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As the only person who knows how to pilot the powerful hypersuit, you gotta save the earth. The suit itself looks like the robotic loader from the movie Aliens. But for some reason, it also seems to have extensive military capabilities. The range of available weaponry is extensive. There are two kinds of lasers, grenades, mines, two kinds of missiles, two kinds of rockets, and a weapon called the spike which stuns the enemy. You can also drop decoys (inflatable? holographic?) that look just like you and confuse the Ghen.
The Ghen have several weapons of their own. There are two kinds of basic soldier, laser turrets, scout ships, some tanks, a couple of long-limbed triped walkers, a little jumping tank called the raider, the snail, and the big Behemoth. All the Ghen units are fully rendered in 3D and look really good (or scary when they're closing down on you). These units have a lot of different weapons as well. It is important to know weather an enemy is going to fire rockets at you, or try and drain your energy
The 3D terrain map generator is flawless. Its crisp, accurate, and flows smoothly. Jumpin' Jack Software can pat themselves on the back for this accomplishment.
Where this game really lacks is playability, especially at first. Unlike a simple 'Doom'-style movement environment, you have many, many more options in Ghen War. Your hypersuit's jumping ability let you leap up hills or down into chasms. What you see on the screen isn't your full range of vision either. You can look all around while standing in or moving. Unless you change your view when climbing a hill, it stays level with the horizon, which means you are just looking at the dirt and can't see the enemy. Sometimes an enemy will be just above, or just below your line of site. You can also move left and right with or without rotating. Plus you have to switch between your dozen or so weapons and kill the Ghen.
All this makes Ghen War a very difficult game to get the hang of. Until you get the knack of all the different controls and degrees of movement, it can be very frustrating. If you have the patience and the coordination to learn to play the game, its actually fairly good. But the high difficulty and complexity will fail to please most people.


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Husky Liners Wins 2013 SEMA Award
Husky Liners was recently awarded the 2013 Best New Exterior Accessory Product trophy for the 5th Wheel Tailgate with Optional Back-up Camera Mount at the Specialty Equipment Market Association Show in Las Vegas.
"It's great to be recognized by the industry, SEMA has been a consistent supporter throughout the years," said Bob Tyler, president of Winfield Consumer Products, Husky Liners®. "We look forward to continually creating award-winning products for the industry."
The vehicle accessory brand was awarded the title for its outstanding and innovative design achievement in a newly developed and introduced exterior accessory product for the automotive specialty equipment industry. For more information, visit www.huskyliners.com.

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Etsy has everything, from modern to vintage in art, jewelry, clothing etc. I can spend hours browsing the links and shops of individual designers and entrepreneurs. I receive inspiration each time I visit.
A glow in the dark Justin Bieber t-shirt. Get the newest Justin Bieber t-shirt!
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Think ahead and save yourself the awkwardness of having to say it yourself.
This Christopher Kane Gorilla top is another winner.
I've been waiting for these Christopher Kane tops to hit retailers. Now I just have to scrape together $300.
Another fashion inspiration website - with contests!!!
A fantastic little blog showcasing an adorable girl and her adorable figure in adorable little outfits. Great inspiration.
Looks less like a t-shirt and more like a sweatshirt. An amazing graphic print sweatshirt. I like how the feather image is a bit ambiguous.
I don't wear fitted caps but I can admire a nice piece of head wear, like this graphic print cap.
An ode to a classic. Polaroid, you will be missed.
Hee hee! Cheeky!
Four months of winter weather can make anyone forget about warmer and brighter skies ahead. Here's a pleasant little reminder.
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Yeah. Nice Tee.
Just let the shirt express your feelings for you.
Sante is my inspiration and who I style my work after.....My visual library in my head is filled with a million of his images.
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It's a sure fact that parents will want to know what their baby will become. The selection of tees will determine it for you. There's a choice of 12 tees. Which tee the baby will get is a mystery.


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progressivism Progressivism's LegacyAmerica's entry into World War I diverted the energy of reformers, and after the war progressivism virtually died. Its legacy endured, however, in the political reforms that it achieved and the acceptance that it won for the principle of government regulation of business. Most of the social-welfare measures advocated by progressives had to await the New Deal years for passage. Sections in this article:
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There are familiar friends like A, B and C. There are also Chinese characters and Cyrillic characters. We might even want to use Klingon characters!
There are over 65536 different characters that a computer might have to handle. Every possible character has been assigned its own number, called a Unicode code point. You can see them all here http://www.unicode.org/charts/charindex.html
A byte is a collection of 8 ones or zeros, the basic unit of computer memory. The largest number that can be stored in a byte is 256. In the old days when the world was smaller and simpler, about 20 or 30 years ago, this was sufficient to store A, B and C and their familiar friends. So each character was stored in one byte.
Nowadays we need to include the whole word and even the occasional Klingon. We need more space for our characters and their new friends.
Two bytes are called a word, and can be handled conveniently by most computers. The largest number that can be stored in a word is 65536. It is almost enough for every character. So, in the system called UTF-16 ( because a word contains 16 ones or zeroes ), most every character is stored in a word, with the overflow stored in two words.
The Microsoft Windows operating system uses UTF-16 to handle Unicode characters. Here is how the C programming language creates a UTF-16 encoded Unicode string
wchar_t * ws = LHello World;
There is a snag. Although computers use UTF-16 internally, they cannot communicate easily with each other using UTF-16. This is because, although every computer agrees on the order in which the ones and zeros of a byte should be arranged, they do not all agree on which order the bytes in a word should be arranged. In a reference to Jonathan Swifts novel Gullivers Travels where characters fought over which end an egg should be opened, the two ways of arranging the bytes in a word are called Big Endian and Little Endian. When communicating with each other computers use another standard called UTF-8 where each Unicode character is encoded by a series of bytes in a specified order which is the same whether the computer is Big Endian or Little Endian
When a computer program needs to communicate with another computer, perhaps by reading or writing a web page, it must constantly convert back and forward between UTF-8 and UTF-16 encoded character strings. The C programming language provides routines for doing this: WideCharToMultiByte() and MultiByteToWideChar(). However, they are a pain to use. Each conversion requires two calls to the routines and you have to look after allocating/freeing memory and making sure the strings are correctly terminated. We need a wrapper!
Here is the interface to my wrapper:
Conversion between UTF-8 and UTF-16 strings.
UTF-8 is used by web pages. It is a variable byte length encoding
of UNICODE characters which is independant of the byte order in a computer word.
UTF-16 is the native Windows UNICODE encoding.
The class stores two copies of the string, one in each encoding,
so should only exist briefly while conversion is done.
This is a wrapper for the WideCharToMultiByte and MultiByteToWideChar
class cUTF
wchar_t * myString16; ///< string in UTF-16
char * myString8; ///< string in UTF-6
/// Construct from UTF-16
cUTF( const wchar_t * ws );
/// Construct from UTF8
cUTF( const char * s );
/// get UTF16 version
const wchar_t * get16() { return myString16; }
/// get UTF8 version
const char * get8() { return myString8; }
/// free buffers
~cUTF() { free(myString8); free(myString16); }
Here is the code to implement this interface
/// Construct from UTF-16
cUTF::cUTF( const wchar_t * ws )
// store copy of UTF16
myString16 = (wchar_t * ) malloc( wcslen( ws ) * 2 + 2 );
wcscpy( myString16, ws );
// How long will the UTF-8 string be
int len = WideCharToMultiByte(CP_UTF8, 0,
ws, wcslen( ws ),
// allocate a buffer
myString8 = (char * ) malloc( len + 1 );
// convert to UTF-8
WideCharToMultiByte(CP_UTF8, 0,
ws, wcslen( ws ),
myString8, len, NULL, NULL);
// null terminate
*(myString8+len) = '\0';
/// Construct from UTF8
cUTF::cUTF( const char * s )
myString8 = (char * ) malloc( strlen( s ) + 1 );
strcpy( myString8, s );
// How long will the UTF-16 string be
int len = MultiByteToWideChar(CP_UTF8, 0,
s, strlen( s ),
// allocate a buffer
myString16 = (wchar_t * ) malloc( len * 2 + 2 );
// convert to UTF-16
MultiByteToWideChar(CP_UTF8, 0,
s, strlen( s ),
myString16, len);
// null terminate
*(myString16+len) = '\0';
And here is some code to test the wrapper
// create a native unicode string with some chinese characters
wchar_t * unicode_string = L"String with some chinese characters \x751f\x4ea7\x8bbe\x7f6e ";
// convert to UTF8
cUTF utf( unicode_string );
// create a web page
FILE * fp = fopen("test_unicode.html","w");
// let browser know we are using UTF-8
fprintf(fp,"<head><meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html;charset=UTF-8\"></head>\n");
// output the converted string
fprintf(fp, "After conversion using cUTF8 - %s<p>\n", utf.get8() );
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Albany families help kids overseas
Mon, 14 Nov 2011 19:05:57 GMT —
In Albany homes, businesses, schools, and churches, people are piling up shoe boxesâ|filled not with shoes, but toys, school supplies and necessity items, lovingly selected for a child in need. Thousands of Albany kids are participating in Operation Christmas Child, the world's largest Christmas project of its kind, to make a statement to needy children worldwide: "You are not forgotten!"
Operation Christmas Child uses simple gift-filled shoe boxes to let hurting children know that they are loved. Kids, families, groups, businesses and schools pack and wrap empty shoe box gifts with items most people take for granted, including toothpaste, toys and pencils, and drop them off at one of the 10 collection sites in the Albany area. The shoe boxes are then processed and prepared to be hand-delivered to children worldwide using whatever means necessaryâ"sea containers, trucks, trains, airplanes, helicopters, boats, elephants and dog sleds.
Since 1993, Operation Christmas Child has collected 86 million shoe box gifts and hand-delivered them to impoverished children in more than 130 countries. This year, Operation Christmas Child hopes to collect another 8.5 million gift-filled shoe boxes.
Anyone can participate in Operation Christmas Child right now. National Collection Week is Nov. 14-21. For more information on how to participate in Operation Christmas Child, or to find the nearest drop-off site, call (407) 852-3727 or visit www.samaritanspurse.org/occ.
Operation Christmas Child uses tracking technology that allows donors to "follow" their shoe box to find out the destination country where it will be hand-delivered to a child in need.
Operation Christmas Child is a project of international Christian relief and evangelism organization Samaritan's Purse, headed by Franklin Graham. While Samaritan's Purse works to meet critical physical needs, such as clean water, health care and food, Operation Christmas Child addresses a need for which children are just as desperateâ"the need to have hope and feel loved.


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BEIRUT — Syrian government forces have launched a counter-attack to recapture a gas field seized by Islamic extremists, activists said Saturday, as the death toll from three days of fighting rose to more than 200 people killed.
The intense fighting in the Shaer field, which lies in the desert region of Palmyra in the central province of Homs, has been among the deadliest battles between government forces and the Islamic State group since the start of the Syrian uprising more than three years ago.
Fighters from the Islamic State group have in the past few weeks seized a huge chunk of territory straddling the Iraq-Syria border, where they declared a self-styled caliphate. They also have captured much of Syria's oil-rich eastern province of Deir el-Zour.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Syrian special forces launched an attack late Friday on the Shaer field and regained parts of it.
A Homs-based activist who goes by the name of Beibares Tellawi confirmed that troops attacked fighters from the Islamic State group.
"The fighting today is mostly hit-and-run attacks," Tellawi said via Skype. "Large numbers of (President Bashar) Assad's forces are attacking the field."
The Observatory said that the number of troops, guards and workers killed in the gas field since it was captured Thursday has risen to 270, adding that some were captured and killed by militants. Tellawi said the death toll was at least 200.
The Observatory said Friday's clashes alone left 51 soldiers either dead or wounded. It said 40 Islamic State fighters have been killed so far, while Tellawi said the number is more than 30.
The fate of 90 other gas field workers and guards is still unknown, said the Observatory, which relies on a network of activists inside Syria.
In the rebel-held Damascus suburb of Douma, a car bomb exploded Saturday, killing at least nine people and wounded others, the Observatory said. The area has been struck by several car bombs in the past month that killed and wounded dozens.
The Observatory and Ahmad al-Masalmeh, an opposition activist in the southern province of Daraa, also reported intense shelling and air raids by government forces in the region that borders Jordan.
Syria's state news agency SANA said the army "hit terrorist dens," killing and wounding scores of militants in several villages and towns in Daraa, including the villages of Tafas, Inkhil, Atman and Dael.
An unnamed Jordanian military official quoted by Jordan's state news agency said that border guards have received 411 Syrian refugees over the past three days. The official said 46 of them were seriously wounded and were admitted to field hospitals and that 12 died.
The Syrian uprising began in Daraa in March 2011 with anti-government protests. The revolt later turned into a civil war that has killed at least 170,000 people and displaced some 9 million, a third of the country's pre-war population.
Also Saturday, the United Nations children's agency said it was able to reach the Damascus suburb of Moadamiyeh for the first time since 2012. Moadamiyeh has been under a government siege that activists say killed a number of people dead because of lack of food and medicine.
A statement by UNICEF said the agency provided supplies directly to children and their families.
On Monday, some 13 Syrian Arab Red Crescent trucks loaded with 1,000 food parcels crossed into Moadamiyeh.
UNICEF estimates there are 9,200 children in the suburb who are in desperate need of aid.
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And The Winner Is(n't) ...
Music by Pulitzer prize winners and runners-up
Monday, March 07, 2011
[DISCLAIMER] Before you get all worked up about academic elitism and aesthetic biases and the like, know that we don't unequivocally agree with the process for choosing the recipients for the Pulitzer Prize in music, nor do we unequivocally agree on the recipients themselves. We don't unequivocally disagree either. We're just saying that, like the Academy Awards (my favorite movie wasn't even nominated), a survey of winners and nominees for arguably our country's most recognized honor in music presents a single, if narrow but possibly interesting, view of music in America [END]
And -- yes yes, you caught me -- it affords an opportunity to play Mario Davidovsky's 1971 Prize-winning Synchronism no.6 for piano and electronic sound, which whether you accept the value of the Pulitzer Prize or not, is an awesome piece of music.
So we're filling out the week on Hammered! with piano music -- concerto and solo -- by Pulitzer Prize winners and, sometimes more interestingly, Pulitzer runners up (if I had a dollar for every time Steve Reich got second place for this prize, I'd be ... three dollars richer). With so many great options in the last decade or so, most of the music this week is less than 15 years old with the exception of Monday's show, which serves a similar purpose to those Academy Award Show retrospective montages.
So Monday we'll hear some old school Prize-winners: the above mentioned Synchronism no.6 by Davidovsky, the Three-Page Sonata by Charles Ives (who won in 1947 for his Third Symphony), and the remarkable Variations for Piano by a young Aaron Copland (winner in 1945 for, you guessed it, Appalachian Spring). We'll close out the hour with a more recent recipient, 2003 Prize-winner John Adams' Century Rolls, a piano concerto that was actually a runner up for the Prize in 1998.
We also have works by Charles Wuorinen, Steve Reich, William Bolcolm, Don Byron, Yehudi Wyner, Stephen Hartke, and many more.
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I think it's worth discussing whether an awards process that is so healthy for Hollywood or commercial musical theater isn't actually in many ways harmful in classical music, where work and pubic exposure opportunities are far fewer in number than the extremely talented and creative musicians more-than-qualified and in need of them.
Are we not further narrowing a selection process already made too narrow by the economic realities of a musically ignorant ticket-and-CD-buying public? Wouldn't it be an interesting departure if the altruistic award givers made their artistic choices, gave the winners a healthy cash award, but kept the process out of the newspapers?
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A Game of Hoops
Greta held the small copper hoop in her hands and concentrated. The post was several feet in front of her. All she would have to do is toss it and, if lucky, it would land in the middle with a lovely ringing sound that signaled victory.
Murata, standing at her elbow, smiled mysteriously and pushed his glasses up on his nose with a finger. He had only one hoop left in his grasp. Greta, on the other hand, had three.
As she studied the task ahead of her, Murata glanced at Greta again out of the corner of his eye. She had grown up fairly quickly. She was twenty years old, as of yesterday, with an elaborate celebratory ball thrown in her honor by her fathers. Murata's lazy gaze wandered to the field to their left. Yuuri was showing Dominic and baby Kent how to make a daisy chain while Wolfram looked on in mild amusement. Both children, with lilac hair and honey colored eyes, had been rescued from a raided village in the von Christ territory by the blond soldier. Murata could still see the day in his mind when Wolfram came back with them—the squirmy toddler being held by Conrad, and the baby, with thumb firmly planted in mouth, in Wolfram's arms.
"It's been awhile since you've been to the castle," Greta said casually and tossed her ring. It smacked against the pole with a dull thunk. She frowned deeply at that, but then forced herself to brighten a little. "So…um…been busy?"
"Yes," Murata said, "but it's mostly some research that Günter asked me to help out with. It's really no bother, though…"
When Greta's eyes seemed to pierce through him, he glanced down at the copper ring he was holding. He dangled it a little to give himself something to do.
"Oh, that's good," she said pleasantly. "I was afraid that we'd said or done something to drive you away. You know how we can be…sometimes."
Over to her left, she could hear the dim sound of Papa Wolf saying "Wimp!" She sighed inwardly and wondered how her parents ever stayed together.
Guessing her feelings, Murata said, "They need each other, deep down, and they understand each other because, in many unseen ways, they're very much alike." It was followed by a modest shrug. Murata did his best, in that moment, to block out from his mind his previous lives and his previous marriages. Some were good and some were not. But, to a degree, he loved them all and still mourned them being gone from his life. And being alone again was becoming…tiresome. But that was the price he paid for being the sage and for being reincarnated so many times.
There was movement before his eyes and he blinked. Greta was standing right in front of him, looking into his eyes.
"Eh?" he said.
"You looked sad there…for a minute…"
Not wanting to get into it further, Murata did his best to appear cheerful for her sake. Then, upon closer inspection, he realized he had a lot more to feel cheerful about.
Greta had grown up to become a very lovely young woman. She was slim and slightly taller than he was. She had wide, fat breasts. And while they weren't as big as Lady Cheri's, she could certainly give the ex-demon queen a run for her money in the "perky" department. Greta's new green dress had a scoop neckline to it. And her leaning over and down a bit to see into his eyes gave him quite "an eye-full."
"I suppose you should go next," she said, head bowed a little.
Murata grinned at her. "But, then the game would be over. What fun would there be in that?"
"Can I try again?" she said with a hand on his arm. She pulled in a happy, teasing way.
"Of course." He gave a polite nod.
"Daddy Yuuri says that 'If at first you don't succeed…'" She tossed the hoop and it smacked against the pole again. She tilted her head back in frustration.
"Try, try again," Murata finished in her ear.
"Yes, well, you're good at this." She motioned to the pole that was sporting the rings that Murata had tossed earlier when it was his turn.
"Oh, I give up," she said, half turning to Murata. She flung the last ring haphazardly. It spun off into a direction she never intended.
"Oi!" Wolfram shouted as he ducked. His angry voice echoed.
"Sorry!" Greta said, hands over her mouth.
"Just be more careful!" Yuuri said while being tackled by a lilac toddler with an impish grin. They fell on the grass, much to Wolfram's disapproval. They really needed to keep the roughhousing to a minimum. It wasn't kingly. The blond offered his older son a cup of juice to distract him.
Greta sighed with a shake of her head. "Well, now, I suppose you win by default."
Murata shook his head "no" and handed the ring to her. "One last time, right?"
Greta smiled at him with her head tilted prettily to one side. She took the ring in both hands and turned back.
"Let's make a bet," she said with a little determination in her voice.
"Oh?" Murata said, arms crossed against his chest, intrigued.
"Yes," Greta chuckled. She turned to look at him. "If I can make this, then you have to give me anything that I want."
Murata smirked at that. "You just had your birthday. You have tons of presents. Why ask for one more?"
She grasped the copper ring in her hands tightly. "It's my prize. Come on!" she pleaded. "Make this worth it for me."
"Victory is not enough?"
She shook her head. She wanted more, apparently. Her face was so sincere, so desperate. It was almost impossible to refuse the eyes that were soft as a puppy's.
"Fine, then."
"Really?" she squealed.
"Yes," he said with a grin following it.
"Anything? And you won't take back your word?"
Murata nodded and noticed how she was gripping onto the circular hoop.
Greta turned back with purpose. Her heart was beating hard and Murata chuckled at that. It was just like her to take something as simple as a game so seriously. It was actually quite sweet.
She kissed the copper ring as the wind pushed against her. The princess waited for the wind to die down and it did. Her eyes took on a determined glow and she released it.
It flew.
It spun.
It landed…
…in the center…
"I did it!" Greta shouted, getting Yuuri and Wolfram's attention.
Her fathers glanced at each other and exchanged confused shrugs.
"Yes!" She danced all around Murata Ken with a twirl that brought her dress above her knees.
Murata shook his head at that and held back a laugh. Yes, she did it. With enough determination, that she probably got from her fathers long ago, she managed the feat.
"So, princess, what is the prize that you want for your win?" Murata asked.
"But, you'll keep your word?" Greta asked with a finger pointing at him.
"Of course."
She clasped her hands together. "You really will?"
"I've already said 'yes' to you."
Greta squealed with excitement. And then she slapped him on the cheek.
Murata's eyes widened as Greta grabbed the sage's coat, pulled him against her, and kissed him with a hunger he didn't think was possible. The sage was gaping like a goldfish as she said, "I want you. You're my fiancé now and no one else can ever have you."
"But…but…!" Murata stammered as she hugged him with a soft "I've loved you all along."
"I'm going to be married to Ken! Yes!"
Onyx eyes were still staring at her in amazement as she ran off for the castle shouting, "Anissina! Anissina! You're right! Women can propose!"
Murata had his head in his hands. "Wait! How did this happen?"
"How did 'what' happen?"
The sage raised his head. The voice belonged to Wolfram. Yuuri was only a few steps behind with the children in tow.
"I…uh…well…ummm…" Murata muttered. He didn't know what to say to them—his soon-to-be…in-laws? "You see, Greta and I were playing a game of hoops and she was having a difficult time with it…and..."
"Oh, that's not possible," Yuuri said with pride in his voice.
"I'm with Yuuri," Wolfram agreed. "You see, Greta has been a master of that game since she was twelve. No one can beat her—not even you."


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There are Chinese Dragon Coin to the listing below. Kuang Hsu and the other a coin before the first period (1908) were in the 34 years. Third Kuang Hsu reign of the Qing Dynasty (1903) was built in the 29 years. It is believed that the 34 year-Pei Yang retruck silver dollars were times during some of the Republicans. Yang Pei 34 years it is easy to understand there are many varieties of silver dollars of the current.
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Why it may be illegal to Instagram ballot |
Rules on showing how you voted vary by state |
Published Tuesday, November 6, 2012 10:57 am |
Proud voters are already posting photos of their ballots on Instagram�sometimes with the names of their chosen candidates filled in. But before you snap a shot of your vote, you might want to check your state laws.
As the Citizen Media Law Project points out as part of their guide to documenting the 2012 election, showing your marked ballot to other people is actually illegal in many states.
Laws against displaying your ballot are motivated by concerns about vote buying, since voters being bribed might need to be prove they voted a certain way.
While laws vary from state to state, the penalties for showing your ballot can be stiff.
�It�s illegal to display your voted ballot and violators could be convicted of a misdemeanor,� Colorado secretary of state spokesman Richard Coolidge told ProPublica. The penalty, according to Colorado law: a fine of not more than $1000, imprisonment in county jail for not more than one year � or both.
In Michigan and Hawaii, voters who show their ballots to other people can, in certain circumstances, have their votes thrown out.
It�s not clear how these rules apply to sharing a picture of your ballot on the Internet, or whether states would actually prosecute voters for an Instagram shot. Officials from Michigan and Hawaii have yet to respond to requests for comment.
�Virtually all of these laws are older laws that predate the current technology,� said Jeffrey Hermes, a First Amendment expert who wrote the Citizen Media Law Project�s guide to ballot disclosure rules.
But, he warned in his guide, �It is easy to imagine situations in which the thoughtless posting of a marked ballot on Facebook could result in negative consequences.�
Rick Hasen, an election law expert at the University of California, Irvine, said that taking a picture of your marked ballot is �bad news.�
�Hard as it is to believe, before the secret ballot there was a lot more vote buying and we don't want more of that now,� he wrote in an email.
A North Carolina elections official told WRAL-TV last week that a �criminal vote-buying scheme� in another state had involved cell phone pictures of completed ballots.
Some states, such as North Carolina, simply prohibit using phones or cameras within a polling place.
Allowing voters to publicly display their ballots might also undermine the culture of the secret ballot, Hermes said. Another factor is the fear that voters might be intimated or swayed by seeing other people�s ballots.
�These are legitimate concerns,� Hermes said, �but they only extend so far.�
If voters �want to express what they feel and their experience and the polls, the First Amendment should protect that,� he said.
Josh Stearns of Free Press, a media and technology advocacy group, told ProPublica he did not see much difference between wearing a t-shirt supporting a candidate, and sharing a photograph of your ballot.
�For a lot of people, voting is a really important life event,� he said.
�We can take our kids into the voting booth, but in many places we can�t take a picture of our ballot.�
Stearns said that allowing individuals to photograph their ballots might also be an important way of providing them with a record of their own vote.
Students interviewed this week by the DePaul University student paper had a range of views on posting ballot photos on Instagram, from approval to disappointment that voting had become �just another thing you can tweet.�
At least one state has recently changed its stance on the issue, Hermes said. Maine repealed its ban on voters showing their own ballots in 2011.
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Posted Sep 12, 2007
By Steve Callan
Depending on your environment, working with and between Windows and UNIX can be somewhat problematic. It seems that no two workplaces are the same when it comes to the network file system. Two of the more commonly seen problems include not being able to get a GUI tool (e.g., Oracle Universal Installer) to display and not being able to have it display at the correct location. There is a freeware tool to help you work around these problems and make your job of administering Oracle (and Oracle products) easier.
Listed below is a list of environments commonly seen in the workplace. UNIX, in these examples, refers to Solaris, AIX, HP, Linux and so on (the variants are sometimes referred to as *NIX).
Case 1 - Physical access to the UNIX (or database) server
If a smaller server, such as a SPARC workstation, youre probably in a development shop, so logging onto the actual server may be as simple as rolling your chair across the office to sign on. If a larger server, such as those found in a production environment, the server (or servers) may be located in a computer room. The room may be an environmentally controlled/temperature regulated/restricted access room, but the point is, you can go into the room and physically access the server (even if that means youre pulling out a laptop built in to the rack).
Case 2 - Indirect access to a specific server
In this environment, your access or logon to the server is through an application (on your PC) such as PuTTY. Information about PuTTY can be found in numerous places, and this site is fairly concise and relevant to our needs.
The information typed into the Host Name field is the name of the specific server you want to connect to. You can save the connection information for each server and load them as needed.
Case 3 - Indirect access to a specific server via a gateway
What differentiates this case from the previous one is that you cannot logon directly to a real server, but first must go through a gateway server (you logon to services, and once you are authenticated, you can SSH onto your server of interest).
Direct logons are the easiest when it comes to having a GUI-based application displayed at the monitor in front of you. It shouldnt be hard to figure out that our number one GUI-based application of interest here is Oracle Universal Installer.
In general, obtaining or acquiring command line interface is not a problem. What is a problem, as evidenced by the roughly 28 million Google hits on Cant open display (and not counting the seven on MetaLink) is getting a GUI to 1) display and 2) display to the correct monitor.
If youve ever been frustrated with X (or X11 or X-Windows), youll definitely enjoy reading chapter 7 of The UNIX-Haters Handbook. One OpenSSH application in particular can take care of connecting (via SSH) and displaying GUIs such as OUI, and that application is Cygwin, a Linux-like environment for Windows. During the installation of Cygwin, the selection of SSH and X options give you a quick, easy way to access a server, open an xterm window, and have GUIs display just like that. After downloading the setup.exe program, the first several windows shown in the installation process are self-explanatory. The window you need to go beyond just clicking Next is shown below.
Scroll down to Shells and select tcsh (expand it and ensure the box is checked). The bash option will probably work as well, but it may take a few install attempts to get the right combination for your environment.
Lastly, the other option to have installed (aside from the defaults) is found by expanding the last category (X11) and scrolling down to the very bottom. The package of interest is xterm. Ensure that is selected and click Next to finish the installation process.
The installation will take a few minutes (mileage varies based on which mirror site you selected and your Internet connection). When the installation is finished, start Cygwin and youll see a shell-like window. This window will look and operate much like youre on a Linux machine. Type env and you can see how Cygwin translates many of your Windows settings (e.g., environment variables) into a UNIX-like format.
At this point (assuming youre in a case 2 environment), enter startx. A new X window will appear, and from this window, you can logon to the server where you need to run OUI.
The trick here is to add -X in the ssh call. Enter ssh X oracle@server_name, and supply the password. Entering xclock at this point should cause the clock GUI to appear. At this point, if you know you can get an X application to run (xcalc and xeyes are others), you can get OUI to start (given that all of the system prerequisites have been met).
Even on your PC, you should be able to see X applications run.
Notice there was no need to set the DISPLAY environment variable or use the xhost command. There was no lets reverse what client and server mean confusion introduced by X-Windows. Even better, when compared to other tools and a cost of hundreds of dollars (see Exceed), the freeware price of Cygwin is hard to beat.
You can spend lots of time trying to get an X-based application to display, again the main reason to run an X application is to test your ability to run OUI. If nothing seems to work, not being able to launch OUI is not a show stopper, as the RDBMS and other products can all be installed using response files. Depending on your environment, you can still try the established way of using xhost and setting the DISPLAY environment variable.
As an additional resource, MetaLink offers two troubleshooting guides. Notes 153960.1 (FAQ: X Server Testing and Troubleshooting) and 113443.1 (Configure and Test an X Server for Running X Windows Applications) are good starting points in terms of troubleshooting why OUI wont appear.
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Now you see, this is what happens when I start having fun playing around with Photoshop and Image Ready. Only problem is it starts to feel a little trippy when you look at them all together for too long!
I particually love the Network 10 idents so I've used them to death, the other clips are from the House charity t-shirt launch.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) – The Clinton Foundation has awarded a $250,000 grant to a Haitian recycling plant that seeks to clean up the country's dirty capital city.
Former President Bill Clinton, who heads the private foundation, made the announcement Tuesday before the end of a two-day trip to the Caribbean nation, where he used to serve as a United Nations special envoy. His foundation focuses on bringing investors to Haiti.
The grant goes to Sustainable Recycling Solutions, a business founded in 2012 by a team of Haitian business leaders and foreign aid workers that pays hundreds of Haitians to collect recyclable materials from trash heaps and landfills. The scraps are then sorted by type and turned into new consumer products such as clothes, lumber, furniture and toys.
The project is supposed to help clean up Port-au-Prince and neighboring districts that make up a squalid sprawl of 3 million people, while unclogging the many canals that are filled with discarded plastic bottles and other bits of trash.
"This is a big deal," Clinton told reporters. "It will clean up Port-au-Prince. It's good for the environment. It will stop the clogging of a lot of places in the city."
Clinton also visited apparel manufacturer Industrial Revolution II SA, which began production in October. The company plans to funnel half its profits into a health care and education program for its 100 employees who sew T-shirts, yoga pants and other clothing for customers like Whole Foods Market Inc.
Workers earn at least 300 gourdes a day, or $6.81, which is more than Haiti's minimum wage of 200 gourdes a day. They can earn more based on their level of productivity.
Workers in Haiti's garment sector have protested in recent months demanding an increase in the minimum wage to 500 gourdes because they believe current wages are insufficient to live on.
The Clinton Foundation also announced it has awarded $28,000 to Fonkoze, a Haitian microfinance organization. The grant will go toward literacy programs for farmers and others in the southeastern village of Thiotte.
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Religion, Space, and the Environment
Religions often nurture important skills that help believers locate themselves in the world. Religious perceptions, practices, emotions, and beliefs are closely interwoven with the environments from which they emerge. Sigurd Bergmann's driving emphasis here is to explore religion not in relation to, but as a part of the spatiality and movement within the environment from which it arises and is nurtured.
Religion, Space, and the Environment emerges from the author's experiences in different places and continents over the past decade. At the book's heart lie the questions of how space, place, and religion amalgamate and how lived space and lived religion influence each other.
Bergmann explores how religion and the memory of our past impact our lives in urban spaces; how the sacred geographies in Mayan and northeast Asian lands compare to modern eco-spirituality; and how human images and practices of moving in, with, and through the land are interwoven with the processes of colonization and sacralizing, and the practices of power and visions of the sacred, among other topics.
Editorial Reviews
"Bergmann challenges scholars to rethink the concept and meaning of space, especially in the relation to religion. In that context the attention to art makes a particular significance in the culture in which visuality is the instrument of transferring knowledge, meaning and experience."
—Marina Vicelja-Matijašić, IKON
"The sheer breadth of ideas and analysis in Religion, Space, and the Environment deserves to add Bergmann to the trinity of frequently-cited authors in the field of how we think about places."
—Bob Trubshaw, Time and Mind
"An impressive and inspiring combination of scientific rigor, following the ethical demand, reflecting on the "spiritual dignity of life" (p 282) and looking for political engagement following from these for Christians and for the Christian church. Bergmann's intense and engaged reflection does not fear coming to normative options and critical questions, his scientific analyses finally develop their arguments in service not of abstract objectives, however in service of humanization - and they do not forget about power, injustice, suffering."
—Hans-Günter Heimbrock, International Journal of Practical Theology
"More than 200 illustrations enrich the book and make it a pleasure not only to read but also to reflect on images of sacred places and iconic meanings of landscape worldwide. The combination of text and images offers a deep insight and emotional analysis into humans' religious appropriation of landscape and environment . . . engaging and impressive . . . The comparisons of different world religions and their specific relationship with nature is the great achievement of this book. . . . [It] stimulates the reader and sometimes offers disturbing answers to the big question regarding how we should organize our future relationship towards nature in times of dangerous environmental change."
—Urte Undine Frömming, Anthropos
"[One can] take it as a sign for religion and ecology existing in one transdisciplinary field where a manifold of disciplines and perspectives enrich each other, which at present emerges under the umbrella of the "Environmental Humanities" or "Humanities and Climate Change." In this field, Religion, Space & the Environment offers a very important contribution to the discussion."
—Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift, Swedish Theological Quarterly
"Bergmann, who works in Norway, is one of the leading scholars of our time on studies of religion and the environment. . . . The collection of articles Religion, Space, and the Environment offers an excellent cross-section of Bergmann's versatile research themes. . . . Bergmann's strengths are his scope, creativity, and clarity of thought. . . . [H]e formulates a clear position in ecotheology. Arts provide an important role in Bergmann's thinking and his reflection deepens the text colorfully. The book contains more than 150 black and white pictures, ranging from visual arts, landscape photography to architecture and film."
—Panu Pihkala, Religionsforskaren (Scholar of Religion)
"[T]he book provides a novel approach to ecotheology, offering new impulses to the concept of memorial culture. There is a general lack of awareness of the place and space inhabited by cultural memory; a space that deeply affects the individual, regardless of whether he or she has actively created this space, or has simply claimed an already existing natural environment as his or her own. . . . The book contains a wealth of illustrations (153) . . . [that] aid in conveying the book's central message: to visualise the impact that space has on our world, our society, and on the individual. . . . With this book, Bergmann has unearthed an important new dimension of ecotheology."
—Theo Sundermeier, Theologische Literaturzeitung
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1. Beheimatung: Making Oneself at Home with the Spirit—A Collage
2. The City as a Place of Remembrance: Against Urban Amnesia
3. Religion in the Built Environment: Aesth/Ethics, Ritual, and Memory in Lived Urban Space
4. Cities on the Stream of Gods: Wandering in Mayan Sacred Geography
5. Ecological Geomancy: Earth Energy and the Wisdom of Spatial Design
6. Space and Justice in Eco-Spirituality
7. ."The Space Where I Am": Decolonizing, Resacralizing, and Transfiguring Landscapes through the Aesth/Ethical Lens
8. .Landscape, Power, Climate, and the Sacred: Preliminary Reflections about Religion in Sacred, Medieval Nordic Geographies
9. "It Can't Be Locked In": Decolonizing Processes in the Arts and Religion of Sápmi and Aboriginal Australia
10. "The Landscape Breathes Despair": Lived Religion in Dangerous Environmental Change
11. Sacred Geography: Religion in the Lived Space of Climatic Change
12. Invoking the Spirit amid Dangerous Environmental Change
13. Energy as Gift or Commodity? The Ambivalence of Growth, Markets, and Technology in Climatic Change
14. Mobility and the Spirit of Our Time
15. "Follow Me . . ." The Reversal of Traffic in Johannes Schreiter's Stained Glass World
16. Technology as Salvation?: Critical Perspectives from an Aesth/Ethics of the Spirit
17. Theology in Its Spatial Turn: Space, Place, and Built Environments Challenging and Changing the Images of God
18. Trinitarian Cosmology in God's Liberating Movement: Exploring Some Signature Tunes in the Opera of Ecologic Salvation
19. Fetishism Revisited: In the Animistic Lens of Eco-Pneumatology
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By this kind of chop-logic we may prove any thing unconstitutional.
He invests the term "chop-logic" with the significance of foolery in excelsis.
You remember the absurd old bit of chop-logic often repeated in the classes of philosophy?
No, that is chop-logic: for words are only transitory noises, whereas man is the child of God, and has an immortal spirit.
More, when was anything that mattered ever settled by chop-logic of the sort that set my head spinning?
"to cut with a quick blow," mid-14c., of uncertain origin, perhaps from Old North French choper (Old French coper "to cut, cut off," 12c., Modern French couper), from Vulgar Latin *cuppare "to behead," from a root meaning "head," but influenced in Old French by couper "to strike." Related: Chopped; chopping.
"shift quickly," 1530s, earlier "to bargain" (early 15c.), ultimately from Old English ceapian "to bargain" (see cheap); here with a sense of "changing back and forth," probably from common expressions such as to chop and change "barter." To chop logic is recorded from 1570s. Related: Chopped; chopping.
"act of chopping," mid-14c., from chop (v.1). Meaning "piece cut off" is mid-15c.; specifically "slice of meat" from mid-17c. Sense of "a blow, strike" is from 1550s.
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Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow ~ Ella Fitzgerald
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And no artist listed, either - That's two counts against in one post. I think that qualifies for a deletion of one found log. :D WhereRWe? 04-27-2005, 10:18 AM My Darling Clemintine, by ? My Baby Ain't My Baby No More - Wilburn Brothers d76 04-27-2005, 10:21 AM Love is a battlefield Pat Benitar WhereRWe? 04-27-2005, 10:25 AM Use Dave's title - I realized I goofed and changed my title. Let's just keep it going... lost hiker man 04-27-2005, 12:00 PM Battlefield of Love - Lenny Kravitz WhereRWe? 04-27-2005, 02:41 PM Battlefield of Love - Lenny Kravitz Love me Tender - Elvis lefty 04-27-2005, 02:56 PM Dave Mathews - Crash Into Me Mainiac1957 04-27-2005, 04:25 PM LET IT DIE -----> Somewhere I belong ~ Linkin Park Hmm, where's the word match there? And no artist listed, either - That's two counts against in one post. I think that qualifies for a deletion of one found log. :D You'll never get my logs. Bwahahaha :eek: Let it die refers to this thread. 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(Good band too) Rolling Stones - You can't Always Get What You Want :cool: d76 05-20-2005, 11:13 AM always somethinig there to remind me Naked Eyes Dextah 05-21-2005, 09:48 PM always somethinig there to remind me Naked Eyes Something to Talk About - Bonnie Raitt loonylady 05-23-2005, 07:18 PM I Did It My Way by Elvis or Frank Sinatra and many more :cool: loonylady 05-23-2005, 07:24 PM WHOOPS I used Dextah quote instead of the song title oh well that is why there is no such thing as a "smart Blonde"!!!!! let me try again.... PLEASE, PRETTY PLEASE loonylady 05-23-2005, 07:34 PM okay let's try this I Don't want to Talk about it Rod Stewart also another song same title by Emmy Lou Harris see I don't want to talk about being a blonde !!!! J_Cyr 06-12-2005, 11:45 AM when we talk - code red loonylady 06-12-2005, 06:29 PM Sometimes When We Touch Dan Hill Sung by Rod Stewart loonylady 06-12-2005, 06:32 PM whoops J cyr I appoligize i didn't see you previous post well noww ... hmmmmm.....let's try this I may have lost the words that is supposed to be connected here but the first line form one of my favorite songs Sometimes in our lives Bill Withers J_Cyr 06-12-2005, 10:26 PM Loonylady you crack me up. Yea, I had that one already and reason you crack me up cause the last song listed was "when we talk" lol, then you listed "sometimes in our lives" haha, you need to get a song title with any of the words "when we talk" in the title that hasn't been used before... thanks for the laugh though! |


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TOWN OF ULSTER — A Kingston man was arrested Saturday night after selling cocaine to undercover cops, police said.
Anthony Mergendahl, 30, was arrested after the Ulster Regional Gang Enforcement Narcotics Team conducted an investigation into his allegedly selling cocaine in northern Ulster County.
Mergendahl previously sold drugs to undercover cops and was taken into custody during another cocaine sale on Route 32 and Vestal Hills Drive in the Town of Ulster, police said.
Also arrested during the sale was Gabrielle Piperno, 34, of Kingston, police said.
Mergendahl is facing parole violations, and one felony drug sale and two possession charges. Piperno faces a felony drug possession charge.
Both were bailed out Sunday morning after being sent to Ulster County Jail.
Kingston man, 30, hit with charge of selling cocaine
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Story highlights
- Putin to Obama: Russia "cannot ignore the calls for help"
- Crimean lawmakers set a date for a referendum on staying in Ukraine or joining
- Ukraine's interim prime minister, U.S. President Obama call such a vote unlawful
- West threatens Russia with punitive actions over Ukraine
We're leaving. No, you're not.
That's where the crisis in Ukraine stood Thursday after lawmakers in Crimea voted in favor of leaving the country for Russia and putting it to a regional vote in 10 days.
This act drew widespread condemnation, with Ukrainian interim Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk calling such a referendum "an illegitimate decision."
"Crimea was, is and will be an integral part of Ukraine," he said.
It was a sentiment echoed by several world leaders, who called the scheduled vote and possible pullout violations of Ukrainian and international law.
"Any discussion about the future of Ukraine must include the legitimate government of Ukraine," said U.S. President Barack Obama. "In 2014, we are well beyond the days when borders can be redrawn over the heads of democratic leaders."
It's not clear how easily the region could split off from Ukraine even if the referendum endorses the move.
The developments came at a dizzying pace Thursday as Yatsenyuk joined emergency talks in Brussels, Belgium, called by leaders of the European Union who support the Kiev government and want to de-escalate the crisis.
The EU and the United States announced plans to freeze the assets of Viktor Yanukovych, who was ousted as Ukraine's president after he turned his back on a trade deal with the EU in favor of one with Russia.
The rejected trade deal prompted months of protests that culminated in February with bloody street clashes that left dozens dead and Yanukovych out of office.
Interpol said it is reviewing a request by Ukrainian authorities that would allow for the arrest of Yanukovych on charges of abuse of power and murder, an allegation tied to the death of protesters.
Moscow has denounced the events that led to Yanukovych's ouster as an illegitimate coup and has refused to recognize the new Ukrainian authorities, putting the two countries on a collision course over control of the Crimea, a peninsula on the Black Sea that has long ties to Russia and has thousands of Russian troops stationed there.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has insisted he has the right to use military force in Ukraine if necessary to protect ethnic Russians under threat in Crimea. Ukrainian officials say no such threat exists and say Putin is using it as a pretext to control the region.
As the standoff continued, Ukrainian authorities announced the arrest Thursday of a leader of a pro-Russian movement in the eastern city of Donetsk. Authorities said he is a Ukrainian national named Pavlo Gubarev, a self-proclaimed governor of Donetsk.
Growing divide
The crisis threatens to not only divide Ukraine, but Russia and the West. Those two sides have exchanged barbs and threatened punitive measures against each other in recent days, all while offering divergent views on the situation in Crimea.
Two diplomats at the center of the crisis -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov -- met face-to-face on Thursday. They agreed to continue talking "over the course of the next hours, the next days'' to try to find a political solution to end the crisis, Kerry told reporters following the meeting.
The diplomats' bosses, Obama and Putin, talked for an hour Thursday afternoon, with the U.S. president stating "Russia's actions are in violation of Ukraine's sovereignty" and that there is a diplomatic way out, according to the White House.
Putin's office said the call -- initiated by Obama -- "revealed differences in approaches and assessments of the causes of the crisis and the current situation." He also voiced Russia's view it "cannot ignore calls for help" from eastern and southeastern Ukraine, before concluding that Lavrov and Kerry "will continue intensive contacts."
Such conversations haven't stopped either side from taking action.
EU nations, for instance, announced Thursday they will suspend bilateral talks with Russia on visa matters and have threatened travel bans, asset freezes and cancellation of the EU-Russia summit.
"Any further steps by the Russian Federation to destabilize the situation in Ukraine would lead to additional and far reaching consequences for relations in a broad range of economic areas," EU leaders said, having also threatened travels bans on certain Russians and the freezing of some assets.
The United States has taken action. The State Department has imposed a visa ban on Russian and Ukrainian officials and others that it says are responsible for, or complicit in, threatening Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity. Obama signed an executive order laying the groundwork for sanctions against individuals and entities responsible for the crisis.
Despite such pressure, Russia hasn't budged, even refusing to engage in direct talks with the new Ukrainian authorities in Kiev. As his office noted after the Obama call, Putin believes this government "is a result of an unconstitutional revolution" and imposed "illegitimate decisions."
The dispute has threatened to boil into a military conflict.
Putin has denied claims by Ukrainian officials and Western diplomats that Russia has sent thousands of troops into the region in recent days. Moscow says the heavily armed troops, who are in uniforms without insignia and who have reportedly encircled Ukrainian bases, are local "self-defense" forces.
Meanwhile, Russia has begun an air defense drill 280 miles (450 kilometers) from Ukraine's border, reports Russian state-run news agency RIA Novosti. A military spokesman called it "the largest-ever exercise held by air defense units" in the region.
Russian authorities said the drills are part of a regular combat training cycle, according to the news agency. But the move comes a day after the U.S. military announced it was beefing up the number of fighter jets in the Baltics, adding six F-15s to the four participating in a NATO mission in the region.
Voting for Russia or Ukraine?
Amid all the diplomatic wrangling, it is Ukrainians who are most directly affected. And they hardly are speaking with one voice.
Furor in the western part of the country over Yanukovych, his powers and his bringing Ukraine closer to Russia led to his ouster. Now, most people here support the new government and oppose Russian intervention, as well as the prospect of Crimea becoming part of Russia.
The sentiment tends to be very different in Crimea -- which was part of Russia until being given to Ukraine in 1954 by Soviet leader Nikita Kruschev -- and other parts of southern and eastern Ukraine.
Late last month, the parliament in Crimea installed a new, pro-Moscow government late last month -- as armed, pro-Russian men besieged the parliament building -- and does not recognize the authorities in Kiev.
Citizens will be allowed to vote on March 16 on whether they want an autonomous republic of Crimea within Russia; or within Ukraine.
The autonomous region has a 60% ethnic Russian population, having been part of Russia until it was ceded to Ukraine in 1954 by the Soviet Union. But not everyone may be as keen on coming under Moscow's direct influence. About 25% of the peninsula's population is Ukrainian and about 12% is Crimean Tatar, a predominantly Muslim group.
As riot police looked on, hundreds gathered Thursday in the southern port city of Odessa under the flag of the former Soviet Union calling for unity with Russia.
"We are all standing here for Russia," one masked protester told CNN's Matthew Chance. "None of us wants to be part of the European Union."
Late Thursday, the management of the hotel in the Crimean capital of Simferopol where CNN has been based told the network to stop broadcasting from there. Other media outlets got the same message, and no reason was given.
Not everyone in this region wants to become part of Russia. Protesters, including one topless woman who was dragged away screaming, railed against the Crimean parliament vote and Putin. But they were drowned out by a heckling, pro-Russian crowd.
Alex Shiroki, from Yalta, said that his boss asked him, point-blank, "Are you for Ukraine or for Russia?" While his boss favors the latter, Shiroki does not, saying he'd probably leave if Crimea ends up splitting from Ukraine.
Michael Crawford, a former British ambassador in Eastern Europe, said that may not happen -- at least easily or peacefully -- even if voters support such a split in the upcoming referendum.
"For Russia to start cherry-picking bits of the former Soviet Union, cranking up referenda in Kazakhstan or Latvia or wherever you like, to try to carve off bits, would be against international law," Crawford said, "And it would be something Vladimir Putin has said he doesn't want to do."
Yatsenyuk said that if Ukraine is broken up, the world will have trouble ever getting another country to give up its nuclear weapons program.
Why? In 1994, Ukraine agreed to give up its Soviet-era nuclear arsenal in return for guarantees -- signed by the United States, the United Kingdom and Russia -- of its territorial integrity and independence.
What happens now to Ukraine "will have an impact on nuclear nonproliferation programs," Yatsenyuk said.


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My entry for this months loopdeloop. The theme is "One"
To see more of my animation check out my youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/us er/Gerkinman
Rated 4.5 / 5 stars
Ah, see now i feel bad for my other review. You obviously do know what you're doing and i really like the animation on this one. In fact everything about this one is very clean and crisp looking, the colours are nice and the character designs are cute. Again, it's a little short but atleast it loops so the entertainment value is extended somewhat. The music makes me smile, good stuff!
Thanks mate, im glad you took the time to watch, and enjoyed it :)
Rated 3.5 / 5 stars
it was good and the feeling of the emotions were real good, but some of the movement was a lil to stiff, try avoiding pose to pose motions and tweened out movements and more smoth frame by framed timing for a smoother motion, it was pretty good tho and hidden fairly well. Maybe if you were to do a whole production this technique would be good for saving time but for a loop if should be as strong as possible
Cheers man, as always I was pressed for time, I had around 8 hours to complete the loop because of work and school commitments. Definitely needed more in betweens as opposed to cheap tweened squash and stretch but rendering those inbetweens in this style is too time consuming for this sort of time frame.
Rated 2.5 / 5 stars
pretty good. It kinda messes with your head cos it doesn't stop, but I think people will like that.
That would be why they call it a loop ha ha
Rated 4.5 / 5 stars
Awesome smooth & pretty animation. Keep it up !
I will, thanks :)
Rated 5 / 5 stars
Great Animation, Amazing Art, and its kind of funny. Nice job!


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The Kai Po Che actor rubbishes claims that he is in the bad books of the Rock On director for walking out of his upcoming venture Fitoor
Sushant Singh Rajput walked out of his mentor Abhishek Kapoor's, next. The Pavitra Rishta actor is now claiming that he didn't ditch the Kai Po Che director but just cordially walked off because of date issues. Fitoor is based on Charles Dickens' Great Expectations and was scheduled to go on floors this year but got postponed because of which the Shudh Desi Romance actor had to back out. The new dates for Fitoor clashed with his previously allotted dates for a Yash Raj venture, Paani.
Rubbishing previous reports that he walked out because of technical differences, the actor claims that he is still on good terms with Kapoor. He maintains a cordial relation with his mentor and would want to work with him asap. He is presently prepping for Dibakar Bannerjee's Byomkesh and Shekhar Kapoor's Paani.
Wethinks that both protégé and mentor are happy and we would definitely like to see them working together soon. What do you think Bollywoodlifers?


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Angels manager Mike Scioscia said few of his regulars would play before next week, and he kept his promise. Erick Aybar, who is playing in the WBC, Mark Trumbo and Peter Bourjos were the only regulars among the 18 names in the two starting lineups. Scioscia said Trumbo and Bourjos both wanted to start getting some early at-bats.
Without further adieu, here they are...
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Justin Breedlove, 36 - May 10, 2013
Justin M. Breedlove, 36, of Council Bluffs, IA, originally of Gothenburg, passed away Friday, May 10, 2013, at Jennie Edmundson Hospital in Council Bluffs.Services will be Wednesday, May 15, at 1 p.m. at Cutler-O'Neill-Meyer-Woodring Bayliss Park Chapel in Council Bluffs with the Rev. Dan Grauer officiating. Interment will be at Cedar Lawn Cemetery at Council Bluffs.
A visitation with the family will be conducted one hour prior to services.
Breedlove was born May 21, 1976, at Gothenburg to the late James and Denise (Floyd) Breedlove.
He graduated from Gothenburg High School in 1995, and attended one year of college at McCook.
On July 14, 2012, he was united in marriage to Natia "Tia" Pete.
Breedlove was employed as a night stocker at the West Broadway HyVee in Council Bluffs for the past two years.
He was preceded in death by: his parents, James and Denise; a brother, James Breedlove.
Survivors include: his wife, Tia Breedlove of Council Bluffs; his sons—Jason of Council Bluffs and Jamie Breedlove of North Platte; a sister, Carmen Breedlove of Gothenburg; aunt, Dianne Wilcox of Council Bluffs.
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NEW YORK, Sunday—Saturday morning at 10 o'clock, Captain Giles G. Stedman called for me and we went to visit the United States Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, New York. This is a very unique spot, beautifully landscaped and with permanent buildings. The old Chrysler House has been painted to conform with the newer buildings. On one side of the campus are the shops and study halls, on the other, the barracks where the boys live. Down along the water front you can find small motor boats, row boats, sail boats and one boat devoid of sails but with modern engines.
The first thing I did on arrival was to be conducted to the Amphitrite pool, where just before exams, the cadets toss in pennies. They brought a supply for my use, but when I delved into my pocketbook I found two. Luckily the second one landed in the correct spot, which I suppose indicated that I would pass my exam when I took it. It looked as though I was going to be put to the test right away, for shortly afterwards, we found ourselves on the platform before our first audience!
These pennies have an ultimate purpose as well as an immediate one. Someday they hope to erect a memorial to the members of the group who have died at sea during the war. Already 124 have died and some are missing, for the Merchant Marine is a dangerous service. There are some fine stories of heroism on which to begin building the traditions of the cadet midshipmen of the Merchant Marine Academy.
Like all other military establishments, the barracks are beautifully neat. I lunched with the midshipmen and enjoyed very much the opportunity of seeing this very fine group of young men. As they marched past us in review I was greatly impressed by them. The work must be extraordinarily heavy. Forty-two hours a week is a hard schedule, and they still find time to engage in extracurricular activities, such as publishing a fine magazine called "Polaris," putting on dramatic shows, taking part in athletics and drilling and boating. I decided they never slept.
After lunch I went to Adelphi College in Garden City, which has just established a nursing course where 300 United States cadet nurses are being trained. The occasion was the acceptance by the college of two residence halls which have just been completed by the Federal Works Agency for the use of the nurses. The exercises were interesting and this group of cadet nurses will be a great addition to the hospitals where they will be taking part of their training. One of the advantages of this course is that the girls can be useful while they are still in training.
I stopped for a few minutes at the USO in Hempstead on the way home. It was too early for many of the men from Mitchell Field to be there, but I could see that it was well run and a comfortable and homelike place. I reached home a little before seven and I was glad that my only engagement was to have dinner with a friend.


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Have you guys seen Brannon Braga's recent Enterprise tweet here: Do you think he is serious? Or is he just messing with the fans? Certainly sounds like a valid idea, though, don't you think? Well, it certainly would have been better than nothing.
WHAT THE.. I think he thought of that the other day while on the toilet and couldn't get up fast enough to tweet it all the while laughing like an idiot.
It's been well documented that at the time, the producers had no idea who FutureGuy was, and barely even knew what the Temporal Cold War was about. It was a mandate that UPN thrust upon them, and wasn't originally envisioned by them. So I would guess that Braga is just being silly.
Agreed. I much prefer the explanation put forth in the novels. It literally would make no sense for Archer to be Future Guy.
Well, just because the Temporal Cold War plot wasn't B&B's idea originally doesn't mean they didn't have at least something in mind for an eventual pay-off. Sure, there never were any serious plans to conclude that storyline, but I don't think that has to mean Braga didn't have at least a hint of an idea in the back of his head. I still think he could be serious and that a story actually showing this development could have been satisfactory. If done well, of course.
I don't care what he says. I hated the TCW, whatever it was supposed to be. Christopher resolved it well enough for me,,,
You know... I believe it. I mean we already have alien Nazi's as canon so why not take it one step further for the ultimate facepalm?
http://trekmovie.com/2009/08/10/vegascon09-braga-coto-talk-enterprise-season-5-star-trek-2009-more/ Obviously kept his indentity somewhat fluid then, and considered more than one option. Or simply heard some fan's deduction somewhere and with nothing ever committed to screen, thought it as cool an answer as any to say onstage. It couldn't have been Archer, because a) he would have to have ended his days in the 29th Century... which I believe is the time worked out by Daniels in "Cold Front", as being where the Suliban's mysterious benefactor was from. and b) why would he be giving cloaking technology to an enemy intent on destroying Enterprise all the time anyway? To say nothing of Silik and his kind's genetic enhancements. I've heard this theory before, but given what they established after "Broken Bow", I think you can safely rule Archer out.
This actually could have made for a nice twist, had the writers thought of it when they originated the future guy story-line. As the series stands, the idea that he's Archer just isn't a coherent pay-off, nor is it consistent with any behind-the-scenes statements in which the character's identity was never decided.


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Prince William, Kate Middleton and Prince Harry joined "Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling at the Warner Bros. Studio Tour London – The Making of Harry Potter for the Duke of Cambridge's inauguration ceremony for the Leavesden Studios attraction. Also present at the event were "Harry Potter" directors David Yates and Mike Newell, and producer David Heyman.
This might have been a serious event, but photos taken during the ceremony show that the Royal Family were having a whole lot of fun romping around the studio where all eight "Harry Potter" movies were filmed. As for the Batmobile in the final photo below, it was there because of "The Dark Knight" trilogy's connection to Warner Bros.
"Our Nation's extraordinary capacity for talent is not a thing of the past. It is worth reminding ourselves that the 'Harry Potter' book series has become the most popular series ever to be printed, and the 'Harry Potter' movie series — filmed right here — is the most successful in history. ??So, what of the future? How can we possibly continue these successes of the past?" William says at a speech during the event, via Hypable.
He continues, "I am proud to say that, as President of BAFTA, there is a huge amount of work going on to nurture the talent of tomorrow. BAFTA's inspiring Guru programme is one that I would encourage everyone in the industry to support. I am also immensely proud of the scholarships which BAFTA has announced today, which Warner Brothers are so generously supporting. These scholarships will lead to talented young people, who would otherwise not have the chance to develop their careers, to reach their full potential."
Here are some photos from the event. Prepare yourself for an onslaught of cuteness:
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Written by Steven Liechty
Blessed but Disappointed
Dear Theo,
I am the parent of a child with a disability. Recently you answered a letter from another parent of a child with a disability, who talked about how they felt like they'd been slapped in the face when people said to her that they were "blessed" to have a healthy child. I was disappointed in your answer, which was a devotional about the difference between "lucky" and "blessed." Can you offer parents like me something more?
Blessed but Disappointed
Dear Blessed but Disappointed,
You are right. You—and any parent struggling with the social injustices society shows people with disabilities and their families—need and deserve a pastoral, caring voice—and assistance. Each of us responds to our disabilities, and the disabilities of those we care for, in our own way, and differently in different seasons. But it is still true that parents of a child with a disability in particular are in need of a lifeline to the hand of God. You need to hear, in the words of our tradition from Luke 14, that ALL are invited to be at Jesus' table--and all have equal value. Some people are not "more blessed" than others. That is part of the Good News Jesus brings to us.
In the United Church of Christ, we are fortunate and blessed to have an excellent Disabilities Ministry (UCCDM). Its members can provide caring and support, and a wealth of wisdom, experience, and expertise. They welcome contact from parents who need emotional support, or have questions and concerns around raising a child with a disability. I encourage you to contact them for additional assistance through their website: www.uccdm.org
You might also find help in a new book by Kathleen Deyer Bolduc: "The Spiritual Art of Raising Children with Disabilities." Bolduc's book addresses the issues of parents' feeling of brokenness, their grieving, the social alienation, the heartbreak of watching their child being treated as different. But it also guides parents on how to deal with these feelings and offers ways to find God in the fray for themselves and their children.
Finally, Blessed but Disappointed, I hope you are able to find a caring community at church—if you attend one—and that you are always in touch with the love, comfort, and healing God offers us.
Bless you and may you be a blessing,
P.S. You may also want to take a minute to read this Lenten devotional from the UCC Disabilities Ministry's website. It is written by a self-described "parent of two great kids, one who happens to have an intellectual disability named and labeled as an Autism Spectrum Disorder." He includes in his heartfelt reflection these words: "In those moments when we feel like we are alone, or on the outside looking in; when we are praying for the hurtful attitudes of the world to change…God understands, Christ 'gets' it, and the Holy Spirit calls us into a community of care and support, while comforting and advocating for us. How about that, God doesn't give sufferings or disabilities or mental illness, rather, our Still Speaking God shares in those journeys."
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Leonardo Royal Hotel Düsseldorf Königsallee
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Located in Friedrichstadt, this luxury hotel is within a 15-minute walk of K21 Staendehaus and Duesseldorf City Hall. Rhine Tower and Neuer Zollhof are also within 1 mi (2 km).
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This smoke-free hotel features a restaurant, a fitness center, and a bar/lounge. WiFi in public areas is free. Other amenities include a sauna, a 24-hour business center, and self parking.
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All 253 soundproofed rooms feature free WiFi and minibars. For a bit of entertainment, flat-screen TVs come with satellite channels, and guests will also find room service and free newspapers.
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This 4.5-star property offers access to a 24-hour business center and meeting rooms. Event facilities measuring 2153 square feet (200 square meters) include conference space. This luxury hotel also offers tour/ticket assistance, multilingual staff, and concierge services. Parking is available onsite for a surcharge.
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While the adage, "you get what you pay for" has much truth to it it most cases, it's pleasing to see that you don't have to spend a fortune to get a decent notebook. With the AMILO L1310G, Fujitsu Siemens has set out to create an affordable notebook with no crippling compromises and by and large, it has succeeded.
The sticker on the front of the chassis is an indicator of the first area of cost saving. The badge says Intel Celeron M inside, rather than Pentium M. The difference between the two is that the former has half the Level 2 cache, 1MB, and does not feature SpeedStep power saving technology, which powers down parts of the processor when it detects that it's not required. This is probably the biggest drawback of the system as on the move the CPU will be running at full pelt all the time - not great when the battery life isn't outstanding in the first place. This is also why Intel doesn't afford the Centrino branding to Celeron M powered machines, even if Wi-Fi is built in, as it is here.
However, I don't see this being bought for regular use on the move. For one, , at 2.8Kg, it's a bit too heavy to be comfortable carrying every day and it's also on the bulky side. At least you're compensated by the presence of a decent keyboard with keys that are sensibly sized and arranged. The keypad is also very solid with none of the flex that cheap notebooks often have. This makes the AMILO really quite comfortable to type on. The trackpad is a run-of-the-mill affair but I did find that I unintentionally tapped it on several occasions sending my cursor off into uncharted waters. I prefer trackpoints but you're not going to see that at this price.
Should you place it on your lap you'll find that the notebook is well balanced and comfortable, at least at first. After extended use, the warm air expelled out of the CPU fan on the underside and on the right will start to hurt your heat up your leg uncomfortably. When CPU temperature gets too high the fan spins up and is noticeable, but it didn't spin up while watching a DVD.
The largish size also means you're provided with a very decent 15.4in widescreen display. The 1,280 x 800 resolution isn't the highest at this size, but it's what you'd expect at this price. There a coating on the screen that boosts colour and contrast at the expense of increased reflectivity but it's not too bad in this regard, even under lights. The wide screen certainly does no harm when you're watching DVDs, and delivered a smooth performance when tested with a fast motion film such as House of the Flying Daggers. The combination of CPU and screen also means that there's enough grunt to watch 720p content without dropped frames, when tested with a H.264 encoded film trailer from www.apple.com/trailers.
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text: Indiana Pacers Mascot Shatters Backboard At High School Basketball GameSean Newell1/21/12 9:00amFiled to: Mascotshigh school basketballboomerIndiana PacersShattered backboardNewstweet4EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink It's hard to top the New Palestine-Triton Central rivalry in Indiana high school hoops but Boomer, the Indiana Pacers mascot, just upped the ante. While the Pacers were on the road against the Warriors last night, Boomer paid a visit and put on a show those in attendance would not soon forget. Boomer pulled out the mascot calling card—the trampoline-assisted dunk—with a surprise twist at the end. Broken glass, everywhere. Advertisement Since high school basketball is not like the NBA, the backboard could not be immediately replaced so the game was moved to an auxiliary gym. Boomer's response? "Oooops."Pacers Boomer smashes HS backboard [Wishtv.com]Reply4 repliesLeave a reply