (10.64) and 200 meters (21.45).
Following are more highlights from the distance, sprints and field events:
Field Events � Chamberlain's Andrea Aaron continued her dominance in the discus and shot put, winning both with throws of 121-41/2 and 41-3 respectively, while Britainy Smith again won the girls pole vault by clearing 10 feet, 6 inches.
The usual suspects were also prevalent in the high jump, where defending state champion Faith Woodard won with a leap of 5-9, followed by teammate Sandra Akachukwa at 5-6.
On the boys' side, Green, who owns the nation's longest triple jump at 52 feet, 1 inch, made only one attempt at the triple jump and one at the long jump before sitting down to rest for the sprints.
"In a meet like this, we don't want his legs to get tired by jumping a whole bunch," Hillsborough coach Joe Sipp said. "We want him to be as fresh as possible for the sprints, and he sure was today."
Green's 100 and 200 times were personal bests.�
Distances � Plant dominated the girls' distance events, placing first and second in both the 1,600 and 3,200. Scarlett Fox won the 1,600 in 5:13.92 and teammate Caroline Gibson was second in 5:17.65, outleaning Bloomingdale's Annie Barrett, who was third in 5:17.66.
�Gibson came back to take another second in the 3,200, won by Bailey Sullivan in 11:49.85. Sullivan opened a lead on the pack early in the second mile and cruised to victory.
�"The first mile felt good, and then I just felt like I needed to go with three laps left," Sullivan said.
Overall, Plant coach Roy Harrison was pleased with his distance runners, who filled in some needed points after a few Panthers struggled in earlier events.
"It wasn't a perfect meet, but we found a way to get it done," Harrison said.
In one of the closest races of the day, Steinbrenner's Matt Magee took the boys 1,600 in 4:31.01, holding off a fast-closing Lars Benner of Newsome, winning in 4:31.01. Benner, who crashed to the track on the final lean, ran 4:31.02.
Magee's teammate, Tyler Bess-Lima, won the 3,200 in 9:46.57. Abdin Fator was second in 9:59.75.
Earlier in the day, Magee and Bess-Lima combined to help Steinbrenner the win in the 4x800 relay in 8:02.09.
Jonathan Moore of Jefferson won the 800 in 1:57.�
Sprints � After Green's dominance, Deontae Williams of Tampa Bay Tech shined, placing second in both the 100 in 200 in times of 10.73 and 21.81, respectively.
�Alonso's William Taylor-Haynes ran an impressive 13.98 in the 110 hurdles. He won by nearly a second over Caleb Chambliss of Tampa Bay Tech, who was second in 14.94. The time was a personal best for Taylor-Haynes.
On the girls' side, Hillsborough's Jorian Ordway won the 200 and 400. In the 200, she edged another multi-event performer, Freedom's Akachukwu.
�Ordway won the 400 in 55.59. She returned to run on Hillsborough's second-place 4x400 team. They were edged out by Wharton — 3:55.71 to 3:55.79.
�Wharton's anchor, Kiana Outen, said, "last meet they beat us, and the girl passed me in the last 20 meters, so I'm glad I did that."
�King's Carrol Hardy won the 100 in 11.78, beating Akachukwu, who ran 11.86. � Tribune correspondent Lars Steier contributed to this report.
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• Discard non-paper inserts such as magnets or sample packets
• Remove food wrappings and any food
• Department store "non-glossy" type paper bags are okay, but remove rope handles
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- NO microwave popcorn bags -
• Remove bags, plastic wrap and magnets
• Aerosol cans must be empty
• Labels are okay
• Remove plastic caps unless they are part of the can
• Spray nozzles are okay
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DJAKARTA, Indonesia - — There were hearings on freedom of the press last month in Indonesia's House of Representatives and one of the speakers for the government was a retired general named Moetjib, who is governor of the National Resilience Institute. He was asked a rather basic question: "Should journalists report fact or fiction?''
"Sure we have to tell the truth," he answered. "But as a responsible person, truths that could lead to the excessive chaos in society would be best left unsaid. In this case, a little lie wouldn't hurt."
A few weeks later, just across the water in Singapore, The Straits Times, the island city-state's English-language newspaper, celebrated its 150th anniversary. Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong spoke to the staff and his remarks were the lead story the next day. The paper reported:
"`The Singapore press should develop its own model of journalism which would help perpetuate the country's virtuous cycle of prosperity,' the prime minister said. `It should not ape the western press, which held itself up as an adversarial watchdog of government ... the press should help forge consensus, aid nation-building and create a climate in which the country could progress.'''
That's a pretty accurate summation of the role of the press in what are arguably the two most open countries around here. In Indonesia, three magazines were closed down last year for raising questions about the astounding financial success of the family of President Suharto, another retired general. Since then, the government has formed a closed-shop journalists' union of sorts so that it can prevent reporters from reporting by kicking them out of the union. In Singapore, they block the circulation of foreign journals that raise any question about the operation of the "virtuous cycle."
Those "tigers," as Asian nations like to describe themselves and their economic successes, are pussycats compared with some of their neighbors. Malaysia banned business dealings with British companies after the Sunday Times of London reported on bribery in the government. In the Peoples Republic of China, a reporter for a Hong Kong journal, Xi Yang, was sentenced to 12 years in jail for publishing a "state secret" - the secret being a change in interest rates paid by the national bank. In Cambodia, where there are no laws to deal with the press, two editors and a reporter were assassinated during the year.


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Definition of say goodbye to
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The Red-tailed Hawk family has succeed in having two eyas. Very hard to see them but I can hear them and see them flapping around high in the nest.
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Very little activity today until 10am. The female continued to build the nest and just as I was about to leave she started to soar around and around. She built up speed as she went higher and higher around the building. Very very cool.
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text: The rambling thoughts of homeschooling mom of ten. This was never how I pictured my life, although I often thought I would like a lot of children, TEN was a number that never occurred to me! That was just, WOW! And homeschooling? Noooo, no way, that was never a thought to consider, I told my newly wed husband. But lo and behold, several moves and major life changes later, I find myself as a wife of a dairy farmer of all things(I grew up CITY…and a little suburb…) and homeschooling at least 7 of the munchkins I've been blessed with. As of right now (2016) our oldest is almost 14 and our youngest is just 2 months.


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Although I suppose you probably also loved the "Save XP" campaign so I guess I shouldn't be surprised to see such statements anymore. GUI? Disable Hibernate (and Delete hiberfil.sys) in Windows 10, 8, 7, or Vista You'll need to open an administrator mode command prompt by right-clicking on the command prompt in the start menu, Maxer Ars Legatus Legionis Tribus: Under the spreading chestnut tree... this content
Sure, you can delete it. Please post the contents of the link here & then link back for reference if you want to give credit –pun Jan 27 at 3:04 1 Thanks for the comment! Now if there is a reason I am not aware of to move the 1.5 Gig pagefile back to the boot drive I will. I think I have it sorted out. http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?t=669429
today called Killdisk. Which tool? –Syclone0044 May 25 '15 at 5:42 add a comment| up vote 0 down vote If you have only one drive, or you want to maintain the integrity of the The bigget the file the more the stability and if you can afford the size then just have a cup of tea and forget about it.
The page file can then be opened and the document can be extracted as well as any other open program or files. dinesh | March 29, 2009 at 8:38 am any solutions for windows vista?? God this thread is entertaining'¦ I do hope the enlightenment continues. Delete Hibernation File Windows 10 This is why the disk drivers are automatically keeping track of things like the average request queue depth.
If you do put the file elsewhere, you should leave a small amount on C: - an initial size of 2MB with a Maximum of 50 is suitable - so it Delete Pagefile.sys Windows 10 When I'm done, the only way to stop the system from going into hiccups whenever I call up something that's been so "exiled" is basically to reboot. You'll notice that both pagefile.sys and swapfile.sys are now gone from your disk. http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/296291-32-problem-deleting-pagefile So they'll still end up paging to disk (the pagefile as well as other files) as long as the fault rate is fairly low.
Ghost is clever enough to not bother copying pagefile contents - your pagefile size won't affect the ghost image size or copy time. What Is Hiberfil.sys And Pagefile.sys In Windows 7 Believe it or not, the OS designers really do know what they're doing... Annie_2 3 posts since Oct 2016 Newbie Member Junction with OneDrive Last Post 2 Weeks Ago I have a problem with OneDrive. LEAVE the $hf_mig$ folder UNTOUCHED. [those folders in blue are there in case you wished to reverse a KB article package, such as an update or security fix; if your sys
May 27, 2011 Al I have tried to delete heberfil.sys but haven't had any luck. Feb 1 Posted by Jed As to the pagefile.sys that is in use by the virtual memory if you have plenty of ram you can turn off or at least reduce Hiberfil.sys Delete I thought the pagefiles were used round-robin or has Win2k or XP changed that? Pagefile.sys Size The UI will bog down too, but it won't complain (could be a bug, dunno, but it seems to occur with slow servers and heavy, image laden pages).So even telling moz
Obviously most other choose differently. news I don't understand everything. restart Joji | August 3, 2008 at 8:20 am hi.. Believe me, there are literally hundreds of such things for the average user to delete with no ill-effects. Pagefile.sys Huge
From file properties → Advanced → Owner, you can assign yourself ownership if you're an admin. My latest image is just about 1.6 G compressed. No personal information. have a peek at these guys slipe Ars Scholae Palatinae Registered: Dec 23, 1999Posts: 1069 Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2003 4:44 pm quote:Originally posted by DriverGuru:A two to 50 GB pagefile on your boot partition is far
My system drive is the 80Gb, the 20 is empty and the 9gb one is my "app/game of the week" drive. Disable Hiberfil.sys Windows 10 Windows was actually using it - which made the 'currently in use' part of the error box significant.My E drive where the pagefile was supposed to be stored is NTFS and I'll store that away for the next file I can't get rid of.As for the pagefile on the boot drive it is back to 2 - 50.
Now all that said... You either encrypt the swap file, or you securely wipe it on shutdown (doing many many passes) but you probably don't want to wait an hour for your machine to shutdown My system drive is the 80Gb, the 20 is empty and the 9gb one is my "app/game of the week" drive. Hiberfil Windows 10 euthan420 | August 19, 2010 at 11:17 pm i have windows 7 ultimate with 1gb ram.
April 21, 2010 Nawlins Jeaux Interesting… but how do you re-enable it, if you decide later that you want it? With that much ram your system shouldn't need to hit your hard drive. February 24, 2011 Patio I get You do not have permission to enable or disable the Hibernate feature, So what can I do about this? http://enymedia.com/windows-10/cannot-delete-program.php Do you know how to use the Microsoft symbol server?
what the hell? In a company crossing multiple timezones, is it rude to send a co-worker a work email in the middle of the night? Good point though April 23, 2010 calebstein @Kevin: You can't delete the file while hibernation is enabled, because the file is system owned. Any and all help, assistance or thoughts would be greatly appreciated at this point as I'm currently 'dead in the water' till I can get the HD back UP on it's
Type one command and you're done. Ditto for chemistry.Now I can add windows users and driver developers to that list.----Any chance someone could answer the first poster's question though? Just head into Control Panel –> Power Options, and then find the Hibernate tab. I don't know why this article doesn't mention that, but thanks for the tip.
Do to the technical details of how it works, very bad things can start happening if your page file fills up and can't increase in side any more. Although the registry was correct, the file was still there and wouldn't let me delete. A single overwrite is COMPLETELY sufficient to render non-recoverable any data formerly in the overwritten area as long as the drive's normal interface is used. The help files have a lot of detail on the trees but no description of the forest as it relates to the administrator on a single user system.
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Art Class in Tokyo -- Suiboku-ga / Sumie / Japanese Traditional Black Ink Painting.
Come and Discover Sumie ! Experience Japanese Traditional Art ! You can capture the essence of Zen by making a Sumie painting. Attraction for tourists.
About the artist:
The facilitator has extensive knowledge in Japanese art. Apart from being a painter she is an art writer who graduated with a BA in Art Studies and History. She also studied in an Art College in London.
I have had participants from various areas of the world - USA, Canada, France, UK, Ireland, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Brazil and more... Looking forward to welcoming you!
Tamayo Samejima Sumi-e class was featured on the magazine"Otoko no Kakurega," 2017 September issue.
【Sumie Painting Class in Tokyo】
In this course, you will learn traditional painting techniques of Suiboku-ga / Sumie / Japanese Ink Painting in a step-by-step manner by an English speaking artist. One-time participation is welcome.
June 28, Thursday 19:30-21:30 (KOJIMACHI)
Regular Class
Link Crystal Culture Club
Kojimachi Morinaga Building 5F, 4-5-6, Kojimachi, Chiyodaku, Tokyo
1 min walk from Kojimachi Station (Tokyo Metro Yurakucho Line) Exit 2
June 30, Saturday 14:00-16:00 (UENO)
Regular Class
TUGUMI Ueno Studio
Vasson Shinobazu Bldg. #202, Ikenohata 2-1-42 , Taitouku, Tokyo
5 mins walk from Nezu Station(Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line)
<Fee> 4,000yen / 2 hrs / 1 person
* On-site payment
* Please kindly understand that you are to be charged a cancellation fee in full if you cancel your reservation on the date.
【Sumie Painting Personal / Group Lesson】
2-hour intensive lesson by an English speaking artist for individuals and groups.
Please let me know at least 3 preferred dates and times to fix your lesson.
<Venue> Higashi Omiya Community Center
3 mins walk from JR Higashi-Omiya Station; approx.40min by train from central Tokyo,
and the famous Bonsai Village is located near the next station, Toro.
<Fee> 6,000yen / 2 hrs / 1 person
* Please kindly understand that you are to be charged a cancellation fee in full if you cancel your reservation on the date.
*If you do not have any of the materials below, please contact me in advance. I will bring the materials for you.
What to Bring:
◆ Old newspapers, to cover the table before painting.
◆ 4 Dress pins
◆ Calligraphy set:
1 Ink stone
1 Ink stick
2 Japanese paint brushes (big and small)
1 Used towel to wipe brushes during painting
1 Water container for cleaning brushes during painting (Plastic cup or the like can be a substitute)
2 Small plates with white inner sides (Plastic plates or the like can be a substitute)


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From the jumpy opening track, Skinny White Girls, it's pretty clear that Toronto's Kill the Lights are gonna be a band to watch in 06. Taking a cue from the melodic wall-of-sound tendencies of My Bloody Valentine and the jittery energy of Talking Heads, Winter Asthmatics is a lovely and layered album full of warbling but affecting melodies and plenty of that indie-rock disco stuff that the kids are going crazy for these days. Singer/guitarist Alex Hackett makes a whole lot of beautiful noise on his axe, while the rhythm section keeps up with sweaty energy and creative playing.
Kill the Lights play the El Mocambo tonight (Thursday, December 8).


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Introduction: Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most common and malignant of adult glial tumors. Despite best standard of care including surgical resection, radiation and chemotherapy (e.g. temozolomide), the median survival remains approximately 12 – 15 months, with fewer than 25% of patients surviving up to 2 years and less than 10% of patients surviving up to 5 years. We sought to identify a preliminary set of baseline tissue-based DNA and protein features which may reflect growth mechanisms responsible for disease progression, and overall survival (OS).
Methods: Formalin fixed paraffin embedded specimens from 54 patients (44 Astrocytoma (including 14 GBM), 6 oligodendroglioma and 4 mixed) with outcome data and a median follow-up of 3 years were evaluated using dual-color DNA FISH for PTEN and EGFR. A multispectral immunofluorescent (IF) assay was used as previously described (Cordon-Cardo et al., 2007) to evaluate Ki67, PTEN, and P-AKT. Feature performance was univariately assessed using Kaplan-Meier survival curves.
Results: A >10% Loss of heterozygosity (LOH) for PTEN (p-value <0.05) but not EGFR amplification / polysomy was associated with decreased OS in the total cohort. By comparison, the combination of PTEN LOH and EGFR amplification/polysomy in the GBM-only group (n=12, complete data files) was associated with improved survival (p-value 0.03). By quantitative IF, increasing levels of KI67 were associated with shortened OS (p-value 0.004) in the total cohort.
Conclusions: The incorporation of DNA FISH and quantitative IF is useful for developing a biologic baseline for understanding disease course in malignant gliomas. PTEN LOH and EGFR amplification / polysomy in GBM may suggest a pathway mechanism for favorable response.
Citation Information: Clin Cancer Res 2010;16(7 Suppl):A40
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Hi all,
I've been using blankdiscshop.co.uk for all my media.Mainly purchased 4x ritek DVD-R with printable surface, trouble is they cant source any more and I've ran out! Does anyone have any suggestions as to where I can get hold of some ??? Anywhere as long as they are cheap(ish) and ship to UK.
Bigpockets have a special offer on them. (bigpockets.co.uk)
just thought id give you a heads up if your new to dvd writing.
STAY AWAY FROM PRINCO, expecially bulkpaq, datasafe dont seem to be so bad.
there longetivity is crap. i wrote tons of bulqpaq media about 3 months ago and now NONE of them work on standalone dvd players, only on my PC.
Dont know what is wrong with bigpockets website but ive figured out that you just replace the ? mark with a number. so the ritek would be £25?....i think
The blankdiscshop does have Verbatim printables @ £1.65.True, they're 2x speed, not 4x, but they're very reliable - and a good price.
www.lynxdvd.co.uk is another first class supplier. Stock varies from day to day, so they may be worth a visit.
http://www.rivierapublishing.co.uk/ is also not bad.....
Thanks for your replies ! I've used ritek discs only for the last 3 months. Didnt think about longetivity of discs, better check the ones I did right at the start.
Thanks again for your replies
Use Intenso DVD-Rs from www.cd-rmedia.co.uk - had no problems in my Sony DVD writer or in any standalone DVD player (and I've tested quite a lot!)
is the cheapest 2x verbatim 25 spindle £37 delivered not bad eh!


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i know you're all waiting with bated breath for pictures of the newest addition to our family.
there are none.
well, there are some, but i'm on my brother's computer and here there are none. our computer is dying a long and painful death. it's currently being operated on to see if we can fix the problem of it not turning on. we're waiting, really, to see if they can fix a hand-me-down computer for a fairly decent price so that we can just transfer our mess from the old dell to the new(er) one. until then, i'm grateful my brother is here visiting for the entire month of july - and has dragged his laptop along for the ride.
we're headed to the beach tomorrow for three days of fun in the sun. beach? with a not-even-one-month-old-baby? yah, i know. we're nuts. but it's a free trip, a free three day vacation where we don't have to clean up after ourselves, cook, or do dishes. just play. and take naps.
and feed the baby. who, by the way, thinks she needs to be attached to my boob 23 of the 24 hours in a day. it's a new phenomenon - because if you asked me just three days ago, i would have been able to truthfully tell you she never cried and slept 8 hours a night. too good to be true.
i returned to work on monday. it's a new project - an SAT prep class for six students, with the hopes of it being successful enough to run in some of the bilingual schools (i already have one contracted for september-november). it's 2 hours a day and so far, so good. i have to keep re-creating my business plans and ideas to make the most out of my time and skills while making enough money to remain "at home" with the kids. it gets easier every semester.
i've gone from working 8am-9pm for minimal pay, to working 4-5 hours a few days a week and making more. it's great. and i love being home with the babies. this semester i hope to only work 4 days a week. fingers crossed.
i promise tons of pictures from the beach on sunday!


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A nice cheerful topic to start us off on a Monday morning.
I wrote a thing for Forensic Focus about how it's quite difficult to investigate the live streaming of child sexual abuse online, but how we should do it anyway.
Continue reading "The Challenges of Investigating Live Streamed Child Sexual Abuse"


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Study: US Breast Cancer Detection Rate Comparable to Mammography
Deaths from breast cancer are increasing worldwide, with 425,000 deaths in 2010, including 68,000 in women age 49 years or younger in developing countries. While mammography is an effective method in detecting breast cancer in developed countries, it is not commonly available in less developed nations, and alternative methods, such as ultrasound, need to be tested.
To determine the effectiveness of using ultrasound to detect breast cancer, Wendie A. Berg, MD, PhD, Department of Radiology, Magee-Womens Hospital, and colleagues recruited 2,809 women across 20 different sites in the United States, Canada, and Argentina to the American College of Radiology Imaging Network protocol 6666 breast cancer screening study. Participants were asymptomatic women with heterogeneously or extremely dense breast tissue in at least one quadrant and at least one other risk factor for breast cancer. Of the participants, 2,662 completed three annual breast screenings by US and film-screen or digital mammography, and then had a biopsy or a 12-month follow-up.
In ACRIN 6666, screening US was performed and interpreted independently of mammographic results. The researchers found that the number of US screens to detect breast cancer was comparable to that of mammography, and found that there was a greater proportion of invasive and node-negative cancers in those who had US. According to the researchers, a larger study is needed to statistically support greater sensitivity of US to invasive cancers.
The study also showed a greater number of false-positives among the women screened with US. Although the false-positive rate of US exceeds that of mammography, the number of women recalled for extra testing becomes more comparable on incidence screening rounds, the authors write.
"Where mammography is available, US should be seen as a supplemental test for women with dense breasts who do not meet high-risk criteria for screening MRI and for high-risk women with dense breasts who are unable to tolerate MRI," the authors conclude.
Source: Oxford University Press
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Don't Bring Lulu; Her Family's Tale of Trial and Triumph launched on YouTube.Leave a comment
November 28, 2016 by dontbringlulubook
The story of Louise Onions and her journalist father has been launched on YouTube.
You just have to key in Sarah Onions on YouTube.
Or head to: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYMdr4bTQvPSCbaP-kh4cAA where you can see the short and long version here.
It's an account of Lulu's severe special needs – she was born with brain damage and without a thyroid gland.
Her father was the first news organiser for the BBC in New York and later editorial director for Independent Radio News and LBC Radio in London.
Louise and her family were stopped by the U.S. Immigration when they arrived for Ron's prestigious post – he had to argue for the cultural significance of his post.
To cheer up his wife, Doris Onions,he sang the words from a jazz standard, 'Don't Bring Lulu' by Rose and Brown and that's how the book got its name.
The film, made by director John Bolton (who worked at LBC with presenters Brian Hayes and Pete Murray) is being broadcast online in two versions – the short is under four minutes and the long edit is a commercial half hour.
The long version is also to be linked to the website of Hounslow libraries in West London which has supported the story.
Both versions describe the stress suffered by the Onions' family – Doris suffered severe post natal depression and Sarah made two suicide attempts.
Voiceover artist Mandy Bolton read the script for the short YouTube film and it was edited by John Bolton.
The script was written by co-Lulu author Sarah Onions and the book has just been launched onto Kindle in the U.S. and the U.K.
The pictures show Lulu Onions with her carer and – Mandy Bolton in the studio and John and Mandy Bolton together.
Copyright for the Lulu picture and Mandy Bolton in the studio lies with the Onions' family and the picture of the Boltons is owned by John Bolton.


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Well, yesterday (Monday) was 'one of those days.' It wasn't over fast enough and I'm glad to see the back of it.
- bike puncture in the morning
- couldn't fix puncture
- had to get train (spending money, my pet hate.)
- Made a fool of myself on the train when i didn't recognise someone i should have known, only to have slurred conversation with, i didn't know what i was saying,.
- Find out the train to Hykem has an hour and a half wait.
- Decide to walk from Lincoln train station to Hykem
- 2 hours of full on walking later, i arrive
- Feeling ill and knackered, tried to fix puncture. Went down
- Fixing it the second time, goes down again
- Beans for the day come out the can with a strange white froth Ergh!
- Decide to make a cup of tea after all this. Milk had gone off, white lumps everywhere.
Being peer pressured my mum into a tattoo, any ideas?


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By Christos H. Papadimitriou (auth.), Fernando Orejas, Paul G. Spirakis, Jan van Leeuwen (eds.)
This publication constitutes the refereed lawsuits of the twenty eighth overseas Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming, ICALP 2001, held in Crete, Greece in July 2001.
The eighty revised papers offered including keynote contributions and 4 invited papers have been rigorously reviewed and chosen from a complete of 208 submissions. The papers are geared up in topical sections on algebraic and circuit complexity, set of rules research, approximation and optimization, complexity, concurrency, effective facts constructions, graph algorithms, language idea, codes and automata, version checking and protocol research, networks and routing, reasoning and verification, scheduling, safe computation, specification and deduction, and structural complexity.
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Let R be a semi-commutation rewriting system. Then, for every APC set φ, the set Rf∗ (φ) is effectively APC. Actually, this result can be slightly extended to system including symbol substitutions. We call a symbol substitution rewriting system any set of rules of the form a → b. First, it is easy to see that APCs are effectively closed under Rf∗ for any symbol substitution rewriting system. The proof of Theorem 13 can be easily adapted to rewriting systems which are sets of semi-commutations and symbol substitutions [Tou00].
This needs a recasting of the deterministic architecture (section 6), in which all three components were deterministic. In a nondeterministic architecture, the plant is still deterministic; the ∃-nondeterminism is incarnate in the controller Con (see the shady input π in the lower Fig, 1) and in the interface I (the shady input etick). There is a clear difference between: 1. Nondeterministic detection of sampling-instants. In addition to the internal mechanism of boundary detection (which is deterministic and relies on the completeness assumption) here are relevant the timing ticks supplied by the external shady input etick.
The conceptual/notational approach in [H] (which may be consulted for further references), focuses on "Hybrid Automata". It differs from that advocated in this paper as follows: (i) No consideration of operators/transducers, feedback reliability. (ii) Use of instantaneous transitions. Remember that, according to Ax, the only instantaneous transition is associated with . Automata, Circuits, and Hybrids: Facets of Continuous Time 21 (iii) Multiform time. This amounts to breaking the time-axis R≥0 into a sequence of closed intervals, which may reduce to single points.


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A star baseball and basketball player in college, Tony Gwynn opted for the diamond and fashioned a stellar 20-year career with the San Diego Padres. Gwynn's mastery of slapping the ball between the third baseman and shortstop, what the lefty called the "5.5 hole," propelled him to 3,141 career hits, a lifetime .338 batting average and eight batting crowns, an NL record he shares with Honus Wagner. A true student of hitting, Gwynn was an early advocate of using videotape to study his swing, while his five outfield Gold Glove Awards, 319 career stolen bases and 15 All-Star Game selections attest to his superior all-around play.
"He was one of the best players I ever saw, and he was probably the smartest and most dedicated." — Bruce Bochy
Cal Ripken Jr. gave new meaning to the phrase "everyday player." From May 30, 1982 through September 19, 1998, the lanky shortstop played in 2,632 straight games for the Baltimore Orioles, shattering Lou Gehrig's "unbreakable" mark of 2,130. Beyond "The Streak," however, Ripken methodically put together a remarkable career, notching 3,184 hits, 431 home runs, 19 straight All-Star appearances, and two Most Valuable Player Awards. Though his solid, steady play earned him hero status throughout America, Ripken also had a flair for the dramatic, homering in both his record-setting 2,131st game and his final All-Star contest.
"I know that if Lou Gehrig is looking down on tonight's activities, he isn't concerned about someone playing one more consecutive game than he did. Instead, he's viewing tonight as just another example of what is good and right about the great American game." — Cal Ripken Jr.
They did not play for the Red Sox, BUT I WISH each did at some point in their storied career. Cal "The Iron Man" Ripken, Jr. & Tony "The Hitting Machine" Gwynn were inducted with the elite at Cooperstown on Sunday.
San Diego and Baltimore were blessed to have these two Classy Baseball Men play their entire careers in each city.
I send out a Boston Baseball Heads Salute to both men as they venture into immortality!
San Diego and Baltimore were blessed to have these two Classy Baseball Men play their entire careers in each city.
I send out a Boston Baseball Heads Salute to both men as they venture into immortality!


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The man behind the "hoops" resigns
During his time at the top, Dallas went from missing the playoffs to challenging the best in the West. He also oversaw the move into PHP stadium.
Although the timing of this announcement is a bit shocking, I can't say it is surprising. He was brought in at a time when the club was looking to make big changes and he has made those changes. Now the club does not need someone who can handle the building of a new home, they need someone who can grow the team and sell season tickets. This is also a big task, but it is a very different task. Has the article states, "Elliott's focus was generally on the competitive side of the organization. While winning is always important in pro sports, selling seats inside FC Dallas's new stadium may be paramount to an ownership group that oversees the $85 million complex."
There you go. He has one view and the owners have another. Guess who wins.


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Senior Accountant
- Employer
- Stanford University
- Location
- Stanford
- Posted
- May 25, 2017
- Institution Type
- Four-Year Institution
Stanford University
Senior Accountant
Job Number: 75043
Senior Accountant
Job Family: Finance Job Series: Accounting Job Code: 4443 Grade: J Exemption: Exempt Effective/Revision Date: 01/20/2016 Job Series Matrix URL: View PDF Note: Not all unique aspects of the job are covered by this job description Stanford University is one of a select group of American universities that have achieved eminence in both undergraduate and graduate education and in a broad range of academic disciplines. The University is internationally recognized for the quality of its teaching and research, its distinguished faculty and its outstanding student body. Our mission is to educate future leaders and promote interdisciplinary, world-class research and teaching. This passion makes Stanford an intensely creative, rewarding, and challenging place to work.
Over the past 10-15 years, the business, technology and political environments have become more complex, faster paced, and litigious. Stringent accounting requirements have arisen to address the transparency of investments and keep pace with other areas of concern. New accounting standards have been issued for leases and not-for-profit accounting and reporting. In addition, other regulations and rules we need to comply with are more complex, e.g., international compliance considerations and banking regulations, and a new internal control framework - COSO - has been adopted. Heightened scrutiny from our external auditors has resulted in more extensive requests for information in an effort to understand non-profits' business activities and related controls. Additionally, technology continues to change rapidly and the underlying tools further add to the complexity and riskiness of the environment.
Within the Financial Management Services (FMS) organization, the Financial Analysis and Information Reporting team ("FAIR") is part of the Controller's Office (CO) and is responsible for financial reporting, the coordination of our external audit, financial analysis, and a variety of general accounting activities. FMS's goal is to lead, drive and model best practices in financial management for the campus community, while maintaining proper controls and compliance with internal and external policies. FMS brings together the Controller's Office, Procurement, Office of the Treasurer, Global Business Services and Financial Management Consulting and Support. The Senior Accountant reports to the General Accounting Manager. In this role, the Senior Accountant will perform several functions: cash account reconciliations for multiple key University bank accounts, balance sheet account reconciliations for multiple payroll liability accounts and working with the General Accounting Manager and Account Reconciliation Coordinator to redesign and implement an improved Account Reconciliation and Attestation program across the University. JOB PURPOSE: Perform complex accounting functions including designing and performing ad hoc analyses, developing and maintaining complex data models, analyzing large data sets, and reconciling complex accounts. CORE DUTIES*:
- Perform complex and detailed reconciliations, closure processes, research and critical analyses. Identify, prioritize, and resolve complex financial issues which may span multiple areas; identify underlying issues; recognize exceptions; recommend solutions.
- Research possible solutions and make recommendations to department leadership based on audit / report reviews and identified accounting issues; advise leadership regarding business activities; provide cost analyses; plan studies; and determine business activity costs.
- Research, and synthesize data; interpolate results from large amounts of data, identify trends in data, draw conclusions, develop solutions, present and implement recommendations, and create follow up analysis.
- Develop complex financial data and metrics, reports for a variety of internal and external audiences.
- Develop, design, or modify solutions for major segments of a program or accounting system; develop, recommend, implement and document new or revised policies and procedures.
- Lead and support unit and organization strategy and change management initiatives. Analyze existing systems and processes; identify greater efficiencies and improved internal controls opportunities; incorporate new regulations; recommend solutions that may require policy changes or new processes.
- Develop, recommend and implement new or revised policies and procedures for better controls and efficiencies. Participate in critical analysis of existing systems and processes, identifying and implementing process improvement opportunities.
- May act as a lead, train, coach, and review the work of other staff, as needed. Contribute primarily through applying individual expertise.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Advanced proficiency in business applications, such as Microsoft Office; advanced Excel skills.
- Advanced knowledge of accounting systems and the internet; computer literacy.
- Ability to interpret and apply advanced accounting knowledge and understanding of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.
- Strong communication skills, including the ability to clearly and effectively communicate information to internal and external audiences and client groups.
- Demonstrated project management skills and ability to contribute/lead as part of a multi-functional team.
- CPA preferred. Preference given to CPAs with a combination of Big 4 and industry experience.
- Strong understanding of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles and the ability to interpret and apply advanced and complex accounting rules.
- Solid understanding of COSO, compliance and internal controls.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills. Ability to communicate and impart technical accounting knowledge and information in an easy to understand manner. Ability to communicate decisions while educating at the same time. Establish good working relationships with a diverse population.
- Strong sense of service orientation, with a proven ability to balance controls and compliance. Ability to develop solutions in situations where many variables are constrained and initiative to constantly improve the department.
- High level of professionalism and integrity with a demonstrated ability to work productively with, and gain confidence of, many levels of an organization. Ability to maintain focus, successfully execute plans, bring closure to activities, tasks and projects. Proven track record of getting things done.
- Advanced proficiency in business applications, such as Microsoft Office; advanced Excel skills and accounting systems (e.g., Oracle Financials). Preference given to candidates with experience using the Blackline account reconciliation tool.
- Other skills necessary for this job is excellent organizational, analytical, and problem solving skills, an attention to detail, an ability to work independently, and the ability to work in a fast paced environment as an agent of change.
- Flexibility to perform other functions as directed
- Constantly perform desk-based computer tasks.
- Frequently sit, sort, file paperwork or parts, grasp lightly, and use fine manipulation, lift, carry, push and pull objects that weigh 10 pounds or less.
- Occasionally write by hand, twist, bend, stoop and squat.
- Rarely stand, walk, reach or work above shoulders and use a telephone.
- May work extended hours during peak business cycles.
- Interpersonal Skills: Demonstrates the ability to work well with Stanford colleagues and clients and with external organizations.
- Promote Culture of Safety: Demonstrates commitment to personal responsibility and value for safety; communicates safety concerns; uses and promotes safe behaviors based on training and lessons learned.
Stanford is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Job: Finance
Location: Business Affairs: Financial Management Services (FMS)
Schedule: Full-time
Classification Level:
To be considered for this position please visit our web site and apply on line at the following link: stanfordcareers.stanford.edu
Stanford is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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