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When you think of living somewhere romantic, a flat on the edge of an industrial estate in south-east London might not be quite what comes to mind.
Yet romantic is exactly how acclaimed artist and award-winning illustrator Lizzie Mary Cullen describes her home, a small two-bedroom flat tucked away at the top of a spiral staircase, at the end of a quiet vacant road overlooking red-brick warehouses.
"I love that it's so industrial around here," she says. "It feels quite quirky and slightly raw. I've always wanted to live in a romantic hovel, and that's what it feels like up here. It's very quiet, very peaceful and it's somewhere I can work and live."
Cullen designs wall murals and pen-and-paper prints of crowded cityscapes, so it's no surprise that she's inspired by being surrounded by city buildings; a view of a warehouse from her kitchen window didn't put her off the way it might have done any other potential buyer.
"My illustrations are city views of real places," she explains. "They illustrate where I was going and where I've been, literally mapping my journeys. I call it alternative cartography, mapping and recording the sense of childish wonderment that comes from seeing somewhere for the first time. You can map anything, really: a body by its scars, this old flat of mine by the damage in the brickwork. I map real places that mean real things."
It's been nearly two years since Cullen moved into her flat, which she bought two years ago when she was 23 years old, the result of saving the earnings from her first job for a deposit and a little bit of help from the bank of mum and dad. "I bought it right in the middle of the recession. It was scary, and it still scares me thinking I've got a mortgage, but now I'm so glad that I've got somewhere to put down roots. And I love the flat so much."
In the last two years, Cullen's career has taken off, winning acclaimed design awards, launching a celeb-studded exhibition at The Framers Gallery and drawing wall murals for big clients such as Harvey Nichols and Zizzi. She also raised thousands of pounds for the Big Issue charity with her first solo exhibition.
Her successful run has enabled her to quit her job as a designer on a magazine and work from home full-time as an illustrator and designer, unfurling reams of paper on to the living room floor or her bedroom table and settling down to draw with her trademark black fineliner pens while her lop-eared pet rabbits, Maud and Norman, hop around her.
"It's difficult not to work through the night when I'm drawing. I do risk being a bit of a hermit, but it's not hard for me to work at home. I'll have a movie on in the background, and then when I really get into it, I don't pay much attention to anything else and the drawing starts to take form."
Despite its non-romantic outside location, Cullen has transformed her first-time buyer flat, which she shares with her childhood friend Faye as well as her house rabbits, into the dreamy artist's home she'd always wanted while growing up.
"When I was younger, my dad gave me a copy of The English Dreamers, a book full of whimsical pre-Raphaelite paintings," she explains. "I've always wanted to recreate that feel and to live somewhere inspiring. When I moved in here, it was completely plain and I was ready to put my stamp on it. I had in mind the idea of living in a Victorian sewing workshop, with fabrics flowing and draped everywhere."
With her wavy long hair, velvet skirt and laced-up boots, Cullen looks every inch the pre-Raphaelite and true to form, she's filled her home with pre-Raphaelite prints, vintage floral fabrics and flea-market furniture, all bargains found within a first-time buyer's budget (one of the most expensive pieces of furniture, an antique carved cabinet picked up at the Tower Bridge antiques market, cost £125; everything else is either cheaper, second-hand or salvaged).
Despite being a little on the small side, the flat is full of drama, feature walls and statement pieces, all cleverly put together inexpensively but creatively.
One living room wall is covered from floor to ceiling with cheap pine frames from Tesco, holding prints of magazine cuttings, old postcards, dress patterns and the occasional object such as a key or badge. It's an impressive but not overwhelming feature showing that a little creativity can go far without costing the earth; elsewhere in the kitchen, Cullen has indulged her romantic side even more, framing Rob Ryan cards ("His words make my heart bleed," she says).
In another corner, there's a massive faux-vintage mirror bought at the Grand Designs show for £80, an old-fashioned lamp with an imposing floral shade picked up at Greenwich market for £30 and an ornate French-style telephone table, a bargain found at a car-boot sale in Cullen's home town of Royal Leamington Spa for £15.
Even small details are precious bargain finds, such as a pair of old, tapestry-style curtains that Cullen found in a charity shop and now uses as a throw on the couch, and cushions picked up for no more than £2 on eBay. It all shows that small-scale dimensions and tight floorplans don't mean you have to sacrifice character or individual style, even when on a budget.
"Going 'antiquing' is really fun," says Cullen, who has spent many a weekend foraging at markets with her housemate. "I'm lucky that Faye has a really good eye and a lovely sense of style. It's been really fun putting the flat together with her. I think you should always have someone to go with you when you're shopping for home pieces; it's not as much fun when you're on your own."
The drama continues in Cullen's bedroom, which is dominated by luxuriously dark William Morris floral wallpaper, while the wall behind her bed is taken up by one of her own hand-drawn prints of London by night and a free-flowing wall mural she has penned straight on to the wall.
There's another mural in the living room, interweaving flowers and swirls in black and white that look like they've been drawn in pencil. "If I had it my way, I'd have a huge mural in the living room, and maybe a bit of colour," she says. "But I'm lucky Faye's on hand to stop me from getting too out of control."
The end result is a deeply theatrical, romantic and opulent look, but it's never too serious or too old-fashioned – a close look at her bedroom walls reveal she's a closet Spider-Man and Spider-Girl geek, with bits of comic strips in spray-painted Poundland frames making a mini-artwork feature.
"I love Spider-Man comics!" she says, pulling out a hardback book from her little library stashed in what was once an old fireplace. "It's cool, fun and vibrant – sort of how I'd like my designs to be seen."
Impressively, given the scale of Cullen's work (such as her huge imposing wall murals for Zizzi), she still prefers to work from home and not from a studio. "You should have seen this place a fortnight ago, I was making a papier-mâché ribbon for Clerkenwell Design Week and it looked like a bomb had gone off in the living room! But I quite like the routine of working from home, settling down with a cup of tea to draw. I'm a creature of habit – I just get on with it."
Several of her drawings, of New York streets and parts of London, hang in the lounge and in her bedroom; the drawings look like pretty illustrations for a children's book, with skyscrapers twisting into starry night skies, and the Thames pencilled in swirls and curls.
"It's like second nature for me to draw now. There's something so magical about recording a journey, to capture places that mean something and have an emotion to them. That's all I'm trying to do."
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Have a look at our Employee diversity infographic, which uses data collected from our Diversity Declaration (launched in 2012) to see how we are working towards being a diverse organisation.
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We are committed to embracing and encouraging diversity at the Met Office. Read a few examples of some of our achievements over the last few months.
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See the Met Office position and details on the Quarter 4 2012 results for UK Central Government.
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Our top-level scores on our annual Employee Attitude Survey (EAS) were very positive overall. The scores for all but one of the nine engagement driver themes in the survey have increased in the last year. Positive responses to Diversity related questions have also increased. The largest increase is in 'Leadership and Managing Change' (up 8%). This is an area we have found to be a challenge in the past, in terms of changing employee perception, so this progress is especially welcome.
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"Big Brother's" rock 'n roll teddy bear Adam Poch — famous on the show for his love of bacon and "Beverly Hills 90210" — has tied the knot, People reports.
Poch and longtime girlfriend Fara Herzfeld were married Saturday (April 20) in New Jersey in a traditional Jewish ceremony that also included lots of bacon. Um, what?
"Wait, traditional Jewish ceremony at a bacon-themed wedding, can you say 'oxymoron'?" Herzfeld tells People. And Poch's brother Seth says the couple is joined in "holy and unkosher matrimony."
The reception included pigs in a blanket and bacon-wrapped filets, chicken breasts
and veal chops, with bowls of bacon crumbles on the tables. Herzfeld even surprised Poch with a bacon-themed groom's cake.
He did propose at Pig Island during the New York festival, after all.


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Billy (Starfleet)
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Billy was an operations division engineering and security officer serving as a Crewman and later Ensign aboard the NX-class Starfleet starship Enterprise under Captain Jonathan Archer.
Billy was helping carrying boxes and stowing cargo shortly before the launch of Enterprise. While underway to Rigel X, he visited the mess hall and was chatting with a female crewmember. Later, he served as operator in the launch bay when Captain Archer, T'Pol, Commander Tucker, and Lieutenant Reed left the ship. (ENT: "Broken Bow")
Shortly thereafter he visited the mess hall again when Enterprise found a damaged ship with a dead Axanar crew. (ENT: "Fight or Flight")
The same year, Billy was made responsible for purging the starship's aft plasma manifold (ENT: "Unexpected") and passed Captain Archer in a corridor, carrying a case. (ENT: "Terra Nova")
He served as operator of the launchbay when Captain Archer, T'Pol, and Commander Tucker left the ship to visit the Vulcan monastery P'Jem (ENT: "The Andorian Incident") and was working in engineering when Hoshi Sato had a conversation with Trip Tucker. (ENT: "Breaking the Ice")
Billy was part of Lieutenant Reed's security team which tried to stop the Suliban Silik but was unable to follow him through a wall. (ENT: "Cold Front")
He was part of the security team which accompanied Captain Archer after the main power went offline. They discovered two crewmembers, scanned by two unidentified aliens in a corridor on E-deck. Billy was ordered to follow these two aliens when they left for launch bay 2. (ENT: "Silent Enemy")
Billy had a meal in the mess hall and visited the same location later for the movie night, watching the film For Whom the Bell Tolls. (ENT: "Dear Doctor")
During the Vulcan confrontation he guarded Captain Sopek and his Vulcan officer on the bridge (ENT: "Shadows of P'Jem") and was again on duty in the launch bay when an away team left the ship to explore an uninhabited planet. (ENT: "Rogue Planet")
Billy was working in engineering when a Ferengi probe was brough aboard and made the crew unconscious. During the Ferengi robbery of the ship he was lying on the ground. (ENT: "Acquisition")
He was later asked by Trip Tucker to finish giving the Kantare Liana a tour of Enterprise after Trip was called away for a briefing with Captain Archer. (ENT: "Oasis")
Billy was working in engineering when a symbiotic lifeform took over the control of several crewmembers and settled down in a cargo bay. (ENT: "Vox Sola")
Shortly after this First Contact he was on duty on the aft bridge while several crewmembers prepared for shore leave on Risa. (ENT: "Two Days and Two Nights")
Billy assisted Doctor Phlox in sickbay when a dozen of wounded crewmembers came in, after Enterprise hit a mine. (ENT: "Minefield") He also assisted Doctor Phlox carrying Travis Mayweather to sickbay after Captain Archer and T'Pol brought rescued Mayweather from the automated repair station. (ENT: "Dead Stop")
Billy served as launch bay operator when an away team returned from an alien planet. (ENT: "The Communicator")
He was working in the launch bay when Shuttlepod 1 was prepared for a survey of an uninhabited planet. Later, while the senior staff discussed the approaching neutronic storm in the situation room, Billy worked as relief tactical officer on the bridge. Like all other crewmembers he was forced to stay for several days at the catwalk. There, he was one of the security officers, armed with plasma rifles, who confronted the Takret deserters and later took part in the weekly movie night. (ENT: "The Catwalk")
He visited the mess hall while Enterprise was in orbit of Dekendi III, where a conference of the Interspecies Medical Exchange took place. (ENT: "Stigma")
The same year he served as security officer and guarded Malcolm Reed, who was possessed by a Wisp, to secured quarters after Reed bothered T'Pol in her quarters. Later he and Crewman Haynem worked as security officers outside the mess hall and took orders from T'Pol to arrest the possessed Ensign Cole and Crewman Rossi. He was also among the crewmembers who escaped to the catwalk until Doctor Phlox found a way to get rid of the Wisps. (ENT: "The Crossing")
Billy brought several wounded aliens into the sickbay during a rescue mission for the Arin'Sen (ENT: "Judgment") and for several aliens from Xantoras. (ENT: "The Breach")
He attended the reception for the Vissians in the mess hall during the first contact with this species. (ENT: "Cogenitor")
He conducted repairs in the corridors near Enterprise's sickbay following the Xindi attack at Azati Prime. (ENT: "Damage")
Billy suffered an injury during the attack by the Xindi near Azati Prime which required him to wear a neck brace. It was in this condition that he attended Captain Archer's empassioned speech in honor of the eighteen crewmembers who died in the attack. (ENT: "The Forgotten")
He was in the mess hall with fellow crewmembers while the Organians possessed Reed and Mayweather discuss chess. (ENT: "Observer Effect")
Billy was training in the ship's gym together with Ensign Mayweather and Lieutenant Reed while the three Orion women D'Nesh, Maras, and Navaar were aboard. (ENT: "Bound")
By 2161, Billy had attained the rank of ensign. That year he informed Archer that it was time to give his speech at the Federation Founding Ceremony. (ENT: "These Are the Voyages...")
Background information Edit
Billy, who was first referenced by name in "Unexpected", and was later identified by name in "Oasis," was played by regular background performer Solomon Burke, Jr. His surname was not given in either reference, nor would he be credited for any of his roles until his final appearance in "These Are the Voyages...", where he was simply credited as "Ensign."
Behind the scenes footage of Billy can be seen on the ENT Season 1 DVD special "Enterprise Outtakes". He was also featured in an extended deleted scene in sickbay from the episode "Minefield".
Memorable Quote Edit
- ENT: "These Are the Voyages..."
- "Whenever you're ready, sir."
Appearances Edit
(This list is currently incomplete.)
- "Broken Bow" (Season 1)
- "Fight or Flight"
- "Unexpected"
- "Terra Nova"
- "The Andorian Incident"
- "Breaking the Ice"
- "Cold Front"
- "Silent Enemy"
- "Dear Doctor"
- "Shadows of P'Jem"
- "Rogue Planet"
- "Acquisition"
- "Oasis"
- "Vox Sola"
- "Two Days and Two Nights"
- "Minefield" (Season 2)
- "Dead Stop"
- "The Seventh"
- "The Communicator"
- "The Catwalk"
- "Stigma"
- "The Crossing"
- "Judgment"
- "The Breach"
- "Cogenitor"
- "Harbinger" (Season 3)
- "Damage"
- "The Forgotten"
- "The Council"
- "Countdown"
- "Observer Effect" (Season 4)
- "Babel One"
- "Affliction"
- "Bound"
- "These Are the Voyages..."


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LINCOLN – The Nebraska Public Service Commission (Commission) has been notified by the North America Numbering Plan Administrator (NANPA) that the 402 Area Code is nearing exhaust with only ten codes remaining.
As a result, numbers from the 531 Area Code are now available for carriers to assign to their customers.
In 1999 NANPA informed the Commission that it must begin the process of selecting a plan for providing additional telephone numbers in the 402 numbering plan area as the current available numbers were depleting rapidly.
On June 30, 2009 the Commission entered an order adopting an overlay relief plan with implementation milestones.
One of the milestones was the new 531 Area Code numbers would not be made available until there were only ten remaining codes in 402.
The Commission, in conjunction with the Nebraska telecommunications industry, has worked to ensure a smooth implementation of the new 531 Area Code.
For everyone making calls in the 402 Area Code, ten digit dialing will remain the same to reach local numbers in the 402 and 531 Area Codes.
Long distance (toll) calls within the 402 and 531 Area Codes will continue to require dialing a 1 before the ten digit number is called.
New numbers with a 531 Area Code will begin to be available for carriers to assign and will serve customers in the same geographic area now served by the 402 Area Code.
Placing calls in the 308 Area Code and three digit dialing, including 211, 411, 711, and 911, will be unchanged with the introduction of the 531 Area Code.
Further information on the 402/531 Area Code Relief Plan can be found on the Commission's website at www.psc.nebraska.gov/telecom/telecom_402_531areacode.html.
402/531 area code relief plan now under way
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High School: Played basketball at Loganville High under head coach John Zorn ... Member of school's 1,000-point club ... Earned All-State and All-Region honors in her senior year ... Also lettered in track ... Team MVP for both squads ... Scholar-Athlete honors.
Personal: Daughter of Clarence and Shenyne Donley ... Born Nov. 21 ... Nickname is E ... Majoring in pre-nursing ... Chose GC because when she visited it felt like home; she loved the campus and the coaches, players and rest of the GC family were so friendly ... Lists her favorite athlete as Lebron James of the Miami Heat ... Always plays with mystery flavored Stride gum as her only superstition ... Cites spiders as the thing that scares her the most ... Her biggest sports thrill is beating the teams you're not supposed to beat ... Her favorite movie is Remember the Titans, TV show is Neccessary Roughness ... Lives by the motto: "Good, better, best. Never let it rest until your good is better and your better is best."


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USA TODAY - Troy Taormina | 2013 Aug 07 |
Should the NCAA and Universities pay collegiate athletes?
Absolutely not.
I truly understand how the NCAA exploits college athletes, but there is no way in the world anybody could implement a system where the a student athlete gets compensated for play.
Let's just say "college signing day" for a high school prospect, would have a entirely different meaning.
It would be the Wild Wild West if college players could get paid. They would find themselves in a world of trouble and danger -- gambling, extortion, boosters, etc.... It wouldn't be safe for an 18 year old kid, to be running around campus trying to sell his jersey and other team memorabilia. Or copping off a national championship ring for some tattoos.
College is a place for higher learning, where people can obtain a decent education, grow and mature, and put oneself in a viable position to earn income after completing. These student athletes need to remain patient and appreciate the opportunity that's bestowed upon them.
Creating a situation where the student athlete could be compensated could potentially put these young adolescents in extremely unsafe and risky situations. Major universities would be bidding for player services (this still happens, albeit under the table). Parents would also expect compensation as well.
Remember the Reggie Bush's parent's and Cam Newton Sr. scandals? Those scandals would be the norm, if student athletes could be compensated.
Players would be getting extorted, signing contracts with shady agents and dealers, paid for performance, fixed games... They would be all over the news...
Remember the Reggie Bush's parent's and Cam Newton Sr. scandals? Those scandals would be the norm, if student athletes could be compensated.
Players would be getting extorted, signing contracts with shady agents and dealers, paid for performance, fixed games... They would be all over the news...
I could see it now the news headlines now,
"Player get's killed after a financial dispute over signing autographs."Or here's another one:
"South Carolina's Jadeveon Clowney involved in a fight after a financial dispute over free tattoos after having a ..."In fact, collegiate players do get paid --a full scholarship, free room and board, meal plans, training facilities, access to professional coaching and training, and an opportunity to play professional sports. Even if they don't go pro in there respective sports, student athletes they can obtain good jobs after college...
If someone can find a fair way to implement a system where compensation can be awarded, I am willing to listen. I just don't know how it would work.
Would major universities be the only one's paying players? Who would get paid and how much? What about other sports, like basketball, soccer, rugby or a litany of sports most universities offer?
Would women student athletes get paid too?
Most of this this heated discussion have stemmed from the Ed O'Bannon lawsuit v.s. NCAA and the recent comments by Jay Bilas towards the NCAA.
O'Bannon's lawsuit against the NCAA purely boils down to "sour grapes" because his pro career didn't turn out as expected.
Bilas comes off as being a hypocrite himself. I'm pretty confident Bilas benefited greatly from the athletic scholarship he received at Duke University. The opportunity afforded to him allows him to be a major broadcaster on ESPN .
Take a look at a few of his controversial tweets:
Take a look at a few of his controversial tweets:
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— Jay Bilas (@JayBilas) August 6, 2013
So many make excuses for DISALLOWING athletes more than expenses. Name any other group we advocate should be restricted to expenses only?
— Jay Bilas (@JayBilas) August 16, 2013
College Athletes are not professional athletes. Student athletes will put themselves in dangerous situations if college athletics chooses to go down that route.
I truly understand how the NCAA has profited greatly from college athletics, but it does not mean you should play amateurs.
Definition of "amateur" -A person who engages in a pursuit, esp. a sport, on an unpaid basis.
Let's not get all caught up in the "Johnny Football" hype. I'll be the first to admit, its a bad rule. However, it's still a rule, and Manziel brazenly broke the rule. I don't want to see suspended or gone for the rest of the season, and honestly neither should the NCAA. I truly understand how the NCAA has profited greatly from college athletics, but it does not mean you should play amateurs.
Definition of "amateur" -A person who engages in a pursuit, esp. a sport, on an unpaid basis.
Manziel will be one of the biggest draws in collegiate football this season. Just give the kid a one game suspension or some type of probation. Let's move on from this and return to enjoy watching college athletics.
Manziel has had many supporters -- Texas A & M University Chancellor stated in an interview with NBC 5's Chris Can Horne Thursday:
"I also think that there's something, you know this is just me talking not as chancellor of the system, something is wrong with the system when we can make money off of our football players, the NCAA make money off of our football players and they can't be treated like Olympic athletes,"
Current NFL players Dez Bryant and Adrian Peterson have also voiced their support of Manziel.
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The Restoration Team has published details of the forthcoming E-Space Trilogy box set.
Comprising the three Tom Baker stories from his final Season 18 – Full Circle, State of Decay and Warriors' Gate, the stories also co-star Lalla Ward as Romana and John Leeson as K-9, and introduce Matthew Waterhouse as Adric.
For the uninitiated, The E-Space Trilogy sees the TARDIS trapped in a different universe, due to having passed through a CVE (Charged Vacuum Emboitement) – a sort of exothermic vent. The point of all this of course is to leave the Doctor without Romana and K-9, with Lalla Ward and John Leeson leaving the series in Warrior's Gate.
There's a large bundle of extras with this box set including lovely nuggest such as a look at vampires in literature, a making of feature for each story, Matthew Waterhouse retrospective look back at his time as Adric and one that I'll look forward to – "Lalla's Wardrobe" in which Lalla looks at Romana's costumes with June Hudson, Louise Page, Nev Fountain and Jonathan Morris.


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Giant Food to Hold Business Opportunity Construction Trade Fair For New Brentwood Road Store
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LANDOVER, Md., Jan. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Giant Food, in partnership with the DC Office of Planning and Economic Development, is seeking Local Small Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (LSDBE) certified contractors and suppliers for the construction of a new Giant Food store on Brentwood Road in NE, Washington, DC. Giant Food's Construction Division will be holding a Contractors Business Opportunity Fair on Tuesday, February 5, 2002 from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at Giant Food's headquarters located at 6400 Sheriff Road, Landover, MD. Giant's Business Fair will provide specific opportunities for local contractors, vendors, and suppliers to become involved in the construction of Giant's proposed northeast Washington store project. Giant Food has a specific interest in union trades that can furnish and install reinforcing steel, duct work, excavation for foundations, masonry, caulking and weatherproofing, roofing, electrical, ceramic and quarry tile, and sprinkler/fire protection. In addition, Giant is interested in suppliers who can provide the Brentwood Road project with specific materials including, concrete, rough lumber, hollow metal/wood doors and frames with hardware, overhead roll-up doors and grilles, miscellaneous construction supplies, drywall, metal studs, paint and accessories, etc. For additional information, contact Steve Lerman at 301-341-8986. MAKE YOUR OPINION COUNT - Click Here http://tbutton.prnewswire.com/prn/11690X24268558
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Kona murder investigation 08-13-08
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Report No. C08024682
On August 12, 2008, Kona Patrol officers responded to a reported stabbing case in a subdivision in South Kona. A female adult was found within a residence, deceased.
Another female sustained minor injuries and was treated and released at the Kona Community Hospital.
A 60 year-old male has been arrested for Murder and is currently being detained in the Kona Police Cellblock. The investigation is being conducted by detectives from the Area II Criminal Investigation Section.
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text: Fully Committed, Studio Theatre, Aurora Fox Arts Center Ends Sunday, December 20 | Details | Read more Steven Burge has his work cut out for him. In this one-act show, he plays Sam Peliczowski---an out-of-work actor manning the reservation phone lines for a five-star restaurant---and 39 other characters. Everyone wants a table, and Sam's stuck with the unlucky task of informing them that the restaurant is "fully committed." Burge's repertoire of men and women includes some foreign, some funny, and nearly all pissed off. More: Denver Brass Lights Up Christmas | Well | Absurd Person Singular | Something Is Rotten | A Christmas Survival Guide | How the Grinch Stole Christmas Ballet | What the Dickens! | Miracle on 34th Street | The Westside Oratorio


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Newly acquired journal subscriptions in the area of Criminal Justice. Summer 2011.
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For the latest documentation on Visual Studio 2017 RC, see Visual Studio 2017 RC Documentation.
The C# typing system contains the following categories:
Variables that are value types store data, and those that are reference types store references to the actual data. Reference types are also referred to as objects. Pointer types can be used only in unsafe mode.
It is possible to convert a value type to a reference type, and back again to a value type, by using boxing and unboxing. With the exception of a boxed value type, you cannot convert a reference type to a value type.
This section also introduces void.
Value types are also nullable, which means they can store an additional non-value state. For more information, see Nullable Types.
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Awesome bathrooms, clean rooms, breakfast delivered to my door, bed size,friendly staff, the whole nine yards Sound of cars at night(second floor)
Beautiful, luxurious room with amazing hot tub. Great location, extremely friendly staff, and delicious breakfast included!
Everything. Staff was SUPER friendly! The room was more than we expected. Enjoyed the decor. Parking was easy and included. Breakfast was served to our room on time. . Placing as our number 1 place to stay when we come back to Baltimore.


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Hello, I just installed atmail on my ISPconfig webserver following the howto I found on this site. Thanks for all, everything worked great... except the fact that I have no idea how to login on AtMail I'm asked for a mail adress on login, a mailserver and a password (+ language and protocol). As mail adress I suppose I should enter the admin mail that was asked during the install, as mailserver my own server ip but as password? the admin password for the ISPconfig website? the MYSQL password? I've not been asked for a awebmail admin password so i serisouly wonder what it could be, I've tried everything out and can't find a way to login.... Please help
You must create a user in ISPConfig (User & Email tab). Then use one of that user's email addresses and his password to log in.
Yes I've done that and it didn't work... I'll try again tonight, maybe I was to tired yesterday to do it right.
Well I tried it again and I still didn't manage to log in... :/ I tried the mail and the password from the ispconfig user for that webmail site and that didn't work. As Mailserver I have to enter the adress I typed to go on the webmail right? (mail.myserver.com) I logued on the mysql database btw to see if I could use something there and the user table seems to be empty, is that normal?
Is it possible that you mix up ISPConfig users and system users? ISPConfig users (clients, resellers, admin) can log in only to ISPConfig, but not to email, ftp, etc., whereas system users (they are created on the tab "User & Email" in ISPConfig) cannot log in to ISPConfig, but use email and ftp.
Well I use the same password and nick for everything so even if I messed it up it would still be ok And btw i think I did it right : as mail I tried with [email protected] and with [email protected] (web8_admin is the ISPconfig user for the site containing the webmail) as mail server I tried mail.mydomain.com and the server ip address as password I tried the SQL password, the ISP user password and the ISP admin password I tried all the combinations and there isn't one that works...


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There is a not un-intriguing comparison to be made between the two old Russian ballets that have lately been revived in the UK: the Royal Ballet's third attempt at Don Quixote and English National Ballet's new staging of Le Corsaire, receiving its first showings in Milton Keynes on Thursday. The Bolshoi and Mariinsky troupes have preserved these bold relics of tsarist dance spectacle inversions which reflect the passage of the years but honour any embellishments those years have brought, showing these dear ghosts with affectionate understanding. The Royal Don Quixote is a tremulous simulacrum of a jolly old masterpiece of kitsch and castanets, and is a waste of time and money. ENB's Corsaire, despite severe prunings dictated by the need to tour and the forces available, is a roaring success.
It has been edited to within an inch of its life by Anna-Marie Holmes, and the action can need the eye of faith to comprehend what drives the story onward. But she has instilled into ENB's artists a sense of the full-blooded, fully danced manner which will sustain this cock-eyed drama, and she has the benefit of superb design by Bob Ringwood, experienced both in opera houses and the cinema, who has provided sets and costumes that evoke the manner of tsarist Russian stage decoration, are elegant, witty, pretty as can be, and will win an audience's heart from curtain rise. The score sounds as it should, and ENB's artists roar through the dances – and those thin threads of narrative that just about hold the piece together – with no sense of being tourists. They know who they are, and where they are.
Thursday's cast was led by Alina Cojocaru in sunniest form as the heroine Medora, and adorable, with Erina Takahashi no less delightful as her chum, Gulnare. Vadim Muntagirov raced ardently over the stage as Conrad, Junor Souza was splendid as his sidekick Ali, and Dmitri Gruzdyev was properly devious as Lankedem. I missed the full classic effulgence of the hallowed rose-garden vision scene, but in everything else this Corsaire did not put a piratical foot wrong. And the shipwreck is admirably realised and best fun.
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Venting on the subject of clean shop air
If your company plasma or laser cuts, take a long, hard look at its ventilation practices
A shop owner should want the best ventilating technology for its thermal cutting operations. It keeps employees safe and protects the company from potential liability situations. With that in mind, the feature poses five questions that every shop should ask itself about its ventilating efforts as it regards thermal cutting operations.
However, another reality is that today's fabricating shop barely resembles its predecessor 10 or 15 years ago. Back then cutting, stamping, and welding were done in separate facilities; now they commonly occur under the same roof. Each process has its own environmental issues that, if separate, are challenging enough from a ventilation standpoint, but combined can exacerbate the others' problems.
For example, imagine a situation in which a collector dedicated to removal of thermal cutting fumes is also pulling an oil mist-saturated air stream from a nearby press, while simultaneously the ventilation equipment for the press is having to cope with the thermal cutting fumes. Varying degrees of failure are sure to occur. Keeping each process and particulate separated from the other is critical.
In all likelihood, many shops have made the investments to ventilate welding fumes. The media has publicized the ongoing legal challenges for the welding industry brought by plaintiff attorneys looking to link exposure to welding fumes with illnesses such as Parkinson's disease. So companies have to know that they need to protect their welders as much as they can.
The same can't be said for thermal cutting activities. Both laser and especially plasma cutting are arguably the largest producers of pollution in any facility. In the case of lasers, the machines need a clean environment to operate at optimal levels. Whereas a plasma cutting machine can run endlessly in a heavily saturated environment, the operator running the equipment cannot; fumes will overwhelm the operator in a matter of minutes. The fumes need to be ventilated at the source of production before they can migrate elsewhere.
If you are now thinking about your thermal cutting operations and the accompanying ventilation needs, that's good. Proper ventilation is an often-overlooked aspect of metal fabricating. The following five questions are ones that every shop should ask itself about its ventilating efforts regarding thermal cutting operations.
1. Why Should My Company Be Concerned Now?
Simply put, a company should be concerned about its employees and capital equipment. That concern should extend to the work environment, which can be polluted with large amounts of particulate generated from thermal cutting activities.
Think about it. If you have a 260-amp power supply that's processing a 3/4-inch, 4-foot by 8-foot sheet without proper filtration equipment, a 200,000-sq.-ft. facility would fill with particulate before the cutting was finished on that one plate. The indoor environment actually would be worse than a welding shop that fails to ventilate its fumes.
If your company has invested in filtration equipment in the past, has it kept up with the latest upgrades in technology? Power supplies can generate 400 amps of power today; these higher amperages allow for faster cutting speeds and thicker materials. Cutting tables that used to have a single head now have multiple heads. With the advent of technology such as rack-and-pinion drives, gantries move much more quickly than they did in the past. All of this results in faster and more productive cutting, which means much more metal cut per hour and greater fume generation as well.
Tables are much larger today as well; one table in the Midwest is 300 ft. long. Was the filtration upgraded with the new, larger table?
Of course, liability needs to be discussed as well. Exposure to certain compounds may not be a problem today, but may well be a problem tomorrow.
For example, manganese exposure likely will become more tightly regulated in the near future. The gray-white metal, which resembles iron, is widely used in steelmaking, particularly in stainless steel formulations and certain aluminum alloys. Overexposure to the element has been linked to nervous system damage in humans.
The potential risks linked to manganese exposure are not recent discoveries. Manganism was coined in the late 19th century to describe Parkinson's disease-type symptoms found in miners and smelters who had been exposed to manganese. Burgeoning class-action lawsuits are the new developments that have opened the eyes of metal fabricating management to realize the need for good filtration of thermal cutting activities.
Right now the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) standard for permissible exposure limit (PEL) to manganese fume is 5 mg/m3, which is based on an eight-hour time-weighted average. The threshold limit value for manganese, determined by the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH®), a collection of occupational and environmental health professionals and safety officials, is 0.2 mg/m3. ACGIH's recommended exposure limit is 25 times lower than OSHA's requirement at this time. This numeric guidance should be noted because ACGIH limits often heavily influence OSHA when the time comes for revisiting PEL standards.
For those who are skeptical that OSHA would enact such a dramatic change in PEL standards, they only have to look back at the new standards for hexavalent chromium. The new OSHA PEL is 0.005 mg/m3 per eight-hour time-weighted average. This is down from the previous PEL of 0.052 mg/m3 that existed prior to February 2006. This is a reduction of 10.4 times the previous established PEL.
2. How Do I Know If I Have a Problem?
Don't rely on educated guesses. Don't rely on the manufacturer of fabricating or ventilating equipment. Hire a third-party inspection firm, such as Bureau Veritas or any accredited AIHA (American Industrial Hygiene Association) professional.
For a fee, the company will come in and set up monitors throughout your facility and on selected employees. Over an eight-hour period, the monitors gauge air quality. Upon completion of air monitoring, the company inspects the air filters and analyzes the contents. From that, areas of concern can be identified in the facility and discussion of remedying the situation can begin.
If you're worried about your company having to pick up the tab for such testing, contact your insurance company or state OSHA entity. Insurance carriers should be interested in helping you take steps that protect your company from having to cover huge payouts if something goes wrong in the future. For Michigan companies, the state's version of OSHA has a Consultation, Education, and Training Division that can assist with monitoring equipment. Check with your state entity to see if a similar program exists.
3. What Type of Filtration Setup Makes the Most Sense?
Because of the sheer volume of particulate being produced in a thermal cutting operation, a self-cleaning cartridge collector is a good choice. The filters, which are designed to filter particles as small as 0.5 micron, are capable of keeping up with the large amounts of particulate generated by cutting machinery. It is not uncommon to generate 55 gallons of material in a single day while thermal cutting; welding may take months to produce the same quantity of particulate.
The key to the successful removal of particulate is air-to-cloth ratio. For thermal cutting operations, that means 1-to-1:1 sq. ft. of filter media for a 1-cubic-ft.-per-minute (CFM) application.
For more aggressive environments where a shop might be cutting really thick metal and having longer periods of uptime, that ratio is 0.5-to-1. So a shop with a 2,000-CFM application would need 4,000 sq. ft. of media to stay on top of the cutting.
You might opt for a 1.5-to-1 or a 2-to-1 ratio to minimize initial investments, but the cartridge filters are going to load much faster as they struggle to keep up with the cutting. As a result, the maintenance person is going to have to replace filters much more frequently, and the shop floor will have to schedule breaks between individual sheet cuts so that the cartridge filters have a chance to shed particulate with controlled pulses.
4. What Maintenance Is Necessary to Maximize Ventilation Efforts?
For a cartridge filter to have a nice, long life—six months to a year—the particulate matter has to get out of the pleat and into the collection device. This is accomplished with a periodic back-flush of compressed air that is sent through the filters, clearing them of particulate, which then falls into a bin for disposal.
So time has to be allotted for "pulsing" to occur. If filters load up and airflow decreases, the performance of the entire system is compromised. The only options available at this point are immediate maintenance of the collector to restore proper airflow or replacement of the filter elements.
Replacing filters can turn into a costly exercise. If filters have to be replaced every six weeks, you run the risk of spending several thousands of dollars, depending on the system size, of course, annually.
5. Are There Any Other Safety Issues to Consider Other Than the Threat of Breathing in Metal-laced Fumes?
If your metal fabricating shop cuts aluminum, you should realize the danger that aluminum dust presents.
Aluminum is a reactive, flammable solid. Bulk aluminum metal is not combustible, but the hazard increases as the aluminum particle size decreases.
Aluminum dust in contact with water may heat spontaneously. The reaction between the two substances creates flammable hydrogen gas as a byproduct, which can create a very dangerous explosion, particularly if the fire occurs in a confined area.
Aluminum dust that results from laser cutting operations that use nitrogen as an assist gas is especially risky because it's pure aluminum. Aluminum cut without nitrogen turns the aluminum into an oxide, which is not as dangerous.
A mixture of aluminum and steel dust also can create a problem. The steel dust can act as an ignition for the aluminum dust and trigger an explosion.
That's why it's important that ventilation equipment have spark arrester controls and explosion vents if your shop is going to process multiple metals on the same equipment. Some metal fabricators actually have two dust collectors with a converter valve for aluminum and steel cutting, but that setup is still rare.
Pat Gilmour
Phaser/Great Lakes Air Technologies Inc.
Clawson, MI 48017
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The FABRICATOR
The FABRICATOR is North America's leading magazine for the metal forming and fabricating industry. The magazine delivers the news, technical articles, and case histories that enable fabricators to do their jobs more efficiently. The FABRICATOR has served the industry since 1971.


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Summer at the cinema is very nearly here, which means I've been thinking about robots. This one, for instance:
April 24, 2012
Scott Timberg, writing for Salon, with a compelling essay on the financial struggles of America's creative class:
Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen write anthems about the travails of the working man; we line up for the revival of "Death of a Salesman." John Mellencamp and Willie Nelson hold festivals and fundraisers when farmers suffer. Taxpayers bail out the auto industry and Wall Street and the banks. There's a sense that manufacturing, or the agrarian economy, is what this country is really about. But culture was, for a while, what America did best: We produce and export creativity around the world. So why aren't we lamenting the plight of its practitioners? Bureau of Labor Statistics confirm that creative industries have been some of the hardest hit during the Bush years and the Great Recession. But when someone employed in the world of culture loses a job, he or she feels easier to sneer at than a steel worker or auto worker.
I met Abbie Grotke a few years ago when my company Zepheira started work for the U.S. Library of Congress to produce the web application that has become Viewshare. I was immediately struck by her sideline, collecting classic advice books and writing articles which apply material from those books for modern enquirers, and also by the phenomenon that's emerged from that sideline, which will become clear in this interview.
April 23, 2012
TNB's resident food writer Alan Brouilette sat down with Wild Turkey's Master Distiller Jimmy Russell and his son, Eddie, at Whisky Advocate's Whiskyfest Chicago.
You've been in the bourbon business a long, long time. What's your earliest memory?
Eddie Russell : Goin' out there as a little kid. Jimmy worked seven days a week, and I'd go out there with him during the summer, on the weekends. The buildings were so big, and fun to play in, and I knew everybody out there…it was just a fun thing for a young kid to do. Then as a teenager I moved on to other things, but I actually went there for a summer job, and that was thirty-one years ago.
I have known you for more than a decade as a writer of sensitive fiction mostly centered around your Indian roots. But you are also a journalist who has many in-depth articles on nature and religion under your belt. Now you have taken on the role of filmmaker. Specifically as writer and Associate Producer. How did this new project come about?
A good friend of mine in the US, Ribbel Josha Dhason, happened to read one of my stories online and got in touch with me. "How about making this into a movie?" he said, ever so deceptively casual. Equally casual I replied, "Why not? How do you want to go about it?"
First step, turn it into a script, he said. Could I do it?
Meet Brandon Generator. He stares at the cursor on his blank laptop screen. He drinks too much coffee. He cuts newspapers into "word salads" for inspiration that never materializes. He can't write. Like many a struggling writer, you can find him bemoaning his stasis on Twitter and Facebook: "Today I wrote nothing, but learnt how to draw four different types of dogs. Progress?" What makes him exceptional is that he is also the creation of writer/director Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz) and Marvel and Lucasfilm artist Tommy Lee Edwards for their online, animated graphic-novel-in-progress designed to crowd source elements of the story.
Please explain what just happened.
I was once again discussing with my wife the fact that more and more I lean towards believing in the existence of aliens. Especially in religion. I think that I've been watching that Ancient Aliens show too much. She's not a believer and the look on her face tells me that she probably thinks I'm joking.
What is your earliest memory?
I would sit on a little rocking chair that my paternal grandfather made for me. My mom and I would sit by the door to wait for my father to come home from work. My parents separated when I was about five so this must have been earlier than that.
If you're not familiar with screenwriter Joe Eszterhas, he's the man who penned the likes of Flashdance, Basic Instinct, Showgirls, and now a scathing nine-page letter to Mel Gibson with whom he'd been collaborating on a film dubbed the "Jewish Braveheart." The Maccabees was allegedly intended to be Gibson's olive branch to the Jewish community after his much-publicized anti-semitic rants, but the project stalled. Eszterhas, addressing Gibson, believes he knows why: "You hate Jews." The letter, published in full by The Wrap, goes on to detail Eszterhas' accounts of working with Gibson on the project.